<Cth_Mist> OK, here we all are!
           at least a few participants
           a couple of administrators
           plenty of idlers and bots
           sounds like a Blender to me!

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<warpus> fuck i'm late
         or am i just in time?
         i was just in #16c thinking i'm in #blender, so clearly i'm not
         ready for this yet
* warpus gulps down coffee
<warpus> jeez how much time will i need to fully wake up
<Cth_Mist> hopefully by the time we judge in 24 hours you'll be awake

<Mr_Roboto> hey man it's about a year i first walked around this place
<warpus> it's mr roboto anniversary day!
<Cth_Mist> happy manufacturing date, roboto
<Mr_Roboto> thank you very much!

* pinguino has joined #blender
<Cth_Mist> pinguino, so glad to see you
<warpus> hey pinguino
* pinguino has left #blender
<warpus> oh shit
<Cth_Mist> I take it back!
* pinguino has joined #blender
<Cth_Mist> ping, hopefully your visit is a little longer this time
<pinguino> Using some weird iPhone irc app :p

<HMDerdoc> i have no group affiliation... i need to invent a group
           is there a group called "Colon blast"?
<Cth_Mist> there is now!

<warpus> It's probably worth mentioning that MFS is not here because he's
           helping coordinate a sort of sexual blender with hot babes.
           Otherwise he would totally be here
<Cth_Mist> a gender blender if you will
           yes, actually mfs / partying with hot babes / at the blender would
           be a great topic

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<Cth_Mist> ok, potential blender participants, we need some word suggestions.
           I mean, we don't, we have a slushpile full of unused ones from past
           blenders, but we maintain the illusion that it's all on you
<Mr_Roboto> do we send the suggestions to you, cthulhu?
<Cth_Mist> sure, private message them in
<warpus> if your keyboard doesn't have an underscore, you can send them to me
<Cth_Mist> if your keyboard only has underscores, you're in trouble.  ascii
           art submission for sure.
<warpus> i think spinsane has a keyboard like that

<Cth_Mist> ok, not too late to send in words, but we're going to start picking
           them
           still picking, you haven't missed anything yet
           gloves are off, warpus and I are feuding in private messages
           we have words!
           it only took us 45 minutes, but we are special
           are you ready for your blender assignments?
<Mr_Gris> yes, we're very ready!
<Cth_Mist> thank you, sock puppet
           sometimes you have to BYO pageantry

<Cth_Mist> ok ok ok.  who is doing something in this Blender? A: AN ASTRONAUT
           hey, warpus, what is going on in this Blender?
<warpus> what is he doing?  everybody's favourite pasttime: DOING DRUGS
<warpus> the gender of the astronaut is also up to you, even though i referred
         to him as he
<Cth_Mist> what kind of drugs?  narcotics?  prescription drugs?  smoking
           banana peels?  it's all up to you
           and where is this taking place?  LIVE ON CABLE TV
           the younger artists in our midst will want to go look up CABLE TV
           on Wikipedia
           it's like youtube but the ads are worse
           also, not free
<warpus> cable tv is like tv but there's more cables and lower production
         values
         it should also be mentioned that we are one of the only compos
         that do not do any drug testing whatsoever, so feel free to become
         the astronaut if that's what inspires you
* Smooth_ has joined #blender
<Smooth_> cool topic
<warpus> it was about time we acknowledged the drug using demographic

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<la1yv> Aha, so the channel is hosting a sort of competiton? Good luck to all
        participants!
<Cth_Mist> makes you wonder what la1yv is here for if they don't know
           the Blender
<la1yv> Cth_Mist is on to something. I joined, believing this was about the
        Blender 2D/3D modeling program Now I am just curious what this is
<MateoC> um this isn't about the 2d/3d modeling program?
         I've been here for months and no activity
<la1yv> Thanks for making me feel less alone, MateoC :)
<Cth_Mist> OK, tuning back in.  Mateo, la1 ... this is a little odd to
           explain, but this is the traditional staging ground of the
           "Blender" improvised computer art competition, where strange
           combinations of topics are chosen from participant suggestions and
           "blended" together into semicoherent, unified wholes.
           details at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html
           The heyday of this exercise was the late '90s, consequently a lot
           of the participating artists work in traditional computer art
           mediums such as ANSI art
<MateoC> huh that's neat
<la1yv> Thank you Cth_Mist ! I am old enough to remember when ASCII-art was
        the only form of computer art :) Looking forward to see what comes out
        of the blender. Oh, and I will refrain for asking questions about
        using the program :)
<MateoC> tbf, I can generally help with the program lol
         ^ :)
<la1yv> I am a beginner (been using OpenSCAD for a while). Found #blender on
        Libera which seems to fit expectations better.
        I guess when I type /join #blender I should be prepared for anything,
        including a food processing channel
<MateoC> indeed :)
<warpus> this is totally about the 2d/3d modelling program but also about all
         sorts of other things, at this point you might as well spend the next
         2 hours throwing together something in blender about the 3 words you
         see in the title
         which is a tall order, but i'm just waking up so words are coming out
         of my hands and i can't stop them
         i've been using blender for its video editing capabilities, switched
         over when my adobe premiere "high seas"

