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That's cheating, playing the checkpoint theme on going online. 
calculated_uncertainties: @TheMerricat This does feel illegal.
SAJewers: heh
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SaxPython: I keep humming the Goldeneye bond theme over this
TheMerricat: btw chat, I have confirmed today, using a can of enchilada sauce as an alternative to a can of tomato sauce is good when making chili.
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ContingentCat: yeah it was a good time, I missed the opening but still
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calculated_uncertainties: @TheMerricat we always use cans of diced tomatoes in our chili, but your substitution seems legit.
atlr: hah
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Wicker_Guide: It it replaces Open Carry in the US
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SimGuy3k: just correct it with a sharpie
Micalovits: They should - also good to hear that some of the world is sensible
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farley_f: and now the dance truly begins
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Wicker_Guide: That's some Kingdom Hearts behavior that is
Juliamon: FF also has you kill a wall
ErynTzun:
Territan: Just trying to figure out what's going on here.
Juliamon: We are very focused
calculated_uncertainties: I'm building a train in a different window.
Wicker_Guide: Smack Gollum-Dad-AU
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youcantlistentobuttons: Does all the music from this game go so hard?
Bruceski: @youcantlistentobuttons yes
Wicker_Guide: pretty much
e_bloc: and it's great (imo)
ArdCollider: okay, my brain is a fine paste from playing Marathon, time to spectate
Laserbeaks_Fury: So both Alise and Renoir painted their family in the Canvas, but Renoir's is just *really* big
Laserbeaks_Fury: And Alicia hit some of those ages *twice*
Vinewood_OG: Angry Zen master says: "UNCLENCH YOUR MIND!"
Vinewood_OG: WinDo'h
Dog_of_Myth: Windows...*shakes fist*
CaptainSpam: Disconnect!
Vinewood_OG:
Juliamon: oh no I missed a Windows Noise while I was getting leftover pie
ContingentCat: not have an allegic reaction is so decadant
ButButTheJesus: @Juliamon ooh what pie
Juliamon: just grocery store apple
Juliamon: nothing shmancy
ButButTheJesus: ah good i love apple
Juliamon: it was the one most broadly overlapping family preferences (I prefer key lime, my sister chocolate, my dad pecan, but we can all agree on apple)
HorusFive: Don't we all Ian. Don't we all
Vinewood_OG: Does the time machine do groupon?
HorusFive: Please let me go back to school. I didn't know how good I had it
omdorastrix: Why do you have to be 40?
pctjoe: that would be so nice
M4RKNUTT: I never catch rhythem cafe live, how are we all doing?
Juliamon: Doing pretty well at this point
M4RKNUTT:
Good stuff 
I went to A&E due to back pain today and have some painkillers, so a lil woozy. Life of a 32 y.o. I guess
Juliamon: oofa, hope you get better soon
M4RKNUTT: Ty, has been a week. Just jamming some STS2
CaptainSpam: Bring out yer dead, pardner.
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bv310: My playthrough of this, I got distracted doing optional content and just two-shotted this boss. This is way more fun to watch as a proper fight
M4RKNUTT: When I joined and the health bar was barely budging
Juliamon: it would feel so good for Renoir to die to burn dot
SaxPython:
M4RKNUTT: Lets GO
UtilityPunk:
That thump SFX to finish Renoir 
Micalovits: Nice!
e_bloc: got out of doge
e_bloc: *dodge
adept_nekomancer: Way to expedition those 33's!
ButButTheJesus: I was #teamdodge the whole game
e_bloc:
333
Vinewood_OG: Careful, Icarus.
Juliamon: Because you're a stubborn git?
bv310: Andy Serkis absolutely demolished this performance.
SaxPython: :biblethump
Laserbeaks_Fury: Okay, 30 more minute son the XBOX, then straight to bed
Wicker_Guide: just one more level
Bruceski: next save point, understand?
UtilityPunk: Takes a lot of finesse to pull off a character that's angry and tender. The whole cast cooked
ButButTheJesus: (so I didn't understand on my playthrough - who is that boy?)
Laserbeaks_Fury: It's the part of Verso that made the canvas
Wicker_Guide: the leftover bit of Verso Dessendre's soul that's maintaining the canvas
Bruceski: @ButButTheJesus That's the piece of Verso left in the canvas that keeps its magic working.
UtilityPunk: Verso left a part of his soul behind for the canvas
bv310: @ButButTheJesus The last fragment of real-Verso's soul
ButButTheJesus: ah ty
Wicker_Guide: The character who's opinion matters most, but who cannot speak
Wicker_Guide: *whose
fluffymeow12_: I LOVE THIS GAMEEEE
bv310: I love how hard she hits that PAPA
SaxPython:
RevanentOne: puh-PAH
Bruceski: There are parts of this that can really resonate with real life experiences, and depending on which experiences they resonate with people can feel VERY strongly about this choice.
