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TXC2: title change
TehAmelie: *sneaks into the back of the room, unnoticeably*
TXC2: HI TEHAMELIE WELCOME
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RockPusher: !quote paul
LRRbot: Quote #4390: "There is a very large database of us saying stupid things." —Paul [2017-10-07]
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TehAmelie: this place is like a church
TehAmelie: with the heavy doors and great acoustics
TheAinMAP: Signal.
TXC2: CONTACT
247Gremlin: @TehAmelie Oh I thought it was because Hozier sings about it.
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Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra : Hi everybody!
TXC2: hello Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra welcome
TehAmelie: Hozier sings about LRR chat?
247Gremlin: IDK maybe
Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra : I like his seminal album, "Crapshot Musings Vol. 4"
OldUncleDan: Take me to LRR?
TheMerricat: Good afternoon chat! Have you properly chilled today's points?
TehAmelie: i am chilling several pints of pepsi
TXC2:
hello TheMerricat it is too hot for anything to be described as chilled 
Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra : There's nothing chilled about where I'm located, lol
TXC2: (even though it is cool then Yesterday)
OldUncleDan: My cat is totally somehow chilling on top of my tower right now.
TheMerricat: @TXC2 Preach. I'm under a thunderstorm ATM and even still it's in the 80's outside.
TXC2: TheMerricat ooof
TehAmelie: (they had a great sale at the store, 15 liters for $10)
TXC2:
remember when thunderstorms actually cleared the air? good times
TehAmelie: lots of demand for cool drinks right now eh
RockPusher:
chaotic_good_ferret: I rarely get to join live I'm so hyped
TXC2: TehAmelie yeah, big enticing loss leader there
TheAinMAP:
TXC2: hello chaotic_good_ferret welcome
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TheMerricat: I haven't been in a fast food joint in like 3 years but I've been told all the ones around me have switched to the 'we fill your cup behind the counter and no free refills' model of gouging now.
RockPusher: !findquote fine
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OldUncleDan: @TehAmelie 15 1L bottles? 7.5 2L bottles? or 1 15L bottle?
TXC2: TODAY!
dougbeal: Everything is Coarse
BusTed: whoa
TheMerricat: LLR - THey are in the game!
BraveOthello: @OldUncleDan I hope one 15L bottle
TXC2: the GTA6trix
Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra : Keanu meme material, that.
TehAmelie: @OldUncleDan the mysterious fourth otion, 10x1.5L
RockPusher: I would be much more aggressive in trying to achieve some goals if I was in GTA
TehAmelie: hello!
Akaiatana: Hi Heather, I like your hat.
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TXC2: hello Heather and Paul
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Wolfstrike_NL: GTAVI multiplayer - go touch grass together
IzzySmash030: Only one he has the combined power of 6 ps6
TXC2: I KNOW I wont be buying GTA6, not $100 that's for damn sure
OldUncleDan: @TehAmelie Oh right! A couple of stores in my town sell the 1.5Ls as well.
TheMerricat: I'll wait till GTA6 is bundled in some humble bundle deal for $20 and then install it twice and play it for all of 10 minutes. Just like GTA5 and GTA4
BraveOthello: It's baffling to me they're still not releasing it on PC in the year of our hell 2026
TehAmelie: i still gotta finish Vice City, i can wait
TXC2: TehAmelie I have that installed, still haven't played it
Wolfstrike_NL: All pc games should be fine tbh
Decaped: LRR should be the only channel not streaming it when it's released. Counterprogramming!
LordZarano: Everyone's cowards. Except Devolver
TheMerricat: @BraveOthello I would argue that Kathleen's joke about them trying to double dip that way isn't that far off. I'm sure they think they can make folk buy it for the console first because console gamers just buy shit. And then when the hype drops slightly they can make them buy it again for the PC.
RockPusher: [laughs in Steam library]
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TXC2:
all 2 games on my wishlist are on sale, yet Elden ring isn't
IzzySmash030: Its not releasing on PC? Oh fuck that then
TehAmelie: i think that's called forcing commitment, Steam
TheAinMAP: Hello.
BlueMechanic: I actively cut down my steam wishlist a few days ago. I decided the games that have been o nthere since 2016 I'm probably not going to buy even in a sale
TXC2: IzzySmash030 it is, but like a year after console release
hyalopterous: Hi Paul and Heather
Wolfstrike_NL: Still recovering from last week ritual sacrifice?
