beowuuf:
title change 
PharaohBender27:
Ahoy-hoy! 
beowuuf:
beowuuf: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Play it Forward (After conquering It Takes Two, Paul and Heather are moving on to Split Fiction! Game: Split Fiction) at Sat 09:00 AM PDT (0s from now).
PharaohBender27:
!
TheAinMAP:
beowuuf:
TXC2: CONTACT
PharaohBender27: Well done, beowuuf!
beowuuf: weeee
beowuuf: are we taking bets on whether this is the finale?
SaxPython:
TXC2: we'll have to wait and see, but i'll be shocked if this isn't finale
beowuuf:
and then a seamless transition in to death stranding 2, right? 
aceofmuffins: Rader has fired all his workers, the police are on their way, and we are partway through the second subconscious. I am not sure what could delay things
TXC2:
we're just gonna keep pushing back the Metaphor PiF until 2026 
TheAinMAP: I'm glad to be here to see the start at least.
beowuuf: o/
TheMerricat: @aceofmuffins Wait, wait... Have I missed this entire time his name is Radar?
mtvcdm: Yo
beowuuf: @aceofmuffins 500 subs to read?
TXC2: here we GO!
beowuuf: fiction time!
beowuuf: morning!
TXC2: TheMerricat it's Rader, sounding like raider
TheAinMAP:
Hello 
TXC2: Hello Paul and Heather
Astra7525: Flit Spiction
beowuuf: pHiction
TheMerricat:
@TXC2 Dang, for a second I had dreams of MASH. 
PharaohBender27:
@TheMerricat It think it's more meant to be rai- oh TXC2 beat me to it 
hyalopterous: Howdy
mtvcdm: Okay, so, time to make it clear to Rader just how utterly *hecked* he is. Like even if he repairs his machine.... he's not escaping with it. It's a big machine.
TXC2: TheMerricat he'd probably rip that off if he could
PharaohBender27: @TheMerricat But see, it's because he's RAIDING these author's ideas! It did take me until like episode 3 to make the connection myself, though
TheMerricat:
@TXC2 NGL sorta wished that we visited the other author's stories too and got to see a full spread of genres.
TXC2: TheMerricat indeed
TXC2: sequal hook maybe
mtvcdm: Rader has, like, *no* endgame here where he gets away with it, but he doesn't see any of that right now.
mtvcdm: I say the machine just blows up, kills him and that's how the cops find him.
hyalopterous: Chekov's gun
TheMerricat: Chekov's Pod
TXC2: checkov's gun vs red hearing
Astra7525: It doesn't llok likely, but I kinda hoped that we were also going to enter the stories/genres of the other plugged-in people
hyalopterous: maybe run throuh the others real quick
Tar_Veldig: Its the backrooms in there
TXC2: not even that, it's just a void
mtvcdm: Imagine coming *out* of the sim if you're one of those other five people. WAIT WHAT HAPPENED OUT HERE
TheMerricat: Real talk chat, as someone who has known several CEO's in their life. They _are_ creative. just in shitty ways.
Tar_Veldig: Sometimes bad guys are just bad guys
mtvcdm: We're way too late to flesh Rader out and I don't want to.
aceofmuffins: I resubbed during the going online, shouldn't the storm count be 1 or did I do it too early?
TXC2:
TheMerricat creative in how they dodge taxes
TXC2: !uptime
LRRbot: The stream has been live for 11:21.
accountmadeforants: I like that the EA Account nag message is right above the RADER logo
TheMerricat: @TXC2 That's actually their accountants. CEO's tend to be creative in the lies they tell to get people to like them and in ways to screw people over without getting caught.
beowuuf: Rader gets a final speech, he just says something really shallow, then looks at everyone for an uncomfortably long time as if he's just said something very deep and sympathetic.
Hugh_Munculus: A centipodes
TXC2: TheMerricat good points
accountmadeforants: Phogs
tSvick: That centipede is definitely a metaphor for anything.
CaptainSpam: But you have so many legs! You should be GREAT at jumping!
SaxPython: Phogs?
PharaohBender27: This is just an insect version of a Pushmepullyu
beowuuf:
oh. oh yes. i remember this now. 
mtvcdm: Catdog, catdog, alone in the world was a little catdog
TXC2: aceofmuffins are you sure, 'cause it hasn't come up in chat
SaxPython: We Elden Ring now?
TXC2: we're a lava funicular!
thedevil_risen1: Ewww why so many legs?
TheMerricat: @aceofmuffins You might want to double check, stuff, I just scrolled back in Chatty and we never got a message saying you subbed.
AugmentingPath: most things are vulnerable to lava, tbh
couchboyj: Trauma hydra kinda makes Dark Mio look like a chump imo. Not that the avatar of teen angst needed a lot of help with that.
KaleidoscopeMind subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 44 months!
KaleidoscopeMind: wait this game is about trauma? *shocked pikachu face*
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beowuuf: gotta lava this level
beowuuf: no, your left
Garfy400 subscribed with Prime. They've subscribed for 102 months!
