KeytarCat: I assumed I'd gotten up after 1, but now I've made breakfast and it's still 12:xx!
Manae: !next
LordZarano: !next
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TXC2:
Manae 
KeytarCat:
TheAinMAP:
Manae: @KeytarCat lies and propaganda! It is surely 4PM!
Pal_Friendpatine: nice! everyone!
TXC2: also Hello everybody
Manae:
LordZarano:
Congrats @Manae
TehAmelie: it's 10 in the evening by my clock
TehAmelie: and also hi chat
GapFiller: guessing theres a reason its a Bonus Stream (on the schedule as in LRRbots database) beyond simple James laziness
Pal_Friendpatine: Sweet def wanted to see LRR play this
Manae: Highest number wins, guess it's 10
TXC2:
9pm here, but I was up at 2am, so it may as well be rutabaga o'clock 
Juliamon: ~lasttoot
KeytarCat: Aight, so what IS Arc Raiders?
GapFiller: not a Send Codes game
Juliamon: It's the thing Shroud is super into right now
TehAmelie:
i've been up since about 2 am myself
Juliamon: and says is better than Expedition 33
v_nome: Extraction shooter, like Tarkov
KeytarCat: Bold claim
TXC2: wikipedia says extraction shooter
Juliamon: and that's all I know
GapFiller: lets be real is anyone sleeping properly these days
TehAmelie: i'm certainly in a period of feast or famine style sleeping
accountmadeforants:
I don't know who Shroud is but I trust them implicitly 
TXC2:
GapFiller no, but normally I'm on the toilet for an hour in the middle of night
GapFiller: INCOMING
TheAinMAP: Title change.
TXC2: *normally i'm NOT on
KeytarCat: ooh, with a crew!
GapFiller: guessing this is also why James cancelled his homestream earlier
TheMerricat: IIRC all the Tarkov folk are raving about ARC saying it's 'better Tarkov'
TXC2: dang imagine being able to get the gang in on short notice
accountmadeforants: Metric_Furlong Did mention earlier that apparently the game's voicelines/barks are LLM-generated, which is kind of ick.
KeytarCat:
that's a shame 
TXC2: accountmadeforants eww, stinky
Juliamon: well, considering Tarkov's ills, it's just swapping one for another
TheMerricat: As in ai voiced or ai texted.
LoadingReadyRun: Sorry all. This was a last minute swap, so I raced home and just getting setup. Online in a few.
TXC2: LoadingReadyRun no worries
Juliamon: Thank you for keeping us updated
TXC2: TheMerricat I'd assume voice, that's the more expensive of the two
TheMerricat: If it's AI voiced and they actually paid their actors for the voicing I don't see any problem with it.
TehAmelie: i feel like most multiplayer games are exactly as good as the gang of friends you can get to play with you, but it should be exciting to see what makes this stand out
accountmadeforants: @TheMerricat Voiced it looks like, so LLM probably isn't the right word for (but neither is just TTS or voicebank... I guess we'll default to ye olde ML)
GapFiller: TheMerricat the size of that IF
TXC2: "ai voiced" "acted" these two words are incompatible
TheMerricat: No you're correct when you apply LLM to something that's AI voiced. It's just that AI voicing, when you pay the actors, is one of the few set up where they actually aren't stealing someone else's efforts to make it work.
KeytarCat: What if it's Vocaloid-voiced, and they paid the arranger?
TXC2: CONTACT
LordZarano:
TehAmelie:
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markaci:
KeytarCat: Bosun Starem!
MWGNZ:
GapFiller: TheMerricat the whole point of AI voicing is to not haveto pay people anything
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TXC2: twitch what do you want from me to stop stuttering? I turned off low latency, I turned off hardware acceleration, what's it gonna take?!
TheMerricat: @gapfiller with respect that is extremely reductive. A lot of people who use AI voicing professionally are in fact paying the people that they are borrowing the voice from. Yes they are trying to lower their costs by using AI to do it. But they are paying. And it's worth the actor doesn't have to do at that point so....
accountmadeforants: @TheMerricat Ehhh, that still feels super iffy to me. Just another way of cheapening labor. (And yes, they do claim to have paid the actors used for the model.) But yes, more ethical than most applications of machine learning, which isn't a high bar.
DoodlestheGreat: Yay! My Desert Bus T-shirt just arrived!
ThePixelSavage: so LRR making adverts for Hasbro and Riot now and now they are promoting games that have AI in their production?
accountmadeforants: @TXC2 Slip Bezos a fiver
TehAmelie: imagine, there was a time when we thought invention would serve the purpose of reducing the need for labor and enrich us all
TheMerricat: Worth = work
GapFiller: TheMerricat not hearing anything that tells me reductive is wrong here
TXC2:
accountmadeforants bus that busser
ThePixelSavage: it was a good run.
TehAmelie: about until 1976 i think
KeytarCat: Twitch, Idon't care about my watch streak, stop notifying me
TheMerricat: @gapfiller The part where actual money is crossing palms? They aren't trying to get out of paying anything. But I have a feeling that this is getting a little too far into #politics.
TXC2: yes the stream is on now, lets move on
accountmadeforants: @ThePixelSavage They're not promoting it, at least not beyond playing it on stream. Doesn't seem worth getting upset at them for it.
