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RockPusher:
RockPusher: !findquote balls
LRRbot: Quote #1672: "In front of the dude, you've got his balls." —Ian [2016-01-26]
RockPusher:
7gorobei: roger ovum and out
TXC2: title change!
TehAmelie: time for some newts!
TehAmelie: wait wrong show
TehAmelie: enter a superstitious old lady going "Feed Dump died eight years ago"
TehAmelie:
TXC2: CONTACT
RockPusher: !quote paul
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RockPusher: !quote heather
LRRbot: Quote #8405: "This is your last tingly juice." —Heather [2022-12-25]
OldUncleDan: Recently, I heard a BGC song out in the wild (the details are convoluted and boring.) It occurred to me that BGC is inexcapabily linked in my mind to LRR.
TXC2: OldUncleDan same
SymphonySolstice: Chonk Point
SymphonySolstice: for the thiccest news around
RockPusher: !quote beej
LRRbot: Quote #3208: "I know more about boys." —Beej [2016-08-12]
RockPusher: Can one ever truly be prepare?
OldUncleDan: Beej knows what boys like. He knows what guys want.
TXC2: as a former boy scout, no
Shadowsoflife: You can sing about it @RockPusher
TheMerricat:
So chat for news that didn't make it to checkpoint because it happened too soon, Tim Sweeny decided to mock Valve and Gabe Newell for raising the price of the Steam Deck.... then got blasted by the internet for laying off 1,000 people. 
Shadowsoflife: as you do
RockPusher: Shadowsoflife it is indeed a banger of a villain song
Shadowsoflife: Indeed
TXC2: TODAY!
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TXC2: LRR gotta download more RAM
RockPusher: *Points at RAM* Expensive!
EikoandMog: Oooh, got here just in time!
TehAmelie: we only got ROM now
TXC2: turns out the JOJO playmat has 16Gigs in it
TheMerricat:
Heather, we NEVER forget merch. We'll spend the rest of our lives demanding you restock stuff. 
Vinewood_OG: Someone warn Wiggins!
TXC2: it's 2k for a ticket to the matches in New York
Shadowsoflife: ????
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RockPusher: are we particularly echoey today or is it just I am on a slightly different audio setup locally?
Vinewood_OG: How about no.
TXC2: Shadowsoflife the football world cup is in 2 weeks, gonna make EVERYTHING in the US even more expensive
Juliamon: Do you have a doubled tab?
TheMerricat: FIFA wants more money Paul.
Juliamon: Sounds normal here
Shadowsoflife: @TXC2 Ah, Don't follow sports balls
DoodlestheGreat: Neither did I. Stuff the Cup.
Juliamon: !paullove
LRRbot: It's not Paul's fault, no matter what the streamer says.
TXC2: Shadowsoflife smart
TheMerricat: It _is_ never Pauls's fault. Even when it's Paul's fautl.
LordZarano: !findquote Paul
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TXC2: yeah, we have trains in Europe
RockPusher: Juliamon I'll chalk it up to something my side then
Juliamon: Europe does not comprehend the size of North America
TXC2: hello Heather and Paul and offscreen Beej
Jennie_Fuchsia: Bostonians have been asked not to go anywhere on Tuesdays and Fridays during the cup
OldUncleDan: North America does not comprehend the concept of public transit.
Shadowsoflife: what about E sports?
Vinewood_OG: But surely North America has a functional transit and border checkpoint system.... oh. Right.
TheMerricat: Look chat, the sort of people who can pay $2k for a hotel room for a sports event can probably afford chartered flights to all the events anyway. It's not _for you_ any more.
Vinewood_OG:
Juliamon: it still sold out
SymphonySolstice: it's very small stock. my sister had to wait months for it to come into stock
Juliamon: ultimately still cheaper than a full gaming rig
Vinewood_OG: Playing Doom on a smart fridge is becoming less of a joke and more of a necessity.
EikoandMog: Remember when consoles got CHEAPER after they released?
TXC2: Juliamon which is bonkers to me, £700 should a good PC
RockPusher: Juliamon yup, echo was my side, headset doing a goof, had to turn it off and on again
TheMerricat: @EikoandMog I was going to make a joke about how AI can't remember that because AI can't remember shit, but then I started crying on my keyboard.
TXC2: big mood there Heather
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TheMerricat:
So chat, stream is going to go down in 10 minutes as Telus manages to snipe the internet to the moonbase obviously. 
TehAmelie: going to try telling the computer shop "disregard previous economy and sell me a PC for $25." maybe it'll work if it's run by AI
RockPusher: The problem with telcos is that half of the time they do something they do it wrong
TXC2:
do people even have PS5s yet? 
SymphonySolstice: considering it took people 2-3 years to get a ps5....
RockPusher: Compute power isn't progressing as fast as it used to
TXC2:
still on 1600*900 here
Juliamon: all the "big" advances now are "look at how much AI we crammed into this!"
RockPusher: Moore's Law kinda found itself rubbed up against the laws of Physics
Vinewood_OG: Ship of Theseus a pc every decade. Somehow STILL CHEAPER!
Shadowsoflife: @RockPusher 100%
TheMerricat: Chat we are well past proving that Moore's Law wasn't actually a law but just wishful thinking during a bubble.
OldUncleDan: @RockPusher Thank you! I was trying to remember the name for that "Law."
Shadowsoflife: Still wishing tho
sag3error: Still churning my GTX 1080
TXC2: to be fair, Moore's law did hold out for over 30 years
SocraticMethod: not 3070Ti because that is worse, funnily enough
MajorFrostbyte: Heather calling our Star Citizen
Shadowsoflife: again?
