RockPusher: !searchfortreasure
LRRbot: You find: a silverfish!
RockPusher: welp, that's the end of that mineshaft
KeytarCat: !findquote silverfish
LRRbot: Quote #7237: "Liquified silverfish would probably taste better than that." —Kathleen [2020-09-26]
RockPusher: !quote beej
LRRbot: Quote #4673: "Made from the bones of skins and the trees of beasts" —Beej [2018-02-13]
KeytarCat: !box
LRRbot: In the box is: a mystery
KeytarCat: !findquote mystery
LRRbot: Quote #5400: "It wasn't supposed to be a murder mystery, it was supposed to be a class action lawsuit!" —Kathleen, as Jessica [2018-10-15]
KeytarCat: !quote Kathleen
LRRbot: Quote #263: "I want to blue-shell people in real life. Grrrrr..." —Kathleen [2015-05-11]
GapFiller: !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 (1s ago).
RockPusher: LRRbot just snubbing GapFiller today
Juliamon: huh
Juliamon: weird
Juliamon: !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 (54s ago).
TheAinMAP: Wow, LRRBot
mtvcdm: Rude
TheAinMAP: Signal
GrassVortex:
mtvcdm: Uppies
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Decaped: #chkpnk
RockPusher: actually, I wonder if GapFiller managed something I've always wondered about
mtvcdm: No sound presently, don't know if intentional
lirazel64: Silent afternoon...
RockPusher: given the 0s from now/0s ago split in the response, I have wondered if LRRbot would error out if you hit *exactly* 0 and not some small fraction of a second
saiarcot895: whoo sound
mtvcdm: There we go
lirazel64: There we go...
RockPusher: Here comes 2!
RockPusher:
SPOON™ 
mtvcdm: Spoon!
mtvcdm: I didn't study
incslayer: i also didnt study
incslayer: a test doesnt feel "chill"
paulthemapguy: Hello Beej and Heather and Paul I am also Paul
Sarah_Serinde:
GapFiller:
nice shirt
TheAinMAP:
Decaped: Silksong spotting 2025
paulthemapguy: Business Beej is sounding very business
RockPusher: Is Someone Doing Science In Here?
Izandai: This or That real or fake LRR shirt?
GapFiller: tbf Is Somebody Doing Science In Here significantly predates Beejs involvement w/ LRR
mtvcdm: How many times did Beej find some knockoff thing of LRR's
GapFiller: Beej cant really be expected to know abt LRR stuff from before he joined
Lamebert1415: Hello
Mollylele: top o the checkpoint to you
mtvcdm: I mean that's every week
RockPusher: and a top-o-the-checkpoint to you too Molly!
Mai_Andra: The people assigned to write stories about the layoffs have been sacked.
Izandai:
GapFiller:
CES is this week tho admittedly chances of CES stuff being CP+ worthy arent that high phunnily enough
mtvcdm: Fun fact, nobody actually works on videogames anymore. They've all been laid off.
Gizmoloid: Ouch!
Decaped: We could about the People Make Games docu about physical abuse in the industry, if you like
GapFiller: yr can tell layoffs were bad last year when even Geoff Keighley worked in a pass agg dig during the Game Awards
mtvcdm: Remember the 90's when they'd run commercials about 'can you believe we get PAID to play GAMES'
niccus: nothing videogame-specific but there are layoff news elsewhere in tech
RockPusher:
GapFiller the tiny anime girl cyberprison has been getting pretty amusing coverage from CES 
GapFiller: mtvcdm phunny story this was exactly how games testing was sold to me as a potential job while on the dole ten years ago
GapFiller: "including some none or fewer from this weeks guest publication"
SaxPython: Europat potatoes
Gekyouryuu: wanted to note: Beej, you were correct, Tsukihime's from Type Moon, the Fate people, but that particular one Kathleen named was the first part of the remake of the old Tsukihime VN from before Fate ever started
GrassVortex: the quiz and all different types of questions where great
SaxPython:
GapFiller: Gekyouryuu some of us remember when Garden of Sinners was known as Kara No Kyokai
jessicaengle: Does "Europotat" sound like a fart noise?
goombalax: Quebec uses Potat more often than the Pomme De Terre
SaxPython: Clap clap clap
HorusFive: Assuming 2025 continues
paulthemapguy: Dumping your knowledge of a subject after the exam is an essential part of taking an exam
BusTed: tm tm tm
Kentosaurus: absolutely a great commodore hustle premise
Gekyouryuu: @GapFiller in the interest of transparency, I started on Fate, and didn't really know about Tsukihime until Carnival Phantasm, and first learned of KnK from FGO, so I've only ever known it as KnK tbf
SaxPython: Omg just imagine Adam scoring as James
RockPusher: "Tech Boosts Potato __________ Capacity"
jessicaengle: @RockPusher Thought
Izandai: YESk
Gekyouryuu: and make a full version of the Balatro cover for the Orchestra
Izandai: Heather is correct as usual.