Wicker_Guide: We are the hands of fate
ButButTheJesus: @Bruceski yepyep
Juliamon: Sure thing
SaxPython:
Omg
Territan: I recently found my PS5 in the basement. That means I could play this too, couldn't I?
ButButTheJesus: this was the point where I got up and had a shower and contemplated stuff
Micalovits: I believed in Maelle and boy...
bv310: I did the exact same thing as Heather, though it took me AGES to decide on
plaidanddrpepper: I saw this as Mealle's story.
bv310: Like, took a break and came back the next day to decide
UtilityPunk: This is a game about characters, not villains. So good
SaxPython: This choice is easier for me than Nier Automata
pctjoe: this one was the hardest in game choice since killing or changing the geth rebels
e_bloc: very experience machine
Micalovits: I had to accept the people in the painting as real - they where no less real than everyone else?
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ButButTheJesus: I thought of this in terms of, if this was an actual fight, and the way I used Maelle more... Verso didn't stand a chance.
UtilityPunk: Poll
Astramentha: 16
ButButTheJesus: @Micalovits yeah this too
Wicker_Guide: even if you accept the people around her as real, she's still basically the controller of a VR sim. She can't be peers to these people
UtilityPunk: The poll's up everyone, getya votes in
hypergirlie_hyperpop: I do not understand anyone who is in any way conflicted about this ending. Thematically, one of these endings is about learning to accept grief and the other is about living entirely within denial.
Micalovits: But there is a very interesting philosophical question if the people in the painting count as "real" or not
HungryHungry_Hobo: Had Maelle let Verso "die" and lived her life without him I would have felt better about her ending. Her bringing him back felt selfish.
bv310: @hypergirlie_hyperpop To an extent, I think it comes down to if the rest of the canvas are "real" or not. If they are, then choosing Maelle's isn't living in denial, it's saving everyone you've grown to care for over the game
Juliamon: Well, that was less close than I expected
bv310: Yeah, I'm surprised it's a 60-40
ButButTheJesus: I haven't seen this one
Laserbeaks_Fury: I think that's why this ending was a bit more decisive then maybe the writers intended: It's asking two separate moral questions, but only offering two options
SaxPython: I would love a stats dump from the devs like the Baldurs Gate 3 team did
UtilityPunk: @bv310 I think that's one of the strongest things fantasy stories do. Normally, this would be an unambiguous decision. But the layer of fantasy allows the topic to be so much more nuanced
Wicker_Guide: @bv310 "real" to what? Even the Dessendre family isn't "real" to us the spectators. I think that's part of why Verso is listed as dying on the 33rd of December
Wicker_Guide: !yay
LRRbot: Yaaaaaaay...
SaxPython: Do we get to omnislash?
Laserbeaks_Fury: Imagine if a video game asked you to turn it off and delete you save
Wicker_Guide: This time, we are the tall long-haired mysterious man
ButButTheJesus: our flying wine-skin!
bv310: @Wicker_Guide In the general framing of the game. Are those characters as "real" as Alicia or Renoir?
UtilityPunk:
The game begins with a 1v1 battle between Maelle and Gustav, and ends with a 1v1 
Laserbeaks_Fury: I'll be honest, I think the writers leaned towards them just being characters in a fiction
SaxPython: If I had clown costumes in this fight I would be very upset.
bv310: @SaxPython I should have tried sticking both of them in Sakapatate gear just to ruin the visual
UtilityPunk: @Laserbeaks_Fury Clea is fighting the writers because they are wrong
SaxPython:
@bv310
Wicker_Guide: @SaxPython Tried it in my second playthrough. The music goes too hard
SaxPython:
bv310: Yeah, that's kind of a fucked-up combat line there Verso
Wicker_Guide: no that's the lightning-based attack. Gustave's Homage
Wicker_Guide: we have beaten up a child so that we can kill a child and destroy a world. We're the ...good ...guys?
SaxPython: We have Sowwed. Now what do we reap?
equin0xparad0x: question: you have to the ability to dispense any 5 liquids from each of your fingers, what 5 liquids from which fingers?
