Thefluffiestguineapig: He's fighting demons over there sometimes
MilkInBags:
@benjamin_wheeler 
BusTed:
MilkInBags: hopefully adam didn't read your comment wheeler so he doesn't blush
MilkInBags: a wild dhalsim
TXC2: A DHALSIM?! at this rank?
30teracyte: its a gamble that relies on them going for a whiff punish, messing it up, and also not doing something they can di cancel
Thefluffiestguineapig: This is dedication to Dhalsim
MilkInBags: gotta respect the dhalsim player in a world of Mai and Ryu
Thefluffiestguineapig: Fucking teleporting ass zoners. Him and JP both
MilkInBags: wait, why is dhalsim's fire move chip damage
TXC2: fire hot?
MilkInBags: LMAO
Dog_of_Myth: hahaha
saucemaster5000: weeeee
Thefluffiestguineapig: Wheeeeeeeeeee
MilkInBags: that was the indiana jones knife scene
benjamin_wheeler: good di
Thefluffiestguineapig: @MilkInBags That's such a good call
MilkInBags: wiggle wiggle punch punch
EnglishGrinn: It was a good day Nelly,
NorthstarTex: a very good day
TXC2: we had 2 rank ups, great day today
ManWithTheMask13: Great work today, Nelly
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's a great day
chaos5896: GG. Nelly
TXC2: thanks for streaming Adam and Nelson
Mollylele: GG, weirdos
TXC2: !patreon
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TXC2: !store
LowUpsideCJ: ggs ggs Nelly and Adam
the_fanerdic:
great day Nelson! 
PhuzNutz: Take Care!
Thefluffiestguineapig: !next
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TXC2: !next
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TXC2: !events
Austere_Squire: oh, right... I'm watching live for once and there's announcements
Austere_Squire: neat
e_bloc: the battle of domestic partner
Austere_Squire: byyyyyyyyyye
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e_bloc: *partners
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the_fanerdic: Adam can I interest you in some yarok commander?
Thefluffiestguineapig: The hell is a yarok
Dog_of_Myth:
Wolfstrike_NL: Late april fools joke
TXC2: MCU-esque stinger
Throgani: Highlight reel ending?
PhuzNutz: Next week, Toki Toki Fight Club. Adam and Nelly get stoned before the stream.
RockPusher: I-it's not like we came back to say goodbye to you or anything… baka!
RockPusher: !quote beej
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Thefluffiestguineapig: That sure is a Beej quote
RockPusher: Good thing he has his own mug then
TXC2:
I watched it this morning, but boy do I not remember a single story from checkpoint today 
RockPusher:
I have at least the excuse of having watched it yesterday to have time to forget 
TheAinMAP: I think there was one about a CEO and layoffs.
Juliamon:
Ashmantle:
TXC2: CONTACT
ArtDecoSunburn: Hello, all.
TXC2: hello ArtDecoSunburn welcome
Juliamon: the BARB CEO seems unwell, Pokemon x IKEA, slop paintings, something else
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Juliamon: that's all I remember from stories
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yeah the Pokopia IKEA thing was startling to me
Thefluffiestguineapig: But that one CEO needs real psychiatric help
Wolfstrike_NL: @Juliamon the crimson desert ai art
Juliamon: that's the slop paintings
RockPusher has onigiri for breakfast 
Juliamon: ooh lucky
Wolfstrike_NL: aaa yea *facepalms*
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher I'm so jealous
itira: @RockPusher *has sushi for lunch*
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Thefluffiestguineapig: Did you buy it or make the onigiri RockPusher?
RockPusher: A virtue of going to the supermarket first thing before Chillpoint - they've restocked and it isn't busy
Juliamon: onigiri is frustrating becase in theory it's dead simple to make, but in practice I don't even have the right rice
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon Yeah, same
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher Perfect timing.
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RockPusher:
Spoon™ 
RockPusher: !quote heather
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TXC2: TODAY!
Juliamon: lrrLUUL
Juliamon:
RockPusher: Resist control! Down with the authority!
margieargie:
TheMerricat: Me pay attention? NEVAR!
Juliamon: the number of comments whining about that was astounding
ArtDecoSunburn: I appreciate Heather's hat as her intro leitmotiff.
TXC2: !secret
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RockPusher: Heaven forfend LRR have private lives
itira: shhh its a seeecret
spethycakes: !box
LRRbot: In the box is: legs?
Juliamon:
TXC2: Hello Heather, Paul and Beej
kingandcommoner: *some*times?
Lord_Hosk: Wait... Chillpoint got derailed?
Juliamon: oh right, the Fanta story
Lord_Hosk: First time for everything
Juliamon: somehow I'd blocked that out of memory
ArtDecoSunburn: Well, the pineapple is an emblem of hospitality.
TXC2: bold assumption that chillpoint has rails
RockPusher: ♫ Ohhhhhhh, Beej has a pineapple on a tote bag!!! ♫
TXC2: !discord
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Juliamon: ooh you got some exclusives
RockPusher:
Lord_Hosk: We had a mailtime... and an anime round up this week
TXC2: do the fishermen know?
RockPusher: I still need to get to the anime roundup VOD
kingandcommoner: march 2025?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher It is very long
RockPusher: Thefluffiestguineapig there was a lot of good anime full of excellent goobers
Juliamon: aw boo
TXC2:
is there a reason why Germany needs so many cough drops?
