accountmadeforants: Ah, the one-two punch of debugging HP's terrible scanning software for an hour and then seeing a message that DHL supposedly handed over a package to me directly (they didn't even ring the doorbell, and none of my neighbors know where it is)
accountmadeforants: I suspect at least some of this could be averted by either of them actually paying their employees a decent wage, but what do I know
Nigouki: what is this techbro propaganda?! machines have no heart!!
Nigouki: (unless you're talking about Tima from the 2001 classic animated film Metropolis)
accountmadeforants: No, no, you got that reversed, it's techbros that have no heart
GapFiller: on the present evidence the machines are more likely to have hearts than the techbros
GapFiller:
whatif the real dystopian future computer scenario involves the robots controlling our world destroying arsenals developing morals and refusing to fire the nukes when ordered
GapFiller: !next
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GapFiller: oh right gotta sub to use the channel emotes
accountmadeforants: @GapFiller CEO: "Fire the employees, HAL!" HAL: "I'm afraid I don't feel comfortable with that, CEO"
TheAinMAP:
SnackPak_:
accountmadeforants:
GapFiller: GO! GO! GO!
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Marvoleath:
Going offline? D: 
NorthstarTex: aww I missed CTS *checks watch* a long time ago?
GapFiller: seems legit
Sethalidos: *looks at stream* uh blame James
Juliamon: no, this one's on Cori
GapFiller: Sethalidos literally!
Juliamon: she was the last one in here
GapFiller: he was the last one live!
Marvoleath: @Sethalidos he was the last to touch it
Sarah_Serinde: But he was live from home, not the office
Sethalidos:
still gonna #BlameJames 
Nigouki: #BlameJames for Pool 2
Juliamon: Shut it down, start over
GapFiller: !picnic
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SnackPak_:
accountmadeforants: I guess we were going offline after all
accountmadeforants: Can't call them liars
Sethalidos: kyou all saw NOTHING
GapFiller: eyyy the rare double refresh
phoenixletmeuseadashd: oh hey Arcen. Nice, this should be good
Juliamon: I think it was actually necessary, the shows have their own scenes so they wouldn't be able to play the right intro
NorthstarTex:
and if anyone asks, my name is Lars Gerhardt, I was never here, and
TheAinMAP:
GapFiller:
now can AI provide us w/ the comedy value of misused streaming software scenes
GapFiller: methinks not
Juliamon: oh, and this one still has a half-frame of live before the intro!
GapFiller:
hai Cori Cam
GhostValv: sup
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Hello 
GapFiller: Juliamon the live blip is the Best Bit
SnackPak_: *responds in silence*
GhostValv:
NorthstarTex:
GhostValv:
iris_of_ether:
ArdCollider: hi bob
GapFiller:
second best after the stream w/ Talking in its name having the intro bit of Aggressively Not Talking 
NorthstarTex: o/
Juliamon: aw, no voice mod
GapFiller: that wdve been a crowner yeh
NorthstarTex: reverb is fine
iris_of_ether:
ghyllnox: This will go well
Nigouki: 2025: The Year We Settle for "Fine"
Joric_Art: it's called breathing I think
SnackPak_:
GhostValv: D:
EvilBadman: some sort of terrible reverse kegels
wedge_x: engage the core!
JadedCynic:
One weird thing that works for me and my wife; if she's 'got a burp building' that she can't release, she'll pat *me* on the back, and that helps...for some reason? 
GapFiller: VIDYA GAEMS!!!1
iris_of_ether: Y'all I'm at work and you're making me want to belch
EvilBadman:
GapFiller: oooh Kusoge
iris_of_ether:
?
TehAmelie: oh hi strem
GapFiller:
...has Talking Sim ever actually done kusoge?
goombalax: Anti-game or Ante Game?
Bruceski: Like Getting Over It?
EvilBadman:
@goombalax Ante is banned
ghyllnox: Um
SnackPak_: why
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GapFiller: thats prize bullshit
ArdCollider: stack rank lab reports are just war crimes
tyrsredritehand: Forced curves are bullBus!
iris_of_ether:
JadedCynic: I mean, you kinda forget the PURPOSE of "education" - to impart information
SnackPak_: excellent question
GapFiller: if anything thats a red flag for their course
rasterscan: Professors (and some teachers) really run the risk of being high on our own supply.
rasterscan: X.X
GapFiller: the best case of that bollocks is the ones who are proud of it
ghyllnox: Yeah I had a "A's are for people who not only do the thing well, but do it perfectly and also cater to my interests"
GapFiller: as tho being bad at yr job is an achievement
Bruceski: My college's transcripts were sent with a note that "we consider an A to mean they went above and beyond". No clue if grad schools actually cared.
JadedCynic: Sure; "perfection" is impossible, so you cannot give a perfect grade - 100%, but there are PLENTY of things out there purer than 90%...so an 'A' should be entirely possible...
rasterscan: I mean, some schools are PvP. Just look at Danganronpa. >.>
EvilBadman: School is an extraction shooter, and the loot is knowledge
Nigouki: school is PvP with one player being you and the other your own brain
goombalax: Rubrics shouldn't be subjective
ArdCollider:
got my GPA dented once because my prof's girlfriend dumped him and the IRS audited him and he didn't like that I also had a nearly full-time real job and less time to work on a project that week. 
iris_of_ether: I had a grad student co-worker look down his nose at my college GPA, which ended up at a solid B, even though I came from a lab-heavy college. Really pissed me off
EvilBadman: Let's all spend a minute trying to remember our locker combo. I mean we used to know that right, like just /knew it/, and now nothing
SnackPak_:
Juliamon: I've had teachers fail me on a test question that was inherently flawed, that I answered pointing out how it was flawed, because "that wasn't the point" and like, fuck you
ThePixelSavage: because Capitalism and our biology have really done a job on us and our brains Cam
TheMerricat: Power, power corrupts. Or maybe it just shows out true selves.
