Play it Forward || S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

BrookJustBones: I assume Kathleen will start metaphor when she is done with her book writing
   LoadingReadyRun: I have heard anecdotally that writing a book is challenging
Metric_Furlong: such are the rumours, but sadly we may never know the truth
Metric_Furlong: also signal
 Nigouki: dangit, i still have to hang laundry
TheAinMAP:  Happy Partner anniversary!
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 Didero:  Happy Partner anniversary, apparently!
 Didero: And good evening!
Metric_Furlong: I see twitch is doing a Thing again
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 GrassVortex: yay, more radioactive adventures \o/
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   LoadingReadyRun: when you say twitch is doing a thing
 goombalax: Stalker? I barely even know 'er!
   LoadingReadyRun: I am concerned at the lack of 
 Melfina__:  Happy Partner anniversary!
 GrassVortex:  
 Melfina__:   
   LoadingReadyRun: are we live though????
Metric_Furlong: @LoadingReadyRun oh, no, signal's fine
   LoadingReadyRun: :panik:
 Darleysam:    
 Didero: I think they were referring to the 'partner anniversary' messages
 Didero: But yes, stream is live
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 enbycephalopod:   
Metric_Furlong: I was referrinf the 'partne anniversary' form messages
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 theghostwiththemost:   
 Didero: Also, 'Chornobyl'? Has the common English spelling been wrong all these years?
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 Meark: woo.
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ScrapyardGhostTrain: @Didero Yes. That's the Ukrainian spelling.
 goombalax: 
 theghostwiththemost: No one knows
   LoadingReadyRun: @Didero yuuuup
 JadedCynic:  Happy Partner anniversary!
   LoadingReadyRun: Remember when people used to say "The Ukraine"
 baltimore_667083: kind of
 Didero: I do, yeah
 Bassios: I always wondered why it was "The" Ukraine, instead of just Ukraine...
Metric_Furlong: no romanisation of a language is ever going to result in fully 'right' spellings, but some are less wrong than others
TheAinMAP: Here we go
 JoTyler: 
 DoodlestheGreat:  Happy Partner anniversary!
 NightValien28: ready to cheeki and breeki
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 HarmonisedMelody: The big 4 oh, that explains the back aches
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 baltimore_667083: hi alex!
 Didero: This PiF has barely started and it's already educational
 brushfire44: You know, I'm a bit tired and kept reading Happy Panther anniversary and was very confused
 jonnykefka: We're good
 Mazrae: I'm so glad that I watched the vod for this last night
 LordZarano: 
 GrassVortex: it looked fine here
 Bassios: Oh hey!
 matthaus_c: ayo cheeki breeki stalker
 JoTyler: Hi!
TheAinMAP: Hello
 ProcyonFlynn:  It's good! 
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 Roscoe_DarkHorse: I lurk! I sub! I lurk again!
 RocknGrohlNerd:  Vše nejlepší k výročí partnerství! PIF? with Alex ? 10/10 would watch again  
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 JoTyler: haa the background is still star wars from Ben's game
 jonnykefka: Except that Ben left his Star Wars background on this scene
 goombalax:  
 DoodlestheGreat: Metaphor re fantyazio
 enbycephalopod: metaphor
 jonnykefka: Metafor ReFantazio?
 JoTyler: Metaphor Re Fantazio
 TheDangerWaffle:  Happy Partner anniversary!
ScrapyardGhostTrain: @Metric_Furlong Personally, if your romanisation scheme doesn't give a useful indication of the correct pronunciation, it's a failure & you shouldn't have bothered.
 Didero: Including all the radiation?
 Nigouki: Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Only at the NEW SAFE CONFINMENT!
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 Didero: Oh, this isn't the first stream?
 jonnykefka: There was a bonus stream last week instead of W+P
 Nigouki: there was a bonus stream
 JoTyler: @Didero Alex did a bonus stream to check it out
 Didero: Ah, good to know, thanks
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 jonnykefka: Apropos of nothing I'm thinking of creating a game rating system based on "how f***ed are you if the cat walks over your keyboard"
 jonnykefka: among single-player games, this one would be high
 Gaelan_Maestro:  Happy Partner anniversary!
 LordZarano: Meta Thor Reef Ant Aziy Yo
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ThrinagaBattleheart: How goes the Stalkerening?
 GrassVortex: maybe. But this game is also *incredibly* deadly at the start 
Metric_Furlong: @ScrapyardGhostTrain ideally, yeah. but alas...
 Didero: @ThrinagaBattleheart Uptime 9 minutes, deathcount at 1 
ThrinagaBattleheart: Beautiful. 
 RealGamerCow: My headcanon is that you are an android and your "eyes" are actually photosensors, hence the radiation effects on the visuals
ThrinagaBattleheart: I do desperately want to get into Stalker, but even the first one is currently beyond my ability
 JadedCynic: Hewwo!  Congarts on LRR's Partner  Anniversay (parneversary?)  BRB - gotta take a shot.
ThrinagaBattleheart: As I'm sure most would empathize with 
 FoxBehindTheTree:  Happy Partner anniversary!
ThrinagaBattleheart: Then again, I taught myself Dwarf Fortress and Stationeers... Crunchy games are kinda My Thing. I could probably learn Stalker
 DaxStrife:  Twitch wants me to share this hat. Okay.
 TheMerricat:  Happy Partner anniversary!
 Nigouki: Please stop trying to tell me about the extended warranty, your own fine print says it's not valid within the zone!
 TheDangerWaffle: @DaxStrife HAT HAT HAT
 Didero: Remember, there are better sources for partner anniversaries, but they don't have this hat: 
 LordZarano: @RealGamerCow iirc astronauts on early space missions reported seeing white speckles across their vision
Metric_Furlong: @Metric_Furlong although in some cases where the romanisation does get close, English speakers start pronouncing it more incorrectly for some reason (e.g. pronouncing 'Beijing' with a soft 'j', despite that being further removed from the actual way it's pronounced)
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 JoTyler @Didero applauds
 A_Dub888:   I celebrated LoadingReadyRun's Partner anniversary and all I got was this emote
 A_Dub888: Also hello fellow STALKERs, how fares the Zone?
 goombalax: 
 accountmadeforants:   Weeee
 JoTyler: @A_Dub888 irradiated lol
ThrinagaBattleheart: Been live for like twelve minutes and already a death apparently @A_Dub888 
 DoodlestheGreat: He's extra urpy
  Mathwyn: Not Soda Popinski!
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 Gulleko: 🎂
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Metric_Furlong: @A_Dub888 it keeps killing us, so about as well as expected
 Lysander_salamander: hello everyone!
 RAICx: Have a hat! 
 KinkerbellRose: Can't run it myself. Time to live vicariously!
 JoTyler: hi Lysander_salamander !
Metric_Furlong: apparently all the old guns discarded in an environment with bad weather and where the laws of physics are known to glitch out aren't in the best condition
 DoodlestheGreat: You were headed that way last time but never made it.
Jethrain:   
 LordZarano: I'm pretty sure  has always just been available
 Wicker_Guide: Hi team, is this a new playthrough or a continuation of the previous bonus stream of S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Invitare: yet
Jethrain: Continuation
rocketjohn:  Happy Partner anniversary!
 Wicker_Guide: to the vod mines then
 JoTyler: okay but what if they become spider pigs like in darkwood
Metric_Furlong: I don't think those could climb ladders either
Gizmoloid: that sounded close
Metric_Furlong: although Darkwood didn't feature much verticality so it's hard to say for sure
 JadedCynic: I said - it's an observation balloon
 Nigouki: yep
 DrTeaSpoon: We are all stalking you as you play video games
Invitare: blinis are a type of pancake
 RealGamerCow: "aw pancakes"
 RocknGrohlNerd: yoink
 DoodlestheGreat: egad.
 Lysander_salamander: oh, we've encountered the plot
Jethrain: blini are those little cocktail pancakes, yeah
 SymphonySolstice: blini are pancake adjacent
 DaxStrife: Oh no you found the plot.
 DigitalSeahorse: 
 atinyspacemarine: Uh
ThrinagaBattleheart: Random Cutscene Scare
 vingris_: Equivalent to "fudge"
ThrinagaBattleheart: I love it
 JadedCynic: day/night...what's the difference? 
 atinyspacemarine: Quality eurojank
 JadedCynic: ah 'Wardens'
 SymphonySolstice: 
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  TXC2: !uptime
  LRRbot: The stream has been live for 49:45.
