Rhythm Cafe || Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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 Thefluffiestguineapig: !next
  LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Rhythm Cafe (Heather and Ian continue their never-ending quest to play ALL THE RHYTHM GAMES! Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) at Sun 04:00 PM PDT (39s ago).
 PharaohBender27:  !
 Thefluffiestguineapig: Well, I was doing homework and late loading chat in my defense
 beowuuf: closer than anyone else 
 Thefluffiestguineapig: How is everyone doing today?
  Juliamon: well, it's not like you win anything for getting it on 0s
 beowuuf: 
 PharaohBender27: @Thefluffiestguineapig Recovering from a cold, so suboptimal 
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon No, my ADHD just requires a billion things to focus on at once
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @PharaohBender27 I'm sorry, my kitties send rubs and slow blinks
 ButButTheJesus: You're telling me a Clair Obscurd this Expedition?!
 PharaohBender27: @Thefluffiestguineapig Thanks. It does seem to be improving, though I'll still likely take a sick day tomorrow to be safe.
 50keyz:   
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @PharaohBender27 Fingers crossed you're over the worst of it
DideRobot: LRR: Swimsuit ON! We're friends with Esquie so the game is basically complete, but we'll keep playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! https://twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun (has image) | https://kind.social/@LoadingReadyRun/114808773214777119
 PharaohBender27: Ahoy-hoy,  and  !
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 BraveOthello: Antici-
 Thefluffiestguineapig: The most chaotic duo of LRR
 ButButTheJesus: we do!
 BraveOthello: -pation
 Thefluffiestguineapig: I do enjoy watching Rhythm cafe a great deal
 Thefluffiestguineapig: 
 ButButTheJesus: are ya gonna beep the boop
 RockPusher: The Sword of Office
kusinohki: meows
kusinohki: never give me the responsibility chair.  give me the irresponsible one...
 accountmadeforants: Streaming Supreme Commander
 ButButTheJesus: go to your local walmart and
 Wicker_Guide: o__O
 Wicker_Guide: main character energy there
 RockPusher:  
 BraveOthello: Teeth .. teeth ... teeth
 Wicker_Guide: "I thought about it"
 BraveOthello: Being work friends with work for work make some sense
 calculated_uncertainties: 100 1 1
 BusTed: 
 Wicker_Guide: "In a town this bent, who's there to narc to anyway"
 Wicker_Guide: nearly always more taxing
 beowuuf: catchup pronounced kate sith
 TheMerricat: Playing games helps me with my problem solving skills, also open world games require remembering where things are and that helps my memorization skills, both of these are professional development.
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @beowuuf Unless it's in FF where they have just given up
 ButButTheJesus: yep no doubt
 beowuuf: @Thefluffiestguineapig 
 Thefluffiestguineapig: Agreed
 adept_nekomancer: I can think of at least one example.
 ButButTheJesus: do we
 Thefluffiestguineapig: This game's combat is definitely a rhythm game
 TheMerricat: Why is a Stalin. I thought Ian said stallion. 
 PharaohBender27: So massive purges 
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 BraveOthello: Not ... how I prounce that name
 PharaohBender27: ^
 RockPusher: To the rhythm gulag with you!
 Jillexie: Uhhhhh
 ButButTheJesus: ian.
 TheMerricat: Would a Rhythm Stalin let his kid die for the beat?
 beowuuf: read animal farm for more details
 Thefluffiestguineapig: "Pretty bad"
 Jillexie: Ian
 adept_nekomancer: I initially wondered whether he was talking about a "rhythm stallion".
Shadowsoflife: 
 Wicker_Guide: Ian. No. Just No.
 Thefluffiestguineapig: That's one way to phrase that
kusinohki: make the rythmes run on time??
 PharaohBender27: So if it goes they way collectivization did, we can expect things to go sideways in a really bad way 
 TheMerricat: Go figure even the Shadowverse Desktop Icon is horny on main.
 beowuuf: sorry to russia ian, but we moscow
 PharaohBender27: @kusinohki No, that's Rhythm Mussolini (and also that was just propaganda)
kusinohki: shhh, don't ruin my jokes with facts!
