EedanHensey: It's been a fun journey yeah. Hearing Nelly rattle off which characters can alter jump trajectories was wild.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Nelly's journey has genuinely been inspiring
TXC2: EnglishGrinn reminds me of when Overwatch did stuff with Tracer, and everyone said it was weird for her, but ok for Widowmaker
lightfut: Sandblast to the face!
TXC2: thanks for streaming Adam and Nelson
EedanHensey: Big session. Added tackle oki to the toolkit in one session.
lamina5432: good stream Gnight
Behemoth_CDN: First time catching Oki live and it was a blast, thanks everyone!
Behemoth_CDN: A sandblast, even
RelwinEJ: In this essay I compare SF6 with modern jazz...
itira: Thanks for the stream gamers, appreciate you
TXC2: !patreon
GamerCat88: ggs
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EnglishGrinn: @TXC2 Characters that "own" their sexy vs characters where it feels forced? Maybe?
jadielady: thanks y'all
hypergirlie_hyperpop: @EnglishGrinn i am begging gamers to learn about objectification through a feminist lens as discussed by women. I promise, the fiction associated with a character has very little to do with whether or not it is appropriate or "hurts no one"
TXC2: EnglishGrinn yes
Thefluffiestguineapig: @hypergirlie_hyperpop ^^^^^^^^THIS
EnglishGrinn: @hypergirlie_hyperpop I am open to any and all recommendations
Wolfstrike_NL:
Has Adam informed chat he has played enough dark cloud 2, up till the point where he unlocked Spheda? For if people want to watch Adam enjoy the heck out of that (again). 
TXC2: !events
TimeToFry: Where's the funny part come in
TXC2:
"funny" and "time vault" do not mix Nelson 
MrSarkhan:
lamina5432: I request a picture of ice cream from it.
Thefluffiestguineapig: For me this is why I enjoy suggesting things like Blanka only swimsuit skins, because it's not only funny but it makes the people who want the sexy skins mad for reasons they have a hard time articulating in a way that are ok
ghizmou: funny as in funny, it seems only one of us is playing this game
RelwinEJ: Yay actual Magic set!
Thefluffiestguineapig: Why the fuck is there so much magic
Zaneysed: Monery
Aceviru: @Thefluffiestguineapig 7 sets
Thefluffiestguineapig: I enjoy the actual magic and adore this plane but fuck I hate how many sets there are
TXC2: money, my dear boy/girl/NBling
lamina5432: it’s a week out I think you’re good
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EnglishGrinn: Too much magic has be off the train altogether. I went from a serious player to buying zero cards last year
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 I'm fully aware that's why there is now a damn TMNT full ass standard set for fucking no reason
drewm1022:
I'm just ignoring the UB sets and pretending they don't exist. I don't play standard, so whatever. 
RelwinEJ: Give me a tournament format without UB or Horizons sets and I'll buy actual cards again
Aceviru: @EnglishGrinn That's been me for more than a year now
Thefluffiestguineapig: I've been saying too much Magic since they went beyond 3 standard sets
Thefluffiestguineapig: I also just don't care about any secret lairs, they don't even register for me
TXC2: IMO the UB sets aren't the problem, SEVEN sets in one year, and standard being THREE years long is
KeytarCat: I've never liked having cards, but I used to keep up with every card in the sets
lamina5432: I mostly just do prereleases
TimeToFry:
Chat wdym you aren't excited for Magic's New York Block 
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 For me part of the fact is 4 of the sets are UB and while they keep promising to go back to 3 standard sets a year they've been promising that and have had years with 4 and 5 for how many years now?
TXC2: I only play arena so my perspective is different on this
drewm1022: Yeah but if you look at last year as Aetherdrift/Tarkir/EoE it feels much more sane.
calculated_uncertainties: Meh, the all fandoms are real helped me go into recovery ages ago.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @drewm1022 That wasn't all, there was also Final Fantasy, Spiderman and Avatar. Those were also in Standard
Aceviru: I stopped arena once everything made treasure tokens. Right after d&d
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig fair enough
drewm1022: @Thefluffiestguineapig That's my point, I ignore the UB sets. I don't care about standard, though.
TXC2: Aceviru Treasure is the number 2 mistake after companions for me, no joke
KeytarCat: Is it possible to remain competetive in standard without using UB?
TXC2: nope, the Avatar set is fire
Thefluffiestguineapig: @drewm1022 My issue is they are spending less and less time on the in universe sets because in the minds of the C suites UB sets make more money. Plus the UB sets take away a HUGE amount of development time from the other sets and mean everything else is rushed
Thefluffiestguineapig: @KeytarCat Absolutely not
drewm1022: @Thefluffiestguineapig Oh, I absolutely agree with you. I was saying that it helps product fatigue, for me, to ignore the UB stuff entirely.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Genuinely the Avatar set is mostly very good, some of the choices were clearly meme based and the number of legendary creatures makes my head hurt but specific format motivated choices aside it's super great
Aceviru: I'm hoping piolander pops off. I want a way to play both in paper and digitally that doesn't wreck everyone's bank accounts after each set.
RockPusher eats his porridge like the old man that he is
Thefluffiestguineapig: @drewm1022 Yes and no, because for me ignoring the existence of the UB product means if one of the in universe products is shoved aside and/or undercooked to get to a UB product it doesn't help anyone
TehAmelie: i don't even play any measurable amount of MtG but the amount of releases last year was exhausting
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher Just finished my raisin bran, I feel you
TehAmelie: wonder how many people dropped Magic for Riftbound. . .
TheAinMAP: Title change.
RockPusher: !quote beej
LRRbot: Quote #8416: "I had a lot to say about stuff that probably wasn't that valuable." —Beej [2023-01-01]
RockPusher:
Aceviru: @TehAmelie I legitimately thought about Yu-Gi-Oh lol
RockPusher: good pull LRRbot
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Aceviru 0.o
Strebenherz:
@TehAmelie Have to get the cards first
KeytarCat: I feel like MTG should do the Bandai thing and just release UB under a mechanical umbrella instead of a specific game. But that's fucked in a different way
KeytarCat: and doesn't help the dev side problems
drewm1022: @Thefluffiestguineapig I would say that EoE and Tarkir felt unrushed. Aetherdrift maybe a little but I think that was the tail end of the hats cycle.
KeytarCat: UB as fanfic
Aceviru: @Thefluffiestguineapig Yu-Gi-Oh is reshaping itself in ways that call back to older times. I love that.
