TehAmelie: this short story has reached over 35,000 words and it's nowhere near done. i'm afraid i've made a novel
Metric_Furlong: sad_tombone.wav
RockPusher: !seach for treasue
RockPusher: !search for treasure
LRRbot: You find: a silverfish!
accountmadeforants: !advice
LRRbot: The answer to every question is Alex.
RockPusher: Oh no! Argh! *clanging noises* Now there are three of them!!!
accountmadeforants: Alex...? KILL
TehAmelie: i'm still standing by my "blue whale" answer
Juliamon: answer to what question
Juliamon: actually I don't want to know
TehAmelie: that's not part of the story
SocraticMethod: @TehAmelie Pipe down Alan Davies
GapFiller: !next
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RockPusher: TehAmelie if that answer is good enough for QI it is good enough for here!
Juliamon:
TehAmelie: indeed
CaptainSpam:
@RockPusher In general, it is demonstrably not a good enough answer for QI... 
CaptainSpam:
Juliamon: I don't hear the RQ main theme but I am imagining it
ShaneLeeAtk: Same
Juliamon: ah, there it is
CaptainSpam: There it is.
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GapFiller: not had a chance to rewatch the episode again but per quick back of the hand revision notes: Nintendo watching us in our sleep, Roblox being even more terrible then previously imagined, and Kathleen doing the Sonic story instead of Beej somehow
GapFiller: that sound abt right
Juliamon: and something about Tetris
GapFiller: yes Tetris speedrunning
GapFiller: remembered that even just forgot to jot it down
GapFiller: then theres only so much space on the back of my hand eh
mtvcdm: Hello
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RubikDarkwill: Not Tetris speedrunning, Tetris rebirth level
GapFiller: it figures unecessary given everyone has phones ect
Juliamon: I don't think I ever did
CaptainSpam: It is, indeed, go time.
GapFiller: Saturday Nite Chill
TehAmelie: hello!
manfred909:
except it's Sunday 
Metric_Furlong: Chillpoint: now on Saturday (Sunday, in Japan and Australia)
terribleplan: There's an 80% chance it is already raining
djalternative: you're on the wrong page of the script, Paul
lord_forcekin: I just realized in horror the Xbox 360 released 19 years ago!!!
MungoDude: you mean there are people who don't lurk in this channel 24/7?
Oghara: !schedule
GapFiller: MungoDude shocking innit
Juliamon: Graham shared an all-time banger comment
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Akaiatana: I'm sorry for your Aus.
Izandai: @Juliamon What was that?
Juliamon: also, something odd happened to that preview image in the toot
mtvcdm: Don't worry, one day the sun will come so close to us it swallows us all
Izandai: ty
manfred909: Victoria and NSW burn in the Summer
GapFiller: the outback might be desert but the rest of it is pretty flammable
TehAmelie: "good news, the wildfires will deter some of the smaller spiders"
korvys: Yes - which is also the part where THE PEOPLE LIVE
Izandai:
Jesus christ that is an all-timer comment. 
GapFiller: dae always imagine Tasmania as Taz Mania
GapFiller: no just me?
RockPusher: Our lack of presence on maps has mislead Beej about our size
GapFiller: something something Taz Noises
RubikDarkwill: Yep, go to Alice Springs
lord_forcekin: could be worse you could live in Germany
Izandai:
Akaiatana: She might have been chroma-kiwi'd
Juliamon: GapFiller sometimes I get the theme song stuck in my head
RockPusher: Is it Tonga time‽ I think it's Tonga time!
CookieMom: Live in the ocean. Die in the ocean.
korvys: Interesting timing, though, PAXAus is on right now
GapFiller: thats why Beej said Tonga Heather!
Juliamon: Brazil has... some english
OldUncleDan: Vanuatu... Pretty underated Survivor season.
djalternative: if LRR goes to Alice Springs, people will think they work for the CIA
mtvcdm: Uruguay and that's my final offer
Juliamon: It is nice, but also the Brazilian govt is.... uh
Akaiatana: The Goon Beej
GapFiller: Beej totally said move to Vanuatu in lieu of moving directly into the sea
GapFiller: thanks climate change!
Izandai: You just need Brazillian Miku to translate for you.
GapFiller: Akaiatana Beej is an SA lifer its true
Izandai: uh hh
Izandai: uh huh
Izandai:
TheMerricat:
Is it that or them complaining the the folk outside the country aren't suckers? 
Juliamon: yeah, as I said in the tip line, "shunned" is a weird way to spell "illegal or about to be illegal in the EU"
CookieMom: Bidets for the win.
Metric_Furlong: there's the trademark Beej Analogy
djalternative: what's Concord? Grapes? are we talking about grapes?
Izandai:
Juliamon: Sure. Grapes.
GapFiller: thats some Hella KoolAid
Juliamon: The game lasted about as long as a grape.
Izandai: As always, Gamers are the problem.
SquareDotCube: And yet, Splatoon exists.
accountmadeforants: It should've been 70 dollars *and* have microtransactions.
Metric_Furlong: might also have helped Concord if they'd done any marketting for it at all
Voidhawk42: Concord had *so many* failings, it's hard to pick out a single one
Izandai:
terribleplan: I think part of it is where it needs to be positioned in the market.
accountmadeforants: It's more like, "there are games that are free to play that are this game but better/more established"
Marvoleath: "I want other ppl to pay for my game's upkeep"
thesurfaceofthemoon: !next
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TehAmelie: new time travel goals: play Concord on a Concord
Juliamon: TehAmelie while IN Concord (of your choice)
KeytarCat: [FFXIV copypasta]
SquareDotCube: This is an issue with expectations with AAA games - It needs millions of sales with high retention to be successful in the eyes of its investors, meaning ever increasing scope, meaning an unsustainable cycle. And, well it's breaking. And fortunately, the much smaller indies are getting ,more attention.
