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TXC2: soon the Racoon loons over the spoon
BraveOthello: It's so ominous
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Spoon™ 
Diabore: hooooold
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TXC2: hello bytecaster welcome
RockPusher:
at least it is regular wimdy here today and not 
ing wimdy like the last couple days
TXC2: TODAY!
cloudeon5: Oh man it's so nice to just relax. I'm in greeting cards so you can only imagine the month I've had 😂
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cloudeon5: Today!
TXC2: RockPusher had the same problem here in the Uk
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Vinewood_OG: Cannot wait
RockPusher: Beej enjoying the matcha machine
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TXC2: hello Heather, Paul and Beej
mtvcdm: I threw 2025 into the dumpster months ago Heather, I don't know why you're waiting
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RockPusher: The Chillpoint year in review!
GapFiller: Not ME! I stayed up until 5qam watching Heather and Beej!
RockPusher:
Vinewood_OG: I took a knee on 2025 in the first quarter.
mtvcdm: I'm cool with it being a seance
RockPusher: It was a very Dery Christmas
mtvcdm: Can I MAKE it a seance, just give me a shovel and tell me where 2025 is hiding
TXC2:
a Christmas miracle 
Juliamon: I swear you took, like, one ad break
LordZarano: The Big Fat gaming of the Year
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GapFiller: some of us were prepared to watch Heather 1cc Steel Soul after Yakuza
TXC2: so a spider crab? a thing that acutally exsists ?
mtvcdm: The crispy skin! The juicy meat!
GapFiller: just sayin
RockPusher:
and chat is popping off 
TXC2:
calculated_uncertainties 
Juliamon: and then RCG2 *did* have seasonal stuff
mtvcdm: Later in the night River City Girls 2 *did* have a Christmas thing
mtvcdm: Beej, "almost turkey" means it wasn't turkey
TXC2: got good, as is Heather's want
RockPusher:
GapFiller: didnt someone get a 7-10 at one point
lightfut: Chicken!
Juliamon: The entire situation is hilarious
Vinewood_OG: Ah yes, the yard Turkey
Izandai: Hell of a sentence to come in on.
GapFiller: so you make the chicken yr business manager instead!
RockPusher: Beej missing the end part of the chicken story
Juliamon: And that's how we got a property manager
TXC2: GapFiller I think an 8-10 happened
Izandai: Oh he's talking about Yakuza, that scans.
DoodlestheGreat: Coconut crabs.
BraveOthello: Japanese Spider crab could play vs DDR against itself
ninja_theory_ashrams: Crab People. Tastes like crab, talks like people
GapFiller: Suika looked phun
Earthenone:
Dalrint: "I started a steel soul run for fun" is a very strange sentence.
RockPusher: with an excellent excuse for resetting the characters
TXC2: I did a steel soul run for the achievements, which is a kind of fun
mtvcdm: River City Girls 2 is awesome
TXC2: !vod
DoodlestheGreat: @Dalrint Not as much as "I started a Steel Ball Run for fun." :tf:
Izandai: I've yet to Steel Soul either game, but I certainly intend to someday.
GapFiller: so many listicles
Vinewood_OG: "Sorry for the clip show!"
calculated_uncertainties: Checkpoint reacts does sound fun
TXC2:
good journalism that 
DoodlestheGreat: Weighted ranking.
MaygeKyatt: I *really* need to go back and finish Silksong I was well into Act 2 a few weeks after it released... then I started stage managing a 60-perrson production of A Christmas Carol and had zero free time for 2.5 months. lol
GapFiller: how many people have heard of Strange Jigsaws eh
mtvcdm: I've played Strange Jigsaws
AFamiliarCalledEl: Strange Jigsaws is excellent
mtvcdm: Strange Jigsaws is quite good
TXC2:
were they sponsering IGN?
Izandai: @MaygeKyatt Oh jesus, yeah that'll do it.