  Simriel: That was a an extra gun he brought for effect XD
  TXC2: well shit  Hello everybody!
 DigitalSeahorse: that's what someone did to me at the breakfast table one time but it was a bb gun and I didn't know difference from a pistol
Invitare: *points gun to back of head* always has been
 Didero: Hi TXC2!
  TXC2: hi Didero
 atinyspacemarine: Stalker takes place in Ohio?
 A_Dub888: @TXC2 Greetings mod stalker
 DigitalSeahorse: 
 JadedCynic: something something never get the army to do the job of the police something
  TXC2: hello A_Dub888
  TXC2: this guy needs a larder or something for that bread, it'll go stale
 JadedCynic: which of the old factions wanted to 'protect' everyone from the zone by keeping them out?  Sounds like the Wardens inherited their sentiment?
  TXC2: JadedCynic  Duty
  Mathwyn: @txc2 see if you just bake it stale no need
 JadedCynic: ty - names are hard for an old lysdexic like me 
ThrinagaBattleheart: "Someone owes me mone-" "GOT IT HE'S DED"
 JadedCynic: @Mathwyn yeah, you just make hard tack - keeps longer
 DigitalSeahorse: bweh
 Bassios: One of my favourite bands, Ignea, has a few songs in the soundtrack for Stalker 2
Jethrain: it probably is offal, yeah
Invitare: aspic
 JoTyler: that's the aspic 
 richard_ermen: Clearly the DOA Jiggle Physics are in play!
 atinyspacemarine: The jiggle is so upsetting
 DigitalSeahorse: meat jello in a can
 JadedCynic: because of the fat that has extruded itself from the pieces...
 richard_ermen: Finally, Stalker as it is meant to be seen
 malsareus: that makes it free use vodka right?
ThrinagaBattleheart: Always take free water and vodka
 RealGamerCow: "free of charge"
 JadedCynic: man, that tavern's black-out curtains are HARDCORE 
 atinyspacemarine: Does this game do VRR?
 Lysander_salamander: yay
  Simriel: Early game yeah grab everything, late game you get to be pretty selective
 malsareus: free*
 malsareus: so, is this on Crimea?
  TXC2: malsareus  literal other side of Ukraine 
ThrinagaBattleheart: Yes, currency exists! That's your advice 
 NightValien28: here advice for you stalker, capitalism, you are welcome
 atinyspacemarine: Money can buy many peanuts
  Mathwyn: Currency can be exchanged for goods and services!
  TXC2: !advice
  LRRbot: Raccoons tend to all look alike, unless you have a discerning eye
TheAinMAP: 
 malsareus: @TXC2 then what's up with the mainland talk?
  TXC2: malsareus  know idea, as confused by it as you are
ThrinagaBattleheart: I guess Mainland rather than the Zone?
 atinyspacemarine: Cap him ass en route
ThrinagaBattleheart: Mainland as a term by itself doesn't mean much though, will agree
  TXC2: ThrinagaBattleheart  reasonable assumption
 SidewinderSky: @malsareus "mainland" is stalker slang for the world outside the Zone
ThrinagaBattleheart: Yep figured
  TXC2: SidewinderSky  ok then
 JadedCynic: @ThrinagaBattleheart that might be the thing: the people in the Zone look upon the zone itself as 'an island' (it IS isolated from everywhere else; maybe there's now a moat?  )
  Simriel: Don't buy the mask
  Simriel: You can find them fairly easily. Also PDAs can be sold once you have the data off of them
 atinyspacemarine: "début suit" sounds like it should be a synonym for "birthday suit"
 A_Dub888: Who'd buy a broken gun that's been in someone's ass?
 DigitalSeahorse: abacus
 DigitalSeahorse: sticky!
 DigitalSeahorse: kitty stalker sticker!
 Lysander_salamander: oh, a kitty
 BusTed: 
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  TXC2: CLOSER!
 DigitalSeahorse: I love it
 atinyspacemarine: Holy moly
 DigitalSeahorse: kitty hacker stalker
 A_Dub888: You're adorable Alex
 DigitalSeahorse: &
 DigitalSeahorse: up arrow
 DoodlestheGreat: Poppies, poppies, poppies....
 DigitalSeahorse: ^
 atinyspacemarine: We making opium?
 DigitalSeahorse: xD
 atinyspacemarine: Lmao we are, sick
  TXC2: we're gonna make opium and then we're gonna take Hong Kong 
 Didero: What year does this game take place in?
 jessieimproved: poppies will make them sleeeep
 atinyspacemarine: Wasn't stalker 1 contemporary with the games release?  So this would be a bit later?
 jacqui_lantern234: sell you kidney stones?! i know someone who could 
 A_Dub888: Alex "Sell me Kidney Stones" Steacy
  TXC2 pulls out manuel for the OG game
  TXC2: says 2012 here
  TXC2: *manual
 JoTyler: nO
Metric_Furlong: Alex.
 DigitalSeahorse: I'd sell mine if I could but getting them out might be more pain than they're worth
 jacqui_lantern234: @JoTyler ehehehehehehe
 Bassios: hrk
 Radjack: Well that was a brand new sentence
 jacqui_lantern234: SAME ALEX XD
 JadedCynic: oh GOD - do NOT even joke about that!!!!
 NorthstarTex: WHY!? What a time to join
 atinyspacemarine: No
Metric_Furlong: !clip
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 A_Dub888: @NorthstarTex Such is the Zone
 jacqui_lantern234: im SO SORRY for laughing, Jo
 DoodlestheGreat: !break
  LRRbot: Remember chat, break time for the streamer means break time for YOU, so unclench, get up, stretch, walk about a bit, and maybe refresh your drink, take your meds, or go to the toilet if you need to.  Don't forget to wash your hands!
  TXC2: !break
  LRRbot: Remember chat, break time for the streamer means break time for YOU, so unclench, get up, stretch, walk about a bit, and maybe refresh your drink, take your meds, or go to the toilet if you need to.  Don't forget to wash your hands!
 atinyspacemarine: Apparently roller coasters are good for dealing with them
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 JadedCynic: Imagine shoving a fleck of confettii through a tiny tube...that's the thickness of a THREAD 
 JadedCynic: the first kidney stone I had made me feel like a giant hand was pinching through my abdomen
 JadedCynic: *grabs another bottle of water to keep hydrated; particularly since my kidneys are apparently crap at filtering excess minerals out of my body  *
 jessieimproved: My mom had to completely give up caffeine because of kidney stones
  TXC2: Live AND the canlander torney? heck of a weekend coming up
 Zaghrog: oh wow
 DigitalSeahorse: I really wish clips would let you have more than one tab of it open before it makes your feed freeze and miss everything else
 Zaghrog: Nice timing, my birthday is on Saturday
 jessieimproved: I wish all of LRR good naps this weekend.  It's going to be fun but a doozy
  TXC2: and we're back
 matthaus_c: uh oh
 matthaus_c: Anomalous Bread
 Lysander_salamander: I hope they mod that back into the game
  Simriel: "bread"
 DeM0nFiRe: A-bread-gedly
  Simriel: Alex reload your sidearm XD
ThrinagaBattleheart: Like, you got the trigger for the NPCs to drop bread, as a drop? 
  Simriel: Don't wanna drew it and have 1 bullet
 JadedCynic: @jessieimproved I've had to cut back a lot of dairy intake - my stones were calcium 
 matthaus_c: the Anomaly mod turned that into an Artefact that kills you if you use it 
  TXC2: Simriel  let him learn the hard way
 NightValien28: a nice "talk"
ThrinagaBattleheart: Also as someone who hasn't been able to get into Stalker yet, I'm guessing throwing bolts at anomalies disarms them for a bit?
  TXC2: to be fair, reactor 5 didn't melt down, it exploded 
 JadedCynic: @Zaghrog Bappy Hirthday in advance, in case I don't see you then 
FireSpectreZero:  Alles Gute zum Partner-Jubiläum! 
