transistor

[zenith beacon]

They would totally rewrite that first line to be like “Red, I have a really bad feeling about this”

[keen karma]

the transistor when you discover asher and grant: „so uh, that just happened“

that‘s giving me an idea, i‘ll try something when i get home

[zenith beacon]

Yeah try playing some doom lmao

[keen karma]

Never

[flint vigil]

Red speaks once just to deliver that line. 😔

[keen karma]

LOL

[zenith beacon]

Oh my god I didn’t even realize this is dumb on two levels

[keen karma]

there we go https://files.catbox.moe/j3h1jt.mp4

@zenith beacon ^ transistor if it was good

[zenith beacon]

LMAO

i was thinking of that linking park song

but this is good too

good jorb

now go play doom

[keen karma]

yeah i felt a bit bad bc of chester bennington being used in such a context that's why i switched

[inland mirage]

oh my god

[loud lichen]

hello! fairly new to the channel here! i first played a bit of transistor back in 2019, but didn’t get much past the sybil fight, for no other reason beside i just didn’t have much time for gaming at the time. after i got into hades, i always wanted to go back and finish transistor, and finally this year i was able to play the game in full. i’ve now played it through 3 times in 3 months and it has become my all time favorite game. i’m so happy to see there is still a dedicated community around this amazing masterpiece!!

also, couldn’t figure out how to send it in this channel (probably a permissions thing) but i shared a photo of a project i worked on recently in #fan-works of a transistor patch that i made for my winter coat, if anyone is interested!

[lilac sandal]

Yup, absolutely favourite of mine as well and I literally only have 16 hours of playtime I'm pretty sure. Game is CLEAN in every single aspect, don't need to milk it any more.

[formal reef]

Hi all, I've written a guide for this game a long time ago, but it crossed my mind again and I wanted to share it with you all, is that ok?

[woven grove]

go ahead

[formal reef]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17qd0CR_z4xRRj6WOb423G4q14QNqtqOWbgUmeM1Rt2Q/edit?usp=drivesdk

[quick zodiac]

Yep, the ost still slaps

It's soo good, does anyone know more music that sounds similar?

[cedar grove]

https://open.spotify.com/album/3539EbNgIdEDGBKkUf4wno
I listened to this with my mom and she asked me if this is the transistor soundtrack, so I hope it counts :P

[agile root]

Aww

[agile root]

Darn it. I can't find the story, but this reminds me of a Redditor who briefly left his copy of Super Mario Galaxy running at the Observatory and came back to find his grandma just really enjoying the background music. Grandma asked if it was some classical composer's work--I can't recall who

[quiet cape]

portishead is a great pick ^^^ check mezzanine by massive attack, music has the right to children by boc, homogenic by bjork, and the selftitled by black chamber for soemthing more similar to the triphop songs. anything by duster, come in by weatherday, and tsumanne by shinsei kamattechan have very similar guitars imo. i think pt.23456789andstill by asian glow has the most similar in terms of drums and guitars but that might be a hot take....

hope dat helps

[cedar plank]

Love transistor soundtrack
In Circles is an underrated banger

[flint vigil]

I wish we had Red’s discography.

[loud lichen]

me tooo

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HLFzy7NgLWqr5MkRH0AYh?si=1a512980e9964d9a made this playlist for myself a little bit ago, can just pretend its red's EP

[lilac sandal]

My ideal playlist is all Hummed Tracks, all Vocal Tracks, and then _n C_rcl_s

[flint vigil]

I have a playlist for all vocals, 10th anniversary included, but I keep hesitating to add the hummed tracks.

I mean, they're all lovely.

[lilac sandal]

They're so good though

[flint vigil]

They are!!

[orchid trellis]

add specific ones

coasting hummed is a vocal track idc

[worn cape]

So this is more of a joke question truthfully but do you think transistor would of gone lot more different if Red, Sybil and Mr nobody was a poly relationship

[worn cape]

The camerata eyes make me think I dun goofed I might be cooked chatroom

[flint vigil]

Woe, integration be upon ye.

Though, to answer your question, I think so. I think Red would still be a target - notable voice & all - but I think Sybil could find ways to buy her time.

Cloudbank would live to see another catastrophe.

[worn cape]

Question is where would they go from there is what I'm curios about but appreciate the answer since I always felt "What if" scenarios are very fun

[loud lichen]

ohh, i should add the 10th anniversary ones to mine too - i love the idea of red playing a concert with a full orchestra backing

[flint vigil]

The orchestral version of In Circles never fails to give me chills, it's absolutely beautiful!

[loud lichen]

yes! the arrangement is sooo amazing!!

[pulsar bone]

I’m a part of a video game orchestra at my college and I would kill to play the orchestral version of In Circles (I’d even transcribe it myself) but sadly I think I’m the only person in the ensemble who’s played the game and cares about it 😭

[flint vigil]

Aw! What do you guys typically play?

I'm in a similar situation, minus the video game focus - I'd love to learn the part, but I know it'd be so magical to actually play it as a group.

[agile root]

Pffff of course sybil plays an instrument

[flint vigil]

Guilty as charged.

[orchid trellis]

ive been thinking of a band au rn

red as lead singer obviously and i think the boxer on drums makes sense

[flint vigil]

Oo. Would the Camerata be a separate group?

[orchid trellis]

not sure...

bc i think sybil on bass is a very fun idea

plus who else would be in reds group besides boxer

[flint vigil]

True..

& none of the integrated folk seem to be that close, excluding Darzi & Platt.

[pulsar bone]

We have some Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem, and Final Fantasy stuff lined up for our next performance. It's all great music, I just haven't played those games so I don't really have much attachment to them

[flint vigil]

Understandable!

Playing good music is different when you have a connection to it - makes it more fun to learn something you know in a different context.

[misty creek]

I was super into the nier series games and even went to the concert before playing either game LOL

True music appreciators don't need to play the game to like the soundtrack

[pulsar bone]

Sure, but I'm mostly lamenting that I probably won't be able to convince the director to have the orchestra play any Transistor/Supergiant stuff (I'm certainly trying though and will post a recording if I end up doing it). I like the songs we are playing even though I haven't played a single one of them, but I would much rather perform something that is more meaningful to me.

[reef pawn]

I don't think I could listen to a game's soundtrack before playing it. Would see it as a spoiler if that makes sense

[reef pawn]

And in the case of tracks with lyrics, it can actually spoil the story

[misty creek]

I went into every sgg game soundtrack first and liked it that way lol

except for hades 2

actually thinking about it that goes for most games I don't buy on release

[misty creek]

Personally I think a story that can be ruined by spoilers wasn't that good to begin with

[lilac sandal]

I think that's a poor generalization. There are some cases I definitely agree, but I don't think it can apply to everything.

Some cases spoilers don't change your experience with the game, but imagine playing a game like Outer Wilds with a walkthrough to skip over all the discoveries you are supposed to make yourself, and what experience you're now getting instead.

Puzzles are fun, and sometimes stories are meant puzzles. Not all of Transistor is, but there are definitely parts I wouldn't spoil for people.

[keen karma]

I have a boring middle ground opinion. I like not being spoiled as well but in the end, good narratives will still have their impact. There was a DnD GM (I think) that had an idea for a campaign where everything is predetermined and it's almost like a play, which I find interesting.
I think Outer Wilds is a special case (I mean the game's main meme is that discourse about it looks like SCP reports) because of two things: Firstly, it's more of a detective narrative which is more susceptible to spoilers, because the mystery is the story (and you could just finish the game in about 20 minutes). Secondly, the adventure gameplay is also uniquely spoiler-sensitive; I call it 'information-based' because unlike most other adventures it doesn't depend on concrete things like items or codes, but vague knowledge of where to go, to stand in a specific spot at a specific time etc. I'm just rambling now I actually just wanted to say that Outer Wilds is not the best counterexample because it's so unique in that aspect lol
In contrast, Transistor would work even if you knew all the story, the inevitability makes it even worse maybe. Might be even better with the vagueness of the lyrics

oversharing bc i'm procrastinating writing my thesis

[misty creek]

I watched Nier Automata's cutscenes in reverse order and still greatly enjoyed the playthrough. No need to rudely put down something clearly a personal preference.

[agile root]

Didn't seem very rude to me! Was quite neutral in tone

[misty creek]

calling a personal preference poor is very much a dismissive attitude

[agile root]

They did not call it poor though. They said it's a poor generalization, and the rest of it follows up very politely

Had they said "That's stupid" and left it at that, I might agree with you

[misty creek]

yes which is a dismissive way to start a conversation

the more people prop up Outer Wilds as some phenomenal experience the more I just want to read the plot on wikipedia lmao

[agile root]

I mean considering you yourself might've blasted a huge swathe of stories, I think the rebuttal was pretty fair

[misty creek]

that attitude kind of made Ghost Trick worse for me because I expected something truly groundbreaking and then turns out the main plot twists were basically a supernatural take on some classic detective twists

[misty creek]

oh so now I'm the one blasting for saying that a good story like Nier's won't be ruined by spoilers, for me

Got it. You only find opinions rude if you don't agree with them.

[agile root]

You're going well out of your way to assume the worst in tone, etc. I'm exiting this conversation

[misty creek]

I'm not reading that so save your energy.

Just gonna say it's hella rich that you come in with insinuating that I'm overreacting, and end off with doing to same towards something I said prior.

[agile root]

That's a really uncharitable reading, eh. And then you went and blocked me. Why, after having blocked me, are you still sniping at me?
Look, you put your opinion out there. Did you expect people not to discuss the idea you put forth?

One more personal attack and I'll let the mods handle things

[lilac sandal]

I apologize if I came off as dismissive, that was not my intent. I just felt there was room for counter-argument and a potential discussion on how to look at spoilers.

We both think different things, but that shouldn't mean we can't express why that is.

[olive sluice]

In general I disagree tbh. Most things that require emotional attachement (that imo you don't get from spoilers) are ruined by spoilers. In general spoilers will also cut out the form in which a story is expressed as well as details, which is detrimental.

But especially in the context of games, stories often time are strong because of interactivity. Spoilers remove that interactivity and a large part of why the story might be impactful

[stone shoal]

There can very much be exceptions to this. But they are that exceptions
I had a very big plot point on an anime spoiled to me (willingly) and it served to intensify the emotions I felt leading up to that specific plot point

[reef pawn]

For me, half of the joy in experiencing stories for the first time is not knowing how it'll go. I like the mystery, so obviously spoilers clash with that

[agile root]

Definitely. I can't imagine having any or all of the peaks and valleys of a story shaved off or filled in would make for a thrilling ride

[cunning plaza]

I would like to point out that it's ok to agree or disagree and discuss different opinions and points of view. There's no need to be rude nor dismissive about other people's opinions, especially when they point out that it's a personal opinion, preference, etc. Being argumentative is a key part in any debate or discussion (not in the angry sense but in the sense of presenting a logical argument or line of reasoning), but being rude is not.

As an example, I can say "I like peaches" and someone else can say "I prefer apples instead." That's ok, we have different tastes.
But it's not ok to say "That's a poor palate. I prefer apples instead." You may come off as rude, intentionally or not, especially when it was pointed out that it was a personal preference.

[lilac sandal]

I'll admit took a bit of offense to the original statement, and that may have led to a somewhat snappy response.

I didn't look at it as an "I like peaches" phrase, and more so "I think a meal that can be ruined by peaches wasn't that good of a meal". It can feel disheartening to read that sort of thing, especially if someone doesn't like peaches, because that suddenly means someone thinks all your meals are bad. It can feel invalidating.

If it was more of a "I don't mind peaches with every meal" it is stated as more preference, rather than a broader generalization of food that can feel targeted to someone else.

Does that make sense? Just wanted to state how I felt about it and clear that up for myself.

[agile root]

The example dialogue in the peach and apple example above doesn't resemble the actual dialogue that took place. The example has an innocuous statement followed by someone absolutely randomly butting in with their preferences and an insult. The actual dialogue has a broad and arguably pretty dismissive generalization followed by someone calling it out as a bad generalization.

