User was being rather strange in chat. Logs follow.
Last night, they engaged in the following:
[00:10:37] <Wombat140> To be honest I'm getting increasingly put off the SCP wiki. (warning, non-allowed feelings.)
[00:14:10] <DrGolden> Aw, why would that be?
[00:15:00] <ROUNDERHOUSE> .l
[00:15:02] <Secretary_Helen> ROUNDERHOUSE: A Culinary Broadcast (Written 29 minutes ago By: FluffyDog00) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-culinary-broadcast
[00:15:04] <Secretary_Helen> ROUNDERHOUSE: SCP-5724: The Macguffin (Written 3 hours ago By: Fireknight) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5724
[00:15:05] <Secretary_Helen> ROUNDERHOUSE: SCP-5865: pushing over hourglasses (Written 4 hours ago By: Easy Breezy) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5865
[00:17:54] <DrGolden> Wombat140 ..?
[00:18:58] <Wombat140> Well… you know, on second thoughts, things I'm not allowed to discuss. But thanks for asking.
[00:19:15] <DrGolden> Uh, alright
[00:20:24] <Wombat140> Can anyone recommend me something else to read on the Internet when I've got nothing else to be doing but read on the Internet?
[00:20:56] <quicksilver> SCP-5934
[00:20:57] <Secretary_Helen> quicksilver: SCP-5934: The Entangled Webs We Cleave (Rating: +46. Written 11 days ago By: quickestsilver) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5934
[00:21:17] <quicksilver> I hear the author is very handsome and also exceedingly humble
[00:21:24] <DrGolden> Oh 100%
[00:21:31] <DrGolden> extremely humble
[00:22:23] <Wombat140> :-D
[00:22:33] <Wombat140> Won't read it, though.
[00:22:46] <Wombat140> I've had enough, it's making me too dizzy.
[00:23:15] <Wombat140> Hang on, I'm not sure I haven't read that one already. Is it something to do with quantum something?
[00:23:21] <quicksilver> yee
[00:24:10] <Wombat140> I still can't remember. Give me another clue?
[00:26:06] <quicksilver> It's a quantum computer that removes quantum entanglement from the real world
[00:26:18] <quicksilver> The Foundation tries to use it on a biochemistry problem
[00:26:21] <quicksilver> hijinks ensue
[00:26:24] <Wombat140> OHH the teeth typewriter?
[00:26:28] <quicksilver> yee
[00:26:50] <Wombat140> not typewriter, wasn't it, adding machine. That was an amazing yarn.
[00:27:00] <quicksilver> glad you liked
[00:28:31] <quicksilver> gn 19
[00:28:34] <Wombat140> Read so many, recently, that it's hard work working out which of the ones I've read recently it is!
[00:28:43] <DrGolden> Goodnight silver!
[00:29:44] <DrGolden> Is there a template for formatting emails?
[00:30:31] <DrGolden> .s SCP Style Resources
[00:30:31] <Secretary_Helen> DrGolden: I'm sorry, I couldn't find anything.
[00:30:37] <DrGolden> Nice one, Helen
[00:36:09] <HarryBlank> .s style resource
[00:36:09] <Secretary_Helen> HarryBlank: SCP Style Resource (Rating: +402. Written 3 years ago By: 7happy7 and s d locke) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-style-resource
[00:36:26] <DrGolden> Thanks Harry
[00:36:32] <HarryBlank> Any time
[00:36:38] <DrGolden> Is there a version of the email template without the blinking message
[00:36:39] <DrGolden> ?
[00:43:06] <Wombat140> I don't know but three cheers for you for asking, I hate that thing.
[00:43:26] <Wombat140> I have seen it done not blinking, so evidently it's possible, but you might have to do it by hand.
[00:50:12] <LittleFieryOne> Remind me to never order a large soda at the movie theater again
[00:50:45] <LordofLaugh> Top 10 times LordofLaugh stole your lungs: You won't believe what's stolen in #3!
[00:55:47] <DrGolden> is it lungs?
[00:55:55] <LordofLaugh> Yes.
