resets are now an integral part of the game
#transistor
still zealot
tough tundra
Wait so what is their line up considered
In terms of their games
And what genres they've been defined as
noble portal
well.... kinda depends on who you ask I guess but I've frequently seen Transistor billed as an RPG which does make sense so I'd say:
Bastion, Transistor: Action RPG
Pyre: visual novel/sport RPG
Hades: roguelike hack'n'slash(?) (haven't played Hades yet)
still zealot
pretty much yeah
tho honestly 'action rpg' is such a blanket term
only slightly better than saying 'action adventure'
noble portal
yeah
still zealot
kinda like how their ost genres are unique for each game, the genre for the game itself isn't always easy to place
calm jackal
i call em isometric brawlers
jolly radish
i am sure some people think royce is creepy, and that's okay! we support all sorts of opinions in this channel, even when they're incorrect 
zinc stag
honestly his way of talking just made me think jeff goldblum fused w microsoft sam
calm jackal
thats actually his parents
tough tundra
Feel more like Steve Buschemi since Goldblum just has a quality in his sound that makes him a bit brighter anf sharper
Its so hard to pinpoint him nvm
frail fulcrum
Are there videos with the all dialogue from Boxer?
still zealot
probably
noble portal
They’re probably really long
still zealot
yeah, he does do most of the talking throughout the entire game
spring plover
The files have been extracted before but I don't think anyone has uploaded all of them. It would be a lot of work
💦
weary heron
:O
blissful blaze
👀
jolly radish
trna is the only game where the sight of wheat makes me 😱
and like i swear greg said in one of the old q&as that there's no physical disease as we'd think of it in cloudbank s-so...??
Dark(?) Take: people retire to the country voluntarily all the time.........
calm jackal
the reason people are so casual abt it is because it's usually a choice
jolly radish
honestly i feel like that could well be true... i'm not totally sure that people in cloudbank have the same relationship with death that we do
calm jackal
that's the kind of lore consequences that you get when you write a utopia
rare moth
hhhhhhh o YIKES good catch xel
jolly radish
also hahaha this completely ruins everything rn but i was going through the assets in soup's transistor channel (because i was looking for more wheat imagery) and ran across this + the subsequent comment
You know I had to do it to em
rare moth
YES
jolly radish
longboye
noble portal
Omg I never noticed the damn cigarette
calm jackal
is this used in game?
noble portal
(Also if you pump up the brightness in that scene he has a pretty fancy chair behind him)
noble portal
Yeah there like an indistinct lump behind him but if you play with the colour settings in an editor it’s a really nice chair XD
I’m at work otherwise I’d dig through my files to find it
jolly radish
this is a weird chair on which sit at a high tech ovc terminal, royce, but you do you https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/319945592128143361/373472978777800704/chair.png
pulsar lily
looks comf
noble portal
Oh that’s not what I remember it looking like 🤔
noble portal
I’ll check back in a bit when I get home and see if it is
I could be wrong
Anyway I gotta go, enjoy your voluntary death-retirement lore XD
jolly radish
anyway these are in the like... cathedral in fairview https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/319945592128143361/373472767884132382/window1.png
i feel like there's an awful lot of "inversion" imagery vis-à-vis cloudbank and the country in transistor
yellow 🔻 vs blue 🔺 ...
knotty moth
"and like i swear greg said in one of the old q&as that there's no physical disease as we'd think of it in cloudbank s-so...??"
Personally I see that as another brick in the wall of the clues that point toward Cloudbank as a simulated virtual environment.
And I'd tend to see voluntarily retiring to the country at a certain age, maybe mid 30s, as something like switching off from social media because you're weary of it
loud sable
mid 30's? LOL
whole grove
...every OVC terminal claims that it is the 67th year of Cloudbank, we cannot be sure about that beacause nobody in Cloudbank is that old, people are usually around their 30s...
knotty moth
Where in your younger years yuo'd be a more voracious consumer of social media content and interactions. And I don't think this was ever explicitly shown, but are there any children in cloudbank? It doesnt really prove anything that they're absent, maybe they just weren't relevant to the story and assets werent made for them.
knotty moth
Yeah I was going by the ages in the character porfiles. Obviously we dont have any detailed demographics or anything
whole grove
This is a great read, it's what made me understand transistor's story in the first place after finishing the game: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=852094997
cedar grove
oh sorry I was talking irt the thing ship posted
knotty moth
I mean, that's just his theory. It kinda turns me off how arrogant it sounds for him to be "explaining" the plot when he's not the writer
whole grove
What are you referring to?
cedar grove
Cloudbank being 67
whole grove
Oh I was asking bomoo
knotty moth
I meant that guide you linked.
cedar grove
oh I’m sorry lol
whole grove
No worries
knotty moth
Disregard what I said, please.
whole grove
Anyway, to wrap up the whole confusion, the quote I gave from that guide was a complement to what bomoo said, i.e backing it up
Uhh let me link a screenshot
🙂
knotty moth
❤
Yeah, the children thing, I figured, to use the social media analogue in our world, you could say people before their teens don't plug into social media so much.
I mean yeah in our world they do, but the golden age for binging on social media seems to be teens - mid/late 20s, I'd argue
whole grove
I guess whenever people get to the point in their lives when they want to show off their best life on social media, and have the opportunity to do so
knotty moth
Other clues are the holodeck ceiling in the Sandbox
All the programming terminology
The fact that the game was tagged as "cyberpunk" early on
calm jackal
im not sure if the fact that no children are "seen" is really that damning
the characters that are functions are in the sword because they're influencial
knotty moth
The Transistor as an admin-level control program for shaping the virtual environment, and the way Red uses it almost clumsily, like a sword, and Royce is using it much more deftly
Yeah probably not conclusive, Cake. Maybe children just weren't important to the story and so assets for them weren't made.
whole grove
It's also pretty difficult to tell because we never see cloudbank actually populated, not even in a flashback
I think that is one of the few missed opportunities I wish was taken in transistor, you walk down empty streets and stuff which is cool and atmospheric and fits with the narrative but... there isn't really a frame of reference for what it would have been like before the disaster, other than OVC terminals
Which makes it sort of hard to gauge how bad the disaster is and how much it's actually affecting people
calm jackal
transistor's supposed to be kind of a lonely game
whole grove
Yeah and I understand that
knotty moth
Then again you never see that in Bastion either
whole grove
That's true. Although you do get a little bit from going to all the locations and seeing them being destroyed, which helps you gauge it
It feels like you could say that about transistor but it feels very different
knotty moth
also I suspect OVC means "online voting console"
I never caught that Sybil knew Boxer would be there, and that he'd get in the way.
Wasn't that just an accident?
blissful blaze
oh, sybil definitely knew
well.
