Cameron first says that working joes are designed to not look human in order to avoid the uncanny valley, then gives the most uncanny valley sounding description I have heard,
I keep coming back to this series and I'm always enthralled by the interplay between Adam and Ian's characters over the fate of the working Joe. Failing their empathy and then Ian resulting to ordering Adam to override his own ethics is really top-notch. It's obviously a great system for providing the opportunities to play that out, but credit also has to go to Cameron for integrating that into the narrative in such a seasoned way. Really excellent stuff.
The tech point Cam was talking about brough to mind, in basic training in the army they train you to use Vietnam era radios. They're essentially indestructable, and only mildly finiky, with aweful interfaces. I like to think of the tech mentioned here in similar terms. It's all designed to take decades of abuse and work well, at the cost of beauty and user friendliness.
It's snuck up on me with incremental improvements, but I have to say I was gobsmacked by the quality of the amazing intro for this: best of all, it was merely equal to the engrossing game session to follow! THANK YOU, LRR. I *really* don't say that enough for all the awesome content you provide!
Honestly, if only SOMEONE in Hollywood or similar was able to stumble across Cam's work and realise what an extraordinary writer that man is, we would get SO MUCH high-quality sci-fi/fantasy/horror in our lives. Imagine Cam with a year to write a screenplay and a decent director with $50M waiting at the end.
"Weyland Yutani's Hyperdyne series of androids, some people complain about them being in the uncanny valley although the latest generations are honestly very, very, very human." So human, in fact, that humans rely on dogs to be able to tell the difference. 😏
That scene with the extraction of the memory core from the Working Joe disturbed me in such a way that I believe only Cam can cause. Great job of making me feel slightly uneasy and guilty for the 'killing' of a being that isn't alive. I look forward to what may happen in the future!
One thing you can always count on in a game run by Cam: Copious World-building! I actually love your games for that, Cam. In this case, I really enjoyed the idea that in the future hard-copy books will become artisan, crafted goods, like certain clothes and bags are already, and ebooks becoming the norm. It feels like a realistic and highly probable view of the future of publishing. I wonder if We’ll see a return to the triple-decker format of Austin’s day.
ngl, when Cam said "ice giant", I didn't realise that he was talking about a planet until he explicitly explained it. I thought "Oh, I guess he's doing a D&D crossover?"
Add being a great TTRPG player to Adam's skills. Damn, he makes every RPG he's in better because he tries his best to think like his characters and gives them so much variety. My favorite from the LRR crew by far.
Wow! First off, what an incredible intro, secondly the pacing was superb and Cam does an excellent job running this game. Everyone else is having a blast and is doing a great job of staying in character. This was absolutely amazing and I cannot wait to see more.
When I saw Cam's title as "Game Mother" I almost wondered for a moment if he was running Mothership, but turns out there's just an actual Alien TTRPG out there!
I only just started to watch this series... catching up on a bunch of old VODs... but wow. WOW. Cameron is an *incredible* GM. Really just an incredible storyteller.
Cam seems to know that only correct Alien canon is Alien '79, Isolation, the Gibson script/comics, and nothing else. Not that I expected any less :] Looking forward to watching the characters' sanity decay faster than Ridley Scott's brain.
A: Thanks for this amazing content I am here for it B: Didn’t know that this rpg setting existed. I have friends that this is right up their alley, so I’ll be running a game this October 👾
Great episode cam, well done on a calm but gripping intro to this story, I eagerly await the next installment. Ty for the hardwork lrr team , tis much appreciated. Regards.
Cam pointed out on Twitter that the only time in Alien history anyone uses the word xenomorph is one idiot trying to sound smart. That's interesting to me, since the word basically became synonymous with the Alien.
This was cool! I'm really glad that Cam is running a system that is not DnD 5e. I don't think that that system lends itself to Cameron's GM style, something like this seems like a better fit. Looking forward for more.
"Laudomia contains three cities: the Dead, the Living and the Unborn. We are distressed by the city of the unborn, not by that of the dead." - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Hey Cam, I've seen you post music you were listening to when working on this campaign (or maybe only this session ?), I'm a big fan of "Tomorrow in a year" but, I haven't seen you aknowledge "Clipping.-Splendor & Mysery" and I think you would like it. It's a concept album about the last surviver of a space slave cargo trying to stay sain by rapping to the clics and other noises of the ship -also kind of a love story, but I'm not spoiling- while drifting away into the nothing. PS: the frontman and voice of the band is Daveed Diggs of Hamilton fame. PPS: this is road quest level of good, keep up having fun ;)
Love this! Cam has the coolest settings! What was the name of their ship and does it have any meaning/is it a reference to anything? I tried to catch it, but it sounded slightly different several times and I don't know how to spell it.