BraveOthello: Ah good old Heather, gaslighting chat
Juliamon: that's not gaslighting, that's just lying
Vinewood_OG: Experience Beej!
IzzySmash030: @TXC2 Crazy
TehAmelie: the Beejdrop comes exactly when everyone forgot to watch for it
BraveOthello: @Juliamon Try, true. We are in Heather's house of lies
TXC2: 30th anniversaries or 30ths anniversary ?
Laserbeaks_Fury: EA
Laserbeaks_Fury: EA game son the Game Pass *still* make you go to EA's app to launch
TheMerricat: EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Riot - this is the list of launchers that start on my PC that I have to close each reboot.
247Gremlin: Isn't that basically what GoG is supposed to do?
BusTed: GOG has Galaxy. Is that still at hing?
TXC2: TheMerricat surely you can go into window setting to turns those off on startup, I know I have for steam
RockPusher: I'll tolerate a "launcher" but if you have a mandatory account login for something that doesn't need an account then I am not buying your game.
TheMerricat: GOG Galaxy _could_ be that, but the problem is they don't maintain their integrations fans do and those often break. I haven't had a working Steam integration with it for years because my library is too big.
TheMerricat: @TXC2 I probably could, but since Ubisoft at least used to (I think they still do but I stopped paying attention) delete your account and the games tied to it if you don't log in for a set amount of time, it's easier and safer IMO to just let them launch, log me in, and then kill them when the reboot CPU threshing is over
IzzySmash030: It does feel a little silly we are congratulatory to a team making a mistake and walking it back but its so rare these days
TXC2: TheMerricat wow, that is some STRONG horseshit from Ubi then
TheMerricat: @TXC2 Indeed, and that's why I stopped buying anything I'm aware of being Ubisoft. But since I still own some Ubisoft games....
Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra : It shouldn't be commendable, but it is.
247Gremlin: It's gotta be weird working on something you *know* people aren't gonna like, then have it release and immediately take it back.
hyalopterous: They laid off the entire Destiny 2 team
TheMerricat: Please pour one out for all the folk who were at and are at Bungie. Life has to be unpleasant right now.
Juliamon: Bungie tried very hard to dodge the Checkpoint window
IzzySmash030: They laid off Allison Luhrs of MTG Story fame
TXC2: IzzySmash030 wow, Jail for bungie then
Invitare: I'm surprised Bungie has any employees left. They seem to fire hundreds every year
TehAmelie: they probably don't want to draw attention when they hire people and promise steady employment
IzzySmash030: @TXC2 Yep, she's such a fantastic writer and I hope she finds work
TheMerricat: TBF Allison was the narrative director of Destiny 2. Of _all_ the staff at Bungie who are now redundant, the person in charge of writing stories for a game you are no longer making new content for possibly fits that niche.
hyalopterous: Bungie has the best gunplay because they;ve been doing it since the early 90s
IzzySmash030: The future doesnt look great for marathon given how judicious Sony has been with shutting down live services
Vinewood_OG: All Checkpoints are Sexpoints in 2026 because the private equity vultures won't stop Bussing over their staff and consumers.
Laserbeaks_Fury: It's gambling behaviour
TheMerricat: They keep saying that live service games are the future and then are actively hostile to the concept. Both in the games they refuse to support and their policies regarding them.
TXC2:
Vinewood_OG oh I don't know about that, Sex involves mutual consent
TehAmelie: i guess they want to keep trying until they get an off the charts runaway hit
Vinewood_OG: @TXC2 an excellent point
IzzySmash030: They've also pulled out of steam publishing recently
Lord_Hosk: Sony has a long history of setting a metric before they do the thing, then declare it a failure when it doesn't meet that metric not matter what it does. Star Wars Galaxies they declared would have "A million players and be bigger than everquest!" then kept messing with it because it only had 600,000 the first year
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ShaneLeeAtk: Ah, Highlander rules
IzzySmash030: Every live service wants all of your time
Garfy400: Fortnite chopping heads
TheMerricat: @Lord_Hosk See also Square Enix. Which makes me wonder how much of this is some sort of Japanese Business Culture issue.
247Gremlin: But you can't sell a subscription and fake currency for a single player game.
