Mr_Horrible: me ruining the picnic: "SANDBLAST!"
adoggoboom: You crouch and punish the second part of the hk
CaptainDaks: that is a decision point
Invitare: !next
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avjamethyst: that's right
TXC2: Book!
MrSarkhan: Book!!
RockPusher: Ben is currently experience a murder motel it seems…
LowUpsideCJ: Book blitz
SaxPython: Cursed Voyage?
Manae: !next
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MrSarkhan: I can never catch those live but they're really fun streams.
TXC2: Manae lrrHORn
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Manae: Sad I'm gonna miss book times tomorrow, but there's Godzilla to go see
gnyrinn: @Manae I didn't know she was on tour.
TXC2: title change!
Manae: @gnyrinn They're crushing it in Japan!
DoodlestheGreat:
SO, while we were all away on the bus, _absolutely nothing happened in gaming._ 
TXC2: yeap, not a damn thing, the week BEFORE bus however.....
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Laserbeaks_Fury: Did I miss a CHeckpoint, or is this still in the shadow cast by DB
TXC2: ooo Branagna
TXC2: Laserbeaks_Fury the later, there is no Checkpoint this week
lamina5432: who's brain got scrambled though
SaxPython: Can anyone ID what Beej is opening? Is it orange juice? Maybe some kind of medicine?
TXC2: yeah, I'd say a juice box
Juliamon: it says SunRype Orange
EvilBadman: YEah they got juiceboxes in the mb, I lived off the apple during bus
SaxPython: thanks yall
lamina5432: condensed milk...
TXC2: TODAY!
TheMerricat: Heather, don't read your video game, that's for playing!
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TXC2: anyone else yawn because Paul did?
nymistrya: I took a bus trip that felt like it lasted a week
DoodlestheGreat: I was having a really happy time the last three weeks.
RockPusher:
Oh, you know, just getting wrecked by that emotional terrorist Fugi 
TXC2: my body has STILL not adjusted to DST ending during the Bus
SaxPython:
TXC2:
RockPusher yeah, pro tip, do not chain watching the ending of DB into the movie The Iron Claw, AKA the everyone dies movie 
DoodlestheGreat: ME!
DoodlestheGreat: I'll have Smarties!
SaxPython:
Food Fight! 
TXC2: thanks Beej
Laserbeaks_Fury: EA waited for you to be on break
RockPusher:
TXC2 that's some Totoro/Grave of the Fireflys shit right there 
TheMerricat: I always forget Canadian Smarties are actually good candie and not the compressed chalk 'candy' we USAians are forced to look at.
RockPusher: *Fireflies
Laserbeaks_Fury: Time zones were a mistake
DoodlestheGreat: I'mma go get some juice, too.
TXC2:
RockPusher no joke, it's the most I've cried since I watched the Killing fields, I was not emotionally stable last weekend
LordZarano: It's Mountain Time in a trenchcoat
RockPusher: Yukon Time has good mouth-feel
TXC2: I'm kinda shocked that the clock I've set on windows for Victoria worked with the Time not changing
ArtDecoSunburn: @LordZarano Three mountains on top of each other in a trenchcoat?
TXC2: !time
LRRbot: Current moonbase time: 1:19 PM
Laserbeaks_Fury: Get a poster saying "We Observe Yukon Time here" and it's a picture of Yukon Corneellus
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Stephonee: The future is now and it's bad!
mtvcdm: Yo
Invitare: you could go with GMT-7, and specifically not UTC
ArtDecoSunburn: "Yukon Time" would appeal to Americans. We have romanticized, Mountie-adjacent high adventure notions of the territory.
mtvcdm: you people and your *clocks*
mtvcdm: We haven't been well adjusted for years Heather
TheMerricat: Whenever I think of Yukon, I think Scrooge McDuck.
TXC2 also sets his to Yukon time
TXC2: there are 3 kinds of Twilight
TheMerricat: And Scooge McDuck reminds me of DuckTails. And that makes me smile.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Do you think they'll run it back again and put out MM in a year
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat DuckTales was great. As was TailSpin.
HorusFive: It's OK- I don't think there was any worthwhile news in the last 3 weeks or so
TXC2: Beej eepy
Laserbeaks_Fury: RIP Sir Patrick Stewart
TheMerricat:
@ArtDecoSunburn Tailspin's aesthetic is still a white whale for me. 
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat Gotta love Art Deco pulp overlaid on "Tales of the Gold Monkey."
TXC2:
and now we wont 
SymphonySolstice: things certainly happened
RockPusher: Things happened‽ HOW DARE!
SymphonySolstice: rip to a real one
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher I'm a professional historian. "Things happened" is our whole schtick.
Laserbeaks_Fury: o7
TheMerricat:
@ArtDecoSunburn And the fact that you are the second person I've met online that remembers Tales of the Gold Monkey cements you as a person of culture ot me.
TXC2: Bioware, the latest in a long, LOOONG line of studios Murdered by EA
RockPusher: ArtDecoSunburn *things happened* *applies for research grant*
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat How could you not love a show with Roddy McDowell playing a shady French colonial bar proprietor?
RockPusher: Bad management‽ At a video game company‽
TheMerricat: I console myself with the fact that the Bioware I remember and venerate was long dead and gone well before this happened.
TXC2: "we all know that things happened, but I have shocking, inconvertible proof, that things CONTINUE to happen"
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher If the NEH were still giving out money, that would at least get you to the second round. "Tell us more about these Things."
HorusFive: "I have a take" (threatening)
Juliamon: !addquote (Beej) [now] I have a take. | ominously
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DoodlestheGreat: Hmmm... looks like some gaming news is _about_ to happen. Exilecon starts in a couple minutes.
Joecool190: Planescape is black isle, not bioware
RockPusher: The long process of EA being hatcheted for line go up then broken up and sold for scrap is underway.
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TXC2: Dragon age kinda lived in the shadow of Elder Scrolls
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 (Glasses slip down in shock, pipe falls out of open mouth) "This changes everything! Get this person an armada of postdocs to investigate further!"
RockPusher:
itira:
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher Karma for swallowing up Origins thirty-five years ago.
DoodlestheGreat: @TXC2 Speaking of ES, after 8 years we have a name! Now we can get the actual gameplay in another 8 years.