LoadingReadyRun: Having some technical issues. One moment.
GapFiller: HOLD
TehAmelie: oh noes, my viewing streak has been reset (what even)
KeytarCat: Did Ian launch in French somehow?
TXC2: is Ian even here?
KeytarCat: Nope!
x0den: o/
TXC2: IAN!
accountmadeforants: @TehAmelie I recently got a message where I could "save my viewing streak by watching X now!"
Raincoast_Bear: D'oh. Technical difficulties?
GapFiller: TXC2 the entire crew are always there for every stream In Spirit
TXC2: Raincoast_Bear yeap, hopfully wont be too long
accountmadeforants:
Needless to say I sprung into action immediately 
TXC2: GapFiller fair point
Raincoast_Bear: I hear game audio, I think....
Marvoleath: are they streaming from an airport?
TXC2: game set in airport ?
TXC2: Here we GO!
TXC2: Hello James
TehAmelie: hay James!
Wrexadecimal: hoi james
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Brozard: wooo peaks!
Boon_33: #Blames_turner
Strebenherz: Tiny james
Raincoast_Bear: Hello, Senor James
TXC2:
sure is the week before DB eh?
INCSlayer: you get paid to stream you are per definition a proffesional streamer
Micalovits: I think you are a professional streamer manager
TXC2: !advice
LRRbot: Get better at being awake.
INCSlayer: !badadvice
LRRbot: I need someone to definitely not be ghost bait! Got anyone slow and inexpensive?
TXC2:
bus you lrrbot
INCSlayer: the bus is coming
DoodlestheGreat: Gettin' mighty bussy around the office.
TheAinMAP: !dbcountdown
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rentar42: wait bus is here? I did not realize that ... but I'm looking forward to bus ...
Drasvin: Bus is coming
DoodlestheGreat: Oh, I'm sure Matt'll be fine with catchup.
Diabore: @rentar42 ye bus launches friday
lirazel64: Thanks for leaping into the breach, y'all.
Raincoast_Bear: Hello Joe and Serge!
TXC2: Hello Serge and JoeKim
Boon_33: Serge AND JoeKim? o, this ark is so raided.
Diabore: im hearing stereo, theyre saying the same thing
Drasvin:
Diabore: is 3 max squad in this?
DoodlestheGreat: Ah, going with a free loadout to start. Always a plus.
Marvoleath: is this one of them shooting extractors?
TXC2:
Marvoleath a tarkov-like yes
Diabore: @Marvoleath ye, new one
TehAmelie: insert bullets, extract mans?
Brozard: yas queen robot
rentar42: sorry, but I'm not ready for "fire is flying through the air" to count as "weather" yet ... too real ...
DoodlestheGreat: ~/SECRET TUNNEL! secret tunnell.../~
Basic_Human_Decency: Thats just fire season in California
TehAmelie: @rentar42 i suggest playing some No Man's Sky
calculated_uncertainties: @rentar42 Fire season!
rentar42:
@TehAmelie funnily enough I am 
n3ther: um serge that's a burger joint
TehAmelie: oho
Diabore: wiggins took the spot for bf6
mattyraft44: oh hood James you’re alive. I’ve missed your streams.
TXC2: MC popingov down there
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joallthedogs: Buying for time
n3ther: some games are pvp xd
DoodlestheGreat: It's Tarkov with robots.
skiddles01: that is called griefing
carefreewill: Solo tends to be much more coop, I’ve only been shot at twice in solo games.
TXC2: so trolls then
Juliamon: "solo tends to be much more coop" is a wild sentence
Basic_Human_Decency: They shoot you because you're full of candy
Raincoast_Bear: Ah. So this is The Cycle all over again. Disincentivized to explore - rewarded for camping extract. I'm disappointed.
n3ther: and WAY too popular lol
n3ther: or rather they've made so many of them
n3ther: idk how popular they are
carefreewill: I enjoy the organic jolly cooperation that happens on solo. Me and 3 others took on a bastion arc, didn’t even talk just started blasting.
Basic_Human_Decency: You can just make a hatch key and leave whenever you please too
DoodlestheGreat: No, I'd have waited until you'd blown most of your ammo on the big bot and then hit you. Just like they did. :tf:
AsmadiGames: oh hey, its joe kim and some other guys playing games
AsmadiGames:
Manae: A remember trying to dark zone in Division 1 and feeling extraction gameplay was just not for me, but I'm still feeling intrigued by this game
BlueFingers5: Do you have to use your own gear every time you enter or are there like scavanger setups?
notpsion: there are free loadouts
AsmadiGames: you can do a default "free" loadout, its randomized
Diabore: is that a water gun james has?
Basic_Human_Decency: The real arc raider experience is finding an apricot and fighting for your life to keep it
notpsion: yes, it's an OG super soaker (and about as effective eyyy)
AsmadiGames: you can even sell the free loadout after you extract for a few in game bucks
aerolend: The only con to the free loadout is just lack of a safe pocket.
Lord_Hosk: As someone who doesn't play this type of game, and therefore has no skin in the fight. James is objectively wrong about everything he has said about this game and the genre
Diabore: no butthole hiding when its free
joallthedogs: haha
DoodlestheGreat: Nothing now, probably random spawn.
