Canageek: admiralmemo: If you are looking for something to watch, UPickVG is very good

RebelliousUno: !announcement

LRRbot: https://twitter.com/loadingreadyrun/status/708114341690679296 <- This.

qrpth: !viewers

LRRbot: Stream is not live. 127 users in the chat.

eatenbyagrue1988: !next

LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Heather's Handhelds at Tue 12:00 PM PDT (6:28 from now).

eatenbyagrue1988: heeeeeeeeeeeeey chat

MrPhlip: Hmm, should probably change that response to the blogpost, rather than the twitter link...

MrPhlip: !announcement

LRRbot: http://loadingreadyrun.com/blog/2016/03/21/the-shadows-over-innistrad-pre-prerelease/

MrPhlip: there we go

QuietMyth: Why chat active

QuietMyth: nothing happen for long time

qrpth: Don't vn worry about it.

qrpth: Evervyetrhyitnhgin gi si sf ifnien.e

qrpth: Evervyetrhyitnhgin gi si sf ifnien.e.

QuietMyth:

QuietMyth: !Adult

LRRbot: I need an adult!

qrpth: Let's try that again.

qrpth: Don't even worry about it.

qrpth: Everything is fine.

QuietMyth: Qrpth caught that Avacyn fever

QuietMyth: Speaking in tongues and ***

qrpth: I'm so good at Twitch.

qrpth: I even managed to remove myself from the mod chat.

QuietMyth slow claps

QuietMyth: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's 13 letters in Adam's Gamehaus

QuietMyth: WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEAAAAAAN

QuietMyth: !panic

LRRbot: THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC, IT'S FINE.

qrpth: !sir

LRRbot: Sir? Sir! That appears to be some sort of sidewalk slam.

QuietMyth: What the hell maaan, I just got a pocket watch for my bday and it uses IIII instead of IV....

QuietMyth: W@T

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote skeleton

LRRbot: Quote #1747: "I wonder if the skeleton likes beer." —Ian [2016-02-09]

QuietMyth: !quote

LRRbot: Quote #975: "*singing* I'm so bad at the things I love... that's why I'm so unhappy..." —Alex [2015-10-27]

qrpth: no not the butt quotes

QuietMyth: !findquote Butt

LRRbot: Quote #1154: "Is that lizard just eating that monkey's butt?" —Ian [2015-11-25]

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote butte

qrpth: HAH!

QuietMyth: You broked it

eatenbyagrue1988: DAMNIT

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote butte

LRRbot: Quote #473: "No, we are not going to *** Butts." —Suzie [2015-07-17]

QuietMyth: Wtf is butte

eatenbyagrue1988: who's Suzie

eatenbyagrue1988: Butte, Montana

qrpth: !explain suzie

eatenbyagrue1988: where Canada sends all their rude Canadians

QuietMyth: Rude Canadians? Surely you jest.

QuietMyth:

qrpth: !explain susie

LRRbot: Charlotte, Susie, and Elliott are Alex's neighbors. They enjoy horror games, alcohol, and making immature jokes.

eatenbyagrue1988: well, they're not Canadians anymore is what happened

eatenbyagrue1988: they're now... what do you call someone from Butte?

eatenbyagrue1988: Butteians?

eatenbyagrue1988: Butteanians?

QuietMyth: Buttesians

QuietMyth: But WHY CHAT ON. Nothing happen for long time! explain! Explain! EXPLAIN!!

qrpth: Hush.

qrpth: Chat is asleep.

QuietMyth salute

QuietMyth: yessir

QuietMyth: honk

QuietMyth:

eatenbyagrue1988:

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote pumpkin

LRRbot: Quote #185: "F*ck you, pumpkin! Eat shit!" —Alex [2015-05-01]

RebelliousUno: !findquote 2014

LRRbot: Could not find any matching quotes.

RebelliousUno: !findquote goat

LRRbot: Quote #713: "I love you, Goat Mom..." —Alex [2015-09-22]

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote skeleton racist

LRRbot: Could not find any matching quotes.

eatenbyagrue1988: huh. That's surprising.

RebelliousUno: !findquote racist

LRRbot: Quote #1276: "But why did he feel the need to recreate the racists?" —Ian [2015-12-15]

RebelliousUno: !findquote Skeleton

LRRbot: Quote #1747: "I wonder if the skeleton likes beer." —Ian [2016-02-09]

eatenbyagrue1988: someone needs to go through all the quotes and put context for them in a wiki

RebelliousUno: Crack on then

qrpth: There was an issue on LRRbot's issue tracker to have it in our database.

qrpth: I should write a new one.

qrpth: https://github.com/mrphlip/lrrbot/issues/165

PhoenixMelior: !advice

LRRbot: Use absolute aggression.

eatenbyagrue1988: !badadvice

LRRbot: Boop its nose.

MichaelD067 bops grue and phoenix's noses

PhoenixMelior: nooo my poor nose

qrpth: Hey! No bullying!

rainbowbatsuit: Just be glad they took the bad advice

MichaelD067 bops noses with absolute aggression??

PhoenixMelior: yeah the regular advice seemed a little off

MichaelD067: i dunno most games reward sociopathic aggressive behaviour

PhoenixMelior: Not Fire Emblem

PhoenixMelior: also, off topic, LRR's spoiler card is excellent.

MichaelD067: it's quite weird

PhoenixMelior: it's SUCH a perfect card for LRR

PhoenixMelior: I love that Wizards looks through the set and gives them the card that they think would make for the most entertaining spoiler

MichaelD067: well that is in their best interests

PhoenixMelior: i suppose

MichaelD067: Chat what's my SIN ......

MichaelD067: there isn't much advantage giving a timmy card to a super spike podcast etc etc

MichaelD067: need to build that hype and sell product

PhoenixMelior: I don't know your SIN Michael, and that's probably for the best

PhoenixMelior: I've had mine memorised since I was 16 though

qrpth: !card Triskaidekaphobia

LRRbot: Triskaidekaphobia [3B] | Enchantment | At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one - / - Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life. / - Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

PhoenixMelior: It's so cool and SOMEONE is going to build a neat deck around it

MichaelD067: I dunno i feel like chat could be more helpful

MichaelD067: it can get into the kamigawa 10 life spel deck ?

Nightvalien28: what's a SIN?

MichaelD067: social insurance number.... I don't want to get up and look for it

PhoenixMelior: the canadian social security number

rainbowbatsuit: Oh so your SIN is sloth then

MichaelD067: trying to do these silly taxes

PhoenixMelior: required for taxes yeah

MichaelD067: I'm a fan of all 7?

PhoenixMelior: I am a fan of a few of them

PhoenixMelior: after a while gluttony and I don't get along super well.

Nightvalien28: I dislike greed

MichaelD067: was mostly a joke.... i think some serenity?

PhoenixMelior: I dislike greed as well

MichaelD067: well joke/ reference.....

PhoenixMelior: I don't actually remember them all off the top of my head lol

MichaelD067: i do!

MichaelD067: it helped my team win crannium once

PhoenixMelior: I know Wrath. Because one of my favourite Silent Civilian songs is called Wrath

PhoenixMelior: let's see...

PhoenixMelior: Lust, Greed, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth

MichaelD067: wrath, greed, soth, lust, envy, gluttony, pride

PhoenixMelior: Wrath

RebelliousUno: and Doc

RebelliousUno: don't forget Doc

PhoenixMelior: oh I guess Pride is separate from Greed

Nightvalien28: and according to some people, vanity

PhoenixMelior: and Dopey and Sneezy

MichaelD067: yes I always have trouble with pride

PhoenixMelior: Vanity and Pride are interchangable

PhoenixMelior: I also have a fair amount of issues with pride

RebelliousUno: as are Vanity and Bashful

PhoenixMelior: I take great care to control my wrath and lust

PhoenixMelior: yes I have wrath issues. Do not cross me.

Nightvalien28: fite me

RebelliousUno: Don't get the two mixed up

MichaelD067: crosses phoenix's name off a list.....

PhoenixMelior: which list?

MichaelD067: arbitrary list so i can cross you! mwahahahhaahahahahahahahhahhahahahah

PhoenixMelior: hehe

PhoenixMelior: I wonder how long it will take for me to get my tax return

Nightvalien28: it takes like a month or so, no??

PhoenixMelior: in the past I've gotten them in like a week or less

PhoenixMelior: granted I usually have them in before mid March so we'll see

PhoenixMelior: I'm still in before April, the busy time, where your mileage will vary drastically

PhoenixMelior: wait Ian self admittedly hates dragons?!

PhoenixMelior: Well then he and I just can't get along.

MichaelD067: mew?

