ExtraWubs:
TXC2: started in 2004, so yeah 20 years old
Anubis169: jebus 21 years of constant abuse in the ring :S
TXC2:
last tournament he had a match with a guy who wasn't born when he started pro Sumo 
ManWithTheMask13: get a load of this guy
TXC2: rare Nelson time loss
Aceviru: It's the first time I've been present for one of those
FurthestChunk:
So what you're saying is that you got killed four times 
TheMerricat: Chat, I'm just waking up, who is Nelson's character? Are they a guest to SF or an established one?
TheMerricat: Sorry Wheeler's characer, not Nelsons.
Mr_Horrible: trial by juri
saucemaster5000: lily is new to this game -- she's t hawk's niece
TXC2: themercenary1987 Lilly, she's OG to this game
TheMerricat: Thanks @TXC2!
TheMerricat:
and @saucemaster5000 
thatjuantoo:
TXC2: "mom said it's my turn with the block"
Aceviru: Backbar pay pretty good tho
TXC2:
the can-con is strong with this one
JinaMahavira:
TXC2: thanks for streaming Nelson, Wheeler, Angel and Adam
Anubis169: thank yoooooou
lamina5432: gnight
TXC2: !patreon
TXC2: !store
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thatjuantoo:
gualdhar: yooo this was great do it more often
Aceviru: This was a good fighting stream
ManWithTheMask13: frogs are GONEEE
Aceviru: Ty!!!
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TXC2: !next
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TXC2: !events
ManWithTheMask13: how many frames is Ryu's jab?
TXC2: GLURP!
NorthstarTex: Cribbage!?
AceGun_: Wheeler cribbage stream?!
RockPusher: oooer crib!
Aceviru: Ben back?! Wooo
NorthstarTex: Hell yes!
itira: and then and then and then
JinaMahavira: no LEts nope or garbage day?
Mr_Horrible: I respect wheeler's commitment to the rattleoff
TXC2: JinaMahavira W+P is the week after
Anubis169: I'm furniture...
Mr_Horrible: Om, I know that fella
TXC2:
Brazilian Brazilian Jitsu
Aceviru: Big diddi lmao
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Anubis169:
baaaaaaaai 
ManWithTheMask13: I never learned how many frames Ryu's jab is
TXC2: !contact
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Mr_Horrible: thanks for the show, gang
Aceviru:
Wolfstrike_NL: Everyone done their homework for chillpoint?
LostThePirate: I actually remembered to do mine, lol
TheAinMAP: Signal
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TheMerricat: I wonder if it's possible to have a corporation without a CEO, like a comunue type leadership where everyone votes or something...
Juliamon: That sure would be a neat idea
TXC2: like some sort of...co-operative?
TheMerricat: Huh, google says yes. California and Delaware don't require CEOs
Juliamon: Oh, I thought this was a joke
TheMerricat:
I mean it started out as one, but my brain isn't wired to let jokes just be jokes.
TXC2:
the great dane and Chihuahua of states
UraharaSci: well most CEOs are a joke (especially Epic’s)
RockPusher:
Juliamon: I do love that the episode was basically dedicated to covering CEO dumbassery and didn't even have room for Tim Sweeney
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Aceviru: @TXC2 Haha
TXC2: TODAY!
RockPusher: Beej Eats the Whole Chill
EvilBadman: Yacht's are, like many things, weak to fire
RockPusher: the loading ready yat-chet
SaxPython: HMS Today
UraharaSci: As Co-CEO is Paul only partly evil?
Aceviru: Ask Graham
TXC2: Victoria has marinas right?
gnyrinn: The yacht is on the sea. You'll find it there.
TXC2: hello Heather, Paul and Beej
RockPusher: As Is Tradition!
CaptainSpam: *Ian sighs, looks for a new puppet to give the name "Peanut Butter"*
ghyllnox: The orcas will find it
TXC2: different incubation periods
Aceviru: It was. Congrats
tdapenguin: For the children!
tdapenguin: @txc2 hi!
TXC2: hello tdapenguin
Aceviru: Time to resume the regular donations
TXC2: the wildest thing about 24 hours shifts is that it happened twice
tdapenguin: True
RockPusher: DB are fairly careful, unfortunately humans do be humans
EvilBadman: Also post-bus adrenaline crash is the worst
gualdhar: CEOs are ~~morons~~ Martians?
RockPusher: We totally fired them for that thing they did after we fired them!
ContingentCat: how dare
TXC2:
know contract lawyer chat GPT
TXC2: *known
SaxPython: #AboceMarketRate
CaptainSpam: "ChatGPT, make these people go away." "Destroy all humans, gotcha!"
tdapenguin: "That's ridiculous! I can make terrible choices on my own!!"
SaxPython: ?
RockPusher: [Dark Souls Text] Facts Established
TXC2: did he, at ANY point, talk to a LAWYER?!
TheMerricat: CEO's don't _talk_ to lawyers, they order them to make it work.
CaptainSpam: I'll be the lawyer didn't give him the reality he wanted, hence...
SaxPython: Well you see, ChatGPT passed the BAR Exam so ..
RockPusher: I dunno Heather, it sounds like his lawyer probably didn't get told about the chatgpt
Aceviru:
@SaxPython No, the bar was run through cGpt
gnyrinn: But it appears that they were fuckin' around with their superiors' informed permission. That's different.