RockPusher: Jigsaws that are Strange you say - *heads to Steam to have a nosy*
Diabore: avowed that high is a shock, while i havent heard anything bad ive also not heard much at all
Izandai: This is why "end of year" lists and rankings and awards and such should happen *early in the next year*.
MaygeKyatt: @Izandai Don't get me wrong- the production was a great experience. But it's been VERY nice to have free evenings again
mtvcdm: Despelote's on my wishlist
TXC2: Izandai kinda like how the Oscars do it
Izandai: @MaygeKyatt Oh I'll bet, on both counts!
Juliamon: Sometimes good games just... don't generate enough buzz to push through all the Silkposting
Izandai:
@TXC2 
Decaped: The bulk of people who play video games play Call of Duty
Diabore: so skong 1 on this list i guess
TXC2:
got this Xmas, will probably Feb before I play it
Diabore: oh prince
Serpens77:
Sleeping also in my top 10 of the year
xantos69: Blue Prince was my game of the year.
Decaped: Blue Prince is the best friendslop game
RockPusher: So Paul got to the start of the game
TXC2: got an ending
Serpens77:
getting to the credits is generally considered finishing the tutorial 
BraveOthello: Blue Prince I think stumbles in its later parts for being an execution challenge. Amazing game, but not #1
Creideiki_SE:
I just watched a speedrun earlier today. According to that, Blue Prince takes just under 2 minutes to complete 
calculated_uncertainties: @BraveOthello what's your no 1?
frank_the_great: Howdy LRR Crew, howdy chat
TXC2: kinda wild how many good to great games came out this year
TXC2: hello frank_the_great welcome
MaygeKyatt: @BraveOthello I agree (with the caveat that I didn't get too far past finding Room 46). The whole room layout thing got a little tiring for me at a certain point
frank_the_great: Blue Prince is a lot of fun, but there are some random community-difficult puzzles that kill the momentum
BraveOthello: @calculated_uncertainties E33 for me this year
RockPusher:
MTigress: happy boxing chillpoint
TXC2: Mahjong: if you think you understand it, you don't
TXC2: hello MTigress welcome
Izandai: WOW RUDE
frank_the_great: You've got to try harder than that if you want to win the sweepstakes, lol
MaygeKyatt: and tbh Blue Prince was another game that fell victim to my Christmas Carol endeavors lmao
RockPusher: haha, yeah, that happens
Izandai:
RockPusher: hahahahahaha
Dalrint: TBH I liked that if you wanted to, after you get to room 46, you could be done and be satisfied
niccus: even in a different game we're thinking about the clear or obscure
Serpens77: I know exactly what thing Heather is talking about
RockPusher: That happened to Jamie *so many times*
frank_the_great: Some puzzles were def 1. give up on puzzle. 2. Google solution. 3. Say "well, I never would have got that, so that's not on me"
MaygeKyatt: fun fact: when I found the place with several dozen chests, I opened the "correct" one first by pure absolute chance
BraveOthello: I live the background narrative elements. I wish I didn't have to get lucky to finish learning about them
RockPusher: Blue Prince is a narrative game
Decaped: I was very proud of myself for putting together the story before the game did it for me
RockPusher: I keep banging that drum
NoxStryx: So randomized Myst?
TehAmelie: i spent four days on a puzzle i got for my birthday, i figure that's enough puzzles for this decade
frank_the_great: @MaygeKyatt Nice, lol
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frank_the_great: @NoxStryx Yeppers
frank_the_great: Outer Wilds is an amazing game
type_variable: Within the world of blue prince, the rearranging house came from another country via the MC's grandmother - its not completely unusual but it is for rich people
BraveOthello: Outer Wilds is one of my favorite games. I wish I could forget it to experience it again
RockPusher has finally gotten around to playing Outer Wilds in the last couple days
RockPusher: deep in its puzzle mines
MaygeKyatt: oh Outer Wilds still remains one of my top games of all time. personally the DLC was a bit of a miss but the base game is absolute perfection
Serpens77: the background lore dumps do often also contain clues to things like safe codes though lol
niccus: good opsec is so dangerous
Strebenherz watched 50 consecutive streams and sparked a watch streak!
