jessicaengle: Also the alphabet was there.
HorusFive: So standard video game stuff
jessicaengle: X gonna give it to ya, I hear
iris_of_ether: I remember watching Ben play the first game on his home stream and yeah, it's a lot
KeytarCat: 🌈Video Games! 🌈
accountmadeforants: (Whose character design also looks like YouTube's videogamedunkey)
SquareDotCube: That one respawns.
SquareDotCube: I think we gotta trigger whatever it is to tell use to get rid of the glitches.
Boopity:
We still have no idea what those are but we have been rubbing up on all those 
TheShameGranny: Shameful displays of sequence breaking
accountmadeforants: @iris_of_ether Everhood 2 doesn't go as hard on the story (to the point that myself and others were disappointed). But it's no less nutty.
silenceaux:
They just wanted you to be aware. 
jessicaengle: Eyyyyyyyyy
HorusFive: Oh good- we have a health bar. Now it can increment down
RockPusher: Eyyyy has been called
iris_of_ether: @accountmadeforants Legit. But it would be hard to do so honestly
jessicaengle:
Boopity: @accountmadeforants So based on your earlier comment, is this game more of a collection of random cool unrelated locations and bits rather than part of a larger journey?
Boopity: WHAT
HorusFive: We Quake now?
iris_of_ether: Or King's Field!
jessicaengle: It reminds me of Windows 3D maze screensaver
HorusFive: KoolAid Man that sh*t
accountmadeforants: @Boopity Basically, yes. It's not completely untethered from any kind of plot, but the plot is fairly intentionally secondary to the gameplay and random scenarios.
jessicaengle: He's gonna blow!
HorusFive: But as a counterpoint.... Why?
Boopity:
@accountmadeforants I see, thanks for the answer
jessicaengle:
ArdCollider: Ian's Tom Hardy impression is amazing.
accountmadeforants: Signs can't stop us
HadesLeprechaun: I found most of the plot to occur on the outside, in the place between realms with those few characters who can appear in any of them, and then the individual realms are self-contained and consistent within themselves, but set apart from the other worlds
accountmadeforants:
Thanks for the streams! 
gualdhar: doing it at london drugs is hilariously Canadian, I'm here for it
aquinas_0: ignore the children
aquinas_0: hey
aquinas_0: thank you for the stream
Boopity: Thank for stream!
spethycakes: Thank you for stream!
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ArdCollider:
nine years
RockPusher: Thank you accountmadeforants !
RockPusher: later Ian
accountmadeforants:
aquinas_0 sighs they weren't talking for long were they?
RockPusher:
aquinas_0 gotta wrap up smartly so the next stream can start
r10pez10: !next
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wifi12345678910:
KakuEpsilon: Oh heck, it's time for Alex
KakuEpsilon: I was just watching The Whatever Thing (Do Not Eat) which has surprisingly more Alex content in than I expected.
wifi12345678910: Like the Easter bunny, he shall appear and bring presents (nuggets of knowledge) and good cheer.
KakuEpsilon: @wifi12345678910 And Bullat. And Sausage.
LoadingReadyRun: @KakuEpsilon Does anyone know where I can watch Man Cooking 3? cant find anywhere
KakuEpsilon: What do you mean WAS? I thought the Zone was all Violence.
Juliamon: Was, is, and will continue to be
JKBalch: Nice to catch this early
Firewhiskers: Stalkerific
KakuEpsilon: Hello Alex, King of the Zone and Megaphone Meanwhiles.
wifi12345678910: I think the one with blue jeans and not shirt
DigitalSeahorse: it's raining and I can't tell if there's noise on mic
Anubis169: LoadingReadyRun: I got a copy saved locally
KakuEpsilon: @LoadingReadyRun It was on the DVD, set in Toronto...
DigitalSeahorse: uhoh
wifi12345678910: Blame James?
KakuEpsilon: Did Ian break it.
iris_of_ether:
Is it in the compilations that a fan put up on Archive.org, as a stop-gap after The Escapist vids stopped working?
Juliamon: Ian brought in his own
DigitalSeahorse: "mostly playable"
DigitalSeahorse: loud winds lol
DigitalSeahorse: behave pls
KakuEpsilon: I can't believe IAn is with Monolith and sabetauging your attempt to take them down Alex.
wifi12345678910: maybe a controller is using a special psychic attack
DigitalSeahorse: I've got turkey coldcuts
RockPusher: I wish I could get turkey
wifi12345678910: Turkey? Is that an Easter in Canada thing?
RockPusher: for some reason turkey just isn't sold here anymore
NotCainNorAbel: turkey ,interesting. Lamb and ham have always been my family meal for easter \
wifi12345678910: Ham or Lamb
ghyllnox: Ham
DigitalSeahorse: was only able to do virtual visit with family
KakuEpsilon: I am doing well, I guess, though I am paranoid about my package that I bought from the sale not following up on a sending out ntoice. Also, watched The Whatever Thing DVD and was suprised at how much Alex content it has. Wait I said that second part already.
ghyllnox: Well, I'm vegetarian, but everyone else has ham
DigitalSeahorse:
NotCainNorAbel: that said, I wasn't even invited anywhere this year.
RockPusher: NZ is not a turkey forward place, but like, even at Subway they don't do turkey anymore
Firewhiskers: Weird that ham is popular for Easter since the OG dude was probably kosher
iris_of_ether:
(I made some prime rib because hey, had it in the freezer)
DigitalSeahorse:
KakuEpsilon: @Firewhiskers It's because the ham traditio was not from the Jesus side of the equation, but from Ostara, pretty sure.
