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TheMerricat: @Izandai Capcom?
rosesmcgee: @Izandai Immersion
TXC2: you know why
Izandai: I do know. But still.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Why does she have black sclera?
VrolikSyndrome: And Gief's pecs have jiggle physics.
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LiveLittlebird: Somehow my subs always happen when Adam is live
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TheMerricat: @Thefluffiestguineapig cosmetics
TomokaMT: @Thefluffiestguineapig akuma color
Mr_Horrible: I'd say that your bnb that you've been working on in L3 does about that much (although it involves the bounce, so IDK if it works at the wall)
Thefluffiestguineapig: Why on Boob and Butt Physics is a valid question even if we know the reason
TXC2:
also, I'm a 135 pound man and my ass jiggles when I run, so it's not THAT wild 
TheMerricat: At least she's a polite figher.
TheMerricat: fighter.
Thefluffiestguineapig: And at least she does a real martial art
30teracyte: elena's slide is never plus outside of burnout: it's -10 to -2 (so in burnout it would be -6 to +2)
TXC2: TheMerricat "is a good person" is basically her character
Mr_Horrible: I mean, for someone with as flippy and fluid a moveset as Elena, you also have to ride that line so her model doesn't look weirdly stiff and static while she's somersaulting
Mr_Horrible: holy it's already 12:50
Mr_Horrible: lmao
TomokaMT: lol
NewtyNewts: Start of the show again!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Mr_Horrible Apparently that's also an issue in real capoiera
TomokaMT: You did great Nelson
TXC2:
Mr_Horrible yeah, is jiggle physics the smere lines of 3d animation?
Val_TheRainbowFang: Nelson "Boo Boo Face" Salahub
Mr_Horrible: @Thefluffiestguineapig oh I believe it
TXC2: !patreon
Thefluffiestguineapig: You did so good Nelson!
TXC2: !store
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Izandai:
@TXC2 
Mr_Horrible:
@TXC2 now I wouldn't necessarily go *that* far 
TXC2: !next
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rosesmcgee: thx for stream!
BTownMC:
Happy Partner anniversary!
TXC2: !events
LowUpsideCJ: ooooh nice love that
Mr_Horrible: well it doesn't help that every card printed in 2025 is a novella
Izandai: @Mr_Horrible I mean, specifically I noticed her ass jiggling during the hitstop on a couple of standing kicks.
LowUpsideCJ: ggs ggs gamers
LiveLittlebird: yes
Dog_of_Myth:
Izandai:
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BTownMC: wash them hands
TXC2: !discord
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Mr_Horrible: @Izandai fair. I'll be honest, I'm looking at contact points most of the time in these games
Mr_Horrible: thanks for the stream, lads
Sethalidos: !next
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Thefluffiestguineapig: I didn't do the homework for Chillpoint this week
Juliamon: It's half recap of last week's Chillpoint, half Cameron rant. You're probably good.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Confident deaf tardigrade is a phrase for sure
Wolfstrike_NL: 2 Ubisoft shit stories
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh is Cam on Chillpoint this week? I know he's been writing a lot lately because of the capitalist hellscape
Juliamon: He had to take on Nadella's late-December mess of a memo
RockPusher: !search for treasure
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Thefluffiestguineapig: !y
LRRbot: HONK!
RockPusher: !quote Cameron
LRRbot: Quote #2015: "I hate this game and everyone who plays it." —Cameron [2016-03-02]
Juliamon: accurate
RockPusher: evergreen
Thefluffiestguineapig: I feel that way about a lot of games, Capitalism being a lot of that
Thefluffiestguineapig: Neurotypical and abelist enabling being the other
LordZarano: !next
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RockPusher:
Thefluffiestguineapig: Right on the nose!
TXC2:
LordZarano 
Thefluffiestguineapig: TXC2 I assume you're taking off soon for bedtime or at least it being late?
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig nah. it's only 9pm here, I go at 10 ish
SaxPython:
@Wolfstrike_NL 
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Fair
RockPusher:
Oh, I see we are in times again
TheAinMAP: Signal.
Thefluffiestguineapig: I guess, I didn't get the notification
TXC2: CONTACT
Wolfstrike_NL:
Thefluffiestguineapig:
Earthenone:
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Wolfstrike_NL This just makes me think of that recent REPO clip
LoadingReadyRun:
@Juliamon Hey! I mean, you're not wrong, but still. We don't want people to *not* watch the episode
Juliamon: Let's be real though, Cameron is the main reason to watch
Juliamon: He really knocked it out of the park
RockPusher: Deploy the "…What?"
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TheMerricat:
Chat, has anyone mentioned it's a smidge chilly outside ATM? Cause... it's a SMIDGE chilly. 
TXC2: yes, the ice has come out to deal with ICE kappa
TheMerricat:
@TXC2
RockPusher: Go‽ I just got here!
TXC2: TODAY!
TXC2:
with no music
TheMerricat: No audio on the intro
TheAinMAP: No music?
Aceviru: Special guest!!
Wolfstrike_NL: Beej?! on the left side?!
Laurence72: doo doo dooo dooo dooo!!!
TheMerricat: We heard you though.
RockPusher: So, that is odd without the music
EvilBadman: It sure wasn't
TXC2:
it was not
Strebenherz: no music/audio
Strebenherz: but we heard y'all
TXC2: audio yes, music no
Strebenherz: ominous beej, ominous paul
EvilBadman: Oh no, the in house band!
Papperslappen: The sound is coming from inside the studio
RockPusher: Dang that Ominous Thud
TXC2: we'll add it in post
TXC2: Heatherless heathens
RockPusher: Left Beej, All Beef
EvilBadman: Beej on the left *is* special
Aceviru: Hell yeah
Laurence72: Let's hear it for being in the Pacific time zone! Woot!!!!
ArtDecoSunburn: So is Victoria the San Diego of Canada?
GasCityGaming: They left the Hat at a good time....
TXC2: "we get less rain then Vancouver, and they don't believe us"
GasCityGaming: Well Alberta anyway lol
RockPusher: famously not snowy
Laurence72: Arizona? Get any precip????
Strebenherz: *concern*
Izandai:
RockPusher: Everything falling apart
Laurence72: That could be from any member of LRR!
