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mitomanox: !next
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mitomanox: @LRRbot a "jploat" as they say
RockPusher: !search for treasure
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GapFiller: any news does week then?
GapFiller: since we have infact established that the news keeps on happening regardless of whether theres a CheckPoint episode or not
Juliamon: There was news, and indeed even today fresh news from Nintendo that would not have made it into Checkpoint because Nintendo does love to do that
GapFiller: Nintendo being awkward abt their current affairs specifically in relation to CP+ is clearly a sign LRR are a serious news outfit
TehAmelie: they're practically making the news happen
TehAmelie: except for when they happen even without CP
MalFnord: Will they run amuck with this power? And if not, why not?
DoodlestheGreat: S'okay. Skill-Up always has the same problem. He'll post a "This Week In Gaming" and within an hour of the post someone in the biz does or says something huge.
RockPusher: Go! Go! Go!
GapFiller: the solution here is clearly to run video gaming news shows 24/7 a la CNN
GapFiller:
24/7 news streams on Twitch
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Juliamon: (WOO!)
DoodlestheGreat: God, no. Those always end up 95% speculating.
TheAinMAP:
Hello 
RockPusher: Matt rose
Juliamon: (hey Canada pls vote)
GapFiller: Matt the one member of The Crew onstrem less often than Paul
GapFiller: meaning Matt being the one member of The Crew who gets to see their personal emote less often than Paul
Juliamon: Saturday is Caturday
JoannaTastic: you don't know about Steely Dan Saturday?
DoodlestheGreat: @GapFiller That's true. No idea why, he's certainly show he can be funny, in a dry and focused fashion.
RockPusher:
Wednesday my froods! \ 
/
GapFiller: DoodlestheGreat less is more
DoodlestheGreat: True
NoxStryx: Didnt even know there was a matt emote
RockPusher:
G & K
Akaiatana: Matt, your job is to derail Paul
DoodlestheGreat: And what sort of program would Matt want to run or be part of, anyway?
RockPusher: I mean, mucus is often a correct opinion on video game news…
lightfut: I don't make the rules, I just make the rules
LordZarano:
Ooh, wah-ah-ah-ah 
& 
Ooh, wah-ah-ah-ah
RockPusher: Unions European
NoxStryx:
Also the adam emote needs updated to have silver hair 
Akaiatana: Which direction is keyward, again?
RatherLargeToad: and balloon fight
RockPusher: Doing a monopoly
RockPusher: Lure translators in with cheese?
GapFiller: turns out handshake agreements are not worth the paper they are not written on
GapFiller: the written word being worth more than the spoken word whodathunkit eh
GapFiller:
Bruceski: We're losing money, but we'll make up for it in volume
TheMerricat: @Bruceski "_You_ are losing money, but _we'll_ make up for it by making you work harder"
TheDevil_Risen: localisation
Akaiatana: ^
LordZarano: localisation/localization
RockPusher:
"Do more with less!" *reality intervenes* "Oh no, they did less with less!" 
RockPusher: literal vs localised offer different things
LordZarano: There's no hard set line between the 2 either, it's a spectrum
GapFiller: eyyy the Virtual Boy
dankmemeter: Good god! My retinas!
TheMerricat: Fun fact: "The Nintendo Virtual Boy primarily used red graphics because red LEDs were the cheapest and most power-efficient option available at the time. Additionally, the red LEDs were chosen because they were easier to create and maintain a clear sense of depth with their high contrast against the black background."
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SquareDotCube: Link's Awakening started as a port of Link to the PAst
Akaiatana: Link 2 is The past! That means it's the 3rd!
EikoandMog: The Gameboy one wasn't before that?
vinewood_og: Some early ads had it as Zelda iii
EikoandMog: Huh, didn't know that.
SquareDotCube: LttP was 1990/1991, LA was 1993
DoodlestheGreat: Seen them shoved at us on Twitch, too.
GapFiller: uh yeh that girls outfit eh
BusTed: wahh
vinewood_og: Bribe your representatives today!
Juliamon: wah
RainyMint: WAH
RockPusher: Wah!
NorthstarTex: Wah
Akaiatana: Put taxes in smash brothers!
niccus: known tax evaders yoshi and wario
GapFiller: Team MadCatz 4 Lyf!
vinewood_og: 8bitdo
EikoandMog: Not for long, apparently!
niccus: not for long!
MalFnord: Well...
TheMerricat: So yes, but they are actually killing that program.
