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<warpus> can you send some reminders (or just a reminder) my way closer to
the date?  just so i don't feel like a jerk when i forget
<cthulu> no problem
[ 3 weeks later ]

<cthulu> ping! Blender, this Saturday!
<warpus> nice!

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Not that I have any problem writing infofiles, spontaneously and of
indeterminate length, but as of last year I think that we established that a
carefully edited, painstakingly recoloured IRC chat log could just about do
the same work, more entertainingly and looking less like a Potemkin village
propped up by a single individual.  So here we go with BLNDR2018!

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It was nice to see the IRC channel already populated before the comp's start
time!  It was less nice to spend the entire compo without ops (@Rai-chan, as
best as we can tell, may well have spent the whole year since BLNDR2017
keeping the seat warm for us... then forgetting to tune in when things actually
started happening!) but in truth they are not needed if everyone is where they
are supposed to be when they are supposed to be there.

* Now talking on #blender
<melf_arr> ah welcome back
<Cth^Mist> OK, what did I miss?
<Tr_0ll> a lot of crack. mostly smoking crack
<swivel> i'm not at troll's level yet, so i was just snorting coke.
<Cth^Mist> practice!

* burps (~burps@fuel.wtf) has joined
<theknight> hi burps
<Cth^Mist> welcome back, burps!
<Cth^Mist> hats off for last year's champion!
<Tr_0ll> no pressure
<burps> hi :)

* tempuser (~tempuser@2a801:4f:2105:b7a3:480b:5bd5:d9c6) has joined
<Cth^Mist> ah good, another temp user.  We only use this channel once a
year, we're all temp users.

<swivel> anyone alive?
<mel_farr_> i wish
<mel_farr_> i just wish i was alive

<Cth^Mist> WELCOME EVERYONE to the IRC channel for the year 2018 instalment
of the Blender IRC improvised art compo
<Cth^Mist> If things head south on the IRC, I will be broadcasting
announcements over social media using the hashtag #BlenderComp2018
<Cth^Mist> Historically this compo only ran a couple of hours, which was
great for North Americans and terrible for Europeans, for whom it
took place in the middle of the night.
<Cth^Mist> So nowadays I accept art submissions for a 24 hour period
following the compo's beginning (I accept them even past then,
but they're no longer eligible for competition, just inclusion in
the final collection.)
<Cth^Mist> If you really want to spend 24 hours working on your Blender
entry, you're nuts, but I can't stop you.

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BLNDR2018whales / doing astrophysics / at crater lake

I've run enough of these now that I think the main bottleneck in getting things
underway is getting a good pool of prospective words together.  I devised a
good solution to this problem -- recruiting a longtime Mist poet to feed me
Plan B topics from the gaslights -- which resulted in a new problem... a good
one to have, but a problem nonetheless: choosing between excellent suggestions.
This is where having another celebrity judge or two in the channel would be
handy -- increasingly I'm having to pick my wife's brain for such matters, as
the only impartial opinion handily available, and she is not yet well steeped
in the ways of our people, not having picked up Blender and artscene traditions
through osmosis.  Or injection. Did I really just say that? Can I retract that?

<Cth^Mist> Now I have been pumping alls y'all for suggestions for subjects
for this competition...
<Cth^Mist> Most everyone active here has sent them in, if anyone is still
waiting to do so, this is your chance!
<Cth^Mist> And while I mull over them, I can also field any questions you
may have about how this is going to be run or judged.
<Cth^Mist> Anyone have any questions?
<kniffy> is it a yes on submitting an mp3
<Cth^Mist> Kniffy, MP3s are totally kosher.  I don't care what tools you
use, as long as I'm able to easily access the end product.
<melf_arr> who is rai chan?
<Cth^Mist> Mel, I forget, but he was here last year also... its infofile
might shed some light on his identity.
<burps> and who killed Kennedy?
<Cth^Mist> Burps, I support the Frank Sinatra theory.
<knocturnl> can anyone tell me why my 3d renders are so slow?
<knocturnl> i'm only using OpenGL and have direct GPU rendering turned on
<Cth^Mist> Knoc, you need to disable your bitcoin mining screensaver before
you try rendering.
<kniffy> is the answer to life really 42?
<Cth^Mist> kniffy, yes, but we don't know in which base counting system

...
<Cth^Mist> Any more questions?
<melf_arr> is warpus really showing up
<burps> hennifer is judging, right?
<Cth^Mist> warpus, who I've been in discussion with about this for months,
is our only link to hennifer.  So we'll see 8)

......