RockPusher: entropy coming for us all
EvilBadman: today's a sidequest day, apparently
GasCityGaming: Hear any shaky bits?
Wolfstrike_NL: Mayby I caught the curse today, as Twitch decided to randomly log me out earlier
BlueMechanic: I like to think they all go on vacation together
Thefluffiestguineapig: I love John Oliver
EvilBadman: Too many do
Thefluffiestguineapig: The amount of research they do on that show is a lot
RockPusher: CheckPoint being current events means no ability to stockpile
RockPusher: (I mean, you could do stockpile specials of silly patch notes and the like that age okay - but *in general*)
Bruceski: John Oliver feels like the hbomberguy of talk shows. Don't hear anything for a while and then suddenly he shows up with a bunch of receipts.
EvilBadman: @Bruceski Easier when you do a weekly show instead of a daily
TXC2: to an outgoing CEO
RockPusher: is the compensation package contingent on making that happen *legitimately*?
ArtDecoSunburn: Bionic Trousers going public when?
mtvcdm: Enter our online contest, How Would You Make Gamestop $100 Billion? Your idea could be seen in the Wall Street Journal!
RockPusher:
Retail nostalgia man-cave 
HorusFive:
@ArtDecoSunburn How much more pubic do you want them to be? They basically live online
ArtDecoSunburn: @HorusFive Ha!
RockPusher: All are dumping stock right now
RockPusher: they will be all gone soon
Trymantha: The last EB games in NZ shut here at the end of the week
MWGNZ: yeah eb nz closes closes at the end of the month
Trymantha: moost have shut already
HorusFive: @RockPusher But I was told it was going to the moon. And I believe things I see on the internet
RockPusher: They lasted far longer here than I ever expected them to
RockPusher:
Indeed, good joke 
Bruceski: Now I'm missing the old Radio Shack.
MWGNZ: o7 thinkgeek
HorusFive: @Bruceski Pour one out for real Radio Shack
8bitdame: Rip Thinkgeek
mtvcdm: rip funcoland
ArtDecoSunburn: @Bruceski Even when they insisted on your phone number when you were just buying batteries.
8bitdame: Best messenger bag I ever got, from them
GasCityGaming: The source by Circuit City -> The Source (it was bought by bell) Now it's still owned by Bell but everything is Best Buy Branded (I helped train the employees)
ArtDecoSunburn: Any kind of transistor you could want.
HorusFive: @ArtDecoSunburn Jokes on them. Now everyone gets my phone number when I'm checking out
TheMerricat: aliexpress
Thefluffiestguineapig: Well now I just discovered a former employer autoenrolled me in 401k and then without warning or true explanation un-enrolled me because I didn't do the mysterious thing I was supposed to by a specified date.
EvilBadman: monoprice still alive?
Thefluffiestguineapig: And I didn't get a check I was supposed to, so now I need to track that down
Thefluffiestguineapig: I hate everything
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig ooof, good luck that
RockPusher: Ewwwww-bisoft
control_rig: Nepotism-run Business
TheMerricat: Do I remember correctly that Ubisoft originally started off as a sewer company?
RockPusher:
It's a "Family" run business 
ArtDecoSunburn: Those Mom and Pop software developers.
RockPusher: Video Game Waste Management
saiarcot895: if an unannounced game gets cancelled, does it make a noise?
mtvcdm: Fun fact: in 2025, Ubisoft actually *shipped* fewer games in 2025 than in any year since 1988.
TXC2: mtvcdm I assume "shipped" means sold, and includes stream et al ?
Trymantha: That really downplays how many GaaS games ubi is trying to push htough
Trymantha: LIke r6 seige, for honour, the division etc
SocraticMethod: @TXC2 No, new games released
RockPusher: So long as they are reallocating resources and its not an excuse to fire people, stopping a project that doesn't seem to be working out might actually be healthy
TXC2: SocraticMethod ah, ok then
Thefluffiestguineapig: This sounds so bad
RockPusher: More IT projects need to be halted when it becomes clear they aren't working
TXC2: RockPusher indeed, far too much suck cost fallacy in the industry
TXC2: *sunk
BusTed: oh for sure for sure
Addictiveme: thse beyond good and evil trailers were so good, and then just nothing
mtvcdm: Duke Nukem Forever was released faster than Beyond Good and Evil 2
mtvcdm: Think about that
Thefluffiestguineapig: @mtvcdm THAT'S a mood
BlueMechanic: I've had fun with Ubidoft games in the past, but not anything for a long while now
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Lots of both sunk cost fallacy and also (suck cost fallacy works too) the idea of we have to do what has already worked and charge astronomical prices because everything has to keep getting more expensive
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hades 2 and Silksong are both great examples of don't do crunch and you don't need to charge "industry standard price" for fabulous game
mtvcdm: They just gotta get things to actual market
MWGNZ: it's like how if nintendo ever gets short of cash they just need a new pokemon game
Thefluffiestguineapig: And for LOTS of game
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig exactly
Thefluffiestguineapig: Because the C-suite doesn't think those will do as well as the ra ra America games right now
Trymantha: For PoP they first gave it to a brand new studio who had little to no experiance
Thefluffiestguineapig: They are afraid of reprisal in a dumb way
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Thefluffiestguineapig: Underestimating people wanting new things, Blue Prince doing so well doesn't demonstrate to them anything meaningful
TXC2: good French word
BlueMechanic: the children of the people who were working on it then are working on it now
TXC2:
a generational dev cycle
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Indentured dev-itude
Izandai: @Thefluffiestguineapig Eeh, those teams were both (or at least I know Team Cherry was) in a pretty enviable position of being flush with cash from a massively successful release and having no external time-sensitive obligations to meet. They could literally afford to take as long as they wanted (and Team Cherry only barely so, they needed a loan to get over the finish line) and not charge so much for the final product.
TXC2:
Thefluffiestguineapig don't give the corpos ideas
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Izandai On the one hand yes, but on the other the big companies should take note
Thefluffiestguineapig: The big companies have the money to not have to rush, to have less things going on and not to hoover up studios all the time
TXC2: exactly, we don't need a new ______ every year, companies need to learn to take time
Thefluffiestguineapig: Making a game WORK is a big deal
Thefluffiestguineapig: Making a game optimized would be great so it doesn't make gaming systems melt
SocraticMethod: A new studio happened!
