Manae: !next
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Manae:
RandomTrivia:
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TehAmelie: one day i have to make the effort to sort through my game libraries and figure out which one i've got this game on and play it, but for now, this is great
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Geldaran: Had 3 teeth pulled today, can't really talk... can you Simulate some Talking for me?
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TehAmelie: in a way, chat is a talking simulator
RandomTrivia: !chat
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RandomTrivia: Clearly wrong, we listen to Talking Simulator a lot
TehAmelie: just thinking about how writing helps when you can't actually speak
RandomTrivia: Oh that's certainly true
Geldaran:
@TehAmelie 
TheAinMAP: ?
RandomTrivia: Amazing
iris_of_ether:
RandomTrivia:
Sarah_Serinde:
RandomTrivia:
RandomTrivia: Scenes are hard, ok
TehAmelie: ah, Ash Lake, the still place
RandomTrivia:
Jillexie: Teleport
TehAmelie: and a Cameron!
richard_ermen: Ah, Cam took the Invisibility Cloak off
Amentur: Cam on cam
TheMerricat: Suddenly a Cameron!
Geldaran: a cameron appears!
TheAinMAP:
Hello 
Sarah_Serinde:
richard_ermen: Yay Camtent!
iris_of_ether: Hello
TheMerricat: We hear you!
Geldaran: yup, we hear yah.
Amentur: We hear you
Geldaran: owie.
richard_ermen: Playing Stellaris, having fun as nanopeople =)
Sarah_Serinde: Working in the midst of horrors, like you do
iris_of_ether: Have to do An Air Travel tomorrow :x
Sarah_Serinde: oh dear
noSmokeFire: gratz on the blood
Sarah_Serinde: Sounds like something you need
RandomTrivia:
That's not very metal of you 
Manae: But we need iron. For blood
richard_ermen: Does this mean Cam is going to be Iron Man?
goombalax: iron supps suck
AugmentingPath: Conquer more iron mines maybe?
Jillexie: I have the opposite problem: I have too much iron. Maybe we should swap.
Geldaran:
you need that to live. get ya some. 
richard_ermen: But "Good for you"
iris_of_ether: I hope you feel a lot better after
wedge_x: impervious to Magneto
RandomTrivia: Love it when feel better
Sarah_Serinde: funny how that works
TheMerricat: Remember to use that Iron Fish that everyone in Canada loves to remind everyone that Canadians came up with!
PaulStefko: Melting here in the eastern US.
richard_ermen: Have you tried supplementing yourself with more Vespene Gas instead?
iris_of_ether: Fiber?
TehAmelie: i did when i was younger. never liked them
noSmokeFire: that's Magneto at work
RandomTrivia:
artdecosunburn: Look forward to you chowing down on some rebar on stream.
richard_ermen: Ah yes, famous "shit like a brick"
RandomTrivia: Truly, a tradeoff for the ages
RandomTrivia:
MWGNZ: the duality of man
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ReiyChanter: Eat Oreo's they have a lot of iorn in them.
goombalax: the gummies arent as bad on the tummy, I suggest them
iris_of_ether: I expect nothing else
ArdCollider: the fish!
KaleidoscopeMind: the fish!
noSmokeFire: @goombalax gummies are kind of intrinsically less reliable for supplements. it's very hard to get a consistent (or efficacious) dose
iris_of_ether: Does The Fish work for biologically available iron?
richard_ermen: For some reason I was assuming that this would be a christian joke instead of iron-supply-fisch
KaleidoscopeMind: the fish is friend!
TehAmelie: my cousin when she was pregnant had this completely intuitive idea of making a bunch of tomato sauce in a cast iron pan. somehow she could feel she needed iron specifically
richard_ermen: Perserverance unlocked!
richard_ermen: Do you get an achievement for being perservering?
richard_ermen: World is at bad place right now.
OldUncleDan: Once I left my family farm, which had a bunch of iron in our well water, I started having iron deficency issues.
Steelwolf171: I have a fish, it's great if you want to drink water that tastes like liquid nails
iris_of_ether: Feeling better now that I've broken a half day fast. (Bloodwork)
TehAmelie: heavy metals have to be superior to iron, right? fish must be good for you
richard_ermen: That sounds kinda damgerous.
ContingentCat: nice round number yesss
noSmokeFire: @Steelwolf171 yum
OldUncleDan: @TehAmelie Lead and Mercury are both very heavy.
noSmokeFire: @Steelwolf171 "liquid nails" is my favorite Wutang Clan album
TehAmelie: that's like yesterday
richard_ermen: Which Breach are we going into?
noSmokeFire: will you do a follow up with the Baba is You crossover?
Amentur: Half way to being retro
ContingentCat: so only a year or so ago right?
Sarah_Serinde: Yeah that's like, 2-3 years ago right?
richard_ermen: I mean, New is kinda relative considering times have stopped mattering after the pandini
wedge_x: probably
beowuuf: it was *cries* years ago
PegasusB: Death of Stalin was 2018
AugmentingPath: yeah, but it's discouraged
niccus: no because they're lazy
iris_of_ether:
KaleidoscopeMind: voting for what to have for dinner, maybe
richard_ermen: Because unfeeling universe and stuff.
beowuuf: covid, like cameras, adds about 5 years
AugmentingPath: @PegasusB I could've sworn that was way longer ago
TehAmelie: i found out today a foster child my aunt had in 2007 now has an adult child. 2007? that was like last year wasn't it?
richard_ermen: Best of all worlds and gaming or something like that. Gamer Leibnitz.
