The end was a hell because there was a man stuck in a loooot of weeds
#transistor
little pagoda
Also the lack of anything else made me use Tap and lemme say
It's like... V pretty
Good job, Grant. Fricking blue patterns and fireflies
little pagoda
tbh i havent used the healing functions before
found it interesting that the only healing functions are the ones Grant and Roy have, decided to check them out
i just think its cool its them of all the characters who heal lmao
karmic blaze
Shoot I was gonna post a pic of my background setup
But I don't have those permissions! Curses
calm jackal
most people host the images somewhere else and post the link here
shy veldt
Yes upload your image to imgur first and then share the link!
little pagoda
Its so foggy outside i might just be in the restricted region of goldwalk
Expecting to get ambushed by the camerata at any point now
blissful blaze
we will remember you fondly 😔
little pagoda
So anyway guys its really sad but i decided to take a vacation to the Country the city life just wasnt for me very sad totally not a murder
broken path
lol
I'm suburban
So maybe that's mean that I'm in the place in the west(?) everyone evacuated to?
little pagoda
Hey
Boxer would have a Sobble.
Red is definitely a Torchic gal
Red, Sybil and Asher all give me solid Gardevoir vibes
shy veldt
Red has a Shiny Popplio!!!
shy veldt
Porygon Z is also a good fit
little pagoda
And Silvally
All of the camerata have an eeveelution, Asher has Umbreon, Grant has Vaporeon, Royce has Espeon and Sybil has either a Glaceon or a Sylveon
molten wren
Sybil's team:
Persian
Gardevoir
Gallade
Frosslass
Togepi
Not sure about sixth slot, send help
Ok yes Sylveon slot 6
little pagoda
theres a gen 8 pokemon that also really fits >>
molten wren
I don't know them yet
molten wren
Trying to stay spoil free until Christmas when I'm getting
Thank you for the consideration!
little pagoda
:+1:
I feel like Asher would be great with like, very loyal pokemon like Arcanine, Gardevoir or Braviary
While also. Cats. He totally has a Weavile
molten wren
Idk why but I like the idea of him with an Arcanine
Fits the loyalty and a bit of fierceness too
molten wren
Oh yes
little pagoda
Grant would be p tanky i feel like
Vaporeon def but idk if straight up saying Snorlax fits whdhcj
consider, asher/Grant and red/boxer having sort of mirrored teams
molten wren
I like the idea of him having a team of lowbies that he cares immaculately for
But obv would never admit to anyone else
little pagoda
What if he can still kick serious butt with them
Given they want to fight in the first place
molten wren
Yes definitely
little pagoda
GRANT WITH A TOGEKISS
noble portal
gonna dump a thing in fanworks re: all this. I named a PokemonGO team after the Transistor cast >.> It's mostly gen1 pokemon bc of how the game was developped
little pagoda
- Ninetales, Ditto and Flareon REALLY fit
- Magnezone also but I already have a problem where trying to stuff another steel or electric type into royce's team is gonna cause a disaster-
noble portal
he was originally a Magneton and tbh I felt that fit better? But I couldn't resist evolving him
little pagoda
Ibuiltroycesteamonshowdown
I was bored ok
And making wack pokemon teams work is my specialty
But so many electric and steel types fit him that whenever a ground type appears im just like GUESS I'LL DIE
noble portal
know that feel XD
little pagoda
You know what also fits him imo? Bronzong
Might just be the colour scheme and typing tho
little pagoda
A very strong, old Lucario deciding to join Boxer even though he is a nobody, because it senses all the love and kindness and strength from his aura
upbeat sky
Girlfriend is streaming her playthru of Transistor to me, and we're testing out the streaming settings, and just as she gets it working, Boxer says "Looks promising"
'cause she was testing sounds by shooting Bounce off into the distance randomly, and his quip for Bounce is "Look promising... maybe not for your knees"
rustic obsidian
Heh
finite wigeon
Okay so, tried to do a thing
https://imgur.com/a/9b5tET6
Here's the link for anyone who wants to try
https://picrew.me/image_maker/165901
dusk pollen
playing through the switch release finally, and I had to verify--
did the moment where red tears her dress get cut from the port? I went through the flashback scene and didn't notice it, and i'm wondering if it was just accidentally skipped somehow
it was one of those moments where i doubted my own memory, as to whether it even happened at all, but sure enough the still of it comes up on google. So is it missing from the switch version (assumedly for censorship/rating reasons, since it could be interpreted as risqué), or did i just happen to skip that part of the little cutscene, somehow
drifting timber
i don't remember it getting skipped over in the switch version?
dull palm
I think they mean the first scene from this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmtn6JP7Ug
I don't think it's actually in the game, sadly
inland mirage
yeah red never tears her dress ingame
noble portal
^
pulsar lily
I always wondered why it was only in the trailers
little pagoda
This just in: i love ping
calm jackal
I think there's a ripping sound effect that plays ingame
languid flume
it’s been a year since i first played transistor!! that seems so strange
little pagoda
Time to break that with some process shooting 👀
full peak
ok well 1 more achivement for transistor
broken path
coollll
calm jackal
Huh, I don't remember that one
cedar grove
ohh youre not looking at guides? thats impressive
little pagoda
Put a thing on a th- HOW
full peak
What is he yellin about
calm jackal
I've got no idea what achievement you mean
inland mirage
I wanna say they mean Self()
calm jackal
Oh yeah that one
How do you not get that one accidentally
As soon as I got duplicate functions I had to see what it did to stack em
inland mirage
you don't get dupes until Recursion, do you?
full peak
In transistor i always stuck to my main build
never changed it
so i never messed with putting a mod on a mod
full peak
in ng+
hehe
i messed around with many builds when i first started
then i placed one build i would want to stick to for awhile
especially when i was trying to do all limiters
whatever that achivement is called
calm jackal
I really gotta finish my randomizer
It's really fun to play the game when all you have is 3 breaches and 2 loads
full peak
O.o
I mean right now im just 100%ing all the gmaes
for the bragging rights
Especially due to you know 3.1% people on pc steam have done ng+
full peak
ive gotten 100% on pyre and transistor
going threw bastion doing its achivements currently
calm jackal
I think transistor is the easiest to 100% but I haven't really tried the rest
full peak
transistor is
its like
read stuff
and then put thing on thing
Do 5 limiters?
pyre is 2nd hardest
especially cause some of the things are tricky
and then bastion
which just takes a heaping load of time
little pagoda
Holy, Sandbox is so good i never realized
I was like meh its that Generic Summer Beachy Track but i really like it!
Much like Coasting which i also thought to be in that category,,,, nice surprise
broken path
Yes it is a w e s o m e
full peak
Name a bad song on any SGG OST. You can't.
broken path
Idk
little pagoda
It's also placed like, between Tangent and Impossible in the soundtrack and I'm just, did it play somewhere in that part?
broken path
I actually never heard signals until i played the ost
I was really surprised that it was in there
little pagoda
I was like half asleep during that segment because the area and royce's voice were hypnotizing me
little pagoda
YEAH LIKE
The music was so good at the atmosphere it became one with it
Like one image along with the art n stuff
The only area theme that like stood out to me apart from the obvious Tangent was Interlace because of the beat
and then comes the realization that everything sounds different because the percussion only comes up during battles
which is honestly genious
its whispers good sound design
broken path
me, who doesnt remember half the instrumental music because i was too stressed trying to run away from haircuts:
twin summit
i believe signals is ost-only
little pagoda
@broken path i don't remember impossible at all because SOMEONE was ATTACKING me and STRESSING ME OUT
Also same
The soundtrack was legit this... Huge amorphous blob to me but in like a good sense
It all blended in just so well that i didnt even realize during my first playthrough
Only now when i have the whole ost in my head i can actually stop and be like Oh! Heightmap is playing!
broken path
Me, who only knows Coasting, and the vocal songs:
little pagoda
Coasting is a banger you're fine
wispy stratus
i remember watching a video some time ago about why the humming feature was included in the game but now i can't find it
little pagoda
I think i saw smth similar but im not too sure
wispy stratus
the way the music was integrated into the game is amazing
little pagoda
I just love how Turn() really feels like everything else is drowned out, almost suspended underwater
With the focus being on the user
And both Red's humming and Royce's bare bass are sort of haunting ngl
broken path
I really like the distortion that turn makes
i wish there was just a distorted track
wispy stratus
they have the hum, melodic and percussion tracks separated out, and pump up the first and last to make that effect
little pagoda
I wish we could hear how Royce's turn would sound on more songs
Also is it just me or does like. Red only sort of dampens the music while Royce cuts it off completely?
