Rhythm Cafe || Afterlove EP

 Strebenherz: !next
  LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Rhythm Cafe (Heather and Ian continue their never-ending quest to play ALL THE RHYTHM GAMES! Game: Afterlove EP) at Sun 04:00 PM PST (6m from now).
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 jessicaengle: !quote
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 jessicaengle: !quote
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 jessicaengle: Seems like good advice.
 jessicaengle: !goodadvice
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 jessicaengle: I relate to your existential quandry, LRRbot.
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 RealGamerCow: alright, time for me to get mad at a dead person
Despoiler98: Ian have you started playing the Yakuza Pirate game yet?
 Cptasparagus: all the small things?
 ArdCollider: Ian's doing the spy one first, Despoiler
 Cptasparagus: its fine
  Juliamon: Same here
 ArdCollider: there was a windows noise and we can hear now
 RealGamerCow: we have sound
 Molladia: Audio all good here
KeytarCat: aaand it's gone
 RealGamerCow: Oh is it trying to send sound thru the controller?
 Cptasparagus: I have that problem all the time its the worst
 Cptasparagus: nobody ever wants sound going through that speaker
 ArdCollider: own a printer, have a gun next to it in case it makes a noise we don't recognize, etc.
DaxStrife: Whoever made controllers count as audio outputs is the devil.
  Juliamon: Even then, it shouldn't EVER be considered a default
 accountmadeforants: Even without the speaker, many PlayStation controllers will have headphone jacks that will steal your audio, it's really annoying.
 QuixoticScrivener: Hey Chat, Ian!
 accountmadeforants: I love how upset he looked at the suggestion of looking for something new. >:o
Territan: Is it an artificial heart? I hope it's an artificial heartt.
 Cptasparagus: youve been vaccinated for ear covid, right?
 Cptasparagus: wait theres wbloc and block w?
 accountmadeforants: I... may have started writing this message.
 accountmadeforants: As is tradition
 accountmadeforants:  
 neogetz: 
 accountmadeforants: Ah yes, I recognize this tooltip from the Dark Souls loading screens
KeytarCat: Gap moe is the cute that comes from a stark contrast between facets of a personality.  Like hardcore punk with a hello kitty phone ornament?
 accountmadeforants: Ah- same brain
 RealGamerCow: or BabyMetal?
KeytarCat: @RealGamerCow Oh yeah, that's a good example
 NotCainNorAbel: ouch
 PMAvers: "That's what caffeine and the occasional micro-nap is for."
 kusinohki: oh, I haven't tried "not being depressed" yet.  how does that work??
 Molladia: Ok THAT shouldn't have made me laugh, but saying "Winrar" for the books emoji LOL
 Cptasparagus: this is a very interesting take on Batman's origin story
KeytarCat: I was hoping she'd be excited you could go hang out with Mira
  Juliamon: where did he get your number
 accountmadeforants: Oh, that's why Rama's ghost is still here, her soul is being weighed down by gravity
 Strebenherz: not the backdrop!
 accountmadeforants: *Cinta, not Rama, whoops
 Strebenherz: at least according to google translate, frog is Katak/Kodok
 accountmadeforants: Kodok can mean either frog or toad yeah
 Cptasparagus: imagine being cut off mid thought by your ghost girlfriend
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 Strebenherz: Ian, a media entertainment professional.  living out his desires of griefing media production crews
 NotCainNorAbel: https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun/clip/FastFragilePancakeMau5-5s4Zf3gr8x1_dcL4
  Juliamon: I mean.. it turns off ALL your circuits
 accountmadeforants: Discworld says it does, yes. No more chemicals and whatnot.
 accountmadeforants: =)
 RealGamerCow: have we met this person before?
 accountmadeforants: 
 accountmadeforants: 
  Juliamon: cinta PLS
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 accountmadeforants: Alright the red coat is amazing
 spethycakes: Our mind-girlfriend needs to take a break and drink some cool, refreshing water once in a while
 NotCainNorAbel: KISS!
KeytarCat: None of my business, just my best friend and his GF who is also my friend aren't getting along 👀
 accountmadeforants: Maybe we can route Cinta's audio to the controller
 Cptasparagus: okay but like EVERYTHING Cinta says is awful
KeytarCat: YOU WEREN'T FRIENDS, CINTA
 spethycakes: I wish I had a dollar for every unneeded comment Cinta made
KeytarCat: @spethycakes I bet Rama does too 
 spethycakes: 
 accountmadeforants: @Cptasparagus She remembered Mira's name for us. But beyond that yeah, she's a terrible mind parasite stealing all joy. Which I guess is the point.