HorusFive: You're describing a pyramid.
HorusFive: This is how a business becomes a pyramid scheme
SocraticMethod: I think Rockstar is mostly funded by the GTA Online, so they are pretty secure financially
TXC2:
HorusFive funny how often capitalism does that
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yakuza takes big swings all the time and is better for it. Still needs improvement but Yakuza experiments
SocraticMethod: The Rogue Prince of Persia
EvilBadman: Rogue Prince of Persia, done by the Dead Cells folks
Wolfstrike_NL: Didn't Disney "just" put out a complaint that people didn't watch their new IP movies, but only the old IP's?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Wolfstrike_NL But that's because the new IP stuff feels underbaked and not as thoughtful. The new Star Wars stuff feels very samey with very VERY few exceptions. Marvel even moreso
adept_nekomancer: On the other hand, Pokemon has been pretty much the same Pokemon for 30-ish years.
Izandai: And I'm glad that you played it because it meant Matt didn't have to.
maybe_games: @adept_nekomancer There are always new 7 year-olds
Thefluffiestguineapig: @adept_nekomancer And the only reason we keep going back to it is because they keep killing all their competitors
LordZarano: Donkey Kong Bananza started as a Goomba with fists, and it got nominated for Game Of The Year
SocraticMethod: @Thefluffiestguineapig No? They haven't killed any one of competitors, where is this coming from.
saiarcot895: the bit must go on
maybe_games: Pokemon is very litigious, but they have a number of hypothetical competitors who can't seem to gain significant traction
ContingentCat: this sounds intriguing yeahj
SocraticMethod: As Aggro Crab pointed out, 34th anniversary is actually 35th, but 35th is 40th
Izandai: They don't have to a full day of efforts.
SocraticMethod: 34th anniversary is actually 30th*
Thefluffiestguineapig: @SocraticMethod Meaning they kill fan art by slapping cease and desist on them, including the flying Eeveelution, and for me there's just a lot of being in the past because they don't have any competitors and will make money hand over fist
ContingentCat: Maybe there'll be noir detective style merch, that would be great
TXC2: radio dramas do often end up as TV shows
Foxmar320: They appear from time to time. They were in Sonic Heroes
TXC2:
Sonic characters in Fedoras seems VERY 2000's to me
protojman: is this just a litmus test to see if anyone knows or cares about the chaotix :hmm:
BlueMechanic: trying to learn the extended Sonic character list in full would lead to madness
dumbo3k: LA Noire: Sonic Edition. Press X to Doubt, FAST
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hiring a fan artist and asking to use their designs or hiring a person who made a good fan game seems like a better way to deal with it than just legally blowing them away
Foxmar320: Yes thevy been detectives for years
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's gonna be some nonsense
Thefluffiestguineapig: Of course he does
BlueMechanic: It bothers me that the bee has the same type of face as the hedgehogs
Izandai: @Thefluffiestguineapig How is telling a fan artists to cease and desist "killing their competitors"? Regardless of how much of a dick move that is, that doesn't have anything to do with there not being any other creature catching franchises nearly as big.
Foxmar320: Sonic Heroes came out in 2003, They were detectives in that game as well
Foxmar320: The released Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog a few years back for free. People loved it.
Foxmar320: SEGA just does this
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Izandai It narrows the field for young artists so they don't feel like they can develop in that space unless they go to Nintendo. No big studio is going to challenge someone as litigious as Nintendo, certainly no small studio has the guts so there's no real competition due to that practice
Thefluffiestguineapig: That game was hilarious
RockPusher:
It's like the 11foot8 bridge after the raising - we just need to move to Sonic's 30th+5 notation
Thefluffiestguineapig: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog was a Murder on the Orient Express style game somehow and it worked???? It was such a weird experience
TXC2: think about the last time Mickey Mouse was in a film, Sonic is like that for SEGA
SocraticMethod: @Thefluffiestguineapig Source on the cease and desist? I only found that GF scrapped their own design because of the existing design. But more importantly, sending C&D to fan artists and fan gamers is not squashing comptetitors because those are attaching to Pokemon, not competing. Hiring fangame developers carries their own risk, and considering how most of them don't really make games for same segment, not really meshing with rest of the company
TXC2: chat can we move on from the pokemon talk now please
Izandai: @RockPusher 💯
TXC2: mean bean machine being puro puro becomes clear when you compare the music
SocraticMethod:
Puyo Puyo Tetris (ぷよぷよテトリス, Puyopuyo Tetorisu)[b] is a 2014 puzzle video game developed by Sega CS2 and published by Sega. The game is a crossover between the Puyo Puyo series and the Tetris franchise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo_Tetris
EvilBadman: If Beej gets a tetris reference into a story in just the right spot, the story actually disappears forever
Izandai:
SocraticMethod: It even has a sequel: Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
Foxmar320: I love the puyo puyo reference in Sonic Mania. The Cemical Plant boss fight vs Eggman is just a match of Puyo Puyo
Izandai:
TXC2: Foxmar320 does the music change to bean machine music?
Izandai: Yeah that's the subtitle.
EvilBadman: the TGM game subtitles are wild
Izandai: And frankly, it deserves it.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @SocraticMethod Sorry I'm trying to find it. But it's also this. If they do C&Ds to fan artists then also do thishttps://comicbook.com/anime/news/pokemon-leak-eevee-flying-evolution/ because the "cost is too high" of something being close to a fan design I'm at a loss
niccus: it's not wrong.
Juliamon: TTGM is absolutely terrifying
Izandai: The TGM games are FUCKED UP HARD.
TXC2: Foxmar320 ah darn, the bean machine music SLAPS
Thefluffiestguineapig:
@TXC2 Sorry, I missed that. My bad 
Izandai: Last I heard the number of people who have gotten the highest ranking on the third one is single digits.
Izandai: WORLDWIDE
Thefluffiestguineapig: What is Bean Machine?
Juliamon: you basically don't play them unless you're REALLY FUCKING GOOD at Tetris
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Firewhiskers: TGM is so fast that when they run it at GDQ they need to use authentic arcade boards and controllers
Foxmar320: @TXC2 Facts
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig Dr Robotniks mean bean machine, a Puyo puyo clone
HorusFive: Cameron delivered his EXCELLENT speech...