Izandai: One look at any piracy community will provide conclusive proof that some number of people just want the thing without having to pay for it.
mtvcdm: It doesn't help they got into a genre that's already a bit in decline anyway.
Voidhawk42: I agree with Paul - it's a bit of "race to the bottom". If everyone else is Free to Play, how do you get players to try your game?
Doc_Layzah: Then pay-what-you-want would never work and it historically does
djalternative: I could go for some concord grapes right now
djalternative: or really any food or water tbh
djalternative: today is literal torture
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Metric_Furlong: also it's difficult to extrapolate human nature from behaviours in modern consumer society given how narrow a sample that is, historically speaking
SquareDotCube: For instance, I think a boomer shooter would be a great new project pivot for Bungie right now given their origins, but nah, that battle royale genre still have to be alive, right? ...Right?
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RandomTrivia:
Hi friends! 
Izandai: @Metric_Furlong Most subjects of psychological studies are WEIRD.
Metric_Furlong: @Izandai yeah. also insert the old joke of [not even the good evolutionary psychologists take evolutionary psychology serious]
GapFiller: 2nd Place 4 Lyf!
GapFiller: the ole do good but not perfect chestnut
thrythlind: I don't mind buying for extras... but uggg
TheMerricat: So what's really weird to me, Youtube just introduced games that you can play in the Youtube app (mobile) and the ones that I'm playing are obviously mobile games that have had the microtransations yanked out... and they are still aggressively addicting.
Akaiatana: The Sonic Fall Guys game casts a long Shadow.
RandomTrivia:
Akaiatana 
hehehehe
Metric_Furlong: @Akaiatana boo!
Metric_Furlong: boo
TehAmelie: hehe
GapFiller: TheMerricat G has touched on this a few times onstream abt often w/ these games removing the microtransactions but leaving in all the associated cruft adds a certain unreality to the experience
Akaiatana: Diablo is a great lootbox game
RandomTrivia:
Does an item pickup in Mario Kart count as a lootbox? 
Gekyouryuu: one could argue Monster Hunter has technically always been a free lootbox
thrythlind: Vampire Survivor proves that loot boxes is fun
SquareDotCube: Alternatively, you can wait until a game's MTX sales are so bad they change the price model to a full purchase, like they did with Chocobo Racing
djalternative: yeah. Vampire Survivor is a better example
TehAmelie: remember I Can't Believe it's Not Gambling, the game where you just open lootboxes for ingame money?
Akaiatana: Kill for Gill for Thrill
TehAmelie: hilarious stuff
Master_Gunner: makes me thing of MMOs and the grind for top-level gear
Pinwiz11: Maybe ask the mob nicely? It works for James.
mtvcdm: The pity mechanic.... which people game
RandomTrivia: It's interesting here in the weeds
TheMerricat:
You should, you'll like it.
Izandai: It's very cheap and pretty fun.
SquareDotCube: it's not as much playing but meandering to avoid death
djalternative: the designer of Vampire Survivors used to design Slot Machines and took that principal into a cheap indie game
GapFiller:
nice segue Paul
Izandai: But in this context all you need to know is you walk around killing huge numbers of monsters, and some monsters are stronger and drop treasure chests when they die, and the chests have a random item in them.
OldUncleDan: Kinda reminds me of the Arcade Owner from "Wayne's World." He had a game where you had to kill a specific somthing to advance to a level; the something would never show up.
terribleplan: VS has lootbox style animations and they could have easily done a scummy CS style thing where chests required keys or something, or gave more items if you bought keys
mtvcdm: Oh, to see the day when I don't have to think about Roblox anymore
RockPusher: Market manipulation by shorting stock then writing negative reports — bad. Everything happening on Roblox — so much fucking worse!
Marvoleath: R&D on methods to exploit others for free work?
TheMerricat:
I agree with whomever made the comment on Youtube, this is very much a "let them fight" story. I hate Roblox, but man the idea that there is a company out there that researches this sort of horrible stuff and leverages it for shorting stock instead of turning it over to the authorities.. 
Earthenone: i assume a shortend stock would do more damage than the authorities
Earthenone: just based on the capitalistic hellscape we live in
Akaiatana: It could be framed as slaying the dragon and taking the treasure. I don't know how to feel, though
TheMerricat: @Earthenone It _would_ hurt _someone_ just and TBH I don't know how much sympathy I have for intentional stockholders of Roblox. But there are so many things like pension funds out there that people have no idea where the investments are being put and I'm sure some of those hold Roblox as part of their portfolio.
djalternative: the children are resilient. you can fling them at high speeds into so many things and not break a single bone
ArcOfTheConclave: just because kids can survive something doesn't mean they should be obligated to survive it
GapFiller: sometimes the sketchy mercenary thing is still the good thing
korvys: I (and many other kids) got into things we were supposed to, far too early, and ended up ok, but that doesn't mean I should have been *allowed* to do that.
Pinwiz11: But ideally, if the did have Roblox in their portfolio, it's not significant enough to matter if it tanks. It's likely a microscopic part of a mutual fund that is built to handle volatility.
Decaped: Using the mechanics of capitalists against them is not skeevy.
GapFiller: inna heel program somebody has to be the face as they might say on sWs
Akaiatana: It's gacha journalism
RockPusher: I have to assume the reports are reasonably accurate otherwise there would be a strong incentive for the authorities to nail them for market manipulation
Izandai: Just watch the first part of Dan Olsen's video about GME.
RockPusher: (and, you know, libel)
Dread_Pirate_Westley: Basically, you "borrow" stock, sell it, with the intention of rebuying it later at a lower price to return what you borrowed.
