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Dreameaters: FIRST
devahn203:
Dreameaters: first person in chat, no.... first text in chat.... no this is my 2nd
DigitalSeahorse: glad to be early
SkathrZira: Hey guys
CaptainSpam: 168_02_TTDM2-MP3.mp3, y'say?
TXC2: the song of the people
TXC2: hello Dreameaters and SkathrZira welcome
SkathrZira: It sounds like my tinnitus
devahn203: Hehe
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lightfut: Contact
Anubis169 bounces in
TXC2: hi Anubis169
Anubis169: gyoooooooooood morning!
TXC2: Hello Alex
mostly_minerals: Helloooo
DigitalSeahorse: allo
TheAinMAP:
Hello
TXC2: goooooood morning Chornoblynam!
TXC2: !patreon
TXC2: !store
DigitalSeahorse: hehe
SkathrZira: Hehe
wifi12345678910: In honor of Stalker, I too, blew up a nuclear reactor (in minecraft)
Mathanwitch: yay, good morning
mostly_minerals: Alex I have Radiology News! Someone on tiktok made paint out of Yellowcake Uranium.
DigitalSeahorse: Alex's top matches the game at least in colour
TheMerricat:
Is it a poor sign of the world that when Alex said Mario Coin my mind forced itself into thinking about a Mario based Crypto coin? 
TXC2: hello Mathanwitch welcome
SkathrZira: It kinda bothers me how people in this game pronounce psi
PsychoI3oy: I seem to recall you looking for a vendor to sell stuff too; there is one inside the main building but you kept going past him
devahn203: Drink vodka brother welcome to mother Russia
jessicaengle:
TXC2: devahn203 we;re in Ukraine, which is profoundly not in Russia
SkathrZira: Why scope on sub machine gun?
RocknGrohlNerd: hello fellow stalkers
Mathanwitch:
@TXC2 this 
jessicaengle: !quote
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TXC2: SkathrZira even a 1.4x scope helps at ranges of 50m and closer
jessicaengle: Hmm.
DoodlestheGreat: Hi ho.
ArmondoSC: its like people putting a scope on a revolver, it seems weird but kinda works
TXC2: hello RocknGrohlNerd and DoodlestheGreat welcome
RocknGrohlNerd: @DoodlestheGreat Hi Doodles
devahn203:
SkathrZira: Whenever I see a scoped revolver, I get a trauma flashback to Resident Evil 3
mostly_minerals: no guns, just grenades
DoodlestheGreat: @ArmondoSC With my eyesight, it'd be mandatory.
TheMerricat: While SMG's are mostly meant for close ranges, that doesn't preclude them from being used at longer ranges where having a scope could help. It's not like their bullets just stop at 50 yards.
SkathrZira: They do in tabletop warhammer 40K
devahn203: For the Empire
TXC2:
the warp makes bullets eepy and have less range 
DoodlestheGreat: @SkathrZira Because going beyond specified range is heresy.
devahn203: Yes warhammer puns
SkathrZira: Omnissiah says range is 24 inches, do not dare question
ArmondoSC: so whats the difference between the grenades?
PsychoI3oy: one's lemon flavor, one's pineapple
SkathrZira: murican and rooskie ones
TXC2: ArmondoSC one is NATO the other Soviet
ArmondoSC: i ment mechanically in the game
ArmondoSC: i assume one does more damage or something
TheMerricat: I hear that the Warboyzs found if you dipped your ammo in red paint before firing, SMG's could go up to 100 yards.
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TXC2: time to do science!
ArmondoSC: were learning
SkathrZira: Yes but zone science, mostly involving bullat
DigitalSeahorse: that guy on the speaker is loud
Strebenherz: Oh hey, stalker strem!
devahn203:
TXC2: hello Strebenherz welcome
DigitalSeahorse: even the crickets are loud lol
SkathrZira: Most Russian guns seem to be "AK but also another thing"
Strebenherz: What was that a can of?
Strebenherz: tasty
TXC2:
SkathrZira to be fair, most US guns are AR-15 but also another thing 
Mathanwitch: yay. 2 hole condensed milk drinking. for some reason it tastes better too
DigitalSeahorse: when your investment is built on a sinkhole
Mathanwitch: taste of metal (and childhood)
SkathrZira: I have heard that air in food can enhance the taste
Shurtal: just what you wanted for your birthday, a hole in the ground!
DigitalSeahorse: or when you buy a cybertruck
SkathrZira: @DigitalSeahorse USSR in a nutshell really
drdudeman: Stalker 2 return of the restraining order
DigitalSeahorse: yup
SkathrZira: Someones crowbar collection
Mathanwitch: I used to "trick o treat" in our village in the 90s. the only thing I ever got was condensed milk.
Mathanwitch: no, it was not halloween, I was just hungry
ArmondoSC:
Strebenherz: aw
drdudeman: Ever get fruit from the dentist who lives in your street?
SkathrZira: Now I feel a bit sad
drdudeman: They gave me dental floss and apple spices
drdudeman: Slices
TXC2: they keep trying to make it a thing here in the UK
drdudeman: Let's just say i was not a happy trick or treater
DigitalSeahorse: I hear there are parts of Russia that don't trick or treat
SkathrZira: As a resident of Not North America, it's basically not a thing here
NightValien28: we have halloween parties here in south america but its just an excuse to have more parties
Strebenherz: to make what a thing txc2?
TheMerricat: It was popular enough in urban japan that they put a ban on public celebrations in some cities.
TXC2: Strebenherz Halloween, trick or treating
Invitare: that is a violation of the Geneva convention
Invitare: do not even joke about Thatcher returning from hell
Shurtal: now i gotta watch that clip of the woman saying to stake thatcher to make sure she stays dead
Strebenherz: huh, i didn't really consider/realize. so it's more a us thing?
Strebenherz: or at least not uk
TXC2: Strebenherz it's VERY much a US thing
Strebenherz: ahh ok
TheMerricat: "Named from Donnybrook Fair, a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 until the middle of the 19th century. The town of Donnybrook comes from the Irish Domhnach Broc (“The Church of Saint Broc”)."
ScrapyardGhostTrain: The UK has much more important things to do at the beginning of November: dream about burning Parliament.
Shurtal: and i believe it's making inroads in Australia?
Anubis169: we have firework night
SkathrZira: I know of one small community, not even a town, in South Africa that do Trick or Treating
wifi12345678910: Do people outside north america have s'mores?
Strebenherz:
@ScrapyardGhostTrain 
Anubis169: no because we don't have graham crackers
Critterbot: Around here shops keep trying to sell Halloween themed costumes, toys and candy and they try to encourage kids to go trick or treating, but I don't think many does, which is a good thing imo.
SkathrZira: I only know what a s'more is because of Toy Story 2
SkathrZira: or was it 3
Invitare: I don't even know what a Graham Cracker is. Is it anything like a Jacobs Cream Cracker?
DigitalSeahorse: xD
Anubis169: roasting marshmallows on a stick is sort of a thing, but we don't camp nearly enough to be able to light campfires
Strebenherz: @Invitare take a saltine. take all the salt off. now drown it in cinnamon and sugar.
Invitare: camping in the UK is probably a bit of a trial
Mathanwitch: in Ukraine it's mostly around Christmas when we're traditionally trick-o-treating. costumes, all this stuff. it's called Malanka. it was banned during soviets, but it stayed as a strong tradition in the villages
Shurtal: you woke up a platoon
JollyGee29: Ah, the A-Life system
TheAinMAP: That's many people.