DigitalSeahorse: bubble room
Firewhiskers: @KakuEpsilon Nifty
wifi12345678910: I made Easter Babka.
NotCainNorAbel: yeah yeah, well he also didn't want to be crucified but here we are
KakuEpsilon: @NotCainNorAbel He said he "wanted to hang around for a while" and they misunderstood.
wifi12345678910: eggy sweet bread with raisins. It's traditional around Easter.
NotCainNorAbel: @KakuEpsilon just like a mob to take things too far
KakuEpsilon: My roommate got to have some Easter food at his folks house but I was disowned like a year or so ago because of Politics (tm) so I uh, just didn't realize it was Easter for most of the game
Anubis169: wait what happened?
DigitalSeahorse: I know nothing
Anubis169:
no clue sorry 
JollyGee29: That is not a bug I have encountered, unfortunately
DigitalSeahorse: Paul!
bsudo: disable steam input in steam maybe?
KakuEpsilon: @Firewhiskers Either that or it's a timing thing, that Ham would be cured at Fall, and be ready at Spring. I don't know who much I trust Google these days.
DigitalSeahorse: there isn't any tablets in the room?
Anubis169: 👀
bsudo: quit out of the game and disable in configuration i think
Anubis169: that looks lovely wifi
bsudo: like that yeah
Firewhiskers: @KakuEpsilon Hmm, a second source would be preferable, yes.
Firewhiskers: @wifi12345678910 Ooo tasty
DigitalSeahorse:
DigitalSeahorse:
DigitalSeahorse:
JollyGee29: Just start yanking USBs out of the computer, I'm sure you'll fix things eventually
DigitalSeahorse:
ghyllnox: The first step is usually "turn it off and turn it back on again" so in lieu of a tech expert cycling it seems like the best course of action to knock out first
Firewhiskers: Damn :bows head:
Anubis169:
yearly watch party? 
Anubis169:
DigitalSeahorse:
documentaries 
ANeMzero: Mistakes Were Made. Repeatedly.
ghyllnox: Having you give a commentary track over the documentary would be interesting
RockPusher: A tale of great human malfeasance and great human heroism
DigitalSeahorse: they wanted to pretend
ghyllnox: Not for lack of trying
DigitalSeahorse: but nope
DigitalSeahorse: they told people it was fine to have their May Day
Anubis169: It's now joint-top
Anubis169: with Fukushima Dai'ichi
DigitalSeahorse: celebrations*(
ghyllnox: Fingers crossed
NotCainNorAbel: It did show there were cracks in the facade which allowed for questions by the people, which in turn allowed things to fail.
DigitalSeahorse:
controller fixed!
ghyllnox: *crunch crunch crunch*
RockPusher: shooting‽ at us‽ Rude!
Anubis169: ah
Firewhiskers: Was that bottle worth the cost of a round?
KakuEpsilon: He had the pre-death wiggly where you had to blast him
KakuEpsilon: "Use Grenade" *Kaboom* Well I don't know what I expected...
DigitalSeahorse: good thing Alex is wearing his PPE for this
Anubis169: what the hell pistol is that?
Natural_Ones_Only: Enemies do not have object permanence, got it
Anubis169: does it exist IRL? it looks weird
Isaac3567: You still have the machine gun equipped btw
KakuEpsilon: I hope, if I die, subtitles will inform m friends and family that it has happened.
Firewhiskers: Now, shooting the tops of wooden boxes to open them is not the best idea IRL
Isaac3567: @Firewhiskers Just once I wanted a grenade inside to explode when you shoot the lid off
Natural_Ones_Only: Have we been here last time and then died?
Anubis169: maaaaaaaaaybe
KakuEpsilon: @Natural_Ones_Only Yes, if it looks familiar, but we ran out of time last Wednesday so thus we had to start over from the beginning today.
wifi12345678910: small meds behind you too on the table
KakuEpsilon: I can't wait to see the game over screen for "You drank enough Caffeine to explode your heart"
ghyllnox: I don't know what facility I'd be happy to know has both a grill and an enema bag
Firewhiskers: Dude just having s moke break around the corner
Anubis169:
Firewhiskers: Clockworking engaged
Anubis169: that's a lie and a half
Anubis169: Strelok!!
KakuEpsilon: @ghyllnox Look, it's not an issue to have both in your Hospital, it's just an issue to have them in the same cabinet.
Firewhiskers: COmputer please
Anubis169: Wave to the stream Streloxk
Juliamon: crash count 10?
wifi12345678910: he waved too hard
accountmadeforants:
Anubis169: !crash
JollyGee29: RIP
Master_Gunner: oh no
Natural_Ones_Only: Wide Strelok is too ztrong
accountmadeforants: The Dark One is buffering
JKBalch: The widows peak too strong
Firewhiskers: Every crash is chance to do better, comrade
JollyGee29: "Dark" was a dude you met a stream or two ago
wifi12345678910: meat puppet lol
Natural_Ones_Only: Alex you just missed Strelok the Comedian
DigitalSeahorse:
Firewhiskers: Tinned meats
JollyGee29: Last chance to side with Ward here, if you are interested in that.
DigitalSeahorse: brb
wifi12345678910: Oh no, he's getting personal, Skif also had a home that burned down
JollyGee29: Nooo
Firewhiskers: Oh decision paralysis
Natural_Ones_Only: Strelok says no
Anubis169: :S
Phailhammer:
ghyllnox: F
Natural_Ones_Only: Strelok says Escape or you Crash
wifi12345678910: Crash count 11 now?
wifi12345678910: Strelok wants you to avoid the ward
Scy_Anide: Dang. I had maybe 2-3 crashes and never in cutscenes. Sucks this keeps happening.
