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RockPusher gives the wandering monster a bunch of sugar and helps it find its parents
Sethalidos: !next
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Snowcookies: I heard this the place to go for gaming news
bytecaster: The last bastion of serious gaming news
GapFiller: !next
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You scared them off Rubik! They noticed we were watching and scattered! 
GapFiller: this really makes it sound like video game news is spice
GapFiller: (multiple spouses)
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Mazrae: My kitty is watching too
ratbabyonline:
RockPusher: Kitty!
bytecaster: Do they get a nice snack while watching?
lightfut: Kitty!
Mazrae: She is a 7-8 yr old bossy black cat
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bo_brinkman: It turns out 10 year old episodes of Checkpoint are just as enjoyable as new ones.
Snowcookies: oh MoC time
GapFiller: dae have that moment of confusion over which stream this was just then
CaptainSpam: Time to mine!
RockPusher: and Serge!
GapFiller: And Snerge!
ratbabyonline: snail serge?
RockPusher:
Juliamon: Sort of gaming news: it's Bandcamp Friday, so go pick up some game soundtracks you've been wanting!
GapFiller: Juliamon hurr eurgh my poor wallet
GapFiller: hasnt it been thru enough today
bytecaster: Everybody get ready for go time!
CaptainSpam: Go go go!
CaptainSpam: (time)
RockPusher:
Travelogue time 
GapFiller: oh theyre back eh
ratbabyonline: GET OUT THE PLANE NOW, PARACHUTE INTO CHILLPOINT
GapFiller: dinner on the ancestral hogs ect ect
Invitare: it's Ian and Nelson
mtvcdm: NEW HAT
bytecaster: They and thus we are back
definenull: Welcome back
DoodlestheGreat: YAY! Welcome back!
ratbabyonline: welcome beejack
GapFiller: heres to getting that lost day back
Snowcookies: Hopefully Ian and Nelson are doing well
GapFiller: its always nice to cross the IDL from the right direction
Invitare: Now a really really good bit would be sticking a Nintendo Switch 2 sticker onto that Switch
Invitare: and never mentioning it
RockPusher: I dunno, seems like an excellent use of funds to me
gualdhar: is this Heather and Beej share vacation highlights time?
mtvcdm: On the other hand, Paul: duck
GapFiller: gualdhar yeh nvm this weeks news we want holiday photos
DoodlestheGreat: @gualdhar I certainly hope so.
Izandai: That's excellent.
Izandai: I love that.
Izandai:
RockPusher:
Also all that heavy breathing
mtvcdm: That definitely sounds like what they'd do
bytecaster: That sounds profoundly japanese
Mazrae: Ninja glass
mtvcdm: This is how you kill Beejs, they just smack into the Nintendo window
RockPusher: ♫ Can't touch that ♫
Laserbeaks_Fury: Ohh, it's new, so they still care about it being clean. 3 months from now, the employees will be all jaded.
Akaiatana: Nothing says video games like invisible walls.
ratbabyonline: simply forbidden photozone
ratbabyonline: streetpass IS permitted though
GapFiller: great big signs everywhere important
TheAinMAP:
Izandai: Honestly that makes sense, that's just free marketing for the new console.
ratbabyonline: gameboy camera photos only
RockPusher: and probably just accepting that for the fun new thing people will ignore the rules anyway
Laserbeaks_Fury: Neuralizers positioned at every exit
Izandai: oooooh
GapFiller: speaking of the Gameboy cant remember was that Gulf War Gameboy at the Japanese place or the American one
GapFiller: that sounds neat
s1ck1y: return of the SQUAD
Laserbeaks_Fury: I hope on the Timeline of Samus, the first iteration is just a ball
Izandai:
GapFiller:
s1ck1y: !!!
mtvcdm: Ooh
Invitare: Heather's Bizarre Adventure
trachalio: Hello from Princess Auto's home office Beej. Your package is on the way! 😍
Aitsu111: Welcome back Heather and Beej
DoodlestheGreat: *Jojo Sense Tingling?*
trachalio: Awesome!
ratbabyonline: yippee princess autoooo
CaptainSpam:
Well, THAT'S ominous. 
RockPusher:
Strebenherz: heya heather and beej, welcome back
trachalio:
UGH. Yeah, Polygon being gone is absolutely tragic 
ratbabyonline: @DoodlestheGreat this must be the work of an enemy stand
RockPusher:
Beej's email is apparently magical christmas land 
GapFiller:
ah that back at work feeling 
DoodlestheGreat: Oh, we'll get to Polygon shortly.
bytecaster:
This isn't a travelogue show?!!? 