Its been a while since the fight
broken path
i havent played transistor in almost two years
i wouldnt know
little pagoda
Time to power through and kick a nerd's buttock just to confirm or deny this_
God no my recursion save is at the first spine encounter
pulsar lily
signals was a bonus track! it's not in the game itself
like she shines
(it's also too depressing for me to listen to more than the once lmao)
rare moth
oh same, i cant listen to signals at all 😭
wispy stratus
i think of it more as a call to action
pulsar lily
red are u okay because it doesn't sound like you're okay
little pagoda
Given that Signals is placed between tangent and impossible
no
She's not okay
Ive never listened to signals properly is the emotional vibe check worse than in circles
inland mirage
signals is sad, but doesn't have the added emotion that comes from ingame context like In Circles
broken path
Signals is easier to sing, harder to remember
Circles is easier to remember, harder to sing because I'm trying not to laugh at the idea of the camerata literally being tiny people being flushed down the toilet
wanton current
little pagoda
Ive never really tried to sing anything from transistor
Caught myself humming the tracks quite a few times tho
rustic obsidian
Old Friends mixed with Red humming makes me tear up for some reason. Which is odd because my tear glands don't usually work. Either way, I don't listen to it often.
rustic obsidian
It's naturally nostalgic and brings up old memories. I have a lot of repressed memory, so it's kind of a conflicting experience. :V
little pagoda
I also can't help but absolutely love Heightmap and Gateless
rustic obsidian
Gateless is literally my Ringtone and has been for years
Even though Transistor is not a game I played much
little pagoda
Sybil: When I said bring me back something from the beach, I meant like... A shell.
Royce, struggling to hold a seagull: well you didn't fricking say that-
pulsar lily
Impossible's been my ringtone since I got this phone
wispy stratus
My ringtone has been hummed sandbox for some time
I hate phone calls so it's nice to have something so relaxing
pulsar lily
Only problem is, now when impossible comes up on my spotify I have a knee jerk "who's calling?" reaction at first
lyric forge
little pagoda
My fav is probably... Huh. Hummed Gateless, I think
Though Old Friends, Impossible and Tangent all come very close
Oh and the Spine
little pagoda
cedar grove
oh hey thats me
cedar grove
hehe its all thanks to you
vapid tulip
ahh i appreciate it 
little pagoda
Hmm?
cedar grove
i drew this but it was inspired by napcakes who drew it first with asher and grant
broken path
Huh? Where's the originallll
cedar grove
@vapid tulip do you still have it?
little pagoda
OH
broken path
omg XD
wintry verge
grant and asher's final thoughts
little pagoda
Oh my god
vapid tulip
pfffft
full peak
Blood and darkness, Belgo.
noble portal
skimmed this and saw the seagull thing, got me pretty hard XD
rare moth
try again with no swear but im listening to the song
rare moth
it is!!
rare moth
jhgvhjfvhjfvhjfhj
sturdy vine
an actual relevant link this time!
rare moth
day6 in cloudbank....what are their selections.........
sturdy vine
OOF
rare moth
jgjkgjk idk anything abt day6 this is actually the first time ive heard them so ty for that
sturdy vine
theyre great !! im glad me accidentally posting the wrong link here worked out fhlkg
i have posted supergiant memes like one more time on twitter but it was my old account lets see if i screenshotted them
rare moth
ooohhh
rare moth
hfjgjg
little pagoda
Royce, over the intercom: The human body has 206 bones but we start with 369 when we are babies. Wouldn't you want to go back? Have as many bones as a baby? What if I could help you
Red: Hello yes what the actual GENUINE ||bleep|| does this mean.
broken path
me, Literally Red:
full peak
little pagoda
full peak
Red mimes until Mr. Nobody yells at Royce to give Red a tablet so she can write Royce a million obscenities.
little pagoda
a few years ago
Boxer: oh, you know asl?
Red: haha no only the swearwords
Boxer: who knows maybe you'll get to use them someday
little pagoda
Gen 8 pokemon mentioned
||Hey. Sybil having a Hatterene. Royce with a lowkey form Toxtricity because its based on a bass guitar and during the battle it provides the bass||
oak olive
i love transistor
surreal rock
its also canon because half the dex was processed
full peak
Oh my god.
little pagoda
you didn't.
granite pivot
https://imgur.com/gallery/97hOeDU
Please welcome my first customization - Stygian Blade + Transistor combo - Stygistor
I'm so happy how it ended. Even when it doesn't looks perfect and had so much trouble with removing glue after peeling off the template.
rare moth
boyfriend aspect
granite pivot
Someone jokes says that it will be next weapon in hades and it will give ability to ping() hah
little pagoda
@fast bane
fast bane
Ooo !!
full tinsel
The ending to transistor honestly surprised me! But in the end it seems red did get her happy ending?
wintry verge
it's bittersweet
full peak
uh didnt she kill herself to be with her dead husband or smthin?
Boyfriend, yeah, and after the entire city (which might be their entire world?) was wiped out.
yeah
she coulda rebuilt it but she was like heh nah
and wanted to be with her bf in like the sword?
There's a lot of credence to the idea that "the Country" is the afterlife in the world of Transistor. And yeah, after being possibly the last person in the world, I'd tap out, too.
wispy stratus
You can have spoilers in the game-specific channels
Just not in the general channels
stone shoal
I will quote the #readme-first channel
"You can talk about any of our games in depth in their own channels"
rustic obsidian
Or yanno, ||you could always do this when in doubt.||
But the game has been out for years; and this is the primary discussion channel for it so spoilers are probably to be expected anyway.
broken path
you can only be with the peeps you know tho?
pulsar lily
yeah
figure, she wouldn't have gone to the lengths she did if all she cared about was being with him- she could have, ahem, joined him right at the start in that case
broken path
I mean, at first it was a sort of revenge
but then it turned into fixing everything
which led to no one left
pulsar lily
come the end of the game... there's nothing left. sure she could rebuild the city, but there'd be no people
it'd be no way to live
little pagoda
Even if it wasnt really her who did the revenge
All in all this game plays as a shakesperian tragedy-
broken path
ikr
surreal rock
The biggest tragedy is how many people haven’t played this game
broken path
TOO TRUE
tawdry ice
agreed
sterile iron
i saw a hard copy of transistor at best buy but i couldnt get it
near wagon
Boxing Day is when they get cheaper for real
rare moth
boxer day is when we appreciate red's bf
broken path
Yep
stone shoal
Petition to replace Boxing day with Boxer day?
near wagon
(boxing day is the day after christmas when stores offer big sales to get rid of their christmas inventory)
so the day after Christmas will be Boxer Day, the day we appreciate all the kind people in our lives willing to take a sword for us and then become our sword
full peak
You'll never get me to not call him Mr. Nobody.
broken path
oh, so kinda like a black friday!