RainyMint: There are indeed free alternatives to do your taxes, I used one of them
DoodlestheGreat: H&R Block muddying the waters? SAY IT ISN'T SO!
v_squid: Only in certain states.
Juliamon: They're literally removing it
asddsa28: i think its going away
vinewood_og: Free to file was a thing
vinewood_og: Was
RockPusher: Mario only seems to deal in physical currency (coins) yet is a plumber… I sure hope Mario is declaring that revenue!
BusTed: win at taxes
ProcyonFlynn: Intuit / Turbo-Tax is the super-cursed company. HR is just a scummy company separately. Not as evil as Intuit.
vinewood_og: Min maxing taxes
RainyMint: Min max those taxes
Snowcookies: number go up, win at taxes
RockPusher: "winning"
Diabore: is there such a thing?
NorthstarTex: Wait wut
vinewood_og: I said Ubisoft out loud then you did
MalFnord: I call shenanigans
GapFiller: okay but wheres the fine print here
niccus: three major categories and a variation of degree
Akaiatana: The lacking cones of shame
ShaneLeeAtk: I did theatre with a lady who had monochromatic vision. All of her sisters had it, too.
RockPusher is immediately suspicious that they are doing so because they were using something in it that the licensing requires it to be open source
GapFiller: yr can have monochromatic vision
SquareDotCube: technically four, total colorblindness is very rare
GapFiller: SquareDotCube it figures seeing the world b&w irl prob aint all its cracked up to be
Marvoleath: Can it be used for free commercially?
TheAwkes: A tool for testing your colour blindness accessibility features.
Marvoleath: We have been using Colour Simulations, which basically does that - an overlay on your screen that simulates various color-vision deficits
TheMerricat: @Marvoleath so... not to dump on what Ubisoft is doing here, but from what Paul read, this is something that anyone could do using Reshade post processing and colorblind filters.
vinewood_og: Red Green, standing by
Marvoleath: @TheMerricat that I'm not surprised by, I would be surprised if they allowed free commercial use of it, and not just public use
Akaiatana: They're pretty fishent by now.
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Marvoleath: It sounds and looks just like Colour Simulations
bo_brinkman: Speaking as a researcher in color-blindness: "Accurate results" is almost certainly false. No one actually knows what things look like to color blind people. There is a popular algorithm, but it is well known to be very wrong.
SocraticMethod: It's UbiChroma right? It's a testing tool
Marvoleath: which we have been using in testing for years for free
bo_brinkman: Getting a grant to figure out what it *should* be turned out to be very hard, though.
EikoandMog: Those games in actual frame rates
random_shoes: @bo_brinkman that stuff is so fascinating...
SocraticMethod: @Marvoleath It's under Apache license so unless there is a non-commercial component it, commercial use is allowed
Marvoleath: @SocraticMethod alright, cool of them then
Akaiatana: Gold Positioning system
SquareDotCube: messing with Yiga traps are so fun too
Marvoleath: OK, user guide also shows it has integrated capture tool, other tools like that just use 3rd party capture like OBS
Diabore: right, the phone app
Diabore: pay to fix, coolcoolcool
TheDevil_Risen: rude
noSmokeFire: repair gacha
TheDevil_Risen: ^^^
Diabore: nintendo is getting so fucking greedy
SquareDotCube: I just use common stuff, or their own weapons against them
TheDevil_Risen: their gonna nerf that now
SquareDotCube: Or, in BOTW's case, just repeatedly use bombs
Akaiatana: Hehe. It's a respawn sieve system.
RatherLargeToad: Fi doesn’t work overtime. It’s in her contract
SquareDotCube: The manual does point to a free heal, if you know the page and the process
TheMerricat: Death Stranding seemed very much 'movie' interrupted by gameplay type games when I watched Paul's PIF.
Akaiatana: Magazine durability
noSmokeFire: "princess beach"
TheMerricat: Skyrim is the one that keeps getting rerererereleased. Oblivion was before that.
Akaiatana: Oblivion hasn't been remastered, AFAIK? Someone correct me?
Marvoleath: hey, at least it's not another Skyrim port
GapFiller: speaking of remastering (and maybe this is getting ahead) wasnt there a whole story this week abt the limits of remastering
SquareDotCube: we got one... in 2021...
GapFiller: mightve been an opinion piece from a known voice
SquareDotCube: after getting one in... 2016...
Marvoleath:
I wonder if they remember that they published TES 6 trailer 
RatherLargeToad: Now with less color!