[00:56:07] <DrGolden> Broooo
[00:56:20] <DrGolden> I must have future sight
[00:56:41] <LordofLaugh> What you dont have is lungs
[00:57:07] * LordofLaugh gags
[00:57:20] <LordofLaugh> Spotify made a UI change
[00:57:33] <LordofLaugh> rip my years of muscle memory I guess
[00:57:33] <DrGolden> Is it bad..?
[00:58:08] <LordofLaugh> No Idgaf about if a UI change is good or bad it just fucks with my muscle memory and now im angy
[00:58:19] <DrGolden> fair nuff
[00:59:07] <LordofLaugh> .y Onyx The Acid
[00:59:09] <Secretary_Helen> LordofLaugh: The Acid - Onyx - length 5m32s - 99↑0↓ - 4446 views - super mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ4pKdyFZRk
[00:59:12] <LordofLaugh> Absolute bop
[00:59:21] * Wombat140 screams uncontrollably
[01:00:21] <Wombat140> Tell me what to say and I'll say it.
[01:00:31] <LordofLaugh> Wombat140: Onyx is pretty relaxing
[01:00:44] <Wombat140> What?
[01:00:51] <Wombat140> Is that what you want me to say?
[01:01:14] <LordofLaugh> stop screaming, stop talking, and listen to the damn song
[01:01:22] <Wombat140> Why?
[01:01:55] <LordofLaugh> >_>
[01:02:05] * LordofLaugh 🔫
[01:02:36] <Wombat140> I'm just terribly lonely and want to talk, otherwise on the Internet it's the same as if you're not there. And nothing I say is OK so I want to know what to say.
[01:02:54] <DrGolden> …are you okay?
[01:02:57] <DrGolden> Genuine question
[01:03:11] <Wombat140> No, of course not. I haven't been okay for months.
[01:03:21] <DrGolden> Geez, what happened?
[01:03:38] <Wombat140> PANS.
[01:03:56] <DrGolden> What do you mean pans?
[01:04:13] <Wombat140> PANS
[01:04:20] <Wombat140> the acronym
[01:04:58] <Wombat140> Paediatric Acute Neuroimmune Syndrome, to give the (far too) long name
[01:05:08] <DrGolden> Oh god
[01:05:15] <DrGolden> I gotta look that up hold on
[01:05:18] <Wombat140> ("Paediatric" in that I've had it a long time and it never went.)
[01:05:56] <Wombat140> thanks I'm really not up to explaining it other than "*screams*".
[01:06:23] <DrGolden> God that sounds horrible
[01:06:29] <DrGolden> And you've had this for the past few months?
[01:08:17] <Wombat140> Oh, years. It's just been extra bad the past few months.
[01:08:57] <DrGolden> I am so sorry, I… don't really know what to say other than it's going to get better
[01:09:00] <DrGolden> hopefully
[01:09:13] <Wombat140> A lot of things that are wrong, that set it off, have happened and I haven't been able to put them back again, so it's just in a permanent state of set off, and then more things happen on top of that, over and over.
[01:09:20] <Wombat140> And on top of that, I can't read SCP any more.
[01:09:31] <Wombat140> Aw, thank you.
[01:13:37] <DrGolden> So you can't read SCPs anymore because it makes you feel off?
[01:13:44] <DrGolden> You don't have to answer that question
[01:13:52] <DrGolden> if you don't want to, that is
[01:15:59] <Wombat140> Well, it's just having [redacted] forced down my throat so much.
[01:16:14] <DrGolden> I think I understand..
[01:16:20] <Wombat140> Do you?
[01:16:30] <Wombat140> I'm surprised, if so. :-D
[01:16:37] <Wombat140> based on that little information.
[01:17:19] <DrGolden> I dunno, perhaps the clinical tone or the exestentialism of SCPs is what sets you off
[01:17:31] <Wombat140> No, not at all, makes me feel at home.
[01:17:36] <Wombat140> :-D
[01:18:07] <Wombat140> (seriously I have a bit of trouble taking an interest in "normal" stories sometimes, because they're so alien!)