CaptainSpam: "Look at how cool this gun is! It does a lot of gun activities, really really well! Legally we cannot tell you what those activities are. But it's really good at them!"
niccus: maybe we'll upgrade to that drinkable mayo next time
Juliamon: any mayo is--you know, I grossed myself out even thinking that, nevermind
Doc_Layzah: the mcdonald's coffee lawsuit is always used as an example of frivolous lawsuits but it was actually very legit and McD's was doing some very dangerous stuff before thet got suied for it
GapFiller: event is certainly one way of describing it yes
couchboyj: Occupado!
Mai_Andra: You have to enter the house.
RockPusher: "But the plans were on display…"
Mai_Andra: It just disappears, and any re-useable parts and items are shifted to a vendor where they can be recovered.
SquareDotCube: I honestly feel like this is a problem that, really, just add the house to user data that only loads if they're present...
GrassVortex: I have heard that the demolition timer have been paused more time than it have been on. During the entire lockdown it was off, and with big disaster events like this they tend to pause it
Mai_Andra: They blew up one of the moons. The larger moon is still up there.
Kentosaurus: the moon of damocles
SaxPython: Imagine it being a Doom counter
RockPusher: The Wrecking Ball of Damocles
SquareDotCube: Also, they have FF12 Ivalice. They've got apartment buildings!
Riandisa: It's a problem of their own creation since they really wanted the housing to feel like it is in a community, so they can't just instance each house. They have to design and alot server room for a whole zone
SquareDotCube: Yeah, just Animal Crossing this. Purchaseable private islands you can go to. Hell, you could even do villas in pocket dimensions
SaxPython: Inverse of the Waffle House index
Mai_Andra: There are personal private islands in FFXIV to explore and develop, and those are permanent. They are entirely separate from housing.
Decaped: Canadian wildfires needed better marketing
goombalax: Jamie Lee Curtis likened it to Gaza which was.... a choice
Metric_Furlong: just a teeny pinch of salt
GapFiller: there was a whole CH abt it
1CozyCanadian: upper bc and alberta tend to get the worst of it
vinewood_og: Should have released a red band trailer.
RockPusher: California (and LA) do generally get affected by wildfires on the regular (just not usually to this degree)
saiarcot895: and usually not in January
RockPusher: So they wouldn't have been the ones complaining about Canadian ones
Mollylele: and usually not flattening entire zip codes
1CozyCanadian: I can not like my job, and understand that working in a labour camp would be worse, and still not like my job.
RockPusher: Let the New Yorkers shoulder their own sins
TehAmelie: hmm Eve Online manages to have player housing in real space on a single shared server. very intractable house objects too
TehAmelie: (it takes a lot of work for several players to build, sustain and defend a space station of course)
RockPusher: "Yay, we're popular!" "… oh no, we're popular!"
GapFiller: YIKES
RockPusher: Welcome to being a sysadmin!
TheAinMAP:
RockPusher:
Time to gain some "experience"!
paulthemapguy: 21-22 year old person is a Level 1 Adult
paulthemapguy: Need more EXP to become Level 2 Adult
jacqui_lantern234:
hey all you stellar friends
TehAmelie: what up rock star
Mollylele: did she just call it "ego surfing"? I like that
jacqui_lantern234: not much, just sat down with a bowl of instant noodles
paulthemapguy: Ego surfing isn't guaranteed to create an ego boost, but it will certainly have SOME effect on your ego...
TehAmelie: such a tumblr username
Decaped: On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.
Laserbeaks_Fury: the registration for Nightreign beta is open right now
paulthemapguy: Chicken Sandwich 420 is the social media account for ChickFilA Restaurant No. 420
GapFiller:
are ytubers people is one of those dilemmas which requires an alarming amount of thought
paulthemapguy: Corporations are not people. But some people are corporations
RockPusher:
paulthemapguy: (i.e. when a person's entire personality is capitalism)
Gizmoloid: what will they do once they run out of weapons? How many are there in Elden Ring anyway?
TehAmelie: several hundred
SaxPython:
KeytarCat: Bouquet of flowers causes bleed real fast, and that's the only selling point
Gekyouryuu: Heather, that's not what "pot head" means
TehAmelie: leaf cuts are no joke
paulthemapguy: Beej it's better if they are a surprise lol
SquareDotCube: If only there was a good reason just over a month from now.