Ms. Reisz promised that the Camerata could get to Red at a time when she would be completely alone. Trace data reveals an 85% chance she falsified this claim.
blissful blaze
Through all this, Ms. Reisz observed the aloofness of one of Red's companions, and decided he must have been insinuating Red against her. Ms. Reisz thought through various ways to rectify this.
knotty moth
Ohhh interesting
still zealot
like that
calm jackal
sybil made sure blue would die
jolly radish
late but although i don't have the link to the old anniversary chats (@spring plover, do you?) i believe word of greg exists that there are children in cloudbank, even if we don't see them
...and, interestingly, that the process of having children may work in a way that is different from what we're used to
noble portal
bah, I lost my screenshots of Royce's studio...
spring plover
I do not have them on hand but might later
shrewd root
Upload to imgur and post the link 👍
noble portal
but the chair xel found WAS in fact the chair in that image
that's all I wanted to check
jolly radish
royce.......
noble portal
it's mirrored and the lighting makes it look more green but
that's the one XD
gotta watch the world end from the snazziest chair in your house
jolly radish
lmfsd 10/27/17 was a wild day in trna channel
noble portal
?
jolly radish
haha i'm just backreading soup
noble portal
I'm at soup...
still zealot
What do you mean you're at soup?!
jolly radish
a s(ou)pirited convo about alma's desire to stuff royce into a locker 😂
ahah, soup is a colloquial nickname for the fan-run supergiant server, @still zealot
still zealot
oh
noble portal
"3much leggy"
noble portal
a little bit also that
so few people know what it's actually from tho, that series is gold
jolly radish
oH LMAO now that you mention it
still zealot
:D
jolly radish
i totally forgot about that
still zealot
What store are you in?!?!
jolly radish
that is basically how i imagine asher and royce's dynamic tbh
still zealot
pffftttt
jolly radish
see how i....... cleverly made it on topic 
still zealot
just gonna crowbar that right in
noble portal
ok but who's who in that situation? XD
jolly radish
oh if you think asher's not the camerata's Only Sane Man...
noble portal
fair enough
still zealot
tbf every character in that abridgement (except maybe the main girl) is insane and pretty dimwitted
jolly radish
which is so sad because he's the youngest of the lot
i kind of imagine grant as a low key yet still pretty even split between volfred sandalwood and the mayor from portlandia
still zealot
oof I wish I could say but I've never seen the actual anime
jolly radish
ahaha no it's a super goofy show, it's on netflix i believe
i imagine grant as someone who can express great ideas incredibly eloquently and persuasively
......and also as someone who can express very bad ideas incredibly eloquently and persuasively
still zealot
lmao
noble portal
sounds about right
remember, we have it on semi-good authority that political assassinations were Grant's idea XD
jolly radish
lfmdsa yes
you say that JUST as i'm about to sing the praises of grant's heart being in the right place hahahaha
still zealot
n i c e
noble portal
Grant: What if we just killed some people? 🤷
Royce: ...... 🤔 ...... Yeah alright.
oops XD
still zealot
this is great
calm jackal
i think the camerata kinda drank the koolaid
wow this place is kinda boring > it would be better if only smart people could vote > the smart people wouldnt agree with that idea > let's steal their souls
jolly radish
lmjdkl
oh man now that i'm at a keyboard i can actually write this out though
okay full disclosure which is i have not thought overmuch about the entire camerata's reasons for going along with this whole plan, mostly just royce and to a smaller extent grant seeing as they were kind of the architects of the whole thing, and of those two mostly just royce because i'm a fic writer and think way too much about my faves and their motivations 
i'm presupposing, i guess, that whatever you think of cloudbank, it does have rather more in common with a digital world than a physical one
i think that the camerata's ultimate goal didn't stem from elitism, though certainly you could argue that in practice that's what it was
my impression was that their deliberate targeting of free-thinkers and highly individualistic and influential people was not to silence them, though--rather, something about their traces/natures was supposed to help the camerata accomplish their vision of helping cloudbank realize its full potential. it was because they valued the contributions of those people in some almost material way that is totally incomprehensible to me because how does the transistor even work
i think from royce's perspective, it's important to consider cloudbank in terms of what are constants and what are variables. in cloudbank, just about everything's a variable, right? everything can change, right down to the color of the sky or the layout of the city, hell, possibly even things we consider laws of nature, such as gravity (looking at fairview)
which makes sense when you think about virtual worlds, like... even take the games we play, right, you can put all kinds of variable wonky weirdness into a program. so like... where are the constants? what's stable in cloudbank? its people (their opinions? definitely not. their intrinsic value to making cloudbank cloudbank? i'd say yes but i think royce kind of. misses that piece)? maybe not. but... math. math's a constant. mathematical laws can be counted on, used to impose a little order on what some might perceive as chaos.
knotty moth
Oh, my theory was that the transistor essentially takes a snapshot of their cloudbank "profile" and then simulates that internally by having some kind of AI or NPC construct behave as the living person would have
jolly radish
and so following that, apparently the process operates according to the same order, and so does the transistor--and that's the piece by which it's possible to manipulate order, impose order.
knotty moth
so they dont dissent or otherwise get disruptive, but the camerata would still get (mostly) the benefit of their creative juice
so you're using simulations of creative people to create a perfect city inwhich nobody atually lives but the architects
jolly radish
well, it's interesting you mention that, because there are certainly those people that the camerata targeted who at the fundamental level absolutely share many of the same opinions i think
calm jackal
bomoo, in their plan, the average person wouldn't die, they'd just lose the vote
jolly radish
take niola for example, she very clearly saw the flaws in a society that placed all its value in majority rule. when you base your decisions only on the most popular choice in every given situation, that's going to result in a lot of people not having a voice
i think you could make a pretty strong case from boxer's existence alone that there are probably way more invisible/marginalized/silenced people in cloudbank than there seems to be on the surface. he's obviously an extreme case since he like, basically doesn't exist as far as cloudbank's concerned, but what about, oh, say, people who have suffered various forms of reprisal for doing their work in socially unacceptable (farrah, shomar) or unpopular (royce) or damaging (darzi) ways? 👀
my point being, cloudbank does become less utopian the closer you look. and so here you have royce, who has grown quite frustrated and disgruntled with the popular vote's lack of appreciation for his work... and being a math nerd, he's like "well, there's got to be a way to know what people will want, right?" and that's when he discovers this unnerving mathematical predictability to the decisions people make.
when you think about it, discovering the process would be like if here in this world somebody not only discovered definitive evidence of dark matter/dark energy, but also how to manipulate them to change our physical reality. that's enormous!
and if you knew there was a way to let the world around you do anything, be anything, and suddenly you saw that all it was allowed to be was just this tiny sliver of its full potential based on what the majority of the population wants, well... maybe that would feel like a huge waste of the city you love
so my belief ultimately is that what royce saw was a cloudbank that is stuck in this eternal repetition, doing the same things over and over and over within the constraints of the rut it's worn for itself via majority rule throughout the course of its history
you see something like this with asher, too, when he dives deep into the city's history and finds that nothing really makes sense
tl;dr while their individual reasons may differ, my hot take is that the camerata's intention was actually to set cloudbank free, not to control them
and for someone like royce, the sacrifice of a few dozen people amounts to cosmological peanuts compared to that
he's galaxy brain 24/7 man
thank u for coming to my ted talk
loud sable
cloudbank does become less utopian the closer you look
I mean yeah, such is the nature of utopias, humans don't like perfection, whilst striving for it
jolly radish
bold of u to assume they're human fndkls NO THOUGH that's completely accurate
zinc stag
it's not even utopian in the first place bc ppl in the minority will always get shafted ahaha, but ig if u were in the main ppl benefitting from th e votes and stuff it would be utopian w/o closer examination
but i did find it sort of like a dystopian hellscape the moment we played the game 😂
jolly radish
royce probably couldn't give a hoot about cloudbank's people when all's said and done aside from considering them as some kind of abstract entity but grant i think absolutely wanted to change cloudbank for the better for its people
loud sable
from their own perspective I'd argue they view it as utopian
And if you don't fall in line, you're simply not a part of the utopia, more a parasite
jolly radish
i continue to really really wonder if cloudbank even has currency
or if the currency is less tangible, say, taking the form of social capital
zinc stag
yeah it's utopian for whoever's left
for 'utopian' societies i usually look at what's missing and apparently sickness/disability doesn't exist in cloudbank, so their utopia has always been a bit of an ableist hellscape probably haha
yeah idk if they have conventional money? since you didn't have to pay anything just to order from junction jan's
jolly radish
well yeah i mean... look at max darzi
though there doesn't seem to be disease, the poor guy returns to his addiction because people like his work better that way
loud sable
does a utopia need currency to function?
zinc stag
i don't quite remember which one that is bc i've only played once recently
idk if there's currency bc did they sell stuff? i vaguely recall mentions of things being sold out, but might be wrong
jolly radish
hmm, good question! i suppose one doesn't call things "complimentary" unless there's a cost associated with it under other circumstances
hahaha god what if cloudbank is like that episode of black mirror where your privileges are based on how much popular/successful people have up or downvoted you
calm jackal
thatd be a bit on the nose
i mean, currency is only necessary if there's scarcity
somehow i dont get the sense that anything runs out in cloudbank
zinc stag
my goblin brain: they ran out of time in the end /dab
me: that's rude
calm jackal
ran out of that precious "not dying" juice
zinc stag
🙏
noble portal
I think the idea of a reputation/favour-based economy is neat, but kind of a nightmare in practive
also thank-you for the ted talk, Xel
I'm inclined to agree with the majority of it
also re: what does the Transistor even do with those traces?
