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 RandomTrivia:  !
 RandomTrivia: 
 ContingentCat: we're not real people yeah
 spethycakes: the classic Fvcksh!t stack
 calculated_uncertainties: 100 1 1
SaxPython: 
 spethycakes: Ottawa Senators? Oh, you mean the Rivals
 RandomTrivia: Sick
 spethycakes: The PWHL also contributes to the Gays on Ice 
 loufghyslaufey:   
  Juliamon: Forecheck though
 spethycakes: a real  situation
 loufghyslaufey:    
SaxPython: 
 RandomTrivia: 
 loufghyslaufey: GAME! sorry...
 ContingentCat: I like Heather's answer better
 adept_nekomancer: This ghost isn't going to uninstall herself.
 RatherLargeToad: We crave AfterAfterLove
 spethycakes: Afterlove: Third Period
 loufghyslaufey: Wasn't here last time. Mostly
 loufghyslaufey: Were there blanket contents when they first streamed this?
 loufghyslaufey: Oh, I wish.
 loufghyslaufey: (sighs) Yeah.
 RandomTrivia: All the characters in this game are so adorable
 loufghyslaufey: "Immunity Sold Separately. All sales/purchases are final."
 adept_nekomancer: Getting hit with a rock is a kind of finding a rock.
 RandomTrivia: 
 Boopity: Wow
 loufghyslaufey: Wut? Do you want to lamenate youraelf too?
 Dog_of_Myth: 
 spethycakes: not if you add a QR code that links to your website
 loufghyslaufey: So... like a "Dice Friends?"
 loufghyslaufey: Kidding, kidding
 loufghyslaufey: I meant an average party campaign
 Boopity: 
 RandomTrivia: 
 adept_nekomancer: So... latte art then.
 adept_nekomancer: Subversive latte art.
 loufghyslaufey: @adept_nekomancer I will never understand those people. Ever.
 loufghyslaufey: Apologies
 Boopity: Which makes this a communitz1 
 loufghyslaufey: I know it takes more than just water, bean grinds, & a 3-4 tablespoons of creamer
 ContingentCat: That isn't a special thing for Kathleen's D&D campaigns
 SquareDotCube: most days it's at your LGS with people LFG
 Boopity: _Legal_ painting on walls now 
 RandomTrivia: Much easier to remove from a pinboard than a wall
 loufghyslaufey: What? Its not your "Ghost Friend?"
 RandomTrivia: In that case we wouldn't be human...
 loufghyslaufey: "Get mad!" "Don't make lemonade."
 loufghyslaufey: (snaps fingers) Only if they'rr staying/visiting for way too long.
 RandomTrivia: Neat!
 loufghyslaufey: Yikes
 loufghyslaufey: Really? I thought they looked mostly the same!?
 Boopity: Yeah, it definitely didn't go well
 loufghyslaufey: When "friends" seem to hate them, don't shower them with love!
 Boopity: 
 RockPusher: Ah, this person has worked a government job! 
 loufghyslaufey: Hate your friends BACK! Get mad! I don't want to carry your hate! The heck am I suppose to do with them!
 spethycakes: You're living the Unexamined Life, Rama!
 spethycakes: no, he's not band any more
 Boopity: ummm
 loufghyslaufey: Demand to see your "friends" parents! Make your parents regret sending their kids out in the world thinking they could just send their hate out on ME.
  Juliamon: uhhhhh
 spethycakes: who?
 ContingentCat: uhhh
 adept_nekomancer: I'll check the vod.
 adept_nekomancer: It's "a coffee a day"
 loufghyslaufey: Wait. But that means he's only getting two cups of coffee, right?
 loufghyslaufey: The barista?
 loufghyslaufey: Giving the context...
 loufghyslaufey: What? Your playable character ia a bad person?
 RatherLargeToad: Nephew, somehow
 margieargie: Yeah, could just be a managerial kiss
 Boopity: I am very worried about how protag is about to react to this 
 RatherLargeToad: is he a ghost?
 Boopity: Oh he RAN
 Boopity: Has ghost gf given _an_ good advice, at all, since the start of this game?