IzzySmash030: @247Gremlin Just watch them
TXC2: 4 years past lockdowns, Covid still around
TheMerricat:
@247Gremlin You haven't played many mobile games have you? 
247Gremlin: I try not to. I don't have enough money to be a whale.
Invitare: Warframe did that. Hired a whole romance author to write for it too
Invitare: it was very well received
hyalopterous: They shoulda done it, Overwatch did one.
IzzySmash030: Warframe did it and it rocked, its really not the vibe for destiny tho
hyalopterous: That said Cam's list was hilarious
Invitare: It's well known that Digital Extremes (Warframe's devs) are unhinged
Getter404: I mean Warframe was also able to avoid vaulting 40% of its content, they're clearly dark wizards over there
ContingentCat: Not being run by Bungie can be a big help
IzzySmash030: @Getter404 I certainly wouldnt want to set a precedent for it but I feel warframe might actually benefit from vaulting some of the old outdated stuff, that game has tooooooooo many systems
ContingentCat: A03 is free yeah
TXC2:
AO3 will live forever 
wench_tacular:
and the Pope says writing is good 
TXC2: Foxmar HYPE
hyalopterous: Yeah, Destiny names get kinda unhinged
Vinewood_OG: Rip
RockPusher: Not much Valve can do about that right now
Getter404: Gamersnexus priced out the 512 model and the Steam Surcharge was maybe 70 dollars total (more like 20 or 30, GN REALLY cheaped out on the PSU)
RockPusher: Though I do wonder if that happening to them means in a decade we might see Valve in the memory business
Invitare:
it isn't great *yet*. Give it another year and it'll be a bargain 
IzzySmash030: Ultimately you are missing out on the ability to upgrade which I feel is too much of a trade off for the price point
TheMerricat: So one thing we do know, Valve is _not_ subsidizing the Steam Machine specifically because they know if they made it cheaper than building your own PC, people would just buy the Steam Machines and put their own OS on them.
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LordZarano: Warframe is the OpenSUSE of shooters. Very technically competent and consumer friendly but weirdly niche
JAGxTERRA: cec works...most of the time
LordZarano: Machine, Deck doesn't have those features
TXC2: the fabled media player
Getter404: Gamecube was the one time they consistently sold at a loss, yeah
ghyllnox: I'm alright with Steam sponsoring the portable OS instead of the hardware
TheMerricat: For those who are thinking about wanting to be able to control your TV from the PC, while no one currently makes a video card that supports CEC, there are USB->HDMI dongles that you can plug in an then pass the HDMI cable through to add CEC capabilities to your PC.
MajorFrostbyte: The Internet being stupid? First time I've heard of such a thing!
RockPusher:
Install regular Arch on it 
RockPusher: That would not advance Valve's goals
ghyllnox: No, *slaps hand* bad gamer
SquareDotCube: This is the "bring exclusives back to XBOX" people
Garfy400: Gabe might have to give up one of his yachts!!
LordZarano: Indeed I have installed CachyOS on my Deck and am using it as a regular PC
TXC2: !addquote (Heather) [now] You're allowed to be upset, so long as you're not being stupid about it.
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TheMerricat:
Which has a bigger library though, Steam or PS5?
JAGxTERRA: wait i missed the first part. Is the streamOs a fork of something?
Getter404: They literally had to update the store page from "capable of 4k at 60FPS" to "capable of 4k"
RockPusher: JAGxTERRA SteamOS is a customised Arch Linux distribution streamlined to gaming with Steam
TheMerricat: @JAGxTERRA SteamOS is a variant of Linux. You can install it on any PC you want.
TehAmelie: why would i want a machine just for Steam games *eyes HD 95% full with mostly Steam games*
SocraticMethod: @JAGxTERRA It's based on Arch with custom parts bolted on top
ContingentCat: 4ishK
JAGxTERRA: oh so it has pacman then. (the package mamager).
SocraticMethod: Literal median result from Steam Hardware Survey
IzzySmash030: @JAGxTERRA This reads like an ironic tshirt
JAGxTERRA: XD
RockPusher: Proton in many ways provides better performance than native Windows now.
TheMerricat: @JAGxTERRA It has pacman, but if you are using an actual Steam Machine, the filesystem is readonly and pacman is meant only for backend updates.