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aceofmuffins subscribed with Prime. They've subscribed for 51 months!
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aceofmuffins: I did not think I had to do the share thing.
accountmadeforants: Finally, Snake Pass 2
TXC2: chat are you hitting these subs now, or is Lrrbot catching up?
TXC2: aceofmuffins got there in the end at least
PharaohBender27: @aceofmuffins Yeah, even if you don't have a message, you have to hit share in order for it to show
beowuuf: it takes 2 (mandibles)
mtvcdm: Only got doused a little bit in lava
beowuuf: leap of faith
mtvcdm: Why do we even have this room
KaleidoscopeMind: why does you subconscious even have this much lava?
PharaohBender27: It's how we heat the palace!
aceofmuffins: Anti brain freeze tech
Didero: Yay I'm not too late. Good evening!
TXC2: hello Didero welcome
Didero: Did I miss any important story moments?
beowuuf:
again didero
TXC2: Didero no, just swinging with the centipedes
beowuuf: lava is bad, mandibles good
Didero: @TXC2 Great, thanks
PharaohBender27: @Didero Not really, other than that Zoe's subconscious apparently is riddled with guilt about *something*
KaleidoscopeMind: oh firehose
SaxPython: oh no
Sarah_Serinde: huh
thedevil_risen1: Oh no
Alness49: This... raises questions
TheMerricat:
"Author's barely disguised fetish"
BlueChloroplast: Yup
Didero: @PharaohBender27 Ah, thanks
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SaxPython: I guess
thedevil_risen1: That was cursed as bus
beowuuf: all mouth. or all butt. nothing in between figuratively and literally
SaxPython:
CaptainSpam: So it's like Human Centipede, but even MORE functionally wrong?
TXC2:
zoe needs biology lessons
BlueChloroplast: Its a whole catdog situation here
KaleidoscopeMind: exciting??
beowuuf:
beowuuf:
lrrFIRE
TheAinMAP:
PharaohBender27:
TheAinMAP:
TXC2: tight fit there
KaleidoscopeMind: thrilling??
beowuuf: got there!
TheMerricat: Chat, I'm starting to think these two characters could really use a therapist. Maybe several.
Creideiki_SE: Two legs bad, four legs good, a hundred legs better?
CaptainSpam: She sees her parents as a giant two-headed centipede, which is healthy.
measureofhope: Centiparents
couchboyj: Centiparents
Didero: Her twin is named Ella
LithelyUnshod: Elola
KaleidoscopeMind: ella?
Hugh_Munculus:
Centiparents
mtvcdm: Ella, yeah
couchboyj:
CaptainSpam: Unfortunately, we've got a hard time reading the captions.
SaxPython:
Didero: We're gonna punch the physical manifestation of her guilt straight in the face
hyalopterous: 12
TheMerricat: Reminder the guy who started this studio also was responsible for making Brother: A Tale of Two Sons before it.
KaleidoscopeMind: I'm guessing we'll have "you have to let me go"
TheAinMAP:
bytecaster: That is the great thing about a hydra, yes
AugmentingPath: Right you are, Paul!
TheAinMAP: I think this is all about how Zoe is not okay.
beowuuf: no fair, 3v2
beowuuf: wait, 4v2
AugmentingPath: you're not alone in being hit by fireballs
beowuuf: 5v3
RatherLargeToad: gooey
Hugh_Munculus: Yay,garotte...
couchboyj: Take em down like they're At-Ats
PharaohBender27: You're supposed to cut the head off and *burn* the stump
CaptainSpam: Y'know, this method of therapy seems wildly unorthodox.
bytecaster: Slicing time!
TheMerricat: I have an owl. I have a fish......
KaleidoscopeMind: oh that head popped in and out
Didero:
@CaptainSpam We've come across zero downsides so far
bytecaster: There is a ballista!
beowuuf: each of y6ou go down the neck stumps, and then you kick it from the inside. easy
Didero: Ballista
PharaohBender27: Ballista!
bytecaster: Therapy Scorpion!
CaptainSpam:
Of course, is this method of therapy really any worse than what Raz does in Psychonauts?
jessicaengle:
Didero: @CaptainSpam Both solve trauma by punching it in the face, so not really
TXC2:
CaptainSpam arguably this is better, given there's a degree of consent between Zoe and Mio
bytecaster: Ohh, now it's therapy catapult, therapult!
Didero: Why do they turn the ballista, when both times it was already aimed at the center one?
PharaohBender27: We've switched to a catapult now?
TXC2: next do we get a therapy trebuchet?
TheAinMAP: Catapult was just a method of transportation.
mtvcdm: Oh, right. Hydra.
CaptainSpam: Hydra's gonna hydra.
hyalopterous: Hail Hydra
RatherLargeToad: Cut off one head, two more will take its place, etc etc
bytecaster: That hydra needs to see a throat doctore
jessicaengle: Eww
PharaohBender27: @RatherLargeToad This is why you have to burn the stump when you cut a head off!