Izandai:
RockPusher: I bought stationery for Blue Prince
RockPusher: I can't think of any game that has made me do that
frank_the_great: Blue Prince def needs a notebook / screenshot option. I've got a massive Google Docs with all of the screen shots, lol
jadielady: I know people who built obsidian pages for it
xantos69: My wife and I played the game all the way through together and we filled 4 full legal pads for notes.
RockPusher: My screenshots folder is ~6-odd gigs
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Decaped: I should finish Blue Prince sometime. I have a couple repetitive tasks to do at endish.
Tiber727: It did seem kinda frustrating when you have to go back somewhere else and use up your steps.
NoxStryx: I one made extensive notes about symbols around the top of a room in Riven, thinking it was an alphabet.. it wasnt, just decoration
BraveOthello: Except the scrap book doesn't show me *which freaking key I missed*
mtvcdm: Nope hope you're an organized person
TXC2:
the kind of QoL we've had in games for 20+ years
type_variable: to be fair, steam has inbuilt notepad and screenshotting
frank_the_great: Like, imagine if Outer Wilds didn't have the computer tracker
n3ther: you're back in school. take notes!
RockPusher: Heather has knowledge
RockPusher:
Beej has vibes 
TehAmelie: we hunger for games where you can take notes. like Silksong, where you have to spend precious money on map markers, just that makes such a difference
RockPusher:
Seagulyus: well remember that you can get the completion points for Shogi with the puzzle mode!
RockPusher:
100%ing Yakuza is really only for the salarymen for which it is their only game for the year
GapFiller:
Juliamon: lmao
Tiber727: I remember some tiny indie metroidvania let you take screenshots including location, and I thought this should have been a thing so long ago.
TehAmelie: is mahjong a competitive puzzle game?
TXC2: TehAmelie sure why not
Seagulyus: @TehAmelie normally? extremely. in Yakuza it is only against bots
L0rdX33n: i THINK I’ve done everything I can in Blue Prince except fill out the Spiral of Stars
ghyllnox: I found with Blue Prince I didn't need to achievement hunt besides "day one", but I was interested in the challenge modes
type_variable: I beat curse mode and consider myself finished
ghyllnox: It really doesn't feel like you're done when you're done, it feels like there's more secrets
TehAmelie: the game struggles to reach denouement, eh?
Decaped: "How do I tell when i'm satisfied?" - famous gamer words
L0rdX33n: when i finally unlocked percent in HK I was at 103%, I thought “That just raises further questions!”
RockPusher: it's one of those choices that I don't think there is a "correct in all cases" answer
TXC2:
oh thank the Gods you don't have to do path of pain to 100%
RockPusher: recalibrating the percentage or just adding on top
Izandai:
rosiedog88: !schedule
TXC2:
I had 100% on Vampire survivors, and then they added much more DLC
Izandai: Yeah that's mean.
niccus: we sort of went through that lifecycle back 20 years ago when TF2 finally got achievements
Izandai: I mean with Steam achievements I dunno how you would avoid it, but doing that in the game itself would be so mean.
Seagulyus: @TXC2 at least the DLCs, even the free ones, dont count for achievements
lamina5432: anyone play tingus goose
RockPusher: Heather has been the source of some of my funnest weird games no one has heard of
Garfy400: Beej needs to go deal with his backlog
RockPusher:
drewm1022: Presumably you must also cross at least one road.
MTigress: so the chicken crosses the road to find out which came first?
RubikDarkwill: It's mostly a platformer
RockPusher:
keep your chickens warm everyone
mtvcdm: Oh the YARN LEVEL
Izandai: Dang, that's wild.
electra310: Sounds like when I do stashbusting projects
RockPusher just wishlisted it
RockPusher: it may get Winter Sale purchased
BraveOthello: Oh my
KaleidoscopeMind: oh yesss
Juliamon: wanko, rhymes with "doronko"
niccus: prelude to powerwash
NightValien28: reverse powerwash
mtvcdm: Bandai Namco could easily have charged for it
mtvcdm: The story is you're making a mess
RockPusher: 『DORONKO WANKO』
RockPusher: copied from Steam
Izandai: Oh yeah that sounds about right.
