LowUpsideCJ: that would be awesome
gualdhar: upgrade studio C to allow split screen duos
BrowneePointz: Adam wants to be on the sticks with his FRIENDS gaming out their MINDS, their other friends putting quarters on the desktop to claim NEXT
Mr_Horrible: remote I think works better for collaborative or co-op stuff. This I feel is best in-office, yeah
Mr_Horrible: obviously not always possible, but
BrowneePointz: it'd be almost like first beta darius
BrowneePointz: *remembers the footage*
LowUpsideCJ: I imagined it and got an anime nosebleed
MommaGart: ggs
Faytheless: Is Teemo out yet
Lobo_Apache: ggas
BrowneePointz: teemo releases next week with Early Access
Faytheless: @BrowneePointz Thanks
Mr_Horrible: Gigis. Beppos.
saucemaster5000: gygas!
TXC2: remember: the winner NEVER says gg first
LowUpsideCJ: ggs ggs gamers
TXC2: thanks for streaming Adam and Nelson
TXC2: !patreon
TXC2: !store
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JinaMahavira: Byeee
bbj_afk: ggs thanks for the stream
Mr_Horrible:
TXC2: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: ChillPoint (Paul, Beej and Heather chat about Video Games and Video Game related news!) at Fri 01:00 PM PDT (4m from now).
TXC2: !events
Mr_Horrible: canlander? can we ever!
Mr_Horrible: that's funny
TXC2: ugly, ugly deck
30teracyte: that sure is a collection of rude cards
Omthebox: No stax, no snacks
drizztnailo: love me some tolarian academy
Mr_Horrible:
finally, the First Honest Time Vault Deck 
TheAinMAP:
GapFiller:
100 last year of my thirties starts tmrw so heres some bday bits before we go
TXC2: GapFiller Happy birthday tomorrow
GapFiller: thanks for streaming guys
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TXC2: !discord
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Mr_Horrible:
thanks for the stream, lads 
Jturbobanana: l8r! Thanks for the stream!
realbadatthis_: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: ChillPoint (Paul, Beej and Heather chat about Video Games and Video Game related news!) at Fri 01:00 PM PDT (1m from now).
RockPusher: we jazzing-out
RockPusher: !search for treasure
LRRbot: You find: a box!
RockPusher: !box
LRRbot: In the box is: mixed media teeth
RockPusher:
TheAinMAP: Title change.
RockPusher: !quote beej
LRRbot: Quote #7085: "I don't play Xbox!" —Beej [2020-07-29]
TheAinMAP: Signal.
TXC2: CONTACT
Snowcookies: ahoy fellow chiller of points
TXC2: hello Snowcookies welcome
TXC2:
twitch stuttered for me there and made this song so discordant and downbeat it freaked me out 
TheMerricat:
Reminder chat, before you type into chat asking if there is any audio, check to see if you somehow accidentally muted the stream between the last one ending and the next one starting. 
TheMerricat: How the heck I managed that....
RockPusher:
DJ Twitch known for the fluctuating frequencies 
TXC2: for me streams started either muted or pinned to 100%
kingandcommoner: <message deleted>S̸̔̚O̴̊̏O̷͋̏N̵̑̽
TXC2: here we GO!
TXC2: TODAY!
kingandcommoner: did not know corrupted text auto deleted.
mtvcdm: Man, stocks can be worth anything these days
TXC2: kingandcommoner yeah we had to deal with bots abusing it a while ago
mtvcdm: Are they fish stocks? Does everyone get sushi?
TXC2:
too real Heather
accountmadeforants: Chillpoint has *so much* debt right now. Fortunately you're very profitable. Also, all of you are fired to cut costs, but we'll surely keep making money!
TheMerricat: My stock is worth a good soup.
saucemaster5000: I'm a chicken stock enjoyeer
kingandcommoner: @TXC2 understandable
TXC2: Hello Heather, Paul and Beej
mtvcdm: I would also like to request less news
accountmadeforants: All newsworthy actions need to be run by Heather first, to evaluate for utter stupidity
TXC2: "we need fewer, and better News to fight this war"
accountmadeforants: Didn't Sonic Adventure 2 have a shoe collab where they did make shoes that look like the real thing?
TXC2: it's because the sonics shoes won't make people run fast, and the maker will get sued for that
Akaiatana: Heather, if you can't pull them off, try loosening the laces.
Zaneysed: @accountmadeforants Soap shoes or something
SquareDotCube: To be fair the tops of Sonic's shoes are a bit strange, looking like they end looking like an ankle sock
TXC2:
they look like football boots
mtvcdm: They really do TXC2
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kingandcommoner: Flashes of Commodore Hustle season 1
mtvcdm: This is the cover of a Kidzbop album
accountmadeforants:
@Zaneysed Yup! I found it. They actually went the other way around, where they made Sonic wear shoes inspired by Soap's "Scorcher" shoes https://i.imgur.com/rkEhSik.jpeg
mtvcdm: The fishnetting
RockPusher:
Mermaid‽ But they might EAT me!!! 
Farwanderer: Might be ankle braces
ArtOfStuttering: Many magic players ask where the prof can get those merfolk socks
TXC2:
oh right Imgur doesn't work in the UK now
RockPusher:
Who around here writes merch stories I wonder? 
RockPusher: oh no, Paul
accountmadeforants: @TXC2 Oh damn, what'd they do?
TXC2: accountmadeforants regulator was going to fine imgur, imgur just blocked UK wholesale to "solve" the problem
accountmadeforants: @TXC2 Fine them for what, though?