GapFiller: GameStonks was all abt screwing these kinda people over
cmdrud87: !next
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GapFiller: hence the GameStop thing from 2021
Earthenone: the stock market fandom sucks
korvys: You effectively "borrow" stock, sell it, then promise to buy and return the stock
SocraticMethod: @GapFiller Eeh, not really
Master_Gunner: You borrow stock with an agreement to pay back that amount of stock at a later date. You sell it immediately, in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price.
Bruceski: When you buy stock the most you can lose is everything. Shorting stock has no theoretical limit
adept_nekomancer: I mean, "the stock market" fits in well in a discussion of exploitative economic dynamics.
Decaped: The stock market would just big circlejerk if shorting wasn't an option.
TehAmelie: The Big Short is a cool and educational documentary
TheMerricat: Shorting stock is essentially you borrow stock at a certain price. You then sell it before the price goes down. You hope the price goes down, because you did _borrow_ it, so eventually you have to rebuy the stock and give it back to whomever you borrowed it from. If it does, you made money.
Marvoleath: Ppl dont even need to believe it, there will be 'risk management' of the investors that will damage the value of stocks
ProcyonFlynn:
"Rich Peoples Yacht Money" - with extra steps 
Izandai: Federal agencies take market manipulation very seriously.
TheMerricat @Izandai cynic mode engaged. "If you aren't a VIP."
Izandai: No rich people also get (metaphorically) shot for market manipulation.
RockPusher: Part of CEO job is hype-person
TheMerricat: Yes, but you'll notice that most of those folk aren't VIP level folk.
SocraticMethod: SEC penalty for big investment firm is not that fatal in the long run because it's easy to shut down and restart again if you have a sponsor
Izandai: Probably at least one has also been literally shot for it, I dunno.
thesurfaceofthemoon: Uhhhhhh.... "my car is bullet proof" is not likely to be said to be puffery since it's a verifiable claim. Puffery is limited to statements that aren't specific feature or function statements that a reasonable person would generally presume isn't supposed to be a statement of fact, like "We have the safest car on the market"
GapFiller: isnt that another kind of insider trading
RockPusher: 40min‽ That's pretty good…
TheMerricat: What happened before the stream started Heather!!!
djalternative: This whole story just reminds me of Ebay launching a whole espionage and intimidation campaign against an old lady who's blog they didn't like
TheMerricat: "In October 2021, Hindenburg announced a $1 million reward for information on how the Tether cryptocurrency is pegged to the U.S. dollar and for knowledge on Tether's deposits. Hindenburg included that, at the time, they did not own positions in any cryptocurrency."
TheMerricat: Wrong quote, sorry!
adept_nekomancer: So instead of profiting of insider knowledge, they're profiting off of outsider knowledge.
TheMerricat: @adept_nekomancer Entirely legal, assuming you came by the knowledge legally in and of itself.
TehAmelie: offsider trading? is that something?
adept_nekomancer: @TheMerricat Oh, yeah, I agree it's totally legal. I just thought it was an interesting connection.
Akaiatana: "Eat my shorts" has a new meaning
Izandai:
@Akaiatana
TheMerricat: "Misappropriation is a term used to describe when someone who is not a traditional insider uses confidential information to trade for personal gain. This can include lawyers or consultants who obtain confidential information through their work"
RandomTrivia: This graph scale is NOT to zero
thesurfaceofthemoon: One of the most interesting aspects of this is the journalism aspect. Like, there is so much research that goes into weird stock market nonsense, but the public rarely benefits from any of that research. The fact that there's someone whose business model is specifically to do that research, then provide it to the public as a piece of journalism, is super interesting.
Marvoleath: that's why the short-selling works
RockPusher: indeed
RockPusher: Spice and Wolf is the best anime depiction of short selling I've ever seen
RockPusher:
GapFiller: eyyy world records
LurkerSpine: Dog is a long time Tetris pro
djalternative: I refuse to believe they are a human
Dread_Pirate_Westley: Dog vTuber
LurkerSpine: even though they're like, 15 or something
adept_nekomancer: Could be three dogs in a trenchcoat.
TheMerricat: He is best known for back-to-back victories in the 2020 and 2021 Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC), the former of which led him to set the Guinness World Record for the "Youngest Tetris World Champion" at 13 years old.
GapFiller:
this is some Silent Hill 2 lvl 
TheMerricat: "Artiaga was introduced to classic NES Tetris at 8 years old in elementary school, after playing it on the original Game Boy at home."
korvys: I bet Peanut Butter (the dog that has been on GDQ speed runs) could play Tetris
LurkerSpine: Level 29
Izandai: Level 29 is max speed.
Izandai: Which is supposed to not be possible to play at.
Izandai: But then someone invented rolling.
TheMerricat: Kill screens
Driosenth: the weird levels
Izandai: And then starting at level 170 or something, the game will sometimes crash from the score calculation when you clear a line.
Izandai: Also once you get far enough past level 29 you start seeing weird glitched color palettes, some of which are real hard to see.
Izandai: Like that.
Izandai: Oh jesus.
GapFiller: still looks tricky enough even if it aint black on black
TheMerricat: By the time his roughly two-hour performance ended—with Level 91 on screen but 347 levels in the rearview mirror— Artiaga was absolutely spent.
adept_nekomancer: I like that he had "Q21" lines. I guess it must have overflowed the counter.
Izandai: Oh yeah, a bunch of the UI is not built for this.
Akaiatana: Tetris is a large blocks of time
GapFiller: vestigal Twitch names!? never!
Akaiatana: They need to make Tetris Sleep
OldUncleDan: Dog Tired Playing Tetris.