TXC2: ok to be fair to this CEO, "ai generated xmas movie" should be a fire-able offence
MalFnord: Yeah everybody involved in this thing ought to be fired into the sun on general principles.
Vinewood_OG: Twas the night before Judgment Day....
gnyrinn: @TXC2 In a sane world it would be, but... y'know.
TXC2:
gnyrinn yeah
CaptainSpam:
I mean, more than one organization can be wrong at once. 
Vinewood_OG: Bold of you to assume we still have a legal system.
TXC2: it's a legal system, what it's not is a JUSTICE system
TheMerricat: I think the problem here is the founders really don't want to make Subnautica 2 anymore.
TXC2: there is no game series where I would want one every year
UraharaSci: @TXC2 You haven’t played Professor Piggleworth Money Laundering simulator 2025 I assume
TXC2:
UraharaSci nah, still working on the 2020 version backlog
ArtDecoSunburn: @UraharaSci The DC "Project 2025" DLC is to die for!
SocraticMethod: Wasn't Below Zero rebooted so they lost a game's worth of development already?
CaptainSpam: Energy trading company, I believe.
TheMerricat: _was_ a financial company.
RockPusher: late 90s
ContingentCat: they majorly fucked up
ThorSokar: Enron was one of the biggest Energy Company scams of all time
TheMerricat: Caused the bubble to burst.
RockPusher: exploded 2001
UraharaSci: it’s not as good as the 2023 NFT storyline but for a DLC. wow
CaptainSpam: It's one of those companies where exactly what they did is hard to explain, *AND* exactly what they were SUPPOSED to be doing is hard to explain.
tsp397: Unfortunately Enron was real
ArtDecoSunburn: @UraharaSci Some of the characters carry over.
TXC2: Enron is the modern South sea company
RockPusher: textbook massive financial fraud
Kazman20a: late 90s
UraharaSci: Enron basically had statements that said they had debtor that would honestly pay off (but the debts were all overpriced and fake)
ContingentCat: little did they know how wrong things could go
gnyrinn: Y'know the big three accounting firms? Before Enron there were four of them.
TheMerricat:
Also, I feel old now chat. 
RockPusher: The Big Short *is* very good
TXC2: also the Big short is a GREAT movie
ThorSokar: Yea, it's hard to understate just how massive of a scam Enron was
ContingentCat: @TheMerricat you're not alone
ThanhtTheBoss: @TheMerricat I feel ageless. Enron had fallen out of my mind for so long.
TXC2:
Burry shorts water
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TXC2: 6 years? meanwhile moore's law has been every 18 months for deacdes now
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gualdhar: we're selling you furniture for your new home, before you even buy your home
TheMerricat: Chat, is it too much to hope that when the AI bubble bursts, we'll have a glut of cheap video cards and ram?
Vinewood_OG: Never giving them another dime. That's for sure. Also goodbye, crucial. Dipshits.
Creideiki_SE: @TheMerricat Yes. None of it is the kind of stuff that's useful in a gaming PC.
ThorSokar: yea, when the AI garbage bubble pops there's gonna be entire container trucks of un-used video cards people are trying to unload
gualdhar: @TheMerricat yes
Aceviru: *slaps top of card* this baby? You can fit so many years in it
ThanhtTheBoss: @TheMerricat Did that happen when people stopped farming Bitcoin at home?
Juliamon: RIP Crucial
MalFnord: @TheMerricat As long as you're okay with it have been flogged to hell and back in a datacenter
TXC2:
TheMerricat yes, but sadly we'll also have a glut of people losing their pensions
RockPusher: TheMerricat maybe… though that assumes some of these companies survive
ThorSokar: Pretty sure that circle diagram was from Gamer's Nexus
gualdhar: the supply of RAM and GPUs isn't changing, because none of the companies making them think this bubble will last the 2-3 years it'll take to bring new manufacturing online
SocraticMethod: @ThorSokar Not video cards, annoingly enough. Video cards would have been usable, NPU compute units are too specific
CaptainSpam: Ah, the "same $20 passed around a group of friends" theory.
accountmadeforants: @ThorSokar I don't think theirs was the first, those diagrams were going around on reddit and earlier videos for a while
Vinewood_OG:
"We'll call it stealing...." 
Aceviru: Cash actors yeah
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TXC2:
it's like energy, it's not created or destroyed, just changed
LilyOfTheVeil666: "Pass around the same $20, ignoring the deadnames"
Vinewood_OG: Was
RockPusher: currency moves around, but this is moving currency around without exchanging it for value but still claiming it represents profit
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TXC2: hello Raiders
Juliamon: Welcome raiders! Hope you remember Enron!
LilyOfTheVeil666: Hello raiders!
ArtDecoSunburn: It's the old trope from economics textbooks. A closed economy of two old women doing each others' wash.
RockPusher: Happy Canalmas Raiders!
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ThanhtTheBoss: Cisco, the phones on every office desk?
ArtDecoSunburn: @ThanhtTheBoss Yup.
exeJayce: Cisco is awful, my one job used it and it broke ALL the time
ContingentCat: Hey Raiders, just in time for Serge's favourite topic, large scale financial fraud
TXC2: "we're not doing fraud...."