Invitare: @Strebenherz got know idea what a Saltine is either
Invitare: I feel like all crackers are dry... if it's wet something's gone horribly wrong
Anubis169: Invitare: You ever been in Tesco's and seen those Honey Maid biscuits?
wifi12345678910: @Invitare It's made out of graham flour, which was invented by kinda weird religious people in the 1800s it's like a cookie but worse
Strebenherz: wet your wets and dry your drys
DigitalSeahorse: saltines go well in soup for extra body
Invitare: looks a bit like a water biscuit to me
TheMerricat: "A saltine or soda cracker is a thin, usually square, cracker, made from white flour, sometimes yeast (although many are yeast-free), and baking soda, with most varieties lightly sprinkled with coarse salt. It has perforations over its surface, as well as a distinctively dry and crisp texture."
Anubis169: sort of is
Anubis169: they're nothing like Jacob's
TheMerricat: "It is normally paired with a variety of savory toppings, including cheese (especially cream cheese), peanut butter, hummus, various spreads like pimiento cheese, as well as jam or honey. They are often crumbled into soups, stews, or chili."
Invitare: why would you have a cracker with soup...?
Juliamon: for body
wifi12345678910: @Invitare to crumble into it to thicken it a bit
SkathrZira: It's like a crouton I imagine
Anubis169: do you break it up like croutons or something?
ArmondoSC: you break them up into the soup
Invitare: but it would just... sit there. No absorbtion
TXC2: Invitare cracker instead of bread
wifi12345678910: or to dip and eat slightly wet
Invitare: US food is weird
DigitalSeahorse: it's like adding noodle to soup but breadier
Juliamon: the crackers are so dry that they do soak up some soup
TheMerricat: "In 1876, F. L. Sommer & Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, started using baking soda as a leavening agent (causing air bubbles) in its wafer-thin cracker. Initially called the Premium Soda Cracker and later "Saltines" because of the baking salt component, the invention quickly became popular and Sommer's business quadrupled within four years. The slogan, "Polly wants a cracker?" became popular in advertising and became synonymous with the brand entirely."
TXC2: cracker in soup is like dunking a biscuit in tea
Shurtal: there's a restaurant in my town that gave you those cracker packets with every side dish you ordered. Soup? Crackers. Salad? Crackers. Onion Rings? Crackers. CHERRY PIE? you best believe you're getting some crackers
LidofLoathing: I prefer oyster crackers, but they're hard to find these days
SkathrZira: I cannot dunk anything in my coffee or tea
Anubis169: Invitare: their crackers are airated, not like Jacob's which are layered
DigitalSeahorse: Premium Plus
Strebenherz: dude just wants to chill, respectable
SkathrZira: He just wants to get high
Strebenherz: I love lil moments like this i've seen in the game
Anubis169: roughly the same consistency as a hard digestive biscuit
PsychoI3oy: I mean, it's not a bad place to keep watch from, either
The_Passerby: Are we doing a Stalker?
TheMerricat: "During the Roaring 20's, saltine crackers became a national favorite, and were well known where it was founded in Missouri. It was then produced and shipped to other parts of the United States, helping it grow during the Great Depression. During this time, people needed inexpensive foods, and saltine crackers allowed for filler in foods to increase quantity or to make dishes more filling, for a low price."
SkathrZira: Moslty Stalker, some biscuit philosophy
Strebenherz: like climbing up a tower and finding an npc that's just like "dude don't rat me out for chilling up here" that's... good immersive story. it's goofy and organic
The_Passerby: How much fat loot walks has Alex gone on?
Anubis169: "He's more preservative than biscuit now..."
TXC2: The_Passerby a good few
DigitalSeahorse: baking powder biscuits are what you have with Popeye's chicken
wifi12345678910: like a recently made one? or one actually from the civil war?
BrindleBoar: I mean, it's hardtack. It's as edible now as it was then.
DoodlestheGreat: @The_Passerby Not enough.
Anubis169:
weird game idea, I would love it if your gloves degraded a little every time you did the ladder slide 
TXC2: wifi12345678910 from the civil war
DigitalSeahorse: or with soup or any meal really
The_Passerby: @DoodlestheGreat My goodness.
PsychoI3oy: not DIY hardtack like Max Miller
iris_of_ether: Noooooo
The_Passerby: Is that destruction of history?
Gaelan_Maestro: it ended badly
LidofLoathing: I think I saw that one
LidofLoathing: he's very lucky
Anubis169: pardon my french, but le fuckthat
gualdhar: Why would it taste like ammonia? Gas warfare wasn't til WW1
BrindleBoar: You know, I've never thought about it that way, but I guess cooked/prepared food is a kind of artifact.
The_Passerby: He's fermenting the next super pathogen.
TXC2: Strebenherz US civil war was 1860-1865
The_Passerby: the pathogen needs him alive.
wifi12345678910: oh god why would you eat a 150 year old piece of hard tack
The_Passerby: That makes sense, righht?
Anubis169: Oh did you see they found The Thing IRL?
Anubis169: 46,000 year old worm in the ice, it woke up today
Anubis169: still alive
TXC2:
wifi12345678910 for content
The_Passerby: Damn, well...Back4Blood mode activate
Strebenherz: @TXC2 Thank you. I heard them say Boer war which.. googling now, 1899-1902?
SkathrZira: Reminds me more of that X FIles episode
Strebenherz: either way PAST EXPIRATION PROBABLY
The_Passerby: Chat, find 3 friends and that way you can become immune
TXC2:
Strebenherz oh indeed
BrindleBoar: @Anubis169 which secretary seat did they give it
ArmondoSC: @Anubis169 concerndotjpg
SkathrZira: They found some honey in an ancient pyramid that was still edible
The_Passerby: So what is Alex doing now? Helping scientists in the Zone by the looks of things?
Anubis169: (tbh i'm more concerned with it being contaminated)
Anubis169: uhh
Anubis169: contaminated by us, before it can be analysed*
TXC2: The_Passerby we're helping the noontide faction
mostly_minerals: thats so charming
The_Passerby: What's Noontide's deal?
DigitalSeahorse: neato~!
SkathrZira: Ex Monolithians
Anubis169: SkathrZira: Yeah but honey is basically immortal
TXC2: The_Passerby they used to be the bad guys, called Monolith
Mathanwitch: the devs even trespassed into the actual zone
The_Passerby: Aren't Monolithians cultists of some sort?
wifi12345678910: @The_Passerby former monolith people who aren't brainwashed and wanna be left alone
Mathanwitch: like real stalkers
The_Passerby: SPAS12?
Anubis169: oh joy an electrical anomaly
NightValien28: nothing bad under the earth right?
Shurtal: c'mon wax monster
The_Passerby: In the year of our lord, whenever Stalker 2 is set?
NightValien28: well that is a good start
SkathrZira: They were cultists, brainwashed by something called The Wish Granter or Monolith
Juliamon: Noontide is basically "rehabbed Monolith"
The_Passerby: I see. So, they are attempting to be Not a Cult?
wifi12345678910: @The_Passerby 2010s? I think I saw somewhere
RocknGrohlNerd: cute screensaver
The_Passerby: Spas12 in 2010s? My goodness, the Zone is full of goodies.
SkathrZira: Some of them were happy to escape the monolith, some want to go back, there is a schism
The_Passerby: I wouldn't eat sausage that hangs around ball lightning.
The_Passerby: seems sus
NightValien28: noises
NightValien28: uh oh
wifi12345678910: @The_Passerby They're actually not a cult, but Faust was all like "make monolith great again" and left with some people
JollyGee29: Stalker 2 is set in 2021 I believe
Anubis169: controller?
SkathrZira: Lightning Sausage is best sausage
The_Passerby: @wifi12345678910 For real?