[01:19:07] <DrGolden> Oh!
[01:19:12] <fairydoctor> lol the clinical tone and existentialism of SCP makes me feel at home too
[01:19:21] <fairydoctor> ;'D
[01:19:28] <Wombat140> :-)
[01:19:43] <Wombat140> (pity I can't do the upside-down smiley here!)
[01:20:01] <fairydoctor> i feel you
[01:20:23] <DrGolden> 🙃 this/
[01:20:23] <Wombat140> No, [redacted] is something else, something I have nothing allowable to say about. The trouble is, I think, though I'm not sure, that I have two entirely opposite opinions about [redacted], so having it forced down my throat so often is making me extremely sea-sick.
[01:20:26] <DrGolden> ?
[01:20:34] <Wombat140> Haha! I didn't know it was in Unicode.
[01:20:40] <Wombat140> 🙃
[01:20:49] <fairydoctor> 🙃
[01:24:44] <Wombat140> .au DrGolden
[01:24:44] <Secretary_Helen> Wombat140: I couldn't find any author by that name.
[01:24:50] <DrGolden> Not yet
[01:25:07] <DrGolden> One day
[01:25:10] <Wombat140> :-)
[01:25:11] <fairydoctor> <3
[01:25:25] <Wombat140> I've got nothing to read.
[01:25:45] <fairydoctor> .s daisy
[01:25:45] <Secretary_Helen> fairydoctor: Daisy the Clown (Rating: +22. Written 35 days ago By: fairydoctor) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/daisy-the-clown
[01:25:49] <fairydoctor> .s the whole is
[01:25:50] <Secretary_Helen> fairydoctor: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. (Rating: +16. Written 15 days ago By: fairydoctor) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-whole-is-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts
[01:25:56] <fairydoctor> >:)
[01:26:54] <Wombat140> It's awfully nice of you but I don't want to read anything else involving [redacted] at the moment, which I expect there's a pretty high chance that does.
[01:27:08] <fairydoctor> no worries!
[01:27:39] <Wombat140> (I've already read "sum of the parts". Now, what on Earth was that?)
[01:27:54] <fairydoctor> what was what?
[01:28:09] <Wombat140> (Ooh, that one.)
[01:28:43] <fairydoctor> x')
[01:29:00] <Wombat140> (I was just looking up which one "The whole is more, etc." was. I knew I'd read something called that recently but lost track of which.)
[01:29:03] <Wombat140> :-)
[01:29:17] * fairydoctor excited paw paps
[01:29:31] * Wombat140 screams and dodges at the last moment.
[01:29:54] <Wombat140> Erk. Sorry. It's just so hard lying all the time and I'm so tired right now.
[01:30:05] <fairydoctor> lol youre good
[01:30:27] <Wombat140> :-)
[01:33:56] <Wombat140> I wish I could talk about it, but I guess this is a very bad place to discuss that.
[01:34:30] <Wombat140> [redacted], that is. Obviously that's by no means the bottom layer of what's bothering me, but then the truth about that isn't an allowable thing to say either.
[01:35:19] <fairydoctor> <3
Turns out, [redacted] is "transgender". Tonight, they tried several times to engage with chat again on it, completely unprompted:
[22:04:31] <Wombat140> Hello Limeyy, and everyone.
[22:04:41] <Wombat140> Regarding what I was saying yesterday, about how I couldn't face reading SCP any more because of something I wasn't allowed to mention.
[22:05:10] <Wombat140> Since I'll probably be leaving otherwise anyway, what about I just drop all this "[redacted]" nonsense and say what's bothering me? I mean no offence to anyone whatsoever by this.
[22:06:06] <Dora> meow
[22:06:09] * thewalkindude pets dora
[22:06:36] * Dora is now known as Athenodora
[22:06:38] **<Wombat140> Thinking about transgender stuff makes me dizzy.
They attempted this a few times, then started passively whinging about how no one was engaging with them on their obvious attempts to discuss a sensitive topic. After discussion in opchat, I engaged.