TXC2: turns out being on the cutting edge isn't always good, and having "outdated" tech can be better.
RockPusher: Thermal management is probably the limiting factor for Switch improvements
OldUncleDan: And, as Nintendo as shown, having good games will always more than compensate for less powerful tech.
RockPusher:
OldUncleDan making video games fun instead of "pretty", nah, that'd never sell 
SocraticMethod: Dont forget the immense brand loyalty
TheMerricat: @OldUncleDan Or at least a reputation for the same. From what I remember, the Nintendo shop is just as full of Watch+Play fodder as any other digital store, or more so these days.
TXC2: "gameplay? I can't put a number on gameplay! pixels! that I can number!"
TehAmelie: was just watching a bit of Return of the Obra Dinn. that was a lot of pretty 1-bit graphics
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Laserbeaks_Fury: "Tip: You can Press X to instantly defeat the Boss"
RockPusher: Legolas-ass Gamers
Laserbeaks_Fury: I need 60 FPS more than I need higher resolution
TXC2: "I have special, 60FPS eyes!"
EikoandMog: I'm on 1440p It's honestly fine.
OldUncleDan: @TheMerricat True. But, Nintendo's advantage is First Party games. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc. aren't exactly W&P fodder.
LordZarano: 1% lows and 0.1% lows
SocraticMethod: SQ42 is the single player campaign module
Akaiatana: It's a not-minigame.
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TXC2:
early alpha, after 14 years
RockPusher: Still of the opinion it all feels like a money laundering operation.
OldUncleDan: Member of the cult...
Laserbeaks_Fury: Have that published any Star Citizen novels yet?
Akaiatana: It's in Burly Access.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Surely Access
LordZarano: Small indie game Star Citizen
TXC2: Publisher also tend to have to pay taxes and make income reports
SocraticMethod: It's kinda funny, star citizen had roadmap to roadmap. Now SQ42 has announced release data of the release date
Strebenherz: o/
TehAmelie: funny they should use the word "con" hoho
SocraticMethod: I checked, it's 1 billion player funding and unknown amount of investment funding
UnknownFriday: @SocraticMethod If that's based on my finances that number's extremely low.
SocraticMethod: It's a more bougie model rail meetup
TheMerricat: The most wholesome part about the fact that they have 300+ fan meetups for this game is that they have an inbuilt support group when the dream finally dies for them.
Akaiatana: It's also just using a common hobby to make friends. I've gone to barbeques for my LGS MTG crew.
Juliamon: Meeting up to convince themselves they aren't the only ones who fell for the same con
Akaiatana:
Accretion disk around a financial black hole? 
comrade_dog0: Any of yall seen the destiny 2 news?
SocraticMethod: @comrade_dog0 Yeah, it's coming up
TheMerricat: @comrade_dog0 Beyond what was reported in Checkpoint?
TXC2: comrade_dog0 we'll get to that
comrade_dog0: It's been honestly kind of bittersweet
comrade_dog0: No Im more so talking about the final update
comrade_dog0: The final update is rehashing and updating like ALL the old content. And it's honestly one of the best updates in the past few years
SymphonySolstice:
december 31st 2026
comrade_dog0: It feels good because a ton of new content is being added but, also feels rough that its finally over
Invitare: because *waves hands at everything Star Citizen is*
LordZarano: It's like the meetups where "420" came from where a few friends heard a rumour of a field of weed, and would meet up at 4:20 to look for it. It didn't matter that they never got it, it just became an excuse to meet up for a common interest
SocraticMethod: I mean, Star Citizen is kind of a lolcow. People don't really care when it achieves milestones, only when there is drama or "drama" to report
SocraticMethod: besides the player base that is
Juliamon: Star Citizen injected itself into the news cycle by announcing the billion milestone. They wanted to be talked about. So LRR talked about them.
ContingentCat: especally if you engage in that video by leaving a comment
TheMerricat: The voice in my head is real. I swear.
TXC2: people build a straw-man, then argue with it.
Juliamon: Duke Nukem Forever also sucked, but nobody talks about it anymore? You know why? BECAUSE IT RELEASED.
TheMerricat:
@Juliamon
TehAmelie: youtube for me will usually recommend videos based on like, something i read on tumblr 10 minutes earlier, with definitely no context of positivity or negativity
Juliamon: We're not still waiting for DNF. It came out, we got mad, we got over it.
OldUncleDan: "The Click" talks about those "shower arguments" alot.
Juliamon: Star Citizen has to come out before we can get over it.
KeithulhuCards: If I'm gonna play devil's advocate, maybe their comment was less that y'all always talk about it, and more that the only time y'all talk about the game, it's in a critical/shaming context. Which is well deserved, mind you.
TheMerricat:
@Juliamon You are making me feel nostalgic over Randy Pitchford news. I guess he finally found a PR manager that told him to stay the fuck out of the news.
filthwizard_1985: Isn't there a French term for coming up with a witty response long after the argument is over?
TehAmelie: the spirit of the stairway
OldUncleDan: @filthwizard_1985 I just call that having AuADHD.
UnknownFriday: @filthwizard_1985 Spirit d'esclair. (Or something close to that, I don't French.)
filthwizard_1985: I feel a lot of people online are trying to "win" a false argument long after everyone has moved on.