Scy_Anide: I always had it crash when I went to load a quicksave
Firewhiskers: Is this a loading issue from the SSD? Cutscenes tend to stream a lot of data.
KakuEpsilon: I blame Ian, personally.
Anubis169: it probably killed them getting that one
wifi12345678910: Clap Clap
Firewhiskers: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bucket challenge defeated
Firewhiskers: Darn you, cutscene pistol
Anubis169: NOOOOOOOO
wifi12345678910: noo
Firewhiskers: Why
wifi12345678910:
ghyllnox: Augh
Natural_Ones_Only: Strelok says Fuck You
Himyul: GG
Capn_Trips: Back to back
ghyllnox:
Anubis169: Such is life rendering the zone
JollyGee29: The game has been celebrated 4/20 today, I guess
ghyllnox: Would changing the settings just for the cutscene help?
Anubis169: we're making it further every time, so something might being cached
Scy_Anide: How...much memory does the gaming PC have, actually?
Scy_Anide: Huh
NotCainNorAbel: Thanks Windows; Ill just close one of the few things bringing me joy so that you don't have too much in memory.
Himyul: I would think so as it loads in a level, yeah
ghyllnox: If it doesn't plateau, no
Firewhiskers: Stalker and the Task Manager are not friends
Himyul: it should be stable once the zone is loaded
wifi12345678910: I blame the flash bang, it's blinding the computer too
Scy_Anide: You can also fast-forward up to wherever it left off I think, but up to you of course.
Scy_Anide: I think you can on a first watch at least.
Scy_Anide: I do not remember what button it is...
JollyGee29: Third time was, in fact, the charm
Scy_Anide:
Scy_Anide: God the urge to reach through the bars and choke Dalin out.
Natural_Ones_Only: Richter Richter Richter
Scy_Anide: The lighting in the scene is terrific though.
WannabeSmoky: HA the shadow gives him a great stache
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Himyul: sausage > science
shushu2539: 4/20
Anubis169: 20/4
RockPusher:
ghyllnox: Dead man's switch on every guard?
JollyGee29: This segment is severely lacking in verisimilitude.
wifi12345678910: Perhaps it's a regular alarm for when it's 10 pm
Anubis169: oww right in the throat
WannabeSmoky: That's the night-night alarm to soothe you all to sleep
Firewhiskers: Where's our stuff?
wifi12345678910: This stealth escape is going great!
Anubis169: oh before i forget
Anubis169:
happy easter everyone 
wifi12345678910: oof
Firewhiskers: @Anubis169 Great chocolate bunnyness to you as well
wifi12345678910: can we convince the spark guy to go with us he wanted to shoot everyone
JollyGee29: The game autosaves ever.. ten minutes? I think?
Anubis169: i've been chocolated to death...
WannabeSmoky: @Anubis169 Easter AND 420! Super rare crossover of dank Jesus.
Anubis169: oh right the american date format makes that line up
WannabeSmoky: @Anubis169 It's very funny to see "Easter, 4/20" on a church billboard
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terribleplan: !advice
LRRbot: Shatter the salt cellar.
WannabeSmoky: You're between bullets and concrete
WannabeSmoky: Neither traditionally great for human health
Firewhiskers: Concrete should stop a lot of different kinds of bullets.
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Firewhiskers: So can the game AI see your headlamp light because that would be super obvious IRL
wifi12345678910: @Firewhiskers yes
DigitalSeahorse:
DigitalSeahorse:
Anubis169: feel like i need to add a bass beat and electro melody to this thing
WannabeSmoky: @Anubis169 Need to ramp up the tempo, but I dig it
KakuEpsilon: Man, despite being a day where someone else rose and stuff, I am feeling exhausted suddenly and gonna head out of r an early bed. Good luck with your escape Alex.
Firewhiskers: @KakuEpsilon G'nite!
DigitalSeahorse:
yes this needs some boots and cats
JadedCynic: who is that guy on Insta or tiktok with the teeny sunglasses who makes techno beats out when he hears the most mundane thing IRL? I think he'd enjoy this klaxxon...
Anubis169: ah he's been around since before instagram and ticktock
Anubis169: but his stuff gets stolen and reposted everywhere
DigitalSeahorse:
WannabeSmoky: Hey it's Strelok, now a good time to talk?
JollyGee29: Ah, the Regenerator has left our inventory
DigitalSeahorse:
Anubis169:
JadedCynic: btw his name's Venjent 
JadedCynic:
@Anubis169 I *just* looked him up and was coming back to add details. hivemind high-five! o/\o
The_Voices: im a adult, and sick... so dinner is ramen with a sliced sausage and dimsum
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Anubis169:
The_Voices: get well soon
JollyGee29: Ooh, magic vodka!
wifi12345678910: Hell yeah!
DigitalSeahorse:
The_Voices: i want magic vodka
goombalax: -1x distilled
WannabeSmoky: Can't get into your brain when you don't got one
wifi12345678910: uhhh
JollyGee29: uh oh
Anubis169: this is the guy that made vodka in the drum with the artifact submerged in it, right?
Scy_Anide: Friends!
JKBalch: Oh fuck
Anubis169: WHAT!?
Scy_Anide: Why not both?