GapFiller: visiting Nintendo is video game related
RockPusher: bummer stories in video game news? that never happens…
DoodlestheGreat:
GapFiller:
Welcome Back Beej
RockPusher:
Nintendo out there bringing back skeuomorphism
bytecaster: So, they have done ownership of a virtual object without blockchain? Weird, how that is that thing that we can do and could always do.
Laserbeaks_Fury: I can play Metroid Prime on my brother's Switch, but only on Tuesdays while Mercury is in retrograde.
LordZarano: But do the virtual game cards taste bad like the physical ones?
EvilBadman: They fixed Steam sharing recently, now family members can play whatever game, but not the /same game/ unless two licenses.
DoodlestheGreat: @Laserbeaks_Fury Plymouth Mercury.
ratbabyonline: @bytecaster no you see you dont own the object with blockchain you own this funny math problem that we say is associated with the object which clearly makes more sense and is definitely practical
RockPusher: "Virtualise your tongue" would make good !advice
DoodlestheGreat: Or bad.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Yeah, me and my brother have linked family accounts on Steam. What they did to curb rampant sharing was put linking accounts on a 1 year cooldown
bytecaster: Touch the internet? I thought I was supposed to touch grass?!?
GapFiller: bytecaster the internet is basically grass
bytecaster: @GapFiller That sounds like a thing the terminally online will say to not touch actual grass.
ratbabyonline: touch astroturf?
GapFiller: astroturf isnt grass
Akaiatana: Large hoops are the easier ones to jump through
ratbabyonline: exactly
ratbabyonline: grass simulacrum
GapFiller: astroturf is abt natural as the internet
bytecaster: Gotta put very slow android on it
CookieMom: *Blames switch, then James*
EvilBadman: Beej if it's any consolation, I have a launch switch too and aspirations to do...things to it.
Izandai: Maybe just let it stay at zero.
bytecaster: I don't think it's odd, I think it is perfectly in character
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Earthenone: do you think the nintendo cloud server is called lakitu?
RockPusher: Thomas Riker has some opinions about that
kingandcommoner: sounds like how they transferred data from the Wii to the Wii U
mtvcdm: Your Switch game'
bytecaster: God forbid someones dupes a Pikachu
mtvcdm: 's soul goes in the box
mtvcdm: Your game library is more than six, Link was sent to the box, he's fine, you'll never see him again all game
GapFiller: sensible
DoodlestheGreat: "With sixteen beloved launch titles and Hogwarts Legacy."
Izandai: Oh was that not Nelson? I assumed that was Nelson.
mtvcdm: Hogwarts Legacy is an affront to the legacy of Balloon Fight
bytecaster: Fanboys gotta fanboy though
DoodlestheGreat: Well, at least there's also the final two chapters of Deltarune. That's not bad.
ratbabyonline: those are also coming to pc though
maxlethebeast: MK8 was like a month after the switch launched.
CookieMom: Snipperclips!
bytecaster: 1 2 Switch!
Invitare: with the Switch 1, what worked best was not the launch, it was that they followed it up with a big release every month
TheMerricat: According to IGN BoTW was a day one title.
RockPusher: A thin release lineup isn't so bad when you are doing backward compatibility
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LordZarano: Switch 2 has the advantage that all Switch 1 games are launch titles for the Switch 2
Akaiatana: Sorry, I'm busy, I'm on my launch hour.
kingandcommoner: My main thing is that I want to play Prime 4 on the switch 2
bytecaster: I can get the Switch 2 to play 1 2 Switch! It has 2 in it and Switch, so it must be great on Switch 2!
GapFiller: only bought one console at or around launch in the past 25 years
GapFiller: and that was entirely due to backwards compatibility
RockPusher:
besides, they have a mario kart, everyone will be too busy fighting their friends and family over being blue-shelled to care that there aren't other games
mtvcdm: That's... depressingly wise
VanGoyo90: As someone who's day 1 Wii died after a week, never buying at launch again
Izandai: I'm planning to get one in time for Metroid Prime 4, and yeah, I'm hoping it doesn't cost more by then.
gualdhar: Microsoft recently raised prices on all their hardware
Mazrae: Might try and see if there will be a switch 2 emulator some day
kingandcommoner: I'm trying to get one right away because it's gonna take me 4 months to get one anyway
kingandcommoner: so I might as well start early
bytecaster: Switches? On the Switch 2?