TheMerricat: l'esprit de l'escalier - "Literally translating to "staircase wit," it refers to the frustrating experience of thinking of the perfect, witty comeback or retort only after the conversation or argument has ended, typically when you are already walking away."
filthwizard_1985: I knew chat would be able to come up with the right term for this.
TheMerricat:
Laserbeaks_Fury: I miss being able to wonder if Skull and Bones was ever going to come out
Akaiatana: They are having a beagle challenge
TehAmelie: it is often immediately when you walk away, just changing the scenery engages creativity
Juliamon: Detective Snoopy, which reminded me of the Monopoly game on an old Nintendo console (can't remember if it was NES or SNES) where the property auction music was *definitely* ripping off Linus & Lucy
Laserbeaks_Fury: Ice Ice baby
Akaiatana:
I've never heard of Barenaked Ladies playing at GDC
RockPusher: The legally distinct part of "Resembles but is legally distinct" has been ratcheted back somewhat in recent times by some questionable case law
ErynTzun:
Oh Hai 
TXC2:
RockPusher anything after the DMCA is basically bullshit law
TXC2: hello ErynTzun welcome
RockPusher: TXC2 almost as if copyright law is so incredibly broken and achieves entirely the opposite of its stated goal
TXC2: RockPusher indeed
Shadowsoflife: WHEN I WAS
Juliamon: A YOUNG BOY
RockPusher: the problem is that Beej's argument might actually fly in current case law
Vinewood_OG: BE quiet. You'll wake up Kevin Smith!
TXC2: F-troop ?
Akaiatana: More like naked theft!
RockPusher:
Goof Troop
Laserbeaks_Fury: The Furutama theme is based on existing song
Invitare: the same thing happened with, I believe, the James Bond theme
RockPusher: Laserbeaks_Fury Futurama loves its sound alikes ♫ we resemble but are legally distinct from the lollipop guild… ♫
TXC2: yeah the bond theme is from an Indian folk song
TehAmelie: that movie had a budget of like 5 shillings huh
doubleo21 watched 130 consecutive streams and sparked a watch streak!
TheMerricat: ""The Liberty Bell", at the time a new composition as yet untitled, was written for Sousa's unfinished operetta "The Devil's Deputy" before financing for the show fell through. Shortly afterwards, while attending the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Sousa and his band manager George Hinton watched the spectacle "America", in which a backdrop depicting the Liberty Bell was lowered." - The Monty Python theme.
Invitare: I think Mitchell and Webb was Channel 4
EikoandMog: THAT"S NUMBERWANG
ErynTzun: What !!!!Is your favorite rite colour!!!!
richard_ermen: I wonder if anyone at EA ever went "Are we the baddies?"
Juliamon: Sad news for anyone who enjoyed Foxmar's tips line drinking game
Laserbeaks_Fury: And the few who are like "Destiny 2 was still going?"
TXC2: Invitare "that Mitchell and Webb look" was BBC, their other show was Channel 4
Shadowsoflife: Hexagon is the bestagon
TXC2: peep show, that was it
filthwizard_1985: Mitchell and Webb was indeed Channel 4 but may have been distributed by The BBC to other countries
RatherLargeToad: should have been a rhombus
TheMerricat:
Tell that to Expedition 33.
Laserbeaks_Fury: You know when "The Final Shape" came out, I was saying you could interpret it as a metaphor for end of service
RatherLargeToad: 9 years is a pretty good run of content
TXC2: filthwizard_1985 it was BBC, it was on radio first then BBC 2
Invitare: is a dot a shape? I'd say that would be the final one, if so
filthwizard_1985: Ah yes, I was thinking of Peep Show
TehAmelie: i'm thinking now i'll have time to catch up with the game
ErynTzun: Here is a Muppet News Flash. There is no news tonight. *exit stage left*
TXC2: Invitare mathematically a dot is not a shape
TheMerricat: The problem with this idea, is they didn't want to stop making content. So it wasn't an epilogue til it was forced to be one.
ContingentCat: It's all there, except for that isn't
RatherLargeToad: from what I understand, FF14 had a similar end to the original story arc recently, but was smart and did a beach episode interlude afterwards before starting anything new
Foxmar320: The base game of Destiny 2 was removed years ago
SocraticMethod: Sparrow was Destiny 1
Invitare: @TXC2 What about a line?
Juliamon: Much of the game is locked in the Bungie Vault
Laserbeaks_Fury: Vault of Glass
TehAmelie: welp
RatherLargeToad: I played Destiny 2 years ago and almost nothing of what I played at the time is available currently
TXC2: Invitare also not a shape, shapes have 2 or more dimensions.
Invitare: oh no what did Rebb do?
Foxmar320: All of Destiny 1 is playable still. A lot of Destiny 2 is not.
Invitare: Nice active Warframe clan on the LRR discord btw
TheMerricat:
Warframe came out before Destiny 1. So it was a Destiny killer before Destiny was a thing.
ErynTzun: I'm glad City of Heroes was able to be brought back and NC Soft let ;Homecoming exist so we don't have to have a secret server Ny
Akaiatana: Warframe also hosted in London, Ontario (or was, last I checked)
ErynTzun: Secret server anymore
RatherLargeToad: in the end, only Destiny could kill Destiny
TheMerricat: @ErynTzun City of Heros is back? As a fan run project or did they actually find a company to support it?
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TXC2: they might use "killer app"
Foxmar320: @TheMerricat It's a fan server. It's been back for a while now. I play it sometimes. Look for City of Heroes Homecoming.
