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saucemaster5000: adventure island 2 anyone
EnglishGrinn: @cutriss thank you for the acknowledgement. I'm striking out hard today
BrowneePointz: but yea Faxanadu is one of those ones I think flies way under the radar for most but has had a loooooooong tail of games its inspired
BusTed: hello
Dandinstorm12: hello @Freudianity
TXC2: hello Freudianity welcome
AceGun_: hello
saucemaster5000: h e l l o
EnglishGrinn: Welcome to the most wholesome fighting game stream in the world
Dandinstorm12: cheers James
saucemaster5000: baa
EnglishGrinn: Or it was before Adam called us sheep
TXC2: who doesn;t like sheep?
Mr_Horrible: and he says he's not a bully
JKBalch: Baa Baaa
BrowneePointz: speaking of Sheep, apparently the Sheep Detectives movie is real good
Cutriss: Interesting that nobody has mentioned Metal Gear. It can’t be.
spethycakes: This is why I invoke "villain arc"
Dandinstorm12: Nintendo isn't just the NES Adam, they're like a whole company
BrowneePointz: hot take. I think the OG top down Metal Gears are stinky
mtvcdm: Adam has a Wheel of Getting Shot out of love for the chat, who said anything about bully
caetzer: these were pretty solid
Dandinstorm12: Clearly not
AceGun_: the version of Metal Gear that actually released on the NES sucked ass.
Mr_Horrible:
I refer to my previous statement 
LowUpsideCJ: best nintendo game overall is wii sports
BrowneePointz: Favorite underrated SNES gem? Breath of Fire 2
saucemaster5000: yeah I remember getting the NES metal gear cartridge and not being able to play it at all
Dandinstorm12: Adam "The Nintendo" Savidan
mtvcdm: I used to love Aerobiz and Aerobiz Supersonic from the SNES
Mr_Horrible: he called the factory and had them turn off the Alex Faucet
EnglishGrinn: Adam learned game nomenclature from our grandmas where all games are "the nintendo"
TXC2: BrowneePointz I suspect they were good (or least different) at the time, but the limits of tech, and Kojima not having refined his idea yet lead to them being bad
30teracyte: but what about the more important question: what's the best gamecube game?
saucemaster5000: that's what I thought about NBA jam
BrowneePointz: Rogue Squadron 2 is goated
Dandinstorm12: Doubledash
AceGun_: It is probably just Wind Waker
BrowneePointz: Wind Waker is STILL my 2nd fave Zelda
Mr_Horrible: Wind Waker pretty up there, yeah
BrowneePointz: and I fucking love sunshine. I know it's a hot or cold game
EnglishGrinn: The best GC game is probably Viewtiful Joe?
Mr_Horrible: I'll still shill for Metroid Prime 2
BrowneePointz: but GOD I love Sunshine
pointproven214: super mario sunshine resident evil
Mai_Andra: Wasn't Rogue Squadron N64?
Mr_Horrible: yes
EnglishGrinn: Rogue Leader he means
Mr_Horrible: he's gaslighting us again
TXC2:
pointproven214 heck of a crossover there 
Mr_Horrible: by forgetting the name of a thing
Dandinstorm12: Fire Emblem: Path of Radience
Mai_Andra:
Best GameCube game? WWE Day of Reckoning 
Mr_Horrible: they're p good
Mr_Horrible: although I still haven't played 4, so
BrowneePointz: 1 is good. 2 is great. 3 is...fine, 4 is...fine
Mr_Horrible: lol
EnglishGrinn: Oh wait, I wanna change my answer. Donkey Konga
Dandinstorm12: Melee
Mr_Horrible: oh wait yeah DK Jungle Beat
Mr_Horrible: game slaps, literally
LowUpsideCJ: i think my favorite gamecube game was custom robo
TXC2: thanks for streaming Adam and Nelson
TXC2: !pateron
Mr_Horrible: @LowUpsideCJ I wish we'd gotten more of that series statestide
TXC2: !store
Mr_Horrible: *stateside, even
saucemaster5000: gonna get fargo season 1'd
Mr_Horrible: they're actually not gonna let you back into Canada
LowUpsideCJ: ggs gamers
mtvcdm: Later!
LowUpsideCJ: thanks for the stream
TXC2:
gonna banish you from the Island, like we did with Wiggins
mtvcdm: Coming up in NOW
TXC2: !events
BusTed:
Mr_Horrible: GameStop made a claim. Whether it should be taken credulously is another matter
TXC2:
Prismari command.....damnit Nelson 
Mr_Horrible: More Returnal, less green and more yellow this time
Mai_Andra:
ice so thin, we get multiple surprise bonus streams when a Returnal-like comes out
BusTed: hell yeah
Mr_Horrible: everything I've seen is "Game good, wish it wasn't console exclusive"
TXC2: WORMS HYPE
TXC2: good luck Adam
Mr_Horrible: thanks for the stream, lads
spethycakes: Thanks for stream! GL Adam
Wolfstrike_NL: o7
v_nome: Oh shit, he finally won the lottery
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Mai_Andra: Combo Breaker co-stream
RockPusher: !quote beej
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TXC2: RockPusher indeed
TXC2: also no music?