YES
WE NEED TO MAKE IT BOXER DAY
I used to call him mr. nobody bc i didnt know he had another alias
no way im calling him that now
calm jackal
Nobody day
broken path
NO
calm jackal
He's got No Body
broken path
then its no body day
near wagon
No Body Day: the handover day after Christmas when you can barely feel your body, bit like processed boxer
broken path
i mean, after all the candy I gorge on and energy I spend, I can relate
wintry verge
boxing day is the day where boxer got put in the box (the transistor)
little pagoda
You can't tell me he doesn't sit in regular boxes
little pagoda
I don't know why but 21:10 by Danger is giving me Transistor vibes, and the music is not even that similar
prime apex
@little pagoda nice avatar!
little pagoda
@prime apex RAIHAN
little pagoda
full peak
👄
calm jackal
When I look up, at where the stars should be
full peak
👄
upbeat sky
near wagon
pulsar lily
is
is that what i think it is
molten wren
brisk torrent
oh my dear lord
full peak
👄
near wagon
...my nightmares will be wild tonight
pulsar lily
do I need to break out funko ron again
little pagoda
NO
wintry verge
alternate universe where the camerata is a group of youtubers who specialize in unboxing videos but here it means stabbing their guests with the transistor to see what function comes out
wintry verge
sybil: hello my sweet little process peas! Sybil here, I hope you're doing great because have I got something for you today! (camera pans to Red sitting next to her) That's right! A brand new unboxing video guest-starring Cloudbank's iconic songstress, ms. Red!
Red: hey everyone, so glad to be here with you today! 😁 😁 😁
Sybil: now, while our expert is getting everything ready (cut to Royce in the next room cleaning the transistor) please subscribe to our ovc channel, follow us on social media AND leave a comment if you have any suggestions of people you want to see on our videos,
broken path
Someone make a real channel with this
SOMEONE DO IT
near wagon
I just saw an article that might describe the camerata or at least royce: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/18/why-smart-people-are-better-off-with-fewer-friends/
but instead of jettisoning the hunter-gatherer style network they just off the whole city
calm jackal
Implying that royce is smart...
near wagon
he is probably not wise, though he's probably smart?
surreal rock
Royce is very smart
near wagon
Royce is confirmed to be very intelligent, smartness would need further screen time
little pagoda
Royce is very intelligent but he's a dummy
broken path
Royce is observant. He's not logical.
little pagoda
Observant? I bet that guy walks into pull doors and poles
broken path
Not observant to life
Observant to situations and ideas
little pagoda
Gfhk fair
But now i cant get over the thought of him struggling with a door and just dematerializing it instead
broken path
I can imagine him fighting the door and eventually setting the process on it
little pagoda
I feel like Royce is either really absent minded or really focused on something and there is no in between
Like he's sitting and thinking and suddenly his eyes go blank and they stay that way for a while
Grant: Any objections to the plan?
Royce, who's been absent for the past 15 minutes: yeah sure
Grant: what
Royce: what
broken path
Imagine him pacing with papers, brainstorming. He walks to the fridge, opens it up, grabs whatever he touches first--which is a bowl of soup--and then grabbing a fork and stabbing through the cling wrap, eating the soup and plastic until he finally realizes and goes to grab something else, but gets a good idea and does it all over again.
little pagoda
i wanted to say HOW but then i remembered witnessing my brother pour cough syrup onto a plate
Royce is just... Somewhere else
broken path
what XD
little pagoda
Okay but, you know how when Red constructs, she closes her eyes and hums?
I can imagine Royce staring at the spot blankly, mouthing things silently, and moving his hand in front of himself as if drawing, planning
broken path
I can imagine Royce in a swim pool underwater, looking at the stuff on the bottom and observing how liquid moves and then falling asleep
Omg yeAH
Not even that, more like staring into the soul of the stuff and planning in his head
little pagoda
okay but since Flood is so tied to water, what if he can breathe underwater
And uses that amazing power to just sit at the bottom of the pool unbothered
broken path
I don't think that he can breathe underwater
What I think flood represents is his unlimited sea of thoughts
little pagoda
I don't think so either, just a thought xD
broken path
And the power of the thoughts
little pagoda
Hmmm
some functions' meanings kinda escape me
BUT ILL GET THERE DARNIT
And while i do think that your explanation is great and flood def doesnt have just a surface meaning
I also just love the thought of Royce being trash for water and lightning
:'D
Royce "This Needs More Pool" Bracket
broken path
Royce "You better choose rain in the polls" Bracket
calm jackal
red: picks snow
royce: 😠
near wagon
still H2O precipitation tho
little pagoda
Sybil: everything okay
Royce, who's been lyong facedown in the sea of the sandbox for hours: ngk
sour marsh
patent marsh
royce is luna lovegood but instead of having conspiracy theories, he is the conspiracy
little pagoda
hits bong yo what if we're just videogame characters
okay but galaxy brain here, with all of his study of algorhytms and constructing and deconstructing i feel like he got this idea before
near wagon
...that might explain why he’s okay with murder of fellow citizens
or the generic going to the confirmed existence of country helped “you’ll just go to the country, save me some strawberry milkshake” stab
little pagoda
I like to think that those recursion glitches have smth to do with him since his voice is the first thing we hear after that
final helm
Dare I ask what crail is?
calm jackal
ask supergiant what crail is, if you dare
lunar mesa
Watch it be something that’s an inside a joke or smth
rare moth
i believe its something to do with a file name in transistor?
cedar grove
SKDJHSK THATS SO FUNNY??
little pagoda
HAIL CRAIL
broken path
Maybe Crail is a nickname the SGG gang has for royce
because if you think about the scene and stuff, it's camera showing royce on sideview and royce talking
broken path
Royce Crail Bracket
little pagoda
Rocket cricket bricket????
molten wren
I'm glad to know the backstory for crail now
I thought it was just a word beyond my vocabulary
Turns out it was so much more
little pagoda
they said it couldn't be done!
It sounds SO MUCH like something a villain would say
molten wren
Like almost verbatim from a villain speech
Local shut-in reprograms the whole world into an early grave after people ridiculed his ideas.
"They said it couldn't be done."
wintry verge
Transistor but everyone has a thick scottish accent
cedar grove
@little pagoda no evading the swear filter 
little pagoda
royce --!>``` @wintry vergeqsjfhjsqfh
broken path
nO
little pagoda
Oh god i never realized the messages at terminals change
The dissapearances number keeps growing
Oh no thats ominous
broken path
what?
What do you mean
surreal rock
Well, I mean, the process is kind of... terminal
little pagoda
@broken path the little messages after you leave a terminal, that kind that shows up when youre close enough to something
A terminal in highrise has a dissapearances number that grows
Pretty sure it even grows faster and faster
The more you just stand around
broken path
Little messages?
so like, the terminals are disappearing
little pagoda
No
broken path
oh like
when you go to the terminal and it says how many are missing
surreal rock
It’s one of the tool tips
pulsar lily
the farewell one near the end changes its tool tip too
||"author status: alive"|| to ||"being processed"|| to ||"deceased"||
Because I guess ||making Red read her own obituary|| shortly beforehand wasn't enough pain 
little pagoda
I didnt notice it at first but when o read about it i screamed
Its just so like
Interesting and heartbreaking to think about the chaos and panic and commotion that had to happen in the other parts of the city
Come to think of it its always so quiet around us
obtuse mortar
I'm pretty sure most of us came to this discord for Transistor hoping there would be something more.
wispy stratus
pretty similar amounts of both roles
probably more hades players overall, but a good bit of the other people are likely to be transistor fans
inland mirage
hades definitely made a lot more people aware of the server
rare moth
for a second i thought you meant the character hjfghjfhj
i was like. whatd he say.
how many users. are shades.
near wagon
Considering Hades is not just the god of death but also of wealth... I’m picturing him whispering out of a fiver
rare moth
i go to the atm i get a dollar bill hades starts yelling at me out of it and i scream and rip it up
near wagon
see we have safety wallets for a good reason
inland mirage
He makes snide comments on purchases, like the nixon funbucks from futurama
near wagon
Considering it’s him, it would be more of politically incorrect dad jokes, and that’s when Royce bracket was hired to build a giant firewall to keep him out of online transactions
But Royce’s soul became trapped inside the firewall that became Cloudbank, and he subconsciously tried to destroy it in order to go back to his reality
calm jackal
they got rid of money in cloudbank specifically to keep hades out
left temple
Help! I want to replay Transistor, as I've never played it more than once. Should I play it on PC or Switch?
full peak
I don't think there's a functional difference between the two.