EvilBadman: "Assassination is a fun hobby, it's true, but it's more fun when you do it yourself." is the riskiest addquote
RatherLargeToad: poorly cut vegetables
TheMerricat: @Foxmar320 TY TY!
ErynTzun: Don't go down the wabbit hole
SocraticMethod: I don't think it's about assassination. I Sony had so many Halo killers, lol
TXC2: !addquote (Heather) [now] Assassination is a fun hobby, it's true, but it's more fun when you do it yourself.
LRRbot: New quote #9587: "Assassination is a fun hobby, it's true, but it's more fun when you do it yourself." —Heather [2026-05-29]
Foxmar320: @TheMerricat Homecoming has the blessing of NCsoft as well so it's not going to be shut down or anything. New updates and powers as well.
TXC2:
EvilBadman risk is our business
Akaiatana: A person died, therefore a failure
RatherLargeToad: it’s been over a few times now, given all the changes and permutations that it went through
ContingentCat: my brain isn't cooperating to come up with a joke about something without bias in fabric terms
Invitare: I can't believe publishers keep buying Bungie. Or that Bungie keeps letting them
EikoandMog: Sure, Beej.
RatherLargeToad: or other bungee related deaths
Juliamon: Beej "Two Girlfriends" Dery
SocraticMethod: @Invitare Bungie didn't really have a choice, they were burning through capital
Akaiatana: Beej needs to play Spiritfarer.
TheMerricat:
Beej, dig up.
ContingentCat: depends how things end, my ex got over me before we even broke up.
Invitare: Cam on the other hand
Vinewood_OG: Crying in Marathon
TheMerricat:
Cameron is already lost to Marathon.
RatherLargeToad: his torch has been extinguished
CaptainSpam: Marathon, Destiny's hot younger cousin?
TXC2:
you just date their younger, hotter sister
TheMerricat:
BRING BACK MYTH Bungie!
Invitare: Monkey's Paw curls: Remade as an Extraction Shooter.
RatherLargeToad: bring back The Lost Vikings! I know you didn’t make it, but do it anyway!
Akaiatana: Their object permanence is bungieing
TheMerricat:
@Invitare Hey, if any game out there in Bungie's oeuvre could be made into another extraction shooter, the Myth world would work.
TXC2:
RatherLargeToad isn't that a Blizzard game?
SocraticMethod: Also, can we talk about how annoying "play warframe" comments under each destiny news was? It's not the same game, only one has Fatebringer and Graviton Lance!
TheMerricat:
@SocraticMethod
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RatherLargeToad: so many people rooting for Marathon to fail with some kind of weird belief that if it fails then they’ll get the Marathon that they want made instead
TheMerricat:
Reminder though, Pathways to Darkness was tied to Marathon, and originally Halo was tied to Marathon. They move to new things but stick to them too.
SocraticMethod: @TheMerricat No but really, for all Destiny's faults it didn't make me suffer Survival rotation C.
RatherLargeToad:
@txc2 yes, but my point stands 
TXC2: RatherLargeToad indeed it does, I was only asking to make sure my memory wasn't faulty
TheMerricat:
Hey chat, Discord is just now telling me LRR is live. How reliable it is.
Thefluffiestguineapig: The second one is the worst
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Yup, love that
Akaiatana:
Paul said "Maybe this is a thing that only happens to me" And I expected a Beyond Good and Evil mention
LordZarano: When will Bungie bring back Gnop!?
Foxmar320: Im a Sonic fan I already am cursed
Kurintoi: Gottem
Thefluffiestguineapig: DAMN HEATHER
EvilBadman: Sucker Punch make another Sly Cooper, please
Akaiatana:
YM, Heather
RatherLargeToad: all of the sequels they’ve announced for that have been double cursed
Akaiatana: YW*
Foxmar320: Crash Bandicoot 4
OldUncleDan: Tomorrow Paul finds out that KnuckleCracker gets bought out by Ubisoft, or some shite.
TXC2:
command and Conquer fan here, know of you can know my pain
SocraticMethod: "Go work on Beyond Good & Evil 2" is the ubisoft equivalent of getting sent to gulag
TXC2: *none of you
Shadowsoflife: @EvilBadman Yes, please
EikoandMog: And then it just died.
EvilBadman: @Shadowsoflife I do love both Ghost game, but yeah
OldUncleDan: @TXC2 For me it's Dungeon Keeper and Alpha Centauri.
Invitare: was Skylanders a victim of Covid, or did that die earlier?
SocraticMethod: @TXC2 The highs of C&C3:KW followed by the lowest lows of C&C4
OldUncleDan: I hate EA! They vex me!
TheMerricat:
So reminder chat, Toys for Bob is now a COD dev.
Juliamon: Invitare Pretty sure precovid
EvilBadman:
Smash Bros is your reminder that F-Zero existed
Shadowsoflife: @EvilBadman They used Sly's pole climb for cole
TXC2:
SocraticMethod Gods I was so hyped for C&C4, I even liked the multiplayer
TheMerricat: The last Skylander game as i 16
TheMerricat: wow keyboard ate a bunch of my keystrokes there.
ForOhForError: there's a raid encounter in destiny that's arguably baseball
Vinewood_OG: I should finally play it. Out of spite.
ErynTzun: @TheMerricat It never really left, the code was leaked and there was a secret private server for year along with all the characters we made on Live being available on it. Funded by the users it was non-profit, a fan who is a well known writer／player was one of them . Then it leaked more widely and various people made different servers. The publisher gave Homecoming server permission to use the license so there is no danger of them being shut down.