Was the comment being replied to meant to represent personal opinion? Almost certainly yes. But the wording doesn't do a great job of conveying that, and it reads more like an very far-reaching evaluation—why take issue with the reply but overlook the comment being replied to? Lets not ignore context! And I do not believe stating "personal opinion" is a great defense for generalizations: it's a fairly common faux pas at best, and we have many examples of it going poorly IRL (which I super do not want to bring up here)

It honestly feels like an unintentional strawman

[agile root]

I personally had a pretty big character death spoiled for me in FFXIV, and boy did the impact and fallout fall flat for me

[keen karma]

Hmm interesting, in that case how does replaying a narrative game then work out for you?

[agile root]

I suppose it lets me recall all the highs and lows I hopefully experienced the first time but also lets me appreciate the setups and foreshadowing, etc

In the FFXIV case, I'd also just come back from the hospital and had a player in the dungeon before the big story event call me an idiot. Really put a damper on the mood

[keen karma]

lol

Yeah i get your first point, that‘s where our opinions diverge

though my opinions are obviously better, as noted in the attached diagram https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/333162407826554882/1313194089746792478/IMG_0535.jpg?ex=674f3ecc&is=674ded4c&hm=77db7270f9a80a5d001c71f230f171e39fef91dfa1fad908d87f3934253917a0&

[agile root]

I have been thoroughly defeated

But I suppose I'm now obligated to find the opinion rude since I don't agree with it, so here you go:

I think you're right about certain stories being extra resilient to spoilers because the journey itself is pretty darn impactful

I vaguely recall enjoying some stories I'd had spoiled for myself, but I can't recall which they were

Maybe one of them was Dark Souls!

[pulsar lily]

Was it ||Haurchefant||? I knew about that one years before even playing the game bc gifsets of it had appeared on my tumblr dash

It did end up being ||earlier|| than I expected so I still got some of the surprise, at least

[agile root]

Oops! I reacted but never replied! Yes, you guessed correctly

[timber hinge]

Hey guys where could I get tips on beating Eris?

[agile root]

This channel (and category) is for discussing the first Hades game Transistor. Please go to #h2-discussion to talk about Hades II.

[woven grove]

go to h2-builds-and-combat

scratch that, I'll just dm you

[timber hinge]

Super sry guys

New to this server😓

[woven grove]

no worries, happens all the time and no harm done : )

[compact nacelle]

People wonder why we need stickybot, and here we are

[reef pawn]

Eris is my second favourite transistor boss fight fr

[crystal oar]

hi, im new here!
i just finished transistor's story for the first time (knew nothing going in) and needed to find someone to yell about it with me

in a positive way i mean

id played bastion and hades so tone-wise this felt very different, which was interesting, but also left me so off guard

this is all im going to think about for at least the next few days

[flint vigil]

Yes!!

How are you feeling about the ending?

[crystal oar]

its really well written! it feels weird to say I liked it when my feelings on it are more nuanced than that but in terms of impactful endings that ones up there for me

i just finished outer wilds a week ago and that had a wild and emotional ending too so i am just reeling from amazing indie games

[fringe void]

Oh damn outer wilds to transistor

Double whammy there

[small briar]

My first time at the ending Mr. Nobody almost convinced me we were going to restore the whole city, which I was really excited to see since I LOVE the game's art and architecture. But then once Red couldn't revive/restore him and made her choice, I wasn't surprised, in a strange way. That same sad realization I got from heading toward Fairview came back, like "oh, this is not heading toward a happy ending." And then his last few lines are heartbreaking 😭

Also, 10/10, one of my favorite games and I think about the story and music all the time 🩵

[olive sluice]

Are you going to go to disco elysium next to triple whammy? 😀

[crystal oar]

lol i dunno about that
disco elysium seems very cool but maybe a bit too dark for my kind of escapism
maybe someday when im in the right headspace

also, i knew Logan was good at acting, but WOW

[keen karma]

yeah that‘s understandable, though if you ever wanna play something ‚grimdark‘, DE is your best choice

[crystal oar]

thats about where I was too! well-written tragedy is tricky and they nailed it so effectively

something something tragedy comes from the outcome being inevitable

[lilac sandal]

The meaning I've found behind it is this:

"When everything changes, nothing changes" misses one key thing. You can live in a city of constant flux, realizing you can never grow attached to your favourite park, restaurant, or bridge, or any location that meant something to you at any stage of your life. But what doesn't change is the people, and in the end, that's what Red cared about more than anything about Cloudbank.

[small briar]

Oh that's a good point, I like it! We see so few people in-game, it can be easy to forget that Cloudbank is meant to be a full city, not just a (beautiful) backdrop. But yeah, Red would have known so many people before the evacuation, since she loved sharing her music with them. And it turned out that none of those people could come back in the end.

[sonic parcel]

i just finished the main story of the game

that was... something

[lilac sandal]

Good something, bad something, mixed something?

Be sure to use spoiler bars.

[sonic parcel]

i absolutely loved the way it ended ||Red dying was rlly the only way|| the only bad thing tbh is that its too short, i would've loved more info on the story and the world and i've got mixed feelings about the Camerata i don't condone their ways, but their reasons, i can kinda get behind yk?

[sand ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/fnb-get-this-man-a-true-gif-25257480

[turbid dove]

I started NG+ in Transistor and fell in love with it all over

[orchid trellis]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1180646961485992097/1322522791446183947/IMG_0202.png?ex=67712ed4&is=676fdd54&hm=98604941fe243a709de0238d10adc831d3389327f693763455a05cdf6534e4b4&

wanted to share this bc the vibes are there

the game/album is el paso elsewhere

[wind prairie]

THAT'S SO BEAUTIFUL

[cedar grove]

thats crazy
i thought the game is on the silly side and then the album cover is this

[orchid trellis]

this is how i feel with iayb too

(i am your beast)

[flint vigil]

Oo that’s such a beautiful cover!

[cedar grove]

oh the entire thing is crazy

https://www.bonjourbri.com/ artist

[flint vigil]

[orchid trellis]

transistor nation

oh huh the inspiration might be intentional bc i see that nyx

[sand ivy]

Might not be a coincidence

[glacial perch]

why did none of you tell me about this game’s soundtrack

[agile root]

I HEAR YOU BUZZIN'

[flint vigil]

A fly on the wall!

[sand ivy]

best to hear it as a surprise

[glacial perch]

The only song I heard prior is She Shines, and I don’t know its story relevance yet
Can’t wait to hear the rest

[glad perch]

I had heard Paper Boats before the game.

Hit me like a freight train when it came up in the game anyway. Big "something in my eye" moment

[lilac sandal]

The build up to it is absolutely insane

[radiant snow]

My copy doesn't seem to want to work? Every time I start it on steam it looks like it's starting and then immediately stops

I've uninstalled and reinstalled it and also went into the files to run it as administrator but nothing works

[fringe void]

Very true, Blank Canvas flows so great into Paper Boats

[inland arch]

https://youtu.be/lSnaQAv77JE?si=LiTHeH8jXu6YI5Rz this song reminds me of Transistor

[fiery obsidian]

Speaking of soundtrack, I hope we get another pressing on vinyl sometime, I've missed it the past few times it has been available and it's definitely my top SGG soundtrack.

[cedar grove]

i want to see another run of the pyre vinyl.... ;__;

its the only one im missing and would prefer not to pay tons for it on ebay

[orchid trellis]

2025 resolution buy all the vinyls finally…

[fiery obsidian]

Getting the orchestral one was awesome cause you get some from each game, but it only had a medley from Bastion, which deserves more than that imo.

[orchid trellis]

the orchestral album was my second most listened to album in 2023

was about to say last year lol

[solemn iron]

sadly my transistor vinyl was damaged and so was the refund they sent, hades and bastion ones work great though!

[turbid dove]

I got the Goodbye() achievement today for completing NG+ I love the narrative, art, music and skill system in this game so much

[marsh basalt]

The Transistor soundtrack is absolutely amazing. Any song where Red sings is perfect background noise for keeping me motivated

[dawn ridge]

replaying transistor for like the 50th time.
im voice-training to try and sound more feminine, and i try to match red's tone while i hum along to the music

also im sure i've mentioned it before, but i regularly have dreams where there's just one piece of lore/content that i miss

or dlc

[crystal oar]

looking at the artist's other work, there's a day with hourly comics where one is playing Hades, def a fan.

also the art. Bri's art! It's amazing! ty for the share alma

[sage sequoia]

what would a dlc look like

[flint vigil]

Camerata DLC?

[keen karma]

YES

[pulsar bone]

I think a side-story in the same universe could be pretty cool. A lot of the events prior to the game are told through only a few sentences in logs only obtainable through specific combinations of abilities, so I think it’s fair to say that most of the lore can be expanded upon. It could be set during a time when Cloudbank was prosperous (semi-prosperous) and you would witness the rise of the Camerata for instance.

[agile root]

Cloudbank city builder game

[sand ivy]

Camerata dlc where you play as sybil 🙏

[flint vigil]

Meeting with the Camerata + interacting with Cloudbank residents. 🙏

[faint lava]

the real dlc should playing as a junction jans worker when the end times are nigh

[flint vigil]

You're the one that prepares Red's order.

[sage sequoia]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/844969953584873475/1223836571132760125/caption.gif

my proudest creation

[faint lava]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1153526930650435727/1240090130778161355/junction_jans.gif

[loud lichen]

it is truly a masterpiece

[split bay]

transistor is such an amazing game

[manic lava]

objective fact

[keen karma]

truth bomb

[sand ivy]

fax

[full peak]

hey guys
I'm currently facing an issue where Transistor closes itself right after I launch it
anyone knows what might be the cause/how to fix it? So far only tried reinstalling which apparently didn't work

[agile root]

I know this is for Bastion, but given the two games are built on the same platform, maybe some of these solutions might work: https://steamcommunity.com/app/107100/discussions/1/620695877165157071/?l=thai&ctp=2

[flint vigil]

Does Asher’s cat have a name?

[fringe void]

Asher Junior

[spare rain]

sorry, I bought transistors knowing it was DRM-free, but when I try to start the game without Steam, the game starts and closes almost instantly, can anyone help me?

[agile root]

@spare rain

[spare rain]

the game starts, but only if opened from Steam, while it should open even without Steam, since it is DRM-free.
Plus from the Bastion link on steam I can't find answers...😢

[agile root]

Apologies. I didn't read your comment carefully enough

Still sounds like a dependency issue rather than DRM

[spare rain]

but if opened on steam, it starts without any problems

[agile root]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/237930/discussions/0/558756256586842153/

Hoping something in here helps

[zenith beacon]

transistor kart

or better yet - supergiant kart

[flint vigil]

Instead of going to the Country when integrated, people become playable characters.

[keen karma]

doom transistor

[pulsar bone]

I’d love a spinoff where Red sings over metal music lol

[marsh basalt]

I'd love a spin of just Red singing over music in various styles. No game needed. Just lots of music

[zenith beacon]

Blue always struck me as the kind of guy that would like old Judas Priest

Or Classic Maiden

Up to like… mid nineties

[glad perch]

I dunno, blue likes black suits and is a bit rough and tumble... does he listen to Ska???

(suddenly, trumpet section kicks in)

jokes aside, I'm always down for more Korb/Barrett songs 😄

[toxic adder]

Imma bout to cry I swear I just finished transistor omgggggg

[rocky surge]

yep it's really good

[radiant snow]

Man I'm trying all of the things but can't seem to get it to work

[radiant snow]

When it's on sale I'm gonna get it for the Switch

[tidal spear]

Hey y’all, I’ve been trying to get transistor to launch for a bit now and I’m at my wits end
Looks like it’s throwing a kernelbase.dll error, I’ve tried a bunch of suggested fixes (sfc scannow, using a registry cleaner, uninstalling and reinstalling, trying to run the game as an admin/in compatibility mode) but nothings worked - it just crashes on startup

Coming here as a last resort to see if anyone else has dealt with this and has possible solutions

What was the workaround you found btw? Having the same issue 😭
Cc @junior lagoon since it seems like you were able to help them

[junior lagoon]

This is what they did that worked:

Change x64 folder name to anything else (I used 0000), change x86 folder name to x64, and then copy the "Content" folder into the "new" x64 folder, it launches from steam lmao

[tidal spear]

Welp, tried this, didn’t work 😭
Thanks for trying though, appreciate it!