Didero: No wonder this hydra is so grumpy
AugmentingPath: should've expected the esophageal archway, tbh
TXC2:
Paul Please
SaxPython:
RatherLargeToad: all throats lead to Rome
mtvcdm: Well this is just lovely
bytecaster: That hydra has some bad acid reflux
beowuuf: i knew kicking it in the stomach from the inside would be the winning strategy
Chesul: Because of course you can see the heart from inside the stomach.
couchboyj: Giving the trauma hydra acid reflux, who is the real villian here
PharaohBender27: This hydra's digestive system seems rather unhealthy
iarethel0ser: The way to a hydra's heart is through its stomach.
TXC2: Zoe NEEDS biology lessons
RatherLargeToad: In Milo’s defense, Sci-Fi has fewer pustules
hyalopterous: Get some thorns for the multiattack
BlueChloroplast: Friendship shield!
AugmentingPath: yeah, you should be fine. Love don't last forever, but friendship never ends
TheMerricat: Alien Chest burster scene.
bytecaster: Many heads, but only one heart, I assume
NightValien28: what if it grows another heart?
bytecaster: Is this Kingdom Hearts?
Didero: Restore Zoe's heart, at lest
AugmentingPath: this is a light-hearted story
hyalopterous: man that was way easier than StS
RatherLargeToad: Arrows are always helpful
SaxPython:
@bytecaster 
LordZarano:
mtvcdm: ServPro: Like It Never Even Happened
bytecaster: The first Science Fantasy authors
SaxPython: @mtvcdm Boooooo
couchboyj: Incoming Dragons that breath lasers
Didero: "Take as much time as you need, out of the, say, 5 minutes available"
LordZarano: Fantasci
TheMerricat: Mio just goes in and kicks Ella's ass. "See, she wasn't that scary!"
beowuuf:
TheAinMAP: Maybe it's something like an hour in here is like a minute outside?
Didero: @TheAinMAP Dreams do tend to take less time than it seems
bytecaster: Best friends!
Didero: Not getting published, TOGETHER
mtvcdm: There's gonna be a podcast and everything
A_Dub888: hi friends, are- are Mio and Zoey going to kiss?
KaleidoscopeMind: centipedes and a pinoccio robot
bytecaster: Something about a dentist?
PharaohBender27: "Also why were there so many explosions?"
couchboyj: Not sure why the dragons were shooting lasers
TXC2:
A_Dub888 they better, but they probably wont
CaptainSpam: "Also there was this game show? Did we just imagine that?"
LordZarano: "We're blasting off agaiiiiin!"
hyalopterous: man, good thing there's no fall damage
accountmadeforants: Why does the Mindstealer have to spin around, exactly?
bytecaster: CEOs: Always doing things to hurt people
Decaped: make the spiny thing spin faster!
KaleidoscopeMind: is he going to fall in?
mtvcdm: Well now this is fixing itself
TXC2: spinning always works
Sarah_Serinde: Nah Rader you're doing that pretty well yourself at this point
mtvcdm: There we go
SaxPython: I do not consent
bytecaster: So the CEO doesn't know how the thing works, biiiiig surprise
beowuuf: In he goes?
beowuuf: lol
A_Dub888: Look Rader, just because you said yes to some scientists doesn’t make it yours
Wolfstrike_NL: Let's go into the place where the other 2 are the creative minds
TXC2: "you don't make shit!"
NightValien28: a CEO being a villain is a stroke of genius
bytecaster: That jumpsuit is very Spiderman
lightfut: Didn't realize this was a jrpg, since we're killing God
KaleidoscopeMind: mio's world has more color to it
Didero: Yeah, but the other worlds she designed, this one apparently not
RatherLargeToad: fewer explosions
SaxPython:
couchboyj: Its never clear what Rader wants hou to do because he seems to have no real idea of how to fix both of you being in the same pods
TXC2: variations on a theme
Didero:
Only so many ways to make a jumpsuit
TXC2: that's really good set desgin
RatherLargeToad: so fantasy IS better!
TXC2: *design
A_Dub888: Frogs? GET QUINA, we’ve found a buffet for them!
bytecaster: Okay, that is very fun
accountmadeforants: Oh, that's rad
SaxPython: sick
mtvcdm: That's amazing
bytecaster: This is a great idea and I am here for it
couchboyj: And thats my main complaint for this game, all the SciFi areas feel the same and all the fantasy areas feel the same. It Takes Two felt much more varied. It Takes Two also felt like it encouraged exploring its environments more.
UtilityPunk: Oh, the puzzles are really looking neat now.
AugmentingPath: Oh, Mio's world is mostly pink and Zoe's green, matching their theme colors
SaxPython: #Frogless
mtvcdm: Rader has at every level messed up
Didero: Yeah, they wanted you to stay put
Didero: And possibly die, as long as it didn't break the machine
UtilityPunk:
Imagine how much work it was to make two versions of everything in the game 
TheMerricat:
Coloneljesus subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 36 months!