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 loufghyslaufey: But what trust did they break? What am I missing?
 adept_nekomancer: Wait, can we uninstall the ghost via cringe?
 RandomTrivia: 
 Boopity: I wish I could forcefully uninstall things through sheer cringe. Notably all of the AI getting shoved into things I used to like 
  Juliamon: It's what we would deserve
 ContingentCat: ouch
 adept_nekomancer: Never solve your problems by hiding in the backrooms.
 RandomTrivia: 
 margieargie: Maybe -that's- what happens on the 30th
 InconsiderateHat: Where's the Volumetric Shit Compressor when you need it
 Boopity: Ghost arrested
 Boopity: The entire game starts lagging every time ghost gf speaks up, but at least she'll look _sick_
 Dog_of_Myth: Oh nooo
 spethycakes: I hate it
 Strebenherz: did you just call the story before it happened xD
 adept_nekomancer: No band, only therapy
 Boopity: This time we'll _definitely_ fix things
 Boopity: oh
 Dog_of_Myth: Oh...
 Boopity: Jesus christ 
 Strebenherz: Supportive friends
 Boopity: Ok, I enjoyed that whole chat chain a whole lot 
 spethycakes: they're coming for you, Rama <ominous>
 NotCainNorAbel: My SO's answer to 'we need to talk' is "yeah, we do"
 loufghyslaufey: They're importnant!? I thought these friends were FAKE.
 Territan: Somehow ...dirty?
 Territan: Therapy?
 loufghyslaufey: You may be off by 2-4 extra dimensions for approximating a THOUSAND percent...?
 Boopity: I quite like this song
 Boopity: I'm still wondering whether this game is linear, or if there are more endings/branching
 RatherLargeToad: “I want to keep yelling at you in the future”
 Boopity: So far, it feels like more of the first, since it's so narrative focused
  Juliamon: Good time for a break, maybe?
  Juliamon: l'alphalphalphalpha
 RockPusher: !yay
  LRRbot: Yaaaaaaay...
 Boopity: I think I'm dissociating
 loufghyslaufey: !advice
  LRRbot: Do not eat anatomy candles.
 Dog_of_Myth: !badadvice
  LRRbot: Avoid the glow.
 NotCainNorAbel: ehh  
 Boopity: Ayyy
  Juliamon: Read receipts: not even once
 NotCainNorAbel: I'll read your stuff; doesn't mean I'll respond quickly.  If you cannot deal with that then you are going to deal with that.
 ContingentCat: Yeah I thought she was topless for a second yeah
 Boopity: The whole culture of "left on read" "ghosting", etc. is so strange to me
 loufghyslaufey:  We Don't Text Anymore  We Don't Text Anymore  Like  We  Used TO...!
 loufghyslaufey: I... Don't believe her...!?
 ContingentCat: That's how it works, you be a jerk and people think that you're a jerk
 Boopity: I feel like some of the expressions they're using with her are not quite fitting the mood of what is being discussed 
 Boopity: I feel like 3rd is the most self-reflective
 Strebenherz: PFFFT
 Boopity: Drama!
 Strebenherz: Speaking of an intervention
 loufghyslaufey: Oh, here we go...?
 ContingentCat: Oh no
 Boopity: 
 Dog_of_Myth: 
 Strebenherz: rotate the apple jar
 Strebenherz: WAY TO KILL THE MOOD ON THE DATE
 Boopity: Regina is taking this _way_ better than our bandmates
 Boopity: Couldn't be me
 loufghyslaufey: Oh, was that the tall guy we saw earlier?
 loufghyslaufey: Or idk
 Boopity: Oh god, getting haunted by the ghost of twitch streamers commentating on your life would be hell
 loufghyslaufey: Progress? ...why?
 Strebenherz: Okay so like do we the players know if it's an actual ghost or do we not know if it's just him?