RockPusher: No music
Juliamon: tuneless
RockPusher: Secluded on a quiet mountain
RockPusher: !quote paul
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TXC2: with only the dull buzz of tinnitus for company
SocraticMethod: !findquote music
LRRbot: Quote #1993: "Well, you murdered someone with music..." —Ian [2016-03-01]
RockPusher: TXC2 drawing attention to my own personal in-brain room tone
TXC2: sounds!
mtvcdm: noises
TXC2: RockPusher ah, sorry
RockPusher: LoadingReadyReunited with volume
RockPusher:
TXC2 what is tinnitus if not an ever-faithful companion 
TXC2: what indeed
RockPusher: !quote heather
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SocraticMethod: What is an artillerist's least favorite Halo level? The MAWP
RockPusher:
I prefer Rust TIme myself 
TXC2: TODAY
TXC2: Hello Heather, Paul and Beej
RockPusher: 76th‽ Winning!
DoodlestheGreat: What about Latvia?
EvilBadman: The numbers in Snorsh vary wildly
RockPusher: C Time of course is playing in a dumpster in a dark alley with the raccoons. C++ Time is the same but it is a *classy* dumpster.
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spethycakes: It's only Lithuania if you get less popular...so maybe it's Lithu-wax-ia
RockPusher:
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EvilBadman: Ah the checkpoint cuckchair
RockPusher: Short King Beej?
TXC2: Paul and his Children KAppa
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RockPusher: Vidya James!
EvilBadman: "interactive movie"
mtvcdm: I have a feeling the Super Game was just, fortnite
TXC2: THE Super game
kingandcommoner: If you're going to remake Superman 64 just do it.
DoodlestheGreat: Thuper Gayme.
TXC2:
so the Super Game was just GTA6?
TXC2: or like the last 4 Yakuza games?
Mr_Horrible: so could I if I found oil under my parents' house
TXC2: 600 million? doesn't CoD Blops make a billion each time?
ThanhtTheBoss: @TXC2 That's what I was thinking!
TXC2: shit, I might not be able to XP now after not using it for 10+ years
TXC2: an exploratory phase
exeJayce: I miss XP and 7, both were good
TXC2: exeJayce they sure were
RockPusher: ♫ do doo do doo do do do doo doo doo … DAYTONA!!! ♫
mtvcdm: You could Outrun
TheMerricat: I mean watching Ian's streams, isn't that what the Yakuza games are? A bunch of minigames based on older games connected by a main game that you ignore to get to the side stories.
LordZarano: Iirc Infinite Wealth has a crazy taxi minigame, but for uber deliveries
kingandcommoner: I think you may underestimate segaheads
RockPusher: I'm waiting for them to put all of 0 into a Like a Dragon
Vinewood_OG: Coming soon to FartKnife
RockPusher: because at some point for the meme they have to put Yakuza in Yakuza, surely
RockPusher: I wonder if its from the old specific LCD games from the 80s
TXC2:
we Finally get the Sega neptune
RockPusher: since that is the first thing I can think of as a game in that form factor
aerolend: A gaming super-cruise ship.
EvilBadman: 2 Million sold
TheMerricat: I've been told the game is pretty good.
aerolend: Sea spiders.
TheMerricat: Beej is dying to Little Nemo.
ThanhtTheBoss: I would love a mode where it is in space instead of the ocean. Weirdly less of a fear for me.
7gorobei: everything becomes a crab
mtvcdm: Giant cannibal corgis
CaptainSpam: So basically, Salmonids from the Splatoon games.
wedge_x: Paul prefers knowable horrors
TheMerricat:
Paul wants the danger levels signposted. 
7gorobei: the threat matches the appearance
EvilBadman: What if all the fish had New Zealand voice acting
TXC2: Paul likes it when the poisonous bug has the vivid colours
ThanhtTheBoss: "Nobody wants anything to look like Choo Choo Charlie"
exeJayce: vivid colors at least stand out compared to bland bugs
RockPusher:
TXC2: !addquote (Heather) [now] Nobody wants anything to look like Choo Choo Charlie.
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ContingentCat: Wanting to be part of a group is so rare
accountmadeforants: I'm sorely tempted for sure
Decaped: I should finish Subnautica sometime.
SocraticMethod: Huh, Charlie the Choo Choo is from the Dark Tower. Choo Choo _Charles_ is the game. I guess someone didn't want to be sued from trademark violation.
EvilBadman: Mentioned above, but they just announced Sub2's sold 2million, in spite of the leak
Mr_Horrible: "What's available?" "More Subnautica"
accountmadeforants: At the very least multiplayer is already in
Mr_Horrible: and it turns out, that's what at least 2 million people want
Sethalidos: Krafton didn't want it going into Early Access before the end date for the bonus
exeJayce: I still need to play Subnautica- I have a friend who was really into it at one point and he always said it was good
TXC2: also that at least 2 million people don't care/ trust leaks
aerolend: Sometimes more.
accountmadeforants: Ben was looking to multiplay Subnautica 2 with someone as well.