LordZarano: Makes sense, there's a Wera screwdriver set advent calendar after all
Juliamon: that's so cool
TheMerricat:
@TXC2 Have you heard the german language? 
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's amazing
TXC2:
TheMerricat as a Brit, I've heard half of it 
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Also smoking is still decently common there as I learned in the GVlog
kingandcommoner: who?
itira:
aerolend: Anis, light!
TXC2:
you know, Anise, from Stargate
flouncy_magooo: @Thefluffiestguineapig Yeah, too many people still smoke here. We're not as bad as the French, though.
kingandcommoner: mixed beer? Okay
Invitare: my dad loves these things. I think they're one of the worst things I've ever tasted.
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig ah, smoking, that would do it
Thefluffiestguineapig: NOPE
ArtDecoSunburn: So these are cough drops?
Juliamon: yes
Invitare: we had a dog once that would eat *anything*. She once ate unbaked dough. She spat out a fisherman's friend in disgust
TXC2: ArtDecoSunburn they are THE cough drop
RockPusher:
TXC2 ah yes, the studio would like to see more sexy lady in your sci-fi show 
aerolend: Lifetime supply.
Thefluffiestguineapig: When I lived in Ireland it shocked me how many people smoked a huge amount
ArtDecoSunburn: I guess I just never particularly associated fisherman with coughing. Unless, say, from drowning.
Juliamon: Salt air is hard on the lungs
TXC2:
RockPusher I liked the character, the costumes they put her in were stupid however
itira: if i wanted earl grey i wouldnt go for a beer XD
TheMerricat:
@Invitare It's amazing how many plants thought they had managed to invent the cheat code to not being eaten by the stuff they didn't want to be eaten by... till humans showed up and said "Bet!" 
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 Amazing when you learn about a new brand you had no idea existed.
aerolend: So, like vehicle rebadging.
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat Like tobacco. Who thinks, "I'm going to roll up this plant, stick it in my mouth, and set it on fire."
niccus: are you... you know... friend of fishermen?
Juliamon: also, yelling to crewmates to be heard over the waves
Juliamon: can't sing a shanty with a sore throat
aerolend: They do have a trading economy. The trade just goes one way only.
ArtDecoSunburn: @niccus Is that like a "Friend of Dorothy" ? Really doubling down on the naval innuendo.
TXC2: !pobox
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Juliamon: Oh, oops
RockPusher: Well done Beej!
aerolend: So, something about the Black Flag remake?
TheAwkes: Time to register WhichFishermansFriendFlavoursHasBeejTriedSoFar dot com.
Juliamon: I'll fix that after the show
RockPusher: Air has been filled
Juliamon: oh, I forgot about THAT TOO
RockPusher: Pikmin, and Majima, EVERYWHERE!
TXC2: Juliamon that would be the "other" story
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's a perfect quote
kingandcommoner: "influence", "contractual obligation" same diff
TXC2: "Chattin' with Miyamoto" the hit new daytime show
accountmadeforants: Oh dear, secret pikmin
kingandcommoner: I know there are pikmin hidden in the mario themeparks too
Juliamon: I like that Nintendo has their own Hidden Mickey
TheMerricat: "Hollow Knight The noises of the grubs in Hollow Knight are based off the sounds of the Pikmin. An early Kickstarter update showcased Pikmin-style enemy names."
accountmadeforants: I hope the next Nintendo controller or Switch revision has a secret pikmin on the PCB like the Xbox does with Master Chief
accountmadeforants: There are Pikmin in Pikmin? What will Miyamoto get up to next
CaptainSpam: Yo, Pikmin.
Thefluffiestguineapig: I want them to be in so many random things
LordZarano: Pik' pics
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DoodlestheGreat: Can you find them in Splatoon?
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's probably why he wants them in everything
CaptainSpam: Louie, man.
mtvcdm: Louie sucks
accountmadeforants: His name is also Louie in Japanese, yes
TXC2: it would be Luri wouldn't it?
Strebenherz: Aside note Heather, loved your vibes in that last gang beasts episode. 11/10
Juliamon: TXC2 it would be Lui
accountmadeforants: (Or "ルーイ", which is close enough)
TXC2: Juliamon ah, good point
RockPusher: Does it make the unplayed games dusty?
margieargie: Pulling out all those W+P games and proudly(?) displaying them
Strebenherz: Spud! on a pedestal
DoodlestheGreat: On the other hand, I'd prefer not to be reminded I spent money on certain games, so those boxes would be put in the circular file cabinet.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @margieargie remove the proudly and just displaying them
Capt_clown: Turns out that will just be an OZ reboot
TXC2: "barry's prison run" sounds like the name of a comedy movie to me
RockPusher: I have no doubt there has been some interesting stuff built on that garbage fire of a platform
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Same here
Proudboar: God I hate waking up. Takes forever. Whats the new computer people
accountmadeforants: @Proudboar Same as the old computer people
TXC2: hello Proudboar welcome
accountmadeforants: But they use iPads now
RubikDarkwill: It's speculation
RockPusher:
the numbers say this is popular with the youths therefore we should exploit that to make number go up in Q4 
TheMerricat: Backrooms was a copypasta
KeytarCat: Wow, we really didn't need Blockchain for any of the bullshit folks were using it for
TheMerricat: "The Backrooms originated from a 2019 4chan /x/ paranormal thread, where an anonymous user posted an image of empty, yellow-wallpapered rooms, prompting a story about "noclip[ping] out of reality" into a vast, liminal space. It became a viral creepypasta and "analog horror" genre representing unsettling, familiar spaces"
RockPusher: People rediscovered liminal spaces ;D
TXC2: TheMerricat 2019? that soon? surely 2009?
