Bumbling Through Home Safety Hotline p.1 - Helpful Household Tips!

[@PlushieMutant]

this is what ive always imagined sgf’s irl job was

[@raticus79]

It explains so much

[@LeafhopperV]

It really would track.

[@abbylarkspur]

I feel like the character he was occupying while playing this game is his work persona

[@CaitCatM]

10:35 If you do hear some black mold making a noise, please be sure to tell Aunt Rhody about it

[@PaulineRagny]

From the description of the game and the presentation I was expecting this to turn into some kind of horror game but no it turns out this game is just 100% helpful advice on how to care for your home. What a neat piece of edutainment.

[@AppleJackApple]

I know, right? I never considered myself the best at adulting but the amount of stuff I didnt know is just straight up embarassing... Maybe because I live in an apartment - they probably tell you all this stuff if you buy a proper house with basement and all

[@FluoriteRhodochrosite]

That story about the snake made me instantly think snakes are so much cuter than I ever thought before. Lil guy was just in the middle of the room and when you came down it was like "Maybe if I don't move, he won't see me." That's adorable.

[@Aldenfenris]

I really love this 'urban fae' setting, where fae are real and people might or not know much and you just.... have to handle it.

[@Dungbagski]

Thank you for leaving Basement Snake to its own devices.

[@CreepyPersonCube.]

Did anybody else notice that the entry for the Common House Fly 9:16 says that their presence indicates impending death, and that a symptom of their presence is "thoughts of decay"? In this world of living superstition, the common animals may well be more threatening than the more fantastical entries. Some of the failure call responses especially underline this- though we aren't seeing those, since Mr Friend is a smart cookie. (I posted about this before and somehow YT deleted it, so I lost several Likes. The depths of my despair can hardly be plumbed by mere House Flies.) EDIT: Flies cause thoughts of decay, not dread. Sorry folks.

[@Shenaldrac]

NEVER kill a mole.

[@horsegranola]

Your threads on somethingawful were my first exposure to LPs. I’m so incredibly delighted that you’re still active on youtube!

[@TheTapeandscissors]

Carpenter ants definitely make noise. I was sitting on my computer in a bedroom and was looking all over for this low woody noise. It got louder when i got on my chair and then knocked on the wall above the window and broke through. Suckers popped out like a horror movie.

[@cookiesonastick]

Fucked up

[@NiaStrawberryRush]

You know I don’t really see a lot of horror that’s fae focused so this game is honestly pretty refreshing. It made me look up some stuff about fae and it kinda amazed me that some of the “solutions” the game gives you seem actually pretty similar to how a lot of folklore would also deal with them; just constantly appease and placate them because they won’t leave, just completely avoid that place aka “well you just have to move now”, and “you or you’re loved one is just dead/fucked now sorry lol”. Fun folklore to make a horror game out of. Also appreciate the restraint the game has had in staying pretty chill and even-keeled, adding the horror in day by day instead of just becoming complete horror on like the second day. I think a normal job like being a customer service hotline operator helps keep some of the more absurd aspects grounded to a certain level of reality. I also just really like a game that is just comedic and calm enough that something like, “Damn it Gary you absolute stubborn idiot, you didn’t leave the cream out so now you just gotta move” is a thought that can casually cross my mind.

[@Scarwing]

We appreciate Basement Snake in this Household.

[@electricindigoball1244]

I find it hilarious how you spent a few minutes trying to figure out if the person calling was dealing with a supernatural being or if it was just termites. XD

[@blackdog9698919]

If only the Bakers had HSH, _Resident Evil 7_ would have turned out very differently.

[@TMMQuicksilver]

Super Greatinformed Friend serving the public with cool Hobb tips and tick removal advice

[@cratecruncher4974]

Gary didn't follow our advice about leaving the milk out but you know we're the one who's going to get the corporate complaint.

[@JosephCoco]

56:45 It sounds like you have Frank Reynolds living in your toilet.

[@zeratulcraft]

God this call center has it so easy. You just send shit to the client, you don't have to explain it to them.

[@ArkannVII]

Or have to tell them they entered the wrong number and got the wrong department, please hold as I transf... no... no... NO, stop immediately, I only handle application files, I don't fix things... *you don't want to talk to the department that can fix your issue* ? Well have a good day then, please don't call again. Oh, you called again immediately. Chose the wrong department on purpose again. You're screaming insults at me now. No, I still don't fix broken sinks. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[@Phucketmcsucket]

Having to give the customers instructions on how to handle each thing would make for some hilarity. Imagine the horror that would ensue if you had a customer calling about what appears to be a stair slug and one of your options for instructions to give the caller was to throw an entire bag's worth of salt at it

[@SulfurousAcid]

I didn't realize the dangers insulting wood could bring

[@jamesmason3734]

glad I'm just renting an apartment, a house sounds like so much trouble, so many hobs

[@GooeyGremlin]

Man, the first time I ever saw a house centipede I was so freaked, but it turns out they catch worse pests like ants, cockroaches, silverfish, so glad I didn't kill it in the end, since ants were always getting indoors there.

[@ZhilTP911]

Interesting blend of fae mythology and analog horror.

[@RanMouri82]

I love that both you and Thafnine thought the first caller might drink the cockroach droppings.