Juliamon: OSA violations
Akaiatana: You're the sole buyer
314 raiders from Amazonian have joined!
TXC2:
accountmadeforants depending on who you ask, either breaking GDPR rules, or breaking the UK's new internet safety law that makes the internet less safe
TheMerricat: Welcome Raiders!
TXC2: hello Raiders
ZephyronAlpha:
hey nerds 
RockPusher: Welcome raiders, to sock talk!
mtvcdm: Hi raiders!
DukeIgthorn7:
RockPusher:
tekn0shaman: You are being raided by transformers fanfic fans so no worries on wierdness here
mtvcdm: !addquote (Heather) [now] Everything is relevant when it comes to animal toe beans.
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Anubis169: Greetings nerds!
TXC2:
Beej lives in the Nepgear universe
TXC2: hello Anubis169
RockPusher: Boing! I'm a kangaroo!
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TXC2: these things are cyclical
accountmadeforants:
@TXC2 Ah, lovely
mtvcdm: Wood chips
TXC2: the strange esoterics symbols of hopscotch
Snowcookies: sand or woodships
TheMerricat: Asphalt made from tires here.
mtvcdm: They got in my shoes it was bad
ShaneLeeAtk: Asphalt and concrete
SquareDotCube: Mulch then rubber then back to mulch
artdecosunburn: Rocks. Not pebbles, rocks.
RockPusher: When they would refresh the wood chips smelled amazing
tekn0shaman: Haboobs in the playground
mtvcdm: Wood chips getting stuck and leaving slivers in your socks is the worst
Anubis169: Our playground was chipped concrete, we got very good at falling on our shoulders 'cause nobody dared put a hand down. If you did, it was coming away bloody
DoodlestheGreat: Mine had flat, black, interlocking rubber tiles.
Anubis169: We had an adventure playground, but it was a safety nightmare
artdecosunburn: Plot by Big Band-Aid.
TXC2: yeah we big woodchips at my little school
TheMerricat: Chat, do they still have those kid killer geodesic 'playsets' that the kids were supposed to crawl all over?
SquareDotCube: Bugs live everywhere honestly
RubikDarkwill: I had gtrapeseed
Anubis169: Beej: Our wendyhouse in the adventure playground was made out of recycled black bin bags
TXC2: TheMerricat park near where I lived had one made of rope, but otherwise not really
accountmadeforants:
Ours had grass and sand, and one of these terrors: https://i.imgur.com/DFkHrna.png (I'm pretty sure ours was bigger than this picture, too.)
SquareDotCube: @TheMerricat We had worse - a two-story play struct that one kid fell off the high point and broke their leg
RockPusher:
Millennials: We didn't get to own property but we had some rad playgrounds as kids
TXC2: the playground game of leverage buyout
RockPusher: buying things with IOUs
Anubis169:
bought by Saudi Arabia
RockPusher: the idea it would be prevented by regulators is laughable, but maybe the shareholders say no
TheMerricat: "the main regulatory requirements and potential hurdles involve review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and antitrust authorities"
DoodlestheGreat: Yeah, leveraged byouts have screwed over countless companies.
accountmadeforants: Leveraged buyouts make no real sense for actually keeping a company sustainable, but it creates lots of value for shareholders, hurray!
TheMerricat: Toys'R'Us was a leveraged buyout, but the situation is a bit different. The assumption here is the Saudis want a big video game company for whitewashing purposes.
dm818: they might also split the company into parts keeping the debt all in one part
RockPusher: It feels like a massive scam… I wonder why…
TXC2: if you've even seen that scene from Goodfellas where they screw over the restaurant after buying it, that's what a leverage buyout is like
Decaped: conceptually the system is designed to leave someone holding the bag
LordZarano: Of all companies EA being bought and shutdown really feels like karma for all the MANY developers that EA bought and closed
RockPusher: Buy whatever rights EA may or may not have to NOLF for $1
TheMerricat: And while leveraged buyouts _are_ legal, the people buying the company _might_ not be able to assign the debt to EA for bankruptcy purposes _if_ the courts decide that the debt itself was the cause for EA declaring bankruptcy. In that case it's considered a fraudulent transfer and the initial purchasers are still on the hook for the debt.
ProcyonFlynn:
Capitalism "might" not be a great system of allocating resources 
RockPusher: TheMerricat a hearty chortle at the idea of functioning courts [sad trombone noises]
TheMerricat: @LordZarano Yes and no. A large portion of the studios EA killed were dead on board before they got purchased, that was why they were open to being bought in the first place, a cash infusion to try to survive. Them being shut down after that was often just as much about their bet not coming through as EA being 'evil'.
SocraticMethod: At least 210 $
gualdhar: yeah if they dive too hard the buyers might pull out
TXC2:
EA to make DLC free during 2026
Decaped: EA is now capable of making longer term decisions! will this happen? NO
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TheMerricat: The biggest problem for any 'ray of hope' for EA is the Board of Directors approved the deal. So the there is zero likelihood they'll do anything that jeopardizes their sweet deal.
Anubis169: as people abandon ship
RockPusher: It also depends on if the buyers want to strip it for parts or want it for propaganda
TheMerricat: As an old who remembers EA being a company that celebrated their developers to the EA of today, it's a bit sad to see them go. But I was also an Atari stan so....
TXC2:
Saudi Arabia the new tencent?
TXC2: TheMerricat the EA of 80's-early 90's will be sorely missed
TXC2:
who knows, maybe this deal will resurrect bullfrog somehow?