TXC2: bye Serge
Boon_33: Metal gear says: It has to be this way.
Diabore: see ya sucker
Basic_Human_Decency: Ignore what the dr says. Hide your lemons in your butthole
Raincoast_Bear: I'm enjoying the visuals, exploring looting, robot fighting. The PvP aspect in this context is just a feels bad for me. I agree with Serge -"it doesn't have to be this way."
spo8n: serge fell down the hole!
AsmadiGames: the pvp is very weird
Diabore: @Raincoast_Bear according to reddit solo is much more chill
aerolend: @Raincoast_Bear The aesthetics are great. I'd prefer a solo story mode with physics.
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SkylerRingtail:
AI voicework and gratuitous microtransactions from what I've heard. Both dealbreakers for me 
BrowneePointz: not the MOST unethical, but still an odd choice
Wrexadecimal: Probably because they're using an LLM to do it as opposed to older methods (ie; how Siri works)
EvilBadman: So like a Siri?
drewm1022: Still feels kind of dirty.
TXC2: i guess "AI" is the buzzword de jour for financing
Raincoast_Bear: At least they got the actors permission to model their voices.
Basic_Human_Decency: Its like miku
AsmadiGames: i feel like it comes down to compensation - if you pay the VA's extra cash because you have a *bazillion* sales? then i have way less of a problem with it
GrassVortex: sounds like it is used under decent conditions at least. So not terrible, but the whole Gen AI thing is a bit gross in general
TheMerricat: @AsmadiGames This.
Wrexadecimal: At least they gave consent as opposed to being fed to the plagiarism machine
carefreewill: I mean, provided the contracts only allow them to use the voices for this game, not allowed to sell the rights on or use them in other games, then I guess it’s not the worst.
Lord_Hosk: They paid the actors, with full knowledge, to use their voice seems ok... just a little weird right now
EvilBadman: Well said, Serge
couchboyj: Voice actors agreed to it and still got paid, thats the big thing as far as I'm concerned.
Basic_Human_Decency: The VA's willing signed the contract
BrowneePointz: being transparent is always great. it’s just a wild choice considering how much love the rest of the game has
rentar42: I think it's technically different enough from "traditional" text-to-voice, since it actually produces a "replacement" for the AI workers work directly ... But I also think it's a neat way to do it: still pay VAs and get *some* of the tech benefit of new stuff
KWardJenx: Thank you for addressing this topic, Serge & LRR.
joallthedogs: They did in fact not need a blockchain, nor did they understand what a blockchain was.
AsmadiGames: Being willing to sign the contract isn't always fair - if every single contract now included "we'll use your voice data" and you couldn't get work otherwise? Then you have no choice
TheMerricat: Thanks Team Fortress 2.
CptCorallis: No one *needs* to buy a diving bell helment png for their chicken
CptCorallis: But Valve showed us the way
BrowneePointz: yea if it’s cosmetic I never care
joallthedogs: @AsmadiGames Like agreeing to any microsoft/etc terms these days.
GrassVortex: it goes back to the Horse armor in Oblivion. Probably even further back
Lord_Hosk: When people bought Horse Armor, and then bought 1,000,000 hats in TF2... it was decided that we would have microtransactions in every game forever.
TXC2:
I've never bought a cosmetic in my life, and I'm never gonna
carefreewill: The burner quest was bugged for me, only worked on buried city.
JohneyS: The enshitification of game monetization will continue until morale improves.
Basic_Human_Decency: The urge to buy my cock a bucket is there but its not needed
AsmadiGames: ARC's monetization feels entirely fine, its just weird skins
aerolend:
@TXC2 Technically, the clothes you have bought IRL are also cosmetic... 
BrowneePointz: well and Overwatch. granted Overwatch also had incredible balance between mtx AND giving. stuff for free
Styxseus: I'm not the most informed, but the whole problem with gen-AI is that, even if you make it copy a specific persons voice, and they got consent to do that, the model itself is still trained on a bunch of stolen work, which is still a problem (please correct me if I'm wrong) I'm still not quite sure where I stand on this game, it at least seems well intentioned
TXC2:
aerolend jokes on you, my mum brought these
aerolend:
@TXC2 
Marvoleath:
@aerolend they do provide insulation, which is gameplay relevant 
Juliamon: Styxseus It's not using stolen work, is the point: it's specifically trained on paid VAs
BrowneePointz: that BWOOP BWOOP BWOOP is such good audio design
BrowneePointz: incredible alarm bark
TheMerricat: TIL that neither Oblivion's Horse Armor or Team Fotress 2's hats were the first microtransactions. Appearently they existed well before that in the early MMO's? Wow. None of the MMOs I played back then had them but... Google says both Ulitma Online and Maplestory have Oblivion and TF2 beat by at least 4 years.
BrowneePointz: ye Maplestory had purchasable cosmetics 20 years ago
TXC2: wow we're a slide-y boy
BrowneePointz: reminder Maplestory is WoW levels old
Juliamon: Maplestory is old, yes
TXC2:
everything is old now
Basic_Human_Decency: They have a MapleStory classic world coming out next year
TheMerricat: Maplestory is OLDER than WOW. 2003 vs 2004!!!!!
CaptainSpam: I recall when the green oceans opened in Puzzle Pirates, that was one of the earliest introductions to the concept of freemium.