Laserbeaks_Fury: I have hope for Mass Effect that someone will desperately want to make a new game with it and push to buy it
TXC2: DoodlestheGreat we can only hope
TheMerricat:
So chat, I admit I'm a petty person. I've had it out for EA ever since the early 80's when they decided to stop porting their games to the Atari ST. 
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat I'm not sure I've met anyone with a positive thought about EA. They made an enemy of Will Wright, and I've heard he likes everyone.
LoadingReadyRun: @TheMerricat now that is holding a grudge
TXC2:
many beloved games and Sonic Chronicals 
Laserbeaks_Fury: I didn't have huge issues with Andromeda, but after that came Anthem and then Vilguard
Stephonee: EA - earning grudges from everyone since 1982
ArtDecoSunburn: @Stephonee EA = Earned Animosity
TXC2: the sliksong problem
TheMerricat: See Star Trek See Star Wars
ArtDecoSunburn: At least when "Heaven's Gate" destroyed United Artists, it was a pretty film. Was EA even undone by a decent game?
protojman: oooh true
TXC2: ArtDecoSunburn no, they just got bought out by private equity
TheMerricat: Que meme image of a bomber with red dots all over it.
TheMerricat: Cue even
Laserbeaks_Fury: I enjoyed Detroit: Become Human despite what David Cage we trying to make
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 Ugh. Private equity is like cancer, but without the courtesy of an identifiable tumor.
LordZarano: "Bioware Magic~"
TheMerricat: @Laserbeaks_Fury NGL I find David Cage a horrible person, but I really can't say any of their games were shit. Maybe not 'for me' maybe not as great as hyped, but they weren't ever bad.
Decaped: Bioware is just another studio closed because their live service game failed. It just took longer than the more recent ones
Juliamon: Successful *at a cost*
Decaped: how many live service game failures do we have now? Concord, Anthem, Highguard....
Decaped: like, big ones.
ArtDecoSunburn: @Juliamon Wall Street 2026: "Successful at *any* cost."
SaxPython:
@Juliamon at a cost, you say? 
TXC2: part of the problem isn't the "cost" it's what they define as "successful"
AdamYMHMI: Shareholders over customers
TheMerricat: @ArtDecoSunburn So to be fair here the private equity here wasn't as much of the problem. Public Investment Fund is the Saudi Royal Family's whitewashing PR fund. And they own 90+% of EA now. It's less gordon gekko and more comically evil cartoon people exist IRL and are using their money to try to convince everyone they aren't THAT evil.
TXC2: because I remember when SQenix decided that Tomb Raider selling 2 million units wasn't Successful
TheMerricat: @TXC2 SE's C-Suite is just on some really strong drugs.
TXC2: TheMerricat seems legit
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 "If the line doesn't go up every quarter, how else can I snort cocaine off every nearby perpendicular surface? Fire the entire R&D division to juice the stock price for Q4!"
TXC2: ArtDecoSunburn exactly
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat Ahh. Sovereign wealth funds from petro-autarchies are their own category, for sure. Will be unpleasant to see what they do to Paramount-Warner now.
Invitare: human elite military
Arkroma: N7 Marine special forces
ArtDecoSunburn: @Decaped Maybe the unifying theme is one-word titles that hint at melodic amity?
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Laserbeaks_Fury: a real Dr. Fate situation
GhostValv:
Arkroma: The moving iron man style helmets scared the crap out of me and my hair lol
gualdhar: this is entirely too lewd Beej
RockPusher: Could be hydrostatically filled series of tubes
mtvcdm: !addquote (Beej) [now] I want to assure the audience that Heather does in fact have a bone skull under her skin.
LRRbot: New quote #9711: "I want to assure the audience that Heather does in fact have a bone skull under her skin." —Beej [2026-11-06]
TheMerricat: EA still owns Mass Effect, just because Bioware is gone doesn't mean they wouldn't farm out the franchise if they thought they could make money on it. I mean Larian has proven it's possible to make a hit game off a franchise created by Bioware without Bioware.
ArtDecoSunburn: "The Head Toucher" sounds like a failed Vincent Price B-flick.
TXC2:
touching heads? such lewdness going on in that marriage
Laserbeaks_Fury: It's fine, Shepard died. They got better
FauksStarling: LoadingReadyRuN7 hoodies on the way
Arkroma: Steve wore his jacket at bus
TXC2: didn't Steve win that FROM Desertbus ?
raulghoulia: His jacket was signed
Decaped: oof
RockPusher:
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 I know,right? Anything more salacious than a respectful, downward facing glance between a married couple is practically smut.
Foxmar320:
mtvcdm: Just one 30th anniversary today
Juliamon: TXC2 I want to say actually he *donated* the DB prize, and wore *his* to promote it
Foxmar320: I didn't know they made a second movie
TXC2: Juliamon ah ok, Steve does have that kind of power
Shparky2197: Good timezone, and hello!
AdamYMHMI: @Juliamon Yes, I think I remember that he commissioned his, then revealed he had commisioned the second one to be given away.
TXC2: hello Shparky2197 welcome
RockPusher: Angry Birds hit before the phone gaming became sufficiently a micrtransaction hellscape to drive reasonable people away
TXC2: like Shrek the third? : p
RockPusher: those quaint days where I actually made phone app purchases
mtvcdm: Oh I saw a trailer for this when I went to see Coyote vs. Acme
ArtDecoSunburn: Wasn't Angry Birds a non-negligible part of Finland's GDP during the 2010s?
mtvcdm: It looked to be Angry Birds With Babies
Shparky2197: Random sonic
TheMerricat: @ArtDecoSunburn "At its peak around 2012, Angry Birds (developed by Finnish studio Rovio) generated significant revenue relative to Finland's economy, with estimates suggesting Rovio and the franchise contributed roughly 0.05% to Finland's total GDP (when Finland's GDP was around $187 billion)"
Foxmar320: Doesn't SEGA own ROVIO as well?
RockPusher: SEGA own Rovio, yes
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat That's what I recalled. Remarkable.
Xed_Regulus: *looks at Wikipedia* Wait, KANYE has a voice role in this!?
Foxmar320: I think they did announce Angry Birds for Crossworlds
TXC2: Xed_Regulus ewwwwww!
Foxmar320: Yep
TheMerricat: @Foxmar320 As of 2023 yes.
Foxmar320: Angry Birds Crossworlds ^
TheMerricat: The first two movies were 'fine' kids movies.