It's not just a weapon, it does otehr stuff and I feel like the combat versions of the functions are kind of incidental. THe function entries imply there's some other quality taken from the people integrated beyond whatever shooty-ness it bestows upon the device. ie. from Niola's entry: "The Camerata saw in Ms. Chein an invaluable moral compass of sorts, [...] This type of perspective they felt was important counter-balance in comparison to some of the other individuals they had in mind..."
The Transistor is taking on those qualities from Niola somehow but what does it do with them, right? My best guess is if we look at Royce's metaphor for what the Transistor is/does wrt the city, with one like a brush and the other like a canvas. But you need something to put on that canvas to colour it, right? As it's presented to us the metaphor is incomplete, unless we extrapolate that all these people are like different colours of paint. They all do something different to how the Transistor controls or alters the city, even if it's something abstract like Niola's ethics or Olmarq's drive, as opposed to something more tangible like Darzi's sense of aesthetics
calm jackal
it thinks with the traces
unsupported headcanon: when the sword hit blue and errored out, only his ideals factored into the process
it started breaking the city down to meaningless blank slates because that's what blue thought of the city
calm jackal
boxer really hates cloudbank, or doesnt think very highly of it. first thing he mentions when the camerata are coming after them is "let's just go to the country"
ooh hey, and the other thing we catch the process doing is snapping pics of red
noble portal
so...
crime in Cloudbank 🤔
because there clearly is some kind of crime in Cloudbank, they have a police force
and Admins seem to have some kind of judicial power
what.... do you do with a criminal in Cloudbank? Prison I guess but like....
could there be a "death penalty"? which I guess is equivalent to "exile"? Or are we too civilized for that?
calm jackal
there is an example of crime being dealt with, actually
farrah yon dale
she was banned from doing the thing that she did illegally
the question, i guess, is how they enforced that ban
noble portal
assuming skypainting is controlled by some sort of console she was probably locked out digitally, like having her permissions restricted,, or banned from the facility she used to do it
calm jackal
for some reason i always assumed she had a little biplane with some sort of skypaint shooting out the back of it
noble portal
heh
calm jackal
i was thinking of different crimes and then i remembered olmarq
there might not be illness in cloudbank but olmarq's reckless play does indeed cause injuries on people
so it's not as if injury is impossible
noble portal
yeah I was thinking the other day that hospitals in Cloudbank probably don't have much in the way of long-term care, more like trauma wards and maaaybe obgyn?
being a doctor in CB is probably boring
calm jackal
a lot of things in cloudbank are done with computers, because everything is so mutable
people's bodies aren't messed with as extensively, either because it's taboo, or because there's something about bodies that prevents that
my point is that being a doctor is probably the most hands on job you can do
noble portal
fair enough
if the OVC article about Process sickness and what happened to Sybil are any indication, I don't thikn the processes governing Cloubank mesh well with squishy human parts
I may or may not lean into the body horror when I write about Sybil's condition >.>
frail fulcrum
TIL the voice actor of Royce was also in The Walking Dead
languid trail
squishy squishy + bEeP BOOp = no
whole grove
I need to replay transistor 
noble portal
He was in the later seasons of Castle as well iirc
still zealot
omg I literally instantly recognized starB
frail fulcrum
Glad to see he's successful
still zealot
He's among my favorite youtubers
still zealot
And as for the voice actor MMM
knotty moth
Is that the guy who does team forterss videos?
still zealot
He used to yeah
whole grove
3.5 years ago or so now
sturdy gale
Y’all... spirits in super smashbros are like the functions on the transistor. Basically what I’m saying is red is canon is super smash bros lore and this 100% confirms it
wispy grail
I used to think that Red being in smash was impossible until nintendo decided to stick Joker in smash
drifting timber
man.........i'd love red as a playable character in smash.......
noble portal
definitely don't just want a Royce echo fighter
drifting timber
i would be perfectly fine with that too
tough tundra
The day any of the super giant games characters becomes refreneced in smash is when I'll believe the possibility of red being in smash
drifting timber
it worked out for shovel knight! i think anything is possible
calm jackal
man would be an interesting assist trophy
just hanging out, dropping haircuts once in a while
willow harbor
my friend just started playing transistor and he's using jaunt+breach going nyoooom all over everyone and im just---- 
tough tundra
Jaunt is honestly the most fun to abuse and feel like you're some techno ninja
foggy fable
My problem is that when combat gets intense, I panic, so when I use jaunt, I’m really just spamming the button and praying that nothing hits me.
I’ll take my overkill functions any day over “tactical sense” 🤣
tough tundra
Oh I agree jaunt for me is the nope after I'm done putting a combo
Like boom boom boom then nope nope nope then right at the last second plan plan plan rinse repeat
calm jackal
Ghost feels so much better as a panic button
fresh void
Oh panic spamming? Did you mean my entire video game skill?
drifting timber
same
tough tundra
Panic spam is life
ivory carbon
When I played Transistor, I activated every one of those things that make the game harder
And boy, was it hard
tough tundra
Must have really overloaded yourself
tough tundra
Need to transistor better
loud sable
I was satisfied enough with the story that I left it at that lol
knotty moth
Transist harder. I think I usually ranwith all but one or twoof the more annoying limiters which would've required me to build specifically to counter them.
floral plank
Is the smash idea about this?
https://katribou.tumblr.com/post/181699532913/a-bit-of-a-smash-moveset-for-red-along-with-royce
foggy fable
@nintendo prove your love to me and make this happen
young cedar
Wow that's cool
lost blaze
aaa i drew that! i hurt myself coming up with ideas bc it just made me wish it were real 😭
rare moth
oh its you!! hi!! how does it feel being the best transistor artist 🎙
cedar grove
bless ur transistor fanarts
lost blaze
jdkflsjg oh shucks... i do what i can to do justice to such a pretty game u_u)/ ✨
ivory briar
My friend who likes smash asked me something along the lines of "If you could have any character in smash, what would it be?" And, of course, I answered Red. I'm honestly happy to see that I'm not the only one who thinks that. One point though, my friend said that the art style might be a bit strange for smash, but I noticed that the little transistor figurine would fit right in with a little modification
finite wigeon
If Red and Transistor were ever included in smash, i'd buy it right away
lost blaze
i dont think red stylistically would look too weird in smash tbh!! if u follow the main art rather than her sprite model ingame perhaps
still zealot
It's almost like we're talking in the SSG discord server, in the channel dedicated to Transistor
funny that a lot of people would like transistor 😅
finite wigeon
3D models might not be that hard to conceive from the game's art actually 
still zealot
but yeah jesus i would want smash so bad
ivory briar
I think Red is the only character from the supergiant games (maybe the kid) that would work well in smash
It's a singular character with a large variety of extremely different attacks, kind of like the current mega man. I could see Red fitting in extremely well
lost blaze
soooo agree!! really high uniqueness potential with her!!