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Thefluffiestguineapig: @drewm1022 I'm referring to Lorowynn (damn spelling) because that release got shifted twice for two UB products one of which wasn't supposed to be a standard set in the first place (Spider-Man)
KeytarCat: yeah, I miss lorwyn
TehAmelie:
detected
Thefluffiestguineapig: @KeytarCat Same, I'm really hoping they don't screw it up. This is absolutely one of my favorite planes
TXC2: CONTACT
drewm1022: @Thefluffiestguineapig Fair, and yeah that sucked. On the other hand, the consensus is that three sets seems comfortable so did we really want a fourth in universe one?
Aceviru: @Thefluffiestguineapig I read this and my heart sank as I thought for a second that tmnt was coming first
TXC2: streams started, lets move on from MtG talk
gnomebot1: I hope they bring back Lorwyn's untap abilities
KeytarCat: I was reading the lorwyn books when my brother was moving off campus for the first time in uni. Lot of car hours getting that sorted out
Thefluffiestguineapig: Fair, sorry
Thefluffiestguineapig: @KeytarCat OH SHIT I need to go re-read those
RockPusher:
TXC2 *cue Beej derailing us with MtG talk* 
TXC2:
RockPusher
Strebenherz: Experience Beej
Aceviru: I mean, no layoffs? Yay?
Thefluffiestguineapig: I just watched the end of one of Fallout season 2 episodes and man I am loving it so far
Thefluffiestguineapig: I rewatched the Beejdrop crapshots and those are so good
RockPusher: I had completely missed that S2 had started - got me some catching up to do in and around other media
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also I somehow used Dave's Spokesman to convert 3 people totally in unrelated circumstances to LRR
TehAmelie: oh right, new Fallouts to watch
gnomebot1: They ned to do more caveman Crapshots
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig nice
TXC2:
gnomebot1 gotta wait for spring/summer to film those
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher I only tracked it closely because I have lots of other stress and needed an extremely engrossing thing to pour it into. Hence also starting Hades 2 and now Silksong
TehAmelie:
@gnomebot1 probably not in January
Thefluffiestguineapig: @gnomebot1 Have you seen the recent ones they did with the HOA? Those are very good
Aceviru: What was on the news... GPU price increases?
TXC2: RAM is the stuff that pricy now
RockPusher:
Thefluffiestguineapig 
well, as good as any excuse to indulge in media with care and attention
TehAmelie: "iceberg moving south? that problem for Torglings, Torg said"
gnomebot1: Also can't wait for Moilly to run The Panalysts!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher True, I love the details in Hades 2 and have a hojillion hours in it already
RockPusher: Go time‽ What about Rust time‽
TXC2: TODAY!
BusTed: big if true
Invitare: too late I forgot all mine
TheAinMAP:
RockPusher: ooer, we pH balanced today
TXC2: Happy New Year
TheAinMAP:
Hello 
TXC2: Hello Heather and Paul
Thefluffiestguineapig: First Paul stream of the new year!
Thefluffiestguineapig: No I don't think so
TehAmelie: hi!
TheAinMAP: Does 'auld' mean 'old'?
RockPusher:
SquareDotCube: unbeej'd
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TXC2:
I might have a phone with my Sister's boyfriend's number from 20 years ago
Gekyouryuu: I think it's an If/then, like "should this happen, then do this"
Aceviru: Dabude
RockPusher: huh
BusTed:
TXC2: it's ok, we all feel blue some time
BusTed:
RockPusher: so they are getting power but not the control channel…
Thefluffiestguineapig: Welp
Wolfstrike_NL: Blue monday aint for a well studio lights!
TehAmelie: they've got the permafrost, huh
Wolfstrike_NL: while*
SquareDotCube: huh, weird. Must be running BRG instead of RGB
TXC2: Ruth Gader Binsburg ?
RockPusher: Our eyes are forward facing which is how we know we are video game predators
Invitare: if you fire Beej for not showing up today you could get the first lay off of the year!
Wolfstrike_NL: Forward Thinking? Witchery!!!
RockPusher:
Upgrade your resolutions - buy a new monitor
LilyOfTheVeil666: Did the Square Enix president release his fuck-ass letter yet?
TXC2:
RockPusher VGA forever
Decaped: Resolutions have been canceled due to chip shortage
Thefluffiestguineapig: EVE online is a massive multiplayer economics model somehow
TehAmelie: we could call it half-real value, it may have been money put into the game but there was certainly no way they'd get it out
Thefluffiestguineapig: They made this game into a literal trade federation game
Thefluffiestguineapig: I'm already face palming
Wolfstrike_NL: Okay, not a poem made by Epic the company
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BusTed: whose
TXC2: whose blood
Wolfstrike_NL: human blood?
Thefluffiestguineapig: What kind of blood
TheAinMAP:
Krektogar: are the devs donating the blood?
Thefluffiestguineapig: It can preserve well depending on the climate
TXC2: O neg ?
BusTed: did people donate
RockPusher: EVE is one of those things that I appreciate existing but I will only ever engage with by hearing unhinged stories about it
Thefluffiestguineapig: NO
Decaped: this is amazing
Thefluffiestguineapig: Ok, that's fine
BusTed: off the top
Strebenherz: No
SymphonySolstice: this is so stupid it's wrapped around to being awesome
Sarah_Serinde: Okay I'm glad they're using this as an opportunity to get people to donate blood
Thefluffiestguineapig: Because then the blood is still going to be used for a good cause
Thefluffiestguineapig: no because you have to get tested before hand
drewm1022: Ghoulish, you might say.
TXC2: a bit convoluted to be sure
Thefluffiestguineapig: This whole story is very strange
Decaped: yall are really down on witchy stuff huh
Wolfstrike_NL: So you buy something with probably someone else's blood used in it
RockPusher: On the whole the EVE ecosystem I think understands and embraces that they are weird and try and lean into it with positive fun
Thefluffiestguineapig: Why is the museum taking it?
Thefluffiestguineapig: 1) You can't access the Pyramids and put things there
BusTed: I mean, they'll test your blood and sometimes get you some stats on it later, but either way if you want to give they'll take your blood
TXC2: you can't, but I, Nic Cage, am putting a team together.....
TXC2:
calculated_uncertainties: They only do some basic tests for donor safety at drives, they do all the fancy testing later.