DoodlestheGreat: Or both
Natural_Ones_Only: hubris time
WannabeSmoky: what a great face to get eaten by monsters
Firewhiskers: *plays Thriller for the monsters to dance to*
JKBalch: Most convoluted way to get backup dancers
JadedCynic:
Anubis169: this guy looks like he's going to end up completely exsanguinated
ghyllnox: With explosive collars? Dubcon at best
Scy_Anide: @Anubis169 This is the student of the dude who did that, if I remember right.
JKBalch:
JollyGee29: Was there something in that tube thing?
Scy_Anide: Curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal!
CaptainSpam: Yep. Yep.
JadedCynic: At this point, Skif isn't surprised at all...
WannabeSmoky: Predictable evil villain shit
WannabeSmoky: How derivative
wifi12345678910: go save the professor
Scy_Anide: I hated this part.
wifi12345678910: I assume they're eating him
WannabeSmoky: Damn he's got reach and flatulence
Anubis169: that was... sub-optimal
Scy_Anide: It's like fighting 3 NBA players but you're the ball.
JollyGee29: The knockdown from bloodsuckers is so annoying
JadedCynic: 4
wifi12345678910: I can't believe this guy's motivation was the beans scene from Blazing Saddles
DigitalSeahorse:
JadedCynic: on the plus side, we got three of them....
Natural_Ones_Only: Do we still have the shotgun pistol?
Firewhiskers: Boxed in
ghyllnox: I'd be real impressed if you ended up running out of ammo and knifing your way through
DigitalSeahorse:
Anubis169:
"DO YOU MIND!?"
Scy_Anide:
Scy_Anide: Nicely done
Scy_Anide: That took me...several tries, even with a Saiga.
Firewhiskers: Experiment complete. Recommendation: do not repeat.
ghyllnox: "I was perfectly prepared to walk away screw you"
Anubis169: Skif is just a walking mass of scar tissue at this point by now
JKBalch: Maybe Skif should stop taking people at their word
wifi12345678910: I thought the Zone was for getting rich or dying trying
Scy_Anide: I shot him so fast.
Anubis169: never meet your heroes
DigitalSeahorse:
ghyllnox: *pop*
JadedCynic: "I never said I'm good...just that 'other people are bad' doesn't excuse your misdeeds." *pop-pop*
WannabeSmoky: so this was a lesson in procrastination??
JadedCynic:
Anubis169: YYYYYYESSS!!!!
JollyGee29: Early Gauss rifle!
Firewhiskers: Whoa
ghyllnox: Oooooooh
Scy_Anide: Chode gun
DigitalSeahorse: wooo nice
Natural_Ones_Only: So does this gun exist irl
DigitalSeahorse: achievo
JKBalch: Well now, Ain't that a pinch on the butt
JadedCynic: THE snipper riffle
ghyllnox: "This, too, weighs heavily on me"
Isaac3567: Found where all your coupons are going then
RainyMint:
Hi chat, how goes life in the Zone today? 
Anubis169: what gun is that?
Natural_Ones_Only: What ammo does the railgun take?
Anubis169: coilgun?
Firewhiskers: The degauss rifle
Anubis169: ahh
JadedCynic:
ghyllnox: Please tell me the gauss gun takes bolts
DigitalSeahorse: you can use it to degauss a bunch of CRTs at once
JollyGee29: No attachments for the Gauss Rifle, but it comes with a scope
wifi12345678910: Does the Gauss gun perform Gaussian elimination?
Anubis169: wifi... pun foul
Anubis169: 2min in the box
Anubis169:
get in
DigitalSeahorse: Gaussian Blur Inverse Cut
Anubis169: that's just a telescope
DigitalSeahorse: biting each other?
Anubis169:
they ran through the bleed field
Scy_Anide: Dying to floating bits of glass it looks like.
Firewhiskers: The official firearm of Ryan Gaussling
DigitalSeahorse: oh
Natural_Ones_Only: Why must the dogs make sad dog noises
DigitalSeahorse:
Anubis169: don't the gauss gun prototypes take a stupid amount of energy to shoot anything?
wifi12345678910: @Natural_Ones_Only It's a special psychic attack
JollyGee29: @Anubis169 Yea, they're not very practical IRL
wifi12345678910: oh yeah they have rail guns
Natural_Ones_Only: Those are also ship mounted
wifi12345678910: they break down too fast to be practical
Master_Gunner: It also breaks after 5 shots
Anubis169:
At the old house, i made a railgun in the garage even got a Kathleen Advert for it back in the day on LRR's youtube channel
terribleplan: Rips itself apart
Anubis169: want a pic?
JollyGee29: I suspect magnetic weapons actually get rather hot, which makes them the opposite of cool
Anubis169: oh they get stupid hot
bippityjones: Zombies have blood too
RockPusher: the age old question of whether it is better to build 1 high-tech weapon system vs 10 dumb weapons
DigitalSeahorse: it craves zombo brains
WiJohn: I mean we have at least two kinds of super cool highly effective rail guns, maglevs and particle colliders
DigitalSeahorse: brb again
RockPusher: If you can out-produce the high-tech in high enough numbers to nullify its advantage…
JollyGee29: "We made an HK416 that holds 50 rounds while keeping the same overall weight"
Firewhiskers: Also you can field strip it easier
Natural_Ones_Only: Sci-Fi weapons: Guns that can shoot heavier bullets slightly faster
DoodlestheGreat: No recoil
Anubis169: There was a sci-fi gun i loved, it was a gun that displaced a round in space X metres forward of the gun and nothing else. It let you shoot somebody inside a building without having to worry about the intervening space
Anubis169: can't for the life of me remember what book it was from
Natural_Ones_Only: Is the AR 15 and the AK47 the pinnacle of gun design?