Izandai:
Geldaran: Read that story, them he went to a Tetris competition like a week later.
AdamYMHMI: So when ya'll are finished with this streaming thing, will you rename the channel "Loading Ready Done"?
GapFiller: how many nonindicative vestigal Twitch names have we run into on our collective time
Laurence72: Alarmo sounds like a Batman villain
GapFiller: two takeaways: a) this thing is terrible for anyone other than single people
TheAwkes: Virtualboy Red
GapFiller: and 2) Nintendo really wanna watch us in our sleep
cmdrud87: !next
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TehAmelie: sound clock, what a concept. i sometimes take the battery out of my wall clock cause the ticking keeps me awake
TheDailyMapleSyrup: Alarmo piranha plant edition please
GapFiller: thanks Beej
accountmadeforants: I just appreciate that Nintendo called it Alarmo. Thanks, Nintend-o
Akaiatana: *Dune Voice* Is that Worm Sign?
voren_chalco: "Not supposed to"
accountmadeforants: I really wish Nintendo made ending things with "-o" their whole thing, kind of like how Apple called everything an iThing for a while. Switcho.
TehAmelie: if we can apply it retroactively i'll be prepared to buy a Wiio
AdamYMHMI: It sees when you've been sleeping. It knows when you're awake. It can't tell if you're the dog or spouse so be still for firetruck's sake.
voren_chalco: @TehAmelie What about a Wii-Uo?
Gekyouryuu: make it have the legs of a guardian from BotW and play that music and beeping noise, that'll wake people up
Marvoleath: Does it start playing louder / more annoying sounds if you do not move?
TehAmelie: that sounds too silly
accountmadeforants: Yeah, the FAQ says that they don't send any motion sensing or sleep data to Nintendo's servers.
Akaiatana: Is one of the wolves Link?
an_archist2: Zeldo
accountmadeforants: Two wolfos
TehAmelie: Virtual Boyo
korvys: Switch.io
GapFiller: Nintendo previously ofc put 64 after all their titles
GapFiller: and Super before that
SocraticMethod: Pro Controllero
adept_nekomancer: I mean, they have Mario
GapFiller: so they obv have form for this
thrythlind: I heard "Downloading Scenes" and thought Spirit City at first, but clearly the motion detector is not part of that
adept_nekomancer: (unless that becomes Marioo)
Laurence72: Does having two wolves inside of you make you eligible for federal protection?
GapFiller:
tho come to think they didnt do any of that sorta title stuff for the Wii or the Switch
Izandai: @Laurence72 It just means you have a healthy macrobiome.
Marvoleath:
It's like the elves from Disenchantment 
AdamYMHMI: @Laurence72 Only if they're a breeding pair.
Laurence72:
@AdamYMHMI 
SocraticMethod: Would the new game be The Legend of Zeldo or The Legend of Zeldao
Juliamon: SocraticMethod Legendo Zelda
SocraticMethod: You've heard of Lonk? Meet the new Linko!
voren_chalco: There are people waiting for upgraded hardware from the day after the base model releases.
TehAmelie: A Link to the Pesto
TheMerricat: @TehAmelie Olive Garden?
Akaiatana: There are an alarming amount of expensive clocks
TehAmelie: definitely
Juliamon: Utterly baffling they didn't launch WITH ACNH scenes
korvys: Add a rumble pak
SocraticMethod: @korvys Rumble pako
RockPusher: 3AM Wah Wah Trumpet best
voren_chalco: Could I make it play exclusively 3am music?
Earthenone: the real question is will it play the wii shop theme while you are downloading new scenes
accountmadeforants: They didn't even do the Nest thing where they take a square screen but make the lens so dark that the edges are invisible and they just do a bunch of high-contrast things.
LordZarano: Alarmo Labo
SquareDotCube: They need to try doing watches again.
Marvoleath:
What if you get queue priority for Switch 2 if you have Alarmo™? 
accountmadeforants: Each game could add its own clock theme
TehAmelie: Super Scopo
KaleidoscopeMind: (yet?)
TheAwkes: My first smart phone (Moto Droid circa 2009) is my desk clock and was available with a clock dock for that purpose. Nintendo is only 15 years behind the times and counting.
TheMerricat: You all are coming up with awesome ideas that Nintendo will never implement because they hate fun.
Decaped: Ammibo is the metaverse.
Akaiatana: If you wake up in the game, you wake up in real life!!!
GapFiller:
GapFiller: thats is frankly just incentivising me to stay in bed longer
Juliamon: yeah........ yeah
Decaped: This whole thing is a lament on the unnatural.
Akaiatana: Speaking of people paying extra money to wake up better: Coffee
r10pez10: !patreon
SquareDotCube: Answer in Progress explored bad sleep and they found it's often that the cause is that the person isn't doing enough in that day to warrant a deep, relaxing sleep
Mollylele: I'm curious how the Alarmo works for a user that shares a bed?
Earthenone: poorly @Mollylele
AdamYMHMI: @Mollylele Poorly
Juliamon: Mollylele They specifically say to use "button mode" for that
GapFiller: Mollylele it apparently has trouble w/ pets
Juliamon: aka "normal alarm clock"
Mollylele: ohhh I hadn't considered the implications of pets
Invitare: their vision is based on movement?
Invitare: are they dinosaurs?
AdamYMHMI: @Invitare Nintendo? Yes.
Akaiatana: New Inception movie to have an alarmo, where someone wakes up to that sound and then hears it in their life.
Earthenone: when i first heard about this i imagined the legend of zelda chest opeining going faster and faster until you get out of bed and it finishes
AdamYMHMI: I assume it's basically a totem for Nintendo fans.
TheMerricat: Android Dreamscape.
