00:33:15 <nathanbp> Hey
00:33:20 <nathanbp> how was HaCha? :D
00:33:22 <Cassian> Hey
00:33:27 <Cassian> Pretty dumb
00:36:33 <nathanbp> I guess Yen Press is really getting serious about light novels
00:36:56 <Cassian> Yeah
00:36:57 <nathanbp> I wonder how much of Index they committed to publish...
00:37:12 <Cassian> They licensed some other one I haven't heard of
00:37:58 <nathanbp> Yeah I saw on ANN
00:38:10 <nathanbp> surprising to see them pick something up that doesn't have an anime
00:38:18 <Cassian> I'm guessing at least the first arc of Index. I have no idea how many novels that is
00:38:20 <Cassian> Yeah...
00:38:27 <Cassian> Unless maybe it's getting one soon
00:39:35 <nathanbp> Maybe
00:40:09 <nathanbp> I'm not actually going to buy them, I assume enough other people will >_>
00:40:30 <Cassian> Let's hope so we can get something better <_<;
00:43:34 <nathanbp> I'm kinda curious to see what Aniplex is planning for SAO II events
00:43:41 <Cassian> Dark Horse licensed a Kuroneko Oreimo spin-off
00:43:44 <Cassian> Oh boy
00:43:53 <nathanbp> although I assume that by US they mean just LA :(
00:44:00 <Cassian> Yeah
00:44:11 <Cassian> Probably for AX
00:44:53 <nathanbp> Well they're apparently doing events in the US, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan
00:45:00 <nathanbp> so maybe they'll do one in NYC as well as LA
00:48:39 <Cassian> Ah.
00:48:58 <Cassian> i can't think of where they'd do it in NYC
00:50:12 <Cassian> Apparently Yen still has more announcements for their LN imprint coming
00:50:38 <nathanbp> This just makes me feel even more lazy about going back to studying Japanese >_>
00:50:47 <Cassian> Lol
00:51:13 <Cassian> Good job, guys https://twitter.com/minase_iorin/status/457676771144372224
00:51:15 <Sacchi> Twitter / minase_iorin: TOEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ...
00:51:53 <nathanbp> wtf?
00:52:00 <Cassian> It's from this wallpaper http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/precure/images/wallpaper/03_l.php
00:52:01 <Sacchi> ハピネスチャージプリキュア!壁紙３回(Lサイズ)
00:52:25 <nathanbp> Toei.....
00:52:50 <Cassian> They really need someone that speaks English to approve these things beforehand...
00:53:38 <nathanbp> Maybe they use the same QC team as Funi?
00:53:59 <Cassian> LMAO
01:28:49 <nathanbp> No Captain Earth yet (and still no Sidonia...)
01:29:16 <Cassian> Sidonia delayed by typesetting...
01:38:18 <nathanbp> yep...
02:31:32 <Cassian> Brb
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03:05:43 <nathanbp> welcome back
03:05:58 <nathanbp> how are you liking In the Night Garden?
05:25:13 <Cassian> Opps, I forgot to tab back
05:25:43 <Cassian> I'm enjoying it aside from almost everyone having to go into a story or two when they're introduced
05:54:07 <nathanbp> lol. that's the theme though :D
05:54:22 <Cassian> I know DX
05:54:32 <nathanbp> Ugh I'm glad Shipstar didn't end with a "to be continued"
05:54:50 <Cassian> Is that a book?
05:55:50 <nathanbp> yeah
05:56:54 <nathanbp> It's the 2nd in a 2 book series by Niven (and Greg Benford) about a giant object
05:57:06 <nathanbp> This time instead of ringworld it's a giant bowl around a star
05:57:49 <Cassian> Ohh. I think I saw those at the library
05:59:03 <nathanbp> They might have been better with some stricter editing instead of just blathering on >_>
05:59:15 <Cassian> DX
05:59:36 <Cassian> So are the other Ringworld books like the later Ender books?
06:01:23 <nathanbp> not quite
06:01:58 <nathanbp> well, maybe...
06:02:06 <Cassian> Oh....
06:02:17 <Cassian> Are they overly complicated messes...
06:02:45 <nathanbp> the second one was about as good, the third one a little less so, and the last one is kinda a mess
06:02:57 <Cassian> Yikes D:
06:03:11 <nathanbp> Niven also wrote a lot of other books in the same setting (Known Space)
06:03:22 <Cassian> Ah
06:03:37 <nathanbp> mostly short stories
06:03:52 <Cassian> Oh, okay
06:05:35 <nathanbp> mostly in the 60s and 70s
06:06:10 <Cassian> Figures
06:06:26 <nathanbp> then recently he co-wrote a series that tied EVERYTHING he'd ever written for known space together and was kinda dumb
06:06:51 <Cassian> I think I saw those in the wiki article and went nope
06:08:39 <nathanbp> Probably smart...
06:09:34 <Cassian> Most of the spin-offs of older books written in the 70s and 80s seem like a good sign to stay away
06:09:48 <Cassian> Of the spin-offs/sequels I mean
06:09:55 <nathanbp> The first Ringworld sequel was written in part to fix a problem with the physics of the Ringworld (it's unstable to a thrust in the plane towards the star)
06:10:07 <Cassian> Ohh
06:10:24 <Cassian> So after that it went down hill?
06:10:37 <nathanbp> Yeah
06:10:51 <Cassian> Bah
06:10:58 <nathanbp> Most of the rest of his known space stuff from the 60s/70s is pretty good, IMO
06:12:00 <Cassian> That seems like the case for the majority of the older Sci-Fi writers
06:13:40 <nathanbp> Yeah...
06:25:25 <nathanbp> fortunately there do seem to be a fair number of new sci-fi writers to take their place >_>
06:25:37 <Cassian> Yeah <_<
06:26:03 <Cassian> I sure hope they all don't write 1000+ page series
06:27:07 <nathanbp> That seems to be limited to fantasy authors so far...
06:27:14 <Cassian> Good
06:27:36 <Cassian> 500 pages per book is pushing it >_>;;
06:29:11 <nathanbp> speaking of modern sci-fi, you should add Blindsight by Peter Watts to your list >_>
06:30:40 <nathanbp> It is a very bizarre alien first contact story
06:31:57 <Cassian> Huh, less than 400 pages
06:33:58 <nathanbp> Yeah, it's not that long
06:36:20 <nathanbp> I'm off to sleep, 'night
06:36:30 <Cassian> Good night!
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23:32:37 <nathanbp> hey
23:33:03 <nathanbp> I watched ep 3 of Captain Earth
23:33:45 <nathanbp> at 52 meters per second it would take almost 3 months to get from the Moon to Earth >_>;;
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