@@wyattkastl9312 Magnetic Rose is brilliant. But I guess it kinda has to be with people like Satoshi Kon, Katsuhiro Ôtomo and Yoko Kanno involved. Kōji Morimoto's direction is just beautiful and unsettling.
1:19:12 An object 2 to 3 Jupiters in *radius* is a small star, not an ice giant. That's colossal. 2 to 3 Jupiters in *volume* is still well into the brown dwarf range. 2 to 3 Jupiters in *mass* is realistic, but not measurable with a compass.
Is there a reason why the audio on these videos always seems really quiet? Ive got the volume cranked up to max everywhere and its still hard to hear. Great content though! :)
I'm a little confused about the different characters' roles and personalities, here. It wasn't fully explained, and you can get only get so much from the illustrations.
This is so quiet. I don't normally have problems this bad with LRR videos, but I can barely hear this at full volume. Looks like I'm skipping this one. :(
HOLD UP. Cameron is Running an Alien '79 themed Campaign? Uh, - YES. Please sir, may I have some more? Playspeed set to 0.75x - Here, have 25% more watch time from me for your metrics. That IS how that works, right? Can we have Ian run a mid 1980s noon-hour soap-opera's idea of a mid 19th century mystery-murder drama next, please? And Kathleen is the Peppy yet Murdery Rogue?
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Takes one look at the title "oh a Cameron game".
I was watching the title scroll chanting "Cameron game! Cameron game!"
His intros are the best
Wow I guessed based on the youtube up next being Music of the spheres.
Seeing the title displayed as I EAT I EAT I was deeply unsettling
0:50 for anyone curious
1:26:50 that's way cool of you Ian. Thank you for taking a second to read the room, and checking with your fellow players
Currently watching "Not A Drop To Drink," and I aspire to be both a player like Ian and a Storyteller/GM like Jacob Burgess
The way that Cameron has built a world with such a level of suspense and dread is astonishing. I cannot wait for more.
Cameron first says that working joes are designed to not look human in order to avoid the uncanny valley, then gives the most uncanny valley sounding description I have heard,
I'm impressed with the crew's commitment to roleplay. Because I keep thinking things like, "Yup. Sounds like xenomorphs.,
I keep coming back to this series and I'm always enthralled by the interplay between Adam and Ian's characters over the fate of the working Joe. Failing their empathy and then Ian resulting to ordering Adam to override his own ethics is really top-notch. It's obviously a great system for providing the opportunities to play that out, but credit also has to go to Cameron for integrating that into the narrative in such a seasoned way. Really excellent stuff.
This is really good! About halfway through, I got reminded this is in the Alien setting and I am deeply afraid for these characters.
The "Laudomia" - it was in the description. According to Wikipedia, she was an early lesbian Italian poet.
@@mila7817 Neat! I don't know if you meant to reply to my comment but still, neat trivia!
@@sdsolarisii Nope lol, meant to ping the guy below you on my view of the thread who was asking. Sorry for the ping! 😅
The player in me on finishing the intro: OH NO! Those poor people
The part of me that loves horror movies: Oooh yesss, those poor people.
The tech point Cam was talking about brough to mind, in basic training in the army they train you to use Vietnam era radios. They're essentially indestructable, and only mildly finiky, with aweful interfaces. I like to think of the tech mentioned here in similar terms. It's all designed to take decades of abuse and work well, at the cost of beauty and user friendliness.
It's snuck up on me with incremental improvements, but I have to say I was gobsmacked by the quality of the amazing intro for this: best of all, it was merely equal to the engrossing game session to follow!
THANK YOU, LRR.
I *really* don't say that enough for all the awesome content you provide!
Honestly, if only SOMEONE in Hollywood or similar was able to stumble across Cam's work and realise what an extraordinary writer that man is, we would get SO MUCH high-quality sci-fi/fantasy/horror in our lives. Imagine Cam with a year to write a screenplay and a decent director with $50M waiting at the end.
A Not Currently Fruiting Pear Tree is the title of Cam’s next memoire.
"Weyland Yutani's Hyperdyne series of androids, some people complain about them being in the uncanny valley although the latest generations are honestly very, very, very human." So human, in fact, that humans rely on dogs to be able to tell the difference. 😏
Some would describe them as "More human than human."
That scene with the extraction of the memory core from the Working Joe disturbed me in such a way that I believe only Cam can cause. Great job of making me feel slightly uneasy and guilty for the 'killing' of a being that isn't alive. I look forward to what may happen in the future!
Game Mother is the perfect name for this game system.
One thing you can always count on in a game run by Cam: Copious World-building!