RandomTrivia: In classic Subset Games style, they made an entire content update and just gave it out for free with the base game
RandomTrivia: Yeah that seems accurate
ContingentCat: Untill now!
ThePixelSavage: you are also 25% Warhammer lore to be fair
iris_of_ether: It's a brand new day
ContingentCat: sometimes you need to let things age in the game library for a bit
richard_ermen: Your entire Personality is NGE?
Geldaran: @ThePixelSavage by weight or volume?
richard_ermen: So basically...:"Penguins Applauding" is valid at this point?
richard_ermen: Did you know, there are NGE+Warhammer40k-Fanfics
LordZarano: Into the Breach is already in my Steam library and I have no memory of purchasing it. Thanks Humble Bundles, presumably
TehAmelie: what is the physical weight of that lore information you think?
accountmadeforants: I walked into "and all the dead flies are Warhammer lore"
richard_ermen: Actually, "Shinji and Warhammer 40k" is while not well written kinda amusing and really good for fanfics xD
richard_ermen: And it does kinda delve deeper into the background of the world
RandomTrivia: D'aww, thanks Graham!
richard_ermen:
Yay for Coffee and Graham 
accountmadeforants: @LordZarano Oh yeah, it's been in loads of bundles. It's a very good game
RandomTrivia: INCORRECT we love hearing Cameron talk about Cameron
richard_ermen: I'm all here for Cam- Content and the games are just bonus
ContingentCat: thankyou
TehAmelie: only being able to turn screen shake on or off seems dangerous
Spades_Slicc:
Uh Oh, Cameron's identified himself as an "Alpha" the iron supplements are getting to him 
RandomTrivia:
richard_ermen: Three sentences, instant story.
DaxStrife: Start game, lose game. Reminds me of "Please Don't Press Anything."
AugmentingPath: Long walk, but a shorter swim
RandomTrivia: Also, strap in for another Ben Prunty masterpiece of a soundtrack
SquallLoir: thank you Cam, I needed the exercise!
James_the_Dabbler: oh this game rocks
LordZarano: α?
RandomTrivia: FtL, probably
richard_ermen: So I kinda hear that the theme of today is iron fish. Can we name something "Iron Fish"?
accountmadeforants: Taking enough iron supplements to slowly form a dense molten core and start emitting alpha particles.
RandomTrivia: Fair and valid
beowuuf: too random?
RandomTrivia: It does do that
DaxStrife: Mood.
MWGNZ: same
Geldaran: huh... i kinda get that. it was very random, especially early on. as you unlock more it gets easier.
TehAmelie: i have heard the randomness here is dialed back a lot
accountmadeforants: Understandable. Into The Breach is a lot more fair in my experience.
richard_ermen: It had a lot of "true random".
RandomTrivia: Big robot fist make big punch good
goombalax: you open the sack of grain. lethal spores explode into your face. you die, no save
beowuuf: i think that makes us the monsters?
artdecosunburn: This angle is giving me "Syndicate II" vibes on screen.
DoodlestheGreat: @accountmadeforants Iron supplements: Made from the transmission of 1968 Chevy malibu.
goombalax: YES
iris_of_ether: Oooh
goombalax: YES YOU DOOOOO
DaxStrife: You 100% need to play Lancer. I recommend the "In Golden Flame" campaign, too.
PBlackcoat: I wanted to like lancer so much more than I did
noSmokeFire: I'm a big lancer fan. It's not a perfect system, but it's got a lot of great tactics DNA
TehAmelie: that's the Kill 6 Billion Demons guy's game right
iris_of_ether: Yes it is
HLP_The_E: In golden Flame is soooo goooood
noSmokeFire: I'd really love to hear your thoughts on the lore
goombalax: KSBD fucking rocks
HLP_The_E: also, there is currently a sale for all official lancer books on itch.ion
TehAmelie: it's been close to ending for a couple of years so, good time to read it
iris_of_ether: I didn't like K6BD at first. Then I very much did
DaxStrife: There is a hardcover copy, yeah.
HLP_The_E: the core book is available as hardcover
PBlackcoat: Yep! It's gorgeous too
noSmokeFire: only the core rule book of lancer has had a hardcover release. they did a recent reprint, but supplies might be low
HLP_The_E: they did a second print run!
DaxStrife: They did a 2nd printing recently, yeah?
Master_Gunner: I love having ebooks for reference, but yeah I'm not actually reading one.
RandomTrivia: Normal
goombalax: maybe now that you have iron you can use e-books
richard_ermen: Depending on where the books get printed, it can be incredibly expensive, sadly =(
richard_ermen: Easy
RandomTrivia: Normal is FTL Normal, which is to say already a difficult puzzle
shushu2539: Hard? for a chellenge
falke7688: hard
accountmadeforants: Normal or Easy. The game gives you some time to learn
James_the_Dabbler: Normal for the first one, then bump it up
aitsu100: id say start with normal and adjust
richard_ermen: That's NGE af
accountmadeforants: So yeah, that's the real fun gimmick, you know what your enemy's going to do.