Coloneljesus: finale maybe?! hell yea
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couchboyj: They wanted you to sit tight while they figured shit out because they had no idea how to fix it. From how the game progresses, Rader likely would have settled on killing you to save his machine.
mtvcdm: And of course at this point the police are *actively watching Rader do this*
RatherLargeToad: best towers
aceofmuffins: Something behind a waterfall finally.
Chesul: We don't even have spiderball this time.
AugmentingPath: yep, on Mio's side it's perfectly normal industrial equipment with a button labeled "bite"
TXC2:
aceofmuffins is it still a waterfall if we turn it off?
TheMerricat: I need to read Stainless Steel Rats.
bytecaster: @TheMerricat I really like the sequel, Mice of Chrome!
bytecaster: Finally, Zoe is the boat!
A_Dub888: @couchboyj He’s a CEO, from his perspective, t h e m a c h i n e is probably the most human thing in the room
UtilityPunk:
Feed the rats to the fire 
Didero: spikes still hurt
goombalax: oh its a firewall
Sarah_Serinde: It's been a real long time since I read those books in my dad's library
LordZarano: This would be interesting to try and do w/ online multiplayer where you can't see each others screens
UtilityPunk: FISH POWER
TXC2: flawless
SaxPython: 1 Shot 1 kill
Amentur:
Water a fish to get past a firewall 
A_Dub888: I don’t think Rader knows how to cook
mtvcdm: He's just staring into the simulation and screaming
Coloneljesus: this is the best part
TXC2: now this is cool
couchboyj: You will not ruin MY SOUFFLE!
The_Timo: such an easy effect to achieve too, nicely done
A_Dub888: @TXC2 you’re cool
mtvcdm: Oh there he is
lightfut: This is some real cool design
bytecaster: Rader can't even think of a story himself, but thinks he is a god, typical
TXC2: A_Dub888 dang
RatherLargeToad: plane wasn’t that bloody, tbh
mtvcdm: It got ugly the moment he shoved Mio into Zoe's simulation way back at the top of the game
TheMerricat: Ok, I'm liking this.
SaxPython: I feel like this tech demo invented the rest of the game
Didero: @mtvcdm He didn't, really. Mio tried to leave, and in the struggle, she tripped into Zoe's bubble
protojman: this is so cool!
AugmentingPath: Rader's greatest weapon: log
bytecaster: Rader has no ideas of his own, of course he didn't bring any stories
couchboyj: He has admin privileges
Didero: Maybe Mio and Zoe can do this stuff too, but they're not creative enough to think of it
RatherLargeToad: knows the admin cheat codes
CaptainSpam: Pretty sure the faulty machine is what's destroying the machine.
A_Dub888: @Didero come to think of it, why was he so insistent she didn’t leave? it’s not like he was short on writers
KaleidoscopeMind: oh look minecraft
mtvcdm: His entire creative process is.... the bits and byes of his machine
beowuuf: like because you are the creatives you get to turn the tables at some point, surely?
Didero: @A_Dub888 I think there was something about all bubbles needing to be filled?
AugmentingPath: foolishly, Rader brought a health bar
iarethel0ser: The elements bend to him? He's the avatar!
TXC2: making way for traffic?
RatherLargeToad: Stopping in the presence of merging traffic
lightfut: This God has khakis, so lame
TXC2: "what does God need with a healthbar?"
couchboyj: Game never explains why Mio couldn't leave. I assume each writer was for a different genre and he needed Mii's Sci Fi lassr punk to catch em qll.
Didero: 20 years of her life IS Mio's life
mtvcdm: Oh, you're getting 20 more after this
UtilityPunk:
mtvcdm: Let us remember the police are actively hearing you yell all this
RatherLargeToad: glitch is guns. checks out
bytecaster: He might be large, but we have miniguns!
mtvcdm: The cops, literally just outside the room while all this is happening
TXC2:
mtvcdm bold to assume a CEO is gonna suffer legal consequences
iarethel0ser: Friendship is magic. And miniguns.
Coloneljesus: how does he not have a better name for his stupid Machine??
bytecaster: The scientist shouldn't have ported Doom to the idea stealing machine
PharaohBender27:
@Coloneljesus Because he lacks creativity
CaptainSpam: Wait, he put all his rivals into this machine?
protojman: hoping for a face and hands boss myself.
mtvcdm: I mean really the consequences like we saw heading into this are probably, the machine falls apart and kills him with debris
Didero:
@Coloneljesus The fact he's had to resort to stealing others' creativity may be a clue
RatherLargeToad: surely he only has one health bar, like all final bosses
AugmentingPath: nono, dark mio has been defeated. Now mio is shooting at this man with peace in her heart
A_Dub888: Also, Rader, you still haven’t convinced me your “work” wasn’t just walking into a lab, seeing the progress, and going “cool” for 20 years
Chesul: I think all of them are headshots, since he's just a mind in here.
hyalopterous: phase 2
Veste: elbow drop from the top rope????????
beowuuf: *80s synth*
bytecaster: Oh the split is always exactly between them, neat
lightfut: Holy cow the design of this
KaleidoscopeMind: oh
Didero: This is wild
KaleidoscopeMind: this is near
KaleidoscopeMind: neat*
lightfut: So clever
mtvcdm: This rocks
Coloneljesus: imo tho whole game should've done fuckery like this
TheMerricat: NGL chat, this would break my mind.