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Basic_Human_Decency: They were talking about handling it like how osrs handled theirs
CaptainSpam: Nowadays, I don't even know if the blue oceans still exist.
BrowneePointz: @themerricat 2005 for NA release
Critterbot: Ugh, maplestory... I've got some PTSD from that game. It's nice and all, but it is grindy as all heck.
KeytarCat: yes, jam your face into the cactus
TheMerricat: Puzzle Pirates... is still alive!?!
BrowneePointz: it is definitely a Korean MMO lol
rentar42: don't aggro the queen
LathosTiran: itll quench ya
Micalovits: Go give her a hug instead, might make her happy
Simriel: The dinner is robots
BrowneePointz: I got a toon to lvl205 once and was like “I think this enough for me”
AsmadiGames: the queen can move any number of spaces horizontally *or* diagonally, she's scary
drewm1022: If life hands you melons, you may be dyslexic.
Styxseus: @Juliamon Right, I get that, but can models really be trained in isolation like that? Like, the whole point of LLM's is that they need a huge amount of data to function, so even if they use it to copy a specific voice, is it *really* only using that voice? That's where I'm conflicted, if that makes sense
TStodden: @TheMerricat They've definitely merged downward, but they're still kicking in some form... although the non-sub servers seem to be dead.
BrowneePointz: Giant Enemy(robo) Crab!
Basic_Human_Decency: They made it what its always been too. An idle phone game
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: escape tubes? not only elevators?
BrowneePointz: @Styxseus if it’s all proprietary yes
Basic_Human_Decency: Yea and you can craft keys in round
BrowneePointz: yea there’s like three ways to extract
BrowneePointz: iirc
CaptainSpam: @TStodden Non-sub (green) oceans are dead? I thought it was the sub ones (blue) that went away. People actually went back to the monthly subs instead of doubloons?
TStodden: @CaptainSpam It's been a while since I've last checked, but the dub ocean I played on was completely dead (being the only person on the server at the time).
Juliamon: Styxseus Getting into the nitty gritty of what's being called 'genAI' in this specific case is a bit outside the scope of Twitch chat
Juliamon: I suspect it's been discussed on the Discord though
TXC2: !discord
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CaptainSpam: @TStodden Huh, interesting. I thought for sure the dub oceans were completely taking over last I was on. Granted, it's been a long, long time. So much a long time.
BrowneePointz: Juliamon and TXC2 in sync like a Dark Souls boss this afternoon
Krektogar: drift compatible
TXC2: i'm the Smough to Juliamon 's Ornstien
BrowneePointz: I was just about to say which ones the heavy and which ones the duelist
Styxseus:
Right, I think I see. Thanks for the response 
@Juliamon @BrowneePointz
BrowneePointz: wait a second that means if we defeat Juliamon first we activate hardmode
Juliamon: please, if anything I'm Radahn's horse
TXC2:
BrowneePointz exactly
BrowneePointz: @juliamon Leonard
skiddles01: has to kill it. for sure if it crashes and dies you don’t get the quest
TStodden: @CaptainSpam I think even the Dark Seas (Steam exclusive servers) are dead... although it's been years since I've last checked. TBH, I wouldn't object returning to the game if there's a revival movement for it.
TheWriterAleph: i'm late to the stream. has anyone made an 'escape from ARCov' joke yet?
Juliamon: TheWriterAleph Surprisingly not!
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BrowneePointz: ARCov is a good joke
TheWriterAleph: hell yeah, buzzer-beater
TXC2: TheWriterAleph comparisons yes, jokes no, well done
TheMerricat: So the map _does_ end? Is it a climatic end or just "timer's up and you died"?
BrowneePointz: it’s shocking how good this looks and how well it runs though. if only more games were optimized this well
TXC2: BrowneePointz especially compared to tarkov
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TXC2: one wonders what the budget is then
Getter404: Too bad about the AI stuff
ThirdFloorDraft: a game that just works as a game
Juliamon: It's not even fair to compare its optimization to Tarkov, which is negatively-optimized
TheMerricat:
Plus the logo/banner art looks like it was lifted off an old Atari 2600 game box. 
BrowneePointz: yea this is a massive outlier in terms of optimization
BrowneePointz: yea the visual design is very CassettePunk @themerricat
ghostchild99: for real i feel that there awre games that i helped do some beta testing then they were in development for years after
BrowneePointz: CassettePunk being the newish term for Retrofuturist aesthetic defined by chunky analog tech
TXC2: cassettepunk = what the 1980's thought the future would look like
MalFnord: I prefer “cassette futurism” as a descriptor tbh
Basic_Human_Decency: Shields are damage reduction not damage prevention like every other game
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: are the alien movies just cassettepunk but at a scale of space ?
TXC2: MalFnord yes, "punk" is an overused term IMO
BrowneePointz: OT Star Wars, Alien etc falling into this a bit as inspirations
BrowneePointz: ah yea that’s the other term lol
BrowneePointz: @txc2 I partially agree. especially when 90% of cyberpunk media isn’t even punk
TXC2: BrowneePointz yeah, punk is more then just looks
Juliamon: people use -punk the way they use -gate
TheMerricat: When used as a modifer punk is _supposed_ to mean a view through a lens biased towards counter-culture/rebellion.
