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Creideiki_SE: I'm concerned any worms caught will be radioactive.
TXC2: early bird gets the worm, second mouse gets the acute radiation poisoning.
DoodlestheGreat: SOON™
TXC2: title change!
TheAwkes: Polo
matthaus_c: za monolit, stalkers
TXC2: CONTACT
TheAinMAP: Signal
Strebenherz: black with white text, i dig it
MarkovDescendant: No Aetherdrift early access?
LoadingReadyRun: @MarkovDescendant stay tuned for upd8
TXC2: !events
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TXC2: Here we GO!
TXC2: Hello Alex
Aenir798: Did you have to sell your legs?
JadedCynic: hola!
TXC2: !patreon
TXC2: !store
DigitalSeahorse:
mightygregdoge: THE ALEX HAS LANDED
TXC2: Looooong loooooong cuuuuuke
JadedCynic: Artisanal Beej-crafted merch!
DoodlestheGreat: Hi ho!
DigitalSeahorse: by the gram
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JadedCynic: a snekey peekey?
DigitalSeahorse: game be loud
Strebenherz: lil bit yeah
TXC2: game much louder then Alex
JadedCynic: this is a megaman boss
Mazrae: It's a little spicy in here
TXC2: thank you Alex
JadedCynic: oh yes that chair again...
JadedCynic: a polter and a...lava snake?
JadedCynic: GLUG
fragilepaper: Hey Jaded!
JadedCynic: mmmm, feel those lipids soak into your body
JadedCynic: heya fragile!
jacqui_lantern234:
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RocknGrohlNerd: hello chat and Alex, how is the zone this time of year?
TXC2: hello jacqui_lantern234 and RocknGrohlNerd welcome
JadedCynic: "I saw him kill three guys...with a pencil."
JadedCynic:
afaik, THRILLING 
Genie_M: They seem not to care too much
fragilepaper: there was
Aenir798: there was
ArmondoSC: was it just for that last door?
TXC2: there sure was
JadedCynic: oh man - are they making keys out of lead or something?!?
TheAwkes: Keys go away when you use them. Did you pop anything else open on the way?
DoodlestheGreat: It looks like it got used.
Juliamon: "keys go away when used" is such a dumb video game thing
JadedCynic: @TheAwkes in Zone we make disposable keys, unlike THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY. (I hate it in Tarkov, but I accept the game balance need; but it makes even less sense here)
TXC2: "key is lost when used" is fine IF! the door remains unlocked indefinitely
ArmondoSC: the best option is "this key is no longer needed. discard? Y/N"
JadedCynic: @TXC2 agreed; then it's just a matter of 'clearing unnecessary clutter...but...
intdiffusor: hey
RocknGrohlNerd:
@intdiffusor 
hi
TXC2: hello intdiffusor welcome
JadedCynic: nice looking tin pan, tho
QuixoticScrivener: from outside?
JadedCynic: can we shoot it from outside the room?
TheAwkes: Pretty early on, I decided there was a limit to how long I wanted to spend looking for any given thing and started dipping into mapgenie to take care of it when I hit that limit.
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JadedCynic: ugh
RocknGrohlNerd:
contrary to popular song, the roof, the roof..... the roof is hopefuly not on fire 
JadedCynic:
nah, that's the basement 
DigitalSeahorse: on the floor with some crumbs
Genie_M: At least ground floor is not ambiguous - now if he said "first floor"
QuixoticScrivener: I should make a game where keys are taped under desks, and in ceiling corners. Just to mess with gamers.
TXC2: Europe knows about zero indexing
Genie_M: We use ground floor as intended 😁
JadedCynic:
'first floor' in silly nations isn't the LITERAL first floor of the building, but 'the first floor above the entrance floor (because only peons are on the ground floor and THEY don't count'
DigitalSeahorse: maybe the baby is the key
RebekahWSD: It burns!
JadedCynic: that's like starting your index neither with 1 nor 0, but with -2...
Strebenherz: spicy floor
TXC2: Fire indeed hot!
Genie_M: Just casually jumping around lava
JadedCynic:
@Genie_M anomalies in The Zone - it's almost like they're animate creatures 
Genie_M: That's a way up
DigitalSeahorse: roofs?
s_t_a_l_k_e_r_ll: if u put down ur knife u can "aim" to look a bit closer
TXC2:
like there's a consciousness behind the anomalies 
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: every floor is on the ground humans dont levitate duh
Genie_M: "we call the watchtower ground floor. Don't ask."
TXC2:
it's for opsec reasons
JadedCynic: BONK
JadedCynic:
just casually clothesline yourself with a tank barrel
Riiiiiiis: It's fun that in for example power plants, floor numbering might not make much sense. So they can be "named" after how high above ground level they are. So the elevator might go from 0 to 25 to roof
Genie_M: This looks really good
JadedCynic: I'm always paranoid that those shards still have their kinetic energy and an Anomalous Force is holding them in place...so what if that Force just *stops* -snkkt!-
DigitalSeahorse: theres' another loot
JadedCynic: this looks like a great place for a nap!
JadedCynic:
Skif = pickiest camper EVAR
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JadedCynic: max-tacticool shotty
TXC2: "a red-dot on a shotgun is cheating"
WetPaperSack: I thought using the shotgun at all was cheating
WetPaperSack: I dunno... ask the Germans
TXC2: since WW1 when the Germans complained about it
Aenir798: What's a puntgun, Alex
Riiiiiiis: I watched QI
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: a canon sized scattergun
Strebenherz: Oh no
JadedCynic: to be fair, james had a similar-looking shotgun loadout for sniping (less camo wrap, and more suppressor and slugs)
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JadedCynic: scattergun
PsychoI3oy: birdshot, usually
PsychoI3oy: for commercial duck hunting
JadedCynic: @PsychoI3oy or 'objects of equivalent size'
Strebenherz: I'm impressed it doesn't sink the boat
TXC2:
basically a 1 gauge shotgun
JadedCynic:
@PsychoI3oy at that point it'd be "commercial duck harvesting"
DigitalSeahorse: getting buffer here
JadedCynic: @Strebenherz I'm sure some experimenters did sink themselves
Genie_M: You have been whomped
WetPaperSack: Where's Lydia when you need her?
DigitalSeahorse: anyone else got a buffer wheel?
JadedCynic: Skif looking like Norman Reedus...
Juliamon: fine here
Riiiiiiis: @DigitalSeahorse Like for buffing metal to a shine?
LordZarano: The buttons in the elevator at Launch Complex 39A are labelled from EARTH, 75, 95, to 215, 235, SPACE
Genie_M: That's Death Stranding
Genie_M: 😁
JadedCynic:
So...I caught up with the VODs, and regret missing your previous 'kidney stone' discussion, being able to provide 1st-hand info
DigitalSeahorse: had to change resolution
DigitalSeahorse: I was there first hand
TXC2: the REAL stalker experience
WetPaperSack: He's not wrong about it
DigitalSeahorse: Riiiiiiis nope, a stream buffer
Genie_M: You broke this window the way there, and now back... New self repair tech, we call "instancing"
TXC2:
I once weighed myself before and after a BIG dump and I dropped 3 pounds
Riiiiiiis: No I watch live... (sorry :-D)
QuixoticScrivener: I keep forgetting this a sci-fi game until scp stuff happens.
WetPaperSack: No time like the present
JadedCynic:
healthy breakfast then! 
TheAwkes: When Skif starts his day on Monday, and it's 7am on Wednesday, he can still call it a long day.
TXC2:
sausage and epinephrine: the breakfast of champions
TheAwkes: I never ended up using slugs ever. Buckshot was just too important for dealing with the mid-sized mutants.
Genie_M: No 3rd person view?
TXC2: Genie_M stalker games have always been first person, I think it takes mods to get 3rd person
WetPaperSack: Behold! My stuff
JadedCynic: and a pretty hefty mod to do so, too
JadedCynic: dangit
TheAwkes: No limit to your stash box. You can hoard all the ammo you'll never you that you want to.
DigitalSeahorse: can you repair a suit?
JadedCynic: %%%
JadedCynic: *$
WetPaperSack: It's gonna cost all the arms you can grow
JadedCynic: gesundheit
TXC2: Archibald "Buck" Shott
ArmondoSC: did you sell your .45 viper or did you leave in in garbage?
DoodlestheGreat: You dropped that AK, maybe sell it?
PsychoI3oy: i remember there's stuff stored in a crate in the prison
PsychoI3oy: with lots of sausages on the ground around it
Genie_M: New paint!
ArmondoSC: you need a better tech
TheAwkes: Not every technician is good enoughto do every mod.
TXC2: I recall Clear sky had something like that with Shotgun dart ammo
TheAwkes: Not quite progress-gated but it is danger-gated to get the higher tier upgrades.
ArmondoSC: welp
WetPaperSack: Owie
Juliamon: F
JadedCynic:
mowdownjoe: That's a pricy repair.
DoodlestheGreat: It's only money.
Genie_M: Sooner or later you will need a hazmat
TheAwkes: Pretty soon, that'll be chump change. Don't sweat it.
DigitalSeahorse:
Genie_M: Love endless stash boxes
JadedCynic: eyeing that stack of '80' along the top...bandages?
ArmondoSC: my issue in these game is always the little stuff, oh i have 200 bandages?
JadedCynic: not a lot, but that makes sense...
TheAwkes: Bandages are common as hell, 10 *should* be plenty.
JadedCynic:
20-30 should be fine...right?
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JadedCynic: "I'll find plenty more - don't need to care LOTS" *cries, remembering that trapped in a basement corner behind a burner, waiting for the bloodsucker to find me*
TXC2: it's fine
JadedCynic:
why is it on FIRE?
DoodlestheGreat: Top down view of a latte.
JadedCynic:
I'm sorry, I've not seen a latte that EMITS LIGHT
Juliamon: uranium latte
JadedCynic:
Skif pirrouttes and skips away, to everyone else's amusement
TXC2:
stop going to starbucks then, go to a good cafe
DigitalSeahorse: tonic water?
JadedCynic: long-distance vendor...he's got creepy telescopic arms
Genie_M: It's a Kraz
JadedCynic: did you check the body by the middle whomper?
JadedCynic: CJ: "Aw shit, here we go again."
TXC2: the best dialogue a bandit can say: (dies)
JadedCynic: I've had enough of this; I'm cashing out.
Thisbymaster: helping people? in the zone?
JadedCynic: ooof
JadedCynic: held him down and poured water into his mask's vent
Genie_M: Some probably call it random encounters, we call it divine intervention
JadedCynic:
I'd say it's time to find some DUCK DOWN 
TXC2: the not USP
JadedCynic: quality control?
DoodlestheGreat: It eats all it's greens?
TXC2:
9mm goes faster then 45acp, speed kills
JadedCynic: In ww2 italian naval guns were among the best in the work...but their supply of ammuntion was...inconsistent in quality (making bombardment accuracy almost impossible)
mowdownjoe: !powah
Thisbymaster: leadlore
mowdownjoe: Right... we removed that response.