TehAmelie: my whole school was like "As are for students who go out of their way and invent special projects beyond the curriculum to impress the teacher and also do them perfectly on a level that they can't ever do in more than one subject"
rasterscan: @EvilBadman I don't know that one, but I somehow still know my secondary school ID number from decades ago.
ArdCollider: I had someone give me "you would NEVER have made it at ILM coming from community college" while we both worked at *not ILM,* and she was displeased to have that pointed out.
ArdCollider: "well we're at the same place now" flies badly with that kind of person.
AriaHibiki: when I was a TA for intro to linguistics, my class average was 80% and the prof and I had to meet with the dean to justify why the marks were so high and just explain the students were able to grasp the material well??? it was really weird, they wanted all the class average to be around 60%???
Marvoleath: @AriaHibiki was it 'pay for repeats' kind of deal?/
JadedCynic: FUNNY THAT
Juliamon: *so* weird
Nigouki: that's the only proven effect of school: lifelong nightmares
ArdCollider: if we had nightmares constantly all the time about anything else it'd be PTSD but nah, right? so weird!
ghyllnox: I actually had an exam show up on my schedule for a class I didn't know I was enrolled in
iris_of_ether: "It's the end of the quarter and you never attended or dropped in time"
TehAmelie: my dreams are mainly about suddenly remembering i was supposed to go school but i forgot it for several years and now i'm behind on everything
ArdCollider: (point this out to your local teenager in high school and you will be the Cool Adult.)
ghyllnox: So I know where my nightmares come from
spurius: mine is that I am taking the final, and someone mention several projects that I have not completed
AriaHibiki: i'm not sure, the dean just advised maybe we make the material harder but like it's an intro course?? anyway i'm not in academia anymore because that happened, felt icky
JadedCynic: oh yeah; RESEARCH profs that *HAD* to do lectures...
tinaun: loll
GapFiller: YIKES
accountmadeforants: My university profs were all great (though it probably helps that I went back to university at a late age), my high school teachers not so much.
TehAmelie: there's a lot of difference between a teacher and a lecturer, as a famous writer who turned out to be a sex pest once told me
SnackPak_: amazing
wedge_x: improv baby
Juliamon: shout out to all those art teachers for failing students for producing art in a style they personally dislike
GapFiller: had a guy like that on my degree; they (very much NOT a hands on teacher) inherited a course from another lecturer who was very hands on abt the teaching side
GapFiller: not only was the style clash palpable they also visibly resented being saddled w/ us
goombalax: @Juliamon my fiance's animation program had insta-fails for anything remotely anime like
GapFiller: it was great in every sense
JadedCynic: @Juliamon "pointillism isn't a REAL art style! F"
ghyllnox: I had a communications prof advertise her energy drink line to us in class, but she was awful for other reasons
TehAmelie: ha, i had an art teacher give me some fierce criticism once for drawing an origami figure i had made because that was cheating
ghyllnox: So many wonderful memories
ArdCollider: I pretty much quit going to college my last semester and did not drop out until later, that was fun.
tyrsredritehand: "Character building"
JadedCynic:
@tyrsredritehand heh, ICWYDT 
iris_of_ether: I had to appeal the removal of a grant because I dropped down to part time after being exhausted post-cancer treatment. They would have been more fine with failing versus part time, wtf
ghyllnox: Talking about college and then going into "And now we're a rogue AI" feels fitting somehow
TheMerricat: IIRC this is the lastest game by the single dev who made the AI War games.
TehAmelie: okay so there is a The Machine. . .
JadedCynic: yeah, I've had several flights hold to wait for me due to delayed connections...
GapFiller: oooh depth of field
Cptasparagus: do we have goldbloom?
TehAmelie: who the hell ever needs DOF
Juliamon: having been the person holding up a plane departure before, they WILL wait and they WON'T be mad at you
rasterscan: @TheMerricat Is Arcen a single dev?
SquareDotCube: Cities Skylines has has tilt shift since the beginning
TheMerricat: I thought so @rasterscan
rasterscan: @TheMerricat Oh shit, only as of 2023, according to their site.
GapFiller: The League of Longboat Renegades!
rasterscan: They weren't always.
JadedCynic: @Juliamon yeah (some of the *passengers* might be unhappy, but the crew are eager to see you onboard)
LukeIsStrange: Loading Leady Run
EvilBadman: LearningLanguageRepeater
accountmadeforants: Excellent tool-tip
accountmadeforants: Though it seems a bit biased
TheMerricat: @rasterscan So looking at wikipedia they've gone from 1 to 6 back to 1.
TehAmelie: okay i am now at 160p so motion blur and depth of field do not matter (thanks twitch)
ArdCollider: dirtbag Murderbot
LukeIsStrange: I would love to hover choices in Real life
rasterscan: @TheMerricat Yeah, after the rough road of AI War 2 in particular, probably.
Juliamon: JadedCynic yeah, crew knows why you're late and they know it's not your fault
JadedCynic: @ArdCollider *fistbump in Wells-fandom*
Bruceski: My dad had a great story about that, but I think the backstory would take too long. Short version, they announced they were holding the plane for a passenger from [very prestigious company] and then a 21 year-old intern got on with everyone staring at him.
wedge_x: but murder
JadedCynic: "I have a name but it's private"
wheresdirt: Man I adore this game Arcen games are sick. Very fun wierdo sci fi.
QuixoticScrivener: option whip lash
rasterscan: Jesus Cam
accountmadeforants: Why hide the body instead of wearing her skin??
