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LET'S STREAM BAD RATS - The Nightmare Happened

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Old 05-21-2014, 08:52 PM
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THE INTERNET IS ALIGHT WITH PRAISE FOR BAD RATS!


Wow! With high praise like that, what else can I possibly say? I guess there's only one thing I can say! here goes! GOD DAMNS ALL LIARS.

Bad rats is not a good game. I'm hesitant to call it a game. It's more like a sickness. BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT.

Now begins the adventure of an idiot trying to solve impossibly broken physics puzzles for the purposes of a murder based ripoff of the incredible machine.

Let's go.

NOTE: I recut the footage from my first three streams into 15-20 minute parts, which I think are much more watchable than the original parts which ran from 20 to 40 minutes. Doing this game has basically been a crash course in recording, editing, and writing up Live LPs and I hope this newfound knowledge shows through in my work.

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STREAM 01 - 01

START OF DARKNESS
LEVEL 01 - LEVEL 02
THE RAT PATROL IS
Fanboymaster - Kayin - Nodal - Patito - Smiler
Side art from RatGirlComic.Com


I remember thinking to myself "Oh man! Smiler bought me a game on steam! That was nice of him!

But it wasn't.

It wasn't nice at all.

OF NOTE
  • I'M REALLY STUPID. Like seriously it took me how long to figure out the first tutorial level? Mother of god. It was so obvious.
  • THIS GAME IS REALLY GROSS. The horrible cartoon rat models explode in blood and I've seen a fully formed brain fly out of the cat a few times. I'm sure people have made the Tom & Jerry comparison but it's really not valid since Tom isn't trapped in a box while multiple Jerry's operate a Rube Goldberg Death Trap.
  • THE BALL IS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL ACTIVATE THE DEATHTRAP. I learn this the hard way when I try to make Tractor Rat push a bomb around somewhere around the 9:30 mark.
  • TUTORIAL GUIDE MODE IS ON FOR THIS WHOLE STREAM. It marks where you need to put stuff to win with green circles and lines. That said I totally fail to notice it, and then once it was pointed out to me I intentionally ignored it.
  • TRACTOR RAT SUCKS. He is so slow, he is so jank, and he gets stuck on everything.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
NONE
Total: 0

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
9:43 - "WHAT. WHAAAT?! ARE YOU SEEING THIS?! ARE YOU ACTUALLY SEEING THIS"
Total: 1
Last edited by BEAT; 04-02-2015 at 08:53 AM. Reason: BECAUSE YOU RE-READ IT ON A WHIM AND SUDDENLY GLARING TYPOS WERE ALL YOU COULD SEE.
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STREAM 01 - 02

WHY IS THE MICROWAVE SET TO CAT?
LEVEL 03 - LEVEL 07
MY VERY OWN BAD RATS
Fanboymaster - Kayin - Nodal - Patito - Smiler
Side art from RatGirlComic.Com


The Second Half of my first stream. Something resembling progress is made! But at what cost? What terrible, terrible cost?

OF NOTE
  • WE HIT OUR FIRST ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE. The physics in this game, as they are so called, are so Janky and unpredictable that there are times when the actual developer solutions fail to finish the puzzle.
  • THE BALL FALLS INTO 3D SPACE FOR THE FIRST TIME. At the time I assume that it will only happen occasionally, and in ways that don't negatively affect gameplay. I'm wrong. I'm so wrong it hurts.
  • THE VIDEO ABRUPTLY ENDS ON LEVEL 7. OBS crashed on me, and I took it as a welcome escape. Yes this means I never actually finished level 7. No I don't care.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
LEVEL 03
Total: 1

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
NONE
Total: 1
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STREAM 02 - 01

PUZZLE GAMES NEED A LOT OF RNG
LEVEL 08 - LEVEL 11
FUCKIN SCUMBAGS
Nodal - Smiler


Due to the total lack of fucks given on the first stream, I never made a save file. Smiler gave me a password for level 8.

Yes.

This PC game made in 2009 has password saves.