DaxStrife: Flashbacks to CtS last night: we built a giant mech and all it can do is punch.
shushu2539: a mantis arrived
RandomTrivia:
shushu2539: do flying bugs also die when they are pushed into water tiles?
HLP_The_E: flyers keep fyling
RandomTrivia: I think you can if your mechs are in the right position on the previous turn, because that affects where they move to
ShaneLeeAtk: Such casuals
TehAmelie: what kind of mech battle would it be if you didn't knock over a few skyscrapers
accountmadeforants: The game is very good at going "Here's your energy bar, it's ALL THAT MATTERS" and then casually dropping an "Anyway, losing that single blip of your bar killed a hundred people"
RandomTrivia: Nice
RandomTrivia: X-comme is lovely and I second this idea
Ranakel: As a frenchman who never thought of X-comme, you ARE very clever Cameron.
HLP_The_E: into the breach and tactical breach wizards are both games that do "a puzzle dressed up as a tactical challenge"
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TehAmelie: reminds me of Zone of the Enders, although that game was so floaty and low res i never even noticed killing boatloads of people until the score cards told me
RandomTrivia:
Welcome raiders! 
beowuuf: o/
ShaneLeeAtk: Welcome, Raiders!
TehAmelie: possibly i played it in a period when i needed new glasses >_>
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RandomTrivia: (it provides a passive buff to all Vek)
HLP_The_E: green psions give other enemies more health
AugmentingPath: old earth arty has move
AugmentingPath: but maybe not a good move
James_the_Dabbler: You can reset
RandomTrivia: Once per battle reset is perhaps the best QoL thing you could have in a game like this
TehAmelie: just noticed we're on an actual chess board
accountmadeforants: You can also always undo any moves you did before attacking (with Undo Move)
niccus: yeah for a hot second a lot of people were posting screenshots on socials asking for advice, the chessboard notation helps
goombalax: learning experience
RandomTrivia: ^
Jensling: Speaking of puzzlier X-coms, thoughts on Phoenix Point?
HLP_The_E: also note that you can mouseover enemies to see their turn order
accountmadeforants: Note that attacking (or other action) essentially confirms that move, requiring a reset. But you can at least reposition freely
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HLP_The_E: this is helpful to orchestrate them
HLP_The_E: also killing psions removes their buffs
RandomTrivia:
Welcome raiders!
NoNameFae: hallo
shushu2539: maybe the corp is drying the planet to extract power and the bugs are trying to defend it
Laserbeaks_Fury: I know I've played this but all I can really remember is it felt more puzzle solvy than typical strategy game
RandomTrivia: Mistaking forward
accountmadeforants: @Laserbeaks_Fury It's for sure a puzzle game dressed up as a turn-based strategy game
TehAmelie: i figure strategy comes in if you start counting acceptable losses
Spades_Slicc: It'd be hilarious if you got a bonus for killing enemies next to cities because onlookers were getting hype watching robot kaiju battles
RandomTrivia: Still did both objectives
goombalax: Archive
RandomTrivia: If you click the area once, you can preview the map and the objectives
accountmadeforants: I do also like that despite initially showing casualties, it does give you the benefit of rephrasing it as how many civilians you've saved
Spades_Slicc: moral paradigm?
goombalax: think of all the fun I've missed, think of all the civilians I Haven't killed
TehAmelie: calibrate the parsimoniousness of our moral framework? if we wanna be really fancy
DaxStrife: All civilians would be killed without your intervention, ergo any civilians you save are a positive result.
niccus: today's EoE story has a very good aside on a faction's moral relativism
falke7688: you can push them onto the spawning spots to prevent new enemies from spawning
goombalax: ooh gotta read today's
niccus: everyone's doing great work and nobody's dying
e_bloc: I am very hyped for it
Spades_Slicc: Nice crapshot today
TS_Terrapin: or just stand on it yourself
falke7688: and they take damage when someone tries to spawn underneath them
James_the_Dabbler: Artilerycan hit the bug tho
goombalax: pave the save
accountmadeforants: Abandoning the timeline is in fact a game mechanic
QuixoticScrivener: does this game have meta progress?
TS_Terrapin: It does have meta progress
HLP_The_E: yes
shushu2539: perfection is the enemy of.. something, I forgot the phrase
satyropodobny: mmm yes fresh unspoiled succulent timeline
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electric_claire: It's been so long since I've seen you play a strategy game, Cam. And one of my favorites, no less!
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accountmadeforants: @QuixoticScrivener You get access to different units and pilots, though technically they're supposed to be balanced (they're not, really)
St3thrich: oh boy i used to grind in this game so hard 😅
St3thrich: allies can pass through each other so u didnt need to move the support artilery
TehAmelie: can you grind already finished missions by the way?
St3thrich: no u cant a finished mission cant be replayed how ever it is possible that a similar level appears on an other isalnd
St3thrich: *cant grind a finished
TehAmelie: guess that would ruin the xp curve
RandomTrivia: There's a good artillery angle here
RandomTrivia: (and typing any more would be backseating)
HLP_The_E: flying bugs that attack mechs are ignorable -
goombalax: no the pagoda
HLP_The_E: if a bug attacks a mech, it isn't attacking a building
accountmadeforants: Yeah, your mechs are repaired between missions, the civilians aren't
St3thrich: remember the artillery mechs shot can push enemies and ur mechs away from their position when the artillery shot lands beside them
RandomTrivia: Oh that is a RUDE pod location, nobody has the movement
HLP_The_E: mechs can swim
St3thrich: get that pod!
