streamchat

[balmy finch]

i’m delighting in the fact that this is backfiring

[serene spruce]

Oh yes. You cut off a quarter of the Human population from a product for supposedly no reason, they're going to take offense.

Thing is, there is a reason, and Sony won't tell us it, but we can make educated guesses.

I've constructed my hypotheses around my limited knowledge of basic economics, and my extensive experience with manipulating others.

[balmy finch]

yeah man i’d be choked if i happened to be in one of the “lesser” countries

honestly if you look at the list, sometimes it just… seems to tell a story

[serene spruce]

Each country is individually small, and not worth bothering with for a multi-billion dollar company... Individually. Thing is, if you just make it available anyway, people will adapt to your content, not the other way around.

They will learn languages because they want to play the game. They'll go out of their way to consume your content.

Because they WANT to.

You don't have to translate every language on the planet, just use the most common ones. Make it for 'Most people', then most people will play it!

It's not hard, Sony!

[balmy finch]

there are also lots of people the world over that do speak english or something like spanish or even chinese or arabic

[serene spruce]

Exactly, Hayward. You get it.

A 12 year old child has a better grasp on how to run a business than Sony right now.

[balmy finch]

it seems like a no brainer personally

[serene spruce]

Let me put it in Terms that Sony can understand. You removed about 2,000,000,000 potential customers from purchasing due to your actions.

[balmy finch]

and i feel like, even though they’re money hungry, making their games accessible to more of the world would provide them with more customers

investing money would make them money, you know?

like i’m no business major but i too am your average person/consumer

[serene spruce]

That it would! Which means there must be a REASON they cut of 1/4 of the entire human population. And the only impetus I can think of for such an action that openly hurts the company and deprives them of potential income, is personal gain.

The whole 'Screw the next guy, I got mine' shebang that seems to be so common nowadays.

[balmy finch]

there’s gotta be some major gain they get by doing this

[serene spruce]

If I was an aging executive who only has a few more years of work before retirement, and have no vested interest in continuing employ at the company, had a chance to increase the income I had coming in with minimal cost to myself, but major damage to the company? Oh yeah.

[brisk sparrow]

psn signups to make stockholders happy, but that gambit failed for helldivers

[serene spruce]

It's a parasitic relationship between Executives and the Company. They don't have to deal with the fallout, so they make whatever decisions they can to maximize their own personal gain.

[hard laurel]

I mean the worst that happens to execs is they get fired with a golden handshake, to be re-hired by a different company

[serene spruce]

Essentially, they think, I'm not gonna be here when this thing goes south! Let's run this bitch into the ground for more money.

[hard laurel]

Indeed ^^^^ and even if things do go south, they dont suffer the consequences

they're thinking in quarters, not the future livelihood of the company. "This fiscal quarter, I did amazing. Money please!"

[serene spruce]

That's the thing my dude. Executives are the single most replaceable asset in a company.

[hard laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/please-gif-5789075

And probably the single most overpaid asset lol

[balmy finch]

the most replaceable but somehow the most valued?

[hard laurel]

Yes, it's the disparity between real value and perceived value

they are the most replaceable because they're the office politics of the bunch. They didn't get hired / promoted by doing great at their job (generally)

generally the ones who get promoted in big corporations are the ones who can deceive managers and team leaders and execs that the credit should go to them

[hard laurel]

besides, didn't you see that interview with that exec in the interview?

after the outrage from what happened, it was the single most anticipated and expected question. And yet she was so thoroughly unprepared for it

[serene spruce]

CEOs in AAA game companies should be paid only as long as they remain productive and profitable in the long term. They should have an annual review for their income to be adjusted according to their actions. If the company ends up in dire straits, the first person to be cut should be the CEO and other Executives.

[balmy finch]

ohhh nope never saw that

[serene spruce]

After all, they have the highest income of all the employees at the company. It's only logical to remove your largest expense first.

[hard laurel]

Anyway just because a worker is being the least valued, does not mean they are the least replaceable. I understand that it's tempting t othink that, since it'd mean that life is fair, but that's not how life works.

A lot of corporations underpaid their workers, and often times they fire / let go of an essentail worker that kept the chain running, and then get run in the ground

[serene spruce]

We call that 'Acute mismanagement of human resources'.

[hard laurel]

Anyway it's the Bloomberg interview with a nexecutive from Microsoft regarding the deletion of the studio that made Hi-FI Rush.

The two tweets were hilarious. "We will fire all employees of Tango Gameworks and delete them"

[balmy finch]

unfortunate but true

wooooow

[hard laurel]

And later they said "We need more smaller games that win awards with high praise" = Literal definition of Hi-Fi Rush

So that question was already going to be anticipated, because those two messages were I think a day from each other?

and she just floundered the question. I don't have access to X / Twitter, but Piratesoftware tweeted about it

He also talked on stream about it

how ridiculous the response was. Completely unprepared from a high-level exec

It was a deer in the headlights response

For some reason people think that CEOs are rare. Now yes, good CEOs are generally hard to acquire, but for some reason they always want to hire external CEOs instead of promoting the excellent workers within the business

so what you get is generally a pool of CEOs that dont give a shit about your business that dont have any knowledge about your business or industry that are competent at some things

[serene spruce]

She finally connected the dots. They had a critically acclaimed team of hyper-focused game developers, and they flushed them all down the toilet.

[hard laurel]

and yeah if you're trying to hire from a pool of LinkedIn CEOs, that pool will be small

generally fortune 500 companies only need 1 CEO

It's the general trend of businessess towards short-term strategies over long-term strategies

[serene spruce]

One thing you should always ask former executives is 'What led to you leaving your former employer?'. And then a cursory google search for what they actualy did to lose their job.

[hard laurel]

Like at the very least you'd expect an executive to be decent at giving interviews, since that's kind of a core competency

[hard laurel]

indeed

[serene spruce]

"Well, it looks like directly preceeding you leaving your previous company, their entire stock crashed. What do you have to say about that?"

"Uh... Uhhh.... Uhhhhhhh..."

[hard laurel]

Anyway for example the market apparently thinks doctors and nurses aren't rare. They're grossly underpaid, grossly mistreated while being told they're essential workers AND at the same time in some coutnries they try to deny them the right to strike or deal with it.

[serene spruce]

"Yeah, I think we're done here."

[hard laurel]

Anyway in quit ea few countries the submissions for Healthcare schools has dropped by thousands

I think nurses and doctors have learned how 'essential' they are.

anyway all that to basically say that perceived market value and actual value seldom align

It's kind of like stock prices.

There are a few theories in economics about how stock prices allegedly should somewhat be linked to company performance / assets

well they're not and it's obvious.

perhaps there's some loose correlation where a well-performing company might increase in stock

but generally for example there's this concept that's called the magazine cover indicator

Basically if Forbes says that your company is doing great and a high performer in the stock market, the next 6 months or 1 year will be yoru worst as a company

🤣

and vice versa

[hard laurel]

https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1788786022933057997 @balmy finch found the tweet regarding the microsoft exec from Thor

Pirate Software (@PirateSoftware) on X

Ah, look here everyone. A games industry executive has been backed into a corner without any possibility of escape.

Yet... what's this?! She's deflected the barrage with random heartfelt gibberish while not answering the question!

Nature is incredible.

Twitter · May 10, 2024, 4:19 AM

[balmy finch]

enormous oof

[stone nacelle]

ah that, completely unprepared for the most press forward topic

[fiery bloom]

Hate that I am too far south to see any of the Aurora tonight.

[balmy finch]

cries in too bright suburbia

i’m north of thor but have no car access and have no hopes of seeing it

actually, i’m lying lol. it does show up on night mode

[fiery bloom]

Nice

I'm in socal, so too far down. Along with it being both too bright and severely overcast tonight.

[balmy finch]

boooo, as a pnw resident i understand severely overcast

[fiery bloom]

Still pretty cool that the auroras are so visible. Something that so many never get a chance to see.

[balmy finch]

so true, this must be a very strong storm to be able to be so visible

[fiery bloom]

Two class X flares, and six m4 class flares all within the last three days. All aimed at earth.

[ionic bronze]

:"Stream: Game Dev, The Queue, Bitgoal, and EVERYTHING NOW SHOW AT 10AM!" huh? Idont understand

is this a stab on typical US TV?

[fossil sapphire]

it's just a title.

[fiery bloom]

Stupid emote chat.

Want to tell Thor about the magnetic fields and the whole effects of the auroras.

Whatever.

I like talking about space stuff due to being an astrophysics major.

[opaque otter]

Wellington, New Zealand 🙂

[fiery bloom]

HOLY SHIT!