 JoTyler: @ThrinagaBattleheart yeah it triggers them and then you have a short time before they reset
  TXC2: damn 
ThrinagaBattleheart: Gotcha 
 Nigouki: meltup
 matthaus_c: carefully
 Zaghrog: @JadedCynic Considering I'm in the Eastern European timezone, there's a high chance I won't see LRR streams live
ThrinagaBattleheart: The actual plant was Rushed AF as far as I know
 JoTyler: @Nigouki that sounds like the opposite of a glowup XD
ThrinagaBattleheart: There were maaaaaany corners cut building it, and so many things cascaded from there IIRC
 JadedCynic: imagine that - 'average people' in-universe get hold of rumour and mis-information; they end up getting facts wrong.
 DigitalSeahorse: Scram button didn't work as intended
Despoiler98:  Happy Partner anniversary!
FireSpectreZero: Everyone's so friendly in the zone
 Nigouki: sure feels like "you'll know what to do" means "shoot these fuckos"
 A_Dub888: Does anything work the way its supposed to in the Zone?
  TXC2: there was a YT video I saw that explained it really well
ThrinagaBattleheart: YEP
 GrassVortex: speaking of scopes 
 Nigouki: hahahaha
 fragilepaper: ooooooo
 Lysander_salamander: nice
 NightValien28: he ain't getting that back, ours now
  Simriel: This rifle carried me through half the game
 RealGamerCow: Lets see if it works...on the guys threatening you
 JadedCynic: shitty design, shitty implementation and shitty practices - any one of which could've averted things, but...
FireSpectreZero: They're not nice people
 GrassVortex: they are now 
 NorthstarTex: probably
 DoodlestheGreat: Yeah, they're bandits.
ThrinagaBattleheart: A perfect storm of the shitty design, incompetence, etc
 Didero: Can you save first? 
 JadedCynic: you'd think at least ONE of them would be watching you...
 JadedCynic: Cool! 
 InkAndFig: oh is that all lol
ThrinagaBattleheart: That's a really cool view actually 
  TXC2: some from soft level of level design here
ThrinagaBattleheart: Yeah, was the shed you mentioned basically to contain the fallout?
BlindPathfinder: woodpecker?
 JadedCynic: I was about to say, is the 'woodpecker' visible from CNPP? 
 jessieimproved: It's an amazing engineering project
 TehAmelie:  Happy Partniversary (?)
  Simriel: This rifle plus Supressor was basically half the game for me XD
 DigitalSeahorse: so this game is in the past or in some insane future where they removed safe containment for insane reasons
 matthaus_c: him not very smart
humusk:  Happy Partner anniversary!
ThrinagaBattleheart: Lol, I get it Simriel XD
 JadedCynic: hey- he's under fire and injured; he's not thinking straight
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  TXC2: DigitalSeahorse  it's an AU where instead of deadly radiation, magic came out of the CNPP
ThrinagaBattleheart: Why fight in open combat when you have a long-range muffled rifle
Calyte: Well in this reality "ANOMALIES" are a thing. So...
 JadedCynic: yeah, Alternate Universe
  Simriel: Also now you get their stuff
 Didero: What're the odds of him trying to kill you? 
 DigitalSeahorse: yeah in a reality where vodka is rad medicine
 Lysander_salamander: what's giving all that radiation?  One of the artifacts?
 JadedCynic: @Lysander_salamander I think we've got a Blowout/Emission inbound...
 Lysander_salamander: oh I see
  TXC2: an area of radiation that kill most electronics
 NorthstarTex: blowout soon?
 GrassVortex: everyone knows that temporary fixes are the most permanent
 JadedCynic: it WAS very clear and sunny just a few minutes ago...
 JadedCynic: NSC 
 DaxStrife: Dang.
ThrinagaBattleheart: And it's moveable?!
 DigitalSeahorse: yep, it was built off site
 DigitalSeahorse: shimmy it on over
 JadedCynic: technically - constructed out of range of any radiation, and then 'put it on' over the existing confinement structure
 Giraldi657: Today on Learning with Alex
 jonnykefka: unless it gets shelled by the russians
 JadedCynic: 
 GrassVortex: assuming nothing happened during fighting in the area 
 lightfut: Kyle Hill did a great couple videos on YouTube about it
 NightValien28: uuuuh
 JadedCynic: this is his hobby of interest 
ThrinagaBattleheart: I swore he was going to say that he can't pay back right now
 JadedCynic: @GrassVortex um...
ThrinagaBattleheart: Your cut was 2500? Jeez that's a fair bit
 DigitalSeahorse: dust travels and gets everywhere
Calyte: Dry = Dust..
 JadedCynic: and dust holds onto ionizing radiation yeah
 DigitalSeahorse: 
 DigitalSeahorse: stormy
 Steelwolf171: I just found out today that they're distilling alcohol from some of the grains and produce from the Exclusion Zone that's technically not safe until it's turned into alcohol and there's no discernible radiation
 JadedCynic: Lightning striking like 10 feet away, and Alex doesn't even REACT 
 DigitalSeahorse: sticks
 JadedCynic: oh right
 RealGamerCow: well, hopefully only one body
  TXC2: Gods, how much of that body can even be left?
Calyte: Imagine if they found two identical bodies..
  Simriel: They will find his remains... And then they find his remains... And then they find them again... Oh No
 DaxStrife: Right, I remember that from the HBO show: one of the engineers just fell in when the explosion blew the lid off.
 RealGamerCow: Urbex morons aren't dumb enough to try to go close to reactor 4, surely?
 DigitalSeahorse: they operated for a long time after
 JadedCynic: yeah, they were puttering along 'just fine'
 JadedCynic: they're kinda 'affected' 
 TehAmelie: Chodemchuyk, the one they keep asking where he is in episode 1, right
ThrinagaBattleheart: Hello there :3
 fragilepaper: 
 TheDangerWaffle: hehehe
 DigitalSeahorse: 
 JadedCynic: *gets comfy* 
 DaxStrife: We knew what we were signing up for when we joined the stream. 
 GrassVortex: 
 DigitalSeahorse: wow
 GrassVortex: oh
 JadedCynic: oh MAN...
TheAinMAP: 
Calyte: Is everyone ever going to do anything about "The Elephants Foot" ya think?
ThrinagaBattleheart: Good news: WORKERS COMP CLAIM REOPENED WOO
ThrinagaBattleheart: I can finally start going back to physical therapy soon
Calyte: *anyone
  TXC2: ThrinagaBattleheart  congratulations
 TehAmelie: yay
 matthaus_c: we're screwups, but we're screwups who care
 JadedCynic: @ThrinagaBattleheart yay!    
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  TXC2: people break things, different people fix them
 JadedCynic: @matthaus_c as long as we LEARN from our screwups (in this case, we learned a lot of 'how to clean up our messes')
 Zaghrog: I'm Finnish. My dad had to go through thyroid cancer around the turn of the millennium, and he's pretty convinced it was because of Chernobyl fallout. I'm inclined to believe him
  Simriel: Missions are sadly not good value for money in this game, at least against Monsters cause Monsters don't drop loot 
 JadedCynic: @Zaghrog yeah, sounds totally plausible
 TehAmelie: as Grant Morrison notes, we only tend to make those big mistakes once. since 1945 there only was one nuclear attack.
 DigitalSeahorse: Zaghrog 
 BlindPathfinder: eh aany locale with monsters has enough easy to find stashes to be worthwhile
 DigitalSeahorse: iodine pills
 JadedCynic: Where's AtomicMarshallow 
 jonnykefka: They just bind to things so that iodine isotopes don't instead
 RealGamerCow: it's like feeding a big snake so they don't eat you
 iris_of_ether: ^^^
  Simriel: That's YOUR stash
 BlindPathfinder: body has enough iodine: does not store more evil iodine
 Lysander_salamander: I think that was the player's stash?
 PsychoI3oy: taking iodine pills to prevent radiation sickness is like the first aid for drinking ethelyine glycol: drink hard alcohol so your liver doesn't break down as much ethelyine
 jonnykefka: so the radioactive iodine just fucks your kidneys instead, which has a lower fatality rate
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 JadedCynic: 'radioactive-iodine isotope blockers' - specific purpose...
 JadedCynic: *headdesk*  
 RealGamerCow: bruh
Calyte: I remember a Podcast talking about how Swedish Nuclear Facility personnel Had a radiation alert, but could not Identify the source until they checked the outside. It was not their facility, The first Chernobil dust had arrived.