TehAmelie: no wait, the Mario time's running out music for when you're 99 seconds away from missing your buss
Texan_Reverend: Yes, there are functions like that on various Android devices.
Lord_Hosk: As someone who has been involved in several sleep studies and talked to the doctors a lot about them... The academic research is... Not great. Because either they rely on people recording data themselves in journals, which are notoriously bad for data, or they have people sleep in a lab... which is notoriously bad for people getting good sleep.
Earthenone:
mario drowning until you save him by gettign up?
Izandai: Imagine an alarm that woke you up with the drowning music from Sonic.
Greyah: Honestly, all this just makes me want to go back to an old-school alarm clock.
AdamYMHMI:
@Earthenone If it's Chris Pratt Mario I'm hitting snooze 
TehAmelie: Lord_Hosk what you're saying is we need to invite doctors to the bedroom
innerbeard: @Izandai it does make the guardian lock on sound from the recent Zelda games
mtvcdm: I just have a normal alarm clock that is on the other side of the room so I have to get up to shut it off.
Izandai: @innerbeard Does it actually? That's hilarious.
Texan_Reverend: @Izandai Way to start off the morning with anxiety.
Greyah: I don't believe I'm interesting enough for anyone to want to watch me sleep.
Gekyouryuu:
again, make it have the legs of a guardian from BotW and play that music and beeping noise, that'll wake people up.
Marvoleath: Arent the face recognition always on on iPhone?
svenning28: toad drowning?
RandomTrivia: Oh god Beej no
TheMerricat:
I've been playing 7 Days to Die... the sound of the zombies in it waking up and alerting to you.
neonend: link to the past low hearts noise
Izandai: The sound of startling the Witch in Left 4 Dead 2.
Akaiatana: Pokemon low health sound?
adept_nekomancer: For people who play FFXIV, the "you've been targetted by an enemy" noise.
Gekyouryuu: one of my phone alarms is Bazelgeuse's theme for a reason
niccus: smw2 baby
Lord_Hosk: The sound of a baby puking will get your out of bed. you won't even wake up... but you will get out of bed and move
RandomTrivia: The guardian piano sting is pure evil
Texan_Reverend: Funny thing about faceID stuff: the infrared pulses are visible on nightvision/infrared cameras. It's come up in various battlefiled situations.
Earthenone: my system is similar to pauls, i set an alarm, wake up before it due to anxiety
Texan_Reverend: @Lord_Hosk Similar for cat horfs.
Texan_Reverend: Exactly.
mtvcdm: Oh that sound
mtvcdm: That sound is the WORST
korvys: yup
GapFiller:
BrokenGolem: or the bed
TehAmelie: i used to have an alarm with such an unpleasant signal i learned to instantly wake up to turn it off when it switched on, before the sound
Juliamon: They do it in the hallway to make it as loud as possible
AdamYMHMI: I set an alarm and then have enough anxiety that I stay up until just before the alarm goes off because I don't want to miss it.
mtvcdm: Or a bed, they may have found your bedsheet
svenning28: also when you se they drag their butt on the floor
electric_claire: Or worse, on your bed.
GapFiller: clearly we need Graham and Kathleens opinion on this exact topic
Izandai: That's amazing.
Izandai:
mtvcdm: It's worse when our cats do it, like, three times in a row.
mtvcdm: No no, I haven't horked enough yet, I got more
Juliamon: teardowns lowkey best part of a hardware launch
Gekyouryuu: one of my favorite jokes after the Alarmo was announced was people saying Nintendo sent them a Cease and Desist for their phone's alarm clock apps
accountmadeforants: I reckon the mmWave radar was more expensive than Nintendo expected it to be
AdamYMHMI: Nintendo will next release an egg timer that also does full body scans.
Izandai: Huh
TehAmelie: @AdamYMHMI the Nintento Eggo
accountmadeforants: @TehAmelie Leggo my Nintendo Eggo
AdamYMHMI: @TehAmelie NinTamago
Izandai: We're gonna know everything about it.
Izandai: Even if there's an NDA we're gonna know everything about it.
Izandai: It's an isekai.
Earthenone: i assume it is the miiverse
Marvoleath: might be streaming / remote play service?
Izandai: No they got isekaied into a Nintndo MMO.
Izandai: *Nintendo
accountmadeforants: @AdamYMHMI But actually the egg timer will use those scanners that determine whether chicken eggs have male chicks in them. Nintendo Disposo.
GapFiller: OH Beej
Earthenone: was that a buffy musical reference paul?
Texan_Reverend: Paul, thank you for the "Once More With Feeling" reference.
Texan_Reverend: Yes @Earthenone
LoadingReadyRun: @Earthenone maaaaaaaybe
CaptainSpam: There was that one outfit in Mario Odyssey that referenced a Satellaview mascot...
LordZarano: I made my own alarm, in Automate, that speaks the number of minutes until I have to leave the house/do a thing. I leave it running even after I get up cause it's so useful to know how long I have left without needing to look at a thing
TheMerricat: I sure hope not, the guy behind the community managed Satellaview revival just announced a live beta in July of this year.
accountmadeforants: @LordZarano That's rad
Izandai: That would be so hype.
Earthenone:
heather agrees with my guess
korvys: Paul's like "Can't I just bet that all the horses will have a fun time?"
Earthenone: the Mii-ta-Verse
SquareDotCube: I trust Nintendo with a social network, honestly
TehAmelie: Alarmo 2: Judgment Day
Izandai: OLED Alarmo
Izandai: Alarmo Lite
LordZarano: Alarmo Pro!