ThorSokar: Yea, Enron was the worst possible thing they could have brought up
ArtDecoSunburn: Our economy is partly run on two similarly named firms, Cisco and Sysco.
Vinewood_OG: A real Fraudian slip by the CEO
ContingentCat: it was a freudian faceplant
RockPusher: Cisco still exists [derogatory]
Aceviru: Lol
UraharaSci: The problem with mentioning Enron is that Enron technically owned stuff that was sellable. it just in practice didn’t (or at least part of it didn’t)
TXC2:
real hard to play video games without a video card these days
ContingentCat: what is the financial world but the 1% playing games with the rest of us
Vinewood_OG: Checkpoint has become my most trusted name in actual news.
MalFnord: Sometimes Checkpoint can be LTT with jokes.
TXC2:
my news is Checkpoint, and that one guy doing daily updates on Imgur
RockPusher: the warping of the tech market unfortunately affects everyone
exeJayce: TI my beloved
SocraticMethod: It's also not a general compute unit like their server/workstation GPUs
ArtDecoSunburn: Not Univac, Beej?
INCSlayer: The GPUS does have some of the "AI" chips that is in their "commercial" products
accountmadeforants: They're more or less the same chips, sometimes just bigger versions of those chips and paired with more memory, and without video output
TXC2: still around, still making calculators
EvilBadman: Kids still running drug wars on their ti-83s
CaptainSpam: And surprisingly, the Steam Deck is AMD.
exeJayce: I still have my TI from early high school... I think I got it in like 2008? It's 2025.
accountmadeforants: @CaptainSpam So are the Xbox and Playstation
ThorSokar: Steam Deck is (mostly) AMD for those wondering
INCSlayer: @CaptainSpam that is very simple AMD has far superior Linux Support over NVidia
TXC2:
the money is ALREADY runing out
CaptainSpam: @INCSlayer True. It's why my Linux box runs AMD stuff. Was like night and day when I switched.
RockPusher: They'll get sold off for scrap
Kazman20a: with the news that micron is exsiting the consumer market to refocus on the AI market. makes this all worse
EvilBadman: Similar story: Crucial getting out of the ram business
SocraticMethod: ROG is split between AMD and Nvidia. For example ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X has AMD APU
INCSlayer: @CaptainSpam i use linux on my main desktop and im very happy with my AMD 9070XT
ArtDecoSunburn: Like Lehman Brothers.
TheDevil_Risen: They also decided 2nd party board manufacturers have to source their own RAM now as well which will jack the prices up.
accountmadeforants: @Kazman20a I'm still mad about this
ThorSokar: I mean, Atari was everywhere and completely imploded
ArtDecoSunburn: Couldn't be salavaged.
Juliamon: EvilBadman More accurately, Micron exiting the *consumer* RAM business
EvilBadman: @Juliamon true
Juliamon: they're still making it, just not for us
RockPusher: probably gobbled up by a tech hardware company who survives
RockPusher: for cents on the dollar
TXC2: or bailed out by the government with tax-payer money
accountmadeforants: AMD and Intel both still exist, yeah
ContingentCat: I keep hearing Sysco as the signer of the Thong Song as if i needed more help feeling old
Vinewood_OG: @TXC2 100%
Aceviru: @TXC2 hooray
accountmadeforants: (And Qualcomm, I guess, but ew)
ThorSokar: Nvidia bought 3dfx
UraharaSci: Governments probably won’t bail out Nvidia. They will use their 20 year old laptops for another 20 years instead.
ThorSokar: They acquired most of the assets in 2000
RockPusher: I don't believe Nvidia do their own fab though
RockPusher: so when they die, they probably will be liquidated rather than sold as a going concern
Creideiki_SE: @UraharaSci "But what if China wins the AI race?" (actual AI race, or winning, not defined or relevant)
TXC2: nvidia pointedly DON'T make their own chips, just design them
RockPusher: the chip IP being the last part of value
maybe_games: industrial factories are also important in case of emergencies like war
maybe_games: and them going away can reduce a sense of safety
TXC2:
nVida is 8% of US GDP
accountmadeforants: Yeah companies historically haven't really wanted to deal directly with Nvidia since the 2010's or so (Apple also dropped them around that time) due to general fuckery (quality, pricing, etc.), which made Nintendo going for them with the Switch kind of surprising. (But then, there weren't that many alternatives in the ARM SoC+good GPU space.)
goombalax: imagine hearing your retirement plan is tied up in AI
Juliamon: A press release occurred
TXC2:
I mean, the govenment bail out kinda did that
ArtDecoSunburn: @goombalax Many state pension funds are. And thus public bonds.
RockPusher: It's almost as if removing the regulation that was intended to prevent these sorts of problems was a Bad Idea™
Creideiki_SE: Call it "quantitative easing" to make it more palatable.
ThorSokar: except none of those people went to jail, sigh
Vinewood_OG:
I've been callinh the A.I. bubble culprits "clanker wankers" for a while now. 
TXC2: Vinewood_OG nice
accountmadeforants:
@goombalax Something like 30% of the S&P 500 is companies that are heavily focused on AI now 
SocraticMethod: "no, no! dig up, stupid!"