final helm
I played on PC but preferred the gamepad control scheme, keyboard+mouse isn't an advantage in this case. Uuuuh whichever's cheaper?
split minnow
Pc
You can get the whole soundtrack on steam too
I've never been a fan of thumbstick controls for tactical games like that
manic lava
i prefer it on the switch, i find it easier to use with a controller
but if you have a controller for your pc it's basically the same thing
broken path
omg yes
inland mirage
I'm kicking myself for not picking up the physical switch copy I saw at best buy
It was $35 though, and it was a bit out of my range at the time
manic lava
i got it in the collector's edition
inland mirage
I wanted that so bad
left temple
Haha - I had it on PC and won it on Switch. I'll try it on Switch 🙂
drifting timber
+1 to Transistor on Switch!!
manic lava
i will say if you dont have a very big tv/arent close enough to the tv the text is very hard to read
i have to put on my glasses for it
topaz glen
Apple TV gang rise up. I like the nice touch of using the pause/play button to enter Turn
rustic obsidian
Kinda wish SG stuff would make it's way to Android, but probably chasing exclusivity payouts
full peak
That's a very cynical take on it.
rustic obsidian
I am indeed a cynic also a schizoid so I feel I may have said something unintentionally inflammatory here without realizing it.
frail fulcrum
Android can be hard for developing, because there's so many different devices that you have to test for
I'd imagine that the mobile versions of the game aren't worth the kind of effort required to make sure that their games are bug free on every device
I'd rather them develop new games than port the games we already know and love
manic lava
they're also in the process of making a whole game, so porting things is probably on the back burner
rustic obsidian
Android public versions predate Bastion by about three years.
sacred glade
right, but just because the public versions were out doesn't mean that it's the best fit for the game, especially at the time. very unlikely phones at the time could run Bastion as is
surreal rock
Also, considering that sgg regularly undercharges for its games, even if they do have exclusivity deals, it’s not like they’re being greedy
I bought bastion and transistor for $2.50 each
rustic obsidian
I didn't say it was greedy? It's just common business practice.
surreal rock
I guess I misread your tone
rustic obsidian
I'm bad for that. ._.
stone shoal
Tone is hard to interpret at the best of times across a text based medium unfortunately
pulsar lily
Not to mention we've all heard the "devs taking the Epic deal is greedy" line a million times at this point from people who did mean it that way
little pagoda
so i came across a screenshot of fairview i made because bruh was it beautiful
and im wondering
if it was all processed then... why are the stained glass windows showing humans
we've seen processed windows before, blank, monochromatic, like, fittng of process
so why not those?
did they like, keep some sort of likeness of the humans like they kept red's poster?
or since the buildings on fairview are so messed up they even look made by the process, did the process make those windows?
not to mention the upper half of the windows is like that, a woman + wheat because country and whatnot, but the lower one is like, geometry?
patent marsh
maybe they havent gotten around to those bits yet
noble portal
ah the Fairview Sanctuary, right? Tough call, could be that the Process wanted to preserve those images specifically. I'm sure religious iconography is a bit of a curiosity for it.
little pagoda
I don't even remember the names of the areas in fairview i was in a trance through the entire thing ahduucif
broken path
ikr
i just know highrise, reds apartment, lover's grave (thats what I call it) ad jan's juction XD
little pagoda
Turns out Tangent + that area's design + Royce's voice really does weird things to you
languid trail
Read that as Target instead of Tangent...now that would be a surreal experience
broken path
Target as in the store?
near wagon
working at Target desmonstrating products using Transistor and hears Royce talk during it?
broken path
oh my gosh yes
near wagon
"so this pair of headphones has bigger range and clearer sounds than this cheaper model, here, let me show you by replaying the sound of this guy talking" /plays royce's monologue
broken path
yeah yeah!
boxer is in the transistor talking about the products
royce's voice is recorded on stuff
and red brings the stuff out
near wagon
"Red, we are not getting away with this are we?"
broken path
No, we need to mark the price down
little pagoda
Red: walks into Royce's office
Royce: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WELCOME TOOOO TTTTTTTTTTTTTT TARGEEEEEEEEEEET airhorn sounds
sour quail
Red: Walks out of Royce's office
little pagoda
"the process can have me, it would be less painful than this"
calm jackal
child: woah mom can i get the floating television???
royce: I, uh... my proxy... it's ...not for sale
little pagoda
[Royce's voice] Attention all customers, the store is closing in five minutes. Any people left in the store after then will be hunted for sport.
wispy stratus
And instead of changing the product lineup every 6 months it's been the same for 20 years
little pagoda
Maximilias: i want to speak to the manager.
Grant: comes out
Maximilias: chANGED MY MIND
broken path
ok i need someone to write a fanfiction in this au or i will do it myself
shy veldt
Be the change you want to see in the world
tardy spruce
Royce: I... uh... bought a store... with the funds
Asher: What. Why?
Royce and Grant stand outside a Royce chocolate store
Asher: ...This is why we're in debt.
echo sedge
Yoooo I can finally play Transistor (as my first SGG game). If only I did not have it spoiled. And sadly it came at a time when I've somehow lost passion to play any games really, so I don't even feel hyped 😕 . So I'm kinda underwhelmed but it's totally not the game's fault. I must appreciate all the love that went into it, the execution is brilliant.
broken path
I am currently writing the au of the store because it needs to exist
mighty rampart
Even with spoilers it's still impactful game
final helm
I spoiled the entire thing for myself by watching a playthrough years ago, liked what I was seeing but wasn't blown away, and when I finally played it this year I was blown away, so tl;dr I concur that even with spoilers it's still impactful
broken path
Guys
Is it OCV or OVC
for the terminlas, I mean
wispy stratus
Ovc
blissful blaze
OVC
broken path
tysm
echo sedge
Yeah I feel like nothing is really impactful to me lately so that might be why x)
little pagoda
Transistor didn't impact me fully until i read all the stuff and replayed a good bit
But boy did it hit
Like a bag of bricks
A continuous shower of bricks actually
echo sedge
I've kinda experienced the story and music impact before already, from listening and reading about it
Turns out it got a lot more exciting after the Sybil fight, maybe because I entered parts of the game which I haven't seen before
And experimenting with functions is fun
final helm
I'm glad to hear it! Experimenting with functions and being rewarded narratively for doing so is so cool
little pagoda
I love it so much
One of the reasons Performance is my favourite test
"okay so I'm supposed to defeat this horde of robots with... A spoon...? A brick... And a rubber band.
I can make this work"
final helm
Yes!! I love those tests
mighty rampart
i love this mechanic
and being rewarded for testing pushed me to try everything
so i created most bursting combo and nearly one-shotet every boss
little pagoda
"chuckles Oh, I'm, I'm in danger."
- Royce upon seeing you use Void()
echo sedge
Also I love how relaxing the game is. You just want to stop and hum.
It's growing on me again
The negative side effect is that I'd totally love to learn more about Cloudbank and I know that the world is more or less a mystery x)
broken path
hmmm
how tol do you think grant is XD
he seems tol so maybe like
6'2"?
pulsar lily
sounds right
somewhere between royce and boxer in terms of tolness
broken path
I think he's probably as tall as or just a bit taller than boxer
little pagoda
Ive always thought Royce was short and then i replay the game and i'm like wait what
broken path
I always thought he was paper and then I looked at his character design and realized royce is ripped
little pagoda
SAME
upbeat sky
💪 🤓 💪
broken path
I mean
that is royce
little pagoda
And yet, he's less tanky than Red.
But it does give me the thought of Sybil taking him with her on parties so that he socializes and she has a fake partner so she's not bothered
Someone is being creepy and like 'you can do so much better than this nerd' and Royce stands up to his full height and swole
echo sedge
Aaaah discount on Red figure why do you do this to me 😭 . Now the shipping is more expensive than the figure itself.