OF NOTE
  • THE PHYSICS IN THIS GAME ARE RANDOM AND ARBITRARY. You can seriously re-run a solution that almost worked until it suddenly just plain works. I do this a few times in this video, but nowhere near as many as I do in later videos.
  • I DON'T REALIZE YOU CAN SET CANNON RAT'S TIMER FOR AN EMBARRASSINGLY LONG TIME. Hence my shock at the proposed Level 08 solution (which failed)
  • SHOUT OUTS TO MAGFLARE! He was in the chat for a little bit, but I never got to see what he said because I forgot to pop out the chat like a giant jerk.
  • THIS GAME HAS ACHIEVEMENTS. But nobody cares about that.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
LEVEL 08
Total: 2

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
8:08 - "OH OH OHH, DID YOU SEE THAT? SUCH BULLSHIT!"
9:09 - "IT DIDN'T WORK! OH MY FUCKING GOD.
18:38 - "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE TRACTOR RAT." [...] "TRACTOR RAT DESERVES TO BE DROPPED. IF ANYONE DESERVES TO DIE IT'S NOT SUICIDE RAT, IT'S NOT EVEN LUNG RAT, IT'S FUCKING TRACTOR RAT"
Total: 4
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BEAT, why do you hate yourself?
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I remember back when I first got Steam, to play terraria and whatnot, and I get a message from my friend, "Hey, Bad Rats is on sale, did you want a copy?"

And I said, "Yeah, that'd be nice, thank you."

we haven't talked much since then
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I looked this up on Steam. Here are two lovely reviews.

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A few years ago in the town of Middlebury Oregon, there was a man named Joseph Woodstock. He liked to be called Joey. He was a nice fellow, with a few close friends. The local ladies who saw him sometimes bowling at the local Bowl-o-Rama Bowling Alley said he was pleasant on the eyes. He was a nice guy to be around, and a very pleasant conversationalist. He knew all the right things to say, and never seemed to be on anyone's bad side. He never had a run in the with local police, and was very straight and narrow. He owned an auto parts store in town. the shop being one of only 2 auto places in town was profitable, leaving Joey to skip the 9 to 5 grind, and have plenty of free time to pursue more leisurly activities. Joey was American as apple pie, and loving life to the fullest. He did have a girlfriend, whom he had even asked to marry him recently. She gladly accepted. Joey's life seemed set.

Joey was a good wholesome average man, with lots to live for. Which is why none of the rest of this makes sense...

On the night of September 14th, 2012, Joey was last seen sitting outside of his 2 story home, on his steps. A neighbor recalls seeing Joey through her window across the street. Joey appeared to be shaking, wearing only what appeared to be a towel, shorts (possibly boxers), and no shoes on. He looked a mess. The neighbor went downstairs, and when she went out of her door to see if Joey was okay, he was gone. She went to his front door and rang the doorbell, but there was no answer.

2 days later, Joey's body was found outside of town washed up in a riverbed.

Police say there was no signs of foul play, and it appeared that he had commited suicide by jumping off a bridge located further upstream, breaking his neck on impact. None of this made sense. This man, whom was recently engaged and not in any trouble financially or otherwise, took his own life? This made no sense at all.

Police searched his home and found no evidence of foul play. When they searched his den, the lights were flickering off and on, with a faint humming coming from a computer fan. The computer had been left on. Maybe there were clues here? One officer walked up to the computer desk, and touched the mouse enough to get the computer out of sleep mode. what he saw haunted him. A few seconds later, the computer monitor sparked, and then it shut off. It had died. As well as the computer with it.

Haunted by what he had seen, officer Henry King mentioned none of this to other officers, and left what he had seen on the screen out of his report.

4 days later, Henry King was found dead in his apartment. He had hung himself the night before.

On his computer monitor it flickered off and on. Bad Rats: The Rat's Revenge. Scribbled on a notepad also on his desk, in almost illegible hand writing was a small message: "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"
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This game gave my fish AIDS. It then destroyed my parents marriage and left with my mother for Reno. It now owns a small gift shop within a convenient distance from downtown and enjoys moderate success. However, my father was not someone to have taken this sitting down. On the morning of August 15th, 2013, he placed a .44 magnum to the game's chest and put 3 rounds into it, kiling it. This game twised my loving father into an evil person. Because of Bad Rats, he shot a man in Reno just to watch him cry.
There was also one review from a person who had put in over 12,000 hours into the game. I think it means something that the entirety of his review was "its ok".
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BEAT, why do you hate yourself?
THE FINAL STEP OF HATING EVERYTHING. lol
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There was also one review from a person who had put in over 12,000 hours into the game. I think it means something that the entirety of his review was "its ok".
Sometimes the shortest story tells the most.
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STREAM 02 - 02

YOU CAN'T DESCRIBE THIS AS PHYSICS
LEVEL 12 - LEVEL 16
OFFSITE CONSULTANTS
Nodal - Smiler - FanboyMaster


Fanboy shows up midway through the stream, issuing in a new era of him hurling vicious insults at my cognitive capacity.