RockPusher: If you *know* they will be focusing on something you are not going to answer, decline the interview!
SocraticMethod: Speaking of Roblox, I've seen so many ads about Habbo Hotel being back up. I wonder how they are dealing with the same problem there
TXC2: "mu"
TheDevil_Risen: Bad news : a 14 year old kid has already beaten the facial recog, and is now a 25 year old lmao
ContingentCat: Leading questions are fun
ThorSokar: I'm pretty sure he would have just continued ignoring the interviewer and spouting complete bullshit
TXC2: real sour grapes there
gnyrinn: That's the horrible thing: "When did Roblox stop trying to keep nonces off their platform?" *IS* a legitimate question!
RockPusher: "Like other platforms with a high proportion of young users we are aware of predatory behaviour, yes, and here's what we do to combat it…"
UraharaSci: Best answer would have been: “Whilst no online space is 100% safe, we think the report was overblown. however we have been working on ways to better protect all our users”
maybe_games: media trained but apparently not housebroken
RockPusher: address the question *then* pivot to your talking points
ContingentCat: I will causally refer to it that way pretty regularly, that context is important to any conversation about it
ThorSokar: it sounded like some mob boss threat of "if you keep asking, maybe you won't be around anymore either"
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UraharaSci: @RockPusher I think the problem was both the answer and the talking points were rubbish
TXC2:
surely some throw away line about working with the authorities or something wouldn't be amiss
RockPusher: UraharaSci undoubtedly, which is why agreeing to the interview was the first mistake
UraharaSci: @RockPusher the second mistake after the lack of ways to protect their users
Juliamon: apparently it's not even *good* EDM
Aceviru: If your edm lasts for more than 2 hours...
Vinewood_OG: Watch checkpoint backwards and things get better.
TXC2: there's probably a plugin for that
EvilBadman: I watched checkpoint backwards and all it said was "Graham is alive"
TheMerricat:
@Juliamon If I didn't already listen to EDM now and then my response would be, "How can you tell?"
ThorSokar: yes, "totally NOT gambling" (it's gambling)
gualdhar: I watched Checkpoint backwards and bought into NFT games in 2025
maybe_games: isnt it already an unwilling dating market
Laserbeaks_Fury: "untapped markets"
TXC2:
"robolox in to a dateing site" made me dry heave for real 
ContingentCat: I haven't seen it
farley_f: Beej do not put that energy out into the world, or maybe feed it as im sure its out there
UnknownFriday: @TXC2 "Robollocks" is a great gag name for it.
TXC2:
it's official: Beej, better then a dating site
RockPusher: I mean, also regular fishing
TXC2: UnknownFriday it sure is
ThorSokar: Pretty sure the only dating place that roblox is a checkbox is NAMBLA
Juliamon: that's just "lying"
RockPusher: See, the meme of all the guys holding fish
Laserbeaks_Fury: I've heard there are dating apps how now charge you to get your "best natches"
kingandcommoner: Lying is the number one activity on any dating site
Laserbeaks_Fury: *matches
raulghoulia: in 2020 they were called Tiger Selfies
ContingentCat: I think adults who people who play roblox are umm, looking for a younger age group than me
gualdhar: I definitely do not date young enough to see women who admit to playing roblox. most don't admit to playing any video games
Laserbeaks_Fury: How long till dating apps offer services where you can pay to get your profile put in front of more users?
gualdhar: oh, honey
Juliamon: yeah, uh, if I ran into an adult who said they play Roblox, I would be immediately suspicious
gualdhar: they already do
maybe_games: @Laserbeaks_Fury yeh they do
TXC2: in fairness SEVERAL married couples have met through LRR
Farwanderer: I'm a little older than the target audience for Roblox, but I list my favorite board game on my dating profile
ContingentCat: I haven't seen any, people will talk about games they play but I'll see the harry potter game more likely than that
RockPusher:
TXC2 We need to tap the LRR dating ecosystem as a fresh revenue source 
ContingentCat: @Juliamon I was talking to someone who said they played it and I just said isn't that game for kids and pedophiles?
kingandcommoner: @ContingentCat To be...fair? the harry potter game instantly filters a lot of people one way or the other and people on either side really don't want to deal with th other
UraharaSci: @ContingentCat which were they?
Laserbeaks_Fury: My social MMR would *suck*
korvys: I realise I'm not the target audience, but the thing about roblox that gets me is that is just *so ugly* - I don't get it at all
ContingentCat: @UraharaSci lol they didn't answer
rentar42: @korvys so is minecraft
ArtDecoSunburn: I'd play a game about taxes.
RockPusher: Boring Adult Things - like bus driving
ThorSokar: ya know, like Driving a Bus, I wonder if there's a game for that
ArtDecoSunburn: That was SimCity the TCG.
korvys: @rentar42 I think minecraft as a specific aesthetic - Roblox seems to have none at all
Juliamon: TrainWiz, hero of our time
TheDevil_Risen: TooT TooT!
TheAinMAP:
RockPusher: TooT TooT
CaptainSpam:
@RockPusher In fairness, Heather doesn't drive the bus.
ThorSokar: TrainWiz, the hero we all needed, who speaks the truth
accountmadeforants: Kept a whole horde of trains in his back pocket, just in case
TheMerricat: Trainwiz is a god level modder btw, yes they do meme mods as well, but they have a very well respected series of train based mods for Skyrim as well.