TXC2: the main selling points of 45acp is lower pressure = gun last longer, and sub sonic = easier to suppress
JadedCynic:
of 'forty short & weak'?
Thisbymaster: different tools for different jobs
PsychoI3oy: 10mm best mm
kynelwynn: But where's the 50 Desert Eagle, Alex? *ducks*
TheAwkes: Alright, Vault Dweller.
JadedCynic: 2mm ferrous slugs are best in life!
TXC2: and then there's my boy 356TSW looking in asking "can I play?"
Genie_M: You disassembled all the crates
DoodlestheGreat: And 10mm is having a quiet day at home reading the paper.
JadedCynic: *.308 watches the debate from a mile away, smugly*
Genie_M: They will respawn in 3 days probably
JadedCynic:
good reflexes...poor perception
malsareus: fear motivates a man
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kynelwynn: @JadedCynic So High Dex, but low Wis
ArmondoSC: it really is
ArmondoSC: if there isnt that a damn shame
DoodlestheGreat: After they were done with .38 Special, they moved on to Lynrd Skynrd and Foghat.
JadedCynic: @kynelwynn exactly
phoenixletmeuseadashd: apparently there is not
JadedCynic: o7 for the grave
JadedCynic: aw
phoenixletmeuseadashd: unless it's been added since the complaints
ArmondoSC: that doesnt make any damn sense
phoenixletmeuseadashd: I do like this reddit suggestion: "Maybe it's an anomalous mosin that actually shoots straight stale bread. "
Mathanwitch: yay! I made it to the stream
JadedCynic:
ahhhh, finally some COLOR back to the Zone
TheAwkes: There's a big ol bolt action, but it's not an ancient wood-stocked one.
ArmondoSC: dashes my hopes of an oberez
TXC2:
say what you will about Soviet propaganda, at least you knew it was propaganda
JadedCynic:
have faith in modders 
kynelwynn: But will they add Thomas the Tank Engine and Renamon?
JadedCynic: @kynelwynn oh induibitablly
ArmondoSC: isnt it still like the cheapest import rifle?
DoodlestheGreat: For a bolt action it may still hold the record.
TXC2: nothing gun related is cheep any more
ArmondoSC: for awhile it was like $25 per rifle
JadedCynic: " It is one of the most mass-produced military bolt-action rifles in history, with over 37 million units produced since 1891" (checking further for confirmed-source lists)
TXC2:
obrez = sawn off mosin
malsareus: a personal space enforcement mechanism
TheAwkes: The only thing that 221 is good for is pulling out the 5.45 in it.
Thisbymaster: who is moving hundreds of empty wood boxes into the zone
TXC2: !break
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JadedCynic: @Thisbymaster they weren't empty on the way in...the real question is "who's nailing closed these crates after emptying them?"
LordZarano: So I guess in russian a sawn-off is a gun on the edge
DigitalSeahorse: need full ativan and had a nightmare last night
TheDangerWaffle:
@DigitalSeahorse Lots of hugs your way, friend
DigitalSeahorse:
TheDangerWaffle thanks 
TXC2: and we're back
JadedCynic: so, for the top five most produced firearms, there's the Lee Enfield at between 16 & 17 million made, the M16/M4/AR15 with 15-20 million units made, the Mauser G98 with estimates running between 20 million and 105 million, the Mosin with 37 million (est), and then our dusty boi the AK-47 (and derivatives) with at least 40 million made, and some estimates say as many one-hundred-fifty million rifles made.
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JadedCynic: yes, from what I checked
TXC2: aren't almost all Ak-47s actually AKMs ?
DoodlestheGreat: At least you had just saved.
PsychoI3oy: I'd guess it's just 7.62x39 / 5.45
TheDangerWaffle: :3
JadedCynic: yeah, the -47 has been around a long time
TheAwkes: I'm a fan of the camp-in-a-doorway method of dealing with Bloodsuckers.
JadedCynic:
TXC2: the Dalek defence
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JadedCynic: drop a grenade?
PsychoI3oy:
iDangero: we live here now?
ButButTheJesus: This is how my first encounter with them went at the start of the game, died 7 times, a lot of spray and pray
JadedCynic: shoot the blur (sorry boys but you haven't released a an album in years)
TXC2: COOL GAME!
ButButTheJesus: Oh good
LidofLoathing: uhhhh
LidofLoathing: great
ArmondoSC: when it rains?
TheDangerWaffle: oh.
DigitalSeahorse: it wimdy and spicy
Genie_M: When it rains it pours
TXC2:
that fucker teleported in
JadedCynic: GOTTEM
ArmondoSC: ooh baby
JadedCynic: *starts breathing again*
TheDangerWaffle: damn
Mathanwitch: you're not in shelter!
phoenixletmeuseadashd: Everything is Fine
Mathanwitch: ok, now you are ^_^
TheAinMAP:
TXC2:
built different
TheAwkes: I think downstairs where they are counts, but you were up by the windows.
ArmondoSC: they got that npc privilage
TheDangerWaffle: "hang in there"
ArmondoSC: wholesome emmision
TheDangerWaffle: YO
DigitalSeahorse:
mowdownjoe: There's a guitar in the game? Neat!
LukeIsStrange: playing guitar with gloves
JadedCynic: yeah
TheDangerWaffle: I didn't realize you have a guitar lmao
DigitalSeahorse:
JadedCynic: playable guitar
frnknstn: Ask Beej to teach you Wonderwall
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iDangero: does it double as emergency melee?
JadedCynic:
found playable guitar; tell Beej 
TXC2:
the good shit, emphasis on shit
TheAwkes: Skif is the Loots Georg of Stalkers.
TheDangerWaffle: secret weapon to all your battles, just play guitar midway through. Confuse your enemies.
JadedCynic:
a quick primer with Beej shouldn't be hard -you only need to know three chords, right? 
ArmondoSC: wheres everyone going? bingo?
TheDangerWaffle: Never let them know your next move lmao
LukeIsStrange: So in this game you play a bard
DoodlestheGreat: They found out where there was a sale on borscht.
JadedCynic: @LukeIsStrange ...dammit; that explains EVERYTHING now.
DigitalSeahorse: it's Silhouette Night at the bar
Genie_M: It's always on the roof
TheAwkes: The exoskeletons actually have better lights on them. But that's a much later solution to a now problem.
JadedCynic:
"if I'd put the stash somewhere easy to get to, it wouldn't still be there when you went for it, now would it?"
Genie_M: Oh you can get power armor too?
JadedCynic: @Genie_M always could *click*
LukeIsStrange: @JadedCynic You just play Viktor Tsoi thats why its russian too. Everything is answered
JadedCynic: @LukeIsStrange *Ukranian
TheAwkes: Until you spend a few hundred thousand koupons on upgrading it.
TXC2: I don't think I've ever found exo armour in the first game
LukeIsStrange: @JadedCynic Thats even better
JadedCynic: I never got any in the first myself - only saw npcs wearing it
TXC2:
SEVA suit is best in the og, and get worse each game
Mathanwitch: legends say there exists magic Crimean water artifact that lets you carry way more habar than you usually could
pixl_nix: Oh is this the newer one? How is it?
TheAwkes: Electro, with one weird mechanic the game doesn't explicitly tell you about!
LukeIsStrange: @JadedCynic I also never really played stalker, I only played survarium which is a multiplayer shooter based on stalker but thats russian
BlightwidowMTG: Hey!
pixl_nix: I haven’t played, but I’ve heard the games are based somewhat on Roadside Picnic, which I liked, so…
LukeIsStrange: No its really not good and the whole system with reparing stuff and rarities was weird for a game that tried to be more realistic
TXC2: hello BlightwidowMTG welcome
JadedCynic: *makes note to check 'fallen' medkit on way out*
Genie_M: I'm playing Fallout 76 nowadays, I'm enjoying it's silliness - watching this is great though
JadedCynic:
it's like a metroidvania oppoent
Anubis169: argh, anomalies!
ArmondoSC: that wasnt it
LukeIsStrange: feels a bit like a pacman ghost
TheAwkes: That was only beside the stash.
TheAwkes: You looked right at it.
DigitalSeahorse: BRICKS!
A_Dub888: How do you do fellow stalkers, how's the Zone??
ArmondoSC: its still 15m away
BrindleBoar: this little pig made his house of of bullets
TXC2: hello A_Dub888 welcome
TheAwkes: The little arrow on the compass shows you whether it above or below you, btw.
A_Dub888: Was that a FFXII elemental?
JadedCynic:
76 helped me get through Lockdown; then the tv show got my friends to try it so I escorted them around, helping out (and I will say this, the community is suprisingly nice - you're more likely for another player to run up and drop a mess of stuff at your feet than attack you )
JadedCynic: that was chasing you, yeah
Mathanwitch: @TheAwkes oh yeah, I love compass in this game. smol but very useful
TheAwkes: There's an unexplained mechanic with the electros that makes them at lot easier to deal with if you know it.
richard_ermen: Can I just say that I love how quintessentially stalker this is? We're rummaging through the ruins of a dead building dying to anomalies?
TheAwkes: Not quite. Would you like to know?
TheDangerWaffle: that would be pretty cool
ButButTheJesus: @richard_ermen same
Genie_M: When I got into 76 everyone was very helpful - and ever since I got decently upgraded I am doing the same. It's just nice to be nice
TheAwkes: The follow fixed paths, and you can move around them after watching that path. But, if you have a little radioactive friend clipped to your belt, they follow you.
0x40FF: Is it okay if im low iq?
ArmondoSC: you just passed the stairs down
PsychoI3oy: weren't those stairs down in the room you just jumped out of?
ArmondoSC: lol you looked right at them
Anubis169: 0x40FF: Doesn't matter, and IQ isn't a valid metric
dumbo3k: They were just in that room you hopped out of
richard_ermen: Death by Window Trap?
0x40FF: @Anubis169 what is?
Anubis169: IQ, it's a bullshit metric
JadedCynic: IQ doesn't meature 'intelligence' they measure 'accumulated knowledge that the testers feel is imprtant'
0x40FF: @Anubis169 what is a good metric?
Thisbymaster: IQ is mostly vibs
JadedCynic: you can't help but bias the test you make
JadedCynic: ^^^
Anubis169:
there isn't one imo.. common sense applied to a specific situation, for as many situations that are possible for a person to be in
TXC2: IQ doesn't cover emotional intelligence
Genie_M: No such thing really - there are some culture agnostic tests for logic and stuff
JadedCynic: floklore, etc
Anubis169: intelligence is also not wisdom, that's why they're different stats in DnD
kynelwynn: There's like, book learned knowledge you can recall, your learned experiences that you make decisions on base on past experience, local and regional experience, stuff you were told by figures you felt were authorities, etc. etc.
pixl_nix: Yep, tests of intelligence are almost invariably biased in one way or another
JadedCynic:
crap, I was reading chat, and didn't watch - I'm 'lost' too
Anubis169: ladder~
PsychoI3oy: heh, that wasn't even the missed one
JadedCynic: oh JOY...*squelch*
richard_ermen: Following that train of thought....what kind of test bias does S.T.A.L.K.E.R. have?
