LtStoryTime: hey chat im ready to watch some gaming, glad to catch it right on time!
ManWithTheMask13:
@30teracyte that's a good point, who designed this shit 
marchphoenix: Uni on oki oki
rentar42: fun with chat?!
LtStoryTime: LMFAOOO
ManWithTheMask13: FROGS ARE GONEEEE
therepoman__:
Frogs are gone 
A_Dub888: Adam has fun with chat???
TXC2: !next
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saucemaster5000: FROGS ARE GONE
TXC2: !events
lamina5432: some uni 2
rentar42: but B is not blue?!
30teracyte: Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition week on OOFC
TXC2: gonna get rifty
AceGun_: @30teracyte careful, I got timed out last time I suggested this.
TXC2: PPR into a live? bold
LowUpsideCJ: damn that’s a long broadcast day
LowUpsideCJ: ggs ggs
A_Dub888: Quid Miz Quid
El_Zilcho22:
fishboi_samurai: i’m staying
Mr_Horrible:
thanks for the stream, lads 
fishboi_samurai: I’m a rebel
TXC2:
also please stay here for the next stream 
RelwinEJ: I think Graham said the pre recorded the Live
ghyllnox: Thanks for the stream o/
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MilkInBags: what did you unplug!?!
ContingentCat: bye boys, and bye moonbase windows
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RockPusher: !search for treasure
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RockPusher shoves a microphone in the wandering monster's face and asks its opinion on changes to local zoning changes
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Manae: !next
RockPusher:
'cause the local authority has changed the changes, not because I mis-edited that line 
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TXC2: title change!
RockPusher: !quote beej
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RockPusher: I mean, so long as it isn't a hot and/or ouchie part of the train
TheAinMAP: Signal.
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mtvcdm: Yo
TXC2: hello mtvcdm
lamina5432: it's like we never left
TXC2: TODAY!
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I wasn't prepared! 
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mtvcdm: You can plant trees and have them grow in lots of games
TheAinMAP: Hello.
RockPusher: Plant some bamboo - have that grow in real time
TXC2: hello Heather, Paul and Beej
mtvcdm: Chrono trigger. Minecraft. There's probably a bonsai tree simultor out there.
Wolfstrike_NL: Can google docks stop you by logging paul out?
RubikDarkwill: Doom and Prey have the same problem
DoodlestheGreat: Doom 2016...
LordZarano: Sonic '06
RockPusher: Fable, Fable (2026), Fable (2028) I, Fable (2028) II…
kingandcommoner: II.8
RockPusher:
Really the only naming news that will matter is if Sony manages to fuck up naming the Playstation 6 the Playstation 6
Laserbeaks_Fury: Only in the fantasy realm of video game can people conceive of consequences for actions
RockPusher:
RockPusher: Tradition!
TXC2 drinks
Invitare: Become the ULTIMATE villain
Invitare: a landlord
ArtDecoSunburn: Sounds a little like Ultima VII, where every NPC had a day and night activity cycle.
TXC2: molyneux-esque
DoodlestheGreat: molyneux-ish?
ArtDecoSunburn: Path dependence.
DoodlestheGreat: "Where the rubber hits the road." But enough about the love life of NASCAR drivers.
ghyllnox: Via butterfly effect? Probably a lot, but not going would also do a lot
ArtDecoSunburn: Every time I buy a cup of coffee, a government somewhere topples.
RockPusher: The barista NPC remembers the customer NPC name — customer NPC never goes to that cafe again
TXC2:
DoodlestheGreat "I said do my ass, not do my asphalt!" 
Laserbeaks_Fury: Eventually, huge game will just be interconnecting simulators that never know it. You go and order a hamburger, and 4 people are desperately playing Overcooked
Wolfstrike_NL:
@ArtDecoSunburn Could we ask you to buy more coffee 
?
TXC2:
Laserbeaks_Fury I think that's what Meta was ment to be
DoodlestheGreat: So long as none of them are GTA, we're golden.