SocraticMethod: @Akaiatana The remaster got leaked but no official release date IIRC
RockPusher: Serge I believe plans to drop everything to play this when it comes out
SquareDotCube: so hey, the big difference here is that the remaster actually has working shadows
TheAwkes: Fond memories of the Daggerfall Shareware.
TheMerricat:
@SocraticMethod Xbox's AI support agent wasn't told the release date was on embargo and told someone. 
RatherLargeToad: I like the 2006 shots better. has green
UnknownFriday: Still of the opinion Morrowind deserved a remaster before Oblivion.
Diabore: gotta brown filter the new stuff
Akaiatana: That's not a brownie, that's a nymph
TheDevil_Risen: @Akaiatana hehehe
SquareDotCube: spriggan but hey
GapFiller: to the Saudi government yes
TheMerricat: @UnknownFriday Making a Morrowind remaster is probably a lot harder than an Oblivion one, given how far the engine has moved since then.
RatherLargeToad: I could use $3.5 billion…
vinewood_og: Enshitification?
RockPusher: and who did they sell that to, Paul?
UnknownFriday: @TheMerricat All the more reason it should've been first.
LordZarano: Geospatial ?
QuietJay: Niantic Spatial
RatherLargeToad: A baker’s nice
SquareDotCube: candidate #69 was too nice
Snowcookies: zero: a nice number
MalFnord: Easier to instill a cult mentality in a small startup
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: "do more with less"
vinewood_og: Slavery
TheDevil_Risen: it gives me nightmares, that's how my job went overseas recently haha (and i end up spending an extra week after my original redundancy date getting paid to train them cause their useless)
SquareDotCube: There's just a point where people don't want to admit they do better with small teams
TheMerricat: The C-Suite is gearing up for their golden parachute and it's bigger and heavier when payroll is smaller.
Bruceski: corporate midlife crisis
Bruceski: Introducing our new game, ferarri and new girlfriend simulator 2025!
TheDevil_Risen:
@Bruceski i like this one 
GapFiller: yah those are ecchi shooters
GapFiller: remember hg101 retrospectives on those games
GapFiller: complete w/ the nsfw bits
SquareDotCube: geez, couldn't have picked something more worthy of a remaster like Mr. Bones
RockPusher: "The game gained popularity due to its unique concept of waitress fighters, simple yet strategic controls, and visually striking heroines."
sam_newey: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: ChillPoint (Paul, Beej and Heather chat about Video Games and Video Game related news!) at Fri 02:00 PM PDT (52m ago).
RockPusher: etch-ey
TheAwkes: no, and no.
GapFiller: depends on the fan community
eid010n: Errow-Gay, and Etch-Ee
RockPusher: eroge you got correct
Juliamon: ecchi is based on H
tehThane: ero-gay and etchy afaik
brainbosh: def etchy
Akaiatana: Beej can set you right
niccus: it's shortened from ero-game
ghyllnox: from "erotic game
eid010n: It's a contraction of EROtic GAme
BusTed: not so straight as an ero
GapFiller:
oh of all the streams for Beej to not be here 
ballesta25: "ecchi homo"
TheDevil_Risen:
TheAwkes: Roughly a Japanese phonetic pronunciation of the letter H.
RockPusher: "Smut is not bad." – Beej
RockPusher: !findquote smut
LRRbot: Quote #3274: "This is like... archetypal smut." —Cameron [2016-08-20]
TheDevil_Risen: !quote beej
LRRbot: Quote #2240: "I think I'm not enough man for that." —Beej [2016-04-01]
GapFiller: PS3 and 360
TheDevil_Risen: hahaha
TheDevil_Risen:
Paul 
GapFiller: tbf theres a few degrees between Bayonetta and actual H games
vinewood_og: Holla we want lawsuits!
SocraticMethod: Bayo def NOT sensual
TheDevil_Risen: WOW
TheDevil_Risen: that's terrible
TheAinMAP:
GapFiller: mmm delicious RAM
TheDevil_Risen: and chop it!
vinewood_og: Full cross sections
NorthstarTex: Why. I like ESO as a MMO personally (you don't have to) and this isn't what I imagined for a 10 year commemoration
TheAwkes: Then you end up with the air gap between blades.
vinewood_og: Is it though?