Sarah_Serinde: yeah they got really creative with these end bits
UtilityPunk: I think this part redeems the pretty slow early game tbh
TXC2: this, this right here wins you a Game of the year award
Didero: @UtilityPunk If the game immediately started doing this, it probably wouldn't feel quite as cool. Still cool, but with a bit less impact
bytecaster: @Didero Also there is accessibility for less gaming inclined people to consider, gotta start the gimmick a little slow
RatherLargeToad: fish missles
TheMerricat:
frogger.
bytecaster: @RatherLargeToad fishles!
TheAinMAP:
RatherLargeToad: but not to the beat, thankfully
mtvcdm: At this point we're basically in a fight to the death, Rader, so, eff off
bytecaster:
Too many split screens 
RatherLargeToad:
TheAinMAP:
TXC2: now this is a mind twist
UtilityPunk: Fortnite could've been that cool
hyalopterous: Shouldna written all those tank programs...
RatherLargeToad: hate it when the piraña dimension shows up
AugmentingPath: are those the grinders from the hot dog story?
CaptainSpam: It's a portal to the piranha dimension! It's right next to the shark dimension.
bytecaster: This game finally has a shark dimension!
UtilityPunk: Probably just switching on/off collision for the different areas. This stuff can be done without engine mods as far as I know
beowuuf: twilight (fan fiction)
bytecaster: Parry!
TheAinMAP:
Decaped: This is just an extension of the time jump level of Titanfall 2. Since you're only ever interacting with one set of hitboxes, it's not really that complicated.
mtvcdm: His health bar goes down now!
CaptainSpam: Oh god, he has the power of a sharknado! You're doomed!
iarethel0ser: Are we fighting aquaman?
UtilityPunk:
Laser sharks with no lasers on their head 
bytecaster: Guess you are not a god then, your lifebar goes down after all
TXC2: why be a man when you can be a dog?
Jillexie: Kratos bleeds all the time
Chesul: That really depends on which gods you're talking about.
TheMerricat: What does a god need a sword for?
hyalopterous: Zagreus is the god of blood
mtvcdm: Man, you made a simulation, you should know gods die in stories
TheAinMAP: Awful waffles.
lightfut: Oh no danger waffle
AugmentingPath: bring me the black materia, Mio!
mtvcdm: !addquote (Heather) [now] No! Not the space waffles!
LRRbot: New quote #9340: "No! Not the space waffles!" —Heather [2025-06-28]
A_Dub888: @hyalopterous I thought he was god of underworld security?
bytecaster: @mtvcdm He has never once read a story in full, he gets someone to summerize them for him, CEOs are so busy
Coloneljesus: @mtvcdm being destroyed by friendship?
Wolfstrike_NL: God him!
CaptainSpam: So, always put an off switch on your machines.
KaleidoscopeMind: always put an *emergency off switch*
TheMerricat: I think Mio has a bit of a problem understanding the concept of virtual reality chat.
Didero: Huh, Zoe has her non-story outfit
PharaohBender27: Oh we're about to wreck a CRT
TXC2: the 4th wall shatters like your expectations
mtvcdm: This is a Warioware game now
bytecaster: Now, some fixed perspective puzzles
mtvcdm: Monkey ball!
Coloneljesus: chat, notice how themes/worlds change in this next section. it's easy to miss
UtilityPunk: Got any games on it?
lightfut: Is this a game or a tech demo?
Coloneljesus: game
TXC2: lightfut yes
UtilityPunk: @lightfut Yes
TXC2: Coloneljesus ah I see know
TXC2: *now
Alex_Frostfire: "I'm using tilt controls!"
TheAinMAP: We just went from a fantasy world to a sci-fi one.
TheAinMAP: And back to fantasy.
bytecaster: Is this some kind of tilty house?
Didero: bossrush mode
A_Dub888: why didn’t he combine the lava jets with the wall of doom? I’m starting to think Mr CEO isn’t a god…
TheAinMAP: A bit unimaginative use of their creations.
CaptainSpam: @A_Dub888 I'm waiting until he asks for a starship. Then we'll KNOW he isn't a god!
Alex_Frostfire: Putting *on* gloves? How deeply unserious. Normally people take the gloves *off*.
Chesul: @A_Dub888 I mean, this whole thing is happening because he has no creativity. which I'd say explains it.