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon Those people who can do that skip in original tetris?
BlueMechanic: Ceo of Microslop
HorusFive: Did he have to? Did he?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 OH makes more sense now
Thefluffiestguineapig: He could just BE QUIET
Thefluffiestguineapig: You want people to not make fun of you then the solution is to not make statements
Firewhiskers: @Thefluffiestguineapig But all CEOs want to be rock stars
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Firewhiskers Then they get to be made fun of
EvilBadman: sometimes I wonder if Phil at Xbox is continually frustrated with his idiot boss. I imagine that's a universal work thing unless you're the boss.
Firewhiskers: @Thefluffiestguineapig Does it work if they have no shame though
TXC2: I miss FLASH
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Firewhiskers Yes because of share prices
Thefluffiestguineapig: I miss having actual competition between companies
Thefluffiestguineapig: We could enforce monopoly laws that were introduced because of STANDARD OIL
lamina5432: special camport
ArtDecoSunburn: Cameron -- the Andy Rooney of Checkpoint?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Cameron is so good at those things
TXC2: Cameron's dry, yet angry wit
Thefluffiestguineapig: Cameron is, that's his secret
EvilBadman:
i think Cameron is very mad, but I also think he's holding some of the volume back
Firewhiskers: Or John Oliver
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Firewhiskers Oh yeah, that's why I like both of their reporting so much. It has this incredibly cerebral element to it
Thefluffiestguineapig: @EvilBadman And many of the nerdier jokes
Wolfstrike_NL: We have put to much money into this without thinking
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yes ALL OF US (fumes in the corner)
RockPusher: Which is the key difference between this and Thought on Flash — Jobs had a vision and and plan to achieve it
Mai_Andra:
A recent windows update finally broke the standalone flash player I had been using... 
Foxmar320:
All of Us 
ArtDecoSunburn: AI ex machina.
Izandai: """""artificial intelligence"""""
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher And wasn't going to destroy the rest of the economy to do it
RockPusher: MS are just like "we spent so much on this… thing…"
TeagleBell: "that's a bold move Cotton! Let's see how it plays out"
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Izandai I would move that to artificial """"""""""""""intelligence""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Izandai:
Unbalanced your quote marks there. 
Thefluffiestguineapig: Because no one would argue it isn't artificial
Thefluffiestguineapig: I know what I did
Thefluffiestguineapig: Because that's all that AI is worth
ArcOfTheConclave: narrow ML that does 1 task well is so great. general LLM does all task worthlessly bad.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArcOfTheConclave Agreed
mtvcdm: And here's what it looks like if you gave the tumor anime eyes
Thefluffiestguineapig: By that logic you also have cherry eye
Thefluffiestguineapig: Your tumor is on your nictating membranes
NullColaShip: Good ol' content-aware Phil
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: Anybody else old enough to remember "Fuzzy Logic" being printed on every device?
SquareDotCube: Poor Phil, he never gets a break
ghyllnox: @fuzzrathebarelyliving We've more recently had "smart" on everything
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @ghyllnox Yup
TheAwkes: I'm not mad about the math under the hood of LLMs, I'm mad about the scale they presume they need, the way they've land grabbed data they have no right to, and the surety with which they cram their shit into everything they can.
Firewhiskers: "It's nawt a toomah!"
RockPusher:
Truly one of the games of the year
adept_nekomancer: @TheAwkes And a lot of the ML things (like the tumor example Beej was describing) don't require anywhere close to the level of resources that the LLMs and image generators do. We could have most of the value of ML without any of the land grabs.
Wolfstrike_NL: @TheAwkes And add the strain it's starting to now give on water and power
Decaped: MOST GAME
niccus: most-award award is a very mario party star award
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheAwkes Especially seizing data with such impunity and not caring that it's been illegally scraped
Thefluffiestguineapig: Weren't they given back?
ArtDecoSunburn: So COE33 is like "Sinners" in Oscar nominations?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Because of some AI usage?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn I think so, big virtue signal energy
Firewhiskers: Clair Obscura: A game who won so many awards that they were disqualified from a bunch of awards for their AI usage and they still won so many other awards that it doesn't matter
Izandai: @Thefluffiestguineapig ...What?
ArtDecoSunburn: @adept_nekomancer You mean not every vacant lot has to be an energy-guzzling data center?
RockPusher: Songs or Score?
SocraticMethod: @Izandai Thesis, please
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig "All your data are belong to us" -- All of tech, 2002-2021
Izandai: @SocraticMethod What?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Izandai The people in the Oscar committee who are old and white choosing this (admittedly super good) movie with a mostly person of color cast about challenges of segregation in this year where people are yelling louder and louder them ignoring things
SocraticMethod: @Izandai Sorry, meant to reply to one above
Izandai: @SocraticMethod I figured, all good.
NonchalantAvenger: RPGs ARE the best
Thefluffiestguineapig: E33 Feels similar in that the game is fantastic but is also a reaction to "You don't give awards to the indie games or foreign games" all wrapped in one
ghyllnox: I am actually surprised sports games don't make it in with how popular they are, they're just targeted at a different set of people
Firewhiskers: Also EVerything Everywhere All at Once was a strange but well deserved choice
Izandai: @Thefluffiestguineapig Hmm.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Firewhiskers For sure agreed, much more cerebral
NonchalantAvenger: cuz u need story and atmosphere and character building and development... action games usually don't put an emphasis on that
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: And then there's the world of lit-fic being held as the only true fiction, while the genres are dismissed
Thefluffiestguineapig: Both Sinners and Everything Everywhere All At Once are fascinating in terms of selections in my view
lamina5432: sometimes there needs to be a feeling of completion too I think?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving Yeah, LotR is not real fiction which is hilarious to bring up.
LordZarano: I remember for a while the highest rated game on Metacritic was a baseball game. Because it was very good at being a baseball game and basically only reviewed by people who like baseball games
RockPusher: What would be nice would be a well regarded organisation/group that could do citations for achievements in game development
ThorSokar: also the further back you go the fewer game publications exist
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Izandai I'm just saying what it felt like to me, some of the awards it won seemed like they were just voting for it in all the possible categories they could
RockPusher: Think like bravery citations/medals
Izandai: @Thefluffiestguineapig Well, maybe.