  Juliamon: We don't know either way
 RockPusher: Move to Bangkok, play some chess…
 RatherLargeToad: “She loves it, let’s go”
 Boopity: At the very least, it's a parallel/metaphor for self-destructive behavior resulting from grief
  Juliamon: Cinta has had comments implying she knows she's not real
 Dog_of_Myth: 
 loufghyslaufey: Pardon!?
 loufghyslaufey: 616?
 Boopity: Now I want ramen 
 loufghyslaufey: What's your taks on the Tonkotsu ramen line?
 loufghyslaufey: *take
 loufghyslaufey: Sure?
   Anubis169: Ian: Update.. those onigiri i made yesterday? They were nooot good, i think i botched the rice 😅
 jessicaengle: How is ramen so good?
 loufghyslaufey: That crack on the phone was always there?
   Anubis169: rice ended up crunchy
 jessicaengle: cronch
 Boopity: I feel like it's mostly people projecting "I could never go eat out alone like a 'loser'"
 jessicaengle: It smacks of single-shaming that's for sure
   Anubis169: I've been working my way through the LotR audiobook. Read by a guy called Rob Inglis.. he sounds like a cross between Ian MacKellen and Tolkien's own voice 
   Anubis169: feels like being in storytime in school 
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 Boopity: 
 Boopity: Valid
   Anubis169: hahahaha
 RockPusher: yep
   Anubis169: Heather: Our local coffee shop, I've become "the guy that drinks double espresso" to the point they were calibrating the machine and used me as a taste tester 
 RockPusher: being a known quantity is weird
 Boopity: @Anubis169 I mean that's kinda amazing 
 loufghyslaufey: Smol talk ghosting here?
   Anubis169: even extended, the headphones press in the wrong places, feels uncomfortable
 loufghyslaufey:  
 Boopity: On stream???
 RatherLargeToad: Commence the AfterLove Kart minigame!
 Boopity: She's becoming too self-aware
 ContingentCat: It's not like she can tell anyone if it is embarrassing
 loufghyslaufey: Playable character is just built different,  .
 Boopity: @ContingentCat She can tell you, and constantly remind you about how embarrassing it is 
 RatherLargeToad: “Baby…shark…doo…dooo.doodo”
 ContingentCat: @Boopity Lol true
   Anubis169: LOL
 loufghyslaufey:    
 Boopity: If we make ghost gf pay rent, what if she starts subletting, and now we have _two_ ghost voices in our head?
   Anubis169: Does anybody else in here occasionally try and get good at blanking their thoughts jjjjuuuuuuuuuust on the off-chance telepaths actually exist? 
 Strebenherz: Ian plz
 putz12a: In your head, in your heaaaad...
 Strebenherz: I mean points for originality
 Boopity: @Anubis169 I have not, but now I really want to start doing this 
 RatherLargeToad: that’s just Yu Yu Hakusho
 ContingentCat: Living polycules are complicated enough lol
   Anubis169: RatherLargeToad
 RockPusher: harem comedy but all the waifus are in protag-kun's head
   Anubis169: 👉  REI GUN!!
jibkat: and that isaki is called, Moon Knight
 RockPusher: I don't think that has been done quite yet
jibkat: time share personalities
niccus: this is why LRR doesn't have a tontine
 SquareDotCube: Java, after all
 loufghyslaufey: A lot!?
 RatherLargeToad: that’s a warm soft serve
niccus: 50% from normal, by bubble tea syntax
 VorlonScout: "by volume"
 RockPusher: low-sugar milk tea
 protojman: 
 margieargie: I mean, 50% sugar in tea sounds normal to me 
 SquareDotCube: "Teeth rot, please"
 Boopity: Child me would _love_ that
 Dog_of_Myth: Pure cane sugar with a hint of tea
 RockPusher: as opposed to wet sugar with some tea sitting in it
   Anubis169: it's that sludge left in the bottom milk of your cereal bowl aged 6
 loufghyslaufey: People used to pour sugar in their cereal!? WHY?
 VorlonScout: @loufghyslaufey I did that as a kid and tbh I couldn't tell you why now
 ContingentCat: @loufghyslaufey Because children are stupid
 SquareDotCube: kids hate texture and starches, but love sugar
 Boopity: After coke bread, nothing is off the table
 badpandabear: @loufghyslaufey I used to do that for plain cheerios
 SquareDotCube: but then as you get older you realize berries exist
 loufghyslaufey: I mean, okay?