<Cth^Mist> Just got a few more words, hope to have it figured out within 5
minutes.  some excellent suggestions
<knocturnl> if anyone said puppies playing golf in puerto rico, that was mine
<Cth^Mist> In the meantime mel farr will entertain you all with some
stand-up comedy routines.
<melf_arr> 1/2 the channel is sick of my comedy cthullu
<Cth^Mist> you can sicken some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you can't sicken all of the people
all of the time.
<burps>  /ignore melf_arr
<melf_arr> like you need a command to do that burps

...

<Cth^Mist> OK, this subject is a little abstract
<Cth^Mist> but I think if you apply yourselves you can some up with something:
<Cth^Mist> WHALES / DOING ASTROPHYSICS / CRATER LAKE

  [ thanks to ice cream emperor, troll and swivel respectively for the words ]

<kniffy> hmmm
<melf_arr> THATS OBVIOUS THO
<Cth^Mist> OK, no immediate revolt, a good sign
<knocturnl> i know astrophysics and crater lake, but what are whales

<Cth^Mist> if it was OK to use multiple suggestions from the same person, it
would have been (but is not) GRANDMOTHERS / DOING PARKOUR / SUBWAY
<melf_arr> thats too bad as that one seems better
<Cth^Mist> and had the territory not been played in in prior Blenders, we
might well have ended up with THE POPE / STARGAZING / THE MOON
<nail67> good idea to throw out alternatives that aren't... let's see who
accidentally uses those
<Cth^Mist> it's not unprecedented for people to make protest entries on
unpicked topics.
<Cth^Mist> so if you really have a hate-on for astrophysics...
<Cth^Mist> mel farr's game last year actually included a lot of unpicked
suggestions as well as all the picked ones.
<swivel> but are protest entries still eligible for competition?
<Cth^Mist> swivel, that really depends on what else gets submitted.  If I
get nothing but a protest entry, then it will win 8)
<nail67> mel is a rebel
<Cth^Mist> mel is a rebel, straight up.
<melf_arr> thats why i never get +ops
<melf_arr> too rebellious
<knocturnl> i'm drawing whales doing parkour on the moon
<Cth^Mist> hey, when you consider the effect of low moon gravity on whale
mass, parkour might well involve astrophysics.

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Of course, a big part of the appeal to conducting affairs on the IRC has been
the built in procrastination release valve of just chatting with your
colleagues, and giving 24 hours of competition time leaves ample opportunity
to chew the fat.  Keeping in mind the immortal words of Mogel ("Nobody who is
even remotely sane reads chat logs"), here are some choice selections from the
general banter for your amusement:

<Tr_0ll> oi
<Tr_0ll> wow I've got the colors all jacked in this cliet
<Tr_0ll> client\
<swivel> color jacked clits are the only way
<mel_farr> i had 3 color jacked clits at one point yesterday
<Cth^Mist> easy there
<Cth^Mist> down boY!
<mel_farr> im just sharing cthullu

<Tr_0ll> damnit broke the colors some more.
<theknight> breaking colors is just another phrase for being really newschool
and daring to experiment :-)
<Cth^Mist> Why should iCE be the only one to get their own custom colour
combos named after them?
<Cth^Mist> Every group could have its own palettes.
<Cth^Mist> dibs on "angry fruit salad" high-intensity-only... we'll call it
MiSThues
<theknight> MiSThues... i like that

<kniffy> hrmph, 16colors is down so the example links dont work
<Cth^Mist> Sorry, I should have updated the website.  Most all links should
work much the same at bbs.ninja or textmod.es -- if you just cut
and paste the filenames into google it will probably find them
there.
<kniffy> i dont remember any time that 16c was working properly
<Cth^Mist> gosh, that's depressing about 16c
<Cth^Mist> it's like it was a little bit of tinder allowing the artscene to
revive, but only at the cost of itself

[ Ed. note - in light of this observation, the blender website has since been
  updated to be more capable of standing alone regardless of what's going on
  with the web galleries on a given day. ]

<Tr_0ll> not used to this client
<Cth^Mist> sorry yes, I'm just juggling a few windows 8)
<Cth^Mist> (using a new client also... hexchat!  not the crippleware that
mirc has become!)
<Tr_0ll> I only ever used bx on a shell forever, so any gui is odd
<Cth^Mist> oldschool!