I actually love your games for that, Cam. In this case, I really enjoyed the idea that in the future hard-copy books will become artisan, crafted goods, like certain clothes and bags are already, and ebooks becoming the norm. It feels like a realistic and highly probable view of the future of publishing. I wonder if We’ll see a return to the triple-decker format of Austin’s day.
ngl, when Cam said "ice giant", I didn't realise that he was talking about a planet until he explicitly explained it. I thought "Oh, I guess he's doing a D&D crossover?"
This game is legitimately amazing. Cameron's atmosphere building and story weaving is just great. I aspire to be so effective in my GM'ing.
Add being a great TTRPG player to Adam's skills. Damn, he makes every RPG he's in better because he tries his best to think like his characters and gives them so much variety. My favorite from the LRR crew by far.
Wow! First off, what an incredible intro, secondly the pacing was superb and Cam does an excellent job running this game. Everyone else is having a blast and is doing a great job of staying in character. This was absolutely amazing and I cannot wait to see more.
"a witty metaphor for apple sauce" cam has such a way with words
HIRE. CAMERON. LAUDER. TO. WRITE. ALIEN. MOVIES.
A LRR team authored Alien film COULDN'T be any worse than anything Joss Whedon wrote. . . Should he hypothetically write a script for the franchise.
When I saw Cam's title as "Game Mother" I almost wondered for a moment if he was running Mothership, but turns out there's just an actual Alien TTRPG out there!
This episode was amazing, and I cannot wait to see what Cam has in store for everyone. This just oozes style and ambiance.
FINALLY
I have been teased with this on twitter for TOO DAMN LONG
What a wonderful start. Thank you Cam, thank you players, and thank you LRR for all the effort that makes magic like this possible
I only just started to watch this series... catching up on a bunch of old VODs... but wow. WOW. Cameron is an *incredible* GM. Really just an incredible storyteller.
Cam seems to know that only correct Alien canon is Alien '79, Isolation, the Gibson script/comics, and nothing else. Not that I expected any less :] Looking forward to watching the characters' sanity decay faster than Ridley Scott's brain.
A: Thanks for this amazing content I am here for it
B: Didn’t know that this rpg setting existed. I have friends that this is right up their alley, so I’ll be running a game this October 👾
I've never felt like watching Dice Friends, but after this intro I think I'm changing my mind.
Great episode cam, well done on a calm but gripping intro to this story, I eagerly await the next installment. Ty for the hardwork lrr team , tis much appreciated. Regards.
I am so hyped for when a xenomorph shows up, if anyone can drive home the horror of an unknowable parasitic race of hunters it's Cameron.
Cam pointed out on Twitter that the only time in Alien history anyone uses the word xenomorph is one idiot trying to sound smart. That's interesting to me, since the word basically became synonymous with the Alien.
@@rockyradical Probably for practical reasons. "The Aliens" could refer to any number of fictional species; "The Xenomorphs" is much more specific.
@@blackdragonxtra Except Xenomorph is completely generic... it literally just means "Non-human creature". Even in Aliens that's all it means.
I love this so much. Just finished listening to the audio version and had to come here to check out the artwork.
This was cool!
I'm really glad that Cam is running a system that is not DnD 5e. I don't think that that system lends itself to Cameron's GM style, something like this seems like a better fit. Looking forward for more.
31:27 "You arrive..." in Cameron's best conception of lo-fi sci-fi nouveau r̶i̶c̶h̶e̶ upper-middle class.
First episode of Dice Friends I've ever stuck with past the first ten minutes. Way to start strong!
Love this! Cam is a great GM and I am so happy to explore the Alien Universe with this story. Great work everyone.
I love Cam's mind. I cannot wait for the next episode of this.
Always a pleasure to watch Cam GM!
This is pretty interesting so far, makes me want to run a space game as well now.
Re-watching this, because
1. Cori as Simclair is 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
2. I never saw episodes five and six!!! I’m dying!!! 😍🤩😍🤩
Cori's character is my new favorite character. Very well played, great voice.
I definitely kept thinking to myself over and again "Okay they're about to be mauled" and they just never were and that intensity is so good.
"Laudomia contains three cities: the Dead, the Living and the Unborn. We are distressed by the city of the unborn, not by that of the dead."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
This game system + this group = super excited
After a break, ready to engage with my favourite crew!
That Gustav Holst intro sample (bringer of old age) set a great tone
wow, i amazed at all the work everyone put into this well done!
Hey Cam, I've seen you post music you were listening to when working on this campaign (or maybe only this session ?), I'm a big fan of "Tomorrow in a year" but, I haven't seen you aknowledge "Clipping.-Splendor & Mysery" and I think you would like it. It's a concept album about the last surviver of a space slave cargo trying to stay sain by rapping to the clics and other noises of the ship -also kind of a love story, but I'm not spoiling- while drifting away into the nothing.