TheMerricat: They had an EA Canada - formed from an acquired studio - as of 1991
j_crane330:
Izandai: As someone who knows nothing about Canadian politics, I got the gist of the joke.
RockPusher: The LRR Audience: Canadian by osmosis
TheMerricat: NGL I knew Graham was taking the piss but I _did not_ know the joke was that he wasn't liked there.
Nydestroyer: I have learned a lot about canada from this group. Also a shocking amount about america
j_crane330: Fair
Juliamon: Nydestroyer The best way to learn about a country is from a different country's perspective.
TXC2: we did talk a bit about it yes
SocraticMethod: We need to make Olympics PPV
LurkerSpine: Capcom apparently wants to profit off its e-sports division instead of using it as an advertising vehicle, and I'm still trying to figure out how the hell they thought that was gonna work out
30teracyte: SF6 is so popular in japan that capcom feels they can just base their moves off of that and ignore the impact it has on the community internationally
Anubis169: it feels like when Murdoch nicked UK's cricket off terrestrial TV (free) and made it part of a £70/mo bolt-on sports package for Satellite Only
LurkerSpine: If you look on the earnings report for Capcom last year, they labelled esports as a like a 6 million dollar loss or something
RockPusher: As a sign of "e-sports legitimacy" PPVs make some sense
Tiber727: I'm sure there's plenty of Youtube content of people fighting in an alley.
TXC2: Anubis169 wasn't that after the 2005 ashes, aka the most cricket ever in the UK?
TXC2: *most watched
Nydestroyer: the paul gambit
Anubis169: yeah
Anubis169:
we lost the whole shebang in one go 
LurkerSpine: In Japan, Street Fighter League is a televised event and there's a whole bunch of restrictions on streams and stuff there
LurkerSpine: And I get paying to go see the event in person
Nydestroyer: maybe its trying to leverage views for sponsors. Like if it sells well they might be able to massively fund it via outside peeps
RockPusher: PPVs (and the gating of sports behind expensive subscriptions) cuts off the incidental viewing and organic audience growth that that can make
kingandcommoner: If it was "pay for 1080" I'd think it was much more reasonable
RockPusher: but can make it more economical to better cater for the core audience
Nydestroyer:
480p standard for free, 1080 ppv 
kingandcommoner: I'd argue that's endgame
RockPusher: so, quite a complex piece of business strategy
TXC2: ESPN vs PPV
LurkerSpine: It's Twitch and Youtube for Capcom stuff
TXC2: also I'm shocked streaming services don't have dedicated sports branches
Anubis169: There's also the factor of "we already have too much subscription wallet-drain going on"
mtvcdm: There's a certain level of attractiveness you have to reach before you can go the PPV route, sports know this, and an e-sports championship is simply not there.
RockPusher: building a robust sports live broadcast service is non-trivial and non-cheap
kingandcommoner: Can't wait for the twitch stream of the guy watching it with mirrored sunglasses on
Snowcookies: LRR wants to host the Street Firghter tourney confirmed
TheMerricat: Sports organizations love the double dip way too much to be willing to let streaming services form a 'sports only' branch. There's a reason why some games are blacked out for local channels.....
kingandcommoner: Chat Chaos Street Fighter
LordSeru:
Is this still chillpoint or are we theorizing a crapshot now?
30teracyte: I mean we don't have to go too far to see a more consumer friendly model: in street fighter 5 they would release yearly paid passes to support the pro tour with a couple costumes and a stage. the problem is that sf6 releases new content at such a slow rate compared to sf5 that I don't know if they're set up to support something like that
bytecaster: "Pay to Backseat"
RockPusher:
Give Heather danger pay! 
LordZarano: GDQ does the only subs can chat thing
saucemaster5000: that was what the director said -- it was a completely different group who made the decision
accountmadeforants:
Like, if they made the MTG Pro Tour PPV, Maro would probably get asked about it 
dm818: Apparently xbox gamepass got rid of a lot for the discounts for DLCs in addition to the price hikes.
kingandcommoner: Electric Boogaloo
kingandcommoner: But is it SPHERICAL?
RockPusher: Sure do love "changes in the macroeconomic environment"
FluffySparkster: oh hey, made it to a chillpoint, hi!
accountmadeforants: "We call it Premium now, so you have to pay a premium"
kingandcommoner: i am laughing.
LurkerSpine: I have never paid full price for game pass, but now I doubt it's gonna be worth it to even get it at a discounted price
CaptainSpam: "Our new tiers are Core, Standard, Regular, Basic, and Plain."
TXC2: Platinum black!
LordZarano: For reference PS-Plus tiers are Essential, Extra, Premium
kingandcommoner: It's like how every starbucks size really means large
RockPusher:
but Beej, the *added value*
dm818: The Indiana Jones DLC for instance was discounted by 10% before the change if you had gamepass but not it has no discount.
EvilBadman: I have been in meetings where people pitched names for tier changes and they honk so very hard
mtvcdm: The Venti package
accountmadeforants:
Really Core should've been called Substandard 
RockPusher: "Works", "Works Well", "Works The Way You Want It"
LordZarano: Goldilocks pricing?
mtvcdm: Package 358/2 Dream Drop Distance
TXC2: RockPusher "works the way you want it too the first time, every time"
Anubis169: there's something locked into the highest paid tier too
Izandai: Okay but Sakura Class is obviously the best
RockPusher: "Extremely Unstable", "Unstable", "Stable", "Inert"
accountmadeforants: @RockPusher Or "Resembles something that works", "You can start to imagine how it could work", "Works"
EvilBadman: Day 1 games are in Ultimate only
kingandcommoner: How about Super Game Pass Turbo Edition?