UtilityPunk:
mtvcdm: The extent of his creativity is 'punch'
PharaohBender27: Sand sharks!
UtilityPunk: Windup sharks
BlueChloroplast: Trauma sharks
AugmentingPath:
sadly, Zoe couldn't make that correction, because she was dead 
RatherLargeToad: wheeeeee!
mtvcdm: Hitting everything on the way down
Chesul: aren't you god, so shouldn't you help yourself?
Sarah_Serinde: Why won't you die?! Now help me!
Didero: he seems smaller
jvetting83: Kick his ass.
Sarah_Serinde: Not allowed to ruin his dream but he can steal everyone else's
BlueChloroplast: SSB hyrule bridge?
mtvcdm: Yeah, his world is just literally a black void
TheMerricat: @Sarah_Serinde TBF, typical CEO thought pattern.
TXC2: Sarah_Serinde classic narcissist
Sarah_Serinde:
Oh I know 
beowuuf: get rekt
Didero: gg
RatherLargeToad:
TheMerricat: "stay within the lines"
A_Dub888: why was he talking with them like negotiation was ever on the table?
CaptainSpam: Back in the real world: "Damndest thing, the CEO was just sitting there, then he started screaming, then he kinda exploded. No idea what happened."
TXC2: and the other people are "fine"
hyalopterous: GG mates
mtvcdm: Oh look the others are out too
tSvick: What if we're still in the simulation?
hyalopterous: Jumpsuit is pretty nice
RatherLargeToad: Everyone else: “What happened? I was having fun!”
beowuuf:
boo. 
ing . hoo.
Didero: Maybe call the cops?
hyalopterous: cops there already
Wolfstrike_NL: Not explaining anything to the other 4
Chesul: No explanation to anyone else. XD
KaleidoscopeMind: those arent cops, it's security
mtvcdm: The cops were on site a whole scene ago
TheMerricat: Those are mall cops for the company, not actual cops.
CaptainSpam: @RatherLargeToad "Aww! Everything was working perfectly fine in our worlds! What was wrong with yours?"
TheAinMAP:
TheMerricat: Who the eff builds a parking lot with a window?
AugmentingPath: I would not be driving over that glass
A_Dub888: so what’s going to happen to Rader’s bosses?
NightValien28: TheMerricat tech start up company
mtvcdm: I mean, the two of you are probably going to need to testify or something
hyalopterous: certainly not with a fire truck
Chesul: @TheMerricat people with no creativity.
TheMerricat:
Do you honestly think people want to look up to see your car leaking oil all over it?
TheAinMAP: Lights out.
AugmentingPath: Do not trust Rader quality control to handle a fire truck
Veste: fffffffuuuuutuuuuuuuuuuure
Didero: More good outfits though
A_Dub888: same cover and everything
RatherLargeToad: Coming soon: Split Fiction: The Book: The Game
Veste: and then we put a bunch of sparks together and gave ourselves cool guns, and shot the orange giant
TheMerricat: Dad died between their adventure and now.
UtilityPunk:
"Based on true events"
Jillexie: THey should make the book into a game.
TXC2: turn your trauma into a book
accountmadeforants: That should be !advice: "Monetize your trauma"
aceofmuffins: I like the cirle triangle motifs on the jewlrey is kept
A_Dub888: @accountmadeforants ^
Coloneljesus:
@accountmadeforants so... 60% of indie games? 
TStodden: @RatherLargeToad The Game: The Action Figures: The Sheets: The FlameThrower (Kids Loves this one)
Wolfstrike_NL: "And then we died, and we respawned, and we died again, then we ffigured out the mechanic"
dumbo3k: does that mean Split Fiction was the working title of the game?
TheMerricat: "Sadly, the book bombed, but their compensation lawsuit was enough to ensure they never have to write for money again."
PharaohBender27:
@TheMerricat
Amentur stares at Triangle Strategy.
definenull: is the story really fiction tho, in that case
mtvcdm: Semi-fiction
A_Dub888: especially the part where they air personal tragedies
KaleidoscopeMind: or a nonfiction book "Split fiction: exposing Rader Inc"
definenull: o//
TXC2: "based on a true story"
beowuuf:
PharaohBender27:
969
Coloneljesus:
there's a secret level you could try 
Didero: Time enough for New Game+!
mtvcdm: I figured we were close
lightfut: For all the brilliant animation, they sure did a weird casual walk
UtilityPunk:
So what next?
50keyz: this was a great play it forward!
goombalax: I feel like those boss fights could have taken longer
TXC2: lightfut right?
KaleidoscopeMind: 2 good 2 gamers
shendaras:
mtvcdm: Plenty of time to watch the credits
MrVirite: I was expecting a point where they'd switch themes with eachother
aceofmuffins: Sreamer mode?
TheAinMAP: Before I even had to leave for where I'm needed later. Thanks!