JadedCynic: "Oops - she TRIPPED."
JadedCynic: diversify your entity over multiple bodies...
SquareDotCube: all the genres!
ArdCollider: nice reactor.
JadedCynic: no lie, it kinda is
LukeIsStrange: Radical
Marvoleath: 'it's all down the stack'
Bruceski: "This is a mix of genres" is a coin toss on whether it's gonna be something great or an undirected mess
accountmadeforants: A 4X2C1B1S1R1P1G for short
EvilBadman: the indicator lining up with the subcount <chefkiss>
JadedCynic: oh - Rockwell's in the area
rasterscan: @Bruceski Early word is that it's pretty great, so fingers crossed.
rasterscan: Still, it's Arcen. Be prepared for it to be a lot too.
JadedCynic: the demo was VERY GOOD for me, but YMMV @Bruceski
raulghoulia: you were a criminal before
Aenir798: Heather~
Cptasparagus: I will not be silenced
JadedCynic: *I* won't tell Paul...or Heather...
EvilBadman: <snitch chat is typing>
JadedCynic: I tell anyone at LRR that "Cori's a criminal" and they'll just nod...your secret is safe
accountmadeforants: "Force Conversation" a fate worse than death
EvilBadman: Oh so this isn't Destiny 2 or Fallout 4.
Nigouki: strange how much tongue in cheek we have given we're not flesh
Bruceski: @JadedCynic "Well yeah, we've seen her Vita."
JadedCynic: well, more like what Halo was originally supposed to be, @Nigouki ...
JadedCynic:
I mean, it's an accurate description, as you'll see
KeytarCat: was that... 180% death??
JadedCynic:
don't apologize when you don't feel any remorse for it
rasterscan: You were, but you ran away far enough (I think)
accountmadeforants: "A dangerous move"
accountmadeforants: Just say that out loud whenever someone slaps your shoulder
Marvoleath: 574% Death sounds optimistic
JadedCynic: and, like Superhot - *everyone* takes actions when you take an action...
goombalax: Wolverines!
tyrsredritehand: Wolverines!?
accountmadeforants: Who's in the garage!
Nigouki: Remember when they remade Red Dawn about North Korea and soon enough we'll have to remake it about Russia again?
rasterscan: It said "lose syndicate tail" when you hovered over it
rasterscan: Was what was causing attacks
TheMerricat: Is the project "Lose Syndicate Tail"?
JadedCynic: "How do we know he's actually an American pilot?" "They had me outnumbered 5-to-1; I got four." "...he's american."
accountmadeforants: @Nigouki This just made me realize that a CoD about the war in Ukraine is probably only one or two decades away.
JadedCynic: you had 2 bodies, now you have 3
JadedCynic: "Humans are stupid and don't know how to control these things; I'm designed to be much more capable - I was practically made for using it."
Nigouki: Calibrate the fleshbags' fear!
JadedCynic: where do you wanna place your home?
JadedCynic:
Nigouki: fuck, we built one of those stupid pencil skyscrapers the NYC started getting
JadedCynic: oh yeh, this is so much more than it initially seems...
TheMerricat: This is how AI Wars was too.
JadedCynic: yep
accountmadeforants: Ah, so these are how oil spills are moved outside of the environment
JadedCynic: you create *networks*
Nigouki: slurry as a noun = ok. slurry as an adjective....it's what AI trained on internet posts becomes...
Marvoleath: @Nigouki what about a verb?
shushu2539:
Marvoleath: cancerization comes for all, even AI
JadedCynic: so yeah, the Nano Seed was a one-time thing. We need OTHER methods of construction...
JadedCynic:
how convenient!
JadedCynic: corrupt cops - ACAB
Nigouki: Ho ho ho, now I have a shotgun
JadedCynic: 'the cops are just another gang'
Nigouki: whoa
Nigouki: who's this beef
Cptasparagus: you can build robots in the park as long as the price of eggs goes down
JadedCynic: People: "Gee, someone seems to be cleaning up the rubbish in the park; good for them, I guess."
JadedCynic: @Nigouki that's a Combat Robot (Nickelbots are cheaper laborers; Tech bots are...well, technicians good at sci stuff and repair etc)
JadedCynic: and now that you've gotten one of something; you can reverse-engineer it to make more for your other bots
Marvoleath: "that robot is wearing a tie!" - "don't be silly, it's clearly a gentleman, they've got a tie!"
n3ther: this game seems neat
shushu2539: "i have a shotgun and an armor, now i look like a human"
JadedCynic: technician androids often end up having to 'restrain' people from continuing to damage the things they're dispatched to repair...
Telnaior:
oh hey, did not expect to see LRR on this one
JadedCynic: @shushu2539 you'd be surprised how much 'looking like you belong' gets you past security IRL
JadedCynic: YEP
Telnaior: Cam and Cori definitely the perfect choice
JadedCynic: it is SOOOO granular
niccus: arcen's games are nothing if not incredibly idiosyncratic
JadedCynic:
I've played the prologue for like three different 'storylines'
JadedCynic: *re-played
JadedCynic: all depends on your chocies
wheresdirt: It's hard to farm the prologue because most of your progression comes from one time events or narratives
JadedCynic:
oh gawd yeah
TehAmelie: Achilles' jump stab attack is so damn cool though
TehAmelie: he does it four times, i counted
wheresdirt: I love this game but I do feel the UI is pretty chaotic, with how spread out information between many submenus/widgets
JadedCynic: yeah, there's a learning curve to 'grok the UI'
phoenixletmeuseadashd: @wheresdirt Arcen's main downfall a lot of the time
n3ther: reminds me a bit of stellaris menu. Guess there's just a lot of info to show and options so they have a lot of tabs
JadedCynic: yeah, physically take notes - the action of writing it out implants it in your memory better
KeytarCat: You have to understand something to synthesize a note about it
JadedCynic:
gee, almost like your teachers had a REASON for you taking notes
wheresdirt: @phoenixletmeuseadashd eh I feel like AI war 2 has a more coherent UI than this game
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TehAmelie: indeed, my cousin who's spent like six years studying for a nursing degree has found keeping copious, handwritten notes helps her remember everything better
JadedCynic: you need the thing(s) that will help you build the wind gen
JadedCynic: you have surplus generation
JadedCynic: you might need your 'field agents' to explore and find something new to help you...