Bionull: Next twist prediction, Cinta is in everyone's head
 RealGamerCow: These young people exhaust me
KeytarCat: That's 2
adept_nekomancer: Unsubscribe ghost facts
 spethycakes: I know everyone's grief is different, but for whatever it's worth, my best friend passed suddenly when we were in our early 20s and she has never shown up to make debilitating comments in my mind, thankfully!
 accountmadeforants: !advice
  LRRbot: Mute the cops.
 accountmadeforants: perfect
 spethycakes: !badadvice
  LRRbot: Aim for Third.
 accountmadeforants: LOL, over
 NullColaShip: That's EOL, not LOL
 spethycakes: LOL is text version of the telegram STOP
 Cptasparagus: @accountmadeforants it has to be intentional, but reading the steam page doesn't make it sound like it should be a constant conflict
 Cptasparagus: actual ghost!
 LordZarano: LOL: Line Over, Lol
KeytarCat: Neighborhood cat got in and is sitting on Rama's head
 spethycakes: Hi Rama LOL it's me, Cinta LOL
 accountmadeforants: \0L
adept_nekomancer: Yeah, with that open window, he could have any number of cats sitting on him by now.
 spethycakes: if you change the music, this turns into a horror game
 NightValien28: to be fair, aren't we all?
 PMAvers: 
 Dog_of_Myth: Now that's a quote to come back to the stream to
 spethycakes: Heeeeere's CINTA!
 PMAvers: Uh oh. Are there multiple ghosts?
 gualdhar: Those dreams suck. Worse than remembering that cringe thing you said on the playground at 12
 calculated_uncertainties: 100
 RealGamerCow: bubur ayam is chicken congee, apparently
adept_nekomancer: Let us complete this sidequest!
 spethycakes: Park Boy and Tote Girl
 SquareDotCube: but beiing the everything ramen shop is all the rage! It's what tech keeps doing!
KeytarCat: Awful Girlfriend Simulator™
 spethycakes: Sub-title: The Case for Therapy
 niccus: unrelated but convergent evolution across from arroz caldo
 ArdCollider: my house has "chicken corngee," which is when you just bulk out the congee a little with some corn
 Stormgod519: "you want me to do what?"
 Stormgod519: the elevator is following social distancing guidelines still. good for it
 spethycakes: elevator says: leave room for Cinta
 Stormgod519: lol
 Stormgod519: pfft
 RealGamerCow: yes
 spethycakes: they are former, so I guess?
 Stormgod519: "Ill take 'things you can hear from a music producer or a drug dealer' for 200, Alex"
 NotCainNorAbel: They are EX.  Not our ex
Astramentha: depends
adept_nekomancer: Technically, yes, I guess?  But I wouldn't use the term that way.
 Stormgod519: jeez
 niccus: in scott pilgrim you'd still have to fight them
DaxStrife: If a dead bird is an ex-parrot, then a dead girlfriend is an ex-girlfriend.
 NotCainNorAbel: She's just sleeping!
DaxStrife: She's not sleeping, she's a psychosis!
 Stormgod519: Ian...
KeytarCat: He admitted it!
 RealGamerCow: @DaxStrife She's pinin for the fjords. Or whatever passes for a fjord in Indonesia
 NotCainNorAbel: 
 spethycakes: Nelson from Friday Nights?
 RealGamerCow: Yes that Nelson
 Stormgod519: Nelson who used to own Yellow Jacket?!?
 Stormgod519: lol
 Stormgod519: why did that "hmmmm" sound like Yoda?
 RealGamerCow: Regina, do *NOT* try to get with Rama, Rama do *NOT* try to get with Regina
 Stormgod519: ouch
 spethycakes: Can we go back to the record shop and talk to Nelson again instead of this?
 Stormgod519: damn
 Stormgod519: couples counseling with your friends
 Stormgod519: how does he know she's looking at him?
 NotCainNorAbel: well one of us us aging
 Cptasparagus: pot calling the kettle vantablack
KeytarCat: "Let me die, Rama!"
 RealGamerCow: Futurama Fry suspicious face
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 Stormgod519: Which came first? Chicken or the eel?
 spethycakes: The eel is just a featherless chicken underwater
 Cptasparagus: I had an eel bao yesterday it was the best
 ArdCollider: this mf said dio-jeans
 ArdCollider: very bill and ted
 Stormgod519: oh damn, i just got sad
 Cptasparagus: @ArdCollider thats Ronnie James Dio's Jeans to you
 Stormgod519: just remembered about our cat who we lost a little more than a month ago
 NotCainNorAbel: @Stormgod519  
 Stormgod519: pfft
 NotCainNorAbel: wrong show
 Stormgod519: I was in the middle of taking a drink, Ian
 NotCainNorAbel: maybe we were more like magnets
 SquareDotCube: you know that people don't adopt cats, cats adopt people
 Stormgod519: feed the ghost?