RockPusher: Laserbeaks_Fury I have thought about that sort of setup being an interesting multi-game MMO proposition
ArtDecoSunburn: @Laserbeaks_Fury EconomyIsClosedLoopOfTwoOldLadiesDoingEachOthersWash.exe
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mtvcdm: When they say '*anything* could happen', it's often clickbait and wants you to think 'you could have sex with *anything* in this game'
ArtDecoSunburn: @Wolfstrike_NL I keep ordering Americanos, but no luck yet.
DoodlestheGreat: @mtvcdm Within the laws of your local area...
RockPusher:
Scribblenauts got the balance right - here's a goal, here's a powerful toolkit, go at it 
LordZarano: I feel like Baldur's Gate needs to be part of this conversation
ArtDecoSunburn: @DoodlestheGreat "The physics simulator is awesome! The legal code is dictated by the state of Delaware."
RockPusher: (player proceeds to solve everything with a helicopter)
RockPusher: Nah, the demon king is busy doing on his cute daughter
RockPusher:
At least if anime is to be believed - surely anime would never lie to me
DoodlestheGreat: @RockPusher I know, isn't that show a delight?
RockPusher: *doting on
ArtDecoSunburn: Sounds a little like Darklands, where you play the RPG and may never come across the main story big bad.
TXC2: I feel like Fallout New Vegas did a good version of this, choices you make do matter to how the game ends, but there is only like 3-4 ending
TXC2: 5able
RockPusher: DoodlestheGreat having 2 of them this season is fun
ghyllnox:
Wolfstrike_NL: That sounds like exhausting fucking
DoodlestheGreat: Paul, isn't /that/ the plot of an anime? "The 1000 NPCs Who Really Really Really Really Really Really Love You?"
TXC2:
give me the 1000 person polycule or give me death
avjamethyst: fable 3 romance was pretty unsatisfying
DoodlestheGreat: 10 different types of relationship. Normal, Tsundere, Kuuderie, etc...
Laserbeaks_Fury: Date everything only had over 100+, that that was *the whole* game
ghyllnox: "You've purchased coffee from me once. Would you like to come back to my place tonight?"
RockPusher: The back of my head is a lot colder nowadays
niccus: is it a massive polycule, or is the prince of all cosmos about to turn your entire city into a star
mtvcdm: !addquote [Paul] (now) I often have complaints about the back of my head.
LRRbot: Could not add quote due to invalid date.
mtvcdm: whoops
TXC2: ah the time zone of PAUL
mtvcdm: !addquote (Paul) [now] I often have complaints about the back of my head.
LRRbot: New quote #9523: "I often have complaints about the back of my head." —Paul [2026-01-30]
Laserbeaks_Fury: Thats what I liked about Mass Effect
TXC2: IMO, Mass Effect 3 should have had just the one ending
avjamethyst: dragon age has been pretty good about that
ghyllnox:
Maybe they're all in *open* relationships with each other
ContingentCat: it feels questionably consentual
Laserbeaks_Fury: If someone has a preference, it feels good when you fall in that
LilyOfTheVeil666: Jack Mass Effect should have been gay. I will die on this hill.
Azsedcf: Thump
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TXC2: hello Raiders!
mtvcdm: League of Legends has also been around for a VERY long time and has had years to come up with all those different identities
albaec1968: hello everyone
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TXC2: hello albaec1968 welcome
LilyOfTheVeil666: Hello raiders!
mtvcdm: You are 'a planeswalker'
TXC2: the lore verse the story
TXC2: *versus
thrythlind: there's more games out there with polyamory options, but it always feels weird because your Love Interests don't interact with each other.