Laserbeaks_Fury: She dances on the sand
couchboyj: Sonic, you Ellison of a bitch
Juliamon: TWO FRAMES
Arkroma: Rio 2, the one about deforestation
Shparky2197: People are dedicated
RockPusher: Soon the humans will reach apotheosis
ArtDecoSunburn: "Angry Byrds" -- Animated account of segregationist Southern senators in the 1940s
mtvcdm: It's a race now. Who's gonna get the parity. Who's going to break that final barrier and effectively close the SMB1 race for good.
RubikDarkwill: It was 4 frames, now 2
RubikDarkwill: It's 1 frame-perfect input away from perfect
RockPusher:
TheMerricat:
And then Nintendo copyright striked him.
mtvcdm: Once someone reaches parity there's nothing really left for SMB1 except adding modifiers, like, doing it blindfolded and stuff. Otherwise people just have to chase other games.
BusTed: that is the picture of a person who is locked in
Juliamon: It's basically that one improv game where you do it and then do it again in half the time over and over again
ArtDecoSunburn: If you can speed run Mario, can you speed run Duck Hunt?
AdamYMHMI: @Juliamon brb, need to start an improv group called "Frame Perfect Comedy"
mtvcdm: We're going for Full Combo Mario
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ArtDecoSunburn: @AdamYMHMI Would be a great name for an art institute troupe.
AdamYMHMI: @ArtDecoSunburn "We need a suggestion that is either a video game or a classical painting!"
ArtDecoSunburn: @AdamYMHMI H
mtvcdm: You could, if you really wanted, disassemble the frame-perfect inputs into a literal rhythm game beat map.
ArtDecoSunburn: (Half the room calls out "Mass Effect," half calls out "The Raft of Medusa." )
Shparky2197: Yeah, I was following Tetris comps when the beating Tetris thing happened, that was cool to see
Laserbeaks_Fury: Do you think they even process the visual portion of the game anymore?
mtvcdm: Well, in speedrunning, records have a way of coming in bunches because all the runners of a game converge when someone sets a new record. Oh, hey, maybe I can top that.
TheMerricat: cosmic rays flipping bits randomly
mtvcdm: Nolan Ryan
Arkroma: I mean how many people only just learned about the continuation option in the first Mario Bros.
ArtDecoSunburn: @mtvcdm Simultaneous speed run discovery? The Newton and Leibniz of Mario strategies?
BlueMechanic: Has baseball allowed cryng yet?
mtvcdm: Nolan Ryan threw seven no-hitters... but the conventions nowadays, pitchers often don't go seven *innings* because the teams are in the bullpen by then.
ArtDecoSunburn: @BlueMechanic Banana ball does?
HorusFive:
Next week on TTSS.... 
mtvcdm: In a speedrun, you're focusing on one thing. Being faster. In a more normal, sport, your focus is, winning the game as efficiently as possible, and what things you do within that aim may change over the years.
Juliamon: A new version will be discovered
Invitare: Somehow, Atari returned
TXC2:
then we'll move on to Speedruning SMB2!
ArtDecoSunburn: How about Mario long-running? Seeing how slowly you can play the game?
RockPusher:
"Tool Assisted" where the tool is a radiation gun
TheMerricat:
See I have the most hard core Tool Assisted Speedrun for Mario, I program the cart to immediately finish the game as soon as I hit start.
ArtDecoSunburn: @LordZarano I assume if this "Kosmic" is any good that link will be to a live stream, that they will still be playing?
Juliamon: ArtDecoSunburn I think there would be a hard limit due to stages having timers
ArtDecoSunburn: @Juliamon Ahh. No "never-ending game" where Mario shuffles along?
Juliamon: It's from the era where games still felt tied to arcade trappings, such a high scores and time limits
Laserbeaks_Fury: I adore minimalist UI
TXC2: the Fallout problem
ArtDecoSunburn: @Juliamon Makes sense. The quarter-pumping economy. Arcade games definitely don't promote open world exploration.
TheMerricat:
@Juliamon So in theory you can get 'infinite lives' (99) in a few sections of the game, which could let you just repeat that section over and over again running down the timer, but I think that would be outside the spirit of 'beating the game'.
Laserbeaks_Fury: Yeah, the system in BotW where you choose what to track was nice
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat Fascinating.
Juliamon: yeah, I feel like exploiting infinite lives without making any progress would count as a softlock
Laserbeaks_Fury: Yeah I remember that in Valhalla
TheMerricat: Where's Mankirk's Wife chat?
Laserbeaks_Fury: No game was ever made worse by having more dials to tune
YFiddler: @TheMerricat Luann?
Decaped: Valheim has a great one that's still useful after the final boss.
Laserbeaks_Fury: They kinda have to so you know to finally stop
TheMerricat:
@YFiddler Mankirk is a Horde Orc in WoW, one of the early game quests is you have to try to find his wife. Despite the fact that there are the equivalent of huge arrorws and signs pointing to her location, it was a meme early on that new players would always spam general chat asking where she was. I was thinking about the idea of a billion photos of her location showing up on the minimap...
LordZarano: It's a requirement for the 100% speedrun and I think most of the routing for that run was just figuring out the shortest route between them all
YFiddler: @TheMerricat I got that^^ It's just that his name is Mankrik and I was thinking of the man Kirk van Houten, of Simpsons fame
TheMerricat:
@YFiddler
mtvcdm: ewwwwww
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TXC2: bubble in FINALLY begining to burst
SymphonySolstice: lol. lmao even
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TheMerricat:
Joke's on him, I've got my memory pegged 100% of the time.
Invitare: He was right: We should reallocate limited resources from people who don't use them, to people who need them. That's why I'm a communist
mtvcdm: Sam Altman can unlock 165.3% of his brain!
Juliamon: We're all trying to find the guy who caused this limted supply
TheMerricat: Chat, wasn't Sam Altman the asshole who also tried buying up raw wafers to prevent anyone else from being able to make chips out of them?
TXC2: from an allocation perspective, it's quite unfortantant how little of the worlds foot supply is up Sam Altman's ass.
HorusFive: So Altman wants to come to your house and take your RAM, that's what I'm hearing
Juliamon: TheMerricat You betcha
LordZarano: BOINC
mtvcdm: People who lived the last two years believing in earnest that they'd never have to deal with consequences again
TXC2: and then people voted Democrat, and they all shat their pants at once
TheMerricat: Sam wants everyonet o own only a TV tuned to his Cloud services.