JadedCynic:
mitomanox: henlo chat
Telnaior: hello, neighbours!
JadedCynic: Passersby: "Huh - some Corp must've decided to put that building there...oh well."
JadedCynic:
(which isn't technically *wrong*; just that the 'corp' is *us* 
)
mitomanox: all the things being looked at
wheresdirt: if you want to just end your turn without using all AP you can click the lil clock in the top left of the radial menu
JadedCynic:
oh man, imagine have a job title of "ablator" - you're there to soak attacks 
JadedCynic: Homeless: "Whatever you are, you can't be WORSE than the current situation..."
wheresdirt: what is the ability bound to 5 on your hotbar?
JadedCynic:
"Some rival Corp dispatched a Combat Bot to stop our 'roust the hobos' team! We'd better withdraw and evaluate who's got us in their sights!" 
JadedCynic: yep; shut them down and take their NOT WANTED id
JadedCynic:
that's how you 'lose wanted stars'
JadedCynic:
time to recruit more!
JadedCynic:
that's the great thing about this - there's always more androids you can just take over
shushu2539: equipping and giving orders to androids reminds me of Syndicate
JadedCynic:
@shushu2539 yeah, and every unit we have has a 'Persuadetron'
JadedCynic: NickleBot (named for the price) "Roger, Roger!"
wheresdirt: @JadedCynic what's your opinion on bulk nickelbots?
JadedCynic: expendable but affordable
shushu2539:
@JadedCynic can we persuade the whole city to walk along our agents in this game too?
JadedCynic: @shushu2539 we've got limits sadly; they're changing the codes
JadedCynic: see?
Telnaior: "They want you to stay alive almost as much as you do."
Cptasparagus: "They want you to invest in their crypto side project"
niccus: what's a life
JadedCynic: the (npc) humans in this game aren't *complete* idiots...
JadedCynic:
@niccus we're kinda finding out as we go...
Marvoleath: "Life (...) is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction."
SquareDotCube: Hey Cam, they added the Super Mario 2 soundtrack to Nintendo Music today, so enjoy that
Territan: Mmmmm... elemental slurry. Sounds almost as nightmarish as my own Material...
JadedCynic: yeah, 'defending' isn't always a matter
JadedCynic: what's to stop a passing security goon from whacking it if it's right next to your tower?
JadedCynic:
ooh! LIES!
kusinohki: meows
kusinohki: belated thank you to demonfire for the gift sub. didn't see the notification until just now *pout*
JadedCynic: S.E.P. situation
kusinohki: "speaking with homeless. from: homeless" - ouch
accountmadeforants: Hit up the Play Store or F-Droid for a new Android Launcher
accountmadeforants: (Actually, do people still do that, install new launchers?)
kusinohki: is this the prequel to Detroit Become Human??
JadedCynic: ka-CHING
accountmadeforants: @kusinohki Given that this is "The Last City of Wealth", I think we're well into Blade Runner
JadedCynic: @accountmadeforants oh yeah
JadedCynic: bulk - "squads" of them
accountmadeforants: Or this is a prequel to Earthsiege
JadedCynic: you did - your network name 'Burlcom'
Cptasparagus: can you name your corporation "Shell"
SquareDotCube: "The Ethical Corporation"
JadedCynic:
@accountmadeforants depends on how you play...
Cptasparagus: Look at this Nickelbot
Telnaior: look at this bot
accountmadeforants: @JadedCynic Think of all the sci-fi our robot army could remove the -fi from!
Cptasparagus: @Telnaior same braincell
Telnaior: @Cptasparagus thief!!!
JadedCynic: ask or just "YOINK"
Fuzzra: But what about their boots and motorcycle?
JadedCynic: "speak softly...while holding a large stick"
phoenixletmeuseadashd: the tutorial messages being a helper program someone snuck in when they made the AI sentient would be a great twist
Telnaior: if it took no time at all to become familiar with this, should I be concerned?
Telnaior:
can you just ask a doctor to check if you're a non-human intelligence?
JadedCynic:
ahhh, spoil the player for choice
TheDevil_Risen: why heello there cameron and Cori!
SquareDotCube: I don't think that's what they mean by sweet gains in the gym
Marvoleath: click the [Active] in bottom left?
Marvoleath: ah
wheresdirt: what is the question?
Marvoleath: how you deactivate a bot to get a capacity for new one
Earthenone: its ok nickelbots are a dime a duo
wheresdirt: you can just build it anyways I believe
wheresdirt: then you will be given an option to delete one
satyropodobny: is this a singularity tycoon
NorthstarTex:
have you tried constructing additional pylons? 
JadedCynic: @satyropodobny kinda - 4x, city-builder, even RPG
Nigouki: is the contemplation lens just a pondering orb?