 CataclysmicReverb: Eff for Effort
 DigitalSeahorse: I got some iodine pills for free cause I live within 50km of Pickering power plant, had to ask but yeah
 GrassVortex: @Calyte being as old as that disaster, I have heard that story most of my life 
 GrassVortex: @GrassVortex *and from Sweden
Jethrain: "if only you looked at it" is unfortunately a big sticking point with a lot of people
 jonnykefka: I forget what the statistic is but one daytime transatlantic flight hits you with a startlingly high dose (relative to ground background radiation anyways)
  TXC2: remember kids: more radiation from the burning of coal will be released this year then from all the nuclear accidents ever
 GrassVortex: I did love how the series made the radiation feel like a monster form a horror movie in the first episodes
 JadedCynic: yep, if you're worried about be 'exposed to radiation' never leave the earth's atmosphere...
  TXC2: for content Alex 
  Simriel: Good question, you were next to a Bed
 GrassVortex: 
ScurvyMitch:  Happy Partner anniversary!
Calyte: Its faschinating to explain to people how radiation actualy works and see their missconceptions disintegrate.
 DaxStrife: "Waiting for the blowout in the rain, in the rain rain, waiting for the blowout in the rain..." 
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: did I imagine it or did the rainfall look funny for a second there
 accountmadeforants: Semi-relevant recent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3037/
 jonnykefka: It's all statistics
 Lunareclipse123: Yeah, don't go walking in the night, just stop for a picnic. Here, this roadside looks like a good spot!
 JoTyler: yeah that's why i defer to people who actually know about that stuff lol
Calyte: @Lunareclipse123 I see what you did there.
 matthaus_c: it is pretty spooky that some rocks have a Death Aura yeah
 PsychoI3oy: there's a playlist on youtube of an MIT course for nuclear engineers that I watched the first half of, it's interesting stuff
 TehAmelie: we didn't encounter uranium a lot in the ancestral environment
 JadedCynic: I mean, there's even MORE relevant xkcd's  
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: the whats
 DigitalSeahorse: if you worry about being radioactive you're too late cause we're all born with it baby!  it's hard to find anyone and anything that isn't radioactive at least a little aside from maybe lead
 jonnykefka: When things decay, you can mathematically determine waht atoms they will decay into
 matthaus_c: relatable
 DaxStrife: Relatable.
Master_Gunner: the weird thing is how under certain circumstances (in a reactor), things can decay into bigger elements.
 PsychoI3oy: well, sometimes neutrons, sometimes beta (angry helium), sometimes electrons at various energy levels
 matthaus_c: Lead is the Crab of chemistry
 JadedCynic: Atomic isotope: "I'm too fat!" *ejects neutron*  stabler istotope: "that's better"
 GrassVortex: if you want to read about the scary kinds of radiation, look up "the radium girls". CW for gruesome ways that radiation messes with the human body
ThrinagaBattleheart: Yeah, like carbon-23 or whatever isotope it is
 iris_of_ether: This matches what I recall from my nuclear physics class eons ago
 DigitalSeahorse: lead makes good shielding
  Simriel: I get it, I often end up as Lead on bad days
 CataclysmicReverb: c16 vs c14?
  TXC2: everything either fuses into iron, or fissions into lead
 Chesul: So, radioactive elements just decide to go on a reckless weight loss plan?
 RealGamerCow: and easily available
Calyte: Ever heard of "Uranium-Jazz"?
seanmrwick:  Happy Partner anniversary!
 Lunareclipse123: Nice warm fuel rod disposal pools
 TehAmelie: in good news, whenever you feel like celebrating the birthday of your atoms, it's every day of the year, thanks to time dilation
 DigitalSeahorse: leaded water makes extra good shielding! 
 iris_of_ether: Decay Chains: it's like a massive video game combo
 LordZarano: Duga-1 Station is about 9.3km from the reactor
  TXC2: Chesul  for a given value of reckless, some do it in a few seconds, others in billions of years 
 JadedCynic: @Chesul yep; they buy into the "Be A Whole New You" marketing campaign put out by the Increasing Ionizing Radation Foundation 
 matthaus_c: the Heat Death of the universe will be when everything is a Lead Crab
 matthaus_c: b r u h
 accountmadeforants: Nuclear history is this wonderful sequence of people knowing just enough to do a lot of damage
ThrinagaBattleheart: Was Little Boy plutonium? That would explain why it was untested
 goombalax: yeah they were like "This may blow up the world or do nothing"
 CataclysmicReverb: It makes sense to me because when I was a teen in chemistry class I was all "wait nucleuses of atoms are made of stuff that electromagnetically repels itself... tightly packed together" but I haven't ever checked to see what's actually going on
 iris_of_ether: That's someone's Mage campaign...
ThrinagaBattleheart: Also OH GOD THAT IS TERRIFYING
 cheetoJack: that sounds more alchemy than science
ThrinagaBattleheart: Oh okay
 JadedCynic: *gets comfy for another cool lecture*
  TXC2: us brits where using Candy as a timer in bombs in WW2, so that tracks
 TheDangerWaffle: *gives little kiss before wrapping*
 DaxStrife: Inside the bomb somebody scrawled "pls explode."
Calyte: Mutant Pig?
 JadedCynic: why do they JUMP
  TXC2: Calyte  a flesh, yes
 JadedCynic: @Calyte yep "fleshes" 
 matthaus_c: Fleshes are friends, AND food
  TXC2: prompt criticality
 Bruceski: @goombalax They double-checked the math. It was "this guy says it'll destroy the world, we're like 99.9% sure he's not right."
 DoodlestheGreat: From what I understand, the Little Boy was essentially the most absolutely basic design. It was inefficient as hell, but it got you a boom.
 TehAmelie: you kno, i've watched the Oppenheimer movie twice, i think it's a really really good movie, but i'm not sure if i like it
 DigitalSeahorse: it's not very efficient
 jonnykefka: was just reading on wikipedia that the leading theory on the first explosion at Chernobyl is now that it was a fizzled nuclear explosion. Prompt criticality but insufficient mass and containment for the full boom
 DigitalSeahorse: as yet*
 kristian_fischer: Evening, fellow Stalkers. I see it's Nuclear History with Alex time again. V Good.
  TXC2: hello kristian_fischer  welcome
 JadedCynic: but....if you take a bunch of these unstable atoms and 'trap them in a room' where those ejected particles can't LEAVE...
ThrinagaBattleheart: U-238 yeah
 Bruceski: As someone who grew up in Los Alamos I liked Oppenheimer as a movie but it is not a history lesson or commentary on the morality of the man and the Project, despite what some people wanted it to be.
 Varmint260: Don't talk about my anium in public!
ThrinagaBattleheart: U-238 is the "depleted" one
 kristian_fischer: Hence centrifuges.
 TheDangerWaffle: U-235 + n → Ba-141 + Kr-92 + 3n
 JadedCynic: u-238 is *almost* stable; u-235 is the 'excited' one
 DigitalSeahorse: viable(
 accountmadeforants: @TehAmelie I like it for how well it builds up the dread, and makes every single person seem (emphasis on "seem") somewhat sympathetic while blatantly doing awful things.
 DigitalSeahorse: **
 kristian_fischer: U-235 is the Mexican Jumping Bean of elements.
 RocknGrohlNerd: @kristian_fischer 
 JadedCynic: I worry that we can HEAR this fight going on, but not SEE it 
 matthaus_c: like fucking picking beans
 DigitalSeahorse:  one atom by one atom
 DigitalSeahorse: 
 Lunareclipse123: U-238 is an Alpha source, and U-235 is a Neutron source, which is why you need U-235 for a nuclear chain reaction
 TheDangerWaffle: ^^
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 RealGamerCow: The chain reaction demonstration that lives in my head is the Mister Wizard demonstration with mouse traps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjEnrB18AL0
 matthaus_c: seems like a perfectly sound 'desk job' when you leave out the results
 JadedCynic: they probably got paid a small wage...
 RocknGrohlNerd: a science machine, that is kinda ominous term 
  TXC2: as far as we know, it had not existed
 DigitalSeahorse: maybe don't make machines for the government or unknown job sources
 DigitalSeahorse: know what you're doing
 TheDangerWaffle: yes
Calyte: Reminds me of Fyneman´s "Los Alamos from below" where he visits a refinery of criminaly un-informed workers a hair away from unb-aliving themselves any moment.