RockPusher: Now I want a mini-series about a future archaeology department being *very confused* after reading this epic poem
Thefluffiestguineapig: As an archaeologist and the amount of curatorial backlog in EVERY MUSEUM this seems like wishful thinking
TehAmelie: i hope they build some pyramids in Iceland
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher Also when they age it and suddenly go "I'm sorry, THE FUCK DID YOU SAY no run it again, yes a 5th time"
Thefluffiestguineapig: So these people have a history of doing mondo weird shit
Decaped: video game history being preserved better than real history
Thefluffiestguineapig: And inflicting it on Iceland
TehAmelie: i think that was just before i quit, so i'm on there
TXC2:
I guess there's just not a lot to do in Iceland
Thefluffiestguineapig: These people have too much money
RockPusher: Thefluffiestguineapig they wrote it in blood… must have been very important…
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher No archaeologist thinks that
Decaped: Humans love games
Thefluffiestguineapig: That is cuckoo bananas for them to have done and even more cuckoo bananas for them to have been permitted to do
LordZarano: I didn't even know Eve was Icelandic
ForOhForError: They're gonna be like "oh these chumps were in my EVE company, neat"
Thefluffiestguineapig: Often the explanation is "we don't know"
AFamiliarCalledEl: It was used for "ceremonial purposes"
calculated_uncertainties: Archaeologists are Time Detectives.
TXC2: "we don't know" is code for "it's CLEARLY a sex toy, but we don;t want to say that"
RockPusher: Sorry future archaeologists but I like whimsical weird in the world - I'll take that over hateful banality
Thefluffiestguineapig: Right, most things are educated guesses unless we have written documentation
TehAmelie: @TXC2 no no, that's "fertility symbol"
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 No, ceremonial purposes is code for "we don't know"
calculated_uncertainties: @TXC2 No, no, unless they've changed it, it is a ritual object or gambling tool.
TXC2:
ForOhForError: Oh. The Level 1 .
Strebenherz: The .?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @calculated_uncertainties Ritual object tends to be code in museums for possible sex toy
Strebenherz: Paul, in heaven Ward or the level 60 expansion
calculated_uncertainties: @Thefluffiestguineapig And sometimes it is the archaeologist definitely knows, but they don't think their funding institution will like that.
lightfut: Went through the desert on a deer with no name
Strebenherz: Heavensward*
Thefluffiestguineapig: That sounds like a horror game
lightfut: It felt good to get out of the rain
Ms_LadyMix: This was a great couple of weeks for FF14 players
Thefluffiestguineapig: @calculated_uncertainties So you put the real identification in the official research documentation that no one but other researchers ever reads and if they insist on displaying that then you have those coded options
ForOhForError: To be fair: ffxiv is a cult already
Ms_LadyMix: The fanart from this era was incredible
Strebenherz: If it died it would come back
Strebenherz: Legit it would just respawn as the level one again
RockPusher:
TehAmelie: so basically they reenacted the Gävle goat
Thefluffiestguineapig: They did make a horror monster
calculated_uncertainties: @Thefluffiestguineapig Now, I think that happens more.
ForOhForError: People are kind of literally saying that
Gekyouryuu: Some didn't even name it, just called it "The ."
Thefluffiestguineapig: NO
Strebenherz: @heather I mean it'd add some variety
Strebenherz: (the moon crash)
Thefluffiestguineapig: @calculated_uncertainties Yes, it happens a huge amount
TXC2: a Patch on Xmas? bold move cotton
Thefluffiestguineapig: On Christmas? Removing a meme on Christmas?
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Gekyouryuu: I've seen art of the . eating a square grapes
calculated_uncertainties: @Thefluffiestguineapig I've been out of the industry for a while. That being said, do not use malachite for toys.
Thefluffiestguineapig: If they make this thing the Questing Beast that would be hilarious
Thefluffiestguineapig: @calculated_uncertainties Or flint
TXC2:
Thefluffiestguineapig would be better or worse if it happened on Easter?
niccus: the 's at peace now
calculated_uncertainties: @Thefluffiestguineapig Ouch.
RockPusher: I think ultimately this might be good
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Funnier to me personally but I have a masters in Early Modern European history and am not any variety of Christian
TehAmelie: CCP is known to respond well to player wishes. like when they made fast travel faster cause the shortcuts people found around it caused the game to be overloaded with map markers
RockPusher: and original founder with the original mission statement
RockPusher: *an
TXC2:
people say lots of things, I care what people/companies actually do
RockPusher: CDPR are committing to publishing on the platform
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hm
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RockPusher: but that isn't the bit most people who pay attention to GOG care about
RockPusher: Optimistic is a good take
Thefluffiestguineapig: Interesting, he mentioned game preservation but I am leery
RockPusher:
BusTed:
Aceviru:
TheAinMAP:
RockPusher: What is meant to be the life span of a pikachu…
RockPusher: How many times has the brand mascot been replaced?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Old fashioned Pikachu
TXC2: oh yeah, that music takes me back
BusTed:
Thefluffiestguineapig: Man, just gonna do crumble to dust now
TehAmelie: new year's was the 30th anniversary of the final Calvin & Hobbes strip
Dread_Pirate_Westley: MM-DD-YYYY, fine. DD-MM-YYYY, fine. YYYY-MM-DD, NO!
Thefluffiestguineapig:
That's going to go so well again
GhostValv: Persona 1 was PS1 era
TXC2: makes some sense given they;re on Persona 5
hypergirlie_hyperpop: Nobody remembers Persona 1 and 2, not even Atlus
lamina5432: the shin megumi spin offs 30th aniversary
Thefluffiestguineapig: Someone should warn the office to reserve some potential PIF time for Kathleen
LilyOfTheVeil666: @hypergirlie_hyperpop ^
BusTed: a natural pairing
ForOhForError:
Akihiko from 3 is literally a boxer 
niccus: they can trip right out the gate if this is rehabilitating Kamoshida
TehAmelie: as far as i've seen, the game is about budgeting your time for maximum social networking
TehAmelie: games*
TXC2:
niccus maybe it's just beating the shit out of him?
Gekyouryuu: There's been more time between 5 and now than there was between 4 and 5 iirc
hypergirlie_hyperpop: Was it Persona 1 or 2 that had MechaHitler?
hypergirlie_hyperpop:
@Gekyouryuu 
bad news
hypergirlie_hyperpop: @Gekyouryuu True! 8 years between 4 and 5, we are now on year 10 since 5.
RockPusher: Sounds like someone's marketing agency doesn't realise there is an engaged global audience
TXC2: thew Cleopatra moment comes at you faster then you think
RockPusher: oh, is this the one where people were lying to the NPC to finish quests?