PhoenixMelior: Cori said in one of the old VODs that Ian says he hates dragons

Nightvalien28: gasp

MichaelD067: ah ok

PhoenixMelior: and he also said he's not a fan of fantasy

PhoenixMelior: I knew there was a reason I didn't like that guy -.-

Nightvalien28: that's a bit harsh

PhoenixMelior: I'm being a little over-the-top for dramatic effect

Nightvalien28: ah I see

rainbowbatsuit: If he means generic Tolkien-esque medieval European style fantasy I feel him there

PhoenixMelior: I mean I couldn't get into Tolkien either

PhoenixMelior: I read the Hobbit but the Lord of the Rings was so dense I was done before I barely even started

Nightvalien28: I like tolkien, but just once

rainbowbatsuit: Not even as a knock against Tolkien, his imitators are just almost uniformly boring

Nightvalien28: yup they are

Nightvalien28: tolkien stuff should be a template, you can use it to make better things

Nightvalien28: copying it just makes you boring

rainbowbatsuit: Warhammer Fantasy is fun bc it's Tolkien/D&D on steroids

PhoenixMelior: I don't mind the humans dwarves elves thing as long as some fresh takes are done

PhoenixMelior: generic fantasy is super dull though

rainbowbatsuit: Arcanum was fun because it was D&D meeting steampunk technology

MichaelD067: down with tolkein!

MichaelD067 rummages through papers

PhoenixMelior: eh, I am not a fan of steampunk or cyberpunk. I just enjoy a well done world and fascinating characters

MichaelD067: no cyberpunk?..... I don't know if we can be friends...

PhoenixMelior: *shrug*

MichaelD067:

PhoenixMelior: I'm not much a fan of sci fi in general, I just don't like it

Nightvalien28: I don't really care about the setting as long as the story is good

rainbowbatsuit: No cyberpunk? How else will you know how evil corporations are?

PhoenixMelior: @Rainbowbatsuit because I live in real life

Nightvalien28: companies are not evil, remember, corporate loves you

PhoenixMelior: friend got his schedule messed up so I need to figure out what to have for lunch today

MichaelD067: i suggest food

Nightvalien28: food is good

PhoenixMelior: not a total loss, I get to try and finish the next chapter I had set up in Fire Emblem

PhoenixMelior: food IS good, it's just a matter of deciding which food

DarkMorford: Oh, man. That is the perfect spoiler card for LRR.

MichaelD067: good food!

PhoenixMelior: probably just subway. It's close by.

PhoenixMelior: @Darkmorford right?

PhoenixMelior: It's not Bump in the Night 2: Electric Boogaloo but it's the next best thing

DarkMorford: I hope someone gets it in the Pre-Prerelease.

PhoenixMelior: I hope that G builds around it

PhoenixMelior: that would be sweet to see

groverfield2: Hmm, what about grocery store deli food?

groverfield2: good morning

PhoenixMelior: good morning

DarkMorford: I'll have to catch it on VOD, though. I'm at a convention this weekend.

PhoenixMelior: I suppose there is a fresh market nearby but it's an awfully long walk

PhoenixMelior: hmm... do I have plans Saturday?

PhoenixMelior: I don't think I do, other than spring cleaning.

DarkMorford: Might be able to pop in for a bit here and there if the convention center's wi-fi isn't shit.

PhoenixMelior: That sounds perfect to do while the pre-prerelease runs in the background!

PhoenixMelior: @Darkmorford I have bad news for you. It'll be shit.

rainbowbatsuit: I was at a job fair the other day with better wifi than my house

PhoenixMelior: that's impressive

groverfield2: If you have no plans, than might I ask what you're scheming for that day?

groverfield2: Because the way you're talking, it sounds devatating

PhoenixMelior: I'm scheming about going through my house and cleaning it methodically, bit by bit, until it's spick and span

PhoenixMelior: and in the process going through my possessions and purging them where I can

DarkMorford: It's like an enema for your house!

groverfield2: More of a colonic

PhoenixMelior: It IS like an enema for my house.

DarkMorford: Shove that nozzle up your house's *** and spray that fucker clean!

groverfield2: I should actually probably get a new apartment... this one is kinda hell to clean, with pipes everywhere, and neighbors constantly yelling at each other... ah, young love

DarkMorford: (Damn, that's such a good sketch)

PhoenixMelior: I wouldn't mind getting a new place either but it's cheap and huge so I'm not in a rush

PhoenixMelior: really should call my landlord to get a guy to fix my kitchen sink but I've been really busy lately

groverfield2: email?

DarkMorford: I'm hoping I can afford to rent a house soon-ish. I'm pretty well stretching the walls of my apartment. Really need to go through some boxes and get rid of stuff.

PhoenixMelior: well I'd have to text him, but that's not the problem. The problem is that I need to be available in an evening so someone can come look at it, but that hasn't really been possible lately

DarkMorford watches SPRING again

PhoenixMelior: @Darkmorford purging possessions is the best.

groverfield2: I am so happy never to have gotten into the whole merch stuff

PhoenixMelior: yeah, I'm glad I resisted collecting figurines and such where I could

groverfield2: Not only am I not as financially boned as I could potentially be, but clutter is just aggrivating

groverfield2: I should get some poison (energy drink) from the grocery store so I can stay up today...

PhoenixMelior: what would you be staying up for?

DarkMorford: Yeah, I should probably get a display case for my figures. Still need to keep the boxes around for the extra parts, though, so *shrug*

groverfield2: For being awake during day, so work and living is easier? I tend to, on occasion, screw over my sleep schedule

PhoenixMelior: ah gotcha. I don't know, you could be over in Europe

groverfield2: True true

PhoenixMelior: yeah, I've had those days too. This is why I'm glad I don't drink coffee every day, so if I need the energy it'll actually help

groverfield2: But no, I'm in Oregon. I, however, not the Oregon man that keeps popping up in FeedDump

groverfield2: (am goes in there somewhere)

PhoenixMelior: that's probably for the best

DarkMorford: I don't drink coffee. I like the smell, but no matter what I try it always just tastes like burnt beans.

groverfield2: oh

PhoenixMelior: even the quality stuff?

PhoenixMelior: I've been to the Parsonage and that was the best thing ever

groverfield2: Uhh, like the starbucks stuff is basically hot chocolate milk

DarkMorford: Also, I have to wait for like 10 minutes after making it before it's cool enough to actually drink.

DarkMorford: I have a bit of a cat's tongue like that.

PhoenixMelior: oh I see

groverfield2: No, I get that too. I either wait a bit for it to cool, or order iced coffee

PhoenixMelior: I like green tea because I can drink it almost right away, since it's supposed to brew at a lower temperature

groverfield2: That's nice, I've started going for unsweetened tea recently

PhoenixMelior: yeah I also drink my tea unsweetened

DarkMorford: Like, 135-140 degrees is the top end of what I can tolerate. And most coffee is brewed at 190+, so...

groverfield2: Taste, or other reasons, Meli?

rainbowbatsuit: I drink my tea no milk no sugar and people look at me funny when I ask for it

PhoenixMelior: I prefer my tea plain since a good tea has flavour that is pleasant without sweeteners, and also because I don't need the extra calories or sugars

DarkMorford: I do like jasmine tea. Still have to wait a bit for it to cool, but not as much as other teas/coffee.

PhoenixMelior: when you don't eat a lot of artificial sweeteners, fruits taste a lot more delicious.

PhoenixMelior: @Darkmorford Jasmine tea is one of my favourites

groverfield2: Ah - - yeah, I avoid the sweeter stuff because of sugars for teeth and diet, (though I kinda miss honey in tea.) I just can't do artificial sweeteners

PhoenixMelior: and yes, it does take a lot less time to cool

PhoenixMelior: I've never been a fan of honey, not sure why

groverfield2: Probably got fed honey when you were sick as a kid

PhoenixMelior: yeah probably

DarkMorford: The only problem I have (and the reason I don't drink more of it) is that I don't have a reliable way to hit the brew temp. I need to get an electric teakettle or something.

groverfield2: or something with the stickyness turning an antipathy

PhoenixMelior: lemme grab you what kettle I use

DarkMorford: Which is kinda the main reason I stick to sodas. I like the carbonation, and it's consistent can to can.

groverfield2: Electric kettles are pretty cheap, but it's random whether or not they break in the first week or last you four years

PhoenixMelior: this is my cuisinart perfectemp https://www.cuisinart.com/share/images/products/zoom/1213/cpk-17.jpg

PhoenixMelior: six settings, perfect temperature every time. Really easy to maintain

rainbowbatsuit: I was poor in uni so I secretly stole my body builder roommate's milk for my tea but when I moved to a different place nobody ever bought milk so I learned to drink it without

PhoenixMelior: if you drink a lot of tea it's worth the price (which I think was 60 when I was looking to buy, though I'm not sure about American stuffs)

groverfield2: I still find milk in tea odd, though I've been known to go full on mad scientist

DarkMorford: Amazon has it for $90. A bit more than I'm looking to spend.

groverfield2: Probably cheaper in store, Morford

rainbowbatsuit: He bought like 12 pints a week I doubt he noticed

PhoenixMelior: but yes, as a barrier to entry it's a little pricey and that's fair. I'm just a tea hound

PhoenixMelior: that's a lot of milk

rainbowbatsuit: Turns out ypu gotta eat a lot when you're body building

groverfield2: Makes sense, enzymes and calcium

groverfield2: Also more digestable than cheeses (unless you're lactose intolerant)

rainbowbatsuit: He'd also have like, four chicken breasts and a bag of rice for dinner

rainbowbatsuit: He was a super nice guy tho he helped me out with money and food a few times

Nightvalien28: an entire bag of rice?