TheMerricat: IIRC didn't Krafton also lose control of the account that the game is registered to because after the whole lawsuit fallout they were still trying to play games and prevent the game from being published under early access by not letting the team use the account?
Mr_Horrible: the funny part is, from my perspective, it makes for a more interesting watch when it's multiple players. But I also don't really have an urge to play the game myself
aerolend:
Mr_Horrible: the classic concern of multiplayer survival base-builders
TheMerricat: Be nice if the multiplayer was split into a 'community hub' area where you could just fart around without worrying about grinding out content, and the actual game where you could explore with buddies.
Decaped: Can't wait to watch my friend get chased by a giant underwater monster
Laserbeaks_Fury: I think that's way more evaluation an "AI" is capable of
TheMerricat:
This is why you keep playing new portal 2 maps made by the community.
SocraticMethod: Reminds me of that one Factorio multiplayer challenge where one player plonked down bunch of blueprints and had to leave early. Everyone else started treating like Adeptus Mechanicus sacred objects because they were too complex to change.
DoodlestheGreat: If it's two people who have played it, now it's speedrunning/horn=sing around time.
mtvcdm: Wrong answers only
DoodlestheGreat: "Press the red button." "They're both blue."
mtvcdm: !advice
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Laserbeaks_Fury: Yeah, there's a streamer I watch who loves Golden Idol type games, and solves it with their chat. But it sucks if someone knows what to do
Mr_Horrible: another pair of eyes, and another pair of neurons
RockPusher:
Jamie playing Blue Prince we had a Discord channel where those who'd finished it discussed what would be an appropriately vague hint should she "Hey Chat" it
EvilBadman: Ohm you should totally play Blue Prince like that next then
RockPusher: That channel was a very fun read with us following her during end-game
Laserbeaks_Fury: I remember playing Bloodstained the first time and getting super stuck. I finally looked up what to do and I'm glad I did because I was *never* going to figure it out
Decaped: Streamers have such a privileged position for this particular play pattern.
RubikDarkwill: It's how Dan and Carrie Floyd play a lot of games
Laserbeaks_Fury: As long as Subnautica 2 strill has the Seamoth, I'm cool
ContingentCat: Oh I like the sound of no guns, maybe I'll check it out then
TheMerricat: The no guns thing was intentional by the devs, they stated after making the Natural Selection games that they no longer wanted to make games with guns in them.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Nah, the best part is getting the grapple arm for the PRAWN and Spider-Manning around
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Laserbeaks_Fury: It really sucks when games with progression do this preorder early access
Laserbeaks_Fury: whole weekend worth of practicing the tracks
aerolend: Can't spell Italian without Ian.
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SocraticMethod: The Yifs
TXC2: languages are had
TXC2: *hard
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aerolend: My theory is it's a marketing tactic.
RockPusher: The problem when CheckPoint does a Journalism is that it often highlights the comparative quality of the journalism we usually get
TXC2: even as a tertiary source, Checkpoint is still probably one of the most trustworthy news programs on the internet.
Laserbeaks_Fury: As an Arkham City speedrunner, I kinda want to play it
TXC2: there's various legal reasons why video games can't have 1 to 1 reproductions of real locations.
aerolend: @TXC2 I can think of at least one, but I thik it would be cool if they did.
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TXC2: there's a KFC across the street from the pyramids of Giza
TXC2:
also there's a street
Decaped: Is Truck-kun in Forza Horizon 6?
EvilBadman: Yeah the Forza Horizon games are very Mario Kart World (or I guess the reverse)
EvilBadman: Forza Mortorsport is the simulator
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SquareDotCube: iRacing is the super super simulator one
ContingentCat: then Toronto because of course
TXC2:
if you can't walk across a city in under an hour, it's too big
ContingentCat: @TXC2 or you're walking too slow lol
Strebenherz: I mean the last time i heard Beej laugh like that was in response to Ian/Bartleby going "I can smiiile now!" so even if i don't understand I figure SOMETHING was good good
aerolend: In a car chase in Tenet, they drive in the direction to get out of the city. When the frame changes the are driving in the direction to drive out of the city, on the opposite edge of it.
RockPusher: "What We Do in the Shadows" was very fun for seeing Wellington playing Wellington
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aerolend: why
aerolend: What use would it have had.
aerolend: Ah, so, it would have taken the job of Twitch chat.
RockPusher: Go Left!
EvilBadman: It could be Chat, yeah
aerolend:
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: call it the streamer experience
EvilBadman:
ContingentCat: !listen
LRRbot: Chat seems active.
LordZarano: !badadvice
LRRbot: "Both" is an option.
EvilBadman: Spencer
RockPusher: Microsoft by all accounts is a bunch of warring silos, so the strategy for the games division may very well be at odds with the silo they came from.
TheMerricat: it's starting to unravel.
Vinewood_OG: "services"
DoodlestheGreat: People are finding out LLMs are not the be-all, end-all..
