L5[01:13:46] <darsie> I made Ap and Pe equally high but 2 doesn't save it like that. It saves the previous state.

L9[01:45:05] *** Server sets mode: +CLPTgnt

L12[02:37:15] <raptop> !mission

L13[02:37:15] <LunchBot> You synchronize your liftoff countdown with the new year countdown. Your reputation underflows, and suddenly the really nice contracts are available again.

L14[02:37:35] <raptop> technically a day late, but still decent

L15[02:39:15] <XXCoder> nice lol

L16[02:39:23] <XXCoder> new year, new rep lol

L17[02:39:32] <XXCoder> ;mission

L18[02:39:32] <LunchBot> You build a craft for the stated purpose of outrunning its own mass. You must now conclude your lay / by telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / that your central girders would not have given way / at least many sensible men do say / had they been supported on each side with trusses / at least many sensible men confesses. / For the stronger we our rockets do build / The less chance we have of being killed.

L19[02:40:01] <XXCoder> conclusion is bit weird. maybe I broke universe

L24[04:00:03] <Eddi|zuHause> XXCoder: make it more rigid!

L25[04:00:23] <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

L26[04:00:23] <LunchBot> You use a soda machine to dissolve oxidizer in your fuel. Even your emergency slide rule becomes self-aware.

L27[04:00:57] <Eddi|zuHause> soda machine causes skynet?

L28[04:02:05] <XXCoder> apparently

L29[04:02:34] <XXCoder> expecially since slide rule dont even have tech, there must have been weird sequence

L65[16:06:49] <Althego> .outcome add Thousands of years later your name will be often mentioned together with Ea-nāṣir.

L66[16:06:49] <LunchBot> Added outcome: Thousands of years later your name will be often mentioned together with Ea-nāṣir.

L69[17:43:17] <Eddi|zuHause> in which context, though? the first and the last known complaint letter in written history? :p

L70[17:44:06] <Althego> mentioned as a person doing a bad job

L71[17:44:28] <Pinkbeast> Not sure what the last one will be

L72[17:45:01] <Eddi|zuHause> yes, but surely there are more people in history that did a bad job. ea nasir is only notable for being the earliest known. it's not particularly bad or something

L73[17:45:09] <Pinkbeast> "Dear people, where are you? I'm bored. Yours, the Grim Reaper"

L74[17:45:49] <Eddi|zuHause> *anything - probably better word here

L75[17:45:53] <Althego> maybe, but he was so bad his fame survived for thousands of years

L76[17:46:22] <Althego> so i wanted to hint of such a failure that it will be known for thousands of years

L77[17:46:28] <Eddi|zuHause> but it didn't. it was simply rediscovered several thousand years later...

L78[17:47:45] <Eddi|zuHause> sorta like tut ench amun. he wasn't a particularly famous pharaoh. he became famous because his tomb went undiscovered for so long.

L80[18:01:35] <sandbox> !mission

L81[18:01:36] <LunchBot> You add a mission about yourself. This was just a simulation.

L82[18:09:53] <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

L83[18:09:54] <LunchBot> You tire of rockets, and decide to launch craft into space with a giant gun. UmbralRaptor blinks imperiously.

L91[22:10:50] <XXCoder> ;mission

L92[22:10:50] <LunchBot> Bill begins a most heinous series of events, where the other orangesuits participate in a once-in-a-lifetime bout of sheer terror. Bill keeps fiddling, and the orangesuits begin to beg. Bill just won't stop curiously examining the object. If only Bill was not in a cramped command pod along with his crewmates... As Bill began opening the case labeled "LIVE BEES, DO NOT OPEN!" The middle falls up.

L93[22:11:17] <XXCoder> middle of bees fell up eh

L94[22:12:05] <XXCoder> ;mission add You decide to start forming space bee clonies for space honey.

L95[22:12:05] <LunchBot> Added mission: You decide to start forming space bee clonies for space honey.

L96[22:12:43] <Eddi|zuHause> !mission fixup s/stop curiously/stop, curiously/

L97[22:12:43] <LunchBot> New text is: Bill begins a most heinous series of events, where the other orangesuits participate in a once-in-a-lifetime bout of sheer terror. Bill keeps fiddling, and the orangesuits begin to beg. Bill just won't stop, curiously examining the object. If only Bill was not in a cramped command pod along with his crewmates... As Bill began opening the case labeled "LIVE BEES, DO NOT OPEN!"