TXC2: me thinks a controller lives down here
RocknGrohlNerd: @Anubis169 exactly
Juliamon: it's always gotta be a damn controller
The_Passerby: That was USB compatible?
SkathrZira: All tech seems to be in the zone now
matthaus_c: shake it
DigitalSeahorse:
Anubis169: even the chair's shitting its pants
DoodlestheGreat: Too much caffene.
vingris_: Psy-chair
The_Passerby: damn, someone did upgrades in the Zone?
Mathanwitch: @anubis169 worse. Monolith beacon contraption
NightValien28: cursed chair
TheMerricat:
The zone, or the Havok engine, both are terrifying.
DigitalSeahorse: hehe
Strebenherz:
The wiggle chair
Anubis169: oh baby
The_Passerby: Alex, you can't send children to the wiggle chair, we have a King now.
PsychoI3oy: ah, there's the HL1 vibes again
RocknGrohlNerd: the chair is in full giggle mode
SkathrZira: This game is very much inspired by Half Life methinks
CaptainSpam: Not a particularly extensive underground rail system, but still.
TXC2:
why does Chornobyl have better rail then London?
LordZarano: Underground hanging monorail, how decadent
The_Passerby: Communism wins public transpo
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TheAinMAP: I had a model railroad in the basement growing up. It was a smaller scale than that though.
The_Passerby: Soviet rail system fine
wifi12345678910: @TXC2 extremely enthusiastic Metro fans
The_Passerby: So has Alex done any crimes in the Zone?
TXC2: wifi12345678910 indeed
SkathrZira: No crimes on zone, only stalker
Anubis169: so what's the red shield with the crack going through it in the loot window?
SkathrZira: It broked
The_Passerby: Whelp, I got 2 hours until an appointment and it's an hour drive. Should I hang out a bit more or get ready and leave while giving myself 30minute buffer?
Anubis169: ah ha
pyronils80: that food looked disgusting!
matthaus_c: it's the cheese tax
Juliamon: More than just looks, pyronils80
Anubis169:
The_Passerby: Put us on your phone on wifi and get ready, why not both 
The_Passerby: Damn, going to drain my phone battery. Okay Anubis.
Anubis169:
car charger
Anubis169: hehehe
Anubis169: nice can of ChromaCola
TXC2: swamps you say?
DoodlestheGreat: Bringing Monolith back sounds like a bad idea.
wifi12345678910: @Anubis169 don't place phones on me please
SkathrZira: It is a bad idea
wifi12345678910: Faust is easily the bad guy
SkathrZira: He wants power in exchange for being controlled, a faustian bargain some might say
DoodlestheGreat: Yes, you are pronouncing it correctly. And he's done some amazingly crazy stuff.
RocknGrohlNerd: *perks up* I am czech
DigitalSeahorse: feesh
wifi12345678910: the real question is who the Fuast in the game has made a deal with
DigitalSeahorse:
matthaus_c: theming is nice
SkathrZira: You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave *GUITAR SOLO*
RocknGrohlNerd:
Anubis169: "Today's flesh is Snork a la creme, enjoy your last meal"
SkathrZira: Or Lord of the RIngs even
wifi12345678910: Oh, do we know where the wish granter went? Someone earlier in the game said it was missing, but have we been told where it is?
DigitalSeahorse: no skipping stones or bolts here
matthaus_c: pseudogiant jumps out of the water
TXC2: or Linda from Psychonaughts
DigitalSeahorse: Alien!
SkathrZira: Oh no, not again
matthaus_c: they took the piggus down with them
matthaus_c: valiant effort
RocknGrohlNerd: @matthaus_c indeed
Shurtal: aw yeah, 5 fps Arena, lets gooooo
ArmondoSC: honestly if it wasnt for the mutants and radiation this would be a lovely place
Cptasparagus: Sounds quite hollow
SkathrZira: It was a lovely place, then someone desgined the RBMK reactor
DigitalSeahorse: oof
Anubis169: lol
Juliamon: cronch
DigitalSeahorse: good thing your legs broke your fall
TXC2: Pripyat was a really nice place to live, one of the most modern cities in the Soviet Union.
SkathrZira: The AZ5 was kinda like switching your weapon to safety and causing every bullet in the magazine to go off at once
The_Passerby: So, how many bolts has Alex thrown? Enough to bury the Zone?
matthaus_c: enough to get an honorary membership to Bolt Thrower
Juliamon: Literally uncountable
The_Passerby: Someone should invent the technology to count his bolts.
mostly_minerals: I mean not more bolts than any standard mechanic in a normal workday
TXC2: BEARD!
SkathrZira: Silly Ukrainians, ships go in water
Anubis169: Sir, you appear to have more than one person in your vocal chords
matthaus_c: oof, had to relocate to Shevchenko?
The_Passerby: Whelp, see yall Chat, got to go get ready for the day.
TXC2: so long The_Passerby stay safe
undecided44: Alot of crosstalk from the cutscene happening next-door
The_Passerby: Good luck Alex, hopefully you don't accidently unleash powers beyond mortal keen
matthaus_c: the only guy who made it back is called The Croaker??
Juliamon: We already killed the Shah, why not the Sultan too
Mathanwitch: @txc2 it was not a natural city though. it’s one of those industrial cities (SMT) that go ghost when the factory they are built around is closed. they have notoriously questionable rep among Ukrainians who prefer villages and agricultural friendly settlements
A_Dub888: Greetings stalkers, how fares the Zone on this day?
TXC2:
I've played CoP a dozen times and I don't think I've ever done the bandit missions in it
TXC2: hello A_Dub888 welcome
TXC2: Mathanwitch fair enough
Mathanwitch: there’s another Prypiat and it’s a ghost city despite no reactor blew up - Orbita. even more modern architecture and stuff. yet no life
SkathrZira: Welcome to Not-Rivet-City
matthaus_c: there's 3 ships
matthaus_c: Noah's place is the 3rd
matthaus_c: even smaller and shittier than this one
mostly_minerals: hey chat did y'all hear of the person who made Yellowcake (uranium) paint? Apparently buying yellowcake is easier than it should...
JadedCynic:
dangit, every time...I was napping after fighting through a rainstorm to have old people block the aisles in the store just so I could have stuff to eat.
TXC2: !break
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RocknGrohlNerd: @JadedCynic dang it, old shoppers * shakes fist*
A_Dub888: @mostly_minerals What surprised me is how NOT surprised I was reading that..... humanity was a mistake
matthaus_c: we could sell all the uranium cake paint to Anish Kapoor
mostly_minerals: @A_Dub888 I learned it from a radiology security person I follow on Tiktok, she had reported the person.
mostly_minerals: I'm amazed someone thought that just because its not the most dangerous isotope its not still radioactive and will contaminate their whole workshop.
TheAinMAP:
mostly_minerals: welcome back!
matthaus_c: mmm human flesh
Mathanwitch: oh, btw Orbita is the place they plan to build new NPP soonish. it's near Cherkasy
matthaus_c: Zaton is such a vibe
DigitalSeahorse: which was 3rd?
matthaus_c: Call of Pripyat
mostly_minerals: giraffes!
DigitalSeahorse: ah
matthaus_c: none of them are polished, but CoP is the most polished
DigitalSeahorse: I need to finish playing the ones I have
Juliamon: it has the fewest rough edges
TXC2: clear sky is...... special
A_Dub888: @TXC2 you're special
matthaus_c:
Clear Sky was my first and I love some of the things it does, but good god that faction warfare system, and that fucking ending 
mostly_minerals: waow
Anubis169: let's be honest, Clear Skies is rough. Gameplay is ok but the writing is toilets.