[balmy finch]

that’s AMAZING

[opaque otter]

@minor nymph has my permission to share that if he sees it 🙂

[outer gust]

non-nightmode

[stone prairie]

WEll. Know I stayed up way to late if I'm awake and Thor is just starting his stream. Also great pics.

[chrome hound]

I think that’s literally just the list of things that are happening on the stream

[dark jay]

How do you turn FFZ audio compressor off? how do you know if you have one..?

[fossil sapphire]

it's not on by default, it's a browser addon.

[chrome hound]

Wait the solar flare is tonight? I thought it was last night

[fossil sapphire]

it's not even on by default if you have ffz addon for twitch.

thor is just stubborn. the audio is a tad loud.

[dark jay]

I see

[dark jay]

Does it only last 1 night?

[torn sapphire]

Here's how Songs of Conquest uses billboarding for a 3D effect in a pixel art game

[broken gorge]

This is where to disable/enable the FFZ audio compressor.

[dark jay]

Oh, I don't even have that plugin..

[mortal yacht]

if you add pimp and dick it becomes bumfit.

[fossil sapphire]

there are hundreds of goblins in chat, telling him the audio is louder than usual. cannot be "skill issue" on their part.

[mortal yacht]

heres the new numbers i promised

[chrome hound]

I have no idea I don’t know how it works

[dark jay]

Thor said tonight and tomorrow.. so I guess I might have a chance to see it hopefuly in Indonesia

[fossil sapphire]

on equator? slim chance, but i hope you see some.

[dark jay]

Yeah I checked our aurora forecast and it's not even close wkwkw

Shame.. it looks really cool

[hollow anvil]

Even with the light pollution, they’re still visible here in Canada

[hallow wedge]

South Carolina

[stable portal]

Off on an adventure to see if I can't see them from Auckland

Although it'd be aurora australis down here 😅

[viscid yoke]

!tts

[dapper raven]

You can have Text To Speech for any bit donation 500 or higher. TTS questions are answered and timestamped in Discord in the answered-tts channel. If the queue is too large and your message isn't read by the end of the stream it will become Debt on the Debt-Tracker channel in Discord. Thor pays his debts to charity when that value hits $7,777 or more.

[stable portal]

Auckland!

[final dagger]

He's just doing server maintenance, like all of us.

[blissful crescent]

The active bacteria in yogurt breaks down protein, making chicken breasts and steaks moist and tender like pineapple.

Tought as a trivia to share.

Both are good

And I am not a great cook but it really is nice as been said.

Ow and I forgot

Honey works like pineapple juice, that can also tenderize meat. Honey has enzymes called protease.

[worn scroll]

man steam support is useless .-.

[blissful crescent]

Why

and thats not nice to say

[worn scroll]

apparently sony removing the game from the store in my region isnt a good enough reason to get a refund for the game i dont have access anymore

[vital ocean]

Someone from 🇨🇿 who got the Aurora pictures? 😄

I believe that it has to have been visible here as well.

[blissful crescent]

I see

[vital ocean]

Care to shar with us? 😄

[blissful crescent]

ok thats not really good

I hope their are rules against that

But wha is the region?

[vital ocean]

Filing a complaint should be enough.

[worn scroll]

its literally a dude who doesnt know what hes talking about or automated

because others got a refund

[blissful crescent]

I see support is tough but if someone doesnt know their policiys you should file a compain definitly!

I hope it will be resolved sood for you. And sorry for them taking it away from your region.

Do you think they will bring it back tough?

[worn scroll]

probably not because sony is contradicting itself and doing the most anti consumer thing possible byt changing their own tos to fit their narrative

[ionic bronze]

they changed Tos?

I know they did change the webpage but EULA had no mention of PSN - at aroun 4th of May

Eula still has no mention of PSN

[worn scroll]

might not be tos but they changed wording in regarding the requirments for PSN accounts for pc users

at first their own sites said that pc users would not need them then changed it to some games would require it

[ionic bronze]

on the webpages

[worn scroll]

mid hd2 bs

[ionic bronze]

internet archive is our friend here:d

[worn scroll]

yeah might be

sorry just still coping with the delusional response from steam

[ionic bronze]

1st response?

appeal since first one is always bot

[worn scroll]

2nd

[vital ocean]

Anyone from 🇨🇿 Czechia who snapped a few pictures of Aurora? Mind sharing please?

[worn scroll]

first one was this

[vital ocean]

I kinda missed it 😄

[worn scroll]

which idk how this response helps

[ionic bronze]

and second?

[ionic bronze]

as I understand you cant play the game atm?

[worn scroll]

i cant

they delisted it

and it wont matchmake

[vital ocean]

Has your game disappeared from your library or did they just restrict your access to it?

Oh.

HD2 is available in my country, since we do have access to PSN (luckily), but I can't stand this behaviour.

[ionic bronze]

I would appeal again, with all the screenshots and links possible, since you paid for the game, the Sony retroactively changed their policy where it will be sold even after psn linking is not necessary

[vital ocean]

Wanted to play it, but I won't support a company that screws over players this hard.

[ionic bronze]

@worn scroll

[vital ocean]

Steam is also on shame with this.

[ionic bronze]

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-games/helldivers-2-pc

[vital ocean]

Are you defending Sony?

[ionic bronze]

? where?

[vital ocean]

With your link.

Why did you post a link to PS?

[ionic bronze]

no, link is for 1st screenshot

[vital ocean]

Oh.

[hard laurel]

Leave my multi-billion dollar megacorporation waifu alone!

[ionic bronze]

they still havent changed the wording on direct PSN page I linked -_- what a bunch of ...

2nd answer in PC Frequently Asked Questions

[vital ocean]

Well, the thing is that in order to redeem the voucher, the game has to be available in your region. If it's not, then you can't redeem your voucher.

If you still have the game, but your country is delisted, then you can't apparently matchmake, which effectively locks you out of the game.

Since you cannot multiplayer play anymore, the game is worthless.

You could play singleplayer as I understand it, but nobody plays it in singleplayer, let's be honest.

[worn scroll]

they nerfed it so its basically impossible to play singleplayer

so like

[vital ocean]

Steam should give you a refund.

Where are you from, btw?

Baltics?

[ionic bronze]

but it makes VERY bad future for us, where developer can just ban sales from the whole world to effectively remove it from steam...

[worn scroll]

yea

[fossil sapphire]

*publisher

but they've always had the power to do this.

[vital ocean]

I think you've mixed up devs and publishers.

[ionic bronze]

dev can be publisher

[vital ocean]

Yes, they can self publish.

[ionic bronze]

you still should be able to refund such game.

so this is bs

[vital ocean]

But I haven't seen a single instance where self published (indie) games have been shit on by their owners.

[ionic bronze]

I wonder if it is because HD2 gives money only at start (sale) and after that its mostly cost to them

[worn scroll]

they do release warbond pretty regularly

[ionic bronze]

since monetization is... well not to market standards

[worn scroll]

• cosmetics

so pretty sure its sony with stupid juice

[ionic bronze]

appeal - worst case scenario EU consumer agencies are a thing...

it will take a long time thou..

[blissful crescent]

Yeah.....I wish you luck it will resolve itself

[viscid yoke]

Does TTS work if you pay 5x 100 bits?

i know there is a queue but i am not sure if it worked like this

[buoyant arrow]

If you put in 5 100 bit cheer in a single message, it should've worked

[viscid yoke]

ok thanks, then i will wait

[buoyant arrow]

If all else fails, you could ask a moderator to clarify

[viscid yoke]

i was not sure if you had too buy 500 bit or if 5x 100 also works. and hes playing a game right now so maybe it will come by later. thanks for clearing it up

[buoyant arrow]

No prob

[ionic bronze]

@viscid yoke works: #answered-tts message

[viscid yoke]

ok, will see if mine comes true. i thought i was more in front of the queue but iguess not

[viscid yoke]

i dont think mine worked, but thats okay. i just wanted to thank thor for the inspiration to start learning about programming and that he is a. awesome person

[ionic bronze]

you can always check vod if you typed all correct

and if ones before you went through

[viscid yoke]

thanks

[elfin vapor]

topic: inner speech in deaf children
doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/aad.2012.0988

[marsh forge]

what is happening right now? bot spam or too many spiders?

[balmy ledge]

omg Thor has done it again

[scenic patio]

https://vxtwitter.com/TerminX13/status/1788789298730242527

Thor needs to see this

[digital canyon]

At least once a week it seems like Thor says or does something that reinforces my opinion that he's a wonderful person... I've seen a bunch of people use the whole "no politics" thing as a way of avoiding cracking down on people who say toxic shit, and seeing Thor put the ones saying racist stuff in chat in their place made me happy.