Izandai: AlarmoU
SquareDotCube: Super Alarmo
GapFiller: Alarmo 64
GhostValv: @Izandai AlarmU
TehAmelie: Super Alarmo
accountmadeforants: Alarmoo
AdamYMHMI: Alarmo Light, it's like an Alarmo, but with a light!
an_archist2: Then you have the gritty reboot, AlarmO
SquareDotCube: Blarmo
an_archist2: Alarmtro
RandomTrivia: That sure is a typeline
accountmadeforants: @RandomTrivia That sounds like an *errata'd* typeline
KeytarCat: The intro slaps
RockPusher: They know how to market an anime waifu
thrythlind: what game is this?
CookieMom: Was it originally designed for Jet Set Radio.
accountmadeforants: Like, Wizards add the Blacksmith creature type and they figured, "welp, I guess we'll add it to Xilonen"
Geldaran: Don't get sucked in, unless you really like Garcia mechanics...
Geldaran: Damn swipe... Gatcha
mtvcdm: A catgirl feels like an inherent masquerade violation
mtvcdm: But
Decaped: HonkaiStarRail had a spoilerific new character which is exciting.
accountmadeforants: Honestly, this just sounds like a FFXIV character
Shadowsoflife: gangrel cat girl
Earthenone: calico cat girls are great
TheMerricat:
@Geldaran I mean it's essentially pure refined gacha... the platonic ideal of gatcha.. right?
GapFiller: nvm animating this stuff feel for everyone trying to cosplay all these chars
Earthenone: putting the yo-verse in the hoyoverse?
GapFiller:
what does it say that my knowledge of MiHoYo is entirely thru following various cosplayers
ButButTheJesus: oh no
Invitare: Real™ Gamer
Decaped: Can you please put this in an alignment chart for us
mtvcdm: I know what this is, I put this in the tip line in the mod slack
RandomTrivia:
oh dear
TehAmelie: is it one of the Johnny-Spike types?
GapFiller: calling double bs on this specifically
accountmadeforants: I'm concerned
GapFiller: cz srsly LoL
ButButTheJesus: thank you Paul!
an_archist2: that bingo
adept_nekomancer: Witch bingo. Bingo, but the numbers are drawn by spiders.
Fuzzra: They're not just bullshit, IQ tests specifically exist to justify racism.
mtvcdm: But if you play mobile clickbait games, it takes iq: 150 to clear them
Earthenone: i love the .4 diference between dark souls and elden ring
GapFiller: Black Myth Wukong at 2 eh
Invitare: No way League is higher than Dota 2
Fuzzra: Huh. No Kerbal Space Program or Oxygen Not Included. Fancy that.
Izandai: The main thing IQ measures is socioeconomic status.
TehAmelie: how do they have data on Wukong that came out like last week
TheMerricat: Hah! Team Fortress 2 players are so smart we don't even show up on the chat! We are outside the chart!
accountmadeforants: Yeah, cumulatively I should have an IQ in the several hundreds apparently
SocraticMethod: No way BF2042 is that high
adept_nekomancer: @Fuzzra Yeah, I have to imagine KSP would score very highly on this metric.
SquareDotCube: this list has not played a single Zachtronics game
mtvcdm: They just named 20 AAA titles and told gamers to sort themselves into them probably
AdamYMHMI: @SocraticMethod They didn't want to get pantsed by the userbase for calling them too dumb
Invitare: all the smart people are waiting for the Bloodborne PC port
Invitare: that's why Bloodborne isn't there
Marvoleath: Apparently that article also mentions that "girl"/female gamers have higher IQ than "boy"/male
GapFiller: something something PC master race
mtvcdm: I bet you they went 'which of these 20 games is your favorite?' and just only gave them those 20 titles
TehAmelie: Mac is not on the chart. . .
accountmadeforants: That depends on the IQ test (which are all bullshit)
Earthenone:
the only below average people are the tablet people, and there are ipad kids skewing those
accountmadeforants: (as per Paul, above)
Greyah: @Marvoleath Where do people outside of the gamer binary fall in terms of supposed smarts?
TheMerricat: "The remote IQ test assessed the cognitive skills of participants in four areas: verbal communication, mathematics, logic and visual reasoning. Participants were asked which games they primarily play and on what platform (the most), to determine the results. And the results are certainly interesting…" - remote IQ test even.
MWGNZ: iq is just modern phrenology
adept_nekomancer: MtG would probably also score highly, but only if you're on defense (because math is for blockers)
Marvoleath: @Greyah does not mention
GapFiller:
MWGNZ what is the numerical IQ equivalent of a stagecoach tilter
mtvcdm: This is just meant to make you angry that your favorite game didn't rank as highly as the others
TheMerricat: So if folk haven't figured it out, this site is a paid site for convincing people to go play your own government regulated bingo/casino games
TheMerricat: "While bingo is a game of luck, certain skills may help you become a “better” player. For example, if you plan to buy multiple traditional or online bingo cards, you'll need to be a quick thinker and bring your best organizational skills to work your way through them efficiently as the numbers are called."
Boon_33: how to recognize bingo: don't fall asleep
Decaped: Yeah, league improving your IQ score isn't an obscene statement
accountmadeforants: Genius
Izandai: @TheMerricat what
Angreed66: Other than league having 3 lanes
TehAmelie: the high level bingo players use no skill at all, just get so many cards the game has to stop to let the judge check if you've got a bingo every turn
TheMerricat: @Izandai "you really are a smart cookie to buy so many of our bingo cards to play all at once. are you a bright person!"
SquareDotCube:
Have the LoL players try Satisfactory, let's see if those IQ claims hold out 
Izandai: jesus
Akaiatana:
IQ was invented by a teacher to figure out when kids were ready for grade 1-2. It's pure BS
Earthenone: people with natural gamer genetics
TruPhantomAngel: So what those charts are telling me, I’m somehow both the smartest and dumbest person in the world…okay maybe it had a point. XD
Marvoleath: tbf IQ is basically a measure of timely pattern recognition, so some games might have correlated results
innerbeard: and thats how they met
AdamYMHMI: Anyone can play Bingo, Beej! (This message sponsored by the Bingo)
SquareDotCube: "I have bingo pox!"