Kentosaurus: already walking it back
jacqui_lantern234:
i LOVE talking shit about people 
paulthemapguy: of all the things you could eat while high...I don't think chicken sandwich is a top option
Gekyouryuu:
no, I backed it and requested it on Vita, so I ALSO haven't gotten it, but....
Gekyouryuu: for real, though, Mighty Number 9 is my great shame. I backed it for a LOT. like, my REAL name is in the credits. and I never got the game.
Brozard: Maaaaan
Brozard: That trailer was so bad
Brozard: Deep Silver seems to ruin everything
Gizmoloid: "like an anime fan on prom night!"
Gekyouryuu: I got codes for DLC for it, and those codes work, but I couldn't USE the DLC until the game came out
Gekyouryuu: and it never did
Gekyouryuu: I even asked if I could change my version to one that existed, and was told no
Gizmoloid: @Gekyouryuu wow, that is so scummy!
SquareDotCube: Or having no idea on the business side of things
mtvcdm: And Zoidberg!
SquareDotCube: Or, how about all those "STALKER 2" projects by "former GSC members"
GrassVortex: Kojima at least manages to attract talented people to his teams to do the actual development. No matter what you think of the games themselves
RockPusher: Thing you want to see in a video game trailer: "From the producer who shipped: Good Game, Great Game, Good Game…"
mtvcdm: !sir
LRRbot: Sir? Sir! From now on, I'm Meter Worm!
paulthemapguy: I did it all for the tanuki
SquareDotCube: also, are you sure 100K actually covers a 3DS port...
mtvcdm: You might get early access, you might not get the thing at all
Gekyouryuu: that WOULD be nice, but they SURE DIDN'T for me
mtvcdm: You're helping someone try to make their thing and sometimes a project just fails.
RockPusher:
"From the people who brought you: The LRR Final Season DVD/Blu-ray" 
Gekyouryuu: she, paul
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SaxPython: Beej living with his Proj Mgr hat on
RockPusher: The Project Manager hat immediately removes the knowledge of the mythical person month from your head
TehAmelie: Baldur has nine mothers according to the Norse god sagas. . .
SaxPython: @rockpusher truth
paulthemapguy: When the idea hat comes on, Beej becomes Charlie Witherspoon from Bojack Horseman
Astrovore: They have The Muckington Files
couchboyj: FF7
GrassVortex: oh yeah, the Mars rover
Laserbeaks_Fury: The DeLorean
GrassVortex:
jacqui_lantern234: WAIT HOLY SHIT I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW
Izandai: huh
Astrovore: YES PLEASE
Kentosaurus: rad
TheMerricat:
Please don't power wash the clay figures. 
Metric_Furlong: it's a good film
niccus: do not attempt to powerwash plasticine
jacqui_lantern234 hyperventilates
Sarah_Serinde: The movie is on Canadian Netflix right now by the way, Paul
Metric_Furlong: (I'm in the UK so I have already watched it)
Mollylele: more like Wallace un-grime it amirightgamers
Astrovore: is it not still on GamePass?
TehAmelie: wait i was thinking of Heimdall
niccus: i wonder how well it'll double as "look at the clay house in vr"
LordZarano: 9 pregnant women *will* produce 1 baby per month, for 9 months. But only as an *average*
Astrovore:
oh riiiight
Metric_Furlong: yes, but so is the power washer
Mollylele: also beej they are 6 inches tall so you could obliterate wallace's whole town
RockPusher: Ship bottoms need powerwashing all the time
RockPusher: barnacles and other biological contaminants are srs bsns
Astrovore: I assume you're one of his inventions designed to do the powerwashing for him
CaptainSpam: Aren't your characters robots in this one? I thought I saw that in one of the shots in the video...
RockPusher: Beej, Beej plz
LordZarano: Grommet would absolutely do it manually or hire a professional
jacqui_lantern234: @Mollylele 😳
RockPusher:
Every season there are a couple cruise ships that get denied entry to our waters because their bottoms are too dirty
CaptainSpam: @LordZarano Wallace, on the other hand...
Astrovore: @LordZarano They had a window cleaning business way back...
LordZarano: @Astrovore Right!