TXC2: wanko means dog?
Juliamon: wanko is dog, yes
TXC2: neat
Juliamon: because they go "wan wan"
Juliamon: it's slang so more like "doggo" than "dog"
TXC2:
Juliamon ah, I was thinking it was the actual word, like Neko for cat
Juliamon: like how we call cats "meow meows"
niccus: if you wished the artist from Braid worked on a more likable game, here's a good shot at it
Juliamon: yeah the actual word for dog is inu
TXC2: Juliamon right, hence Shiba Inu, it's all coming together
RockPusher: "Developer: Furniture & Mattress LLC"
RockPusher: that sure is a company name
RockPusher: oh, the escaped & is meant to be an actual &
richard_ermen: Chillpoint? Have there been news?
Juliamon: Mostly just reviewing the year
TXC2: richard_ermen more of a year end review today
richard_ermen: Ahhh, very good. Thank you @TXC2 ^_^
terribleplan: So would kitty be nyanko?
Juliamon: yes, like Nyanko-sensei
GapFiller: turns out Split Fiction was good enough to hold its own against the heavy hitters
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Metric_Furlong: @Juliamon hell yeah, Nyanko-sensei!
GapFiller: like the pigs and the teeth
l0smuertos: im guessing yall have discussed the Expedition 33 drama?
TXC2: l0smuertos we have not, we're more covering the whole year today
BlueMechanic: they're the same person most of the time
Metric_Furlong: yes, extremely different genres that have never overlapped at all
Juliamon: not really, have been talking mostly about good games that didn't necessarily win awards
couchboyj: All the fantansy worlds and sci fi worlds are very samey despite being different stories
GapFiller: as Heather said during the PiF: "theres explosions in fantasy!"
lamina5432: defininetely not a play on gen AI
Decaped: the secret is that they're the same genre
TXC2: Split fiction is the clear difficult 2nd album after the breakout first
GapFiller: the referenced the elephant at least
L0rdX33n: It Takes Two makes it pretty clear that your protagonists are goddamn idiots
Juliamon: it's almost like "sci-fi/fantasy" is an established category for a reason
TXC2: it's take two, which won game of the year in what in retrospect was a LEAN year
TXC2:
I like that steam tells me most people play 4 or so games a year, I played 12
MTigress: Cannon Dancer is literally a spiritual sequel made by the guy who did Strider originally, after leaving Capcom
AFamiliarCalledEl: Just checked and I played 47 <<
Jigokuro: Same
Decaped: I wish mainstream science fiction was more grounded. One of my favorite short stories was just about the possible social consequences of a drug that was (at the time) being developed.
Aceviru: @txc2 I definitely got 4 on steam... Only 1 new. The new game? Yu-Gi-Oh early day collection
Mysticman89: a lot of people who play like 1 or 2 two games and that it i guess. I was a 30 games played kind of guy with like 900+ achivements as i go deep, versus the average apparently being quite shallow
TXC2:
Aceviru my "new" game this year was moving MtG Arena to steam
lamina5432: There are also steam accounts with 0 listed
TheMerricat: I think Steam tells the average, not the median.
lamina5432: poeple who just don't use it but have it
TXC2:
also I suspect that most other people have jobs
Aceviru: @TXC2 OH right, I never booted it up hahaha
Mysticman89: the recap did specify median
TXC2:
Aceviru smart
Decaped: the real test: how many games did you buy this year that you didn't play?
TXC2: steam doesn't count the time when you play offline
RockPusher: I have Paul to thank for me playing "Kaizen: A Factory Story" this year
ghyllnox: Paused really matters when you're playing colony sims
ghyllnox: You do a lot of planning while paused and that's most of the gameplay
TXC2:
Decaped 1, but I got it yesturday
TheMerricat:
@decaped do games from bundles that you got along with the one game you did play count? 