Earthenone: "work" bingo parlors. did you go on the bingo circut as a ringer?
Earthenone: sell people the winning cards under the table
GapFiller: this now really sounds like Beej had some kinda Bart works at a Burlesque House episode in his childhood
SocraticMethod: @SquareDotCube If we are doing that, might as well put them in front of Pyanadon's + Bob's and Angel's ocean start
Izandai:
TehAmelie: wait how cna you rig bingo?
ButButTheJesus: blue ribbon? so Leonardo, my fav. because swords.
mtvcdm: Next time on Can't Draw Horses Club, someone gives Heather bingo dobbers
TheAwkes: Bingo dobbers were our you-fell-asleep-early-while-camping prank of choice in the 90s.
AdamYMHMI: @TehAmelie Rig the machines and stack the cards
Greyah: It's not surprising to me that Heather has always been a chaotic gremlin.
GapFiller: that game is offensively English
OldUncleDan: Put some English in this game!
GapFiller: it was actually kinda grating watching that stream being English
SquareDotCube: UK or Yorkshire English basically
GapFiller: lotta vernacular
Akaiatana: They could have hired me
ButButTheJesus: PEANS!
GapFiller: ton of stuff that was specifically and particularly of its place
SquareDotCube: did they have pean wet?
OldUncleDan: The same way they localize Japanese puns in games/anime?
definenull: Speakeasy pean?
QuixoticScrivener: is this thank goodness you're here?
Izandai: Does it sound like slang for "penis" though? I feel like that's a critical element.
TehAmelie: everything sounds like slang for penis if you want it to
GapFiller: depends on the Chinese dialect too
GapFiller: some dialects have more of that stuff than others
KeytarCat: Graphologic jokes
GapFiller: Cantonese eg has something like a million dfft kinds of sexual slang
ButButTheJesus: ooh I like that
mtvcdm: Alarmo will save us
TheAinMAP:
ButButTheJesus: eepy lappy
Akaiatana: Fight the Future plays TGYH
definenull: Uh oh?
Izandai: The demaster?
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RandomTrivia: Yes, yes it is
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Metric_Furlong: it is
RandomTrivia: You nailed it
Shadowsoflife: it is
ButButTheJesus: yes heather
GapFiller: third album first onna major label
definenull:
Phailhammer: Not the first, but the first one to hit it big.
Amentur: 30th anniversary
SquareDotCube: yeah my aunt had it
RockPusher: Windows be like that
Mollylele: that's something unpredictable
SquareDotCube: I remember the joke "hehe now it's a mocha" on the album cover.
KaleidoscopeMind: yeah this is chaos
RandomTrivia: OH NO
GapFiller: fantastic
ButButTheJesus: OH YES
fnoggchamp: there's a video of all of them, it's pretty fun
RandomTrivia: Hot damn
OldUncleDan: I'm curious about "Pulling Teeth" form.
GapFiller:
Izandai: @OldUncleDan A toothbrush.
Geldaran: Why on earth wouldn't they do welcome to paradise on the door bell?
niccus: that is one of them.
Amentur: It's a raffle to buy the items
RandomTrivia: Yeah the collecters and scalpers will already have all of them
mtvcdm: Beej, skibidi toilet is a Walmart toy now, hold your tongue
definenull: Oh those will be sold out yesterday
Izandai: There's also a wax cylinder.
RandomTrivia: @Izandai WHAT
RandomTrivia: I love thaat
Izandai: Yup
SquareDotCube: I do like cartridges and jewel cases that have a history written on them
Izandai: When I Come Around is the one on a wax cylinder, which is appropriate.
SquareDotCube: It's nothing new though, there's EDM artists that release songs on 3.5" diskettes
TheAwkes: Beejdrop doorbell.
AdamYMHMI: The Teddy Ruxpin is... amazing
Izandai: The doorbell is unfortunately only the first 15 seconds of Longview.
DoodlestheGreat: Burnout is a PIANO ROLL?
fnoggchamp: old LRR intro on a doorbell would be not bad
Izandai: Which, again, ironically appropriate.
mtvcdm: In before a doorbell is Ian's RDP button
GapFiller: yr say that as a joke Beej but some of us wd be ALL OVER that
TheMerricat:
TBF game boy carts aren't that complicated. And Ian has a 3d Printer.
RandomTrivia: You can wake up as Beej
Izandai: Burnout is on a player piano roll.
Izandai: She is on a Hitclip, which you mentioned before Heather.
SquareDotCube: The Beejdrop doorbell is how you know you're in the Moonbase (hopefully)
RandomTrivia: "LIVE BEEEEES" would wake me up REAL fast
Akaiatana: Make exactly one, let Beej use it, have him always answer the door confused.
RockPusher: Wahhhhh!
AdamYMHMI: And then the X-Ray record is amazing
adept_nekomancer: @RandomTrivia I thought of it as, "if you don't wake up quickly, you might become Beej"
Izandai: Emenius Sleepus is on an answering machine.
Marvoleath: Crapshot honk as door bell would be cool
RockPusher:
TheMerricat: Sequel!!!!
ButButTheJesus: ♪ BEES! LIVE BEES! ♪
Izandai: My favorite is All By Myself on a music box, which has the product description "Crank it as long as you want with “All By Myself,” arranged for the first time on a hand-cranked music box."
ButButTheJesus: oh that made me happy when I heard. I loved the first one
Akaiatana: Arreeee Youuuu Ridley??