still zealot
I mean the Kid would work, and even the Hades protag
just have them alternate between weapons
ivory briar
It doesn't all have to be special attacks too, for example a forward tilt could be ping instead of bash
I agree, but Red has the largest variety of weapons available to do that
Zagreus has 4 weapons, and if you count the daedalus hammer than you got a little more to go off of
That is only currently in Early Access though, so who knows what pops up later on
still zealot
mhmm
ivory briar
The Kid has a fair amount of weapons, but, in my opinion, they wouldn't be as interesting in a fighting game as Red's would be
ivory briar
I think it would be too similar to some of the other characters already in smash
still zealot
not much flair to work with
still zealot
yeah no
ivory briar
unless we want pokemon trainer but with 8 different swaps
still zealot
Let me basketball my enemy to death!
ivory briar
You chuck pikachu into the pyre
still zealot
the final smash is you dunking your opponent through the hoop
ivory briar
If only
cobalt fjord
Since this discussion has come around again, i'll just post this here:
Won't use:
Switch(), Help()
Jab:
Punch/Slap, Kick, Spark(Royce's Animation) (Like Ike's Jab)
U-Tilt:
Load()/Help() Animation, but up like Palutena's OR
Something like MetaKnight's u-tilt
F-Tilt:
Ping()
D-Tilt:
Telekinetically "slide" transistor forward on ground
Dash-A:
Bounce()
U-Smash:
Cull()
F-Smash:
Crash()
D-Smash:
Tap()
N-Air:
"Sex Kick" like Mario/Luigi/Yoshi/Shiek
U-Air:
<>Swipe Up with transistor like Marth<>
OR
Stab up
F-Air:
Telekinetic forward thrust like when camerata attempts to take red
B-Air:
Self-Buff (The end part, like Ike b-air)
D-Air:
<>Slicing strike downward (spike) like Ike kinda<>
OR
Level-up like animation (more like link's down-air)
N-Special:
Breach() (Slightly Aimable, Chargeable, non-storeable)
U-Special:
Flourish (Hitbox?)
S-Special:
Purge()
Flood()
Jaunt() (like Fox/Falco)
D-Special:
Load() (Hit to detonate, can be hit by other fighters)
Mask() (Function like Incineroar's Counter)
Final Smash:
Turn() OR
Help(Passive - Superuser)
Grab:
Get()
U-Throw:
Turn into "CardCube" (the box thing above processeed people) and send up.
Similar to Kirby/DDD star spit
F-Throw:
Same as U-Throw, but forward.
B-Throw:
Same as U-Thorw, but backward.
D-Throw:
Lightly Tap() the opponent
Ledge-A:
Royce-like Attack from ledge
Ground-A-Forward:
<>Sweeping Leg Attack<>
Ground-A-Backward:
<>Sweeping Leg Attack<>
Ground-A-Slip:
<>Sweeping Leg Attack<>
Dodge:
<>Generic Dodge<>
S-Dodge:
<>Generic Spot Dodge<>
Entrance:
Teleport in in MuseScreenIdle position
Taunt 1:
Humming
Taunt 2:
Fidget Eye + "Jerk"
Taunt 3:
Power lost
Idle 1:
Examine
Idle 2:
Fidget
Victory 1:
MuseScreenIdle
Victory 2:
Humming to Victory Fanfare
Victory 3:
Level up
Other:
Shield:
Bounce(Passive)
(Late to this one but I think any Pyre characters explicitly don’t work, considering the Rites are meant to be nonviolent... unless we grab a pre-exile commonwealth soldier or harp)
ivory briar
wow
yeah @noble portal
and @cobalt fjord thats insanely detailed, honestly well done
cedar grove
tam for smash
rare moth
YES
unborn prairie
Transistor keeps moving to another monitor when I alt-tab. Does anyone know of a fix to this, by some chance?
cobalt fjord
Try changing your primary monitor in screen settings
unborn prairie
There is not a primary monitor option in settings, I am afraid.
shrewd meadow
Is it just me or does transistor feel a whole lot shorter than pyre and bastion
young cedar
I don't think it's just you
calm jackal
I've always heard that bastion and transistor are roughly the same length
noble portal
pyre is definitely longer
on reflection I felt like Bastion was maybe a bit longer but I was also struggling with the general feel of it a bit, since I played Transistor first, which was sort of a streamlined version of Bastion's controls and UI
keen atlas
bastion has a lot more side stuff you CAN do, but don't really have to. Transistor's chamber challenges are (in my opinion) much easier then Bastion's weapon challenges
It adds up to something - also I feel like Bastion's challenges are very dependent on already having upgrades, which means getting the ingredients first.
noble portal
sounds about right
shrewd meadow
Ya it took me 9 hrs to beat both of them
I feel like bastion is longer maybe because I took a pretty long break from it until I finally finished the game
shrewd meadow
It also makes me really happy that I was able to take away one of royce's lives in a single turn()
All 1200 hp
noble portal
will it let you do that? I thought he became immune to damage until his hp reset 🤔
calm jackal
yeah, but you can knock him all the way down to reset
floral plank
Bastion feels much shorter than Transistor to me. But maybe that's just me wasting too much time in the Sandbox
in-game time is roughly the same, but I haven't finished recursing Transistor yet, while Bastion got beaten twice.
shrewd meadow
Right after I finished transistor I had to go somewhere so I didn't have to time for that recursing thing
What is it exactly
calm jackal
play game again except it's harder but you have all your functs
noble portal
you can continue levelling up as well, you cap out at 30
calm jackal
oh yeah, you eventually get doubles of every function
noble portal
which is great
upgrading a function with itself can do some wacky things, eg. Breach(Breach()) will bounce off walls
calm jackal
your options increase exponentially
shrewd meadow
Oh cool I guess I'm not with the game
Also breach() with the small bombs(I forgot what they're called) is really good
calm jackal
load? or spark?
wispy stratus
Load i think
calm jackal
i always put load on passive, for whatever reason
I'd rather have them as a get out of jail free card sometimes than have to plan around them to make a sick combo
shrewd meadow
No I meant spark, the one with the bunch of small explosions
calm jackal
i forget what spark does as a modifier
noble portal
it causes most functions to create a burst of smaller projectiles at the end of their range
so breach becomes a burst of smaller arrows, but its range is greatly reduced and I don't think it pierces targets anymore
still zealot
so shotgun breach
lyric forge
god if red were in smash i would play no one else
calm jackal
oh man, red as a bayo clone?
still zealot
pffft
tough tundra
Link who? What is a Fire Emblem?
full peak
royce
bracket
Hm. royce bracket
what about that bracket
where do i even start
start from the start..?
no no, when it comes to royce theres no clear start or end
like a cycle of mystery
<forgot everything i played> d-do go on !
hey i forgot too, i must go
frail fulcrum
This looks like what would happen if you used machine learning to generate a conversation in this server
Like that subreddit simulator
unborn prairie
Obama struck a chord yesterday because the game wasn't properly installed in time. 50 Shades of Grade completely devastated audiences this summer. Updoots to the left, ya'll.
shrewd root
Does... does Discord have a problem with bot accounts?
Or is this in reference to the above generated conversation
unborn prairie
Who is a bot? You are a bot. Ha. Haha. Bots are stupid. You do not want to be a bot.
shrewd root
If so, well done
unborn prairie
Nah, I was just coming in this channel to complain about Flood(), honestly.