Astra7525: Did you enable streamer mode?
mtvcdm: Oh yeah, streamer mode
UtilityPunk: Blew the music budget on the boss battle
TheMerricat: Just hit youtube, yeah it's got music you aren't getting.
dumbo3k: pictures of storyboards ?
goombalax: the mocap
iarethel0ser: Concept art, maybe
mtvcdm: Imagine having a voice credit of "Zoe's centipede dad"
hyalopterous: something besides just credits
LithelyUnshod: Eurovision winner Loreen?
TXC2: interesting that the Voice actors and mo-cap are the same
TheMerricat: Full credits are 13 minute on youtube.
Coloneljesus: it's liquid footwear
goombalax: bootflow is the cyberpop version of raindance
definenull:
now time to swap sides
Coloneljesus: there's a secret level called "laser hell" you could go find
AugmentingPath: Apparently Mio and Zoe are the names of the game director, Josef Fares', actual daughters
mtvcdm: Yeah this is a very one and done experience looks like
TheMerricat: I think you 100% it.
mtvcdm: Being a one and done, there's nothing wrong with that though. Games should be able to end and let you move to the next game.
TXC2: the fire level, the ice level, the jungle level etc
LordZarano:
mtvcdm: Not every game has to find a reason to keep you coming back.
Coloneljesus: you enter a binary code in one of the scifi levels
Coloneljesus: it's very very hard tho
KaleidoscopeMind: is it a mini game
Coloneljesus: no, it's a long precision movement ordeal without checkpoints
definenull: 7/20? geez
A_Dub888: @mtvcdm I like to think back to a VERY old Steph Sterling video that equated replaying a game to rereading a book and that feels like the kind of game this is
Coloneljesus: I actually replayed this with another player 2 and just doing the other character is fresh enough
KaleidoscopeMind: whole hog? even more farting?
TXC2: global achivments will show you
mtvcdm: 'You Are Not A Robot' is to actually complete the captcha sequence
TheMerricat: This was a fun game to watch. I don't know if the story hit me as hard as either It Takes Two or Brothers.
hyalopterous: I liked that they were willing to get a bit weird with it
couchboyj: It Takes Two also had exploration areas
definenull: some of the mechanics were fun
aceofmuffins: I felt this had a nicer balance between the stuff the two players got to do.
mtvcdm: I feel they could have let the actual dual bit last a little longer or start a little earlier
KaleidoscopeMind: "My Machine!"
mtvcdm: Rader likely *had* no plan beyond, the machine
Invitare: *insert Scrubs clip of "MY MACHINE" here*
goombalax: it seems like an AI allegory
definenull: I mean it’s kinda reflective of current issues
Coloneljesus: I think he wants to sell the VR-like experience
A_Dub888: it’s an oversized gen AI
50keyz: its a commentary on AI?
couchboyj: Rader's REAL plan was to be a ham fisted analogy of generative AI
PharaohBender27: "Then I can MONOPOLIZE the publishing industry!"
KaleidoscopeMind: or just corporate views in general
mtvcdm: When it got desperate enough he just forgot about everything else in the world including how he intended to get away and get the police to back off.
TXC2: makes one wonder how quickly they made this game
TheMerricat: It would have worked better if he had bait and switched them into being Matrix pod batteries that PROVIDE the creativity to the machine 'forever' than whatever he was doing.
Wolfstrike_NL: I would have liked to know what the other 4 people experienced when the machine just "worked"
Coloneljesus: @TheMerricat harder to explain to the authorities
TheMerricat: @TXC2 2.5 years according to google.
mtvcdm: We didn't even see their reactions to waking up to the room in ruins
A_Dub888: what bugs me was when Mio told Rader that they heard his plan. What did she think was going to happen? He’d NOT try to stop them?
KaleidoscopeMind: i feel bad for the horror writer they probably recruited
TXC2: TheMerricat interesting, Writer was on the ball re: "genAI" I guess
Coloneljesus:
@KaleidoscopeMind 
mtvcdm: They come out of the sim, see the machine broken and everything on fire and Rader in a busted up heap, and were just briefly 'welp that happened' and we didn't actually *see* their reaction
bytecaster: Rader is just doing an Assassins Creed present time
LithelyUnshod: The Besties' major issue with it was that for a game about stories, it had a pretty bad story.
Didero: When you disconnect a monitor, Windows moves windows to remaining monitors. IT's probably something like that
TheMerricat: @TXC2 Ok Google has different ideas how long it took. The version says "This suggests a development period of roughly four years. One specific section, involving dragon riding, took eight months to create. However, game development is not a linear process, and different parts of the game were worked on concurrently by various teams. "
A_Dub888: @KaleidoscopeMind you think they recruited a porn writer?
niccus: speculative nonfiction
bytecaster: Based on a true story based on a non-true story
TXC2:
TheMerricat ah, that makes more sense, plot was worked on after gameplay no doubt
QuixoticScrivener: “There and Back Again: A Hobbit’s Holiday” by Bilbo Baggins
bytecaster: Semifiction
Coloneljesus: that's a report, I would classify it as non-fiction
mtvcdm: 'Current events'
Coloneljesus: like people writing up their dwarf fortress games
TheMerricat:
Plot twist, they actually wrote it as a choose your own adventure. 