Not Unjustified ones though

OF NOTE
  • YOU CAN USE TRACTOR RAT DYING IN AN EXPLOSION TO PROPEL THE BALL. I do this on level 13. I don't even need to do it, I just hate tractor rat that much.
  • WE ARE NOW SEEING ORIGINAL SOLUTIONS FAIL DUE TO COMPONENTS MISSING ENTIRELY. Up to this point all the original solution failures were due to the horrible horrible physics. Now we're getting ones where rats were just plain never placed. It's usually Bomb Rat for god only knows what reason.
  • BOMB RAT IS REALLY ONLY GOOD FOR MOVING THE BALL UPWARDS. It takes me forever to realize this, because I figure explosions would blow things in all directions but no. Hence I'm trying to use him all over the place and getting nowhere.
  • THE SPINNERS ARE AWFUL. But you could have guessed that.
  • RE-RUNNING FAILED SOLUTIONS IS NOW CONSTANT. Because next time will be different!
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
LEVEL 13
LEVEL 14
Total: 4

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
5:11 - "THEY DIDN'T FINISH THEIR OWN SOLUTION. ARE YOU SEEING THIS SHIT?
Total: 5
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STREAM 02 - 03

THE NIGHTMARE COMES IN
LEVEL 17 - JUST LEVEL 17
JEERING MOB
Nodal - Smiler - FanboyMaster


It's a game full of horrible, horrible levels, so I earnestly believed I was ready for anything.

I was wrong.

Level 17 took me longer than any level so far. The resulting video contained more of me absolutely losing my shit than anything else I've ever posted. I'm reasonably certain that IWBTG caused me less consternation.

OF NOTE
  • THE BALLOON IS ASTONISHINGLY GLITCHY. It's the source of the majority of the problems I had with this level. I initially believed it was because I combined it with vacuum rat but no, it does that for everybody. It'll be fine for maybe a half second, and then boom, magical space adventure.
  • NODAL IS A GARBAGE RAT. Nodal knows all about being a garbage rat.
  • WOAH WOAH FANBOY. That's enough lip out of you.
  • I FINALLY FIGURE OUT THAT CANNON RAT HAS A TIMER FUNCTION. This means that any solution using him will basically result in me endlessly re-running with tiny adjustments to the timer, hoping to luck out and have the ball where it needs to be get the collision to line up. The timer uses arbitrary numbers where 100 MIGHT be a second because of course it does.
  • BOMB RAT DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH PLACED OBJECTS. This wouldn't be an issue if placing the board on the actual ground wasn't next to impossible due to "BAD POSITION" messages. It's actually easier to just position boards in the air, so they fall into place when you hit play then to manually put them where they need to go.
  • I FUCK AROUND ON LEVEL 18 FOR A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE SOMEHOW KEYBOARD SHORTCUTTING OUT OF THE GAME. I choose to think of it as an act of God.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
NONE
Total: 4

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
1:51 - "CANNON RAT WHAT THE FUCK YOU JUMPED THE GUN
2:00 - "WHAT IS BALLOON RAT DOING, GOING ALL LIKE WOO I'M ON A FUCKIN MAGICAL ADVENTURE. NO NO BALLOON RAT, KEEP GOING. I AM DESPERATE TO SEE WHERE YOU'RE GOING HERE. EVERY SINGLE THING I KNOW ABOUT PHYSICS IS DYING BEFORE MY VERY EYES! THAT'S NOT HOW A VACUUM CLEANER WORKS!"
3:00 - "TUNE OUT THE WORLD TONIGHT BABY, BECAUSE IT'S YOU AN I AND WE'RE JUST FLYING AWAY ON OUR MAGICAL BALLOON, FUCKING OFF BACK TO LEGOLAND WHERE WE ALWAYS KNEW WE BELONGED"
10:50 - "JESUS CHRIST BOMB RAT WHAT THE FUCK"
12:30 - "WHAT? WHAT?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! YOU SAW THAT RIGHT? YOU SAW THAT SHIT. NO, NO, WE'RE JUST DOING IT AGAIN. THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT!" [...] "IT'S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT STEVE!
12:58 - "BAT RAT YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. NOT ONLY DID YOU NOT HIT THE BALL, BUT YOU FUCKING GAVE CANNON RAT A CONCUSSION. CANNON RAT IS DYING NOW." [...] "WAIT... WAIT... COME ON- OH YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
13:34 - "YOU KNOW WHAT? FUCK IT. IT WORKED. I'M HAPPY... THAT'S A LIE I'M FUCKING MISERABLE. DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT?!"
Total: 12
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STREAM 03 - 01