DoodlestheGreat: "While you were gone, the butcher married the washer woman...."
thrythlind: Like on Potionomics, I'd like to see special dialogues when you're romancing two different characters that implies those two get together either platonically or romantically themselves
TXC2: thrythlind exactly, always feels more like cheating then a true polycule
ContingentCat: @thrythlind and ends up being about as realistic to being in a poly relationship as the monogamous ones
thrythlind: @TXC2 yeah, imagine you go to talk to partner 1 and they respond "Oh partner 2 wants to see you about X" to inform you like of a partner related quest
RunicScribe: Elder scrolls games often have setting up two NPCs in a romance as a sidequest, though the depth and reactivity can be lacking
mtvcdm: Speaking of people making stuff up for attention
TXC2: thrythlind that would be real neat
DoodlestheGreat: Dr D's life isn't a fable, it's badly-written pornographic fan fiction of himself.
niccus: turns out we didn't disrespect him enough
TXC2: a distinctive looking """"person""""
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mtvcdm: There's like a million DrDisrespects running around and that's approximately one million too many of them
TXC2:
mtvcdm yes, we call them ICE
mtvcdm: I mean I was trying to dance around hitting the nail on the head quite that hard but
Joecool190: hes not great at a lot of things
DoodlestheGreat: Doc D's not good at much of anything outside of being a useless tick on the buttocks of a dead bear.
TXC2:
it was a "joke" and not, you know, fraud
mtvcdm: DrDisrespect isn't even good at being DrDisrespect anymore
lamina5432: I heard its very much just an average game
SocraticMethod: Highguard marketing and social media team had a problem that they are really reactive. There was a fake highguard bluesky account that was mimicking corporate accounts imcopetently. It took them more than a day to sort that out.
Oghara: !schedule
SocraticMethod: Highguard is game equivalent of "it gets better 5 episodes in" anime
thrythlind: a game that's getting too much hate is Bloodlines 2... I played through and finished it and it was great, it FELT line a modernized version of Bloodlines... I feel like people are engaging in heavy nostalgia-filters with Bloodlines... they're both like good 3/5 games where the story and vibes hit 5/5
niccus: if you remember a bus, it's Firefall
TXC2: starcraft 2 esque font
DoodlestheGreat: It was Grummz' baby.
TXC2:
was Firefall one of the E3 games covered in Unskippable?
TXC2: !wiki
DoodlestheGreat: I was part of the closed beta for that thing. It was grindy and repititious.
lamina5432: currently playing endfield as I watch
thrythlind: some of my friends are heavily recommending both ArkKnights and EndField
Omthebox:
@lamina5432 
same
DoodlestheGreat: @thrythlind Not to mention EndKnights and ArkField...
Boopity: Hot potato microtransactions
lamina5432: it's PS5, mobile or PC
Boopity:
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: It also brings Paypal's fraud detection into question
thrythlind: one problem we're having in work with the new program is something I never thought it would be a problem... the cursor jumps around making it hard to make corrections at the same time as the computer dictating the text we're trying to make captions for
thrythlind: never considered cursor jumping as a thing that would be a problem
thrythlind: now I deal with it a sizeable portion of my week
NotCainNorAbel: mundane details
Laserbeaks_Fury: it's like CC the whole ofgfice
Boopity: "So we heard you like gambling"
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SocraticMethod: @Boopity Gambling? I'm in!
Laserbeaks_Fury: Somehow you go home with someone else's credit card
Wolfstrike_NL: Speedrunning banned game in the EU
TXC2: I suspect that becomes WAY to close to actual gamlbing
SocraticMethod: Scambling
lamina5432: arknights doesn't do the +1
TXC2: !box
LRRbot: In the box is: Hellshake Mnanker
ProcyonFlynn: Now THAT upgrade scheme? Yeah I recall a game that did exactly that.
Laserbeaks_Fury: You so STUPID!
LoadingReadyRun:
@Laserbeaks_Fury 
thank you
lamina5432: that enchanting mechanic is very MMO coded
Boopity:
lamina5432: kaiji the biggest gambling anime
Brozard: Lord, he was born a gamblin' man
yonder_peasant: it's a bit like squid game, now that i think about it
Brozard: but without the social commentary?
Juliamon: now I want to rewatch Kaiji
Juliamon: it's so good, and so brutal
TXC2:
so a paupers prison, but not run by the government?