TheMerricat: @TXC2 It really isn't that old. I feel like it managed to get a toehold because 2019 was... the precursor of COVID.
LordZarano: People discovered where the backrooms photo was taken. It's now a RC cars track!
KeytarCat: Liminal horror through the eyes of the 2008 recession
TheMerricat: @LordZarano !!!!
kingandcommoner: Exit 8, Subliminal (I think), the one about the pools
LordZarano: (The picture was taken while it was being renovated from what it was before)
Thefluffiestguineapig: @kingandcommoner The Pools?
kingandcommoner: @Thefluffiestguineapig probably!
TheMerricat: @TheMerricat " Real Location: The original photo was taken in 2002 at a former furniture store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that was being renovated into a hobby shop."
Thefluffiestguineapig: @kingandcommoner That's the one they played on Talking Sim
TXC2:
TheMerricat sure, but given "the backrooms" are in the 2nd matrix movie, I feel like I've heard about them fore longer
accountmadeforants:
I feel like a fair few of those exits should just be one big exit 
accountmadeforants: That's what that Kill La Kill song was about
Lord_Hosk: Yeah, I wonder how many of those exits are just like banks of doors next to other banks of doors but are technically separate exits.
TheMerricat:
So now I'm wondering chat... how long before an old picture of an evacuated moon base post move becomes the next backrooms?
RockPusher:
All your furnishings are now ditto? 
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat At least let the Artemis folks get around the Moon first. Heh.
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Thefluffiestguineapig: They're a bit late, someone posted a thing in Bengineering's discord of someone who made a to scale IKEA in Pokopia
Thefluffiestguineapig: And that was weeks ago
accountmadeforants:
I thought IKEA wanted to be known for cheap lunch and meatballs
Thefluffiestguineapig: Japan definitely understands marketing
Thefluffiestguineapig: The whimsy factor is higher
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ArtDecoSunburn: One of the weird Japan-Nordic connections: Tokyo and Oslo are the last whalers, and stand against the rest of the world. Really weird partnership.
mtvcdm: I walked through an IKEA once, intending it to be a quick pop-in to see what IKEA is about... little did I realize how an IKEA is actually laid out.
TheMerricat:
@mtvcdm Ikea is the IRL Backrooms.
mtvcdm: I'd JUST come out of a day at the Mall of America and thought it was gonna be like 5, 10 minutes in there
TheMerricat:
And worse Beej, if you are in the US, one end of the wall will be 6 inches further in than the other wall because FUCK actually being square.
kingandcommoner: watch out for those, I hear they can be demolished with jsut one alan wrench
Thefluffiestguineapig: He needs HELP
mtvcdm: YOU'RE Mark Gerhard? I trusted you!
TheMerricat: Chat, I'm going to really be sad if we find out that he actually has a real mental disorder and this isn't just CEO posturing
Thefluffiestguineapig: @mtvcdm Did you have an extra passport? I'm doing a survey
Capt_clown: Oh yea, I remember this idiot. He was the one that showed up in the MAGA hat during the release trailer.... Dude is a certified POS
EuroBlob:
Hello LRR people (And Beej). Hope you're all doing great 
Lord_Hosk: The people working against it... turned out to be, the public
RockPusher: Hans? Are we the baddies?
TXC2: hello EuroBlob welcome
Capt_clown: "They did exactly what I told them to do but somehow it's everyone elses fault"
TheMerricat: @Capt_clown Oh wait, he was the "Make FPS games great again" during the Games Trailers Show?
TXC2: TheMerricat oh that chud
accountmadeforants: @TheMerricat I think that was Splitgate?
flouncy_magooo: Pretty sure they're different people
Juliamon: I don't remember if it was him specifically in the hat, but the hat guy was def shilling MindsEye
Capt_clown: @TheMerricat Pretty sure yes. Dude is the walking personification of cringe
Juliamon: oh, right, that *other* failure
Capt_clown:
Yea, hard to keep track of generic failbros in the gaming industry. They all look like the same trust fund
RockPusher:
pffffft, new GTA - wake me up when we have a new Lemmings!
Strebenherz: jagex
Strebenherz: The grim reaper of runescape, take that as you will
Capt_clown: So he's a gaming albatross
Strebenherz: or a gaming ceo vulture
TheMerricat:
Sean Murray, though. We love you. Please keep making NMS great.
Juliamon: there's being a CEO, and then there's being a Piece of Work
kingandcommoner: software is black magic and there are not enough goats IN THE WORLD
RockPusher: It *should* take an awful lot of work - the problem with most software is that that work isn't being done…
ArtDecoSunburn: As a professional computer historian who work in a music, a common question I get from the public is, "Why did Steve Jobs invent the computer?"
Capt_clown: The CEO griff is STRONG in this decade
ArtDecoSunburn: I just sigh.
accountmadeforants: Because people apparently don't look into CEO's resumes
ArtDecoSunburn: A museum, not music.
