Heat Death Ep2 || Dice Friends

[@ReynardWrecce]

Relativistic-speed ships selling supercomputer runtime is a bloody GENIUS idea. That's absolutely Clarke/Asimov-level brilliance there, and it's a goddamn throwaway line here! Cameron is so SO good at this stuff. I honestly hope he writes a novel some day.

[@bradypostma5167]

Hey, Cam! Where's your novel? Signed, one million loyal readers.

[@MathonwyPrime]

I love the way Cam sets up the atmosphere. If I had a genie, one of the wishes would be for Cam to run a game for me and some friends at his convenience.

[@D-Skotes]

Mine would be for white to get good card draw but that would be a close second.

[@aaronwardL69]

I never click faster on something than Cameron's Dice Friends episodes. Not to downplay the great content in general, just something special about those openings he narrates.

[@RvEijndhoven]

'Atmosphere, but no oxygen' also accurately describes my viewing experience towards the end. Because I keep holding my breath in suspense.

[@KingTaltia]

Prelimenary searches revolving Fungus in space. (Based on an offhand remark) Yup, Fungus are perfectly fine with Vacuums, there are, in fact, multiple cases, even to this day, of Fungi growing in Space, or space-like environments.

[@haeilsey]

lightningbro so yknow how like animals and plants and stuff started off as single cells but got more complex? What if the aliens are more like evolved fungi?

[@sentientwaffle535]

@@haeilsey that is an amazing concept

[@flannelshirtenthusiast4159]

I don't know a lot about the Alien universe so this is really neat, also thank you Adam for asking questions

[@thundercat2000ca]

Oh then you're in for a treat, and to their credit the players (who all do a bit about the universe) are doing their best to stay in the mind set of their characters and not meta game.

[@npiper]

Gotta love Weyland-Yutani. It takes real balls of steel to drag something to the supreme court that you knew you were going to settle on from the beginning.

[@noxthebarbarian]

i love how much camerons chemistry/stem background shows through in his campaigns

[@Paranundrox]

I love the idea of a fear of Heat Death and an obsession or focus on chaos and entropy as well

[@empath69]

Great thanks to Cam, Heather and Adam, Ian, Alex & Cori for making this wonderful thing for us to enjoy and experience! And...okay, this MIGHT be a little spoilery, but not really, so just to err on the side of caution, I'll make this a chore to read (at least to make sure ppl watch the ep first) . . . . . . . . . SICK PROPS to Adam, Alex, Cori & Ian for their dedication to blocking out meta-knowledge and 'acting' in honestly innocent characters not knowing what they're encountering! (in the 'after-stream that immediately followed the end of this vid, and preceeded all the subscriber thanks, Adam commented on how hard it was to 'forget' all the things he knew IRL and just 'play the ignorant character')

[@ShinjiSixteen]

Hot darn, that atmosphere set up in the intro and how well that picks up from the last episode is just *wonderful*

[@DamienGranz]

Cool factoids, not to countermand Cameron, but just nerd clarifying: In space it's actually more difficult to lose heat than to keep it, especially on something as large as a vessel as those portrayed in the Alien franchise. This is because without anything substantial to convey heat into, like an atmosphere, the heat can only radiate off of it in a electromagnetic radiation sense. The real risk of a long term ship running at a hot temperature is generally that you'll boil the crew alive before you accidentally freeze them. Especially if you're in an orbit of a planet that's close to a sun's 'Goldilocks' zone. Think of the worst sunburn you can get, then think of that but having absolutely no atmosphere to protect you. Granted, a ship running cold for hundreds of years will eventually freeze in deep space. So I'm not sure how the faster than light insulates the ship. Also atmospheric decompression alone isn't that large of a force. Like the vacuum of space is enough that it's impossible to just hold your breath against it, but the idea that it could suck you out of a hole or cause a person to explode isn't feasible in reality. But the canon of the movies already has had it be such so it's understandable that you wouldn't want to change that now.

[@DamienGranz]

@@jonnyglitched Black body radiation is a thermal electromagnetic radiation, sorry if I was unclear on that though. I was still imagining a system with relatively small surface area to internal area (like a gigantic ship) where computers and machines were doing work and where human body temperature wasn't really the prevailing factor, but yeah a body that far from a star would definitely freeze and probably slowly dehydrate and mummify probably if it was left outside from the toasty supercomputer.

[@carsonbettinger8937]

I was just thinking about this in the beginning.

[@blackdragonxtra]

In canon, how may times has the Ladomia's crew accidentally called Holloway "Mom?"

[@conkshellthegeek7]

asking the important questions

[@MyLittlePwnyta]

@@conkshellthegeek7 I feel like Holloway gets a lot of hugs and doesn't know how to reciprocate them very well, and it's very awkward but very cute.

[@willowarkan2263]

I am calling it now there is a rat king in the flesh ship. Old ship, crazy cult, people missing, this is just like shadowrun Hong Kong, has to be a rat king.