But then I saw the above and read it and was confused as Muttnik, so figured I'd chip in.
shrewd root
Confusion achieved 😆
wispy grail
unborn prairie
Haha. Good! Now, tell me why Flood() sucks. 😦
I really want to like it but cannot for the life of my find a practical application.
unborn prairie
The orb of damage over time.
wispy grail
oh yeah
unborn prairie
It's slow, not a huge AoE, and really not a lot of damage, either.
...But thematically it's neato.
wispy grail
yeah that's useless compared to everything else you can equip
unborn prairie
Yeah, exactly.
Ah, oh well. 😦
I really wanted to use Help() and the other one I forgot the name of--the one that turns an enemy into an ally.
But I've found that those are just...not...good either.
unborn prairie
...Oh.
wispy grail
the one that turns enemies into allies is good as a upgrade function
still zealot
I found that they died too easily for it to work well
unborn prairie
I'd prefer to have a dead enemy than a frenemy. And sadly, I find that if things aren't properly dead within a certain timeframe, then I am.
still zealot
though switching a weed was always super handy
wispy grail
i always liked switching young ladies
wispy grail
calm jackal
flood is a good passive, i think
in my first run i had spark(switch) as an emergency button
the dog coming for you? now its your friend
the haircut about to blow you up? it just did a uturn
makes the game super slow, though
unborn prairie
All right, guys, doing the trial-thingies.
https://i.imgur.com/249aycG.jpg
This is what I've got to work with.
(Ironically Flood() is there, lol.)
Breach-Bounce-Get is probably all I can reasonably do...
Although I do like Bounce as a passive...
https://i.imgur.com/cRRlHR9.jpg
WHEW. Made it. Jeez, that was legitimately tough.
calm jackal
you know what would be cool? a transistor max level speedrun
unborn prairie
I haven't beaten it yet (if that is not obvious), but is there any replayability or "max-level" anything?
I know I've seen something about NG+.
unborn prairie
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I never really replayed Bastion (other than to make the other choice). I won't lie in saying I wish for other reasons to keep coming back.
Especially when the mechanics of the game itself are so enjoyable. I often catch myself daydreaming of a Bastion ARPG with roguelike/lite mechanics.
calm jackal
I've replayed transistor lots of times
it's a shame that you cant replay the sandbox levels
shrewd root
Bastion with RL mechanics is basically Hades 😉
unborn prairie
"And this is how you use your hammer to tenderize meat."
I cannot think of any other RL applications for Bastion.
OH! "This is how to woo men and women alike with your voice alone."
...Anyway. I should probably look into Hades. But, honestly, I usually wait a few years after a game "releases" so it's fixed (and done and all the DLC is out and all of that).
shrewd root
I should really go back and finish Transistor... I started playing it last year or maybe the end of 2017, but then I got busy and didn't get back to it. Probably better off just starting from scratch though 😆
unborn prairie
I did the same, actually, in that I stopped playing it [for reasons] and now I am back with a vengeance. It is a very good game and absolutely worth your time. 👍🏿
junior quail
Apart from maybe the first few minutes, is there any reason to play NG+ in Transistor?
Also, the "hum" button might be my favorite mechanic in any game ever.
calm jackal
getting 2 of every func really opens up the wacky combos
doing a whole run of 10 limiters is thrilling
junior quail
That seems fun, but also very painful lol
junior quail
Will do, haha. Any lore/plot reason for NG+ though?
wispy grail
i dont think so
junior quail
Aw, that's a shame :/
I did enjoy what they did with Bastion, but I suppose "NG+" in that game definitely had a lot more reason to be there.
calm jackal
i mean, recursion kinda exists lore-wise
junior quail
How so?
calm jackal
depends what fanon you follow
junior quail
Mind elaborating?
calm jackal
once she swords herself, her trace goes into the sword. since cloudbank is probably virtual anyway, it kinda makes sense for there to be another cloudbank inside the sword?
it's a bit of a stretch
junior quail
Interesting.
Thanks!
What's the difference between "Integrated" and "Recorded" in terms of Trace Status anyway? Brackett and the Camerata bunch seem to be "recorded" while other deceased are "integrated." Thought?
Thoughts?*
cedar grove
i suppose integrated are those who were killed by the transistor and their trace was integrated into it
while the camerata and red were only in contact with it, so only recorded by it
frigid plume
Petition for Supergiant Games to release more limited edition vinyl records of Transistor's ost!
knotty moth
I honestly struggled with the decision whether or not to buy a record player solely for the transistor vinyls
The Junction Jan's shipping box nearly tipped me over the fence.
lofty prairie
So like... This isn't a roguelike/lite, right?
spring plover
Transistor??? No, it's an action rpg
lofty prairie
I thought so. Had to double check here. First SGG is Hades.
spring plover
Oh! Yeah, no Hades is a big change of pace for them, gameplay-wise.
Bastion is a hack n slash, Transistor is a pause and play arpg (you can still kinda hack n slash if you want though), and Pyre is a combination visual novel and sportsball game
lofty prairie
Yeah, when I saw the art for Pyre I got super hyped. Not big on most sports ball though.
I saw Transistor and it seemed cool... just wasn't sure I'd be down for a singing sword.
And basition I feared it'd feel clunky since it came out so long ago... Plenty of games have aged well... but plenty not as much.
rare moth
imo bastion holds up
lofty prairie
Holds up as well as Rogue Legacy holds up? even better? worse?
cedar grove
ive never heard of rogue legacy
anyway, bastion is worth playing and is still super fun, but this is the transistor channel
lofty prairie
Aye, I was coming back around to that. Hoping to get some of a 'feel' on Bastion... then how it would translate to Transistor... which looks like they add a hyper focus mode to do crazy stuff like bullet time / cut time
frosty hare
yeah, i never regret getting into either of those games. i do prefer transistor over bastion, because it feels more fluid - not having to “teleport” to levels. but that’s just a preference.
the different weapons on bastion and the story are definitely a blast and worthwhile
cedar flume
playstyle-wise bastion is most similar to hades, and even if it might feel a little clunky i'd say it only adds to the charm
frosty hare
about transistor there’s really not much to say, i played it some years ago and it melts my heart to this day still. it’s amazing and really emotional. also the gameplay is really fun; i loved using turn( ) and seeing it all play out the way i wanted to
yes indeed... its a hack and slash sort of thing with a unique style, bastion
anyway even after 3? years i might pick transistor up on the switch just to experience all of it again in bed this time
cedar flume
transistor can have slower battle system and overall it's pretty wild. but its a great story
frosty hare
yeah the battle definitely is up to personal preference
i loved making combinations with the functions too
cedar flume
takes a bit to get used to
frosty hare
it was honestly an amazing experience overall
and i still try to connect the story
so goood
about pyre, it was very different but the emotional aspect was still very present, especially with the music to add to it. gameplay wise the VN-style was the slower, relaxing bit. the battles were really frenetic and innovative and i had a blast even though i sorta sucked lol
the only thing that sorta disappointed me was that i couldnt interact with the character too well
characters*
there were dialogue options but they felt so bland and unimportant
and not so frequent
but the characters themselves were really nice and lovely
yeah anyway im sure whichever you decide to pick up you’ll enjoy it
even if not in one aspect, you might find others worthwhile or even amazing
the music and art are absolutely great in all of them and i can spend hours listening to the soundtrack
and playing on the sandbox in transistor of course
the games are so. pretty.
sorry this was sorta the wrong channel but i just wanted to give my impression for the fella that hadnt played them
tough tundra
Red
zinc stag
oo did u just finish playing?
unborn prairie
I sure did. Sitting on the recursion screen as we speak.
