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01:37:23 <Puyopuyo> *waves at everyone, including Cassian*
01:38:22 * Cassian waves
01:39:10 <Puyopuyo> If you can hop online, I have your Chespin
01:39:35 <Cassian> Okay, one sec
01:40:00 <Cassian> What do you want for it?
01:40:10 <Puyopuyo> Mankey or Vulpix are fine.
01:40:18 <Cassian> Okay
01:42:59 <Cassian> Sorry can't find which box its in
01:43:34 <Puyopuyo> It's fine
01:43:34 <Cassian> Thanks again
01:43:38 <Puyopuyo> You're welcome.
01:43:39 <Puyopuyo> Enjoy!
01:43:45 <Cassian> Will do
03:06:05 <nathanbp> Is this the Pokemon trading room now? :P
03:07:14 <Puyopuyo> This is a quiet, quiet room where little happen
03:07:16 <Puyopuyo> *happens
03:08:49 <nathanbp> ah
03:09:04 <nathanbp> I finished Fire Emblem just in time for Zelda >_>
03:11:35 <Puyopuyo> NICE
03:14:48 * nathanbp orders manga for the next month
03:16:58 <nathanbp> not that I've read any of the manga that's shown up in the past month >_>
03:18:13 <Puyopuyo> Heh
03:30:55 <nathanbp> why am I playing hearthstone? >_>
03:31:38 <Puyopuyo> Because you're a sucker for everything Blizzard does.
03:32:08 <nathanbp> apparently...
03:36:45 <Cassian> Oh hi Nathan
03:36:58 <nathanbp> hi
03:42:14 <Cassian> How's Fire Emblem going
03:44:30 <nathanbp> I beat it (although not the 6 bonus stages)
03:44:35 <nathanbp> just in time for zelda tuesday
03:45:27 <Cassian> Yay
03:46:06 <Puyopuyo> Oh right.
03:46:11 <Puyopuyo> Nathan: Recommend some science fiction.
03:46:18 <Puyopuyo> Cassian's been looking for some good stuff.
03:48:12 <nathanbp> what have you read that you liked?
04:20:31 <nathanbp> Well, on the assumption that Cassian will eventually tab back to this chat, I'll leave a couple suggestions:
04:22:37 <nathanbp> A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge features Usenet in SPAAAAACE, as well as some of the best hyperintelligent aliens I've seen
04:23:53 <nathanbp> Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis is a fairly good time travel book
04:28:32 <nathanbp> Ringworld by Larry Niven is pretty much the original ridiculously big structure book
04:29:12 <Puyopuyo> I did suggest Niven, but yeah, Ringworld is pretty highly recommended.
04:30:01 <nathanbp> I feel like I should recommend something by Charlie Stross...
04:31:03 <nathanbp> Ah, yeah, Halting State is near future sci fi about a robbery in an MMORPG among other things...
04:31:50 <nathanbp> and Accelerando is 9 short stories that start in the near future and go up through and after the Singularity
04:32:38 <nathanbp> Accelerando is also available to read for free online: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html
04:33:37 <nathanbp> I think everything I listed either won or was nominated for the Hugo >_>
04:33:52 <Puyopuyo> Heh
04:37:58 <nathanbp> I guess I might as well mention David Brin's Uplift books too, about a universe where various intelligent species uplift non-intelligent species to intelligence (start with Startide Rising though, Sundiver is so-so)
04:38:20 <nathanbp> I could go on all night >_>
04:38:36 <Puyopuyo> No reason not to!
04:38:47 <nathanbp> Probably A Fire Upon the Deep and Halting State are the 2 I'd recommend most highly
04:38:49 <nathanbp> sleep?
04:40:43 <Puyopuyo> Ah, yes.
04:46:58 <Cassian> Cool, thanks
05:02:10 <nathanbp> let me know what you like
05:29:59 <Cassian> Will do
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