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[piecewise]

Go run around outside for a little while.  Exercise.

ITS 116 DEGREES OUT THERE

[NJW2000]

Drink really, really hot tea. Of course, you already knew that, but heatstroke may be affecting your mental capacities.

[Xantalos]

Go run around outside for a little while.  Exercise.

ITS 116 DEGREES OUT THERE

MURDER THE SUN

[spazyak]

Go run around outside for a little while.  Exercise.

ITS 116 DEGREES OUT THERE

Yah, how does it look in a week? I'll be out there soon.

[piecewise]

Go run around outside for a little while.  Exercise.

ITS 116 DEGREES OUT THERE

Yah, how does it look in a week? I'll be out there soon.

According to the internet, 110 with an Excessive Heat Warning

[Parisbre56]

Vet mission reminds me of that exploration game piecewise run in the Limbo thread in the past, where shuttles would teleport you to strange worlds you had to survive in and loot. That was fun.

Drink really, really hot tea. Of course, you already knew that, but heatstroke may be affecting your mental capacities.

According to Carl Heins Rumeningen and his book "Do everything backwards", that is the correct approach.
Nobody will get that reference, but I'll make it anyway.

[Radio Controlled]

Drink really, really hot tea. Of course, you already knew that, but heatstroke may be affecting your mental capacities.

According to Carl Heins Rumeningen and his book "Do everything backwards", that is the correct approach.
Nobody will get that reference, but I'll make it anyway.

For once, science agrees!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/?no-ist

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Their answer, in short: Yes, a hot drink can cool you down, but only in specific circumstances. “If you drink a hot drink, it does result in a lower amount of heat stored inside your body, provided the additional sweat that’s produced when you drink the hot drink can evaporate,” Jay says.

How does this work? “What we found is that when you ingest a hot drink, you actually have a disproportionate increase in the amount that you sweat,” Jay says. “Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by—if that can all evaporate—more than compensates for the the added heat to the body from the fluid.”

The increased rate of perspiration is the key. Although sweat may seem like a nuisance, the body perspires for a very good reason. When sweat evaporates from the skin, energy is absorbed into the air as part of the reaction, thereby cooling the body. A larger amount of sweat means more cooling, which more than counteracts the small amount of heat contained in a hot beverage relative to the entire body.

The caveat, though, is that all that extra sweat produced as a result of the hot drink actually has to evaporate for it to have a cooling effect. “On a very hot and humid day, if you’re wearing a lot of clothing, or if you’re having so much sweat that it starts to drip on the ground and doesn’t evaporate from the skin’s surface, then drinking a hot drink is a bad thing,” Jay says. “The hot drink still does add a little heat to the body, so if the sweat’s not going to assist in evaporation, go for a cold drink.”

Jay’s team got to the bottom of the “hot drink” tip by rigorously testing the idea on cyclists in a lab. Each cyclist was equipped with skin temperature sensors and a mouthpiece measuring the amount of oxygen consumed and carbon dioxide produced, which indicated the amount of heat produced by the body’s metabolism. The researchers also carefully tracked the air temperature and humidity, among other factors. The data yielded an overall picture of how much heat each cyclist produced and how much each released to the environment, and those drinking hot water (roughly 122 degrees F) stored less heat in their bodies than the others.

The researchers are still unsure why hot drinks lead the body to produce more sweat, but they have an idea. “It’s commonly thought that the hot drinks raise your core temperature, but we found that that isn’t the case,” Jay says. “What we think is that it’s the thermosensors that line the throat and mouth that elicit the additional sweating response.” He notes that additional research is needed to pinpoint the exact location of these sensors.

To be clear, the tip only works in very specific circumstances: a hot, dry day, where you’re not wearing so much clothing that your sweat is prevented from easily evaporating. In other words, if you’re in a humid locale—for example, anywhere on the East Coast—don’t try drinking hot water. But on a hot day in the desert, a cup of hot tea might actually be the trick to help cool you down.

116 DEGREES

Holy shit you're literally melti- oh wait, those kind of degrees. The wrong ones.

Spoiler: m26 (click to show/hide)

...No?  PW said "Under sy's command".  Saying that I won't be a bad commander is therefore grammatically correct.

Psh, we both know pw hardly makes a distinction half the time anyways. If I got a dollar every time he called me Miyamoto, I'd have several useless imperialist dollars now.

I think we should do this in a mission-like format.  People who want to explore a particular universe can set up an expedition, and anyone who wants to join can do so.  I dislike assigning people to missions without asking.