RockPusher: How dare *you* control your computing! WE control your computing, serf! Know your place!
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's a wild fucking assertion
mtvcdm: This is something Sam said *prior* to Tuesday, to note
gnyrinn: Using it in general is not a bad idea. Using it to pad Sam Altman's bottom line is an idea that can [Swearwords] off!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @mtvcdm But has he walked that back? Nope
Juliamon: Entirely unoptimized
RockPusher: The RAMed gentry are angry the serfs have home vege gardens
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon And when people ask about optimization they say "well companies won't do it"
TXC2:
so if it's a resource allocation problem, the solution would be Central planing by government
LordZarano: Basically, a mainframe. With people's home "computers" just being dumb terminals/thin clients that depend entirely on their subscription services
TheMerricat:
My first computer had 8k ram. Dad splurged and bought a 64k expansion 'cart'
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Or anti-monopoly laws
Kurintoi: You can't download a car D:
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig ENFORCED anti-monopoly laws
Juliamon: Cloud gaming is the future!
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gnyrinn: @Juliamon And has been the future, and will (hopefully forever) be the future.
TXC2: HE BOUGHT ALL THE FUCKING RAM!
TheMerricat: The problem with the cycle Paul is describing is that NOW we have to deal with companies having a monopoly on providing the internet and they've proven they don't want to maintain the infrastructure much less keep making network speeds go up any more.
YFiddler: just saying things
TheMerricat: @TXC2 Worse, he bought the raw materials for the RAM so no one could MAKE IT.
SymphonySolstice: backpedaling so hard like he owns a cruiser bike going down a steep hill
Kaaannaaa: the issue is still just Beej's point, his worldview doesn't try to account for the people in the world
TXC2: TheMerricat exactly, he's WHY they Can't ramp up production
LordZarano: GamersNexus has investigations into the RAM cartel. I haven't watched them
TheMerricat: It was Sam
BlueFingers5: The context of his quote was local llms being wasteful but also he phrased it in a way that sounded like he disliked any ram being elsewhere
Julian_Rogue: neat I can see the preview monitor in the reflection of the checkpoint monitor
Kurintoi:
which one has come out publicly less as a nazi?
TXC2: the same homogenous bunch of over-wealthy assholes
TXC2: Julian_Rogue huh, oh yeah!
HorusFive: Putting your money into something that would pay off in 10 years USED to be called investing
Julian_Rogue:
@HorusFive no 10 years is too long. I need my money back yesterday
shushu2539: altman seizing the means of production, the capitalist way
INCSlayer: yes capitalism!
TXC2: HorusFive heck, people used to invest in mortgages, a thing that would take THIRTY years to pay off.
TheMerricat: If there is any larger chode than Sam Altman, it might be Tim.
Juliamon: He's addicted to being mad about Valve
Thefluffiestguineapig: My dude, there is no win in this
TXC2: not enough grass in the world for Tim to touch
SymphonySolstice: hobbyless behaviour
Thefluffiestguineapig: The scarlet letter THAT ALL THE CUSTOMERS WANTED
HorusFive: All the poor AIs that are being tarred with this mark of shame
TheMerricat:
And the funny thing is, outside of Epic's bubble, people are PISSED at Valve because they feel Valve isn't doing enough to tag AI stuff on their store.
TXC2: "valve has a monopoly" says industry that keeps blowing it's own head off
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Have you read the jury selection statements from the trial of the guy who jacked up the price of insulin? I think that guy is the biggest chode and everyone else is on a descending scale
kingandcommoner: x, i assuje
Decaped: it's called X
Thefluffiestguineapig: A heavily curated one
TheMerricat:
@Thefluffiestguineapig Ok, you win. Though that's acutaly 
HorusFive: They don't use the internet. They pay people to post on X for them
TXC2:
the "different internet" is the one you see with adblock
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat For sure, but those statements are HILARIOUS because it shows no one likes him
Thefluffiestguineapig: @HorusFive This, they pay people to curate it for them
Decaped: Eh, I think there's the other bubble too, of people who hate AI. And then there's the people running into both.
TheMerricat: One of Tim's arguments against Steam is that there isn't anything they can do to unseat Steam due to the fact that everyone prefers it to EGS. My question is, why don't they just try to be more like Valve and maybe folk would like them more.
Kurintoi: he is rich and we are just wrong
YFiddler: they don't care, they're in it for the money
LordZarano: There's a Crome version too
YFiddler: I don't think it's about personal conviction
LordZarano: *Chrome
mtvcdm: Oh yes, I have installed that extension recently and it has helped my searching immensely
Thefluffiestguineapig: But to them, any other jobs are disposable
TXC2: TheMerricat the problem (they think) there is, if they're like Valve, why wouldn't I just use Valve?
TheMerricat: The thing that gets me about Tim, he's not one of those folk who has always been rich and never had a clue. He started out a programmer and fought HARD to make his mark in life. Why has he forgotten all this.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Someone did a study about actors who came up the hard way as well, and I wasn't kidding about the "people around them filtering the world"
TXC2: TheMerricat likely he was always like this, and resented that he had to do hard work to get it.
Juliamon: TheMerricat Drugs.
Julian_Rogue: but planitir is such a cool word
Thefluffiestguineapig: There was a weird interview with Bruce Willis where it turned out he didn't understand what email was in the year 2012 because people just always did it for him and he was ASTOUNDED everyone else had to deal with it
Magnifisquatch: just visited Papa Squatch at hospice. he's sop drugged he's basically not there...
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Magnifisquatch I'm really sorry
Magnifisquatch: mag am rek
Thefluffiestguineapig: Gee, if they filtered AI more rigorously then they could deal with that could deal with less of that
Juliamon: They're just the enemy of our enemy
HorusFive: @Juliamon "Let them fight"
Juliamon: well, perceived enemy of our enemy
Thefluffiestguineapig: @HorusFive The issue is we don't have a guarantee it won't ruin things more, there's no guarantee of regulation or anything
TheMerricat: @Thefluffiestguineapig Oh I had one of _those_ people in my life. My first professional job after college was working as tech support operator for a local internet service provider back when those were a thing and we were a small enough operation that 'additional duties as assigned' rolled up doing office work for the VP of the company. She despite the fact that we were an internet company, she refused to use a computer and had a secretary print off every email she received and READ it to her, a
TheMerricat: dictated the response to be typed up.