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TheDangerWaffle: It is why it is used with various other tests, and MOSTLY based on psychological evaluation
richard_ermen: Because the Zone is testing us.
Mangledpixel: the idea of classifying people based on some sort of intelligence metric is invariably entangled with eugenics
ProcyonFlynn: ^ To be honest - IQ is a really huge red-flag whenever someone tries to bring it up unprompted.
Mathanwitch: the main story of stalker is "don't trust anyone"
Thisbymaster: Can you carry 300 pounds of random junk?
Mathanwitch: that and that real monsters here are humans
pixl_nix: Thank you! BMI is junk science
ArmondoSC: huh
0x40FF: Its blue flag for me
LukeIsStrange: I dont know about my own IQ and I dont care either
JadedCynic:
@richard_ermen it all depends on two things: "what is the intent The Zone has in testing us (what is it looking for)" and "what biases does The Zone have"
Genie_M: I'm a Taurus and tauruses don't believe in horoscopes
quatoria: BMI breaks down past certain heights.
TXC2: BMI is only good for determining underweight people
Anubis169: BMI was generated from one sentence in a medical journal in the 1850s, sourcing a very limited group of test subjects
quatoria: I'm a six foot five lady, and there is no weight the BMI will allow me to be that is sane. I'd have to remove my bones.
Anubis169: ^ case and point
pixl_nix: But bones are so useful
richard_ermen:
@JadedCynic Hmhm. Does Stalker 2 follow from Stalker 1 or is it a re-iteration? In the former it might be looking for more brains for scientist think tanks, in the latter your guess is as good as mine 
quatoria: @pixl_nix I am rather fond of mine!
vinewood_og: He cut a lot of weight recently. He is now Dave "The Gentleman" Bautista.
quatoria: @richard_ermen This is the zone post Strelok
JadedCynic: yeah, BMI doesn't work for me because my general body proportions don't match 'the standard' - my legs are not much longer than my arms, so it's all off
richard_ermen: Ohhh, fascinating. I did not know that.
GedankenPalast_: Did we notice the tiny arrow on the compass symbols? That shows if the target is lower or higher than the player. Helps with finding stashes.
Anubis169: anyway, IQ isn't a reliable metric
richard_ermen: So no more Wish Maschine, but the anomalies remain?
quatoria: anyway I would be happy to be "obese" like Bautista
TXC2: GedankenPalast_ we did
TXC2: I have an IQ of 123, I KNOW I am an idiot
GedankenPalast_: @TXC2 Nice, I had to learn that the hard way after I was looking waay to long for something that was underneath me.
Anubis169: nah it varies, like everything
JadedCynic: I feel "we're all smart...and also all stupid, just at different times"
pixl_nix: Yeah, it assumes a static value as well as a measurable one
quatoria: there's no need to apologize for taking pleasure in the language you use, or being specific and precise with your terminology. it sucks that folks assume someone who does that is looking down on them.
Genie_M: There's an anecdote (I'm not sure how real) that they made pilot seats for the average pilot and that meant noone felt comfortable in it
TXC2:
GedankenPalast_ chat pointed it out, but yeah
kynelwynn: The real itnelligence are the friends we made along the way
LukeIsStrange: Its your base intelligience stat and you still roll dice
JadedCynic:
"I am wise because I know how little I truly know"
Gaelan_Maestro: reminder to save your game
vinewood_og: Keep it up Alex. We need every possible lucid or amusing thought you have!
Anubis169: according to the tests, i have an IQ of 163... and I cannot do long division on paper, I missed that class in school and never been able to grasp that particular method.
richard_ermen: I like 5-dollar words. Precision can be joy, even in speaking, even with languages that are notoriously bad at transmitting information.
TXC2: Genie_M no that happened, it's how we found that there is no average person
LukeIsStrange: "I'm smarter than you, so your opinion doesnt matter."
TXC2: THIS IS THE BANDIT BASE !
TXC2: I knew it!
JadedCynic: yeah, just as 'everyone is both smart and stupid', everyone is both good and evil...
richard_ermen: @TXC2 They once tested me for 134. And all I got out of it was depression. Yay.
Anubis169: uhhhhhhh
Genie_M: Quick save point
Anubis169 hugs richard_ermen
ArmondoSC: is it the glass?
TXC2:
richard_ermen big mood there
nessiah_aries: So if he's laughing himself stupid, he's no longer intelligent?
ButButTheJesus: anemone
richard_ermen:
TheAwkes: Crosshairs go green for friendlies.
Cptasparagus: is twitch dying for anyone else
kynelwynn: Good to know that your gun can tell you if someone is hostile
pixl_nix: @richard_ermen I feel like there is a direct correlation between intelligence and mental illness
JadedCynic:
sparkles...lookout it's a vampire
TXC2: Cptasparagus seems ok here
nessiah_aries: I think you just lit his cigarette.
ButButTheJesus: wut
Mathanwitch: there's bullet stopping anomaly
Anubis169: uhhhhhh
Mathanwitch: that shard thingy
ButButTheJesus: huh
Cptasparagus: @TXC2 getting error #2000 every few seconds ;(
Genie_M: Something something genius and savant
Gaelan_Maestro: huh
JadedCynic: zap
Mathanwitch: it means he can't shoot you either though
TXC2: pixl_nix no, there is a correlation between being away of reality and depression
ArmondoSC: wild
JadedCynic: ah glass shards
TXC2: Cptasparagus ooof, sorry I can't help with that
LordZarano: @Genie_M The story is that the guy they sent to measure people to get the average noticed that no one he had measured would fit that average. So they gave up on designing average seats and started developing adjustable seats
Mathanwitch: if you crouch or slow walk it won't hurt you
JadedCynic: whew
nessiah_aries: BWARP
JadedCynic: @Mathanwitch (yeah, alex has worked that out)
Anubis169: Yo, dude was getting waaaaaaaasted
kynelwynn: You found the BevMo
quatoria: an emr, hell yeah - but now, can you keep it fed
Genie_M: Thanks!
nessiah_aries: He's a cowboy, says so right on the tin.
JadedCynic: uh-oh?
JadedCynic: hope he wasn't important
quatoria: think you can find enough .308 in the zone?
JadedCynic: antique
TXC2: is that meant to be an M-14 ?
JadedCynic: something to sell?
richard_ermen: @pixl_nix I don't know, but I can see how intelligence as a factor can lead one to be more unhappy upon recognizing systemic problems and consequences. But that is only a part of it, not a direct consequence.
Mathanwitch: Delirium Tremens! my favorite beer
JadedCynic: m14 is the carbine?
TheAwkes: Semi-auto .308
PsychoI3oy: m-1a is the auto; m14 is semi-auto; both are .308 and based on the m1 garand in .30-06
quatoria: maybe one of the factions sells .308? I seem to remember Duty sold western ammo, in stalker 1
quatoria: well THAT'S a furball
nessiah_aries: God, I hate that psi radiation sound...always makes me afraid a controller might be nearby.
richard_ermen: Impromptu firefight outside?
A_Dub888: sounds like a lot of shoosty mans
Genie_M: We live here now
JadedCynic: gawd, that battle sounds NASTY
dumbo3k: Well, now we know why he was getting wasted, having to listen to that
Mathanwitch: a-life alifing
JadedCynic: all the NOT gunfire sounds...
Anubis169:
Quick check the compass. This shit is going south 
quatoria: sounded like four men firing automatic weapons at something
ButButTheJesus: spoops
quatoria: something that was howling or screaming?
A_Dub888:
DigitalSeahorse:
JadedCynic:
@quatoria it's still doing that... 
phoenixletmeuseadashd:
was that shards of glass in the air 
Mathanwitch: I guess that psychic anomaly was the reason that drunk guy went insane too
Anubis169: mid to long range for expeditions
ArmondoSC: make no mistake, this is a horror game chat
quatoria: it's used for the squad's marksman, which isn't the same thing as a sniper
JadedCynic: @phoenixletmeuseadashd yep, floating glass shards - if you walk slowy you're fine; if you run, tho....ow.
TXC2:
so it's an M-1 with a magazine, AKA what the M-14 should have been?
quatoria: it's for precision engagement of long range targets, yeah. right, exactly, re: sniper and spotter teams.
Genie_M: I saw that anime
TXC2:
Anime snipers shoot inbetween tits
ButButTheJesus: SAW go brrr
JadedCynic: Suppression - something shooters dotn't really cover much
TXC2: a SAW can be a machine gun or not
Anubis169: btw can I voice my appreciation for how good the laddering is in this game
TheAwkes: Die Hard taught us that an MP5 is a machine gun. So a SAW can't be.
quatoria: they would emit sonic booms, yes
richard_ermen: Ex....cuuuuse me?
pixl_nix: Oh the bullet time tidies?
Anubis169: sonic boobs*
quatoria: it is difficult to convey the ridiculousness of that High School of the Dead scene to those who have never seen it
JadedCynic: terms aren't standardized sadly
ArmondoSC: oops
TXC2: richard_ermen it's anime, don't worry about it
dumbo3k: Well, yes, MP5 is a Machine Gun. Specifically, a Sub-Machine Gun
LukeIsStrange: highschool of the dead was my first anime i watched start to end
richard_ermen: Highshool of the Dead? The one where the nationalists with giant boobs and katanas were weirdly the only thing prepared enough for the zombies?
Master_Gunner: there's the technical definitions, legal definitions, and doctrinal definitions.
QuixoticScrivener: @anubis169, I want to say “no,” but I’m not your supervisor.
richard_ermen: @TXC2 Oh no worries, I remember it.
TXC2: as she backflips
quatoria: @richard_ermen yes, that piece of famous art
phoenixletmeuseadashd: reminds me of the bullet time T34 movie
TXC2: the best gun.....for what?
Anubis169: The best gun is the one that can alter its shape/calibre/ammunition for every possible situation
Anubis169: which doesn't exist
JadedCynic:
"Conan! What gun is best in life?!?"
mowdownjoe:
A_Dub888: GOTTEM
LukeIsStrange: there is also another in which he shoots and the recoil of the gun is fully put on her chest
dumbo3k: The AK in CS Source was the best for headshots, since the first shot always went dead center of the crosshair
Bassios: One of these days I should watch Highschool of the dead
phoenixletmeuseadashd: also video games don't model the pistol / rifle difference terribly well
LukeIsStrange: @Bassios Better watch something good and just watch the short gifs of it
JadedCynic: Vidjama Games: All things MUST be quantified!!!1!
dumbo3k: @LordZarano Very accurate. I've done one of those zero G flights, which was awesome, and that was definitely our neutral pose when we weren't flailing
pixl_nix: @lukeisstrange Wait so her tits just absorb all the recoil?? That would hurt like a bitch
Anubis169: oh Alex, friend of mine used to work in a weapons store in the US, he got so many people come in and ask for the 'heartbeat sight monitor' that shows an enemy's heartbeat
LukeIsStrange: On netflix they streamed the cut version of highschool of the dead and there was a episode which got only 10 minutes
Anubis169: and got told it doesn't exist
LukeIsStrange: @pixl_nix that became part of the plot for the remaining episode for her
Genie_M: Mass Effect Black Widow sniper rifle 🖤
ButButTheJesus: this Fusion Cannon is very useful to take out the rocket-launching Triceratops in front of Turok
LordZarano: @dumbo3k It's from the NASA document about how to design spaceships for humans!
richard_ermen: Nowadays, it feels like it would be easier to use WIFI to find people using smart-devices.
dumbo3k: Sniper School is also a lot of math, AFAIK
quatoria: yeah cuz the defining thing about snipers isn't that they can sh oot good it's that they can shoot good after laying out in the bush for 28 hours
quatoria: or 72 hours
quatoria: or 120 hours
TheDevil_Risen: well lv 44 and most of the way through act 3 in POE2, how are you doing in Stalker Alex?