PhoenixMelior: well good that he's a nice guy that would just literally feed me for like three-four days

rainbowbatsuit: Not a HUGE sack

Nightvalien28: even so, a bag of rice

PhoenixMelior: "I could eat THREE WHOLE BOWLS OF RICE"

rainbowbatsuit: The sort of thing you'd use to make dinner for a few people

PhoenixMelior: !next

LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Heather's Handhelds at Tue 12:00 PM PDT (3:45 from now).

rainbowbatsuit: !quote heather

LRRbot: Quote #1069: "I ate a tree." —Heather [2015-10-20]

Nightvalien28: soon

rainbowbatsuit: Anybody here playing Pokken?

Nightvalien28: nope

PhoenixMelior: I don't think so

DarkMorford: Not me.

rainbowbatsuit: Well dang.

PhoenixMelior: I'm not into the fighty mans. Also I don't have a Wii

PhoenixMelior: *Wii U

rainbowbatsuit: It's pretty beginner friendly. I dont fightymans either but its pretty easy to get into.

PhoenixMelior: I should actually see if any more Sun/Moon news has come up

DarkMorford: I'm just plain bad at fightyman games, but I do play Smash and DOA because I have friends who like them.

eatenbyagrue1988: I used to play DOA quite a bit.

PhoenixMelior: April 15th, there should be more pokemon news

eatenbyagrue1988: my fiance made me feel ashamed.

PhoenixMelior: why because boobies?

eatenbyagrue1988: more because shameless

eatenbyagrue1988: also, never make the mistake of playing the game with English dialogue

eatenbyagrue1988: Helena's English voice sounds like Pepe LePew

eatenbyagrue1988: and Tina's sounds like Yosemite Sam

rainbowbatsuit: I kinda love bad voice acting

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote dead

LRRbot: Quote #1441: "Are we dead yet? Can we please die?" —Alex [2014-01-17]

rainbowbatsuit: Then again Dynasty Warriors 3 was one of my favourite games growing up

Nightvalien28: why do they even try to add voice work and stories into these games

PhoenixMelior: I really like the Empires spin offs for Dynasty/Samurai Warriors

PhoenixMelior: I still have my copy of Samurai Warriors 2 Empires even though I have no Xbox 360 to play it on - I love that game so much

rainbowbatsuit: After MK9 & Injustice I was really surprised the story for MK10 was actually almost competent

PhoenixMelior: I remember watching MK X on stream

PhoenixMelior: it was a good movie interspersed by fighting scenes

Nightvalien28: ^

rainbowbatsuit: I have Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII on PS2 somewhere

PhoenixMelior: also, Pokemon Conquest.

Nightvalien28: huh, rob ford died

PhoenixMelior: wait really

eatenbyagrue1988: when I was in high school, I once tried watching Bible Black with English dubs.

Nightvalien28: yeah, cancer

eatenbyagrue1988: it is hilaribad

PhoenixMelior: I just read a news article yesterday that he wasn't responding to chemo

rainbowbatsuit: ROTK maybe worth checking out if you like the Empires

PhoenixMelior: I didn't know he was that far along already... that's unfortunate

eatenbyagrue1988: wait, Rob Ford as in "crack smoking mayor"?

PhoenixMelior: yes

PhoenixMelior: well that sucks.

eatenbyagrue1988: weird thought

eatenbyagrue1988: but what do blind people do for fun?

PhoenixMelior: read Braille books?

PhoenixMelior: listen to podcasts?

Nightvalien28: listen to music

Nightvalien28: take dogs to walks

Nightvalien28: pet cats

RebelliousUno: the same things sighted people do for fun

PhoenixMelior: probably minus the gaming

RebelliousUno: being blind doesn't invalidate you

RebelliousUno: it just means you need assistance to do things

Nightvalien28: only because we haven't made a game for blind people yet

PhoenixMelior: Most blind people also aren't COMPLETELY blind, either

RebelliousUno: there's no reason to ponder such a question

Nightvalien28: I saw a project on tumblr, glasses that tell the person what they are looking at

Nightvalien28: well of course there is a reason uno, to educate one self

Nightvalien28: would you rather someone go around not knowing?

PhoenixMelior: I have a friend who follows that "things you think about in the shower" subreddit

PhoenixMelior: it's just like, when you're letting the water hit you and you just ponder all of life's questions

groverfield2: (tabbed back in) so... Phoenix, cannibalizing a bodybuilder's meat would feed you for half a week?

Nightvalien28: lol

PhoenixMelior: suddenly out of nowhere

PhoenixMelior: no I mean the food he was eating

PhoenixMelior: four chicken breasts, so much milk and a bag of rice? Were I into carbs yeah

groverfield2: Hmm, avoiding carbs for diets?

PhoenixMelior: yup, I'm slowly getting myself off carbs. And not like 100%, I'll still eat rice and nuts and such every once in a while

groverfield2: I don't think nuts are carbs...

groverfield2: I could be wrong, but I thought they were mostly really really healthy fats

Nightvalien28: rice have carbs?

PhoenixMelior: true. Nuts are currently the largest regular source of carbs I get. They are indeed mostly fats

groverfield2: Rice is probably the healthiest carb there is, followed by the weird stuff they put in granola, and wheat

PhoenixMelior: that's why I'm ok with eating rice as a carb

PhoenixMelior: just like, white bread, eating pasta on a regular basis, stuff like that I'm trying to cut

groverfield2: Have you tried the vegetable based pasta?

PhoenixMelior: No, I haven't actually seen that in my supermarket

PhoenixMelior: oh wait do you mean like spaghetti squash?

groverfield2: yeah

PhoenixMelior: Not yet, but I probably should at some point.

groverfield2: Hmm, could be a US thing, and I haven't seen it recently, but the spinach one was pretty good

groverfield2: (at least in my tastes)

PhoenixMelior: I don't have the right utensils to make it easily so I've been holding off

groverfield2: Hmm, missing a strainer? (I can't think of anything else that's pasta specific)

PhoenixMelior: in all the recipes I've seen for spaghetti squash there's a special cutter people stick the squash/zucchini through to make it into a pasta shape

groverfield2: Oh... they had it pre-made in my area, but I should consider looking into getting one of those gadgets, since I the premade stuff's not really too common to see in stores anymore

PhoenixMelior: yeah I don't think I've ever seen them

PhoenixMelior: looks like they're called spiral slicers

eatenbyagrue1988: when you say "a bag of rice" are talking cooked or uncooked?

eatenbyagrue1988: because cooked rice is about 2-2 1/2 times the size

Nightvalien28: damn it I have the feeling of something stuck in my gums

PhoenixMelior: have you recently had any popcorn?

Nightvalien28: nope

Nightvalien28: nothing there, just the annoying feeling

PhoenixMelior: I always use that time to floss like a madwoman and use those pipe cleaner brushes to ensure there's nothing

Nightvalien28: yeah I am doing that once I get home

eatenbyagrue1988: I just brush until my gums bleed.

eatenbyagrue1988: I go through 2 toothbrushes a month that way

Nightvalien28: wow

eatenbyagrue1988: hey, everyone here works right?

Nightvalien28: yup

eatenbyagrue1988: as in "has a job" works?

Nightvalien28: sure let's go with that

eatenbyagrue1988: it's not weird to have a coworker that's as dumb as a stump, right?

PhoenixMelior: I has jerb

PhoenixMelior: I mean, depending on where you work, yeah probably

PhoenixMelior: I had some pretty dumb teachers

eatenbyagrue1988: one of my coworkers is dumb as a particularly dim stump

eatenbyagrue1988: he's a teacher

Nightvalien28: dumb people are a common thing in the world

PhoenixMelior: a sexist one too, against her own gender

Nightvalien28: gross

PhoenixMelior: well she did dress a bit like... well like a whore.

Nightvalien28: well you see when people are dumb they don't human well

RebelliousUno: there we go

RebelliousUno: back

PhoenixMelior: and she answered literally EVERY question that got put into the question box for sex ed

PhoenixMelior: this was a CATHOLIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, i'd like to remind you all

eatenbyagrue1988: oh god

eatenbyagrue1988: what kind of questions did they stuff into her proverbial box?

eatenbyagrue1988: !quote 616

LRRbot: Quote #616: "Stab *** is my Cannibal Corpse cover band." —Alex [2015-08-28]

DarkMorford: Hey Uno

PhoenixMelior: I was only aware of sex as a scientific process and didn't know that people did it for pleasure, or what sorts of things people did at all, so when questions about blow jobs came up and she described what they were in detail

RebelliousUno: Hye Dm

PhoenixMelior: I blocked out much of that class

Nightvalien28: oh my

PhoenixMelior: I think I may have skipped it after that just to avoid the awkward

eatenbyagrue1988: I'm glad I got the sex ed talk from my granddad

PhoenixMelior: my parents handled the whole thing terribly

eatenbyagrue1988: because he's a doctor and a consummate professional, so he gave a no-BS, non-judgmental talk

Nightvalien28: same

PhoenixMelior: the terrible or the no BS, NV

Nightvalien28: the terrible

Nightvalien28: I got a porn mag and the advice "it is what man do"

eatenbyagrue1988: you ever read Cracked.com?