LordZarano: SteamOS is an "immutable" fork of Arch, yes. Which means it installs 2 copies of the OS and switches between them when it updates
TXC2:
upgrading would bankrupt me right now
RockPusher:
Ian would I am sure be more than happy to talk about that 
Getter404: Lenovo was out there this morning saying "forget 2028, prices are going to stay this bad til 2030"
TheMerricat: @TheMerricat That being said it also has Flatpak.
TXC2:
like I could spend £500 to get a PC that is WORSE then what I have now, and it's at least 7 years old
IzzySmash030: @TXC2 Either upgrade everything other than your ram or upgrade one of your sticks of ram
TheMerricat: TBH, I'm not that mussed one way or the other about Steam Machines. I'm just praying the Steam Frames still come out and aren't $10k.
TXC2:
IzzySmash030 ironically to upgrade RAM, I'd have to upgrade most everything else
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ContingentCat: as someone who loves my little switch lite the cheaper less fancy version is good for a lot of people yeah
Invitare: I was lucky in that the last thing I upgraded was my RAM. And that was to 32GB. That was before it exploded in price. So I'm set for a while
kingandcommoner: If I don't buy a console per game my favorite comapny might go out os business
SocraticMethod: That's why you average down by buying lots of games for the console
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: fun fact: you don't have to buy a new console for each game
IzzySmash030: You dont?!?!?
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @Invitare Me too. *smug 128GB noises*
IzzySmash030: god I've been doing it wrong
Invitare: @FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving Oh at the current rate you'll be good for decades
DeM0nFiRe: When I first got my Switch I almost only played it handheld because I mostly used it on the train. Funny thing is in Breath of the Wild I completely missed an important character I passed multiple times due to the smaller screen lol
kingandcommoner: @SarkhanGluedBackTogether Disagree, I need every game i own running constantly so I can instantly switch games to collect daily drops
TXC2:
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving ah, we found the data centre in chat
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @Invitare Heh, my machine is sometimes forced to fo things that actually fill that. I'm a monster.
SarkhanGluedBackTogether:
@kingandcommoner my bad 
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @TXC2 I must admit to certain power-user tendencies. >.>
kingandcommoner: I use a joyconin each hand so I can do slick ninja moves while I play my games
IzzySmash030: Whatever the effect is called I am definitely experiencing hearing so much about gta6 I am beginning to despise it
ContingentCat: I hate that so much
Bruceski: @Invitare Meanwhile when my computer's power supply and mobo broke last November I upgraded a lot of stuff and figured "I'll worry about video card and ram later."
Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra : The first Dragon Age was the progenitor of that schtick.
Vinewood_OG: "Thanks, I hate it."
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving clobbers a Dark Souls 2 invisible hollow
SocraticMethod: Destiny 2 is F2P, but each expansion launch forced the player into a story mission of current or past expac. And after completing the 1st mission it showed the store screen if you didn't own the expansiuon
TheAinMAP:
LordZarano:
Invitare: You did???? I have to go watch a vod
ContingentCat: Hi kathleen
TXC2: isn't minecraft the only game those outsold GTAV ?
RockPusher:
ContingentCat:
TXC2: thank you Kathleen
jacqui_lantern234: i care about Kathleen's book, too
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: awww
ContingentCat: aww thanks G
Vinewood_OG: !patreon
JKBalch: Suck up
TheAinMAP:
TXC2: love you too Graham
TehAmelie: congrats!
ErynTzun: Oh hai, how are the chilling points going?.I see we have guests who are not Beej. Hai Graham, Kathleen, and James. :]
TheMerricat:
Whelp great job LRR team, there goes your Rockstar Sponsorship. 
Snowcookies: that would drive me mad
Vinewood_OG: Paul did a Hunt for the Red Octobe
IzzySmash030: Now thats just bad marketing
TXC2: hello ErynTzun we're getting towards the end of stories that were in the episode
IzzySmash030: You should be able to fight it but only down to 1hp and the dlc lets you kill it
ErynTzun: Never iked for GTA, especially not with all the homophobia and transphobia in their previous games. The NPCs just randomly shout the worst things.
Lord_Hosk: I had a couple times where my friend and I couldn't figure out why we couldnt get a multiplayer game to launch only to find out it was that he had the DLC and I didn't. so we both refunded the game.