Also someone needs to tell Videogame Dunkey that Thor is playing Animal Well!

[foggy plover]

If they care to know, all they have to do is go peek at the category in Twitch. I'm sure he's at the top

[digital canyon]

Maybe, maybe not. Just thought it was cool to see Thor playing a game that Dunkey was the publisher for.

[tender elbow]

Anyone know if Thor uploaded his cyber manhunt 2 save from the stream from yesterday

[unique lance]

tbh, shouldn't need it really

[late bane]

I'd be curious to know how true these bans for removing PSN are https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cpheeo/psn_account_unlinking_deletion_rabbit_hole_and/

[foggy plover]

After reading every link, that sounds like a skill issue to me. Meaning, these players just straight up deleted their PSN accounts first without FIRST UNLINKING THEM from the game. The game detected the "missing" account and assumes they were banned for other violations.

[late bane]

Ah, so literally just trying to play on an account with a suspended PSN account linked to it. Makes sense

[foggy plover]

Hey, that word is a synonym for a rooster! 😉

[foggy plover]

That's the way I interpret it at least

[worn scroll]

nah but steam support is just useless

"games not available but since sony said they promised not to add psn we cant refund"

great logic

[rustic surge]

Here are the arrows from the Ostrich room

[hard laurel]

I mean it seems to be saying you can play the game you own.

[worn scroll]

solo sure

[hard laurel]

PSN linking was the thing that would've limited the playing for people who have a copy of the game. The current region-lock is to prevent new people from purchasing the game

[worn scroll]

spent 50 minutes looking for a game

didnt find one

went alone into a mission

no sos beacon

love this coop game

[hard laurel]

ah weird, did you describe that in your steam support issue?

[worn scroll]

i did

thats the response

[hard laurel]

seems like you should try again then. Cuz it looks to be a copy-paste response

[worn scroll]

i am

but im about to just give up

noone at sony or steam cares

bout to add another game to the library graveyard of unplayable games

[hard laurel]

Well Steam cares about it in general. They basically seem to have as much information as us.

Looks to me as the policy for refunds was changed with the PSN-unlinking and customer support can't override policy

and since Sony is being vague they're being hesitant to reintroduce policy that might upset Sony

it's part of the issue with Helldivers basically review-bombing the negative reviews to try and make them positive.

It's probably quite hard for Valve to know what's going on and what will happen in the future

since the matchmaking might be resolved by the devs / publisher

[worn scroll]

maybe youre right

[hard laurel]

I'd say just keep it up. With The Day Before and with the PSN-linking requirement, Steam changed their refund policy.

[worn scroll]

tho im not gonna be wasting any more time to figure out if a game i paid for is playable or not

already struggled with the devs never fixing the performance issue pre this

tho it was fixable

now im just tired

[hard laurel]

the issue seems to me that Sony just did a silly tweet and Steam isn't very aware at the exec level of what the issues are or how to solve them

Yeah understandable, it is extremely frustrating to deal with

since you kinda gotta hope that the refund requests from customer support, which can't violate their current policy as set out by the execs, eventually reaches the execs

and then HOPFULLY the execs are like "Shit, the refund requests aren't being solved and Sony just screwed the consumers. It's going to be a bigger issue if we don't refund them"

but yeah..... it sucks dealing with megacorpos

Anyway I'm sorry about your situation. It's good for us to know about, though sadly that won't help you. Hopefully it gets resolved positively

[storm lintel]

It's definitely a cat....

[unreal river]

Cats don't chase discs.

It's also activating the other dog statues.

[storm lintel]

It may have been intended to be a dog, but that, that model chasing him around, that's a cat

[ionic crater]

not a cat

[strange owl]

fox. Cat software in dog hardware.

[dry osprey]

When chat thinks thats a cat

[storm lintel]

Look at the ears and the whiskers, the triangle nose, they even gave it a rounded tail. All classic cartoon markers for a cat. Intentioned or not, that's a cat.

[ionic crater]

theres no whiskers

[snow geyser]

where did we go ?

[ionic crater]

everythingnowshow

[late bane]

https://www.twitch.tv/everythingnowshow

[still dew]

wait, i missed it, why did we end early today??

[late bane]

he's joining the everything now show

[still dew]

ohh! lol

[snow geyser]

deeply upsetting

[tardy crescent]

Eh

[dry osprey]

I was confused why suddenly cut but thanks for the information

[tardy crescent]

I love how those who don't know think Thor is using a voice changer

[twilit phoenix]

i have a question. is that "player character" a real person?

[tardy crescent]

Yes. This is improv but with interactive audience and the audience helps determine the outcome of the improv

[twilit phoenix]

woa, cool

[tardy crescent]

To keep it simple this is basically a stream version of something like whose line is it anyway or something like second City or what Saturday night live can be sometimes

[tender dawn]

noita mods are getting wild

[tardy crescent]

Thor's going to be the most wanted man on the server because of corruption

[urban venture]

is anyone else watching this, im laughing so hard, i've never seen this show before

[ionic crater]

Quest: obtain ALL the pants

[tranquil pivot]

Who doesn't like collectables in games?

[unique lance]

https://tenor.com/view/pants-invisible-dancing-dance-eskord-gif-26209912

[snow geyser]

[twilit phoenix]

I am reflexively dying from secondhand cringe. I love it

[tranquil pivot]

[unique lance]

the pants level

[urban venture]

BEANS CAMIO

[strange owl]

Don't let him take Beans skin!

[unique lance]

NO SKINNING BEANS

[urban venture]

lore accurate church of beans!

[tranquil pivot]

RIP Beans

[tardy crescent]

This is game of pants.

[unique lance]

pants and pants related accessories

[humble aspen]

Thor robs Beans of his skin live in the Church of Beans

No SMS

[unique lance]

the pantsromancer becomith

wizmud needs pants now

[wispy swallow]

😂

[ionic crater]

i see we skinned the dragon

[strange owl]

We also skinned Beans

[versed karma]

Which channel is it?

[strange owl]

Everythingnowshow

[ionic crater]

https://www.twitch.tv/everythingnowshow

[strange owl]

Wasn't sure about the rules for linking other streams.

Even if it's a colab

[ionic crater]

it was already linked earlier, so why not at this point

[strange owl]

True

Breaking the game, as expected

[ionic crater]

Thor gonna kill that man with pants

[unique lance]

the plan is become pants

[urban venture]

my paralysis demon in the corner of my room staring at me as i sleep

[late bane]

he was so excited to get picked at the start

[umbral jewel]

should i be worried?

im getting adds for cowhides

[tranquil pivot]

Personalized marketing xD

[strange owl]

He's making them work hard lol

[umbral jewel]

aint that the truth

[umbral jewel]

yeah Thor is

[unique lance]

they're very quickly learning how the DM feels when the players go off on their own quest

[umbral jewel]

very true

[strange owl]

He annihilated the scoreboard

[ionic crater]

almost had a TOS moment to boot lmao

[ionic crater]

imagine getting banned by pants theft

[tranquil pivot]

Yeah that one pant steal was close xD

[umbral jewel]

when your PC probably shouldn't cut out the middle man

[ionic crater]

lmao

[tough compass]

this is certified goblin behaviour lmao

[unique lance]

this is why he's the lord and we are merely peasants

[dry osprey]

So now we know what thor likes to the side of spykid PANTS. Send him pants to the po box

[strange owl]

I'm sure there are spykids pants out there

[dry osprey]

Bet

[umbral jewel]

well...there are spykids costumes...those have pants

[lofty sparrow]

Is Thor gonna do the whole 6 hrs?

[dry osprey]

Dont think so

But what do i know

[strange owl]

I think he said 2h earlier, but idk

[dry osprey]

Well he stopped at around 10 hours of his normal stream time

[strange owl]

exactly

[still dew]

yooo

what if they gnomed him

[tranquil pivot]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1217029951019024464/1226569988400349244/3.gif

[lofty sparrow]

That would be incredible

[still dew]

would be a lot of challenge coins

[unique lance]

they must do it

[ionic crater]

wonder how Thor will derail it this time

oh no

[still dew]

off to a great start lmao

[strange owl]

Such a troll

[still dew]

new innuendo just dropped lmao

[dry osprey]

[ionic crater]

Thor straight up going to annihilate his PC

[dry osprey]

Feel bad for these dudes

[tranquil pivot]

Reject pants, embrace hot sauce

[regal lion]

Yeah I just ended up feeling bad for the performers, felt like at least a few were getting genuinely pissed by the end

[ionic crater]

i don't think pissed, just absolutely exhausted

[strange owl]

I also think they didn't anticipate how unhinged it can get.