BartholemewTheKitten: "How do I talk to enemies instead of shooting them?" - a question asked by 0 gamers
Marvoleath: it's funny that the cars constantly move, but the airships only move as we pass the turn
JadedCynic: contemplate is something tech-bots are good at
satyropodobny: red wunz go faster
JadedCynic:
@BartholemewTheKitten patently false - we had two do that earlier in the stream
JadedCynic:
@Nigouki yep, but in this game something productive comes out of it
Nigouki: hey now, pondering the orb is never time wasted!
niccus: "oh i don't have bad thoughts anymore. i control spiders now"
Marvoleath: spiders help me not feel good about killing
BartholemewTheKitten: Time to be Botheed Martin?
JadedCynic: "Hey dude - smile!"
JadedCynic:
gee, handy that we just got a vacancy in our android network
satyropodobny: funny how it all works out
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BartholemewTheKitten: "Hello fellow PMC, it is I, Ray Theon"
satyropodobny: being hung up on bodies should be exclusive to bioforms, we shed them like skincells
wheresdirt: you just gotta wait a turn for the patrol to move I think. there's a security guy standing there if you zoom in
JadedCynic: @satyropodobny but having to interact with bioforms, we are held to the same standard...
NorthstarTex: wait for what?
wheresdirt: haha nice
NorthstarTex: take his face...off.
JadedCynic:
that PMC will blame the gangs for it
wheresdirt: the achievements for not murdering anyone are so hard for me, murder is so strong
Marvoleath: ah, there is also the 'scrap unit' in this view
JadedCynic: "Just....fly casual, I dunno!"
DaiPanda: "If human why person alive?"
JadedCynic: oooh, you went somewhere you shouldn't...
Nigouki: that was loud
JadedCynic: right next to a MILITARY BASE
Nigouki: wait, did we get shot or did we buy a pipe bomb without noticing?
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Nigouki: Idea for: MORE GUN
DaiPanda: I do like the mech design tbh. Black & Decker Chiq
satyropodobny: @JadedCynic bah humbug back in the 60's this could have been easily solved by throwing enough transistors on a giant heap and dousing it with some water
JadedCynic:
DON'T LOOK or anything
wheresdirt: I think it wants you to speak with some humans somewhere
wheresdirt: Maybe there are some researchers near your tower?
JadedCynic: *wanders into middle of firefight between corpos and gangers with nose deep in your maps*
satyropodobny: on unrelated note could we possibly translate our concioussnes into some sort of fungal colony
JadedCynic: don't HAVE to delete someone's non-sentient servant bot to share the po-po
JadedCynic: *shaKe
wheresdirt: I'm not certain of it but I think you may need to make a choice with the homeless people
BrowneePointz: So what is the last piece of Cyberpunk Media that you felt was SUFFICIENTLY Cyberpunk and not merely A Chrome Dystopia
satyropodobny: just like AM intended
JadedCynic: @BrowneePointz what's *your* distinction between the two? I fear our perceptions may differ?
wheresdirt: In order to progress the game I mean
JadedCynic:
Methinks the player was imprinting their desires on the in-game avatar
goombalax: and if the building project gets delayed, no worries! people are patient
BrowneePointz: Imagine a world where Philip Glass and Vangelis did a collaborative work
Fuzzra: That's New-World thinking there. I'm more one for embedding the services within the residential areas.
JadedCynic: @goombalax delay? I don't know what you mean #GAIwithUltimateAgency
Telnaior: no camping allowed - you will be converted
Marvoleath: they are going 'wolololo' and converting the homeless into homed
BrowneePointz: A portrait in 12 parts?
JadedCynic: @Marvoleath I mean...you SAY that...
jacqui_lantern234: FUCK! i enter chat and IMMEDIATELY wanna go away to watch koyaanisqatsi
SquareDotCube: It's literally free real estate
jacqui_lantern234:
anyways, hi ya nerds 
jacqui_lantern234:
wedge_x: lul
JadedCynic:
as far as impulses go; there's far worse
JadedCynic:
jacqui_lantern234: LISTEN
jacqui_lantern234:
IVE ALWAYS SAID MY MEMORY SUCKS
xantos69: Tacos?
satyropodobny: Of all machine hiveminds why did we have to be the one with ADHD
wheresdirt: that is my favourite arc in this game
wedge_x: had to step away for a bit, have we turned this joint into Gedi Prime yet?
wheresdirt: you make matrix pods and you can put drugs in them
Telnaior:
BrowneePointz: so yea Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts was the Emmy/AFI nominated documentary by Scott Hicks
JadedCynic: hey; the last time I saw so many options, it was SMAC
wheresdirt: so people will want to use them ore
Bruceski: I understand the need to build a solid foundation, but when do we pivot to our true goal of paperclips?
jacqui_lantern234:
i love how i enter chat and am IMMEDIATELY roasted..... i deserve it, mind you, but thats besides the point
TheMerricat: Have they found out about the torture vortex item in this game?
Telnaior: so so so many fun things to do~!
GapFiller: wasnt the original plan for The Matrix human brains as neural network
GapFiller: which made more sense than the human battery thing
SquareDotCube:
just give everyone MDMA, they'll be too happy to harm each other and share bad politics
wheresdirt: look in the victory conditions in top right if you wanna learn about the TORMENT NEXUS
wheresdirt: its at the very left
GapFiller: isnt that kinda implied lore: the machines dont really need humanity anymore
Mathwyn: As featured in the famous sci-fi novel "Don't Build the Torment Nexus?"
GapFiller: and infact keeping us alive isa bit of a burden
BrowneePointz: Nexus of Torment Vessels....woof
satyropodobny: Humans seem to be getting wise to our virtual reality! Quickly, add more venture capitalism!
GapFiller: "degrees of survival we are willing to accept" ect ect
iris_of_ether: OMG it's actually in there
Telnaior: cool and normal!