RockPusher: Objection!!!
lamina5432: my one is as a Hoyo player what was my time playing my gatcha game
Decaped: @TheMerricat mercifully no, i tell myself.
mtvcdm: Reminder, this is the person who said Blue Prince made her take more notes than any other game
FreyaSViking: Three games, as I bought the FF Pixel Remaster bundle
RockPusher: In recent years I have been a lot better about only buying things I am intending to play right then
AFamiliarCalledEl: I don't actually buy a game unless I'm going to play it immediately, generally. Sometimes I'll buy early if it's on a steep enough sale
Aceviru: Games are always on sale
Aceviru: The only reason you really push to buy a game you're not going to play is to show support
RockPusher: See: me only getting around to Outer Wilds *now* despite owning it since just after it came out
Mysticman89: My system is to figure out games I definitely want to play eventually for gamer culture or just general good games, wishlist them, and buy at 75% off or better. I then play whatever the oldest thing in my backlog, and repeat. Sales are often enough ive never had to pay full price.
mtvcdm: This is part of why I try and make sure my Steam wishlist doesn't go above 40: if you're not in the *forty* games I want most, I probably don't actually want to play you that badly and I shouldn't tempt myself to buy you anyway.
Aceviru: I remember years back I bought 2 copies of a game called Cris Tales because I really wanted it to do well
Decaped: Hah, good hypothetical choice XD
xantos69: These days... I just want to play 4 games a year, but I want them to be absolute bangers with lots of replayability.
Dalrint: My rule with steam now is if I'm not going to immediately install a game I don't buy it.
Mysticman89: a side effect of my system is i'm usually years beyond modern, so things are fully patched with all extra content, plus my pc is probably able to play on max setting
couchboyj: The studio that made Disco Elysium got bought out by the worst kind of capitalists, who ran out all of the creators.
TXC2: right chat I'm off
RockPusher: The exception I make to my Steam buying is if it is something that I have really enjoyed watching someone play on stream, I may pick it up as a boon to the devs
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
Decaped: I put Disco Elysium into my book backlog instead of my game backlog and i got to it so quickly
Aceviru: Also, the new game I got this year I got on the Konami sale for the lowest price ever
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Heather, Paul and Beej
RockPusher: that generally applies to the weird little indies I see Heather play
Aceviru: See ya @txc2
frank_the_great: I've been meaning to play Dark Souls 2 b/c I liked the first one, but I heard it wasn't great, and it legit never goes on sale
RockPusher: or little weird experiences from Talking Sim
mtvcdm: I have a Steam category called 'clutter' for games I've come to the conclusion that I'm never gonna play for whatever reason; none of these games were acquired outside of bundles.
Mysticman89: I do consider buying new yakuza titles at launch for full price since that franchise has tickled me, but usually I'm after time tested games
AFamiliarCalledEl: @frank_the_great DS2 is fine. But it has lots of weird problems and is perfectly skippable.
RockPusher: Mysticman89 if SEGA didn't Denuvo the new Like a Dragon's I would be pre-ordering them
Seagulyus: @frank_the_great DS2: Scholar of the First Sin - while not fixing it completely - does make DS2 a much better game. or so I've heard
tidehollowcat: I'm close to wrapping up my first Dark Souls 2 playthrough. I hated it at first but I've been enjoying it as I've figured out how it works.
SquareDotCube: Chozo statues in the first game did that so often
Decaped: Man, one game I didn't see on any lists was the Rise of the Golden Idol DLC
Seagulyus: one thing I will say about Prime 4; its mapping system was AMAZING. plus they have the ability to use a power up to show where all items are
Seagulyus: so while its REALLY LATE, it is nice to have it to know what to do on cleanup
kingandcommoner: ori?
niccus: the mummy?
CeridwenCoeur: Bloodstained?
niccus: Shadow Complex.