[still dew]

Goblin mode

[jagged rivet]

I knew this was going to be unhinged but this is so far beyond what I expected

[tender dawn]

They knew who they were bringing on

[ionic crater]

[dry osprey]

Tbf they went up with thor Nothing good will happen with a goblin king

[strange owl]

I love that he already got the win condition so now they're just freestyling.

[ionic crater]

the desire to regain the glasses has absolutely backfired

[tranquil pivot]

The poor actor xD

[tough compass]

The man just wants his glasses back

[tranquil pivot]

The mods escaped D:

[exotic tinsel]

mods breach detected

[ionic crater]

New Quest: Lock Up the Mods...Again

[strange owl]

It's starting to hit diminishing returns. lol

[exotic tinsel]

we got a new mod now

[strange owl]

yay

[unique lance]

time to jump them in. let them smell the bread, chat

https://tenor.com/view/omori-bread-gif-26701797

[ionic crater]

where did the time go lmao

[timber vortex]

i assume when fast traveling the time still ticks down

[ionic crater]

1st and 2nd place

[still dew]

i wonder how they score points lol

[eternal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/where-everything-is-made-up-whose-line-is-it-anyway-dont-matter-speech-gif-16818708

essentially how it seems to be

[unique lance]

the points may not matter, but he has the most, so take that

[eternal yew]

Thor went in and took alll the points

[ionic crater]

ayyyy he has his glasses back

actually exhausted from all the laughing

[humble aspen]

That was a good time

[sweet steppe]

I'm actually deceased at this point

[eternal yew]

me too I really hope Thor gets back to it again some day

[grave otter]

that was fuckin wild

[exotic tinsel]

all these laughs legit got me through finishing up a report despite it being 2AM here rn

[still dew]

great time haha

[exotic tinsel]

thank a lot Thor

[swift spear]

That was amazing

[dry osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-clapping-clap-applause-amazing-gif-16078907558888063471

Good show

[sweet steppe]

I just gotta say, props to the team for sticking to the "shtick" and depants-ings, live on twitch, ON THE FRONT PAGE.

[eternal yew]

I know I hope they don't get in any trouble for it

[sweet steppe]

Oh I honestly doubt it

[ionic crater]

at worst a stern talking to, but doubt

[humble aspen]

It's so funny how most Americans can't actually say irish wristwatch 😁

[sweet steppe]

They did SO GOOD though!

[strange owl]

Yeah it was great! Will def tune in again.

[dry osprey]

Someone here can share this to shaye? https://clips.twitch.tv/AgitatedSilkyCroquettePipeHype-b3M0M0xSjbkd8PrG

[humble aspen]

What i loved is how Thor bring his own gigs for the guys and they had a blast too

[sweet steppe]

Are we talking about Mouse potentially pooping in the bed middle right?

[dry osprey]

Possible yes

[unique lance]

irish wishwash

[zealous frost]

Anyone have a vod link to the everything now show?

Doesn't seem like they are youtube savvy

[unique lance]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2143165319

https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingNowShow/videos

[sterile sinew]

DOOD Thor's dad worked on Rock n roll racing?! I loved that game!

https://tenor.com/view/rock-n-rockl-racing-gif-10968285

[fiery bloom]

The SOHO picture of the sun and the flares that exploded out and have been hitting us the last two days.

The wave form of each of the seven flares that are hitting us. We are the red dot.

[unreal river]

Stream is up btw to anyone wondering.

[fossil sapphire]

thanks mr stream announcer! :)

[unreal river]

XD seconds later the official one goes up.

[mortal yacht]

hey guys

[nimble fractal]

hi

i went to use my town house network ports today to expand my wifi.... turns out builders didn't wire them right... got to fix it my self now.... yay for fun project on payday (Thursday) LOL

[mortal yacht]

hola

seen the new numbers?

[nimble fractal]

?

[mortal yacht]

add 5 and 10 to get a bumfit

[nimble fractal]

whaaat?

[mortal yacht]

sheepfarmer math

[nimble fractal]

ah

[mortal yacht]

it made no sense till i said sheepfarmers

lol

[nimble fractal]

they speak there own language

[mortal yacht]

oh i know thats why its so funny.

[royal obsidian]

maybe chat will be filled with letheras from now on

[fossil sapphire]

ohhhhhhh, our regular Sartrean got cursed quest!

[unreal river]

Oh the Cat Person lol

XD

[storm lintel]

I wasn't expecting such an epic assignment, going to take this more seriously than I thought, haha

[unreal river]

Well if you don't then the chat will vote that you didn't do it good enough and you won't get the VIP.

[marble grail]

i forget but does resub messages add to the TTS queue or is it specifically bits?

[unreal river]

Bits.

!tts

[dapper raven]

You can have Text To Speech for any bit donation 500 or higher. TTS questions are answered and timestamped in Discord in the answered-tts channel. If the queue is too large and your message isn't read by the end of the stream it will become Debt on the Debt-Tracker channel in Discord. Thor pays his debts to charity when that value hits $7,777 or more.

[unreal river]

The resub msgs will pop up on screen but it won't voice it.

[frank geyser]

Only Bits on Twtich or Super Chats on Youtube will add to the queue and be read as TTS. Resub and watch streaks only get shown nothing more.

[storm lintel]

I know, but I thought maybe my two favorite animals with his face, but I mean, Danny DeVito and a reference to Master Blaster? This is serious business

[frank geyser]

IMHO it would be Danny DeVito as the Penguin riding Thor as Thor are longer then Danny, but then again Thor are the one who asked for this commission work. So this might be a fun thing to do and to vote for later on if you will get VIP or not

[ionic crater]

can't wait for cursed quest reviews

[dark jay]

So Ovaltine helps with hair..

[storm lintel]

How long do we have to complete cursed quests?

[ionic crater]

if you want Thor to go bald, buy all the Ovaltine in his area, even the amazon stock

[ionic crater]

infinity

[dark jay]

Unfortunately I'm not in US.. 🇮🇩 moment

I think I should be able to secure some ovaltine later

[zealous bridge]

Sorry what did he say Ovaltine is?

[storm lintel]

That's comforting, but I might have to ask for more time eventually

[ionic crater]

it helps hair and nail strength due to something in it

[zealous bridge]

Just get it done when you can and submit it ^-^

[dark jay]

Biotin was it?

[ionic crater]

yea

[zealous bridge]

No rush

[ionic crater]

apparently even if chat thinks its not cursed enough, you get to continue your quest to try again another day

[fossil sapphire]

Biotin, aka, vitamin B7

[dark jay]

Ooh.. so Biotin is B7.. I should check the milk I drink rn.. maybe it also has B7

Woah, someone recommended a car game to Thor

[vital ocean]

Let's make Sony a new profanity

[storm lintel]

*SNOY

[vital ocean]

But honestly, Sony's greedy ass is gonna be their demise.

[hard laurel]

Dunno, greed can align with consumer interests. Their stupidity and anti-consumer practices are hopefully going to be their demise

like I'd have been fine with them just throwing in a cosmetic in for linking with PSN

[vital ocean]

Well, healthy greed 😄

But this is far more than healthy greed 😄

Too much greed isn't good 😄

[hard laurel]

yeah indeed, though I also don't see how this is logical

like psn numbers didn't increase, future customers decreased

like sure they managed some damage control

[vital ocean]

Sony shot themselves into the foot and are blaming community for it

[hard laurel]

yeah I made a meme about that

[vital ocean]

😄

[hard laurel]

Like I can understand greed for increasing PSN, I could understand them wanting to try and get a PSN subscription eventualy for PC. I can also understand them wanting to increase sales

I just can't really understand this situation.

Their stock price dropped

so the tweet didn't really do that much

[final dagger]

Someone is telling the upper management that this is worth the Speculative value of adopting all PC players.

[vital ocean]

Sony wanting to increase PSN accounts numbers, while completely ignoring the fact that PSN isn't available in over 100 countries around the world 😄

That has to be the funniest shit ever! 😄

[west plinth]

gotta love when random megacorps burn 10% of their stocks over some almost irrelevant user numbers

[hard laurel]

I mean I dont mind if they increase the PSN numbers in the PSN eligible countries

but like just offer some crappy cosmetics

gamres are bribable

[west plinth]

all we want is the illusion of respect

[vital ocean]

Me personally, I don't care for cosmetics 😄

[hard laurel]

I know, it wouldn't work on every PC player

[vital ocean]

It's just not my style 😄

[hard laurel]

but you'd probably get a sizeable chunk of people

at least more so than with THIS tactic

[vital ocean]

That's true.