 ContingentCat: Rice crispies are where I did it
 Boopity: Oh I did not mean to equalize it  Coke bread is peak madness, but it is a good showcase of how high up the ceiling of madness is
 RatherLargeToad: Ghost council only lets her stick around until the next concert
 VorlonScout: Funny thing is, my parents generally refused to buy me any cereal where sugar was the first ingredient -- but putting sugar *in* the cereal? Fine.
niccus: does hot milk cereal with marshmallows work?
 putz12a: Shredded Wheat, Shreddies, Life cereal...
 VorlonScout: mega wheats
 RockPusher: Weet-Bix, made mushy with a little boiling water, then hit them with some brown sugar and cream
  Juliamon: I cannot relate at all. Mom would only buy us organic cereals, which were all bland, and the idea of adding sugar was NEVER raised. Same with tea. No adding sugar to anything.
 LordZarano: Cereal box but it's just 1 giant shredded wheat
 VorlonScout: Also, micro wheats
 SquareDotCube: I usually do well with 2-3 bowls of oat gruel a year
  Juliamon: My sister and I looked forward to vacations because we were allowed to buy the multipack of individual commercial cereals for that
jibkat: I wonder how long this kid is standing here talking to himself
 Boopity: Ghost GF exorcism
 RatherLargeToad: No, I think she has a Toyota
 RockPusher: hmmm - how to get LRR to try buttered Weet-Bix with Vegemite 
 Boopity: Ghost boba
 margieargie: Rama visits the Angry Zen Master to help him empty his mind
 ContingentCat: @Juliamon Oh my family took those camping too, they were great
 Boopity: 
jibkat: I mean, its also sinking
jibkat: fast
 Dread_Pirate_Westley: This year? Was it Tuesday or Wednesday?
 Boopity: It's small to Rama, since he only hangs out in the same 4 places
jibkat: so fast the goverment is bailing on it
 ContingentCat: You can still get small town vibes in a neighborhood
Cjcaesar subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 50 months!
  LRRbot:  Thanks for subscribing, Cjcaesar! (Today's storm count: 7)
 Boopity: Still amazing that the therapists default face is just *wink*
 loufghyslaufey: The therapist?
  Juliamon: that's the music store guy?
 RockPusher: A Feudian Slip
 e_bloc: pretty common with him. . . its when you say one thing and mean your mother
  Juliamon: "let our girlfriend out" is an awful way to phrase it
 RockPusher:  
 loufghyslaufey: Pfffft, what!?
 e_bloc: yeah "let your girlfriend out" is like one step above her being in the fridge
 Boopity: Oh, it's a montage
 Boopity: That one at least felt like they tried to transition it over with the percussion a bit 
 Boopity: 
 RockPusher: 
 RatherLargeToad: extra crunchy style
 e_bloc: big ikea furniture you must have a friend energy
 loufghyslaufey: Dewwit!
 Boopity: Someone needs to fill in the market gap of edible guitar picks
 e_bloc: everybody hated that
   Anubis169: Guitar Picks, the even worse "bad onigiri"
juliebean78: eating is a no no but a pick is a nice mouth feel for a sensory seeker
 Boopity: Now I'm imagining a customizable guitar pick you can suck on
 Boopity: 
 margieargie: 0/10, ruins the game completely
 e_bloc: my immersion!
 Boopity: l'alphaphalhpa
 loufghyslaufey: Ian, it it utmost a game. Not uh... what kind of game is "Dead Reset," chat?
 loufghyslaufey: *it is
 loufghyslaufey: Just dunk the water beneath the gangway
 Boopity: Ok I _definitely_ didn't expect this game to end with the band staying together.
 e_bloc: you're gonna need an old priest and a young priest
 loufghyslaufey: @Boopity The last like this ended the same way, but their world kind of ended...
 loufghyslaufey: Offscreen. (coughs)
 RockPusher: She accidentally flushed herself?