 Wicker_Guide: Fun Esquie story: his VA is the only VA that is the same in both the English and French versions
 TheMerricat: Chat, why are we so bloody? are we not allowed to wipe the blood off?
 adept_nekomancer: We didn't put points in hygiene.
 Wicker_Guide: bloody/grimy is the game's indicator for "needs healing"
kusinohki: you say "bloody" but it looks like grease/oil stains to me, like lies of P...
 adept_nekomancer: What I remember from last stream: You took a rock from Esquie's neighbor, but it was the wrong rock, so you had to go looking for the right one.
 Jillexie: Should be a French accent
 Thefluffiestguineapig: I imagined this guy having a pirate playthrough in my brain 
 Wicker_Guide: @adept_nekomancer So, you got ice-blasted by an angry turtle
 Thefluffiestguineapig: Probably due to the nautical hat
kusinohki: expedition 56?  they sent a group of 56 year olds to fight stuff??
 Jillexie: I figure that many would have been younger
 Wicker_Guide: The earlier expeditions seem to have been more "themed" than just "everyone of that age" e.g. 69 being the climbing expedition
 accountmadeforants: They weren't sending all olds, a lot of the journals mention they were also just sending "undesirables" while the olds stayed at home and in power.
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Gustave's sister Emma brings up the Expeditions were used as a way of letting dissidents leave Lumiere
kusinohki: did ian just say "sexpedition" ??
 PharaohBender27: @kusinohki Yes, because 69
 adept_nekomancer: @kusinohki What else would they do on Expedition 69?
 tehcrashxor: Forget that, did Ian just say "baleted"?
 Wicker_Guide: Is Ian
 Wicker_Guide: I do wish the game had just done automatic character level ups
 BusTed: also a strongbad email reference
 tehcrashxor: Are you sure you aren't just quoting Strong Bad Emails?
 Laserbeaks_Fury: I would just settle for saved loadouts
 accountmadeforants: This is why you use Lune as the "moving about" character. No footsteps!
 Wicker_Guide: doing jumping puzzles with Lune is even more slippery feeling than with anyone else though
 Laserbeaks_Fury: See, Gustave wasn't joking about the building a big wheel
 Wicker_Guide: Given the other geek-core references in this game, wouldn't shock me
 Wicker_Guide: burn still removes shield stacks too
 Wicker_Guide: Every one who says that should be forced to replay the original HALO
 Laserbeaks_Fury: I'm a fan of bird poop
 LordZarano: Hi-Fi Rush had lore about the person who's job it was to put arrows everywhere
 Wicker_Guide: They're so comic-book-y
 TehAmelie: sup gang. are we finding any clarity? or obscurity? in this expedition?
 Wicker_Guide: it is clearly obscured from our sight
 TehAmelie: aha
 LordZarano: Another fun one is Abiotic Factor, where sentient yellow paint is literally one of the things that escaped from containment 
 Wicker_Guide: I feel obliged to point out that Maelle is doing fencing moves with a Puppet Arm 
 adept_nekomancer: He's so shy
 A_Dub888: Hi friends, how's the expeditiussy?
 Wicker_Guide: @A_Dub888 no
 Laserbeaks_Fury: What Lovely Feet
noSmokeFire: I picked a good night to tune in, I love this area
 ArdCollider: o7
 Wicker_Guide: for Le Gran Backtrackening, presumably
 BraveOthello: No idea why Ian picked this particular voice, but it is appreciated
 Wicker_Guide: I am annoyed at how well it works
 accountmadeforants: So, you could be able to break those rocks at the point you're at, Ian. It's an optional little side thing, you can get it pretty early on.
 accountmadeforants: (It's also not really that important)
 BusTed: oops whoops
Shadowsoflife: 
 Wicker_Guide: I have never fully figured out how the "first strike" lumina interacts with the "first strike" mechanic from attacking. I suspect it actually does nothing
 Laserbeaks_Fury: She might have it. First Strike is weird. When you use your attack to initiate combat, it basically gives everyone First Strike, so it typically goes in team order.