Lord_Hosk: The Jared Leto Effect
accountmadeforants:
I mean I've had that, but that's because the company went under (and I wasn't the CEO)
spurius: they have experiencing crashing and burning a big company, few people have that kind of experience, you nede to hire them
e_bloc: I mean the NHL and Premier League coaches are also always the same 20-40 people
Thefluffiestguineapig: For me this idea of failure doesn't have any influence is bananas. At a lower level you get iced out for not being utterly perfect
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig There's a reason Silicon Valley VC embraced "fail faster" as a motto.
TheAwkes: We call that huffing ones own farts.
TheMerricat: Ahoy videos are pretty good btw chat, even when they are about stuff I never expected to give a hoot about.
Capt_clown: User Generated Content.... that we won't pay the users for but sure as shit will make money from it
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn Yeah I guess, for me in high skill fields this idea is also bonkers because they will jettison people and complain about not having enough workers
accountmadeforants:
A kind of Roblox for "adults" 
TheMerricat: Now I remember why I hadn't remembered anything about Mind's Eye.
margieargie: @TheMerricat I wouldn't normally watch videos about specific weapons in video games, but when Ahoy does it? I'm in
e_bloc: in roblox for adults how do you attract the pedophiles
TheMerricat:
@margieargie Exactly.
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig You mean like Oracle laying off 30,000 employees and then pleading for extra visas for new workers?
accountmadeforants: @e_bloc That's why they realized it wouldn't take off
Invitare: Gary's Company
LordZarano: Facepunch
ArtDecoSunburn: Jordan Weissman was working on a content creation engine that would publish on Steam. It's been in early testing for years.
LordZarano:
Look forward to those showing up on W+P
bytecaster: Friction matters
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn Or veterinary medicine begging for skilled workers when they want REALLY SPECIFIC amounts and kinds of experience
ErynTzun: Yes please moe Garbage to collect on garbage day! lol
mtvcdm: Anyone can, but not everyone should
margieargie: You need to have the not so good stuff for good stuff to exist, for many many reasons
Capt_clown: You leave my mpreg Clippy fics alone!
CaptainSpam: If anybody can do something on the internet, they will.
RockPusher: Ease of creation is good - discovery for finding the interesting stuff that comes from that is the hard bit
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig Exactly. Great example.
TXC2: you don't get good stuff without people making bad stuff while they learn to make good stuff
TheSpindash: The other side of that coin, unfortunately, is the state of the Switch eshop, and if you don't have really good discoverability tools, you have get low effort junk crowding out visibility of things people put effort to.
ErynTzun: Game Builder Garage was made by Nintendo EPD
LordZarano: Sounds like PICO-8
RockPusher:
TXC2 heck, something can be bad but earnest enough that it becomes good 
TXC2: RockPusher indeed
RockPusher: bubble buble toil and trouble, if you will
Thefluffiestguineapig: Press x to doubt
kingandcommoner: sounds like the set up for a bad heist movie. "We have to break into the game in order to get the evidence!"
BusTed: ripped from the headlines
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 And somewhere there's likely at least one person who likes some of the bad stuff, for various reasons.
TheMerricat: Wait is this a hitman mission or a mindseye mission?
TXC2:
kingandcommoner pretty much how Ready Player One works
Juliamon: like I said in the tip channel, I want to see the movie of this whole thing after everything shakes out
TXC2: ArtDecoSunburn yeap, beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that
CaptainSpam: "...and then the beautiful empire of Make This Conveyance Lad was felled by barbarians!"
kingandcommoner: I just want there to be a giant billboard looping the video of the CEO's personal corkboard covered in red string
ThorSokar: I do wonder how many people working on that sinking ship are actively looking for a new job, there's no way they can't know the boss is a complete lunatic
TheMerricat:
I sorta hope this is a hitman mission and IO Interactive just shows Agent 47 being the sabuteour.
TXC2: bless you
Capt_clown: Sounds like a one way ticket to a slander lawsuit
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher Precisely. Sometimes we appreciate effort and vision, even if the product is clearly flawed. Think of all the classic games that were so buggy as to be almost unplayable.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon With the asterisk of as long as the CEO is just doing this because his a big shit, if he's actually mentally unwell he needs HELP AND NOT TO INFLICT THIS ON HIS EMPLOYEES
RockPusher: Quick! Beej's ghost is escaping!!!
eid010n: "Proof that we weren't incompetent is going to be in the paid DLC" feels like a metaphor for something significant about the industry
kingandcommoner: time for a Libel Suite!
kingandcommoner: suit!
Thefluffiestguineapig: LIBEL
Capt_clown: Can this dude even spell the word Slader?
kingandcommoner: insert Spider-man gig here
ThorSokar: pretty sure that's libel
Thefluffiestguineapig: You company will be sued into the dirt
TheMerricat: Libel is written, Slander is oral. I think this is libel.
e_bloc: I was jst going to say that Merricat
Juliamon: If it's voiced, it can be both
e_bloc: either way it's defamation right
mtvcdm: (picks up phone) lawyerlawyerlawyerlawyerlawyer
TheMerricat:
@Juliamon DOUBLE DIP!