DEBATING CANNON LAW
LEVEL 18 - LEVEL 20
PAPAL CANDIDATES
Nodal - Smiler - FanboyMaster - Patito


I suddenly fall deeply in love with the cannon, but like all ill-thought out romances, it was not destined to last and looking back I wonder what the fuck I was thinking.

OF NOTE
  • THE GUIDE OPTION VANISHES, LEVELS NOW HAVE ALL ITEMS AVAILABLE, AND I NOW HAVE 6 MINUTES TO WORK WITH INSTEAD OF 10. Level 18 seems like a pretty arbitrary place to suddenly try to re-balance the entire game. Looking back at Stream 02-03, It seems the first time I saw Level 18 it had limited rats a 10 minute time limit and an option for guidelines. Clearly something changed but I have no idea as to what.
  • THE BALLOON STARTS GOING NUTS EVEN WHEN IT'S ATTACHED TO A BARREL. You can see this in the original solution for Level 18, because there's no way I'm using that thing if I can avoid it.
  • THERE IS NO EXPLANATION FOR MY BEHAVIOR ON LEVEL 19. I can't remember what the devil whispered in my ear to drive me to such lengths of complete and utter madness but I'm pretty sure that's for the best.
  • SERIOUSLY LOOK AT HOW LONG I MESS AROUND WITH THE STUPID CANNON SPOUTING UTTER NONSENSE. What the hell was wrong with me?
  • LEVEL 20 INTRODUCES STEAM VENTS. They add a brand new level of stupid random "Do it until it works" gameplay. The original solution failure on that one serves as a fantastic example of how much any given solution is now up to luck.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
LEVEL 20
Total: 5

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
7:14 - "ALMOST ALMOST, THIS TIME WILL WORK! WHAAT? THAT TIME IT- WAIT WAIT IT ALMOST WOR-" [mad laughter] "GO GO GO!"
8:30 - "IT TOTALLY WILL! SEE- SEE HOW FAR I GOT THE BALL THAT TIME! ALMOST!" [...] "I HAVE- I'M IN IT TO WIN IT NOW! I'M SKILLIN ILLIN KILLIN! HERE WE GO HERE WE GO! BAKOOON! AH SO CLOSE."
8:55 - "WHAAT! NO THAT TIME- THAT WAS BULLSHIT LUNG RAT. ALL THE OTHER TIMES YOU FUCKED IT UP, THIS TIME YOU DIDN'T? I WANT CONSISTENCY IN MY FUCKUPS GOD DAMN YOU."
10:26 - "ALMOST!" [strained whispering] "OH I'M CLOSE I'M CLOSE I'M CLOSE I'M CLOOOOSE! I'M SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT! CAN YOU TASTE THE VICTORY!" [violent screaming] YES! I DID IT!
13:56 - "WOW. WOW, WOW. WOOOW! WOW! ROLL AWAY BALL, ROLL AWAY." [...] "LIKE WHAT EVEN- BATTER RAT WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKIN SHIT?
Total: 17
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8:30 - "IT TOTALLY WILL! SEE- SEE HOW FAR I GOT THE BALL THAT TIME! ALMOST!" [...] "I HAVE- I'M IN IT TO WIN IT NOW! I'M SKILLIN ILLIN KILLIN! HERE WE GO HERE WE GO! BAKOOON! AH SO CLOSE."
This is my favorite quote.
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THE GUIDE OPTION VANISHES, LEVELS NOW HAVE ALL ITEMS AVAILABLE, AND I NOW HAVE 6 MINUTES TO WORK WITH INSTEAD OF 10. Level 18 seems like a pretty arbitrary place to suddenly try to re-balance the entire game. Looking back at Stream 02-03, It seems the first time I saw Level 18 it had limited rats a 10 minute time limit and an option for guidelines. Clearly something changed but I have no idea as to what.
Sounds like you're on hard difficulty, I think. Should lead to more Fun, right?
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STREAM 03 - 02

AIR CONDITIONED
LEVEL 21 - LEVEL 22
WINDBAGS
Nodal - Smiler - FanboyMaster - Patito


I doubt any future outbursts I have at this game will be able to overtake the one near the end of this video. That one was special. A monument to breakdown this game forces in me.

