LoadingReadyRun: No Check this week, just Chill
TehAmelie: i can go for some chill
RockPusher: !search for treasure
LRRbot: You find: a Wandering Monster!
RockPusher pets the smol wandering monster that is trying to ineffectually gum his calf
red_shoes_jeff: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: ChillPoint (Paul, Beej and Heather chat about Video Games and Video Game related news!) at Fri 02:00 PM PST (0s ago).
RockPusher:
TheAinMAP:
TheAinMAP: Signal
TehAmelie:
DeM0nFiRe:
dumbo3k: @TehAmelie Aww, what a cute murder puppy
TehAmelie: they're cute until they grow up and start killing more people than anything next after malaria mosquitos and humans
mtvcdm: yo
bytecaster: The rare case of a "tiny baby" actually growing up
Juliamon: to be fair, that's mainly humans' fault
annie_r_kist: M
mtvcdm: If humans would stop putting their tasty legs in the way
TehAmelie: well, we can appreciate the cuteness anyway
annie_r_kist: My schedule usually doesn't allow me to watch, glad i can catch it!
dumbo3k: It's so dark right now, that I feel like I'm getting a special Chillpoint After Dark segment
Brozard: Chillpoint: Whiteout Edition
IslandersCaper:
red_shoes_jeff: Am Prepere
bytecaster: That's my secret, I'm always prepared
CaptainSpam: Prepare yourself before preparing others.
Jillexie: We are not prepared.
annie_r_kist: Ummm
BusTed: We have been universally greeted
mtvcdm: And a witty bong to you too
GapFiller: Whale Plaid Paul
Joecool190:
CaptainSpam: Well-said!
Serpens77: Bah weep bah grahweep nini bong to you too Paul!
TehAmelie: aloha
GapFiller: yr never seen Transformers Heather!?
Joecool190: well said Paul
Mollylele: Heather is from a different universe
NonjaBiru: Careful, you're going to summon Jacob
Serpens77: it's from The Transformers: The Movie
bytecaster: I got it!
dumbo3k: Oh, I see that Tim Hortons gift card got put to good use!
FireSpectreZero: I'm deaf pls repea
TheAinMAP:
Jillexie: Heather
BlueMechanic: It has Orson Welles in it
Brozard: You should ask Jacob
Serpens77: @BlueMechanic and Leonard Nimoy
BusTed: I remember seeing it in theaters
OldUncleDan: And Eric Idle.
rosesmcgee: That movie came out in 86 the year I was born and I watched it on VHS religiously
RockPusher:
I see they have a timbit shaped strategy to keep Beej from talking 
Serpens77: and Judd Nelson
TheMerricat: I remember Optimus Prime's death
mtvcdm: I never bothered with a Transformers and I'm a boy
BusTed: Weird Al on the soundtrack
Brozard: and Eric Idle!
bytecaster: Paul managed to derail himself!
FireSpectreZero: I love how Beej and Heath Heath are married so they need the Paul Buffer! Pls sing The field behind the plow!
RockPusher: Oh no…
annie_r_kist: Aged Timbit
an_archist2: bobbing for timbits 2?
Brozard: Transformers: Beastars
Mollylele:
CaptainSpam:
Look, named people were in it. Named people! You're required to commit it in its entirety to your long-term memory! 
TehAmelie: i tried to watch the original show but it got really dull after introducing like 60 characters over 10 episodes
ghizmou: you seem less eager to eat them today Heather
terribleplan: A TimBrouton, if you will
Jillexie: Are those the Timbits from Live?
mtvcdm: WHY ARE YOU GOING BACK IN
GapFiller: BlueMechanic phunny story saw a prototype Unicron action figure that was never produced a while back and realised that not did Orson Welees do the voice he also gave them his likeness rights
OldUncleDan: Microwave them for like 30 seconds and they'll be fine.
terribleplan: Famous director
LurkerSpine: 2025 is gonna be hell, but hopefully it'll be a good video game year
bytecaster: I'm not sure I would want Tim's old bits
mtvcdm: Fine, leave the timbits outside and let them sog up a bit
CaptainSpam: *** Secret Canadians ***
accountmadeforants: Wait, you're not from the moon?
Jillexie: GASP
NonjaBiru: WHAT?