TXC2: Demand regulation from your representatives
SaxPython: False?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 I try, but the issue is right now I'm fighting to keep my health insurance because they are trying to kick everyone off of medicaid
TheMerricat: I mean from a certain point of view that WAS GTA 5.
Thefluffiestguineapig: I trust them in no way to do that well
Decaped: Yeah, Cyberpunk 2077 was terrible
mtvcdm: In GTA6 you can pet the car's tummy when it rolls over
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig totally fair
Decaped:
TheMerricat:
@mtvcdm the truck nuts shrivel realistically in cold weather....
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Decaped: most of that itch.io stuff was AI art assets, i believe, not full games. Just clogging junk.
Juliamon: It was still 10TB of garbage
TXC2: 10TB?! good lord
Thefluffiestguineapig: 10TB is SO MUCH
TheMerricat: "Steam generated an estimated $16.2 billion in gross revenue in 2025, with the parent company Valve pulling in over $4 billion of that directly into its own pockets."
TXC2: I think all the games I own might hit 2, maybe 2.5
LordZarano: There is also a version of that AI warning browser extension for itch, by the same developer
TheMerricat: I do own more than 10tb of games, but that's across all my game libraries and represents not just collecting games since before Steam was a thing but also grabbing every free game I ever see under the 'gotta catch them all' premise.
JDogg2K4: Is Beej ok?
Invitare: when is it happening?
calculated_uncertainties: @JDogg2K4 I don't think so
SquareDotCube: Getting demo burnout Beej?
Phailhammer:
Beej, when is Next Fest?
TXC2:
JDogg2K4 no, never
TheMerricat: Reminder that Valve is 'just' ~400 employees.
SquareDotCube: We want the paradox of a metropolis with the community of a village
Decaped: increase the cost of self publishing
ErynTzun:
Oh hai 
TheMerricat: That's gatekeeping though Beej, it keeps the new companies out of the NextFest because they don't have any 'rep' behind them.
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: the premier league for video game developers is certainly an idea
TXC2: hello ErynTzun welcome
Shparky2197: @SquareDotCube The fact that that's a paradox make my brain sad
ErynTzun: LOL no
SaxPython:
JDogg2K4: Excuse me why I die inside
ContingentCat: yes the stockmarket is so logical
TXC2: the invisible hand of the market
mtvcdm: Beej when the market does corrections that's BAD
JDogg2K4: *while
Decaped: a self correcting system would be good though, not a democratic system
ErynTzun: Self correcting in the wrong direction
mtvcdm: !crossover
LRRbot: I don't know why but I feel this would cross over well with Gears of War.
ErynTzun: Cute animal games only
JDogg2K4: So they brought back Radio?
ArtDecoSunburn: Speaking as a curator, curators are all too fallible.
TheMerricat: The problem is not Valve's to solve in the end. The problem since before W+P is that it's been unprecedentedly easy to push out a 'game' that has 'no value' to anyone other than the creator. As long as that's true, there is no solution to the problem of finding the 'good' stuff other than sorting through it yourself.
LordZarano: @LordZarano Oh wait the page literally says "Running three times a year, Steam Next Fest is…"
ErynTzun: I already have a unwieldy wish list that I constantly have to prune
ContingentCat: standardize
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: quick the xkcd about competing standards
ErynTzun: There's no such thing as normal, standard is the better term.
Shparky2197: @ContingentCat Don't you mean 'standardise'? =P
JDogg2K4: Good for Nintendo
DigitalSeahorse:
I think I'm okayish today so far
ArtDecoSunburn: @Shparky2197 Ha!
Juliamon: *PS3 flashbacks intensify*
Thefluffiestguineapig: I can't enlarge the text in all games
Thefluffiestguineapig: GEE WHAT A CONCEPT
DigitalSeahorse: yes!
ContingentCat: Curb cuts are the popular example for that, they started out as for wheelchair users but they're just good
ErynTzun: Yes subtitles good, readable text good. Control as so many good things you can change.
TXC2: buttons only, we're back to the PS1 era!
Shparky2197: Indeed, accessibility options are great for everyone, no matter what shape their ability takes
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig Another win for the hidden feature of the Americans with Disabilities Act -- it benefits everyone!
ErynTzun: I need subtitles, ppl mumble words in games are made up!
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn It requires people use it and that it is enforced
TheMerricat: Paging Ian. Paging Ian
TXC2: Shparky2197 because often enough a person doesn't know they need that accessibility option until they have it
Bruceski: It is so weird some of the modern games that don't allow button mapping. You turn that on, and a whole bunch of the varied user accessibility quirks become things they can fix themselves
Shparky2197: @TXC2 100%, absolutely
DigitalSeahorse: disabilites exist and streaming video games with larger subs is nice for everyone that doesn't hate subs
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig True, but it makes it easier to drag companies to court to enforce compliance.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn We can sure try
LordZarano: Steam Input is so good for being able to completely remap everything
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig Unfortunately progress is made slowly by people who limp or roll forward to benefit others as well as themselves.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn Oh, I was meaning companies will resist everything unless forced to make change
RockPusher: It's like the "1st generation of gamers" are getting old or something
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig Exactly. And it takes activists to open up the eyes of the broader public, which then can force companies to act.
Juliamon: hot take, accessibility features should be in the System Requirements section
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher But then you have the ones who are trying to gate keep when people ask for help with things like Silksong because we have issues with hand pain and you literally can't do extended trials for certain platforming sections
ErynTzun: Excuse me i am a 1st Gen gamer and im just in my early 50s
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher Does that mean one day Steam will be like the CBS of gaming?
TheMerricat:
I started playing on our family's Atari 2600 when I was 4. I'm 52 now.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn Can you DM me? I have a question for you but it is a broader discussion than for this chat
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat That's an impressive gaming career. I salute you!
ErynTzun: I was assuming 1st Gen consoles
badpandabear: OG Atari 2600 gamers represent! Slowly...our joints ache
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig I can try.