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @Thefluffiestguineapig I love the way some Booker Prize darling invents very old fashioned sci-fi every decade or so.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Although the game that won "achievement in adaptability" was HORSESHIT
Decaped: @Thefluffiestguineapig I think you're equating the voting bodies when you really shouldn't be.
lamina5432: kind of sad 100 meters didn't get on the animated movies list
TXC2: right chat I'm off
Izandai: byeeeeeeeeeeee
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Beej and Paul
SquareDotCube: team races sounds like CTS potential
CaptainSpam: Well, that WOULD be a good reason to end the game...
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Decaped Equating an industry entrenched body is all I'm doing. Plus the fact that reviewers and people in industry get their votes weighted more than the public. Again, E33 is a great game for sure and the game awards don't mean much of anything but it's just fascinating to me
HorusFive: Deletes the files
SquareDotCube: The Kamek, the Kamek specifically made as a powerup, Powerup's Kamek, etc...
Thefluffiestguineapig: I will also be quiet, I am inherently pessimistic about a lot of things with organizations like these
Thefluffiestguineapig: Kay, what game are we reading patchnotes for?
RatherLargeToad: it does
lamina5432: it is a very good game
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh dear
RatherLargeToad: charged in every denomination at once?
Izandai: Oh god.
RockPusher:
Izandai: Oh that's extremely fucking bad.
Snowcookies: oh dear
EvilBadman: Our 5* pulls, comrade
niccus: twitch's banner ad as we speak is Endfield, thanks twitch
RockPusher: Just to one person would be easier to recompense
SocraticMethod: The player of Omelas
RatherLargeToad: 9 gamers out of 10 love this!
RockPusher: as opposed to many people potentially still demanding fixes for additional fees
Izandai:
Izandai: Get that bag?
Thefluffiestguineapig: That means we should get all our damn money back
EvilBadman: Ben Heck at it again?
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: That name is great
Thefluffiestguineapig: Man I wanted something hazardous and terrifying looking like that episode you once showed us
lamina5432: apparently the power source is only powerful enough to run one of the 3 at a time though
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Izandai: @lamina5432 That seems like a reasonable restriction.
Geldaran: seems like a lot of work for being able to accomplish the same thing with an AV switcher.
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: You can get little USB-C hubs with HDMI out that work as a dock for a Switch
Thefluffiestguineapig: Unless you are Nintendo
lamina5432: oh neat I get to play the new halo
Firewhiskers: "Look y'all didn't like the show, here's the game again"
ThorSokar: Good ol' corporate double-speak
EvilBadman: And no multiplayer
SocraticMethod: 2nd remake of H1 campaign I think? There was PC version but it was more of a port, the MCC and now this
Firewhiskers: Was Master Chief named "Sergeant" or "Private" or something?
EvilBadman: @SocraticMethod You mean the Anny Edition, not MCC, but yes
ThorSokar: No multiplayer and no couch co-op? the the ultimate slap in the face to the "Halo Legacy" ?
SquareDotCube: I'm not quite sure how you improve on the... emptyness of Halo CE given the maps do this to establish the scale of the place.
Firewhiskers: Like with Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
SocraticMethod: @EvilBadman Oh right, that was part of the MCC. Thanks!
EvilBadman: @ThorSokar It /does/ have the couch co-op for 2
ThorSokar: lol
bujabin: this but i just want bloodborne on pc ;;
SocraticMethod: It was a big deal in early oughts before CoD filled the niche
Mai_Andra: Halo, Perfect Dark, uh... *something* else, probably?
ThorSokar: It was a big deal because it had multiplayer and you could yell down the hall at the person who just killed you and hear them laugh
Decaped: Halo was the FPS control revolution, right?
Decaped: on console
CaptainSpam: Half-Life changed a lot, too.
Bruceski: Years ago I showed my brother Alien/Aliens and his response was "I can tell this is good, but all I see are the decades of references and parodies."
EvilBadman: @Decaped yes
Firewhiskers: Halo had very good enemy AI at the tie
Firewhiskers: time
lamina5432: halo like COD had the campeign and the multiplayer. Both I think have been falling off quality wise
Laurence72: But you have FIVE PS5s! You surely can play it on one of them.
Thefluffiestguineapig: "It certainly is a thing" is the reaction I feel like might happen because of how influential it was
lamina5432: Like halo infinite was good for maybe a month or two
Firewhiskers: Halo 1 could only be played online with tunnelling software though. It didn't have Xbox Live out of the box because Xbox Live wasn't a thing
SocraticMethod: @Firewhiskers Halo 1 was released when LAN parties were still a thing
EvilBadman: @Firewhiskers Of course, but it caused people do actual LAN parties with their consoles or at their dorms. Also, hilariously, the multiplayer was a last minute thing.
Bruceski: Path of Radience hitting the Switch 2 virtual console has been interesting, that game was really difficult to get your hands on so a lot of folks are experiencing it for the first time.
SocraticMethod: The Library, a Kojima-esque tedium as a level design
Foxmar320: Yep the Liabrary
TheAwkes: The first night Halo was out my friends and I rented an Xbox and cleared the game in an all-night controller passing LAN party. It made an impression.
Foxmar320: Library*
SocraticMethod: Also Truth and Reconciliation sort of
TheAinMAP: Is there a Victoria contingent?
lamina5432: I think it’s an open invite thing.
Thefluffiestguineapig: If there isn't a Victoria contingent maybe get the BrewCrew in on that
Firewhiskers: It will be a fantastic snapshot of what NYC looked like in 2026 because good heavens NYC changes all the time
Juliamon: yeah I fuckin DARE em to do Boston
Omthebox: Arent these people trying to do the whole world?
Firewhiskers: Seattle is built in a grid except when it isn't
lamina5432: do some Philly
EvilBadman: @Firewhiskers good ol' tangletown
SquareDotCube: I'm guessing it's exteriors only
Geldaran: well, even here, it looks like they're not quite lined up north/south so they're buildign things at weird angles for a cube world.
earlgrey82: Denmark built their country 1:1 scale in 2014
Geldaran: must be a pain.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Are they literally doing the entire MoMA?
dougma: Boston, yea.... and not the new seaport boston, that is not boston.
Foxmar320: When they get to my town I hope they find a way to make the swamps look nice
lamina5432: is it 1:1 as in one block is one meter?