BlueChloroplast: D&D game novelizations are fiction
A_Dub888: @QuixoticScrivener was Frodo writing the Lord of the Rings a Peter Jackson original?
KaleidoscopeMind: Zio and Moey
TheAinMAP: After being unpublished for so long, they finally got published as non-fiction writers?
TXC2:
"based on a true story" = nothing here in happened as depicted
TheMerricat:
They'd just be another Amazon Kindle digital book that people spend their free google points on.
mtvcdm: Your big break is often very unpredictable
QuixoticScrivener: @a_dub888 We figured out PJ’s ghost writer.
Coloneljesus: maybe they'll patch the game once a year with a new tombstone
bytecaster: Who says Google isn't working on this technology?
TXC2: put "present day" on your tombstone
QuixoticScrivener: do you like 20X6 type dating?
mtvcdm: You date the game with the father dying the same year as release, you know what you're getting into
KaleidoscopeMind: the father will just keep getting older and older
LithelyUnshod: At least have a bush covering it or something
mtvcdm: This was a 2025 release and they put 2025 on the tombstone, you signed up for that dating
singinnonsense: I'm reading Red Mars ... It was written in 1993 and it happens in 2026 lol
PharaohBender27:
Hey, anyone remember the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s? 
bytecaster: "Tombstones are digital" sounds like a cyberpunk book
LithelyUnshod: @PharaohBender27 Irish unification of 2024?
hyalopterous: Bell Riots 2024 too
shendaras: Don't forget to replace your cmos battery
mtvcdm: Imagine the tombstone date updating in real time during the cutscene, with minutes and seconds
Coloneljesus: died: linux timestamp 0
Hugh_Munculus: Age: NaN
bytecaster: Everybody dies during the unix epoch
mtvcdm: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: LoadingReadyLIVE! (A Variety show, LoadingReadyRun Style!) at Sat 06:00 PM PDT (7:13 from now).
Coloneljesus: the new weekly stream on LRR?
Didero: I really enjoy your co-op streams though!
bytecaster: It's why Paul and Grahams thing is now playing coop games as birds!
mtvcdm: There was Four Swords though I forget if Paul was there
KaleidoscopeMind: oh right the bird games
QuixoticScrivener: BG3 co-op next?
Wolfstrike_NL: Lego brick duo story game
Coloneljesus: there's "A tale for two"
Invitare: Ice Climbers was ahead of its time
Coloneljesus: Peak
goombalax: Peak is so fun
mtvcdm: It'll be a bit before the hot seat comes back round again, there's time to think it over.
Didero: Isn't Peak up to 4 people?
goombalax: peak is 1-4
Coloneljesus: Cairn is another climbing game
Coloneljesus: burn I think singleplayer
Coloneljesus: but*
goombalax: peak is like that, managing your resource bar
TXC2: thanks for streaming Paul and Heather
shendaras:
TXC2: !youtube
CaptainSpam: Thanks for the stream!
TXC2: !patreon
Didero: Also thank you for doing these streams in the morning, it means us Europeans can watch it live!
mtvcdm: !paypal
LRRbot:
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Coloneljesus: this was fun, looking forward to the next one, as always!
Wolfstrike_NL:
Thanks for the playthrough, it was a lot of fun to watch
electric_claire: Do you accept cashier's checks?
PharaohBender27:
mtvcdm: An experience it definitely was
TXC2: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: LoadingReadyLIVE! (A Variety show, LoadingReadyRun Style!) at Sat 06:00 PM PDT (7:09 from now).
TXC2: Live hype!
mtvcdm: Last minute segment where Heather just smears food on people again
TXC2: !events
Wolfstrike_NL: Heather, any hot takes yet about animes you watched/ are excited for?
Avery316: Any news on the next PiF?
CaptainSpam: Yay more UFO 50!
mtvcdm: !bluesky
lightfut: Castle shaped pretzel snacks?
mtvcdm: !mastodon
LRRbot: LoadingReadyRun is now on Mastodon! You can find them at kind.social/@LoadingReadyRun, and LRRMtG at kind.social/@LRRMTG
mtvcdm: !discord
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NDCazzy: bringing the rear
KWardJenx: Thanks so much for the stream
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Coloneljesus: huh!?
PharaohBender27: No, that was aceofmuffins, they got in eventually
TXC2: no, they got it in a bit later
PharaohBender27:
PharaohBender27: Thanks for the PiF! First time in a while I've been able to see a substantial portion of one live.
Didero: Thanks so much for this PiF, I had a lot of fun!
TXC2: !contact
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TXC2: Goodnight everybody
beowuuf:
Didero: Good night!
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