<Cth^Mist> While you're waiting for me to finish scoring, , you can play Mel
Farr's awesome game from last year in your web browser at

 http://turntopage4.blogspot.ca/2017/12/blender-2017-cool-dads-cooking-in.html

<melle> ;)
<melle> the "decompiled" version
<Cth^Mist> it is missing the sound effects
<Cth^Mist> also, much easier to flip back to missed threads once you achieve
one of the game's numerous endings
<melle> i was really proud of the amount of endings
<Tr_0ll> I just saw radman in there so...
<melle> yes i used a lot of radman references pre 2018
<melle> i think i may have exhausted radman references
<Tr_0ll> my only reference was him taking off his shirt in a hotel room the
first time I met him, do with that what you will
<melle> HOW HAS EVERY1 MET RADMAN?!
<Tr_0ll> because I worked on The aRTS for awhile, and at US demoparties over
the years.  he was showing off his fresh Catbones backpiece
<melle> weird
<melle> i also have a catbones piece
<melle> i guess there is something that unites us
<Cth^Mist> catbones, the glue that holds the scene together
<Cth^Mist> after he gave me birthday wishes on my FB wall I was just asking
him advice about getting tattoos
<melle> i actually do have a catbones tattoo burps ;)
<melle> i had to truck all the way to fucking st robert missouri for it
<Cth^Mist> I'm like "cat, I don't have any tattoos, but my wife was thinking
we could get matching ink for our 10th anniversary...
<Cth^Mist> now, I'm a very hairy guy...
<melle> the legendary hairiness of cthulu
<Cth^Mist> ... is it preferred to just get tattoos on an unhairy part of
your body, or do you just shave the location on a regular basis
for the rest of your life?
<burps> so after the blender is done.. he suddenly tells us he's very hairy...
<burps> i feel like i could have incorporated that
<Cth^Mist> because getting it on a hairless spot could really limit my
options"
<Cth^Mist> would you believe he never got back to me
<melle> thats shitty
<melle> ftr the answer is "hairless spot"
<Cth^Mist> great, I can pick the palms of my hands or the soles of my feet

......

<Cth^Mist> as long as all the submissions get in promptly we should know who
won by this time tomorrow, probably even sooner..
<nail67> that's what they told me in 1998

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<Cth^Mist> In third place: MEL FARR SUPPASTAR, for FUEL!  1 point.
<Cth^Mist> In second place: BURPS, for FUEL!  2 points.  The same idea, but
drawn better, but minus the story.
<Cth^Mist> And in first place: a GAME by TROLL and two friends!
<Cth^Mist> I missed whose banner he's competing under, but they just won 3
points.

   [ Ed. note - Cranksy/Troll was on team Hungrycat, with Swivel and Ducky. ]

<Tr_0ll> Swivel deserves all that credit, he coded it.
<swivel> BS it's nothing without music sound and art
<Cth^Mist> All of the entries are worthwhile.  Pinguino's picture is very
charming, Spiny's is very charming.
<Cth^Mist> The Knight's is a protest picture and it's AMAZING
<Cth^Mist> Even the Mistergirls photoshop bit, it's a throwaway but it's
well executed.

Scoring can be surprisingly tough, especially if you're trying to compensate
for historical wrongs...

<Cth^Mist> [Mel Farr's] story is ... not the award winning calibre of his
story years ago.
<Cth^Mist> (And yet his game last year might have been better than the game
this year!)
<Cth^Mist> (And yet last year was won by Burps with his picture, while Burps
turned in a similar calibre picture this time for second!)

Go figure.

All in all I've got to conclude that everything I could ask of a Blender was
fulfilled by this one: many participants, many good suggestions, many good
submissions, submissions representing just about every medium (visual, musical,
literary and programmed) ... all issues we had running it were "embarrassment
of riches"-type problems, which I can't complain about.  Whatever we're doing
seems to be working, so let's knock on wood and hope that it keeps working
going forward!

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   if there ever is another blender, it will most likely be held:
(tag team blender!)

    7:30pm (est) saturday, april 13th - 7:30pm (est) sunday, april 14th, 2019
#blender (on EFnet)

please join us.- cthulu

<warpus> oh shit i completely forgot about it :(
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