And well, I feel extremely uncomfortable explaining any of my interests to my parents for some reason and I wouldn't want to explain what arrived anyway even if I ordered it.
broken path
Just say "My christmas gift to myself" and run away wirth the box
little pagoda
Concept: a transistor plushie so you can hug Sword Husband and stab yourself with it when finals are approaching
patent marsh
so like a bodypillow
little pagoda
Is it still a bodypillow if its a sword though taps forehead
calm jackal
taps forehead with sword
little pagoda
Now that's a way to get accidentally integrated
broken path
but it was a plushie-
little pagoda
Vsauce voice or was it
echo sedge
Okay, I have a huge problem with the game: I want to play but don't want to finish the main story 😅
little pagoda
ajhd oh if that isnt a mood
I remember when i entered Fairview and even going blind in i felt that i was in the endgame now and I WAS JUST LIKE NO
inland mirage
what if you
were talking to your gf about her plans for the future
but then you heard
Blank Canvas playing
little pagoda
What if you
Wanted to go to heaven
But god said
one function left
echo sedge
I would know that I am a failure if I didn't even notice that I had two functions, let alone utilized them.
oh I often forget about my Mask() with Load() which leads to rather painful fights instead of just smashing through
calm jackal
Would be cool to have dog summon ability
Not sure what I would do with any of the other functions though
little pagoda
Headcanon that Help() summons a different process for each User
little pagoda
If Ash was an user he'd def have a cat
wish there was a cat process, is all
Grant uses Help. Nothing happens. Until a huge Jerk comes stomping by
echo sedge
Oh I totally didn't write Help() instead of Mask() x). Well as much as different animals would be cool, doesn't Help() summon a dog because it's Sybil's function? So I guess it would summon a dog for everyone.
Btw I'm in Fairview now. Couldn't resist so I played a bit in hopes that there would be a Backdoor somewhere in the starting area so that I could do some challenges but here I am x). But I'll leave the rest for later. I wonder how much is left.
little pagoda
I mean yes, it was just a thought xD
violet crane
i miss transistor i got 100% and still wish there was more transistor to this day amazing game
ivory wedge
Transistor, more like:
"Why do I keep falling in love with all these SGG characters, also Royce please keep talking."
little pagoda
Also having my heart jump every time Boxer speaks
cedar grove
well, grant and asher are definitely married, I won’t change your mind 
ember mirage
Huh
I finished the main game, am I missing out on anything if I stop playing whilst almost meeting Royce in recursion?
Kinda got tired of triple void cull, and that's the best strat by far
cedar grove
I don’t really remember, but the story is the same except for a few “easter eggs” that hint at the recursion/ng+ here and there iirc
there’s the new agency test in the sandbox, if you care about those and haven’t done all of them already
and, well, there’s the achievements
echo sedge
Also you could always try out some silly loadouts I suppose
little pagoda
Beat Royce but by only using flooded flood
I beat 8 limiters Sybil with only Get + Purge as a damaging function, though that was more of me forgetting the bossfight was coming xD
ember mirage
I don't have flooded flood
Only flood
@little pagoda isn't ping with get and purge better in that case?
little pagoda
@ember mirage I DONT EVEN KNOW MAN I NEEDED TO USE GET IN ACTIVE AND PURGE IN UPGRADE SO I COULD COMPLETE THEIR FILES. I FORGOT THE BOSSFIGHT WAS COMING. I GOT PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN. I BANGED ON THE DOOR OF THE EMPTY SET LIKE A MADMAN I WAS LOCKED IN
ember mirage
Ahahahahahahah
As boring as it is , triple void + purge with cull instantly one shots sybil
little pagoda
Yeah i dont find much joy in oneshotting things
I didnt know how strong Void in active is for the entirety of my first playthrough
I got so nailed by sybil and royce but i loved his bossfight
ember mirage
Tbh I didn't really find the game hard
Even in first playthrough. Maybe died 3 times at most to sybil in 3rd revive
And once to Royce
Idk how I felt about royces fight , it felt so coinflippy
Jaunt is useless , and I was running jaunt + charm
little pagoda
I didn't die during my first playthrough
Then again depends if you define dying as losing a health bar or as ded ded
Also slander Jaunt one more time you heathen
ember mirage
I define dying as losing a health bar
Also slander Jaunt one more time you heathen
Jaunt is useless Vs royce
hot tree
that's just bc the tactics for turn() users and for regular enemies are so different
ember mirage
Yeah
Vs turn() users you just triple void cull, whilst for regular enemies you just triple void cull
hot tree
well, to each their own ig
echo sedge
Hmmm, well, I can't count how many times I've "died" as in losing my health bar. And died as in dead dead twice, but on my defense I was also playing will all limiters available (which might not actually be defense x)).
little pagoda
To be honest i used Jaunt to run away from Royce screaming
If he wants to hit me he'll have to move his swole nerd butt for it
echo sedge
I've gotta admit that it feels a bit like cheating to die die and then continue playing.
little pagoda
It did at first but then i found out that it's just how it's gonna be when Sybil wants to get close and personal
wispy stratus
Being able to mask while waiting for turn to recharge is also handy
little pagoda
Y'all ugly! poof
Boxer: okay so now you've got two Jaunts, you can make any function usable when turn is recharging!
Me: upgrades ping with it
Boxer: why pi-
Me: ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATTA
echo sedge
I love Ping() with Jaunt(). Also add Purge() to it for a bit better damage output. But mainly I need it to deal with the shielded cells.
little pagoda
Great for Haircuts also
echo sedge
"RETURN TO SHELL" I love you guys
ember mirage
@mighty rampart yeah i ran that too
@little pagoda why wouldnt you run ping? its extremely efficient whilst wait for turn()
little pagoda
Honestly i just run it for machine gun
ember mirage
Hey guys i want to wish you all a merry christmas. Discord is full of copypasted christmas messages, that people don't even read and just forward to other servers. I don't like that. I like to write what i deeply wish and what comes from my heart. Our friendships, from the most deep ones to the most virtual ones are very important and will never be represented by a simple message copied from elsewhere. This being said I would like to thank all of you. You are the best hockey team i've ever played with. A big hug, Christopher.
little pagoda
I'm going to forcibly remove your conciousness from this reality
With this
Weird, blue, glowing hockey stick I found
echo sedge
What's that voice from inside?
I'm just a dead guy stabbed with the hockey stick, don't mind me.
little pagoda
Boxer yells GOAL every time i yeet something with Breach across the entire battlefield
echo sedge
Am I the only one to whom it is weird that Red drags Transistor on the ground as if it was really heavy but then with flourish she has no problem throwing it in the air? I think I remember something being said about why the walking animation was changed from the original version on the stream last year but I don't remember anymore and I think it was at the beginning which wasn't recorded by anyone.
little pagoda
Royce mentions that the Transistor is lighter than it seems
He also has a deleted line where he berates Red for dragging it on the ground
(those two might be one long line i dont remember)
So maybe it isn't... That heavy? But then again why would she drag it on the ground?
echo sedge
Yea exactly x) I've got the feeling that the explanation was something like that someone pointed out that it was too big for her but I don't really remember anymore. Maybe it wasn't even mentioned hah.
calm jackal
i think there was fanon that it's heavy for her psychologically
its got her dead bf in it, it took her voice
echo sedge
The lightness thing is in the deleted line too yeah.
Honestly that theory kinda contradicts Fourish. 🤔
I suppose it might be that it was still easier for her to carry it that way.