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kingandcommoner: Ah, the Resident Evil Zombie
Mysticman89: some games have the characters gaze lock on to pick up which is a nifty way to work aorund that concept
Decaped: make more games where the protagonist taunts the player with knowledge they don't have pls
kingandcommoner: people *should* play the duck detective games
RockPusher: They're already in the backlog Heather
RockPusher:
so maybe they will get played in a year or two
Juliamon: The ending is less satisfying though
Mysticman89: they're a silly goofy version of the golden idol games, which are also amazing
Dalrint: the shadow complex people got absorbed into the rest fo epic games, it looks like
niccus: those are *not* exactly detective games, but they're fun
Wolfstrike_NL:
new let's nope game?!
Decaped: @Mysticman89 what're those called? Golden Idol games already pretty goofy
Decaped: oh, duck detective, sry, misread
Mysticman89: yeah duck detectives
Bruceski: Mobile games that make you do an hour of tutorial before they let you enter the options menu.
kingandcommoner: Turning off Tutorial Tim should always be an option
RockPusher: Take That!
Izandai: You have to follow the *exact chain of logic* the game wants you to.
Bruceski: Ace Attorney has a lot of "read the question very carefully, you're one step ahead."
Decaped: Golden Idol is very good at not doing this.
MTigress: but Beej you gotta present the taco sauce packet first to bring up the option to lay down everything that happened after
RockPusher: The judge cares not for *your* logic, Beej
Seagulyus: yeah sometimes they needed more than 2 solutions (maximum) to many puzzles
RockPusher: Sounds like Beej needs whipping
Mysticman89: golden idol is so cool because you can sometimes infer theres via multiple paths
mtvcdm: You're skipping ahead in the script to our visual novel
Gekyouryuu: I need to get around to playing Of The Devil
Laserbeaks_Fury:
Beevis is in there for some reason
mtvcdm: Of The Devil does look supercool
e_bloc: explaining who did it takes so long you just give up and confess to the crime yourself
AFamiliarCalledEl: Yeah, I just finished all the Rise of the Golden Idol DLC, and it felt a lot more fiddly and intentionally obtuse than Curse...
Diabore: no you didnt follow the convoluted explanation tracks we laid down
Laserbeaks_Fury: Yeah, the clues can be *very* subtle and theres no spotlight drawing your attention to ti
KaleidoscopeMind: it's "guess the teacher's password"
L0rdX33n: last one was like three mysteries in a trench coat
Decaped: I now feel bad for Beej. That end part was the big payoff and felt great.
AFamiliarCalledEl: They weren't just subtle clues, they were also tiny details that didn't end up mattering very much at any point
Laserbeaks_Fury: I think you might enjoy The Roottrees Are Dead a little more; and it's getting a full remaster
TheMerricat: The true difficulty is being of the same neurofrequency as the dev.
RockPusher: That's not an iPad, it's three kobolds in a trenchcoat
Decaped: I felt rewarded for thinking about the game further than what the exact questions the game was asking
e_bloc: like rubber banding in mario kart
e_bloc: we can't make the AI play better, so we'll cheat
mtvcdm: It's very very possible to make the endgame so cumbersome to navigate that you destroy the payoff for someone.
Mysticman89: murdered soul suspect
kingandcommoner: ghost trick?
BraveOthello: @mtvcdm Frankly I hit that point in Blue Prince
e_bloc: is that a detective who is a ghost, or detective of ghosts
Laserbeaks_Fury: Yup
Izandai: THAT'S NOT EVIDENCE
Mysticman89: the detective dies at the start basically and uses their ghost powers and investigation of other ghosts to solve living crimes
SquareDotCube: Remember the medicore game about a ghost detective that could possess cats? The cat parts were fun
RockPusher:
kingandcommoner: Reminds me of the joke where the lawyer was asking the coroner how he knew the victim was dead
RockPusher: Do you have a meow button?