 JadedCynic: @RocknGrohlNerd I mean, that applies to your toaster
 kristian_fischer: Referring to a nuclear reactor as a "pile" alwas fills me with such confidence.
 A_Dub888: @accountmadeforants Random funfact: I used to go to a science museum named for one of the characters in the movie (granted he was dead for a while by then but still)
 DigitalSeahorse: I'm an atomic pile, not the right atoms
 kristian_fischer: I know, I know... Still. 
Master_Gunner: IIRC, you dump a bunch of neutrons into Uranium, and then the neutrons decay into protons, giving you Plutonium.
 JadedCynic: early science is WILD
 jonnykefka: The first SCRAM was literally a guy with an axe next to a rope, "cowboy shit" doesn't even begin to cover it
 RocknGrohlNerd: @JadedCynic it does, thats why I keep my distance from it 
 JadedCynic: @RocknGrohlNerd I got bad news about your flush toilet...
 kristian_fischer: How Alex digs into early nuclear tech is how I dig into early jet powered tech.
 Mazrae: Alex, just want to let you know, listening to you talking about something you enjoy so much is so enjoyable to listen to
ThrinagaBattleheart: Arm through the wall 
 matthaus_c: can individuals make improvised reactors even?
  TXC2: there's a reason why civ games have making nukes be on the scale of a world wonder
 RocknGrohlNerd: @JadedCynic dang it, I´m cooked
 jonnykefka: you'd need a lot of radioactive material, and people tend to pay attention to where that shit is
 Zaghrog: there's actually a recorded case of a naturally occurring nuclear "reactor"
 DigitalSeahorse: so uranium processing in minecraft when?
 GrassVortex: and the centrifuges need very precise settings, which is also how the Stuxnet malware compromised some refining attempts
 kristian_fischer: Was that the one under the tennis court?
 Chesul: Not without getting noticed, at least after that one kid did it.
 Lunareclipse123: There is also a mass of criticality, so you can't just make a "small" sustained nuclear reaction below that size
 JadedCynic: if your basement was the size of the an olympic stadium and filled with improvised breeder reactors...maybe...but yeah, that would show up on the DOE's sensors 
 DaxStrife: Right, they just built in *on campus*.
 Creideiki_SE: For more bonkers nuclear history, I read "Wizards of Armageddon" over Christmas. The main takeaway is that nobody understands nuclear weapons, but everyone knows they should have more than everyone else. And not only the US and the Soviet Union - then main arms race throughout the cold war was US Air Force vs. US Navy.
 DigitalSeahorse: I remember this pair of pipes
  TXC2: it's kinda mad how much REALLY dangerous stuff got made in a dorm room of a US college 
 JadedCynic: @DaxStrife I mean, nobody knew what it could have done...
 DigitalSeahorse: and that pair of pipes
 ProcyonFlynn:   Graphite 
 JadedCynic: @TXC2 or in 'an english garden shed'
 TehAmelie: course, as xkcd pointed out the other day, you could make a black hole if you just fold a paper about 200 times. who knows what people are making in their basements
  TXC2: JadedCynic  indeed
 kristian_fischer: This is The Zone. All sounds are bad, no?
 malsareus: well you did ask
 DaxStrife: Well that explains the body.
Calyte: That man took a bite!
  TXC2: kristian_fischer there's like 3 good sounds total 
 JadedCynic: @Calyte that was no man...anymore
 matthaus_c: crack open a cold one with the rads
Scarbble: "stop bleeding, stop starving" is some good advice
 DigitalSeahorse: folding a piece of paper more than 11 times onto itself is a challenge if I remember correctly
 DigitalSeahorse: (mythbusters)
 malsareus: we only just got drunk?
 matthaus_c: I thought a Controller could somehow see us 
 dumbo3k: I think you killed it with your panic shotgunning?
Calyte: @DigitalSeahorse Specifricaly folding it in half, but absolutely.
  TXC2: graphite slows the neutrons down, slow neutrons react more to uranium for reasons no one knows
 JadedCynic: @malsareus previous exposure to the toxin has developed a tolerance 
 kristian_fischer: Please to be away please
 DigitalSeahorse: yes, in half over and over
 Lysander_salamander: would be amusing if it got hit by lightning
 RocknGrohlNerd: I am tipsy as well, why not have a drink or two when we discuss nuclear history
 JoTyler: yeah if youre that guy that got hit like a dozen times
 DigitalSeahorse: well grounded people end up okay sometimes
Invitare: you get a sick scar
 JadedCynic: some people just lose a toe...through their work boot 
 TheDangerWaffle: ye, I have been in a vehicle and struck by lightening. surreal
 JoTyler: there's a great Citation Needed episode about him lol
 DigitalSeahorse: or people covered in rubber
 matthaus_c: @DigitalSeahorse heheheh very good
 DigitalSeahorse: xD
 fragilepaper: @thedangerwaffle daaaamn
 kristian_fischer: @TheDangerWaffle Same. It was L-O-U-D
 JadedCynic: @RocknGrohlNerd yeah!  Vodka shooters all around! 
 TehAmelie: thing about that one guy who was reportedly hit by lightning 7 times, he was a notorious mythomaniax from childhood, and there was no witnesses to most of those lightning hits
  TXC2: "back....and too the left"
 malsareus: in the pipe?
  Simriel: Check the direction indicator on your hud
  Simriel: it could be underground
 TheDangerWaffle: @fragilepaper I thought I was in Archer going MAWP MAWP MAWP
 DigitalSeahorse: no glove, no electrical love
 JadedCynic: ♫ roll out the barrel... ♫
6angkok: yes
 TheDangerWaffle: @kristian_fischer yessss
 JoTyler: Roy Sullivan was the lightning man, i recommend this podcast in general but this was a pretty good ep https://www.citationpod.com/roy-sullivan/
 malsareus: more rats o clock
 fragilepaper: @thedangerwaffle  
Hotashi: tough weather it looks like
Calyte: Has to be if its not in that barrel.
 BlueMagnusStormCrow: Underground seems most likely.
6angkok: look for underground tunnel;
 RocknGrohlNerd: an ex-chair I think
 LordZarano: Welp, time to play minecraft
 TheDangerWaffle:  
 JadedCynic: 
  TXC2: maybe drop a save ?
 DigitalSeahorse: this is storm chaser starter weather
 JadedCynic: WHAT??? 
 dumbo3k: Well, you won't hear anything after the first bit
 JadedCynic: *whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine* for the rest of your life
 malsareus: do we have grenades equiped to the hotbar?
Hotashi: never thought about that
 matthaus_c: someone's making a crapload of money selling hearing aid in the Zone
 DigitalSeahorse: I thought that crate was a microwave
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: what was the zombie property with the fancanon of deaf protagonists?
Jethrain: When they say "Blowout soon" they mean eardrums
ThrinagaBattleheart: Or they all have reaaally good cochlear implants 
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: walking dead?
 Natimus_Prime: Ear protection is built into every piece of headgear, maybe?
  TXC2: Forgotten weapons has a video of him using a 7.62mm rifle with a HUGE muzzle break in a indoor range
 Gaelan_Maestro: this seems like a before boss stash
  TXC2: it's so loud it shakes the camera
 malsareus: we giving electronics to our joints now?
ThrinagaBattleheart: I like the lit can of Sterno for a lantern
 DigitalSeahorse: 
  TXC2: speaking of, bandits
  Simriel: The fact you walked into him was kinda hilarious
 JadedCynic: @ThrinagaBattleheart ukranian otology is world-class 
  Simriel: I did the same thing here tbf
 malsareus: it's pretty defenisble, if they don't throw grenades
 RocknGrohlNerd: @Simriel  
Calyte: Couldnt hit an open door. What a dingus.
ThrinagaBattleheart: Just literally walked into the guy without being shot at for like a second, THEN the realization 
 malsareus: time to shoot some of those
ThrinagaBattleheart: I love it
 kristian_fischer: A baby cartridge for stupid babies!
  TXC2: corner lean, my beloved
Calyte: 9mm kills the body, 45 kills the soul. Thats how you prevent respawns.
 JadedCynic: Russell's outside - he wants eyes
 DigitalSeahorse: sounds like a flag
 DigitalSeahorse: BLYAT!
