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Shei-kun posted:I hope you don't mind generalized anxiety! Anyone working for the FBC that doesn't have some kind of mild anxiety disorder by the time they finish their employee induction probably isn't cut out for the job anyway.
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Shei-kun posted:"Wear this, because it protects you from something we're not going to tell you about. And if you don't wear it, you'll never notice because you'll be dead when it matters. I hope you don't mind generalized anxiety!" After your first week at the FBC you'd probably just be like alright. sure. do I get to choose the colour
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May 31, 2020 10:03
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Shei-kun posted:"Wear this, because it protects you from something we're not going to tell you about. And if you don't wear it, you'll never notice because you'll be dead when it matters. I hope you don't mind generalized anxiety!" He said it was kidding about it being quick and painless. It's probably super agonising.
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May 31, 2020 11:12
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At least they're making more. 
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May 31, 2020 12:00
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Stroth posted:Anyone working for the FBC that doesn't have some kind of mild anxiety disorder by the time they finish their employee induction probably isn't cut out for the job anyway. There's a document somewhere in the game about how the bureau values certain anxiety disorders in employees, because they indicate paranatural attunement.
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May 31, 2020 12:06
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Hubbardologist posted:There's a document somewhere in the game about how the bureau values certain anxiety disorders in employees, because they indicate paranatural attunement. I want to avoid nod-nod-wink-winking the future of my own LP too much, but this is a good thing to keep in mind in connection with Dr. Ash's pet theory about the significance of synchronicity. Millions of people around the world experience behaviors that don't make logical sense, but they can neither explain why they do them nor force themselves to stop, and attempting to correct the behaviors can cause extreme distress. What if they're doing it because everyone else is doing it?
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May 31, 2020 14:14
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That sort of thing is exactly why I love this game, and the world they built. I'm intrigued by the Dr. Ash stuff, considering the story that they basically tell with Northmoor Though I can't speak that authoritatively to deep meanings of the late game stuff, as I'm only (actual spoilers) just wrapping up the main quest, though I just finally beat that fucker Tommasi for the second time, and did the side quest with Hideo Kojima's cameo. By the way, thanks for doing this LP! I'm really enjoying each installment. I'm (again, actual spoilers) super intrigued to see more of the side stuff that you explore, like the Mold threshold, and the hidden stuff littered throughout.
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Jun 1, 2020 03:17
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One bit on Poets of the Fall, they've been working with Remedy for a while (they did "Late Goodbye" from Max Payne 2, which is when I got into them) and they've done a bunch of songs as "Old Gods of Asgard" which you may recall from Alan Wake and also one memorable sequence in this game. The test room song/album cover is a real world title of theirs.
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Jun 6, 2020 01:14
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It's also a great meta joke - licensing issues with the Poets of the Fall song in Alan Wake meant that they had to stop selling it*, so naturally in their next game they go and put a room that has nothing except a Poets of the Fall song  *this has since been resolved
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Jun 6, 2020 16:40
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There's also a menu option specifically for muting copyrighted music in the game so that people can post videos without falling afoul of Youtube (or Twitch's) copyright policies. I have no idea what becomes of the Acoustics Studies lab if you do that, but I assume that most of the game becomes a lot less interesting.
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Jun 6, 2020 18:22
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There are a lot of parts of the FBC that could be considered the nerve center of the operation - Central Executive, Ahti's office, whatever the heck Dr. Darling's hiding... heck, even the Research Sector as a whole. But the nerve center of the human body is the brain, and that's intricately tied to the mind, in the same way that the heart could be said to be related to the soul or a Participation ribbon relates to the persistent, hollow sense of failure that plagues your entire existence. Today, we'll be looking into how the FBC studies the mind - not so much the things that the mind can do, but the mind itself, as an entity. It's all a means to an end, of course, but in the same way that you can write better programs the more you understand about how a computer works. Psychology is kind of an antithesis to me personally, seeing as how I seem to have made it my life's purpose to defy every conclusion that a psychologist has ever reached, but I can't argue with the importance of the Parapsychology department, nor with the rewards it contains. My favorite ability in the game is just around the corner. There are just a few minor... inconveniences along the way, shall we say? Part 11: Parapsychology Polsy Youtube Documents
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Jun 11, 2020 00:49
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So you were right that the cards were at the start of Ghostbusters! They're Zenner Cards and the idea was to test for ESP and the subject being able to guess what symbol the test giver saw at above chance rates. So it's no surprise that'd show up here!