Kinda wish someone remembered what was said on the stream x)
calm jackal
its a lot easier to throw something a few times than to carry it high for a couple hours
when red goes to the country, boxer is like "woah where'd you get these pecs" and she gives him a look
little pagoda
Woke: she always had pecs
Red is always ready to throw down and she's mentally swole let her have pecs
And a more serious answer, maybe Flourish is more of a lighter, happy moment for her, maybe thats why she can throw it
Maybe the Transistor itself can also help the motion, i'd bet good money on that thing being sentient in ways different than just sword bf
There was also that deleted royce line about it taking you away if you use it to take a life
echo sedge
Now that I've reread the unused lines, I feel that the "taking away" was the mechanism by which Red escaped whatever that showdown place was supposed to be
little pagoda
But she wasnt the one who took the life there
echo sedge
No I mean, the Country or wherever she fought Royce
echo sedge
Still don't really understand what could happen when the Transistor was put in the Cradle.
calm jackal
the mechanics of the transistor and the cradle go pretty much completely unexplained
and thats ok
echo sedge
Yeah was just wondering about some sensible theory. The Transistor/Cradle doesn't even seem to have a computer analogy which is rather weird
little pagoda
Ngl i like how vague Transistor is sometimes. Lets me drown in headcanon town
echo sedge
Yeah hah. Makes me want to create my own world and release a work just so I can torture people the same way lol
calm jackal
royce doesnt really consider until afterwards that maybe they should have been farther away from the cradle when it does its thing
little pagoda
Thing i wonder about: if Royce found the Transistor stuck in the Cradle and just pulled it out full king arthur style
calm jackal
"we flew a bit close to the flame there"
aw yeah he absolutely did that
but no one was there to see it
little pagoda
I mean, understandable since he didnt have experience w it
I wonder if like, he had a thought that maybe he should leave it there
... Then again he did say that he's not sure if he found it or if it found him. Maybe he had a feeling that he was allowed to take it
little pagoda
Also @calm jackal that line, royce is a moth confirmed
echo sedge
Hmmm so if Transistor is something that controls the process.
It makes sense that it acted like a brush on the blank city, because it controlled the underlying process so it created stuff.
The whole Transistor + Cradle thing is also weird because putting them together made the process behave again somehow? But it wasn't plugged into it, more like absorbed, also there were many Transistors... and also the process didn't go rampaging until the incident with Mr. Nobody as far as I'm aware. But then when they returned after defeating Royce the process was under control again.
little pagoda
I think
The connection w the cradle
was there even when the camerata used it, and when the whole incident happened, it glitched out
Maybe like, going factory mode on the process, or like, maybe they lost directions altogether
Maybe they lost orders and went confused and terrified, and their best idea was to raze everything down to the ground, reset it
Which, according to Roy, is like, the state they feel familiar and comfortable in
calm jackal
the cradle is the connection between the transistor and the process
little pagoda
Royce, seeing that Process is anxious when things are too many, too unfamiliar and too loud: big mood, guys
echo sedge
I was thinking in what sense it was a connection. The fact that there are many Transistors complicates it a lot, otherwise it could be more straightforward.
little pagoda
I mean
More transistors but only... Inside
We don't know if there are more transistors outside the transistor.
... That sentence hurt to write
echo sedge
Or perhaps outside the Cradle?
little pagoda
Since theres trace banks i think its safe to say it was inside the transis- hang on
What if only the arena was the transistor and the background is the cradle
taps forehead
echo sedge
Whoah
little pagoda
I have no idea what im saying btw
echo sedge
Doesn't sound bad tbh. Something to consider
But inside of the Transistor Red is holding... something doesn't add up.
little pagoda
inside the transistor red sent into the cradle, they're... There
Im guessing it resolved the two users situation by giving them each a transistor and leaving them to duke it out on who's gonna be able to use it to get out
is the transistor like a matryoshka doll. You get into one. It has more transistor in it. You get into one of those. More transistor in it. You open another one. It has more tra
echo sedge
It's Transistors all the way down
little pagoda
inception bwaa
echo sedge
yeah I've read it or heard it somewhere that he isn't in there
Might be appropriate to drop this
TransistorChat: Can Boxer talk with those who get integrated into the Transistor? Or can he just talk with them while they’re being sorted out initially?
GregK: @TransistorChat Seems to be just initially. Then they get filed away somewhere very far away once integrated.
TransistorChat: Such as those Trace Banks we see?
GregK: @TransistorChat Royce says ‘…they’re trapped. No walls in there mind you, it’s just, they’re on their own.’
echo sedge
Nope
little pagoda
He glitched it so bad he became the schrodingers cat
He's in there but Not
Also thats def interesting
echo sedge
There might be no tracebank because there is no trace... but it doesn't really make sense to me how it has recorded his being and yet there is no trace
little pagoda
Also thats really hecking sad if theyre all on their own
Maybe they get sorted like, to be with each other if theres an emotional connection
We know that happened with Boxy and Red
calm jackal
they're just vibin
little pagoda
v i b i n
echo sedge
I was thinking if the people are really in the Transistor or if it just acts as a remote gateway to the Country in that sense. You're hearing people from the country through the Transistor if you know them well enough.
little pagoda
strokes invisible beard
echo sedge
Maybe the trace is just some metadata that the transistor contains, but the actual beings are elsewhere
little pagoda
And i mean, it can make traces without absorbing the person
Red obvs, but since we get Royce's before yeeting him into oblivion i assume his was a similar thing
Wonder if it has to take something from you to make that trace, people theorized that thats why it took away Red's voice
calm jackal
woah what if red's trace started talking to her
echo sedge
I thought that it was more like, the Transistor allows you to hear people (from the Country?) whose traces it contains if you know them... so, assuming beings and traces are separate, the trace is just information about a person, not the actual person. So it's not the traces talking, but the traces allow connection with the being... oh wait I'm getting all philosophical
little pagoda
Yed but also: the agency clone fighting you being your trace
echo sedge
Whoa this is getting all confusing.
Better don't even throw Sandbox into the mix. I wonder if it's like a completely separate world. Somehow.
little pagoda
I like to headcanon that Royce made it as a training ground but Sybil needed a place to relax and unwind, and so he made it more of a pretty beach
And gave her the keys
Me? Dying for any sort of Royce and Sybil friendship? Yes
echo sedge
Knowing Royce it was probably more like "Whatever I don't need this anymore enjoy the pile of sand"
Well I don't know really
near wagon
I can totally imagine Royce unwinding in there tho
Sipping milkshake while rocking on a hammock and listening to gramophone music or something
echo sedge
Drawing all the complicated mathematical ideas into the sand hah
little pagoda
Perching on the last branch and staring into the sunset
But also
Sybil: Oh want me to rock you?
Royce, who's resting in the hammock: oh sure just be careful im holding a milkshaAAAAAAHHHHH SYBIL STOP AAAAAAA AAAAA AAAA
echo sedge
I feel that after this chat my chair must have "Ideas mulled: 1000" or something like that lol
little pagoda
Sandbox is there JUST so that a beach epizode can happen
echo sedge
👀 no
little pagoda
Things:
- asher with a shark fin
- boxer has ended up buried in the sand for joke purposes (I AM THE SAND GUARDIAN, THE GUARDIAN OF THE SAND!)
- royce thats not a ball thats a flood sphere please put it down
- "listen guys i said no diving and i had a reason. If you just listened to me nothing would have happened. Why would i make the sea that deep do you know how much memory rendering that takes"
- but also royce making underwater sceneries
- f
- fis
- fish process
calm jackal
They filled the sandbox with water so that they could all just run in the ankledeep water to escape the process, who hates water
coarse fable
You may already know this, but a Sandbox environment is a test environment. So my company can set our customers up with a "production" environment (the real thing) and a sandbox environment (for doing tests). Certain things can't be deleted once done, so sandbox is where you can make a test without it affecting your real tool for the rest of time
little pagoda
Is that why you get revived if you die in a test
Sybil, seeing Royce be revived 5 times in a row: speed test 5 huh
echo sedge
Yes, Sandbox is very much a testing environment. Nothing there is really real. Kind of a virtual reality in Cloudbank, which is a funny idea.
Probably the fact that it isn't real in the sense Cloudbank is is why the Process can't access it
little pagoda
The fact that Boxer feels better and isnt sick by the spine when you're in it also hints at it being... Outside
Ive always thought it could be like, a pocket dimension or something
Those lines on the sky reminded me of like, a box almost, as weird as that sounds
echo sedge
It's a Sandbox after all. A literal box of sand in this case.
little pagoda
Idk i just love it, its a neat way to let the player train while also giving them nice challenges, a cool vaporwave sunset and a way to relax and spend time w their dog and husband
And its also a nice way to make the camerata a bit more human
Or well, Sybil, but i dont think she was the only one who had acess
And I don't think anyone but Royce has the capability to build a thing like that
(though i feel like if he did, making it a beach was Sybil's idea)
echo sedge
My thoughts too.