RandomTrivia: Mechs can swim yes, but the pod can't
Greyah: It's a rude pod, but technically obtainable.
electric_claire: You play this for long enough and you get really creative.
RandomTrivia: I suppose we could take a bunch of grid damage and use our own pushing weaponry to get that last tile of movement
TS_Terrapin: Somewhere, there's a way to see the sequence of events after your turn, it shows things like the flodding happening before attacks.
couchboyj: I always thought this game would make fir the basis of an interesting two player or solo boardgame.
Greyah: @TS_Terrapin Yep. Top of the screen, next to the turn counter.
RandomTrivia: Turn counter in the top right
accountmadeforants: Turns Left
Gekyouryuu: I hate that twitch has a minimum amount of time that has to pass before it announces going live again, because I'll constantly forget it's Tuesday and miss most of talking sim because it's too close to mine o'clock
TehAmelie: well, we saved everybody that time
narset6691: the bugs always leave at the end, buggos seem to like skirmishes only
RandomTrivia: lol, classic
narset6691: landmines are not your friend
RandomTrivia: Get self-owned, nerds
Greyah: Bugs, known for their big smart.
AugmentingPath: @narset6691 they look like friends to me...
RandomTrivia: (you can walk *across* the mines safely)
RandomTrivia: I think?
RandomTrivia: If not you can undo move
satyropodobny: [that handshake picture from The Office]
electric_claire: You just can't end there.
narset6691: as can they
Amentur: Just don't end movement on the mind
HLP_The_E: you can walk over mines, but you cannot end your move on them
HLP_The_E: neither can they
satyropodobny: they should have sent a poet
HLP_The_E: also, you want to block spawns
electric_claire: Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru
RandomTrivia:
Step over them, don't step *ON* them 
narset6691: if you checked the attack order the bug that shoots might have killed the hornet guy
satyropodobny: dont end the MOVE on mines
TheMagicWalrus: can you push the mines
electric_claire: You can always choose to repair.
narset6691: if you punch the scorpion it would be in the path of the shooting bug
Ranakel: I love how this game makes you eventually go "thank goodness the enemies targetted my units and not the environment" as well
electric_claire: You'll start to figure it out.
narset6691: oh yea this game is hard in that regard
electric_claire: At this difficulty level, you can always perfect every level but it takes a bit to get there.
hayhaiya: it really is such an intricate puzzle where the second you make a move, you see a better one
satyropodobny: That why i don play perfect information games; no RNG to help me hide my incompetence
Greyah: I love that about this game. It's real hard, but it's one of the best puzzle games where I've actively felt myself getting better at it.
RandomTrivia: You may want to check up on that objective...
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electric_claire: Vec can kill each other, btw
electric_claire: Not only that, their attacks have friendly fire.
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Spades_Slicc: Would you have lost or would you have not obtained a bonus objective?
RandomTrivia:
Rip in pieces Cameron's free time
satyropodobny: It's alright timeline, I'm just going to the store for some milk
v_nome: Long live Cameron
Sarah_Serinde: I'll miss Cameron
Spades_Slicc: Is perfection the only measure of success?
MWGNZ: killed by iron
TheMagicWalrus: any failure is complete failure
Spades_Slicc: idk
Spades_Slicc: fun
RandomTrivia: (Cameron is doing a bit)
RatherLargeToad:
no one strives to be mediocre
QuixoticScrivener: Cam, please quit giving a voice to my imposter syndrome.
Spades_Slicc: punching big\ insects with a giant robot
wildpeaks: complete and total victory
RandomTrivia: Congrats on successfully bullying all the bugs
Spades_Slicc: Okay so you can't move a unit that's attacked
Spades_Slicc: No one was using those mountains, right?
RandomTrivia: "Look, they're lining up!" "Well, they're excited"
RandomTrivia:
Spades_Slicc: Whelp, no one else was burning that forest
TehAmelie: we're adding value to the landscape here, making the minerals in those mountains more easily accessible
satyropodobny: very demure, very glamour turn
v_nome: Breaks are for closers
RandomTrivia:
That's the other thing this game will do to you - you've been playing for an hour already
wildpeaks: have we earned a break
NexVesica: Just one more turn
couchboyj: Commerce is fleeting, Kaiju Chess is eternal
Greyah: That bug found a gun somewhere. Rude.
electric_claire:
That was worse the second time around
RandomTrivia: That took way longer to pop up than I was expecting
wildpeaks: now we know, for Science
shehatamahmoud999: hey man do you need short form video editor?
wildpeaks: hitting one bug using another bug
RandomTrivia: Check the attack order to find out when the rocket launches
satyropodobny: the grid dmg chance is just there to tempt you. Do not fall for it's sirens song
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electric_claire: That's how the game works.
RandomTrivia: You unlock new pilots through gameplay, and they all have different abilities
electric_claire: It gives you a little edge.