OrbitLock: I got the Halls of Torment DLC for the hats. The game was $6.66 to begin with and its the best VS-like ive played
TheMerricat: 1 month
TheMerricat: and it's autorenew
Jethrain: One month, and then it becomes an automatic paid subscription
TXC2: Lord_Hosk I hope you told the publisher of that game that, 'cause I feel like that might have cared about that
ErynTzun: I miss when it was game comes out and it's a full game for $50, then the expansion packs were $30 and added more gameplay a long time later. Eff microtransactions.
Vinewood_OG: They already did so much shady stuff with their staff and union busting.... Even I don't care anymore about GTA.
TheMerricat: @Lord_Hosk Those sort of games are so annoying especially when there is a plethora of games out there where only one person needs to own the DLC for all of the connected players to join in.
OrbitLock: HL2 shows off some cool technologies from the time
TXC2: as someone who first played it last year, Half life 2 has aged kinda badly IMO
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: there's more than Act 1!?
BlueMechanic: At some point I will get past the Calm Lands in Final Fantasy X
TheMerricat: I play Endless Sky over and over again till I have a massive 1000 ship fleet, I've only actually done the campaign that's included twice.
ContingentCat: oh yeah Night in the Woods is that for me, I've finished it a few times but I'll start it pay it that night and get distracted
Invitare: Half Life 2 is one of those games that feel dated, because it was incredibly influential. Like HL1...
Snowcookies: I would say Slay the Spire for me cos I've played it but never beat the act 4 boss
ErynTzun: Yeah, not wanting staff to get cut in huge numbers either because a game doesn't do well or worse it DOES do well and they just make up a crap excuse why they need to fire ppl.
SocraticMethod: Deus Ex: the most reinstalled game
jacqui_lantern234:
but paul, you had 3 PS3's!
TheMerricat:
And Skyrim..... Does anyone actually BEAT the Skyrim?
ErynTzun: That is very cute
TheMerricat:
@SocraticMethod And best part about Deus Ex, you don't even have to ask which one. Because they ALL are that way.
ErynTzun: There is no beating Skyrim there is only screwing around installing more mods and buying it for the umpteenth time.
KaleidoscopeMind: that's very specific
Lord_Hosk: I've never "finished" oxygen not included but its not the first hour either. The first like 150-200 days until you hit the mid game stabilization I've set up like 50 bases. setting up advanced tech... maybe twice... launched a rocket once
ContingentCat: I'm that way with Hollow Knight, I love the art style but only mess around with the starting areas before it gets too hard for me
ErynTzun: And then forgetting where you were last playing and starting over
kingandcommoner: *I* enjoyed survive
TXC2: now that I think about it, it's either Sonic 2, or Tib dawn for game a played a lot, but never beat
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @Lord_Hosk Oh, ONI is a special case. In that game you start new colonies to test out physics machines
TheMerricat:
@ErynTzun Or the two actual boss fights of Skyrim - save file got to big and is corrupted, or you added one mod too many and broke everything, now you have to retrace and restart over and don't have the energy to do so.
ErynTzun: Same except both Sonic 1 and 2 on Genesis, I have played pinball so many times though.
ErynTzun: Just call it the 3X Anniversary infinity
TXC2:
ErynTzun yes! never beat that one either
ContingentCat: I will now lol
ErynTzun: Lol
TXC2:
so I'm on my 21st + 16th birthday
getthatrabbit: "It's the 5th anniversary of your 30th birthday!!"
Decaped:
I've never beatn Dwarf Fortress
BraveOthello: Yes it was the furry one
Invitare: Forces was the OC Do Not Steal one
Invitare: Frontiers is the one with the insane boss music
TheMerricat: "In Sonic Forces, you literally create your own custom "furry" avatar. The game features a robust character creator where you design an original anthropomorphic hero—dubbed the "Rookie"—to fight alongside Sonic and the gang against Dr. Eggman."
Juliamon: Colors was fun
TXC2: colours was the last one before Generations
Invitare: SHADOW dropped?