Gameplay-wise Sandbox is probably my favourite area
The performance test is a cool idea, getting random functions and slowly building up from that, combining and working with what you have, losing them on death, I think that the mechanic could make a game on its own.
little pagoda
I love performance tests theyre my favourite
I still have one left and im reluctant to do it because there arent gonna be any more after it :')
echo sedge
I kinda have the problem that I get completely obsessed with uncovering how worlds work. Especially because I love these kind of digital words. But I do the same about IRL sometimes. It's hard to tell my brain to leave it x)
It's not even like it matters in the case of Transistor. It's a story about love, I shouldn't spend so much time pondering the setting, right? But then I'm like... yeah, it must make sense somehow, let's try thinking about it again 😅
strange brook
I don't blame you. Transistor almost invites that sort of mindset with how much completely inexplicable stuff is in there. It's hard to not get pondering about it
little pagoda
royce we know its you you can drop the disguise-
echo sedge
Uh yeah sure
Hopefully in a couple of years I'll get the same effect as I did with books I read when I was younger and will forget half of Transistor so I can reexperience it again x). Although for some reason I feel like it won't be the case hmmm.
Well anyway I think I should forget my theories because it's kinda bloating my mind hah. Almost creating my own canon yeah. Also detracting me from IRL stuff. After finishing a book or game or film in a setting like this I almost live in a completely different world for a few days afterwards.
which is why I'm constantly spamming Trna theories here
little pagoda
LMAO YOU ACTUALLY DID
little pagoda
and boi
listen
why would creating your own canon be a bad thing
especially in a game this vague
have fun skate fast
we're all on the same boat here
echo sedge
It's just that I don't want to drown in my own canon and forget to experience the real deal haha
little pagoda
oh thats so valid
sometimes i forget the bad stuff cameratas did under all of my dum headcanons
full peak
They murdered a lot of people.
little pagoda
for every cute headcanon i make about any of them i get to kick royce so the universe stays in an equillibrium
echo sedge
I have some sort of philosophy that everything exists, in the sense that all thoughts and objects and universes (everything really) exist in a way, when you make a thought you don't really create it, just discover that particular "combination". Very much inspired by The Library of Babel (at least what I've read about it).
So when a character dies in a story, it was basically inevitable, because there are versions of the story where it lives and where it dies and the author just picked this particular one. Like an infinity of combinations. And the same could be said for IRL. Not a multiverse, mind you, these realities are 100% separate. Since you cannot find out if they really exist or not it's more of a hypothetical thing, you can't say it doesn't make sense, you can't deny it, it's just a matter of perspective, that is the key point. Like in mathematics you know all numbers exist without having written them down. This would be the same.
Royce out
full peak
Unfalsifiable information is worthless. All of our knowledge, the sum of the human experience, is rooted in the notion that we can determine if something is true or not. Without that, it's just a meaningless flash of so many subatomic particles.
echo sedge
It is not worthless in the sense that we are also emotional beings and brain accepts tricks. This can give you some sort of calmness, perhaps. That everything happens. But if you go too far you figure out that nothing does really matter uh 😅 .
As I've said, it's more like a different perspective than an actual piece of information.
coarse fable
Coming back late to the conversation - yes, Sandbox is completely separate. For my company, we host on a completely different server. But if it were smaller, they could live in the same place - like if you could install two different versions of Word, but any file you saved in ProductionWord couldn't be opened with SandboxWord, and vice-versa.
Blue stops being fuzzy around the Spine because he's fundamentally no longer around the spine
Doors to Sandbox are doors to another dimension, basically
little pagoda
Im just wondering how the sandbox came to be
I like to think Royce built it but its a whole different dimension thing
Local Man Tries His Limits And Makes a Fricking Pocket Dimension, Then Sleeps For 40 Hours
echo sedge
It still bothers my inner Royce that Red is dragging that sword on the ground. Why, Red, whyyyy
little pagoda
I just love his intonation in that line
So absent minded in the first part, just excited to talk about the thing
And then just
"And you've been dragging it like that. On the ground."
echo sedge
Has some GLaDOS quality in that line
little pagoda
... Royce as GLaDOS
.. Royce as a narrator in general
Mean Bill Nye Sasses You For 6 Hours Straight ASMR
echo sedge
Tried to imagine a conversation between Royce and Boxer. Would probably start sassy, heat up into a wild argument and end with both of them trying to smash each other with whatever is nearby.
well, Royce would be probably just defending himself really
little pagoda
Honestly
I don't know
Boxer can get heated up but he's geberally a very chill man
He tries to understand things, and even if he was pretty darn mad at the camerata like really really really mad
He eventually sort of like, calmed down? I don't know of forgave is fhe right word here, not yet at least.
And even then, even if that convo could def get heated, i dont think it would get to a throwdown
upbeat sky
Boxer’s anger goes from hot to cold
atomic wraith
I don't know if this is the right channel to put this on, but I don't know what other one to put it on. My older brother gave me the Red figurine for secret Santa. It's hilarious because I was his secret santa and planning on getting it for him. I didn't in the end, which is slightly unfortunate. Either way, I'm super happy with it, he's the best bro
rare moth
🤝
little pagoda
The spiderman meme except it's Red
patent marsh
Royce: "We're not going to get away with this, are we?"
echo sedge
@little pagoda Yeah hah, I'm not so sure anymore. Just imagined them both as polar opposites. Also, if I compare the Camerata members, Grant, Asher and Sybil probably did it all for the city. I can somewhat relate to Grant, he was an admin, he probably felt some sort of responsibility over how things were, change required authoritarian methods but he went with it and the rest followed. Royce seems to be very focused on himself on the other hand. At least that was my impression
little pagoda
Yes and yes, Royce and Boxy are v much opposites and i love how they sometimes have connections w each other, with both of them having that 'please dont go' line and sharing the opening line
But while Royce is def more focused on himself than the others, I think he, too, did it for the wellbeing of the city. May have not been 100% why he did it like w Grant but def in there
@echo sedge
sturdy gale
It’s probably been said many times many ways but I really do feel like the camerata is a perfect high int low wis group of very intelligent people who are just... so very, very dysfunctional
little pagoda
i wanna say Boxer is low int high wis but i honestly don't know he is also a MESS
Red carries the whole cast on her shoulders
echo sedge
Not so sure about Boxer being low int. Also because Greg mentioned in some chat that he was supposed to have a detective quality (which is why he knew about the Camerata even though it was a secret group).
Though he certainly isn't a "genius" kind of person, like some of the Camerata members are.
sturdy gale
I think boxer is smart in a street smart kind of way, but I don’t necessarily think he’s well read or anything
he just kinda knows a lot about a lot
wispy stratus
his problem seems to be lack of interest
everyone else is really into one thing or another
echo sedge
I thought of int as intelligence rather than knowledge
But yes you're right
wispy stratus
int tends to encompass both, but not always
echo sedge
Honestly I don't like grouping that
intelligence is that you are capable of figuring something out
knowledge is... yeah, knowledge
Interestingly it's kinda hard to define wisdom
Feels like it's more connected to strategic planning of actions. Which is also kinda intelligence. It's complicated hah
Wisdom is more like a mix of int + knowledge + experience
sturdy gale
Intelligence is knowing how/creating your own plan in an airtight environment, wisdom is knowing something will go wrong and reacting to it
Imo. The lines are definitely blurred
echo sedge
Feels like int is coming up with something based on logical reasoning
Wis is confronting it with intuition / practical knowledge / experience / possible size of consequences in case your reasoning was wrong
Well pretty much as you've said.
It's difficult to describe complex brain processes in simple terms
sturdy gale
yeah :(
echo sedge
I've been thinking that.