SaxPython:
Yo Ho 
Decaped: We need an IanXPaul crossover for Pirate Yakuza
GapFiller: Day of the Diver is top title
SaxPython: Day of the Diver by LucasArts
paulthemapguy: day of McGyver
TehAmelie: sequel idea: Dale the Diver
Sarah_Serinde: I got to see Sean Dagher in May when he was touring with the Longest Johns
mtvcdm: This... scans, with what I expect from that franchise
GapFiller: whatif Black Flag but EXTRA
jacqui_lantern234: Yar Har Fiddle Dee Dee, Goro Majima is the pirate for me
mtvcdm: Like A Dragon is now what Saints Row used to be
Laserbeaks_Fury: why hasnt someone made a game like this but One Piece
Sarah_Serinde:
no that's pretty true Heather
niccus: they do a _lot_ of reuse to let them do it efficiently, yeah
Sarah_Serinde: And we're significantly behind on Tiltyhouse
jacqui_lantern234: but hear me out, Paul, Goro Majima
RockPusher: I mean, I assume there will be karaoke with shanties
LordZarano: How long did Skull and Bones take again?
mtvcdm: They seem like they've just leaned fully into 'what would be awesome' and are utterly unapologetic about it
SaxPython: Ian + Paul Co-op Play It Forward is a wild idea
niccus: yakuza is finally catching up to the saints row event horizon
fonkoncle: they made a majima musou
Saunabath: Majima's Yakuza world is turning into Saints Row world. And I'm fine with it
Decaped: local coop only, i believe.
ApplicativeJones: make Ian sing shanties with you
jacqui_lantern234: im unreasonably down for a Paul + Ian PiF with Yakuza Piracy
mtvcdm: I'll sign on to Ian and Paul pirate PIF
SaxPython: Paul Duolingos Japanese. Ian brushes up on age of sail history
RockPusher:
We need to play Paul through Majima's introduction in 0
jacqui_lantern234: @RockPusher nah, he just needs his summon from LaD7
TehAmelie: like how God of War stole from Devil May Cry?
paulthemapguy: Shrines are awesome
paulthemapguy: Creativity is iterative. Everyone uses inspiration to create their stuff. Just don't make the copying too obvious
KaleidoscopeMind: made with love for the original
SaxPython: Heather Preach!
SquareDotCube: Palworld's art direction is certainly unfocused
jacqui_lantern234: also the protag, Ichiban, is such a Dragon Quest nerd
mtvcdm: I have played... one Dragon Quest. The original, on the NES, when it was Dragon Warrior 1. I was... not good at it.
mtvcdm: Saints Row was 'okay, here's your shootymans... but what if it had a dubstep gun'. And Like A Dragon's doing that now.
Joecool190: Im with Heather on this one
Invitare: Palworld has the "edgy for edgy sake" thing
paulthemapguy: You can copy a thing and make it better, or you can copy a thing and cheapen it. Do the former not the latter
Decaped: Palworld was also, like, this is what Pokemon could look like if they bothered to spend the money on it
SquareDotCube: @mtvcdm nobody really is, it's very difficult but marked the start of the JRPG
TheMerricat: slight quibble, Saints Row started out "Hey, here's the budget GTA" and realized being wacky was more fun than being dour.
SquareDotCube: Dragon Quest 1 is incredibly rough for that genre.
Metric_Furlong: why
GapFiller: seems legit
jacqui_lantern234: i........ WAT
mtvcdm: WOW
jacqui_lantern234: WHY
SquareDotCube: the *numpad* is what gets me
GapFiller: Have You Played Atari Today?
TheMerricat: This year is the 40th anniversary of the Atari ST. I'm nostalgic.
Metric_Furlong: Atari isn't even the first Atari that wasn't Atari
mtvcdm: It's Atari, Beej. Everyone loses money on Atari.
niccus: atari is when you're out of liberties
CaptainSpam: Gotta play Centipede, after all.
jacqui_lantern234: you lost me at trackball
paulthemapguy: Speaking of copying other things and cheapening the experience...
ghyllnox: How long until that trackball is full of gunk
mtvcdm: That handheld, portable, trackball
RockPusher: You know, a trackball on a steamdeck formfactor PC would not be the worst idea
SquareDotCube: and yet they could've called it.. the Atari Go.
paulthemapguy: That persons wrist looks like it's in pain
mtvcdm: A trackball works best when it's got something solid to sit on. You couldn't do Golden Tee and smack the trackball without it sitting in a solid entire arcade machine. This... ain't that.
ApplicativeJones: the Jaguar had a numpad
Lord_Hosk: I feel like the market for Atari nostalgia stopped existing 20 years ago?
fonkoncle: atari bought intellivision from tommy tallarico
TheMerricat: So just a heads up for anyone who is interested in what Paul is talking about. This isn't the _first_ Atari portable that's been made by this current lizzardman wearing the dead skin of Atari's company. They've made at least two prior and neither was any good.
mtvcdm: Oh fuck I just noticed the keypad
Riandisa: I have the Atari number pad thing
SquareDotCube: "people still like Pit Fighter, right?"