TehAmelie: i think they were counting a lot on AI being able to magically create improved versions of itself
ContingentCat: I believe I saw the us spreme court ruled ai can't be copyrighted, I think that's going to have a big impact
gnyrinn: @DoodlestheGreat That penny has begun to drop, unfortunately from LEO.
TXC2: yeah the "free" tier is losing money SO FAST, and people are super not gonna pay for the paid tiers
Vinewood_OG: Slop. Slop never changes.
kingandcommoner: "Do you want to update windows?" "Yes" "Remind me in 3 days"
Cptasparagus: your windows 11 computer is also coincidentally an Xbox
Strebenherz: hidden, or say, purged from the system by force and command prompt
kingandcommoner: @Cptasparagus they backed out of that actually
TXC2: "do you want to update windows?" "yes, so buy me the thousand dollar machine that can actually run it, 'cause I sure can't"
RockPusher: they need to get everyone to use it so they can make people reliant on it so that when they start trying to squeeze everyone for every dollar people can't flee
Cptasparagus:
@kingandcommoner yeah but we don't have to let them 
Marvoleath: I bet no one is more tired of copilot than MS AI specialists
RockPusher: 'cause they need to squeeze at some point to try and make back the pile of money being burned
TXC2: or the data-center in Utah that would be bigger then Manhattan
Strebenherz: @TXC2 jesus
Laserbeaks_Fury: To busy building AirBnB
kingandcommoner: I just wish Open Ai backing out of buying RAM was the death knell it should have been
TXC2:
kingandcommoner or would bring the price down
Laserbeaks_Fury: That good, she went rampant
DoodlestheGreat: And then there's what happened this week in Missouri, where most of the city council for a town that railroaded a data center over complaints got voted out of office, while the rest are having petitions filed demanding their recall/resignation.
mtvcdm: This is what Cortana gets for freelancing from Master Chief
TXC2: DoodlestheGreat nice
kingandcommoner: @DoodlestheGreat Every once in a while my state pulls out a win
Marvoleath: Soon, windows premium, you pay extra to not have "ai" assistant forced upon you
DoodlestheGreat: "Cortana is a pre-existing condition."
mtvcdm: She CAUSED pretty serious stuff in the Halo game
maywecomein: fun random fact: if you are a Google employee *not* working on Gemini, you likely are not sitting anywhere near someone who is, since those folks are in buildings that only they can access (at least as of a couple years ago)
RockPusher: The 2 hardest problems in computing: 0) Naming things 1) Cache invalidation 2) Fencepost errors
Vinewood_OG: Streaming service names have reached critical mass. Enjoy your free trial of Florple!
DoodlestheGreat: @Vinewood_OG I can't stand Florple. I'm on Breem!
ArtDecoSunburn: @Vinewood_OG Florple+.
kingandcommoner: He memed his way into running one company; I can't blame him aiming for two
RockPusher: but but Half Cash Half Stock!!!
TXC2: also great use of a picture from generation kill in the episode
LordZarano: Reminds me of the reason for the name "Discord" "It has to do with speech and the url was available"
gnyrinn: New tinder bio!
SocraticMethod: Gamestop board is a bunch of Cohen yes-men, so yeah, it's Cohen buying eBay
Vinewood_OG: Preorder a clue, dog
DoodlestheGreat: It was the most business-like way of saying "Are you out of your f**king mind?"
RockPusher: To the Moon!
TXC2: Dan Olson has a video on this
SocraticMethod: Aka gamestop ape rapture
kingandcommoner: It's the Stonk Cult endgmae
RockPusher:
Vinewood_OG: If you eat more poutine, you get 'moass?
aerolend: Ha. "Legally".
SocraticMethod: aka Naked shorts.
RockPusher:
Yes, it is as stupid as it sounds Heather 
SocraticMethod: There is a way to get legally more actual shorts than stock, but it's usually quickly rectified
TXC2: a hedge fund shorted more Gamestop stock then actually existed, dumb people on the internet "thought" they could do that with ALL the stocks
kingandcommoner: the Stock Market as a whole is a scam
Vinewood_OG: Welcome to modern finance
Juliamon: it's scams all the way down
Strebenherz: the stock market is calvinball finances
CaptainSpam: I really, seriously never understood why stock shorting was even allowed as a thing.
aerolend: The whole world economic system is a bunch of scams in a stolen trenchcoat.
SocraticMethod: eeh, shorting is like futures. There is a reason it happens
TXC2: it's gambling with extra steps
Decaped: Shorting is what would keep the market honest, if the market was rational.
TXC2: the problem with shorts is that they are bets on failure
aerolend: A short squeeze is when your shorts are a size too small.
Cptasparagus: It could still be a butt thing
aerolend:
CaptainSpam: Like, futures and normal stocks? Makes sense. Business does good, you get a part of that profit. The theory works. Shorting, though? That sounds like the money is just magicked out of thin air.