Manae: If they can be harmed in the game it may go to full on threats in the legal sense
e_bloc: file all the lawsuits
Murderface9797: go go afroman
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yes but he had actual evidence and the police were wrongfully searching his property
LordZarano:
At Build A Rocket Boy 
RockPusher: mtvcdm *muted trombone sounds*
kingandcommoner: @Juliamon I believe Libel is about Publication more than writing
Thefluffiestguineapig: @kingandcommoner You can have Libel on the radio
Lord_Hosk: You hire Hosk to do Placeholder art, so its obvious
TheSpindash: To steal something from someone I follow, a placeholder texture is hot pink squares.
ThorSokar: It's only placeholder content if you get caught
jessicaengle: Ipso Lorem Facto
TXC2: Libel WAS Writing, but as new media have been invented, it's expanded
TheMerricat: In case anyone else in chat didn't know what FPO was - "FPO in design stands for For Position Only (or "For Placement Only")."
Thefluffiestguineapig: Flashing neon lights on it
Thefluffiestguineapig: Right, that's my question too Paul
ErynTzun: Especially since you could also use real art that isn't under copyright anymore in th first place
LordZarano: Or, you know, use the original PUBLIC DOMAIN artwork
RubikDarkwill: Why not use child-like drawings like STS2
Thefluffiestguineapig: @LordZarano CORRECT
TheMerricat:
@mtvcdm See though when you do it like that, you run the risk of people liking the missing texture verison better than the proper version.
TheSpindash: I'm playing Mega Man Battle Network 2, and one character just has a real-ass piece of classic art on her walls.
Juliamon: There was literal zero reason for it to be AI art other than to fulfill requirements to use AI
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon You're right and I'm so mad right now
Wolfstrike_NL: It's the same dumb thing as the expedition 33 flyers in the starting area
Thefluffiestguineapig: Not at you Juliamon
RockPusher: Photo's of paintings can be problematic depending on jursidiction - there's been a bunch of cases of museums claiming rights on the photo - they've generally lost, but it is a point of contention
mtvcdm: @Juliamon I hate how plausible this is, to be just a simple 'our boss ordered us to use AI, here's the AI we were ordered to use, we'll get it out for the actual thing'
Capt_clown: The one step up from "It came with the frame" art
Thefluffiestguineapig: Putting AI usage minimums is FUCKING OBNOXIOUS and I can totally see it
TheMerricat: @LordZarano Fun fact though, a lot of that art might not be public domain because the museums own the copyright on the PHOTO of the painting, so if you want to actually include the actual painting you have to go in and take your own photo... where a lot of museums say you aren't allowed to take photos...
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat Exactly. The original image may be available, but not the picture of the picture.
TXC2: right chat I'm off
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
TheMerricat: Night @TXC2 !
ErynTzun: Just light money on fire instead
jessicaengle:
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Heather, Paul and Beej
ErynTzun:
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Sleep well without nightmares of AI
mtvcdm: Malicious compliance
RockPusher:
mtvcdm nah, malicious compliance is accidentally starting your prompt of "a paining of goatse in the style of…"
RockPusher: *painting
ErynTzun: Book writing is also a big issue lots of things happening with authors whose novels were scraped
jessicaengle: Using it to circumvent the presence and contribution of another human, in other words
Thefluffiestguineapig: I will stop talking to you
ArtDecoSunburn: I don't know. I don't even like employing AI to generate e-mails. Feels like cheating. Then again, I turn off autopredict on my phone and e-mail -- I don't need a robot telling me what to say next.
Capt_clown: I've seen wall plugs now saying "AI" because it can supposedly regulate the power it sends to your phone....
Invitare: there are uses for AI. They are the not the uses that are being sold
RockPusher: the now old saw horse of using AI to summarise the AI generated email
ArtDecoSunburn: @ErynTzun I know several authors involved in that lawsuit.
ThorSokar: and everything has too many eyes
LordZarano: Crimson Desert "AI Generated Content Disclosure The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: Generative AI technology is used in a supplementary capacity during the creation of some 2D prop assets. Any such assets are replaced through our production pipeline by our art and development teams, ensuring they meet our quality standards and creative direction."
eid010n: If your email is unimportant enough that the risk of errors due to AI doesn't matter, the email was not worth writing in the first place.
Thefluffiestguineapig: To experience it
ArtDecoSunburn: @Invitare Certainly not the uses justifying the economic bubble and energy consumption, at the moment.
kingandcommoner: Is this the real life is this just Fanta Sea?
Kentosaurus: wanta fanta does rhyme in europe
eid010n: Lemon Demon kind of problems
Juliamon: yeah it's a vagarity of American being anything-goes with pronunciations
jessicaengle: I haven't drank soda for decades, but a pineapple flavored soda sounds amazing
bytecaster: It makes sense in German, yes
LordZarano: Wonder if they use it in the UK... Want a Fanta you wanker?
ArtDecoSunburn: @eid010n Nicely put.
bytecaster: Or rather it sounds right
RockPusher:
Are you telling me the Vice President of Global Sparkling Flavours would lie to us‽ 
ArtDecoSunburn: The "World of Coke" in Atlanta has a Hall of Flavors with all the global Fantas.
RebekahWSD: What a fuckin title
mtvcdm: Global Sparking Flavors *category*
TheSpindash: Failure to give the lighthouse from Keeper a flavor is unforgivable.
jessicaengle:
harsh 
Capt_clown: Would that make the VP in charge of seltzers?