Might wanna have some sort of system though to help prevent things like all newb teams and all 'vet' teams, or 1 universe getting all the attention while the others remain unexplored. But yeah, you'll want to let people choose what strikes their fancy when possible.

This is something I have trouble with, because technically we should be able to give infinite gear with no issue.  I'm leaning towards "no free gear, unless something is specifically necessary for a mission".  I suppose I'll handle gear requests, perhaps in tandem with PW.

Maybe make a sort of list with 'standard exploring gear' you give to everybody, but gear outside of that has to be requested and won't be giving often. Gives total newbs at least something without opening the floodgates.

A limited time frame doesn't make much sense, considering the tech we have available.  Its only purpose would be to hurry people up, and that can be done via other means.

A time frame, at least for initial exploring, could help if you're afraid about loosing too much time on any one universe. And it doesn't have to be very strict though, it could be "report back every X turns/IC unit of time, then we'll reassess whether spending more time on that universe is worthwhile". Don't have to do anything like this, mind, and it also depends on how efficient/how much universe turnover pw expect this mission to have, or if it's 'Faffing About: Ultimate Championship Edition'.

Nah, that won't work. The mind control gun wipes the consciousness of the target.

I could see it being the case though that it takes over the 'central CPU' while leaving its databanks unmolested, allowing us to tap into them. I don't think we've ever seen the armory version in action though, so I couldn't say for sure either way.

Plus, NPCs are notoriously easy to kill. And for all we know it might not even work. And Pancaek can always just mind control the biggest bot we find while my containment gun and his Ids hold the bot down.

If nobody's willing to help, I'll just go with my original plan of arranger and a bunch of fun black rounds, maybe a Reset to undo a shot or two, if I can afford it.
Or a gauss cannon filled with grav-shells, if anyone is willing to give me 3 tokens, that could also work.

Perhaps, but having more allies on your side when outnumbered is always a good thing, even if Pan manages to take over a local robutt to rub his business in.

Anyways, we now have 16 tokens in fund and few other takers (bar Aoshi), and probably about 10 more if I get around to collecting and reselling the stuff loaned out for the previous mission (forgot all about those. We even have 2 gunnerbots we can take along if we want to). So unless you change your mind or others crop up needing tokens more I think the 9 token loan could be approved. On two conditions though: check with pw if the automanip will work as expected in that universe (it should, but still, for 20 tokens we should double check) and you pinkie promise not to blow everyone up. Deal?

[Kedly]

Go run around outside for a little while.  Exercise.

ITS 116 DEGREES OUT THERE

Good thing you arent in Canada. Here 116 degrees would kill you. (We use celsius not farenheit... I dont care if I spelled either of those wrong)


Edit: GODDAMNIT RC YOU NINJA! THAT WAS MY JOKE! (=p)

[Radio Controlled]

Go run around outside for a little while.  Exercise.

ITS 116 DEGREES OUT THERE

Good thing you arent in Canada. Here 116 degrees would kill you. (We use celsius not farenheit... I dont care if I spelled either of those wrong)
Edit: GODDAMNIT RC YOU NINJA! THAT WAS MY JOKE! (=p)

SHOVE IT MAPLE-SUCKER.

(Which is an actual slur for Canadians, this google here assures me  )

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

What, you don't suck out maple syrup by layering leaves then doing an impression of a vacuum cleaner on them?
Bloody weirdo.

[Ozarck]

MY BRAIN WON'T WORK HELP

ME TOO BRAINDEAD BUDDIES!

gonna do a little tf2 now, since i missed yesterday. Last one for this week. I hope those who managed to hop on monday and tuesday enjoyed it.

Maybe this weekend I'll think about an organizational system. I need to know where everyone on the mission is. and who is on the mission. I haven't read the mission thread yet, because see above^

[chaotic skies]

I'll hop on for a bit too I guess

[Kedly]

I don't have the funds at the moment. But how many people would play if I bought a year server for Starbound? Last time I did this it came with a Vent server. Starbound seems to be getting close to 1.0, and it's probably at full launch that I would think about buying some server space again.

@RC: We prefer the term Maple Connoisseur D=< (... =P). You know, because we pretend that we speak french as well, even though nobody likes Quebec ( j/k j/k it's the other way around, Quebec hates us. They have an entire political party that is devoted to trying to seperate from Canada)


Also, what is the average number of missions survived before you are considered a vet?

[spazyak]

Uh want to join you guys in some gaming but my computer mouse kinda died on me.

[renegadelobster]

Around 4ish missions I would guess for vet status