[junior lagoon]

Ahh, dang. What's the particular issue you're facing? I won't be able to help much right away, but I can look into it later

[tidal spear]

in event viewer, getting these two back to back:

Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.DllNotFoundException
   at GSGE.SteamWrapper.SteamWrapper_GetCurrentGameLanguage()
   at GSGE.Localization.Init()
   at GSGE.ExceptionGame.LoadContent()
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Initialize()
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameRunBehavior)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run()
   at Game.Windows.Program.Run[[System.__Canon, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]](GSGE.IBugReporter[])
   at Game.Windows.Program.Main(System.String[])

Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.22621.4751, time stamp: 0x53a79838
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x0014b4c2
Faulting process id: 0x0x1608
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DB7D896D65F4C0
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Transistor\x64\Transistor.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: b3e1f3f6-792b-4c4e-aafc-19ef4d9c1489
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: ```

I'm on Windows 11, AMD GPU
No rush, ty in advance for taking a look 🙏🏽

additional detail, since I decided to google the "GetCurrentGameLanguage" function to see if anyone had posted this exact error: this person https://steamcommunity.com/app/237930/discussions/1/540744475389570377/?l=italian appears to have had the same issue and gotten it fixed by reinstalling some microsoft redistributables by running some stuff in a _CommonRedist folder. the thing is, I don't have a CommonRedist folder at the stated path; I'm not sure if this is because something has changed with how Steam handles this stuff in the past 10 years, or if that could be the root of the issue

[junior lagoon]

Maybe this one? https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

It's the latest C++ redist

(copied the link from the Hades support stuff haha)

[tidal spear]

installed it, nothing changed - not sure if I have to move the installed files into a steam-specific folder or smt, but yeah 😔
also yeah I've played hades, hades 2, and bastion recently and didn't have any issues with them, in case that ends up narrowing something down? idk

[viscid field]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1007108574578737200/1340457081546739804/Screenshot_20250216_065740_com.brave.browser.jpg?ex=67b26d70&is=67b11bf0&hm=df4dff9a37c785e381e8ebabf1096887c637d000a2b5037274b24a417a9645cd&

Didn't have a good time playing this when I got it on PC

So I might as well try again on the Switch. Maybe this time i could have a better experience

[loud lichen]

i hope you enjoy it! i played it on switch first and thought it ran great, the controls felt pretty seamless

[viscid field]

I am glad this game is currently on a huge discount tbh

[viscid field]

So i just played it on the Switch, and I agree

I just lost to Sybil lol

[loud lichen]

ah yes she can be tough depending on the build!

[flint vigil]

Good luck!

[viscid field]

i was on her final phase when it happened btw :c

and thx!

[loud lichen]

OOF thats rough, you got this tho! next time

[junior lagoon]

could you check to make sure that Windows 11 isn't trying to run Transistor in some sort of compatability mode? That can break things sometimes

[tidal spear]

nope, doesn't appear to be; I did try to run it in compatibility mode for Windows 8 earlier when trying to troubleshoot, but I've since turned off compatibility mode

(worst comes to worst, I tried installing it on an old laptop and it boots up there; but yeah would much prefer to get it running on the computer I use for everything else if possible!)

[viscid field]

finally beat her on the 2nd try 😁

[loud lichen]

heyyy nice work!!

[viscid field]

yeee thx!

this combat system is definitely new to me so ye

[keen karma]

[me at the junction jan‘s open mic] „i sure hope the meat on this flatbread isn‘t processed! haha, get it?“ gets stabbed with the transistor

[sand ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-17729711691959966457

[flint vigil]

[loud lichen]

yeah takes a bit to get used to for sure!

[junior lagoon]

if you didn't already, it could be worth trying compat mode after installing the C++ redist?

and while not ideal, you could also try using Steam to stream it from the laptop to the main computer, so at least you're using your regular setup?

[tidal spear]

tried compat mode, still didn't work
ngl I forgot streaming was an option since I never used it before, gonna try now!

[tidal spear]

@junior lagoon ok, confirmed: streaming works! definitely a frame drop or two here and there, but overall it's good enough. ty for the help, I look forward to enjoying the game!

[junior lagoon]

sure thing! Glad that worked out, best of luck and have fun! I really enjoyed Transistor

(and honestly, out of all of Supergiant's games - Transistor is probably the most okay with handling frame drops both mechanically and thematically, haha)

[sick crater]

I’ve returned to transistor after a long while and now I have a whole au with my ocs going upwards to 4k words—thank you supergiant for making the most heartbreaking game there is 😂

[ember rune]

finally bought transistor today, the game mechanics are so interesting! how much am i gonna cry when i finish it?

[fleet narwhal]

Yes

[ember rune]

amazing, what are some basics i should know about the mechanics?

[fleet narwhal]

Ahh... One thing to keep in mind is that you don't need to go into the turn planning thing to queue up actions.

You can play in real time and attack as well, which can be useful in a lot of situations.

Besides that, don't forget to experiment with different configurations! You can find some fun combos.

[ember rune]

awesome thank you sm!

what does flourish do? i cant seem to figure that out

[fleet narwhal]

It lets you feel pretty and majestic.

Sometimes it triggers dialogue.

No gameplay use.

[ember rune]

i did feel quite magnificent

[sand ivy]

Sobbing

[glad perch]

Don't forget to sometimes stop and Hum

No, it has no practical use, but also... More Red/Barrett vocals (and SO MUCH work went into making the hum track, it's mind boggling for something that has no practical use)

[sage sequoia]

^

there's lots of things that have no practical use and very little screentime

and those details are beautiful

insane amount of detail for the length of the game

lots of unused art & sound effects in the game files as well

so much work went into this little gem

[olive sluice]

In the save everywhere mod we made for speedruns we hijacked humming so that it could save us anywhere. It still hums though :D

Also talking about hidden details - one of my favourite Easter eggs is the level up terminal just out of bounds on port 37

[cedar grove]

save anywhere by humming… that’s sweet… and very cool

[barren talon]

warning, spoiler and drama ahead
||has anyone mentioned or is there a discussion somewhere about the similarities between transistor and zenless zone zero? in the more recent zzz updates it felt at first that there were many respectful nods to transistor, but after catching up on the main story in zzz it feels more like i just consumed an ai creation that was edited so that it wouldnt be obvious that it took so much from transistor. i wouldnt imagine anything like this, except that in hoyo games (in the actual games) theres a blatant and bizarre discourse on display about the use of ai in games, mostly pertaining to voice actor rights. i hate to say it, but it doesnt seem particularly unlikely, and its definitely not impossible, that... hoyo chose the setting of transistor, where the process are recreating the environment and people, for their own real story of creating a game with ai. thats an extreme projection; the content that hoyo produces is very dense, making it difficult to know one way or another. at the least, zzz is very inspired by transistor. am i seeing complex controversy where there is none? maybe there is an honest relationship and collaboration between hoyo and supergiant that i havent heard of?? if there is really something here i think the the subject should be approached and investigated delicately, and other supergiant enjoyers should consider maintaining appropriate discretion to allow supergiant to choose how to react, if at all. and yes, if it wasnt obvious, i can talk alot. i would love to answer questions, and also hear what anyone else notices or thinks. if this is too extreme, please remove my comment. that would also answer my wondering, in a way. <3||

[cedar grove]

can you elaborate? i know nothing about the other game youre talking about

like, screenshots, etc.

[barren talon]

can we dm?

i have a screenshot, but where to send?

its a screenshot that helps with context alot

[cedar grove]

i prefer not to, but you can send images here by sending links from an image hosting website (or even discord image links) and they will embed

[barren talon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/581529852507586592/1339249513080033393/Screenshot_715.png?ex=67c2780d&is=67c1268d&hm=6437451caa5a58c0633234da32bb7e9045d0c95f0bcce3ed8cb3302871506724&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=490&height=275

||smelly smelly discord image link||

||this is from the newest update in zzz, in an arc that is basically a retelling about sibyl and red, but in zzz the "process" is "corruption," and less explained, and the dangers of the process are more managable, so themes are more clearly about music coorporations and artists. before seeing this, and before catching up on the story, there was a time when i thought that the zzz asthetics and themes were coincidentally similar to transistor; this newer arc completely convinced me that there were no coincidences.||

[barren talon]

||besides all of the smaller elements that contribute to my idea; the newest main story arc in zzz has a sequence very similar to evading and then fighting the spine that ends in an out of place credit screen where there are no human names in the credits, and some philosophical statements about story telling. it seems like a forcibly inserted message about their game developement choices. when zzz was more fresh the game elements that were similar to transistor were... the lofi asthetics, the enemy and world design... and actually, there are puzzle and exploration examples in gameplay, and i would have tried to record them for comparison, or i would go investigate further myself, if i had a faster computer. heh. the similarities in recent updates have gone beyond reasonable, the music, setting, and story particularly. and its not all good, it seems like the music and setting of transistor were lightly altered and the stories from transistor were regurgitated in a still recognizable form before being used in zzzs game. i enjoy zzz and i hope that its not the case that transistor is being copied using ai. i like the idea that there are hoyo artists and writers who are fans of transistor. but because of other controversy i have to consider the possibility that something less innocent is taking place. also, as i said, zzz is extremely dense. someone with a better computer and passion like mine could willingly immerse themselves in hours and hours of gameplay to put together a case. maybe ill look at zzz gameplay streams to find more i can show. please tell me that there is sharing between hoyo and supergiant?||

||im not sure how spoiler worthy any of this is, or if this is an appropriate place for these messages at all :p||

[cedar grove]

i dont think i will ever play this game so i guess i will never know about the story or music but i dont see too much visual correlation

[barren talon]

||not "too much visual correlation" is enough for me. in this example the visuals are context for a story about competing artists changing industry, in a world threatened by "corruption" that changes reality. the main char in this arc has a corruption engine in the form of a microphone, other chars have magic swords and other engines that effect reality in magical ways. all of that is familiar, but alone, not enough. the visuals that are nearly and sometimes undeniably identical to transistors scenes and motifs, and the complementary music, the story, AND gameplay and the cohesion of all the elements... undoubtedly, if sgg doesnt have big fans in hoyo, there is dishonest marketing and developement on hoyos part, taking advantage of sggs work. it wouldnt be terrible if some kids or a small studio created a transistor parody, but this is a massive studio currently engaged in controversy involving ai. and then theres a further question, even if there is no ai involvement, but there is, would it still be dishonest for fans of sgg in hoyo to do this? another possibility is that hoyo is recieving elements of transistor from ai without even realizing where its coming from. i hope that others who are familiar with transistor and zzz will notice and say something, because ive barely documented my zzz playthrough at all. i was only compelled to take this one screenshot when the relationship between zzz and transistor became undeniable to me.||

[barren talon]

thank you for the opportunity to elaborate, and im sorry this screenshot is all i have at the moment, heh. anyone who isnt familiar with zzz could see some of the examples of everything im saying if they see streams of the newest zzz updates, but playing through zzz to reach the same points that im referencing would be a massive timesink. but also, anyone interested in a game that reimagines transistors world might be interested in casual zzz gameplay, which i can say ive enjoyed. thank you again <3 <3 <3

[sage sequoia]

this cute little souls-like releases in just two days and it reminded me of... Transistor
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1511880/Slime_Heroes/

Steam

Slime Heroes

Journey with your fellow slimes to save the ancient guardians from a mysterious corruption taking over the land. Explore a whimsical world filled with secret passageways, challenging puzzle dungeons, and forgotten treasures. Consume special gems and dynamically combine them to create unique magical skills. Level up and fight back against the cor...

Release Date

Mar 6, 2025

▶ Play video

it has the exact same system of combining different skills

in primary/secondary slots

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/844969953584873475/1346178863860027504/image.png?ex=67c73e43&is=67c5ecc3&hm=e93810ed81119dfdd505617fa73590e44450c3053cc49588120a9e4e636cb47b&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/844969953584873475/1346180613685776445/image.png?ex=67c73fe5&is=67c5ee65&hm=6ee9b8fbff2a7d62318122edab1465850e7551c954d96e587aca61d3dee8f526&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[fringe void]

Life imitates transistor

[main notch]

Transistor is cyberpunk genre, yeah?