PhoenixMelior: yeah I learned a lot of things with my first real boyfriend rather than from any other time

eatenbyagrue1988: because one of their contributors says that's how his adad gave him the talk

PhoenixMelior: nope, that place is full of ***

Nightvalien28: good thing I was in that mind set to question everything and everyone all the time

eatenbyagrue1988: so, tomorrow's the last day of class

eatenbyagrue1988: I let my 9th grade class just horse around the whole day

Nightvalien28: huzzah

eatenbyagrue1988: I step out to go get some papers photocopied

Nightvalien28: you are a good teacher

eatenbyagrue1988: I come back, the girls and half the guys are outside, sitting quietly

eatenbyagrue1988: and the other half of the guys are inside, watching a porn

DarkMorford: >_<

Nightvalien28: god damnit

PhoenixMelior: lol

PhoenixMelior: I mean, yeah.

eatenbyagrue1988: I had to recommend 4 students to be expelled

PhoenixMelior: that sucks

PhoenixMelior: but yeah that seems about right

eatenbyagrue1988: on the last day, even

Nightvalien28: their fault

PhoenixMelior: pretty sure I would have walked back in and been like "... now really guys, did you not think I was going to come back?:

eatenbyagrue1988: one of them, the instigator was already on the knife's edge

Nightvalien28: not even that, they had no lookout

eatenbyagrue1988: like, if he'd waited a few more hours

PhoenixMelior: @Nightvalien28 right?

eatenbyagrue1988: he was already in trouble for cheating during his exams

eatenbyagrue1988: three times

PhoenixMelior: It seems that expulsion happens a lot more in the Philippines

eatenbyagrue1988: on the same day.

Nightvalien28: wow

PhoenixMelior: here we have suspensions and if you get two many of those THEN you get expelled

eatenbyagrue1988: @Phoenixmelior What can I say? My people are not very bright.

PhoenixMelior: and not a lot of kids got suspended in my schools

PhoenixMelior: I don't even know if it's that, or if you guys are stricter. Though yeah I don't know if any dudes are dumb enough to watch a porno at school

Nightvalien28: yeah but you see our schools don't suspend or expel because it costs them money

PhoenixMelior: does it?

eatenbyagrue1988: Filipinos are measurable dumb

Nightvalien28: it does

eatenbyagrue1988: like, in all of Southeast Asia, we have the LOWEST average IQ

PhoenixMelior: how do suspensions cost them money?

eatenbyagrue1988: (84)

Nightvalien28: schools are payed for attendance, the more they have the better

PhoenixMelior: (I am actually unsure)

PhoenixMelior: is that right

PhoenixMelior: I had no idea

Nightvalien28: pretty sure it is in public schools

eatenbyagrue1988: like, I have a 122 tested IQ

eatenbyagrue1988: I could literally dig out my excess IQ points and still be smarter than the average Filipino

PhoenixMelior: I think I had like 118 when I tested but that was so long ago it's probably different now

PhoenixMelior: my dad took an IQ test and got 186

eatenbyagrue1988: Fiipinos also love to smart shame\

PhoenixMelior: would explain why he's such a terrible human being

eatenbyagrue1988: shit, really? That's amazing

eatenbyagrue1988: wait, what's the relation?

Nightvalien28: that is not fair, my IQ is probabaly like 10 and I am an awful human being

PhoenixMelior: he thought showing us love was expecting nothing less than perfection, lecturing us constantly and calling us fat so we'd stop eating like him

Nightvalien28: intelligent people get way more depressed and they have tendency to be mean

eatenbyagrue1988: jesus.

eatenbyagrue1988: I have to talk to the parents of those 4 kids tomorrow

PhoenixMelior: Reason #1 I was depressed and suicidal in high school

Nightvalien28: yup, like that

Nightvalien28: ^

PhoenixMelior: I am a lot better now, don't worry

eatenbyagrue1988: I do not look forward to having to tell a crying mum why her son will not be re-admitted

PhoenixMelior: and I was able to talk myself out of doing anything stupid

PhoenixMelior: at least you have a real reason for it

eatenbyagrue1988: still

PhoenixMelior: and at least you can say that you wish it wasn't the case but rules are rules

eatenbyagrue1988: I had to give one of those kids an in-school suspension

eatenbyagrue1988: because he'd tell his parents he had school, collect his allowance

eatenbyagrue1988: then spend all day playing dota

eatenbyagrue1988: when his mother found out, she gave him "the look"

Nightvalien28: wow

eatenbyagrue1988: you know the look

eatenbyagrue1988: the one that says "I am restraining myself because there are witnesses, but when we get home, you are a DEAD MAN."

PhoenixMelior: yup that look

eatenbyagrue1988: so we locked him in the office all day with a student assistant watching him at all times

eatenbyagrue1988: he had to be accompanied to the restroom and have his lunch in that office

eatenbyagrue1988: I gave him a book to copy

DarkMorford: Sucks to be him

eatenbyagrue1988: Descartes.

eatenbyagrue1988: that's always been the worst part of my job

eatenbyagrue1988: I hate having to drop the hammer on people

eatenbyagrue1988: it always makes me feel awful

BsureB: gamespot

PhoenixMelior: you have my sympathies, I'm sure it's a butts feeling

Nightvalien28: sometimes you have to do it, I had an inturn so dumb we had to let him go

PhoenixMelior: you have someone you can talk to afterwards to make you feel better right? Your fiance or something?

Nightvalien28: we found a way to transfer the idiot to some other place

eatenbyagrue1988: yeah, I do

PhoenixMelior: I've had some stuff happen at work that I needed to talk out and it was good to have that person to talk to

Nightvalien28: he has chat

eatenbyagrue1988: and it's not all bad. I really love teaching

PhoenixMelior: it's just the discipline

eatenbyagrue1988: when I was teaching my grade 9 classes how to debate, I got into a 30 minute tangent on "how to win an argument with your parents"

PhoenixMelior: teenagers rebel in different ways, some do it in ways that are acceptable and others go for a joyride while drunk and get arrested

eatenbyagrue1988: and I swear, every single one of them was taking down notes

PhoenixMelior: haha

Nightvalien28: lol

PhoenixMelior: see, that's the best

PhoenixMelior: that's where they know you're a good teacher and you hold a little more of their respect

PhoenixMelior: when I was in grade 7 some kid had something stolen. Our homeroom teacher politely gave the class a lecture asking the culprits to come forward and apologise because stealing is wrong.

PhoenixMelior: Thirty seconds later three of the boys got up and walked outside with her

eatenbyagrue1988: I would do good cop/bad cop with the principal

eatenbyagrue1988: I was bad cop, she was good cop

PhoenixMelior: wow you had the sort of principal that was firm but fair? Geez. My high school principle was the biggest *** ever

groverfield2: Hah, people in the educational system caring?

eatenbyagrue1988: well, no

groverfield2: Must be a nice area...

eatenbyagrue1988: I just turned up my more bad cop aspects so they'd come clean

eatenbyagrue1988: the idea being, they have to deal with the bad cop daily

eatenbyagrue1988: so you come clean to the good cop, and she gets the bad cop to lay off

PhoenixMelior: did that work?

eatenbyagrue1988: but you lie to the good cop, and she sics the bad cop on you

eatenbyagrue1988: Once or twice.

eatenbyagrue1988: I try to be very sparing with it.

eatenbyagrue1988: I'm more a fan of the unusual punishment

eatenbyagrue1988: like duct taping 2 students together 3-legged race style

PhoenixMelior: Are you allowed to do that?

eatenbyagrue1988: yep

eatenbyagrue1988: I didn't make them run a race

eatenbyagrue1988: they had to do everything they would normally do

eatenbyagrue1988: just connected at the ankle

PhoenixMelior: did they get in a fight or something?

eatenbyagrue1988: no, they kept on moving their seats together and being disruptive

eatenbyagrue1988: if they got into a fight, I would've separated them

MichaelD067: I think I've almost sorted out my taxes

eatenbyagrue1988: for one student, I gave him a copy of "The Metamorphosis" and told him to read it and tell me how many times the name "Gregor Samsa" appears

Sektor88: wat

PhoenixMelior: but then he'd just count the name and then not read it

eatenbyagrue1988: he'd still have to skim through the book

Sektor88: get ebook, ctrl F

eatenbyagrue1988: the idea isn't for him to read it, the idea is to occupy him with a dull, tedious, mind-numbingly boring activity

Sektor88:

PhoenixMelior: ctrl

qrpth: Press F to pay respects.

eatenbyagrue1988: I supplied the book. It was a hardcopy

groverfield2: ctrl ctrl empire?

eatenbyagrue1988: ctrl

eatenbyagrue1988: !next

LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Heather's Handhelds at Tue 12:00 PM PDT (2:36 from now).