RockPusher: Is Coke actually under the Sparkling Flavours though
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kingandcommoner: No no no, Pop Flavors is a separate department
TheMerricat: Coca-cola doesn't count as sparkling, Sparkling is Fanta and Sprite and similar brands.
RebekahWSD: All we have is mockery!
dm818: Those sort of titles always make me think of the pepsi redesign thing
Juliamon: Sparkling is noncola
Thefluffiestguineapig: There is one
LordZarano: Also, there are flavours of Fanta other than orange?!?
kingandcommoner: Water flavor is a thing
ArtDecoSunburn: Dasani = Atlanta tap water.
jessicaengle: I think Dasani comes from municipal sources
Juliamon: the Freestyle
kingandcommoner: Colaca?
dm818: Cokecloaca
kingandcommoner: Coka-Colaca
Thefluffiestguineapig: Please quote that and show it to Ian
ErynTzun: It's Mississippi Mud here in MN
TheSpindash: I would love to taste that flavor. Unfortunately, I've had Fanta, and it's not that and it never will be.
RockPusher: Huh - there is a "President, The McDonald's Division"
RockPusher: In *Coke*
kingandcommoner: And now the Microsoft Mascot Fighter will include a Toyota fighting Master Chief on the Fanta Sea
dm818: So is masterchief pineapple because of the color of his visor?
CaptainSpam: Oh, right, they DID pass that law a few years back where every piece of media had to reference a multiverse.
TheMerricat: Chat I think the last time I was in a fast food place that did cocacola was just as covid was subsiding, do they still have the freestyle machines out there where you have to use a touchpad to pick the flavors and fill your cup?>
Thefluffiestguineapig: I'm sorry WHAT BEEJ
Thefluffiestguineapig: Orangina turns you into furries?
ErynTzun:
TheMerricat: House of Lies.
RockPusher: Beej, plz
dm818: Don't lie to people
Juliamon: Thefluffiestguineapig have you not seen the Orangina ads
Kentosaurus: It's true that mcdonalds sprite hits different
Bruceski: @Thefluffiestguineapig Did you miss the Orangina furry commercials?
ThorSokar: Is Fanta really that popular?
RockPusher: "Senior Vice President and Global Head of Flavor Supply"
TheSpindash: If only the Sprite machine wasn't always broken.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon I'm apparently not on that part of the internet. I'm studying for my national certification exam
Juliamon: Maybe you were too young for them
jessicaengle: Enjoy Popplers at the game, on the boat, wherever good times are had.
Juliamon: I'm waiting for Merricat to drop a link
TheAinMAP: [LoadingReadyRun is not responsible for any phones dropped into Sprite based on the words of Beej]
accountmadeforants: The fact that his name is Ibrahim Khan, but his title isn't Khan of Coke is such a damn shame
mtvcdm: It's all about knowing when to get out of the gag
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THESE WERE GOOD IDEAS
dm818: @TheMerricat In cereal?!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @dm818 Oh just wait
TheMerricat:
accountmadeforants: Plunkbat
Bruceski: @Thefluffiestguineapig The French
CaptainSpam:
We have this whole thing about not knowing what it stands for.
jessicaengle: Player Updown's Funky Town
ErynTzun: And PIN Number
kingandcommoner: Soft Drink Commercial being fetish bait is actually an error, Orangina Georgina and her 10000 furry commercials is a statistical outlier and shoudl not have been counted
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Bruceski Genuinely that explains a lot but also STILL WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THESE WERE GOOD IDEAS
ThorSokar: I did enjoy Canada Dry's
TheMerricat:
@Thefluffiestguineapig They are 12 years old and we are still talking about them... must have worked.
accountmadeforants: I still love that Plunkbat players got so upset about Rock Paper Shotgun calling it Plunkbat that they added it to Urban Dictionary as some fetish thing and then tried to gaslight other people into thinking that came first.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @kingandcommoner They're also saying they will treat acne, make your hair stronger, be useful as deodorant
Thefluffiestguineapig: Useful as fertilizer
ErynTzun: It was about a 5 minute event in Pokopia, not supper difficult. Could have been any day.
mtvcdm: We'll see, it's hard sometimes to tell what will have legs for a year
ErynTzun: It's Minecraft/Dragon Quest Builders plus Pokemon so that's going to last a long while.
Thefluffiestguineapig: There's the one who is a clay pot in this one
mtvcdm: The layoffs are coming for Zipper?
ErynTzun: Zipper was there this Year, it's fine. They toned it down so there aren't any less other objects to get during it.
jessicaengle: Yeah, why isn't there a Pikmin flavored Fanta?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Maybe later, I'm refreshing myself on horrible niche parasites at the moment
TheMerricat:
Thefluffiestguineapig: @jessicaengle Put Pikmin in Fanta
mtvcdm: 'Internet lies day' is just, any day right now
Thefluffiestguineapig: Make weird stuff is funny to me
Thefluffiestguineapig: Don't try to tell jokes
mtvcdm: The thing with an April Fool's gaming gag is if it's too popular people will want you to actually do the thing you joked about
couchboyj: I liked Scryfall's April Fool's frontpage
TheMerricat:
Chat, I forgot yesterday was April 1st and was certain that my save in Minecraft was corrupted because everything in game had one of the copper types names appended to the start of it like "Exposed Copper Stick" and almost deleted my world in sadness.