Greyah: You always get to keep one pilot unless they all die.
wildpeaks: sounds like a solid plan
RandomTrivia: Every few days, yeah
niccus: you hope for a groundhog day but you get a russian doll
vinewood_og: Oh yeah. Reset.
shushu2539: !break
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firehawkzoa: I started playing this a few days ago when I saw it on the schedule and I haven't graduated from easy yet
wildpeaks: this is how I ended up doing 300 hours of KCD2 and barely reached the wedding, kept starting over
ContingentCat: oh god yeah, I decided to finally do my name change and rather than have my old name in my email I made a new one, an empty google account is quite a thing
wildpeaks:
congrats
ContingentCat: thanks, it's been fun updating all my accounts -_-
Bruceski: Just got my water heater replaced after three weeks of cold showers. Yay! The "should only take an hour" job took four because code's changed in the last 30 years.
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niccus: the EoE ch 2 excerpt: The Solar Knights (and the whole Sunstar faith) compute their idea of goodness on scales so large that they tend to crush the small.
niccus: If it's mathematically likely that your presence might distract them from an enemy maneuver that reduces their chance of victory fractionally, thus jeopardizing, in ultima, the future of all stars in the cosmos—it becomes morally imperative to erase you, just for the crime of possibly distracting them.
TehAmelie: reminiscent of the villains' motivation in The World We Make
OldUncleDan: LRR has definitely changed my behavior in new and exciting ways. Now, whenever I make a Bird deck in Arena, I switch my Avatar to Aurelia. Because she is a "Pretty Bird Lady."
accountmadeforants:
@OldUncleDan 
OldUncleDan: Reference: Crapshots Ep 594 "The Mentor"
accountmadeforants: Oh yeah, that's a great one
wildpeaks: welcome back
Ranakel: Imagine being perceived accurately. Couldn't be me.
Spades_Slicc: Now imagine how much you'd enjoy reading Kill 6 Billion Demons
ContingentCat: how dare they
wildpeaks: "how dare you perceive me"
vinewood_og: FACTS
wildpeaks: exactly
Ranakel: Ahahah
CypherRaze: The audacity of being perceived.
satyropodobny: when the cannon pushes that one bug so it pushes the other bug and the dopamine receptors go brrrrrrr:
CypherRaze: Accurately perceived? In this economy??
wildpeaks: the sheer gall
Ranakel: Armored Core 4 taught me to love the walker spider mechs
TehAmelie: that was funny. even at like 14 years old i immediately thought "it's going to think even if you don't like it"
niccus: can't imagine.
Greyah: I like it when mech variety is so varied. Like not just various flavors of humanoid, but also tanks and heliocathopters and whatnot.
JoeKim: hello nerds. how are the murder puzzles
accountmadeforants: I like the casual use of time travel with clearly no repercussions whatsoever
electric_claire: I have found it best to ignore that impulse.
wildpeaks: complete mastery
Astramentha: it’s that one episode of Lowe decks where he tries to 100% the borg holodeck scenario
QuixoticScrivener: As I start act 1 of Baldur’s Gate for the 35,000th time.
OldUncleDan: I wish Battletech did more with Quad Mechs and made them viable.
Spades_Slicc: Actually no, I've never regretted a single pen stroke. "Error" is an opportunity to understand and change one's goal
vinewood_og: I think about that A LOT
TehAmelie: all you need is to find the right order of operations to solve the world
wildpeaks: must, solve, puzzle
wedge_x: ahh Battletech... aka Stupid Dune
niccus: Countdown (violent)
CypherRaze: Isn't that just the recipe for life?
TehAmelie: if you've just got energy drinks you could last months
electric_claire: Don't worry, the game only takes ~48 hours to 100%, you'll survive.
wildpeaks: "unfuck this house", the bugs edition
RandomTrivia: Ignore where they are now, they will move before you
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accountmadeforants: I once spent like 10 hours straight playing this game. In my defense(?), I was sick and recovering (it did not help with my recovery).
RandomTrivia:
RandomTrivia: !genius
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JoeKim: lmaoooo
Greyah: What's the saying? No plan survives first contact with the enemy?
JoeKim: the confidence into horror
Spades_Slicc: How did that wasp set a forest on fire
satyropodobny: rook takes geofront
TehAmelie: everyone underestimates the bug artillery huh
Ranakel: That's too harsh a judgement. I wouldn't say you killed 97 people. I would say you let 97 people die.
accountmadeforants: Don't worry, at some point the curvature of the Earth will deal with that shot
Spades_Slicc: and also the kaiju killed 97 people, you heroically decided which 97 people died
TehAmelie: we were the only ones who could have saved them, it had to be done right at that moment, but we failed
satyropodobny: take that damage like a man private twinkletoes
JoeKim: a win is a win is a win
TehAmelie: easy peasy Gary Sinise
TehAmelie: as i heard someone say today
RandomTrivia: "plan"?
goombalax: I wonder if this is like Anachrony where you have to later shoot pods into the timestream in order to avoid temporal paradox
accountmadeforants: Maybe humanity should just put these mines everywhere that isn't a city. In fact, why don't we just send a bunch of mines back in time instead of mechs?