A little bribe 😄

[west plinth]

yeh. all they had to do was "free cape for PSN llinking" and boom, PSN acounts

[hard laurel]

Indeed

[vital ocean]

😄

[hard laurel]

I mean it's like Sony just kind of forgot the basics of selling something

make your future customer want it

lmao

[vital ocean]

Just like Minecraft when they announced mandatory MS account migration 😄

Mojang account to MS 😄

Player who did it received a free cape for it 😄

[hard laurel]

lmao

[vital ocean]

And I love it!

I always wanted a cape in MC 😄

[west plinth]

and then we'd have a 50% inccrease of friendly fires againsts people with PSN capes because shooting people with event capes is traddition at this point

[vital ocean]

Now I've got even 3! 😄

[hard laurel]

I wish they would call it The Cape of Obedience

[vital ocean]

[west plinth]

that would be funny

[frank geyser]

Mojang had there own accounts from the start, then MS bought Mojang, and like 1-2 years later they wanted to promote the the Bedrock edit of Minecraft, and for the Bedrock you had to have an MS account or an MS linked account.

[vital ocean]

When gamers have better ideas than corporations for bribery 😄

[fossil sapphire]

chatters are some people for real, "how does epic make money???" like... do you actually know who they are :D

[west plinth]

microsoft litterally did this "the right way" as far as community management goes. announce upcoming change, offer trivial rewards, sunset old service.

[topaz geyser]

F that he didnt look more into the epic games "hates" Linux bit

[frank geyser]

Well then link them things for Thor so he don't have to look for them. Best way to do that are in an TTS message

[topaz geyser]

sent an @ message about what u have to do to make it work but yk chat flies lol so

dont got $ for tts

[fossil sapphire]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sony-shares-fall-offer-paramount-024713618.html

[frank geyser]

well then better to just go to Steam then to be on the consumer side and have to fix things on a broken platform if you wanna game on Linux.

Chat moves to fast to just get his eyes on an @ message that he already gets like once every 5 seconds, so almost all the time his chat are lit red form that. TTS (in early parts of the stream) will get read, and towards the later part of the stream will just get added to #debt-tracker instead

500 bits is a bit steap yes, but otherwise he would have even more messages in the queue. Then you also have the Super Chat messages on YT that might be a bit less expensive then 500 bits in Twitch

[fossil sapphire]

sony stock not dropping cos of one or two games.

[buoyant arrow]

The stock market runs on fear

[frank geyser]

Still Sony stock are dropping

[fossil sapphire]

but correlating their games being restricted to their stock falling is not the cause.

[buoyant arrow]

Sony being publicly lambasted like this makes some people sell thier stocsk, which causes a drop

[frank geyser]

and how SONY are painted out for the public, and now SONY are painted as the big bad wolf

[buoyant arrow]

Then again, to be fair, the Publisher is Playstation, not Sony.

[frank geyser]

SONY don't want your money if you belong to the 180 listed parts of the world on the blocked list, so why would they still keep SONY as a good company. SONY just made like 5/6 of the world hate SONY = your stock will fall in walue

[frank geyser]

And who owns Playstatoin?

[buoyant arrow]

Obviously Sony, but Sony is way bigger than just Playstation, is my point

[fossil sapphire]

playstation is sony, bad argument.

Sony is planning to buy Paramount for 26 BILLION DOLLARS. their whole last year profit was 6 billion. surely that is some cause for financial concern from shareholders.

"deal size is larger than Sony’s cash holdings"

[frank geyser]

Even SONY music are dropping in stock value, as they are below SONY, PlayStayion are also falling in value...

SONY are the main company, if any leg or arm of that company fall and get hurt, the entire body of that company will tumble

[fossil sapphire]

i'm not trying to tell their decisions with games are justified, it's ass, but just staring at the stock price, with these gaming news in hand, is not honest reaction. it's missing context.

[frosty cipher]

So I might need to buy a new A/V receiver... Only Sony Product that I KNOW I own

[fossil sapphire]

Marantz?

[dark jay]

And the only headset I use is also made by sony..

[frank geyser]

My mother have an VCR, DVD, Blueray and a TV from SONY, but non of them are less then 5 years old, and can't force her to buy them new from a different manufacturer

[fossil sapphire]

is there now a problem using sony hardware?? like, what's this take?

[ionic crater]

if you already own it, you don't have to suddenly change it

[frank geyser]

Well SONY don't want your money, so lets help them

[dark jay]

I have no clue about other sound manufacturers besides the known ones like Sony, Bose, and JBL.. not sure if there's any other good manufacturers that doesn't cost an arm and a leg

[fossil sapphire]

if sony's hardware is gonna be good, i'm gonna buy it.

[ionic crater]

you already gave them the money

[frosty cipher]

My Father still has his Denon receiver from when I was a kid, that might work in the short term. Would LOVE a Marantz but just cant justify the price ATM. Might Browse the local pawn shops and FB marketpalce

[fossil sapphire]

used older marantz would still rock.

[dark jay]

True.. hope it won't break soon

I don't have a backup if this thing breaks

[ionic crater]

well, hopefully it lasts

[frank geyser]

Nothing I own are from SONY. I said my mother owns a few of there products. And I said I can't force her to change them our just from this.

[dark jay]

Yeah.. 4 years and it's still rocking thankfully..

[fallow fable]

are earbuds region-restricted?

[fossil sapphire]

you generally dont need to use PSN to use your hardware no

[fallow fable]

nintendo hates customers, snoy hates regions, xbox hates studios.. and on pc you have to use windows :(

[dark jay]

So far, a sony account is also optional last time I checked

And the headphones also don't really need a sony account to work

[dark jay]

Let's hope they won't enforce it on a random monday

[violet vale]

did Thor see this?

[ionic crater]

yea Dex, was trying to get Thor to see it, he hasn't yet

[frosty cipher]

Oh 100%, but with the age of mine (Sony STR-DE197) i would like to add some functionality to my setup

[earnest mirage]

Don't give them any ideas. Imagine been forced to create a psn account to get access to firmware updates.

[violet vale]

hmmm

does he respond to highlighted messages more often than regular ones?

[ionic crater]

depends

[violet vale]

oh wait those don't really exist

hmmm

[ionic crater]

the @ will highlight the message for him

[violet vale]

ah okay

well I did @ him and he didn't see it ig

[ionic crater]

its how we talk to him during Cursed Quest redeems

sometimes chat just moves too fast

[frank geyser]

Best way is to use TTS or Super Chat on YT and link the thing you want him to look at, in Cures Quests he know who he shall be looking for in the messages. He says he read all the messages from both YT and Twitch, but I find that hard to believe from time to time unless he really tries to

[violet vale]

Thor doesn't notice me 😔

[fallow fable]

just keep chatting. theres like 10k people for one thor

[ionic crater]

the more people trying to say the same thing the easier it is for him to notice

[violet vale]

we could try to make a long message and then all say it at the same time so he can't miss it?

[strange owl]

And ignore in case of backseating. Lol

[ionic crater]

yea backseating is another story alltogether lmao

[violet vale]

cause it really is some pretty important information

sony isn't doubling down

[ionic crater]

yea its Valve fixing their own mistake

[fossil sapphire]

there's almost 10k people watching, thousands of opinionated chatters.

[violet vale]

they didn't have anything to do with the extra 3 countries being restricted according the Pilestadt

[fossil sapphire]

info will usually reach thor one way or another

[strange owl]

Got a bit annoying when chat suggested digging top right during animal well cause he told us to keep a look out for spots and he purposely ignored it cause he said chat had been looking up solutions.

[autumn garden]

Can someone confirm they have the same 'requires 3rd party account on the Helldivers steam page itself? I was updating my review to say why I leave it negative.

[strange owl]

Like no, you just told us.

[dark jay]

Backseaters are going to backseat.. tis the life of a streamer

[strange owl]

Yeah I know

[ionic crater]

i think that was because somebody was saying that without him being at that room

dunno tho

[dark jay]

I stopped watching the stream when Thor booted up the game.. I like the game and I know a streamer that enjoys puzzle games.. I want to see his playthrough

[ionic crater]

still there

[dark jay]

But it seems fun

[autumn garden]

Ok so it isn't new?

[ionic crater]

not new

[strange owl]

Yeah that I get. Someone suggesting to go to the other end of the game is different. But obvious suggestions for when you are in the room is literally just chat interaction.

But yeah, streamer is the streamer ofc.

[dark jay]

How does thor have a black canvas whenever he opens up MSpaint?