BrowneePointz: ^ it unfortunately often isn’t
BrowneePointz: like how cyberpunk stuff usually ends up just being “chrome dystopia”
Fr0Dough: how does this game work? more like pubg or more like tarkov? also, how does tarkov work? lol
TheMerricat: That being said, solarpunk is my new fav this month.
TXC2: Fr0Dough it's an extraction shooter like Tarkov yes
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BrowneePointz: and for folks wondering, solos and duos tend to be way more chill, trios have been a bit more bloodthirsty
aerolend: @BrowneePointz Doesn't duos match with trios, though, not separately?
aerolend: @TXC2 Except, seemingly much saner devs.
Micalovits: Correct, we are
Diabore: great shot... james?
notpsion: congrats on not missing!
TXC2: aerolend indeed
Simriel: You did really well at gunning that man
LoadingReadyRun:
I liked the part where you did gun
notpsion: what if I clip it for you, james
BrowneePointz: James casts Gun prepare to meet God
Basic_Human_Decency: If there isn't enough lonely raiders (or duos) in your area. It will mix it up
TheMerricat: So I have a feeling I missed something have the Tarkov devs gone off a deep end?
notpsion: would that be better?
LoadingReadyRun: wow rude
Marvoleath: oh oh, boss is watchin
Chartle: that's graham though
TXC2:
wow James is fired
Juliamon: TheMerricat I think it's less 'gone off' and more 'have always been off'
Marvoleath:
I think it's Brayan, actually 
Anubis169:
and you call us the worst 
TheMerricat: Ah, so the normal issues with them.
ghostchild99: i think they found you
BrowneePointz: @themerricat folks just mean the game design is less hostile
TXC2: aren't the Tarkov devs Russian? for all that entails in 2025
TheMerricat: @TXC2 that was what I was worried the issue was going to be tied to
Fr0Dough: is there limited loot? to ensure fighting between players? or is this PVE?
Juliamon: PvPvE
aerolend: @TXC2 Not just that, there are specific actions people involved with development have done that there's info about out there.
TXC2: Fr0Dough I assume some limit, but it's PvPvE
Fr0Dough: Got it thank you
Anubis169: Good luck!
ContingentCat: good luck joe!
Raincoast_Bear: Bye Joe!
TXC2: good luck JoeKim
Juliamon: Good luck Joe!
Basic_Human_Decency: There is so much gd loot but blowing a players head off often guarantees candy
gualdhar: lol backup Joe Kim
Raincoast_Bear: Beej?
TheWriterAleph: BEADS??
TheAinMAP:
LurkerSpine: good luck Joe!
wordnerdify: Have a good one Joe
aerolend: @TheMerricat There are multiple issues with that game.
Basic_Human_Decency: Its still in early access isnt it?
aerolend: I'm glad there are what seem to be better alternatives finally coming out.
TXC2: Basic_Human_Decency Tarkov? yes
Basic_Human_Decency: Tarkov
BrowneePointz: Arc had beta earlier this year but that’s it
notpsion: james please say hi to scrappy
Chartle: lol good timing on the release of this one then
Anubis169: remember chat there is no such thing as "Early Access", it is "Paid Open Beta Testing"
Anubis169:
Basic_Human_Decency: Nice cock
aerolend: And a server slam a few weeks before release.
Boon_33: a real beta, totally different, lol
notpsion: scrappy is cool thanks
Juliamon: bawk
Anubis169: b-what?
ghostchild99: post apocalyptic vibes right?
BrowneePointz: James you can’t just show bugock on stream ToS
James_the_Dabbler: @Basic_Human_Decency Hello?
Chartle: evil AI apocalypse?
TXC2: wikipedia said it was post-apoc Italy
ghostchild99: so reasonable to start a chicken cult
aerolend: @TXC2 yep
James_the_Dabbler: How expensive is ArC
Basic_Human_Decency: 40$ usd
notpsion: play the division and it'll break you of hoarding forever (because the inventory UI is *so bad*)
BrowneePointz: I think it’s like $40USD
Raincoast_Bear: Wikipedia says a lot of things....
James_the_Dabbler: Unfortunately, that’s too rich for my blood
Juliamon: We have reached a tipping point where I trust Wikipedia more than I do Google
mercano82: So Duckov doesn't do it for you?
BrowneePointz: Gears of War the GOAT
BrowneePointz: I wonder how well that remastered trilogy runs
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: hypothetically could a boomer shooter extraction work?
TehAmelie: oh, never trust google unless you're forced
Dalrint: Duckov is great but it is an extremely silly game
Raincoast_Bear: I paid $12 for 7 Days to Die about ten years ago and I still play it.
James_the_Dabbler: is baseball an extraction shooter?
TXC2: wasn't there a more overwatch-y looking extraction shooter James played a year or two ago? (assuming it wasn't this)
hiFunko: I'm still eating if you want to run one and I'll hop in afterwards
Basic_Human_Decency: How big is your rubber duck collection?
hiFunko: @TXC2 You might be thinkin of Marathon?
aerolend: @James_the_Dabbler You have to hit a flying ball and then get to a specific point in time... At least some elements match.