Juliamon: Foxmar320 Good news, Minecraft swamps actually look pretty cool
CaptainSpam: Is this all one server, or are they stitching together chunks from multiple servers?
Juliamon: especially the mangrove swamps
dougma:
Do the MIT buildings 
RockPusher: indeed the blocks are 1m³
SocraticMethod: Minecraft block is 1m^3, yes
RockPusher: which is why doorways don't really work to 1:1
Foxmar320: @Juliamon Minecraft swamps look too nice. Not enough trash to be like a Florida swamp
Firewhiskers: Is this like in Souls games where every door and chair is built for giants and you're tiny?
RockPusher: LEGO at least has more options than MC for fakery
Thefluffiestguineapig: I would bet they talk to Lego master builders a lot for this
RockPusher: Demand for vertical slabs in MC intensifies
ContingentCat: @Thefluffiestguineapig I imagine there's a lot of overlap in those groups lol
TehAmelie: it was a good choice cause Denmark is so flat
Laurence72: It's like with nanoblock sets too. They look best not up close, but from a moderate distance, where your vision smooths over the ragged edges.
earlgrey82: And then once they opened up e servers people blew it up and put giant american flags everywhere.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ContingentCat For sure
CaptainSpam:
Yeah, turns out that when your country goes metric, the coastlines just suddenly morph to 1m^3 blocks. Damndest thing.
Thefluffiestguineapig: For real, the BrewCrew and I forget what James's home stream chat is called might want to see if there is a Victoria contingent for this
Thefluffiestguineapig: And if they want to get into their home contingents
UtilityPunk: You can also set up some tools to turn photos from tourist spots into part of the mesh for the rocky mountains, so that it at least broadly matches the memorable spots
EvilBadman: Do you think these will have paper streets either by accident or on purpose
ArtDecoSunburn: I used to work at the Harvard Map Collection. They smuggled in border maps from China and India, which were prohibited from export from those countries.
Mai_Andra:
yeah, who going to build "Area 51" or whatever government base. 
SocraticMethod: They were 2x4 before planning,
ThorSokar: they're 2'x4' when you cut them, they shrink when they dry
RockPusher:
We need some A-series wood
lamina5432: can I move up there sounds safer.
ghyllnox:
"Has fallen out of favor" is a very diplomatic way to put it
Thefluffiestguineapig: And fuck the US and our focus on "we need to stay in Imperial units"
UtilityPunk: @Mai_Andra WarThunder nerds will do it free
Laurence72: As an American, I fully support this change.
mtvcdm: The trade became decreased
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ghyllnox More diplomatic than any of the diplomats
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Laurence72 Same
Bruceski: If the fallout of the Trump presidency is the metricization of America that would be fascinating
adept_nekomancer: If the US regains sanity and has to learn metric as a result, it will be a silver lining out of this whole mess.
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: Yeah, we'll happily take your wood. That shit has got expensive here.
ContingentCat: and all the hardware stores will have to change how they stock things, god help those workers
accountmadeforants: Shocking: Losing the one major country who uses imperial in the world as a customer means you need to use metric.
Atiota: it would be funny if this kind of thing was the push to make americans seriously consider metric
Mai_Andra: Wild to think Trump tariffs are what finally pushes the US to convert to metric...
ghyllnox: @Bruceski If that was the legacy that'd be fantastic
Laurence72: I imagine it would be a change equivalent to when the world first took up the metric system.
far2muchsarcasm: All the engineers gut design is going to be thrown off
adept_nekomancer: "Your building must now be metricized."
mtvcdm: Are we doing it? Are we melting steel beams?
SocraticMethod: Finished 2x4 is 39 x 89mm , so 40 x 90 would be close enough
Laurence72: Canada ca at least borrow the notes from Europe
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hospital code will be the worst
LordZarano: Yeah it's 50x100 (it's mm not cm)
CaptainSpam:
Yay! I caused a weird swerve!
adept_nekomancer: Sudden spike in demand for imperial to metric building adapters.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Because hospital code requires things like "hallways be 8ft so two gurneys can pass side by side"
ghyllnox: Wat
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: That's quite the porn name
mtvcdm: Oh yeah, this was A Thing when I found it for the tip line
ThorSokar: Is this just secretly Old Man Murry?
mtvcdm: Full-scale SCREEDS
ghyllnox: So, they haven't played them all, clearly
ContingentCat: @Thefluffiestguineapig easy enough to just replace that with 25 metres
Laurence72: Gee, makes you wonder why he keeps playing the games. EXACTLY BEEJ!!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ContingentCat Or however that converts because 8ft isn't 25meters I'm fairly sure
Thefluffiestguineapig: I think it's closer to 2.5 meters?
Firewhiskers: Worse than the LJN NES games?
Izandai: 8 feet is pretty close to 2 meters.
ContingentCat: @Thefluffiestguineapig dangit yeah I did the math backwards, yeah more like 3 metres
accountmadeforants: You can start with the first review and each subsequent review you can say it's the worst one you've ever played
accountmadeforants: You'd still technically be right
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ContingentCat MATH (trust me the only reason I caught that is I'm needing to double check medicine calculations constantly)
Laurence72: I can't figure out if his wealth exceeds his pettiness, or vice versa
niccus: this next review will be the farthest i've gone from the Shire
mtvcdm: 'rigorous', sure
Laurence72: I press X to doubt
Snowcookies: lmao
mtvcdm: You had me in the first... play from scrimmage
Laurence72: Poe's Law
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's why Yahtzee has such a harsh tone to his reviews
accountmadeforants: Jenna Stoeber (formerly of Polygon) recently went through all the games released in the first week of January, and honestly I could see how you'd hit 1,000's of negative reviews given the quality on display there.
Thefluffiestguineapig: People pay more attention to things that are acerbic and filled with swears
accountmadeforants: (There were TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY games released just that week)
Thefluffiestguineapig: World of Warcraft?
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Thefluffiestguineapig: How did WoW end up on that list?
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: No small, tight games in that list.
ghyllnox: Good games have fabulous graphics, don't you know
definenull: That's a lot of assumptions in that excerpt
Thefluffiestguineapig: This person needs to go play Tomato Way to see someone trying their best who made all their own assets and made a GREAT GAME
SocraticMethod: Deus ex takes millions dollars to create?