Izandai: Like there's obviously a ranking there.
Anubis169: that was it EvilBadman
ProcyonFlynn: Hotdog Cheeseburger and Pizza?
RockPusher: GamePass Pine++
SquareDotCube: "some games" "many games" "more games than you'll play in your lifetime"
kingandcommoner: Can I bet my X-box in Mahogany?
Izandai: Mahogany is the top tier.
Izandai: It's a very fine material. Very expensive.
Nydestroyer: Root, Trunk, Branch
RockPusher: "Chipboard", "Ply", "Pine", "Oak"
accountmadeforants:
Gamepass, Gamepass++, and Gamepass#, it is Microsoft, after all
CaptainSpam: If you try to hide it with naming tricks, people will figure it out pretty dang quick and those names will just become memeified into the new "ranks".
TXC2: get the endangered Koa wood X-box
kingandcommoner: Name them after Ikea furniture
Nydestroyer: wait, call it "Some stuff", "more stuff" "all the stuff"
TXC2:
accountmadeforants if it's microsoft it would be gamepass, basic gamepass, and basic gamepass for apilcations
LordZarano: Fun fact for "Platinum tier" things. IRL platinum has been worth less than gold for over a decade
mtvcdm: What if you gave all the packages the same name.
kingandcommoner: @Nydestroyer Some implies you're not getting enough. Let's just call that one "Stuff"
mtvcdm: !advice
LRRbot: The neck abides.
TXC2:
LordZarano wait really?
LurkerSpine: Ultimate seems to still be a good deal for fortnite crew people, and that's about it
kingandcommoner: You ever hear the story of cup sizes in NASA space suits?
mtvcdm: @kingandcommoner The 'Everything' class, the 'Infinity' class, the 'Bonus' class
Izandai: @kingandcommoner Oh please share.
LordZarano: @TXC2 Half the price last I checked
TXC2:
LordZarano damn
Izandai: @LordZarano Dang, wild. Did they dig some really productive platinum mines recently, or is it because gold is so in demand for electronic components, or what?
kingandcommoner: @Izandai The story goes that they were listed as "small, medium, large" but astronauts kept having issues using the facilities because they all ordered "large" so NASA had to rename them to "Large, Huge, Enormous" in order to avoid embarassing the spacemen
accountmadeforants: @LordZarano This is how I find out silver is almost a hundredth the price of gold, I'd assumed they were way closer
Izandai:
@kingandcommoner Oh those cups. 
Yeah that scans.
LurkerSpine: I don't even know what you get out of cancelling, you can just turn off auto-renew
TXC2: accountmadeforants yeah I would have thought it was a tenth at the minium
LordZarano: @Izandai No clue, if you find out let me know
Izandai: @accountmadeforants Geeze.
RockPusher: Izandai almost certainly artificially inflated by silly human speculation - ie, the same forces as what keep bitcoin inflated
EvilBadman: There's some bean counter at MS watching the projections of dropped customers vs ASP and revenue of those that stay
accountmadeforants: Nvidia's service requires you to still buy the games normally, you're just running games on their PC. (Which made MBAs at publishers very confused and upset.)
TXC2: right, gold has a curtain resonance, a lustre that silver/ platinum don't have
LurkerSpine: Even new games are cheaper, you can find them for at least 10 percent off through like, Is There Any Deal
RockPusher:
that Heather sigh
RubikDarkwill: "I'm gonna snip my wheels on this" *Heather and Paul take a drink*
lightfut: Oh dear that sounds like socialism
MajorFrostbyte: I think all married couples have topics that one is really fixated with and the other is, "I don't disagree, but I'm done with it."
mtvcdm: You want to be able to program for the sickos
accountmadeforants: Also it means the cable services can maintain a better negotiating position, because the existence of other channels means they can at least tell the popular channels "well, if you ask for too much money, we'll just drop you in favour of all these other channels"
accountmadeforants: (Not that they really would, but if there was just *one* channel, all the power would lie with that channel)
kingandcommoner: Maybe it they televised the revolution, I would get cable again
RockPusher: To an extent, yes, the cable companies would do that, but really that amortisation is more effective at the production house level
mtvcdm: 49
mtvcdm: They've started season 49. They're not even giving them names anymore, just numbers.
RockPusher: though it gets fuzzy when the production house is also the distributor
kingandcommoner: so socialism is only okay when it's cable channels. I get it now
CaptainSpam: Survivor: Survivor. Contestants are participating in Survivor while bingeing marathons of previous Survivor series.
RockPusher:
Good book Heather?
TXC2: right chat I'm off
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
accountmadeforants:
Time to switch to Morrowind
TXC2: goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Heather, Paul and Beej
accountmadeforants: Good night TXC
RockPusher: Time for Fallout granny?
RockPusher: maybe one dedicated to the punching
SquareDotCube: I wonder how many Nazeem murders she committed
TheMerricat: She's apparently got other channels that she's running. So she's really just retiring from Skyrim.
CaptainSpam: Wow.
gualdhar: wait, talking about memes in the comments is bad? well shit
RockPusher: Kitty!!!!!!!
DeM0nFiRe: Cats are pretty good though
accountmadeforants: And that's why I never comment... wait
CaptainSpam: We've been found out!
RockPusher:
Beej knows full well I want a "Yeah Muffin!" shirt
accountmadeforants: Okay, so, CONTINUOUS ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT is still one of my favourite things. Love Boneathan. And Unfuck This House is something I think about regularly.