JadedCynic: and SO MUCH math; math done in your head, on the fly
TheAwkes: And doing math on the fly based on remote observations of imperfect indicators.
Anubis169: Whereas actual sci-fi guns... like the microwave emmitter for crowd dispersal. It looks a giant pizza oven plate
TheMerricat: capping the dude, then laying in your piss and shit for another few days while they come the field for you.
richard_ermen: I always turn back to the description from those guys in vietnam who went "War is 1 minute of hell and 72 hours of boredom".
TXC2:
the true sniper experience is having the air force show up and bomb your target
LukeIsStrange: we got 2 sniper focussed games and both of them are way too arcade
TheDevil_Risen: @TXC2 that's one of my fav movie scenes
phoenixletmeuseadashd:
And sometimes completely useless like this "plasma cannon"
Thisbymaster: but the railgun blows itself apart
dumbo3k: All the best weapons are Boondoggles
quatoria: they can't prevent the railgun from making the ships half capsize!
JadedCynic: air density, humidity, winds (and the differing air currents at different altitudes)...
quatoria: and it's for no purpose!
TXC2: TheDevil_Risen right? such a tense moment into a pants kicker
Anubis169:
I built one in my garage They are so freakin' hard to get a stable magnetic field with
Anubis169: and they drink electric
DoodlestheGreat: Bag back in that roombehind seats
richard_ermen: Its one of those big sad points, that more realistic scifi would be almost purely mass drivers and rockets.
quatoria: at least they have IDEAS of what they can do with laser weapons, there's almost no purpose for a railgun to serve in the navy
quatoria: what does it do that they cannot now do with missiles or guns
TXC2: the new scope is baiscally Aim assit
TXC2: it's WILD !
Genie_M: My workplace was next to our Parliament building for many years - every time someone Important visited, we had snipers sitting in some of our places looking that direction.
quatoria: like, it's a direct fire weapon, so it can't do BVR engagement, which makes it inferior to missiles for both shore bombardment *and* direct kill of enemy craft
TXC2: quatoria 100 mile range that's cheaper then missile it's the goal
quatoria: so what's it FOR
Gaelan_Maestro: this seems like a safe place to save
richard_ermen: Good ol' quicksave.
TheDevil_Risen:
yeah i love the new scopes that calc your holdover for you and put a diamond around it 
JadedCynic: @quatoria yeah, limited by the earth's curvature versus 'ballistic' projectiles and then guided missiles/etc
flikerz1: Like shotgun shell rife shells?
Anubis169: Gimme a gun that can clean its own jams
TheAwkes: They've done another after the trials that developed the SCAR?
Anubis169: clear*
ButButTheJesus: @quatoria movie taught me its to shoot Megatron off of the Pyramids
LukeIsStrange: Guerillian dollars sounds really fitting
JadedCynic:
"self-cleaning sidearm"
phoenixletmeuseadashd: The SF weapon most writers didn't consider: drones. so many drones.
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richard_ermen: Same problem for everything, sadly. I remember one TalkingSim when Alex and Cam went "Yes, you can make a trillion dollars, and you saved the planet in the process, kinda shitty that you only cared about the former, not the latter."
Mathanwitch: just enchant it with “unbreakable”!
LukeIsStrange: instead we get robo dogs with flamethrowers on top of them
quatoria: Yeah, I suspect we're going to see naval drones sooner rather than later
richard_ermen: Like, can you make money with it? It'll be tried.
TXC2: flikerz1 more like shotgun shell that expoldes mid air
quatoria: and by "see" I mean, see craft designed *around* naval drone deployment / tending
spo8n: aren't they a nice spectacle?
Anubis169: they're more for destroying infrastructure
TheDangerWaffle: driveway snow, yes?
JadedCynic: great terror weapon, but also good farming tools for clearing weeds/brush/etc
JadedCynic: "maxim #48. If it ain't broke, it hasn't been issued to the infantry."
Genie_M: They disable the enemy quickly and efficient
TheDangerWaffle: Yeah
quatoria: flamethrowers are incredibly mediocre weapons in everything but incredibly specific situations
LukeIsStrange: they're not good but scary especially when its on something not alive so its more difficult to stop
PipeSmokingOwl: just strap em to a drone instead! decently useful in Ukraine
richard_ermen: I cannot imagine flamethrower-wielder from WW2 going home and being okay, after what they experienced.
TheDangerWaffle: WA state uses flamethrowers for firefighting
TheDangerWaffle: interesting enough
quatoria: to create firebreaks
dumbo3k: Oh yeah, the Crocodile. Got to the point the enemy would surrender on seeing it
TheDangerWaffle: Yes.
phoenixletmeuseadashd: Controlled burn setting yeah
quatoria: you burn everything that can be burned, so the big blaze can't get through
JadedCynic: burn away loose brush to clear -yeah
TheDangerWaffle: Yep!
terrence_too: They've deployed flamethrowers on drones in Ukraine too.
Anubis169: PipeSmokingOwl: Not exactly the best thing... flamethrowers use liquid fuel, liquid's heavy so not really ideal for a drone
quatoria: flamethrowers are a very mediocre anti-infantry weapon in most circumstances
Thisbymaster: They use flamethrowers for electrical work to get brush off lines.
richard_ermen: One day, we'll no longer burn things with simple flame, we'll juse plasma!...because its silly.
quatoria: they're short ranged, they're subject to winds and difficult to aim well, they have a lot of hazard potential to their operators
TXC2: they got thermite on drones in Ukrainian, war is hell y'all
kynelwynn: !next
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Genie_M: They don't need much to aerosolize
PipeSmokingOwl: they use thermite drone drops to slow move over tree lines
TheDangerWaffle: lmao
JadedCynic: but flamethrowers are more useful in intimidating enemies into say leaving an entrenched position, or stopping an assault, than actually killing targets
Anubis169: Turns out being able to shoot something reliably at a distance doesn't need to be changed that much
terrence_too: Fair point. Mostly just to the point that they're useful enough in combat that they're still in active use.
JadedCynic: a mechanical machine gun yeah
TXC2:
turns out, if it shoots lead, it can kill, and thus it's still useful in war
Gaelan_Maestro: drink vodka
richard_ermen: So....has war changed, or are we still sitting in Gettysburg 1863?
Anubis169: your barrel glows and sags
TheDangerWaffle: *shocked face*
JadedCynic: throwing a bullet generates heat
lightfut: Wait, tiny explosions make heat? What?
ArmondoSC: you dont say
dumbo3k: And then if barrel melt, does it then explode when bullat get stuck?
LidofLoathing: Isn't that why some guys had to pee on theirs?
Anubis169: it's a legit thing Lido
LukeIsStrange: So if my pc would be able to shoot bullets he could do it for a while?
JadedCynic: vickers gun - the sleeve to hold the water 'cooling loop'
richard_ermen: Guess we're gonna have to run?
phoenixletmeuseadashd: that is not how I expected this to go
TheAwkes: It's like a live in-person email scam.
JadedCynic: IKR?
Anubis169: LOL
Genie_M: You did offer ammo they accepted
richard_ermen: Their friend is lying dead in front of their house, we're clearly well armed and capable enough to run around here. Fascinating that their first instinct was to go "Waste him!"
Anubis169: oh sweet, a crackstick
phoenixletmeuseadashd: @richard_ermen tbh in real life alex is super dead there
JadedCynic: in real life, they're all dead from bleeding out after exchanging fire
TheAwkes: The liquids are all heavy and cheap. They can go early to grab better loots.
richard_ermen: @phoenixletmeuseadashd Because even one hit could have instantly downed him?
Anubis169: just the risk of infection alone..
TXC2:
my ass would have blown out day 1 from the tinned food
ArmondoSC: all that vodka
LukeIsStrange: it would be a fucking run away and sneak out of this situation
LukeIsStrange: and most likely die
JadedCynic: oh yeah, no one who's survived a GSW in the Zone with battlefield treatment is going to not be having a horrible fever a few days later
richard_ermen: Im agine the brass balls needed to sit in this situation going "Of course I'm going to fight him, now that I'm left all alone."
phoenixletmeuseadashd:
@richard_ermen Yeah. 3v1, they already drew down too. hard to get out of that without getting hit. But in video games it's fine becayse HP
Anubis169: (dies)
DigitalSeahorse:
richard_ermen:
@phoenixletmeuseadashd Well, good for us I guess
Anubis169: conversely... can you imagine if getting better was like it was in games?
Anubis169: "Drink this" --> leg reattaches
TXC2: surely it's too early in game for slenade grunching ?
richard_ermen: @Anubis169 Yeah but on the other hand: Hear a ding everytime you constantly improve a skill.
richard_ermen: And you instantly know its "actually" for reals better
Genie_M: First time playing TTRPG everyone asks "I wonder how much HP do I have IRL?" - well you don't.
terrence_too: I picked up Roadside Picnic on your suggestion, Alex. It's quite good. Thanks for the recommendation.
Anubis169: I want that door lock for my garage
TXC2: "ROOM SERVICE!"
Anubis169: it's a real good book!
Thisbymaster: slide in blade and push
richard_ermen: @TXC2 WorstPremadeEver?
JadedCynic: @richard_ermen I don't think there's that much conscious consideration being made in that circumstance; just fight-or-flight instinct with so much adrenaline pumping
Mathanwitch: yellow lock icon means there’s destructible lock. probably on the other side
terrence_too: Roadside Picnic is _so_ effective at horror, despite me knowing about the zone already.
JadedCynic: @Genie_M one.
TXC2: underbarrle shotgun called the keymaster
richard_ermen: @JadedCynic A terryfing thought from the ouside, to be honest.
TheDevil_Risen: can't find any info on the 40mm launcher in this game
Anubis169: Sossidge
TXC2: I've also learned you have to angle the shotgun in the right way or you take ALLLLLL the recoil
richard_ermen: Yum yum, good ol uncooled sausages that rolled in the dirt.
LukeIsStrange: @Genie_M Same when compared in magic terms. You will have to do so much work to just be a 2/2 and you most people are 0/1
Genie_M: Good thing you got rid of that pile of booze
TXC2: the m230
Thisbymaster: I love the physics of all the items popping into existence once opened
JadedCynic:
@richard_ermen ...'uncooled'? You don't HAVE to refrigerate cured meat...that's WHY we cure it.