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DoodlestheGreat: I still prefer "Sonic Suggests." :tf:
TXC2: DoodlestheGreat same
KaleidoscopeMind: not even sonic dropped it
TehAmelie: Sonic Suggests 4 life
SocraticMethod: It's decent but repetitive at the end
Invitare: yeah Frontiers is apparently really good
Juliamon: you could say that for nearly any Sonic game
ErynTzun: I think I own some of these due to bundles but still only ever play older sonic games
Invitare: and the super sonic themes are chef kiss
kingandcommoner: Frontiers was a 8.5/10, which is impressive because modern sonic normally tops out at 6
TXC2:
"Good, but not as good as it should be" is the descriptor for the whole Sonic franchise
Lord_Hosk: Well there you go... good sonic games
ErynTzun: Sonic mania is $1.99 on steam
Invitare: @TXC2 Except the film. Which are "better than anyone expected"
TXC2: Invitare indeed
ErynTzun: I still have them all. They are pretty but not worth it
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: Somehow I ended up with a sibling's old Game Gear
TXC2: I had 5 mega drive games, 3 of them were Sonic
Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra : Sonic 2 on Game Gear was everything.
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: I really should get a flash cart for that.
kingandcommoner: I really hope the 30th anniversary bit never ends
KaleidoscopeMind: is obama involved?
TehAmelie: they're going to finally capture Chaos and make them lay chaos emeralds
TXC2: Thus_Spooped_Zarathustra I think that was the one with Bridge zone, that had, IMO, the best 8 bit sonic song
ErynTzun: Gargoyles is the game I played a lot on Genesis and beat a lot. It was also frigging difficult, I only stuck with it because I liked the show so much. I played it on PC, still difficult.
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kingandcommoner: this looks like something from Power Rangers
ErynTzun: Oh noes!
Lord_Hosk: is this the one where they are like.. no one will be able to solve this arg in less than 2 years but the internet will solve in 2 days
TXC2: I see you, clips from the OG Sonic Adventer
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: You know things are serious when low-poly villains appear
kingandcommoner: Is that like Club Pengion but it's the Chao Garden?
TXC2: *adventure
TehAmelie: i wouldn't mind if the power of he chaos emeralds could be harnessed for partying
TheMerricat:
Chat, imagine Heather _asking_ if we want something name *Club Chaos* opened. Imagine.
TXC2: Chaos controll! (summons margaritas)
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: These days chaos emeralds would be used as entropy sources for cryptography#
TehAmelie: tfb i'd probably prefer Club Order if i had to go out
ghyllnox: My DOCTOR'S OFFICE has that clause now
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: Fair
Jethrain: I would guess that's just an absolute catch-all privacy policy clause now
ghyllnox: Which has resulted in me not having an online account anymore
kingandcommoner: Tools?
KaleidoscopeMind: at least those "pay you in exposure" and not "you consent to giving us your data"
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: The preference for order, not horrible clauses . . .
kingandcommoner: I don't think he uses Gen AI
SocraticMethod: Well, orbot and cubot are probably not critters ...
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: he takes pre-existing I's and makes them A
iconicshadow89: cyborg corgis cyborgis
Invitare: AI companies would absolutely turn forest creatures into robots if they knew how
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FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @Invitare Soylent Eco - Eat the Ecology!
Lord_Hosk: @Invitare To be fair... I don't think im evil... and I probably would turn a few forest creatures into cool robots if I had that ability
TehAmelie: what happens if eggman turns a cyborg animal into a robot?
TXC2: Sonic SatAM had a storyline
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @TehAmelie Something dangerous . . .
Invitare: @Lord_Hosk I am sorry, but as a member of the nobility you are indeed evil
ErynTzun: LGR just did a thing on that for funsies
KaleidoscopeMind: OH
TXC2: oh good we've rediscovered this technology
ContingentCat: oh no I might need that
KaleidoscopeMind: one of the controllers?
Brozard: heck yeah Frutiger Aero
ErynTzun: It was there were SO many colors!
EvilBadman: "Ice"
TehAmelie: maybe those sticks won't wear out in 10 seconds of swinging Bowser around by the tail eh
ErynTzun: That is called Ice Blue on the original
EvilBadman: There was watermelon, grape, ice, smoke, fire, and jungle for the transparent n64s
ContingentCat: I really hope the switch 2 lite will be colourful I like that mine is bright yellow
ErynTzun: I like the Watermellon color and Grape was better than Atomic purple
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: Hmm. I have been holding off on getting an obnoxiously space-themed shell for my XBox controller. It's had purple buttons for some time, of course.