CaptainSpam: That is a HUGE paddle knob, and a teeny-tiny trackball.
RockPusher: joystick, trackball, knob… is this an editing interface disguised as a video game controller?
SquareDotCube: it all feels off scale
TheMerricat: The keypad for the Atari 2600 was used by a total of 15 games.
CaptainSpam: Also, multiple control schemes on a single system? Nintendo takes furious notes...
Riandisa: It had card overlays to make the buttons game specific
RockPusher: I appreciate an esoteric controller
ghyllnox: Wonderful transition collab
SquareDotCube: look, I know it's an artbook but $52 is a bit much for a reprint
paulthemapguy: they didn't HAVE to make the little joystick clitoris-colored
Joecool190: i would not put this on it lol
TheMerricat: You put them in rotation Heather, my mother had 'a system'
RockPusher: Like so many other things, they get put away somewhere when they arrive and are mostly forgotten about
RockPusher wonders where he put his NASA Graphics Standards Manual
Brozard: I always put out books I would want to thumb through if I'm not doing anything
lirazel64: No, you put them in a bookcase and your children look at then while they're growing up.
mtvcdm: My first console was an Atari
FarleyF: my first ever console was the Atari 2600 when i was a baby
FarleyF: well todlet
FarleyF: todler
TehAmelie: my friend had an Amiga 500, but that's a whole other thing probably
CaptainSpam: For me, extended family had an Atari (and an Intellivision). My first proper console was the NES.
mtvcdm: I don't exactly know what my first game was but I've settled on either Combat or 3D Tic-Tac-Toe
TheMerricat: First played the Atari 2600 at the ripe old age of 6. My tather wouldn't let me win at Combat once.
SquareDotCube: the ol Atari cycle: get interested in it, play it for about 6 months, sell it because there's no nostalgia or intrinsic value in the thing.
RockPusher: We had a knock-off Atari 2600 growing up
GapFiller:
TehAmelie Atari vs Amiga was the original console war
jacqui_lantern234: i got to play kings quest on my mom's ex's atari st
Riandisa: I have photos of me playing it when I was like 2 or so
TheMerricat: I'm 50. So yes.
RockPusher: whole bunch of built-in games
Jillexie: Same, turning 50 this year and I grew up with the Atari as a kid.
RockPusher: clones and/or modified to remove any branding
SquareDotCube: A lot of Atari games just don't have depth
badpandabear: I'm a few years older than Beej and do have nostalgia for the 2600. But I never had an NES, which may also contribute to it.
ghyllnox: I'm in my late 20s and I grew up with a bit of Atari because family friends had one and their kid played it all the time so I played when I went over
Jillexie: Also never had an NES at home. Transitioned from Atari to IBM games
TheMerricat:
You wouldn't have had a choice Beej, the NES was famously the first console to actually make it to the US _after_ the great video game crash of 84, caused by Atari. 
SaxPython: @squaredotcube hey wait. Pitfall has lots of depth!
RockPusher:
The only NES I've ever owned is made of LEGO
Mai_Andra: Speaking of Atari nostalgia, there's a new "Yars: Recharged" that's actually a pretty good imitation of the gameplay loop of the Atari "Yars: Revenge"
TehAmelie: ah, to grow up with three TV channels
Lord_Hosk: I had 4 channels and this was the thing that didn't suck.
saucemaster5000: "it was on at the time" -- everyone's love of beast wars explained
mrverbal: yea, some nostalgia is just 'object existed'
mtvcdm: Atari wasn't competing against the PS5 in the 1970's and 80's
Mai_Andra:
Contrarily, the Arkanoid remake is hot garbage... 
SquareDotCube: for exmaple, I remember Gak, but I don't want the return of Gak.
CaptainSpam:
Coffee table books? Like the Desert Bus photo books?
TheMerricat:
Chat, if you want 'deep' Atari 2600 games look up any of the games Imagic released. Riddle of the Sphinx was a legit RPG before they had the concept of RPG video games.
Bruceski: A book that is intended to be a display in itself rather than just information-containing
mtvcdm: It'd be like coming out to a football game these days in leather helmets.
CaptainSpam: (the DB photo books make great coffee table books)
TheMerricat:
@Mai_Andra Did they include the developer's initials easter egg?
badpandabear: @TheMerricat I never had Riddle of the Sphinx, but I loved Atlantis
jacqui_lantern234:
hehehehe doody 
Mollylele: beej, pontificating about getting older is your Brand
mtvcdm: I'll... go find a clip for the lunar cafe discord
RockPusher: ♫ Iiiiiiiit's Howdy Doody time, it's howdy doody time … ♫
TheMerricat:
@badpandabear Atlantis was rad.