BrowneePointz: I’ve also seen folks being more chill with duos/solos
TXC2: hiFunko hmm possibly
mercano82: @aerolend You got to watch out for the catcher, camping the extraction point in heavier armor than anyone else out there.
BrowneePointz: “don’t shoot!”
BrowneePointz: the solo experience
kozguy: Oh no! Just realized I missed the last PUBG night. Any chance there's going to be another one?
kozguy: Perfect! Thanks James!
BrowneePointz: every other January huh
Juliamon: every other *month*
Chartle: every other january? damn
Diabore: every other month*
LurkerSpine: every other month, not january
notpsion: every other january, can't wait for pubg 2028
otakubox0: every other janurary damn
hiFunko: he means every other month, not every other january
TXC2:
every on January ? so every 2 years?
Krektogar: nope, it's every two years
kozguy: I mean, every other January would be pretty funny
Raincoast_Bear: January 2026 then January 2028
mercano82: The biannual PUBG
Basic_Human_Decency: Good thing theres two Januaries this year
Diabore: i will
TXC2: so odd numbered months, same as the Sumo
BrowneePointz: got me chuckling with that
Chartle: bijanuarial
lightfut: We only pubg on February 29
ghostchild99: i will add it to my calender
BrowneePointz: don’t dilute the magic
BrowneePointz: ye
kozguy: Good call; plus it gives us something to look forward to!
hiFunko: it feels like the right cadence to get excited about it, rather than it becoming rote
Krektogar:
every two months sounds like a good interval. too bad I can't join b/c timezones 
ContingentCat: yeah feels the right regularity for that
BrowneePointz: unfortunately circadian cycle exists
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TXC2: yes, and it calls for me now
TXC2: Right chat I'm off
Juliamon: gnight
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming James and Serge (and joekim)
hiFunko: hilariously the quest I'm on
TehAmelie: sleep tight
TehAmelie: don't let the extractors bite
kozguy: First impressions for ARC? I have a playgroup who's debating it at the moment
ChaoticObserver: Got em
Fr0Dough: There are hornets and bees in this game? big yikes
mercano82: ARC Mk. I
Marvoleath: great war, the 1914 one?
Fr0Dough: Everytime you drop, does the game give you a task to loot or is more "I need X to complete some sort of gear"
UnhappyYak: @Fr0Dough both
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UnhappyYak: you'll have story missions, daily missions and "rivals" missions, which are like a ranked leaderboard thing, but you'll also have stuff you need for crafting workbenches and gear
RayFK: James "BushBoy" Turner
kozguy: First impressions for ARC? I have a playgroup who's debating it at the moment
kozguy: Amazing! Glad to hear it!
RayFK: Wow rude
RayFK: Yeah you prefer Matt right?
hiFunko: No I think he prefers good players
SquareDotCube: Old Battlefield works much better with friends
MWGNZ:
Arazien: Just gotta turn off the dialogue and never give them money
EvilBadman: @RayFK Didn't specify a Matt, trap srpung
Barb4rian: Dang, Funko with the big dunk there
RayFK: @EvilBadman Damn you're right
UnhappyYak: how many Matts could there possibly be
SquareDotCube: James, not a fan of the role "bullet sponge"
Lord_Hosk: the ol' philosophers quandry. If a Funko doesn't speak , does he be hear?
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ghostchild99: hermit craft is always fun
ghostchild99: i watched grian
ghostchild99: grian was all over the place
Boon_33: hello? if you have good loot you have to tell me.
ofstrife: that's a good building to hide in a corner
notpsion: i hope the end result of this whole saga is someone used a fake flare grenade just to confuse james
UnhappyYak: I was trying to figure out what James was using, couldn't possibly be an Anvil, but then I realized it must be silenced
UnhappyYak: make sure to tell Serge it has 3 loot points
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notpsion: and serge saved yours
UnhappyYak: disconcerting
UnhappyYak: now this is a fight
notpsion: feels like a 3v3v3
groulux: Cool! happy to see you 3 playing this game.
groulux: I heard it was more accessible that Tarkov.
Diabore: report button right there james...
MAPBoardgames: @groulux I've heard Fort Knox is more accessible than Tarkov
Juliamon: passenger-seating
UnhappyYak: james *will* pull this car over
ContingentCat: passanger seating?
lightfut: Ah, funko is a passenger princess
ContingentCat: @Juliamon eyy one brain cell
mercano82: If Serge or Funco want advice, they'll say "Hey, James"
notpsion: serge getting a little head tap as a goodbye gift
UnhappyYak: yeah that's raider damage
mercano82: I get spoiled by Duckov letting you do corpse runs.
mercano82: (Not that I, a skilled player, ever has to...)
INCSlayer: also track every workshop upgrade you have so you get the little eye next to them that way you have a way to track some of it in game
fishboi_samurai: I've defs gotten free loadouts and gottne blue and purple gear off people, but I have no idea for sure
fishboi_samurai: *gone free loadouts
Chartle: damn these people must have really liked toast
EikoandMog: Hell yeah, that's the three!
Barb4rian: Toaster is the new Led-ex apparentlyt
BrowneePointz: Three Pog Night is my favorite band
mercano82: James is outtoastering Serge
UnhappyYak: isn't 3 all you need
RayFK: Cereal?
RayFK: The fuck?