[ionic crater]

its his secondary color

[dark jay]

Does he pre-paint bucket before stream?

[west plinth]

it isn't new, it was always there, but it wasn't actually enforced in any way for the first 4 months that the game was playable, by people who litterally shouldn't have been able to buy the game if it was propperly enforced from day 1

[ionic crater]

and filled

if you erase on paint, it uses your secondary color iirc

[west plinth]

the reason the snoy thing has been as outraged as it was is that what sony tried to do was basically rugpull 2/3rds of the known world

[dark jay]

I think I found it.. Maybe thor uses the base layer as black

The one at the very bottom

[ionic crater]

https://i.imgur.com/Uv6fjG1.gif

thats how he does it

just secondary color = black

[fossil sapphire]

yep

[strange owl]

It's just dark mode, lol

[ionic crater]

he's explained a few times how he does it

[dark jay]

I tried following the gif.. deleting it with black as the secondary color and it just goes back to white.. damn

[ionic crater]

you are in standard Paint, right?

[dark jay]

Yeah windows 11 mspaint

Maybe I'm doing smth wrong

[ionic crater]

maybe thats the reason

Thor doesn't like 11

[fossil sapphire]

doesnt win11 have old mspaint?

[dark jay]

Understandable

[ionic crater]

i don't really have reason to use paint, i use GIMP. so idk why my brain has decided to keep this Paint knoweldge in its memory banks

i even have a little garbo art tablet so i can draw

[dark jay]

Oh same lol, I have a small xp pen tablet.. I bought one used of a friend as she has a better one and instead of drawing I used it to write math equations during university and playing osu

[ionic crater]

lol

i've started to use it for a few things

one being drawing out my ideas/concepts for game design

which has left me with learning how to godot...

[fossil sapphire]

i learned couple of my fave indies were done on godot. i'm also trying to learn godot but ughh, having no prior knowledge of programming, i am struggling.

but games like Halls of Torment, Cassette Beasts, Dome Keeper, Brotato were made on godot :o

Cruelty Squad too :O

[storm lintel]

I tried to use Godot but it crashes every time I try to open it. I picked up that Humble Bundle a bit ago, so I wanna keep trying

[dark jay]

Hmm.. Strayed lights.. I feel like I've heard that game before.. did Iron Pinapple play it before?

[fossil sapphire]

what? just.. straight up crashes?

but it's just a single exe itself :o

[storm lintel]

Yeah, I've done a little research about it, there's a non-small amount of people it seems to happen to, very few people seem to follow through to fixing it,and the reports of fixing it all vary and didn't work for me

[dark jay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N0FdGM8c_I
Oh yeah he did play it

I felt like I've heard the game before

[storm lintel]

Chances are, my laptop is underpowered and is getting bungled up by something. I'm the one playing Destiny at 5 fps, remember?

[fossil sapphire]

sure.. but, weird anyway :s

[fossil sapphire]

seems like the game is mostly just.. ok.

[dark jay]

Yep. Pineapple gives valid criticism for the game so I trust that what he'll experience will relfect what most people will also experience too

[zealous bridge]

Ffxiv subs in Argentina is very expensive

[fossil sapphire]

big agree.

[dark jay]

Iirc, it was very spectacle fighter.. and same common enemies

[ionic crater]

yea watching the Iron Pineapple video on it, it seemed slow and very not actually souls-like?

very empty looking

[dark jay]

Nope

[ionic crater]

what do you mean "Nope"?

[dark jay]

It doesn't really feel like a souls-like, my bad.. should've been more specific

[ionic crater]

ah okay lol

[dark jay]

Ah Sekiro.. I played the bunny girl version

I can understand why people like Sekiro, once you got the flow it feels like a dance

[storm lintel]

I haven't watched that Pineapple vid, but just from these trailers, it does look a little empty. Like, boss rush, minus the rush

[dark jay]

Yeah, it's like that.. try skimming Pineapple's vid to quickly tell if it's your cup of tea or not

[ionic crater]

i can see one fight that is clearly inspired by Sekiro, but thats really not much of anything

we'll see more if Thor plays it on stream

[storm lintel]

It's been cool seeing him play more variety in games lately

[ionic crater]

It was also in a humble bundle, but at the tier 2. $15 for that tier

@embersgames
10 months ago
Hi, we are the devs of Strayed Lights, thank you so much for showcasing our game! The game original difficulty was meant to make it an "accessible souls-like", to allow everyone to experience the flow of combat in a forgiving way. 
For more skillful players we are now releasing a free content update with new difficulty modes, and there's also a challenge boss rush mode for the post-game!

explains why it looked a little slow

[midnight nimbus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cpdbdp/to_all_people_saying_it_was_steams_decision_to/ First comment. TLDR: Sony decided which regions to restrict, valve corrected the 3 missing countries from the initial restriction based on the Ghost Of Tsushima restriction list. (From the original poster of the image)

[magic wyvern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFoOKSd3s7w

my brain is fried by UK heat atm (We are not used to heat), and accidently said the video is calling out thor, and not shouting out thor on stream XD

[storm lintel]

If he builds a bot for fighting Skynut, he has to call it Tron

[unreal coral]

There is a skynut version on tiktok, I think it might technically be the official V2. I have been seeing it on tiktok for months and it is just a bot tagging another account that just says "@{insert username}. Pretty?"

But I also guess that we could consider it as a V4 and I would be happy

[west plinth]

grab a towel, make it wet, and put it over your neck/thighs for sweet release of cold.

[unreal coral]

There's an air conditioning joke in here somewhere. But I don't have AC either

[west plinth]

refresh every 2 hours

[unreal coral]

I second this, but you have to be careful because if you cool your body down too fast it can actually cause serious damage

Legally, not medical advice

[west plinth]

welll you could install lan AC for a couple hundret bucks and then spend lots of money powering it for weeks to cool an entire building or you ccoulld grab a towel (already owned) pour some water on it (litterally rounding errors in your water bill) and then just use basicc physics (evaporation cooling) to cooll specifically the thingg that needs cooling (you)

[west plinth]

don't use ice colld water. lukewarm tap water is just fine

[unreal coral]

Yeah, the same thing applies with if you're overheating not to drink ice cold drinks because it's just as bad because it is a major temp shock. You should drink room temperature water or electrolytes.

[west plinth]

also if you want to expand your wet towel tech, go to a sports accessories shop or amazon and look for "ice towel". basically engineered towels for this specific application.

[zinc furnace]

did gnare do that?

[west plinth]

?

[zinc furnace]

did gnare give the mods 1k

[west plinth]

aparently

[versed harness]

Gnare the secret millionaire goblin

[royal obsidian]

see, I have stepped up my AC game to the next level. My PC heats my room up so much that my AC only counters that heat, so in the summer it’s still hot in my room but not like a literal oven

[idle ether]

o/

[shell thistle]

Uhh it says the stream is in emote only for me

^ Like many things in life, restarting fixed it

[late bane]

Did thor finish that cyber manhunt game?

dont want to watch it when its only a few bits with no ending

[sterile sinew]

he only did the first chapter so people can play the rest

[strange owl]

Did he open the portal next to the fish?

the extra one

[bitter quartz]

actually looks like a cute pixel art zachtronics rather than factorio

[tardy crescent]

I live in an area where it gets 110 with humidity so what I do most of the time is I have box fans that just create a wind tunnel and bring cold air into the room and blow the hot air out of the room if the central AC goes out for my electronics.. when I was a kid though the fan on my PS2 went out so what I did was I jerry-rigged a few things together and got a box fan to act as the PS2 fan.. it lasted all summer then by the end of the summer we were able to get the fan fixed on the PS2

[loud gull]

No way thor would read this but didn't want to to go to waste in the eather

[cobalt umbra]

while sony didn't " double down", still they are a bunch of jerks

[unique lance]

This was discussed on stream, but the long and short of it is: We aren't valve, we don't know if true or not. They could be getting fed BS, they could be telling the truth. We don't know.

It did happen at exactly the same time so it is possible they noticed it before doing it and pushed them at the same time.

[arctic oxide]

never done a bits donation before today, if i click the 100 5 times that counts as a tts right?

[untold spade]

yes

[arctic oxide]

:D

thank

[cobalt umbra]

you can also do cheer500

[open bridge]

Im almost positive i mustve doen something wrong, did a 500 bit cheer like 2 hours ago, and came back a bit ago and have no idea if it played, but its not in the answered TTS channel so

[unique lance]

the wait time is usually long tiem

if it's not read it's for charity so

[open bridge]

Yeah, some of the other answered, im pretty sure were after mine, fair enough

[ivory creek]

Some go 5+ hours before showing up

[west plinth]

spoilerificc

[unique lance]

oh, if you're not a sub, if you send a link mods eat it. might be why

[fiery bloom]

Look more flares for next week.