Juliamon: not the time for this
Laserbeaks_Fury: Thats the piano song he played for her
ButButTheJesus: ohhhh
bv310: This made me the saddest in this whole ending
UtilityPunk: And Esquie and Monoco being OG Verso's pals in the painting is such a good touch too
RevanentOne: the sakapatate outfit is really fitting
SaxPython: does anyone know. Are these orders dynamic based on some in game affection score?
bv310: Nope, always this set
RevanentOne: no, the same every time
Bruceski: nope, always the same
Micalovits: Man, crying was not in my plans tonight but... Here we are
Wicker_Guide: it's a prerendered video
SaxPython:
thanks
Bruceski: We kill the Omelas child
Wicker_Guide: Lorien Testard, to the violinist: "And now, I want you to wring out their eyes with a sponge made of needles"
SaxPython: No!
Wicker_Guide: ACT 4! Renoir
SaxPython:
Micalovits: Man, the Esqiue doll is not okay
bv310: Track name: Aux Lendemains non Ecrits (To Unwritten Tomorrows)
SaxPython: that said 33 decembre? Neat calendar
Wicker_Guide: yep
HorusFive: @SaxPython December can have 2 extra days as a treat
Territan: Did he just ...make gravel noises?
Wicker_Guide: o7
GhostValv: o7
Dog_of_Myth: o7
ButButTheJesus:
HorusFive:
Astramentha: o7
Bruceski: You win!
bv310: I love this game so much
SaxPython: I was holding my breath for 3 years later
Wicker_Guide: Noco and Monoco both dogs
bv310: Monoco as a dog really makes basically all of him make sense
hypergirlie_hyperpop: relatable
Stormgod519: howdy, yall
Wicker_Guide: blame it on the Writers
e_bloc: they say love will deny you thrice before the rooster cries
Stormgod519: @Wicker_Guide as opposed to the boogie?
bv310: If you found that painting of the dev team, you can see the real Monoco in it (He's the dev team's dog)
UtilityPunk: All is fair in love and JRPGs
SaxPython: @bv310 this is also in his theme. The mouth sounds go //mostly// bow-wow-wow
bv310: @SaxPython That rad sax is exactly what I expect my dog hears when we play chase in the yard
SaxPython:
Wicker_Guide: absolutely
UtilityPunk: Verso passed at like 26. Totally possible he had a rebellious phase
Serpens77: Esquie's design/shape is based on a kind of antique wine skin
e_bloc: its a sticky game
e_bloc: me too
bv310: I walked into a BestBuy last week and someone was playing this OST over the in-store sound and it made me oddly emotional
Wicker_Guide: Now for the flame war ending
Micalovits: Same
SaxPython: In my mind, this will be the Bad ending. I'm ready to be wrong.
e_bloc: I just want a mod where it's like clue "....and this is how it could have happened"
Wicker_Guide: Verso Dessendre painted as a kid but wanted to be a musician as he grew up
Laserbeaks_Fury: And Clea sculpted
Morrigan9: Maelle had some interest in writing, the Writers used her somehow for the fire
Bruceski: Some of Clea's nevrons do have a pottery feel to them, now that you mention it
SaxPython:
Wicker_Guide: Agree Ian. "how they are" is one of those phrases that can hide more than it reveals
e_bloc: we often don't even remember things how they are anyhow
Laserbeaks_Fury: I thought Lumiere was a portrait of Paris. I didn't realize it was based on Omelas
SaxPython: the Indignant Accent is very impressive
bv310: It is kind of messed up to tag him with fire specifically
Laserbeaks_Fury: Honestly, if *anyone* has the right to chose this, it would be the Painted version of Verso
e_bloc: show me subtlty
SaxPython: ngl, I was a little surprised they didn't have second chance. I didn't know how true to final equip they would be.
Bruceski: @Laserbeaks_Fury That little nod we get from the kid for "you're tired of painting" is the closest to a correct answer for this choice.
Bruceski: understatement
Territan: "You might feel a little pinch..."
Stormgod519: no kidding
Wicker_Guide: don't worry, this will be a happy ending ( :
Juliamon: unpaint my heaaaart
SaxPython: @Juliamon omg
Stormgod519: @Juliamon god dammit that's so good lol
calculated_uncertainties: It's like the clue movie!
Wicker_Guide: Act 5! Aline
bv310: The mirroring of the two finale scenes with the real Eiffel Tower and Lumiere's is great
Micalovits: I do love that both epilogues start focus on the Eiffel Tower
Territan: The line forming for Expedition 32?
bv310: Monoco would be a great security guard
ButButTheJesus: esquie as bouncer
e_bloc: game so, so good
HorusFive: They've seen the show already
Serpens77: Pierre
Bruceski: That boy is one of Gustave's apprentices isn't it?
Wicker_Guide: ^
Wicker_Guide: I think it's the one Maelle tries to give the journal to
icelorkk: That's a poor verse, that's a selfish ending.