ContingentCat: cereal?
gualdhar: cereal?
fishboi_samurai: Cereal?
MWGNZ: whats breakfast?
lightfut: Serge out here incrementing him toaster
INCSlayer: Cereal?
RayFK: I do it daily
gualdhar: Serge is trying to rage bait us
fishboi_samurai: Ego, it's a waffle thing
fishboi_samurai: you're welcome
BrowneePointz: I'm funny all the time and have no shame
RayFK: Literally pay you
Micalovits: Yup
Mai_Andra: Serge waffling on stream is peak content.
gualdhar: Yes
BrowneePointz: so scrutiny has no power over me
itira: Down with Serge!
Getter404: I thought science has proven that the current funniest thing is *checks notes* saying "6 7"
Bassios:
100
Chartle: <|
Micalovits:
1000 Serge, you are wrong
EikoandMog: We can get this for free?!
MWGNZ:
lightfut: Many much triangle
WitchyTQ: so if i just ask for money they give it?? ive been doing this wrong
rentar42: morbids?
Getter404: Morb its?
Chartle: it's morebits time
vinewood_og: On his own petard? To shreds you say?
lightfut: It's morb its time?
UnhappyYak: Funko no
EikoandMog: Good for scrap
BrowneePointz: @WitchyTQ I thought the meta was to make mediocre cookies and then call your chat a bunch of poors...
WitchyTQ: @BrowneePointz but im a poor lmao
UnhappyYak: lemonade for the chicken
Basic_Human_Decency: Just lie like the rich
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EikoandMog: I found a stack of 10 lemons from a basket on spaceport.
UnhappyYak: I have found prickly pears on this map
MWGNZ: i need 4 mushrooms, have done 20+ runs and gotten 0
UnhappyYak: ooh
UnhappyYak: surveyor
EikoandMog: Oh snap, surveyor
EikoandMog: Those are great to murder
Basic_Human_Decency: I've hid prickly pears and mushrooms in my butt in arc. Games fun
Chartle: what a baller
RayFK: Not everyone is Serge
EikoandMog: Love surveyors they're. They're cute little loot fountains.
EikoandMog: I've never really found many keys?
UnhappyYak: is there an ARC group for LRR yet?
EikoandMog: Only time I brought a Renegade, I got shot in the back trying to take out a Leaper.
Basic_Human_Decency: I would like a group
Basic_Human_Decency: Or atleast a thread
UnhappyYak: yeah I haven't seen a thread for it yet but I'm sure it can happen
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ContingentCat: !
ofstrife: no, not in a row
ofstrife: that whooshing noise was the joke going over my head
ContingentCat: don't think too hard about that
notpsion: 1994
EikoandMog: 1994.
mercano82: 94
EikoandMog: So it's a 31 reference
Getter404: A "mere" 31
INCSlayer: 1994
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mercano82: 31 years? In a row?
EvilBadman: It just hit it's 30th yeah
MWGNZ: yes i would like the mushrooms
MWGNZ: i've been using a wiki and its still rough
Stoffern: I found mushrooms growing on pipes somewhere inside the dam once
EikoandMog: I was downed by a rocketeer someone else provoked near the extract and they didn't hold the elevator for my downed ass. Literally had it close on me.
NonchalantAvenger: isn't this supposed to b elden ring?
NonchalantAvenger: am i confused?
Juliamon: that's later
Juliamon: !schedule
Juliamon: !next
EikoandMog: I've never been to Blue Gate, still.
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Basic_Human_Decency: You can
UnhappyYak: blue gate does rule
EikoandMog: BEEEEEEEEES
UnhappyYak: BEEEEEES
NonchalantAvenger: nice! 2 online streams back2back
INCSlayer: BEEEEEES
Basic_Human_Decency: The blue gate olive garden
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: next month is december innit
TheWooglie: next month is December
INCSlayer: with some variants like night raid for the maps
ContingentCat: oh god already
MWGNZ: there's an acheivement for going to the practice range, less than 20% of players have it
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Stoffern: I always get shot in Blue Gate...like, significantly more than the other maps
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EikoandMog: Night Raids are fun.
EvilBadman: This month doesn't exist. I only know of Halloween, Desert Bus, and then December
INCSlayer: there is also some kind of "bunker raid" that i havent tried yet for one of the maps
EikoandMog: Olive Grove is spicy.
INCSlayer: Olive Grove has lemons and apricots
Lord_Hosk: Olive grove isn't the map where you get OLIVES?
Getter404: 5 minutes in?
EikoandMog: triple raider flare means something VERY bad over there.
UnhappyYak: the quest is BEEEEEEES
notpsion: maps are 30 minutes and there's late spawn waves
notpsion: so you don't always spawn with 30 on the clock
INCSlayer: @Lord_Hosk dont be silly hosk why would a Olive Grove contain Olives?
Getter404: Everyone I've heard said that lemons & apricots are basically team deathmatch zones
DiscordianTokkan:
Basic_Human_Decency: You punch trees to get the olives
Getter404: The chickens must f e e d
UnhappyYak: I need one more lemon and it's torture
gualdhar: maybe there are no lemons because of the lemon stealing whores...
Anubis169: that's a deep cut gualdhar
INCSlayer: i got 8 lemons my first time going to olive grove
EikoandMog: I got Central America vibes.