Serpens77: Canadians? From Canadia?!
dumbo3k: Canadian?! Oh right
wench_tacular: checkpoint, after dark
OldUncleDan: All this time I thought you were British (Columbian)!
mtvcdm: Actually yes, do that, put the timbits in the rain for a minute or two and see if that improves them
red_shoes_jeff: After all the snow yesterday, I wish it was still raining instead.
Invitare: that's Nurgle
TheWooglie: it's good for the rest of the team to learn tech Paul
TheMerricat: Throat coal....
GapFiller:
does Santa brings colds instead of colds for naughty kids these days then
RockPusher: Santa is actually Pestilence the other 364 days of the year
GapFiller: *coals
GapFiller:
coal and colds
Mollylele: I too got a lump of cold for xmas
TehAmelie: games for the nice kids and germs for the naughty naughty
GapFiller: theres End of Year listcles thats kinda news ish
TehAmelie: less a naughty
OldUncleDan: @TehAmelie And bad games for Alex.
Master_Gunner: There was another Warthunder leak over the break, but that's about it.
bytecaster: Imagine Silksong came out the one time Checkpoint took two weeks off
Stormgod519: Good Afternoon everyone!!!
Voidhawk42: The only gaming news I know about is "Marvel Rivals is pretty good fun". Everything else I get from Checkpoint!
accountmadeforants: @bytecaster Good thing Silksong will never ever come out
GapFiller: back in the the days of E3 there was only one video game news refractory period per year but now theres two
Stormgod519: oh good, so i didnt miss anything...
GapFiller: so thanks Geoff
Stormgod519: that's intimidating, Heather...
Serpens77: ah yes, derailment. The Secret THird Option to the Trolley Problem
TheWooglie: oh Heather
BusTed: The series finale of Checkpoint
UnknownFriday: Wait, did Jon Moxley kill Checkpoint too?
Aitsu111: The final checkpoint
DoodlestheGreat:
Stormgod519: call it "Finish Line"
bytecaster: Checkpoint gets rebooted as "Checkpoint (2025)"
Karl256: @Aitsu111 Have you completed enerything you wanted to do?
Stormgod519: lul
GapFiller: thats basically playing a video game its fine
Stormgod519: @bytecaster now with microtransactions...
accountmadeforants: I have pretty much no tolerance for things with their own nested launcher. (Good thing most of those games are crap, anyway.)
Aquarionics: I recommend Playnite as a cross-library game launcher for PC. It slurps steam, gog, epic etc and provides a common interface for launching them (and stats)
accountmadeforants:
Sanabi made my top games of the year at the very very end of the year (and it came out in 2023). In fact, I only really finished it yesterday 
GapFiller: look sometimes Xmas leftovers last a v long time
Wolfstrike_NL: That's me after any Xenoblade game, which end up being 150/200h for me
accountmadeforants: I don't think I can play Persona 5. Adam's playthrough of it is basically just my canonical experience of it and I don't think actually playing it will top that.
accountmadeforants: Do give me a Persona 5 Arena, though >:(
Earthenone: @accountmadeforants picolo GOKU is your true mc?
mtvcdm: Full introvert run.
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accountmadeforants: @Earthenone Basically, that and chat helping out with actually getting the optimal route for things, and everyone's reactions. And me waking up sick at 2 AM my time and watching the ending.
CaptainSpam: Yahtzee did NOT like Echoes.
accountmadeforants: I'm usually on board with Yahtzee's takes, as well.
CaptainSpam: I enjoyed Echoes, but it definitely had rough points.
accountmadeforants: (But I also haven't played Echoes)
Stormgod519: okay, i do gtg chat. take care everyone!
Juliamon: A new mechanic every 10 minutes or your money back
Stormgod519:
mowdownjoe: @captainspam Agreed. It's enjoyable, but it has more than a few rough edges. (UI, for example.)
OldUncleDan: Paul, Have you had a chance to check out Creeper World IXE yet?
DoodlestheGreat: I picked up Dredge free from Epic this holiday season.
Juliamon: Zero complaints about the art in Dave. It really nailed everything.
mtvcdm: Never go in the ocean, it wants to kill you. and never put a book in the ocean.