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e_bloc: people are not posessions
RockPusher: 'cause Stray had a meow button
RockPusher: I pressed it a lot
jessicaengle: !meow
RockPusher: (I got the meowing cheevo before the finished tutorial cheevo)
couchboyj: Little Kitty Big City was a fun one too
Laserbeaks_Fury: Blue Prince was good at that, except it kept getting more and more abstract and a lot of people are going to hit that point where they don't click before getting to the end
jessicaengle: @RockPusher I mean, if you had a choice to meow, or not meow, why would you ever choose not to?
Laserbeaks_Fury: I like puzzle games like Witness, where it's more like using science to figure out the rules
Ciijay: Professor Layton kind of feels like a mix of a detective game and a puzzle game
Mysticman89: witness and blue prince and a handful of gmaes making figuring out what even is a puzzle, a puzzle, and thats magical
kingandcommoner: Oh How the F was I supposed to get that
Mai_Andra: Love looking up the answer to find it was in the first place I looked, and it just didn't work when I clicked on it...
Bruceski: Or the guide just says "open the door" assuming anyone would know how to do that.
Mysticman89: and then theres the games a la monkey island that just lean into the madness
Decaped: @Mysticman89 I have high hopes for Order of the SInking Star for this reason
Laserbeaks_Fury: I can't count how many times Portal caught me overthinking a solution
Bruceski: @Laserbeaks_Fury *tries this convoluted jump off a pathway missing the landing twenty times* "Oh right, I have a portal gun and there's a wall right there."
KaleidoscopeMind: failure gives you information
KaleidoscopeMind: so it's not really failure
mtvcdm: On a side note, I recently fired up Dangerous Golf, which I'd laid down for years due to my old PC not being able to run it... and Dangerous Golf is essentially a giant physics puzzle.
Mysticman89: oh thats a thing some games have done too, where the solution you present [of sensible options] is 'correct' and the game will alter the story subtley to fit the narrative you built out
mtvcdm: It's firing a golf ball indoors to break things, from the devs who made Burnout, and... you really gotta think about where you're going and what you're doing when.
RockPusher: They are both on my wishlist
RockPusher: I've seen TQ play some of them and that sold me
RockPusher: Beej beat me to the comparison
Mysticman89: strange horitculture and strange antiquities also explicitly do the thing where sometimes theres two answers
Mai_Andra: ♫ Where in the world is- ♫
LordZarano: Needful Things
Laserbeaks_Fury: Now I want a game cataloging object in the FBC
Wolfstrike_NL: Also reminds me of Tiny Bookshop
LordZarano: Desert Bus
SquareDotCube: you take it *orally*
Marvoleath:
@LordZarano it did have all the fun parts of the job (driving the bus) without the unfun ones (dealing with people)
distractfulilly: Lovecraftian
Crad0k: 20 hours isn't a lot to put into VS...
RockPusher: more Goo?
niccus: in a way it's in conversation with stanley parable's ultra deluxe edition
SquareDotCube: I'm starting to realize there's a lot of games from this year I completely missed on release and that's a problem for many and likely many, many others
SquareDotCube: *me and
ContingentCat: I loved the first monument Valley games, they're so pretty
neisan2112 subscribed with Prime. They've subscribed for 83 months!
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Ciijay: Obscuring some info like this helps get the audience more into lore deep diving I think. It helps with some engagement to some degree
Ciijay: plus it allows for fun fan headcanons
ContingentCat: I wish they didn't but yeah it really feels like the first game was successful so they added more, still pretty
Electrodyne subscribed with Prime. They've subscribed for 71 months!
Electrodyne: wooooo 71 is like 69 with 2 extra friends
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ContingentCat: I only played the first two and sometimes play them again but haven't tried the third yet and don't really feel I need to
Ciijay: This makes me think of the big struggles that Detective Conan's creator has, too
mtvcdm: Easy to forget sometimes that liking things is fun
mtvcdm: !patreon
Electrodyne: I'm here for the crokinole
mtvcdm: !youtube
mtvcdm: !store
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ThorSokar: secret Those Games We Played episode
mtvcdm: !discord
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mtvcdm: !bluesky
mtvcdm: !contact
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e_bloc: 3 dimensional squares
KaleidoscopeMind: will it begin with a giant group hug?
