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[Owlga]

To not. LSP is more lucid drunk/stoned than sober. It's his power.

Gunner-Chan is actually kinda like that, she makes more sense and is far less confused drunk.

If she ever "drunkposts" odds are that's because she's sober.

[miauw62]

LSP gets high on dank memes, obviously

[Gunner-Chan]

Squids can't melt dank memes.

[Calidovi]

Squids can't melt dank memes.

Can't they?

[Gunner-Chan]

That's being melted by dank memes. Not squids melting dank memes.

[Orange Wizard]

I slept ridiculously badly last night. Yet I'm still out of bed and it's only a quarter past nine.

What is happening to me.

[Graknorke]

Squids can't melt dank memes.

Can't they?

Watched the whole thing. I have relatively few regrets.

[Spehss _]

Squids can't melt dank memes.

Can't they?

Watched the whole thing. I have relatively few regrets.

Splatoon is weirder than I thought it was.

[Calidovi]

Squids can't melt dank memes.

Can't they?

Watched the whole thing. I have relatively few regrets.

Splatoon is weirder than I thought it was.

Splatoon's fanart really reflects this.

[Graknorke]

It's a japanese game and half the characters have tentacles on their heads. What the fuck did you expect.

[TempAcc]

The 80s sure was a wild time.

[BlackFlyme]

Go grocery shopping. Get home, check bags. Mostly empty. Damnit. More than half the shit we bought wasn't bagged and given back to us by the cashier.

Also got a coupon for WH40K on steam. I already own it. What do?

[Frumple]

Trading thread? Giveaway? Hell, someone bothers to do the latter and I'd even contribute extras.

[Zangi]

Apparently I managed to be there at the right time for an angryjoeshow multiplayer game in The Red Solstice.  Was curious, so I joined.  1st game, wasn't sure if it was legit but apparently it was when I googled to check on it after I walked into an artillery strike.  It was on Twitch.  I stuck around for 2nd game and he was paid to nuke everyone near the end.

Too bad, they may have gotten a poor impression of the difficulty and co-op requirements, playing on recruit/easy...  Nearly hour long time investment per game probably doesn't help either.

[Rolan7]

I was musing on Skype about the Halo storyline and tying it to Marathon as I've always loved to do.  (Green Marathon sigil in my avatar, 7 in my name)
One of my friends asked how did Durandal escaped to become D in Halo 3.
Fifteen minutes later...

It's vague, but originally he would use the power of thousands of suns.  In Marathon Infinity you basically fight a chaos god who the forerunners (definitely AIs) trapped in an artificial sun.  Durandal and you are on a decrepit forerunner space station nearby, practically drained of power, and all hope is lost.  The Phfor (covenant-analogues) have been wiped out.  "The shields are gone - not down, gone".  The god is coming for you and Durandal.  He uses the last of the power to send you back in time to fix everything.

There's a lot of time travel and dimension hopping, but it's like jumping into parts of a narrative.  You replace people who were already there... Seemingly alternate versions of yourself, often under Phfor brainwashing.  You can do wrong things, the things that would have originally happened, and time loops around.  But eventually you figure out what changes to make in these other possibilities.  It's all very vague and confusing though, some levels are practically dreams.  The terminals tell surreal stories full of metaphor. 

The final level is back on the station, but this time before the Phfor accidentally release the god by detonating the star (heh).  You activate the systems and it warps you one last time, back to Durandal's cruiser before the battle.

You never actually see the trapped god.  Durandal basically says "Chaos God?  How silly, there's no such thing here!"  But I imagine he winks as he says that.  Long story short, I think he used it to escape.
The forerunner control station only has one terminal when you get to the end but made the wrong choices.  A message from the Phfor general which warps you back to try again: http://marathon.bungie.org/story/aiemaksicur.html

My friend: wat
So I summarized:

forerunner tech keeps a dreaming god in a sun, Durandal uses you to use that tech to use the god to fix everything then escape reality
and as a side effect you become Michael Moorcock's eternal hero, reincarnating as John-117

Friend: See this is why I keep the subtitles off

I got bored waiting for a conference call that's apparently not happening.