| rmg51 | Morning | 09:14 |
|---|---|---|
| JonathanD | morning. | 10:26 |
| lazyPower | o/ | 11:09 |
| teddy-dbear | Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else | 12:06 |
| ChinnoDog | It is always morning in here. | 13:52 |
| waltman | ChinnoDog: Morning. | 13:54 |
| ChinnoDog | I ran out of morning an hour and 15 minutes ago. | 17:11 |
| pleia2 | I didn't | 17:15 |
| pleia2 | good morning waltman! | 17:15 |
| waltman | pleia2: Good afternoon! | 17:18 |
| pleia2 | :) | 17:19 |
| waltman | Some Drexel friends are indoctrinating me into the cult of Ingress. | 17:20 |
| pleia2 | haha | 17:20 |
| pleia2 | I've resisted because I'm afraid it would take over my life (and drain my phone battery) | 17:21 |
| waltman | yeah, it makes my poor iPhone very hot | 17:21 |
| waltman | granted, right now it feels like 100F out there in Philly :( | 17:22 |
| pleia2 | ick | 17:22 |
| pleia2 | I was in Darmstadt last week and it was in the 80s and 90s, and they don't have AC | 17:22 |
| waltman | I'm trying to think of it as an excuse to do some more walking at lunch. | 17:22 |
| waltman | ugh | 17:22 |
| pleia2 | apparently it doesn't get that hot often, and power is mega expensive there anyway | 17:22 |
| pleia2 | /more/ walking?? | 17:23 |
| waltman | yes! | 17:23 |
| pleia2 | when it's 100 I don't even move :) | 17:23 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 17:23 |
| waltman | well, officially it's only 89 | 17:23 |
| waltman | I've got 5338 steps today so far. | 17:24 |
| pleia2 | nice | 17:24 |
| waltman | most of that is my commute | 17:24 |
| pleia2 | when I stop being sick, I hope to get back up in the rankings (gallbladder comes out tomorrow! yay!) | 17:24 |
| waltman | good luck! | 17:26 |
| pleia2 | thanks :) | 17:27 |
| pleia2 | I'm gonna watch Repo! tonight in preparation | 17:27 |
| ChinnoDog | Isn't that a movie about reposessed organs? | 17:28 |
| pleia2 | yep | 17:28 |
| ChinnoDog | I don't think I've seen it but I remember reading the description on Netflix. | 17:29 |
| pleia2 | it's gross, scary and awesome | 17:29 |
| ChinnoDog | I will have to watch it. | 17:29 |
| pleia2 | plus I'm a sucker for musicals (and I have a massive crush on Anthony Head) | 17:30 |
| ChinnoDog | I just installed Ingress on my phone. I hope I don't regret this. | 17:30 |
| ChinnoDog | waltman: I need a clever agent name. Suggestions? | 17:39 |
| waltman | I confess I just picked "waltman" | 17:39 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 17:40 |
| ChinnoDog | C'mon now. Where is the creativity? | 17:40 |
| pleia2 | I have friends who wake up at 2am and drive a half hour to capture things, or whatever | 17:40 |
| pleia2 | crazies | 17:40 |
| pleia2 | (I'd totally do that, save me) | 17:40 |
| ChinnoDog | lol. I don't know what this game is. I only installed it because it was mentioned. | 17:41 |
| ChinnoDog | It sounds like something I wanted to build a long time ago so I had to try it. | 17:41 |
| waltman | It's not really obvious what you're supposed to do. | 17:41 |
| ChinnoDog | Knowing me it will take me the rest of the day to come up with an agent name. | 17:45 |
| pleia2 | lol | 17:45 |
| pleia2 | that's why I use the waltman method of name picking | 17:45 |
| pleia2 | except for on my xbox where someone already has pleia2 :( | 17:46 |
| ChinnoDog | Someone took ChinnoDog on xbox. Thinks you never thought could happen... | 17:46 |
| ChinnoDog | s/thinks/things/ | 17:46 |
| ChinnoDog | k and g are not even close to each other on my keyboard yet I make that typo a lot. I must have a short circuit. | 17:47 |
| pleia2 | me too | 17:47 |
| ChinnoDog | waltman: So.. what faction do I want to be part of? | 18:19 |
| waltman | The two people I know in the game are green, so that's what I picked. | 18:20 |
| waltman | green good, blue bad :) | 18:20 |
| ChinnoDog | Ok, I am gree now | 18:21 |
| ChinnoDog | green | 18:21 |
| waltman | yay! | 18:21 |
| waltman | ChinnoDog: where are you located? | 18:21 |
| ChinnoDog | Manassas, VA | 18:22 |
| waltman | There are a ton of portals around Drexel, but out in the burbs where I live they're few and far between. | 18:22 |
| ChinnoDog | I don't know what that means yet | 18:23 |
| waltman | If you're lucky one of the more experienced green folks in your area will notice you and invite you to a meetup. Philly just had a green meetup for newbies last night. | 18:23 |
| waltman | There are tutorials in the game you can work through. | 18:23 |
| ChinnoDog | A "green meetup"... | 18:26 |
| ChinnoDog | Are all the little white dots other players? | 18:26 |
| waltman | no. | 18:26 |
| ChinnoDog | What are they then? | 18:26 |
| waltman | They basically energy to recharge your "health". | 18:26 |
| waltman | it takes power (xm) to do things. When you walk around, any little dots near you are attracted to you and restore your xm. | 18:28 |
| waltman | it's "exotic matter" being released by the "portals" | 18:28 |
| waltman | but really it's gamification to get you to walk :) | 18:29 |
| ChinnoDog | So.. when does this become fun? | 18:29 |
| waltman | Umm, there are some cool graphics and sound effects when you do things to portals. | 18:31 |
| waltman | The point of the game, afaict, is to claim portals (usually tied to local landmarks) and link them together. The other side tries to prevent you from doing that. | 18:31 |
| waltman | You can fire at portals controlled by the other faction and knock them out and claim them for your faction. | 18:32 |
| ChinnoDog | What do I get for this? | 18:37 |
| ChinnoDog | High score? | 18:37 |
| waltman | Get more exercise? Meet new nerdy friends? | 18:39 |
| ChinnoDog | My level of enthusiasm for this is waning. I don't need a silly game like this to do that. | 18:42 |
| adom | hey, someone teach me what " -- " does plox | 19:17 |
| adom | i.e. mosh --ssh="ssh -p 2222" adam@supercoolserver.com -- screen -dr oldscreensession | 19:18 |
| adom | it SSHs to the server and starts a screen session, but i only get /bin/sh and have to run /bin/bash for some reason. | 19:18 |
| adom | I'm convinced its the "--" part, I just want to learn how it works. | 19:19 |
| adom | Like magnets. | 19:19 |
| adom | Tried Googling, but pretty hard thing to search for. | 19:19 |
| adom | Will check back... | 19:47 |
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