RockPusher: accountmadeforants They *fucked* my house!
LordZarano: Minecraft Live featured showed a streamer grandma as part of a "look how great our community is". That was neat
MajorFrostbyte: Tell me what you think. No I meant tell me that what I think is great.
SquareDotCube: Ugh just like current events
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SquareDotCube: We *really* need to do something about narcissists with parasitic tendencies
Bruceski: And the issue is that my computer's messed up enough I'm trying to figure out if it's a problem on my end
RockPusher: Human's find it really hard to human
RockPusher: *Humans
mtvcdm: So you're telling me the first seven seasons was not the finals
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DoodlestheGreat:
RockPusher:
No Beej, that's the Intercontinental
Snowcookies:
My first thought is exams
RockPusher: "The World Series"
SocraticMethod: AFAIK there was a "low-grav" sponsor
awildshen: that's how they pronounce it in the game
butt_ghost: I suppose
wildpeaks: the 'spooze is silent
RockPusher glances at the can of "V" next to him on his desk
RockPusher: Blackcurrent and Yuzu
RockPusher: very nice
EvilBadman: "susan"
SocraticMethod: "OSPUZE advertises Pro Juice as a complete replacement for all other drinks, including water" according to the website
SocraticMethod: It's literally brawndo lol
RockPusher: It's what plants crave!
Marvoleath: phonetic alphabet should be more widely thought tbh
Anubis169: Deep cut, can it be based on club soda
wildpeaks: comedy in a can
niccus: but you already have a relationship with fernwood...
EvilBadman: This drink validates you AND your parking
SquareDotCube: Bawls does still exist and Graham liked it
wildpeaks: flavor: canned laughter
Anubis169: Paul: New from LRR "Canned Laughter"
RockPusher: What flavour is this? "Blue"
Anubis169 hugs wildpeaks
wildpeaks:
EvilBadman: It was
SocraticMethod: Duracell was in OG alan wake
SocraticMethod: remake removed them
calculated_uncertainties: Is it just me or do you have wondercore flashbacks every time they start mentioning core.
EvilBadman: @SocraticMethod It was energizer
SocraticMethod: was it? damn
spurius: you get around by having two batteries in the game, one last twice as long, those are the branded ones
butt_ghost: LRR uncle slappy's moonshine
wildpeaks: Spacer's choice of energy drink
accountmadeforants:
If HTC was still primarily an OEM doing rebrands, you could've had a LRR smartphone!
SocraticMethod: @EvilBadman It was, my bad. I though the pickups had copper top
RockPusher: Draw the rest of the owl
wildpeaks: rub it together and it Just Works
LordZarano: N64 controller: Dreamcast VMU edition
accountmadeforants: I love that it's just *all* bodge wires
CaptainSpam: I never really got why the Micro existed, yeah.
Juliamon: Eternally kicking myself for not buying one when I could
Anubis169: This is why streetpass never worked for a bunch of people here... nobody took it with them when they went outside
LurkerSpine: I mean a lot of phones don't fit in pockets anymore
Izandai: Depends on the pocket.
wildpeaks: so they can't all be in the house, some must be safely contained away
LordZarano: It didn't play GB or GBC games, only GBA, same as the DS
CaptainSpam: But gold is *tradition*!
mtvcdm: Hunting season blaze orange
collectangels: I didnn't like Tears
collectangels: Was too much stuff for me
CaptainSpam: Roblox stories do tend to be less fun, yeah...
Anubis169: LOL
mtvcdm: oh no
gualdhar: oh is this the mass delete? lol
Anubis169: heard about this
frnknstn: I learned recently that Terry Pratchet helped make a Oblivion mod, according to Eurogamer
ghyllnox: Oh ffs
ghyllnox: This is putting content warnings on LGBT people huh
Izandai: oh no
Anubis169: Yeah it really is that bad
TheMerricat: "This is because, the organizations claim, Roblox's guidelines "specifically cite 'issues such as immigration, capital punishment, gun control, marriage equality, pay equity in sports, prayer in schools, racial profiling, affirmative action, vaccination policies, and reproductive rights' as examples requiring these descriptors.""
itsaysTRUENO: art has been banned
Izandai: Fucking christ.
ghyllnox: So the pedophiles are gone though, right? RIGHT?
Anubis169: ghyllnox: not by a longshot
itsaysTRUENO: there is a Roblox reenactment of Papers, Please recommended by youtube on every LRR video
TheMerricat: Protect the kids from the liberals. But not the groomers.
ArcOfTheConclave: restricting political discussion is a political act
ghyllnox: And "panini"
butt_ghost: ah yes, sewer slide
Izandai:
frnknstn: @GapFiller Yes! Also, I just learned moments ago that Twitch now allows pausing live streams, when I wondered why chat wasn't talking about Skyrim Gran
Snowcookies: ugh
UnknownFriday: Double plus ungood and all that.
itsaysTRUENO: according to them, censorship is when white men can't say slurs, not private companies sculpting the culture to their own end
saiarcot895: it's weird wording
RockPusher:
The "Would Kathleen allow P to watch this?" test
Mr_Horrible: they want these platforms to take over parenting their children and get upset when a topic they wouldn't broach exists on said platforms
Anubis169: if ya don't talk about it, you end up with our censored UK internet
RubikDarkwill: The problem is you offloading your parenting
SocraticMethod: the "not made for kids" is different from LGBT censorship. It's about how there was entire industry doing content farms for iPad kids. They were closing the loopholes
Anubis169: you don't want the gov't doing that for you
ghyllnox: Or (as a queer trans person) if you don't like it, talk to your kid about it anyways, the way you want to, the same way you'd talk about smoking considering people smoke outside grocery stores, or how some people don't have enough food to eat but we can't give them our food
itsaysTRUENO: Fortnite (derogatory)
Anubis169: who?