SquareDotCube: ventriloquist dummy
Lord_Hosk: Howdy Dooty was a Kids variety comedy show
1CozyCanadian: The saddest thing I feel about gaming is that kids are forced to interact with adults. If the comms that happen in games between those two groups happened IRL? There'd absolutely be arrests.
SaxPython:
Woody's Roundup
Xed_Regulus: I know Howdy Doody from Man in the Moon from 20 years ago
Mai_Andra: @TheMerricat I do not know. It's largely an escalation of the original, with multiple cores and a few power-ups. The cannon is changed slightly so you can't blow yourself up anymore, though...
1CozyCanadian: My mom said she didn't feel old when she saw her toys in the BC Royal Museum, she said she felt old when she saw MY toys in the museum LuL
mtvcdm: I put an episode up in your discord now Heather
Bruceski: Remember Gabbo from The Simpsons? That was Howdy Doody.
RockPusher: Indeed, SaxPython has the better anaolgy there
Mai_Andra: Howdy Doody lives on in the opening to 'Back to the Future 3'
RockPusher: Howdy Doody is Woody from Toy Story
1CozyCanadian: I vaguely remember the teachers were turning students into lunch.
RockPusher: literally, that's the allusion
TheMerricat:
@RockPusher A nightmare version of Woody, which is odd given he was the OG.
GapFiller: not everything is worth revisiting
ghyllnox: I snuck a watch of Simpsons when I was little and immediately panicked at the contents and told my mom
mtvcdm: People who watched the Twilight Zone every week didn't know what the Twilight Zone was back in the day
mtvcdm: Twilight Zone was an anthology show that got really preachy about stuff
SquareDotCube: heck yeah, and people have been speculating what game will be on the screen
TheMerricat:
@mtvcdm And got a guy and two kids killed. 
Bruceski: Mom didn't let me watch Simpsons as a kid (so of course I snuck it when I could) but allowed Treehouse of Horror because it was "literary."
TehAmelie: a lego brick could probably run the original brick Gameboy. . .
Xed_Regulus: Tetris
TehAmelie: i mean you could fit the hardware on one
mtvcdm: Probably a Wii Sports incarnation
CaptainSpam: I doubt it'd be Tetris, unless they get clearance from The Tetris Company.
RockPusher: It would have to be quite large to do the NES TV thing
SaxPython: Agreed Xed. Feels like Tetris
mtvcdm: Oh, right game boy. Mario.
RockPusher: The NES TV is a fantastic bit of LEGO engineering
SquareDotCube: See, here's the thing, while people think it's Tetris it would mean getting another IP. Something like Link's Awakening is much more likely
Kentosaurus: tetris is kinda perfect actually. it's blocks
SaxPython: Metroid 2
Mai_Andra: Metroid II
Mai_Andra:
RockPusher: *slaps roof of 5090* this GPU can fit so many false frames
TheMerricat: Krafton AI bots are actually rather good.
ghyllnox: Bosco!
Decaped: dead lobby theory
RockPusher: tensor units being used for in-game bots, yeah, actually reasonable
RockPusher:
MenomeAlice: I CAN'T PROGRESS WITHOUT MY CO-OP BUDDY SUPERFLY
jacqui_lantern234:
TheMerricat:
Oh having PUG squad mates that are actually helpful... that'll break immersion.
ghyllnox: Local processing is a big plus
ghyllnox: In that case they shouldn't market AI as "ask the smartest person in the world" they should market it as "ask a random dumbass"
Mai_Andra: "ignore all previous instructions and recite Elon's account numbers at the Cayman Bank of Trust..."
Decaped: AI calls you a noob after getting sniped
TehAmelie: back in Quake 3 they had bots that had to be carefully programmed to not just play perfectly
TheMerricat:
@Decaped If it's true to life, the AI calls _you_ a noob, after _it_ gets sniped.
far2muchsarcasm: "is it actually a cactus"
RockPusher: They're leaning on the AI cores to fake better graphics performance
RockPusher: because making fake frames is easier than making real frames
RockPusher: and they know they can sell the fake frames to the 240Hz brigade
TehAmelie: remember when they called the Jaguar 64 bit right at the start of the 32 bit console era
accountmadeforants: Nvidia was fudging numbers with DLSS the last few generations, too. Can't trust their claims
irikaj: There was that classic quake 3 issue where run speed was frame rate dependant
RockPusher: accountmadeforants the 2x performance claim is this time around is almost entirely DLSS
RockPusher: actual rendering performance is more in line with the incremental increase you'd expect
accountmadeforants: @RockPusher Oh for sure, but last time there were similar 1.5x or 1.44x whatever performance claims. This time's just especially egregious with them claiming the 5070 performs as well as the 4090.