Cptasparagus: oooh I love this game
Cptasparagus: on a semi-related note, I just found out about a FTL mod that adds like 200 ships and a ton of content and its consumed my life a bit
goombalax: "69 casualties, nice" "Sir those people are dead"
RandomTrivia:
accountmadeforants:
satyropodobny:
Skeletonman1100: so what is the premise here? Are we time traveling?
iris_of_ether: Cam OMG
RandomTrivia: No bonus time traveller in the pod, scammed
Cptasparagus: @Skeletonman1100 looping
accountmadeforants: @Skeletonman1100 We're mechs fighting big bugs and when the big bugs win (or we don't play optimally enough) we ditch the timeline and go back in time
Greyah: @Skeletonman1100 Bugpocalypse happened, mech pilots travel back in time to save alternate timelines from bugpocalypse.
Skeletonman1100: gotcha
TehAmelie: if i had to be the victim of some mass destruction it could be worse than being one of 69
Cptasparagus: UNESCO World Heritage Site: "Bar"
Species5618Beta:
TheAinMAP:
JoeKim: its a learning curve game
Jorsh029: Hi, Cam! Hi, chat! I love this game so much
JoeKim: RIP
RandomTrivia:
Invitare: the arrangement of the letters and numbers at the bottom of the board is kind of annoying me. I feel it should be the other way around
Cptasparagus: burn the whole time down
RandomTrivia:
TehAmelie: @Invitare i thought that too
JoeKim: pour one out for that multiverse
wildpeaks: perfection shall happen
goombalax:
Invitare: @TehAmelie It's the opposite of a spreadsheet
Jorsh029: It's definitely a learning curve game, but hoo boy, when you get it right, you feel like the smartest person on the planet
iris_of_ether:
Ranakel: "Still less than perfect" I hear, blaring from the mech's speakers from my appartment, as the would be saviors suddenly disappear.
wildpeaks: the laws of space and time are yours
TehAmelie: it's a chess board turned 45° in the wrong direction
RandomTrivia: You can still get it
RandomTrivia: Your mechs survive water
Jorsh029: Hey, bug, I am the one who squishes!
Invitare: it's very off-putting the mildly frustrating kind of way
Jorsh029:
Perfect, I didn't see any pod to get 
satyropodobny: we shall call that vek Jimmy
RandomTrivia: Jimmy does way more damage if you explode him
Jorsh029: I think it tells you how much damage they plan to do if you hover over them
TehAmelie: the solution is to master the Matrix. we're looking at the board from the wrong angle, but it's just a matter of turning your perspective 90°
satyropodobny: Jimmy is a metaphor you see
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TheAinMAP: I like trains.
HasturTheYellow: But what if the train is late?
Geldaran: montser train 2 is a different stream tho.
RandomTrivia: You will come to LOATHE this particular train
Ranakel: M'trak
Jorsh029: Must defend God's perfect machine
satyropodobny: this is why you abandon timeline with a pilot from imperfect one
thesurfaceofthemoon:
Ah! Just tuned in. This is one of my favorite games
RandomTrivia:
The resist! 
Ranakel: He's beginning to believe!
Jorsh029: The train provides
gibbousm: I feel like I've seen Cam play this before but I don't recall how much progress they've made
Wolfstrike_NL: Gotta protect caboose chan
Ranakel: There's a line.
AtomicAlchemical: Heck yeah, LOVE into the breach
gsyhiap: A train lilne, in fact.
gsyhiap: *line
RandomTrivia: Range is yes
Ranakel: Mech health is a resource.
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RandomTrivia: Flawless
Ranakel: Protected the train, run's flawless
RandomTrivia: Grats on saving Horace
Fanklok: I just got absolutely demolished by a Vivi on turn 3, how's it going for you Cam
Cptasparagus: but what if we let them destroy the coal plant and replaced it with solar...
Greyah: I love that each mech team has you kinda relearning the game because their abilities are so vastly different.
Jorsh029: Figuring out the action economy to deal with multiple bugs with one mech is super satisfying
UnhappyYak: I love when they decide to attack my mechs instead of a city
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UnhappyYak: is knocking bugs into water or into mountains more satisfying?
Greyah: @UnhappyYak Water, each and every time. The "splash!" sound is too funny.
OtherEdgeworth: Just a heads up Cam, you can Undo moves freely until the last attack you made, without needing to reset the turn
Jorsh029: One tip I picked up is if you only move your units and don't take actions, you can undo the moves. Helped me a ton with planning
Spades_Slicc: "If only i could attack on the diagonal" -A chess rook envious of the bishops
RandomTrivia: Oh boy, here we go!
RandomTrivia: Boss tim!
RandomTrivia: *time
TS_Terrapin: yup, you don't get to do every mission
RandomTrivia: Hornet is a particularly rude boss to get on first run
Technobach: There goes the beautiful mountain skyline
Ranakel: Rofling Maw is a magic card I'd play
RandomTrivia: The boss will always attack before everything else
gsyhiap: Those buildings were about to be floorless
RandomTrivia: Cameron nol.... oh no
RandomTrivia: One iime resist...
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Ranakel: Learning has happened.
Cptasparagus: the pilot in orange always looks like a dog to me
gsyhiap: F
RandomTrivia: We're laughing at least partially *with* you
Geldaran: Us? never.
TS_Terrapin: Nah, the game is hard.