Juliamon: it's run by the wealthy, so basically the govt
TXC2: Juliamon touché
Bruceski: "I'm built different"
thrythlind: I miss Spice and Wolf
TXC2: "yes, everyone is, that's what divisity is"
yonder_peasant: the tooth fairy
ThorSokar: clearly a necklace
EvilBadman: gotta prepare the baby food
TXC2: *diversity
Damon_1977: In- dentures servitude
SocraticMethod: Dentures were made of old human and animal teeth
kingandcommoner: There is no Justice there is only Just Dance
Invitare: they forgot they were supposed to develop games, not harass employees and sell techbro scams
SocraticMethod: See: Waterloo teeth (yes, that Waterloo)
SymphonySolstice: I bought a lot of rockband DLC songs back in the day
SocraticMethod:
And Ubisoft is right, considering how some games have been delisted due to lapsed licensed music 
Snowcookies: Apparently it's also popular in old ppl's homes
Tiber727: John JustDance
TXC2: it would be nice, but the music industry would NEVER allow that
TXC2:
oh we had to FIGHT for that level of copy protection on Arena 
Thefluffiestguineapig:
Yup, the fighting for that on arena was deep and long 
SymphonySolstice: [disappointed frenchman noises]
Thefluffiestguineapig: So... a French way
TXC2: Quebec: Canada, but in a longer, more French way
Tiber727: Remember kids, games are a license not a good. "So that means I have a right to the content regardless of the medium, right?" *Anakin smile*
EvilBadman: The HarborMasters have also been working on Mario64 (they're not the ones doing BK, but they did OOT and MM)
TXC2: right chat I'm off
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Heather, Paul and Beej
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Laserbeaks_Fury: yeah OoT suffered
Laserbeaks_Fury: from that
Laserbeaks_Fury: All the UI was older textures
Thefluffiestguineapig: And they didn't pay for them I assume
EvilBadman: The other thing a buncha of these N64 recomps have been adding is built-in randomizer
Sealtest:
dont forget they made a third one as well 
Thefluffiestguineapig: Nostalgia and it doesn't have a modern version would be my guess/modern presence
EvilBadman: It was up for one TGA, but the full game didn't come out before the cutoff so it may be elibilge next year too?
Bruceski: HR violation: the game
SocraticMethod: The job title is "Dispatcher"
Tiber727: The Big red muscle mommy doesn't actually do much though.
Laserbeaks_Fury: It's heavr visual novel, but the gameplay portion is also pretty fun
Laserbeaks_Fury: The black bar is funny, like it's played for humor
LilyOfTheVeil666: Booo
Thefluffiestguineapig: Well that's not ok
Tiber727: It's a visual novel that has gameplay that's there to be there, and is an excuse to hear the characters banter more.
RatherLargeToad: there’s a villain guy that is just naked all the time
Thefluffiestguineapig: So no Witcher ever
EvilBadman: @Thefluffiestguineapig both Witcher and CP2077 are on Switch/Switch 2
LilyOfTheVeil666: ^
Thefluffiestguineapig: @EvilBadman .........Don't those have copious nudity and swearing?
Laserbeaks_Fury: Those game have seperate versions sold in specific marketplaces
EvilBadman: Yes.
ArmstrongRGM96X: Basically, it's the whole "when a metric becomes a target it ceases to be a good metric" thing
RatherLargeToad: @evilbadman but their Japanese versions are censored as well
ArmstrongRGM96X: The rating groups just get around that by not giving a metric
TheMerricat: So one thing that should be pointed out here is that the studio is smaller than CDPR, they didn't have the money to release different versions of the game for each region and Heather is just point this out...
Laserbeaks_Fury: Like there's specifically a CP2077 version sold only in Japan
TheMerricat: They aimed for CERO rating and that's more restrictive.
RatherLargeToad: CERO only rates console games, I believe, so it didn’t come up before
RatherLargeToad: the Japanese PS5 version of Dispatch is also censored, I believe
EvilBadman: @RatherLargeToad i was aware, I was answering the question
lamina5432: WoW has a specifically Chinese version
Thefluffiestguineapig: @lamina5432 I believe that might be because of their internet restrictions partially
lamina5432: a lot of bones and blood hidden I think
TheMerricat: It is the consequences of the rules Nintendo created.