ErynTzun: Remember when every website did an April fools thing? I think there's a limit of what you can do before ppl are tired of it.
jessicaengle:
"abuse the trust of people who care about you Day" 
accountmadeforants: Or colleagues who tell you there's some super important thing that needs your help and then ha ha there isn't
kingandcommoner: And yet the Perry the Platypus Fortnite skin is seemingly real?
dm818: and it still had full functionality
LordZarano: MKBHD's video was pretty good, and slightly gaming related - he played the blowing bubbles game on the Bluey phone
couchboyj: They even had the "Under Construction" gif
CaptainSpam:
And then I realized I was old. 
Bruceski: @couchboyj With one of the images a broken link
TheSpindash: Turns out the best humor is the stuff that takes effort.
ErynTzun: There's actually a trend of younger people making websites that look like Geocities web rings
couchboyj: @Bruceski *Chef's Kiss*
LordZarano: That web still exists, on NeoCities
Thefluffiestguineapig: PERFECT
ThorSokar: oh HELL ya
ErynTzun: Oh big lever lol
accountmadeforants: I need one that has the big "kachunk" breaker lever, too. And one with the button covered in plexiglass and two keys to unlock it
Throgani: Our flavored water dispenser at work kept showing fake flavors, then saying "April Fools!" ...Every. Single. Usage. All. Day.
TheMerricat:
Ah chat, I thought Paul was asking about a Steam Deck, not a _stream_ deck.
Thefluffiestguineapig:
That's amazing
ErynTzun: Like the big buttons that come with 8-bitdo keyboards. Funny but not that useful.
Bruceski: I saw a fair number of "leaked" Strixhaven cards that had clearly been fanmade in their original context but had escaped containment.
LordZarano:
@TheMerricat 
Yup, Every Time
accountmadeforants:
@ErynTzun Eh, depends, some people definitely have macros that warrant a big button
NullColaShip: Yeah, I got that update - they made it seem like the device is real but the slot machine function was an April Fools joke
ErynTzun: @accountmadeforants I just end up hitting the button on accident
accountmadeforants: @ErynTzun Aren't they separate from the keyboard?
Bruceski: I liked Shure's pre-dented microphone model.
mtvcdm: Your April Fool's gag needs to start by realizing people may not know it's April 1st and may think you're actually doing the thing, or finding out several days later, do you want the fallout of people thinking you're actually doing the thing
jessicaengle: Make Paul's Job Harder at your own Risk, Internet. He's powerful.
ErynTzun: They are but it ends up really close to the keyboard and I bump it
accountmadeforants: @ErynTzun Fair enough
accountmadeforants: @mtvcdm Also April Fools effectively stretches across two days because of *jazz hands* time zooooneeees
RockPusher: The Fisher-Price Stream Deck
ErynTzun: Busy boarding for Adults
eid010n: Busyboard OR flight sim pit control panel
Lord_Hosk: @mtvcdm That second point is what the Hosklings were talking about April 2nd is "find out what all the content creators did for April fools day day"
CaptainSpam: That is a lotta Stream Deck.
RockPusher: knobs are useful
ErynTzun: Well that one makes sense though
accountmadeforants: I assumed it was just a display for the knobs
RockPusher: I note they also have an honest-to-goodness prompter in their lineup
accountmadeforants: @RockPusher They also have rackmount stream deck buttons
accountmadeforants: (And they're PoE-powered, and connect over the local network instead of USB)
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mtvcdm: I will note you can find *surprisingly recent* things in antique stores, a few weeks ago in Milwaukee I saw a WoW expansion box, several Skylanders titles and Disney Infinity figurines in an antique store with everything else you'd expect
mtvcdm: Oh, Donkey Kong Country was huge
mtvcdm: DKC kept the Super NES trucking for a couple extra years all on its own
e_bloc: of course it came in donkey kong size, you just get it on like donkey kong
mtvcdm: MeTV
Kentosaurus: ooh I loved that show when I was a kid
kingandcommoner: "It's not what it sounds like...well it is but it's more than that"
CaptainSpam: Hoo boy.
mtvcdm: The Captain Lou Albano edition
Juliamon: it was hella cheap, but it was what we had
Kentosaurus: the zelda cartoon segment was amazing
mtvcdm: Where they still remembered Mario's supposed to be from Brooklyn
kingandcommoner: And then we got Captain N
mtvcdm: !addquote (Paul) [now] It isn't like it took away Toad's face.
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eid010n: Oh god the letters in the AI'd title card are melting together
ArtDecoSunburn: Is that the one that has live action interstitials?
TheAinMAP:
Firewhiskers: @ArtDecoSunburn With Captain Lou Albano
mtvcdm: Mario, extra supple for your enjoyment
ProcyonFlynn:
What an awful thing to tune in for 
accountmadeforants: That's the result of their partnership with Muscle Touch
e_bloc: what can i say, it's a small franchise
kingandcommoner: they might be working off the youtube videos I first watched the show on
ErynTzun: It wasn't as bad on CRTs but it certainly was already cheap animation
Manae: I think the one video said there were only ten players in the world, and not all worked
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mtvcdm: Saturday Morning Supple Brothers
ErynTzun: I wish they would remaster Beast Wars
ErynTzun:
Also Mainframe 
ErynTzun: Yes just naming difference heh
7gorobei: LTT went over the machines used in the Reboot archiving, the tape had a expiration date as the magnetic coating on the tape will eventually degrade and flake off.