RockPusher: "oh yeah, I totally gave you those bear asses, you just forgot!"
RockPusher: Gaslight a genAI chatbot today!
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foopoiuyt: @hypergirlie_hyperpop @hypergirlie_hyperpop I think P2 innocent sin
LidofLoathing: Metal Gear Solid style
RockPusher: Metal. Gear.
RockPusher:
Thefluffiestguineapig: Woooooooooooooow
lightfut: That's incredible
lamina5432: problem is it becomes a game of how to break it
TXC2:
this sounds like clicking on links in wikipedia until you get to the page Philosophy
RealGamerCow: how do I know when they've said the important info
Sarah_Serinde: If you want a well-crafted story you have to actually craft one
TXC2:
if you want a well crafted story, DO NOT USE "AI"
IanAllenBird: it sounds like a complicated way to be lazy about your writing
Wolfstrike_NL:
Shoutout to GDQ starting this weekend 
RockPusher: I don't mind the whimsical brokeness of it - broken games are often fun and funny - it's the resource usage it will be sucking that makes me sad
hypergirlie_hyperpop: What do you mean art requires humanity? get outta here
Aceviru: @RealGamerCow *runs into chat with a can of paint* My time has come!
RockPusher: along with all the unethical bullshit used to train the models in the first place
Thefluffiestguineapig: I want a well written story
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher And all the environmental destruction to boot
lamina5432: it's also a problem that they just took a standard LLM and bent it into the space they want it and not trained their own on specific information
Thefluffiestguineapig: @lamina5432 Yup, laziness strikes again
TXC2: his 99 rules
Thefluffiestguineapig: I watched this on YT!
Thefluffiestguineapig: It's so rad, and its such a fun concrete thing they did
TXC2: I also assumed he loops, but NOPE
TheMerricat: @lamina5432 If it's anything like the community made AI mods, they do sculpt the LLM to match the game. The ones for Skyrim have pretty much the entirety of the Elder Scrolls fan wikis installed in them with fences built so that that random street urchin only knows what a random street urchin would know.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Don't you have to rescue him?
IanAllenBird: oh yeahhh
hypergirlie_hyperpop: @TheMerricat modmakers are famously more interested in doing the work than game developers are
Gekyouryuu: The Messenger has at least two moments where the shop npc tries to trick you into thinking good dialogue is about to loop and it doesn't if you keep checking
TheMerricat:
@hypergirlie_hyperpop 
Thefluffiestguineapig: Team Cherry is so good at world building and writing
Thefluffiestguineapig: While they were fucking around talking about stuff
lamina5432: @TheMerricat I'm more talking about I watched a streamer break one of them such that they talked about nuclear tech and also the muffin man. So it was a standard ai they then put boundries onto.
Thefluffiestguineapig: OH DEAR that would be a shift for her
Laserbeaks_Fury: That's always a kick
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh that's funny
TXC2: a lot of the BG3 voice actors have streamed playing the game
Invitare: the VA of the main character in Xenoblade 3 streamed that game and it was great
Laserbeaks_Fury: There's audio out there of Matt Mercer and Crispin Freeman playing Overwatch together
Thefluffiestguineapig: I don't think the person who played Lady Dimietrescue played the games but they are a huge fun presence now
Aceviru: It has a well designed audio layout. The English version was good
Gekyouryuu: @Laserbeaks_Fury Matt Mercer would troll his team by saying his ult line
Bruceski: Alphinaud's VA has been playing FF14 and last year got to the part where he started being in it. Got jumpscared hearing his own voice for the first time. Also there's been a lot of "oh THAT was what that line was about."
accountmadeforants:
It's a bit like an actor visiting a movie's premiere 
lamina5432: I enjoy a bit of CyYu who does a lot of parts including in date everything
PipeSmokingOwl: ya the Narrator and Shadowheart did a run together i think
Thefluffiestguineapig:
@lamina5432 t 
hat would be a trip
Wolfstrike_NL:
@Bruceski Yea IAmAlphinaud is great
PipeSmokingOwl: shoutout to High rollers! British D&D show that had the whole BG3 team!
Thefluffiestguineapig: That would be a fun game to have a bonus stream of, whoever wants to come just be a peanut gallery
PipeSmokingOwl: it was hilarious
TXC2: the BG3 Narrator is also in Hades 2
Marvoleath: There was a stream of Melina Juergens and AURORA playing Senua's Saga (the actress of protagonist and the singer of one of the OST parts), it was fun
accountmadeforants: He did do an stream with Jacob I'm pretty sure
TXC2: I'm fairly positive Graham has done that
TehAmelie: i know Kathleen and Jacob did it
calculated_uncertainties: #half-sponsored
accountmadeforants: Bank error in your favour
Wolfstrike_NL: O yea, like 5 different groups hacked into that or something
accountmadeforants: (And much like those bank errors, it's unlikely to actually work out well for you)
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh yeah? How did that go?
Laserbeaks_Fury: That really is the equivalent of Fight Club blowing up all the debt records
hyalopterous: Yeah they announced a rollback
TXC2: yeah no doubt there was a rollback
Thefluffiestguineapig: hgboije
Thefluffiestguineapig: Apologies for that message from my cat
TehAmelie: funny, but i don't know if it tops that hacker who was caught selling cheat services for the game for 19 dollars/day
RockPusher:
Thefluffiestguineapig 
Thefluffiestguineapig: Different cat than usual actually!
TXC2: may we live in precedented times
SquareDotCube: a boring year where people are just left alone
hyalopterous: Slay the Spire 2 in March
RockPusher: Living in interesting times sucks, give us some boring times!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher Also for the amount they send messages, none of my girls are orange. I have two grey tabby sisters and one dilute calico wrecking ball of nonsense
ForOhForError: @hyalopterous wait, actually? I thought it was still "when it's ready"
RockPusher: We towed them outside the media environment
TXC2:
I would still line interesting times, but good stuff happens instead of all this
Wolfstrike_NL: Which is not during DB this year!
TehAmelie: Slay the Spire 2: We Found Another Spire
Thefluffiestguineapig:
UnknownFriday: StS2 is easily my most anticipated game of 2026.
accountmadeforants: I say release *all* the games January 1st and let the players sort it out.
lightfut: We hereby amount Paul High Game Coordinator
SymphonySolstice: video games like horse birthdays
RockPusher: Is Paul's rating scale a pure binary or do we have a spectrum here?