ArcOfTheConclave: Silksong is 2d, is it even a REAL game?
Firewhiskers: Excuse me, GTA 5 single player isn't as good as GTA 5 Online (kidding)
ThorSokar: Better question: what games has he positively reviewed?
adept_nekomancer: Yes, what Stardew Valley needed was GTA 5 scope and graphics.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Tomato Way looks jank as hell sometimes and has flaws but is amazing
Snowcookies: Some of what was said is like sure, but that doesn't always make it a bad game?
Thefluffiestguineapig: OH THAT"S NONSENSE
mtvcdm: Yeah, what games has he given *positive* reviews to?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Skyrim is great, it is so bug filled
ghyllnox: Mouthwashing. Balatro. Effing Tetris
SocraticMethod: Considering what Gamebryo can stretch to, it's pretty impressive technically
Thefluffiestguineapig: Routine which Alex is playing now
ThorSokar: Skyrim has had an unpatched save corruption bug for 15 years, not exactly technical excellence
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hades!
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hades 2!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ThorSokar You can run your horse vertically up a mountain!!
ghyllnox: I greatly enjoy plenty of 2D colony sims, and not 3D-as-2D
adept_nekomancer: Sometimes you hardly need graphics at all (Caves of Qud, Dwarf Fortress)
Thefluffiestguineapig: Kay
Thefluffiestguineapig: "Genuinely developed"
Thefluffiestguineapig: THE FUCK
Thefluffiestguineapig: Only 2d???????
Thefluffiestguineapig: They hand painted those assets
definenull: Jeez what a backhanded compliment
ghyllnox: "HK would have been better in 3D" ????
niccus: i wish this was a negative review instead
Bruceski: Hollow Knight as a 3D platformer would be worse than Bubsy
adept_nekomancer: "I require a minimum of 3 dimensions. Maybe 4."
LordZarano: Of all the ~125000 games on Steam roughly 13% have ProtonDB ratings. As one measure for how much of the catalog is "real"
lamina5432: that was the most begrudgingly positive review.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Bruceski Agreed and I hate that I was reminded of that game
mtvcdm: I'm now going through this person's recent reviews, and of his last 100 games reviewed, ONE got a positive: The Vale: Shadow of the Crown.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @lamina5432 "Close to triple A values" god that was so awful to listen to
Thefluffiestguineapig: @mtvcdm What even is that game
Thefluffiestguineapig: I'm sure it's 3d
ArtDecoSunburn: Hence the earlier discussion of Cameron as Andy Rooney or Lewis Black. We like authentic curmudgeons.
Laurence72: Sounds like an AI set up, to do that many reviews
niccus: lmao that's actually a swerve
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: I wonder if The Sexy Brutale is on the list
UtilityPunk: Oh yeah, this effect impacts Yahtzee Croshaw's reviews a lot. He has very particular tastes, not an expert
niccus: it's a 0d game
accountmadeforants: Okay yeah The Vale is genuinely super cool. It's an audio-only action RPG.
EvilBadman: Annoyingly, we're still giving time and attention to acerbic jerks who're living on the mid 2000s edgelord grift when it comes to media reviews.
Thefluffiestguineapig: But the curmudgeon thing is when they are honest and consistent
lamina5432: my question is what’s there review on games like ball x pit.
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @lamina5432 Heh, I'm taking a night off from that
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Thefluffiestguineapig: @EvilBadman I don't mind the ones who have evolved
Thefluffiestguineapig: I still like Yahtzee's reviews
accountmadeforants: Oh yeah this is just an acerbic shithead, you can't actually play and review that many games.
Laurence72: HE also only doess 1 game a week, not however many this grumpdoes
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig True. We like grumpiness from a place of truth. Consternation that reflects an everyman view.
Thefluffiestguineapig: I think his critiques are valid and he isn't giving scores
accountmadeforants: ZP went from "AVGN at 2X speed" to being a lot more reasonable yeah
ThorSokar: Oh, The Vale is for people who are blind, what a very unique concept
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yahtzee being honest about being mad he finished a game, that he wishes for certain kind of game he used to hate back
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also a reviewer who is upfront about their privilege of not having to pay for a game or console meaning they might be kinder to a game is super great
ContingentCat: it always helps me appreciate and enjoy the thing more when understanding how things are made
Thefluffiestguineapig: Absolutely, it also helps me not be obnoxious about "why hasn't more of the thing I adore been made"
lamina5432: I’ve had a problem seeing people be disappointed meeting content creators. while my attitude has always been seeing them as human.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Heather? Keeping you on task? NO
Laurence72: Please let his replacement be named Mario!
EvilBadman: @lamina5432 this issue is a lot of them try to be characters so when you see them in public, they're not human, they're a personality
accountmadeforants: Time to bring in Doug Wario
Thefluffiestguineapig: @lamina5432 That's my thing too, they are human beings
Decaped: Bowser also got a new job.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Not Jeff Keely and Kojima hang out
Invitare: she stole Wheeler's bit!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Decaped Oh shit, what is it and how mad will I be
EvilBadman: @Thefluffiestguineapig Board at Hasbro
Thefluffiestguineapig: NOOOOO
Thefluffiestguineapig: So more MtG product will be pushed
Decaped: look, if anyone can make MtG release fewer things, it's the guy who used to be at Nintendo
Thefluffiestguineapig: Please let MtG slow down
adept_nekomancer: Mario the Gathering
CaptainSpam: I like how everyone immediately goes to Mario for this, and not Zelda.
Aceviru: Everyone is here, secret lair
niccus: i guess the Cocks & Execs lawsuit is too recent to analyze
EvilBadman: He's on the hasbro board, if anything I'd hope he's helping them be less reliant on WOTC, because their revenue is dire outside of that
mtvcdm: (Update: it took me until Page 51 of ObeyTheFist's reviews to find a second positive review, over 500 games deep, and that second positive review is, literally GTA 5.)
accountmadeforants: Hasbro shareholders did recently file a lawsuit against Hasbro (for supposedly overprinting Magic cards), so maybe not a great time to join, but hey it be do
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's meaningless words
Thefluffiestguineapig: @accountmadeforants Oh fuck off shareholders
LordZarano: Bowser didn't get Switch 2 Welcome Tour bundled like Reggie did with Wii Sports
Thefluffiestguineapig: I think they need to print less Secret Lairs and go down to 3 standard sets in a year
CaptainSpam: And just think, Japan completely missed out on how perfect Doug Bowser's name was.