Juliamon: oh!
Critterbot:
The first game was good but... very janky in a lot of ways, but that is why a lot of people like it.
TXC2: A_Dub888 ah you got me
Juliamon: Just lying here, huh
Anubis169: that.... is ominous
DigitalSeahorse: there was one stream I did where I tried to bomb everyone while they were all in one room but they kept exiting too fast
DigitalSeahorse: Wimdy
Juliamon: lovely day for a thunderstorm
mostly_minerals: its fockin wimbdy
DigitalSeahorse: nice day for it
RocknGrohlNerd: @DigitalSeahorse imdeed
DigitalSeahorse: guy just standing there like he's tied to a tree
Anubis169:
ArmondoSC: "talk"
mostly_minerals: yeah beard said you couldnt just shoot em
DigitalSeahorse: talk with bullet?
TXC2:
I will talk with the language of gun
jacqui_lantern234:
hey ya heccin nerds whomst i love beyond mesure
mostly_minerals: nice jacket
TXC2: hello jacqui_lantern234 welcome
Anubis169:
'ello jacqui
sephchan: Dance monkey dance
Mathanwitch: their accent 🤌
Anubis169:
Mathanwitch: UA voice actors 
Lysander_salamander: oh no
Lysander_salamander: with buckshot?!
sephchan: I haven't seen a single apple on this game until now
Juliamon: I guess we know why
matthaus_c: these men are easily impressed
schordash:
also you got this! xD
Mathanwitch: @anubis169 oh yeah, it's a special "gangster" slang of Ukrainian
SkathrZira: Ukraine radiation apples
wifi12345678910: These guys are psychopaths
DigitalSeahorse:
BrindleBoar: yeah the TOZ would have killed all three of them. Possibly you as well.
sephchan: William Tell with buckshot
wifi12345678910: William tell with a shotgun does not seem like it would work well
Lysander_salamander: well, they really want us to dislike this guy
Anubis169: Mathanwitch: different than just street slang?
Mathanwitch: and only bandits talk like that
matthaus_c: man thinks his shit don't smell
schordash:
TXC2: SMASH THE STATE!
Mathanwitch: yeah
Anubis169:
that's a nice touch
Earthenone: !smash
Anubis169: this storm is surprisingly red for a normal one
SkathrZira: The AI is reasobly good at anomaly avoidance
Lysander_salamander: boat?
Lysander_salamander: This game needs fishing
A_Dub888: @Anubis169 In DC comics that usually means a multiversal crisis sooooo
SkathrZira: Every game needs fishing
ArmondoSC: mutated fish
BrindleBoar:
the fish here would be so rad
Anubis169: you don't even want to eat the normal food you find here
Lysander_salamander: like, attach a magnet to the line and do some scavenging
Anubis169: BrindleBoar: plus 5 pun points
Juliamon: we saw the frogs have noclip, don't even want to know what the fish have
matthaus_c: could do some trophy fishing
matthaus_c: more often than not you just catch a waterlogged boot
Anubis169: the fish here would probably have venomous bites and swim out of water, like the piranhas in Ninja Gaiden Black
DigitalSeahorse: xD
mostly_minerals: he's good
Anubis169: such is life in the zone
TXC2: Sir are you OK? you're in the door
SkathrZira: Hes the doorman
DigitalSeahorse: he's a door able
RocknGrohlNerd: that is what I call commitment to a job
SkathrZira: Physics? I got a job to do
A_Dub888: Sir? Sir, you've gotta a little- o... okay
ArmondoSC: swamp at night? thats bloodsucker country
Mathanwitch: and pigu
matthaus_c: come onnn chimera chimera chimera
TXC2: "LISTEN UP! Sultan want to speak with you!"
BrindleBoar: in the knee? surprisingly merciful
Mathanwitch: yay, Sultans'k
Anubis169: dobre dobre
SkathrZira: Lovely tapestry behind him
DigitalSeahorse: heheheheh
DigitalSeahorse:
mostly_minerals: she will beat anyones ass
matthaus_c: oh she runs the show doesn't she
mostly_minerals: love it
roseofloki: Love her sweater
Anubis169: nice double step
mostly_minerals: stairs ar ehard ok
Anubis169: I've seen student flats cleaner than this after a party
matthaus_c: I've also seen student flats dirtier than this with no party involved
Mathanwitch: she's such a ukrainian woman both looks and character. reminds me of my grandma
Anubis169: though the workshop kinda looks like the state of our gaarge
roseofloki: I was just thinking that this place looks downright cozy compared to most of the game
Anubis169: garage*
Anubis169: wait did that just say Asbestos layer?
TXC2: Anubis169 yeah, for flame resistance
A_Dub888: @Anubis169 Can't be the worst thing in the Zone
Anubis169: yeah, my dad used a sheet of it as a backing plate if he ever had to weld pipes near a wall
Anubis169: but... noooooo >_<
mostly_minerals: kinda love it when theyre a lil ugly and look like real ppl lol
roseofloki: The "Castle of Caliostro" dub even includes a throwaway line that Lupin "Should've worn an asbestos suit" while he's actively on fire
RocknGrohlNerd: so if I breathe enough asbestos, my lungs will be fireproof?
mostly_minerals: @RocknGrohlNerd Sure! Won't be able to breathe though
sephchan: @RocknGrohlNerd yes you have gleaned the correct lesson
TXC2:
RocknGrohlNerd sure, but they'll also be oxygen proof
Anubis169: RocknGrohlNerd: for the rest of your life
Anubis169: which may or may not be very long
A_Dub888: @RocknGrohlNerd I have some concerns, but I'm also not your dad so go off
Anubis169: got 2 small sheets of the stuff here that we haven't disposed of
Anubis169: dad's welding sheet, and the heat plate from the old ironing board
Anubis169: both wrapped up in newspaper and thoroughly done over with duct tape. They're in the garage
SkathrZira: If I remember correctly, the asbestos suit was invented by the same guy that made the device to make a truck look like a tank and vice versa in WW2
sephchan: @A_Dub888 "I'm not your dad" is going to be my new reason for washing my hands of there people's terrible ideas
sephchan: "Not my monkey" is out
Anubis169: thing is if ya breathe it in, it'll get ya... might be next week, might be in 60 years, but it will get ya
sephchan: "I'm not your dad" = in
RocknGrohlNerd:
minor details @mostly_minerals @TXC2 @Anubis169 @sephchan , minor details.. but thank you for humouring my silly idea
sephchan:
@RocknGrohlNerd pretty sure that's what a chat space is for 
RocknGrohlNerd:
@A_Dub888 thats the spirit
Anubis169: looks like gas
mostly_minerals: feels like an oil pipe?
SkathrZira: It's probably water
Anubis169: maybe oil?
mostly_minerals: Water is usually a lil bit thinner
sephchan: Drink it and find out
SkathrZira: Maybe they're for feeding the power plants
Critterbot: Getting hungy.
Anubis169: actually maybe not gas 'cause lightning is a thing
mostly_minerals: @SkathrZira now imagining FOOD flowing in the tubes ew
SkathrZira: <message deleted>That is SIRCAA
DoodlestheGreat: If I had to guess, you'll find out soon enough.
Anubis169: that looks too modern to be a leftover
TXC2: no spoilers chat
SkathrZira: sowwy
Anubis169:
'tis a blind playthrough
Capt_clown:
That's just Bezo's yacht
Anubis169: New Zone brand Durabeer
ArmondoSC: it makes me think of the new safe containment
RocknGrohlNerd:
@Anubis169
matthaus_c: fuckin electros
A_Dub888: @matthaus_c Call Spider-Man
mostly_minerals: the shadow of you running looks so goofy
SkathrZira: The shadow of Chornobyl?