Metric_Furlong: afternoon chat

groverfield2: Need more rhythm tuesdays.

Sektor88: Groverfield2 nice outlaw sta rference

groverfield2: How's Friday looking

groverfield2: Thanks

DarkMorford: Hey Metric

PhoenixMelior: Friday looks like nope

PhoenixMelior: which will probably just be more IDDQDerp

eatenbyagrue1988: what;s on Friday>

PhoenixMelior: Let's Nope?

Nightvalien28: there has to be a decent horror game out there

groverfield2: No, what's on second

PhoenixMelior: I don't know.

Metric_Furlong: Nightvalien28, I have been looking around a bit on that front

PhoenixMelior: Third base!

eatenbyagrue1988: did Alex already play Beneath the Deep?

PMAvers: I was under the impression that Adam was coming in on Friday

DarkMorford: THIRD BASE

groverfield2: If you insist...

Metric_Furlong: but unfortunately most of the things I like involve puzzles, whcih Alex loathes

groverfield2: Great, now I have to grope Meli and Morf

PhoenixMelior: I just go by the schedule

PhoenixMelior: wait what

eatenbyagrue1988: wait, Reveal the Deep

PhoenixMelior: I didn't consent to that

PMAvers: Due to the Pre-Pre pushing him out of his nromal slot

groverfield2: Both of you asked for third base

Nightvalien28: Metric_Furlong, find anything?

Metric_Furlong: Nightvalien28, nothing that would involve puzzles, which Alex loathes

eatenbyagrue1988: if I want to send the LRR crew a game to stream, how do?

Nightvalien28: send to their lrr account

PhoenixMelior: first off, no guarantee they'll play it

Nightvalien28: steam account that is

DarkMorford: You could always email info@loadingreadyrun.com and ask if it's something they'd be interested in

eatenbyagrue1988: danke

PhoenixMelior: yeah all that

Metric_Furlong: I believe W+P games have their own address set aside, so as to keep them a mystery from Alex

PhoenixMelior: unless it's a Watch and Play contender

DarkMorford: Yeah, W+P goes to watchandplay@loadingreadyrun.com

PhoenixMelior: that's watchandplay @ loadingreadyrun.com

groverfield2: It might be nice to see PN03 on Beej's Backlog... after a few years goes by and it finally comes around

DarkMorford: Speaking of which, has anybody submitted Frederic yet?

PhoenixMelior: what's PN03?

Metric_Furlong: I vaguely remember Product Number 3

eatenbyagrue1988: @Phoenixmelior it's basically Bayonetta

Metric_Furlong: not playing it, but I remember when it was a thing

eatenbyagrue1988: but poorly executed

Metric_Furlong: and about a decade earlier

groverfield2: It wasn't that bad

groverfield2: Pretty short, but not as bad as people make it out to be

PMAvers: It was interesting, at the minimum, since it was a character action game crossed with a rhythm one

PhoenixMelior: I might not watch much Beej for a while, I'm not into Prince of Persia

MichaelD067: oh PN3???

PhoenixMelior: and he gets really involved in that game and can't chat much

eatenbyagrue1988: I liked Sands of Time and Warrior Within

Metric_Furlong: the PN03 stands for Product Number 3, its working title that they never got around to changing iirc

MichaelD067: I like PN3 but very repetitive and stiff

eatenbyagrue1988: Two Thrones, I never really got to play

Metric_Furlong: I have never seen a Beej stream, owing to time zones

groverfield2: It's a gamecube game that's like a rhythm based cooridor shooter made by the guy responsible for 90% of survival horror tropes

PhoenixMelior: Beej is a fun watch, his super mario sunshine VODs are GREAT

Nightvalien28: oh *** yeah hyperlight coming march 31

PhoenixMelior: there's one with Bengineering and Elliott as well, it's fantastic

PhoenixMelior: !quote 1834

LRRbot: Quote #1834: "It's fake danger, like the kind in the bedroom." —Bengineering [2016-02-15]

groverfield2: lmao

Nightvalien28: I don't really care for the game they play, I enjoy watching them, unless the game is really bad like the division or destiny

Nightvalien28: but even those games they can make fun

PhoenixMelior: well NV, I really like Beej, he goes off on tangents a lot, but when he's so focused on a game like PoP he can't really do that

Nightvalien28: yeah

eatenbyagrue1988: !quote 1988

LRRbot: Quote #1988: "Is there even a button to not kill somebody?" —Paul [2016-02-17]

groverfield2: Yeah, G+P made amazing out of Watch_Hogs

Nightvalien28: and PoP needs a lot of focus, if you saw it last night the game has a lot of issues

Nightvalien28: watch hogs

PhoenixMelior: yeah I saw that

Nightvalien28: pigs in iconic hats

groverfield2: Wait, no, Watch Hogs is a pokemon

PhoenixMelior: Watchog is indeed a pokemon

Metric_Furlong: I am now imagining the crossover

Nightvalien28: like PoP games was before ubisoft got climbing right

groverfield2: Also before they got characterization wrong

Nightvalien28: yeah

Metric_Furlong: Watch_Dogs only replace the hacking with pokémon fights. everything else the same

groverfield2: What about gritty real life noire pokemon

eatenbyagrue1988: jeez, is there a game company that hasn't acted like a giant, distended, puckered anus in the last half-decade?

PhoenixMelior: so the driving would still suck

Nightvalien28: eatenbyagrue1988, platinum

PhoenixMelior: @Eatenbyagrue1988 that depends on your definition

PhoenixMelior: Platinum? pfffft

groverfield2: @Eatenbyagrue1988 Blizzard has been more of an idiot

PhoenixMelior: Pokemon Colosseum

groverfield2: Hmm

Nightvalien28: hey platinum doesn't act like idiots

PhoenixMelior: Pokemon Colosseum was the best. It was dark and dank pokemon

groverfield2: From

Nightvalien28: yeah from

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote pokemon

LRRbot: Could not find any matching quotes.

Metric_Furlong: eatenbyagrue1988, I imagine a good chunk of the indie studios have been alright

Metric_Furlong: if only due to not having the resources to get away with it

eatenbyagrue1988: *coughDigitalHomicide*

groverfield2: Yeah....

Nightvalien28: that is not even a studio

groverfield2: That's...

Metric_Furlong: 'a good chunk' =/= 'all'

Nightvalien28: it is a posser

PhoenixMelior: that whole thing is stupid and not even a thing

PMAvers: That's not a studio, that's a shack full of lies and flim-flam.

Nightvalien28: that's one guy being a *** bag

DarkMorford: Bleh... really want to work on my Desert Bus romhack, but 1) Can't do that at work, and 2) I don't have the tools I'd need to really get in and see what's happening

Nightvalien28: what tools do you need

groverfield2: They got real legal action filed, which is kinda more a sign that we should have more funding for mental health care institutions to provide homes for the deranged who can barely function in society...

DarkMorford: Either a Sega CD dev kit or an emulator that has debugging features.

groverfield2: Oh yeah, Sega's being good for the most part

PhoenixMelior: how?

PhoenixMelior: wasn't Rome Total War 2 complete anus

groverfield2: I don't know...

Metric_Furlong: PhoenixMelior raises a good point

eatenbyagrue1988: I like G+P's idea that if it ever went to court, Jim should do his testimony as Jimquisition Jim and not real Jim

groverfield2: But they have a LOT of properties

PMAvers: Maybe bring the baseball bat dildo as well?

PhoenixMelior: The Penetrator?

PMAvers: Yeah, that.

Nightvalien28: huzzah upickvg beat their 3k goal

PMAvers: Exhibit A, your honor: How big of a *** Digital Homicide has been.

groverfield2: Exhibit A would probably be more "The name of their gomless studio"

Metric_Furlong: gog are still doing they're weirdly inavigable sale, I see

Metric_Furlong: *their

eatenbyagrue1988: "I would like to call the first witness to the stand, Mr. David Cage." *cut to someone who is obviously Jim wearing a David Cage cutout over his face* "Ellow. Ah AM Dah-vid Cage."

PhoenixMelior: except I'm fairly certain that would get thrown out for contempt of court or something similar

rainbowbatsuit: I just wonder if the Jimsaw Killer will appear as a witness for the defence or the prosecution

Metric_Furlong: PhoenixMelior, I'd be worried if it didn't

groverfield2: I retract my previous statement about Sega, I forgot that they still have yet to release PSO2 in North America

Metric_Furlong attemtps to will writer's block away

Metric_Furlong fails

groverfield2: What'ya writing, Metric?