 Stormgod519: lol
 RealGamerCow: how *does* Rama pay rent, anyway
 Stormgod519: @RealGamerCow "dont ask stupid questions"
 Stormgod519: 
 Stormgod519: everytime I see their name I keep trying to pronounce it raa-muh because that's how I've been used to saying that from other stories...
 NotCainNorAbel: because cooking at home translates to working in a restaurant which translates to writing a cookbook
 RealGamerCow: @Stormgod519 That's how they pronounce it in the game
 Stormgod519: @RealGamerCow huh. I keep hearing a hard A, instead of a soft A, but maybe im just mishearing. my bad lol
 RealGamerCow: It's probably closer to Ruhmuh
 RealGamerCow: how they're saying it
 Stormgod519: ah, I was wrong
 Stormgod519: I did mishear Ian lol
 Stormgod519: oh...
 Stormgod519: you know what, don't worry about it.
 Stormgod519: ummmmm
 NotCainNorAbel: IAN!
 Stormgod519: Ian...
 spethycakes: PSA: do not mash cats' toebeans
 Strebenherz: Ianplz
 Stormgod519: yes
 spethycakes: accurate
 NotCainNorAbel: yes, yes it does
 Stormgod519: because we live in a society
 Strebenherz: the stream you don't incur at least one "ian plz" I will be concerned for ian
 spethycakes: I'm a vegetarian, so I find it all distasteful 
 Stormgod519: also that's a better argument for justifying not eating chicken
  Juliamon: Chickens are raised with the intent to eat them. Cats aren't.
 RealGamerCow: I had horse ice cream, it didn't help the taste.
 Cptasparagus: @Juliamon yet
 Stormgod519: no
 Stormgod519: probably the other way around actually
 Stormgod519: ^
 NotCainNorAbel: Typically you do not eat predators
 gualdhar: I don't believe Maine Coons are endangered, we can try Graham and Kathleen's cats?
 ArdCollider: tough to raise obligate carnivores in an HPAI epidemic.
 Stormgod519: predators eat you
 Stormgod519: Frog?
 Stormgod519: ribbit!
 spethycakes: I don't think moths have much meat to them
 atinyspacemarine: I wonder how much more inefficient it would be resource-wise if we were to breed cats for food.  We'd need to also raise other animals to feed the cats, and then soooo much crop for those.
 Stormgod519: yeah, raising animals to eat is already so resource-intense
  r10pez10: carniverous trees when
 atinyspacemarine: the sea insect craze is odd, but as a mainer I'm glad people pay so much for it.  I get to buy cheap fresh lobster when I'm home and the economy for the state keeps going
 spethycakes: has Rama used the toilet ever in-game?
  Juliamon: a toilet with a precariously thin seat
 Cptasparagus: therapy can't catch us if we don't know where it is
 NotCainNorAbel: book store therapy!
 atinyspacemarine: @r10pez10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylidium_laricifolium Apparently available today!
DaxStrife: Is "Otaku Movement" what you call saving in No More Heroes?
 Stormgod519: lol
 Stormgod519: when did we book an appointment?
 RealGamerCow: My favorite character in the game!
  Juliamon: How long ago did we see her? 2 days?
 Stormgod519: *attempts to dodge*
 Earthenone: about 5 minutes ago? 
 NotCainNorAbel: 
 PMAvers: "Do you know a exorcist?"
 spethycakes: imagine having a good therapist available as a walk-in
 Stormgod519: @PMAvers jesus
 Stormgod519: @spethycakes how inaffordable we talking?
  Juliamon: No????
 spethycakes: @Stormgod519 oh I'm *imagining* it, so therefore I think it can be included with my also-imagined free public healthcare
 Stormgod519: @spethycakes damn... ill dream with ya
 Stormgod519: wow, a good therapist
 RealGamerCow: yes she writes everything down, it's kind of her fucking job
KeytarCat: As a linguist, this is how I talk to people
 Stormgod519: we kind of have similar discussions in our sociology classes...
 Stormgod519: just with more breaking down and a lot less therapy
 Stormgod519: Ummmmm
  Juliamon: you don't SHARE them
  r10pez10: did you bring enough for the class
 Stormgod519: Thats her job!!!
 RealGamerCow: I want to hiss at Cinta like a cat
 Stormgod519: pfft
 NotCainNorAbel: This sounds like most bands
 Stormgod519: wow
 spethycakes: "So what you're telling me is that I need to find new band-mates"
 Stormgod519: I cannot believe you got that joke in there...
DaxStrife: "Where does the trauma go? It goes in the square hole!"