TheAinMAP: 
Calyte: Dud???
Scarbble: spicy
 DigitalSeahorse: 
 JadedCynic: who was saying "defensible if they don't throw grenades"?
 fragilepaper: uhhhh
glumpyblacksheep: I think he knows where you are
  TXC2: (marge laugh) You got the dud!
 Lysander_salamander: maybe it was a potato
 kristian_fischer: One of those minute-long fuse grenades they have now
 DigitalSeahorse: heh
 Geldaran: No kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
 DigitalSeahorse: he forgot to pull the pin
ThrinagaBattleheart: But what if he didn't 
 RocknGrohlNerd: @Geldaran i was promised kaboom
 DaxStrife: It's a fake dud; it explodes after 30 seconds.
ThrinagaBattleheart: Just pull it yourself and throw it back
 fragilepaper: f
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TheAinMAP: 
 TheDangerWaffle: :<
 dumbo3k: Nah, it wasn't a dud, they just forgot to pull the pin before throwing it
  TXC2: I feel like a fake dub boarders on war crime 
 JadedCynic: remember - could still be a malfunctioning 'live' grenade...that just has an unreliable fuse...
 RocknGrohlNerd: morning @Antimuffin
 JadedCynic: yeah.
 GrassVortex: oh
ThrinagaBattleheart: OHHHH NOOOOOOO
 kristian_fischer: LOL Just A Prank Bro!
glumpyblacksheep: Coming to a Stalker 2 mod near you 
 JadedCynic: breech block goes through the shooter's eye
  Simriel: Gotta loot the stash before they spawn
  Simriel: You didn't loot this time
Calyte: Well they did it to make the enemy not trust their gear.
 JadedCynic: it's basically a 'terrorist act', yeah
Jethrain: you saved before you looted the stash
 DigitalSeahorse: war crimes
 JadedCynic: do it once, and then everyone is cautious and paranoid
Calyte: Did they find the Bity-Man?
 NorthstarTex: possibly
 JadedCynic: @DigitalSeahorse a fine Canadian tradition
 malsareus: sounds like they're having a moment
 JadedCynic: slice that pie
 JoTyler: guess you live on these stairs now
  TXC2: 
Zizzler111:  Happy Partner anniversary!
 RocknGrohlNerd: serpentine, serpentine
 dumbo3k: The only fix for being too aggressive, is to be more aggressive!
 JadedCynic: yeah, I was expecting the right, wheree the guy you tagged was looking
 DigitalSeahorse: @JadedCynic like the Shawinigan Handshake!
 NightValien28: panic hip fire
glumpyblacksheep: How many rounds does that double barrel have
 JadedCynic: everyone is one li- 
 JadedCynic: they encircled you
 DigitalSeahorse: better to be lucky AND good
ThrinagaBattleheart: Woo, cheeeevo
  Simriel: Now you get TWO squads worth of loot
 JadedCynic: love that you missed that first guy in the open, and then when he got the partial cover of the metal stairway, you kept hitting him 
 breadisbest1:  Happy Partner anniversary!
  Simriel: Techs repair stuff
 JoTyler: anomaly detected!
 DigitalSeahorse: how we become tech
BluTGI: It's the wall that gets ya
Calyte: Dont mind him, hes just hangin out.
 RocknGrohlNerd: just hang  in there bud
 SymphonySolstice: I'm sure he's fine
 DigitalSeahorse: piggus
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 RocknGrohlNerd: this one won´t be in half life 4
 JoTyler: damn theyre even uglier int he daylight
demonmum: 
 JadedCynic: and now the scavengers show up after the noises stop, to feed on the dead
 Angnor33: They do move in herds...
  TXC2: so dainty
Calyte: 4  shells.
 JadedCynic: bacon's back on the menu!
  TXC2: we need 10 gauge damnit
 DigitalSeahorse: they're like 4 legged spiders
 JadedCynic: wasn't there three?
 DigitalSeahorse: weeeeeeeeee
 JadedCynic: there's the 3rd
 DigitalSeahorse: wee wee wee
 dumbo3k: and the 4th!
 RocknGrohlNerd: yes 3 at least
 Lysander_salamander: oh, heck
 JadedCynic: right 4...
BluTGI: @JadedCynic lmao
  TXC2: no one screams quite like Alex does 
 DigitalSeahorse: they can stairs
Calyte: Time to spend those spare 9mm.
 Lysander_salamander: too bad you can't harvest anything from these creatures
 dumbo3k: hahahaha
  TXC2: this is the bad place 
BluTGI: Angry man worried about his dog things
 Amentur:  Happy Partner anniversary!
Calyte: This facilityy is cursed.
 malsareus: PETA
 JadedCynic: depopulating the whole Zone, one wave at a time
 BlueMagnusStormCrow: It's a shooting party and everybody is invited.
 DigitalSeahorse: they were waiting for you to get rid of the piggus
  TXC2: fuck PETA
  Simriel: Alex "Infinite Firefights" Steacy
 RocknGrohlNerd: @malsareus  
 dumbo3k: Mutant PETA, sounds about right
 Amentur: I see Alex is experiencing the local hospot 
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6angkok: just leave they'll spwan again and again
 RocknGrohlNerd: @Amentur Local pigspot, if you will
 JadedCynic: I can only guess that some 'international relief force' was here at one time? or maybe a PMC group was hired...
 malsareus: also that german engineering isn't exactly far away
BluTGI: The party is poppin off
 RocknGrohlNerd: its straight fire here
 Creideiki_SE: It was obviously on clearance as defective; it ejects into your face.
6angkok: inject anti rad
 JadedCynic: oh!  yeah - PeTA hires Blackwater to 'protect poor innocent animals from the depraved humans' and...well, it went about as we saw
 Carlioo: wow headcrabs got buff
  Simriel: He's more morephine now than man
 JadedCynic: pigu, pigu everywhere and not a pork chop to eat 
 DigitalSeahorse: nice dodge
 Amentur: @JadedCynic Well the problem with sending any relief or people into the zone tends to be that they make it about 1 km into the zone and then get killed/destroyed via anomaly
 Sacrenos: !next
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  TXC2: that'll do pig, that'll do
 DigitalSeahorse: piggu but no bacon
 RocknGrohlNerd: @JadedCynic *sad noises*
BluTGI: It's 5 oclock here in piggu-ritaville
  Simriel: Go back and get the rest of your loot after the break 
  TXC2: !break
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Calyte: Uncaps Vodka: "This is the worst day since yesterday."
 DigitalSeahorse: time for yogurt
 JadedCynic: @Amentur exactly, and thus the local bandits get 'access' to 'a stash of western firearms'...off of the bodies
 JadedCynic: welp, four-turkeys - I should figure out what to have for supper later...
 JadedCynic: right, butter chicken with rice
 malsareus: more piggu?
 JadedCynic: yep; other side of the nation - it's 4:40pm NST here
  TXC2: and we're back
 DigitalSeahorse: wait what's hard to kill?
 JadedCynic: thick feathers, fat bodies
 JadedCynic: Turkeys
 DigitalSeahorse: ah
 jonnykefka: balls of muscle and hate
 Natimus_Prime: Taking out a turkey without ruining the meat is tough
 jonnykefka: if you have ever lived in a place with wild turkeys, you appreciate why they have their own ammo
 JadedCynic: @Natimus_Prime yeah, there's the rub
 MAPBoardgames: So are we just talking turkey here?
 DigitalSeahorse: he dropped a rad katana
 JadedCynic: You can't help anyone else if you don't save yourself first?
  TXC2: pro que no los dos ?
 JoTyler: slick digimon
 Nigouki: upside down patch means the radiation is in distress
 JadedCynic: "Yeah, we have 'running water' - it runs from the bucket you fill three feet above the faucet"
  TXC2: the sky being green is fine right?
 dumbo3k: That balloon really doesn't seem very bothered by the wind
 MAPBoardgames: Nice day for it!
 JadedCynic: maybe the wind is just low-level? a thermocline layer in the atmosphere?
 DigitalSeahorse: it's a geen sky
  TXC2: energy drinks for the poppy field? just gonna speedball it up?
 ProcyonFlynn: Just means the dust in the air is healthy, right? 
 JadedCynic: heya ben!