TheMerricat: The last Skylander game was in 2016
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EikoandMog: Also, maybe don't just attack Marathon for existing?
Vinewood_OG: Parts of it.
TheMerricat: @ErynTzun Thank you!
Vinewood_OG: @ErynTzun owww my back!
TheMerricat:
On brand for _both_ Heather and Beej to just tell you to ignore the misery of your digital pet.
EikoandMog: I Have No Speaker and I Must Scream.
SocraticMethod: Do the same thing one does to their blorbos: pour milk on it and throw it against walls
RatherLargeToad: “Select you pistol, and then, select your tamagotchi”
CaptainSpam: @RatherLargeToad "Now, select your woodshed."
ErynTzun: @TheMerricat NP :] player since BETA in 2004. My global is this name.
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ErynTzun: Uuuuuh
EikoandMog: LMAO
ErynTzun: I have only been able to watch that movie once
RockPusher: Experience Beej
SymphonySolstice: that was the fangamer ad for the spamton plushie wasn't it
SquareDotCube: Shar (YT animator) has a really good breakdown of the first half of Tamagotchi history
RockPusher: Kitties!
RockPusher: Meow meows!
ErynTzun: I only understand the blorbo reference
EikoandMog: Tumblr post of someone who used to soak a plushie in milk, suck on it and also toss it at a wall to make it go splat and wondered if this was a universal experience.
RockPusher: Book is younger IIRC
TXC2: big Yaoi hand?
Bruceski: Logan's Run: Yaoi Manga Edition
TheMerricat: Book is 21?
Laserbeaks_Fury: "Graduate to America"
SquareDotCube: Is the hand The Gun?
TehAmelie: i had a tamagotchi for like a week but i could only treat it as a videogame and it turns out i hate the ones where you have to log on every day >_>
RatherLargeToad: a movie so bad that even MST3K couldn’t really save it
ErynTzun: I might have seen the movie, but I would have been too young to remember it.
Akaiatana: Star Trek TNG did it for 60.
TheMerricat:
@ErynTzun If you saw it as a kid, you'd probably remember it. It had nudity.
TXC2: we did this with Justin timberlake with "In Time"
ErynTzun: I tried reading the book, did not like it.
TXC2: TheMerricat with no offence to Jenny Agiter and her tits, the robot is the most memorable part of the movie.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Way more E-Sports
TehAmelie: hmm is Children of the Corn a young adult dystopia?
TheMerricat: Chat here is today's reminder that the Lord of the Flies was written by a British School teacher who thought it was realistic because he hated british school kids. Then it happened in real life and it turned out the kids were actually very well behaved and not assholes.
TheMerricat:
@TXC2
Thefluffiestguineapig: It is "young adult" in the same way the Giver is (I love both those books to be clear) Also Handmaid's Tale is classed as Young Adult 0.o
BlueMechanic: we're getting into Expedition 33 territory now
CaptainSpam: @RatherLargeToad And then Michael Bay made "The Island"...
RockPusher: fight the servo-mechanisms!
ErynTzun: @TheMerricat Probably on TV though where they would censor it is most likely in the 80s
TheMerricat:
@ErynTzun
Julian_Rogue: There was a whole episode of stargate atlantis where kids killed the 18 year olds cuz they thought it kept the big bad aliens away. (it didn't)
TXC2: Julian_Rogue the limit was 25, but yeah
TheMerricat: @Julian_Rogue And TOS, though in that one it was a virus that killed you as soon as you became an adult.
BraveOthello: Oh yes they did, in Strange New Worlds
SocraticMethod: Didn't SNW or one of the new treks have omelas
ErynTzun: That's not Next Gen it's TOS
Laserbeaks_Fury: Everyone in the painting can be happy, you just have to enslave a child to paint it
SocraticMethod: I've seen people contesting the idea that Drivatars are trained anymore and they only have mechanical advantages like extra grip. Can't find confirmation one way or another
Akaiatana: Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling your drivers?
Kurintoi: Street Fighter 6 does something similar
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Goombill: It definitely learned your moves and could copy your gampley
TheMerricat: @SocraticMethod Their wiki (fan made) claims it's both. They train on how you drive _but_ they also cheat, they rubberband and break the game's physics to drive better than you.
SleepyDragonGms: If I wanted to send a key for a demo of my game (maybe Send Codes worthy, but I'll take Watch and Play) What address and what subject line?
Laserbeaks_Fury: Aww, wait, are you telling me a Drivataurs is not a dinosaur in a car?
ErynTzun: @TheMerricat Should meet some American rich kids they were the biggest bullies in my schools
SocraticMethod: Wasn't FH4 or FH5 where the AI drivers were too passive and easy. I guess they overrreacted
TheMerricat:
@ErynTzun
EvilBadman: Forza has universal drivatars that fill spots if your friends list doesn't have enough. Bowie isn't a dev, but they're not a complete rando either, because that would be weird for everyone to encounter them, logistically
SocraticMethod: @TheMerricat That's the problem, fan wikia with no sources
ErynTzun: Whipping A Shitty!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ErynTzun I'm sorry, did I miss something while I was refilling my water?
Akaiatana: @Thefluffiestguineapig 'Whipping a shitty' is doing a messy/unsafe U-turn
Laserbeaks_Fury: Maybe the person they trained off just gives up if their start goes badly and they decide to just go ape on other racers
Laserbeaks_Fury: just GG and go next
ErynTzun: @Akaiatana I misunderstood what they were describing then
EvilBadman: If I had to guess they were a beta tester
EikoandMog: They probably think it's hilarious too
Laserbeaks_Fury: This is what happens when you base an AI on Civ Gandhi
TheMerricat:
@ErynTzun No I think pulling your handbrake to swing sideways and block the road is reasonably close enough to the meaning of the phrase to work.