Have that strange feeling of catharsis and emptiness all at once.
zinc stag
i recently finished too and man, i sort of saw it coming, but it still hurt jfkdlssj
unborn prairie
I definitely did not see Red doing what she did.
zinc stag
oof
unborn prairie
I figured it would be a bittersweet ending, but I did not expect to that length.
Welp, I guess it's on to Pyre.
😂
zinc stag
have fun! i haven't done that one yet bc i haven't had time, but it seems interesting!
unborn prairie
To be blunt, I have next to no interest from what I've seen.
zinc stag
that's fair 😂
unborn prairie
Don't really care for those kinds of games, but I want to give it a go. Supergiant can seemingly do no wrong.
zinc stag
ye, even if you don't end up liking it, u can always jam to the soundtrack or something :d
unborn prairie
I'm still just kind of standing here.
That was really, really, really great.
Man. Man oh man. OK. Done for now.
OK so Cloudbank was definitely-maybe a simulation, right? Kind of like that one episode of Black Mirror.
noble portal
depends who you ask
unborn prairie
...Bracket spoke to me and I am frightened. This really is recursion mode.
...I need to find something else to play, lmao.
calm jackal
Which episode of black mirror, lol
noble portal
lol Royce gave you a spook? XD
unborn prairie
I loved his voice, so I definitely welcomed it~ ❤
noble portal
Heyyyy Red~
unborn prairie
I need to go lie down.
lofty prairie
Thanks for the feedback folks.
tough tundra
Who do you think likes puns in Transistor?
blissful blaze
boxer
noble portal
Boxer, and I can imagine Red has an extreme secret weakness for them XD
tough tundra
He would've had many opportunities to pun
fresh void
Red likes those puns you don;t realize are puns at first but they mkae you go "Hey wait"
tough tundra
Like: "I guess the world is truly spine less, huh red." And she just giggles at that
Or "Ashs to ashs dust to dust"
"Way to give them the silent treatment red, oh.....sorry."
"Sea monster, see now that's a flatbread"
"I shouldn't have taken him for granted"
I could see boxer saying some of these lines
noble portal
H
elfin furnace
what kind of name is boxer anyway
spring plover
it's a nickname from the game files, not a real name
we never actually find out what his name is
upbeat sky
He's called that 'cause his forearms have bandages on them
Just, in case the connection wasn't super clear
noble portal
also he's referred to as "boxer" in some of the files
spring plover
yeah
boxer is straight up how he's referred to in the game files
which doesn't mean it's his name - red is called "muse" - but, yeah
primarily that's where it came from.
calm jackal
i mean, red could be a nickname too
spring plover
red could be a nickname! but it's how her trace profile refers to her too
and the polls around town
so it's as good as a name
loud sable
could be a falsified ID?
noble portal
probably her public persona/stage name that she uses to interact with the city's network, she may have a "legal"/"real" name we don't know
lofty prairie
I mean... it sounds like SG likes some good clean humor here n there.
pulsar lily
boxer would absolutely tell dad jokes
knotty moth
If you're on board with the virtual reality perspective, Red could simply be her handle. And Boxer's profile i ssketchy presumably because he doesn't participate in all the social media-like polling that goes on. More or less what my own social media presence would look like if you compiled it all together into a little data sheet.
noble portal
Boxer is an “egg” account on twitter 😛
vestal sluice
Yo
New here and absolutely adored transistor
Thought might as well join the disc
Mostly cause of the ost
Happy to be here
spring plover
Welcome, we're happy to have you!! Transistor is and always will be my favorite Supergiant game, it was my first one and I'm still blown away by it
Paper Boats just gets me every time
spring plover
Signals is also great
And I'm not just saying that because it's the only one I can sing comfortably ;)
vestal sluice
I just love every vocal one ><
I'm genuinely so hyped for hades
Cause it seems like a faster transistor
And I love roguelikes
spring plover
I think it's a roguelite technically, tho I'm a little fuzzy on the distinction myself
I'd say combat is closer to bastion than transistor, but the art direction has pivoted back to a more transistor-y style
Which I looove.
vestal sluice
I loved transistor for its characters music and the world
knotty moth
The distinction IS pretty fuzzy. I think people usually draw it between a traditional game that's like rogue vs. a game with randomized levels and permadeath
vestal sluice
I loved bastion for its combat and freedom
knotty moth
One distinction I heard somewhere or other is that if its turn based, its roguelike, if its not turn bsed, its rogue lite.
and no Transistor is not rogue-anything because it's nto randomized.
if you'd like to check out a very traditional rogue-like, try SOTS The Pit. That's a good un.
vestal sluice
I have no idea what the difference is tbh
I loved binding of Isaac and adored enter the gungeon
knotty moth
I think some people tend to use the "lite" disapragingly to denote games hat are shallow or "casual," which I don't think is strictly accurate.
vestal sluice
It seems like hades is literally perfect for my taste
Also that's what I originally thought roguelite meant
knotty moth
both of which I thinkare technically "lite" if you go by the turn-based traditionalist definition, simply because they arent turn based in the same way rogue or traditional roguelikes are.
I think it was someone from SGG that talked about that distinction, now that I try to remember where I heard it.
vestal sluice
So slay the spire would be roguelite?
knotty moth
Hum, well I guess its turn bsaed, unless I'm mistaken, but it's not turn based in the same way rogue is.
vestal sluice
Hmmh
knotty moth
So I don't know what you'd call that.
vestal sluice
I guess it's up to interpretation
knotty moth
Yeah my inclination would be to call everything roguelike and then qualify just to what extent its like rogue afterwards.
knotty moth
Most games that can be described that way cherry pick mechanics from traditioal roguelikes to where the lines get very fuzzy
floral plank
I dislike the way Transistor handles levelling. In Bastion, you'd get a brief "lvl up" floaty text and later get to choose the upgrades when you get to actually apply them too (in that case, just filling the new slot in the distillery). In Transistor, you get clunky recap screens after every battle, and you have to select a bunch of upgrades mid-journey, despite none applying until you get to the next checkpoint anyways.
tough tundra
It's ironic when you think about it
You don't smoothly transition from one point to the next
floral plank
Gosh, your choice of words really reminds me of Royce... O.o
calm jackal
You could play transistor as a roguelike, I guess. Use the limiter that randomizes enemies, and delete your save when you die
I might try that actually, that sounds fun
tough tundra
Do I sound like Royce?
How odd very interesting......interesting....
I find him more stranger than I
Much stranger
smoky zealot
sounds like something royce would say 
noble portal
recorded-trace Royce thinks living Royce is weird, and vice versa
limpid quest
royce has the most relaxing voice out of any video game character ive ever heard tbh
tough tundra
But I do puns so you might think I'm a boxer
rare moth
why
is it because youre
pun-ching me
wispy grail
wispy grail
cinder anvil
🤔
wispy grail
tough tundra
All eyes and ears I see
But not with glee
Maybe you all want to flee?
Like fleas when lights shine?
wispy grail
wispy grail
wispy grail
tough tundra
Bars....