Izandai: Peacemaker is a Marvel character.
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Izandai: *DC
Mr_Horrible: Paul: "and now, a lighter to- ... a lighter- ... hmmm ... hold on ... okay, a lighter topic!"
gualdhar: OH YEAH
gualdhar: Fortnite did an oopsies
SocraticMethod: So fun fact: the dance is actually from the music video of the song that Gunn re-appropriated
SocraticMethod: Earth X
Juliamon: The dance is fine. The specific little bit that got emote-ified was... not
Thefluffiestguineapig: Just got home, slid into chat to see Fornite did something bad again, so we have reached that story I see
Mr_Horrible: within context, it's satirizing, but it's just gonna be a dogwhistle in the game, ESPECIALLY now that they temporarily took it down because they were worried about the implication
Mr_Horrible: but it's also insane that they took it down considering some of the stuff that's still on their market
Izandai: Peacemaker is not a good person.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible ^THIS, I really agree
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Izandai That's the whole satire
Izandai: Yup.
wildpeaks: oh, ohno
gualdhar: they weren't obvious hints until the reveal
Thefluffiestguineapig: But he's also aggressively American branded
gualdhar: like how all the side characters are white
Thefluffiestguineapig: It's why you don't do things like that WITHOUT KNOWING THE CONTEXT
Mr_Horrible: marketing heads talking to other marketing heads while everyone in the writers room goes "wait, what? Oh no."
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible or they just laugh at the marketing people
Thefluffiestguineapig: For not thinking about the one character
SocraticMethod: like the goddamn ok hand sign
lightfut: Once you let one Nazi into a bar....
Thefluffiestguineapig: @SocraticMethod I cannot head desk hard enough
SocraticMethod: It was MSM overreaction that turned into actual dogwhistle
Thefluffiestguineapig: The ok hand sign comes from diving originally, correct?
RockPusher:
Thefluffiestguineapig: Because you can't use thumbs up?
Anubis169:
Silent Hill 
Thefluffiestguineapig: The new one It seems at least ok
accountmadeforants: Silent Hill Pay Respects
Mr_Horrible: the f stands for fplay the game it's good
RockPusher: Fupple
noSmokeFire: Silent Hill Fortnite
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible Ok, I'm glad because it looks sick
Anubis169: Silent Hill Ffffortnite-character-in-6-months
SocraticMethod: @Thefluffiestguineapig It was way older, examples at least 19th century
Thefluffiestguineapig: @SocraticMethod I mean the modern definition of "Ok"
accountmadeforants: I hope it's a CYOA novel!
Mr_Horrible: considering who wrote Silent Hill f this makes sense
Mr_Horrible:
a traditional author, yes 
LordZarano: Silent Hill not ƒor me
RockPusher: Spaceballs: The Light Novel
Anubis169: the Alien movies' novelisation by Alan Dean Foster are freakin' amazing
SocraticMethod: @Thefluffiestguineapig Sort of? Depends on what you mean by mean modern definition. The "all correct" meaning was present in 1839 at least
Mr_Horrible:
I dunno Heather, those Lord of the Rings books were pretty good 
SocraticMethod: Excuse me, revenge of the sith novel was a masterpiece
saucemaster5000: @Mr_Horrible Well those movies were based on an SNES game
CaptainSpam: Well, in the US version, at least.
Mr_Horrible: real talk I did not know there were SNES games, Sauce
mtvcdm: The plots of old-timey games are WILD
mtvcdm: Games that had to stick all the lore in the instruction manual because the game didn't have the space to do it
Anubis169: Archie or Fleetway?
Thefluffiestguineapig: The Archie one that is buck fucking wild????
saucemaster5000: @Mr_Horrible it was bad, but also realized maybe I shoulda said it was based on rankin bass and ralph bakshi cartoon
saucemaster5000: s
Mr_Horrible: I had the sonic picturebook that had a built-in soundboard as a kid
Anubis169:
i got a complete set of the Fleetway ones 
Mr_Horrible: @saucemaster5000 very funny divergent sources, in that case
SquareDotCube: It was mostly that Robotnik wanted to build an amusement park and Sonic wouldn't allow it
mtvcdm: dangit
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Anubis169 So the ones where they didn't take a truckload of brown acid, I've heard those ones are good. The archie ones are brain melting
mtvcdm: Just... just copy paste that url
Mr_Horrible: wasn't there, like, an entire novella of depressing lore in the GEX manual?
Mr_Horrible: like, he lived alone in a mansion he inherited from his uncle's tragic death, watching tv?
LurkerSpine: That was a local in Florida
Anubis169: YO
Mr_Horrible: oh she *won*? Hell yeah
Anubis169: mad respect!
SquareDotCube: *announcer voice* NATALITY
Thefluffiestguineapig: BROTHER
wildpeaks: oh yeah I saw that one, amazing
accountmadeforants: Holy shit
RockPusher: Moms are hardcore
Izandai:
Of course it was Florida.
saucemaster5000: @Mr_Horrible (Also the beatles tried to make a movie where john played gollum, paul played gandalf, ringo played frodo and george played someone else... they wanted kubrick to direct. he turned the idea down.)