OF NOTE
  • LYING VACCUME RAT ON HIS BACK IS A TOTAL VALID WAY TO MOVE THE BALL AROUND. He'll just lie there totally rigid with his completely straight line of suction spanning off into eternity.
  • SMILER LIED. There are way more than 30 levels.
  • HIT THE ELECTRICAL MACHINE WITH THE BALL. Energize the cat. Only the ball can activate the machine.
  • THE STEAM VENTS SHOW THE SAME LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY AS EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS GAME. Which is to say they show no consistency at all.
  • FOR SOME REASON I DECIDE FAT RAT NEEDS TO DIE. Too bad he's immortal.
  • I BECOME NOTICEABLY UNHINGED NEAR THE END OF THE VIDEO.Like, Way more than usual.
  • FUCK THE GAME'S SOLUTION. I didn't even remember I had a 2 by four item. I'm furious that it exists.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
NONE
Total: 5

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
4:41 - "OKAY OKAY OKAY, NOW SHOOT! ZOOM! [...] "WHAAAT!!"
5:33 - "WHAAAT! OH WAIT NO IT'S ROLLING, IT'S ROLLING! COME ON COME ON YES YES SO CLOSE YOU'RE SO CLOSE YOU'RE SO CLOSE! I DID IT. I WIN."
9:49 - "IT WAS ALWAYS A SNUFF FILM DUDE. LET'S NOT FUCKING KID OURSELVES HERE."
11:23 - "BOUNCE. BOUNCE. BOUNCE. YOU FUCKER!! [...] I DON'T KNOW! YEAH IT WAS WORKING JUST FINE A MOMENT AGO!
11:56 - "WAIT WHAT. WHAAAAAT!! HO-LEE... WHELP AND THERE WE GO NOW THE BARREL IS IN 3D SPACE."
12:24 - "TURNS OUT LUNG RAT CAN SUCK WORSE THAN TRACTOR RAT!" [...] "WAIT WAIT, NO WAIT WAIT, THEY'RE GONNA SHOOT OFF AGAIN! THIS TIME IT WILL WORK! YES YESYESYES! COMEONCOMEON! SON OF A BITCH!! SON OF A BITCH!!!"
Total: 23
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Sounds like you're on hard difficulty, I think. Should lead to more Fun, right?
I don't think I am! I never changed my difficulty settings!

Might see if I can ratchet it back down to normal next time just so as to avoid situations like what happens in the NEXT VIDEO. (THAT'S CALLED FORESHADOWING I'M CLEVER)
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Old 06-02-2014, 11:39 AM
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STREAM 04 - 01

ORDEM E PROGRESSO
LEVEL 23 - LEVEL 24
THE BOYS & GIRL FROM BRAZIL
FanboyMaster - Patito - Smiler - MarsDragon - Nodal


In a game full of absolutely astonishing failures, this is the first time I actually "fail". On level 24 the clock runs down to zero, giving me a game over and ruining my perfect record. How will I ever live with myself?

WAIT I WAS NEVER ALIVE. Phew! That was a close one. Everything will be okay now!

OF NOTE
  • THERE ARE NO GAMEFAQS WRITTEN FOR BAD RATS. This may be taken as proof that the world we live in is still largely a good one! There is however an apparently complete list of passwords. which for the purposes of this philosophy lesson will represent the tiny bit of shadow in the world the light can never fully eradicate.
  • I DON'T WANT TO MAKE "BEAT SHOWS REMARKABLE RESTRAINT" COUNTER SO...
    1:31     - "WOW DID YOU SSsss... I'm not surprised. I can't even pretend to be surprised."
  • I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINAL SOLUTIONS OBSESSION WITH ROCKET RAT. It doesn't even work for them oh my god.
  • LEVEL 24 LAYOUT MAKES A BRAZILIAN FLAG. The password is "Brazil" and this game was made in Brazil and somehow none of us pick up on this. And now that I look at it, level 23 Is kind of a basic representation of an American Flag, and the level is titled Uncle Sam. God damn this game.
  • MARSDRAGON CLAIMS OWNERSHIP OF THE TITLE OF BEST PERSON AND ISSUES THE MISSIVE "FUCK YOU". FanboyMaster is not sure he believes her, and requests proof. Mars fails to present proof and instead reiterates her statement, which Fanboy states is dubious. Smiler voices his dissent with his buzzer, causing Mars to relent and admit that Patito is the actual best.
  • ARCHER RAT CREATES SOME TRULY STUNNING IMPOSSIBLE PHYSICS. The weirdness at 10:10 with the ball getting hit, and failing to react for a moment before shooting off being a particularly notable example.
  • THE NAMES ON THE HIGH SCORE LIST ARE ALL FAMOUS CARTOON MICE. How "clever".
  • SOBER ASSHOLES IS MARSDRAGON'S STREAM LP OF PSYCHIC FORCE 2012. Do you like flying Psychic-er's beating the shit out of eachother while BEAT hollers about Noah's Arc? OF COURSE YOU DO.
  • THE EVENT OCCURRING AT EXACTLY 18:30. Eighteen-Thirty. Eighteen Mother Fucking Thirty. What occurs at that exact moment cannot possibly be explained other than an act of Bad Rats God. An evil miracle. I'm not even gonna tell you what it is. Some things must be seen to be believed.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
LEVEL 23
Total: 6