 PharaohBender27: https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun/clip/GoldenAverageAsparagusDancingBaby-_fMLrkpJm4dGovis
 NightValien28: sassy child
 accountmadeforants: 
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Maelle: Tis only a flesh wound
 Wicker_Guide: Corinthian chicken
 TheMerricat: But you can't parry the platypus unless it's an enemy Ian.
 Laserbeaks_Fury: The Elephants Dance
Tony1PointO: Larian?
 accountmadeforants: You can let me know if you want more hints on the breaking rocks thing and how vague they should be. (I can think of a few pretty vague or downright barely helpful ways to describe it.)
Tony1PointO: @accountmadeforants Could you dm me what that is, I don't think I ever got it
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 accountmadeforants: Not sure, maybe?
Tony1PointO: What difficulty are you playing on?
 accountmadeforants: You can start the process at this point, at least
 Wicker_Guide: If you went back and did an extremely thorough search of the maps you have access to right now, you could eventually get it, but I would not recommend trying. You'll pretty naturally get it a little later
 Wicker_Guide: point, retracting that part of the statement
 Wicker_Guide: I will say that I tried deliberately to get it before this point on my second playthrough and it was more effort than I thought was worth
 NightValien28: the trauma I got from this game wasn't the story, it was the surprise mimes in every damn corner
 accountmadeforants: I stumbled my way into it fairly early on, but I also tend to be pretty thorough about interacting with absolutely everything 
 Wicker_Guide: @accountmadeforants the full spectrum of gamer completionism: "I stumbled into it by clicking every button and scouring every corner" to "oh, it's supposed to arrive in passing during gameplay, doubt"
Tony1PointO: That sounds like Mayor Quimby
Tony1PointO: That's fair, Kennedy was way before my time
 Wicker_Guide: Kennedy is one of those people where if you listen to recorded speeches you'll wonder if he's doing a bit, but it's actually that everyone else is copying him
 Wicker_Guide: *was
 accountmadeforants: @Wicker_Guide I'm not like that with every game, but this game did constantly reinforce my pressing every button and going down every path tendencies by rewarding me for it 
 Wicker_Guide: *shrug* I went for the superbosses. I'm not going to throw stones here
 accountmadeforants: @Wicker_Guide Oh, I also did that. No worries. I beat just about every super-boss wildly underleveled. (Though in the process, I became sorta overleveled for the rest of the game)
 accountmadeforants: The best way to avoid backtracking is to not have anything to backtrack for 
 Wicker_Guide: reminder that the "fight space" isn't actually the current room
 Wicker_Guide: it's like pokemon, or persona
 Wicker_Guide: Jump puzzles and Lune don't mix well
 adept_nekomancer: Disregard jump puzzles, obtain rocks
 RockPusher: Have you considered, rocks?
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Gustave's just gonna huck it at the Monolith
 Wicker_Guide: probably have "Confident"
 Laserbeaks_Fury: yeah thats probably the 50% less damage but you cant be healed
Vandroth_: Oooh, Wave Echo Cave
 gualdhar: I see we have lost all confidence in Gustav
 ButButTheJesus: I think I missed every side-thing down here cause I couldn't see
Vandroth_: Best voice for this monster. 10/10 no notes
 gualdhar: I'm glad we got consent before we inserted our rods in our friend there
Vandroth_: Are we keeping the silly costumes for the serious cutscenes?
  Juliamon: time to get me some watermelon!
TyranidSliver: Stretch you fluids and swap your legs
 BraveOthello: Just take you meds though, no swapping
 ContingentCat: !advice
  LRRbot: The neck abides.
 BraveOthello: Waht doesn't obscur  just mean dark?
fiftymcnasty: its referencing an art technique
Vandroth_: Clair Obscur is the French term for Chiaroscuro, the painting technique
 BraveOthello: Italian
wildpeaks: it's a specific meaning
 BraveOthello: chiaroscuro
 gualdhar: so are we the clair or are we the obscur?
 Thefluffiestguineapig: Italian from the Renaissance
 PharaohBender27: Caravaggio, the Renaissance painter?
 adept_nekomancer: Rocky dude: "Oh, he just wants to swim, I shouldn't bother him."