Firewhiskers: Yeah the first use of an Aperture Science portal gun would be to make an infinite magazine for an AR
Natural_Ones_Only: Any sci fi weapons coming in Spaceshipping?
Natural_Ones_Only: Crazy mimic robot goop people notwithstanding
Anubis169: lol
NotCainNorAbel:
JollyGee29: "We have these giant bullets, why not design our guns to fire them?"
Anubis169: what was that silly large rotary gun that was basically 'the central body of the aircraft'?
DoodlestheGreat: Yeah, it and the MG-34 were the main machine guns of the Wehrmacht.
Anubis169: a gau somethingorother?
RockPusher: "soldier, slice my cheese!" *busts out general purpose machine gun*
NotCainNorAbel: @Anubis169 Warthog?
Anubis169: yeah that's the one
wifi12345678910: Does it turn you into Liberty Prime?
Anubis169: it looks like a prototype
Firewhiskers: I am glad we don't have to play Resident Evil 4 Tetris with the inventory
Natural_Ones_Only: How heavy are batteries for the railgun?
terribleplan: Gary?
Anubis169: Natural_Ones_Only: a real one or this one?
Anubis169: 'cause if you're talking a real one, probably a small van's size
Anubis169: LOL
DoodlestheGreat: !break
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ButButTheJesus: hi folks, happy easter xbox
Anubis169:
happy easter butbut
ButButTheJesus:
@Anubis169 
4 raiders from Zlink_Lario have joined!
Zlink_Lario:
Coming in with a raid! 
Anubis169: welcome in raiders!
Zlink_Lario: Oh, just as you've come back. Cool.
Anubis169: in the words of that guy from Shadow of Chernobyl "Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in!"
Coolified_Gaming: WE RAIDING THE BIG BOIS TONIGHT!
DigitalSeahorse:
I have returned with ginger drink 
DigitalSeahorse: woo electrogun
ghyllnox: 1...2...-del-...1...2...-del-
Anubis169: armour? your poor arm!
wifi12345678910: it truly does do gaussian elimination. They're gonna look like an identity matrix at the end of this
Zlink_Lario: Raided in tonight on a request. Not a big fan of military shooters though. Perhaps we'll meet again on another day.
JollyGee29: Oh, friendly fire is a major concern during this mission
wifi12345678910: Welcome raiders
ButButTheJesus:
I am reminded of that one kid's idea you mentioned before, just get a bunch of armor and two auto rifles, stand in the middle of them all and spin 
DigitalSeahorse: my armor is more like an armoire
DigitalSeahorse: or however it's spelled
JadedCynic: a wardrobe? Yeah that's 'armoire' (tell your spellchecker to add it if it's lacking that)
Anubis169: casually keeping 8 rocket heads in his foot locker
ButButTheJesus: ♪ when your kevlar reinforced vest, make impenatrable your chest, that's armoire? ♪
DigitalSeahorse: armoire added
Anubis169: i got many things in my foot locker, but rockets ain't one of 'em
just__fitz: Just voted woot woot
DigitalSeahorse: thanks
JadedCynic: armoire is pronounced "arm-war" and is french, not italian, so without an accent, the final 'e' isn't voiced...
DigitalSeahorse: c'est vrais!
ButButTheJesus: @JadedCynic TIL
JadedCynic:
<-- been watching vids by someone who's also a linguist, so got inspired indirectly to jump down some rabbit holes
CaptainSpam: That's a lotta radiation.
shushu2539: unmanageable recoil
ButButTheJesus: haha mule go brrrrr
CaptainSpam: I must've missed something. Are we now, ourselves, radioactive?
JadedCynic: I mean, you gotta remember the purpose of the squad automatic weapon - not to hit targets but to dump large volumes of lead downrange to make the enemy keep their heads down - suppressive fire.
aerohydra: just get one at london drugs tomorrow
Coolified_Gaming: Personally, I prefer arcadey shooters where you're running around blamming people with burst fire weapons and only an occasional sustained fire weapon.
JadedCynic:
CaptainSpam: Got 'im good, that one.
JollyGee29: Oh, you ended up shooting some Yaniv dudes
Anubis169: LOL
CaptainSpam:
ghyllnox:
JadedCynic: fixed it!
ButButTheJesus: dayum
JollyGee29: I had to replay this fight like eight times for that exact reason
DigitalSeahorse:
Anubis169: shot him so hard you exhumed him
Anubis169: which faction is Yaniv again?
DigitalSeahorse: how dare
Coolified_Gaming: Hey uh... dammit I don't know enough about this channel to identify which one is currently playing.
JollyGee29: @Anubis169 They keep random schmucks from stumbling into Pripyat
ghyllnox: @Coolified_Gaming Alex
DigitalSeahorse: Alex Steacy
FarleyF: !alex
Anubis169:
hihi Coolified_Gaming
JadedCynic:
y'know, we keep having factions flip on us and mission givers screw us over, it's probably in our best interest to just shoot everyone
Coolified_Gaming: Hey Alex, you're a little quiet. I could barely hear you even on 50 when I normally have it on 35.
DigitalSeahorse: he's a comic artist/writer too
DigitalSeahorse: the gun fire is pretty loud in comparison
Anubis169: You're ok on my end...
ghyllnox: The dakka is always pretty strong
Anubis169: Coolified_Gaming: Are you on mobile or desktop?
ghyllnox: Your voice sounds fine when you're just running around
Coolified_Gaming: @Anubis169 Desktop.