Anubis169: we get to play the game of "Is that heat haze or are my limbs about to be ripped off?"
SkathrZira: Why not both
Anubis169: wolves vs. flesh maybe?
Gaelan_Maestro: it sounds like a bear
wifi12345678910: That's a big ship, is it actually in water?
DigitalSeahorse:
TXC2: boars, knew it
DigitalSeahorse:
b bwah!
DigitalSeahorse: those scared me
Anubis169: that combat shottie is absolutely bonkers
SkathrZira: Can you put a shell in backwards?
DigitalSeahorse: (didn't sleep enough)
matthaus_c: tell us more about the shell rim job
TXC2: flared base for safety
LordZarano: Flared base for safety
RocknGrohlNerd: @matthaus_c matthaus!
matthaus_c: eheheheh
PsychoI3oy: i think you could put it in backwards but it'd come back out of the mag and possibly jam the carrier
Anubis169:
LordZarano: @TXC2 *high five*
PsychoI3oy: may depend on the shotgun
TXC2: LordZarano high Five
Strebenherz: what happens when you do that with the yellow cartridges?
PsychoI3oy: having a 20ga shell in front of your 12 ga shell when the 12ga shell goes off is a barrel obstruction that will also explode
Marvoleath:
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TXC2: world's toughest bloodsucker here
Anubis169: Strebenherz: ever seen that cartoon gif of bugs bunny putting a cork in the front of Elmer Fudd's shotgun?
SkathrZira: I once panicked and unloaded into a Burer, it died
SkathrZira: with a saiga I mean
PsychoI3oy: Saiga 12 is my favorite case of the aforementioned "looks like AK but is ..."
Anubis169: ah here we are
matthaus_c: *takes mask off Saiga* Old Man Kalashnikov???
RocknGrohlNerd:
@matthaus_c 
Anubis169:
BrindleBoar: splorch
matthaus_c: he is soup now
Anubis169: FUCK NOOOOOOOO
Gaelan_Maestro: OH HELL NO
A_Dub888:
mostly_minerals: UM?
PsychoI3oy: he will be mist
RocknGrohlNerd: goodbay
SkathrZira: He popped
ArmondoSC: "is that gonna happen to me?"
Doom4114: Rip that dude
RocknGrohlNerd: goodbye
TXC2: my Gods! he was full of blood!
Critterbot: That guy? Fucked.
matthaus_c:
since when are the mobile labs this exciting
RocknGrohlNerd: @Critterbot he won´t be in GTA7
Anubis169: oh that's not good
Strebenherz: @anubis169 yikes thank you for the link
PsychoI3oy: i want the keyboard
ArmondoSC: did that say x-11 on it?
matthaus_c: no, that's a downgrade
TXC2: it's different
wifi12345678910: Christmas tree!
JollyGee29: That one does give numerical distance, but is generally worse than the Bear Detector
matthaus_c: everyone wants a piece of Sultan's briefcase of furry commissions
Anubis169:
could've gone better but we lived
A_Dub888: yes, charge the man with the autoshottie I can tell you're going to go places
Anubis169: nngh
SkathrZira: Not great, not terrible
Anubis169: whatever's in this briefcase had better be worth it
RocknGrohlNerd: they never stood a chance agains out morphine fulled automatic shotgun
matthaus_c: yeah if I see a guy with a highly illegal auto-SPAS I sure am not going anywhere near him
Shurtal: @Anubis169 my guess: One half eaten chocolate bar
SkathrZira: Illegal is a state of location
Gaelan_Maestro: gods above i love that shotgun
TXC2: I wonder why the option to give the briefcase is in red
Marvoleath: fails a mission?
Anubis169: ^
TXC2: Marvoleath most likely
Anubis169: mutha busser...
SkathrZira: I like the headshot sound effect
wifi12345678910: I bet it's shiny and mysterious like the briefcase in pulp fiction
DigitalSeahorse: xD
TXC2: actual troll doll
SkathrZira: It's probably a music box
SkathrZira: Same here
Anubis169: jeez all bandit weaponry is broken or on the verge of breaking
Gaelan_Maestro: someone pissed something off
SkathrZira: The zone does some weird stuff
wifi12345678910: maybe the bloodsucker got them
Anubis169:
you lucksack 
DigitalSeahorse:
matthaus_c: this anomaly ain't got nothing on our carry weight
Anubis169: Hello hatstand my old friend~~
Critterbot: Looks more like a pelican case.
SkathrZira: What happened to X 1 through 10?
wifi12345678910: mutants probably
matthaus_c: well X-1 is doing great in the X-Men
SkathrZira: Change gun to bash mode
TXC2:
well X 1 made Wolverine and X 2 made Sabertooth, from they get dumber
Critterbot:
Got cooked!
Anubis169:
we are so crapped up
SkathrZira: Seems like this Radiation stuff is dangerous
Anubis169: X-11 is just a sentient bratwurst
wifi12345678910: they already made that movie like a decade ago
Anubis169:
what are these little tiny dots on my camera lens? 
SkathrZira: A decade ago was 2015 and I am not okay with that
Anubis169: time moves
Anubis169:
and so do people
Gaelan_Maestro: @SkathrZira my joints agree with you
SkathrZira: I hate time, make it stop, when did Motley Crue become classic rock?
Anubis169: 'classic' rock is a defined static time period
Gaelan_Maestro: bout the same time auqa became classic pop
Anubis169: the kind of rock Motley Crue is probably has its own name for the era it was in
DigitalSeahorse: well now the cat in there is probably dead
SkathrZira: Iron Maiden is timeless and awesome
Anubis169:
matthaus_c: my face when learning Radiohead is dad rock now
DigitalSeahorse: but it still could be alive because the box is still not open
Thisbymaster: the old take both pills at the same time
TXC2: Motley crue is hair metal
TheDangerWaffle: get dat bread
Gaelan_Maestro: why did the water make a fizzy hiss pop when opened?
DigitalSeahorse: hehe
Anubis169: because it was b33r
TheDangerWaffle: joke's on you, i made purple
BrindleBoar: I think there's an XKCD where he grinds up both and snorts them
wifi12345678910: it's carbonated, the best kind of water
TheDangerWaffle: @BrindleBoar that was a good one
Gaelan_Maestro: @wifi12345678910 lies! vodka is the best water!
matthaus_c: mmm fizzy estrogen
Anubis169: wifi12345678910: what country ya from if you don't mind me asking?
BrindleBoar: like a wheelchair?
wifi12345678910: @brindleboar I saw a comic the other day where there was a third green pill that put you in skyrim
DigitalSeahorse: medicated wibbly chair?
cheezweazl: Gotta love those giant rusty machines who's only purpose is to produce disel exhaust
matthaus_c: like the reverse of the Uncomfortable Chair from Disco Elysium?
matthaus_c: cause that one will kill ya
wifi12345678910: @anubis169 US
SkathrZira: Thats where they get all the smoke that computers run on
matthaus_c: it absolutely can yes
DigitalSeahorse: a poor quality office chair can explode and kill you
Anubis169: wifi12345678910: on my last trip to Germany, i found out about apfelschorle (ap-fell-shore-luh)... half carbonated water, half applejuice
DoodlestheGreat: Cam and Cori could tell you more about it. They played it to death on Talking Sim.
Anubis169: it's the best use i've found for carbonated water, and it's the most refreshing thing on a hot day
DigitalSeahorse: office chairs have gas under pressure in the lifty bit
SkathrZira: A gas spring using pressure
matthaus_c: handsome lad
Gaelan_Maestro: it looks like the cross between a ape and a sloth
DoodlestheGreat: @Anubis169 I shall have to try that sometime.