ErynTzun: Awww
mtvcdm: When do they remaster Gertie the Dinosaur
ErynTzun: Peakychu!
eid010n: Oh, that's cute
ErynTzun: Just like a themed garden they used to have that at Dayton's/Macy's 3rd floor every year here
electric_claire: Nintendo sent out pikmin seeds as a promotion years ago.
Laserbeaks_Fury: My favorite YouTuber: Markaplantewr
Laserbeaks_Fury: Mewtwo got to him
ErynTzun: <_<
ErynTzun: >_>
ErynTzun: Yeah that one is big plastic Pokemon
BrowneePointz: Love that the Peak folks bodied entitled buttheads through a table
Laserbeaks_Fury: I keep seeing Bing-Bong *everywhere*
RubikDarkwill: Help me Scar! Long Live the King!
ErynTzun: There are some people who just play like that
ErynTzun: @RubikDarkwill wouldn't want to be like Scar
Thefluffiestguineapig: Those devs ARE NOT LAZY
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's a perfect response
ErynTzun: Peak does not feel small to me but I have only watched other ppl play
Thefluffiestguineapig: Peak has what 3 mountains?
ErynTzun: mountains zones?
ProcyonFlynn:
Most games don't get updates, 'Terraria Georg' should not be counted
BrowneePointz: You know what games like Peak is great for? MODDING COMMUNITIES!
TheMerricat:
@ProcyonFlynn Sean Murray's NMS. Or Todd Howard's Skyrim.
mtvcdm: We're calling Peak done so we can, presumably, start on another game
BrowneePointz: there's your extra content buttheads
ErynTzun @ProcyonFlynn checks how many updates Terraria has had.
TheMerricat:
Chat, who wins the update competition, Stardew Valley, Terraria, or No Man's Sky?
RockPusher: ErynTzun all. all the updates.
ErynTzun: Okay not going to count that
mtvcdm: @TheMerricat Dwarf Fortress
TheMerricat:
@mtvcdm
LordZarano: That's what the Nintendo Seal of Quality was. Once upon a time
TheMerricat: @TheMerricat TBF Nethack received an update in 22
ErynTzun: I guess it makes sense when it's been out just slightly longer than Skyrim.
accountmadeforants: Even modern game speedruns tend to stick to specific versions just in case different versions introduce changes (or because they know some important bug was removed)
accountmadeforants: @TheMerricat Caves of Qud
LordZarano:
I have 116 updates available for my system
accountmadeforants: @accountmadeforants Or maybe the Discworld MUD (if we count fan continuations)
mtvcdm: !patreon
accountmadeforants: @accountmadeforants (And given that it was fanmade to start with I think it should)
TheMerricat:
@accountmadeforants So to loop back to a previous topic... FurryMUCK has been running since 90.
LordZarano: How many updates has Deep Rock had?
accountmadeforants:
@TheMerricat One year older than the Discworld MUD then
ErynTzun: I remember playing on Transformers RP MUSHs but it's been a long time
accountmadeforants: "There's a typo in this book! How dare!"
mtvcdm: Book DLC is just fanfic
TheSpindash: I need a book patch. Just ship me a replacement page and a glue stick.
accountmadeforants:
@TheSpindash Or an actual page-sized patch you have to sew onto the page
ErynTzun: Super sad game
TheMerricat: Mom and Sky.
TheMerricat: Phone....
mtvcdm: Sometimes a game is just a person's passion project
Joecool190: and stardew has another one to come again
TheMerricat: No Man's Sky
accountmadeforants: Potionomics also added full voice acting several years after release... for some reason? (I'm not complaining, but also yeah, I already own the game.)
ErynTzun: I think ACNH 3.0 makes sense so ppl will pike up the game again because we know that it's still going to be a good while before a new one. They take their time on them, which is better for us.
ErynTzun: Well lit was like $5 so not a big deal
accountmadeforants: "how dare you put this game I completed back on my backlog"
LordZarano: Wasn't there a story a while ago about Factorio getting to 0 bugs in their bug tracker?
TheMerricat: @accountmadeforants So we are joking but I recently found out Amazon will 'patch' their digital books. Without asking you if it's ok.
accountmadeforants: @TheMerricat Cool, coolcoolcoooool Yeah no way that could be a problem
TheAinMAP: !ppr
ErynTzun: Amazon will yoink books without telling you,just not a great place to buy anything digital.
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Joecool190: nice
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mtvcdm: !patreon
Lord_Hosk: Watch it on Youtube? Heck I don't even watch it on Twitch... I have my eyes closed
ErynTzun: March 32nd
accountmadeforants: @ErynTzun It's why I make backups of (and remove the DRM from) anything I buy from Audible. I don't trust them not to ruin it one day.
mtvcdm: Heather stares at the camera *twice*
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accountmadeforants:
Gotta test them all in one day so they have the same pool of cards to choose from
Lord_Hosk: Black green commander? 4 infect decks or we riot
mtvcdm: Tangy touchdown
ErynTzun: The only garbage that's funny
7gorobei: hwachenplei
ArtDecoSunburn: Thanks again for doing "Waterdeep" this past Wednesday.
TheAinMAP:
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
mtvcdm: Later all!
ErynTzun:
byeee ty for strim 
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