TheMerricat:
@badpandabear
ErynTzun: The 2600 is a 2nd gang console
RockPusher: Thefluffiestguineapig gatekeepers gonna gatekeep, sadly. I'm being glib, obvs, but the wider point is that the numbers finding they need the accessibility options will mean the demand is there to drive the change through the gatekeepers
ErynTzun: 2nd gen
TheMerricat:
No, we are 2nd Gang too.
kingandcommoner: It used to come packaged with the mid-life crisis
Juliamon: A good cane works as a tail replacement
Shparky2197: My mum is about 50, she bought the original PlayStation console for herself
RockPusher:
See also, Evangelion-branded walking sticks 
Thefluffiestguineapig: @RockPusher On the one hand you would hope so, but on the other if you look at the number of people who are driven out of gaming by things like that because they can't figure out how to game comfortably
ArtDecoSunburn: @kingandcommoner Ha!
LordZarano: The first generation of game consoles, pong consoles, was 1972-1983
TheMerricat:
@RockPusher I can't wait till I get put in a home and they offer Mario themed beds for an extra fee.
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ErynTzun: The first console i had access to was a JC Penny Pong. And 2nd gen a Ballys Astrocade i. 1978. Programmed in BASIC on that thing.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TheMerricat Aren't there Nintendo themed coffins?
RockPusher: The Sonice Retirement Village
TXC2: there's pokemon caskets yes
RockPusher:
Sanic the Walking Frame
MWGNZ: "why not make it so more people can play our game?"
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat Can you imagine rest homes with Starcraft LAN parties?
TheMerricat:
@ArtDecoSunburn Yes and I feel for the poor staff who have to break up the fights.
Phailhammer: @MWGNZ "BuT THe deVeLOper's vISioN!"
ContingentCat: age or injury yup
Capt_clown: ESA has ALWAYS been a shitshow... ads on top of ads, ads dumped in the middle of runs unprompted, MULTIPLE counts organizational bullying & covering for a known sex pest....
LordZarano: Shoutout to the disability consultants working hard to make companies understand
Thefluffiestguineapig: I think people feel PRESSURED to be better about accessibility and disability and that doesn't make it true and someone with a number of invisible disability
Thefluffiestguineapig: *disabilities
ErynTzun: The first console was the Magnavox Odyssey but the Pong system was licensed to many manufacturers so a lot more people had one
MWGNZ: @Phailhammer but if more people can play it, then more people can buy it, increasing shareholder value
Garfy400: Shoutout to Laura K for accessability showcases
Shparky2197: @Phailhammer And that's why the game ought to fail, if the devs vision is that much more important than the audience experience
ArtDecoSunburn: @LordZarano It's going to take some Gen X congressperson who likes to game and suddenly realizes they have power.
DigitalSeahorse: yup and many will be caretakers at some point even just for a few minutes
RockPusher: Also we've had a while now for the innovators and visionaries who did care to come up with some reliable approaches to accessibility - now the ones who care less can just pick up a solution off a shelf
ErynTzun: *mass marketed console anyway
Phailhammer: @Shparky2197 I'm more dunking on the chuds who think their favourite game must be experienced in the "right" way, but yes.
RockPusher: Microsoft's "oh fuck, we bet the farm on a loser, panik" initiative
MWGNZ: @RockPusher you need to be more specific here
ErynTzun: Eff generations that is news and marketing bs, gamers should all have empathy for other gamers!
Juliamon: And now the alacarte prices are here
Thefluffiestguineapig: Stupid amounts
Shparky2197: @Phailhammer I did get that, sorry if it sounded like I was taking it out on you. And screw those chuds
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig There is an unfortunate empathy gap. People often refuse to acknowledge disability because they're terrified they may themselves be impaired by circumstance someday. Better to ignore.
RockPusher: MWGNZ truly MS are nothing if not good at failing upwards
mtvcdm: Oh eff off
Capt_clown: This is just a stupid time-share scam....
ghyllnox: Per *month*
mtvcdm: I can buy whole games for those prices and play them as much as I want forever
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn Also people refuse to acknowledge how they really feel about the disability which often involves confronting that they find the disability disgusting or they don't want to change because "they should just get over it, why are they trying to force this on me"
Thefluffiestguineapig: This is AMAZING in terms of their gall
ErynTzun: My Uncle who introduced me to gaming when I was 4 years old, would have been in his 70s if he was still alive, he would have for sure been for accessibility I. Games his eyesight was worse than mine.
Phailhammer:
@Shparky2197 It's all good.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @mtvcdm And stream them!
TheMerricat:
The target audience is anyone stupid enough to buy Sam Altman's busbus.
MWGNZ: people with good internet and money but a bad pc
Thefluffiestguineapig: @MWGNZ No because you are needing to stream to a bad PC, so that doesn't work
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig Precisely. It's unfortunate. We're all human. I sent you a whisper, as you requested.
Thefluffiestguineapig: because you need to stream the game THEN stream out
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn Thank you friend
ErynTzun: I didn't get my own console until I was 15 when I bought a Gamboy, I was always at my Uncle's or a friend's house playing.
Thefluffiestguineapig: If you don't have a great PC then sometimes it is hard to run both the internet and something like an archipelago at the same time (I don't have a desktop, just a shitty laptop but the principle hold)
DigitalSeahorse: me and Mario 3 and Sonic and Knuckles
ghyllnox:
Aww Paul
badpandabear: Outside? In the sun?
Phailhammer: I find it funny when some chuds try to use Rudeism's controller shenanigans as an argument against accessibility ("Oh, he beat Dark Souls 3 with one button, you don't need accessibility!") when he is a big accessibility proponent.
ErynTzun: Still clearly remember a bunch of $89 gameboys in a bin at Musicland. First paycheck ever immediately bought one. No one could tell me how to spend my own money.
RockPusher: Sometimes you just want to go outside and whack some balls around
Thefluffiestguineapig: And I assume you can't share these accounts
ErynTzun: Or your grandparents don't want to deal with you and your cousin when you're over and they yell at you to go outside and hit balls until you break something
ErynTzun: I cannot imagine trying to play a game on a phone that long, they get so hot.
RockPusher:
Phone things‽ On a phone‽ 
Juliamon: I can barely play Pokemon TCG Pocket for 30 minutes before my phone gets too hot
ErynTzun: I know i am a former Ingress and Pokemon go player, they got real warm and those games are not as demanding
BusTed:
ErynTzun: Hahaha
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ErynTzun For sure
ErynTzun: DRAGON'S LAIR FLASHBACK
Thefluffiestguineapig: Or does it SHUT DOWN THE STREAM!!