Quentastic: Surface detail
wheresdirt: I love that one where they fought over digital hell
GapFiller: that just sounds like Rokos Basilisk
GapFiller: except good
wheresdirt: They had a virtual private who was infinitely copied to fight in the virtual wars over virtual hells whose story was very fun
phoenixletmeuseadashd: I go away for five minutes and you're building the torment nexus
BrowneePointz: If you don't help make the Basilisk and Know if it it will kill you for not assisting in its creation
BrindleBoar: Roko's Basilisk is the idea that even a benevolent AI would eternally torture anyone who didn't directly contribute to its creation? Something like that?
Bruceski: Techbros reinventing God
GapFiller: Rokos Basilisk is just The Monster At The End of the Book for self important nerds
BrowneePointz: Games as Escapism vs Games as Art. Where does your comfort level sit? Not an easy answer
noSmokeFire: @BrindleBoar It's more complicated and stupid than that, but that's part of it
wheresdirt: Kim is too kind when you're racist to him and it feels extra horrible
satyropodobny: Rokos Basilisk is just Satan's prestige skin for 39.99 USD
xantos69: Maybe that is the lesson of the game. They are trying to show you it is actually REALLY hard to make a well functioning society where nobody suffers.
BrowneePointz: yea Ursula K LeGuin has a thing about that
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Fuzzra: I like Adrian Tchaikovsy's Octopodes.
wheresdirt: Yeah I suppose it is more so professional or thick skinned than kind which is tragic in a different way
BrowneePointz: FOUND IT!
BrowneePointz: "Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can." - Ursula K Le Guin
TehAmelie: i would submit DE adds a curious twist in that you are a cop who has literally no power
GapFiller: Scabpicking Escapism vs Hugboxing Escapism
BrowneePointz: Yea! Sorry I was agreeing with you just remembered that quote and wanted to nab it
Fuzzra: Yeah, I think of SF&F as a mechanism to recontextualise the contemporary. Testing ideas against varying backgrounds.
TehAmelie: the game gives you this impression that because you are a cop people will resist your power at any cost, but then, in Martinaise, cops have no power
wheresdirt: there is a path in this game where you force all the homeless in the city into your housing whether they want to or not through violence
gualdhar: sorry, four pillars of what?
Lord_Hosk: Four pillars of a stable society
wheresdirt: this game has my favourite big robot of all
JadedCynic: we're an outsider
JadedCynic: yeah
Telnaior: I love this game's writing so much
Telnaior: CAM
xantos69: Cam you meaning was well understood.
n3ther: just other humans
JadedCynic: @Telnaior what?? Are you saying you have NEVER reached that point?
noSmokeFire: it looks like you're trying to optimize the human experience. Have you tried murder?
xantos69: Yep, I Thanos snap all those bastards.
Fuzzra: I hate those guys!
TheAwkes: The zipper merge is *supposed* to happen at the furthest possible point, though.
TheAwkes: People who zip early are the problem!
Telnaior: what if we say one in a million people have this power
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Cptasparagus: Peter Akemann used his on a firefighting plane!
Earthenone: scanners style?
JadedCynic: One per year? January would be REALLY exciting, and then the rest of the year would be quiet...
Lord_Hosk: I've just fired mine... I hope it works
MWGNZ: is there any limits on how many drones can target the same person?
Fuzzra: @TheAwkes Depends where you are. Rules differ among countries.
TehAmelie: like in Rock Paper Scissors with Fire and Water, you can only use Fire once in your life, and it beats everything but Water, and Water beats nothing but Fire
Invitare: of course they are. The car hadn't been invented in the Victorian age
JadedCynic: @MWGNZ how many times can one person be killed
JadedCynic: OBLIVIOUS
Lord_Hosk: Preach Cameron!
Earthenone:
is weed legal?
MWGNZ: @JadedCynic lets all target the same billionaire and find out!
Sarah_Serinde: ah, Toronto traffic
JadedCynic: *Canada traffic
Sarah_Serinde: through no fault of my own!
tehThane: i think a big reason you get so many inattentive drivers is that driving is largely treated as a passive activity because of how ubiquitous it is
Lord_Hosk: Its not even that extensive!
Lord_Hosk: its minor
SquareDotCube: Maybe pedestrians should get the power to impound vehicles
JadedCynic: "I have 0 foresight, and couldn't predict the most elementary of results of my actions!" *RAEG*
JadedCynic: BINGO
n3ther: you are the traffic
n3ther: indoctrinate them early
AriaHibiki: lollll
RatherLargeToad: “But Doctor, I am traffic!”
TheDevil_Risen: loll
JadedCynic: @tehThane speaking as a professional driver, I agree with this SO MUCH - 90% of people on the roads should be PASSENGERS
JadedCynic: a bollard of JUST THE RIGHT HEIGHT
xantos69: Sometimes I wish I was a cop, but exactly and only for traffic violations. I would just sit at intersections where I know that happens and WAIT for these idiots. So I could do society the favor of taking their license away forever.
TheDevil_Risen:
with the rate at which you hurt yourself accidentally Cam
SquareDotCube: @JadedCynic fire hydrant?
Telnaior: lmaooooo
satyropodobny: are we going to peg humanity
n3ther: amazing piece of text lol
jacqui_lantern234:
CORIANDER
Marvoleath: The homeless talk reminded me about a short film I recently watch - "Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area"
wedge_x: bespoke holes
niccus: hole 2.0
SquareDotCube: wake up babe new hole just dropped
RatherLargeToad: I misread that as “Bionic Dudes”
TheAwkes: Imposed scarcity.
JadedCynic: @xantos69 I mean, I can't even count the number of fender benders I've watched play out in front of me...if I wasn't busy transporting fares for my wages, I'd spend all day being a witness...
wheresdirt: I wish, I feel you try alot to achieve post scarcity and almost always get destroyed doing so
BrowneePointz: Oh we have MORE resources! but what if we USE MORE OF THEM!