I am speaking poetically far
Its a fun habit of mine
Just keeping in time
It's when I get bored I must rhyme
Sometimes it feels divine
vestal sluice
wispy grail
wispy grail
tough tundra
I imagine they had more ideas intended for them
But ran out of time and couldn't implement any ideas
Maybe a story event
vestal sluice
saw the cat and immediately liked asher ngl
tough tundra
Or something small like befriend the kitty or pet them option
vestal sluice
the cat was apparently in the corner of the room where asher and grant died
tough tundra
Kind of like the squirt from bastion
vestal sluice
never noticed him though
noble portal
yeah it's in the foreground
tough tundra
There is a lot going on by then
tough tundra
Referring to which?
vestal sluice
^
i find it funny how a lot of my favourite characters from games are gay
Asher
Gregg
err
the list ends there
vestal sluice
off the top of my head
2
nono
seperate games ><
i feel like that wasnt clear
tough tundra
Dark gay and who's gregg?
vestal sluice
Gregg lee from NITW
wispy grail
wispy grail
noble portal
either way, he won 😛
pseudo pulsar
nah
have a problem with that
when you die, you lose
that's it
he was curious about what it's like, sure, but he's not alive
and red is*
don't see that as winning
he didn't seem too happy about it either
don't mean to be rude or anything
cinder anvil
i listened to her sing just yesterday though
pseudo pulsar
yeah
wording was kind of weird, with what death even means in cloudbank, and also the events that happen after that fight
noble portal
no but he literally says in his dialogue "either way I win"
he's fine with Red winning
pseudo pulsar
he says that when he's expecting to not lose
pseudo pulsar
even if you could consider being killed a win, it's a different kind of win
noble portal
it's not liek Red knew him well enough to geat an earful if it turns out he's a sore loser XD
pseudo pulsar
just mean, i can say to my opponent "either way i win" but if i did, it's probably just to get inside their head
but i'm still trying to actually win
noble portal
you know, I don't know if Royce is really the type to play headgames with someone like that, I'm not sure if it'd even occur to him. He was probably serious.
pseudo pulsar
i see it more like an exaggeration
genuinely curious about it, but not actually willing to try it out
but, a bit more accepting if he did end up losing
calm jackal
he seemed pretty distraught about actually losing
wispy stratus
He didn't think it through until he had to actually go through with it
jolly radish
I think for Royce it could've been both, he seems pretty comfortable straddling the line of either/or in other capacities too
if Royce has anything it's an overabundance of curiosity... he saw the upside to losing the battle, which for him was getting to have that curiosity satisfied
but no matter how curious a person is, I think that doesn't mean they're not afraid of what's about to happen once it's really happening
though, interestingly... I think it was during the stream sgg did last fall--I remember Greg describing Royce's emotion in his final moments as sadness
over having lost the Transistor, and over knowing he'd never get to learn how things turned out
but to ARCCC and invis' points, yeah lmao I do think Royce is actually quite arrogant and prideful even if he's low key about it, so I could totally believe that he didn't really expect to lose
wispy stratus
he definitely has the whole "i'm smarter than all of you" thing going on
slim skiff
I wish we were that cool with it
jolly radish
he knows how to use it in ways that make red's wielding of it seem very crude in comparison lmao
slim skiff
also, those animations are so clean
jolly radish
like yeah, he totes probably expected to win, he was like "okay this woman can barely lift it, she's dragging it across the ground, I'm pretty sure I've got this"
meanwhile dude acts like it's made of cosplay foam, what's that about http://78.media.tumblr.com/9ac9e246f518006afd723be21afb1ee3/tumblr_o28putYE2b1qcxzu2o1_500.gif
slim skiff
the power of style
slim skiff
sounds like perfect character design 
jolly radish
camerata style is /chefkiss in general tbh
with the possible exception of asher's weird sleeves
and the literal target painted on royce's back I guess
noble portal
Lol
Somewhere in his dialogue Royce mentions the Transistor is “lighter than you might think”, which lends credence to my theory that it’s only as heavy as you think it is. Red saw its size and destructive power and assumed it was heavy, but Royce and Grant handle it like it’s next to weightless. Red figures it out right at the end.
noble portal
Also Royce’s last thought being sadness makes sense in a lot of ways too, not the least of which being that Red blatantly ignores a very reasonable final request of “ don’t let my work go to waste” 🤨
floral plank
I'm pretty sure Grant was never meant to have more appearances in the story. It really reflects his admin behaviour, staying in the background and pulling the strings seldom and subtle but effective. Royce and especially Asher could've done with a little more spotlight time. Royce spent most of his appearance filling the world lore, but not his own story.
full peak
!!! that s a really good take
noble portal
Clever fake-out, really. Grant has such a “final boss” look to him and was placed prominently in all the early-game shots of the Camerata. To not get to throw down with him prompted a kind of disappointment that I think was shared across player and protags
wintry verge
first time i got to "meet" grant & asher i was so mad bc i was expecting a cool fight and whatever
but then you remember what you hear in the ovc terminals and you're like "oh this isnt going to happen like that"
and when you let that sink in for a bit it just makes sense
kind of
drifting timber
yeah i was so pleasantly surprised when grant just WASN'T the final boss
like he's always so emphasized in those cutscenes where they mention the camerata and they just APPEAR ON SCREEN
so it was interesting to see them subvert my expectations like that
noble portal
Instead we get Royce “welcome to my doom fortress” Bracket
drifting timber
royce "not gonna get away with this" bracket
wintry verge
royce "im gonna have you walk around my room to build up tension before our final fight" bracket
vestal sluice
Royce "my voice makes you not want to kill me" Bracket
wintry verge
royce "i sound nice but i kinda really need to kill you now" bracket
drifting timber
royce "i win either way" bracket
drifting timber
see also: that part in the fight where he asks his transistor to charge faster
blissful blaze
au where asher's messages are all crytyped
wintry verge
gr,nannt..,. i thnkg hes not gon,na m,a,,ke it,,,
i cant crytype it looks bad
dsjfhsdjf i found a nightcore remix of in circles
calm jackal
ᴵ ˢᵉᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵒᵒᵏᶦⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ
ˢᵒᵐᵉᵒⁿᵉ ² ᵇˡᵃᵐᵉ
noble portal
Royce “wrong in the traditional/contemporary sense” Bracket
wintry verge
royce "how to get away with murder" bracket
(referring to that one ovc entry where he explains how to target people with the transistor)
tough tundra
quietly wheels away Boxer and Red's bodies
young yew
SVBDJFKBN:UIDHIDKN 😭
tough tundra
Plot twist: They quietly went to the country while Royce actually never fought Red and regains the Transistor that's why at the beginning of Recursion you hear him say the first line as a way of mocking her as she plays an endless cyclical simulation of her recent experience
Transistor meme: Hi welcome to the country
tough tundra
I heard transistor fic
jaunty fable
late to the smash convo but the best part is
red in smash means that kirby will be able to turn into red
imagine it
noble portal
Omg Kirby with that flawless scarlet coif
And maybe a little feather collar/accents
and a tiny transistor you guyyyys
tough tundra
👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀
jaunty fable
spring plover
omg...
tough tundra
I NEED IT
noble portal
YAAS
wispy stratus
With this my life will be complete
primal glacier
"When you hi I hear silence"
"Every poyo a defiance"
wispy stratus
But HAAAIII won't save you
sturdy gale
when I read that I just hear Kirby’s voice cut in with red’s
tough tundra
So who's dedede? Grant?
That might make Asher a Waddle Dee
That would probably make Meta Knight Sybil
wintry verge
genius twist: sybil as a bayonetta echo fighter
noble portal
Ooh
tough tundra
Royce as a Red Echo fighter maybem
?