CaptainSpam: "You went one minute over. Field agents have been deployed. The hunt begins."
MikeSmith: I’ve always thought that this was more for that gamer that is stuck in a hotel for business and wants to play something.
Shparky2197: Oh man, I remember the fear of making long distance calls as a kid
RockPusher: ♫ And the operator says forty cents more / for the next three minutes ♫
ArtDecoSunburn: @RockPusher (Shoves nickels into USB port of phone)
DeM0nFiRe: My parents were pretty understanding about lettings us finish a level before shutting the game off. One time I did push it too far by being like 10 laps into a 500 lap race and after like a half an hour they were like "wait how long is this race? no, shut it off" lol
ErynTzun: Oh when we'd play the 4 player games in The arcade those are the worst. The D&D game in the arcade when they release the first one on the Saturn it's like one hour long. It was designed to eat your quarters.
BusTed: and then youtube starts charging hourly
mtvcdm: Insert Coin To Continue Ending
RockPusher:
There is a Disney+ tier without ads, it's the High-Cs tier
SymphonySolstice: luckily my parents were so out of touch with video games they didn't know how to turn off the console. I think my dad shut the TV screen off once but after he left the room I just turned it back on and kept playing lol
Thefluffiestguineapig: They have a tier where it has ads and you DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY MIGHT DEPLOY
ErynTzun: Prepaid phone plans did suck, so glad I don't have to do that anymore and they aren't as restricted now for ppl that still need them
Capt_clown: I'm so old I remember phone cards. Or better yet, calling someone collect and shouting the phone number to call you back
Getter404: Oh no, Vancouver Time has screwed me yet again
EvilBadman:
Its only 220
TXC2: Final_Final_Story
ArtDecoSunburn: @ErynTzun Don't think I ever encountered that one. What was the name? Sounds like a quarter devourer.
ghyllnox: WendyQuest!
Spritz_T: oh, wendy's probably
TXC2: hello Getter404 welcome
kingandcommoner: among other countries
Thefluffiestguineapig: Wait, is this the South Park Trinidad- on never mind
ghyllnox: Oh, huh
SymphonySolstice: ???
Thefluffiestguineapig: I'M SORRY WHAT
ghyllnox: Uh......
ghyllnox: Good for... recycling?
Shparky2197: Ugh
ErynTzun: I never had to do phone cards, I was the seller at Radio Shack or various other companies or I was activating devices during that era though
Spritz_T: riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
Thefluffiestguineapig: How much will it cost
RockPusher:
WcDonald's
ThanhtTheBoss: Oh that's so cool, tbh. Is it... functional or like a toy?
ArtDecoSunburn: @Getter404 "Seacouver" if it were a syndicated 90s TV series filmed in the Pacific Northwest.
Mathwyn: I love it
ErynTzun: Oh that is a good mouse for LGR to feature
KenKopin: I thought it was a Food item shaped like a real mouse made of French Fries.
TXC2: looks like the same logitec mouse I have right now....just macDonnalds-fied
kingandcommoner: It looks about the quality of a happy meal toy
RockPusher: Wireless? dang
ghyllnox: @kingandcommoner This, yeah
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Which to me would smell in a way that I would hate
RockPusher: Fries wired mouse, I'm in!
Getter404: Or the opening to Childs Play 2
Mathwyn: Gonna show up to my LAN with my Maccas mouse
TXC2: Thefluffiestguineapig the smell would be psychosomatic, but yes
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 Yeah, I hate that
TheMerricat: "Adding at least 30% virgin resin (or chemical additives) is commonly used to blend with recycled plastic to restore performance close to 100% virgin material."
EvilBadman: Sir, this is a Wendy's JRPG
Juliamon: The arguably better story
kingandcommoner: Oh, my twitch ads
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: those twitch ads were real!?
TXC2: like Chex quest?
Thefluffiestguineapig: THOSE ADS WERE REAL???
EvilBadman: It's free on steam
UnknownFriday: @TXC2 I was thinking like BrodyQuest
Juliamon: yes, actually real, actually human-made
ArtDecoSunburn: @ErynTzun Amazing. I know what rabbit hole I'm falling down this evening. Thank you.
Thefluffiestguineapig: I totally assumed those were fucking around
Shparky2197: @TXC2 I worked at a Maccas, I still feel triggered every time I hear the fry alarm going off.
kingandcommoner: no one has ever accused Wendy's of not committing to the bit
ErynTzun: KFC video game is also pretty fun
TXC2: UnknownFriday ah, no game could top that
Juliamon: it's made by a real studio
Mathwyn: Made 100% by humans too
Thefluffiestguineapig: Similar vibes to the KFC dating game
TXC2: Shparky2197 oof, sorry to hear that
Thefluffiestguineapig: In terms of WHY IS THIS GOOD vibes
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Shparky2197 I'm so sorry, mine is from working at Sweet Corn Fest
Vinewood_OG: Artisinal Slop
KenKopin: Oh it is? I would have 100% assumed it was AI if you hadn't said.
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: it is no worse than all those rpgmaker games on steam already
Shparky2197: What is that soundtrack? Sounds familiar
Thefluffiestguineapig: I want to know who the companions are
Getter404: Saw people on the carousel yesterday playing it in full Wendy cosplay
TXC2:
not finger licking worlds, 'cause that's a different place
ErynTzun: That does look fun
Juliamon: KenKopin They've made a point of it not being AI. Because fast food marketing *knows* what people want
Thefluffiestguineapig: @TXC2 That stream during the Subathon was amazing
ArtDecoSunburn: Didn't Wendy's also sponsor a tabletop RPG a few years ago?
ghyllnox:
ErynTzun: Hahaha burren
Thefluffiestguineapig: BAHAHAHAHAHA
KenKopin: Portal was around 15 hours.
GhostValv:
RockPusher: 15h RPG… I might actually have time to play it…
badpandabear:
Vinewood_OG: Wendy's social has still got the smoke.
Shparky2197: @TXC2 Yeah, and that's with at least a decade of separation. It's fine, I try not to go to McDonald's whenever possible
calculated_uncertainties: it's the new monopoly promotion?>=
ghyllnox: So if you beat a boss you have a chance to win a coupon for "with purchase" food lmao
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Shparky2197 o7 Glad to hear it
ArtDecoSunburn: @Thefluffiestguineapig Presumably the "Where's the Beef?" Lady.