TheAwkes: One of the little weirdsies of this game is that a stash doesn't clean from your hud until you've emptied it, so it ends up with a little gameplay loop of opening, grabbing, closing, reopening and dumping the low-value items back in.
TXC2: the Vietnam war also had a pump action 40mm grenade launcher
Anubis169: does the vodka still reduce rads when you get crapped up?
TXC2: Anubis169 yes
SidewinderSky: I think you can click and drag to prompt the slider for choosing drop quantity
Anubis169: the brandy
richard_ermen: @JadedCynic Ah. I did not know that was, what cured meat meant. Thank you =)
Magnifisquatch: hyello stalker
JadedCynic: i mean, before the whole thing of 'preservatives' - we dried and cured meat to remove moisture - which is what bacteria grows in (that's also why we often cook meat, or salt it, etc.)
PsychoI3oy: energy drinks too?
DoodlestheGreat: That safe is a party and a half.
ProcyonFlynn: It does protect you a bit from frost-bite though, right?
TXC2: hello Magnifisquatch welcome
JadedCynic: moisture
xVoxtric: protects against dying sober for sure
Thisbymaster: stops you from panicing?
Genie_M: It protects you from feeling freezing
ProcyonFlynn: The increased circulation (which is also what cools you) I thought did help. Not sure where I heard that though. hmm
richard_ermen: @xVoxtric That's definitely a thing for many I guess.
TheAwkes: It warms up extremities at the expense of lowering core temperature. Won't save a life, but might save a digit.
Anubis169: ohh, it's for battling potential frostbite
Anubis169: ?
JadedCynic: @ProcyonFlynn psychological - it might give you a short-term burst of energy from dilating your blood vessels, but in the long-term it WILL kill you faster by spreading your core's heat out to your extremities
Anubis169 scribbles a note to check out that later
JadedCynic: depending on the situation, it might help...but in other situations it'll hurt your survival
Genie_M: 100 stimpaks
DoodlestheGreat: Then you'll run into two bloodsuckers and there goes all your med kits.
JadedCynic: if you drink it and then use that boost of 'warmth' to get to better shelter, that's the intended purpose, really
ProcyonFlynn: Good to know, learned a lot of junk info as a kid from family that just "it's common sense" [serious thank you]
TXC2: !break
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JadedCynic:
brb; time for eats
Genie_M: !next
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Anubis169:
time
richard_ermen: This stalk aint gonna er itself!
LordZarano: I guess if you are in the process of being rescued and no longer at risk of actually dying then it's good to save your toes
Juliamon: "Don't go away now!" [Twitch immediately starts crashing repeatedly]
TXC2: hmm, now I'm being hit with repeated error 2000
richard_ermen: Same here. Is Twitch currently having a phase?
schordash: mine was too but it’s figured itself out here at least (for now)
flikerz1: Reloaded and it looks ok?
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Juliamon: seems to have stablilized now, yeah
omnilord: Oh, it's Twitch, not my local network 😅
TheAwkes: Twitch Twitching Twitchly
flikerz1: Down the network.
vinewood_og: Yeah I was about to hack the Gibson over here....
DoodlestheGreat: Looks like we need to call it after Alex gets back.
TXC2: up the union
DigitalSeahorse: anyone here ever play the DuckTales adventure/story packs for Minecraft?
TXC2: and we're back
Juliamon: oofa
TXC2: oh no!
flikerz1: Nooo!
TheAinMAP:
Genie_M: Aww get better
DigitalSeahorse: uhoh
ButButTheJesus:
aw
DigitalSeahorse: I hope Graham is okay
Cptasparagus: the north remembers
DigitalSeahorse: and the other Starks
vinewood_og:
Pepperidge farms remembers.... Get well Stark household! 
TheAwkes: Constant backing up and putting buckshot into the blur works okay.
Anubis169:
Tea 
DigitalSeahorse: oof
Juliamon: It sucks but it's very clever
DigitalSeahorse: didn't see that coming
DigitalSeahorse: blyeen?
DigitalSeahorse: blyat!
Cptasparagus: crap
TheAwkes: Like shucks?
Juliamon: ah, so like "aw hamburgers"
DoodlestheGreat: Blini
dumbo3k: Awww, Phooey
DigitalSeahorse: shucks bleenies
Mathanwitch: yes, my grandma still scolded me for saying it when I was 10
Genie_M: Blini are pancake like things yes
TXC2: ripe
LordZarano: Oh crumbs
TXC2: I'll take that RPK on the self please
TheAwkes: The answer to both of those questions are the same.
Genie_M: You live here now
Genie_M: Did your stash teleport over I wonder
TheAwkes: Guides are indeed fast travel.
TXC2:
hmmm, I wonder if that guy is bandit
Anubis169: oh boy
DigitalSeahorse:
TXC2: ALEX Resist!
Chaotically_Random: DO IT
Cptasparagus: do it
ButButTheJesus: DEW EET
TheAwkes: It's a bad gun, but it's fun.
QuixoticScrivener: it’s a waste of ammo
Anubis169:
TXC2: JadedCynic not too much, we walked up to this base
Juliamon: JadedCynic Just that the Magic stream got cancelled due to illness
vinewood_og: Spray n Pray less fun in survival games. Shame really.
JadedCynic:
@Juliamon ah - thanks for catching me up, and best wishes to the Starks
DigitalSeahorse:
Mathanwitch: повертайся з хабарчиком! (povertaysya z habarchykom) - return with good loot
DigitalSeahorse:
TheAwkes: You'll find them on bandits soon if you don't want to spend on it... oops too late.
ArmondoSC: shared stashes
TXC2: TELEPORTING STASH lets go!
Genie_M: Magic stash!
JadedCynic: YAY
Juliamon: love a good shared stash
Anubis169:
ooo, whereabouts are you from Mathanwitch?
JadedCynic: rule of 'convenience' over rule of 'reality'
TXC2: it's pure QoL
TXC2: and it's good
DigitalSeahorse: being able to stash things
ArmondoSC: oh wow
DoodlestheGreat: Your footlocker is an anomaly!
ButButTheJesus: yaaassss
ArmondoSC: i didnt realize its a pistol
TheDangerWaffle: woooooowwwwww
TXC2:
this is dangerous
DigitalSeahorse:
Mazrae: But how fast will that clip run out when you need it
JadedCynic: wait, did you put that suppressor on it, too?
TXC2: JadedCynic sure did
TheAwkes: @Mazrae Nothing in the game eats bullets as fast as the M10.
ArmondoSC: oh yeah
Mathanwitch: if you unscrew all stuff from skif pistol it weighs 0 grams
Cptasparagus: ah the garbage guy
JadedCynic: @Mazrae if we're still alive after the engagement, long enough
Anubis169: ohh the guy on the shallow water
ArmondoSC: with the heav ammo
JadedCynic: time for the sewing machine!
ButButTheJesus: I'll always think of The Matrix with Morpheus shooting while holding it sideways
JadedCynic:
when the action makes more noise than the propellant
JadedCynic: fred durst, yeah
ArmondoSC: fred durst?
JadedCynic: it's the chin beard
JadedCynic: all he needs is a red b'ball cap
TXC2:
I didn't like ghost in the shell when I watched it, but I saw it like 10 years ago, so it was like being the Wight bros plane after being on 747s most of my life
ArmondoSC: man, that stalker will do anything for the nookie
Anubis169:
dammit
ButButTheJesus: like a chump ayyy
JadedCynic: "I went into the zone for the nookie!"
vinewood_og: Breaks Stuff joke, evergreen
DaxStrife: I wouldn't sleep with Fred Durst watching me.
Genie_M: Half
ArmondoSC: i think its just half alex
ArmondoSC:
"suggested amount"
vinewood_og: If he offers you any hot dog flavored water, DECLINE.
TXC2: "I'm more of a problem eliminator"
TheAwkes: Readiness is swap speed.
JadedCynic:
@DaxStrife yeah, follow a streamer that was big on limp bizkit and Fred; found out recently what Durst's politics are, and he's buys gutting his overlay and soundboard, etc - a clip of that might make him choucle: "fred durst is so hard up, he went into the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone to scavenge"
DigitalSeahorse: that table is how you know they're with the resistance
DigitalSeahorse: the resistors
vinewood_og: To be fair his music may still be popular there
JadedCynic: are they 300ohm?
DigitalSeahorse: I donno
TXC2: it's funny how any part of the night is the middle
JadedCynic:
I mean, his MUSIC is still popular in lotsa places, but "never idolize people, and if you do, never look too close"
JadedCynic: l'chaim!
McBannin: Hey Alex, just wanted to tell you that you're the reason I've been watching LLR for over a decade. Your humor and wit has made me laugh for so many years. I will never forget you losing it at Prayer Warriors
Mathanwitch: I'm pretty sure that dude didn't mean horilka, but these two don't know better
spo8n: 7 teeth
TheDevil_Risen:
Mathanwitch: there was a song about Canada on the radio!
TXC2: so are we putting vodka in stashes or retrieving?
Juliamon: putting
Juliamon: and no taking anything
TXC2: Juliamon ok, thanks
Anubis169: maaaaaaybe
DigitalSeahorse: I like this music
JadedCynic:
Mathanwitch: @TXC2 they ask you to PUT horilka INTO the stash and just believed your word that you won't steal from them xD
JadedCynic: frog!
TheAinMAP:
DigitalSeahorse: and back to the spoopy atmosphere sounds
Anubis169: LOL
TXC2: Mathanwitch I guess when they check later and it's missing we're suspect number 1
Anubis169:
TheAwkes: You can just be a dick to the guy
DigitalSeahorse: you drown you gun?
Mathanwitch: keep it!
dumbo3k: Drowned was the name of the gun
JadedCynic: yeah, 'Drowned' is the name of the gun
JadedCynic: oh dear
TXC2: hopefully that will pay of later
Mathanwitch: there was a quick reload mag on it. you'll find it later tho
Anubis169: no this is spray and pray fire only
ArmondoSC: trigger control is important
TheAwkes: The M10 makes up for talent with wishful thinking.
TheDevil_Risen:
its a MAC10, it does what's written on the tin
DigitalSeahorse: probably not a good idea to name and worship your guns
JadedCynic:
maybe, but then BEING IN HERE is def not a good idea either
Anubis169: i mean people name their pool cues
JadedCynic:
bit of a biased sample group we're checking
Juliamon: Humans love to name things
TXC2: to name something is to have power over it
JadedCynic: humans anthropomorphize
kynelwynn: "Cardinal Glick's the kind of a**hole who'd bless his driver for a better game"
Anubis169: it's dippy the crane
Strebenherz: @kynelwynn "The buddy christ!"
Anubis169: chair says no
TXC2: CHAIR!
DigitalSeahorse: Anubis169 I knew I was missing something when I played league 8ball
JadedCynic: @kynelwynn *askewniverse fist bump*
Cptasparagus: I Was just watching a video last night breaking down common crane failure modes
DigitalSeahorse: amature*
TXC2:
Cptasparagus was chair one of them?