[@ptrvnbrnt]

this type of bumble holds me in rapt attention.

[@NMGardening]

I was so hoping you played this! You're the best sgf ❤️

[@Blues_Light]

I'm just gonna pretend that this game is a spin-off of Changeling: The Dreaming. Honestly, it could easily be set in the World of Darkness.

[@Achoohorsey]

Was wondering if you would play this. My first thought when I heard of it was "this is an SGF game"

[@ArkannVII]

Callers are not crazy psychopaths, only contact your service to talk about issues actually relevant to it, and get to the point. Incredibly unrealistic.

[@ExplodingHats]

Was that Longmont Potion Castle at 14:00? I could swear that was Longmont Potion Castle.

[@TheTapeandscissors]

For sure

[@Starstormraven]

It is! In the Steam community page, the developer confirmed the prank calls are homages to LPC.

[@PeterMcGuf]

Ive dealt with mice. A snake is a HUGE upgrade.

[@laughingboytibby1979]

Can't believe you would disregard Buzz Goober like that, whipper snappers are a serious issue.

[@SpikeRose]

6:09 As someone who has a carpenter bee problem in their log house; yes. They and carpenter bees are absolutely audible at night or evenings and it's so frustrating. No wood secretions, but I do have problems with fracture hobbs. :( I hope I don't get whistling fungi.

[@DylanBelievesInTheNet]

I'm so safe, and comfortable! :O

[@jessej7111]

I didn't know we'd be so lucky. 😢❤

[@pseudonymjones]

I loaded this up like -- oh gosh is he going to read every entry in The Voice

[@pseudonymjones]

(It does not seem to have come to that)

[@Karma20XX]

I'd still get the 12k house even if previous residents are still there. Well, I would if jobs didn't pay in coupons lol.

[@paper_maiden]

You have snow and snakes?! Although the alliteration is pleasing, I feel like this is a bad deal

[@user-uv5nv7od9i]

hot damn its genius to run a hotline where all your employees spend their days reading about awful creatures while trying to FOMO them on your product

[@TuffCatDad]

SGF 🤝 Basement Snake

[@jgminto]

I dunno, all these sound like carbon monoxide to me

[@notsusan]

i legit expected this to be like some 3D0 game you fiund at a garage sale from the thumbnails

[@JadeLecarde]

I need to know why we cannot yell at or insult wood in this universe. Is the boss some kind of wood nymph or the like?

[@Bloodiasfire]

Needing to respect nature and its byproducts to a ridiculous extent is a common trope in fae folklore, often to the point that the ire of the fair folk is seen as unavoidable and merely a matter of time. That's pretty much all it is. Call your desk a bitch, it starts dripping pink poison. Eat an apple in public, you have invoked the wrath of natural freddy fazbear and he will not stop until you are dead.

[@BastionProd]

This game is sure interesting, albeit it make me feel uneasy thinking about all the possible infestations and dangers that may be happening in my house right now (or in the next few years. Brrrrrrrrr

[@Phucketmcsucket]

Eh, I wouldn't say it'd be easy. Some of their explanations are kind of vague. If it were real life I'd have to ask some clarifying questions about some of the issues they're calling in about. Being able to ask the lady calling about the thing in her basement whether or not she's noticed any slime/mucus on the basement stairs would have helped out a lot.

[@abbylarkspur]

I came straight here after watching the game grumps just uhh fail at this game, because I knew sgf would pick up what the game was putting down the way I was. I wanted to wait till it was over to start watching lol

[@ValleyAnt-m8n]

longmont potion castle showing up is a delight at kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2HIfH19m9Rno80

[@Jeeky88]

suprised how many people havent heard of him😅

[@fakajuu9519]

Damn I want to play this myself.

[@Shenaldrac]

Seeing those housing prices and comparing them to the prices now makes me viscerally angry.

[@BOD4C1TY]

how the hell can he read those fucked up emails so well, sounds like hes talking backwards

[@user-uv5nv7od9i]

lmao at your resolved pest problem

[@Bloodiasfire]

I wonder how SGF will feel about this game's ending. I won't spoil it, but it's... it's something.

[@LadyDeSelby]

Legitimately cool game but starting it off with "3 normal things, metamorphosis" plays the hand so immediately. I know we all know it's a horror game but we don't need to structure the scary bits like a punchline in a YT video, do we...?

[@Bloodiasfire]

I agree with you - The Gemini Home Entertainment style videos are cool, but they're so obviously inspired by GHE that they end up falling into the same pitfalls, like not pacing themselves properly. GHE itself pretty much jumps from "Weird fucked up creatures and plants(?)" to "End of the world cosmic horror" in the span of about two seconds, so we can at least be glad this game doesn't take that step. The difference is that this game lacks GHE's sheer production value, and so it has nothing to prop up its videos. Definitely the weakest part of the game.

[@d34dnes]

I think it would work much better if there were no pictures, at least for the first like 3 days. You just read stuff and it gets progressively weirder, that would be much more effective.

[@sbef]

Finally, some good fucking food. Thanks papa SGF

[@seanmcbay]

This game shows its hand too quickly.

[@mahartma]

Oh this is exciting