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
10:10 - "WHAT. WHAAT! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BALL THERE?! LIKE IT STORED THE MOMENTUM!"
12:23 - "HE DID IT AGAIN! HE IS CONSISTENT! HE IS BEING- HE'S BEING- HE'S BEING A BADASS!"
14:00 - "OH WHAT THE HELL JUST LET ME MOVE IT. YOU PIECE OF SHIT I GET IT!"
18:10 - "Why on earth do they have the balloon move him around? That's just so bad from a gameplay perSPEC-FUCK! DID YOU- MRRRNGGH! Okay."
18:24 - "Come on come on come on come on come on... Yes. Yes! YES. YEEESSS! WHAT! WHAT!!" [deep breaths] I'M CALM. I AM CALM. GO.
Total: 28
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Old 06-02-2014, 11:46 AM
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LEVEL 24 LAYOUT MAKES A BRAZILIAN FLAG. The password is Brazil and this game was made in Brazil and somehow none of us pick up on this.
I sort of assumed it was British, but that makes at least as much sense.
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Old 06-02-2014, 12:33 PM
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To be totally fair, when we recorded this we did not yet know that the game was made by one Brazilian madman.
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Old 06-02-2014, 12:44 PM
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What we know now will pretty much haunt us to the end of days.

Oh also if anyone has any critiques of how im doing this lp, let me know. Im tryimg to hit some kinda midpoint between text and video with the cliff notes and stats. Too much? Too little? Tell me whats what.
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Old 06-02-2014, 12:48 PM
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I love the summaries.
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Old 06-03-2014, 04:25 PM
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STREAM 04 - 02

THE CHILLOUT TENT
LEVEL 25 - LEVEL 28
APATHY SQUAD
FanboyMaster - Patito - Smiler - MarsDragon - Nodal


We just sorta shoot the the shit about Kayin's proclivities, proposed future OuterHeaven broadcasts, the marketing for professional wrestling, motion capturing Shaquille O'Neal, Square Enix's tendency to port the earlier Final Fantasies to everything, and how Disney made a bunch of bad live action movies in the late 90s.

Also I guess someone plays Bad Rats? I dunno man I wasn't paying too close attention.

OF NOTE
  • LEVEL 25 GETS KNOCKED OUT WITHIN A MINUTE. In real time, not game time. Blink and you'll miss it. One would almost think I'm getting good at this godawful thing.
  • UMBRELLA + BASEBALL RAT IS KINDA AMAZING. Just lookit him flipping out on the floor there! Ahahaha what a nerd.
  • I LIKE MY SOLUTION TO LEVEL 26. Get wrecked, Vacuum Rat.
  • ARCHERY RAT WILL ONLY SHOOT IF HE CAN SEE A TARGET. This created a weird situation in Level 27 where he tipped backwards into the wall, and wouldn't see the ball at his feet. Because the floor was slanted and these rats are all stiff as boards. I solved the problem by putting wheel rat in front of him, who he was happy to shoot until well after the cat was dead. This game is kinda totally fucked up.
  • FANBOY MENTIONS THE TIME ON YOUR COMPUTER BEING USED TO AFFECT THE AWFUL JANK PHYSICS. He might actually be right too. Apparently almost every formula in the code is multiplied by a value titled "TIME". The game's horrible coding will be the subject of a full post, written when I feel like it.
  • THE WRECKING BALL ON LEVEL 28 BREAKS PHYSICS IN WEIRD WAYS EVEN BY BAD RATS STANDARDS. Around 13:00, the ball decides it's done with this shit and returns to its home planet, never to be seen again. It also screws over the original solution, which always delights me.
  • YOU AREN'T ANGRY ENOUGH. You aren't angry enough to quit.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
LEVEL 25
LEVEL 28
Total: 8