TXC2: still got my ps1 controller that's see through
TehAmelie: i liked them too but apparently it was bad plastic
ErynTzun: I even collected 4 Grape N64 controllers when I was a manager for EB Games
EvilBadman: @ContingentCat the switch 2 "colors" only being the rails and under the stick is a wild choice
ErynTzun: A lot more difficult when you can't just buy them you have to find them used
ContingentCat: @EvilBadman yeah I'm hoping when (or if :[ ) the lite comes it'll be more
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: they should have 10 distinct levels of gore, so you can really experience the level of viscera that's right for you
ErynTzun: They wanted to make the Switch 2 more adult and mosy one xolor like other handhelds I guess but it is also more boring with lack of stand out colors
7gorobei: wolverine having a trail indicator is probably the most lore accurate as he typically tracks by scent.
ErynTzun: You can't make me. Nnnnnno!
Bruceski: the tinnitus effect
TehAmelie: trying to create for the player the feeling of tinnitus, by playing tinnitus noise. there might be more creative ways. . .
Snowcookies: I'm definitely someone who doesn't play games that have gore
Juliamon: yeah, the way Logan heals is... pretty brutal
RockPusher: Ah yes, that love song: Visceral Healing
TXC2: "'cause when I get that feeling, I get visceral healing"
TheMerricat: wolverine has SO MANY kids now. SO MANY.
RockPusher:
TXC2 
TXC2: RockPusher yeap
RockPusher: it scans so well!
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @TheMerricat Presumably his swimmers are nigh unkillable
TheMerricat: @FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving And folk really like cloning him.
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @TheMerricat Good point, well made
TehAmelie: and he keeps adopting and quasi-adopting young people
TheMerricat: the rings
ErynTzun: I get real tired if trying to read maps will hundreds of icons and no idea what should be priority
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: @TehAmelie Yeah, there's something of a history of trying to do better by troubled kids than he got.
ErynTzun: Gonna kick ball drop it up
SocraticMethod: Roses are red; chocolate is delectable. Easy mode is now selectable.
ErynTzun: There is no normal
ErynTzun: Om nom nom chocolate Play How You Want
Bruceski: Wolverine kinda has the Batman thing of "trying to make sure kids don't end up like him" with a side-order of "these kids often exist because of people actively trying to make them like him".
ErynTzun: New clip plz!
Lord_Hosk: And please stop calling the modes like: "Frenzy, Dynamic, Hellscape, or Inferno" I DON"T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!
Bruceski: @Lord_Hosk "Can I Play, Daddy?"
TehAmelie: the comics do tend to feature a lot of off-panel stabbing
TXC2: I remember Seeing the Logan movie, and being happily shocked at how brutal it was compared to previous movies
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: I hold a silly fake grudge against Hugh Jackman for the road I was trying to use to go to the pub quiz being closed off for filming part of Les Miserables.
ErynTzun: Horse head cut off NO THANK YOU!
itira: yeah, the Boys is real gross XD
TXC2: or Invincible
ContingentCat: Honestly one of the nice things about watching ER a lot of the messy stuff is out of frame
TehAmelie: i far The Pitt has raised the stakes for gore on TV considerably
Lord_Hosk: scene one minute one
Decaped: I loved the birth canal puppet they built for The Pitt
MajorFrostbyte: News flash at 11, Beej is a good guy.
Strebenherz:
@Decaped 
"Birth Canal Puppet" is a phrase
ErynTzun: I could not watch all of Twisted Metal no matter how much i like Stephanie Beatriz, so much blood.
DoodlestheGreat: wat
TXC2: right chat I'm off
RockPusher: 'night TXC2
TehAmelie: have a good one
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Heather and Paul
ErynTzun: ER being on broadcast prime time national network tv very different than what is allowed streaming
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ErynTzun ^^Yeeeeeaaaaaaah
Doc_Layzah: I have to watch games like cuphead because I can never get very far myself
Juliamon: It's always OK to step away from the stream for any reason
TheMerricat: @TXC2 Night!
iconicshadow89: as someone who had a stroke and can’t play certain types of games anymore I appreciate being able to watch play throughs all the way to the end
ErynTzun: Hahaha
RockPusher: I will quite often buy a game that I don't have time to play because I have received entertainment from it via stream
TheMerricat:
But not GTA. 