Metric_Furlong: was meant to be doing a short story

eatenbyagrue1988: I dislike being around "gamers"

Metric_Furlong: eatenbyagrue1988, a sensible position to take

PhoenixMelior: what are you doing here then

Nightvalien28: lol

eatenbyagrue1988: you know what I mean, Phoenix

PhoenixMelior: no I don't

PhoenixMelior: I'm a gamer

PhoenixMelior: I play the vidya games

eatenbyagrue1988: but not a "gamer"

Nightvalien28: he meant "gamers"

groverfield2: I think he means the MLG wannabes

eatenbyagrue1988: with the sarcastic airquotes

Nightvalien28: PhoenixMelior, do you have your dew

Metric_Furlong: PhoenixMelior, don't put yourself down like that

Nightvalien28: did you crush a dew today

Nightvalien28: and your doritos?

PhoenixMelior: gamer =/= gamer?

groverfield2: Yes

eatenbyagrue1988: no, gamer =/= "gamer"

groverfield2: You can be a gamer, and not be a gamer

PhoenixMelior: @Nightvalien28 I don't drink caffeine, and I prefer cheetos

Metric_Furlong: someone who plays games =/= 'gamer'

PhoenixMelior: air quotes does literal nothing to change the meaning of a word

eatenbyagrue1988: I mean the mouth-breathing buffoons

PhoenixMelior: it just makes me thing you actually mean people that say they are gamers and aren't actually

eatenbyagrue1988: who want only OMEGA HARDCORE GAMEZ

Metric_Furlong: 'gamer' = someone who considers the fact that they play games a significant identifying factor of themselves and that they should behave in a specific way because of it

eatenbyagrue1988: and laugh at "filthy casuals"

MadCmdrMoe: CoD kiddies

DarkMorford: the "PC master race" types?

groverfield2: What's odd about those kinds of "gamers" is they tend to only play the online shooters or Mobys

PhoenixMelior: because it's an important part of what I do

Metric_Furlong: see also the distinction between 'someone who watches anime' and 'someone who labels themselves an otaku'

Nightvalien28: hahahaha

eatenbyagrue1988: see also: Americans and 'Muricans

MadCmdrMoe: 'Murricans also being trumpsexuals

groverfield2: I label myself as an otaku, because weeb is extremely offensive if you know it's etymological roots. I have watched one anime in the last year

Metric_Furlong: there isn't really an equivilant for other mediums

PhoenixMelior: so I guess y'all are making fun of me and I should leave?

Nightvalien28: no

eatenbyagrue1988: hell no

PhoenixMelior: Because I consider myself a gamer and that's apparently a bad thing?

groverfield2: It's two divergent definitions

eatenbyagrue1988: you're a gamer, but you're not a buffoon

Nightvalien28: hang on, when grue said gamer, he meant the extreme GG kinda of gamer

PhoenixMelior: well then why do we use the same word

eatenbyagrue1988: there we go, listen to NV

eatenbyagrue1988: he speaks truths

groverfield2: Because they won't self identify as fucktards

eatenbyagrue1988: well, when I'm referring to the buffoons, I use the quotes

PhoenixMelior: I still don't know what "GG" is, yes I know what it stands for but I'm not wasting my time reading into it

MadCmdrMoe: the poor sport LoL / codblops kiddies?

eatenbyagrue1988: hence, gamer and "gamer"

Metric_Furlong: I'd say no, but then I've actively resisted the label 'gamer' for at least the last 5 years, which I don't think I'd be doing if I honestly felt it was value neutral

PhoenixMelior: so you people are providing me with definitions that aren't helping

Nightvalien28: he means the extreme kinda, the ultra competitive kind

Nightvalien28: the one that curses at a person for just trying to have fun

DarkMorford: "gamer" vs "hardcore gamer," I guess?

Metric_Furlong: words mean different things to different people, probably quite a lot in this case

Nightvalien28: gamer vs abusive gamer actually

groverfield2: Hmm, even then, NV, competatives and hardcores don't associate with those toxic blights upon our fandom

eatenbyagrue1988: or, gamer vs. ***

PhoenixMelior: so you mean like console (wherein PC is a console) fanboys?

eatenbyagrue1988: yes

PhoenixMelior: well say THAT then

Nightvalien28: the offensive ones yes

eatenbyagrue1988: like, remember the people who were whining about Dark Souls having an easy mode?

PhoenixMelior: don't use the same word

groverfield2: Not really, the worst are either shooter fans on console and Moba fans on PC

eatenbyagrue1988: THOSE jerks

Nightvalien28: that was the quotes, they were meant to represent that

PMAvers: And in meatspace Magic players.

PhoenixMelior: Can I still complain about the people that tell me fire emblem shouldn't have permadeath?

eatenbyagrue1988: @Groverfield2 no, the worst ones are the ones who play Pokemon competitively, get into a match with a 10 year old and then proceed to yell at the 10 year old for "not playing the game right"

Nightvalien28: yes

PhoenixMelior: because those people piss me off to no end

eatenbyagrue1988: That was not hypothetical. I've seen that guy

eatenbyagrue1988: hell, a long time ago, I've been that guy

eatenbyagrue1988: I look upon that time with shame

Nightvalien28: those are the people we are talking about, people that say that games should be one way, the people that say they shouldn't have political issues in them and such

PhoenixMelior: ah

DarkMorford: the uber-Spikes who want Steve to be the main character in every game

eatenbyagrue1988: teabaggers

Nightvalien28: those are the "gamers"

Nightvalien28: hence the quotation

eatenbyagrue1988: the people who get articles written about them on Fat, Ugly or Slutty

eatenbyagrue1988: the Cross Assault guy

MichaelD067: right.... FUS

eatenbyagrue1988: the entire League of Legends community

MadCmdrMoe: so the mass media definition of what a gamer is

DarkMorford: the ones who loudly proclaim that video games are a man's domain and women should just stay out

PhoenixMelior: people like that exist?

eatenbyagrue1988: the problem is that those people actually do exist, @Madcmdrmoe

groverfield2: Pretty much, @Madcmdrmoe , thanks to them being the most vocal ones

PhoenixMelior: I'm really glad I don't go too deep into the internet

eatenbyagrue1988: @Phoenixmelior sadly, yes.

Nightvalien28: they are a group

Metric_Furlong: PhoenixMelior, yeah. that is definitely something to be glad you don't do

Nightvalien28: they harass people like felix

groverfield2: @Phoenixmelior Yes, my friends ended up that way (not really that bad, but pretty close)

PhoenixMelior: I had to unfollow Cam and Alex on twitter because they wouldn't stop posting about it

PhoenixMelior: and I just didn't want one side of an argument in my feed

Metric_Furlong: I used to be on The Escapist forums back in the day

MadCmdrMoe: the most vocal of any type of group are the ones that get attention... just because they are noisy and obnoxious and toxic

Metric_Furlong: it was a bad time

Metric_Furlong: you saw a lot of those types

eatenbyagrue1988: I introduced my fiance to XCOM because I wanted to share something I love with her, and it took a lot of effort to get over the "girls don't play videogames" mentality

PhoenixMelior: that's never been an issue for me

PhoenixMelior: I grew up in a household with video games

Nightvalien28: Metric_Furlong, oh wow me too

eatenbyagrue1988: @Nightvalien28 Felix?

PhoenixMelior: maybe I got teased for it? But I go teased for a lot of things

Nightvalien28: eatenbyagrue1988, ya felix kramer

eatenbyagrue1988: Oh.

groverfield2: Ugh, you know, the worst thing is "It's haaaard, beat the level for me?

Nightvalien28: why is that the worst?

PhoenixMelior: yeah

Metric_Furlong: I don't think that's the worst

PhoenixMelior: sometimes I can't see the way out of something

PhoenixMelior: and I ask a friend for help

MadCmdrMoe: i think it's the phrasing

eatenbyagrue1988: My fiance played XCOM 2. Got her entire squad killed in 5 minutes

PhoenixMelior: yeah but real people don't talk like that

PhoenixMelior: and if they do they're being fake

groverfield2: @Nightvalien28 Because finding out how to beat something hard is the most rewarding part of a game

PhoenixMelior: and you should stop talking to them

MadCmdrMoe: lol

Metric_Furlong: honestly I find the reverse attitude 'lol, git gud scrub' to be significantly worse behaviour

Nightvalien28: groverfield2, not to everyone

eatenbyagrue1988: I wake up the next morning, she used my spare key to get into my apartment and was enraged at the game

Metric_Furlong: groverfield2, for you, it might be

Metric_Furlong: groverfield2, it may not be for other people

MadCmdrMoe: or just look them in the face and tell them to cut that act out

groverfield2: Hmm...

Nightvalien28: groverfield2, some people can't beat several things in games, they are hard for a reason see bed of chaos

PhoenixMelior: @Groverfield2 maybe, but a lot of the times when I get stuck it's because of something I see as a flaw in the game design, or because I'm just a TERRIBLE hand at platformers

eatenbyagrue1988: I'm like that with fighting games

Nightvalien28: hey kathleen married graham because he managed to beat a hard section in final fantasy

PhoenixMelior: there are MANY games where I've given up because I just don't have the mind for them (platformers, physics puzzlers) and people are like "but the cool part is right ahead!" and I say "well then you do it, because this part just isn't for me and I don't want to run into a brick wall anymore."

eatenbyagrue1988: it didn't help that my high school friends were super good at the game, so I never had anyone of my skill level to practice with

eatenbyagrue1988: and that led to about 3-4 people monopolizing the PS2 whenever we brought it out

groverfield2: That's fair, Phoenix...