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
NONE
Total: 28
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Old 06-04-2014, 08:17 AM
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STREAM 04 - 03

CRASH TO BLACK
LEVEL 29 - LEVEL 30
MORAL SUPPORT
FanboyMaster - Patito - Smiler - MarsDragon - Nodal


My 4th stream session ends the way I secretly hope all my stream sessions will end: With the game crashing for no apparent reason.

OF NOTE
  • FOOD FIGHT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MOVIES OF ALL TIME. Mars mentions it like 20 seconds in. If you don't go and watch it ASAP you are missing out. It will change your life.
  • ARCHERY RAT WILL FUCK UP YOUR BARRELS, YOUR BOXES, WHATEVER. Archery rat considers everything he can see a target. If there's a box in his line of sight, that box is gonna get pushed back by arrows. No, it doesn't matter that arrows don't work that way.
  • AT ONE POINT THE BALL ACTUALLY CLIPS INSIDE THE DEATHTRAP WITHOUT ACTIVATING IT. Then later is passes right through the activation button without triggering it. This mother fucking game you guys. This game.
  • THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD THOUGH, TRACTOR RAT DIED. I feel like the true objective of killing all the rats succeeded.
  • I GET AN ACHIEVEMENT FOR 30 LEVELS BEATEN. This means the achievement just activates at Level 30, since I never finished level 7, and thus technically have only done 29 levels.
  • RATS.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING. Windows is checking for a solution to this problem. I could not end it better if I tried.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
LEVEL 30
Total: 9

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
7:44 - "WHAT THE F- NRRRRMMMMMGGGH. OK. OK."
Total: 29
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Old 06-04-2014, 08:38 AM
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Default WHO AM I KIDDING NOBODY WANTS TO SEE ME PLAY BAD RATS.
That's all the stream footage I currently have recorded, and unfortunately it's looking like a WAY BUSY WEEK so It's somewhat doubtful I'll be able to produce much more in the next few days.

HOWEVER, when the stars align and I have the time, the internet connection and the needed SKYPE BROS, I'm gonna post about it all over the place and go out of my way to include the hitbox chat in case anybody wants to drop by and watch me suffer IN REAL TIME, thus making themselves a PERMANANT PART of this let's play! NEATO!

You may find my hitbox HERE. I know it's not QUITE AS NICE a website as twitch, but the delay between me doing something and you seeing it happen is typically much closer to 2 seconds than 30, And if the video quality isn't the best I can just use the direct OBS output for the eventual youtube upload.

No seriously, it should actually be a pretty good one. Kalir has asked to be on it, and that guy's the fucking bomb.

As is usual with any of my STREAMS I HOPE PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCH, I'll try to give advance notice the day of, and will be making a point to holler about it in #talkingtime IRC, this thread, my twitter, and anywhere else I can think of before it goes live.

See you then!
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Old 06-04-2014, 01:15 PM
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This game is amazingly fun to watch someone else suffer through. You (or Smiler) picked a real winner this time, BEAT.

Tangential, but MarsDragon sounds eerily like my friend's sister.
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Old 06-04-2014, 01:49 PM
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Smiler picked it and said "YOU MUST STREAM THIS".

Given that I did (and continue to do!) THE EXACT SAME THING TO HIM ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE, it only seemed fair.
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Old 06-10-2014, 08:16 AM
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MORE FOOTAGE WAS RECORDED LAST NIGHT

Sadly I couldn't get the chat popout to work. Fortunately sheridan was the only guy in the chat!

Wait. that's not fortunate at all! I'M SORRY SHERIDAN I STILL LOVE YOU.

The pieces will be going up over the next week. I'm nearing the end...

EDIT: ALSO ALSO: FanboyMaster claimed (as a joke?) he would re-watch all the old episodes and give me a full count of "Magical Space Adventures". I'm Holding him to this because I'm a hateful bastard. I'm ALSO using this post to tell him that I'm now counting ALL INSTANCES OF THE GAME ELEMENTS ESCAPING THE PLAY FIELD AS "SUFFICIENTLY MAGICAL" so he has to count more.