Territan: Freebird!
SaxPython: Ok well I stand with my bad ending thoughts
e_bloc: 31 endings to go
Stormgod519: damn
Stormgod519: never played this game, but maybe I should
Laserbeaks_Fury: When Painted *Alicia* asked to be let go, Maelle didn't heasitate
e_bloc:
duiker6: can't have a clair obscur without two parts
Micalovits: I like the choice of the endings, but I do think the Maelle ending is a bit TO rough
Bruceski: That piano chord on the paint eyes is pretty close to "you got the bad ending."
Stormgod519: true
e_bloc: its good to have opinion
TheMerricat: We aren't given enough information about how the world works for any decision to be 'morally' correct. If the world within a canvas is in fact _actually_ real, then that's one thing. If it's just a mind construct, then that's something completely different.
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Stormgod519: uh huh
ButButTheJesus: just a comfy rhythm game
Wicker_Guide: the coziest, most relaxing game since DDLC
e_bloc: in my opinion it should win an award or two
SaxPython: Yo are we getting into Moral Foundations Theory.
SaxPython: oh I missed my chance
TheMerricat: @Wicker_Guide I still feel bad that chat talked Adam into playing that blind.
reptile___:
the only Good ending is the Francois ending 
Laserbeaks_Fury: and no one has been doing it this well for awhile
Wicker_Guide: This game is your regular reminder that a bunch of extremely talented people were absolutely _languishing_ at old Ubisoft
bv310: I enjoyed doing my side stuff plenty, even if it kind of made the finale a bit limp. I was chasing all of Monoco's feet
Micalovits: I played on hard and sorta felt like needing to do side stuff, but never actually grind
reptile___: @bv310 ...those are indeed some lovely feet
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bv310: I've taken a full twenty tracks from this and added them to my TTRPG lists. No game's done that to me before.
Laserbeaks_Fury: I love this idea that the reason the Nevrons have those stick legs is Clea just can draw feet
Wicker_Guide: I mean, I still feel like the Lorien Testard story undercuts the immense importance of Alice Dupont-Percier, but it's still a great story
pctjoe: I work in involuntary mental health, part of my job is preventing people from self harm, the ending hit so hard because it is a moral quandary that keeps me up at night sometimes
SaxPython: that novelty argument... falls flat for me. This video game is an excellent capture of the way people feel on earth right now. Such a human story in a world dominated by being disconnected.
e_bloc: goty 2026
ErynTzun: He can only draw hooves, not feet
e_bloc: @ErynTzun only draw horses club
SaxPython: clap clap clap
ErynTzun: @e_bloc except he puts them on humans
Juliamon: nah
e_bloc: snapw
bv310: I'd love to see a run on Renoir's Drafts, but that might take ages
Micalovits: Clea and painted Alicia are both very much worth visiting though it is a bit long
Vinewood_OG:
bv310:
Aww, no full three-hour Simon fight? 
Dog_of_Myth:
ButButTheJesus:
and y'all spaced it out enough that I was able to finish my playthrough first, which I was glad of 
Stormgod519:
ErynTzun:
ContingentCat: !homeatreams
SaxPython:
ContingentCat: !homestreams
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pctjoe: lol could do the fist of the north star yakaza-like
ButButTheJesus: get ye rock
ContingentCat:
Thanks Ian and Heather
e_bloc: that crapshot was terrific
Micalovits: Time for Crab!
Stormgod519:
e_bloc: I mean it had to be alex or paul
Stormgod519: Let's Nope?
Stormgod519: that's just let's nope?
Stormgod519: true Heather
Vinewood_OG: Reaction Noises
ButButTheJesus: a different noise
Dog_of_Myth: Heat is a good one
Juliamon: Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack went 15 episodes, so E33 just edges it out for episodes
Stormgod519: oh hey
ButButTheJesus: we love cam sounds
Vinewood_OG: Screams, of enjoyment
SaxPython:
@Juliamon
e_bloc: long (distance) game
SaxPython:
Stormgod519: oh yes pls!
Micalovits: Beat that GRID!
Stormgod519: G R I D B E A T
e_bloc: premodern is appropriately the only cards that were legal are the ones before the cutoff that makes cards legal for 'modern'
Stormgod519: pardon?
TheAinMAP:
e_bloc: I'm also convinced its a plan to increase the cost of old-bordered cards and I am here for it
Stormgod519:
100
Stormgod519:
TheAinMAP: Good night.
Stormgod519: gnight all
Stormgod519: holy crap its 6:40 I have work in 13 hours...
ButButTheJesus: byeee
e_bloc:
@Stormgod519 11 for me 
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