[keen karma]

I think it misses the contrast between high and low life for that, it's just high life

[upbeat sky]

Cyber art deco, one could say

[orchid trellis]

cyber art deco is good

[mossy ibex]

I bought the game because I was a fan of Hades 1 "design approach" and loved the effort in making it coherent ludonarrative experience... And now I'm crying.

Even if I'm already a "professional" writer and have worked in some gaming stuff, playing things that produce THIS MUCH of a powerful feeling still seems crazy.

Guess I'll get the platinum trophy for my second Supergiant title.

[main notch]

Transistor was my first true 100%!

[glad perch]

another Paper Boats victim 😄

You're in good company

[sage sequoia]

Paper Boats victim is now my favourite way of calling someone who just completed transistor

[mossy ibex]

Wanted to start the Recursion

Opened the game

Paper Boats starts playing

This is genuine evil, damn

[native palm]

Opened up the Apple TV game store out of curiosity and was surprised to see Transistor on the frontpage! Love that for them.

[flint vigil]

Omg!!

[warm kettle]

Spring Sale takes place on Steam, gonna make sure to annoy few friends who have Transistor on a wishlist about getting it

[cedar grove]

i annoyed so many people that there isnt anyone in my friends list that still wishes for transistor

recommended by 10 friends, 75 friends own it. love to see it

[warm kettle]

Wow, that is an accomplishment

A very good one at that

[frigid ermine]

Thinking of getting Transistor but have a few concerns/questions:

1. Is playing audio through headphones/bluetooth still an issue with Steam Deck that requires a workaround to fix it?

2. I read that you lose abilities when dying in combat. Is it really as simple as hitting the menu button and there’s a retry option to restart an encounter to avoid this? If so, I’m assuming you must select this option before you die?

3. Does combat really involve running around and hiding while you wait for your cooldown bar to recharge? That doesn’t seem very fun and also I read your movement speed is slower than the enemies so that can add to the frustration.

I know you can play it for less than 2 hours on Steam and get a refund if you don’t like it, but I’m hoping to get these questions answered to save me some time. Thanks in advance!

[keen karma]

I don't know your preferred way of playing games but regarding 2 & 3, I'm wary about trying to describe gameplay and then trying to judge it based on those descriptions. But for me, losing functions or running around were never a problem or source of frustration; and I really don't like any turn-based games and generally 'losing' even if it makes perfect sense for the story (sorry, Pyre 😎)

[manic lava]

you do lose functions from dying, but honestly it works really well in game because it forces you to experiment with other things. it can be hard but it's a lot of fun. there's no option to restart an encounter, other than restarting the game to your last save point. there is an aspect of running away while you wait for turn() to recharge, but it recharges fairly quickly and you also have the option of attacking outside if it to a limited degree (tbh i don't remember how tho it's been a very long time since i've played transistor). iirc your movement speed is not slower but again very long time since i last played.

[keen karma]

there's also the jaunt() function which lets you dash while running around and shoot attacks while running around (well, more easily)

[manic lava]

oh yes i forgot about jaunt my beloved

[keen karma]

jaunted spark my beloved (hunting down cells)...

[glad perch]

Jaunt() is very clearly the granddad of Zagreus' dash

In general, there's some Functions that can be used outside of the planning "time freeze". One is jaunt (for mobility, but can be turned into an offensive move), but there are other more direct attacks. I think Ping works. Been a while.

[simple harness]

Jaunt or ping as passives also also allow other functions to be used during your recharge iirc

[frigid ermine]

How often are there save points in the game?

[solemn iron]

every spot where you can change functions saves the game

which is after almost every fight

[frigid ermine]

I just read the PS5 DualSense controller doesn’t show PlayStation button icons when played through Steam. Any way to fix this?

[solemn iron]

I play on KBM so I have no idea

[small briar]

Ping works well, and you can upgrade it so it explodes and stuns/slows enemies to give you some breathing room. Spark is fast too! Generally, you can do a lot in real time and use your turn as a panic button. Then you can get some combos in and regain control

The combat takes some getting used to, but it can be pretty fast-paced and active if you want it to be. I think the flexibility is a lot of fun!

[main notch]

Or

Get(crash()) Void(spark()) Mask(tap()) Cull(ping()) to just nuke a guy

Late game load out for sure

[frigid ermine]

Yeah, I’m more concerned about not being able to use my DualSense controller through Steam with PlayStation button prompts 🫤

[orchid trellis]

big fan of introducing my tactical-game minded friend to transistor

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1106051756036726784/1352363045451727008/image.png?ex=67ddbdbb&is=67dc6c3b&hm=dfadbc46bec37831337b7f9a9ddde98228cdd2e377450773382c831ad60c3d0d&

he keeps sending me stuff like this and going “yeah just a lil bit of damage”

[flint vigil]

Omg?????

😭

[warm kettle]

[main notch]

When you on that void() mask() cull()

[errant hamlet]

HOOOOOWWWW

[main notch]

@errant hamlet this build or very similar

[fast sigil]

Just beat Transistor for the first time. Really good game. Liked that a lot

[upbeat sky]

My fave Supergiant final boss fight

[zenith beacon]

hey - you wanna see a cool magic trick?

wham! <@&456908176877551658>

[blissful blaze]

🎩 🐰 hey presto

[zenith beacon]

ta-dah

funny thing
that's the exact same damn link i fell for last year

[simple harness]

"how about.... me." > Instantly fell in love

Not like Royce doesn't steal the show from the first moment he shows up but y'know

[fast sigil]

I kinda cheesed it I think. Didn't realize how powerful void debuff followed by a big bonk would be.

Basically one shot each of his phases

[errant hamlet]

So there is a bug in Transistor which would trigger when you open Steam overlay with controller connected that it would start twitching between Keyboard & Mouse, and Controller making it hard to play the gane

[errant hamlet]

Spine reminds me of Tail of Typhos in Hades 2 xD

[solemn iron]

It’s really the other way around, but yeah

[errant hamlet]

One of the best final boss fights

[zenith beacon]

Am I the only one getting random unreads in this channel?

Is it bots?

[flint vigil]

I get them too.

[keen karma]

he he he

[fringe void]

I thought it was people reacting to old messages maybe

[pulsar lily]

Reacts don't usually create an unread

[warm kettle]

Just a quick awareness check

[round gazelle]

My partner's playing this for the first time and it's interesting; you can really see Hades' bones in there

Like, Transistor almost feels like it should have been a roguelite

Or, maybe, Hades changed the game for how roguelites feel, and there's so much Transistor DNA in Hades...

[zenith beacon]

Transistor is the only sgg game I wish had multiplayer

Like - image of they could find a way to cram in this pseudo turn based gameplay into a PvP mode

[loud lichen]

oooh yeah it would be super cool to do PvP mode in the style of the final boss fight, but you could pick your character from red or the different camerata members

[flint vigil]

I would love to see how the other members of the Camerata wield the Transistor.

[loud lichen]

same!!!

[sage sequoia]

i'm very fascinated by this conceptually

i think the closest thing to this i've seen is "your only move is hustle"

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2212330/Your_Only_Move_Is_HUSTLE/

Steam

Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

NO TRAINING MODE REQUIRED
Equal parts deep, rewarding online turn-based PVP experience and creative sandbox for creating intense, shareable fight scenes, Your Only Move Is HUSTLE takes the classic fighting formula and turns it on its head. Take control of an over-powered fighter and use the power of precognition to plan out your every move, down…

Price

$4.99

Recommendations

26252

▶ Play video

[zenith beacon]

kinda reminds me of toribash

a physics based... turn based... multiplayer... fighting game?

WOW that was fast

couldn't even ping mods in time

anyways - toribash
basically - instead of doing a quarter back high kick or whatever, each player gets to pose a ragdoll of a fighter
it goes like this - the match starts and it goes into this sort of a turn() mode for a minute where you get to pose your ragdoll
and that pose you make gets interpolated for - let's say - a second
so your guy starts in a t-pose and you have to pose him (like a ragdoll) to throw a punch - adjusting joints and limbs and what not
and you've got 60 seconds for that

then once that timer runs out - this turn() mode ends and the game plays in real time whatever moves you and your opponent made there
and then stops and goes back to turn() again

it's a neat concept and it's close to what i'd imagine a multiplayer transistor would look like, but the fact that both your and your enemy's turns happen at the same time turn it into a bit of a mess
it all comes back to what amir (i think) said in that noclip doc - when's the opponent's turn?

the only solution i see to this is having a 30 seconds turn followed by another 30 for your opponent before turning on real time and playing whatever tf you planned out there
but i dunno - waiting 30 seconds only to play 5 probably wouldn't feel great

[zenith beacon]

what is it about this channel in particular that attracts so many phantom unreads?

[keen karma]

traces

[orchid trellis]

i was gonna say

[sand ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/say-that-again-say-that-say-that-agian-marvel-fantastic-gif-12441585058103544841

[zenith beacon]

ah!
i saw that

so now i know what's causing all those phantoms

[sage sequoia]

wait what was it i'm curious

[zenith beacon]

scam bot

[full peak]

heyo.
I finally found a way to fix a startup crash issue that someone else has pointed here earlier as well
the error in question was Faulting application name: Transistor.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5cef0c85 Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.26100.3775, time stamp: 0x6e2fc3bb Exception code: 0xe0434352 Fault offset: 0x00000000000c933a Faulting process id: 0x5B58 Faulting application start time: 0x1DBB68E069BD0EC Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Transistor\x64\Transistor.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll Report Id: ac62d895-655f-49ca-80ff-73e20cc256f5 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:
what worked for me was installing this specifically: https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist/releases
hope that helps someone else if you encounter this error

unfortunately for me seems like after all the troubleshooting I lost my save file

[jagged root]

any one have tabs for transistor

[pulsar bone]

These are the only free (official) sheets for SG music (comes with tabs). I don’t know of any other tabs but some people have made sheet music for SG music on MuseScore and Songsterr probably.

https://www.fangamer.com/products/supergiant-games-sheet-music

[glad perch]

There's also chord sheets on Ultimate Guitar (not full tabs, but they help)

[summer patio]

what's transistor

[fringe void]

Supergiant's second game

[livid vale]

I thought Transistor was pretty great. For me it was just the right length, it wasn't too short but it didn't try to go on forever either it felt just right.

[zenith beacon]

Oh yeah
I really appreciate tightly designed singleplayer games that are all killer no filler

Finishing transistor 5 times would still be a more meaningful experience than a single playthrough of some bloated open world collect-a-thon

[lilac sandal]

Will be letting a friend watch me playthrough Transistor and my plan is to require myself to use Limiters the moment I unlock each one, forcing myself into picking what I feel like I will be able to work with through the whole game.

Should be the challenge I need to get a wholly new experience.

[hazy crag]

packets go brrrr

[main notch]

Whats your go to packet build?

[hazy crag]

it's been a minute since I've played so I can't remember specific function load out, I just recall the damage scaling on packets is bonkers good

[gentle herald]

Hi! I've recently been getting into hifi audio and want to download the Transistor soundtrack in flac.

I own the soundtrack on steam but it's mp3 only. I read online that if I contact supergiant they'll send me the flac files, but I tried reaching out through the website contact form twice with two different subject lines and both times received an automated message that the messages would not receive a response, and frankly I got annoyed so I came here in hopes that someone could help, thanks!

[upbeat sky]

Pretty sure Bandcamp will give you FLACs if you purchase from there

[gentle herald]

ya but i already own it, I don't want to have to rebuy what I already own...

[reef pawn]

To me Transistor felt *too" short and I wish we got a storyline that's like 15-20 hours, but I can guess the budget didn't allow that at the time

[keen karma]

Couldn’t disagree more, Transistor is exactly the length it needs to be and anything more would feel like padding. Maybe if the gameplay was the bigger focus; but I’ve seen enough games that are just too long

[orchid trellis]

yeah agreed

i do wish there was more ng+ options/ replay potential though

[zenith beacon]

Transistor already has a perfect place to squeeze more content in

Challenge rooms

Those were super fun and there’s no story reason holding you from shoving like 20 more in there

[keen karma]

unlimited horde mode... players will never come out of the sandbox

[zenith beacon]

I would start calling it the litterbox with how much dead sh- I would leave there

[sage sequoia]

actually i haven't dabbled into mods, are there any, even?