BusTed: spinnnn
accountmadeforants: Installing now
accountmadeforants: You can pay for the soundtrack
kingcrownroyal98: Yo
accountmadeforants: I tried playing Guardians of the Galaxy but it felt really clunky to me for some reason
BusTed: The story was very good
Juliamon: And then the sub flowers became a legacy
BusTed: jump jump jump
Juliamon: (bring back the sub flowers)
BusTed: Oh yeah, the bonus stream sub flowers
TheAinMAP: There's was literally a highlight where Paul goes "I'm a genius! ... Oh no!"
mtvcdm: !genius
LRRbot: I'm a genius!
GapFiller: aw one of those game experiences
an_asp: I liked Chants of Sennaar but wish the language puzzles were more difficult in some way
an_asp: I wish it didn't do the thing where it confirms your answers so frequently
Brozard: Third Base!
niccus: she got merried?!
Serpens77: they are different in an Australian accent at least
GapFiller: something something Mandarin something something tones
ExachixKitsune: why hallo thar
an_asp: The "Mary–marry–merry merger" is apparently common in Canada in particular
kumatsu: yeah it's giving me big flash point and click vibes
mtvcdm: Head and shoulders above Myst
Brozard: ah, so a Destiny raid
mtvcdm: This is like that one Taskmaster thing Victoria Coren Mitchell just blazed through
BusTed: play by post escape room
TheDevil_Risen:
heyo Heather, Paul, Beej 
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niccus: outside of the new solitaire collection
mtvcdm: Never been one for factory builders
an_asp: It's more of a puzzle game than a factory game, the factory stuff is a theming thing
SquareDotCube: it's rather fun and one of the easier Zachtronics games
CaptainSpam: That sounds a lot like Apple II games I played in grade school, really...
RockPusher: Not quite a factory builder so much as a factory optimisation puzzle game
accountmadeforants: Infinifactory is amazing
an_asp: Zachtronics sent me a physical patch for being one of the first 100 people to beat Infinifactory! ...And then I never went and played the update content.
accountmadeforants: I loved making GIFs of some of my particularly smooth assembly lines
TheDevil_Risen:
the timbits on the table are giving me flashbacks absolutely loved your commitment to the bit on the live Heather
SquareDotCube: turns out the aliens are rather incompetent and didn't make next to any of the tech you've been tasked with
accountmadeforants: Sometimes you have to remove blocks, too, so you end up sculpting these weirdly shaped inputs into the things you need
BusTed: Oh that's an interesting concept
niccus: physical modem
BusTed: low-fi transporter
Dalrint: what game is this?
BusTed: Infinifactory
accountmadeforants: Infinifactory made me think I liked factory games (turns out I don't, really, I just like Infinifactory)
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Sibwow: yipppeeee
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an_asp: "Abducted by aliens and forced to do engineering" is a surprisingly common game genre! I'm a huge fan of the game "Turing Complete", where the aliens note that their definition of a "sentient lifeform" is that you need to be able to design a turing-complete computer from scratch. And that's the game.
niccus: infinifactory game is a factory game that's not a logistics game, where most factory games are almost only logistics games
accountmadeforants: @niccus Oh, yeah, that probably is why I don't like most of them. Well observed
accountmadeforants:
Heather's Little Inferno stream was very fun
an_asp: World of Goo 2 has been out for a while, it's great!
an_asp: It came out in August
SquareDotCube: Wii of Goo
accountmadeforants: They went above and beyond with World of Goo 2, highly recommended
an_asp: I do wish that World of Goo 2 was a bit longer and gave you more time to explore the interesting new hydraulics mechanics. Or alternatively that it had a level editor.
Earthenone: speaking of\
Earthenone: !prime
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accountmadeforants: Necrodancer is available through Netflix, as well
BusTed:
Wolfstrike_NL:
Earthenone
SquareDotCube: deliberately ugly, to be clear
Juliamon: Oh yhea, that was on Talking Sim iirc
saucemaster5000: golden idol is so good, glad it's getting a sequel
Its_VeeBot: Hello chat from... The Airport.
SquareDotCube: @saucemaster5000 It *got* a sequel, it's out now
DoodlestheGreat: Return of The Golden Idol is lots of fun.