BrowneePointz: *glares at Weyland-Yutani*
JadedCynic: and we just add another lane
TheMerricat: You are the traffice.,
JadedCynic: YES.
SquareDotCube: you are the memory exception
tehThane: but if we acquire all the resources and shield the general populace from dealing with scarcity then for the people it would feel like post-scarcity and thats good enough for cyberpunk
Sarah_Serinde:
wheresdirt: I want to strangle doug ford
JadedCynic: *headdesk*
Cptasparagus: theyre doing that to the highway near me too
Telnaior: if we just add ONE MORE LANE, congestion will be solved forever!!!!!
jacqui_lantern234: YES AND I FUCKIN HATE IT
Cptasparagus: but the on/off are still single lane
Fuzzra: oof, induced demand is a hell of a drug
Sarah_Serinde: oh god
wedge_x: the 405 in Los Angeles has stopped several wildfires from spreading because it's so wide
TheDevil_Risen: LoL WUT
Sarah_Serinde: throw that man in the ocean
Bruceski: NON-uplifted war raptors
Lord_Hosk: We get one drone strike remember?
TheDevil_Risen: CAMERON!
DoodlestheGreat: YIKES.
Sarah_Serinde: (Also if you're in Ontario VOTE)
jacqui_lantern234: @Sarah_Serinde SO MUCH THIS
wheresdirt: the cons are spending so much money on useless car infrastructure in ontario it's crazy
Telnaior: say it with me: The only solution to traffic congestion is viable alternatives to driving.
Sarah_Serinde: To throw him in the ocean
TheDevil_Risen:
and this is why I watch
JadedCynic: the eternal struggle between hardware developers increasing capability and software developers exploiting that increased capability...
TheMerricat: The WE who didn't make it better wasn't US, it was our BOSSES.
BrowneePointz: I was gonna say, as an NB American who is both impoverished and disabled, my Drone Strikes would NOT be going to people suffering from momentary absentmindedness/small selfishnesses
noSmokeFire: wet shoes to own the libs
Invitare: so we need to put AI in power :3
Cptasparagus: so you want robot parliment
EvilBadman: birkenstocks plummet
niccus: it's not even going to be cool ai
SquareDotCube: maybe 95% of the people who have power don't deserve it...
BrowneePointz: Covfefe
jacqui_lantern234: MAKE WAY FOR PISS
Cptasparagus: my sister graduated from Elon University and I've never let her live it down
EvilBadman: if no one knew who did it, a giant swastika
TheMerricat: Doesn't she look tired?
SquareDotCube: "we know, and there will be consequences"
JadedCynic: @BrowneePointz oh yeah, I wouldn't use a Drone Strike, I'd use 'instant humiliation'
satyropodobny: still shocked how easy it was to convince some people that the boot on their throat was there because minorities
TheMerricat: Dr Who refernce.
Telnaior: devour themselves
JadedCynic: Death of Stalin?
Fuzzra: I thought Canadians were more about burning than graffiti when it comes to the White House?
wedge_x: the end of Reservoir Dogs
JadedCynic: @Fuzzra we're flexible
GapFiller: the pigs just put me in mind of Snatch
Fuzzra: @JadedCynic The best way.
GapFiller:
Cyberpunk Brick Top
xantos69: That is just his comfort food
niccus: well duh, he's not a *monster*
vinewood_og: His mercury levels must be off the charts. Do you know how many toxins those people were riddled with?
TheMerricat: Cow tastes good because they eat grains. Humans have to taste like trash
JadedCynic: TAR
SquareDotCube: yeah, at least the liver mostly grows back
Master_Gunner: Prions are one of my top fears. Possibly the very top.
GapFiller: TheMerricat we are what we eat as the saying goes
satyropodobny: Hannibal will become the first human with a kidney stone made entirely of microplastics
Master_Gunner: (and this is why we *compost* the rich)
vinewood_og: Are they organic farm raised cage free worms?
Juliamon:
At least the alcohol cooks off
BrowneePointz: since i generally think of the best in people, can instead of drone strikes, when someone does something stupid, have the ability to instantly VIOLENTLY shit themselves?
Nigouki: Hepatologist that rates your liver health based on Worms games titles
Lord_Hosk: @TheMerricat Cow tastes good because they only serve the 5 minute old stuff not the 3 year old stuff.
Cptasparagus: Friday..... Xfiles
JadedCynic: @BrowneePointz like I said - instant humiliation
JadedCynic: I like your idea
TheDevil_Risen:
my Ultimate guard Wandering Emperor Deck Box just got here
RatherLargeToad:
TheDevil_Risen: *Wandering Rescuer
SquareDotCube: shit a crat
Telnaior: The Ten Plagues of Neoterisk
Fuzzra: I suspect a cybercat could become more demanding than a simple cybercrat.
satyropodobny: @Nigouki is the scale based chronological order of release or on metacritic score
CaptainTeo: As soon as Doom 9 comes out, you've got this.
JadedCynic:
your budding AI found a university library
JadedCynic: and is now mulling over options
Lord_Hosk: I reject your reality and substitute the one you created for me?
TheAwkes: Little a Ernie Cline, as a treat.
TheMerricat: @Lord_Hosk I reject _my_ reality and substitute your own.
Fuzzra:
RatherLargeToad: Bear Attack!
Telnaior: I think this game is using "middle class" when it really means "working class"...
Sarah_Serinde: well where's the fun in that
iris_of_ether: Fully Functional
Fuzzra: I've only read the first. I've got to be in the right frame of mind to read his prose.
tehThane: how do you create the universe in this game
TheMerricat: Or a bidet?