Akaiatana: Edge pieces are the most tasty, anyway
TheDevil_Risen: that's how the server slices
TheDevil_Risen:
Bruceski: I want a slice of the server like the horse in The Cell
SquareDotCube: they're following in WOW's footsteps, sort of
ghyllnox:
"Mechanically partitioned server" 
vinewood_og: Help us cover overhead!
TheDevil_Risen:
hey lets sell our ewaste for the same price as a 5090 
Akaiatana: They are double-dipping the chips.
vinewood_og: Just the chat logs......
TheDevil_Risen: ^^^
ballesta25: It existed as far back as Morrowind
TheDevil_Risen: there's also an app that lets you read all of them
SocraticMethod: The TV show/game?
RockPusher: Game/Show
TheAwkes: I remember it as the name of a game.
RockPusher: Multimedia project
SquareDotCube: it's (intentionally) not very good
frnknstn: The TV show was not good, but in an interesting way
Jedi_Master_Zell: Oh yeah, that thing. The game was kinda meh imo.
BusTed: It was ambitious
RockPusher: The cast on the show were doing better work than the show really deserved
TheDevil_Risen:
woah now, stargate is a classic 
GapFiller: huh didnt realise/keep forgetting the original Escapist Unskippables are infact still online
SocraticMethod: It was a urban fantasy but sci-fi
TheAwkes: @TheDevil_Risen A schlocky classic.
TheDevil_Risen: @TheAwkes fair
SocraticMethod: The TV show had 3 season
TheDevil_Risen: Jafa Cre!
Jedi_Master_Zell: That got realunched?
SocraticMethod: @TheDevil_Risen Um, actually, it's "Jaffa, Kree!"
TheMerricat:
so according to google about the only 'interaction' the MMO had with the show is they had a competition to put one of the player's characters into the show as a cameo. Only one player ever got that to happen.
Snowcookies: what about the ghost of Defiance?
TheDevil_Risen:
@SocraticMethod
SocraticMethod: @SocraticMethod (I used to watch Stargate on my long distance commutes when laptops still had DVD players)
GapFiller: TheMerricat oooh Tuckerisation
TheDevil_Risen: yeah, i own 2 copies of the full box set of all of it (including sequels and prequels)
QuietJay: launched today
Mazrae: I remember rift
brainbosh: There are so many online games that aren't technically MMOs
RockPusher: As Is Tradition!
GapFiller: we shd start running timers for when that happens
Akaiatana: Gross
RockPusher: UK and Aussie being silly
brainbosh: I had that pop up on discord and was super confused
TheDevil_Risen:
Yeah wish i could ignore that about my country
GapFiller: noble cause at least
Juliamon: yeah, I can understand and respect WHY they're pushing for the legislation... it's just really unfortunate
Pteraspidomorphi: Gasp
RockPusher: so I don't like it, but I think Discord (and many others to come) will be damned if they do and damned if they don't
Pteraspidomorphi: Who would dare?
GapFiller: shockedpikachuface
spurius: jan 1 1970
Marvoleath: I always use good old April 20, 1969
Kentosaurus: AAA has the high score in every video game
Juliamon: mtvcdm had to deal with games not letting him enter AAA
TheAwkes: A couple of sites I've passed through that ask for age recently just default to "I'm exactly 18 today" when you click on the calendar button.
brainbosh: Aaron A Aaronson
spurius: nothing can go wrong with this sceme
brainbosh: They did claim that all the stuff was done "on device" and not uploaded
TheDevil_Risen: yeah sure, ill pass
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: I'm sending a picture of Danny Devito
Pteraspidomorphi: Those systems are always terrible
mtvcdm: @Juliamon SURE DID
Juliamon: oh good you're here
SocraticMethod:
UK is not EU anymore, so no issues with GDPR
mtvcdm: My actual, real life initials are AAA and I was SO MAD
ghyllnox: I was raised with "Don't share pictures of yourself with random people online," "Don't give out your birthday online," and definitely "don't share photos of sensitive documents online"
Marvoleath: Wanna bad something racist comes out of it? Like it having issues with Asian faces or sth
Marvoleath: wanna bet*
ghyllnox:
GILL-knocks
MalFnord: @Marvoleath Sucker's bet
Juliamon: and then Google/Meta started demanding people use their "real identity" and nobody fucking pushed back
Diabore: ?????
GapFiller:
Snowcookies: what?
spurius: probably spying employees/staff
Akaiatana: They were trying to do Simpson intros?