Its_VeeBot: Return of the Golden Idol was partially designed by the hosts of Escape This Podcast
Its_VeeBot: Basically, these two folks run guests through an RPG-like escape room thing
Its_VeeBot: It's half life 3
bytecaster: It's actually just a Skyrim Mod
ExachixKitsune: Someday I hope they are like "We've seen only one person being correct" just to watch everyone panic over who it was
an_asp: Just broadcasting a trailer that's nothing but white noise
Brozard: IN A WORLD
Brozard: A robot renegade cop!
rosiedog88: !schedule
Earthenone: a david bluth film
TheDevil_Risen: Land before Time RULES!
SquareDotCube: Before the punchline, there was...
BusTed: I think there were like 15
Earthenone: it was all about Family
an_asp: There WERE space aliens
rosesmcgee: Space came to them
bytecaster: 2 Land 2 Time
Juliamon: I mean eventually...
an_asp: Disguised as dinosaurs
Brozard: “Get out of the booth, Jack.” No! I like it in here
rosiedog88: isn't everything about family... if you really think about it??\
Earthenone: every other movie is just an ohana-like
SquareDotCube: and his roomate, Buddha
couchboyj: Tons of tournaments, actually
Juliamon: Gyarados is real strong
TheAinMAP:
BusTed: is there a surfing pikachu
Juliamon: Circle Circuit *ruins* everyone
BusTed:
Earthenone: if i know one thing about gyrados, its that its 4x weak to lightning so those numbers suprise me
rosiedog88: charizard
Wolfstrike_NL:
mtvcdm: !crossover
LRRbot: Everyone in this game has a Ryu Number of 3 or less.
mtvcdm: It's true, they do
couchboyj: Gyrados is highly polarized. Hitomanli and Zebstrika can kill Magicarp in the backline and dumpster it. Its good against everything else.
Earthenone: 4 water to attack yeah
SquareDotCube: and creates water spouts...
TehAmelie: "I'm the king of everything!"
an_asp: But pikachu can call down the wrath of the heavens!
Juliamon: Pikachu decks are way more reliable
MoxleyUnhinged: good morning form a close to 40 degree Melbourne
Earthenone: clearly we need a pokemon autobattler where we collect bench pokemon
BusTed: dang
ExachixKitsune: Heather's a gamer!
BusTed:
ExachixKitsune: (we all knew this)
Earthenone: did she misty donk?
Juliamon: ah yeah Rapidash + Blaine
Earthenone: ahh blaneidash
couchboyj: With Misty you can turn 1, yeah
Juliamon: Misty can turn 1 but there's like 85% chance you get zilch from Misty
Juliamon: "but it's a coin flip" it's a coin flip that NEVER WORKS
mtvcdm: !addquote (Beej, about Heather) [now] Oh, I do understand; you're a goblin.
LRRbot: New quote #9232: "Oh, I do understand; you're a goblin." —Beej, about Heather [2025-01-03]
KeytarCat:
The PS2 already looked like lego
TehAmelie: imagine a contest where people have to try and guess what's the real thing, what's chocolate and what's lego
RockPusher: The NES has the TV with the animated Mario
DeM0nFiRe: @Earthenone Kind of but the nice thing is if they do pick your idea, you get royalties
KeytarCat: ooh, and it's the big one! I miss the big ps2
RockPusher: It's real cool
RockPusher has built the NES & TV
LordZarano: The Lego Saturn V was originally an Ideas submission I think
BlueMechanic: I know the Winchester Pub from Shaun of The Dead gets submitted a lot
couchboyj: They have Horizon sets, th ats a Sony property, innit?
RunicScribe: For additional context, of 48 qualifying submissions in the first half of 2024, only one was selected to be made into a set.
goggledguy: @couchboyj Isn't it the one set, or did I miss more than the tallneck
SquareDotCube: @LordZarano It is, I ran into the box for mine while collapsing boxes I want to keep
RunicScribe: @goggledguy A smaller Shellwalker + Sawtooth set is coming out in March, based on the Lego Horizon Adventures game.
Brozard: It’s already happened!
Brozard: Destiny was even in Fortnite
goggledguy: @RunicScribe brb gonna go make some space in my apartment for more legos
MoxleyUnhinged: it's Destiny's 30th scandal anniver- wait.