ArmstrongRGM96X: Gotta have a game dev phone tree, like you'd have for office closures due to weather
SymphonySolstice: all on the same day, once a year
Alex_Frostfire: What about the developers making so-bad-it's-good games? Or does that only exist for movies?
SquareDotCube: Gamedev royale, last one standing gets earliest release date available
Laserbeaks_Fury: AAA bundle: It's all car games
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Alex_Frostfire I don't know if that truly exists for games. Because for me things like Tomato Way aren't Bad
TehAmelie: i fear this bundle would start an arms race with more games declared AAAA quality
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lamina5432: did you roll second credits?
RockPusher:
TXC2: the reference library
Thefluffiestguineapig: It is a reference library or historic archive where the books are profoundly valuable
Kentosaurus: ^
IanAllenBird:
lamina5432: yeah thats the a thing
Thefluffiestguineapig: I've been to archives where if it was published/written before 1550 you had 3 hours of time
RockPusher:
I think Heather might have popped in on Jamie
ForOhForError: yeah don't worry about it
Thefluffiestguineapig: And they searched your bag and person before you went in the room
TehAmelie: i remember a story of a teacher printing some reading material by scanning hundreds of pages from an ebook reader
Laserbeaks_Fury: Blue Prince just keeps gong deeper and at some point I just stopped caring
RockPusher:
(Jamie just finished a couple days ago - the discord spoiler chat was a wild rollercoaster )
accountmadeforants: I got Luigi's Mansion at the GameCube's launch, because that was basically the only worthwhile game available at the time. Definitely money well spent and a very welcome surprise.
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TXC2: I recall Paul played the remaster on stream
Thefluffiestguineapig: Maniac Mansion is what they made the code to program many of the other games on
SquareDotCube: Don't poke at the hole in the wall.
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Thefluffiestguineapig: Hard reset to the beginning with no warning
Kentosaurus: "ye can't get ye flask"
RockPusher: Sierra games were more evil than that - you could brick yourself out from winning very early in the game and not know till the end
Thefluffiestguineapig: Stagger saves
TheMerricat: I mean it was funny back then. Half the fun was finding all the ways you could die.
TXC2: right chat I'm off
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Heather and Paul
Thefluffiestguineapig: Sleep well TXC2
TehAmelie: the worst ones would soft lock you like by being thrown in prison where you're supposed to escape with an item you could have picked up much earlier
j_crane330:
BusTed: Went through Fig I think
RockPusher: My favourite Sierra point-and-click joke is still being able to raise your lockpicking skill by picking your nose in Quest for Glory
Alex_Frostfire: It'd be like an Ace Attorney game if you could go to trial while missing a piece of evidence.
j_crane330: Good afternoon you all
RockPusher: (do it too often though and you also get an aforementioned funny death)
Thefluffiestguineapig: suuuuuuuuuuuuure it is
adept_nekomancer: So some sort of space hamster.
Alex_Frostfire: (But what if I can pick my nose to unlock the secrets of my mind! ...Is it supposed to be that red?)
Thefluffiestguineapig: I often don't do those because you can't get some of those games to work
Aceviru: $750 probably
lamina5432: planned I think it was 700$
Thefluffiestguineapig: I have a 2013 Mac Air that is running on prayers currently. I need to go look for a new laptop because it now has a warning exclamation point next to the battery even when plugged it
accountmadeforants: Deciding to pair it with 16 gigs of RAM by default was prescient, at least.
ShaneLeeAtk: So glad I purchased my system RAM last January.
Bruceski: I think this will once again not be the year I upgrade my GTX 960 video card
DarthRagnar815: I'm glad I built my current system a year ago and not now.
accountmadeforants: I was considering building a new machine and going for 64GB instead of the 32GB I've used for every build in the past 18 years. Ha ha.
tidehollowcat: I got a Steam Deck earlier in the year and I think I'm fine just sticking with that for the foreseeable future.
Cptasparagus: its fun but in a "this is a neat sandbox" kind of way, not in a cohesive video game kind of way
Aceviru: With all the price increases, I think it's a good time to just play more indie games
Bruceski: Rabbids 2 gold edition (all dlc) is currently 9 bucks
PMAvers: It was weird, I actually had the option to pay less for a game on Steam a couple of weeks ago due to a bundle, and I paid the extra two bucks since I wanted the dev to get more money.
TehAmelie: i got Unbeatable for 25, but that was a chistmas gift to myself
Wolfstrike_NL:
The new light colors could stay
adept_nekomancer: There's the "Must have it Day 1" price, and the "Willing to wait a month" price. I don't honestly know if the expanded number of players they get from the discount price makes up for the discount. But they seem to believe the economics works.
RockPusher: A bunch of CEOs getting fired for their BS would be nice
ContingentCat: yeah a mass abandoning of gen AI would be great
Cptasparagus: The Bazaar mostly got rid of any NFT stuff, which is nice
Kentosaurus: that indie award retraction felt more like a pr stunt
Juliamon: My wish is for companies to be more fucking specific about what "AI" they're using
loufghyslaufey: Yeah, I don't know where that story went with the allegations.
accountmadeforants: Yeah that's a perfectly fine line to draw
ContingentCat: that's somewhere to be strict yeah
loufghyslaufey: So... we award gets recycled into the queue or...?
RockPusher:
I would like the bubble to deflate with a funny 
noise rather than an economy breaking pop
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loufghyslaufey: *the award, The heck, "We?"
evelyndisaster: if you are a studio and they just put out AI art thats just lazy, you can just trace or edit it
hypergirlie_hyperpop: I'm a hardliner, AI use is bad, full stop.
TehAmelie: i imagine it's going to be regulated like smoking. a punitive tax driving up prices on games that use these shortcuts to having to hire workers would be nice
Aceviru: Using a tool to help a project get moving vs using it for not doing work on it.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Which didn't exist
evelyndisaster: i dont see a problem if you just 1 person and cant use a pencil
Thefluffiestguineapig: @loufghyslaufey I think even Graham is probably going to move away from the AI games because they have been so boring
loufghyslaufey: I hear its shaped somewhat into a bubble oe something...
loufghyslaufey: *or something
ShaneLeeAtk: The same money just keeps circling the drain.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ShaneLeeAtk Right, isn't it the same 4 or 5 companies reinvesting in themselves?
GapFiller:
PMAvers: They should just give me the money they spend on AI. I will give them no output, which will be better output than what the AI give.