Laserbeaks_Fury: The didn't go in and alter AdHoc's game, they just asked for the game to be self edited, and the said sure
EvilBadman: @Thefluffiestguineapig There's no bare-bones skeletons skeletons (among other wierd stuff)
Thefluffiestguineapig: @EvilBadman That is weird and arbitrary
EvilBadman: Cultural thing
Boopity: Honestly I've decided that video game age rating institutions have completely lost any credibility to me after the nonsense with Balatro. Meanwhile hundreds of other games with literal gambling in them...
SocraticMethod: Doesn't Japan also have mandatory censoring of genitals?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh for sure, but picking WoW and not other games for that is strange to me
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Thefluffiestguineapig: @Boopity What happened with that?
TheMerricat:
SocraticMethod: Considering Toxic keeps hang dong ...
Laserbeaks_Fury: And they were not going to sneak any of this stuff in, like there a character who dong is out all the time, and they actively make jokes about it.
TheMerricat:
Laserbeaks_Fury: If AdHoc felt strongly those elements of the story were important, they just wouldn't have listed their game on Switch
Thefluffiestguineapig: For me it is all so arbitrary and there is so many things are political (see itch.io and the group of 1,000 aussies roughly getting so many LGBT+ games removed along with sex games)
EvilBadman: Robert Yang
Thefluffiestguineapig: They also did it the funny way
BusTed: spiders on the dong
TheMerricat: Jelly DONUTS!
LordZarano: But I like spiders!
RockPusher: Dong Spiders. Thanks Beej…
Thefluffiestguineapig: They used literal censor bars and bleeps the funniest ways of doing censorship
SocraticMethod: Spider-dong, Spider-dong, does what spider can!
Laserbeaks_Fury: Yeah, like the censorship is done in a way to preserve the humor
Thefluffiestguineapig: Implied violence/horror monsters is often so much better. Similar to bleeping swear words
mtvcdm: oh this poor guy
Marvoleath: Some games are releasing a free DLC that "unlocks" uncensored content, keeping their main game more pegi friendly
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Bruceski Censor bar, censor bar, does *#$@
TheMerricat: @Marvoleath This used to be a common workaround for Steam VN but Steam started cracking down on it.
Thefluffiestguineapig: WELP YOU ASKED FOR IT
Nigouki: keikaku went sideways
SocraticMethod: In 2pt font?
Boopity: @Thefluffiestguineapig Belated surface-level explanation: Balatro had a headache with PEGI for a bit after getting marked as 18+ due to using Poker imagery and terminology. But loot boxes and gacha games are perfectly fine of course...
mtvcdm: He did get 100 people to go with the 59,900 bots
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Boopity Yeah, totally fine (screaming into the void)
TheMerricat: @Boopity Traditional gambling bad. New age gambling ok.
zelukester: magnificent
Thefluffiestguineapig: hehehehehehehehehehe
Thefluffiestguineapig: Perfect no notes
Thefluffiestguineapig: The monkey's paw curled
Nigouki: I blame Peter Jackson and the LotR fanclub credits in the Extended Editions
RubikDarkwill: And Road Quest?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh, I'm so sorry Paul
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TheMerricat: Paul doesn't half ass anything.
Thefluffiestguineapig: heheehehheheh Some boatymcboatface ass names right there
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's top tier internet, that's the internet I enjoy
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Paul is the best
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ContingentCat: avoiding rivers yeah
RockPusher: The MkV wall was very cool
EvilBadman: little bobby droptables
mtvcdm: I don't need that
TheMerricat: Ren and Stimpy was cool till I learned about the creator.
ContingentCat: there was a ren and stimpy game?
mtvcdm: Oh there were Ren and Stimpy games
ContingentCat: there was seven?!