PS: the frontman and voice of the band is Daveed Diggs of Hamilton fame.
PPS: this is road quest level of good, keep up having fun ;)
Love this. Cannot wait for more.
Church of the Blessed Rebirth? That's not ominous.
I love the editor comments on the side
Yay another Dice Friends ran by Cameron with an awesome group of players. I am so ready for this.
Let's all remember the most important thing about DM Cameron. He's busy.
Third time through watching Heat death. Love Cameron being the game mother.
Ian: "Oh good, a clever asshole."
Me: "Oh fuck. there's a resident evil villain in the Alien universe."
I am going to homebrew exhaustion into my Call of C'thulhu game just to incentivize players to try roleplay coping and relaxing.
1:43:50 An ice giant AND a bean stalk? Is this a fairy tale? Will there be gold at the end of all of this?
This is so good.
I'm been doing too much 40k looked at the thumb nail and was all whats up with that eagles wings.... but it was just the outline of a ship.
Damn, Cam, did you write that intro? That is some brilliant tone setting. Really well done.
Can't wait to see the rest of my favorite Aliens movie unfold.
Oh this is going to be goooooood
Love this! Cam has the coolest settings!
What was the name of their ship and does it have any meaning/is it a reference to anything?
I tried to catch it, but it sounded slightly different several times and I don't know how to spell it.
The "Laudomia" - it was in the description. She's a lesbian, Italian poet from the sixteenth century, according to Wikipedia.
I think it's 'La Doña' ('The Lady' in Spanish).
The opening of this reminds me of the anime Dr Stone, but in space.
Gabriel Shepard It sounds a lot like Magnetic Rose to me, which is fitting for space horror.
@@wyattkastl9312 Magnetic Rose is brilliant. But I guess it kinda has to be with people like Satoshi Kon, Katsuhiro Ôtomo and Yoko Kanno involved. Kōji Morimoto's direction is just beautiful and unsettling.
Woah. This was cool. I have been wanting to do a campaign with very heavy xenophobic elements and suspense. This is just woah.
1:19:12
An object 2 to 3 Jupiters in *radius* is a small star, not an ice giant. That's colossal.
2 to 3 Jupiters in *volume* is still well into the brown dwarf range.
2 to 3 Jupiters in *mass* is realistic, but not measurable with a compass.
Super cool and suspenseful
I saw the title and was like: So Cam is running this one right?
Please, more of Cam hosted Alien and Call of Cthulhu !!
I saw this pop up and I am so hyped
"The State of the Joe" is my next band name
Just want you guys to know that when you search for "Alien RPG Actual play" this show doesn't show up. Maybe add something to the description?
Is there a reason why the audio on these videos always seems really quiet? Ive got the volume cranked up to max everywhere and its still hard to hear.
Great content though! :)
Aw dice friends is back? Dang it, I must have missed the tweet.
I'm a little confused about the different characters' roles and personalities, here. It wasn't fully explained, and you can get only get so much from the illustrations.
I believe Schaffer is an Engineer, Moritaka is an Officer, Batker is a former Colonial Marine and Sinclair is a businessman
"You are able to control your panic."
Never heard Cam so -sullen- (edit: eeeh word choice. annoyed?) and disappointed.
Are the spider drones anything like Tachikomas?
Love me a Cameron game.
Is that the theme from The Black Hole?
Gustav Holst - Saturn (bringer of old age)
the audio balance on this are a bit... rough.
The problem is that apparently Cam's voice isn't picked up by the mics very well and that causes problems.
EXCITE
Yay!
This is so quiet. I don't normally have problems this bad with LRR videos, but I can barely hear this at full volume. Looks like I'm skipping this one. :(
Yehs!
cool
I haven’t watched LLR for a while but why and when did Alex get such long flowing hair?
I'm guessing slowly and over a long period of time. That's under the assumption that he is, in fact, a normal human though.
It's been like that for a year now. He just wanted a new look and grew it out.
I'm offended you think Samsung and android are worse than apple considering apple needs Samsung to make their screens.
22:00 Ian playing with his dice.
HOLD UP. Cameron is Running an Alien '79 themed Campaign? Uh, - YES. Please sir, may I have some more? Playspeed set to 0.75x - Here, have 25% more watch time from me for your metrics. That IS how that works, right? Can we have Ian run a mid 1980s noon-hour soap-opera's idea of a mid 19th century mystery-murder drama next, please? And Kathleen is the Peppy yet Murdery Rogue?