Izandai: @DoodlestheGreat Eeeyup
adept_nekomancer: For the doorbell, the Paul "Hello!" would also work
Akaiatana: I agree with Cameron's takes regarding it
ButButTheJesus: it was 2014
Izandai: That would actually be great.
Invitare: no that would be the beejdrop sound
AdamYMHMI: Or will you be Beej when you answer the door?
Akaiatana:
Y'all should sell Beej Brand Vaseline
CookieMom: And then you would catch the airborne chlamydia, and that would be bad.
Akaiatana: Not to be confused with Hello Games
Akaiatana: I want games that cost TenCent
AdamYMHMI: Halo: From the Other Side
TheAinMAP: !dbcountdown
LRRbot: Desert Bus for Hope will begin at Fri 8 Nov 03:00 PM PST (27d, 0:00 from now)
Akaiatana: In space, no one can see your screen
djalternative: !updog
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TheAinMAP:
RandomTrivia:
You heard it here first
mtvcdm: !addquote (Heather) [now] Nothing's scarier than noises.
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AdamYMHMI: The Alien accidentally setting off your Alarmo
cmdrud87: !next
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TheMerricat: See also Creation Kit, Bethesda, Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
Akaiatana: Boeing can make an engine really cheaply
TheMerricat:
@Akaiatana Not any more. 
They just announced layoffs this week due to a strike.... and other stuff.
GapFiller:
AdamYMHMI: @TheMerricat Are you saying Boeing is... falling apart?
TheMerricat:
@AdamYMHMI
TheMerricat: Two
Driosenth: a third breakwawy
LordZarano: The Unreal games on Watch+Play definitely all look the same
Amentur: There are 5 in total by now!
Izandai: Four!
adept_nekomancer: Disco Threelysium
definenull: Jeez
Izandai: There's four spinoffs and the original!
djalternative: yeah. we're up to 5
Akaiatana: Fractured brainpower is accurate to DE's mechanics
Phailhammer:
Are any of them named Diadochi Studio?
Juliamon: there was a tumult
thrythlind: I just want more people to take the idea Wildermyth used and run with it for other genres
SK__Ren: The real question is the original creator going to be involved with any of them
TheMerricat: they were great game devs, poor contract readers.
ProcyonFlynn: It it like how 80% of the NA game studios have someone that "Created L4D2" for a while there?
Amentur:
The best thing is *each* of them calling the other money grabbing shills
Izandai: No but the original is still going.
Izandai: So there's 5 timelines ongoing.
TheMerricat: @SK__Ren "Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren't involved"
Izandai:
MrTheWalrus: Yeah, this is very much in keeping with the narrative themes of Disco Elysium.
GapFiller: "we ARE struggling together"
GapFiller: yeh real Peoples Front of Judea vibes all over this whole story
LordZarano: Is making Disco Elysium like watching Velvet Underground?
adept_nekomancer: @MrTheWalrus There was a whole area in Disco Elysium you could explore about a studio that imploded trying to develop an ambitious game.
Izandai: My favorite part is that two of the studios announced their existence on the same day, and then a third that was going to announce themselves in a few days decided to pull the trigger early and announce on the same day.
Marvoleath:
btw @LoadingReadyRun If you haven't yet - look into Sundog Games - while there is not much details there yet, it's the first video game studio working with a literature Noble prize winner 
TheAwkes: There only become too many of them when one or more of them do something we all hate.
Izandai: Just so incredibly silly.
mtvcdm: I feel you could make a game out of how long you can go announcing a game without ever making one while getting people to still believe you.
DoodlestheGreat: What if I have a Manischevitz instead of a manefesto?
definenull: Listicle season
AdamYMHMI: @Marvoleath Finally the FPS adapation of "To Kill A Mockingbird" I've been waiting for
TheMerricat: @Marvoleath And that made me think about the old FTL studios game Sundog: Frozen Legacy and made me sad....
Akaiatana: Time for Bill Nye the Article
Driosenth: Bring out the AV Stand!
djalternative: @DoodlestheGreat then you're probably going through the same bad day as me right now
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Izandai: The spinoffs, by the way, are Longdue Games, Dark Math Games, Summer Eternal (announced ahead of schedule on the same day as the prior two), and RED INFO LTD, which actually predated all the others.
Texan_Reverend: !schedule
GapFiller:
yo speaking of apparently LRR still owns sailormorgan.com which is just hilarious
FarleyF: !next
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LordZarano: @mtvcdm The Magic Circle is almost that
Juliamon: Freedom from shapes!
Gekyouryuu: the endgame for TCG Sim pretty much IS just cracking endless packs and occasionally needing to restock
RandomTrivia: Starstruck has delivered everything the Prologue promised, and more
thrythlind: the only gaming news I'm part of TTRPG related
Master_Gunner: XCom but a puzzle game.
Greyah: Tactical Breach Wizards is *fantastic*
Decaped: XCOM with good writing
SquareDotCube: no percentage bullshit either
SocraticMethod: Close to Into The Breach
definenull: And without the BS RNG
RandomTrivia: The most Tom Francis game
Dread_Pirate_Westley: Maybe it's a fishing game?
KaleidoscopeMind: or maybe putting a cast of frank's arm/leg
UpstageJMC: I like "The Baking of Frank Scone"
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Lord_Hosk: Its not pronounced Zethruss its pronounced Zethruss. Zethruss... not Zethruss Zethruss
TheAwkes: 👀
Phailhammer:
cya
accountmadeforants:
I had a look at that Genshin Impact trailer they were talking about earlier, and all I could think of was this: https://youtu.be/Xb7_kmoH6xw
DoodlestheGreat: @Lord_Hosk "Zethruss never listen to Zethruss..."
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