ContingentCat: @kingandcommoner true, it filters out me as someone who cares about not supporting terfs, I'm nonbinary so it's pretty important to me
RockPusher: we are in the "fucking around" phase
UnknownFriday: One of the first mods I go find for Morrowind when I play it is to remove cliff racers entirely. One of the most annoying trash mobs in a game.
accountmadeforants: He's just treating them the same way they treat us
UraharaSci: I think making the cliff racers Thomas is bad. Why not make it a Thunderbird instead?
kingandcommoner: @ContingentCat exactly. I'd know to turn away instantly, and anyone who puts it in their profile is probably happy about that
MalFnord: The Trainwiz saga will likely not end well, but it will end gloriously
RockPusher: The thing with folk heroes is they often die in the end
TheMerricat: If Mattel was really pissed about this, they'd have gone after him already. Morrowind is the FOURTH game he's added Thomas to.
TXC2: complaining about the mod might do more damage to the IP more then the mod its self
TheMerricat: Skyrim, Fallout4, Starfield, and now Morrowind.
kingandcommoner: Isn't that exactly what happened with Hot Coffee?
TXC2: kingandcommoner that was content that was made for the game that got sort of removed, then rediscovered
CaptainSpam: @kingandcommoner I think the issue with Hot Coffee is that the content WAS in the game, on-disc. It was just dummied out.
accountmadeforants: Or they make the mistake of releasing a trailer on YouTube that gets over a million views
RockPusher: yeah, Hot Coffee was more complicated for a number of reasons
TXC2: were as this is wholly separate IP being added to the game
rentar42: yeah, don't build your multi-year creative fan project on anything that's owned by Nintendo
kingandcommoner: @TXC2 Kind of, there was a bare bones version in the game that was modded back in and then modded again to make the characters nude. And it had maybe a few dozen downloads before it wound up on the news
TheMerricat: Hot Coffee was an entire deal on it's own. It came out when the government was going after games, RockStar _took_ it out of the game, and people added it back in.
TheDevil_Risen: and has been finished
rentar42: "Run around Tarkov" didn't quite have the same ring to it ...
RockPusher: The 1.0 was where they installed the narrative is my understanding
CaptainSpam: "Oh, hey, there was an exit door right here the whole time!"
kingandcommoner: Maybe it's like Luigi's Mansion. The more money you have the better teh ending
TheMerricat: @INCSlayer 4
DoodlestheGreat: Well, they had always said they were saving the actual escaping part until 1.0
Bruceski: Is it like Wario Land where it varies based on how much money you have to buy a castle?
SquareDotCube: Wouldn't the worst end just be dying?
TheDevil_Risen: yeah 100% second job territory
gnyrinn: Well, if you can either a) Escape from Tarkov or b) die trying, escaping is the second worst ending.
SocraticMethod: @Bruceski Quest progress and some story decisions
korvys: No, which is your favourite mod
korvys: Tell us
DoodlestheGreat: There were two things that I'd like to chat about: 1. Tim Sweeney's comments on Valve's AI policy and 2. that the game "Horse" was banned from both Epic AND Valve.
BlackIsis: Ciri
TheDevil_Risen: Ciri
Snowcookies: adopted daughter
BlackIsis: Adopted daughter, basically yeah
BlueFingers5: not my phone responding to Paul saying Ciri cause it sounds like Siri
INCSlayer: @DoodlestheGreat and GOG
EvilBadman: @INCSlayer no its on gog
korvys: Humble banned and then unbanned it
INCSlayer: @EvilBadman ohh i heard it was gone from there as well
INCSlayer: @korvys maybe thats what im mixing it up with
UnknownFriday: @INCSlayer I think it may have got banned but was reinstated.
EvilBadman:
@korvys It was taken down so that our store guy could look at the whole game because there was a lot of misinfo and we wanted to be sure 
TheMerricat: Henry Cavill is so excited I presume.
Marvoleath: Sequels, or story DLC like W3?
accountmadeforants: Given that their DLCs for Witcher 3 were basically entire new games by any other company's standards, I can see it happening
MalFnord: CDPR's motto: "Hubris is a coward's word."
kingandcommoner: Well Elon promised AI woudl be making games by then, so i guess that's their plan for Witcher
TheMerricat: "Number of employees 1,134 (entire company) - 615 (CD Projekt RED only)"
TheDevil_Risen: BACKLOG TIME
RockPusher: many good video games already exist!
TheMerricat: Amazon will finally take over the world and all consoles will be replaced by Luna
ContingentCat: indie games will still be out there
Marvoleath:
@kingandcommoner If they would put any "AI" slop in a Witcher game, I will personally go to their office and slap anyone responsible for that decision (I live nearby 
)
RockPusher: and then you can move on to the merely mediocre games
korvys: lol
Aceviru: More time to read books to put on my dating profile
kingandcommoner: @Marvoleath Do you have a gofundme?