[lime patio]

the bunny was a lie

[autumn solstice]

the debt has become positive

[dry osprey]

Thor needs to get into a speedrun

[inner hare]

Youtube VOD seems to have broken the 11:55 limit!

[dry osprey]

Stream was to long

[unique lance]

no

he's saying the vod went over what it usually allows

[minor turtle]

It shows like that for a bit but if you check again later this evening it will have cut the vod at 11:55 like normal

[fossil sapphire]

https://i.imgur.com/DuwTj7S.png

[inner hare]

Yeaaap, updated now.

[fossil sapphire]

😔

[inner hare]

I thought they might've raised the limit. Oh well

[sterile sinew]

I've been watching the animal well game... and uh... I don't think steam knows what kind of game it is.

[ivory creek]

You like cheap games, right?
Here's one just for you!

[wind inlet]

The YouTube VOD limit is so dumb

They should disable it for channels over a certain amount of subs

[sterile sinew]

can anyone suggest a game like animal well, but for a smooth brain?

[unique lance]

I hear there's a game called uno

nothin but luck

oh

a game like animal well

no

maybe the old metroid games

those bones have been picked so thoroughly that I doubt there's a secret left people don't know about

[stone nacelle]

Ori?

[west plinth]

rain world might hit the spot? not much in the way of puzzles last I remember of it, very intricate monster behavior stuff, huge map, good physicsy movement

[sterile sinew]

I'll take a gander. thanks

[west plinth]

also does the whole "what even is this world I've been dropped into" kinda lore aproach

[fossil sapphire]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/350070/Environmental_Station_Alpha/

Steam

Environmental Station Alpha

Environmental Station Alpha is an action adventure platformer with a retro aesthetic and heavy emphasis on exploration. In the game the player controls a robot sent to investigate a mysterious, abandoned space station with the mission to find out what exactly took place there. Overrun by wildlife the station is immensely dangerous to explore, an...

Price

$7.99

Recommendations

1126

▶ Play video

pixel metroidvania too. made by Noita dev Hempuli.

[serene spruce]

That's still got a lot of esoteric puzzles.

[fossil sapphire]

not that esoteric

[unique lance]

you want esoteric you gotta play some sierra games

[west plinth]

the entire point was to not go for esoteric

[sterile sinew]

I wanna challenge myself but I got smooth brain for puzzles.

ooh I've heard of rain world

[bitter quartz]

Well, they doubled down enough to want the restrictions also on Tsushima

[violet pewter]

Thanks everyone that tuned into Thor running an absolute rampage on our improv show yesterday. You can check out the full VOD on our YT https://youtu.be/3X4XqAc0HRo?si=wy6ULdTJwdyW5xFD

[unique lance]

gotta rewatch the pantsening

[unique lance]

pants are worth a lot of points

[unique lance]

i'm already there

[tardy crescent]

On a side note someone gave me a very unique gift tonight... A bunch of JFK DVD documentaries... I don't know how to feel about this

[stone nacelle]

i hear the grassy gnoll is anice place for a picnic

also i think thats the only reason gnoll is known and used

[serene spruce]

Actually, it's 'knoll'

But pronounced the same.

[stone nacelle]

mabe it was a gnoll

[serene spruce]

A gnoll is a D&D monster.

[unique lance]

that's the secret

it was a gnoll

they won't tell you that

[cobalt umbra]

oh 100%, just got to have all facts. that was only reason i said it.

[tardy crescent]

Growing up in that area yes. I did see many people use it for picnics dates and even a few wedding ceremonies over the years... Unless it was around November then just people avoided it for no reason that I know of.

[plucky cradle]

Acursed

[polar bridge]

Hey guys any chance the TTS can be bugged out and missed a TTS? I sent one 2 days ago and haven't found anything in the answered tts channel

[fossil sapphire]

!tts

[dapper raven]

You can have Text To Speech for any bit donation 500 or higher. TTS questions are answered and timestamped in Discord in the answered-tts channel. If the queue is too large and your message isn't read by the end of the stream it will become Debt on the Debt-Tracker channel in Discord. Thor pays his debts to charity when that value hits $7,777 or more.

[fossil sapphire]

If the queue is too large and your message isn't read by the end of the stream it will become Debt

[polar bridge]

I know about that

so that's why I said 2 days ago

I watched the stream yesterday there is 55 on queue. Mine should be in there

I watched today's stream, 51 on queue, still no answered tts

so that's why I'm asking if it's bugged

[ivory creek]

The queue doesn't carry over

[polar bridge]

oh the queue doesn't carry over? Ahh I see

[ivory creek]

That would be too much for Thor to handle

[dark jay]

Why did the debt tracker go into the positives?

[fossil sapphire]

because the debt increases?

it was negative cos Thor overdrew while donating to charities

[dark jay]

Ooh

[ivory creek]

Chat is supposed to donate, not Thor's personal cash. The point is money he doesn't deserve goes to charity.

Not the cash he did

[polar bridge]

I just realized so everytime I came to the stream like 1 hour after there are 55 on queue. Chat is insane

[dark jay]

Yeah gotta come in early to get your TTS in.. also nice Henya profile pic

[ivory creek]

It's how you can make sure he gets it

[polar bridge]

A fellow hen-tai? Pog

[final dagger]

There were 26 before Thor showed on screen today.

[dark jay]

I've only watched her clips back on her previous life, glad she's continuing to have fun wkwkwk

[storm lintel]

Most days he gets around 90~110 on the que, but probably not today since it's a short stream

[dark jay]

I missed that news, how long will he stream today?

[storm lintel]

10a Pacific

[ivory creek]

The TTS system is really a infinite charity glitch that helps people with personal stuff

[dark jay]

Oh so 10 hours as opposed to 12, np.. still a long stream

[languid ether]

Got banned from twitch chat for politics even though I said nothing political lol feelsbadman

[fossil sapphire]

then put in a unban request and be smarter about posting while context is hot

[dark jay]

well that escalated quickly

[lament sun]

@languid ether

[languid ether]

I put in an unban request, but apparently the message I was banned for was misperceived as rude and trying to start a conversation. I wasn't trying to be rude or even trying to start a conversation, I was simply saying that there might be a different way of looking at things. It's kind of frustrating because I have difficulty communicating with people without being very precise and specific. The twitch chat ban doesn't state a reason, apparently you're required to state in the unban request the reason you're banned and if you get it wrong you're denied. I didn't realize my comment was perceived as rude, I thought it was perceived as political, and my unban request was explaining a different aspect of my banned message instead of its perceived rudeness. You only get one chance, so I can't even put in a new request explaining that I wasn't trying to be rude and apologize for it. Extra frustrating because I just bought a 3 month sub a couple weeks ago.

[lament sun]

you dnt have to justify to us my friend

or you will end up banned here too

send an unban request

and that's it

sub or no sub doesnt matter to him

you dont get special treatment if you throw money

i saw people getting banned for saying exactly that btw

[languid ether]

Not trying to justify it, just trying to find if theres a way to have an actual conversation with a moderator instead of playing a guessing game through twitch

[zealous spire]

mod ticket is my best guess

[lament sun]

you will have a conversation with a moderator, once your unban request does get sent

yea ticket works too

[unreal river]

Ticket might be the best as you can explain more and actually talk to a mod.

[lament sun]

so you got denied ?

amen

[languid ether]

I'll try that thanks

[zealous spire]

Mod ticket, and just tell the truth. Good luck sir

[polar bridge]

I had to be careful even when the topic is Vietnam-related and I lived in Vietnam. The problem with steam was a politic and policies things.

Politics tend to be very easy to trigger

[unreal river]

Always has been and always will be.

[polar bridge]

That's why it's called call of the void

[unreal river]

Eh? Call of the Void is something else entirely.

[zealous spire]

Explain?

[unreal river]

Call of the Void is that weird sense of just jumping off something tall.

[languid ether]

Yeah, issue is politics is in a lot of things. I think to be on the safe side from now on i just wont talk about it if it can even be perceived as even tangentially related to politics lol

[unreal river]

Like when you peak off a bridge and you get a weird thought that you could in fact just jump.

[zealous spire]

So unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't politics potentially be a trigger for the call of the void? 🤔

[unreal river]

Uhhh I don't know how you are connecting those two things lol

[polar bridge]

It's a piratesoftware channel thing, he called it called of the void

calls of the void

as people are easy to trigger by a politic thing

[unreal river]

Uhh... Sure? If that's what he wants to call it.