SocraticMethod: Pet/Babysitter can
SocraticMethod: cam*
Juliamon: Some people use them to monitor pets
LordZarano: Oh right Ring make "CCTV" cameras too
GapFiller: Ring cameras are a major reason to knock on doors rather than ringing the buzzer
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mtvcdm: !discord
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LordZarano: (But not actually Closed Circuit cause everything is uploaded to their servers)
GapFiller: also phun phact the LRR forums are currently offline
SocraticMethod: I mean, I had to send faxes of my passport when I had to buy stuff overseas before Paypal got big
GapFiller: w/ a notice to just use Discord
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: I've already had a former employer lose a bunch of my personal info, and I trusted them a lot more than discord
TheAwkes: Hold up a photo of Wilford Brimley.
Marvoleath:
I wonder what is their policy on sending them nudes... 
lightfut: The return of the Groucho into favor
GapFiller: irl Being John Malkovich
Juliamon: GapFiller yeah bc bots were DDOSing them
pctjoe: lol Kevin from the Hbomberguy videos
GapFiller: Juliamon urgh
Akaiatana: On Guttenberg, there is a document called 'Simple Sabotage Field Manual' that has so many discussions of malicious compliance to fight back
SocraticMethod: @Marvoleath I wouln't recommend, that would just traumatize the low-level employees and not hurt the mgmt
ghyllnox: Yeahhhhhhhhh
Juliamon: Paul *had* to shut down the forums even tho he really didn't want to
TheDevil_Risen: HAHAHAHa
TheDevil_Risen:
love yuu Matt
Akaiatana:
@Juliamon Posting-partem depression 
Marvoleath: TBF, apparently there is a problem with how much pornographic materials are shared with minors via social media
vinewood_og: Yeah unsupervised internet back in the day did me zero favors actually lol
Marvoleath: huh, Twitch just asked me if Im sure I wanna send my message
mtvcdm: Am I?
SocraticMethod: Oh gods, I just got the "Drink the verification can" flashbacks from the continous verification
NorthstarTex: Kinda?
vinewood_og: I mean... more Gwent?
TheAwkes:
I am no longer capable of being excited for a video game announcement.
Juliamon: SocraticMethod probably bc you said "pornographic"
illuminatedbobtail: Witch her for what?
SocraticMethod: @Juliamon I don'
Juliamon: whoops that was for Marvoleath
Marvoleath: I assume that was at me
Juliamon: misclick
Juliamon: my b
RatherLargeToad: Also, do not toss a coin to anyone online
Marvoleath: yea, but that was a first, an actual pop-up over my screen
UnknownFriday: Yeah, you need to use that sword from Transistor.
TheDevil_Risen:
toss a bitcoin to your witcher (scam)
illuminatedbobtail: Scams are Artifact creatures these days
Marvoleath: stick with a poo on it
EikoandMog: Silver for the NFT monkeys
vinewood_og: Silver for crypto, steel for the usual phishing
SocraticMethod:
@Juliamon all good
spurius: probably steal credentials to some gaming related site xbox/ps/etc
Akaiatana: This is the Witcher equivalent of recruiting for The Last Starfighter.
Juliamon: oh like the flappy bird thing
niccus: there was also a similar scam rolling around for subnautica 2
Juliamon: which could be both!
SocraticMethod:
public playtest of The Elder Scrolls 6
vinewood_og: Who witches the witchmen?
Firewhiskers: Playtesters should be paid a fair wage.
illuminatedbobtail: The old saying "be careful of downloading zip files of your freinds playtest wip indie game it could contain a copy of their wip indie game"
UnknownFriday: @illuminatedbobtail I've told that joke as "Be careful with clicking on emails that say you can win tickets to <rival sporting team> because if you do you may win tickets for <rival sporting team>"
vinewood_og: Whichwitch?
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Snowcookies: ty for the stream
vinewood_og: If only they'd named it for the time that they'd the thing
Marvoleath:
Oh boy, cant wait for the next episode of Friday Nights that totally releases today, right?
definenull:
Too soon 
RatherLargeToad: Where did they go? Tune in to find out!
Marvoleath: Technically his 2nd playthrough
Marvoleath:
1st crashed and he didnt save at all
GapFiller: cant unsee the 2 being typeset like that so thanks Matt
mtvcdm: Tillicum Centre in Victoria; if you see the Montana's BBQ and Bar you're at the right part of the complex.
TheAwkes: She Till on my... never mind.
TheDevil_Risen:
sussy baka
SocraticMethod:
Bets on whether the boys finish the game before the TV series is done
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