I'd totally love a game with packed streets of Cloudbank and detective Boxer seems perfect for that.
little pagoda
depressed noir detective trope but he is drowning in procrastination
echo sedge
But I'm not quite sure what crimes could actually be commited in Cloudbank. It was a utopia after all.
little pagoda
points at the camerata murders and dissapearances
and i mean
cloudbank did have a cop.
Mr Long Hat Ping Dude
i dont remember his name
twin summit
idea: he’s investigating the disappearances and the final chapter ends with him being stabbed
little pagoda
old friends plays, but like... jazzy
echo sedge
Oh right!
Well, I'd rather see something completely Camerata unrelated. Knowing everything in advance would be boring and there was likely no direct confrontation (before he was stabbed). But a classic non-detective investigating a mystery story set in Cloudbank would be lovely.
little pagoda
i honestly want to see more of cloudbank
also of boxys home since like, he wasnt from cloud, was he?
cant remember rn
echo sedge
I think it was just a theory that he didn't belong in Cloudbank I think? But there is nothing beyond Cloudbank in the Cloudbank dimension and we don't know any other dimensions where he could be from.
little pagoda
a noir game but everything is tinted blue instead of black because its, well, Blue
twin summit
disco elysium type story but in cloudbank
echo sedge
Personally I'd prefer to see Cloudbank in colour haha
Yo but I'd really want this game. Walk through the packed streets of Cloudbank, explore all those places, talk to people, slowly uncover some mystery. Listen to Boxer talking to himself in his head. Also more 
songs right?
little pagoda
and more certified Boxer humming and singing tm
echo sedge
Yes Boxer humming the songs along the way.
Oh my I'm in love with the game it doesn't even exist whyyy
echo sedge
I hope someone from SGG is reading this so that the thoughts of this game will haunt them until they make it lol
echo sedge
Let's start an OVC petition
It could even be the story of how Boxer met Red hah.
oh no I've created a giant headcannon
spring plover
echo sedge
What if Mr. Nobody's name is... Auden Boxer.
mind = blown
pulsar lily
that's what I go with in sims bc it won't let you not give them a last name
(never did think of a good one for red though, I think I just hit the random button a few times)
patent marsh
herring
twin summit
if they do make a transistor boxer main, that means we get more logan
which is awesome
twin summit
a transistor game with mr nobody as the main
little pagoda
OH
Yeah it would be so 👌
As much as i talk about Royce Boxer is my fav and i decided that i would die for him less than 5 minutes into the game
patent marsh
im pretty sure SGG arent doing sequels or prequels ever
echo sedge
I've seen so many unlikely things happen that I believe that everything is possible
Well but yeah, we're just having fun thinking what if
They've never outruled doing either tho
Btw I've noticed that the flourish animation actually looks like the Transistor flies out of Red's hands, rather than her throwing it up. Which actually makes a lot more sense.
little pagoda
awww
headcanon time, if other characters had their own little things like Red has flourish and humming, what would it be?
broken path
royce's would be pulling out a cigarette and counting stuff on his fingers!
echo sedge
Sybil would definitely have something with her umbrella
Also Asher would probably pet the cat
broken path
Sybil would twirl her umbrella, or do a small dance with it
I feel like asher would pet his cat or make a phone call
pulsar lily
PET 👏 THE 👏 CAT
echo sedge
The cat should've been a boss
Would totally throw everyone off
Some people say that there should've been a boss at the top of the towers anyway
Just a big processed ME_W
poor cat
broken path
the boss at the top of the towers was grant
bc he's the boss of the camerata (get it?)
echo sedge
plot twist: cat was the mastermind behind everything
it also brought Royce the Transistor
little pagoda
he didnt make it
he found it
he either found it or it found him
also, headcanon that if Asher was a playable character, he'd have his cat w him
mostly riding on his shoulder but every once in a while it would jump off and just follow
sometimes playing with the process plants or running off to sniff or bat at something
and you'd have to call it to get it back
Grant would walk slower than the others, and more gracefully
broken path
I feel like asher's cat would be his weapon
echo sedge
do I hear cat with a gun motif
little pagoda
gun but instead of gunfire noises it meows
i call it the owobliterator
okay but to expand on Royce's flourish thing, letting go of the transistor, it hovers in the air, he leans on it, takes out a cigarette, and smokes
sometimes he closes his eyes and little transparent structures appear and dissapear around him
broken path
THAT'S COOL YOU HEAR THAT SGGG PEOPLE YOU NEED TO ADD THAT
little pagoda
Thought I do not take criticism on: they all have a hum button
little pagoda
and honestly i think Sybil, Royce and Boxer all canon like her songs?
little pagoda
Im p sure he has a line somewhere, idk if it was deleted, that goes like "Your songs... you have quite the imagination"
i dont know if its deleted
but im sure i didnt hallucinate it
also grant does? where when
little pagoda
dsfgh
sybil is blasting Red's songs at the camerata hq and the only way to survive is to start liking them
broken path
WHY DOES THIS SOUND CANNON
broken path
Smort pals
echo sedge
The line is one of the deleted yeah
little pagoda
Royce: I built you a sandbox pocket dimension you can relax in, here are the keys!
Sybil: Oh that’s so nice of you!
Royce: I moved your gramophone in there too, so i dont have to listen to the songs anymore i swear to god if i hear we all become one more time ill fold like RAM with six google chromes opened
Sybil: wait what was the last part
Royce: ENJOY YOUR ISLAND
echo sedge
Canon: The Spine was in fact Google Chrome
little pagoda
would explain why there are multiple even though we only really saw one
everydamntimeiopentaskmanager
echo sedge
Laughs in Firefox
little pagoda
hello royce catches himself humming one time and has an exitentional crisis for a second
atomic wraith
The moment when your friend finishes transistor and texts you frantically and all you can respond is aaaaaaaaaaah
echo sedge
👏 nice to have friends
little pagoda
i was like that to the friend that played it before me bhjafkg
atomic wraith
I've been trying to convince her to play it for so long, so this is a very satisfying moment
broken path
I have a friend who knows about transistor but hasnt played it
so i transistor rant to her XD
little pagoda
You Just Finished Transistor By Supergiant Games So You Have An Emotional Moment And Blow Up Your Friend's DMs While Paper Boats And Your Crying Can Be Faintly Heard In The Background ASMR
atomic wraith
Ah yes, that will relax me and definitely not keep me awake, smiling like an idiot all night
little pagoda
And Then One Loud EXCUSE ME When The Screen Glitches And The Recursion Menu Appears ASMR
echo sedge
where do you guys get friends that like similar stuff uh?
echo sedge
whoah
little pagoda
one irl friend who got me into it and five online
echo sedge
I see 👌
little pagoda
poor people had to endure me screaming after i fifnished the story
also one of them is the reason i love royce so much because i didnt like him when i first met him, kind of got neutral to kinda liking him after the bossfight and the recursion line
and then she barged in with her headcanons
and i was lost
echo sedge
lol
little pagoda
heckin rude
echo sedge
Well I didn't understand the appeal of headcannons and fanfiction until today hah
little pagoda
honestly i love expanding upon things
esp when the thing has a lot of potential like here
echo sedge
I always tried to come up with my own stuff. More useful anyway (potentially).
But mymy I just love the idea of Auden who's a guy figuring out where he belongs, quite rebellious in nature you could say. So he goes through life, getting various jobs, being a natural observer he notices a lot of stuff going on in the city. Then through a cascade of events he meets the beloved Cloudbank singer. And well, the two click and the rest is history. Mr. Boxer finally finds his place in Cloudbank. Though he still doesn't care about the selections because he is well without them. And doesn't feel like limiting himself to two skills.
You can't tell me this is not Boxer's backstory.
little pagoda
baby boy baby
see i have original ideas but i cant put them into coherent anything
lusty raft
This is my favorite game ever made it's seriously impressive
little pagoda
It is!
lusty raft
I love how perfect this game is lmao
little pagoda
It's beautiful as heeeck
gilded pebble
Ngl I've teared up listening to Paper Boats while in the office
hardy sky
same