AFK || Arcs

 ProcyonFlynn: !venga
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ihlendrax: !box
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ihlendrax: … 👀
 Diabore: !advice
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 Earthenone: signal
 Earthenone: also category is still makers and crafting, incase thats not intentional
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 GasCityGaming:   
 Diabore: @Earthenone its a twitch thing, i show arcs and board games
 AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: !advice
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  Juliamon: yeah, it doesn't always update on the viewer end without a refresh
 DeM0nFiRe: 
 cobthegreat: For some reason I read the stream title as Arcs and crafts
 Earthenone: i refereshed and still got arts, so i mentioned it, maybe twitch is just more twitchy
 Earthenone: (shows board now)
   LoadingReadyRun: tbh, it doesn't always update properly for the broadcaster, either 
 Diabore: #just twitch things
 Dog_of_Myth: Looking forward to more Arcs. Also, hi chat.
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Metric_Furlong: twitch's ad server apparently thinks I'm French, so that's new
 LordZarano: @Earthenone was correct. The VOD is listed as Makers & Crafting. It changed after they said the thing
   LoadingReadyRun: L'Metric_Furlong
 mweepigeon: arcs gaming let's go
kusinohki: meows
KeytarCat: Now I'm thinking about metric fortnights...
 Diabore: @lordzarano it was showing as arcs before going live for me, im gonna stick with just twitch things
 Mazrae: Was that a new intro?
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KeytarCat: @kusinohki Mraow 😸
 Dog_of_Myth: 500 For Nelson's first time
 AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: @Mazrae No, it has been used for a bit now
KeytarCat: Supah Tanks!
 Mazrae: @amillioncatsontypewriters ah okay I guess I just didn't noticed the killteam board underneath
 mweepigeon: james switched fates to nelson
 AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: F
  Juliamon: Mazrae New as of last year...
KeytarCat: Oh right this is like a trick winning game with interstitial parts
MilkInBags: is this furry Dune: Imperium
Metric_Furlong: @KeytarCat my knowledge of the French Revolutionary Calendar isn't the best, but I think that it'd work out as 1.4 weeks?
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 Earthenone: ahh, nobunaga step
kusinohki: random thought - I know it's an older game, but I think El Grande would be a fun AFK stream...
Metric_Furlong: @Metric_Furlong alternatively you could call it ~1.2 megaseconds
RvLeshrac: It's indeed a trick-taking area-control game, where the card market is a mechanism from Pax Pamir.
kusinohki: I think I've played pax pamir...  struggled to wrap my head around it though
 Getter404: UNLESS
 DeM0nFiRe: I didn't say tyranny, I declared it
Chesul: The number you need to play is the number next to the ambition, or 7.
 DeChunkandFriends: You can also declare the same one multiple times
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 arcaneIllumination: Arcs! Always a fun time!
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kusinohki: ??  so tycoon could get all 3 ambitions?  and that means only tycoon scores points and it would be 10 pts???
Chesul: kusinohki yep.
 arcaneIllumination: wait are they playing Leaders and Lore? Nice!
hiFunko: ABC Always Be Controllin'
kusinohki: "we built this starship on rock and roll"
kusinohki: yes, "tax" an oppenent... through force of arms
   LoadingReadyRun: how's the background music volume?
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Chesul: BGM is good, it's audible but not overpowering. at least for me.
 Dog_of_Myth: 
 tehfewl: but are you the master of your domain?
Evil_John_Cena: Hi everyone
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 DeChunkandFriends: He's doing first cut Bane where no one could understand him and they had to rerecord all of his lines
 SquareDotCube: I mean, Ian's been doing Carl Sagan for the last seven years
Chesul: So, Ian is going to be the warmonger, got it.
kusinohki: were leaders and lore just randomly dealt out or choice out of multiple or drafted or ???
   LoadingReadyRun: Mickey Mouse Bane
 GasCityGaming: Nelly has a good Miss Piggy
   LoadingReadyRun: @kusinohki drafted from a random selection
KeytarCat: Does declaring ambition set the card value to 0?  That's what the token looks like
 arcaneIllumination: yes
Oralordos: @KeytarCat exactly right. That's why Tycoon is easier to get than Empath. It's a lot less of a sacrifice.
 DeChunkandFriends: So when you declare the ambition, every other card can surpass, letting others have more actions.
kusinohki: wasn't there something about kids not knowing clockwise/ccw directions since they've only known digital clocks??
KeytarCat: @kusinohki I mean I still get it wrong and I grew up with a big analogue clock in the kitchen
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KeytarCat: I know turn order as "left of the dealer and continuing"
 DeChunkandFriends: Also, I just played this yesterday, and I did... okay!