[22:38:40] <MalyceGraves> Wombat140: Ok, I'll engage with this for sheer curiosity's sake. What do you hope to gain by telling us that you "don't believe in transgender"
[22:38:43] <MalyceGraves> ?
[22:38:58] <BananaRepublic> I think trans people are cool. just like people are cool.
[22:39:03] * Wombat140 spends a lot of time in a Discord cryptography server with an incredibly high level of elaborate trolling, so is particularly suspicious.
[22:39:14] <BananaRepublic> generally speaking. we all arent great but most people are fundamentally moral
[22:39:25] <Wombat140> To feel slightly less gaslit by hearing myself say it, mainly.
[22:39:27] <BananaRepublic> idk, im probably just blathering at this point
[22:39:35] <Kufat> Wombat140, people declining to pick up a conversational topic that you're attempting to introduce isn't trolling.
[22:39:45] <drblackbox> ^
[22:40:08] <MalyceGraves> The chatstaff here are pretty damn good at picking up on legitimate trolling
[22:40:25] <KrySleepy> Oboebandgeek99: Have you posted it and can I read it? :>
[22:40:43] <Wombat140> Kufat I didn't mean that, I just wasn't sure whether the minute discussion of economic history was real or some kind of, as I say, "la la la".
[22:40:47] <MalyceGraves> So, now you have your audience, Wombat140. I am engaging with you on your chosen topic.
[22:41:02] <MalyceGraves> We were talking economic theory because it's a legitimately interesting topic
[22:41:05] <Oboebandgeek99> KrySleepy: which thing?
[22:41:12] <Wombat140> MalyceGraves: I'm glad to hear it. Over at CicadaSolvers, the chat staff are frequently the ones doing the trolling.
[22:41:20] <Wombat140> Yep, I get that now and am glad to hear it.,
[22:41:22] <BananaRepublic> MalyceGraves: i am sorry if i randomly interjected economic history, im just drunk and do this sometimes lol
[22:41:36] <MalyceGraves> BananaRepublic: you're fine. I enjoyed that. Economics is a passion of mine.
[22:41:45] <KrySleepy> Oboebandgeek99: you mentioned your return to the site and an associated piece right as a joined chat, I was wondering if I can see it :>
[22:41:56] <Corvus> BananaRepublic: it was a good conversation. You are not the problem here.
[22:42:09] <BananaRepublic> MalyceGraves: im more into the social history of economics (love southern history, kinda my *THING* aside from electoral data)
[22:42:10] <KrySleepy> I'm always up to read a friends work :D
[22:42:23] <MalyceGraves> Wombat140: well, we are not the other channel, and often lots of conversations happen simultaneously here
[22:42:30] <BananaRepublic> Corvus: oh hey Corvus yeah sorry, i just get self consciuous sometimes lol
[22:42:32] <Wombat140> (Me too, I would've joined in myself if I wasn't (a) trying to talk about something else and (b) too ignorant.)
[22:42:34] <TheSpiderQueen> BananaRepublic: Never change <3 And also take care of yourself (Sorry if I'm overstepping by sliding into this convo)
[22:42:51] <Calibri_Bold> .l
[22:42:51] <BananaRepublic> TheSpiderQueen: its fine bro we love you bro <3
[22:42:52] <Secretary_Helen> Calibri_Bold: SCP-5819: Virtual Burial (Written 5 hours ago By: Dr Leonard) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5819
[22:42:54] <Secretary_Helen> Calibri_Bold: A Culinary Broadcast (Written 22 hours ago By: FluffyDog00) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-culinary-broadcast
[22:42:55] <Secretary_Helen> Calibri_Bold: UnHuman Hub (Written 1 day ago By: Oboebandgeek99) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/unhuman-hub
[22:42:58] <Calibri_Bold> Hm
[22:43:01] <Oboebandgeek99> KrySleepy: oh its thullsh't! it was my first noncollaborative work to mark my return to the site after several years of being away, i think i posted it in 2019 http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/thullsh-t
[22:43:03] <Calibri_Bold> SCP-6000
[22:43:04] <Secretary_Helen> Calibri_Bold: SCP-6000 (Rating: +54. Written 8 hours ago By: DrBleep) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6000
[22:43:05] <TheSpiderQueen> BananaRepublic: Yeah bro
[22:43:10] <MalyceGraves> Wombat140: Ok, well now you have the attention you wanted, so… go ahead
[22:45:13] <Wombat140> Well, that was what I was trying to say, what I said. I think the trouble is that I have two strong mutually exclusive opinions on the subject, so it makes me dizzy trying to think about it.