 PharaohBender27: Or maybe what @BraveOthello said 
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @PharaohBender27 It predates him
Vandroth_: My usual example of Clair Obscur painting is Goya's Saturn eating his kids
 BraveOthello: But IIRC Caravaggio made heavy use of the style, characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark areas of composition
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @BraveOthello Correct, he was characterized by that style
fiftymcnasty: arnt all of them but Maelle the same age
 comrade_cards: Dad coded
 BraveOthello: They're all 32, but as HEather said he seems to be treated as the senior member
 accountmadeforants: That's in the intro
Vandroth_: Gustave is her brodaddy
 BraveOthello: All excpet for Maelle, yeah
 BraveOthello: @Vandroth_ ... no
 accountmadeforants: @BraveOthello Okay, but they're not strictly *wrong*.
 accountmadeforants: The council awards them the state of "techically correct" but not "right".
 BraveOthello: ABsolutey true. Not why I said "no"
 adept_nekomancer: No excuse to keep them in your inventory forever if you get fresh ones every save point.
Vandroth_: You don't like chugging 30 potions between fights in Final Fantasy?
 accountmadeforants: @BraveOthello Oh, I agreed, I just wanted to play the devil's advocate 
 BraveOthello: @accountmadeforants The church eliminated that position in the 60s, he was doing fine for himeself
Vandroth_: Platforming with this camera angle should be a crime
 ButButTheJesus: flashback to me going into a significant area in FF6 and having like 40 potions and it not being enough
 BraveOthello: Sorry, correction 83
 accountmadeforants: I like Maelle for platforming, her animations seem to deviate the least from where the game actually thinks she is. (Probably on account of her just being smaller)
 PharaohBender27: https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun/clip/HandsomeTangibleShieldHassaanChop-N-jG93ChwhG2AIRo
Vandroth_: Persona 5 is SO LONG
 accountmadeforants: I don't think I'll ever play Persona 5 myself. Adam's playthrough on Gamehaus is my canon playthrough 
 Wicker_Guide: curious, I've heard mixed reactions to the narrative
wildpeaks: worst case, it's practice for jumping puzzle
 gualdhar: let's take it one more, once.
 comrade_cards: Clair obscur has amazing music and story
Vandroth_: Two hours later: "ONE. last. try."
Vandroth_: Debate about the ending is still raging to this day
 accountmadeforants: I've read some takes on this game's story and they haven't changed my opinion, but their perspectives were valid IMO. The best kind of takes.
 BraveOthello: I'm glad that there's debate, because it means they actually trried to say something meaningful.
 BraveOthello: @accountmadeforants Same, some great conversations about what the game tried to do, how it succeeded or failed for people
wildpeaks: also legacy "for those who come after"
wildpeaks: sure it is a fitting year for it
 JessieImproved: 2025 has been cooking for a while to be fair
 accountmadeforants: I believe that 100%
wildpeaks: 2025 has been a long decade
 accountmadeforants: Geekwucks had some *deep* cuts
 comrade_cards: I was a pride show that did a toast for "those who came before" and then "for those who come after" and I know for a fact he plays this game lol
 accountmadeforants: (I refuse to remember the amount of U's and capitalisation)
FlameReetardantPanda: when in doubt, gun
 wedge_x: GQu[6]x
 ButButTheJesus: why 6 u's? Did the creators' cat stop on keyboard and they were like "heh, cute"
 BraveOthello: THat was ominous
 ArdCollider: that's what the Gundam is saying. To Ian. at least.
 BraveOthello: Did he mean Gundam awakened in him?
 ButButTheJesus: quick heather tell us all his secrets
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @wildpeaks Trust me, as someone who has had my insurance and food stamps messed with in the las tweek it's been a long decade of a week
wildpeaks: x.x
 RockPusher: Time for Heather's story?
wildpeaks: happy little lights
 BraveOthello: Oh no its time for this
 Jillexie: Here we go
 accountmadeforants: 
wildpeaks: the song of this boss is so good
 adept_nekomancer: Nothing bad ever happens in a cutscene.  