Nightvalien28: I like that gta5 had that option to skip a section of the game if you died a lot in it

groverfield2: But like, most platformers I've played, the platforming and puzzles is what's interesting about it...

PhoenixMelior: another time was because I was never told that I could unequip a debuff item, because the story implied I needed it the whole time

Nightvalien28: what game was that?

PhoenixMelior: and I needed to unequip it to fight my way through the dungeon

PhoenixMelior: Final fantasy XII

Nightvalien28: oh

PhoenixMelior: the story implied that I had to give Lady Ashe the Goddess Magicite in a dungeon to proceed. And it never told me I could take it off

groverfield2: Oh, Final Fantasy games, fair enough

groverfield2: Those ARE >VERY< story driven

PhoenixMelior: so I went through the dungeon without my spellcaster

eatenbyagrue1988: I am going to sound like an ass, but I really hate Final Fantasy games

PhoenixMelior: I was VERY frustrated and rage quit the game because of it

eatenbyagrue1988: except for Tactics.

eatenbyagrue1988: I liked Tactics.

groverfield2: What about the earlier ones, grue?

PhoenixMelior: later my most recent ex told me that I could have taken it off

PhoenixMelior: I generally love Final Fantasy, and Tactics

groverfield2: I didn't play FF12...

eatenbyagrue1988: I like Harvest Moon.

PhoenixMelior: 13 wasn't for me, though the second time through with my ex was much more enjoyable

eatenbyagrue1988: I bought a GBA and for a whole year, the only game I had (and needed) was Friends of Mineral Town

groverfield2: 13 was pretty. Terrible story, terrible world, terrible gameplay.

PhoenixMelior: I didn't like FOMT much

PhoenixMelior: I kept hoping it was going to give me more stuff to do and never did

PhoenixMelior: Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon games get boring for me quickly, I need a story or more incentive to play than "you can do more stuff and get more stuff and unlock more stuff!"

DarkMorford: ^

groverfield2: 14 was... I can't play it without remembering a lady I was really into and hung out with a lot... I developed feelings for her, she didn't...

eatenbyagrue1988: I play them for the repetition

PhoenixMelior: that's the reason I don't

eatenbyagrue1988: like, I've had a long day, and I need to relax and just turn off my brain

DarkMorford: That's the reason I don't care much for western/open-world RPGs. I need direction, otherwise I just go "Okay, now what?"

PhoenixMelior: if I wanted repetition I would go and clean my house

Nightvalien28: I can do repetition if it escalates well like modded minecraft

Metric_Furlong: I find anything repeated enough times becomes a chore

PhoenixMelior: for me, relaxing is curling up with a Fire Emblem map to exercise my mind, or a Dynasty Warriors game to *** *** up

Metric_Furlong: hence why I'm not a fan of those sort of games

PhoenixMelior: or a good book and a snack

groverfield2: Yeah, the lack of a goal is why I dropped Stardew after 1.5 years

Metric_Furlong: then again I'm also psychologically unable to 'turn my brain off', which might have something to do with it

Nightvalien28: I need a good rpg

groverfield2: Yeah, that's terrible, Mets... I'm the same way

PhoenixMelior: I have many good RPGs

PhoenixMelior: makes me a happy phoenix

MadCmdrMoe: laying in bed with fifteen different things all going on and the inablility to turn them off... mmmm

groverfield2: which is how I get messed up sleeping schedules...

eatenbyagrue1988: I find that when I have a regular D&D group, I get burned out on RPGs

Metric_Furlong: groverfield2, 'mets'. that's a new one

MadCmdrMoe: you are now an entire american baseball team

Nightvalien28: have you guys ever been turned off by the localization of a game?

groverfield2: Gotta truncate every name

eatenbyagrue1988: or, metis the Greek word for "skill"

eatenbyagrue1988: I think.

groverfield2: Or measurement

eatenbyagrue1988: my Classical Greek is a little rusty

Nightvalien28: I think I will play dragon age inquisition again

groverfield2: Yes, @Nightvalien28 I can't remember off the top of my head though...

PhoenixMelior: @Nightvalien28 I can't think of a time off the top of my head

groverfield2: Oh

Nightvalien28: wow nice hive mind there

PhoenixMelior: little bit

Metric_Furlong: Nightvalien28, aside from some terrible dubbed voice acting not really

groverfield2: Yatagarasu

PhoenixMelior: I'm thinking there probably was one

groverfield2: Maybe Phantasy Star Universe

Nightvalien28: I was trying to get into megaman battle network

Nightvalien28: but they say jack in instead of plug in and that kinda ruins it for me

Metric_Furlong: although I never played Pathalogic - a russian game that was infamous for having a really awful English translation

Metric_Furlong: apparently that's been altered in the HD re-release though

Metric_Furlong: also it's a horror game... so, maybe worth considering for Alex?

groverfield2: Oh, I watched a playthrough of that

groverfield2: It's really tedious

groverfield2: a LOT of walking, and begging small children for drugs apparently

Metric_Furlong: well, it's a survival game - those tend to be

eatenbyagrue1988: I heard about Pathologic through Extra Credits

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote french

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Nightvalien28: say PhoenixMelior you have student loans?

PhoenixMelior: nope

PhoenixMelior: paid for all my school

Metric_Furlong: I mean, my stand-out example for terrible attempts at localisation is still the US release of the first Harry Potter book

PhoenixMelior: well, I paid for about half and my dad paid for the other half

Metric_Furlong: which they renamed 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'

PhoenixMelior: rather than the Philosopher's Stone

PhoenixMelior: which was weird

Metric_Furlong: yes

Metric_Furlong: I don't think anyone's been able to justify it

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groverfield2: Best I can think of is to possibly distance it from FMA? Or maybe for alliteration's sake?

Metric_Furlong: I mean, the changing of 'sherbet lemons' to 'lemon drops' could at least be chalked-up to the 90s practice in the US of doing their best to hide that media which didn't originate in the USA also wasn't set there

eatenbyagrue1988: right, like with Pokemon where they made the rice balls "donuts"?

Metric_Furlong: groverfield2, Fullmetal Alchemist really wasn't a known thing at that point

groverfield2: Oh right...

groverfield2: So, alliteration it is!

Metric_Furlong: eatenbyagrue1988, yeah, like that

PhoenixMelior: I read a version with the Sherbet lemons left untouched

Metric_Furlong: PhoenixMelior, I think they may have reverted in later editions? or maybe it was different in Cananada

eatenbyagrue1988: I read the first 5 books

PhoenixMelior: I think in Canada we had access to the philosopher's stone version

eatenbyagrue1988: then I just stopped

Metric_Furlong: I just remember the US changes being a source of amusement here once word about them reached us

eatenbyagrue1988: no reason why, I just did

PhoenixMelior: The third book was still the best in that series

eatenbyagrue1988: yes

Metric_Furlong: ^

eatenbyagrue1988: Prisoner of Azkaban is best

PhoenixMelior: The sixth was interesting to me as well, the second i HATED

Metric_Furlong: the second is the worst

Metric_Furlong: again, there's a very strong consensus on this

PhoenixMelior: the fifth was when Harry went through his awkward depressed teenage phase

groverfield2: I... didn't really care about that series. My mom was way more into it than I ever came close to.

PhoenixMelior: and they also wrote in the literal worst character ever at the same time

eatenbyagrue1988: @Phoenixmelior I describe book 5 as "Harry's Linking Park year"

eatenbyagrue1988: *Linkin

PhoenixMelior: yeah basically

Nightvalien28: lol

Metric_Furlong: Harry Potter is.. alright. I enjoyed them as a teenager, but they're not something I'd feel any real urge to go back to

PhoenixMelior: I used to re-read them around finals

eatenbyagrue1988: I have similar feels.

PhoenixMelior: I think I did that because it was something to distract me and because the end of the book always has Harry and friends writing tests

eatenbyagrue1988: tbh, a lot of YA fiction seems pretty disposable to me

Metric_Furlong: so's a lot of fantasy fiction

Metric_Furlong: unfortunately

eatenbyagrue1988: I did read the first part of the first Hunger Games book, and I have to say it's a lot better written than the first part of the first Harry Potter

Metric_Furlong: it's been a while since I read much YA stuff, let's see

PhoenixMelior: The movie was actually pretty all right

Metric_Furlong: Mortal Engines probably still holds up pretty well

Metric_Furlong: Dan and Paul seemed to think so, anyway

PhoenixMelior: I'm so glad I got chat to recommend me the best fantasy books

PhoenixMelior: I'm really looking forward to reading stardust

groverfield2: Have you read any William Gibson?