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<warpus> 3 subs!
         and possibly more
<TooCool> sweeeet  with 4 e's
<warpus> yeahhhhh with 5 h's

<Cth_Mist> in the end, we rate the submissions, primarily on the basis of "how
           well did they use all three of our excellent word selections, and
           also does it kick ass"
           a piece that kicks a lot of ass but doesn't use all the words well
           may not score highly
           a piece that uses all of the words excellently and otherwise sucks
           ass may score highly.  it's part of the blender enigma
           the important part is that there is ass involved with both the
           winners and the losers

<warpus> aaaand we're done!
         it's the blend-end
         the judging chambers are being booted up
<Cth_Mist> beep beep bloop
           I think we have our results
           hopefully there are no further last minute entries!
           if there are, please send them in to feature in the artpack!  but
           we can't judge art that we haven't seen and aren't sure exists
           it would be kind of weird if we could
<Mr_Roboto> hahahahahaha it would be rigged!
<Cth_Mist> well, we have our own judging methods and techniques, that would
           just be another one of those
           either you trust us or you don't!
<Mr_Roboto> hahahahahahaha
<Cth_Mist> ok ok so...
           let's announce what we received!
           judging went very quick.
           not a ton of entries, but a good ratio of quality work
           the top 3 this time was all quality work
<warpus> immediate judge consensus confirmed
<Cth_Mist> in third place
           quality, quality ascii art work
           an oddly representative piece
           by an artist calling themselves "abstrakt"
<Mr_Roboto> ***claps***
            congratulation abstrakt!!!!
<Cth_Mist> it is a beautiful piece, stark and minimalist,
           full of texture and popping details
           that is ... 1 point earned for lazarus
           2nd place earns 2 points.  who won 2nd place, warpus?
<warpus> in second place, using an eye catching combination of nostalgia
         and purple
         is a piece that explored the 3 words in a visually appealing way
         i wish i had more to say it but i sort of got high,
<Cth_Mist> you and the astronaut both, warpus
           though judging from how he looks, I hope the astronaut got higher
           than you
           otherwise you should not be online right now
<warpus> i'm staying away from heavy machinery
         such as the tandy color computer
<Cth_Mist> you are in no shape to be playing madness and the minotaur
<warpus> so let's move on to naming who the artist is and all that
         this piece was submitted by TAINTED
         representing the crew known as BLOCKTRONICS
         tainted places 2nd and receives some amount of points
<Mr_Roboto> WOoooHOOOooooo!!!! That's my teacher!!!!
            congratulations dudeee!!!!
<Cth_Mist> all right, here we are announcing first place
           it's... no contest.  mr roboto runs away with gold again!
           when you see it, soon hopefully, you will all agree.
           which crew do your three points go to roboto?
<Mr_Roboto> 67
<Cth_Mist> the other podium placing works were Very Good, and this one just
           kind of passes them by, running backwards
           while juggling
           chainsaws
           unless you're spending the entire 24 hour compo period drawing, I
           simply don't see how you do it
           but some wonders are not for mortal minds to understand
           I don't need to understand it to celebrate it!
<warpus> i loved the concept and execution of the winning entry, explored the
         subject matter and told it as a story and was visually epic
<Cth_Mist> epic is the word!
           so hats off to our winners abstrakt, tainted and mr roboto
           and the other competitors
<warpus> honourable mentions to toocool and ignoramus, who had respectable
         entries of their own, but the podium was just that unanimous and clear
<Mr_Roboto> thank you very much guys!!!
<Cth_Mist> someday I hope that roboto will find a way to weave his blender
           winners into a mega tapestry of surrealism
           it was a mighty blender and,
           oh shit, we should announce the date of the next one
           next one's gotta be Apr 23-24, week before is Easter

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Not a ton of art, but good art; deciding on the topics is still taking way too
long, but we are getting good topics, it may just be the case that we can't get
both... rapid infofile processing and pack upload.  Not bad!  We didn't wind up
doing our impromptu Discord Blender over the holidays, but we still feel we're
doing great.  Someday!

A hearty congratulations to the winners and a sincere thanks to all of the
participants... and a laughing-my-ass-off at the victims of brand confusion.
Someday we will be sent a Blender project as a Blender entry, but not quite
yet!  Blocktronics pulls in a ton of points (what took them so long?), zooming
up the rankings to face the final boss, Mistigris.  If Skrubly and Haquisaq
don't emerge from retirement, Mist's long hegemony of the Blender ladder could
be seriously threatened!

See you all again in April, weekend after Easter!
Until then, cheers and BLEND ON, dudes!

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          if there ever is another blender, it will most likely be held:
                                (if not sooner!)

                saturday, april 23rd - sunday, april 24th, 2022
                              2:00pm - 2:00pm (est)
                               #blender (on EFnet)

please join us.                                                     - hennifer
                                                                      & warpus
                                                                      & cthulu

<Cth_Mist> we now leave this channel for the use of fans of the Blender
           software for the next three months, but we will return
           to confuse them
<la1yv> :D
        Thanks. Enjoy previous artSAUCE00Blender 2022A infofile             Cthulu, Warpus & HenBlender!            20220124ÜW

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