LurkerSpine: Copying Forza Horizon was a good call
LordZarano: I'll have the same rule for the Switch 2 as I had for the Switch - If they release a new 3D F-Zero for it then I'll get it
TheMerricat: Anyone remember Fuel and Grid?
bytecaster: Yeah, but normal go karts can neither fly nor go under water
LordZarano: @TheMerricat I played a bunch of FUEL, fun but it completely wore out my tolerance for procedural generation in games
Earthenone: golf Karts
RockPusher:
bytecaster: How DO you go to rainbow road from an open world?
TheMerricat:
@LordZarano Yeah, I never managed to get anywhere in the game, but it was fun to drive around in it
gualdhar: this is a great way to disguise loading screens between tracks
mtvcdm: Yep
GapFiller: that sounds like James Turners Dream Mario Game
recursioning: Rally racing sometimes has the racers driving public streets between segments
Izandai: Doesn't the most recent Mario Golf already have a mode where everyone's racing along making their shots simultaneously?
bytecaster: Every 6 holes, you play Mario Tennis
recursioning: And sometimes the racers get fined for speeding
Wolfstrike_NL:
We've not heard from Camelot Software Planning for a while, so who knows 
RockPusher:
GapFiller:
!?
Julian_Rogue: golf rocket league
Izandai:
There's bomb fishing.
ratbabyonline: thats a fishing macrogame
mtvcdm: What if you attached fishing poles to the golf cart and went driving
Izandai: No, it just kills them.
Earthenone: according to ratatuie it would
Izandai: You can't set a fish in the water on fire.
saiarcot895: Paul with the big brain strats
kingandcommoner: the lack of a fishing rod legitimately bothered me
Izandai: Something I learned the other day is in TOTK if you chuck a bomb flower at some squirrels you get roasted acorns.
Izandai: Please say "before filming" Paul.
draftchaffmtg: RIP Polygon.
DoodlestheGreat: And Giant Bomb's been gutted. Again.
idontgetmyrealname: it's BAD
fonkoncle: jeff gerstmann did a great podcast with VGBEES this morning on the giant bomb stuff
ratbabyonline: @fonkoncle is VGBEES any relation to VGCATS
idontgetmyrealname: @ratbabyonline no, sadly
fonkoncle: @ratbabyonline no because vgcatz man is INSANE at the mo
LurkerSpine: I don't understand why companies do this. Like, you bought a thing and then flushed it down the toilet. Why buy it?
idontgetmyrealname: but VGBEES is rad
mtvcdm: !mastodon
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Brozard: It's always the money
RockPusher: "Follow the money."
wildpeaks: always follow the money
Izandai: @fonkoncle What? The webcomic about video games and cats that used to update twice a year?
idontgetmyrealname: @LurkerSpine they can milk the brand off unknowing google searches and web visits for ad traffic by gaming the seo system to get big page hits. They don't want the site or the work or event eh brand so much as the search results
ratbabyonline: "theyve just got great brand recognition"
Laserbeaks_Fury: I've already unsubbed the Polygon youtube
draftchaffmtg: It's a great way to kill a competitor of your existing brands.
bytecaster: They just like polygons, really into triangles those people
TheMerricat: So I can't remember, was it Checkpoint where I learned that the founders of Valnet were the former founders of Pornhub and Brazzars who got forced out?
Izandai:
Anyway, get this extension to have a better wiki experience and give Fandom the middle finger: https://getindie.wiki/
bytecaster: @TheMerricat I mean, Beej mentioned it just now
Laserbeaks_Fury: So, I know a lot of folks who worked at Polygon were in Unions, how does that work when the company sells?
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mtvcdm: The only value thing here would be, yeah, you buy it to remove a competitor for your freelance slop.
TheMerricat:
@bytecaster God my brain is slow today.
ratbabyonline: whats left for gaming news now? remap and checkpoint?
EvilBadman: Vox was also in the middle of union negotiations during this, if it wasn't mentioned
Izandai: "We all die someday, Paul. It's the great equalizer and I own a knife."
GapFiller: the Kane & Lynch thing
Invitare: it's like if Gamergate was ACTUALLY about ethics in games journalism
Brozard: Apparently Valnet approached FanGamer a few years ago to acquire them, and Reid's response was basically "lol, lmao"
fonkoncle: He was head of editorial!
LordZarano: ^
ratbabyonline: i love indie wiki buddy
bytecaster: All fandoms are bad!