Boopity:
Thefluffiestguineapig: I had no idea there were games of this
Juliamon: It was... quite awhile back
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh no
mtvcdm: I make the active decision never to play any of them as a kid
Laserbeaks_Fury: On the flipside, they are bringing a Disney Afternoon collection
Boopity:
I can't believe they forgot to include such classics
EvilBadman: I hope none of the money from this goes to John K but I doubt it
mtvcdm: I believe Stimpy's Invention is supposed to be "the good one" by Ren and Stimpy standards
TheAinMAP:
yonder_peasant: oh man, happy happy joy joy brings back memories
LilyOfTheVeil666: Are those Pogs?!?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Is that a VHS is a box shaped like a VHS?
avjamethyst: loved cool spot
Laserbeaks_Fury: LJNothanx
TheMerricat: The NES Yo Noid game was awesome.
Boopity: The legendary Pepsiman, Uchikoshi of 999 fame's first video game credit
Thefluffiestguineapig: See Chex Quest
Thefluffiestguineapig: Pepsiman is rad and I will not see him slandered!
Juliamon: Licensed games were truly a coinflip for a period of time
ContingentCat: Home improvement got a game?
kingandcommoner: and then road rage
Nigouki: Home Alone game was pretty good, but kinda limited
Bruceski: End of the World Button was their best bit ans still holds up
Thefluffiestguineapig: I read a lot of Star Wars Extended Universe novels and was literally yelled at by my parents for touching video games. it was something that a carbon copy of my mother would never do
EvilBadman: got the original Scrooge as his last VA
Laserbeaks_Fury: yeah they got Alan Young back beforehe passed
Juliamon: Lion King was SO fuckin hard
Thefluffiestguineapig: So many of those original tie in games seem to be hard for no reason
Thefluffiestguineapig: Stanford prison is where my brain goes and please no
RockPusher: DEFCON was great
Boopity:
What's uplink?
SocraticMethod: wait what, same people? wow
TheMerricat: I still cry playing Darwinia. I feel for those little AI bots.
RockPusher: DEFCON is what if the graphics from Wargames were a game
LordZarano:
Darwinia
Strebenherz: oh the new world problem
Thefluffiestguineapig: woof
RockPusher: Scanner Sombre was a swing and a miss at something different
TheMerricat: That sucks, I remember them playing Scanner Sombra on a LRR stream and it seemed cool
niccus: weirdly influential for a game that had no player base, LIDAR horror games is now a subgenre
TheMerricat: See also - Valve and the OG team working there.
Boopity: It's also a question whether staffing up actually speeds things. 20 people trying to screw in a lightbulb is about the same, if not slower than 1 person screwing in a lightbulb
Marvoleath:
They could start working on Jail Designer
r10pez10: how many lead guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb
Thefluffiestguineapig: NBA
Thefluffiestguineapig: Then the sims
ContingentCat: sim ant was quite something
TheMerricat: Simcity died though less because they were making too many spin offs, Simcity died because Maxis stopped being Maxis.
Strebenherz: I thought it was EA shenanigans?
r10pez10: we have cities skylines at home
Vinewood_OG: @TheMerricat and EA keeps being EA
Strebenherz: though they did kinda come in at the lifetime end of maxis
Thefluffiestguineapig: I learned about Sim Ant through LRR and it gets mentioned a lot
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yeah, I think a SimCity game with required online multiplayer was a death knell
Sethalidos: TTwo P{oint University
Boopity:
What was that one school game they played on Talking Sim where they had a _massive_ toilet problem
RockPusher: That was kinda the hook in the early pitching of Prison Architect - exploring the different philosophies
Thefluffiestguineapig: Or Portal
Marvoleath:
Rollercoaster Tycoon was a great prison sim
LordZarano: @Boopity Two Point Museum has a Twitch integration where chat can break all the toilets
RubikDarkwill: It's Prison Architect × FTL
RockPusher: Gratuitous Space FTL Battle Architect lrrBEJJ
RockPusher:
Thefluffiestguineapig: Serge would be so disappointed
Vinewood_OG: That's part of why I loved Surviving Mrs before it fell to enshittification. IF your colony sucks, people just get on the next ship and leave!
TheMerricat:
Chat, you remember like six years ago when the dev said they were releasing the last update to Terraria?