Thefluffiestguineapig: @ArtDecoSunburn Dave Thomas maybe?
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ErynTzun: Everquest command was /pizza
ErynTzun: Everquest II
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat I'm going to assume its a gritty PBtA system.
Thefluffiestguineapig: WendyQuest doesn't give a shit
GapFiller: thats brass right there
Shparky2197: @ErynTzun Oh man, I remember people referencing rhat
ghyllnox: Ahh CanCon
TheMerricat:
@ArtDecoSunburn "The Realm: The game is set in a fantasy world called Beef's Keep, where the kingdom of Freshtovia (ruled by Queen Wendy since 1969) stands as a lone beacon of hope against the "Deep Freeze". It is a stripped-down, d20-based tabletop system heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition."
ghyllnox: I mean yall did the KFC game and the Chex game
Juliamon: Sneak King was also weirdly compelling
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat So, OSSH. "Old School Square Hamburger."
TheMerricat:
@ArtDecoSunburn 
KenKopin: 81 Monkeys in 27 trench coats.
Shparky2197: Anyway, gotta dip, thanks for the stream! See you later, chat!
ErynTzun: One of the least harmful things
TXC2: so long Shparky2197 stay safe
JDogg2K4: Yo Noid was the reskin of a jp game
kingandcommoner: avoid the noid
LordZarano: Remember the WD40 game they played on W+P?
LilyOfTheVeil666: Pepsimaaaan~!
Juliamon: And if you haven't, please read the system requirements for the Wendy's game
ErynTzun: One Spot 7up game! When I worked for EB Games we always had heaps of copies in the NES bin.
SymphonySolstice: does anyone else remember Croc 2 having Lifesavers product placement or was that a fever dream
ErynTzun: Pepsi maaaaaaan
TheMerricat:
Chat, we need to pitch to LRR a new Send Codes like stream where they only play corporate ad games like Chex Quest.
TXC2: thanks for streaming Heather, Paul and Beej
TXC2: !patreon
LordZarano: Pepsiman!
TXC2: !store
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ErynTzun: Oh i have a copy of Chex quest lol
ContingentCat: dot grid are so good
Thefluffiestguineapig: I want them to finish the Pepsiman game at some point
ErynTzun: But it's very easy to find online and it's on Steam I think
ArtDecoSunburn: I'd appreciate a Checkpoint deepdive investigative feature on the Wendy's game. Really get in there with your journalistic chops.
couchboyj: Do your own Tugger Nuts!
badpandabear: Just in time for A03 going down
ContingentCat: I definitely don't need any more notebooks but they're so cute
Juliamon: Keep yourself occupied during the downtime
RockPusher: Tugger Nutts and the Happy Ending
ArtDecoSunburn: "Unsponsored Sponsored Stream."
ErynTzun: @TheMerricat Yeah I added that heh
TXC2: !next
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Dread_Pirate_Westley: Are you commanding them to boost the mystery?
Juliamon: commandeered
Juliamon: that's so many vowels
Jundinator: Is it box league?
TXC2: !events
TXC2: book!
Juliamon: Jundinator no, it's constructed
Jundinator: Aww.
TXC2: Adam said as much
Jundinator: I hope someone built Whtz
DeM0nFiRe:
BusTed: there is precedent
Jundinator: The azorius homonculus guy
ErynTzun: Read Beej a bedtime story
Juliamon: Maybe missed fewer detours
Juliamon: it would be very funny if Beej's notes were longer than the rest of the stream
ErynTzun: Cute animal game as required!
ErynTzun: Good time to watch other ppl who like shooters and being killed in them die a lot
TheMerricat: The mobile game.
TXC2: update early, update often
RockPusher: "I like bunny rabbits. I like satan. I like cheese and milk."
TXC2: ooooo!
BusTed: there are cards involved
EvilBadman: The demo fwas great
Jundinator: Where did wheeler go off to
GapFiller: away
Jundinator: More like dead cells
Juliamon: trans-allegory-y?
ContingentCat: veins are good too
BusTed: see it's a metroidvania that takes place in a castle
ArtDecoSunburn: @Jundinator Down South. With paper cards.
ErynTzun: Delicious garbage maybe some will be games
TXC2: Crok!
Jundinator: To Atlanta?
GapFiller: ready dem fingernails
ErynTzun: The cheese rolling game was great
Juliamon: Fingernail vulnerability as yet unpatched
ArtDecoSunburn: @Jundinator So I hear. Land of Waffle Houses and Magicfests.
BusTed: one cheek rule now revised to two cheeks required
ErynTzun: Haha board game patch
ContingentCat: It's as serious as LRR ever gets
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Juliamon: Maybe don't make Cam cave-dive alone
ContingentCat: Oo fun, I've been thinking about getting Dressmaker
Juliamon: They went into this knowing it would be a long job
RockPusher: New parts to discover aren't correct?
GapFiller: tbf Heather the dreamcast and contemporary arcade cabinets were basically the same hardware
Juliamon: have you *seen* the tobacco residue in that thing
ArtDecoSunburn: @Juliamon Spelunk-loneing?
LordZarano: Turns out CRTs are complicated
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Juliamon We did, I don't believe it's white plastic anymore
EvilBadman: they did mid-bus
ErynTzun: No time zone
TXC2:
cigarette tar is a kind of plastic right?
Juliamon: I guess it is a resin...
TheAinMAP: lrrAWESOME
ArtDecoSunburn: @TXC2 It's at least a geologic layer of the Anthropocene.
GapFiller:
100 Tyke accent: Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before!
Juliamon: ding!
TXC2:
ArtDecoSunburn Damn those cool teen dinosaurs!
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
ErynTzun: Byyeeeee
ErynTzun:
TXC2: !discord
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TXC2: !contact
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ALL of LRR's active and official points of contact can be found on the Master Contact List: https://lrr.cc/contact
TXC2: Goodnight everybody
Thefluffiestguineapig: Sleep well TXC2
BusTed:
Desruprot: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Friday Night Paper Fight (Many Magic the Gathering players ask the question, wanna watch LRR play Mystery Booster Commander Commander? Game: Magic: The Gathering) at Fri 05:00 PM PCT (1:15 from now).
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