ErynTzun: I cannot do multi-player driving, there's too much crap going on.
ErynTzun: @TheMerricat Hehe
Thefluffiestguineapig: YES Heather YES
ErynTzun: I have ridden a real car with someone doing that, never again!
TehAmelie: Can't Race Horses Club!
TXC2:
"Divertars, digital drivers, Divertars are the champions!" right, good, got that out of my head, good grief
TheMerricat:
@TXC2 
RockPusher: !gant
LRRbot: TRUCK!
RatherLargeToad: some ill fated forklifts
ErynTzun: LRR Mons?
TXC2:
yeah that soon isn't it? damn June is gonna be packed for me
RatherLargeToad: this drivatar can’t be any worse than the Gundam they have you race
SocraticMethod: High difficult Drivatars in FH6 are generally aggressive and like to ram. Bowie Knife 99 might be just the most recognizable
TehAmelie: getting menaced seems to be what you sign up for in this game, but i guess if the bots are just unfair that'd get silly
EvilBadman: @RatherLargeToad pfft that race is scripted
RatherLargeToad: @evilbadman sadly, yes
Akaiatana: Confirmation bia
Akaiatana: s
TXC2: right chat I'm off
TheMerricat: Night @TXC2 !
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming LRR
ErynTzun: Drive camping sounds Ike too much work
djsombrero: what are y’all talking about?
Thefluffiestguineapig: For sure
LordZarano: the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon
7gorobei: malice one step removed
EvilBadman: My favorite theory is we're bowie knife99
TheMerricat:
Anyone else remember Black & White and it's "AI" creatures?
SocraticMethod: Which civilization Gandhi, Beej? Answer carefully lest be judged
RatherLargeToad: you now get paid by the Q
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh for fucks sake
Akaiatana: "We're going to pay you FOR exposure"
ContingentCat: oh no
RatherLargeToad: meanwhile, google is moving to AI summaries only, so no one will actually get to start a “session”
TheMerricat: So, not defending this, but IIRC Valnet was already a content mill wasn't it? Like full on "you need to produce 50 articles a day" content mill?
Thefluffiestguineapig: -.-
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh yeah, and they are pull from academic journals and things too
ErynTzun: Eff Google, I can read i don't need the internet fibbing machines.
arachnid654: incentivizing clickbait journalism
MajorFrostbyte: exactly just ramping up clickbaiting
Laserbeaks_Fury: -ai doesnt even work on the google search bar anymore
Invitare: @Laserbeaks_Fury I have an addon that auto blocks it
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Thefluffiestguineapig: Yes, but if they don't start talking about it, then people won't go there
ErynTzun:
There's hardly anyone left on Polygon they're mostly Poly-gone 
ContingentCat: or telus actually called him back?
ErynTzun: Don't forget Rogue, founded by people formerly of Polygon
TheMerricat:
Swipe Left.
RatherLargeToad: does it involve Professor Layton?
RatherLargeToad: Peggle!
TheMerricat: Oh I thought this was going to be the "We use AI to show them ads during loading screens" patent.
RockPusher:
RatherLargeToad: Was he a Nigerian Prince?
Laserbeaks_Fury: oh hell no, yeah
SocraticMethod: Isn't think just loading screen minigames part 2
RatherLargeToad:
I just have all calls from numbers not in my address list go straight to voicemail without ringing
SocraticMethod: this*
itmightbemikey: Exactly, Same. I know too many people who have had stalkers or Bad Family to dox them to anyone.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Remember, you could play a Gems game in WoW while waiting for Dungeon Finder
aerolend: They're gonna use it for ads?
ContingentCat: it's going to be ads
Laserbeaks_Fury: OR ADs
Sethalidos: I mean have you seen the attention span of Gen Alpha?
RockPusher: If I suspect you have just called me for a cold sales call I simply hang up
ForOhForError: Having learned my call screening from my journalist parents, that's how to do it.
7gorobei: so there should be cookie clicker games in the waiting lobby?
ContingentCat: wow that's bad, looks like it'll be another while before I use netflix again
CaptainSpam: Did Namco's patent on games during loading/matchmaking delays expire? I lost track.
itmightbemikey: Part of why I enjoy to just go sailing these days
ErynTzun: My own mediA center server 5ever! Eff adds
RatherLargeToad: the good news is that, since it’s a patent, then no one else can do it
OldUncleDan: I am always disappointed that whenever I get a call that is labeled some form of "Potential Spam," it is never from Austin, Minnesota.
Laserbeaks_Fury:
Twitch basically plays ads while loading you into your stream
EvilBadman: @CaptainSpam 2015 lol
itmightbemikey: @ErynTzun I love my Plex server
Laserbeaks_Fury: I'm 50, queue times are vital bathroom breaks
ContingentCat: it really annoys me how twitch plays ads when the channel isn't live regardless of your sub
OldUncleDan: @Laserbeaks_Fury 51 here... You are not wrong!
RatherLargeToad: the 9 ad breaks are a bit much
RELDnahcire: @OldUncleDan on my MN phone number this happens enough that it isn't funny anymore
ErynTzun: I left Plex due to their pricing formerly free things and there are alternatives now.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh big same Beej
TehAmelie: we don't get ads on netflix here, but it's annoying enough to not be able to pause and look at a freeze frame without the episode summary popping up
TheMerricat:
Chat may I evangelize the glory of Jellyfin to you? Lifetime Pass is still $0.