 LordZarano: Lead singer of Iron Maiden is also a professional pilot and flys the tour plane
 loufghyslaufey: Why don't you three just found your own Moonbase or something... uh?
 Boopity: She left the keys in our head and accidentally locked herself out
 loufghyslaufey: Wait, what?
 loufghyslaufey: How'd they know? I couldn't tell what she looked like the entire playthrough i saw....
 loufghyslaufey: Lmao
 Dog_of_Myth: Time to put up signs "Lost ghost girlfriend that lived in my head"
 Boopity: 
 RatherLargeToad: Time for some good old fashioned grave robbing!
 ContingentCat: Let's get digging!
  Juliamon: Dying does tend to impact your height, by about six feet.
 Boopity: Juliamon 
 RatherLargeToad: Is she Christmas Caroling us?
 Boopity: I'm not sure Regina would appreciate that
 RockPusher: Polygeist!
 Boopity: "Your ghost gf now, have fun"
 loufghyslaufey: Then why doesn't Cinta haunt her instead!? B-baka.
 SquareDotCube: the lead dev died, Ian...
 loufghyslaufey: Wuh?
 loufghyslaufey: @SquareDotCube Wuh? It was their last game?
 SquareDotCube: Passed either 2022 or 2023.
 loufghyslaufey: Wait. What's with the floating particles?
SAJewers subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 117 months!
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 RatherLargeToad: DEAD serious!
 Boopity: But did girlfriend leave behind leftover files?
 e_bloc: can you at least check for driver updates
 RockPusher: It *is* Coffee Talk
 Boopity: L'alphalpha is a real ass band!?
 putz12a: Oh hey, Just saw Jacob's name in the credits 
 loufghyslaufey: Hahahahahaha
 Boopity: The rhythm sections definitely felt more like supplementary sections to the larger narrative
 loufghyslaufey: @putz12a Jacob... how is he?
 Boopity: 
 spethycakes: that's an aggressive slope of a nose
jibkat: acheivment unlocked pollycue
 loufghyslaufey: Wait. She didn't... leave
 RockPusher:    
  Juliamon: 
 Dog_of_Myth: 
 ContingentCat: Good enough!
 margieargie:    
 spethycakes: PLEASE don't play it again to achieve more endings
 spethycakes: and also 
 loufghyslaufey: That's it... wait. Why don't I hate it.
 loufghyslaufey: But we thought Cinta left...?
  Juliamon: Satria's the queer music guy
 Boopity: WHAT
  Juliamon: I did wonder that he was so openly hitting on us
 ContingentCat: Sir?
 e_bloc:   
   Anubis169: !patreon
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   Anubis169: !store
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 Boopity: I don't think I've ever seen him even once because I've only stopped by streams of this game in bits and pieces
   Anubis169: !youtube
  LRRbot: LRR's main channel is https://www.youtube.com/loadingreadyrun . For Stream VODs check out https://www.youtube.com/loadingreadylive . MtG vods and other MtG content are at https://www.youtube.com/LRRMtG . Tabletop related videos are at https://www.youtube.com/LRRTT . LRR Videogame videos (including Checkpoint+) are at https://www.youtube.com/LRRVG
   Anubis169: !quote
  LRRbot: Quote #8487: "You never hope for Beej, you just get Beej." —James [2023-03-14]
   Anubis169: !schedule
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 Boopity: Finishing so many games this month!
   Anubis169: Thank youuuuuuuuu
 spethycakes: oh hey, it was I
 spethycakes: Thanks for stream and GGs on the check mark for this game!
 Boopity: Thank you for the stream!
Ashmantle: 
   Anubis169: nighty nights 
 RockPusher:    
 Boopity: Have a good time zone everybody 
   Anubis169: and thanks for the strim stram!
 ContingentCat: !next
  LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Send Codes (We get sent a LOT of game codes from developers and agencies. Now we have somewhere to play them. Pls Send Codes. Game: Second Sun) at Mon 01:00 PM PST (18:25 from now).
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