[orchid trellis]

i’m not sure!

[olive sluice]

we made a few extremely basic ones for speedrunning, notably a save anywhere mod (that hijacks humming to also save)

i think there was some experimentation around a randomizer but nothing ever came out

[simple harness]

Happy transistor day

[fringe void]

Wtf is a bad game ⁉️

[orchid trellis]

omg is it my girls day..

red transistor…

[cedar grove]

My introduction to this game 10 years ago to the day 🥹 I may have arrived a year late to the party but it’s still my longest-standing favorite ever game which, as cliche as it is, changed my life - I got to meet so many wonderful friends through this fan community over the years and one of the first games I played for myself instead of watching someone else. Totally changed my perspective on video games from “an interactive story” to “an interactive work of art” in every aspect

…and I was going to get a tattoo today that I’ve been thinking about getting for 10 years, but it didn’t pan out, so maybe in 5 years. 😅

[orchid trellis]

@still flicker

tattoo mentioned LOL

[orchid trellis]

transistor does just kinda change lives huh

no game makes me want to make art as much as this one

[cedar grove]

I know I was just insufferable when I got into it and tried to convince absolutely everyone I know to play it as well. And I still am

[still flicker]

LOL

AD when/if you can, go for it

[cedar grove]

I definitely will. Why not! just when circumstances allow it

[orchid trellis]

out of curiosity what will you get

[still flicker]

Like I'm still hoping to get a Transistor tattoo but like none of these tattoo artists know indie games outside of like, Hades, Cult of the Lamb and Untitled Goose Game

[orchid trellis]

i’m gonna tape a birthday hat to my mural when i get home 🫡

[cedar grove]

See, I’ve had 10 years to decide, and I’m still not sure

I’ll workshop it LOL

[solemn iron]

No I missed transistor day!

[zenith beacon]

<@&456908176877551658> ?
this post right there

[blissful blaze]

🫡

[zenith beacon]

[full peak]

I'm not sure if this has been answered before by the devs but
did we get any media mentioned that inspired the plot of Transistor?
I'd like to read/watch/play something in a similar vein, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be down to explore

[faint arch]

Thank you Transistor for making me cry before work today.

[sullen knoll]

literally me

[cedar grove]

transistor is a good game

[zenith beacon]

it sure is the most popular of those channels

[slate latch]

Hy guys, I wanna replay this great game. But today I'm using the 21:9 (3440x1440p) monitor, but max resolution for Transistor is 1920x1200. Is there a change the devs will release high resolution patch for this old but great game?

[cedar grove]

with active development on hades 2 right now i doubt it but who knows what the future holds

maybe one day pyre will even arrive to switch!

[zenith beacon]

while we're at it
please patch the mobile port to run at 60 🙏

although to be honest
giving this game a resolution bump wouldn't do that much
i mean - this game is all 2d sprites and hand drawn .pngs that are stuck forever at a certain resolution - running this at 4k will at best reduce the aliasing a little bit

[olive sluice]

you might be able to upscale by adding the following to your launch options if you're on steam :
-x 3440 -y 1440

[junior lagoon]

More likely to be /X=3440 /Y=1440 , since that's the syntax used in other SGG games

[slate latch]

I bought my copy from EGS, and I tried to apply some settings to change resolution, but nothing worked.
I downloaded the unofficial patch from https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2290-transistor-ultrawide-fix/. But also nothing, maybe because this patch is for steam version.

[slate latch]

I used this settings for launch option, and transistor window is running in 3440x1440, but game is still 16:9, and seems 1080p is stretched to 1440p
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CWPigjWa3KVw7shK7

[urban crater]

Just got this game and I’m getting my ass kicked 😂

[junior lagoon]

That's how it be, haha. You'll get the feel of it

[rapid talon]

Wait who’s talking about tattoos. I have one join the party lol

[hazy crag]

packets go brrrrr

[orchid trellis]

did anyone else watch kpop demon hunters and get Massive red / transistor vibes from it

|| https://www.tumblr.com/earlgraytay/787211603421609984/so-your-boyfriends-a-sword-now-the-support-group || ie

spoilers for the whole movie lol

[woven grove]

A creator I follow recently sung a cover of "The Spine", yay! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6vPyN5BOCA

[olive sluice]

Ngl seeing an ai do karaoke makes me feel incredibly queasy, singing feels like an activity that should be inherently human

[junior lagoon]

I don't know a ton about Neurosama, but I'm pretty sure this sort of singing is closer to a Vocaloid than generative AI

[woven grove]

It's unlikely that this is generative ai singing, it's likely that queenpb (music producer) is singing the cover and doing audio editing afterwards to make it sound like Neuro-sama's voice (given that this is how Neuro's original song "Life" was done it's likely all karaoke is done in a similar manner). I'm mainly basing this off of the fact that it takes significant time and implied effort to do karaoke streams (which are managed by someone with music/art background) and that previous songs have been explicitly sung by humans and have had voice editing afterwards.
I mainly just enjoy everything Neurosama related though

[rancid sky]

If you’re on Steam can you play transistor with a switch pro controller?

It doesn’t seem to work for me like at all

Same question for Pyre

[cedar grove]

you should be able to! Just mess around with controller settings

considering transistor is on switch you should be able to get it to work, idk about pyre…

[loud lichen]

I was able to play Pyre seamlessly with a Switch controller! but I’ve only done it with a usb connection rather than bluetooth so unsure about how that connection would work

[zenith beacon]

Try beating it into submission using steaminput

That thing can basically translate almost every controller to the xinput standard so that transistor will think you’re using the standard Xbox controller

[solemn iron]

I used a switch pro controller via bluetooth to get the multiplayer achievements in pyre, so should work

[zenith beacon]

multiplayer achievements?
in transistor?

wot

[solemn iron]

they said same question for pyre, I was answering that part

ill edit my msg to specify

[zenith beacon]

ah

nah it's just me being a dingus

[neat bay]

Just finished uh

Just finished transistor

For the first time

Crazy

||cried for a bit||

[manic field]

The ending is so good! ||Fun fact, transistor was the game I got myself as a reward for getting through my crisis. Ending hit like a truck||

[neat bay]

yeah

WHY WOULD

AAA

[round hinge]

am i crazy for thinking the Process is an allegory for fascism

[glad perch]

As mentioned before, "Camerata" is how Italian fascists addressed each other. It means "barracks mate" in the military sense and they adopted it because fascists worship the military and because it was different from "compagno" (the way communists would and still do address each other).

Considering how much the Camerata crave "static stability" and how they dream of basically "imposing" a stable aesthetic (and not only) canon on the world that is not fluid and people-opinion-driven like the current Cloudbank, but imposed by an elite that wields the Transistor, and the choice of the word, and the explicit callbacks to 20s fashion and art.

...if it is a coincidence, it's a pretty giant one.

Uh, turns out I remembered correctly and I already gave this answer. Well at least I'm consistent 😄
Link:
#transistor message

[manic field]

It’d be a super giant coincidence, actually.

[raw tangle]

You said it, not me.

[glad perch]

I knew while typing it was too good of a bait 😁

[manic field]

It was incredible bait

[keen karma]

A more unlikely link, but the simplified silhouettes of the processed buildings also reminds me of the Italian fascist architecture. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_della_Civiltà_Italiana and all the other stuff in the EUR district. I should visit that, it’s so fascinating

[glad perch]

Ah yeah... Featured in a number of movies because it looks at the same time timeless and somehow futuristic

[keen karma]

Which also made me interested in Futurism (as in, the art movement) but I think that‘s where it‘s not found in Transistor anymore

[glad perch]

It's in Titus Andronicus, but also in The Tenth Victim with Mastroianni (a 60s SciFi movie based on the short story The Seventh Victim by Scheckley)

Honestly, Futurists were a bunch of asses (writers and poets especially), but they did produce several memorable things.

Yes, I'm Italian and I have opinions about Futurists (even if I'm not that well studied in the Arts).

[glad perch]

Alan Cumming as Saturninus in Titus (1999) giving speeches in a crisp white suit at the EUR feels... Very aesthetically connected to Transistor's camerata, to me

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53de7aaee4b0f7ce895694f9/1533587760661-E6XYW1S6JEPBSDPQNSVZ/titus+3.jpg?format=500w

[raw tangle]

...That's Royce Brackett.

[round hinge]

wait that's even more than i realized

also

Gustav Klimt

whose work inspired the aesthetics of cloudbank

while his work wasn't deemed "impure" in Nazi germany like many of his contemporaries

A lot of it was stolen from Jewish families by the regime

Nazis had a whole thing for censorship and control of art

As yall probably know

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/transistor/images/3/3d/Process_Overlay.png/revision/latest?cb=20201211045853

that color scheme (it's EVERYWHERE) is suspiciously similar to the Nazi swazika flag

i can't believe it took me like 5 years to figure all this out

i'm so glad i'm not crazy

[viral token]

Whoaaaaaa that's so amazing! Never knew what the word meant i thought they made it up for the story haha! 👏 👏 👏

[round hinge]

I believe it also refers to the Florentine Camerata, a group of Italian musicians in the 1500s who believed contemporary music had gone astray and wanted to revive ancient tradition.
Also very in line with fascist belief that there is a "correct" and an "incorrect" way to do art (and everything the Camerata stand for)

[viral token]

Ohhh! Yeah!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[round hinge]

> ||Condemns Royce Bracket to an eternity in the Transistor just so she can escape||
> ||Goes back inside not even 2 minutes later||
What did Red mean by this

[manic field]

||The Camerata ruined her life. She wanted revenge. Couldn’t let Royce live. Couldn’t let him win. Besides, she wanted to go on her own terms. Decide something on her own, for once.||

[round hinge]

I mean yeah, I get why she did it, I just think it's funny because it's such a *devious move

[misty creek]

a while back I listened to some oldish chinese music and feel like Tsai Chin looks kind of Redcore
https://youtu.be/Ic2_SZCpVyo&t=7m15s

7:15 start if timestamp doesn't work

(if you're more into tiktok memes than I am you may recognize the other guy as the original singer of xue hua piao piao)

[round hinge]

very nice! this isn't exactly the vibe but the closest I've heard to Red's vibe outside transistor is probably this
https://youtu.be/4HTkF38Dqr4?si=hS6SVhvRe86-ReUh

[loud lichen]

oh that’s lovely, i can really hear the similarities!

[crimson mango]

replaying transistor and just noticed how similar red using ping() looks to zagreus in h1 with the gun... or the other way around

[junior lagoon]

There are a lot of shared concepts that persist between games

[crimson mango]

yesss. just, i forgot some things / wasn't completely conscious of the specifics.

hades athena is basically passive slot bounce(). revenge boons are passive purge(). h2 vow of return is just cells respawning

...repeatedly having to restart tests because i forgot to set the limiters i wanted is also just like my experience in h1

[reef pawn]

A big one from h2 is holding animation for one of the weapons. Mel drags it around just like Red does with the Transistor

[manic field]

The tail of typhon harassing you in summit (and the whole summit, really) reminded me of the spine

[sacred hollow]

Didn't make that connection with The Spine, but indeed, it's a nice parallel

[errant hamlet]

Is there a benefit for recursing in the game? Or is it just New Game+

[keen karma]

yep it‘s ng+

though i‘d recommend to recurse just for the new-ish intro

[loud lichen]

the benefit is getting to play transistor again

but yeah there’s some very minor dialogue changes i think

[errant hamlet]

Facts ngl. Would love that they make something like this in future

😭

[crimson mango]

you need to recurse to get all the achievements

[errant hamlet]

I had left in Recurse last time

[crimson mango]

some tests only unlock in recursion

[errant hamlet]

Now I'm continuing from there

[chrome widget]

i doubt sgg will make another rogue game right after hades 2 so maybe 👀

[sage sequoia]

it may be a weird comparison but i think the closest i've heard to Red's vibe is... Beth Gibbons from Portishead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60

[cedar grove]

I played portishead to my mom once when we were cooking and she asked me if it’s the transistor soundtrack

👍

[keen karma]

<@&456908176877551658> mr breast give me money

also whats up with these scam pictures now always being taken at an angle

[stone shoal]

I can't believe mr beast didn't give me silksong wtf 😔

[errant hamlet]

Well unless they feel funny and plan to make Hades 3 I believe we'll get something new xD

Also need help, what does "complete function file" mean?