Thefluffiestguineapig: So the shareholders of Hasboro want to make more artificial scarcity?
EvilBadman: @CaptainSpam No, I think they got it
SocraticMethod: @Thefluffiestguineapig Good news, that's what the lawsuit is about: Specifically, the shareholder plaintiffs claim that, under Cocks' leadership, Hasbro has been printing far too many Magic: The Gathering sets, thereby reducing the value of existing sets"
Laurence72: LOL
Thefluffiestguineapig: @SocraticMethod Oh thank fuck, my assumption was that they wanted to create artificial scarcity
NapalmSideburns: Collector's editions being sold for a ton of money without including the actual game
EvilBadman: It's assumed the Marathon pre-orders has Destiny 2 benefits so steam was like "OH YOU NEED D2"
calculated_uncertainties: @Thefluffiestguineapig Sounds like just a normal amount of scarcity.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @calculated_uncertainties No, what I thought was they wanted to reduce the amount of each set printed to increase the price charged so they could make more
lamina5432: Gnight you two.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Make more profit
SocraticMethod: AFAIK it's due to how Steam tries to install DLC immidiately upon purchase and Marathon pre-order contained D2 cosmetics
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Mai_Andra: I imagine they just copied the same template when submitting it to Steam and then forgot to change the ID. Then Steam was just trying to be helpful.
SocraticMethod: So account gets D2 DLC -> Stream starts installing base game
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EvilBadman: @SocraticMethod Especiall since D2 base is Free
Thefluffiestguineapig: @SocraticMethod So people are mad because they get charged for the base game?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh the base game is free now
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RockPusher: Budget Magic!
mtvcdm: The 20 Norwegian kroner challenge
Thefluffiestguineapig: Adam said it was Adam, Cam, Cori and Graham at the end of Oki Oki
accountmadeforants: @Thefluffiestguineapig Yeah, it's more wanting to avoid the sort of situation where Hasbro has to somehow shift a bunch of leftover old stock. (Which it spent 50 million dollars to do near the end of 2023)
Juliamon: They *just* started the epilogue
calculated_uncertainties: boxing the jack!
DoodlestheGreat: Yay!
ContingentCat: yessss
TheAinMAP: !box
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CaptainSpam: JacqueBox
7gorobei: how many Jacks with be boxing
Juliamon: yay, more Temu Dead Space
DoodlestheGreat: Baxjocks.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @accountmadeforants Hopefully they understand if they have less exhaustion people will play more. Anyways, neither here nor there
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon But at least with cats
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DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon I wonder how long they will persist because it just seems so boring
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: o/
ThorSokar:
Thefluffiestguineapig: Thanks for the stream!
Juliamon: I'm praying there's an interesting story beat soon that justifies the glowing reviews from people that usually have worthwhile opinions
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Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon Or a change in the gameplay or something
Juliamon: which has some of the best bullet-point features ever
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Thefluffiestguineapig: Those bullet points are solid gold
accountmadeforants: @Juliamon Oh damn you're right. Those are awesome bullet points
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also this seems like a recipe for the low battery furbie nightmare
Thefluffiestguineapig: I want nothing to talk to me randomly throughout the day
accountmadeforants: "Is not a clock" thank fuck
Thefluffiestguineapig: @accountmadeforants The single bullet point of "no wi-fi, bluetooth or AI functionalities" is so beautiful
accountmadeforants:
Oh yeah I was being cheeky 
Juliamon: I keep expecting there to be a fifth bullet point of "seriously, this is not the Alarmo, this is just a talking toy"
accountmadeforants: I just realized literally all the bullet points are about what it *isn't*. So now we can infer that it is everything *but* those exact things.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yeah, the "Your Talking Flower will also announce the hour (mostly accurately), comment on the time of day and temperature, and even play select background music"
accountmadeforants: Meaning the flower is edible. I'm going to eat it
Thefluffiestguineapig: @accountmadeforants Everything is edible once
accountmadeforants: Also clearly compatible with every console *except* the Switches
Thefluffiestguineapig: Someone could send this to the moonbase and Paul could have his Quebeqoise flower in real life
Thefluffiestguineapig: Compatible with computers going back to Apple 2
Juliamon: alas, it doesn't include French (CA) in the language options
Thefluffiestguineapig: NOOOOOO
Thefluffiestguineapig: Betrayed in language options!
Thefluffiestguineapig: I also love that they have the caveat of it will announce the hour mostly accurately
Juliamon: it has both LatAm Spanish and Euro Spanish, but only Euro Portuguese and French
accountmadeforants: This phrasing "This item will be shipped to your address. Ships 3/12/26" suggests that they're sending it my way regardless of whether I purchase it.
Thefluffiestguineapig: "You will get words of encouragement and silly quips" whether you want them or not
Juliamon: "Sometimes you might hear languages other than the one you set!"
Thefluffiestguineapig: At random
Thefluffiestguineapig: Why not just have it cycle between all the languages from the game? They recorded them all?
accountmadeforants: @Juliamon I think it's a 50/50 whether that's a bug someone turned into a feature
Thefluffiestguineapig: Did you post this in the discord Juliamon?
Juliamon: I didn't
Thefluffiestguineapig: @accountmadeforants Same with the occasionally incorrect hour
Juliamon: Only have shared it here and the tip line in Slack
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh right! You have a tip line!
Juliamon: I do want to get one for Paul though, just because.
Juliamon: I miss the sub flowers
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's a great call on things for this being bugs turned into features
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon They were so cheerful
Juliamon: I also might buy one for myself, and just never put batteries in it. Because it IS a cute flower.
Thefluffiestguineapig: I need to watch Paul's playthrough again, that game was such a joy to watch
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon Or look around for a pattern for crochet or knitting and see who has time in LRRchat
Thefluffiestguineapig: Honestly a rainbow of these crafted would be a great DB prize
Thefluffiestguineapig: I forget the name of the person who does the needle felting but that would also be a great way to make these with a good texture
Thefluffiestguineapig: But yes, I think sending this to Paul would be a sheer delight
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