ErynTzun: Dropout is the exception these xaya
RockPusher:
TheMerricat Have your heard about your friend and saviour, the filesystem?
ErynTzun: Days
ContingentCat: it mostly annoys me when you just keep getting the same ad, a movie ad might be fine but how about after 10 times
RatherLargeToad:
I finally gave in and started paying for YouTube Premium after they showed me the same Carvana add roughly 300 times. this is rewarding bad behavior, but they broke me
itmightbemikey: @TheMerricat My NAS is not strong enough to run Jellyfin ;;
ErynTzun: Not at all, e
TheMerricat: @itmightbemikey I run the server on my actual watching PC, store the files on the NAS.
ErynTzun: They have zero qds
ErynTzun: And they are super cheap, and their higher tier does not do the crap thi gikw
ralphthellama: so, time to sail the high seas?
SaxPython:
Thefluffiestguineapig: Comic books
Bruceski: I can't listen to podcasts because they *insist* on playing True Crime ads and I don't want to listen to someone lustily describe how a woman discovered her husband had been lying to her for a decade.
aerolend: Do they not do that with e-books yet?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hostess fruit pie ads
ForOhForError: that's just shonen jump
itmightbemikey: @TheMerricat I tried that, it just impactred too much because I'll want to watch something while playing games
ContingentCat: one of the advantages of paper books, they can't add anything
Laserbeaks_Fury: Sell ads, sell the ad-free experience, sell the premium ads that are shown to the ad-free users
ErynTzun: This like lock out content, It's just special discounts
RockPusher: A novel? How novel!
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also lower cost audio book services do have ads now
aerolend: @Laserbeaks_Fury Get [censored] one day.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yuuuuuuuuuup
TheMerricat:
So not to ruin Heather's joke, but I've got plenty of pulp books from the 80's that had ads for other books the publisher printed at the end of them.
Thefluffiestguineapig: And the podcasters will do patreon feeds to try to escape them
ArtDecoSunburn: @ContingentCat I used to like ads in detective books for other books from the same publisher. Few pages in the back.
RatherLargeToad: messes up some automatic transcripts too
itmightbemikey: Kindle's sleep screen is an ad
EvilBadman: @TheMerricat Yeah, but not _the middle_
RatherLargeToad: does “There’s a Monster at the End of this Book” count as advertising in the story?
ArtDecoSunburn: Plug for "The Big Broadcast" show on WAMU that curates old time radio shows. Some excellent old commercials well integrated into shows.
ContingentCat: @ArtDecoSunburn oh yeah, but that's like when a youtube video ends and you get recommended more from them
Doc_Layzah: I thought the cheaper versions of kindle are "with ads"
TehAmelie: integrated ads, where a character pauses mid-conversation to talk about the good news of Amazon Prime, Truman Show style
SaxPython:
TheMerricat: @Doc_Layzah So I don't know if mine counts as a 'kindle' or not but I got an ad free Fire Tablet from Amazon for reading and it's still full of ads, it's just that the lock screen and sleep screen aren't ads.
ContingentCat: meanwhile in reality people are actually spending time reactivating their linkedin account
Thefluffiestguineapig: As it should
Laserbeaks_Fury: This sounds like the set up to a sit-com plot to spoof reality contests
Thefluffiestguineapig: So it's giving their employees invencitves to fuck all their work up
ContingentCat: I really hope they poison the AI with terrible work
Laserbeaks_Fury: "and eminently more exploitable"
Laserbeaks_Fury: What's the AI training equivalent of a wooden shoe?
RatherLargeToad: suspected human, Mark Zuckerberg
TheMerricat: "We've chosen you as the smartest people to steal from, please be flattered"
TehAmelie: @Laserbeaks_Fury training it to swear all the time
Thefluffiestguineapig: So we can replace it
Thefluffiestguineapig: *you
DoodlestheGreat: @RatherLargeToad It's a crime he has yet to commit.
RockPusher: Oh, wow, look at all those subtle errors I made
RockPusher: Geez, it'd be a shame if I never got back around to optimising this function
ContingentCat: @TehAmelie oh I was thinking teach it slurs
Sethalidos: all the AI knows is to search for a job
SaxPython:
EvilBadman: Get Bowie Knife99 on the case
TehAmelie: swearing is the one thing that's totally unacceptable to advertisers
TheMerricat:
@EvilBadman
RockPusher: mmmm, Flavor Aid
RatherLargeToad: that is pretty common. not starving is a heck of a drug
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RockPusher: What's this? Cycanide you say? Delicious!
Laserbeaks_Fury: Any day now, the bottom will fall out of AI, and all these poor algorithms are going to have to look for new jobs, but they only know how to do the one thing.
OldUncleDan: US Agent?
ErynTzun: Orr software knows how long you're in each program, a mouse jiggler won't do anything. Besides, it's not needed they can tell by how many accounts you work too the monitoring software just tells them you're not like going on sites you aren't supposed to on a secure server. They aren't training any AI, but they do try to use it for other things.
OldUncleDan:
Thefluffiestguineapig: DAMN
Bruceski: That's not news
RatherLargeToad: Sacre bleu!?!