Basic_Human_Decency: Olive garden is also a spawn area
INCSlayer: i assumed it was in spain since the map has Toledo on it
EikoandMog: @INCSlayer Oh, that makes way more sense.
DiscordianTokkan: RIP serge's knees
Boon_33: superhero landing, it's murder on the knees.
EikoandMog: Use fire
ghyllnox:
YFiddler:
INCSlayer: i managed to solo 3 flying dudes and one of those leapers using a wolfpack
7gorobei:
7gorobei: no one mentioned the jumping spider
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Dandinstorm12: 140 eh
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rentar42: @7gorobei jumping spider robot, of course
Basic_Human_Decency: Fire tends to just make those spiders shutdown
Dandinstorm12: Dear Dr. James, Jets or Sens?
Lord_Hosk: You got them killed... I blame you personally
EikoandMog: Serge, I stg
convoyash: winter serge has activated.
Micalovits: Is Serge some kind of Lemon Stealing... Person
Mr_Horrible: iirc The Finals also ran pretty well on most hardware
lightfut: Death didn't happen on screen so you can't prove they're not alive
TheMerricat: So earlier in stream it was said that the maps have an end, is it like a PUBG type deal where something happens on the map that kills anyone that's left, or is it just a timer that finishes and then everybody gets kicked out?
Mr_Horrible: Mark, this is GOOD news
Mr_Horrible: we can finally find bees
lightfut: Bees?!?
MWGNZ: you live as long as an extract has been called
youcantlistentobuttons:
Dandinstorm12: so far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
MWGNZ: is it the "view the rockets one"?
Lord_Hosk: Its called the rocket assembly... May I suggest... You must assemble...
Lord_Hosk: a missile
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Dandinstorm12: the bus!
Dandinstorm12: ohy
Dandinstorm12: damn. Wrong stream
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Dandinstorm12: Prickly pears? What is this New Vegas?
YFiddler:
Dandinstorm12: James "I'm no gamer" Turner
Barb4rian: Booom headshot
Chartle: psychopath behaviour
Getter404: Note: Do not ignore the Australians in the server.
Dandinstorm12: shoulda said something
lightfut: Funko reaping and sowing dot meme
Micalovits: sus
Dandinstorm12: pretty sus
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Mai_Andra: it's like a Monty Python sketch...
Dandinstorm12: bodies are hitting the floor
CaptainSpam: @Dandinstorm12 Let them.
Dandinstorm12: that's what bodies do
DiscordianTokkan: RIP FUnko
Dandinstorm12: at least
Micalovits: Karma for the first murder
Barb4rian: ^
Boon_33: i hear he droppped good loot
NonchalantAvenger: how do u get a bigger gun?
NonchalantAvenger: aka not a pistol
Dandinstorm12: at least two groups
Boon_33: you loot a bigger gun from Serge's body.
MWGNZ: this pistol is great tho
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dougma: single additional?
Pal_Friendpatine: Por que no los uno? <— That works right!?
fiftymcnasty: 5k
MWGNZ:
TheWriterAleph: aim for the bushes!
Cptasparagus: it was only like a 4 story fall
Invitare: Crossing the Street is the next stream
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Boon_33: james taking so much fire the next shot is free.
Agu_Sakku: I KINDA want to get this game.....
Micalovits: Thanks for the stream friends!
DoctorHutch: how's this game? we deleting our tarkov accounts?
Juliamon: Game's good, jury's out on if it has lasting power
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hiFunko: It'll be interesting to see how much Tarkov's launch impacts the game, I'm guessing not that much
Bassios:
100
hiFunko: it seems really popular with people who haven't played this type of game before
NonchalantAvenger: !next
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Getter404: o7
ContingentCat: Thanks James
goombalax: Serge has been playing Slice and Dice
Cozy_Canadian: Oh bus! I forgot about desert bus!
Cozy_Canadian: It always sneaks up
Cozy_Canadian:
Much love from also Victoria
ContingentCat: !dbcountdown
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Mai_Andra: Is Dune Awakening still a hot thing, or has that been completely overshadowed already?
hiFunko: Dune Awakening fell off hardcore I think
KeytarCat: !next
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hiFunko: I loved the level up of that game, but the end game is a very different video game
Dread_Pirate_Westley: By the end of DB, it might be functional.
notthepenguins: rip
hiFunko: I still log into Dune every week to gather power and pay my taxes, but other than that I haven't played
Dalrint: I am genuinely surprised you'd go back to tarkov with this game going
ContingentCat: !next
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KeytarCat: Clowncar nightreign!
KeytarCat: 6 raiders and a revenant
KeytarCat: er, 5 and 1
Juliamon: Dalrint Tarkov's got that sunk-cost "comfort junk food" aspect to it, where he knows the maps really well and the general progression needs. In a notoriously-spreadsheety genre familiarity is a huge boost.
Mai_Andra: Thanks. I'm still kind of interested in the game, but I don't actually care about "Dune" at all...
hiFunko: As a group we're more excited by Arc Raiders, for sure, but the Tarkov launch will be a curiosity thing more than anything
hiFunko: Hopefully it's cool and good and not disappointing
Mai_Andra: Oh, Dune is still waiting for release on PS5, too. That's where I would play.
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