DigitalSeahorse: sleeb
Coolified_Gaming: I may have damaged hearing from reckless volume use in my youth.
Anubis169: Ah
Anubis169: there is a workaround Coolified_Gaming, do you use FFZ?
JadedCynic:
the tinnitus is a feature, not a bug 
DigitalSeahorse: especially since twitch ads go top volume often
ghyllnox: Snerk
Coolified_Gaming: @Anubis169 My work around is just to increase the volume, since what the damage is doing to me specifically is just making all my devices sound quieter than they actually are.
Shurtal: "Horrific monstrosities beyond our mortal comprehension, meet the RPG-7"
Anubis169: so if you use FFZ (FrankerFaceZ, a twitch browser addon) it provides an audio equaliser which can boost the bits of audio you might have problems with
ghyllnox: \o/
DigitalSeahorse: I don't know how you tell who's who when they're all that close to each other
Anubis169:
it's a nice one-click button next to the twitch volume slider
Coolified_Gaming: So Alex, what kind of shooters do you like? I like the arcadey ones.
Anubis169: hahahahahaha
DigitalSeahorse: xD
jmac23900: lol serves him right
JadedCynic: now 100lbs of ground chuck
Shurtal: "you all've got this, I'm going to......make a store run"
Anubis169: and all that was left, was a red mist
jmac23900: they are STILL SHOOTING rofl
Anubis169: was that a second gauss gun?
JadedCynic: yeah, might've been busted
JadedCynic: well, I hope our guys won...
JollyGee29: Should be able to pay the leader
jmac23900: im on xbox series s and i had a hard crash during a midgame bossfight
Coolified_Gaming: Did Alex's faction get flipped again?
DigitalSeahorse: back in the day stuff like TF2 before the hats drowned it and L4D
JollyGee29: I don't know who it is, but loading screens claim you can make peace
ghyllnox: When you were going past the fence you pinged the guy in front
jmac23900: restarted my save
JollyGee29: I think the dude is in the other side of the building, room with the fireplace?
DigitalSeahorse: "I didn't mean to friendly fire ya, mate!"
JollyGee29: Huh, maybe not
JollyGee29: I thought that was the guy
Coolified_Gaming: I wonder, if (assuming I even get a way to do this) you guys want, would I be able to play some Quake, Doom, or Team Fortress with you guys?
JollyGee29: Maybe you can only pay for forgiveness if you kill enough to trigger the reputation quest..?
Coolified_Gaming: At this point we might as well do the fight over again.
TheAwkes: It's one of the more opaque mechanics in the game. I was lucky enough to never have to do it. Pissed of scientists a couple time by fighting other factions where there were shops, but it wears off fast enough it was never a real problem.
Shurtal: anything can be a bandage if you're desperate enough
JollyGee29: Doing quests for Harpy should slowly build reputation
TheAwkes: Sepsis might be better than bleeding out in the short term, but...
JollyGee29: The quests reset every few in-game days
ghyllnox: From a game site article online, if it's minor enough you might be able to sleep it off, they'll forget in a few days
terribleplan: Yeah, because y'all have never shot me...
DigitalSeahorse:
@ghyllnox good to know
wifi12345678910: Is that a rocket in your bed or are you just happy to sleep?
Anubis169: You mean you don't have rockets in your bed Alex?
Anubis169:
DigitalSeahorse: if correct
DigitalSeahorse: eepy sausage
DigitalSeahorse: like me yesterday, I just slept a LOT
ghyllnox: "Sleep here and think about what you did"
Anubis169: Yeah but we gotta do it in a cave
wifi12345678910: Jesus was sleeping to reset his reputation with the romans
ghyllnox: Welp
ghyllnox:
@wifi12345678910
jamesinor: Hey Alex! I found a super neat old machine yesterday at a garage sale and I bought it
TheAwkes: The game has a built in mechanic for tiredness, but the only time I've ever experienced it is around the psychic cats. Sleep barely matters.
jamesinor: It's a 1920's gilbert and sheffield gramophone!
jamesinor: It still works!
DigitalSeahorse: neato
DigitalSeahorse: samovar
jamesinor: Lovely wooden cabinet, lovely couple that sold it, and they threw in their 78's, including a terrifying clown album
DigitalSeahorse: spigot
Anubis169:
the joys of a vernier scale
Shurtal: terrifying clown albums are worth their weight in gold
jamesinor: I fear the clown album.
jamesinor: It's Bozo the Clown, and it's deeply unsettling
Scy_Anide: Richter!
Scy_Anide: Somehow it's always Richter...
DigitalSeahorse: Bozo made an album?
Natural_Ones_Only: Roll credits
Juliamon: Name drop!
DoodlestheGreat: Maybe if he gives the Zone flowers?
DigitalSeahorse: Heart of Chernobyl
DigitalSeahorse: soap window
ButButTheJesus: Right. Down.
DigitalSeahorse:
write down "the road"
Mashamino: "I just wanted the souls..." is part of my regular vocabulary
DigitalSeahorse:
ghyllnox: Smells like a scam, but we'll see
JollyGee29: Dude just wants to bleed out on the ground in a village infested with snorks
DigitalSeahorse: his friend was a snork?