Brozard: Where's all the Fansubs?
GapFiller: fan is short for fanatic after all#
niccus: that's not what a fanguardian would say!
RockPusher: It's fandom because it doms the fans in your computer
Brozard: and Fanswitches
ratbabyonline: especially the LRR fandom
bytecaster: @ratbabyonline We are the worst
ratbabyonline: drew blowing the pg-13 whistle
LordZarano: @EvilBadman And Indie Wiki Buddy will automatically redirect you to it
ratbabyonline: its a husk of a giant bomb now
bytecaster: Will giant bomb just turn into a smaller bomb?
LurkerSpine: Maddie Myers is currently part time
EvilBadman: I loved the Giant Bomb tl:dr image was from the Something Awful forums
Juliamon: It's a bomb shell
Izandai: BEEJ
e_bloc: medium sized bomb
Stormgod519: good afternoon everyone. Hi Heather and Beej! Welcome Back!!!
bytecaster: And then they have to only write about Ronaldo
LurkerSpine: Hey if we can get that asshole to spend all his money, I'm all for it
ratbabyonline: ronaaaaaaaaldooo
DoodlestheGreat: They'll be hiring new writers: Notta Ayeye and Kahpy Botte.
RockPusher: Sassy judges are fun judges
bytecaster: To my understanding, it was a done deal and Apple violated that deal, right?
DoodlestheGreat: Pissing off a judge is rarely a good idea.
Juliamon: This is Apple FAFOing after the dust had settled, thinking nobody would notice
CaptainSpam: I know at least one podcast I listen to, in their normal Patreon spiel, EXPLICITLY tell their listeners NOT to subscribe to Patreon via the iOS app.
Juliamon: Scare screens aren't an inherently bad thing, it's just the way Apple decided to do it is really blatantly bad
JoeKim: hello nerds
TheMerricat: What blows my mind is that the guy responsible wanted to do the 'right' thing and was overridden.
JoeKim: hows the chillpoint today
mtvcdm: @CaptainSpam Never don't delete Facebook
kingandcommoner: If that's what it takes to get people off Facebook
LurkerSpine:
It's chill
BusTed: Just let loose
Juliamon: TheMerricat That shouldn't be mindblowing, if you've paid attention at all to the news in the last 10 years
RockPusher: Once you have execs being referred for *criminal* contempt, you may have done fucked up
Juliamon: NOBODY is allowed to do the 'right' thing without a drawn-out fight
Wolfstrike_NL: Yea, wasn't it Tim Cook himself that got called out?
Juliamon: Cook Chose Poorly
saiarcot895: @TheMerricat I was more surprised that there _was_ a guy who wanted to do the right thing
blubeaubo: <message deleted>three idiots at the round table who wants their ass fucked first
TheMerricat:
SocraticMethod: Why am I hearing Jordan Peterson?
Juliamon: Yeah, that Ars article... is still trending
MalFnord: I vote we throw both Tims in the ocean and see what happens
Juliamon: The most deeply buried lede
SocraticMethod: What, adulthood battlepass and premium currency?
Laserbeaks_Fury:
Plus, you can get bulk sales 
mtvcdm: To access your porn, please enter the third word in the fifth paragraph of the World Almanac 1996
GapFiller: this is another reason to pay attention to the url title
Laserbeaks_Fury: BDRM
CaptainSpam: @mtvcdm 'Twas Hello From The Magic Tavern.
GapFiller: cz the url tends to be closer to the original writers intent
ThorSokar: In the US now, you just go bribe a certain orange someone to make it go away
SocraticMethod: Probably not enough to pierce the corporate veil, so Apple the company is probably being fined for contempt
Earthenone: "shiller" is such a nominiative determination for a head of marketing
CaptainSpam: Tim Cook was basically "Yeah, but what if we did THE FUNNIEST THING?"
RockPusher: for those who want an 80 page read
frnknstn: In any sane system of ethics, all executives would jointly and severably responsible for the corporation's actions.
CaptainSpam: Yeah, I think that's a common closing for a court order.
maxlethebeast: Orders do always end with "It is so ordered"
RockPusher: that is standard format
CaptainSpam: Judges get to drop the mic like that.
Laserbeaks_Fury: So Say We All
DeM0nFiRe: "When you are done talking, remember to say over" "Remember to say what? Over"
RatherLargeToad: So let it be written! So let it be done!
kingandcommoner: In Accordance with the Prophecy
DoodlestheGreat: Were I that judge, I'd make sure that line was in 24pt, bold, underlined, italic letters.