Lord_Hosk: would you need to poop if you had that extra hole?
Cptasparagus: the fifth plylemnt
ShaneLeeAtk: The Quintippio
satyropodobny: why did machine god choose"everybody poops" as their sacred text
SquareDotCube: a cheese grater of blades
Marvoleath: how many plies before ppl stop folding it?
JadedCynic: gee, a diverse set of options and opportunities and possibilities...
wedge_x: Good Dragon / Bad Dragon
JadedCynic: aaaaahhhh, there it is! Cam joins me in The Need
TheDevil_Risen: woow
JadedCynic:
satyropodobny: it was me barry
n3ther: just a little overkill
JadedCynic: "this would just be a mercy"
TheDevil_Risen: The Adam Savage?
JadedCynic: (you know Adam quoted someone else with that, right?)
Telnaior: every single one?!
wheresdirt: I love I'm sure this will never backfire, my favourite lil story in the game
JadedCynic: (it's from Dr. Who - 70s )
Telnaior: the AI's gonna have so much porn in it
satyropodobny: AM's big naturals
JadedCynic:
mercano82: I rember the quote from a bad B movie called "The Dungeon Master"
n3ther: yeah it was also quoted in that movie but dr who was first
EvilBadman: it is exactly the date of that tweet
Lord_Hosk: I think that one has been done in the real world.
JadedCynic: gdi, I was gonna wait to ask for this game for my birthday next month, but I don't think I can wait...
InnuendoAndHyperbole: That liquid oxygen will get you.
tri_nitro_:
but liquid oxygen is pretty
gualdhar: now I want to know what the blue liquid is
gualdhar: oh shit
ghyllnox: I thought lox was only blue in oni, cool
iris_of_ether: Liquid oxygen no joke
wheresdirt: wowlolo
Juliamon: wololo
ghyllnox: It's super pretty
Red_Dead_Monkey: Ah but all the lovely flourine compounds that allow ANYTHING to burn, that's the true fear
eid010n: the oxygen isn’t dangerous; it’s what it will do in conjunction with everything else that you aren’t going to like
JadedCynic: Maxim #2. "A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on." but Maxim #3. "An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks EVERYBODY."
Invitare: wololo
n3ther: wololo!
Telnaior: lowkey the best thing about this game is that the dev knows what they're doing and is consistently adding more to the game every 1-2 weeks
JadedCynic: #References
iris_of_ether: Wololo
wheresdirt: I enjoy the hacking minigame in this game which is very rare
n3ther:
we're perpetually rusting 
Invitare: blood is basically rust
Cptasparagus: its also magnetic!
GapFiller: yes Cori we are ALL rusting
GapFiller: terrifying innit
iris_of_ether: Everyone Rusts
Lord_Hosk: Liquid oxygen isn't dangerous. Liquid Oxygen makes everything else dangerous
JadedCynic: Yes Cori - that's why "anti-oxidants" are such a thing
ghyllnox: It's MAGNETIC??
ghyllnox: Awesome
Fuzzra: At least it's not flourine.
JadedCynic: LOX doesn't kill people; LOX just helps ANYTHING else kill people.
Invitare: I mean, technically everything is magnetic, if you use a sufficiently powerful magnet
JadedCynic:
@Fuzzra FOOF 
SquareDotCube: O2 likes to *not* be O2
satyropodobny: Or time cops
gualdhar: they're said to just murder any AI that show sentience
Cptasparagus: @ghyllnox ive seen a few lasers that are LOX cooled and its circulated using magnets
Telnaior: thanks for stream!
Ashmantle:
GapFiller: !next
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n3ther: only 5?
Fuzzra: @JadedCynic Ah, the trick-shot of energetic chemistry
JadedCynic: thanks for delving into this wonderful game
Invitare: because you helped the homeless???
ghyllnox: You're comedians, you're allowed
GapFiller: FUCK THE MAN
JadedCynic: #BlameElon
EvilBadman: John Madden?
wheresdirt: wooo
JadedCynic: @Invitare Yes, in part.
ghyllnox: Comedy comedy comedy
ArdCollider: (if you're on mobile I made this one special for you)
TehAmelie: who wants to have a synchronzied rewatch of Gurren Lagann? :3
GapFiller: no theyre taking a break cz they only just got back from Chicago
Juliamon: because travel restrictions!
noSmokeFire: good on you
DoodlestheGreat: Wise plans.
ghyllnox: And spend a few days mixing with the dregs of humanity (affectionate)
Juliamon: LRR continues to uphold good sense with viral spread
BrowneePointz: it's subaquatic Lethal Company
BrowneePointz: and quite fun
GapFiller: Juliamon were that more people practiced such good habits eh
BrowneePointz: tarkir looks SO GOOD
RatherLargeToad: but think of all the cycling!
SquareDotCube: applying the susans
KeytarCat: deCALS, just to piss everyone off
TheAwkes: And episode 2 of some show or other that a bunch of Canadians made over the past while.
BrowneePointz: i also can't wait for Edge of Eternities just so we can hear Cam go "that's Rad" at all the art
DoodlestheGreat: That's cool, Cori.
iris_of_ether:
Oh neat
PMAvers: Man, Rhythm Cafe is just taking over the entire weekend
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GapFiller:
100 a QC anecdote not irrelevant to this streams themes: Iris (a robot): Eat My Arse! Yemisi (a human): You Dont Defecate! Eating Your Arse Would Be Perfectly Sanitary!
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
Nigouki: Thanks for the stream!
pn55: QC is still very good!
DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem
jacqui_lantern234:
thanks for the stream
pn55:
iris_of_ether: It's good
TheDevil_Risen: Have a good night all!
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baltimore_667083: ooh free candy
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