DoodlestheGreat: "SELL 100 APRIL, 142!"
kingandcommoner: @CaptainSpam because it's a 4 part thing that has each part be legal. 1: Borrow stock from someone for x amount of itme. 2: Sell that stock at the current price. 3: Buy the same amount of stock that you sold at a new lower price. 4: Return the stock you borrowed
RockPusher: Stocks and Stock Markets were invented to solve genuine economic challenges… and then almost instantly became malignant as people stopped thinking about them in terms of the problem they were solving
SquareDotCube: I would honestly put this on the stock markets allowing this
TXC2: RockPusher why regulations matter
TehAmelie: @CaptainSpam and then it disappears into thin air. as i recall The Big Short, that all resulted in about 7 trillion dollars disappearing
SocraticMethod: Big Short is a propaganda FYI
RockPusher: Very High Recommend on The Big Short
Vinewood_OG:
Still no clue what that scene was about. 
RockPusher: though it will make you angry
DoodlestheGreat: "Trading Places" is also focused around a short sell scheme.
RockPusher: Understanding it better really just makes it more anger inducing
Decaped: @CaptainSpam Because if you "know" the company is going to do badly, if there's no way to profit of it, a capitalist system will just ignore rationality and prop the company up (to everyone's detriment) because it makes people more money.
TheMerricat: The stories you hear about people 'investing' isn't them actually investing, it's them doing complicated gambling. People who are actually _investing_ aren't doing any of this.
ArtDecoSunburn: "Margin Call" is a much better business film from that time period. And I say that as someone who taught "The Big Short" in my undergrad business history classes.
ArtDecoSunburn: @DoodlestheGreat Frozen concentrate orange juice!
RockPusher: actually, OG Spice & Wolf had I think the best explaination of shorting I've seen so far
RockPusher: (I've not watched the new one yet)
SocraticMethod: "This is financial advice" is the correct title
RockPusher: fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn yup
DoodlestheGreat: @RockPusher Oh yeah! And it has more wolves!
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: @RockPusher TIL
SocraticMethod: "Line go up" is the NFT essay
TXC2: "line go up" is about NFTs, "this is Finical advice" is the video on MOASS
ArtDecoSunburn: @Decaped Financialization. Our economy is based not on manufacturing or selling, but on moving money around.
TXC2: *financial
aerolend: Not sure how much actual education it involves, but Meet Joe Black involves a hostile takeover.
Vinewood_OG: Go watch George Carlin's bit on the manufacture and distribution of bullshit.
CaptainSpam: Still, I'm with Buffett here, I'm not investing in things I don't understand. So, I'm not getting in on shorting.
TXC2:
aerolend yeah, Death kills a man and then takes over his body, film ain't subtle
TehAmelie: @aerolend and there's the bit with Death taking over that guy's body. how symbolic!
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher We're a long way from the joint stock companies of the 17th century.
TehAmelie: ha, same brain cell
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: @TXC2 I remember getting send to headmaster's for laughing during that movie in class
aerolend:
@TehAmelie
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: getting sent*
SocraticMethod: Ebay has like 90% institutional ownership, so it's going to be interesting whether BlackRock thinks Cohen can actually do what he claims
Strebenherz: also emerald mines
ContingentCat: so much for that lol
ArtDecoSunburn: @aerolend Nice point. And he poses as an SEC investigator.
TXC2:
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn wow, some strict teachers there then
ArtDecoSunburn: @SocraticMethod Lotta pension funds involved, for sure.
aerolend: @ArtDecoSunburn Or maybe he didn't pose and that was actually the truth.
aerolend: @ArtDecoSunburn He could have been both, really.
SocraticMethod: Cohen mostly took over the GME cult
ContingentCat: Like so many egomaniacs he thinks his cult is much bigger than it is
Vinewood_OG: His cult is behind the Wendy's dumpster.
kingandcommoner: Cohen's cult is built on the concept that they don't have to do anything except hoard stock. They don't have motivation beyong that
RockPusher: SpaceX getting dragged into the more grifty machinations makes me sad
RubikDarkwill: Part of the SpaceX IPO is Musk can't be kick out
ArtDecoSunburn: Technically, Twitter is now a subsidiary of Xai, which is now a subsidiary of SpaceX.
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: @TXC2 same teacher as latin, not a barrel of laughs
kingandcommoner: I describe him as "a half-hearted Fonz cosplay doing his best Ben Stein impression"
ContingentCat: I think it's that ebay is a recognizable name
TXC2: surely E-bay is doing better then gamestop?
mtvcdm: eBay's chugging along fine
SocraticMethod: eBay would have given Cohen metrics to claim bunch of compensation packages
Juliamon: wow, haven't thought of Ben Stein in a long time. Too bad it wasn't longer.
RockPusher: ArtDecoSunburn gotta consolidate it all under the company that will certainly get bailed out when all the debt comes due
ArtDecoSunburn: @aerolend I wish more federal agents were grim reapers at the moment. Especially GAO and inspectors general.