Izandai:
Earthenone: everytime i go to a chineese resturant, i always say "it is Tso ordered"
Izandai: Oh yeah, this is real funny.
ratbabyonline: Silksong MUSEUUUM RELEASE
Mai_Andra: "Owari Desu"
wildpeaks: such a good troll
frnknstn: I saw a really cool silksong cosplay today and was stoked!
TheMerricat:
So I'm guessing Beej and Heather are going to Australia soon.
Earthenone: clearly silksong is an AU exclusive
EvilBadman: they were waiting for GTA6 to move to May 2026
GapFiller: sooo Heather yr just got back from Japan thats another plane ticket getting costed to LRR eh
niccus: they showed risque concept art
TheAwkes: Speaking of games being pushed back, GTA6 just got delayed to May 2026.
Izandai: That would be hilarious.
RatherLargeToad: It turns out they retooled it and it’s a kart racer now
ThorSokar: a MONTH, how about 6 YEARS, which is when the Xbox announcement of the game was, why not run it back?
GapFiller: TheMerricat Two Trans Pacific Trips In One Calendar Year Such Decadence!
LordZarano: There's a YT channel called Daily Silksong News that's pretty funny
RockPusher: That video game belongs in a museum!
Rob_Racoon: Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Rob_Racoon: yeah
Izandai: That's weird.
Laserbeaks_Fury: ACME
ThorSokar: They said that 6 years ago!
Earthenone:
oblivion was day one on game pass 
EvilBadman: @ThorSokar 2022
kingandcommoner: Xzibit will be there?
Izandai:
It's coming to *a* Switch.
frnknstn: Game pass, AKA "get it for Oblivion, but use it for Blue Prince"
TheDevil_Risen:
hahah
idontgetmyrealname: I'm betting it gets shadow dropped during Xbox summer showcase
TheDevil_Risen: yeah probs
Izandai:
ThorSokar: hahaha
GapFiller:
Laserbeaks_Fury: good clip name
kingandcommoner: I still think the game doesn't exist
Invitare: we're living in a world where Metroid 5 and Prime 4 came out before Silksong
Laserbeaks_Fury: It'll be both, it'll be really good but also not live up to the hype
SocraticMethod: Imagine the conspiracy theories for the "Secret good Silksong"
CaptainSpam: This game has unsustainable levels of hype. That's not me hyping it up, that's just fact.
TheMerricat: No Oblivion released Heather, last wee.
ratbabyonline: the Feature Creep is my least favourite comic character
TheMerricat: week
LordZarano: It has slopes! Slopes!
CookieMom: Does that mean Silksong will go in to Skyrim?
SocraticMethod: Hornet has different move set
Earthenone: hollow knight 2: Uppies
Doc_Layzah: If it was oblivion it would have been released 10 times by now
TheMerricat:
@Doc_Layzah That's Skyrim. 
kingandcommoner: Silksong will be a reskin of Mario is MIssing
ratbabyonline: beej's expression of wanting to talk so bad right now
Invitare: Cyberpunk 2077
Invitare: No Man's Land
ratbabyonline: No Man's Sky?
EvilBadman: Both of those were garbbo out the gate
Invitare: yesw that one
Invitare: I couldn't remember its name
Mai_Andra: "Wait a minute... this is just Hollow Knight with a different character..."
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Mattmitchell45: Nah, they aren't Star Citizen
Mattmitchell45: They'd bounce back
Invitare: Star Citizen hasn't completed their first bounce yet
GapFiller: thing is Blizzard and Valve have gotten away w/ it
SocraticMethod: Team Cherry did contact PR agent. Must have been a boring job
SocraticMethod: contract*
GapFiller: then again it figures theyre the exceptions that prove the rule
recursioning: That's the sequel issue. They pay the price on the subsequent release
kingandcommoner: Psychonauts 2 ruled. it is possible we'll be okay
Izandai: My actual opinion is everyone who isn't a Kickstarter backer who's *mad* about the delays needs to get the hell over themselves. Team Cherry owes you NOTHING. The game will be out when it's out, and you can buy it or not, and that is where your relationship with the devs begins and ends.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Someone put it like this: They don't have investors, or a publisher, or shareholders demanding a release date, and they made so much money off of Hollow Knight, they can afford to just putter around with the game forever. Ultimately they're creators and never feel like they are "done"
TheMerricat: Didn't they manage to get their characters into like 1,001 different other games in crossover promotion?