SocraticMethod: his mom is so proud of him
Marvoleath:
NonjaBiru: I'm assuming he did something to make his mom proud?
korvys: Weirdly, being a good composer is the one thing he's actually good at, but also apparently a compulsive liar
CaptainSpam: Amiga: What Commodore became; Amiico: What Intellivision tried.
accountmadeforants: Tommy Tallarico, the guy who claimed to be responsible for the ROBLOX_OOF sound, and wasn't. Which is still hilarious to me
TXC2:
gotta have that alliteration
CaptainSpam: I'm honestly impressed at how well it scans, as if his goal was to make it discoverable.
kingandcommoner: A Salazar Sandwich sounds tasty
TXC2: sounds like a fictional character
TheMerricat:
@TXC2 NGL I was just googling to see if he stole the name from a book or game.
Aceviru: Robert Robertson
maybe_games: @kingandcommoner gimme the salazar on rye
Aarek: Doug Dimmadome?
TXC2:
meanwhile in the real world parents will name their child Dick Cox with NO irony
kingandcommoner: The paparazzi has fallen far
RockPusher: News just in: already weird guy continues to be weird
red_shoes_jeff: @Aarek Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome!?
TXC2: TheMerricat would not surprise me
INCSlayer: @red_shoes_jeff not right
Aarek: @red_shoes_jeff That's right!
TheDevil_Risen:
it would have been even funnier if he called himself Severus Snape
INCSlayer: @TheDevil_Risen the TERF would probably have sued in that case
RockPusher:
who the hell is "Brendan Dery"
TheDevil_Risen:
@INCSlayer partly why it would have been funnier
Foxmar320: Destiny having issues? Drink
TheDevil_Risen: @INCSlayer so **** that person decided to be like that.
TXC2: right chat I'm off
TheDevil_Risen: @Foxmar320 Kampai!
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
TheDevil_Risen:
tc @TXC2 
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming heather, Paul and Beej
INCSlayer: Night TXC2
TheMerricat: Night @TXC2 !
TheDevil_Risen:
Foxmar320: Summery, stop listening to the hardcore 1% of players
Aceviru: See ya @txc2
Foxmar320: Bungie keeps doing this
accountmadeforants: They started that with Forsaken, tbh. When they started introducing a bunch of random rolls again because people were upset they didn't have something to grind for.
TheDevil_Risen: and doing that without the hardcore players getting salty and going on reddit and winging
SocraticMethod: When the company is mostly known from a) deleting vast majority of paid content and b) plagiarism, it's a bit of an uphill
INCSlayer: Destiny Playerbase used Harden! its defense increased!
Marvoleath: players with really hard core muscles?
SocraticMethod: @accountmadeforants D2 had problem with content drought because it was too easy to get the godrolls
SocraticMethod: and the mini-expansion strat wasn't working
accountmadeforants: @SocraticMethod As someone who didn't exclusively play D2 for hours on end, it seemed like it had plenty of content and actually respected my time
Foxmar320: New expansion dropped this week and it's very small
e_bloc: paul sounds a little hoarse, is he recovering from something?
Juliamon: e_bloc yes
Juliamon: Ben has it now
e_bloc: @Juliamon thank you, hopefuly he's on the mend
Foxmar320: Bungie sends out surveys all the time
SquareDotCube: don't get me wrong, a FPS MMO sounds neat, the problem is that there's many kinds of FPS mechanics and trying to have all of them might be the issue here
ThorSokar: and a BIG percentage of those people who left are just gone forever, they're playing something else
Aarek: +
e_bloc: Adam better watch out then--it seems like it's infecting people in decreasing beard thickness order
DoodlestheGreat: Best wishes for Ben & Paul's speedy recovery.
TheDevil_Risen: @Foxmar320 yup
TheMerricat:
Beej, I think you underestimate the fury of a spurned player. Angry gamers always fill out the survey, they just never say anything useful.
SocraticMethod: @accountmadeforants "respecting time" is pretty interesting argument because its completely subjective and dependant on the engagement
TheDevil_Risen: @Foxmar320 i still get them from time to time
Foxmar320: Renegades is out
Marvoleath: Bright Swords
SocraticMethod: It's both, there is licensed stuff and the expac itself is a homage
Foxmar320: It is partnered with Lucas Arts so it's official
accountmadeforants: @SocraticMethod Sure, but so is the notion of there being "content drought".
TheMerricat: Renegades is the Star Wars alike right?
Foxmar320: Both Graham and Cam stopped playing
Laserbeaks_Fury: Renegades is licenced Star Wars, yes
SquareDotCube: What could've kept me in Destiny 2 is more narrative stuff and lore but they seem very averse to, just give it to people
EvilBadman: I jettisoned D2 when Bungie laid off ton of folks a couple years back
Juliamon: Foxmar keeps us informed
Foxmar320: I need somewhere to Vent!
Juliamon: and hydrated!
goombalax: they made the game extremely unfriendly to solo players
TheDevil_Risen: hahahaha
korvys: Xcrox?
DoodlestheGreat: X-crocs.
INCSlayer: they dont look large enough
itira:
TheMerricat: Is the Doom a photoshop or an actual deco?
Laserbeaks_Fury:
Do they come like 4 sizes too big? 