 Jillexie: Too Many Hands
 accountmadeforants: The "better hope your monitor's gamma is set properly" one
 RockPusher: They sure are handy with a lamp…
Vandroth_: Maelle's drunk
 comrade_cards: Love the Handel sampling in this song
wildpeaks: oh, oh no
 accountmadeforants: You have to fight the lamp master
 Wicker_Guide: you do
EmoMcHipster: How could you forget this nightmare?
 RockPusher: Watermelon smash tract
 Wicker_Guide: Ian, do we need an old priest and a young priest
 comrade_cards: Lampmaster should ask a doctor for an antibiotic
 Decaped: He just wants to give you a hand
 ButButTheJesus: always never not fire
 Wicker_Guide: shooting the lamps in order stops a special attack, but its not his worst attack anyway
wildpeaks: good luck Sciel 
 BraveOthello: LetHerSoloThis
Vandroth_: Solo Sciel run
 BraveOthello: RIP
 Decaped: CanDrawHands Club
 BraveOthello: @Decaped more like throw hands
wildpeaks: AI evolved: after too many fingers, now it's too many hands
 BraveOthello: Sciel's mechanics aren't actually complicated, I think the game just explains them porrly
 BraveOthello: I just was never to find a good combo
 Jillexie: Sciel was core to my party.
 accountmadeforants: There's one specific weapon I found that made me *really* like Sciel. But it also meant I never used any of the other weapons.
 Wicker_Guide: she's among the most complicated, but she carried me a long way because she can do massive damage purely from her mechanic scaling
 Wicker_Guide: her default hair is bad though
 BraveOthello: @accountmadeforants whic one?
 accountmadeforants: @BraveOthello Chation
 BraveOthello: Yeah, that checks out
 BraveOthello: SAme, once I had that she never changed off it
 accountmadeforants: And for Lune it was Trebuchim
 accountmadeforants: Basically, both weapons that let you skip the intricacies of their mechanics 
Obsc: "just hitting him" 
 BraveOthello: Lune was Colim, but for similar reasons
 Wicker_Guide: the only weapon I had that problem with was Lanceram. Took a while to convince myself not to take advantage of the training wheels
wildpeaks: there we gooo
 Decaped: Simon says shoot him in the hand
 accountmadeforants: The tried and true video game mechanic: Barely disguised Simon Says
 Laserbeaks_Fury: You'll notice if shooting the right lamps doesn't cost an AP
 accountmadeforants: Oh dang, I never noticed that
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Like actual boss mechanics, it's done really well
 Decaped: Just wait for the Tower of Clairoi boss later
Vandroth_: Always go Virtuose
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Maelles Exhausted
Vandroth_: Cause she's Exhausted
wildpeaks: Gustave for the win 
 Wicker_Guide: exhausted is a miserable status effect
 Decaped: Lightning hand beats light hand
 BraveOthello: @wildpeaks IIt had to be him
 gualdhar: Florie!
noSmokeFire: yay! florrie!
Vandroth_: Happy cutscene!
 Jillexie: 
EvilBadman: Better to find a rock then have no rock
Shakari_: just let esquie have this one
EmoMcHipster: Esquie is always right
 Wicker_Guide: Esquie fun fact, his is the only VA shared between english and french
Vandroth_: Better to lose a rock than to never have had a rock
 Kentosaurus: yeah, second playthrough makes the tragic game even more tragic
 accountmadeforants: Maelle is *really* keen on jinxing things
wildpeaks: the coolest rock
noSmokeFire: it's that horror movie thing where you're screaming at the characters to notice the thing sneaking up behind them
Vandroth_: The loudest cane tip in the world
 Wicker_Guide: ask not for whom the cane tolls, it tolls for thee
 PharaohBender27: 
 gualdhar: ever wonder what would happen if they didn't futz around and just swam away
blastedman: really can't quantify exactly why but killing gustave is such a french narrative choice
 ghizmou: good thing we have reviving tints left
Vandroth_: Use a Phoenix Down!