TheDevil_Risen:
high security 
Cptasparagus:
@TXC2 no, mostly sinking foundations which it looks like that one was suffering from 
TXC2: Cptasparagus ooh yikes
JadedCynic:
@Cptasparagus everyone forgets what Archimedes said: "give me a long enough lever AND A STURDY PLACE TO STAND and I will move the world"
DigitalSeahorse: @PoolCue I dub thee Sticky
Mathanwitch: btw, did you know that the actor who plays Scar recently streamed Stalker on twitch?
Anubis169: i love that you'll be walking along and suddenly one of the containers is hot as hell on the geiger counter
TXC2: come on down to Dave's fake ladders and snake bladders
Cptasparagus: @JadedCynic yeah it seems pretty common to forget that the ground changes when it rains a lot
kynelwynn: fake ladders and lake adders
JadedCynic:
@Mathanwitch jeremy irons?
Anubis169: argh! flesh!
TXC2:
JadedCynic thank you, I also thought that
Strebenherz:
They look like pigs mixed with headcrabs 
Strebenherz: That's horrifying
DigitalSeahorse:
"Why is there just one of ?"
kynelwynn: headpigs
richard_ermen: Man, we've basically found their nest.
TheDevil_Risen: pig crabs
JadedCynic: they WERE pigs...orginally
TheDevil_Risen:
or headpigs works
Mathanwitch: @JadedCynic no, Ukrainian voice and motion capture actor Oleksandr Laptiy
RockPusher: headpigs or pigcrabs, either way they seem like bad news
Strebenherz: Also I think I missed it had to step away. I heard you excited/laugh about the shop, what was purchase?
Cptasparagus: honestly if you use one on the bloodsucker? (the guys with basically thermoptics), you ARE recreating ghost in the shell
DigitalSeahorse: none more in boxes?
sephchan: This is helping me forget how cold it is waiting for the bus
Strebenherz: @sephchan Hope your bus comes soon
DigitalSeahorse: well that's just crate!
TheAwkes: That happens when you drop the whole stack from your inventory like you did at the shop. It autofills the quick slots from your inventory, or when you pick up something enw.
sephchan: @Strebenherz another 6ish minutes in the snow!
Anubis169: oh shit, a working radio
vinewood_og: you can, the problem is when they start talking back
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TXC2:
did...did we try the radio BEFORE turning it on, and then not try it after?
TheDevil_Risen: correct
richard_ermen: I wonder how much Stalker2 looked to Escape from Tarkov in some changes from the oroginal.
richard_ermen: *original
JadedCynic:
@Anubis169 yeah, we've been finding them intermittently - "always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
TXC2: Stalker 2 might have been in dev before Tarkov
Sorator13: @JadedCynic always the statue, never the pigeon?
Anubis169: Please form an orderly queue
Juliamon: love a good queue
TXC2: clear the corners rookies
JadedCynic:
GAMERS DONT LOOK UP
dumbo3k: Hahahaha camping in a corner, on a chair, feels just like Counter Strike
kynelwynn: The headpigs were keeping them at bay
ghyllnox: Yeah no red bar at the top
TXC2: "here, talk to god" that is a heck of a pre-mortem one liner Alex
JadedCynic:
so ANYWAY, as you were saying...
DigitalSeahorse: they almost queue like they're British
Anubis169:
somebody jumps a queue over here it pisses off the whole building
Juliamon:
I keep forgetting about this stupid wrap 
sephchan: Bus get!
Anubis169: lol
TXC2: "Periwinkle blue!"
richard_ermen: Suddenly Anomaly
JadedCynic: if we're LUCKY it was just lightning, but I think...
Anubis169: CAn't answer right now I'm on too much fire...
DigitalSeahorse:
Sorator13: uh oh
Anubis169:
JadedCynic: no, we're not lucky
TheAinMAP:
Mathanwitch: flash anomaly!
TheAwkes: The most annoying anomaly in the game. Hate it. So. Much.
Mathanwitch: have fun
JadedCynic: controller?
Juliamon: editor's note: it was not lightning
DigitalSeahorse:
RockPusher:
JadedCynic: oh, dang, it's worse
richard_ermen: Deadly is what it is.
JadedCynic: because you can eventually kill a controller...
TXC2:
oh goddie, it's a living flashbang grenade
Anubis169: whatever it is, it's effective
TXC2: (goodie
DigitalSeahorse:
JadedCynic:
mmmm, blue cheese
Mathanwitch: this anomaly is the most annoying in the whole game imho
ghyllnox: Speeder
RockPusher: I've never had the impression that the Stalker world is fair or just
JadedCynic: "Surprise, surprise - I need a keycard." - Duke Nukem
sephchan: This stream is on fire - no, wait, that's just Alex getting set alight
Sorator13: Sparky!
control_rig: Death, I think
Anubis169: So on a movie night we were watching Lock Stock, and saw Vinnie Jones shutting somebody's head in a car door... then we followed it up with Snatch, and lo and behold, Vinnie Jones shutting someone's head in a car door
TXC2: danger is what
silverxX59: lookd anomolyous
Bruceski: "What is that? Better shoot it."
richard_ermen: @Anubis169 Well, the man knows a role when he sees it.
JadedCynic:
@Anubis169 yeah, guy ritchie has only one trick
ghyllnox: Oh is that the scanner
TheDangerWaffle: huh
HorusFive: You wouldn't think something that unstable would be that hard to break
ghyllnox: Orange hud, that's... fun
TheAwkes: It didn't occur to me to turn that off when I came through here. Turns out it's better to, but not necessary to make it through an complete the mission.
Bruceski: If we comprehended them, we wouldn't need to fuck around.
dumbo3k: Oh, there was a keycard readter by that locked door upstairs
Mangledpixel: what about fing around with horses you don't understand?
JadedCynic: @HorusFive yeah, but just because it's intermittent doesn't mean it's *unstable*...
TXC2: but if we don't fuck around how will ever find out?
TheDevil_Risen: loll
Anubis169: hehehehe
TheDevil_Risen: nice placement
DoodlestheGreat: We are adults.
JadedCynic:
Anubis169: only by a couple of years
richard_ermen: Not much.
JadedCynic:
*relaxes at "90%"*
richard_ermen: I remember the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
kynelwynn: Likely in the top %10 here
Anubis169: YES!!!
Anubis169: jack, POT
control_rig:
DaxStrife: Also in the 10%.
TheDevil_Risen: Lets Go
JadedCynic: I remember the fall of saigon
ArmondoSC: you just keep winning
TheDevil_Risen: Hi Cap mag!
TheDangerWaffle: lmao
Cptasparagus: Grandpa Alex will you tell us more stories about The War?
DoodlestheGreat: I'm 61. I r an adult. I think.
TheDangerWaffle: XD
Genie_M: I'm older than all of LRR, except maybe Been, depending on which month he was born in
calculated_uncertainties: Several of us are likely within a reasonable tolerance.
TheAwkes:
Extended mag feels like a reward, is really a trap.
TXC2: "dear diary: JACKPOT"
Genie_M: Beej
schordash:
dang gotta head out (also looool) thx for the stream! and much 
DigitalSeahorse: we're only as old as we feel
TXC2: so long schordash stay safe
vinewood_og: can we please find another name for Bluesky posts than skeets? I'm begging everyone in the name Lil Jon
Anubis169:
The thing about being older, you get to decide what 'being older' is in itself
TheDangerWaffle: A treasure
QuixoticScrivener: @vinewood_og I wish to unlearn this.
JadedCynic:
bless him
richard_ermen:
A great quote I love to remember is "All man are forever, in their hearts, boys. And boys are never too old for toys." We're all 10 here, in a way
Anubis169: hello gravity trap
TXC2: Me: "I'm still young!" my knees: "the fuck you are."
JadedCynic: @vinewood_og too late; it's done; can't be undone
Sorator13:
@TXC2 "you may be, but we aren't" 
JadedCynic: @richard_ermen 👍
Anubis169: what in the world...
DigitalSeahorse:
Anubis169:
dumbo3k: I assume you are triggering it, by walking into it xD
JadedCynic: yeah, that's probably part of what makes it so deadly
richard_ermen: You know what would make those Flashbangs better? If their SFX would go "FLAAAASH - AHHAAAA"
Mathanwitch: it predicts your direction and appears in front of you. zigzagging works best but still annoying af
Genie_M: You need a better Ping machine
TXC2: "what if a flashbang gave instant tenitus ?"
DigitalSeahorse: a Bull Bully
JadedCynic: is that hercules taming the Erymanthian Boar?
Anubis169: I've... never heard that before. Is that an internet thing?
JadedCynic: *makes note*
DigitalSeahorse: never heard anyone say that
Cptasparagus: @Anubis169 trader lingo
Sorator13: @Anubis169 "bullish" as in the stock market term, "bull market"
Anubis169: ohh
JadedCynic: @Anubis169 old stock market term - bull market vs bear market
vinewood_og: Day trader corpo salaryman speak. Pass.
Genie_M: I don't think I ever used "bullish" in a sentence
TXC2:
I think they only time you can say it is "I'm bullish on Teddy Roosevelt"
sephchan: Oh that's gonna work out well
Cptasparagus: @TXC2 im bullish on minotaurs
TXC2:
Cptasparagus
kynelwynn: I wanted to say, "I'm bullish on cows" which for some reason sparked in my memory "Tucows" y'all remember that?
QuixoticScrivener: but my alcoholism
Anubis169: Tonight's dinner is Chicken Ding. It's chicken, you put it in the microwave until it goes ding.
TheDangerWaffle: lmao
vinewood_og: half reasonable amyway
JadedCynic: @vinewood_og oh it's much older than even the internet but yeah it got carried along to Them
Genie_M: A few years ago tucows existed
Sorator13: @Anubis169 ...why must you attack my lunch in this way
Anubis169: It knows what it did.
Sorator13:
it's good though
TXC2:
I think Graham used "Bullish" once to describe how I felt about Google play during a checkpoint plus
JadedCynic:
@kynelwynn 
nostalgia... remember happypuppy?
control_rig: Oh is the Aetherdrift thingy still on? (Totally not complaining about more Stalker2!)
DoodlestheGreat: Better too much ammo than too little.
Anubis169:
'course it's good. That's why it's my dinner
Mathanwitch: повертайся з хабарчиком! ^_^ my favorite vendor
DigitalSeahorse: I'm duckish on bullquackery
TheDangerWaffle: *sweats nervously
TXC2: control_rig Graham is sick, so stream is delayed at best, likely cancelled
QuixoticScrivener: @control_rig I didn’t want to be the one to bring it up.
sephchan: Day traders be hiding in plain sight. I went on a date with someone who seemed perfectly normal until I asked what he did, and then with that ice broken, oh god did the neo liberalism flow
Mangledpixel: facehugger mask? does it use acid for coolant?
vinewood_og: Oh yeah "bull market" and "bear market" has been around all the way back to paper only trading days. Now it just feels like crypto bro adjacent. Double pass.
control_rig:
Aw, hope G feels better soon!