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Jun 11, 2020 03:10
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That page more or less confirms my math, too. I calculated that the probability of a score of 9 or more correct out of 25, with no actual psychic factors involved, is about 6.7%, just too high to be statistically significant.
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Transcript from OOP18-PE surface film @ around 18:13. Note: Most text seems to be in uppercase. My notes are in parentheses, best guesses all around. PATIENT: CAGE M. (or CAGE N.) DATE 11/20/1974 ST. ANNE's HOSPITAL ED: 16 TR: 4650,0 (or 4550.0) TE: 109,0 BRAIN A.Othk/D,Osp (Not sure on this line) ID: DCM/LimDCN/Id:ID (Again not sure) W:974 L: 466 1.ST MRS10CD (Again again not sure) Ex: 9112 3-pl T2* FGRE 5e: 1/7 DFOV: 240x240cm Mag: 1x I tried my best, but the lines in the BRAIN section are kind of hard to read. I also tried to keep the commas and dots accurate. If someone with medical knowledge of x-ray scans of the head and the 1974 markings therein could explain some, or Nidoking might be able to get a better scan or transcript with explanation(I don't want to go looking online because I know I'll definitely run across spoilers).
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azsedcf posted:If someone with medical knowledge of x-ray scans of the head and the 1974 markings therein could explain some, or Nidoking might be able to get a better scan or transcript with explanation(I don't want to go looking online because I know I'll definitely run across spoilers). Ooh, this is interesting. I hadn't considered taking that close a look at the X-ray. I'll see what I can do about getting a better look at it. Worst case, I make another account on the PS4, power through to that point, and capture a better image. EDIT: I've done what I could with the frame from the raw video and added the result to the Documents list. I don't know anything about MRIs and don't expect I'll be able to learn enough to make a useful statement about the report, but from what I can tell, it's all actual MRI terminology. Nidoking fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Jun 11, 2020 |
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While watching that video I recalled that pre-order costume you got, I think it was reltated to this department. Incidentally it seems like the player could already visit the astral plane without the need of the Lightbox, so that certainly says a lot about how powerful she is.
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Jesse doesn't have any ability to travel to the Astral Plane voluntarily, per se. That's just the link between the Objects of Power that she binds and the Board, as referenced in one of Emily Pope's reports. The X-Ray Lightbox seems to be unique in allowing people to enter the Astral Plane without binding it, but it seems like anyone capable of binding any Object of Power should experience the same effect.
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I had no idea what that poo poo meant so I looked a bunch of it up; as Nido said the text means almost nothing. It's all things like the echo/repeat time of the scan, thickness of "slices", the contrasting agent, etc. It's all meta info about how the scan was taken with no info about what's actually in it. I looked at some "abnormal" CT scans and compared but the level of detail present in the image isn't high enough to really tell, it looks pretty normal.
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It's been a long time, hasn't it? Stuff has been going on in my life as well as in the outside world, and I've been trying to do something a little extra to go along with the LP, with little success so far. Fortunately, I think I know why that is, and it will work better after this video than before it, anyway. So, hopefully, I'll be able to get that done without too much more trouble. Meanwhile, I think we've left Marshall waiting for backup long enough, don't you? Part 12: Quack Quack Polsy Youtube Documents
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From: Intern Azsedcf To: Director Nidoking Re: Document history of Dr. Carla Vaughn and Dr. Hubert Tan After careful analysis of the archived documents already submitted I have found all of 4 documents relaiting to Dr. C. Vaughn and/or Dr. H. Tan. |See: Part 2: Dead Letters - Documents Both - Examination of Paranatural Topics Technological Limitations of the Oldest House Near the middle |Part 7: Directorial Override - Documents, Vaughn - Examination of Paranatural Topics: Thresholds Near the bottom |Part 10: The Research Sector - Documents, Tan - Black Rock Sample Analysis Near the middle |Part 12: Quack Quack - Documents, Vaughn - RE: Black Rock Sample Analysis Near the top In regards to the last document in the list, I recommended that a classification of Sick Burn! and a 10 on the Oof Scale.