DigitalSeahorse: don't buy cheap office chairs especially from china or without the standards sticker on it
TXC2:
kinky
A_Dub888 reflexivly clenches
DigitalSeahorse: NOOP
Mangledpixel: kinky, briefly
matthaus_c: chairfuckers rise up
ArmondoSC: oh it doesnt kill you
gualdhar: I had to use EMI shields on a couple wires because the cylinder on my office chair would make my monitor turn off
ArmondoSC: but boy you wish it did
Anubis169: So... i have had a hydraulic piston fail in a chair before, but it just leaked jet black crap all over my carpet
SkathrZira: @gualdhar I bet it was fun finsing that out
Witchy_Diana: sometimes you can't afford a better chair. I accept the risk that I might get a gas cylinder injected into me sitting on a cheap ass chair, but I think it's much more likely it'll fail in another manner
SkathrZira: The importance of failsafe in impossible to over stress
Gaelan_Maestro: youre bleeding
DigitalSeahorse: that's one of the reasons I want to find a chair that is designed for rocking as well as being a chair for my desk, rocking can cause wear over time
TheDangerWaffle: Listen, all is in my head is what the workplace comp claim has to read.
LordZarano: !advice
LRRbot: Whenever something is blocking your path, try destroying it.
Thisbymaster: that arm must have 2 miles of bandage on it.
ArmondoSC: its ok you have plenty of ammo in the chest
TXC2: it's funny to me how good the Predator movie is BEFORE the predator shows up
TXC2: zomgies
DigitalSeahorse: blowout?
TXC2: huh or not
TXC2: given this one is full auto, it's funny to me that no one has made a submachine shotgun
Anubis169: they have
SkathrZira: I think they have
TXC2: oh really?
SkathrZira: The street sweeper?
Master_Gunner: they're a solution in search of a problem, mostly
PsychoI3oy: a full auto .410 shotgun .... would be silly
TXC2:
410 shot shell is a thing, it's thinner then 45, that counts right?
TXC2: we've found an astronaut
ScrapyardGhostTrain:
Achieving very little of use in a very short period.
SkathrZira: Pancor Jackhammer was a wild idea
wifi12345678910: @TXC2 I remember those episodes of Dr. Who
A_Dub888: polo
Mangledpixel: Polo(nium)
Anubis169: the Jackhammer was special
SkathrZira: @wifi12345678910 Hey, who turned out the lights?
DigitalSeahorse:
@Mangledpixel
Anubis169: but ultimately it never took off because who needs a rapid fire full auto shottie?
TXC2:
anyone who needs to shoot down drones
cheezweazl: shame
TheAinMAP: Welp
Anubis169: Mathanwitch: If you're still here, what does the 'varta' on the guys' armour mean?
gualdhar: no no no the critch shot goes *first*
mostly_minerals: omg in the peeper
TXC2:
Alex please
ArmondoSC: and we wasted a psi block on him
Marvoleath: @Anubis169 warta = guard
ArmondoSC: oh good
Anubis169:
ah, thanks
matthaus_c: recently learned that one of the guys who died in John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid bled out after being shot in the dick
Anubis169: i can sight-read cyrillic but no idea what it says
Gaelan_Maestro: i want a knife that can explode wooden crates
wifi12345678910: yeah, the popup said to wait out
mostly_minerals: any windows?
Anubis169: LOL
TXC2: Rods from God
SkathrZira: The sausage salute
BrindleBoar:
I'm not sure making it rain sausage makes up for shooting his hog but okay
BrindleBoar: "for ritual purposes"
Thisbymaster: it is all about the message
saintguard:
When you said STALKER was a sausage fest, that's not what I was expecting 
TXC2: !break
LRRbot: Remember chat, break time for the streamer means break time for YOU, so unclench, get up, stretch, walk about a bit, and maybe refresh your drink, take your meds, or go to the toilet if you need to. Don't forget to wash your hands!
mostly_minerals: its actually cozy sounds
A_Dub888: Didn't something like that happen in Freddie Got Fingered (admittedly I haven't seen the film but know it by reputation)
A_Dub888: ?
Marvoleath: The soundscape and environment design in this game is excellent
mostly_minerals: ya frfr
TXC2: "10 hour ambient Stalker sounds to sleep too"
A_Dub888: @TXC2 *BARK BARK*
mostly_minerals: my go-to is driving and heavy rain, metal roofs and rain is not far off
SkathrZira: I mainly fall asleep to Yahtzee Croshaws old Drown Out videos
matthaus_c: I cycle between the same 5 hbomberguy videos
SkathrZira: He is fantastic
A_Dub888: @matthaus_c My mother's very proud
SkathrZira: I always laugh when I hear Tommy the Tallarico engine
matthaus_c:
I've learned not to do the New Vegas one though, because it makes me want to stay up and play it again 
TheAinMAP:
Anubis169:
Welcome back
TXC2: And we're back
wifi12345678910:
I can't sleep when there's something playing usually
SkathrZira: @matthaus_c That happened to me with watching Alex and Paul play Besiege
DigitalSeahorse: I'm dozing off today cause I didn't sleep enough
Anubis169: whatcha listening to?
mostly_minerals: ooh thats good
DigitalSeahorse: Red Dwarf is good like that too
SkathrZira: Looks like a thingamadoodle
Anubis169: directional antenna?
wifi12345678910: James Webb telescope Soviet edition
Anubis169:
🧠
TXC2:
Depression don't care, depression gonna depress, the bastard
SkathrZira: Mental Health is tricky because you're trying to fix a thing with the thing that isn't working
mostly_minerals: hey Alex you playing with some prayer beads years ago got me to get some for myself and it has helped me so much in practicing meditation.
mostly_minerals:
Im re-making my necklace now again
TXC2: speaking as someone raw dogging reality, do not raw dog reality
matthaus_c: my mom got me a seed necklace last year, I don't think she knows how much help it's been
ScrapyardGhostTrain: Komboloi (Greek worry beads) are the best.
Anubis169:
mostly_minerals: grounding helps me so much. My main reflex when feeling shit is dissassociation and grounding is so important in the moment.
TXC2: going for walks helps
mostly_minerals: yeah its so ANNOYING that moving and excercise works. But dancing badly works too!
matthaus_c: I've made my therapist laugh a few times by sharing how pissed I am that exercise works
Anubis169:
~i want to ride my bi 
CYCLE i want to ride my biiiiiike
DigitalSeahorse: thanks for sharing the grounding exercise
mostly_minerals: @matthaus_c but its infuriating that all those ppl were right?!
TheDangerWaffle: getting out and travel, have fun! indulge in hobbies, etc.
TheDangerWaffle:
Anubis169: do not...
Anubis169: something
wifi12345678910: Shake hands with danger
A_Dub888: @anubis169 did you clean your room?
wifi12345678910: (poster not irl)
A_Dub888:
TheDangerWaffle: yeyeyeye
Anubis169: A_Dub888: Actually I did, it helped a ton with getting my paper done
TheDangerWaffle: also yeyeye
DigitalSeahorse: grief is an odd time too of it's own
TXC2: "I'm worried about taking Zanex, but the Zoloft is covering that"
mostly_minerals: yeah and when you're in it it's so hard to know whats Good and Bad
TheDangerWaffle: >:P
SkathrZira: Reminds of how they find people dead in the desert with water in their bottles
DigitalSeahorse: you're anxious because the meds are low
DigitalSeahorse: lol
LidofLoathing: "everyone thinks you're weird!" vs "no one pays attention to you!"