 BraveOthello: @Vandroth_ no, we might need it later
 Isaac3567: I leave to go pee when we beat the boss and come back to see them like... this. I feel like I missed something
 Wicker_Guide: @blastedman "we've established this man as the hero who will resolve the problem, therefore he must die"
 accountmadeforants: The cane noise is like Japan requiring that taking pictures makes a noise
niccus: make the cane make the vine boom
 ButButTheJesus: oh god, Cane is this year's DB Button, isn't it
 BraveOthello: @Isaac3567 A bit. He shot Gustave in the custscene. It's ... not great
Vandroth_: His hair is GRAY!
wildpeaks: you got this, inb4 you beat him first try
 PharaohBender27: @Isaac3567 White-haired man showed up during a cutscene and shot (yet somehow didn't instakill) Gustav
 ButButTheJesus: right inna bepis
 Decaped: dick shots severely lacking in this game
Vandroth_: Great costume choice
wildpeaks: as a treat
 BusTed: 
wildpeaks: woohoo
 Kentosaurus:   
 Wicker_Guide: we're the best
 BraveOthello: No damage, basically a one shot
 Decaped: We Continue
 BraveOthello: Its fine
Vandroth_: His picture is below the kill, that means we killed him
  Juliamon: oops
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 adept_nekomancer: Oh no, he's been disarmed!
 BusTed: 
 Diabore: for those who come after
 Wicker_Guide: for those we have lost. For those we can yet save
 BraveOthello: Sometimes we live to save the people we love
 BraveOthello: *lie
 Kentosaurus: @adept_nekomancer he's all right now
wildpeaks: that sword size is a ltitle overcompensating
 PharaohBender27: 
 ButButTheJesus: 
wildpeaks: o7
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 accountmadeforants: Ah, this makes a lot more sense now
 Laserbeaks_Fury: This won't make sense to you till the second playthrough, but...
Vandroth_: omg look everybody it's Clive from the hit video game Final Fantasy XVI!
noSmokeFire: Gustave -> the cooler Gustave
 Wicker_Guide: the gustave we have at home
wildpeaks: "ohno he's even hotter"
 Diabore: scuse you heather, its newstave
 adept_nekomancer: More different Gustave?!?
 Jillexie: Hi Ben Starr
 BraveOthello: @Laserbeaks_Fury First time I've seen it since finishing, forgot it happened. Very interesting in hindsight
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 Laserbeaks_Fury: On my playthrough, I did the thing where I wanted to dump a whole bunch of resources into someone for the Lampmaster fight, and having been burned horribly by FF VII, I decided on Gustave since he seemed like the main character.
 Laserbeaks_Fury: NOPE
 BraveOthello: @Laserbeaks_Fury Well he was ... for Act I
 ButButTheJesus: @Laserbeaks_Fury aw no
 Wicker_Guide: in fairness, there's nothing lost doing that
HungryHungry_Hobo: All the resources put into Gustave carry over to new guy thankfully
 Wicker_Guide: gameplay wise
 Laserbeaks_Fury: No there's not, thats why I wasnt that upset
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Except I got got *again*
 Wicker_Guide: but yeah, Gustave pulls a solid Obiwan
niccus: first beanbag chair to feel exactly like a sack of potatoes
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Sakapatate?
 Decaped: now i'm imagining FF7 with the themes of this story, and hoo boy would that change things.
 BraveOthello: Their costume are undercutting the drama a little
 comrade_cards: A waterbed full of *redacted*
 Laserbeaks_Fury: nah
 JessieImproved: Can't stop thinking about Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas
 Wicker_Guide: but is it the sturdy sakapatate, the catapult sakapatate, the scout sakapatate, or the ultimate sakapatate that feels best
 BraveOthello: @comrade_cards more of a *radacted*skin, would you say?
 Wicker_Guide: or is the answer just "golgra"
 Wicker_Guide: good answer
  Juliamon: ok NOW the costumes undercut the drama
 Decaped: yes, get this guy into a potato sack as quickly as possible
 Decaped: he doesn't fit in!
 accountmadeforants: Honestly, I can think of them as really practical jumpsuits or really impractical astronaut suits
 accountmadeforants: "I'm Landfill's twin brother, Gill"
 accountmadeforants: "Gustave told me all about you, I feel like I know all you guys! So we won't have that awkward 'get to know eachother' stage"
 Wicker_Guide: Maelle has good prioritization
wildpeaks: Recto Verso
 JessieImproved: @accountmadeforants *points* I understood that reference
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Crazy Frog?
