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09/07/25 03:08:00 heav: i was not talking about f.a.
09/07/25 03:08:05 heav: we had all the periodic table up to something, right?
09/07/25 03:08:08 heav: it wasn't francium, was it?
09/07/25 03:08:11 musija: ohh
09/07/25 03:08:16 musija: uhh
09/07/25 03:08:38 quintopia: i only have one periodic table element
09/07/25 03:08:44 quintopia: that is a lot of missing ones
09/07/25 03:08:54 heav: lots of them are more lategame, if you will.
09/07/25 03:09:03 musija: we lack scandium
09/07/25 03:09:07 quintopia: i'm going to assume that f.a. stands for Friendly AI for no reason
09/07/25 03:10:15 quintopia: i now have two periodic table elements.
09/07/25 03:10:21 heav: exciting.
09/07/25 03:10:25 quintopia: whatever shall i do with them
09/07/25 03:13:21 quintopia: i used it to make money
09/07/25 03:13:23 musija: chemistry, plausibly.
09/07/25 03:13:57 musija: the money-adjacent area is very amusing I think
09/07/25 03:14:16 heav: i was just looking through it myself.
09/07/25 03:14:25 heav: it starts sane until you get to the parts with the alembic.
09/07/25 03:14:25 quintopia: i tried to tungsten+electricity+metal, but failed to accomplish any welding
09/07/25 03:14:37 quintopia: tig welding is not my forte if i'm being honest
09/07/25 03:14:47 heav: i don't believe we have welding yet.
09/07/25 03:15:06 musija: I think after scandium we lack Manganese.
09/07/25 03:15:14 heav: i think we both know what to do.
09/07/25 03:15:16 musija: true
09/07/25 03:16:48 quintopia: i tried to Martha's Vineyard, but money+community, money+island, and money+neighborhood are fruitless
09/07/25 03:17:51 musija: I have never heard of this concept
09/07/25 03:17:57 heav: money has a lot of uses but lots of them are cursed.
09/07/25 03:18:00 musija: heav: idk what the recipe for scandium would be
09/07/25 03:18:29 heav: recipe devised.
09/07/25 03:19:21 musija: anyway, after manganese, iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton all exist
09/07/25 03:19:24 quintopia: cursed in the sense of money+pressure=late-stage capitalism?
09/07/25 03:19:50 musija: in that rough sense though not that specific recipe
09/07/25 03:20:03 musija: strontium is the next missing element (rubidium also exists, barely.)
09/07/25 03:21:03 heav: rubidium's recipe is so valid and won't anger any chemists.
09/07/25 03:21:05 heav: or geologists.
09/07/25 03:22:04 quintopia: is mercury supposed to be both the planet and the element?
09/07/25 03:22:17 musija: nope, element is quicksilver
09/07/25 03:22:21 quintopia: ah
09/07/25 03:22:53 heav: it's called little alchemy, not little chemistry.
09/07/25 03:22:59 musija: exactly
09/07/25 03:22:59 raven: haha
09/07/25 03:23:12 raven: I enjoy that this is the means by which you distinguished them
09/07/25 03:23:21 quintopia: it's called elements
09/07/25 03:23:23 quintopia: so
09/07/25 03:23:32 quintopia: it's probably more chemistry than alchemy
09/07/25 03:23:35 musija: then zirconium and niobium are missing... and I think somehow despite the fact that the next few elements are largely a gigantic block of expensive platinum group things with little to no distiguishing features, somehow managed to come up with recipes for all of them
09/07/25 03:23:37 heav: why don't you cry about it into the world's tiniest alembic.
09/07/25 03:24:00 musija: admittedly, to be fair, the recipe for ruthenium is basically a bunch of torment
09/07/25 03:24:16 musija: though I think it is arguably less bad than cobalt
09/07/25 03:24:29 musija: is cobalt our worst chemical element right now?
09/07/25 03:25:02 heav: i feel like you could guess cobalt's recipe if you know us well enough, but getting the precursors is just as bad.
09/07/25 03:25:33 musija: last I checked one of the precursors was "buddha"
09/07/25 03:25:39 raven: ??
09/07/25 03:26:00 heav: oh yes, it is.
09/07/25 03:26:26 heav: (i.e not in the sense of buddha + x = cobalt, but it's in the tree.)
09/07/25 03:26:44 musija: anyway, cadmium is the next missing element
09/07/25 03:26:54 heav: okay, i've got this.
09/07/25 03:27:14 raven: I love cadmium in my bloodstream
09/07/25 03:27:25 musija: yeah okay that one was straigthfowrard
09/07/25 03:27:48 raven: yellow + dust
09/07/25 03:29:10 quintopia: i have several more elements. i was thinking i could get to mars via iron but now i'm thinking it might be the other way around
09/07/25 03:30:03 quintopia: i laughed at the star recipe
09/07/25 03:30:15 musija: there are several possible recipes that star has
09/07/25 03:30:17 musija: I think
09/07/25 03:30:29 heav: are any of them non-circular?
09/07/25 03:30:33 heav: oh, at least one of them is hydrogen-based.
09/07/25 03:30:43 musija: well, I'm hydrogen crigne
09/07/25 03:30:44 quintopia: this one was mozart based
09/07/25 03:30:53 musija: mozart... based?!
09/07/25 03:31:01 heav: i always thought mozard was acidic.
09/07/25 03:31:05 heav: mozart, even.
09/07/25 03:31:15 quintopia: why would you think that
09/07/25 03:31:27 heav: humans have a lot of stomach acid.
09/07/25 03:32:26 musija: sure, but blood is usually basic
09/07/25 03:32:53 heav: i assumed that if you took all the blood and all the stomach acid and mixed it, the resulting liquid would be acidic still.
09/07/25 03:33:06 musija: I hate how many elements are like "applications are: steel, steel, and steel"
09/07/25 03:33:24 musija: it really does not help figuring out how to give each one a distinct recipe
09/07/25 03:33:31 quintopia: i assumed that if you did that, mozart would definitely die. but he did die, so maybe that happened
09/07/25 03:33:33 heav: true.
09/07/25 03:33:44 heav: i think like half of the transition metals block is just for steel.
09/07/25 03:33:52 musija: the other half is jewelry
09/07/25 03:34:02 musija: and like even if I did "missile metal" or something that could very well be beryllium or titanium or niobium or
09/07/25 03:34:17 heav: quintopia: this happened in the mozart death building.
09/07/25 03:34:53 musija: anyway I think the next element we are missing is lanthanum?
09/07/25 03:35:01 musija: mozart death house, you mean?
09/07/25 03:35:04 heav: yes.
09/07/25 03:37:08 musija: heav: "liver" has no recipe it seems?
09/07/25 03:37:13 heav: we've really used the element 'uranus' for very mature things.
09/07/25 03:37:16 heav: i swear we had liver. really?
09/07/25 03:37:37 quintopia: is uranus on the route to sleep
09/07/25 03:37:46 quintopia: sleep is a thing i should do
09/07/25 03:38:19 heav: it's not.
09/07/25 03:38:29 heav: the route for sleep is short-ish i think.
09/07/25 03:40:17 musija: okay, anyway, "mozart death house" added as an element
09/07/25 03:40:35 quintopia: what do you consider short
09/07/25 03:41:32 musija: earlygame ish? I guess
09/07/25 03:41:34 musija: is there a notion of earlygame
09/07/25 03:41:38 heav: you almost certainly have the elements already.
09/07/25 03:41:46 heav: unless you haven't made "human" yet.
09/07/25 03:43:57 quintopia: i have no human nor any form of life