 Lysander_salamander: neat
 JoTyler: hi ben!
Scarbble: hi ben!
 jacqui_lantern234: hey ben
 DigitalSeahorse: lo ben!
 JadedCynic: @ProcyonFlynn full of pollen, gonna be a fruitful year for the plants, next year
 malsareus: also the piggu can jump now
 DigitalSeahorse: sure
 JadedCynic: yeah, that's the sunlight peeking through the clouds
 jonnykefka: seems fine
  TXC2: it's as hot as the sun......
 DigitalSeahorse: red sky in morning, sailors take warning
 JadedCynic: still not comfortable with this near-miss lighting
  TXC2: Bye Ben
hyalopterous: Hi BEn
 Sorator13: bye Ben!
 JadedCynic: WHEEEE
 JadedCynic: poor Historian 
 MAPBoardgames: That Historian, is history!
  Simriel: I think youir armour might be broken?
 JadedCynic: now, did they quit following, or just stop shooting?
 malsareus: or the piggu got them
 JadedCynic: "bah - waste of ammo, let's go back and eat some pigu
 DigitalSeahorse: we got armor?
  Simriel: Oh your armour is fine, ignore me
 JadedCynic: *watches Ben help out behind the merchant's counter* 
  Simriel: I believe the tech can add the rail it needs?
 JadedCynic: @DigitalSeahorse strange, in maritime communities it was always "red sky at night, shepherd's delight, red sky at morning, shepherd's warning" 
 malsareus: so you can unlock upgrades by doing timed challenges?
  Simriel: If by timed challenges you mean Money
 DigitalSeahorse: @JadedCynic 
 Gaelan_Maestro: i think your bleeding
 Gaelan_Maestro: *youre
 JadedCynic: because yeah...sailors like the warning, but given the nature of their work, it's moot
eNDiKay_: Wait I'm confused, has Alex not played 2 yet??
 JadedCynic: nope, this is it
eNDiKay_: HYPE
 accountmadeforants: Don't worry, he's worn that thing for years, there's callouses against the itch and grooves to drain the sweat 
 BlindPathfinder: the repair costs really bankrupt you in this game
  TXC2: cheevo get
 JadedCynic: @accountmadeforants yeah, another few months and the epidermis will just grow over the straps 
eNDiKay_: I tend to save scum and just rush through the land, so I reacted at how slow and steady the exploration was now xD
 accountmadeforants: @BlindPathfinder Ah, so just like every video game weapon repair system
ThrinagaBattleheart: Is the scope compatible?
 Gaelan_Maestro: it says cannot install, not enough coupons
 DigitalSeahorse:   
 malsareus: maybe you need more loyalty points?
  Simriel: You shouldn't
  Simriel: Honestly yeah you paid the 900, it should work now
 JoTyler: at the bottom it shows when you select it
 SidewinderSky: you should be good to install it now: the rail is showing up on the model
eNDiKay_: "Fuck you!" That's how many x)
ThrinagaBattleheart: But it's already installed, there's no cost at the bottom
 JadedCynic: "gee, we're dropping too much loot - many players miss much of it, but some more diligent players could get really full o loot."  "well, don't cut back the drops - the main people won't have enough to survive; I know! We'll just add a mess of money sinks..."
  Simriel: Oh you are toggling it on and off
 JoTyler: like when you click on the other one it popped up
  Simriel: Look on the model
eNDiKay_: This UI is very bad tbh
ThrinagaBattleheart: Maybe right-click the gun in inventory
 Transmuted_Elf: maybe you have to unequip it to install the scope?
 accountmadeforants: Clearly you need to go to the weapon's properties and set the compatibility mode to Scope XP
ThrinagaBattleheart: Or unequip it first yeah
ThrinagaBattleheart: LOOOOOL dang it that got me
  Simriel: Had to be equped
  Simriel: Then you add them
eNDiKay_: OBVIOUSLY
  TXC2: cool game!
  Simriel: That part was awkward as fuck yeah
 Lysander_salamander: neat
 SymphonySolstice: eyes emoji
 DigitalSeahorse: woo a lathe
 JadedCynic: @accountmadeforants but that's ONLY through the Tech's "Admin-mode" - you can't do it any other time 
Jethrain: that it's possible to *toggle* the scope rail without realising it after installing it is very odd
  Simriel: Man is legit milling his own picatinny rail
eNDiKay_: the lathe of the land
 MAPBoardgames: A metal lathe prop being used correctly. weird.
 accountmadeforants: @JadedCynic Right, right, that's why it needs to be equipped, that means you're signed in.
 Chesul: Ooh, yeah, that's a nice lathe model.
 Lysander_salamander: is he using the car to power the lathe?
 SymphonySolstice: I'm certain I used that drill press in 8th grade woodshop class
 JadedCynic: @accountmadeforants oh! That's it - I'm in 'guest' right now!  
 malsareus: give that mouse a bath then
 DigitalSeahorse: mmmmmm
 DigitalSeahorse: sweet
Jethrain: ooh, sandwich!
 JadedCynic: time for q-tips and rubbing alcohol!
 Lysander_salamander: I hope there's a cooking minigame
 SymphonySolstice: make some fudge with that
eNDiKay_: Whatever makes me feel alive
 Jedi_Master_Zell: Oh, I heard "advanced milk".
 DigitalSeahorse: make sure you eat broccoli after drinking a whole can of condensed milk
 SymphonySolstice: I mean that's not wrong
 DigitalSeahorse: for the sugar tolerance
eNDiKay_: @Jedi_Master_Zell The true opposite of raw milk
  Simriel: I usually hold like 2-3 mags of AP for my pistol and no more
  TXC2: advance milk = UHT but it tastes good 
 DigitalSeahorse: especially sweetened condensed milk
 JoTyler: make some dulce de lecheeeeee
  Simriel: Sell your beer then 
Scarbble: advance milk = kinda like the game boy milk but in color and more powerful
 DigitalSeahorse: what's the switch milk?
 matthaus_c: boy milk flushed emoji
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 DigitalSeahorse: every button is walk
 DigitalSeahorse: sleb
 DigitalSeahorse: eat dog food you let rain water get into
 matthaus_c: wet dog soup
 DigitalSeahorse: rad rain water
  TXC2: the Robert Patirck Terminator run?
  TXC2: where he had to slow down because he kept catching up the motorbike 
 JadedCynic: *sad Arnold Schwarzenegger noises*
 DaxStrife: Remember: ACAT: All Cops Are Terminators (possibly).
 DigitalSeahorse:  nice day for weather
 Gaelan_Maestro: a slowly trundling skeleton covered in meat
 JadedCynic: ACCBAT - "Any Cop Can Be A Terminator" (so don't trust any)
  Simriel: I am a slowly trundling skeleton covered in meat, hello
 jessieimproved: Theoretically a terminator could just walk *really* fast
 CataclysmicReverb: I think they figured out running in Terminator 3? idk that was an odd and forgettable one... also possibly a limit of the design
 Strebenherz: Skeletons everywhere
 JadedCynic: @Gaelan_Maestro those were some of the BEST crapshots 
 Gaelan_Maestro: @JadedCynic absolutely
 JadedCynic: yeah...like a mod that makes 'bolting' those anomalies cause a Miku Hatsune to spawn and just wander around the Zone...endlessly.  Immortal and indestructible, the player learns to just avoid anomalies just to keep their computer from slowing down 
 JadedCynic: is this a trap?
  TXC2: always
 JadedCynic: everyone in the Zone should have an IFF system installed 
 DigitalSeahorse: errands
 JadedCynic: oh, are these the bandits to kill?
nc4lgaming: how does your game run so smooth my frames drop so much when i play
  TXC2: "you'd shoot a man in the back?" "I'd shoot him if he was on the job, gloop him!"
 fragilepaper: (dies)
 TheDangerWaffle: buhbuy
 SymphonySolstice: that pc is Juiced
 JadedCynic: probably james
 DigitalSeahorse: uhoh
  TXC2: I think the game rig has a modern GPU
 jonnykefka: Mission complete
 JadedCynic: yay
Jethrain: warlock wanted you to send a message, i'd say mission accomplished
 JadedCynic: win-win for Warlock, he won't even have to pay you 
 JoTyler: yeah this is a computer built specifically for streaming games lol
 jonnykefka: I get the sense that compared to this point in the first game you have a lot more healing at your disposal
nc4lgaming: yeah like i have a 4060 ti
 JoTyler: and the game is running on a separate computer than the streaming stuff
  Simriel: You are gonna pull off those dudes?