JadedCynic:
@DigitalSeahorse oh so you're bearish
DigitalSeahorse: quack!
vinewood_og: @sepchan I am so sorry
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Anubis169:
happy 19 Narcogen
QuixoticScrivener: @mangledpixel First one, then the other.
JadedCynic:
@vinewood_og yeah, old-school traders are ones to avoid too, anyway
sephchan: @vinewood_og online dating is a gamble
Sorator13: oof
sephchan: Though I did think I was pretty obvious about my politics...
Xed_Regulus:
Not always! I met my partner on Tinder!
BusTed:
TXC2: dating sites are designed to not work so that you keep using them
HorusFive: @TXC2 Preach
Genie_M: Oh a Kama3 truck
silverxX59: have we had any obscure military stories
Mathanwitch: we dumped Twitter, we're on Bluesky now hehe
vinewood_og: @sepchan I just stay in same very mid relationship to avoid online dating. It's a minefield, folks.
JadedCynic: I remember making a meme like over a decade ago: "ONLINE DATING - the odds are good, but the goods are odd" (picture of a girl hugging someone in a gorillia costume)
JadedCynic: placeholder - to keep someone else from taking your name,
Anubis169: It's not you Alex. A group of us decompiled a Tinder leak ages ago.. shit's rigged as all hell and the amount of manipulation is egregious
vinewood_og: I knew it!
richard_ermen: Being single I suffer OD, but gods is it a shitshow these days, regardless of service you're using.
DigitalSeahorse: uh
richard_ermen: @Anubis169 Out of curiosity, do you have any links or reports one can look at?
Anubis169: ooo flamey jets!
Strebenherz: why is the ground breathing fire
DaxStrife: Yup. Remember: you don't have to share everything online/on stream.
Strebenherz: #justanomalythings?
TheDangerWaffle:
dumbo3k: @Strebenherz Mother Earth has some indigestion
richard_ermen: Fire Salamanders ofc.
DaxStrife:
But thank you for opening up anyway. 
Anubis169: richard_ermen: our shiz was on github, but it disappeared during the great microsoft takeover
Strebenherz: I'm sorry WHAT
JadedCynic: the only online dating I engaged in was on a USENET newsgroup back in the late 90s. For the record, we're celebrating our 26th anniversary in a month (DISLAIMER: RESULTS NOT TYPICAL)
LidofLoathing: they what
Strebenherz: an atom bomb to stop a fire
Mangledpixel: fight fire with NUKE
richard_ermen: *fist towards heavens going MICROSOOOOFT!"
ArvynEternal: Oh yea people used nukes for all sorts of applications back then
TXC2: you laugh, but it worked
Anubis169: Strebenherz: It's a legitimate usage, you just need the vacuum to last long enough, but a nuke is overkill
Strebenherz: I keep thinking i've heard the last of your crazy nuclear history stories. lolnope
HorusFive: See also- Project Orion
kynelwynn: Does being on furry MU* count as dating? <.<
thedevil_risen1: Free LCAN?
JadedCynic:
now every handgun drop is gonna be a "m10 gordon"
vinewood_og: Makes me think of homer simspon using his gun to change tv channels or open a drink
Mathanwitch: I mean you can grenade wildfires in rimworld and it works, so...
TXC2: or a harbour in Alaska for no good reason
TXC2: the radiation was not as bad as one would think
Sorator13: "Anyway, the Soviets, not to be shown up..." is an Ominous phrase
vinewood_og: Door rusted shut? Snuke it!
Anubis169: these days if people want to use that method, they use stuff that generates a lot of force but not much fire
SidewinderSky: My favorite example of that was the NS Savannah: A prototype nuclear powered cargo/cruise ship that did neither of it's roles well, but boy was she pretty.
Anubis169: it works
Strebenherz: "a small nuclear"
TXC2: btw, the Soviet program was named Nuclear explosions for the national economy
RockPusher: blowing out oil fires with varying levels of big boom is a tried-and-true method at this stage
ArmondoSC: mmm roast flesh
TheAinMAP: It might be the wildest part in that it worked.
JadedCynic:
big enough explosion to interrupt the air source long enough
Strebenherz: PFT
Genie_M: Turns out physics works
sithenin: Are they doing the MTGA streamer event later today?
DaxStrife: Getting the urge to rewatch "The Atomic Cafe" again.
Anubis169: back in the day when civilians could get hold of fissionable material without getting arrested by EVERYONE
DigitalSeahorse: "Don't drink the water around here."
JadedCynic: @RockPusher "we have more nukes than enough conventional explosives to do the job"
Strebenherz: Aw. Hope Graham feels better soon
RockPusher:
hope G makes a speedy recovery
DigitalSeahorse: I hope it's only a cold
Anubis169: uh oh
thedevil_risen1: Did G get what Kathleen had? Awww sucks 😞 send them my well wishes
Anubis169: Blowout soon fellow stalker!
DaxStrife: It's all documentary/propaganda footage sewn together to weave a narrative. It's amazing.
sithenin:
Hope he gets better soon
ButButTheJesus: @Anubis169 when?
Anubis169:
NOW
ButButTheJesus:
JadedCynic: should we really be holding a long metal tube in a lightning storm?
TheAwkes: Even into the late game, bandages have really good koupons per kilo as a loot item.
JadedCynic:
Genie_M: Saint Elmo's flames
ButButTheJesus: its FINE
Strebenherz: Time to challenge god to a gunfight
Sorator13: It's just an umbrella... missing a few bits...
TXC2: lightning goes through air, whether you're holding metal or rubber makes no difference
RockPusher: yup
JadedCynic: @TheAwkes everybody needs bandages eventually
JadedCynic: yeah, the priest
Strebenherz: Will lightning straight up nort you, or will you live?
JadedCynic: it's raning, and miserable, but he keeps getting lucky things like a frog bumping his ball into the cup
Sorator13: is that what the kids are calling it?
ButButTheJesus: HOEL
DoodlestheGreat: That's not an ominous sign...
Anubis169: legit, I've been in my car and a lightning bolt's struck a sign 2ft to the left of my door. I went home and got into bed. Day was done.
Genie_M: Best time for geocaching
DigitalSeahorse: I'm starting to smell this weather
WetPaperSack: The name is ironic... yeah... ironic
TXC2:
it's only poison if you ingest it
Strebenherz: @Anubis169 Hells bells. Glad you were okay
RockPusher: Anubis169 that's a real brown trousers moment right there
DigitalSeahorse:
JadedCynic:
in a cave
dumbo3k: maybe you have to go IN one of the poisonous holes
Anubis169: with Tony Stark
JadedCynic: moar pigu's
ButButTheJesus: @Anubis169 I've always wondered how bad the sound would be, did it like deafen you for a bit?
TheAwkes: And once in a while you get a stash that's in a mission-gated area and don't realize it until you've been searching for far too long.
Genie_M: My closest one was in a tram car and lightning struck a tree above us and the arc grounded through the steel tramcar
dumbo3k: or maybe behind that tree
JadedCynic: score!
TXC2: sneaky!
RockPusher: !holes
LRRbot: Did somebody say holes??
DigitalSeahorse:
WetPaperSack: An hole
kynelwynn: secret tunnel!
ButButTheJesus: hole!
JadedCynic: shelter from the elements
Anubis169: ButButTheJesus: LOUD, the sound wasn't super because my window was closed, but it whited out my eyes for while
TheAwkes: A bucket.
TXC2: a krinkov?
JadedCynic: looks like a MP42?
ButButTheJesus: @Anubis169 yeesh
TXC2: oh I know
Anubis169: what do the russians call them?
JadedCynic:
this? oh just a smoothie
SidewinderSky: Think it's a knockoff CZ Skorpion?
ArmondoSC: i wonder if you can come back to these after you finish the mission and get the stuff
ThreeTwoOnePantsOff: no LRRMTG special thing today? Or is that running late and Alex is filling time until?
Sorator13: @ThreeTwoOnePantsOff G is sick, so no MTG today
Bearudite: Americans love it because it is attainable
JadedCynic: @ThreeTwoOnePantsOff nah, Graham not well
TXC2: wikipedia says the name comes from the Afghanis
quatoria: i just stepped away to watch a video of a real life plasma cannon being demonstrated
Strebenherz: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: LRRMTG (Join Graham for the Aetherdrift Streamer Event! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Wed 01:00 PM PST (25m ago).
DoodlestheGreat: AFK
Anubis169: !schedule
lightfut: Ooh kill team nice
ThreeTwoOnePantsOff: Aw, poor Graham.
kynelwynn: Ooh! Till Keam!
Strebenherz: lrrbot needs an updatin
ThreeTwoOnePantsOff: but I'm glad you're getting more time to enjoy this, Alex
quatoria: i would love to see a khyber pass plasma cannon
TXC2:
also the Soviet invasion this
TXC2: *thing
Strebenherz: never played stalker and seeing all this it looks hella worth getting into
Anubis169:
Another day in the zone
Genie_M: I recognize all those cars
JadedCynic: "I can't make a gun, but I can copy anything...."
ButButTheJesus: wut
JadedCynic: INTENSE
TXC2: insta rads there
dumbo3k: hahaha, RADS
Anubis169: are those my organs?
ArmondoSC: i guess that was the edge of the map
JadedCynic: replicas
TheAwkes: Those radiation no-no zones are no joke.
Master_Gunner: notably the Kyber Pass is one of the main routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan
dumbo3k: @Anubis169 Nope! Now they are soup!
JadedCynic: but also...well...smuggled
ghyllnox: Already got an anomaly from that poison valley?
Anubis169: everything from large ordnance to the small ones you fit in your sleeve
Anubis169: to the really freakin' weird stuff like fletchette guns
ghyllnox: Ooh pretty
TheAwkes: Crystal thorn is a good one.
JadedCynic: @Master_Gunner yeah, always was an important trade route. and then people fought over it so much, the locals just grabbed the leftovers of the battles and repaired them and made copies and sold those
Diabore: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: LRRMTG (Join Graham for the Aetherdrift Streamer Event! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Wed 01:00 PM PST (29m ago).
JadedCynic: @Diabore nope; G* sick, sadly
richard_ermen: It sounds wild
Dandinstorm12: sup Alex, chat
ButButTheJesus: "soviet stuff, american stuff, all made in TAIWAN!"
Seventy111: Is LRRMTG happening?
Genie_M: Pin a message on top of chat with message?
TXC2: hello Dandinstorm12 welcome
TXC2: Seventy111 sadly no
JadedCynic: @ButButTheJesus *parts
Juliamon: good call Genie_M
WetPaperSack: More rads here than an ACR conference.
Juliamon: No LRRMtG bonus stream today, sorry!
Dandinstorm12: bro so rad down here
Dandinstorm12: hella rad
Anubis169: Dandinstorm12: boo
Dandinstorm12: fair
Dandinstorm12: hard to argue with
Dandinstorm12: What could possibly go wrong?
WetPaperSack: Safer than not having them
HorusFive: Safer than just standing in the radiatioin- yes
Dandinstorm12: you're just jamming them into your eye
Genie_M: Feels like the glowing sea
TheAinMAP:
Anubis169: drunk so much anti-rad "I can'p pheel my pthongue"
Chaotically_Random: If you like glowing in the Dark Sure
TheAwkes: Approved for military personnel use is just as good, right?
kynelwynn: Alex: Are you going to see what that thingy you picked up does for you?