Vinewood_OG: It was priceless. 10/10
SocraticMethod: And since Cohen is an activist investor, the passive eBay board seems like a soft target for takeover
mtvcdm: We will all become Fortnite
ContingentCat: Fortnight comes for us all
ContingentCat: *fortnite
Laserbeaks_Fury: The fact you see Tracer in the Ready Player One movie is really pushing us to that timeline
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher Sadly, yes. Then they can sell 20 percent to an Emerati sovereign wealth fund.
ContingentCat: it's a good bit yeah
Strebenherz: well done heather
ArtDecoSunburn: @SocraticMethod Shades of Gordon Gekko.
ContingentCat: fortwatch overnite
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: Fortverwatch
Laserbeaks_Fury: I will never get over seeing Optimus Prime get into a truck and drive it
SocraticMethod: @ArtDecoSunburn absolutely
TXC2: Blizzard wishes they made fortnite
RockPusher: ArtDecoSunburn fortunately? that's one of the tradeoffs of having an almost certain bailout, there will be at least some restrictions on who and how much ownership is non-sovreign
Vinewood_OG:
Nortwich or Fartknife killed me
mtvcdm: At this point everyone is weird just because of the broad and random assortment of everyone they have
aerolend: @ArtDecoSunburn After having watched Dead Like Me, I think I might enjoy to work as one for a bit.
RockPusher:
Yes, yes, we've all seen the Fart Knife
ContingentCat: yet
aerolend: @ArtDecoSunburn A grim reaper, that is.
SocraticMethod: Secret Lair x FORTNITE
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher In the past, sure. I'm not certain the future overseers of bailouts will be well-meaning Obama era technocrats. We're in kleptocracy so.
wedge_x: Se7en
EvilBadman: @SocraticMethod already happened, unless you were saying that
LordZarano: UB: Eyes Wide Shut
ContingentCat: Watergate Scandal Universes Beyond
mtvcdm: An anthropomorphic Timbit
TXC2: Secret Lair Sophie's Choice
ArtDecoSunburn: Universes Beyond: Paradise Lost. Satan is a 2/2.
SocraticMethod: @EvilBadman meant already happened, grabbed that title from the store page
Decaped: Secret Lair will eventually show up on Sexpoint
gualdhar: UB: Debbie Does Dominaria
gnyrinn: I like Beej's suggestion: Jesus Christ.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Still waiting for the Yu Gi Oh set
TheMerricat:
@Decaped As long as Sexpoint never shows up in Secret Lair.
SocraticMethod: UB: The Serbian film
RockPusher: ArtDecoSunburn Kleptomania versus Xenophobia - who will win? Fight!
mtvcdm: One day Mr. Blobby will be in Fortnite
TXC2:
Decaped TheMerricat Secret lair: The love doctors
Laserbeaks_Fury: Will It Fortnite?
Cptasparagus: Theres a "bruce lee" skin in League of Legends too, but its an homage not official
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher I think we know who will lose.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Nicolas Cage is in DBD
kingandcommoner: I accept it, but only if it's Jackie Chan from Jackie Chan Adventures
SocraticMethod: secret lair x Steal The Brainrot
Laserbeaks_Fury: Like Literal Dracula is in DBD
SocraticMethod: I mean, there is a movie when Nick Cage plays Nick Cage
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 I could see Meryl Streep cracking packs.
ContingentCat: I like the level of ridiculousness
gnyrinn: @TXC2 Let's workshop this: What LRR-creations could make a UB set? Story Guy, Electrovolt, CHustle-Matt Wiggins?
TXC2: ArtDecoSunburn if nothing else, we could get Angel to play her in a crapshot
Laserbeaks_Fury: Jill Valentine is in DBD, also a OC character has a Jill Valentine cosplay skin
aerolend: @kingandcommoner Ah. The nostalgic time when I did not know he's not a nice person.
TXC2: gnyrinn oh the whole of the LRR Autumnal rumble could be a MTG set
SocraticMethod: @gnyrinn Plane of Watch + Play
kingandcommoner: @aerolend For the sake of my sanity I'm not going to google that. It's not like he's putting out anything for me to buy anyway
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 "Sophie's Choice" as a card. Like you suggested. Can Angel do a bad polish accent? Would Wheeler be Kevin Kline?
aerolend: They should have like 10 layers of separation. At least. For their safety.
EvilBadman: not a mod, it's decompiled, and then made into its own executable, nop emulator needed
DoodlestheGreat: CHEEVOS!
Decaped: Playing through Twilight Princess as Linkle sounds fun. I hope they changed the dialogue
kingandcommoner: They don't take down emulators, they just drag people to court until they run out of money and agree to take them down themselves
kingandcommoner: it's so much worse
EvilBadman: There's been a couple for OOT and MM still alive for three years now
TXC2: right chat I'm off
TXC2: goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming LRR
ArtDecoSunburn: Toodles.
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
kingandcommoner: Isnt' that Yakuza Pirates?