RockPusher: !box
LRRbot: In the box is: Depraved Egg
Invitare: it depends on if the cube is solid or hollow
Aceviru: Bears love hugs
Marvoleath: !findquote cube
LRRbot:
Quote #1510: "You need to slow down. What the 
do you mean "the Cube"?" —Alex [2015-03-27]
GapFiller: LYL HYP
DoodlestheGreat: No idea what it'll be, but it'll be LIVE!
drewm1022: Aren't we all just boxes full of ourselves?
GapFiller: the fomo is gonna be strong on this one
DoodlestheGreat: Beej, do you think you'll get to your anime rundown next week?
RockPusher: Let us talk of Anime once again
GapFiller: Anime Roundup is like Beejdrops
drewm1022: Just gonna walk around a corner and there's Beej.
GapFiller: they both happen when people are least expecting it
KaleidoscopeMind: when it escapes beej
RockPusher: is it gas or is it an anime roundup
DoodlestheGreat: LOL
GapFiller:
RockPusher: we won't know until it happens
Serpens77: speaking of boxes
DoodlestheGreat: Yay Jackbox!
RockPusher: !box
LRRbot: In the box is: the Hatchet Men from Jackie Chan's Drunken Master 2
drewm1022: Tell James to ask chat.
Marvoleath: Fishin9
Mai_Andra: Maybe it's another slice of life horror game, this time on the docks.
mtvcdm: Oh hey the new Jackcube
RockPusher: Is this your cribbage
DoodlestheGreat: Yeah, the new box has some nice games.
Gekyouryuu: Cribbeej
Metric_Furlong: Beej is back to shark the table again, eh?
e_bloc: I'll have to refresh myself with my cribbage notes
ThorSokar: hahaha
Gekyouryuu: ARE there 4 person boards?
RockPusher: Oh Yeah!
Gekyouryuu: oooooh, neat
Gekyouryuu: I've only ever seen 3 person boards
Mysticman89: its a fmv game about time loops kinda
Serpens77: FMV time loop game
DoodlestheGreat: They just need to reset their dead.
GapFiller:
100 perfectly timed my sub renewal to be completely missed by Adam and Cori on Xmas Eve LRRMtG so it seems only fair to try and catch out the ChillPoint Crew the same way rn
RockPusher:
Mods
Invitare: Todd really needs more shoutouts
SaxPython: clap clap clap
Juliamon: Tips Line shoutout!
e_bloc: tip your mods, bribe them if you have to
Gekyouryuu: Hodd Toward
MTigress: the mods are watching you in your normal daily life
Aceviru:
RockPusher: Nelson & Cameron been doing good work
KaleidoscopeMind: and do journalistic research
DoodlestheGreat: It's easy to tell when it's Cam. They're delightfully erudite.
e_bloc: "i've never played this game"
e_bloc: thanks for the stream
Aceviru: o/
Juliamon: Having someone with clued-in children helps too
mtvcdm: Later!
MTigress:
RockPusher: Dessicated husk in front of the Twitch machine
DigitalSeahorse: "I wonder if there's any fishing in this game."
DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem.
Marvoleath: !updog
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The stream has been live for 15:47:42.
MTigress: hmm
ContingentCat: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (Many Magic the Gathering players ask the question, wanna watch LRR play paper Magic? This week we're drafting a 4-Player Group Hug Cube! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 05:00 PM PST (1:39 from now).
LordZarano:
Erika's painting Warham terrain and chatting with chat
Juliamon: WAAAUGHxing day?
Metric_Furlong: good timing, finally got the pokemon I was safari zone grinding for as the stream ended
Metric_Furlong: (Kangaskhan; as per the normal type 'fantasy gym leader' run of FireRed I'm doing)
Serpens77: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (Many Magic the Gathering players ask the question, wanna watch LRR play paper Magic? This week we're drafting a 4-Player Group Hug Cube! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 05:00 PM PST (1:36 from now).
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