ContingentCat: This sounds like a halmark villian yeah
ShaneLeeAtk: @Thefluffiestguineapig Bingo
TheAwkes: The folks pushing generative AI (LLMs, diffusion models, and the like) are pulling every other pre-existing and emerging non-exploitative machine learning and algorithmic thing into their new definition of AI, and doing it to their advantage. It sucks a lot.
PipeSmokingOwl: hey if thats how we get the message to your "average joe" village idiot then im all for Hallmark AI villians
Thefluffiestguineapig: @PMAvers Or or or, they can give it to you and you can ask LRR to redistribute it equally among chat members and staff
ContingentCat: @PipeSmokingOwl lol I'm actually writing a novel with AI user zombies
Thefluffiestguineapig: With that amount of money they could give everyone a living wage almost
PipeSmokingOwl:
RockPusher: The problem with LLMs vs Blockchain is that unlike Blockchain where there are essentially zero good use cases, LLMs actually do have some problem spaces for which they are a reasonable solution
RockPusher: but the bubble makes any nuance and rational discussion impossible right now
accountmadeforants: The fact that the calls of "this shit isn't actually making any money, let alone TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS" haven't died down is another good sign.
adept_nekomancer: My frustration is that there are actual things that AI is useful for that can be done ethically, and yet AI companies keep pushing terrible uses for it.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher A very small and very circumstantial set of things that should be governed by heavy rules. LLMs are great for collating medical research into a searchable database
loufghyslaufey: Oh, oh! That "Olaf" anamotronic they showcased at a Disneyland?
TheAwkes: Naw, not everybody. I haven't touched the stuff and don't intend to.
Gekyouryuu: I've never used it, thankfully
Wolfstrike_NL:
Mayby it can figure out how to configure the background lights to red again
ContingentCat: I've been encouraged to use it for cover letter writing, I hate it so much even for that
Juliamon: I didn't even know GPT was a thing until the AI backlash started.
wiganlass:
I watch Stephanie sterlings best and worst 2025 games videos and their opinion on the use of ai in game design was colourful to say the least 
SymphonySolstice: I maintain it should've never been released to the general public
hypergirlie_hyperpop: @Thefluffiestguineapig Assuming it doesn't make up any new entries, or corrupt any existing entries, therefore requiring a human to check it, therefore making it more efficient to have a real person do it in the first place, y'know
GapFiller: ContingentCat ohman thought been told (by my dole people) to set my cover letters (and my CV!) in comic sans was bad enough that yeh thats a whole nother lvl
ContingentCat: One of the advantages of mostly listening to music from 20+ years ago
loufghyslaufey: You show the Ai to make a point for your game news story, Yes. "Understoodsable."
adept_nekomancer: But is it an AI determining which images are AI?
Aceviru: @ContingentCat See this is why I hate that it's just inevitable. Damned if you do, damned if you don't
RockPusher: indeed, meme channels are having to contemplate if the funny cat video is real or not which is exhausting
lamina5432: a good quote I heard was " the worst part of AI is that it makes me doubt every piece of art "
Thefluffiestguineapig: @hypergirlie_hyperpop That's the point of a LLM is that it only can use the existing data set
accountmadeforants: I haven't used AI for anything personal, but we did investigate its use for some work things (literally analyzing large amounts of documents/text and summarizing that or answering questions, the thing LLMs are supposed to be good at!) - and actually cross-checking the results yielded so many mistakes that basically everyone who worked on that project now treats LLMs like the plague.
Juliamon: At no point have I intentionally used genAI, but I can't rule out the possibility of something indirect using it (like, I guess if Twitch is using it for automod, I wouldn't know)
hypergirlie_hyperpop: @Thefluffiestguineapig Have you not heard of LLM hallucinations? They're wrong about stuff constantly. Ask chatgpt to count the number of R's in "strawberry." Or anything about a field in which you're an expert.
GapFiller: dae remember that time NaNoWriMo said being anti AI was ableist and classist? good times
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Aceviru: @Juliamon Yeah this is what sucks. I'd need to spend way too much time researching and keeping up with stuff
hypergirlie_hyperpop: @GapFiller lol. lmao even.
Invitare: it's useful for a lot of things, but not the ones it's being marketed for
tidehollowcat: @GapFiller And now NaNoWrimo is gone
Sarah_Serinde: @hypergirlie_hyperpop Yeah I had to use it for work in my old job and no matter how hard you tried to limit what it did, it would still make stuff up constantly. It's so bad.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @hypergirlie_hyperpop I'm not meaning things like chatGPT. with the kinds of models I'm talking about the data sets are much smaller which make those kinds of errors less likely. Plus what this would do is just search the data set for a given term and present the abstracts is the idea
TheMerricat: So fun fact at least in the video production AI space, a lot of purpose built AI video generators embed watermarks in the video ala the whole "copiers add yellow dots to things you print so the police can figure which copier made it"
adept_nekomancer: LLMs get all the attention, but there are a bunch of (much more boring) statistical models that are really useful in a bunch of industries.
ContingentCat: @GapFiller uggghh I hate that argument it's so disrespectful to disabled artists
accountmadeforants: LLM and GenAI is in the same place self-driving cars were a while ago. They're *just* good enough to look like they either already work, or will work very soon. And they won't.
loufghyslaufey: It should find its market, but not EverythinG is its market
Juliamon: it's the whole "chemical vs natural" thing all over again, people want "AI-free" the same way people want "chemical-free."
PipeSmokingOwl: my use of AI has occasionaly been related to being a D&D DM..when I need to ask those "only in TTRPG" questions like "How many ducks fit in a bag of holding" or how many Arnolds are needed to pull a barge down the danube 10 miles in an hour
Thefluffiestguineapig: If you simplify the architecture of the LLM it becomes much less elegant to look at but much less error prone as well
MrSVCD: LLM don't lie, they are bullshitting. Lying needs the LLM to know what is true or false.
adept_nekomancer: @PipeSmokingOwl My "only in D&D" question I had to research for my players was "how many needles on a pine tree. I don't remember exactly how, but I remember this being a game-relevant piece of information we needed.
PipeSmokingOwl: exactly lol
Thefluffiestguineapig: Going back to archaeology for a moment, they used LLM adjacent architecture to identify similar shaped letters in thousands of scanned documents but in a KEY DIFFERENCE what they did is had a bunch of humans online also identify them to double check them
PipeSmokingOwl: its those things you type into your search and NEED to remember to put "D&D 5e" at the end or you get on a FBI list lol
ForOhForError: @adept_nekomancer as an aside, I did the math on the weight of the bag of 1000 ball bearings and it's shockingly legit
Sarah_Serinde: But you can't know whether the AI is getting that answer right, in which case why not just make up an answer instead of using the answer AI made up, since it's all fiction anyway
hypergirlie_hyperpop: <message deleted>@Juliamon I don't think that's a fair assessment at all, just because machine learning has made it into so much software doesn't mean people who are aware of that can't be upset by it.