ArtDecoSunburn: (Jazz hands)
aerolend:
mtvcdm: What's a kenway? Bout five pounds
Laserbeaks_Fury: It's just like The Goonies
aerolend: They cut out the modern parts in the remake. I wonder if they ever do the opposite and acutally make a modern/future focused game.
mtvcdm: I hope this is a treasure that actually just never gets found and it's still out there 50 years later once everyone's forgotten about it
kingandcommoner: So there's probably not a real chest
kingandcommoner: It's goblin sized
SocraticMethod: The vodka bottle sized
Strebenherz: How much is it to rent an excavator? >_>
TehAmelie: has there been a treasure hunting ARG just called Arg? the pirate jokes write themselves
kingandcommoner: why is this starting to sound like a scam?
aerolend:
I'm imagining a movie about a bunch of amateurs trying to do one.
RockPusher:
35 gyros, that's so many gyros
aerolend: @kingandcommoner Cause it's a marketing event?
Laserbeaks_Fury: The FF XIII Gambit
Laserbeaks_Fury: Look how fast they burned through Blue Prince
aerolend: I wonder what AI will solve it.
DoodlestheGreat: Watch someone solve it withing two weeks of all the puzzles come out.
ArtDecoSunburn: I wonder if the basis is that treasure chest that guy hid in the Rockies that took years?
aerolend: The xkcd wrench method.
Laserbeaks_Fury: anyone remember MAZE?
Vinewood_OG: James Woods?
ArtDecoSunburn: @Laserbeaks_Fury That was a great book.
ContingentCat: they get the publicity either way
CaptainSpam: Oh, this is good.
ArtDecoSunburn: Someone got 10k for solving MAZE in the 80s, I think.
LordZarano: Oh this!
Laserbeaks_Fury: Greasy hands
Juliamon: Love this story
CaptainSpam: I have tested this, and yes, it does work.
LordZarano: Mine hasn't screamed yet
badpandabear: My controller should be as angry at me as I am at it? That sounds dangerous.
aerolend: The easter egg is -- if you drop it, you can't get another one.
LordZarano:
I got mine yesterday
aerolend: @LordZarano Nice.
mtvcdm: If the battery is running low does it do the Sonic drowning noise
RockPusher: My understanding is they are extremely repairable
ContingentCat: mechanically made screaming?
aerolend: Isn't that technically a speaker?
ArtDecoSunburn: @aerolend Like a sack of flour in a teen home ec class pretending to be a parent?
LordZarano: HD haptics are basically speakers
Decaped: Would you prefer a controller that screams in hate when you drop it? Or one who loves it when you drop it?
SocraticMethod: Haptics, they aren't rumble motors anymore
aerolend:
@ArtDecoSunburn 
CaptainSpam: @Decaped Honestly, dropping a Wilhelm is the perfect balance between the two.
iconicshadow89: i have no speaker but i must scream
Laserbeaks_Fury: YUP
LordZarano: The OG Steam Controller played the beginning of Still Alive through the haptics when you turned it on
Laserbeaks_Fury: PC can definitely detect and use yout DualSen as an audio out
aerolend: The setting is called "ripped the thing out".
ArtDecoSunburn: @aerolend You know, how some US middle schools have exercises where kids have to care for a sack of flour for a week as though it were a baby. Sitcoms parody this frequently.
Decaped: @Laserbeaks_Fury Bane of my PC audio setup every other week.
CaptainSpam: @LordZarano Well, it had a bunch of choices. Same with shutdown; I had it play the ending notes of the TF2 theme there.
aerolend: @ArtDecoSunburn Ah. I don't think I've heard the flour bag version.
ArtDecoSunburn: @aerolend Different places use different things. When I was in 8th grade we had to lug around a potato.
Laserbeaks_Fury: lol
aerolend: @ArtDecoSunburn And then they made your experience into Portal 2.
LordZarano: Wear protection, use uBO
ArtDecoSunburn: @aerolend I've not played that game. Is there a fake baby exercise? Does the baby get a portal gun?
SocraticMethod: fandom wikia experience
CaptainSpam: Ah, yes, Fandom.
mtvcdm: If it's slowing down the page
Juliamon: Fandom is famously Like That
Strebenherz: 10% of the page
Vinewood_OG: Fandumb
Strebenherz: if that
Strebenherz: fandom aka disable javascript wiki
SocraticMethod: If you use it on mobile you'll have less than 50% screen space for actual page
ArtDecoSunburn: The local versus the national.
SocraticMethod: it's a Trade union
electric_claire: In the US we have trade unions so yes, it's a union.
aerolend: @ArtDecoSunburn Yes.
SocraticMethod: @aerolend Nah, baby doesn't get a portal gun. Baby gets stuck _on_ the portal gun
Laserbeaks_Fury: Laundering the Union-Buster
ArtDecoSunburn: The story of Gadsden, the only union town in Alabama, is instructive here. Goodyear opened a tire plant in the 1920s and some naive executive down from Akron, Ohio, just went ahead automatically and did the union paperwork.
aerolend: AMD has Petronas F1 team. Intel is coming back with McLaren. Nvidia instead is choosing to go with military drones.
ArtDecoSunburn: Actually, 40s, not 20s.
ArtDecoSunburn: @SocraticMethod I hope it was a happy baby.