[cedar grove]

use a function as an active, upgrade and passive

Obviously not at the same time. One fight with an ability in each slot will fill it

[junior lagoon]

Finally had time to listen and yeah, I hear it

[barren gust]

hi, my friend's trying to play transistor but the game won't open for him - does anyone here have any experience with that? he's tried a bunch of stuff already

nevermind lol

[manic field]

I’m trying to do my coding lessons while listening to the transistor OST, but I keep getting distracted because the music is so fire

[spice summit]

Just joined the discord today. Loving hades 2. Started playing hades a few months back and have a few clears. Amazing games.

But transistor will always be where i fell in love with supergiant games. Still listen to that soundtrack regularly. Darren and Ashley were magical

[dreamy mulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfSdnCT4CVQ
I dont know if this has already been posted but this video essay is incredible!

[rustic ermine]

i got transistor and i’m going to start it after i finish up my work for college, anyone have any tips to play im really bad at videogames im only good at hades because of the autism

[manic field]

Transistor feels similar to hades, so I think you’ll do alright!

[rustic ermine]

okay that’s good

[granite vessel]

Just weaponise the 'tism a little and you will do fine!

[fathom tartan]

do multiple playthroughs! the more you play the deeper the combat becomes

[native bone]

im defo playing transistor after I finish hades II

[rustic ermine]

okay i started it and i think i suck but im doing Better

[mental ravine]

just wanted to drop in and say Transistor is incredible and would be my favorite SG game if Hades wasn't basically perfect in every respect 😂

defintely my fave soundtrack

[granite vessel]

Transistor stood at the crib of Hades 😉

[granite vessel]

"Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something"

Keep the wise words of Jake the Dog with you

[cedar grove]

Transistor is my favorite sg game of them all :)

[rustic ermine]

thank you goat

[rustic ermine]

i really love the art, and logan cunningham’s voice acting is superb, like he’s the perfect narrator but the intimacy in his voice for Red is sooooo good

[cedar grove]

transistor is a game i know almost by heart
probably a little less now, i used to play it a lot more

[rustic ermine]

have only heard good things about the storytelling and dialogue and tbh that’s all i need even if im getting ragebaited by how bad i play

[cedar grove]

theres a steam guide that may help with some combat basics. iirc it doesnt go into too much detail on "builds"

so you can do what you want

[rustic ermine]

i’ll check it out

[cedar grove]

its called something like how to play transistor without youre feeling like youre abjectly running away from spiders

something like that

[granite vessel]

Man, there's this fanfic that was written from Second Person POV and it's absolute cinema

[rustic ermine]

i like the turn-based thing they have

[granite vessel]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3614067

[rustic ermine]

enough bro.

anyway

because i’m just pressing buttons right now so the turn based works for me

[cedar grove]

ye its not a very traditional turn based game

[cedar grove]

not available?

[granite vessel]

The turn based mode is where you can do the most damage

[granite vessel]

Even when logged in?

[cedar grove]

the based mode

i yam not logged in

[rustic ermine]

no it’s so fun

[rustic ermine]

there are transistor fanfics… will be checking out

[granite vessel]

guess it's for logged in folks only

do yourself a solid and just do the content inside of the beach area... I forgot the name of it

gives you some more experience and helps you unlock functions quicker. and don't be afraid to look up good combinations

[cedar grove]

thats a lotta words

ill check it out when im in a reading mood, that website has been a scourge upon me lately

[granite vessel]

If you have an ereader you can always consider exporting it as a epub or mobi and read it from there

[cedar grove]

is it yours? a friends?

[rustic ermine]

i think i’ll check out a guide, i’m gonna have time to really play on thursday with all of my friends

we’re calling it transistor thursday

[granite vessel]

nah, I found it on the Transistor tvtropes page 😄 And fell in love with it

[cedar grove]

wow, out of all the places to find something

[granite vessel]

it's basically a 'prequel' to the game written from Sword Boyfriend's POV

[cedar grove]

wow its this persons only trna fanfiction

very inspired

[granite vessel]

wrote a gospel, dropped it and left

ngl I slept on Transistor. Not as much as with Pyre (stupid mistake btw) but the impression it left makes me still hold out to a reprint of the OST's vinyl

[cedar grove]

pyre my beloved of all times

i wish for a reprint of pyre but i know it might never happen

[granite vessel]

same same but alas we can only hope

[cedar grove]

oh wow last time i checked transistor was still around

for a while

:(

[granite vessel]

💀

[raw tangle]

"River Always Finds The Sea".

Oh, I missed the rest of the conversation.

I just saw "second person POV" and went "Oh, I know that one."

I think what I want to see return from Transistor most is the modularity of each power.

Primary, secondary, and passive effects depending on where they're equipped.

Stuff like Cluster Rockets on the Rail in H1 is similar to how secondary Functions would combine on a single primary.

[cedar grove]

I love this game

[orchid trellis]

honestly i bought a resold version of the songs of supergiant game and its worth it

[cedar grove]

i got it in time when there was like a tiny bit of leftover in stock

and i was joyous

i think after that when i looked again it was gone

[crimson mango]

i also liked the idea of having to use them in all the slots to unlock character back stories

[tardy sierra]

helloo, i'm trying to play transistor at steam right now and the game just won't open. Can someone help me?

[junior lagoon]

If you haven't already, I'd try reinstalling. Launching Steam as Admin may also help. I'm heading to sleep now but if those don't work I can look more tomorrow

[pale tangle]

Hello

I need some help, I don't know if there's a bug or I'm doing something wrong, I beat Sybil then went on a boat, after that no button works, I have to face 2 snapshots and I can't attack

[patent oak]

Hi guys!
I'm replaying Transistor on steam rn!
I'm trying to do the agency tests (nº 2) however the fight is bugged from the first turn.
The enemy takes an infinite turn and doesn't let me play T_T

[magic solar]

Did transistor or pyre come out first

[scenic gulch]

bastion was their first game, then transistor then pyre!

[manic lava]

yep, it went bastion -> transistor -> pyre

[round hinge]

Possibly intentional detail I haven't seen pointed out yet: Red is ||27 years old, possibly a reference to the "27 club" (many beloved artists, such as Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, and Jimmy Hendrix all died at 27 years old), foreshadowing her fate at the end of the game||

[zenith beacon]

Now that is a good find

[cedar grove]

ohhh i have seen it mentioned. idk if its intended but it sure is a thing

(well. i have seen it mentioned a decade ago. lol)

[zenith beacon]

How old is Mr blue ?

[cedar grove]

Unknown

[manic field]

||I love how the game handles foreshadowing: even when I figured out that she was going to do… that, when I saw her lock herself out of her own apartment, there was nothing I could do about it. Just like her partner.||

||just forced to watch||

[round hinge]

yeah it's pretty rough

never actually made that connection myself

||i see Red's suicide as more allegorical than anything else— less ending her life and more turning her back on everything cloudbank represents, both good and bad (including her art, which, for an artist, seems tantamount to suicide)||
But also ||Signals exists||

so maybe kinda both?? idk

[manic field]

||In cloudbank, everything was democratic- red took her own life, but it was on her terms, not Royce’s or anyone else’s.||

[round hinge]

I think that's kinda part of it, but I mainly see Red's ||suicidal ideation as a desire to no longer exist in cloudbank. She's kind of a black box as far as her thoughts and experiences, but I see her as being super dissilussioned with life on Cloudbank prior to the events of the game (see her discography). After everyone died, she had ultimate power over the city but had no reason to exercise it. So she moved to the country, so to speak.||

||I see the whole game through the lens of Cloudbank city being an allegory for the intersection of democracy and the internet. The Process (fascism) is just a natural result of this phenomenon when a few individuals hijack the system. Red is an artist who is disturbed and disgusted by the ennui of living under the system, and who becomes even more disempowered by the Process as it grows stronger||

||In the end, she gives up on trying to use her celebrity (represented by the Transistor) to change the world as she sees it ("i see the spine of the world, sparkle and shine, light the inside...") and decides to simply live her life with the ones she loves (as represented by Paper Boats, the only song in the game which can be seen as a straightforward expression of love through art without subtext.)||

[fervent drift]

I rewatched the ending of the Transistor.
Easily the best ending of all the games!
I cry every time. Peak endign.
LOVE IT

[delicate flame]

Process is not political

The game itself is less about politics and more about influence in general
Especially posthumous

It's not even "Why we create", but
"Why do we even live in the first place?"

More precisely, "Why do we choose to live?"

This might be a stretch, but you could go as far as to say that Unknown is a projection of Red

There's just a lot of philisophical themes the game is imbued with

[raw tangle]

Absolutely everything is political, and a few people deciding to take democratic power away from the masses to force their narrow vision upon a greater populous is incredibly political.

[round hinge]

it's a little far down the transistor analysis iceberg but I posted an explanation earlier in the thread as to why I have this interpretation, and some other lovely folks actually followed it up with even MORE evidence that I didn't even know about
I'd love to hear your theories and interpretations as well, as to limit the game to only one meaning seems kinda sad

But regarding the Process = fascism interpretation:

• Red/black/white color scheme of the Process is recollective of Nazi imagery
• The artwork of Transistor was inspired by Gustav Klimt, an Austrian painter whose work was stolen from Jewish owners by the Nazi regime. Seeing the city, inspired by Klimt's work, overtaken by the rigid, mathematical Process reflects this
• "Camerata" refers to a certain group of artists who believe art had strayed, a view held by many fascists
• Furthermore, "Camerata" was actually a term used by Italian fascists to refer to one another
• The Camerata's ideology shares many traits with Fascism, most notably the belief that people cannot be trusted to govern themselves effectively

I would love to hear your other interpretations on the game's meaning also, as I don't think a work of art needs to be boiled down to a single interpretation, but there's enough evidence supporting this interpretation that I don't think it should be brushed aside because you like another one better. These things are not mutually exclusive.

[delicate flame]

Camerata as a metaphor for Fascism does sound more plausible than Process itself

Interesting

In my interpretation Process is essentially Fate
and Camerata is a group of people who realized they could manipulate it, but failed to realize that Full Control can't be in their hands, hence the events the game begins with

that one line which went somewhat like "Or was I found by it?" (Royce's bio iirc) basically gives it away for me

but there's other supporting evidence

I want to compile it all at some point
Probably will once I finish my setup to play it in my home Cinema to analyze it extensively and not generally

[round hinge]

Would love to hear more!

[rustic ermine]

oh wow

[rustic ermine]

this is how i read it

i did see the process as like

settler colonialism

also i finished the game like a few days ago and im still thinking abt it

[delicate flame]

The first time I finished it I just cried at the ending
And mentally at my utter lack of understanding of what the heck this game was actually about
Despite being so gorgeous aesthetically and seemingly narratively

That was 4 years ago now....

I mean
It took me ~7 years to fully understand what Undertale is about
Only natural

[rustic ermine]

i didn’t realize it at first but after the ending i was just sooo :(

[delicate flame]

It's funny how I can basically say the same for how I discovered Transistor as the game myself

I just had Old Friends recommended by Spotify's algorithm and got curious to check more songs from the album and got hooked enough to try out the source

In stark contrast games I specifically meant to try out myself (e.g. OneShot) I mostly ended up being disappointed in

Expectations and Fate (Process) are more connected than one might think

Tying this back to the game, recall Royce's attempts to reach acclaim by going avant-garde after noticing the patterns of the Process (prior to discovering its true form) yet only making matters far worse for him by doing so

[round hinge]

yeah i loved that passage too

for me it reflects the nature of life on Cloudbank: When something becomes broken into ones and zeroes, it loses something critical

[delicate flame]

I believe Transistor is less policial per se and more morally-ethical (questioning) oriented

[round hinge]

Oh yeah I see it as all of the above

like, how many people in the music industry stop seeing music as something they're passionate about and as a commodity that can be created following certain rules to become successful

[delicate flame]

Unknown starts by slandering Camerata and is adamant on their views until the bittersweet end
Yet Camerata is... not evil

Never has been

[round hinge]

yeah

[delicate flame]

Neither is Fascism which could have at the very least served as an inspiritation

It's just wrong

[round hinge]

i mean, i think fascism is kinda evil, but in order to carry this thread further you have to start breaking down definitions of morality

the road to hell is paved with good intentions and comfortable decisions

[delicate flame]

The entire idea of evil is flawed
Malice, yes, that does exist
But nothing is at root, inherently willing to cause harm
Even if that brings pleasure
Which in itself is a good reason
Where good is used ontologically, not morally

[round hinge]

i would say fascism is evil and people who are fascists are evil to the extent that they are fascists but the idea that a person can be measured as wholly good or evil is wrong. it's like using a boolean to measure a float

[delicate flame]

Well that's basically morals vs ethics
Morally evil, ethically not
Perhaps that's the view I would hold myself eventually
I need to refine this aspect of my own ideology further

[round hinge]

personally: evil = ideals that create human suffering, good = ideals that remove it

it doesn't have to be complicated, in fact i think it's better if it isn't

[delicate flame]

these two can be substituted with Unfavorable and Favorable, respectively
with ambiguity removed

[round hinge]

at least in this context

that works too

[delicate flame]

with good and bad being kept for ontological purposes only

evil just doesn't sit anywhere

[round hinge]

could you define ontological?