 JadedCynic: yeah, but be quick - the noise will draw...too late
 jessieimproved: Not many games are optimized these days, sigh
nc4lgaming: gaming pc everything else run smooth just not this game lol
 JoTyler: lol
 JoTyler: i feel ya
 jonnykefka: real "1 is not 0" on the healthbar there
 DigitalSeahorse: if he can get close enough to pull
 JadedCynic: how many near-death experiences has  Skif had now? 
  TXC2: I don;t Alex, you shot that guy right on the dome
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  TXC2: (i don't know
 jonnykefka: that seems...suboptimal?
 JadedCynic: not for southpaws 
 MAPBoardgames: Left ejection ports. Good for two things: looking good on camera and showering the user with hot brass.
  TXC2: Lefties are allowed to have their own ejection ports, not our fault you can't use them right 
 jonnykefka: I'm under the impression that having hot casings ejected into yoru face is not optimal
 CataclysmicReverb: But if you're left-eyed, and train that way...
 JadedCynic: @jonnykefka only for lazy majority shooters 
  Simriel: Removing heat from the system yeah.
 JadedCynic: keep the breech from warping, etc
 jonnykefka: wait, where is the powder in caseless ammo even stored?
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 malsareus: just build a swab into your pistol barrel
 Darleysam: the balls
  TXC2: jonnykefka  around the bullet
 JadedCynic: it IS the case - it's a 'block around the prjectile
Master_Gunner: yeah, it's a mostly solid block of explosives
 dumbo3k: At Aperture Science, we shoot the whole bullet!
 jonnykefka: I have some notes for the engineers
  Simriel: The G11 is Rocket Engineering
 DigitalSeahorse: 
  Simriel: Rocket Surgery
  TXC2: Simriel  better, it's a german swiss watch 
 JadedCynic: G11, but that was a NUSPI swiss-clockwork chamber block that you just swapped out instead of maintain...sent it back to the clockmakers 
 ScrapyardGhostTrain: @jonnykefka This is how guns have always worked, yes.
 jonnykefka: @ScrapyardGhostTrain Yes but typically there's a protective casing around the explosive
  TXC2: how did that person not drown? 
 ScrapyardGhostTrain: The breech chamber, yes.
 JadedCynic: @TXC2 didn't have enough time to
 MAPBoardgames: @TXC2 They were shot in the head
QuixoticScrivener: these caseless rounds look cursed
 JadedCynic: people can hold their breath for up to like 5 minutes
  TXC2: JadedCynic  MAPBoardgames  I guess
 DigitalSeahorse: obdurate?
 DaxStrife: You are selling these fine leather jackets?
  TXC2: what would like to know is why Brass is used instead of something like steel ?
 TheMerricat: "Older caseless ammunition typically uses a rocket-like configuration which integrates the primer and propellant into the bottom of the projectile and accelerates it by venting propellant gas out the back. Unlike rocket projectiles, which have similar configurations, the propellant of "internal-propellant caseless ammunition" has an instant burn time like a traditional cartridge (under 0.2 seconds)"
 JadedCynic: "Obturation is the necessary barrel blockage or fit in a firearm or airgun created by a deformed soft projectile."
  TXC2: rocket ball!
 TheMerricat: "Modern caseless ammunition typically uses a configuration in which the primer and projectile gets integrated into a solid mass of external propellant (originally nitrocellulose), cast to form the body of the cartridge. Cavities exist in the body to accept the bullet and a primer (both of which are glued into place). The completed cartridge might also contain a booster charge of powdered propellant to help ignite the body and provide initial thrust to the bullet."
 DigitalSeahorse: Obturate, to block or obstruct
 CataclysmicReverb: There's a LOT of reasons to use brass over steel, ease of material creation, malleability, heat exchange, thermal properties, corrosion resistance, low friction...
 JadedCynic: defintiely easier to work and mill
  Simriel: Yes
 malsareus: yes
Jethrain: Yes
 DigitalSeahorse: yes
 Amentur: Shrine 
  Simriel: It's a shrine to Toilt
  TXC2: CataclysmicReverb  interesting, thanks
  Simriel: toilet*
 jonnykefka: cool, where's the tetanus shots
 malsareus: time to get a tentanis shot
  TXC2: tetanus here we come
 Amentur: Hope Skif got his tetanus shot
 NightValien28: free tetanus
 JadedCynic: *dies of tetanus in 2 days*
  Simriel: Also yes, barbed wire just immedietly makes you bleed
 JadedCynic: Alex found the cover shot! <3\
 DigitalSeahorse:   
 BlindPathfinder: love how npc in this will just randomly start peeing
 SkylerRingtail: Never looted them though did we
 JadedCynic: there's the rub - noise brings.... 'attention'
 TheMerricat: And here is today's pendant reminder for me - Tetanus is _not_ more prevalant on rusty items becasue of the rust. Tetanus is 'everywhere'. The reason cutting yourself on rusty equipment is memed require a tetanus shot is rusty equipment is also often _dirty_ and that's where the tetanus lives.
 JadedCynic: ^^^
 JadedCynic: tyvm
 JadedCynic: 'rusty' is a safe shorthand for 'dirty', so...
 JoTyler: good place to wrap up for today
  TXC2: if something is rusty is not unreasonable to assume it's also got germs on it
  TXC2: another reason to use brass, germs can't live on it
 JadedCynic: thanks for the fun!
  TXC2: thanks for streaming Alex
 DaxStrife: Yayyy
 JadedCynic: SMW, got it
TheAinMAP: !schedule
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 DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem
 DigitalSeahorse: !Alex
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 Giraldi657: Thanks Alex!
  TXC2: wow that background
 JadedCynic: it all works 
  Simriel: Is it time to Get Out of Here Stalker?
 JoTyler: the bg on booth mode is still star wars from ben's PIF
 CataclysmicReverb: Thanks for stream!
  TXC2: !next
  LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: AFK (Time to shove aside those keyboards and play some tabletop games! Game: Arcs) at Wed 05:00 PM PST (3:58 from now).
 Lysander_salamander: have a good afternoon!
 A_Dub888: How'd a Star Wars Cantina get into the Zone??
 DigitalSeahorse: interesting backdrop screen
 JadedCynic: @JoTyler hmmm, get some Zone wallpaper?
eNDiKay_: ARCS = Game from the people behind ROOT
TheAinMAP:   
 DoodlestheGreat: Yay, LRL!
eNDiKay_: HYPE
  TXC2: Sunday sunday sunday!
TheAinMAP: Bus?
eNDiKay_: Fruitbus! I almost got to work on that one ;-;
 jacqui_lantern234: thanks for streaming, alex  youre a delight
 JoTyler: you are indeed on jackbox
 DigitalSeahorse: a longer day of you
 A_Dub888: FRTBRS
 JadedCynic: oooh, double-alex next wed? 
 JadedCynic: busy week! 
eNDiKay_: I will return for moar Alex stalking
ThrinagaBattleheart: Hab guud day Alex!
eNDiKay_: wait...
 DigitalSeahorse: assuming everyone feels well
TheAinMAP: 
 DigitalSeahorse:  quack
 JadedCynic: welcome back Varmit260 - we're honored you stuck around 
 DigitalSeahorse:  
  TXC2: da bits?
 JadedCynic: cleand up da bit
  TXC2: !alex
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TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
 DigitalSeahorse: ^
 matthaus_c: read spaceshipping!
 A_Dub888: What kind of gun?
  Simriel: It is very good
 JadedCynic: you've been warned 
ThrinagaBattleheart: Yes, please be 18 or older reading Spaceshipping 
 JadedCynic: Spaceshipping is AWESOME
 DigitalSeahorse: keyed cuke!
 richard_ermen: Spaceshipping Love!
  TXC2: !discord
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ThrinagaBattleheart: Okey, hab guud day!
  TXC2: !contact
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 DoodlestheGreat: !next
  LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: AFK (Time to shove aside those keyboards and play some tabletop games! Game: Arcs) at Wed 05:00 PM PST (3:54 from now).
  TXC2: Goodnight everybody
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