BASICALLY HAHAHAH FUCK YOU FANBOYMASTER.
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Old 06-10-2014, 04:51 PM
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EDIT: ALSO ALSO: FanboyMaster claimed (as a joke?) he would re-watch all the old episodes and give me a full count of "Magical Space Adventures". I'm Holding him to this because I'm a hateful bastard. I'm ALSO using this post to tell him that I'm now counting ALL INSTANCES OF THE GAME ELEMENTS ESCAPING THE PLAY FIELD AS "SUFFICIENTLY MAGICAL" so he has to count more.

BASICALLY HAHAHAH FUCK YOU FANBOYMASTER.
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ONCE UPON A TIME, SMILER FANBOYMASTER MADE THE MISTAKE OF TALKING ABOUT HOW INCREDIBLY BAD CASTLEVANIA: LORDS OF SHADOW WAS WHILE IT WAS ON SALE BAD RATS HAS MANY MAGICAL SPACE ADVENTURES. SO BEAT BOUGHT IT FOR HIM AND MADE HIM STREAM IT MADE HIM COUNT THEM ALL. SMILER FANBOYMASTER NOW UNDERSTANDS THE DANGER OF SAYING WORDS NEAR BEAT.
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Old 06-10-2014, 07:08 PM
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The best part is haha fuck you BEAT I was gonna do that anyway. Also, the very end of the last recording session has one of my favorite instances of someone flipping out because Bad Rats was made by insane people, and it wasn't even BEAT flipping out.
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Old 06-11-2014, 02:32 PM
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STREAM 05 - 01

NOW IT'S A PARTY
LEVEL 31 - LEVEL 32
PARTY PEOPLE
Smiler - Marsdragon - Kishi - FanboyMaster - Kalir - Nodal - Patito


In spite of a rocky false start and some bitter infighting, I somehow managed to break my promise to include the chat (Fucking Hitbox) and run a stream with more people yelling at each other than ever before! You have every reason to be alarmed.

OF NOTE
  • THE VIDEO STARTS WITH ME ABANDONING MY COMPUTER TO GRAB A BEER. I considered cutting it out but I think it does a good job of demonstrating exactly how far this game has pushed me. The abandoned Skype gang fills the time by talking about TinTin.
  • SHOUT OUTS TO SHERIDANMOVIEGUY! I couldn't get the chat popout to work, so sadly I wasn't able to capture his exact words outside of Mars reading them. I'M SORRY SHERIDAN : (
  • I WASTE AN ETERNITY ON LEVEL 31 TRYING TO FORCE A CLEARLY STUPID SOLUTION. Trying to get lungrat to just sort of blow the ball through the hole. I had a good reason though: It actually worked. Not on this video though. My OBS wasn't properly, meaning that while it streamed, it wasn't recorded to my hard drive. I gave up after awhile and solved the puzzle normally, but I didn't like it.
  • BOMB RAT EXPLODES JUST BY BEING NEAR THE PISTON. Because of course he does.
  • EVERYTHING ABOUT LEVEL 31 IS ABSOLUTELY SOUL-DESTROYING. Does a great job setting the tone for the rest of the stream.
  • IT'S POINTLESS TO TELL MARSDRAGON OR FANBOYMASTER TO STOP SINGING. We've given up on trying.
  • I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE SEE SAW.I gave up on a non-bomb rat solution to level 32 pretty quick because the see-saw clearly wasn't getting me anywhere. Then for the dev solution it suddenly works like a charm. It's disgusting. Utterly disgusting.
STATS
ORIGINAL SOLUTION FAILURE:
NONE
Total: 9

BEAT FLIPS HIS SHIT:
3:14 - "Yeah I know IknowIknowIknow now I'm- now I'm like all hopefull and shit-YES! AHRRGH FUCK!!"
8:58 - "OH MY GOD. WHAT, WHAT KNOCKED- LUNG RAT WHAT DID YOU DO?! WHAT DID YOU DO LUNG RAT!"
9:20 - "OH WHAT'S LUNG RAT DOING NOW?! JUST HANGING OUT IN THE FOREGROUND! OH GOD."
12:00 - "Woooow. Wow wow. Wowowowowow... FUCK IT! DOING IT MY WAY!"
Total: 33
Last edited by BEAT; 06-17-2014 at 03:13 PM. Reason: KISHI IS ON THIS VIDEO, HE'S JUST REAL QUIET.
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