[@carsonbettinger8937]

When Cameron was describing what kind of space vessels they might have access to, the image that entered my brain was of them entering into the docking bay to find three ship-sized dust negatives and a rusty pickup truck some dude converted into an airtight vessel with the most rudimentary chemical propulsion system rigged onto it that they would need to fly to get to the old ship.

[@thisislesbomaya]

cam has done an amazing job building this world, i know very little about the alien universe but this really gets the whole feelign across throghout the session

[@johnnywins7031]

I was so happy to see this posted! Whenever the LRR series I love show up in my feed I literally start grinning as I think about the pleasant evening I’m about to have watching it

[@npiper]

Cameron here is a Kerbal Space Program tier explanation of orbital mechanics (for circular orbits) Speed = Altitude = Orbital period, faster is always further. There is only one speed you can go at in an orbit, you cannot "catch up" to something while remaining in the same orbit because moving faster makes your orbit bigger/more elliptical. Something orbiting closer to an object is going to have a shorter orbital period but is moving at a lower velocity e.g. if the Ladomia is orbiting lower than the moon the station is tethered to it will have a lower orbital velocity than anything taking off from the moon.

[@FridgeEating]

It is the other way around: satellites closer to the planet have a higher orbital velocity. This is an effect of the stronger attraction or something like that. You can write it down. It appears in the equations. Just imagine a marble or coin rolling down a well in that -1/r² shape (I have seen something like that for throwing coins into for charity).

[@npiper]

@@FridgeEating Right right, like if you are swinging a yo-yo around if you let the string wrap around your hand it'll hit much harder than yanking it straight back.

[@hermatic1]

Nicely done again peeps, cam you sure know when to rollout the cliff hanger. Loving the organic nature of the extra structure. It reminds me of farscape and their ship moira. But again cam fantastically ran. Looking forward to the next installment. Regards.

[@hayuseen6683]

A second episode already? Woo!

[@EricChoiniere]

Am I correctly hearing Ian's character be referred to as "the Roman"?

[@KingTaltia]

Halloway even referred to him as "The Roman" I think Roman is not his character's first name, I think it's a title.

[@VAB0L0]

"Oh no, laugh it up, you can't ruin my game! Y o u f o r g e t w h o I a m"

[@theacidburn117]

great show

[@AShoutIntoTheVoid]

So Good. Edge of my seat, can’t stop listening.

[@ruthevers8558]

I was a little bit sad that I missed the live stream of this on Sunday, Cam's atmospherics are so amazing that I'm happy I had to wait for the light of Wednesday afternoon. I can see too much of this in my head. It's fabulous, and Alex's art in the beginning with Graham's titles add so much. This is doing everything I want. I will be sticking with the daylight views/listens for the remainder of the campaign, because this is Alien, not Aliens (Alien=terror, Aliens=shoot 'em up fun with a couple of jump scares).

[@fehlbrandschwele]

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[@Winterpandacookies]

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[@sleepyracoon4811]

I love everything about this. I can’t wait to see the next episodes !

[@heatarms123]

Yooooo that ending! I freaked out, this series is amazing!

[@kkrampus]

I EAT I EAT I

[@hamishian0]

So great. Cam you are brilliant!

[@jeffreydenenberg7101]

Alex's remark about toilet paper at 1:28:30 is probably funnier now then he meant it to be

[@ohlookitsmatty2982]

I've been trying to think up of reason as to what would have happen that caused all the people on the station to just disapper. Was it a death cult? But that makes no sense! Then about half way through this ep my brain finally clicked in going "it's an Alien RPG, where do you Think all the people went to!"

[@cypherf0x]

So what was that ultra-dense base block referenced to?

[@MRBouma]

Took me a few listens. Transmetropolitan - a cyberpunk comic

[@thoptercrew]

Ready to engage with some facehugers!

[@Duraxy]

Can anyone direct me to where the whole thing about ships spending years in travel, while actually only days in realspace have passed comes from?

[@XpPotions]

I can't point you to any sci fi texts for reference, but that is just actually how real physics works. If you are travelling, the closer to light speed you move, the slower time passes for you, so if a ship travels at near lightspeed, an outside observer will see it travelling for much less time than in inside observer

[@Mothgrove]

Is the religion talking about the mold?!

[@aardarf]

1:04:50 TPK TPK TPK

[@irradiatedslagheap7933]

Oh shit. Things are getting real now. Black glossy fleshy stuff is a dead-certain sign of Xenomorphs. (Y'know, as if the butchered Working Joe wasn't obvious enough.)

[@ethanmarkel5581]

Part 3 the crew dies

[@Winterpandacookies]

There's gonna be like 6 episodes so I hope not.

[@KoalaMeatPie]

24:55 not even with the standard WY semiotics? Call OSHA. 42:35 Awwwwwwwwwww, cute 46:25 Oh - OH - ... ooooooooooooooooooh......... 'Rebirth' Cult you say? ....... Ohhhhhhh. To shreds, you say? Welp, that's creepy. 54:30 Like a reverse Jorge Luis Borges 1:46:45 Best Lovecraft Story, and also quite similar in structure to this Episode.