ErynTzun: That's great, that means a lot of the codes they send and have been chosen have been good games!
gnomebot1: Agrred Iconic, I had a CVA also. And now have tramors, It makes thing interesting.
Bruceski: "Don't play past the part where Bob betrays you."
ErynTzun: Curse you SANIC
Jethrain: "a gameplay video without spoilers" - ah, let's nope!
kingandcommoner: and wear reflective sungasses
TehAmelie: it's the new Rifftrax
Bruceski: I know some streamers who do watch parties like that
RockPusher:
better still, have Wiggins do a plot summary
KaleidoscopeMind: maybe for a visual novel
Thefluffiestguineapig: Wasn’t it beat saber or something like that?
ErynTzun: That's where having a co-steeamer is helpful to check things and read chat.
Juliamon: "Stream VR with Heather as your copilot" is in both !advice and !badadvice for a reason
LordZarano: !findquote VR
LRRbot: Quote #4560: "Can you imagine backing into a cactus in VR?" —Graham [2017-12-20]
7gorobei: watch your back or stab you in the back?
Thefluffiestguineapig: It was very funny
RockPusher: Abstracted factory builder
TehAmelie: Lawnmover Man tried to warn us, entering virtual reality alone is dangerous
Thefluffiestguineapig: Entering VR with only a known chaos gremlin as your point of contact, also dangerous
RockPusher: Maybe I'll watch less anime this season and actually have time for a game
sanguine_sandman: my friends are both playing Mina the hollower and trying to convince me to play it
ErynTzun: It's nice they're moving on to some other game
ErynTzun: Yeah Gameboy Color
ContingentCat: check it out then point it out
EvilBadman: Ah,bad rats
ErynTzun: I use Morphe the app starts on the Sub tab :]
Flyingdelorion: Damn! I'm late!
Bruceski: I don't use my wishlist much so it's just a couple of games for me on there. "Do I feel like getting the Riven remake yet? Nah."
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RockPusher: Shirts! Shirts! Shirts!
ErynTzun: Gotta watch the VOD then
RockPusher: ohai brew crew
ErynTzun: Hahaha Serge what timing
Flyingdelorion: Yep vod time it is!
RockPusher:
RockPusher: know who can wear bandannas? Dogs!
ContingentCat: bandanas would be cool
KaleidoscopeMind: you do live with the person in charge of merch decisions
TheAinMAP: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (Many Magic the Gathering players ask the question, wanna watch LRR play Fantastic Four Archenemy Commander? Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 05:00 PM PDT (2:00 from now).
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher On the Internet, no one knows you're a bandanna-wearing dog.
ErynTzun: Hats. Bucket hat!
FuzzRaTheBarelyLiving: Have you considered selling extra-strong socks as singles, absolutely not intended to be filled with pebbles, coins, or lead shot?
DoodlestheGreat: Normally, at this time of year I'd be asking beej when the anime roundup is, but I guess it won't be in the near future. No big.
DoodlestheGreat: But it'll be LIVE!
RockPusher: Beej cursed to live the life of someone who needs to deal with practical matters
ExachixKitsune: Something, something is going to happen
ExachixKitsune: and by July you mean Thursday
RockPusher: Is unbeatable… unbeatable?
RockPusher: Find out by watching!
kingandcommoner: The last one goes in the zoo
RockPusher: You need at least 1 to survive to convey the message
ContingentCat: gotta leave one to tell the tale
ExachixKitsune: ooooooh
ErynTzun: Can't get frustrated if you mix it up
Juliamon: it's "Olden Era" but yeah
ContingentCat: I love TBD!
RockPusher:
You got TBD‽ 
Sethalidos: Bem played it
ErynTzun: Oh it's typed the wrong title I see
DoodlestheGreat:
It's pronounced "Tibid." 
KaleidoscopeMind: harry the creepy doll?
ContingentCat: chair is also popular
RockPusher:
ErynTzun: Tibiduh
TheAinMAP:
Aarek:
Gibb 
7gorobei: TBD, the douglas TBD devastator ww2 bomber?
GapFiller:
!?
DoodlestheGreat: GARBAGE DAY!
ErynTzun:
Interview Spoops
TheAinMAP:
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
Driosenth: Tell Dale
DeM0nFiRe:
o/
ErynTzun: Now craving Monster cereal
ErynTzun: >_>
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