Izandai: Hungry Knight is the game that The Knight came from.
frnknstn: Heck, Oblivion was delayed by 18 months past its announced release date, and nobody remembers or cares
GapFiller: Izandai problem there is that attitude can rapidly become a way to give devs (or creatives in general) a license to behave how they feel
TheMerricat: To be fair to Team Cherry, I think they are literally just three people so....
SocraticMethod: Hollow Knight was Team Cherry's first game not including couple game jam submissions
ratbabyonline: people let the deltarune team work forever...
ratbabyonline: edging game release
TheMerricat:
Star Citizen.
aerohydra: speaking of games not coming out soon, gta 6
wildpeaks: Star Citizen is a different case, it's their business model to bring more money
Wolfstrike_NL: It got up there with "Half Life 3"
Laserbeaks_Fury: The worst thing Skull and Bones ever did was actually release
GapFiller:
aerohydra beaten to the punch
Izandai: @GapFiller I think at the moment the pendulum has swung WAY too far in the direction of Gamers™ feeling entitled, in a bunch of different ways, with regards to not just devs but also journalists and reviewers and critics et al. We can afford to swing in another direction.
Shurtal: oh, hey Freebird
kingandcommoner: Beyond Good and Evil 2 will be great though. They promised
TheMerricat:
The coolest trick the Devil ever pulled was to make people not care about Silksong.
Earthenone: yeah its like Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime.
ratbabyonline: theres free birds in the park, all you can grab
GapFiller: oooh hidden games
s0lesurviv0r: nothing can convince me that Silksong isn't this generations Duke Nukem Forever
ThorSokar: Well, in 2022 Xbox said "coming out in the next 12 months", and now they're doing a museum showing, it just feels like this is the next Duke Nukem Forever (not that I care, I just find the entire thing amusing)
GapFiller: this is for THOSE kinda games innit
DoodlestheGreat: Mostly visual novels, I would wager.
RockPusher: Do you hide games by losing the virtual cartridge down the back of the couch?
TheMerricat: When did Nintendo unbunch their undies? I thought they were extremely anti-NSFW content?
CaptainSpam: Ah, like how Steam has the ability to make purchases private now?
Shurtal: @RockPusher you shove it into your box spring
Earthenone: hide lewds?
GapFiller: TheMerricat oh to be that innocent abt this tpoic
Wolfstrike_NL: How will I ever know who plays Panty Party now
Earthenone:
can you hide borrowed games to keep them longer?
ratbabyonline: i DO love a tidy ui on a console
CaptainSpam: It's back again again?
ratbabyonline: is it a blockchain gaming flappybird
Juliamon: It's still that, they're just now saying it's "definitely not" NFT
frnknstn: UFO50 has a flappy bird
RockPusher: push button, flap bird
Earthenone:
a friend of mine made afappy bird like called bouncy bear
ratbabyonline: PARDON?
Laserbeaks_Fury: It's just a Jetty Boot rip-of
Invitare: there's a Flappy Bird clone in Warframe
ratbabyonline: epic gamestore for android exclusive....
GapFiller: receipts are important yes
ratbabyonline: corporations love to lie
ratbabyonline: what if you could use the cosmetic from flappybird in the metaverse though
Laserbeaks_Fury: Sharable
wildpeaks: web3 and metaverse, two words that techbros hijacked from their original meaning and ruined
mtvcdm: That's called a seizure Beej
TheMerricat: Flappy Bird was free, what scared the dev was he was making over $50,000 a day just from the ad revenue in it.
ratbabyonline: its called watching "the new decks" crapshot
Laserbeaks_Fury:
it's literally a TNG episode
ThorSokar: There are 4 lights?
wildpeaks: off by one
mtvcdm: Yeah. Different puzzles will activate different stressors.
Laserbeaks_Fury: no the Wesley episode Ashley Judd was in
ratbabyonline: Beej knows what up
Lady_Abigor: Hello, All! I love Heather's mug. -b
TheMerricat: RIP the team that stayed in Russia.
LordZarano: 2048 was just someone's practice programming project on github iirc
ratbabyonline: did someone leak us documents in the world of tanks forums or something
Earthenone: is Tanks in thew cars universe?
mtvcdm: For some Blue Prince is a time suck like no other... for me I know what it would do to me and I want something chiller
ratbabyonline: to win a tank argument
kingandcommoner: more than warthunder?
Mai_Andra: Tanks for the Tank-god
RockPusher: Do these tanks have moe anime girls?