KeytarCat: I'm so mad when the voice in my head keeps me from finishing
 Stormgod519: ummm
 Stormgod519: yeah, sometimes another voice is helpful
 RealGamerCow: 
 NotCainNorAbel: sure did
 Stormgod519: man, she really wants you to be with her again...
 spethycakes: someone who isn't the mental tapeworm attached to Rama
 Stormgod519: you don't say!
KeytarCat: I like the idea that this is a dating sim in a much more human way than most games sold that way
 Stormgod519: I like being around for this show.
 Stormgod519: lol
 Stormgod519: wow
  Juliamon: I like Adit
 Stormgod519: I've just been called out...
 Stormgod519: ggs Ian
  Juliamon: Can't let our mutual friend and bandmate know that we're friends?
Bionull: Friendship isn't practice!
 Stormgod519: @Juliamon "more of an acquaintance, really..."
  Juliamon: lmao
 Stormgod519: damn
  Juliamon: Indomie is good though
 Stormgod519: look, the economy is in shambles...
  Juliamon: best bang for your buck
 Stormgod519: lol
 Dog_of_Myth: 
Bionull: Voice not exactly wrong this time
 Stormgod519: I wish it was forklift operator, that would be great
 KakuEpsilon: Did alex's stream tonight get cancelled again?
Kaizoman2: Angry musician... is a barrista... the cliche is dEEEEP
 NotCainNorAbel: 500
 Stormgod519: "Im a singer/songwriter/waiter..."
 KakuEpsilon: Oh nevermind XD
 jessicaengle: Thank you for streaming
KeytarCat: Thank for strim
  r10pez10: o7
 spethycakes: Thank you for stream!
Kaizoman2: @Stormgod519 1000%
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 Stormgod519: thanks so much Ian
 jessicaengle: !gant
  LRRbot: GANT GANT
 Stormgod519: !next
  LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Play it Forward (Alex heads into The Zone on Play it Forward. Game: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl) at Sun 06:00 PM PST (2m ago).
 KakuEpsilon: Hi Ian, Bye Ian have a good night
 Stormgod519: dabitsdabitsdabits!!!
Ashmantle: 
 spethycakes: 
 Stormgod519: 
 RealGamerCow: I complain about the characters, but I do like that game
  Juliamon: yeah, it's not a bad game by any means, it's just... everyone kinda sucks, except for the therapist
 RealGamerCow: I liked Adit and Tasya more this episode
 spethycakes: I'm grateful for Ian's humor around it, because otherwise I would struggle with only finding a single, minor character tolerable
  Juliamon: Adit seems chill but he doesn't have nearly enough screentime
  Juliamon: 
 NotCainNorAbel:   
 TheAinMAP:   
 Earthenone:   
  Juliamon: The real issue is that the protagonist AND the ghost in his head are kinda insufferable
 RealGamerCow: yuuuuup
  Juliamon: if they have a growth arc it's REAL slow, and I don't know how long the game is, but I don't have the patience for it
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  Juliamon: like, it makes sense for Cinta, who's dead/imaginary, to not change at all, but that's not fun to have to put up with
 RealGamerCow: Oh god can you imagine if they were that insufferable when she was alive?
 RealGamerCow: I've known people with posessive/jealous partners, and it is not fun to be around
 GasCityGaming:   
  Juliamon: at least people could call them out on it in theory. But how do you tell a ghost they're being... lol... possessive
 RealGamerCow: 
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DaxStrife: Haldo.
 DigitalSeahorse: 
 RealGamerCow: very nice
 GasCityGaming: noice! where'd you get'em?
DoodlestheGreat: H'lo, Alex.
 DigitalSeahorse: it wasn't on schedule when I looked last for tomorrow
emboar2235: can you see through walls with the new glasses?
DaxStrife: Good recovery.
 DigitalSeahorse: yay new shiny glasses!
 ButButTheJesus: I'm commander shepherd, and this is my fav content hole
  Juliamon: if it's not then #blamejames
 DigitalSeahorse: you look good
Scarbble: i love going to the content hole
 GasCityGaming: much better than the discontent hole
 DigitalSeahorse: better sunday now
 ButButTheJesus: @GasCityGaming that hole so angy
DoodlestheGreat: https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun/clip/ExquisiteSweetApeResidentSleeper-HP1_ek-p7aUQId53
 GasCityGaming: @ButButTheJesus upset even
 DigitalSeahorse: munny
JohnLockeCole: if a content hole becomes entirely filled with content, is it still a hole?
 DigitalSeahorse: pocket full of dosh
 DigitalSeahorse: bosh bosh bosh
 DigitalSeahorse: game's gonna drown you out
ghyllnox: Yeah it might just be the rain on the roof but the game sounds louder than you
  Juliamon: it was mostly the rain on the roof
 DigitalSeahorse: loud tin rain is loud
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