[delicate flame]

Hell as a concept was created in order to suppress wrongdoing even in a seemingly finite world
Yet it's only natural to feel remorse for such actions, and for a reason
Sometimes there is no repentance, sure, but even then the reasoning behind the deeds can never be "bad"

In Crime in Punishment, Raskolnikov struggles with this and settles on the right conclusion, but is still haunted by the idea that it was morally a corrupt action he has taken, despite Dostoevsky showing in full detail through his monologues how there's nothing bad that would come out even of a murder

Was it the correct decision to make? That's up to debate
But in reality it's of less significance, specifically when it has already been made

History shapes the Future, not dwells on the Past

[delicate flame]

Concerning being, broadly speaking

An idea is bad if it's not beneficial (lit. making good)
So, yes, it is true that going on an expensive vacation while having a student loan debt to pay is a bad idea (most likely, context is crucial)

Even so we're merely playing a guessing game a lot of the times
What may seem like a bad idea might route you to the desired path, while the one you stuck with as good might lead you astray

[round hinge]

certified human condition moment

[delicate flame]

regarding that I just have one thing to say

One must not imagine Sisyphus happy, one must imagine being the boulder rolled

[round hinge]

am a little unclear on meaning

[delicate flame]

Like Scatman John said, "I want to be a human being, not a human doing"

[round hinge]

you're not gonna quote albert camus and then scatman john within the same 60 seconds💀

[delicate flame]

We're too concerned with work and doing things the right way
Yet bliss is not in that, but in finding joy in simply being, unchained

[round hinge]

fair enough

[delicate flame]

for that, refer to https://youtu.be/x5Dpz6w_jz4?si=rz4H14tfYMxj2BGA

[delicate flame]

It's even reflected in English as a language
English is the only language that uses do emphatically, as in "I did do that"

Asian languages, for example, are a lot more alien to the concept of doing at all

[round hinge]

Whorfianism?

[delicate flame]

Yet being is used universally
If it's true, you don't say "yes" in Chinese, you say "of being"

And being is not bound by any forms, included temporal

Though Transistor itself does not touch upon much on this theme in particular

[round hinge]

my worldview is fairly straightforward

• minimize suffering = good, causing it = bad
• recognize the limits of your own perspective— you only have one, after all, and there are billions
• evil usually happens when people are unable to share in someone else's perspective
• don't use a simple variable to measure a complicated problem (like good or evil, or in the case of Transistor, for instance, political or apolitical)
  everything else is all gravy

[delicate flame]

More Existential than Ontological

[round hinge]

i analyze things a lot but i don't think i really use the same framework as you

[delicate flame]

Suffering is minor in my ideology as it's not truly a thing, just like evil
You can't minimize something that's part of the Universe (not in the strictly physical sense)

Although..

I do strive to reduce it
Just, not having that in mind

If you mind less, your mind is more free

[round hinge]

Suffering is rather important to me as many people i know and care about have been very unhappy much of the time and i generally prefer it when they aren't

maybe a few years of secluded contemplation would change my perspective, idk

[delicate flame]

In other words, not focusing on the negative is liberating
where not focusing still implies you're taking it into consideration

That said, I aim to reduce the Unfavorable
As bad can't be reduced, and evil (suffering is part of) does not exist

[round hinge]

it is liberating but it also regrettably difficult for certain people to do

[delicate flame]

I understand
It took me around 15 years to come to the conclusions I have been presenting just now
Even so, not in the best form

[round hinge]

yeah it's a process (heh)

[delicate flame]

I've already outlined the main points of my Ideology, but I need further refinement and a way to properly publish it

Transistor plays a major role in it, particularly the Process and Traces as aspects of Fate and a broader term for Legacy

The bottom line is that we all wield Transistors, in a sense

We just don't realize it

[round hinge]

Transistor has influenced my worldview a lot as well, although for me it's more external— it has helped clarify my perspective on the internet/technology, democracy, art, celebrity/influence and where those three things collide

also over several years :P

[delicate flame]

Ironically I don't think about technology anymore when it comes to Transistor

I just see it as one very big metaphor

The fact that the game never mentions what the origin of Cloudbank is, even indirectly, is yet another clue for me

Thing is, it's beside the point

[round hinge]

a lot of people have the theory that it's a simulation but also fair

[delicate flame]

Well, this just parallels how we ourselves still don't know what the origin of our own Universe is
Sure, Big Bang or Some Supernatural Force behind the Creation, but neither can be really proven

[round hinge]

huh

[delicate flame]

Refer to Simulation Theory for our own world

Same thing

But it's just one assumption

We just kind of started existing
Being there
But, just like the World of Transistor, our own Universe is most likely eventually coming to an End... Or another Beginning? (NG+ for Transistor)

We simply can't know
But it's in the understanding that it doesn't matter where there's no reason for despair or panic

[round hinge]

nihilism?

[delicate flame]

That too

Nihilism is on the extreme, with other Philisophies like Absurdism being further from the edge, yet still not really being at terms with our condition you've mentioned

I myself have personally struggled accepting it, especially for the last few years

[round hinge]

like, coming to terms with the world?

[delicate flame]

mhm

[round hinge]

do you feel that's changed recently?

[delicate flame]

Even if you find meaning in leaving Legacy, what does if matter if that as well doesn't last forever?

[round hinge]

maybe it's time for a change in perspective?

[delicate flame]

Well, the time for me has come
And so have I

"In a room full of mirrors, I figured it out"

[round hinge]

?

[delicate flame]

I've been in a constant process of changing my perspective, by far mostly through internal analysis of the World and not adherence to someone else's ideas

Think of me as an Ancient Greek philosopher
As my own ideas regarding the Soul, for instance, apparently closely resemble that of Plato
As well as his idea of love, though he has not called it by his own name like it is now

[round hinge]

You ever read House of Leaves? bc if not i think you'd have a field day with that one

[delicate flame]

Yet I also managed to find balance in seemingly contradicting views
For Plato, it's Aristotle

[round hinge]

the platonic idea of love (how women see me lmao)

[delicate flame]

I've taken from many, though without realizing it
But conscious assimilation of information is analoguous to Processing Traces in Transistor

Me listening to Music I've pointed out has always been that

Of live and deceased artists alike

[round hinge]

ahhhh i think i see what you're getting at

you should read Katabasis and House of Leaves

[delicate flame]

I'm struggling with reading

I haven't read a book in full in ages

[round hinge]

dopamine thing, or something else?

[delicate flame]

Potentially

I tried to diagnose ADHD, but failed

[round hinge]

yeah it can be hard to get good treatment

[delicate flame]

Perhaps the Process decided otherwise

I entrust my life to it

[round hinge]

i like how this sentence works with both of our interpretations lmao

[delicate flame]

After so much defiance

[round hinge]

either fate or the american health care system

[delicate flame]

I'm not American, ethnically

[round hinge]

ah mb

[delicate flame]

Nor do I reside in the States

[round hinge]

ethnocentricity moment

the health care system of wherever you currently reside

[delicate flame]

Though I have been told to strongly resemble one, but it was a year ago

[delicate flame]

mhm

[delicate flame]

And has been said multiple times to speak better English than themselves

That's not to brag, but to point out how Ethnicity shouldn't matter

https://youtu.be/d27gTrPPAyk?si=ivBAKdR4YzP9B-_d

This Hit is about that, if you think more broadly

[round hinge]

might listen a bit later but i should probably go now tbh

gotta get food

been fun talking to you!

[delicate flame]

Treat yourself to a meal or eight
Faremell™

[jolly radish]

thanks for a lively and interesting discussion in here earlier! it may interest some of you to know that i recall greg (kasavin) saying many years back that albert camus' the plague influenced the writing/worldbuilding of transistor.

of course i can't find where that was said now or if it was simply a response to a casual question, but there you have it! i had not read it before and started it just before march 2020, at which point it sort of lost its appeal 😔

[cedar grove]

Yeah I remember it but don’t have the screenshot

I bought it recently-ish because I rlly liked the stranger, but didn’t get to reading it yet

I also got the myth of Sisyphus but I hear other than That One Quote it’s not very good. Maybe

[rustic ermine]

woah really

[raw tangle]

A friend got me into Scott Siegler's Infection towards the end of 2019. Made it through the first two books and then had to put the third down as the plot kicked into high gear.

[delicate flame]

woahhhh

earlier I meant to revisit that one youtube video where they discuss the process (haha) of making the game

hmph
but I also want to complete Undertale's 10th anniversary streams as just any commentary from Toby Fox is already a goldmine for me

I'll do both in due time, surely

[delicate flame]

I just forgot about Plague to be perfectly honest...

Not because it was not significant
just
not enough for me personally I guess?

The Stranger on the other hand was the book that intruigued me the most during my existential ruminations (and depression...) in 2022

I still didn't read it, but did view the main points, like with many works

Perhaps that has influenced particularly the idea of Unknown as the counterpart of the protagonist

Very much likely if what you said is true about Plague

Though...

It's more like Unknown was the one killed

Maybe Red is a bit of a Stranger in a way, but instead of her killing it's her Processing others after being considered too outstanding in a negative way?

No clear parallels with that book it looks like
But that doesn't necessarily deny impact it could've had

I'd honestly at this point do whatever I'd need to to have an interview with the Team myself

Especially Darren as by far my most streamed artist
And one to remain that for a while

[delicate flame]

It's as simple as
Control:
Over yourself - Unrestrained ✅
Over literally anything else - Present, but as an Illusion one must dissolve ❌
It took me ages to come to this conclusion on my own, but it is a perfect, flawless explanation of how our entire Universe Operates
We're just Programs, Users inside the Process that we can observe, learn, but not modify as we have no Rights, no Permission for this "Root Access"
That's why praying is useless
you're trying to reason with the mindless Process that does not discriminate
yet exists to serve you

here's an insight of how I directly reference Transistor in my Philosphy

[round hinge]

i mostly agree with this. i think the idea of what it means to have "control over yourself" is where things get the weirdest imo and where I have the most thoughts, although they have little to do with my interpretation of Transistor tbh

[delicate flame]

I have genuienly started an entire framework of Universe as a Machine analogy and it's hard to believe for me how much sense it makes, but
I've always sensed that something just pulled me towards Transistor
From a music streaming service's Algorithm suggesting its Soundtrack to the themes deeply resonating with me even though right off the bat I was confused on what is the whole thing really about
While the strictly speaking Gameplay isn't as memorable even for me, the Aesthetics and the Thematical aspect are simply that sublime

Part of me wishes SG could keep going with that approach, sacrificing gameplay that at least the original Hades has notably excelled at already

Though at the end of the day, we're all Cloudbank citizens
Often thinking we have our voices stolen, yet it's still within us, pushing us to Sing what our Soul Speaks

Camerata is essentially literally a self-installed Operational System on the Software that is The Process, studied by Royce and Hardware as the visible part of the City explored by him and Kendrells
They had the Illusion that they had the Root access, but, really, no one does nor can

Though it's not exactly correct to call Process Software as that would technically just be Camerata itself, then

It's more like the entire Current that is passed between Hardware (City modified behind the scenes), not just the electrical

Which you can redirect, but not change nature and destination of

[round hinge]

Transistor is a lot more integrated with my view of the external than my view of the internal personally, but i might yap a bit about my own philosophy of life

The thing i've had the most difficulty trying to figure out, trying to reconcile myself with the happenings of the universe, is the nature of self. What does it mean to control yourself, really?