Boopity: @LordZarano Oh yeah, that one too. Wait, were there _two_ "institution simulators" with massive bathroom accidents on stream?
Juliamon: Boopity I think Academia was the one you're thinking of?
Thefluffiestguineapig: The political whip or physical whip?
RatherLargeToad: The cells have leaked out!
Boopity:
@Juliamon Oh yeah, that's it, thank you 
That'll be a fun rewatch
ghyllnox: Whips did need to be expanded, but there were already sooo many hairstyles
TheMerricat:
@ghyllnox Yes, but also - you can _never_ have too many hairstyles.
RockPusher:
ghyllnox: Hammered with a hammer, mind
mtvcdm: Gotta get your mannequin good and drunk
Thefluffiestguineapig: NOPE that’s how those get haunted
ghyllnox: There is also alcohol in the game
Boopity: I do, in fact, not feel so inclined
RatherLargeToad: My poor elves!
Thefluffiestguineapig: Is it a little gnome melter too?
ghyllnox: It's another flamethrower, and iirc it's elf themed
Thefluffiestguineapig: Can I use it on Spud related trauma?
Invitare: lava is functionally solid
DoodlestheGreat: Just watch Ruri Rocks and you'll feel better.
Invitare: from a human perspective anyway
TheMerricat:
@ghyllnox It's christmas themed because there is a 'santa' sub-boss.
ghyllnox: Rockslide but more fluid
Thefluffiestguineapig:
you would need some ice to believe in
Boopity: I relate to the overheated rocks rolling around
Thefluffiestguineapig: It’s the reason mudslides are so terrifying
RockPusher: It's why people have difficulty comprehending the molasses disaster
ghyllnox: The baby slime texture did need an update, it was a little crunchy
Laserbeaks_Fury: Polished Sausage
Snowcookies: I wanna see someone polish a sand pile irl
RockPusher: We don't reason about viscous liquids well
Laserbeaks_Fury: LOOK AT THE BONES!
Juliamon: lmao
Thefluffiestguineapig: Anyone who has polished glass
ghyllnox: It is more accurate, because the name of the bunny is "Vicious Bunny"
Thefluffiestguineapig: That would be Ian
Marvoleath: scientifically accurate toilet
ShaneLeeAtk: You wouldn't download a meteorite
Thefluffiestguineapig: The name of the toilet must match the rest of the set
Bruceski: vicious bunny kite, not to be confused with viscous bunny kite
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ShaneLeeAtk Technically it would down you, by coming down on top of you
Thefluffiestguineapig: Aren’t those notoriously difficult? Not quite as difficult as Hitchhiker’s guide but still hard?
Tiber727: I remember some of the earlier ones would do things like kill characters off and those those characters would appear later because it forgot they died.
Boopity: Oh boy
ThorSokar: how very Tron of them
Juliamon: get flask
Sethalidos: you cannot get ye flask
Thefluffiestguineapig: You cannot get ye flask
Thefluffiestguineapig: Many of them were hyper specific
r10pez10: !search for treasure
LRRbot: You find: a Wandering Monster!
Boopity: Classic LLM behavior
Thefluffiestguineapig: Of course it is
Boopity: Clearly typing in "LOOK" is too complicated for the average gamer to comprehend, we must solve this using LLMs!
Marvoleath: finger but whole
RatherLargeToad: soilent zork is made of people!
SocraticMethod: LLMs are a subcategory of NLP, so it kinda makes sense trying to match intent to restricted syntax
niccus: i've seen how hard it is to convince people to dip into IF, i guess i'd try anything
RockPusher: Natural language processing, unsurprisingly, actually what a large language model is *for*
Marvoleath: I mean, that's kinda what "vibe coding" tries to achieve, parsing natural language into programming language
niccus: in a way this is the natural offspring of Inform programming
SocraticMethod: @Marvoleath Input unclear, rolling back the workspace:
SocraticMethod: @SocraticMethod rm -rf ~
Boopity: @SocraticMethod This has happened
Boopity: LLMs are certainly at least ways away from generative AI
TheMerricat: Running a text adventure could easily be extended to running any of the descendants of text adventures. Walking Sims, Visual Novels, etc. Also swapping in a Speech to Text means you don't need to type in commands....