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I was sorta hoping we'd get duck based quacking powers from that. I suppose that would have been too overpowered.
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But we're dealing with hard science here, not some kind of quackery.
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Tombot posted:I was sorta hoping we'd get duck based quacking powers from that. I suppose that would have been too overpowered. You're thinking of Objects of Power, not Objects of Shower. I think I need to go take one after coming up with that pun.
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Nidoking posted:You're thinking of Objects of Power, not Objects of Shower. Clearly your Tetris failure was Tetriseus retroactively curses you for that joke.
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That musical interlude made my day.
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Trailer for new expansion. https://youtu.be/qlyr-aH0ZHY Not embedded since it may be considered spoilers.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Trailer for new expansion. Oh yeah, that's definitely spoilers. Do not watch that if you haven't already beaten the game yourself.
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I hope nobody thought I'd forgotten about this LP. I've just been tied up trying to do something a bit special, but it hasn't come together yet, so I'm just going to move on and, if it ever gets made, stick it in the appropriate position in the playlist. For now, I'm just going to wrap up the loose ends in the Research Sector before moving on with the story. I feel like the Guided Imagery Therapy should be more profound than I found it, but maybe it needs to be experienced directly. However, I find the bottom of Central Research much more interesting, for numerous reasons. Part 13: Dr. Yoshimi Tokui's Hypnotic Adventure Polsy Youtube Documents Also, I'm not quite done with the latest DLC yet, but I think they've really got their fingers on the pulse of what we wanted from it. Now I'm a bit sad about how I've been allocating my Skill Points in this playthrough.
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Melaneus posted:Does 'you made a grave mistake!' also work in Japanese? It doesn't sound like it. I believe he says "災厄の間違いをいたしましたね," which is literally "You made a disastrous mistake, didn't you?"
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Nidoking posted:It doesn't sound like it. I believe he says "災厄の間違いをいたしましたね," which is literally "You made a disastrous mistake, didn't you?" The translation was excellent overall, and as a translator, I appreciate that the English was correctly attributed to an interpreter (who works with the spoken word) and not a translator (who works with the written word). In other not-news, Threshold Kids continues to provide the very best of children's programming.
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I just wish they subtitled the Threshold Kids episodes. Something about the voices they use for it makes them hard to understand what they're saying sometimes. Like, the developers did a good job with subtitling the rest of the dialog, but why would they hate the hearing-impaired players enough to deny them Threshold Kids?
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taiyoko posted:I just wish they subtitled the Threshold Kids episodes. They... did? Am I missing something? Or are you just talking about the opening theme?
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The Bremen Town Musicians
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I stopped watching this LP specifically so I could buy the game and play it for myself. Wish my PC could run it, but it does mean I'll get more use out of my PS4.
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An a**, a son of a b***h, a p***y, and a c**k fail to start a band
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Fudge Handsome posted:I stopped watching this LP specifically so I could buy the game and play it for myself. Wish my PC could run it, but it does mean I'll get more use out of my PS4. Hopefully, you bought the new Ultimate Edition. I've heard it's cheaper than the standalone game, even before factoring in the DLC price, and includes the free upgrade to the PS5 version.
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I ended up buying on PC twice because the Ultimate Edition was barely more than the season pass and I prefer having games on steam. Hoping they add the different preorder outfits eventually.
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Nidoking posted:They... did? Am I missing something? Or are you just talking about the opening theme? Maybe I'm just going crazy then, I went and rewatched it in the video and it's definitely there. Though the opening theme being subtitled too would have been nice, at least once because I dunno if it's just their "fake kid voice" or what but I literally only understand the words "Threshold Kids" in it. (I could just have some kind of undiagnosed auditory processing issue or something because there are also times that I can be on the phone and just Not Understand what the other person is saying.)
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