Because the term "control" implies that one thing is controlling something else. It's something you do to something external. If you wish to change something in yourself, it must be because there is one part of you that wishes for a change, and another part that does not.

To me, this sort of cognitive dissonance is what lies at the root of much suffering.

I think this is kind of what Freud was getting at with the id ego superego thing, but that way of framing things didn't really click with me the way it was explained.

So the conclusion I came to was that human beings, or at least me, have two big fundamental parts.

There is the part of you that decides what you want to do
There is the part of you that decides what you want to be

For instance, I want to be someone who is athletic, well-liked, well-read, etc. But the things I want to do don't always lead me towards that goal.

Many people spend their whole lives doing mental gymastics, trying to convince those parts to be in alignment. Usually one of two ways.

The David Goggins method, where you yell at the part of yourself that wants to do certain things until it wants to do something productive

And the Lizzo method, where you try to persuade the part of yourself that decides what you want to be that you're already happy with who you are.

These methods work for many people, but for a lot of people, these methods don't work the way they wish they would.

Some people try and fail to abuse themselves into working harder, but fail. Others try and convince themselves they're happy with their lives, but deep down aren't really content being who they are. Many do both.

When these methods fail, I think the best thing you can do is talk about it and try to find others who feel the same way as you.

If you want to get in the weeds, you could argue that there is a third part of you that moderates these parts (like what Freud described) and maybe even a fourth, subconscious part that decides what you need, and what actually makes you happy.

But the cognitive dissonance between these first two parts is what drives most people crazy I think

I don't know if this clicks with anyone, but hopefully some of you can relate!

[reef stump]

I come back to this discord from time to time hoping that i will someday see news about Transistor 2. I wish they would still make good games like Bastion and especially Transistor.

[dapper flint]

If you have eagle eyes, or "ears" you can spot some metaphoric aspect in Hades II towards transistor, I do really like transistor and when i played Hades II i found many things and ideas that reincarnated in Hades.

One tip : Just hear Scylla's and her sirens wonderfull singing.

Some of my notice .: ⚠️ minor spoilers to Hades II

|| Functions - God's boons
Limiters - Vow of Rivals

(if i know properly) Darren Korb absolutely nails it when it comes to creating hypnotic, soul-stirring music. His soundtracks don’t just fit the game — they pull you in. There’s something about the way his music makes you feel devoted to the game’s bosses. And on top of that, he always chooses the perfect voice actress to bring that unique atmosphere to life.

For the transistor Ashley Barrett was the perfect choice and As for Hades II
Erin Yvette was similar awesome choice. The best thing as i say if you have eagle ear you exactly know where you can hear them singing together. (short of) ||

Also for some reason i really like Dora's voice too

tough i don't think will be Transistor II, or not in the close future but who know...

[sand herald]

That just felt like insulting the newer games, and even tho I'm kinda with you (Transistor my beloved 😍) and would also love more Transistor, I ain't gonna let it slide without elaborating

[silk dirge]

I've only played both hades, but transistor looks really cool. its definitely on my list of things to play next time it goes on sale

[rustic ermine]

you should check it out! i had a great time playing it (even though i was almost always losing a fight)

[willow coral]

I just finished playing Transistor and I am devastated at the ending but in a good way I just… wow. Honestly I wish I could wipe my brain and experience it over and over again haha

I would highly recommend! And the music is so good too! Such a good game

I see talk about a hypothetical transistor 2, what would that be like? It seems like a done story so it’s hard for me to imagine it. Just curious what you all are thinking!

[raw tangle]

I want Functions to come back in some way.

[orchid trellis]

id fw a transistor prequel tbh

show red’s concerts, the forming of the process… sybil…

[round hinge]

Idk how they’d build upon Transistor since it’s so self-contained and complete but I wish there was more of Red’s music, like an EP or album by her

[manic field]

Transistor would make for an amazing tv series

[pulsar bone]

I think Transistor and Pyre are definitely the games I would most like to see adapted to tv (extremely unlikely to happen but it’s nice to think about). Both have really good aesthetics and worlds that could be expanded upon. I’d like if the Transistor tv show focused more on what Cloudbank was like before the events of the game (such as detailing the rise of the Camerata, perhaps from Sybil’s perspective?). It would also flesh out many of characters who are only talked about in the terminals and function descriptions (and would also expand on characters such as Grant and Asher Kendrell who imo didn’t get as much screen time as they deserved). The second half of the show would probably more closely follow the events of the game although I imagine the second half would feel very different from the first and would be difficult to seamlessly connect.

[orchid trellis]

arcane s2 if it was good…

[sand ivy]

when are we getting a supergiant concert in bay area 😔

[bitter drum]

Amelia Garbur the actual GOAT

[dusty axle]

Hey I’m trying to play the game for the first time and my controller won’t work

It’s not a problem with the controller itself it works on other games but idk why it wont work on this game

Does anyone have any idea what’s wrong?

My cursor also totally disappears in fullscreen lol

So playing mouse and keyboard also isn’t an option

[junior lagoon]

Are you using Steam? If so, I'd try enabling/disabling Steam Input in the game properties from your Library

[dusty axle]

Yeah im on steam, is there a better platform to play it on?

[junior lagoon]

No, Steam should work fine, just changes what suggestions I give.

I'd try what I wrote above, if that doesn't work I'll be back on my computer tomorrow and can see about another solution

[dawn ridge]

day 30 of praying everyday that the next super giant game is transistor 2 and its a mix between transistor 1 and hades

[gloomy karma]

nah i would love to discover a completely new world and story now

[dawn ridge]

I want them to somehow do both at once

[drifting lily]

Recently finished my 5th ascension and this game so peak. Ashley Barrett (reds voice actor) poped of on the songs

[gloomy karma]

->game about someone having lost her voice
->one of the favorite thing in the game is her voice actor

[raw tangle]

"Well, maybe they shouldn't have hired a vocalist with one of the most gorgeous voices of all time."

[long owl]

Bro I've waited 3 years

Transistor pls come to android😭💔🙏

[glad perch]

Instead of a Transistor sequel or prequel, I'd prefer a Red album, maybe with some guest musicians like the amazing players that worked with Darren Korb for Hades 2.

[limpid viper]

i'd say the songs of supergiant games album is sorta already that xD

[glad perch]

ok, but we could have more songs, as a treat? 😄

[long owl]

Some1 tell me heres still a chance for transistor on android

[warm kettle]

After all these years since release? Not to be a mood breaker but chances are almost none

[limpid viper]

this is making me wonder if i could try writing a fan-song-cycle themed around transistor

ofc since i'm not a protessional musician, as in i can't even read notes, it would have to be a tuneless cycle

also whenever i've tried writing something based on the world of transistor, i've always fallen into one trap or another

the big one is that if i deviate enough from the perspective of red and unknown, i end up just writing about irl, since i've always bought stock in the idea that cloudbank is basically a discord chat

[round hinge]

A fun headcanon I have is that one time, Red wrote a song wishing it would rain in Cloudbank sometimes because, you know, everyone always votes for sunshine. After she released it, her fans made it rain for a solid week, leaving Red lowkey freaked out. Thought it might be fun to write that

[glad perch]

That's just Prayers for Rain by The Cure 😁

(He did play it at a concert I attended and it rained so hard they had to suspend)

(Then they came back and played The Drowning Man, because Robert Smith is just funny like that)

[full peak]

I've just got Transistor, can't wait to play!🤞

[warm kettle]

Have fun, it's superb

[full peak]

[frigid epoch]

✨

[orchid trellis]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/982078919782060032/1439159411800281128/IMG_2669.png?ex=69198126&is=69182fa6&hm=823a253b700bfa7b9f6e7133b3e601667bea499a6e530056020be11a1b9b0d83&

oh ok nice embed

[lapis bronze]

Hey, friends. I’ve played Transistor on PC and Switch, now the PS4 version on PS5. I’ve encountered an issue I’ve never experienced before: sometimes I’ll load the game and elements of the GUI will be missing - button icons, borders around the function icons, a portion of the right side of the health bar, and sometimes the health bar itself will be empty and black. Closing and restarting the game seems to resolve the problem, but it’s not consistent and can take multiple attempts.

Has anyone else had this issue? I’m wondering if it’s an issue specific to PS5, or if my data is somehow corrupted. I contacted Supergiant support and received an automated email telling me they don’t offer personalized support for their older titles, so here I am.

[junior lagoon]

Heyo! It's most likely related to tech differences between the PS4 and PS5. Have you already tried reinstalling the game?

(And yeah, for clarity there's a limit to how much mechanical tech support I can provide, but I can definitely help troubleshoot and explore some options)

[delicate flame]

abigail I can't believe you're my first (#1) fan can I be your fan too so we're even?

[orchid trellis]

yeah!!!!!

ive had this display name since the first hades / trailer dropped ive been on this train i truly am your first fan

[delicate flame]

I'm so busy with other things among them re-100%ing the first game when will I find time for the second game the Mel game

or, rather, when will the time find me....

[slow summit]

https://youtu.be/8mCWgAhtlUU

[chrome widget]

how long does a first playthrough usually take

I'm considering either finally starting this or firing up skong again

[zenith beacon]

DUDE

go play it

first run is about... 6 hours?

maybe 8 if you want to get all the side challenges and die a bunch of time getting haircut

[junior lagoon]

Mine was 9.7 hours according to steam, but I also spent some extra time in one of the challenge rooms going for a high score, and generally took my time

[zenith beacon]

yeah it is the kind of game you want to take your time with

slow down, take in the gorgeous environments

take a break, listen to music, hum along

more so than any other SGG game

[junior lagoon]

Definitely not a game you want to rush to the end on

[zenith beacon]

ye

also it is the only game in which mr. cunningham is playing drunk

so - you know - take your time
enjoy it while it lasts

[manic field]

The game is pretty short, but it's so jam-packed with detail and symbolism that it goes a long way

[main notch]

oh yeah that scene

[limpid viper]

it's one of the few games i've finished more than once (and not because i'm addicted to it, like skyrim or minecraft xD)

in retrospect that's a dubious distinction since i do replay games not-too-rarely

[somber current]

does anyone know if they restock the vinyls or would it better to buy secondhand

[simple harness]

Thinking on transistor again
I love its ng+ so much

Being able to get a copy of each function is the best

And swapping all enemies to their 3.0 version or adding the Men enemies from the start is insane

And most important

Royce replacing sword bf on the initial line

[manic field]

He opens and closes the game… like a set of brackets

Royce Bracket

[raw tangle]

One of my favorite game mechanics of all-time.

[reef pawn]

Do you think his surname is spelled [ or {?

[junior lagoon]

Probably [, since { is technically a brace?

[misty creek]

there's some little Johnny tables joke in here

[raw tangle]

Get Randall on the phone, publish a series of comics about "What If the Black Hat Guy were in Cloudbank and trying to counteract the Camarata?"

[reef pawn]

Does anyone have 4k Transistor (or at least aesthetically similar to Cloudbank) wallpapers they could recommend?

I wanted to assemble @Transistor gamers in here but servers permissions don't let us tag those roles

[junior lagoon]

(yah that would ping way too many people lmao)

[zenith beacon]

listen
transistor fans are so starved of content you can just leave a simple message here and we'll still flock to this channel seeing that one unread

[manic field]

I saw Coldshade's message and have been lurking in the channel ever since

[zenith beacon]

same, actually

i only just replied

[manic field]

We'll see the ||Summit section from Hades 2|| and go insane because || it's a reference to the Spine segment|| even though ||it's not as good||

Why are we still here... transistor will never get more content... why are we waiting when the devs have not indicated ONCE that it will...

[zenith beacon]

well i don't mean a new game

[manic field]

I would take a new piece of art

[zenith beacon]

but like
someone digs up some assets