GapFiller: gotta get paid in something
GapFiller: and better this than exposure
an_archist2: full life consequences
mtvcdm: That's going in one of the advice categories
GapFiller: !advice
LRRbot: Do not Beej into the pit lane.
TheDevil_Risen: Oni was awesome
SocraticMethod: Did it get verified that Digsite member leaked it? Last I heard it contained material that wasn't available to Digsite and was more likely from 343
TheDevil_Risen: I've still got my original disc version somewhere
mtvcdm: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (The LRR crew plays Magic the Gathering! This week we're drafting Mystery Booster 2! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 04:00 PM PST (49m from now).
GapFiller: FNPF
RockPusher: Mysty Boosty
Earthenone: ohh right paul has to do pre magic prep
TheDevil_Risen: Mystery Boostie 2 !!!
ExachixKitsune: Fun Puff!
Earthenone: !patreon
Raincoast_Bear: You are welcome.
mtvcdm: !store
ShaneLeeAtk: LurmTug Fun Puff!
TheAinMAP:
mtvcdm: I'm fine getting in and out of 2025 as quickly as possible
Brozard: You can speedrun life by sleeping longer
GasCityGaming: zoom zoom!
DeM0nFiRe: It's 2025, so something's going to happen
DoodlestheGreat: Beej, do you think you'll do your anime rundown this weeked?
ExachixKitsune: two more peopl!
accountmadeforants: Ooooooh
Marvoleath: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (The LRR crew plays Magic the Gathering! This week we're drafting Mystery Booster 2! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 04:00 PM PST (48m from now).
GapFiller: DoodlestheGreat its on the schedule
Earthenone: is that the set where lrr member are cards in it?
LilyOfTheVeil666: Misty Boosties!
Marvoleath: Misty boosty!
RockPusher: There's a lot of cards people need to read
DoodlestheGreat: @GapFiller Thanks!
RockPusher: Beej talking about Anime
Earthenone:
heatther is speedrunning the schedule
TheDevil_Risen: ooo more Animu!
Marvoleath: !schedule
TheDevil_Risen: yay!
DeM0nFiRe:
Beej's Game Awards 
DoodlestheGreat: 2024?
Wolfstrike_NL: IAN!
Earthenone: no heather as well i think
DoodlestheGreat: Good for him.
RockPusher: Oaky!
DoodlestheGreat: Pop'n lockin?
RockPusher: Alex
TehAmelie: what happens to the music after it's popped?
Marvoleath: Do we know who's on the next AFK already?
RockPusher: Alex on Horse Club
Juliamon: !thrink
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TheDevil_Risen: hahahaha
TheDevil_Risen: the final finale
ShaneLeeAtk: I just can't trust the word finale anymore.
DoodlestheGreat: @TheAinMAP :tf:
BlueFingers5: cool it's gonna be a long stream then
mtvcdm: There's surely some 'FAQ's' in there
ghyllnox: 258 seems a little low tbqh
Wolfstrike_NL: "But why? "
Serpens77: that's what the F stands for after all
ShaneLeeAtk: We need a T-Buck and T-Truck epilogue
TehAmelie: does adding multiple question marks make it seem more urgent or more questiony?
Brozard: Is Molly moderating again?
DeM0nFiRe: Graham is moderating
Brozard: Neat!
goombalax: Hekki Allmo
poipal: Exciting
mtvcdm: !live
mtvcdm: !schedule
ExachixKitsune: aren't our bodies hollow?
ExachixKitsune: just.. only in a few places
DoodlestheGreat: Hollow Dolly?
Mangledpixel subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 136 months!
Mangledpixel: boop
bramble_st: We are human donuts
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TheAinMAP:
LurkerSpine:
100
TheAinMAP:
TheDevil_Risen: Bullet Time Muffin
IbunWest:
ExachixKitsune:
100
ExachixKitsune: mwahaha
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
poipal:
TheDevil_Risen: Baiii
mtvcdm: Later
Ashmantle:
DeM0nFiRe:
o/
poipal: @exachixkitsune well played
DoodlestheGreat: ten 2 4 strem
TehAmelie: sending bits to bet on the muffin race sounds like it could be a thing
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