DigitalSeahorse: your friends DO like you!
wifi12345678910: lol
mostly_minerals: amazing
TheDangerWaffle: @DigitalSeahorse HEAR HEAR
mostly_minerals: delicious?
matthaus_c: finding thought patterns you've had to struggle through written down in a book is also a god damn trip and a half
JollyGee29:
The bar sells snacks
DigitalSeahorse: danger chocolate!
TXC2:
"I am a piece of shit" VS "I am better then everyone else"
TheDangerWaffle: *bops along*
jessieimproved: that's a great way to look at it
TXC2: always gotta ask your brain "what's your source on that?"
DigitalSeahorse: if it would make you most upset, chances are your brain is doing a self-harm
mostly_minerals: yeah or is it just the reason my brain Found of why im feeling like this instead of the actual cause?
Master_Gunner: Alex, TOS - oh, other CBT.
TheDangerWaffle:
@TXC2 Make an FOIA request (makes journalism joke 
)
Calyte: Unlike DBD, where nothing is ever resolved
TXC2: TheDangerWaffle damn right
TXC2: hold metal health problems accountable to their bullshit
Invitare: you strongly recommend zombies?
TheDangerWaffle: @Invitare well, you can always yeet your brain to zombos
matthaus_c: conga conga con-GA
wifi12345678910: lol
SkathrZira: Line up for the throat massage
TheDangerWaffle: don't think that would work
DigitalSeahorse: xD
TXC2: fun story: this is not how you do this, you're meant to put the knife sideways into the neck, then punch forwards
wifi12345678910: He's too sexy for his loot drops
gualdhar: uh oooohhhh, Stalkussy....
FarleyF: ah I see we radioactive Batman
DigitalSeahorse: lol
Capt_clown:
Yea, I'm not masochistic enough for CBT
jessieimproved: CBT-i Coach is a mobile app that is from the US military and is free and has no ads at all
DigitalSeahorse: xD
TheDangerWaffle: LMAO
Anubis169: can i get ECT instead?
gualdhar: if you enjoy kinkshaming, there are doms who will do that too
Calyte: My Dom preffers Knife-play.
PsychoI3oy: can we go back to talking about death by chair? that's less uncomfortable to think about
Anubis169: wait what? seriously?
mostly_minerals: Yeah there is no cover all, gotta find what works for you
DigitalSeahorse: ECT?
gualdhar: yeah its making a comeback for certain extreme conditions that are resistant to other interventions
Marvoleath: @DigitalSeahorse electroshocks
Witchy_Diana: electroconvulsive therapy
TheDangerWaffle: they use it in a lot more for PTSD
DigitalSeahorse: oh covulsive
TheMerricat: The fun fact about ECT is no one actually knows why it works or how it works but it seems to.
ScrapyardGhostTrain: ECT does work sometimes, it's just not reliable, especially for the side-effects that usually come with it.
SkathrZira: ECT is basically turning the brain off and on again in broad terms
TXC2: it was quackey when it was used for EVERYTHING
Anubis169: well i'm learning lots today
Capt_clown: My issue with CBT styles of therapy is being ADD emotional regulation is literally something my brain isn't wired for. However, it did help a lot with being more emotionally intelligent at the very least.
Calyte: Back then it was seen more as a reset-button. Now its stimulation.
gualdhar: no one knows why a lot of psychological interventions work.
QuixoticScrivener: trapenation, before piercings were cool
Anubis169: yeah it was used willy nilly, the same way that cocaine was
SkathrZira: We still don't know how or why anaesthetic works
Walkingharder: What I need is for them to be able to zap my brain into being smart
mostly_minerals: Yeah CBT and neuro divergence isn't always the best. For me mindfulness and acceptance worked good
Mangledpixel: it would 'help' by giving you other, more pressing things to worry about
LidofLoathing: trepanation works if the problem is brain swelling and nothing really else
darkhalcyon: I've always been a fan of Prachett's view on reverse phrenology - giving yourself bumps in the skull to give you certain traits
Anubis169: imo if you can find a healthy groove that works for you, to the point of being stable, that's what works for you
Calyte: In a world where even explicitly KNOWN placebos have an effect. We cant rule out ANYTHING entirely.
TXC2:
Mangledpixel maybe not pressing, it tended to reduce pressure, too much
DigitalSeahorse: some people choose ECT but for me it would be after trying other things
TheMerricat: The last lobotomy performed in the USA was in 1967, unfortunately the patient died.
Capt_clown: Worse case their is always Phrenology
DigitalSeahorse: if at all
Capt_clown:
Anubis169: what was phrenology again?
Anubis169: head bumps?
TXC2: Anubis169 bumps in the skull to determine a persons personality
LordZarano: "ECT is often used as an intervention for major depressive disorder, mania, autism, and catatonia. The usual course of ECT involves multiple administrations, typically given two or three times per week until the patient no longer has symptoms. ECT is administered under anesthesia with a muscle relaxant." Most depictions in media are of how it was perceived before anaesthesia was common
Anubis169: that sounds even less reliable than the BMI chart
TXC2: like it was proved to be false Within a decade of being introduced
SkathrZira: pseudoscience
wifi12345678910: The Baja men are very popular in the Zone
TXC2:
"it was peer-reviwed....by these other raciest bastards"
Capt_clown: I actually didn't know the racist origins. Doesn't surprise me given the time it came out but WTF. Can't we just have normal quackery not extra terrible ones.
QuixoticScrivener: those sounds hurt my soul
Anubis169:
A_Dub888: you’re a good dog Alex
TXC2:
Capt_clown not when it was happening in the 19th century
Calyte: Again. Placebos still work when the patient KNOWS its a placebo. The mind is wackly like that. If we find something that works for you, good.
xdniceguy: having been attacked and bit by a dog. i dont mind those sounds
TheMerricat: "Franz Joseph Gall believed that the brain was made up of 27 individual organs that determined personality, the first 19 of these "organs" he believed to exist in other animal species. Phrenologists would run their fingertips and palms over the skulls of their patients to feel for enlargements or indentations."
Witchy_Diana: @Capt_clown like chiropractors?
LordZarano: Which to be fair ANY medical treatment could easily be perceived as torture before anaesthesia
matthaus_c: that's a quote
wifi12345678910: @Capt_clown Can I interest you in a Time Cube in these trying times?
Mangledpixel:
TheMerricat: Beyond the fact that our skull bones aren't organs, they actually couldn't ever decide which regions of the skull matched which of the 27 quote unquote organs
TheDangerWaffle: pls do not
DigitalSeahorse:
Alex is a good catte bean
TheDangerWaffle: I just deep cleaned
DigitalSeahorse: hahahhaha
TheDangerWaffle: lmao
SkathrZira: Chiropractors, todays most popular quack therapy
TXC2: !addquote (Alex) [now] I'm very cat coded, because I am a slut and I will puke on your couch.
LRRbot: New quote #9266: "I'm very cat coded, because I am a slut and I will puke on your couch." —Alex [2025-02-26]
matthaus_c: there are only two directions, return to Feline or onwards toward Crab
TreeVor84: Now I'm reminded of the old Crapshot where you did that.
Capt_clown: @wifi12345678910 Maybe but I'm afraid the frequency might interfere with my pyramid power
Anubis169: Sputnik? is that you?
TheMerricat: @skathrzira as an old I still remember homeopathy as that. Has it finally been discredited enough that people don't even bother in that quackery?
wifi12345678910: No, there's a lot of homeopathy people and chiropractors still
SkathrZira: They still do unfortunately but it is on the decline
quatoria: there's homeopathy products all over every american drug store, I'm afraid, often deceptively labeled as real medicine
TXC2: a conga line of zombies
Anubis169: Alex you just murdered an entire commune...