RockPusher: the ethics around the training are a different axis to the ethics/wisdom of the usage
RockPusher: We got cellphones too
r10pez10: "so you don't want AI to be good?" "i don't want AI to be used for art"
SocraticMethod: @Boopity LLMs _are_ generative AI, the "Language" that is encoded can be as abstract as visual information
RockPusher: Literal objective of the cellphone engineers - "Star Trek has communicators, they are cool, we should have those."
RockPusher:
The existentialism of "What is a Mii?"
ContingentCat: agender as well as nonbinary is good
RockPusher: That's an interesting approach
ghyllnox: Oh, I didn't see that they had multiselect and none, that's awesome
Boopity: @SocraticMethod Oh, my bad. Admittedly I'm not very well informed on the actual inner workings of genAI.
LordZarano: That was dating preferences that was any/all/nome
LilyOfTheVeil666: ^
LordZarano: *none
KeytarCat: I date only gnome
EvilBadman:
just llike Fable
SocraticMethod: @LordZarano tomodachi life has cross-over with Oz books? Neat!
RockPusher:
Final DLC - they can attack and dethrone god
Boopity: But also they feed you and give you housing and gifts
definenull: ?!?!?
LordZarano: Oh yeah and all the food is just jpegs
lamina5432: thats great
definenull: I feel like that's a crapshot in the making
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Boopity:
SocraticMethod: Just tag it as "RPF" and it's all good
Boopity: Also the Miitopia Switch re-release expanded the Mii creation to the point where people made _exact_ recreations of many characters
LordZarano: You can draw pets in the new one too. So people are absolutely gonna have islands with a load of pet crudely drawn dongs running around
Boopity:
It is a power befitting of the god-like power of the player
RockPusher:
Paul the T.A. recommends you do the reading
Snowcookies: I look forward to talking sim with Heather talking about fanfic
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Snowcookies: ty for the stream
DoodlestheGreat: AND NOW....
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SocraticMethod: What's in Simic Commander decks? Lots of things
RockPusher:
Diversification of PPRs
RockPusher: Big! Mid! Quiz!
Snowcookies: it's LIVE!
RockPusher: LIVE… to tape
Kentosaurus: I love a big mid quiz
BrowneePointz: it has no AI so it's greater than the Big Fat Quiz this year
Boopity: Sometimes it's good to just be middling
DoodlestheGreat: Sanforized for your protection.
Boopity:
Step away Silksong
BusTed: It's very fun
RockPusher: Why isn't Heather always wearing a lab coat to work?
RatherLargeToad: are they related to Dr. Beat?
ArmstrongRGM96X: Surely you could wear a lab coat to work any day?
EvilBadman: Minesweeper Roguelike
BrowneePointz: YESSSS
BrowneePointz: Mario Party but Lego
Boopity: Mario Party
EvilBadman: ^
BrowneePointz: came out in September
BrowneePointz: It's Mario Party but more unhinged
EvilBadman: One of the better Mario Party alikes
ThorSokar: Lego Party is actually pretty good
Snowcookies: James is eating all the cereals
Boopity: It has shocking production value (though maybe not that surprising considering)
Boopity:
BrowneePointz: wow dang this game is beloved
PMAvers: *pulls out the Arkham Horror TCG Ben Appreciation Bat*
EvilBadman: It's a real good asynch card game
niccus: the best game by richard garfield to grace the channel
BrowneePointz: *shoves PMAvers back in their box*
Boopity:
Juliamon: The game actually got good
lamina5432: there are cats
kingandcommoner: They spun the wheel in the first minute on tuesday
Juliamon: There was a Very Serious discussion between two characters about cats
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EvilBadman: k
BrowneePointz: it's a good copypasta Bront
DoodlestheGreat: 10 q 4 strem
Juliamon: gap thoroughly filled
Snowcookies: bye
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