TheAwkes: Skif's whole deal is walking bullet first into scams.
ghyllnox: @JollyGee29 This place is full of ideal locations for that sort of activity
matthaus_c: the Zone may be an unforgiving deathtrap but at least it has good wireless infrastructure
DigitalSeahorse: Skif's name isn't Skif?
ghyllnox: @matthaus_c And they give you a free tablet on entry!
Anubis169:
What's your equip load? Your stamina's draining real fast
matthaus_c: Squeef
JollyGee29: real_skif_1
DigitalSeahorse: oh
TheAwkes: Too much food and water.
DigitalSeahorse: Skoof
DigitalSeahorse: Skive
wifi12345678910: @DigitalSeahorse I looked it up and apparently Skif means Scythian
Genie_M: Apparently (from the preorder backpack) Evgen (Eugene) Martinenko, blood type AB-
DigitalSeahorse:
@wifi12345678910
ghyllnox: Well I'll be
JadedCynic: I mean the 'naming system' for stalkers seems to have always been "Your first name and then a nickname we decide for you", so you get guys named "Vasiliy Farmer" or "Igor Chainsaw" - assuming 'Skif' is his first name (maybe a diminutive like 'Jim' for "James"), what would The Zone call him? "Skif Bullet"?
Genie_M: Skif is written as "call sign"
DigitalSeahorse: wasn't it one of these games that used to have infinity spawning crows and it would crash the game?
JollyGee29: You cannot get across the rail line (yet)
JadedCynic:
@DigitalSeahorse unpatched, Call of Pripyat would do that
ghyllnox: @JadedCynic Didn't the lady in the fancy science place call Skif by his first name?
DigitalSeahorse: ah yes, Pripyat
DigitalSeahorse: that was fun times
JadedCynic:
man, I had a screenshot back in the LRR forum days of that - looking up and the sky is DARK with crows
JadedCynic:
surprise!
DigitalSeahorse:
@JadedCynic
matthaus_c: world hard and spicy, tourist's delight soft and sweet
JadedCynic:
The Zone takes a very different technique to increase blood donations. Cdn. Blood Svcs. just ASKS.
DigitalSeahorse: why is your blood on half?
JadedCynic:
basically take the same strat as the Ankh-Morpork City Guard; wait at the tavern door and arrest anyone leaving, then when it quiets down, move in and arrest the survivors
DigitalSeahorse: I must have been afk when we picked up the little remote
TheAwkes: My Skif EDC was about 1/2 as much healing as you carry and about 2x as much ammo.
ghyllnox: *sigh*
DigitalSeahorse: 2 crows
wifi12345678910: Looks like a perfectly clear day with no blowouts
shushu2539: given all what the stalker has done by himself, beating entire armies of mutants and such, how come no faction offered him a fortune for a long term contract yet
Anubis169: that could've been comedy gold right there
Genie_M: Nice twister there
DigitalSeahorse: tornado
Anubis169: Hello darling? Calling artifact~~
matthaus_c: twisteed
RockPusher: "You pick up what I'm putting down?" "N-no?" "Oh, you should, it's good stuff!"
wifi12345678910: @shushu2539 Well we shot at the two factions that would want us.
JadedCynic: @shushu2539 probably because none of them HAVE fortunes to offer; certainly gear (which sometimes isn't any better than what Skif has) and services...
JadedCynic: I think a polter bonked you on the head with a box
JadedCynic: okay...now I assumed it being very marshy terrain, that Pripyat wasn't especially prone to tornadoes...
TheAwkes: Train pile!
Genie_M: Fused train?
wifi12345678910: @JadedCynic It's a magic tornado
JadedCynic:
oh wow, that's some 'let's explain clipping train cars within each other as anomalies' effects'
Anubis169: beer goggles
JadedCynic: @wifi12345678910 yeah, I was assuming it wasn't normal...
Natural_Ones_Only: Your rough grit and fine grit sanddetectors
Juliamon: "strictly better" is the enemy of fun
wifi12345678910: @JadedCynic It's an arch anomaly, like the poppy field or the weird dark bubbles
JadedCynic: welp, another day, another firefight
matthaus_c: optimising is fun, it just gets toxic quickly when people bring it to online discussions
Anubis169: it's very hard in game design to get "It's not wrong, it's different" down... and appease prediction models for return on investment to the people financing it
Genie_M: If you can minmax but you don't have to, that's fine
Anubis169: 'cause they see it as a risk
Genie_M: If the game gets too hard if you don't optimize then that's not fine
JadedCynic: @Anubis169 once again Capitalist Greed Ruins Art
DigitalSeahorse: Monolith: MinMaxers to a Default
Anubis169: not so much greed as risk aversion
matthaus_c:
we want the game to be too hard even when you do optimise, now /that's/ game design 
DigitalSeahorse: suddenly crickets
DigitalSeahorse: snork?
Anubis169: sounds snorky
DigitalSeahorse: piggu?
DigitalSeahorse: snorku?
DigitalSeahorse:
matthaus_c: bloodsucker stuck in the subocean
DigitalSeahorse: porky snorku
matthaus_c:
could just be this radio playing snork sounds to keep people away
matthaus_c: the new Aphex Twin rules
DigitalSeahorse:
Natural_Ones_Only: Tonight on Kathleen's Pirate Radio
DigitalSeahorse: death screams channel
TheAwkes: All these powered radios scattered around that you can turn off *must* be a cut content mission, right? Making them interactive and set dressed as well as they are doesn't make enough sense otherwise.
matthaus_c: still more conventionally listenable than Throbbing Gristle
Anubis169: eww
Natural_Ones_Only: Its Easter, time for extra Stalker
DigitalSeahorse: not like Alex needs to get up early for anything
matthaus_c: can you imagine being a new Zone hobo, struggling to get resources together, and experiencing the first time a dead Snork makes you hungry
JadedCynic:
oh man, now I'm reminded of the Crapshot where Kathleen and Cam are listening to some 'electronic' music on someone's phone, and taking about elaborate themes and stuff, and then Alex steps up and tells them their aux cable is loose, pushes it in, and the actual music is like a lullaby
DigitalSeahorse:
sunny days
JadedCynic: all we had to do was name-drop?