Dandinstorm12: just slam more Vodka Alex, it'll help against the rad
Genie_M: RadAway
Dandinstorm12: ooooooh
Dandinstorm12: hacks
JadedCynic: yay!
Anubis169:
TXC2:
the side effects are numbness, drowesnenous, rectal bleeding and insomnia
Strebenherz: no downsides what now?
WetPaperSack: They DO exist
Anubis169: what does the Crystal Thorn do?
Dandinstorm12: you've been spotted Alex
quatoria: alex i don't think they like you
Dandinstorm12: they're shooting at things that move I'd say
quatoria: but they sure have a lot of guns
Anubis169:
I don't think they care
JadedCynic:
@Strebenherz almost every 'artifact' has a side effect in addition to its primary effect: one will give you extra carrying capacity, but it mildly irridatiates you. The crystal thorn one, doesn't have any side effect
WetPaperSack: I don't want to alarm anyone, but there are seemingly angry men with guns over there.
sephchan: You didn't exactly offer them vodka and a hug either
Dandinstorm12: sending lead downrange, waiting for a response
Dandinstorm12: You're a fan of sending lead downrange aren't you Alex
vinewood_og: In soviet russia, truck get inside you.... nope nope nope. I'm putting myself in timeout for that one.
Dandinstorm12: oof
sephchan: Vodka is the key to friendship! Treat it like a cosy game, it'll totally work out
TXC2:
but does truck want YOU inside? hmm? did you ASK truck Kun's consent?
DaxStrife: Oooh, Three Kings. Good movie.
Dandinstorm12: whoa
Dandinstorm12: you said the name
TXC2: Alex, tempting fate like he just fucked it's wife
JadedCynic: well, live snorks at least - you found a body that might've been one (or just a dude with a mask)
Dandinstorm12: Snorks are like Joe Hendry
vinewood_og: Continuous Enthusiastic Truckscent
Dandinstorm12: Strelok, that effing guy
vinewood_og: I believe in Snork Hendry
Dandinstorm12:
sephchan: I had to look up what a snork was, I was picturing the underwater Smurfs knockoff
Dandinstorm12: holy
Dandinstorm12: rip
richard_ermen: Crash.
TheAinMAP: Uh oh
TXC2: oh dear
bluesnakefps: thats a rip
JadedCynic: welp
TheDangerWaffle: Oh okay
Juliamon: crash #2
Anubis169: too hot for process manager apparently
RainyMint: rip
Chaotically_Random: RIP
kynelwynn: Welp.
iDangero: F
richard_ermen: That storm rocked soo hard, it crashed our game.
JadedCynic: #STALKER tradition
ButButTheJesus: oop
Anubis169: please say it checkpointed
TheDangerWaffle: Better than my inDesign woaahhh
dumbo3k: Would it even be a STALKER game if there were no crashes?
DaxStrife: Graphics card took too much radiation.
JadedCynic: @dumbo3k exactly
TXC2: game is what? 3 months old, still some bugs to work out
JadedCynic: autosaves?
JadedCynic:
kynelwynn: It not perfect system
JadedCynic:
welp, NOW I do
Dandinstorm12: So Alex, how long did it take to escape Hobo mode in this game?
TheDangerWaffle:
Alex lmao
sephchan: @TheDangerWaffle InDesign knows you don't need to like it, you just have to put up with it. It makes no effort.
Dandinstorm12: Ah yes
Dandinstorm12: the final stage of Hobo mode
JadedCynic:
@Dandinstorm12 we'll let you know when it happens
iDangero: hobo+
TheAwkes: I would put you there, too.
constablecrab: You can take the hobo out of the mode, but you can't take the mode out of the hobo.
WetPaperSack: Gucci hobo mode, if you will
Anubis169: highbo mode?
JadedCynic:
aw great - fog_of_war
Dandinstorm12: where 1 encounter could send you back to the garbage
Bearudite: its like Roll's servebot super from MvC2
kynelwynn: Saved just outside the firefight, great
Anubis169: That's a good checkpoint
TXC2: the cordon IS A checkpoint....
Anubis169: touché
JadedCynic: gawd, even through a stream this is just so atmospheric...
TheAwkes:
If you still think this scoped AK is a cool gun, you're a hobo for sure.
Dandinstorm12: so the throwing bolts thing is from Roadside Picnic right?
Anubis169: yup
TheDangerWaffle: @sephchan For realsies Working memory goes brrrrt
Genie_M: Yes
Anubis169: i think it's one of the things they throw in
Dandinstorm12: uh oh
Dandinstorm12: the worst kind of anamoly
Dandinstorm12: the one you can't see
Anubis169: this whole area gives me the heebie jeebies
JadedCynic:
yeah, I almost dread the artifact indicator, now - because the anomaly beeper is a warning to help me avoid them, but that 'tonk' is a lure to draw me into danger
Dandinstorm12: who are those boys
JadedCynic: there's dudes...
Anubis169: Gotcha!
Dandinstorm12:
sephchan: @TheDangerWaffle Did you try to incorporate an IMAGE? Do you know how BIG those FILES are? How DARE YOU!
TXC2: we've had that for awhile right?
Anubis169: now how do we get out of this deathpit
ButButTheJesus: leave? no.
Dandinstorm12: or it was 4 or five of them
Anubis169: for a given value of 'road'
JadedCynic:
djinn: "leave?!? Why would you ever LEAVE?"
Dandinstorm12: you can check out any time Alex
Dandinstorm12: but you can never leave....
TXC2: yes clear sky
Anubis169: yeye, #2
JadedCynic:
@Dandinstorm12 yeah, just a group wandering around on a patrol - evidently they either never noticed us, or they saw the anomalies and said "he's not worth it"
breadisbest1: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: LRRMTG (Join Graham for the Aetherdrift Streamer Event! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Wed 01:00 PM PST (45m ago).
JadedCynic:
yeah...
Dandinstorm12: @JadedCynic yes
JadedCynic: @breadisbest1 read the pinned message
TXC2: clear sky fix something and broke most of the rest
Dandinstorm12: Alex have upi encountered "bread" yet?
Dandinstorm12: *you
Anubis169: oh cool telephone
Dandinstorm12: ohhhh
Dandinstorm12: that's cool
silverxX59: did we ever finish the stuff in the poppy fields
Juliamon: It's not mouldy, at least
DoodlestheGreat: That's how you know it's high in fiber.
Dandinstorm12: bread made partially out of wood shavings
JadedCynic: dang, now I want fresh, warm bread with a crispy crust...
Anubis169: nothing quite like a really dense loaf
Anubis169: with maybe some raisins in it
TheAwkes: "Contains calories and nutrition" is the bar we need to clear.
JadedCynic: @Dandinstorm12 only partially? LUXURY!
Invitare: if something's worth doing it's worth doing wet
Bearudite: like mental health is already questionable when you have commited to hanging out in the zone
Dandinstorm12: @JadedCynic yeah too many shavings and the texture doesn't hold together
WetPaperSack: Mmm... free toast
JadedCynic: mmmm, raisin bread, with a little butter melted on the slive.
Anubis169: oh come on!
Dandinstorm12: surely it works
JadedCynic: aw
Anubis169: oh that's interesting
Dandinstorm12:
Anubis169:
JadedCynic: dangit...GSG doing some deece writing
Anubis169: rozumim
TXC2: stay on the wagon good buddy
JadedCynic:
Anubis169:
Strebenherz: I love how much this game makes a point to characterize even the rando peeps you run into
Bearudite: stay strong brother
JadedCynic: yay - win-win
Dandinstorm12: ooof Pripyat
JadedCynic: aw, he just lit that cig
dumbo3k: Unless that hill is the Slag Heap
Anubis169: i like some missions are about leaving stuff for other travellers
Anubis169: everybody just helping each other to get by
Dandinstorm12: casual tree in the middle of the road
Dandinstorm12: check
Anubis169: wait... how?
JadedCynic: @dumbo3k I mean, they do leave piles of tailings that high...
TheAwkes: The safe approach is south through west.
WetPaperSack: Those are some TALL trucks
dumbo3k: I dunno, that tree looked like it may have been launched into the ground
Anubis169:
TXC2: life uh uh uh uh uh uh uh finds a way
Dandinstorm12: see theres another one
Dandinstorm12: totally normal
JadedCynic: alex can attest from Road Trip (I saw some when I was living in Iowa)
Dandinstorm12: to replace the sarcophogus?
TXC2: "we're stilling wearing the hats!"
Anubis169: they cooked down there
Dandinstorm12: right
TXC2: ye olde China syndrome
Dandinstorm12: uh
JadedCynic: heat from the fire made it down through, even if the radiation didn't
Dandinstorm12: laughing well drinking, impressive
DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem
TXC2: a steam explosion of the water table would have taken the whole of CNPP out, and, if the wind blew right, would have irradiated most of East Europe
Anubis169:
That's a neat little 4h
JadedCynic: well, thanks for the fun! Enjoy the break and fud!
Strebenherz:
200
TXC2: Thanks for streaming Alex
TreeVor84: Thanks Alex!
TXC2: !aptreon
Anubis169: !patrean
Dandinstorm12: cya Alex
Anubis169:
Mathanwitch: thank you for the steam!
Anubis169: !patreon
Anubis169: !alex
ButButTheJesus: thamk for strem!
DigitalSeahorse:
RockPusher:
Later Alex
Anubis169: !youtube
vinewood_og: Thanks Alex and everyone! Take care of yourselves. Someone has to!
TXC2: !events
Cptasparagus: lrrmtg tomorrow was supposed to be graham as well, I think, so that could be up in the air?
Juliamon: They have most of the day to find a replacement
TheAinMAP:
DoodlestheGreat: There;s plenty of folks who can sub in for Graham.
Anubis169:
Thanks for the subbage everybody
iDangero: thanks Alex o/
DigitalSeahorse:
TheAinMAP:
Anubis169: and thank you Alex for the strim stram!
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
Strebenherz: o/
TXC2: !discord
LRRbot:
LRR has an official Discord server! And you don't even need to be subbed or anything! You can join here: https://discord.gg/lrr
ghyllnox: Thanks for the stream o/
TXC2: !contact
LRRbot:
ALL of LRR's active and official points of contact can be found on the Master Contact List: https://lrr.cc/contact
TXC2: Goodnight everybody
DigitalSeahorse: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: LRRMTG (Join Graham for the Aetherdrift Streamer Event! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Wed 01:00 PM PST (59m ago).
Anubis169:
next is AFK
DigitalSeahorse: oops
Juliamon: that should switch over in a minute
DigitalSeahorse: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: AFK (Time to shove aside those keyboards and play some tabletop games! Game: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team) at Wed 05:00 PM PST (2:58 from now).
Gekyouryuu: No mtg streamer event?
Juliamon: nope, G's out
Gekyouryuu: Okie-doke
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