[22:45:29] <KrySleepy> Oh, it has math in it. That's a thing to read when I'm not half asleep
[22:45:39] * Wombat140 tries to do the shrug face but it hasn't got it.
[22:45:42] <KrySleepy> But it is on my reading list >:3
[22:45:47] <MalyceGraves> I understand internal conflict over a topic. Happens frequently. So what are you looking for here?
[22:45:53] <BananaRepublic> Math bad, Math bad
[22:45:55] <MalyceGraves> Why bring it up unprompted?
[22:46:08] <KrySleepy> Math not bad! Math just not well processed when I am sleepy
[22:46:09] <Oboebandgeek99> KrySleepy: its a bit awkward after a few years lol but i think theres still some slight charm to it
[22:46:17] <Wombat140> Because it was bothering me.
[22:46:45] <BananaRepublic> KrySleepy these are my beliefs and i refuse to change them
[22:46:47] <MalyceGraves> I mean, I identify as trans. I have a trans partner. Lots of my friends are trans. Our legitimacy and existence is utterly un-reliant on your belief
[22:46:59] <Wombat140> Well, there you are, then.
[22:47:14] <Wombat140> I hate feeling thrown out of things, that's all.
[22:47:53] <Wombat140> (And I have no problem with that.)
[22:48:02] <MalyceGraves> No one is throwing feelings out of anything. You raised a hot button topic that is often utilized as a way to marginalize and attack a group of people. Don't be surprised when no one wants to engage with you over it
[22:48:14] <BananaRepublic> personally i had very few questions about trans identity when i learned about the neurological patterns from trans people and was like "oh thats cool, i support it wholeheartedly now"
[22:48:16] <KrySleepy> BananaRepublic: no worries. Math is tricky but I refuse to let people be divided by it!
[22:48:20] <BananaRepublic> i was also like
[22:48:22] <BananaRepublic> 13
[22:48:40] <BananaRepublic> one of the few things i carried over into adulthood
[22:48:52] <Athenodora> if I may interject - I'm strongly religious, and the question of Theodicy makes me dizzy, too
[22:49:12] <BananaRepublic> Yeah there are some concepts that are hard to wrap your mind around
[22:49:14] <Athenodora> but I don't think I've often interjected it into random, unrelated conversations
[22:49:35] * KrySleepy realizes he mad a math pun, and is sorry
[22:49:41] * KrySleepy *made
[22:49:44] <BananaRepublic> I (and im not trying to be ironic, I swear) had to wrap my mind around the concept of mantling in the elder scrolls
[22:49:48] * KrySleepy is now known as KrySalems
[22:49:54] * Wombat140 approves of the math pun.
[22:50:04] <drblackbox> Athenodora I'd be down with discussing that, btw.
[22:50:11] <BananaRepublic> that sounds weird but its true, i was born into a conservative religious family and found that shit fucking weird
[22:50:27] <MalyceGraves> .def theodicy
[22:50:29] <Secretary_Helen> MalyceGraves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy - Theodicy - Wikipedia: Theodicy means vindication of God. It is to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil, …
[22:50:45] **<Wombat140> Well, this kind of followed on from a long crying session in chat yesterday, in which I referred to what was bothering me as "[redacted]" throughout and never once admitted what it was.
[22:51:06] <MalyceGraves> It was painfully obvious what you were referring to
[22:51:12] <BananaRepublic> I'm like "damn dude youre telling me you technically can become a god if people worship you? wtf"
[22:51:14] <Wombat140> Was it? Hm.