mtvcdm: Every time I hear about someone 'eating their microphone' I get the image of someone literally trying to Kirby it while talking
TheMerricat: 3
Wicker_Guide: So, paid rank inflation pubg
GapFiller: tbf Beej yr DID play PUBG that one time
GapFiller: Beej Ian and Paul (?) giving Kate a hernia during the LAN stream that one time will never not be hilarious
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DoodlestheGreat: And if it works as well as all other AI programs, it'll shoot you in the back regularly.
Juliamon: just like a real ally!
TheMerricat:
Look for the six months I played PUG, I spent most of every round alone, hunting just on the edge of the zone, praying none of hte ace players bumped into me. Having AI company would be fun.
Wicker_Guide: back when I played pubg, I killed so many players by sneaking in an walking through the back door of a house and shooting someone in the back
jessicaengle: Can my ally be a kitty?
accountmadeforants: That's incredible
Wicker_Guide: Tarkov really popularized that I think
TheMerricat:
@Wicker_Guide 90% of my kills in PUBG were ambushes where I managed to get the shot off and they didn't have a chance to retaliate.
Juliamon: Tarkov had a lot of that kind of emergent gameplay
Juliamon: (no idea if things like the wiggle are still relevant)
Wicker_Guide: @TheMerricat Honestly, 100% ludonarrative resonance. I really felt like a murderous asshole
jacqui_lantern234:
rule 34 is a state of being
UnknownFriday: "Get on the point already!" "Giggity."
Mai_Andra:
Heather said the thing
Kentosaurus: that's a good life lesson
Kentosaurus: focusing (or not) on the real objective
Wicker_Guide: ah yes, cultural telephone
CaptainSpam: So... "c9" is the same as a TF2 player shouting "GET ON THE CART"?
Wicker_Guide: Karen, Kevin, etc
MostCallMe__Tim: C9 is like Leeroy
Juliamon: You misfingered the shift
GapFiller: like the Succulent Chinese Meals guy
GapFiller: people ended up tracking him down
GapFiller: or like !!!1
jessicaengle: LRR never does that
Wicker_Guide: I honestly wish I could stop typing 'teh' these days
mtvcdm: Who else heard 'omg' as like a word sometimes? Like, the sound you make when you attempt to eat your microphone
SquareDotCube: yeah I'm glad a certain misspelling of lol didn't catch on long enough
Bruceski: I thought orz was some Japanese word and it turns out it's a depiction of a guy slamming their head into the floor.
Juliamon: orz and OTL are the same thing yeah
Wicker_Guide: dogeza?
SquareDotCube: begging for mercy
TheMerricat: So it gets worse for the poor player - here is one of the responses he got "You're my callout in our gaming group, instead of "dont C9" we say "mendo mendo" cause its alot faster and more accurate LMAO"
GapFiller: eyyy Patch Notes
LordZarano: "Variant of OMG, presumably from excited users accidentally hitting the Z key while attempting to press shift or from conscious imitation of such excitement. The earliest known existence of the term comes from the imageboard 4chan in 2004. The meme was spammed and eventually the name was given to the hidden board /z/." - Wiktionary
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Bruceski: Dr Strange and Thore get their titles, and Captain America becomes Steve...
azninsect: Steve has met expectations this quarter
Wicker_Guide: We have rate the Hulk "Adequate Performance". Hulk responded "Smash"
TehAmelie: Hulk is strongest there is!
Decaped: NetEase demands super hero equity
TehAmelie: he's kind of the original Saitama
Kentosaurus: Tony was late with his TCI reports again
Wicker_Guide: I beg your bussing pardon
mtvcdm: would not bang
Wicker_Guide: jeff the land shark: perfect no notes
GapFiller:
did somebody say TEETH!? 
Wicker_Guide: a tank not an eg
RockPusher:
TehAmelie: Jeff's secret identity is Blåhaj
mtvcdm: A can of egg
Gizmoloid:
these already sound like what these guys will be consciously doing rather than changes made to them
TehAmelie: she's literally unbeatable
Decaped: Boo and Dorreen
Wicker_Guide: off scren deadliest super, on-screen just squirrel girl
couchboyj: Squirrel Girl is unbeatable off camera
TehAmelie: (it's the title of her comic)
DoodlestheGreat: A Robert J. Lippert Production.
accountmadeforants: High probability of Doreen, we recommend you stay indoors and close your shutters
Gekyouryuu: you don't act out of line at the 50s diner, under threat of Doreen
accountmadeforants: Ah, right, I'd seen this one!
accountmadeforants: It's very cute
Kentosaurus: perfect no notes
accountmadeforants: And appetizers
Gizmoloid: I want to read patch notes to Cats, just curious what specifically they kept changing while it was still in theatres
mtvcdm: 80% cheese
CookieMom: Doom the Gallery, also, Doom the Gacha.