 ButButTheJesus: dingdingdong
 BraveOthello: @wildpeaks Its almost like names having meaning in this game!
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Grant
 Wicker_Guide: bertrom
 Wicker_Guide: snarfblatt
 accountmadeforants: "And there's Dwayne Johnson"
goombalax: wow illusion broken
 PharaohBender27: My kayfabe!
 RockPusher: Gotta bust out the cork sabre
 PharaohBender27: 
 Kentosaurus: wheeler's bit is now ruined
 ContingentCat: The illusion is scattered
 adept_nekomancer: Regret level: none
 PharaohBender27: !time
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 ButButTheJesus: yep no lies here
 RockPusher: !quote ian
  LRRbot: Quote #3321: "I'm the most masculine thing in this show." —Ian [2016-08-29]
 Decaped: wheeler brought back the cell phone. He's a prop comic now.
 RockPusher: !quote heather
  LRRbot: Quote #3098: "Don't give her vegetables!" —Heather, to Beej, regarding Cori [2016-08-03]
 HorusFive: I simply choose to live in illusion- you can't break Kayfabe in any way that will matter to me
 Wicker_Guide: bag godling
 accountmadeforants: Wheeler is *very* obvious about it not working as an actual censor. Part of kayfabe is us buying into it, chat!
 Thefluffiestguineapig: "Unfiltered" is more the adjective I would use
goombalax: knapping
 Thefluffiestguineapig: I would enjoy it less if it was too refined
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @goombalax Like with flint?
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @accountmadeforants Which I try to do!
 Thefluffiestguineapig: @accountmadeforants I try to buy into the fun for everyone!
 Wicker_Guide: #touchrock
wildpeaks: already have a collection of cool rocks
 accountmadeforants: Get a mortgage to buy a rock rather than rent a rock
 accountmadeforants: (If the bank won't let you get a mortgage on your rock, the rock isn't cool enough)
 Wicker_Guide: that means yes, esquie
 JessieImproved: I do appreciate the dialog options being the *actual* dialog options
 gualdhar: oh right
 comrade_cards: Esquie is my favorite video game character in years
wildpeaks: to adventuuuure
 Decaped: Friendship is the best stat, just like in Undertale
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Gustave also didn't know how to use his weapons
 Wicker_Guide: because everyone did know eahother, verso doesn't
noSmokeFire: I think the intent is that Gustave already has settled relationships with all these people...including Esquie, somehow
 accountmadeforants: Gustave already maxed out his relationship levels. Hence Esquire calling him "the super nice one" 
 accountmadeforants: *Esquie
 Kentosaurus: woo
 Wicker_Guide: the esquie relationship is really the learn more about verso relationship
 Diabore: are you wee or are you woo?
 Laserbeaks_Fury: it's all woo
 BraveOthello: Right now its all woo
 comrade_cards: *adventure time banana guard noises*
 Laserbeaks_Fury: good convo
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Tomorrow came, I guess
 Kentosaurus: time for swim swim
wildpeaks: say the line Esquie
 Laserbeaks_Fury: You didnt level up Verso
wildpeaks: so we must protecc fragile Verso at all cost
kynelwynn: It's Dante
 accountmadeforants: His grade also goes up when you parry
 Wicker_Guide: thankfully a bunch of his weapons do change the mechanic
wildpeaks: winner of the stabbist competition
 Dog_of_Myth: 
 ButButTheJesus: 
 Laserbeaks_Fury: Im sure you can knock out Sprung real fast 
 PharaohBender27: 690
wildpeaks: byye, thanks for the stream mes amis
wildpeaks: inb4 chat also forgets
 ButButTheJesus: you'll forget for 1 battle
 ButButTheJesus: is esquie normally on bonus streams?
 PharaohBender27: In case it helps with chat's homework assignment: https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun/clip/FantasticSolidMonitorDuDudu-lUdAcPQpQP_Gf2vS
wildpeaks: "smoke and mirrors" ? this is an odd Desert Bus mod
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goombalax: yep
 Wicker_Guide: said that too much, noted 
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