PhoenixMelior: no

Metric_Furlong: Lian Hearn's 'Tales of the Otori' trilogy I imagine would also still hold-up well, given that it was probably the best YA fiction of its day

groverfield2: Not really fantasy, but probably my favorite author

groverfield2: Then again, I haven't really read any novels in the past 10 years or so...

eatenbyagrue1988: I'm a lot like guys like Yahtzee: once teaching lit became my job, I started having less time to actually read books

Metric_Furlong: groverfield2, read The Peripheral

MichaelD067 nibbles cookie

MichaelD067: i think i have finished my taxes

Nightvalien28: congrats

groverfield2: @mets kay, I'll do that

PhoenixMelior: whoo!

Metric_Furlong: groverfield2, it's one of the most Willaim Gibsonish novels Willian Gibson ever William Gibson'd

Metric_Furlong: (this is not a criticism)

Nightvalien28: chat, hey chat, hey

PhoenixMelior: Taxes usually only take a couple hours if you have the right tools, at least in Canada

Nightvalien28: just one more day till the end of the week

Metric_Furlong: congrats MichaelD067

Metric_Furlong: Nightvalien28, erm...

PhoenixMelior: @Nightvalien28 for you maybe

PhoenixMelior: I have two

MichaelD067: it was more a, how the eff do i report this stupid tutoring income

PhoenixMelior: and I have to tutor my sister later tonight

DarkMorford: Two more days for me, then it's convention time

Nightvalien28: are we going to meet, phoenixminor?

Metric_Furlong: Nightvalien28, you in the Antipodes by any chance?

PhoenixMelior: are we?

eatenbyagrue1988: tomorrow's the last wrokday, then a long weekend

Nightvalien28: are we?

eatenbyagrue1988: then graduation

PhoenixMelior: I am confused.

eatenbyagrue1988: and then I go right into summer classes

groverfield2: I wonder if LoadingReadyRun will ever get a convention

groverfield2: I wonder if they'll call it "LRRCon"

Nightvalien28: they did

MichaelD067 gives phoenix a bitter berry before she hurts herself

Nightvalien28: lrrcon happened

groverfield2: Huh

eatenbyagrue1988: but did LRRCon 2 happen?

PhoenixMelior: @Michaeld067 don't you mean a Persim berry?

Nightvalien28: Metric_Furlong, I got thursday and friday off due holidays

Metric_Furlong: eatenbyagrue1988, it'll happen the same time the LRRcon 1 footage gets uploaded

eatenbyagrue1988: @Metric_furlong so it'll coincide with Desert Bus South?

Metric_Furlong: while Beej, Alex and Kathleen complete the Hatoful Boyfriend stream

MichaelD067: Phoenixmelior sure! if thats what they are being called these days

PhoenixMelior: hehe

Nightvalien28: PhoenixMelior, I was making a bad joke since you are grand phoenix and your sister would be the minor one

PhoenixMelior: oh i see

PhoenixMelior: I totally didn't read that correctly then

MichaelD067: havn't played since gen II....

Nightvalien28: my fault, bad joke

MichaelD067: bitter berries for all!

PhoenixMelior: nah that was me

Nightvalien28: damn it steam stop putting fallout 4 on sale I cannot buy it right now

PhoenixMelior: I read the word as phoenixmelior not minor

PhoenixMelior: wait till the spring/summer sale

MichaelD067 blindfolds Nightvalien28

MichaelD067: just don't look

eatenbyagrue1988: what happened to the LRRcon footage, anyway?

Nightvalien28: ah no, I can't sse

Nightvalien28: halp

Metric_Furlong: eatenbyagrue1988, it got into a cardboard tube duel, it may be recovered once that concludes

MichaelD067: i am halping!

Nightvalien28: crap, I want fo4, can't do it

Metric_Furlong: (that may be my deepest LRR cut to date)

Nightvalien28: help better michael

Nightvalien28: who has binding gear?

MichaelD067: binding what gear?

MichaelD067: I have tape and glue?

PhoenixMelior: I have bondage tape?

Nightvalien28: tie me up till the sale is over

MichaelD067: gets out the bondage tape

PhoenixMelior: well I guess that would work then

MichaelD067: let's do this Phoenixmelior !

Metric_Furlong: I metaphorical binding gear

Metric_Furlong: *I have metaphorical

groverfield2: Kinky...

PhoenixMelior: I mean, yeah.

Metric_Furlong: Nightvalien28, which sale is this?

MichaelD067: fallout 4 on steam or something

eatenbyagrue1988: I have an excessive amount of duct tape

Nightvalien28: Metric_Furlong, just midweek sale, fo4 is 40% off

Metric_Furlong: why am I asking? ever digital games store is having sales atm

Metric_Furlong: *every

PhoenixMelior: it's only 33% off

groverfield2: When the hell did I get Fallout 4?

eatenbyagrue1988: !findquote batman

LRRbot: Could not find any matching quotes.

PhoenixMelior: you know the rule, always wait until 50 or greater

Nightvalien28: oh yeah 33%

Nightvalien28: read that wrong

Metric_Furlong: even Gamers "regretting our choice of name every day since 2014" Gate has one going

Nightvalien28: yeah but fo4 is super expensive, I gotta wait till 75% or so

PhoenixMelior: you're not wrong

eatenbyagrue1988: wait, there's a platform called Gamer's Gate?

Metric_Furlong: http://www.gamersgate.com

Nightvalien28: didn't we talk about them like 30 min ago

eatenbyagrue1988: that's... an unfortunate choice of name.

MichaelD067: is it a rickety step stool??

Metric_Furlong: I think they used to be owned by the same people who owned Paradox iirc

PhoenixMelior: 80 bucks regular price isn't cool in canada

Metric_Furlong: eatenbyagrue1988, yeah. They'd been around for a fair while before The Thing happened but yes

Nightvalien28: and dlc

PhoenixMelior: I want to buy Metal Gear Phantom Pain (My first metal gear game) but it's so damn expensive I'll be waiting a while

Nightvalien28: like 40 bucks dlc I think

PhoenixMelior: so more like 55 here

Metric_Furlong: eatenbyagrue1988, and yes, they had some problems once The Thing happened

PhoenixMelior: buying fallout 4 would be like buying a week and a half of groceries

Nightvalien28: hmm mgs5 is not that great story wise, amazing gameplay tho but it does get repetitive

Nightvalien28: yeah and I don't like to buy games that cost that much food

PhoenixMelior: that's why I feel like, if I could get it on sale, it would be worth it

Nightvalien28: true that

MichaelD067: i should try a metal gear game at some point....

Mooriarty: morning chat

PhoenixMelior: also have been waiting for War For the Overworld to go on sale

Nightvalien28: it will probably be very cheap by the end of the year or the middle o fthe next

Metric_Furlong: evening Mooriarty

PhoenixMelior: morning Mooriarty

MichaelD067: morning mooriarty

groverfield2: Moorning, Mooriarty

Nightvalien28: war ofr the overworld never heard of that

Nightvalien28: good morning mori

MichaelD067: me either

Mooriarty: MichaelD067, I recommend snake eater, it's been released for almost anything by now =)

PhoenixMelior: @Nightvalien28 it's a game that went through early access to completion - kickstarted, blessed by Peter Molyneux as the spiritual successor to Dungeon keeper

MichaelD067: Mooriarty I own a couple in my large back log possibly snake eater...

MichaelD067: shiny dungeon keeper....

Nightvalien28: oooh

PhoenixMelior: I loved Dungeon Keeper as a kid

groverfield2: Isn't snake eater GCN?

PhoenixMelior: I have the Canadian version

Nightvalien28: going to wishlist that

PhoenixMelior: or had anyway.

Metric_Furlong: Dungeon Keeper was a hell of a thing

Mooriarty: snake eater is ps2, ps3, 360, 3ds and vita

groverfield2: I didn't like it...

MichaelD067: checks.... Mooriarty good news I have that one

PhoenixMelior: And it was the extra violent edition

Mooriarty: you're in luck!

PhoenixMelior: so if someone died they would dissolve into blood and gore for like a full minute

Metric_Furlong: "Eversmile. A land where people are plagued only by aching facial muscles, and not anthrax as we had hoped"

groverfield2: Like, I played Dungeon Keeper all the way through so that I could be cool like all my friends...

PhoenixMelior: and the Mistress units would go and get tortured in the dungeons... good times

Mooriarty: groverfield2, you propably mean twin snakes, which is the first remake

MichaelD067: hehehe yeah that seems right XD

groverfield2: But it turns out, not even that would make me cool when I was a kid

Mooriarty: sounds.. "fun"

Metric_Furlong: depends what you're into

MichaelD067: cookies?

PhoenixMelior: I like cookies

PhoenixMelior: I bought some last night ^_^

groverfield2: Smoked Salmon~

Metric_Furlong: smoked salmon biscuits?

Metric_Furlong: that sounds... odd

MichaelD067: i should bake cookies

PhoenixMelior: there's a lot more seafood than I expected at my new grocery store