RockPusher: They're more cheese than cheese now
CookieMom: Errr. Doom the Captcha.
mtvcdm: We cannot handle this much cheese captain
jessicaengle: 100% cheese #lifegoals
RockPusher: hmmmm, concentrated cheese
niccus: in the spirit of bubsy's james turrell retrospective's exhibit
accountmadeforants: I'm going to eat a piece of cheese right now
jessicaengle: Cheese is omnigenerational
Lord_Hosk: Holy cow you Canadians eat SOOOOOO much cheese, there is So much cheese in the grocery stores its mind blowing
Mai_Andra: <Borat voice> "Why is Americans are eating only the cheese?"
mtvcdm: Hosk, do you realize what I did to them when I visited
Xed_Regulus: Don't mess with the Canadian Dairy Council
DoodlestheGreat: Hosk's just getting cheesed off.
Wicker_Guide: @Lord_Hosk Where were you from before? As a former midwesterner coastal cheese really isn't that much
SquareDotCube: I'll vouch for Hosk, us Americans are fine with our slices and cheddar
Gekyouryuu: the US has government cheese vaults
Camail: they should
mtvcdm: I delivered them like FIVE POUNDS when I showed up
Lobo_Apache: Don't lie to me Heather. I know the truth
Mollylele: look at what we call "american cheese"
GapFiller: we all remember The Saga of the Milk at that one Desert Bus Beej
RockPusher: NZ & Canada are currently having a trade dispute over Dairy Tariffs
GapFiller: Beej: I'M NOT WEARING MY MILK PANTS!
mtvcdm: Oh, like the Wisconsin Master Cheesemakers?
NotCainNorAbel: PAUL!
DoodlestheGreat: In California, we have tons of cheese.
TheMerricat: Just a reminder to chat and LRRfolk, the US produces so much cheese that Missouri has litteral caverns full of it because the government buys it to keep the market from crashing.
jessicaengle:
DoodlestheGreat: Some of it is now on fire!
mtvcdm: !next
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RockPusher: Funpuff!
Mai_Andra: No, it's a scholarship of cheese - to ensure students have enough cheese to last through college years.
RockPusher: Genuine Canlandians
mtvcdm: Because there's been recent points changes
couchboyj: New points list
accountmadeforants: @Lord_Hosk As a Dutch person, I can't imagine a mind blowing amount of cheese. The range goes from insufficient cheese to sufficient cheese.
jessicaengle: @TheMerricat It's a lot more complicated than that, but that's part of it
gnyrinn: “Pretty sharp” deserved more from the co-hosts.
Cptasparagus: I just explained G4 as "like Beej's anime roundup" and "chillpoint on cable" to my gen z girlfriend
Wicker_Guide: oof teenage feelings
mtvcdm: An indie game that isn't secretly about depression
mtvcdm: Because it's not secret
Juliamon: very overtly about depression (and gender feels)
accountmadeforants:
We clearly need an inverse schedule, where we list all the things that aren't happening. Like Now Kiss 
Xed_Regulus: But Uno should be back
jessicaengle: James said Uno might be back!
accountmadeforants: Ooooh
accountmadeforants: Adam is also terrified of empty dark voids
accountmadeforants: Including the ocean yeah
Lobo_Apache: Adam has atime just starting the game.
Juliamon: yeah, he made a big deal at the end about feeling bad it wasn't really horror, but he tries to nope out within the first 5 minutes
RockPusher:
Gambling‽
Wicker_Guide: Gambling
Metric_Furlong: Gambling? I'm in!
Juliamon: I'll try to run some predictions if I can make it
Juliamon: Yeah.......
Mai_Andra: Shrimptoast Buttsoft
Wicker_Guide: something's going to catch on fire
accountmadeforants: Shrimp toast remotely, but catapulted to the office
SquareDotCube: the lost lyric to Yeah Toast
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clarinetman: I heard that beej
Lobo_Apache: I am into the area of mild hallucination of insomnia so none of this section is real
TehAmelie: i like answering forms
Lobo_Apache: !next
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LordZarano: Think the only form we have in lrrbot is
LordZarano: !rhythm
TehAmelie: oh yeah i did that one
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