Juliamon: LLM isn't machine learning.
TheMerricat: @Sarah_Serinde Because sometimes the bullshit machine is better at making up bullshit than you are.
RockPusher: Unionise all the things!
hypergirlie_hyperpop: <message deleted>@Juliamon No, but people say "AI" to refer to both.
Juliamon: That's my point. People are using "AI" as an umbrella term just like "chemicals."
KeytarCat: @hypergirlie_hyperpop Like GMOs!
Juliamon: And it's not helpful at all.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hopefully we can use the laws put in place back in the late 1800's like they were intended
TheMerricat: @hypergirlie_hyperpop As others have mentioned Machine Learning != LLM which sorta makes the whole point that you were arguing against.
hypergirlie_hyperpop: <message deleted>@Juliamon And I'm saying that's wrong; people can be upset at the use of machine learning algorithms, too.
Juliamon: I don't understand your point.
ForOhForError:
@Juliamon 60s-era computer science is unfortunately to blame
loufghyslaufey: Jenny McClue Two, when?
adept_nekomancer:
@ForOhForError Some game manual author with a tabletop scale is happy you noticed their attention to detail.
PMAvers: Pyre 2: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden
lamina5432: still looking for light no fire the no man's sky devs current project
Wolfstrike_NL: But what if we get brother and sister adventure in Hades 3?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @adept_nekomancer So Erika? Possibly?
LordZarano: Ricochet 3 from Valve, just to confuse everyone
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Wolfstrike_NL I am wondering if they venture into another pantheon
loufghyslaufey: Also, who made the 1st Jenny McClue? Come on, indie dev! Tis your time to shine!
Amentur: Pyre felt more visual novel than sports game
Invitare: Transistor remains my favourite game they've mdae
loufghyslaufey: @LordZarano Ha! Skipping the count. Practically breaking a good chunk of the "Steam Machine" internet? <(=w=)>
ForOhForError: @Thefluffiestguineapig I'm assuming that most of the charts get copy pasted between editions honestly
hypergirlie_hyperpop: <message deleted>@Juliamon You made an equivocation between "AI" (presumably here including ML tools, like those in Adobe Suite) with "chemicals" as is used to give a negative connotation to food containing, for example, artificial dyes. I'm saying those two things are not equivalent, in that "chemicals" is obviously an overbroad application of a term that means something different than what is meant by the people using it that way, where "AI" is being used correctly, and people can legitimately take umbrage wit
RockPusher: That would be a heck of a surprise
TheMerricat: Half Life X!
GapFiller: idk Heather Silksong was fine
loufghyslaufey: Gross, no
couchboyj: Valve to release a game ending in 3
creasehearst: Half-Life 3 is at least a little bit likely, as a launch title supporting the Steam Machine
Juliamon: hypergirlie_hyperpop That sounds like you're the one using "AI" wrong, then
accountmadeforants: Warframe coming out of beta
Thefluffiestguineapig: Valve needs to create more hardware for that
hypergirlie_hyperpop: <message deleted>@Juliamon okaychamp dot jpg.
Kentosaurus: this time it makes sense with the new steam machine
loufghyslaufey: Almost like they'll happen... every 3 years?
Juliamon: that was uncalled for and you know it
Invitare: I believe HL3 is mentioned at the end of Alyx no?
TheMerricat: Perhaps, now that the crew aren't talking about AI, we can move on.
RockPusher: Look, they teased us with the idea of Aperture Science in Half Life and we've been hanging on to that dream ever since
DoodlestheGreat: @Invitare Well, SOMETHING is suggested by the ending.
PipeSmokingOwl: is there a new zelda b4 or after the live action thing?
Thefluffiestguineapig: I think Portal and Half Life have taken place in the same universe for a while
TheMerricat: SPACE!!!
Valhallan597:
let's do the ocean now
loufghyslaufey: Control 2 has confirmed its ballpark
MWGNZ: give link a gun
ForOhForError: what if only dungeons
Thefluffiestguineapig: Can we have GLaDOS in Half life?
GapFiller:
having played Zelda herself clearly the nxt step is playing Ganon
Thefluffiestguineapig: I just want more GLaDOS
PipeSmokingOwl: @ForOhForError Zelda all dungeon rouge like? Pog
loufghyslaufey: @Thefluffiestguineapig Just Portal 3 then? Cool. Close enough. Good enough in my book.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @loufghyslaufey Deal, I'll take it because if that's all we get I'll take it
TheMerricat: Minecraft 2!
GapFiller:
Mother 3 English localisation!
Bruceski: Will this be the year to finally get Silksong?
ForOhForError: Crossbow training, with a cardboard crossbow stock for the joycon
loufghyslaufey: @Thefluffiestguineapig I think the timeline kind of branches after the first Portal game...
Valhallan597:
We are getting Banjo 3 
couchboyj: Simpsons Hit and Run 2 here we come!
MWGNZ:
pong 2
GapFiller: but no neu CheckPoint episodes just yet
ForOhForError: Frogger... uh, like 9 or whatever
JudgeShred86: Hello you sweet bearded man
Thefluffiestguineapig: @loufghyslaufey Genuinely I'm not sure, I think there is debate because when Chel reaches the surface they think it's after the Combine invasion
DoodlestheGreat: Give our love to beej
GapFiller: not this week at least and presumably not nxt week either unless theres been some news on that one
Aceviru:
Checkpoint, guaranteed organic
Thefluffiestguineapig: But I haven't looked at those analyses videos in a long ass time
accountmadeforants: Sekiro 2 and Bloodborne 2 and Old School Musical 2, oh boy!
Thefluffiestguineapig:
Always love a chill point and 
accountmadeforants: (And Freelancer 2 also comes out, but independent from Star Citizen)
TheMerricat: @loufghyslaufey Portal mentions Black Mesa in the fist game. Though given the nature of the Portal games it was easy to pass it off as a joke. But then HL Episode 2 had one of the important characters visiting Portal locations in the background and that sorta cemented them being in the same universe.