[22:51:24] <BananaRepublic> now im just like "damn that shit easy af tell me about chim bro"
[22:51:35] <MalyceGraves> Athenodora: I will chat about this with you any time. Probably not here though
[22:52:15] <Wombat140> Well, I have been yelping and then swallowing it again about this in here for a while, I suppose, obviously you're just better at remembering who everybody is than I am.
[22:52:37] <Corvus> You have not been fucking subtle in the least.
[22:52:52] <MalyceGraves> So, what do you hope to get out of a conversation about your disbelief in transgender?
[22:53:21] <Wombat140> I did say "mostly". I think it is a thing that happens. I just don't believe in gender.
[22:53:54] <Corvus> What, exactly, does that mean
[22:53:58] <MalyceGraves> I identify as gender null or agender. That doesn't prevent me from embracing transgender in the slightest
[22:54:16] <Wombat140> MalyceGraves: What does that mean?
[22:54:31] <BananaRepublic> .au
[22:54:38] <Secretary_Helen> BananaRepublic: bananarepublic - has 14 pages. (9 SCP articles, 4 Tales, 1 GoI Formats, 0 others.) They have 1004 net upvotes with a rounded average of 72. Their latest page is SCP-4136: uncle at 73.
[22:54:43] <MalyceGraves> I do not identify as any gender. If I could exist entirely absent of gender, I would.
[22:54:56] <MalyceGraves> .pronouns
[22:54:56] <Secretary_Helen> MalyceGraves: MalyceGraves uses the following pronouns: theirs, them, they; MalyceGraves accepts the following pronouns: xir, ser, se, ver, them, xe, they, ve; MalyceGraves DOES NOT accept the following pronouns: she, her, him, he.
[22:55:01] <Wombat140> I can comprehend it as a thing you might do. I cannot comprehend it as a thing you can be.
[22:55:08] <Wombat140> (Also, good for you.)
[22:55:10] <Corvus> Please answer my question, Wombat140
[22:55:12] * KrySalems shrugs in enby
[22:55:25] <MalyceGraves> So, I ask again, what do you hope to gain through this conversation?
[22:55:27] <Wombat140> What does "identify as" mean?
[22:55:40] <Wombat140> Corvus: I'm trying to.
[22:55:56] <KrySalems> The recognition and declaration that you are something
[22:56:32] <Wombat140> Well… I reckon it puzzles me because I never have had any strong opinions about what sex I "ought" to be?
[22:56:37] <KrySalems> I think the recognition part of that is really important though cause you really can't, choose, in my experience. I didn't choose to by enby, I just am.
[22:57:04] <BananaRepublic> like, uh, if i say "i identify as a southern" you identify as that thing. when a group of people identify as it, it typcially constitutes a group and an interest group with certain ideas. being trans, in this contact, would be the thing they claim to be (which is being identified, at birth , as one thing and identifiying as another)
[22:57:05] <Corvus> Neither have I. Doesn't mean I bitch about transgender material being "forced down my throat"
[22:57:06] <Wombat140> Maybe "gender" is actually something only some people have?
[22:57:19] <basircuser> what?
[22:57:43] <KrySalems> In my case the strong opinion came about because what I am harshly contradicted with what everyone perceived me as and the unending discomfort was not fun
[22:57:49] <Corvus> I have very much heard enough
[22:57:55] <Wombat140> It's a very weird thing.
[22:57:57] <Oboebandgeek99> if i say i don't believe in the sun bc i see it as a bunch of chemical reactions as opposed to a physical thing that is that doesnt change the fact that the sun is gonna rise tomorrow
[22:58:08] <Corvus> Not our job to teach you not to be a transphobe so you can take a year to go do that somewhere that isn't here.
[22:58:16] -> Corvus sets mode: +b :*!*@SCP-l3130i.zen.co.uk
[22:58:18] <KrySalems> Like imagine you were a CompSci major and everyone kept telling you that you were a Music major and disregarded your opinion whenever you corrected them
[22:58:22] <KrySalems> Oh
[22:58:24] -> Wombat140 was kicked by Corvus (Now get the hell out )
It was decided that this user would be banned for 1 year.