 Dog_of_Myth: Heya Raiders
KeytarCat: @Sibwow 
kusinohki: I still often have to hold my hands up and go "the one that forms an L is my LEFT hand" *shrug*
Mai_Andra: clockwise = "wax on" ; counter-clockwise = "wax off"
 thraximore: @kusinohki sometimes the brain is an approximate thing
 arcaneIllumination: I hope next time they try out the campaign mode.
 DeChunkandFriends: You can surpass as long as it is bigger than the lead
KeytarCat: @thraximore Three pounds of pork riddled with conscience!
 OtherEdgeworth: You can surpass for actions, you just won't get initiative
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 thraximore: @KeytarCat riddled with something, that's for sure
 DeChunkandFriends: You can't do ambitions as long as all three have been declared.
 Dog_of_Myth: Support your local space unions
 DeChunkandFriends: You can also just take the initiative by playing 2 cards
   LoadingReadyRun: No one want to mess with the Arms Union
Chesul: The Arms Union, always in conflict with the Board of Leg Day.
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 DeChunkandFriends: Wait, how did Ben tax a material?
 DeChunkandFriends: (material meaning box, not token)
   LoadingReadyRun: from his gate city
 DeChunkandFriends: Okay, I thought he had the one where he could make gate spaceports. Thank you!
 arcaneIllumination: worth pointing out that Ian’s ability doesn’t state that he has to own the star ports, just control them. including enemy star ports if he controls them.
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 OtherEdgeworth: You return all captives/trophies when their ambition is scored (regardless of whether you were the one to score points or not)
Shadowsoflife: 
KeytarCat: That was pretty slick
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 mweepigeon: loooove the interests
 mweepigeon: real fun wrinkles when one's in play
KeytarCat: Turns out you CAN take it with you!
KeytarCat: Tycoon brahey
 AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: All the money is going to Star Wars?
 rosesmcgee: Feed that space military space industrial space complex
KeytarCat: My favorite theory of currency is that nations started minting currency to guarantee that a standing army could buy supplies from anyone in their zone of influence
 mweepigeon: you can pass the initiative though!
 mweepigeon: if you don't like the last card in your hand and have it, you can pass it to the next player in line so you can hope to copy something better
 HadesLeprechaun: I seem to recall two full games
   LoadingReadyRun: I have the whole card database and something interesting is the Call to Action card has a different version with a "crisis" section. I assume that is for an expansion with additional game rules
 arcaneIllumination: yep, the campaign mode! it’s a lot of fun!
   LoadingReadyRun: definitely something we'd like to try on a future Long Game
 HadesLeprechaun: false memory, I think at the mid-time break last time, you also did a full new deck shuffle and fresh hand of cards, so it *felt* like starting a new one
 arcaneIllumination: It’s only three games, so it isn’t too much of a commitment.
GirlPainting: so this is like space risk?
 HadesLeprechaun: kindof a trick-taking Twilight Imperium
 Dog_of_Myth: Ah the lesser know Debussy's prelude. Prelude to the afternoon of a missle.
 Dog_of_Myth: *known
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 jessicaengle: Hi chat.
 MrGibberish: Hello
NiGHTcapD: Glocal Hexcite
 PMAvers: Ben's just making a fancy body pile
 jessicaengle: !findquote pivot
  LRRbot: Quote #2792: "It is, strictly speaking, taint controls as well, because you pivot around your taint." —Alex [2016-06-15]
 jessicaengle: 
 jessicaengle: I regret everything.
 Dog_of_Myth: No regerts
   LoadingReadyRun: I like to imagine that repairing ships basically just involves someone pulling on a long rope to tip it upright
 gsyhiap: @LoadingReadyRun A union-approved space-rope
ClaytonClayDavis: remember if they declare zero you ARE higher 
adept_nekomancer: @LoadingReadyRun "Well, there's no gravity in space... we could just start calling this other direction 'up'."
ClaytonClayDavis: 
 ShaneLeeAtk: Smashmouth
   LoadingReadyRun: I like that as a solution to a job. Don't bother righting the ship, just declare what ever direction it is facing as "up"!
 calculated_uncertainties: 100 1 1 1 1 1
 Strebenherz: Ian, known cartel leader
 MrGibberish: I don't know cori. You destroyed boomerangfu on mon6
 MrGibberish: Monday *
 PMAvers: The Principality of Ia-on
 virgil82: @LoadingReadyRun That's the kind of outside the box thinking the Corps of engineers needs!
   LoadingReadyRun: better yet, just declare wherever you are "outside the box"
 JadedCynic: "We are the Spanish Inquisition!  Among....our...diverse...weapons..."
adept_nekomancer: "We've discovered all sorts of solutions to problems that involve redefining them as not problems!"
   LoadingReadyRun: "But what if failure *is* an option?"