CaptainSpam: "The tri-city area's largest selection of tanks"
wildpeaks: tank dating game
TheMerricat: @ratbabyonline No the Russian government seized the russian 'arm' of the company as terrorists.
ratbabyonline: oh WORM?
DeM0nFiRe: I thought Wargaming has divested itself of its russian arm a long time ago?
TheMerricat: They had. but a section 'broke off' and stayed.
Lady_Abigor:
mtvcdm: Had
ratbabyonline:
wildpeaks: did they break off voluntarily or they weren't able to get out ?
Lady_Abigor:
mtvcdm: Ask Putin if he cares
wildpeaks: oof
DoodlestheGreat: @mtvcdm I'd first like to ask him if this drink tastes like Drano.
ratbabyonline: yeah hey what about those people?
RockPusher: Beej, plz
mtvcdm: Beej
ratbabyonline: raise puppies for the military
Izandai: Yeah yeah the Milkshake Duck, we've all seen it.
RockPusher: raises puppies… for Cruella DeVille
mtvcdm: Everyone loves milkshake duck
frnknstn: Raise puppies... to hunt foxes
DoodlestheGreat: Whats-his-face liked dachunds.
ratbabyonline: LA Noire is old... why couldnt it fit
Desruprot: the Joys of porting games
RockPusher: Kitty!
MTigress: they also get caught releasing collector's edition 3do games on cd-r
ThorSokar: "We're fully jumping on the you can never actually own anything again train" oh goody *grinds teeth*
mtvcdm: Your whole business premise
LathosTiran: ill take the compromise as long as the cart doesnt server check in
ThorSokar: Nintendo can't TAKE the game from you when they decide to turn the servers off
ratbabyonline: yeah the servers get shut down
ratbabyonline: omw to take beej's excitebike
ThorSokar: a download code which no longer works! (those servers are LONG gone)
LordZarano: Oh no. WinRAR stopped selling licences on CD-ROM in May last year! You can no longer get WinRAR on physical media!
ratbabyonline: how can i play dillon's rolling western nowwww
MTigress: if they're gonna make us have to download the game after we insert the key card, they should at least have the decency to make the game download onto the card so we don't need more storage space.
DoodlestheGreat: @LordZarano Can you still burn it onto a CD/DVD?
wildpeaks: exactly why I only buy from GOG anymore, physical isn't enough anymore to guarantee, I need the actual files to make the physical copy myself
DeM0nFiRe: Didn't Ubisoft do it with Project Cars? Or did they just shutdown servers?
ratbabyonline: i hope my dads copy of riven still works
ratbabyonline: (all 5 discs)
LathosTiran: server-call-home free
RockPusher: For now, Paul. For now.
wildpeaks: deleting system32, a classic
ratbabyonline: I definitely wiped some of my dads floppydiscs as a kid
TheMerricat:
Sure wasn't Matt Wiggins.
Izandai: Okay so this was not a full game run.
kingandcommoner: that's...really fast
RubikDarkwill: Note: It does start you in the castle. It's not from the start
kingandcommoner: @RubikDarkwill I was pretty sure that wasn't a full speedrun
kingandcommoner: that's still 20 min
Izandai: In BOTW if you hold down whistle and mash the run button you sprint at nearly full speed while recovering stamina.
ratbabyonline: i think if games are getting too big we should just have multiple discs/cartridges again
Izandai: That's called whistlesprinting, and yeah, there's been some concern in the speedrunning community about what stuff may or may not be patched.
GapFiller: eyyy Patch Notes
ratbabyonline: my good friend Patch Notes!
Izandai: @kingandcommoner WR is 22 minutes and 58 seconds.
wildpeaks: the deep shovel lore
BusTed:
ratbabyonline:
BusTed: mind controlled
kingandcommoner: "mind control"
Dread_Pirate_Westley: Nothing could possiblie go wrong.
Mazrae: The vote less are the zombies made from illumanite
mtvcdm: That sounds like dissident talk right there
BusTed: (E-710 is "oil" upside-down)
wildpeaks: ohno
TheMerricat:
"repulsive"
Izandai: Sure!