Fantusta: _I_ was saying boo urns
Jorsh029: I have sunk so many hours into losing this game, it's very good
OtherEdgeworth: I believe it
Ranakel: It is only the small laugh of seeing one's past struggles faithfully recreated
aitsu100: i enjoy you are enjoying this game
Cptasparagus: this game got me through a lot of long experiments in grad school, its great
goombalax: this reminds me of X-com Ironman but without the 97% missed shots
HasturTheYellow: I've lost enough Pawnbarian and Shotgun King rounds to not seeing lines I should have seen
AtomicAlchemical: Nah, chat has your back. This game hard punishes even slight misplays
HasturTheYellow: That this is perfectly reasonable
Greyah: Dang those bugs are big and sturdy if they can tank a train collision like that.
satyropodobny: but why refuse to participate in this games progression mechanic?
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Fantusta: It's webbing time!
RedArrogantKnight: yeah this is a tough board
souper____douper: yay i love this game
Bassios: I missed the start of this, but this game looks great fun. And also intensely infuriating.
Fantusta: Splish splash
accountmadeforants:
If only there were some space right behind that artillery bug we could hit. Sadly the world is flat with some numbers and letters around the edges 
TehAmelie: tfw a game makes you so mad you barely notice how much fun you're having
RandomTrivia:
Ranakel: Train must go choo
accountmadeforants: Jimmy's back!
accountmadeforants: We may have lost some people, but at least a yellow bug survived
Spades_Slicc: I started reading Kill Six Billion Demons at the start of this stream, I am delighted to report that I just met the character Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels Timothy Tim Bill Freddy Mercury Blueberry Luna, Esquire
satyropodobny: It's afraid!
Greyah: @Spades_Slicc The drinking game was what sold me on the comic. Nowadays I own all the volumes that've been printed so far.
RandomTrivia: Pushing things onto mines triggers the mines...
RandomTrivia:
Eeeeee, that was close
Spades_Slicc: I don't need to know details but does PMMJJJDTTBFMBLE (Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels Timothy Tim Bill Freddy Mercury Blueberry Luna, Esquire) return?
BrindleBoar: @Spades_Slicc yes
Spades_Slicc: good
HasturTheYellow: Gotta love games that give interesting decisions
RandomTrivia: Going even further beyond, in a very literal sense
HasturTheYellow: Not just solely "Number go up" but those numbers having a meaning
Greyah: The upgrade isn't permanent I think? You can swap it out later if you get more points.
satyropodobny: jump good
firehawkzoa: One more further I feel like move is better than health
RandomTrivia: You need multiple reactor bars for the damage upgrade
RandomTrivia: THE POD
RandomTrivia: Welp
Lord_Hosk: How could you know that? What are you some sort of FUTURE MAN?
KeytarCat: @RandomTrivia Oh, those aren't tiers those are requirements
Greyah: Dang, stone cold.
RandomTrivia: @KeytarCat Yep, each blob is 1 reactor needed for that upgrade
HasturTheYellow: Who'd want a time pod that's destined to get destroyed?
Greyah: @HasturTheYellow I would. Hook me up with those tasty reactor cores. Nomnom get my mechs more zoomy.
RandomTrivia:
HasturTheYellow: Does Air Strike happen before or after Bug Attacks?
Species5618Beta: Before
HasturTheYellow: That's very useful then
satyropodobny: just noticed theres an alphanumeric grid for advanced backseating
aitsu100: this is a much nicer map
RandomTrivia:
Good question
OtherEdgeworth: @satyropodobny I wonder if anyone has come up with a full chess-like notation for each mech, vek, and attack
accountmadeforants: It says something about the end of the world that it turns even CEOs into selfless people, what with protecting the corporate tower being an optional objective. (Then again, maybe this is a proper non-profit.)
satyropodobny: @OtherEdgeworth If Bloons Tower defense can have its notation, so can this
accountmadeforants: @OtherEdgeworth The notation isn't on by default, so I doubt it got enough attention for that.
accountmadeforants: *grid indices
OtherEdgeworth: @accountmadeforants I was going to say, was there an update or something since I last played (years ago) as I hadn't seen it before
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HasturTheYellow: Never didn't have it
HasturTheYellow: Those other timelines don't exist
satyropodobny: bet she hates the Glee Club too
ludusprime: gotta block emergences more
KeytarCat: And nothing of value was lost
accountmadeforants:
RandomTrivia: It is a VERY compelling gameplay loop
satyropodobny: Celestine nooooooooo
niccus: i'm afraid you're loved
KeytarCat: The ordeal of being known, or as I frame it, the joy of being loved
accountmadeforants: Perfect information is great, and hurtful (see: hundreds of years of people playing chess)
BrindleBoar: and artillery
HasturTheYellow: Even if you could rewind time by say, two hours, you could theoretically win any lottery
hyalopterous: Yes, chess is far too deterministic
satyropodobny: Life is like a hurricane here in duckburg
HasturTheYellow: The question is what would you do?
goombalax: imagine moving a queen to take a pawn and you fail the charge
Daakku: move pawn roll die, whelp hit a mine... again
MacSquizzy: Inspired take
HasturTheYellow: Oh lord, the amount of ninja'd posts
niccus: one day you should play sirlin's chess 2 vs the oki oki boys
MacSquizzy: Almost makes me wonder if you've just started
Ranakel: Why chess when you can instead throw ludicrous amounts of money at bad poker hands until you get one good one and call yourself the best poker player in the world
KeytarCat: i would get an A in Posting, a thing that is both reasonable to wish for and possible to achieve
Ranakel: Trains are good to defend.