Gaelan_Maestro: are....are they zombies?
SkathrZira: I loved the James Randi routine where he would take an entire box of homeopathic sleeping medicine
quatoria: oh man i am eating such a good sandwich right now.
Anubis169: oh thank heavens, they're already dead
matthaus_c: oh they're not dead
quatoria: nope
Strebenherz: re: doggos topic. dear vidaya game makers. don't make video game dogs that try to eat my face off then whine like puppies when i get them to stop
matthaus_c: their brains are just fried
mostly_minerals: @quatoria What'd on it
quatoria: chiropracty was taught by GHOSTS to CHARLATANS
jessieimproved: So many people think homeopathy is herbal medicine but it's NOT
quatoria: chiropractors have routinely killed infants
quatoria: trying to do "adjustments" to their necks
Mangledpixel: chiro is certainly TREATED as more legitimate
mostly_minerals: Yeah but chiropractors have also caused alot of damage
Capt_clown: Chiropractic is far more dubious than acupuncture IMO
Anubis169: nah herbal medicine has merit, it's just unrefined
LordZarano: Osteopathy too, which kind of gets away with it by being half science, half bs. (Physiotherapy is the one you want for genuine treatment)
quatoria: chiropracty is actively harmful. it injures people.
quatoria: physiotherapy is fully legit
Capt_clown: It CAN help but the risk/reward is far too great honestly
TheDangerWaffle: i think here in the states they like to get into different things, like one decided to tell me pure oregano was very spicy and that would heal me
TXC2: oh acupuncture actually works because it effect vasodilation, Chiropacty is voodoo
TheDangerWaffle: like THAT is weird
Marvoleath: @Anubis169 herbal medicine is the basis of many modern drugs
Anubis169: yupyup
Marvoleath: but it's actual medicine, not homeopathy
matthaus_c: the guy who made Deus Ex?
Anubis169: what was the tim minchin line...
DigitalSeahorse: an RMT helped my arm recover from some RSI
SkathrZira: For a long time it was difficult to double blind study acupuncture
Juliamon: My mom had a chiropractor that was also a professional clown. We never got to see his egg though.
TheMerricat: I will give acupuncture one kudos, My father was diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome and the only option for treatment was acupuncture and apparently it did remove the sensitivity, or something else did during the entire process.
TheDangerWaffle: @DigitalSeahorse I love RMTs. some chiros are just nutzo
TheDangerWaffle: lol
Anubis169: there's another name for 'alternative medicine' that works, you know what it is? 'medicine'
Mangledpixel: yeh, it's a huge grift, with so many moving parts
Anubis169:
scientific method ftw 
SkathrZira: I love Hbombs quote, Alternative medicine is alternative to medicine
TXC2: "we tested the herbal medicine and what worked became medicine, and the rest became a nice soup and some poparie"
SkathrZira: All scams prey on desperation sadly
DigitalSeahorse: unvoluntary sterilization is wrong
Anubis169: really sucks that many people that prey on others that are at the 'any hope in a storm' stage
TXC2: Win 95 baby!
Juliamon: you KNOW they have a reference laptop in their office
DigitalSeahorse: except for pets
Anubis169: is that an ibm laptop?
Mangledpixel: lots of people seeking alternative medicine should be seen as a failure of the medical sector, whether those methods turn out to be bogus or not
quatoria: oh, i remember Clear Sky
TXC2: clear sky you say?
DigitalSeahorse: and controlling cat populations in a humane way
quatoria: @Mangledpixel It's also a failure of Government. We should have regulations that protect people from quacks. Largely we do not.
quatoria: The protections we did have have been weakened over decades and generations
TXC2: how much of this is a US problem with all their insurance BS ?
jessieimproved: Yeah if you ask for proof but never accept any proof...goes for more than medicine
TXC2: the problem is that people like that don't want proof, they want to be right
Strebenherz: @TXC2 yes
Natimus_Prime: "Prove it" "Okay, here is a bunch of proof" "I can't understand any of this, you must be lying to me" is a common issue
Juliamon: people don't want proof that doesn't go in their favour
quatoria: "oh they're all dead? haha well this won't affect us in any way, so it's fine"
Mangledpixel: are yah achin' for some bacon
moist_but_crunchy: such is life in the zone
LordZarano: I learnt recently that ginger has actually been shown to reduce nausea in many studies, enough for a meta analysis. So that's genuine medicine that's sometimes used under the guise of herbal medicine
DigitalSeahorse: I've tested ginger repeatedly, works for me
moist_but_crunchy: @LordZarano when I was a kid I had real bad travel sickness, we always packed ginger biscuits
Gaelan_Maestro: i know ginsing gives energy, it helps me out
SkathrZira: You know you're a stalker when you shoot a snork out the air mid leap with a shotgun
Mangledpixel: yeh ginger is used in a bunch of meds
SkathrZira: I felt like Ash Williams
Anubis169: oh sweet!!
Sethalidos: Snorsh Skeet Shooting?
mostly_minerals: Wait what is a snork?
Anubis169:
on the subject of medical shiz, i just got a text from the NHS, my knee referral came through
Mangledpixel: heck yeh Anubis169
TXC2: mostly_minerals a mutant, looks like a person in a gas mask
DigitalSeahorse: black licorice and it's root can be like laxative, can also kill you if you eat a big bag of it all at once
TXC2: Anubis169 congrats
DigitalSeahorse: pace yourself!
Strebenherz: So instead of noot noot... SNORK SNORK?
A_Dub888: @txc2 I loved those episodes of Dr Who!
Anubis169: so much ammo x_x
SkathrZira: Enough to start a small war, I hope that won't be necessary
DigitalSeahorse: ammo?
Mangledpixel: I like to think you have the sausages strapped across your chest on a bandolier
SkathrZira: What would happen if you replaced the buckshot in a shell with sausage meat I wonder
Strebenherz:
100
mostly_minerals: Him-danger
TXC2:
SkathrZira it would like saltrock, only smellier
DigitalSeahorse:
TXC2: thanks for streaming Alex
Capt_clown: Thank you for the great stream!
TXC2: !patreon
Anubis169: Many thanks dude!
TreeVor84: Thanks Alex!
Anubis169: !store
cheezweazl: Have a lovely day Alex!
mostly_minerals: Thank you for good convos and good games!!
Anubis169: !alex
DigitalSeahorse: !alex
matthaus_c: store dot com slash loadingreadyrun
DigitalSeahorse: also check out Alex's etsy
Strebenherz: spaceshipping is great check it out
TXC2: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: AFK (Time to shove aside those keyboards and play some tabletop games! Game: Root) at Wed 05:00 PM PST (4:02 from now).
DoodlestheGreat: Rooty toot toot.
Marvoleath: AFK, but not af
A_Dub888: #blamejames
Strebenherz: return of not-horses!
TXC2: ITYC and CDHC have moved time slots
DigitalSeahorse: if you live in Ontario last day to mark a ballot is Thursday, maybe I'll do mine early
TheAinMAP:
DoodlestheGreat: Cori's said CDH is moving to alternate Wednesdays with W&P
DigitalSeahorse: happy muffin
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
DeM0nFiRe:
o/ 
Anubis169:
byeeeeeee
Strebenherz: take care alex!
DigitalSeahorse: thanks for strim
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
mostly_minerals: I'm going to bed lol
TXC2: !coact
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
Anubis169: !youtube
TXC2: mostly_minerals sleep well
mostly_minerals: Thank youuu @txc2
TXC2: Goodnight everybody
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