Mr_Horrible: Babality indeed
TheAinMAP:
iris_of_ether:
@SquareDotCube 
Foxmar320:
Mr_Horrible: @saucemaster5000 the coward
saucemaster5000: she is a very good player
RockPusher:
accountmadeforants: That baby's gonna be the chosen one, hope EVO will be around by the time they get to play
frnknstn: MK, a game for babies
Thefluffiestguineapig: Get fucking smoked, that baby is blessed in fighting game skills
Izandai: Oh, that sucks.
Mr_Horrible: aww, damn
Mr_Horrible: good for her, can't imagine going through that
Thefluffiestguineapig: That is an incredibly positive thing to do with a deeply tragic thing that happened, she's a VERY strong person
saucemaster5000: both her and her husband are both fairly well known in the community and are awesome people
Izandai: Moms deserve hobbies too!
accountmadeforants: Bring Your Kid To Locals Day
Thefluffiestguineapig: This is literally the opposite of "once you had a kid get out"
Mr_Horrible: "Kid comes first, but we can swing this, I think"
RockPusher: What is this heartwarming in chillpoint business‽
Thefluffiestguineapig:
@accountmadeforants
Thefluffiestguineapig: As is correct yes Paul
Izandai: what
RockPusher: Twist It!
Izandai: WHY
CaptainSpam: Oh god.
Thefluffiestguineapig: GODDAMN
Thefluffiestguineapig: BUT WHY
saucemaster5000: I will not "pull it"
Izandai: IT BEING A PHYSICAL TOY IS THE WHOLE POINT
accountmadeforants: Does it come with a custom controller?
RockPusher: Install It!
CaptainTeo: I want Bopit VR.
dutchmoose: Of course it's Hasbro
Juliamon: You know what the Bop-It toy didn't have? LEADERBOARDS
Thefluffiestguineapig: Paul you just made me remember an entire thing that I forgot existed
mtvcdm: All the commands are 'press it'
frnknstn: Is it a riff on Keep Talking?
SocraticMethod: @Juliamon Or the 2Mello soundtrack
CaptainSpam: This is what nostalgia looks like, people.
accountmadeforants: @Juliamon Truly its biggest failing
wildpeaks: @mtvcdm and it turns out to be a Stanley Parable secret ending
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon It had high scores though, those were depressing enough
RockPusher: Pull It! for only $3.99
Marvoleath: that's a noisy bg
Mr_Horrible: simulacrum and simulacra
Thefluffiestguineapig: The whole point was that it was a dexterity toy
RockPusher: Twist It! was 6$ now only $4
Mr_Horrible: QTE's were just bop-it as a mechanic, and now the bop-it itself has been translated into the space
Thefluffiestguineapig: Different shapes and different numbers of actions
Anubis169: Would they bring out a WiFi version of the BopIt to give you a real one to control the onscreen one with?
Anubis169:
RockPusher: Buy the premium "Pull It!" pass for $15.99
dutchmoose: simon says
Thefluffiestguineapig: The whole point is that it isn't a rhythm game, if you wait then you often get shafted
SAJewers:
but what if Iwan wants to play Bop It on rhythm Cafe?
niccus: it's got music by 2mello!
Thefluffiestguineapig: This sounds like such trash
wildpeaks: could have been a VR game, at least there would be a physical component to the movements
Thefluffiestguineapig: The original only worked due to the fact it was so weird
Thefluffiestguineapig: @wildpeaks Like beat saber
saucemaster5000: this is the bop it the guy at the store said you wanted
wildpeaks: exactly
Mr_Horrible: "I play Bop-It on kbm" is a very "we live in the stupid future" sentence
CaptainSpam: I mean, on the Switch, you could do something with Joy-Cons that would... wait, no, there's already Switch WarioWare game, never mind.
Mr_Horrible: he doesn't?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @CaptainSpam And probably much better done
mtvcdm: !addquote (Paul) [now] Aren't all video games, effectively, Bop It?
LRRbot: New quote #9400: "Aren't all video games, effectively, Bop It?" —Paul [2025-10-03]
saucemaster5000: bop-pa mia!
Mr_Horrible: I've been playing off-brand mario this whole time?
Anubis169: you do bop the tiles when you make a move
mtvcdm: !crossover
LRRbot: Wait, is this whole thing just an elaborate minigame in Yakuza?
Thefluffiestguineapig: I want to tell Ian that tonight on Tiltyhouse
accountmadeforants: Would you kindly Bop It
Thefluffiestguineapig: I mean, we could make that argument about most Yakuza things
Anubis169 falls over laughing
frnknstn: Dark Souls is the Bop-it of videogames
CaptainSpam: Who would ever want to bop Paul? Monsters, that's who.
brainbosh: Bop it is just a call and response game
mtvcdm: Madden is just high-impact Bop It
RockPusher: Dodge Roll! Dodge Roll! Tail chop!
SocraticMethod: Is that what the kids call it this day?
CaptainSpam: Stanley entered the door on his left. Stanley picked up the device and bopped it.
Commodore_Perry_GG: Games Done Quick. Bop-It 100% No Clip category
Thefluffiestguineapig: This as a way to remind people the normal toy exists is better for them
Thefluffiestguineapig: No that's the real speed
RockPusher: !y
LRRbot: HONK!
Thefluffiestguineapig: It takes out the dexterity aspect
Juliamon: flick it
Mr_Horrible:
wildpeaks: Bop It X-treme 2000
Thefluffiestguineapig: NOPE
RockPusher: So how long until Rudeism plays Bop-It! with a Bop-It! ?
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saucemaster5000: just flick it a little
Mr_Horrible: the global flicking leaderboards
Commodore_Perry_GG: Ball in a Cup
mtvcdm: Aren't leaderboards just a form of bop It?