RandomTrivia: The idea of perfection in hindsight, coupled with the lure of being able to start again and maybe do it perfectly *this time*
TheAinMAP:
Gekyouryuu: Cam, you just reminded me, I saw a GREAT pic of someone saying "saw a tweet that said "if vaccines caused autism, America would have trains"
RandomTrivia:
vinewood_og: HOLY SHIT
accountmadeforants:
BrindleBoar: objectively true
HasturTheYellow: @Gekyouryuu Now we know who got the power to rewind time two hours
vinewood_og: Apt
KeytarCat: They run in straight lines, at regular times, efficiently? Trains are pretty great
Sethalidos: and 973 different Chrome Tabs
Ranakel: It's good to enjoy jokes about autism that aren't demeaning autistic people. It's like humor can do more than cause suffering or something
HasturTheYellow: @KeytarCat They don't even need to be straight lines if you've got gentle enough curves
KeytarCat: Vaccines cause autism in that it allows for continued existence
vinewood_og: Spaceships are my trains. Something about the ability to LEAVE.
ArdCollider: "Top employers of autistic people revealed as IT, retail and the X-Men" from the Daily Tism this week ended me.
Ranakel: "Certainly not diagnosed but something ain't right" should go on a tramp stamp
Gekyouryuu: autistic hyperfixation on enjoying beachfront scenery, call that "not diagnosed, but pretty shore."
KeytarCat:
Ranakel:
RandomTrivia:
RandomTrivia: It's like XCOM, except if XCOM were less XCOM-y
satyropodobny: hey free mech
vinewood_og: Lost another career path to AI
LoadingReadyRun: x-comme
RandomTrivia: X-Comme is absolutely inspired
BrindleBoar: I mean, those timelines were scuffed anyway.
HasturTheYellow: XCOM without missing a 97% hit chance
bytecaster: XCOM fans should be called X-Comrades, send tweet
Gekyouryuu: when the sequel drops the XCOM style, it's an Ex-comme
vinewood_og: With flanking! WTF RNG
TS_Terrapin: Also without the base management
Sethalidos: then is it REALLY XCOM?
satyropodobny: its xcom but the game doesnt lie to you
BrindleBoar: X-Quommė
vinewood_og: PAIN
KeytarCat: Death is real
wedge_x: just like destiny
KeytarCat: but can't hurt you
RandomTrivia: As we know, reality is unrealistic sometimes
bytecaster: Is this ... postmodern?
Ranakel: Matter matters.
bytecaster: Matter making simulations of matter is kinda weird
KeytarCat: @bytecaster I'd have said postclassical, but I don't know much about x-commes
RandomTrivia: "The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash doesn't actually exist either, but is just the sum total of all the different ways of looking at it if it did"
HasturTheYellow: Humanity loves to protect corporate interests
Ranakel: Bye!
KeytarCat: Thank!
Ashmantle:
Sefiya: bye!
accountmadeforants: Frogs are gone, etc.
vinewood_og:
Please reboot the simulation. Tabula Rasa. Thanks Cam. Great stream!
bytecaster: Wait, what? Nice!
Juliamon: Oh, heck yeah
ContingentCat: Huh cool
accountmadeforants: Oh, huh, yeah, James did mention they were just going to scramble for a popular game
Lord_Hosk: We made rocks think. And in making those rocks think we thought... lets make those rocks think about rouge like robots fighting bugs with the ability to save skum built into the game as a mechanic.
BrindleBoar: mood
RandomTrivia: Did that bonus stream get added since MoC?
Juliamon: yes it did
RandomTrivia: Worth it
BrindleBoar: worth
accountmadeforants: Absolutely reasonable
RandomTrivia: Presumably
Ranakel: Afterlife was a cool city builder
bytecaster: On a thursday?!?
satyropodobny: any chance for a Victoria 3 playthrough on this segment now that it's finally good?
BrindleBoar: Life 2: Isekai
vinewood_og: Nouns!
bytecaster: Nah, feel free to brag
Spades_Slicc: I hear you've been forcefeeding people ramen
accountmadeforants: Undisputed champion
bytecaster: Oh, the plank with an amulet?
Ranakel: Squall is such a fun card, enjoy him in brawl too
RandomTrivia: "What about second ramen?"
Ranakel: Well, as much as one can enjoy brawl anyway
Spades_Slicc: The salt will preserve the organs
TheAinMAP:
Fanklok: He needs the carbs honestly
SquareDotCube: turn Squall into a ramen bomb
accountmadeforants: I'm cackling
RandomTrivia: You have such a way with words, Cameron
SquareDotCube: behold the mazemen
Ranakel: I sense a theme
bytecaster: I enjoy fighting the street day
JessieImproved: something. will. happen.
Ranakel: Something's gonna happen, I heard
bytecaster: Oh, this week is stacked
Gekyouryuu: ooooooh, anime time! and I know far enough in advance to be present
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RandomTrivia:
Always a pleasure, Cam - thanks for the stream
accountmadeforants: o7
vinewood_og:
OtherEdgeworth: o7
ContingentCat: thanks cam o7
kamilucky: Wait this game is awesome! im here for it
ContingentCat: !next
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