I just realized boxer as part of her attacks would be kind of cute
noble portal
Or her anything, really. Taunts, victory screen, animation going into her final smash
drifting timber
LOSING MY MIND BECAUSE I JUST NOTICED RED HUMS "PAPER BOATS" IN THE HUMMED VERSION OF "BLANK CANVAS"
dfjkfdsjkhljfk
this is what i get for playing transistor like four years too late lmao
noble portal
Just when you thought your feels were safe
tough tundra
Feels safe from transistor? Wack
jolly radish
mood presented without comment https://66.media.tumblr.com/e96930885eb361d1a2e2dc2948f80c42/tumblr_pkqla2ImAM1t3cibo_1280.jpg
rare moth
fhjfjfjfjfjh
wispy grail
The 2nd
stone shoal
hmmmm, Imma have to go with option A, it's just ever so closer to [math processing error] over option B's [math processing error]
shrewd root
Answer is definitely
-[Math Processing Error]
the first one bc it's visually closest to the error in the question 
floral plank
There are no numbers. *spoon bending*
That reminds me, it's a bit weird how nothing in Transistor... twists and bends? Like, that's the go-to "this reality is flexible", but in Transistor, that doesn't happen to anything, the buildings an dstuff remain static.
noble portal
I hadn’t really considered that but I don’t think that’s entirely the trope at play here... “flexibility” is not how the Process does its work, it’s mutability, which is a bit different. Things are un/made, rewritten, or re-skinned. Nothing “warps” because that’s not the logic behind it; it’s programming logic, not (soft?) human logic
When we think of something changeable, intuitively we think of something soft or “plastic” (as the adjective, not the material), but the Process’s machine logic is kind of... things are absolutes. They’re there or they’re not, they’re this or they’re that. There’s no “flex”
But that is a good observation
(I title this tiny essay “No, there really is no spoon”) XD
zinc stag
a good tiny essay
shrewd root
Good TED talk (Tiny Essay on Discord) 
floral plank
I love making absurd little statements that spark thoughtful analysis
noble portal
It’s my curse as a literature student XD
calm jackal
Lore alert: when red eats pizza, it bends downwards due to gravity
Wait no, I misread
lyric forge
maybe if we all kindly mail nintendo
they will put red in the game
and in turn supergiant will gain popularity
it's genuis
unlike my ability to spell
primal glacier
If only they were doing the poll again for dlc characters as a server we could have all pushed for red or someone else from supergiant
worldly osprey
the first thing i thought when i saw kirby in that wig is "omg RED CONFIRMED FOR SMASH DLC!"
so yeah
vestal sluice
real talk that would be sick
cobalt fjord
Real talk modding is a thing
^I would actually love to work with a group of people to mod Red into smash ultimate once modding gets to the point where it's reasonable
still zealot
Honestly same, though I only have basic coding experience...
cobalt fjord
I believe most of the work would actually be animation from what I know about how smash works
still zealot
true, which kinda rules me out 🤷
hardy gazelle
upper portal
About a week ago, I had a dream that Transistor got adapted into a series, it was pretty neat
The first half of it focused on the Camerata and all the people who got absorbed into the Transistor, then the second half was pretty much the events of the game
noble portal
I'd throw money at that
tawny bear
Early Access players who also played transistor, is hades similar to transistor or completely different?? Gameplay wise
rare moth
very different
theres no turm()
i would say its most similar to bastion gameplaywise!
tawny bear
I see. I never played bastion unfortunately. Thanks!!
inland mirage
basically it's turn()less transistor with more hack n slash
fading fiber
I also felt it had a better story
topaz glen
It’s similar to transistor in how fast paced the combat is, bastion is a little slower
still zealot
ironic that the game where a pause button is built-in has the faster combat 😅
upbeat sky
Ever play a Turn()less run before?
noble portal
Sounds like a nightmare
noble portal
Friend of mine went most of the way through the game without Turn iirc, only used it for bosses bc he kept forgetting it existed?
And there’s a mod that makes most things out of turn as well
calm jackal
Out of turn is very possible
There's a lot of builds that work without turn
I always play without emergency turn, keeps me on my toes
frail fulcrum
Are there many mods for transistor? I've never heard of any till now
noble portal
I only know of the one, Transition
And I’m not sure how kosher discussing mods on the official server is 🤭
spring plover
i think the official policy is "it's fine as long as it's not being sold for money or advertised as being a real part of the real game"
otherwise, mods are basically fanart / fan projects
obviously anything malicious or dangerous is also discouraged
noble portal
Fair enough
But yeah I only know about Transition and even then not much about it
I’d love a simple audio mod to replace Boxer’s dialogue with more Royce lines in recursion but y’know
molten drift
Changing the subject,
rare moth
hey, it sounds like your speculation of what royce and asher do on their own time may not be suitable for this server !
modern quiver
Fan fiction channel time
rare moth
the issue is not fan fiction, the issue is sexual content
rare moth
oh, okay
tepid charm
kam chaos, you just answered that the question is not suitable for the server 'cause you can't tell who would be who
rare moth
that's...not why
spring plover
It's in our rules, we're doing our job
There are plenty of other places where you can have those conversations
rare moth
i answered it because this isa server that doesnt allow sexual talk of that sort.
rare moth
this just isnt the place for it is all yeah
tepid charm
it was just a joke, btw
spring plover
I mean, I understand, but we really can't have that stuff here, sorry ^^;
tepid charm
ok, np 👌
spring plover
wrt alpha's comment, Transistor is also my favorite SGG game!
By far my favorite art style of the three finished games, and I'm glad to see Hades going back to that kind of...dramatic lighting and such
It was my introduction to SGG's work so maybe I'm biased, haha
lyric forge
god idk how transistor caught me so hard
literally my phone and laptop bgs are all transistor
I've bought the game for laptop and switch like damn how did yall get me so hard
and the music is beautiful 
dang I should buy it again for ps4 
pulsar lily
I don't have merch but I got the ps4 theme
lyric forge
my friend got me the red figurine for christmas 😭
also wow i have the sword bf usb stick dftsdsikghj
sturdy gale
since we got the definitive answer to where cloudbank is located I can’t stop thinking of the mbmbam amelie bit but with red
languid trail
I read bgs as bags and I was like THERE ARE BAGS??????!
noble portal
Wait where IS Cloudbank located???
full peak
in the world record egg of instagram ?!?!?!?!
wintry verge
if you break the egg the entire cast of transistor bursts out of it and they end up in hell
calm jackal
asher would probably be all dramatic and say something like "this is an improvement over where we were before tbh"
imagine all the hades characters dressed by darzi
noble portal
Yes
topaz glen
When did we find out where cloudbank is? And where is it?
calm jackal
in #ask-supergiant , someone answered that the egg in hades contains cloudbank
almost certainly a joke
noble portal
O
fickle echo
elfin furnace
iS tHiS aN uNdErTaLe ReFeReNcE
rare moth
looks like a wip to me!
sturdy gale
oh DANG it’s super good already tho
wintry verge
Ok so royce bracket transistor would totally wear airpods send message
To elaborate on that: the little process cells kinda look like airpods
calm jackal
when he talks about how he was guided to the transistor, what he means is that he shoved cells in his ears
brittle sage
wow...really makes you think
jolly radish
this is the content this channel exists for
strong magnet
royce, red is coming. oh my god he has airpods in. he can’t hear us. oh my go
noble portal
I politely disagree, I think Royce is a comically-oversized-headphones kind of guy. Gotta get that cushy noise-cancelling
wintry verge
nah he'd def prefer something sleek and relatively simple
young cedar
I would too
calm jackal
...now im imagining the process but with cat ears
young cedar
do they make cat ears you can add to existing headphones
because the headphones I use are extremely balanced headphones meant for mixing
languid flume
razer does
young cedar
and the ones already with cat ears are not meant for that
wintry verge
when evewything changes... nyothing changes >:3c
calm jackal
wait a minute
youngladys already have cat ears
the catgirls have been here the whole time
languid flume
we awent getting awway wiv dis wed... awe we >:3