But just saying that term isn't new and does have a preexisting definition.

[zealous spire]

because answering said call gets you banned if you say dumb stuff

[languid ether]

Anyway, where do I buy the demo?

[polar bridge]

Idk... it's not on sale so I don't think I'll get it anytime soon

[unreal river]

Sure? It's fine if Thor wants to make that connection then by all means it's his thing lol

[zealous spire]

I know lol. I'm familiar with the term 🙂

[unreal river]

Gotta buy the demo bundle that's $0 for 100 demos!

[zealous spire]

100% off? That's a steal!

[unreal river]

Luckily I got a coupon for 25% off so I got it for extra free.

[zealous spire]

D:

Share??

[unreal river]

Only if you call in the next -10min and it's your for 10 ez payments of $0.00!

https://tenor.com/view/free-gif-25457148

[zealous spire]

But I can't call in -10 mins

What do you take me for? A time traveller?!

[unreal river]

Yes.

[zealous spire]

Well, I'm not

[languid ether]

It wont let me buy it, it keeps telling me its free

[lament sun]

!linktree

[languid ether]

Oooh! I've been dying for a game like this, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for posting!

[polar bridge]

What is this description lol

It’s… strange

[fossil sapphire]

well https://store.steampowered.com/app/2535830/Squirrel_Stapler/

Steam

Squirrel Stapler

Originally created as part of The Dread X Collection II, Squirrel Stapler is a short (less than an hour long) horror hunting simulator that satirizes low budget edutainment games with pitch black humor and panic-inducing absurdist horror.A lonely man living in a remote cabin wakes up one day and realizes his beloved--a dismembered corpse nailed ...

Price

$7.99

Recommendations

1004

▶ Play video

"Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god."

dank game tho

saw someone play it on stream. they hunt for dankest horror games :D

[languid ether]

Wonder what the other role assignments are aside from Bridge and Brig lol

[dark jay]

It's a pretty good game, interesting story too but it's a bit linear

[languid ether]

This has been kind of a struggle for me so far as a burgeoning game developer: how to make games that don't feel too linear

[dark jay]

I've always enjoyed linear games, as I play them to see the story.. that's why I like JRPGs.. but I think to make things less linear is to provide the player freedom to do things their way

[strange owl]

Pet the cat?! Sold!

[dark jay]

I can't give solid feedback but I've experienced both sides by playing JRPGs while also playing DnD

[languid ether]

Indeed. I primarily want to make metroidvanias, so nonlinearity is extra important for me lol

[dark jay]

Woah neat wkwkw GL on the dev

[languid ether]

thank you!

[foggy plover]

Dunno why he can't believe. It's not even about "being political". It's a communist country. The communist leaders of their countries get to decide everything about what's allowed and what's not allowed. This is the least surprising thing to me.

[polar bridge]

Same as me. But I still like the storytelling style that have multiple endings but a hint that which one is the true ending

[worldly tiger]

is this channel for people who are watching Thor's current streams

[foggy plover]

I believe that is the intent, yes

[worldly tiger]

ok I've just been trying to figure out for the last 20 minutes where to post this but I finally finished it

[dark jay]

I like those types but too but having to play the game again multiple times leaves a bit of a bad taste.. AI: The Somnium files did good tho ngl

[languid ether]

Yeah sometimes its nice to not have to be a decider in the story, just along for the ride

[dark jay]

Having a chapter select screen for quick navigation

[dark jay]

Yep.. most JRPGs I play are like that.. you're just there for the ride.. it helps a ton with the story as the director doesn't really need to take your shenanigans into account..

But I like that they still give additional benefits along the story if you do certain things

[languid ether]

Lol uptick in factorio talk when germans awake that made me laugh

[languid ether]

thats impressive lol

[worldly tiger]

Precision German engineering

[foggy plover]

Germans are always awake before Thor gets out of bed. I wonder if the timing happens when they get off work?

[gaunt tangle]

bits 2 expensive

[worldly tiger]

Rest in pieces that's wild

[foggy plover]

Double the price, DAMN

[languid ether]

wtf is marmite lol

[foggy plover]

Yeast extract. Also, pretty much the same as Vegemite. But also not as good apparently? LOL

[languid ether]

Also yeah i should have added, wtf is vegemite lmao

[fossil sapphire]

just google it my dude

it's an acquired taste.

one of those food items which you love or hate.

[foggy plover]

They're yeast extract pastes. I hear they're umami, salty, and maybe bitter too? Definitely an acquired taste.

[buoyant arrow]

Vegemite is a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives.

[heavy finch]

Hey guys, new here. I want to ask Thor a silly question and donate a bit of cash, how would I do that?

[buoyant arrow]

Go to either chat (Youtube or Twitch) and enter !TTS

[fossil sapphire]

!tts

[dapper raven]

You can have Text To Speech for any bit donation 500 or higher. TTS questions are answered and timestamped in Discord in the answered-tts channel. If the queue is too large and your message isn't read by the end of the stream it will become Debt on the Debt-Tracker channel in Discord. Thor pays his debts to charity when that value hits $7,777 or more.

[buoyant arrow]

ie, you dono question is not guaranted to be answered in "timely" manner

[heavy finch]

Awesome, thanks!

[small meteor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD4Ks_EMQBY

[fossil sapphire]

yep, there's 61 messages in queue right now.

[small meteor]

Admit it @minor nymph this is playing in your head right now.

[languid ether]

fun fact, my dad once got sued by Coast to Coast because he used their name in some program he wrote lol

[buoyant arrow]

Got sued or sent a c&d?

[languid ether]

He always said sued but I imagine it was just a C&D so idk

[final dagger]

I mean, that sounds way cooler.

[buoyant arrow]

Could be either, depends on how legally aggressive Coast to Coast wants to be.

[languid ether]

I'll have to ask him, been a while since ive heard the story

[small meteor]

Also, the theme from Dreamland (which was that show Art would do like 1-2 times a month) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SinL1sRrV1Q

[heavy finch]

I hope that worked, I saw it pop up saying I threw a 1000 bits, so all I need to do now, is wait, and hope.

[foggy plover]

Thor's dad joke mana pool is the strongest I've ever seen LOL

[zealous frost]

man's got an amazing memory and has had almost a decade of public twitch chat as a full time job lmao

[sick forum]

the bracelet thing totally remind me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0&ab_channel=TheThoughtEmporium

[muted hare]

IT IS BOW @minor nymph not he man

[final dagger]

It looks like he is demanding to see the manager.

[cinder sparrow]

Seems like pokka took the face off the can too https://www.pokka.co/our-products/product-detail/pokka-milk-coffee-no-sugar?cat=coffee

[lament sun]

can i have an Amen for Hammyhime's recently lost Husband ?

[celest relic]

https://tenor.com/view/pizza-disaster-fire-gif-12899078

(the current state of big games)

[wispy swallow]

"if you want to be published by sony: don't" 😂

[prime scaffold]

I 3D modeled the Factus like i said i would in chat you cant stop me

[ionic crater]

No way did Squeenix manage to get things right

[lament sun]

good

now make it bounce

and arms

and make a cacti* rave

[dark jay]

Make it Throb

[prime scaffold]

I dont actually remember if it has animations in the game i plan to make a meme out of it it will go
Factus: I will always be 2D thats a FaHHHHUUGGG
Becomes 3D

[unique lance]

they need it to reach as many people as possible for their BRAND NEW NEVER BEFORE SEEN COIN PLEASE BUY IT

[ionic crater]

lmao

they are 100% gonna do it

turn around a week later with "BUY OUR NFT"

[unique lance]

they should have backed down when that crashed but they doubled down at the time, it was weird

[dark jay]

They wanted the gamble

[unique lance]

or the third, or the forth, or the fifth or the help stop bringing crypto back it's not free money you idiots

[dark jay]

Are studios still trying to do that?

[unique lance]

They were for a long time, and then nfts died, they gave one last "we still wanna 😠", never heard about it again

like just let all crypto die. please. for the love of all that is holy.

[dark jay]

It's going to die.. eventually

[unique lance]

we keep thinking that

[viscid terrace]

https://youtu.be/0z-oJTZ1b5Q?si=-xjRqeF5gfwYjd3-

Tyson did something like this 😆

[unique harbor]

Saga Emerald Beyond released last month on Switch.

Exclusive Dragon Quest Monsters was also last december.

KH have manga for a long time, but it's not canon to games.

[dark jay]

Huh?

Space Invaders?

[tardy crescent]

Even though I am younger I choose columbo because I know it better

[small meteor]

@dark jay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6We8wA1Fy0

[tardy crescent]

What game is he talking about?