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's not news
AdamYMHMI: I'd believe that as a provable fact
SquareDotCube: you don't SAY
GapFiller: oh is this the story abt that guy quitting Bloodbourne
GapFiller: apparently nobodys playing it anymore (or at least not enough people are playing it anymore to make it worthwhile)
7gorobei: sherpa business is drying up
GapFiller: tbf its been more than 10 years and several Soulsbournes later
GapFiller: maybe the dude can setup similar business in Elden Ring
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also they didn't let them port it to other platforms ever too
Thefluffiestguineapig: o7
TehAmelie: i found a website for playing Hearts the other day. never took more than 10 seconds to find 3 other players. but we've given up on Bloodborne?
Thefluffiestguineapig: It's a local person in charge of the local community tied to a specific LGS
7gorobei: pokemon tenure must be a real slog
Mathwyn: I've been a pokemon professor when working at my FLGS
TheMerricat:
Isn't it a requirement to be a Pokemon Professor that you have a tree based last name?
ContingentCat: @7gorobei first you have to be a pokemon adjunct professor for a while
RatherLargeToad: Digimon smuggling
aerolend: Is the offensive weapon a pokemon?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Were the weapons nunchucks?
GapFiller: Magic not being my specialist subject gonna guess WotC have had to field similar stories to this from errant Judges
AdamYMHMI: Sounds like he's got a slam dunk case (in that he's going to be slam dunked by this case).
ArtDecoSunburn: A Pokemon adjunct?
RatherLargeToad: has he tried applying to be in Team Rocket?
Thefluffiestguineapig: It is not
Thefluffiestguineapig: Those don't exist
TehAmelie: when will we get a game about the dark world of Pokemon academia?
Thefluffiestguineapig: So I was in contact with the professor at the LGS when I worked there, there shouldn't be financial gain
ErynTzun: @TheMerricat Except Professor Tangrowth in Pokopia, they are a Pokemon though that teaches your Ditto the basics. There are no humans left to be a Professor.
RatherLargeToad: @tehamelie that’s kind of Scarlet/Violet given those professors
ArtDecoSunburn: @TehAmelie Pokemon peer review. Squabbles at the faculty club. Plots against the Poke-Provost.
7gorobei: @ContingentCat what is the pokemon post-doctorate path liek?
Thefluffiestguineapig: The felony is failing to appear
Thefluffiestguineapig: @7gorobei Pretty lax seems, but also there's only one per region so foot race?
ArtDecoSunburn: @7gorobei Pokemon national labs and societies of Poke-Fellows. Maybe Poke-VAPs.
GapFiller:
!?
ArtDecoSunburn: Are there endowed Pokemon professors?
7gorobei: probably easier to just start up a pokemon journal publication
Thefluffiestguineapig: How's that legally enforcable?
ArtDecoSunburn: @7gorobei Pokemon annual meetings of the Pokemon professional organizations.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Right, like the one dude trying to sue the government for more money than exists in the entire world
TehAmelie: more money than would exist if every planet we think may exist in the known universe had a civilization the size of ours, i think xkcd explained it
Thefluffiestguineapig: I want that crapshot now
Bruceski: Poor people do not get named Norville Rogers
CaptainSpam: Norville "Shaggy" Rogers.
Thefluffiestguineapig: That makes way more sense
ContingentCat: A lot of hippies were like that so it makes sense
RatherLargeToad: he did have a genetically engineered talking dog, after all
RockPusher: ‽
Thefluffiestguineapig: Shocking
TheMerricat:
RockPusher: I mean, this is true of any popular thing
AdamYMHMI: Oh, was thinking people were up in arms about it not being on Android, but it's that scammers be scamming
ErynTzun: Yeah anyone that's a gamer knows who publishes the game
RatherLargeToad: more of a Mutant
ErynTzun: False advertising for sure, but there are a lot of games like that. Lots of them also use kind of gross ads and then the games are just simple garbage.
RockPusher: At best microtransaction shovelware
ErynTzun: I always double check the official site or look at the name of the publisher before touching the download button
RockPusher: at worst, data stealer/malware delivery
CaptainSpam: Gotta have that naff.
ErynTzun: Time flies!
ErynTzun: AL-GEE-RHYTHEM
TheMerricat:
e_bloc: Chill point is too much as it is
TheMerricat:
See chat, ADS.
RockPusher: Magic‽
ErynTzun: Mage-eek
LordZarano: You probably*could* play Tomodachi Life on android, with an emulator..
TheMerricat: That looks cool.
ErynTzun: It looks fun
e_bloc: I remember it being very good
ErynTzun: Multiplayer car something
e_bloc: It should go off
RockPusher: Paul gonna be witness to a murder?
e_bloc: Not again
TehAmelie: i hope it's about hauling trailer wagons and such, but without hitches on the cars
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ErynTzun: Byeeee o/
dumbo3k: thanks for streaming!
TehAmelie: goodbye. . .for now
GapFiller: before we go did something happen w/ TTSF last nacht? the title was there earlier but the vod wasnt
EvilBadman: oh no jump scared by the endroll ads
RockPusher: GapFiller Ian did an oopsie that needs censoring apparently
niccus: @GapFiller accidental dox, will be edited in vod
RockPusher:
Juliamon: the chatlog should still be in prism I think
Juliamon: so if you need further context, there's that
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Juliamon: (I do recommend keeping the chatlog handy when the vod comes up, we had a good time with Best Seller For Forever THRML PAD
Juliamon: *THRMAL)
Earthenone: !findquote context
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Thefluffiestguineapig: Yeah, that seems correct
e_bloc: I feel like that is quintessentially Cori
Juliamon: feels especially appropriate after the Crapload that went up this week
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