RockPusher: so a typical IT project then
ThorSokar:
"bold" is a choice of words there, 
BusTed:
Mazrae: The bots that were defeated was the "recon" force
ThorSokar: I do enjoy how they lean in to the insanity of the world they have built
ratbabyonline: its no deep rock galatic
Mazrae: After 600+ hours can confirm
ratbabyonline: but it is fun
mtvcdm: !youtube
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ratbabyonline: oh congrats violet
mtvcdm: !patreon
Snowcookies: ty for the stream
mtvcdm: !discord
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DeM0nFiRe:
ThorSokar: wooooooooooooooooow
mtvcdm: !bluesky
DoodlestheGreat: G'NITE KIDS!
DeM0nFiRe: Boxmander!
Joecool190 subscribed with Prime. They've subscribed for 43 months, currently on a 43 month streak!
Joecool190: cool
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TheAinMAP: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (The LRR crew plays Magic the Gathering! This week, BOOSTER BOX COMMANDER! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 05:00 PM PDT (59m from now).
ratbabyonline: what no beejlander
RockPusher: The Magic™ will continue…
mtvcdm: !contact
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ALL of LRR's active and official points of contact can be found on the Master Contact List: https://lrr.cc/contact
DoodlestheGreat: @ratbabyonline For another day.
TheAinMAP: !dbcountdown
LRRbot: Desert Bus for Hope will begin at Fri 23 May 04:00 PM PDT (20d, 23:59 from now)
ratbabyonline: despite our best efforts, magic persists
Mai_Andra:
"Wednesday Night Paper Fight" on Friday this week 
ratbabyonline: only an hour? oh boy
CaptainSpam: What you don't know is that the stream will go until 1am.
CaptainSpam: (PDT)
RockPusher: Eepy
mtvcdm: Oh right, the Indonesian girl in your head thing
RockPusher: I'm sure Ian will.
RockPusher: Ian gonna Ian
ratbabyonline: oh boy more wheeler car game
Chipton subscribed with Prime. They've subscribed for 105 months!
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mtvcdm: Wheeler Rumbles The Youths
Mai_Andra: a truthful account? on the House of Lies? <doubt>
ThorSokar: hahahaha
DoodlestheGreat: Ian will tell you all about it between explaining GQuuuuuuX episodes.
TheMerricat: You can indeed.
CaptainSpam: I still say I want a Thunderbirds Collection Simulator, or a Captain Scarlet and the Mysterions Collection Simulator.
DiscordianTokkan: Ooh. Midnight Murder Party again? That was fun
RockPusher: Shootys Man
GapFiller: OH this is gonna be a Helluva time
GapFiller:
esp for the mods
Juliamon: We want chat off, honestly
EvilBadman: and by "be good" you shut the heck up
mtvcdm: Surely this game is emoji chat only
DoodlestheGreat: Oh, I will say nothing to them.
TheMerricat: Talking Sim is a fully spoiled stream thoug.
ThorSokar: There's stuff in that game no one has figured out at all yet, can't spoil that
GapFiller: TheMerricat that means nothing in this case
wildpeaks: yeah the "fully spoiled" concept evaporated long ago
LordZarano: I've tagged a whole bunch of games on Steam as "Photography" in the hope that that will become a real tag
DoodlestheGreat: @ThorSokar It'd be hilarious if they discover something nobody else has.
an_archist2: wednesday night paper fight
couchboyj: Wednesday Night Paper Whallop?
GapFiller: just cz they dont care abt spoilers doesnt mean they dont care abt people playing silly buggers in chat
ThorSokar: it's entirely possibly, that game is insanely complicated DoodlestheGreat
couchboyj: Wednesday Night Paper Wamjangle
TheAinMAP:
mtvcdm: @TheMerricat Doesn't mean they want people in a puzzle game going 'oh have they found this yet?'
GapFiller:
100 Welcome Back Heather & Beej!
DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem and once again, welcome back beej & Heather!
mtvcdm: I propose emoji chat for Blue Prince
LordZarano: Bloop Rinse
RockPusher: It's a pune, or a play on words!
CookieMom: I had been playing for 40 days, watched someone on their first day, and had a puzzle spoiled. So. Y'know. YMMV.
DoodlestheGreat: It's KINDA like that, beej.
ThorSokar: You might need another notebook, I have 2 full now
CookieMom: I am at over 380 screenshots and counting. XD
DeM0nFiRe:
o/ 
mtvcdm: When Heather decides 'no no, I need BETTER notes, the BESPOKE notes', that's a sign of what you're getting into
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
Mai_Andra: @LordZarano "We have 'Splatoon' at home."
Desruprot: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (The LRR crew plays Magic the Gathering! This week, BOOSTER BOX COMMANDER! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 05:00 PM PDT (42m from now).
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