?
kingandcommoner: shoudl have made them look like the Duke
Marvoleath: CroX?
e_bloc: I think youre supposed to play with your feet
SquareDotCube: XCROCS! (the x is silent)
Foxmar320: When I saw this story I never shared something so fast to Slack
accountmadeforants: You have to play with them while they're on their feet. Really do the gremlin sit
e_bloc: where do I put my jibbitz though
TheMerricat: They don't want Tarantino to get any ideas.
DoodlestheGreat: They're Crocs. You CAN'T take a good picture of them, at any angle. They're just the fugliest footwear.
Marvoleath: Would you get similar ones with half of a Switch pad on each?
Juliamon: it's honestly delightful in the purity of marketing
e_bloc: I wonder if anyone has any issues running them
Foxmar320: Microsoft keeps doing stuff like this and im not sure it's working for them
Juliamon: like, they know *exactly* how stupid this is
BlueFingers5: Heather asking the important questiosn
ThorSokar: Halo Crocks Mod where you at
INCSlayer: there IS a updated version of Halo coming out soon...
TheDevil_Risen: Master cheif going for a surf in his crocs
Laserbeaks_Fury: Crocs, shorts, and the helmet
SocraticMethod: @accountmadeforants I'd say latter can be measure from the post-expansion retention metrics and feedback. I'm not saying the drought was hitting the entire playerbase but the retention was and reception was dropping significantly. THere is only so many times most people run the same activity if they got what they wanted.
korvys: Wait, maybe these are just a bunch of those things people stick in the holes to mod their crocs?
red_shoes_jeff: @DoodlestheGreat I mean sure, but black shoes against a black background did it no favours. That's just bad photography in general.
Foxmar320: They did do like a xbox controller hoodie once
TheMerricat:
@Foxmar320 Is this _any_ worse than the Sonic shoes?
TheMerricat:
@TheMerricat Or the Mario shoes?
e_bloc: my 5-year old likes them, I think it's the target demo
korvys: Is it just one big charm that covers the whole toe?
Foxmar320: @TheMerricat The ugly Sonic shoes or the "Ugly" Sonic shoes
Laserbeaks_Fury: Somehow, feels better to hold that the actual controler
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DoodlestheGreat: As I said in the YT comments, whatever you come up with next Thursday will be infinetly more entertaining and informative than The Game Advertisements.
SocraticMethod: The Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 awards, more like
Aceviru: @SocraticMethod I dunno, IGN called bananza a master piece
Juliamon: Team Cherry being like "we're not even gonna go bc Exp33 is gonna win" is wild
EvilBadman: @Aceviru Bananza was great, tbh and doesn't deserve strays
SocraticMethod: @Aceviru Does it have 12 nominations? No? I rest my case
TheMerricat: "presenting himself" not "we didn't do any background research"
SocraticMethod: (WTF was that even about, why did one game get 3 noms in the performance category)
Aceviru: @EvilBadman It's a great game. IGN is just going a bit too hard on it though.
EvilBadman: Becuase they're good performances? Although Cox's should have gone to the Gustave mocapper
Laserbeaks_Fury: Best New Naval Vessel Nominee Theseus
TheMerricat: came out in Feburary.
TheDevil_Risen: yeah its new
accountmadeforants: @Juliamon In fairness, it probably will just sweep the whole thing (and deservedly). Though I hope Blue Prince gets at least some of the entries
TheDevil_Risen: its a ARPG/Bullet Heaven
SocraticMethod: @EvilBadman Yeah, it should have been Maxence Cazorla at most
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TheDevil_Risen: i'd give the mocap award to DSII
ArtDecoSunburn: It's like stunts in movies with the Oscars.
SocraticMethod: E33 was mocap-first, the voice performace was after
Marvoleath: There is now quite an overlap between "face"/voice actors and mocap
accountmadeforants: Eh, I'm not sure they'd be nominated for motion capture. It was good, but not stellar.
Marvoleath: But still not always the case, especially for action games
TheMerricat:
Darth Vadar.
BlackIsis: I mean, Michael Ironside is an actor actor, but he's also...like 80
Strebenherz: ff14 ARR or no man's sky
e_bloc: and the winner for best expansion, Saints Row 6: Purple Dildo DLC
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ContingentCat: Or just a signifigant big patch like minecraft used to do
LordZarano: Didn't NMS get nominated for "Best Ongoing Game"?
TheDevil_Risen: oof
Vinewood_OG: Tell the Fallout 76 servers....
Laserbeaks_Fury: No more trailers, just releases
Marvoleath: Ah, so TES VI got delayed
Foxmar320: Fallout 5 please
Doc_Layzah: To have an opinion on drops, don't you have to occasionally drop new games?
Aceviru: Fallout 3 Remastered
Strebenherz:
@Doc_Layzah
DarktanUK: They can’t say this, and also show teaser trailers a decade before planned release.
idontgetmyrealname: counter point: shadow dropping bad for anything other than publicity
accountmadeforants: That said, I would agree with them going "and it releases next month"
SocraticMethod: Most dev teams would get anxiety too, considering all the shuffling GTA6 and Silksong caused
idontgetmyrealname: yaaa silksong was kinda rough on a LOT of other indie games
SocraticMethod: @idontgetmyrealname Considering their marketing material, Hi-Fi rush would have gotten slammed and ridiculed if it has been released classically instead of relying on the word-of-mouth
Ms_LadyMix: The Animal Crossing DLC lol
RubikDarkwill: *Hades* was shadow-dropped
idontgetmyrealname: @SocraticMethod maybe? I would have been all about it and very happy to know more ahead and plan for it instead of having to wishlist for 6 months after the drop
ContingentCat: I think 2 months is good amount of warning, so if you have to save up for it you can
e_bloc: our game has been here the whole time
gnyrinn: When was Beyond Good and Evil 2 announced with a trailer?