GapFiller: thought occurs theres never been any CP+ merch has there
RockPusher: Checkpoint - no, not that one… not that one either…
TheAinMAP: !next
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GapFiller: apart from the mug obv
NovaTiempo: oh, right time to take down the cubemas decorations
Marvoleath: travel on pigeon?
Marvoleath: pigeon jockey?
RockPusher:
NovaTiempo time to burn the cubemas 
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Right, I was trying to place them mentally because I was unsure about branching or not. And I thought the idea was when Chel gets to the surface it's supposed to be after the invasion with the idea the Combine didn't have interest in the facility
accountmadeforants: Cleared Hot looks like a game I played in the 90's
ShaneLeeAtk: Hot helicopter action!
accountmadeforants: Yes exactly Desert Strike!
UnknownFriday: Sega Genesis era.
loufghyslaufey: @TheMerricat Well, i mean... the Perperual Testing Initiative implies an inifinite amount of universes where Black Mesa doesn't even exist.
RockPusher: Co-op arcade!
accountmadeforants: It was also on PC
RockPusher: You take the Jeep, I'll take the helicopter!
TheMerricat: @Thefluffiestguineapig Chel _has_ to be post Invasion way past any of the HL stuff we've been given in Half Life because she's been in a coma/asleep for so long.
RockPusher: ackackackackack
RockPusher: and ded, new quarter
loufghyslaufey: Oh, codes. Yes. Gotta redeem them codes.
Marvoleath: !advice
LRRbot: Attack its butt!
GapFiller: !badadvice
LRRbot: Lubricate your Lego before beginning the process.
Aceviru: ^ I...uh...
RockPusher: GapFiller every time that one comes up I think about trying to build an oily Enterprise-D
RockPusher: GapFiller that would be *impossible*
Aceviru: Paul!!!!
Thefluffiestguineapig: It's PAUL
ArmstrongRGM96X: The Notorious T.B.D.
BusTed: Taul B. Daunders
DoodlestheGreat: We'll just be standing to one side, watching. And laughing.
Juliamon: "The Beard Dude"
GapFiller: hey PAul are yr actually getting the Full JAmes experience this time?
RockPusher:
Paul unmasked as TBD all along! 
farley_f: the bid deal
GapFiller:
Gekyouryuu: Taul B. Daunders
TheMerricat: Paul/James/Graham Moonbase when?
adept_nekomancer: Sometimes he is a minecraft donkey, etc, etc...
Thefluffiestguineapig: And you're not on tech for that one
RockPusher:
I'm sure James is not producing a special event at all
Gekyouryuu: My lgs has so much unsold stock of this game
Marvoleath:
"Is this a card game?" is a valid question with ITYC
Marvoleath: @BusTed Tall Be Dunders sounds like a pirate name
accountmadeforants: "The man at the store said this is what we wanted"
Thefluffiestguineapig:
Send ITYC back stock
Juliamon: They did, it's good
Thefluffiestguineapig: This game turned out to be fun
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Kentosaurus: it's fun
adept_nekomancer: @Thefluffiestguineapig So instead of "Send Codes", it's "Send Cards"
TheMerricat: FMV games are fun
lamina5432: its a time loop game
Juliamon: I think it would be neat to see on TS too
Sarah_Serinde: Yeah I've been really enjoying it
Thefluffiestguineapig: It's the kind of game that Adam loves too
Sarah_Serinde:
And also, justice for FMVs, they can be great
Juliamon: It does some very interesting things
Thefluffiestguineapig: Genuinely it's super interesting
TheAinMAP:
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Sarah_Serinde They are VERY difficult to do well
ContingentCat: !next
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RockPusher: Also no normal schedule Chillpoint next week
Sarah_Serinde: @Thefluffiestguineapig That I believe. I just dislike the automatic assumption that a game's gonna be bad
GapFiller: RockPusher its on Sunday right
RockPusher: there is a hole in the schedule
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Sarah_Serinde I feel the same way about cats being standoffish and certain dog breeds being mean
ContingentCat:
thanks Paul and Heather 
Sarah_Serinde: @Thefluffiestguineapig Oh definitely
Thefluffiestguineapig: Thanks for the stream!
Marvoleath: !ppr
Aceviru:
Marvoleath: not yet
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
Juliamon: (ppr hasn't been formally announced yet)
RockPusher:
We made Paul say it so Adam and Nelson are off the hook now too
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Sarah_Serinde Only valid assumption is generative AI takes away from the value of art
Sarah_Serinde: @Thefluffiestguineapig I don't disagree but also we moved on from that topic and don't need to bring it back here right now
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Sarah_Serinde Sorry I forgot!
Sarah_Serinde: All good
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also appropos of nothing, where is Ian in his Yakuza playthrough?
Thefluffiestguineapig: And does he still have the correct costume on everyone for combat?
Sarah_Serinde:
For a plot summary you are better off asking during the stream
Sarah_Serinde: But yes everyone has excellent clothing
RockPusher: If only the game let us give *everyone* the "correct" outfit
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Sarah_Serinde Oh don't care about plot summary, mostly wanting to check if we are sailing the piratical seas yet
RockPusher: be better RGG
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher True
Juliamon: speaking of Avatar, the assistant at the optometrist today had a tattoo behind her ear that was either the air symbol or a triskelion and as someone who's not a dedicated Avatar fan I was too afraid to ask
Sarah_Serinde: okay yes true, sadly it's just *almost everyone* in the correct outfit
Thefluffiestguineapig: Let women dress as Ono-Michio!!
Sarah_Serinde: @Thefluffiestguineapig Oh no, we haven't changed games yet and it sounds like we have at least a few streams to go, probably more than just a few
RockPusher: Infinite Wealth does seem quite long, even before getting distracted shenanigans
Marvoleath: @Juliamon my mtg soaked brain went "huh, Triskelion does not really look similar in any of its card arts"
Thefluffiestguineapig: Ok, sounds good, thanks! And remind me to tell Ian about one of my friends who is making friends with a local murder and I turned onto the peanuts trick
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher There was quite a detour to take exams to raise stats and go do jobs
Sarah_Serinde:
@RockPusher Feels normal to me, but that is based on nothing but vibes. There's always a lot to do and a lot of plot twists and stuff
RockPusher:
I mean, the games are meant to last a salaryman an entire year
Marvoleath:
@Juliamon yea, I got there eventually
Juliamon: (I just like spirals so I knew about triskelions before I knew about mtg)
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher And that's if you stay firmly on main plot path
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 Canadian Highlander! Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 05:00 PM PST (1:47 from now).
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