SocraticMethod: @ArtDecoSunburn Bit of an sourpuss, really
ArtDecoSunburn: @SocraticMethod Ungrateful, gun-riding, portal-accessing tot. Pity.
kingandcommoner: Hell, I'd settle for not suing people who try to keep the game going
Laserbeaks_Fury: Remember when server games *had* to be run by local administrators?
gnyrinn: @Laserbeaks_Fury Yes! [takes back-pain medicine]
RockPusher: "but that would require us not to fire everybody who knows how the server code was built immediately after launch!"
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Marvoleath: Warhammer online is a good example, it was took over by the fans and is running as non-profit and still getting patched etc.
ArtDecoSunburn: @Marvoleath Interesting. Are they like Null Signal games and Netrunner?
Marvoleath: @ArtDecoSunburn Im not sure if they went "official" but the premise is the same
Marvoleath: keeping a beloved but niche game alive
Laserbeaks_Fury: you need the stick
ArtDecoSunburn: @Marvoleath Nice to see gaming "civil society" in operation. Neat.
SocraticMethod: Also the server software can't have any licensed middleware
Laserbeaks_Fury: Ironically, I don't think they could ever do "Fortnite 2" because of the licensing hell it would cause
jessicaengle: Fortnite trying to be Minecraft, what a shame
DoodlestheGreat: Make it run on LANs and you remove the online issue.
BusTed:
aerolend:
7gorobei: it's a bad faith strawman
aerolend: Technically, one can. But if that logic is applied to themselves, they might not like it.
aerolend: Profiteers.
aerolend: They're not even manufacturing games. They're manufacturing profit. Just using games as a medium.
TheMerricat: That was the watershed.
kingandcommoner: I'm pretty sure The Crew was just the first reasonably sized game that was killed in a way the movement could use
kingandcommoner: We shouldn't have stopped fighting the horse aromr
kingandcommoner: we shoudl have pushed back harder
TheMerricat: Chat, remember when everyone was young and naive and we thought Valve making a hat collecting simulator game (TF2) was a good thing and were excited about the community market?
CaptainSpam: Splatoon 1 was, but starting with Splatoon 2 there's offline local multiplayer (and LAN play).
kingandcommoner: I still refuse to buy anything ubisoft because they try to make me get an Ubisoft account for games that are single player only
TheMerricat: TBH I'm a smidge surprised that the Moonbase isn't using commercial grade displays instead of smart tvs. I guess the price difference isn't that high.
aerolend: Perfect.
ContingentCat: nice partial adblock
CaptainSpam: The only thing I've used network stuff for with my TV is uPNP/DLNA stuff. Except my local server that does that seems pretty flaky, so I think I'll just yoink that entirely.
LoadingReadyRun: @TheMerricat unfortunately the price difference between consumer and commercial displays *is* pretty high
aerolend: Just a rest moment for the eyes.
TheMerricat: @LoadingReadyRun Ah, that sucks.
RockPusher: Does it have USB stick firmware download/update?
RubikDarkwill: I have found that watching YouTube in picture-in-picture on my phone basically prevents ads
kingandcommoner: Feels like that's still a problem
RockPusher: ah, unable to get a specific version
SquareDotCube: God, I'd love a TV OS that just has a good web browser that supports codecs correctly
RockPusher: Commercial displays are getting cheaper - but unfortunately also get smart BS too
TheMerricat: You want to look into hotel tvs, not the ones used for display.
aerolend: Anyone wanna start a company making just displays that just display what you want and not a bunch of ads?
ContingentCat: it makes sense you have those yeah
RockPusher: at this stage I'd get Ian to explore buying a panel and building your own display
Marvoleath: Remember when you could buy home electronics and got a finished product that didnt need patches?
aerolend:
Billboards. They're selling billboards marketed as TVs. 
gnyrinn: Yeah, 24h certified monitors cost A LOT.
mtvcdm: You could get a little pinwheel
Cptasparagus: but what if one wall of the moonbase was all TVs
aerolend: Do you have any hotel connections to just join a bulk purchase?
e_bloc: 1 tv per ps5
RockPusher: Chat misses its burn-in
ContingentCat: cut to next mail time
aerolend: @Marvoleath Things had wiring diagrams included!
SquareDotCube: e-ink displays?
aerolend: The Projector from Control.
mtvcdm: !addquote (Heather) [now] No sad Beej! Only show go away!
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mtvcdm: This is what the cardboard-TV budget could go to
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RockPusher: Izzet Commander? I dunno, is it?
DoodlestheGreat: EXPLOSIONS? Sounds good to me.
SquareDotCube: Underwater explosions!
Cptasparagus: I'm a scientist, you can always trust science, believe me
EvilBadman: Or prismari, who're theater kids with magic
aerolend: @Cptasparagus Have faith in science.
DoodlestheGreat: No clue what it'll be, but it'll be LIVE!
gnyrinn: To the Wiki!
mtvcdm: Over three episodes of Live
Marvoleath: at least 3
DoodlestheGreat: Maybe even four!
Vinewood_OG: So dig AND die
DoodlestheGreat: Speaking of explosions...
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