SocraticMethod: @idontgetmyrealname It was dire, directly apes "Yep that's me, probably wondering how I got here" and not even ironically or in any interesting way.
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Decaped: The hype turned into Silkposting tho, which is almost the opposite of hype.
SocraticMethod: @Decaped Silkposting is better than hype, because silkposting is sustainable. As silkposting is eternal.
Aceviru: @SocraticMethod This
EvilBadman: @gnyrinn 2008/2009 depending on whta you consider official
RockPusher: indeed I want 1) we have started working on this thing [and then some long time later] 2) Thing is finished and will be available in 2 month
RockPusher: s
CeridwenCoeur: I like the month or two heads up over announcing and releasing at the same time for being an informed consumer. The same day drop feels like it preys on hype instead of letting people get a sense for if they would like the game
Aceviru: Magazines...dang those were the days
SocraticMethod: @CeridwenCoeur I think it's other way around. Shadowdropping doesn't have momentum beyond what the hype build by the word-of-mouth. It's a high-risk moderate gain strategy
DarktanUK: I mean, I can’t imagine getting that excited about anything.
SocraticMethod: If the drop fails to build that it's going to be Concord'd
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ContingentCat: I get such bad second hand embarrassment when I see that kind of thing I can't.
DarktanUK: @ContingentCat yup
SquareDotCube: That's for Philly to do
Aceviru: Never go full Philly
TheMerricat:
So Batman is right out?
kingandcommoner: standard anime style.
Juliamon: ah yes, the Homer Controversy
Coloneljesus: prevents certain discussions
e_bloc: there are no mammals in the fortnite universe
TheDevil_Risen: does he have a belly button too? or is iot one of the clones?
Strebenherz: I picked a hell of a time to come back to the stream
gnyrinn: That caption is great!
SocraticMethod: They are landmarks
SquareDotCube: they're like Superman's underwear
Marvoleath: loadbearing nipples?
DarktanUK: non-Euclidean nipples?
SocraticMethod: Like the fires of Gondor
ThorSokar: would you say they draw the eye?
Strebenherz: "pupils are the nipples of the eyes"
kingandcommoner: Maybe the contract included a style guide
ContingentCat: I like assuming missing nipples means they're trans and didn't decide to keep the nipples during top surgery
Aceviru: Lol
Vinewood_OG: "Beej, no!"
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Aceviru: It's been fun catching this live
TheDevil_Risen: Thanks for the episode Paul, Heather, Beej and (Ben I assume on tech?)
TheDevil_Risen: yeah 75 bucks
TheDevil_Risen: and 5 dollar dono for 1 beackseat suggestion
DarktanUK: You should sell $75 coupons
TheDevil_Risen: ^^^
EvilBadman: Damn I owe Desert Bus like 150 dollars then
TheDevil_Risen: i think the 75 thing was for corrections
TheDevil_Risen: there was 2 that came out in rapid succession
RockPusher: A cube of women
ContingentCat:
braise cude
TheDevil_Risen:
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher 3-D Mitt Romney cube of binders?
KeytarCat: Ah, the time collapse of RPG midgame, my beloved
TheDevil_Risen: GLURP!
ContingentCat: Glurp!
INCSlayer: who will be GLURPING this time?
Marvoleath: GLRRP!
Aarek: GLURRRRRP
Aceviru: BEN!!!!!!!!
DoodlestheGreat: Assuming Ben's well.
Aceviru: Ahhh
BlackIsis: I'm sorry what
EvilBadman: Get pegged in cribbage
Aceviru: Finally
Aceviru: Podcast woo
tidehollowcat: "subnautica"
TheDevil_Risen: but Subnautica was fun
Juliamon: He briefly opened it
tidehollowcat: He pressed start!
TheDevil_Risen:
xD xD
Vinewood_OG: Let's Nope Firing Squad was a blast!
kingandcommoner: he opened it for about 10 seconds and then someone donated again
ArtDecoSunburn: I'm still going to agitate for "Lords of Waterdeep" to be added to the AFK schedule.
EvilBadman:
Adam had a bold stance on Krafton's recent idiocy
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Juliamon: (yall in chat shoulda seen modslack during that stream, it was equally unhinged)
red_shoes_jeff: We all share a single shoe.
Aceviru: Lmao
TheDevil_Risen: hahahaha
RockPusher: Lourd Hoesk
TheDevil_Risen: #DisrespectedHosk
Lord_Hosk: Lard hoesk
Coloneljesus: Lörd Hösk?
Juliamon: Laird Horsk
TheDevil_Risen:
@Lord_Hosk
Decaped: Lard Husk is my favorite Black Metal band
Aceviru: o/
ContingentCat:
Thanks Heather, Paul, and Beej 
Snowcookies: ty for the stream
KeytarCat: Wow, that Let's Nope vod is impressive
ContingentCat: !next
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