JadedCynic: cool
ButButTheJesus: *hlorfARForf
JadedCynic: I'm sorrry WOT?!?
terribleplan: Whaaa
DigitalSeahorse:
wifi12345678910: What?
DigitalSeahorse:
wifi12345678910: Diode really is the smartest tech
matthaus_c: first the anomalies MOVE and now they can be turned OFF?
DoodlestheGreat: He's doing an imitation of a suffering consumptive.
matthaus_c: drop a sausage on im
JadedCynic: "Fate helps those who help themselves - use the damn medkit"
Juliamon: one last meal
DigitalSeahorse: I bought turkey hotdogs only to remember that I dislike turkey hotdogs
JadedCynic: at least just use the morphine and lessen your pain...
DigitalSeahorse: cleaners?
Natural_Ones_Only: Are The Parents telling you its bedtime?
ghyllnox: Love us some cleaners
matthaus_c: is it done by Beej clones
JadedCynic: @DigitalSeahorse Yeah, that sounds like something I'd not be fond of either; mmmm, turkey bacon, on the other hand...
Dread_Pirate_Westley: @matthaus_c We only acknowledge the existence of the Paul clones.
DigitalSeahorse: turkey bacon is better
DigitalSeahorse: don't bother trying Yev's veggie bacon, it tastes literally like how leather smells
matthaus_c: gotta wonder how many Paul clones have been Beejdropped...
JadedCynic: @matthaus_c They're not....'clones' strictly speaking, they're....something OTHER
RockPusher:
LRR finally came to terms with their tendency to trash-mountain by calling in professionals 
Natural_Ones_Only: Is it bad to say Alex would fit right in as a Zone Tech?
RockPusher: gone are the days of conducting long-run biological experiments in the fridge
DigitalSeahorse: it's nice to not have to clean the toilets
JollyGee29: (the Controller bunker was elsewhere, this one has just been locked)
Front_Ranger: don't forget the toilet is haunted
ghyllnox: @RockPusher It makes a lot of sense, pay professionals instead of scheduling people to do a task they dislike. I'd imagine it avoids a nonzero amount of interpersonal conflict as well
DigitalSeahorse: photo
JollyGee29: Make sure you check the roof while you're here.
DigitalSeahorse: nice lil gathering
DigitalSeahorse: that paper is a pickup
Isaac3567: Note on the desk still
DigitalSeahorse: 4 groups of them?
JollyGee29: Alex, there was a ladder right before the room you found the scanner in
ghyllnox: "I see you require additional ammunition"
JadedCynic:
your panic-reflexes are still quite good
shushu2539: remember to reload *before* the battle
JollyGee29: Dudes no, just an exoskeleton
JadedCynic:
is your longarm reloaded too? 
DigitalSeahorse:
JollyGee29: In the middle, basically
DigitalSeahorse: in gox?
DigitalSeahorse: box&
DigitalSeahorse: friggin keyboard
Natural_Ones_Only: 5 slots already!
matthaus_c: I like how it looks teeny in that aspect ratio
Strebenherz:
120
terribleplan: Pigu?
JollyGee29: One thing about exoskeletons, you need to upgrade them before you can sprint
Strebenherz: Good evening how's the stalker been?
Natural_Ones_Only: Why not put on the wanderer suit to sprint there?
Natural_Ones_Only: The yellow one is weight
Natural_Ones_Only: Do we have 99 bandages?
ghyllnox: @Natural_Ones_Only Listen, 99 is some serious restraint
DigitalSeahorse: wooo
DigitalSeahorse:
up them grades
Natural_Ones_Only: We will be unkillable
Natural_Ones_Only: The Terminator
DigitalSeahorse: woo
DigitalSeahorse: nifty
JollyGee29: Yea, this suit is kinda cracked. Shocked it's just in a spot related to a plot mission
DigitalSeahorse: stuff
Anubis169: !patreon
ghyllnox: A nice little arsenal in a trunk
Anubis169: !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 Mon 10:00 AM PDT (12:31 from now).
shushu2539:
DigitalSeahorse: !alex
Anubis169: ^
wifi12345678910: Is vod watching on youtube or twitch better for the channel?
Juliamon: They are equal
Anubis169:
either or
RockPusher:
Thank you Alex 
Juliamon: it just depends on whether you're more OK supporting Amazon vs Google
Anubis169 shudders
Juliamon: LRR gets the same benefits either way
DigitalSeahorse: for this channel watching on twitch is best
Juliamon: no, it's *equal*
TheAinMAP:
DigitalSeahorse: for LRR overall doesn't matter
DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem
Anubis169: look at that muffin zoom!
Juliamon: Heather has explained this in discord
Strebenherz: Take care Alex
ghyllnox: Thanks for the stream o/
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
DigitalSeahorse: thanks for the strim
Anubis169:
Thankies for the stream Alex
DigitalSeahorse: *catches bits I was AFK for*
ghyllnox: @wifi12345678910 Watch both simultaneously
DigitalSeahorse:
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