 JadedCynic: Failure is never an option; failure comes standard.
 virgil82: @LoadingReadyRun That's the big brain play *taps forehead*
 dumbo3k: Oops, I'm late, guess I'll have to catch the VOD
 Dog_of_Myth: Winning? how dare
 dumbo3k: Nobody wins if everyone loses!
 virgil82: The Companion Cage strategy.
 dumbo3k: Doesn't Loot require a starport or city?
 dumbo3k: Wounded ships definitely don't intercept
 dumbo3k: He could've left enough ships there to contest the gate, and then be able to catapult through later
 dumbo3k: Damn, I love this game
 NotCainNorAbel: 500
 dumbo3k: I think you can always tax Loyal cities
 iris_of_ether: 
 dumbo3k: unless there is something specific with Ben's space cities
   LoadingReadyRun: @dumbo3k Ben's Leader has a special rule the says he needs to control to tax
 dumbo3k: @LoadingReadyRun Ah okay, I haven't had a chance to play with the leader's yet
 Mazrae: Now time for Redemption for those red dead
derkp: Very nice chapter for Nelson
 Lord_Hosk: Is that a euphemism Nelly?
derkp: declare warlord? we got no fleet, my lord
 iris_of_ether: I weep that the Ben 'Target Kids' emote is no longer
  Juliamon: Gone, but never forgotten
   LoadingReadyRun: 🎯🧒
DoomBringerIL: does Ben has any standard in games? like is there a game that ben DOESN'T like? i'm like imagining Jigsaw menacingly whispers "Would u like to play a Game?" and Ben would enthusiastically say "YES!" with eyes glowing @LoadingReadyRun
   LoadingReadyRun:  there are definitely games that don't necessarily work on AFK
 saucemaster5000: (My fav co-op game is the arkham horror card game but since its runtime is variable I really don't think it'd ever work for AFK)
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Shadowsoflife: Raiders o/
  Foxmar320: 
   LoadingReadyRun: The game time in the ARCS manual says "45 minutes per player for the first couple of games", which is one of the more accurate time estimates in games we've played 
 saucemaster5000: lmao yeh, fair play leder games
 Strebenherz: @LoadingReadyRun "per player" 
   LoadingReadyRun: Games like this often seem to say 45 minutes for the whole game
 saucemaster5000: Yeah I think early editions of twilight imperium claimed it was a 2 hour game.
 saucemaster5000: I want to see a 2 hour twilight imperium game
 saucemaster5000: With benny hill music
 calculated_uncertainties: @saucemaster5000 that's per turn, right?
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 virgil82: @saucemaster5000 Maybe they meant the set up and tear down were two hours?
   LoadingReadyRun: Speaking of taxes, if you are in Canada, yoday was the personal tax deadline
 calculated_uncertainties: I'm proud of Nelly.
 Lord_Hosk: I've joked about unfollowing before, but if LRR got sponsored by Intuit or H&R block I 100% would have to cancel all my support and question why I had followed. Those companies are just straight up predators.
 saucemaster5000: H&Hard Blocked
 Lord_Hosk: If anyone ever wants to get rid of hosk... you now have the key
 PharaohBender27: @Lord_Hosk A nightmare scenario
 calculated_uncertainties: MAD, even
 Strebenherz: @Lord_Hosk good to know honestly, wasn't aware of much there
 Strebenherz: (that those are bad companies i mean)
 Lord_Hosk: Accountants should exist, some people need help with their taxes.
Firewhiskers: 👏
 Lord_Hosk: The heart of the cards!
 Dog_of_Myth:   
 Pseudonym_Ken: Bigger box makes it easier to put it back in the box
DoomBringerIL: that "Psych!' made me spill my water while drinking.. thanks ben!
 Lord_Hosk: you took a break
Rogered_Rogered: do yall ever feel like a plastic bag?
 SquareDotCube: DK congas?
Rogered_Rogered: what is the bald guys name i've seen him before somewhere else i think
rogerivany: I assumed Japan.
DoomBringerIL: Japan no?
 Pseudonym_Ken: It was on a Checkpoint
 calculated_uncertainties: Japan
DoomBringerIL: is everybody with the same booster box or each diffrent box?
 Dog_of_Myth: Boxing League?
 HadesLeprechaun: 3-color sets are reeeeaaaal good for boxmander
adept_nekomancer: car(d) game
  Juliamon: There are cards involved
DoomBringerIL: 4th place tag is "Trading card game"
 Mazrae: Talking about getting people together for a fps I might go back and watch the halo CTS streams
 Dog_of_Myth: 
 lamina5432: gnight
ImmortalLen: https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun/clip/KindObedientDragonfruitEleGiggle-OLTKQ2bCUYveL4Wq
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