CaptainSpam: The video game version of Skip-It is just DDR.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher The real challenge will be making it interface with a computer
mtvcdm: Hot Bop Its in your area
RockPusher: Thefluffiestguineapig bluetooth-enabled Bop-It!
DoodlestheGreat: "Are you better than you're friends?" Well, I blew my allowance on this sillyass game, so probably not.
wildpeaks: you can never escape the Bop It
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher That sounds like actual hell
Mr_Horrible: "I hate when games add unnecessary mechanics, I'm going back to stick-and-hoop"
Thefluffiestguineapig: So my record as a child was 394 or some nonsense successful inputs in a row
saucemaster5000: gets faster and faster "bop it! Pull it! Put in your credit card information!"
ArdCollider: roko's bopolisk
Thefluffiestguineapig: On the complex input one
Commodore_Perry_GG: Bop It knows where you live and who you love
Snowcookies: ty for the news
wildpeaks: byye, thanks for the stream
Thefluffiestguineapig: Thank you for the stream!
SocraticMethod: Bop it! Extend it! Load it! Take Aim! Fire it!
Thefluffiestguineapig: Bop it you are too desperate, go home
Mr_Horrible: chillpoint: all the news that's fit to stream
Commodore_Perry_GG:
DoodlestheGreat: Or not. Who are we, your mother?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also: TQ let us know something. Prime subs ARE NOT the same but you should still use them on someone
RockPusher: Heather keeping it real
Thefluffiestguineapig: Streamers get a smaller cut from prime subs
mtvcdm: !clip
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Thefluffiestguineapig: Substitute teacher Paul
GapFiller:
Mr_Horrible: @Thefluffiestguineapig afaik that part has been the case for a little bit, it's not part of the rebrand
frnknstn puts down hand
ArcOfTheConclave: I think 28 is younger than some of you
TheAinMAP: !next
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RockPusher: Something is going to happen‽
Mr_Horrible: I'm sure some Marvel's Spider-Man will have found its way into canlander
LordZarano: @Thefluffiestguineapig After a certain point the challenge becomes not getting bored of it. I got somewhere over 100 I think
DoodlestheGreat: But it will be LIVE!
Mr_Horrible: oh hell yeah
RockPusher: Look, calendars are hard
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible Apparently about 8 months to a year as far as people were able to figure out, I mostly wanted to let people know because
Thefluffiestguineapig: @LordZarano Gee, could you tell I was an under challenged autistic child?
Mr_Horrible: @Thefluffiestguineapig true, true, that's still good lookin' out
EvilBadman: only two of you
Mr_Horrible: Patapon was one of the like 5 games I played on my PSP, lol
Thefluffiestguineapig: Is it a spoopy game?
brainbosh: some sort of SCP place
Thefluffiestguineapig: Ah, that is very Alex coded game
dutchmoose: Send Nope
Thefluffiestguineapig: @brainbosh I'm in
niccus: this might be the wrong thumbnail
farley_f: this game is heavily Alex
Mr_Horrible: "Doing a mundane job in a spooky facility" is an ever-growing genre
Thefluffiestguineapig: @farley_f Also me apparently
brainbosh: I think repairing the russian version of Control
frnknstn: The Lift is a metaphor. Also the game has an elevator
Mr_Horrible:
megastructures are cool 
Mr_Horrible: also everyone should play White Knuckle, speaking of megastructurers
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible That's also basically just "games for Alex" the genre if it is granular enough
Snowcookies: #blameJames
farley_f: @thefluffiestguineapig great minds
CaptainSpam: This sounds spookier than a rocky mountain breakdown.
Mr_Horrible: @Thefluffiestguineapig they should make more games for Alex, because I love stuff like that
Mr_Horrible: BOOd Morning BOOnbase
Thefluffiestguineapig: @CaptainSpam Depends on where you are in the rockies
Mr_Horrible:
I gotta finish this before Tuesday 
Mr_Horrible: they pull a headfake and start Higurashi
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible I find many of those games just don't have enough granularity. So it just says "repair"
Thefluffiestguineapig: It is his only accent
lightfut: Enlist cori and Cameron after the game they played yesterday
Mr_Horrible: "ayyyy it's me, Hinako Shimizu, your ol' pal"
TheAinMAP:
GapFiller:
100 last year of my thirties starts tmrw so having celebrated on Fight Club it seems remiss to not do so again on ChillPoint (also nice one w/ the Fresh Prince look Heather)
Mr_Horrible: @Thefluffiestguineapig true, a lot of them are more about the navigation rather than the intricacy of the work
TheAinMAP:
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem
DeM0nFiRe:
o/ 
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible I think that does it a disservice, the navigation (for me at least) is the part that should feel wrote since this is literally your job every day. Navigation should feel kind of autopilot almost and you notice the spooky things but don't have the tools to interact going between repair jobs and have to try to make it work WHILE doing your job or with your tools. The Deadspace route
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LordZarano: I think TechMoan is a time traveler who exclusively his powers to create new obscure obsolete media formats to talk about
Mr_Horrible: @Thefluffiestguineapig Alien Isolation another good example of that, all the interactions are in realtime and require some form of mild recognition puzzle
LordZarano: *uses
Mr_Horrible: so the more spooked or panicked you are the harder they become
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's a good one too
Thefluffiestguineapig: It's another good example of "there's no one way to do it" so experimenting to figure out what works for your game helps. Which this megalithic industry discourages
cmdrud87: !next
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