L98[22:17:18] <Eddi|zuHause> thinking the "..." should also be a ","

L99[22:17:31] <Eddi|zuHause> not sure if it's serving any dramatic purpose

L100[22:58:34] <FLHerne> what the heck is that mission

L101[23:00:51] <FLHerne> I think the ellipsis is for drama... a comma wouldn't be correct anyway; it would have to be a full stop

L102[23:01:31] <FLHerne> "stop curiously" made more sense than your fix, too

L103[23:02:28] <Eddi|zuHause> why?

L104[23:02:41] <Eddi|zuHause> maybe my brain is too wired to german grammar

L105[23:02:54] <Eddi|zuHause> but that's the position where it would make most sense to me

L106[23:03:00] <FLHerne> in the original, Bob won't stop (curiously examining) the object)

L107[23:03:25] <FLHerne> in your version he won't stop [implicit verb]

L108[23:03:32] <FLHerne> and is curiously examining the object

L109[23:03:46] <Eddi|zuHause> "Bill keeps fiddling" "Bill won't stop"

L110[23:04:37] <FLHerne> just won't stop what?

L111[23:04:42] <Eddi|zuHause> "curiously examining the object" being some further explanation what he's doing

L112[23:04:47] <FLHerne> fiddling is a verb so it completes the sentence fragment

L113[23:05:01] <Eddi|zuHause> stop is a verb in that case

L114[23:05:59] <FLHerne> true I suppose

L115[23:06:07] <FLHerne> but you have to stop verbing

L116[23:06:40] <FLHerne> unless it's implicit in the context, which it can be here but reads a bit weirdly

L117[23:06:54] <FLHerne> in the original he stops curiously examining the object

L118[23:07:14] <FLHerne> *doesn't stop

L119[23:07:16] <Eddi|zuHause> what else would "stop" be?

L120[23:07:41] <FLHerne> in yours he just won't stop [fiddling?], while curiously examining the object

L121[23:08:11] <FLHerne> the added comma separates the verb from its former object, is possibly what I'm trying to say

L122[23:08:31] <FLHerne> so it gets an implicit object from the preceding context

L123[23:08:35] <Eddi|zuHause> like i said, maybe my brain is wired too "german"

L124[23:09:01] <FLHerne> You can tell I studied electronics and not languages :p

L125[23:09:33] <FLHerne> it's the usual frustrating case where I know how my own language works but have very little formal understanding of why it does

L126[23:09:51] <Eddi|zuHause> the german sentence (as i would understand it) would be "Bill hört nicht auf, das Objekt zu untersuchen"

L127[23:10:16] <Eddi|zuHause> but grammatical concepts, while similar, don't necessarily map 1-to-1

L128[23:10:39] <Eddi|zuHause> for example, german doesn't have a progressive form (examin-ing)

L129[23:11:21] <Eddi|zuHause> so if you translate this back, it would be "Bill doesn't stop to examine the object"

L130[23:12:04] <Eddi|zuHause> (which starts adding some ambiguity)

L131[23:13:37] <FLHerne> I think your commas work differently :D

L132[23:13:52] <Eddi|zuHause> definitely

L133[23:15:01] <Eddi|zuHause> "Bill doesn't stop. [Bill is continuning to] examine the object."

L134[23:16:26] <Eddi|zuHause> if the "curiously" wasn't there, i could live without the comma

L135[23:17:38] <Eddi|zuHause> but this way, it's less ambiguous whether the "curiously" applies to "stop" or "examine" [which both could be verbs]

L136[23:18:10] <FLHerne> In English you can add adverbs with no effect on the surrounding grammar; the only limit is the sentence becoming unreadable

L137[23:18:38] <FLHerne> hm

L138[23:19:02] <FLHerne> I can see why you could see an ambiguity, but I don't see an ambiguity :p

L140[23:26:45] <Eddi|zuHause> anyway, the other sentence, "If <conditional>, as bill opens ..." sounds more sane to my grammattical brain

L141[23:27:16] <Eddi|zuHause> the ... splitting off the outcome also makes more sense with the bot

L142[23:28:16] <Eddi|zuHause> "if <conditional>" doesn't make a complete sentence. neither does "as <whatever>"

L143[23:30:47] <Eddi|zuHause> "if <conditional>, <something>" "as/while <whatever>, <something>"

L144[23:38:34] <FLHerne> I think the "As Bill ..." is supposed to run straight into the outcome, although the bot doesn't know that to get the grammar right

L145[23:38:57] <FLHerne> the tense doesn't match most outcomes though

L146[23:39:24] <FLHerne> I suspect this is a quote from something but I don't know what

L147[23:39:49] <FLHerne> it seems too disturbing for someone to simply choose to write here :p

L148[23:47:55] <Eddi|zuHause> that's why the "..." would fit best after the "as bill"