I don't think Khaz gets nearly enough recognition for the absolutely beautiful ad timings. Almost every single video, one of them will mention ads coming, and with pacing like a vine, the YT ad immediately starts
I've never played Hades so when Jacob said "can you guess who my favorite one is?" I just thought "is it a lady with a whip?" and I can't believe I was right lmao
Stellar thumbnail once again! I was both impressed and slightly embarrassed that I could basically read the cats' dialogue without looking it up 😅(Spoilers for the game languages and kitty dialogue:) Olive: I want to be free Joy: I want to play 🥺🐱🐱
Omg I just finished the game but I didn’t even think of looking at what the girls were saying and whether it made sense… that is above and beyond and so sweet 🥺
already appreciated the subtitles, but making them SSS themed, and specifying who is talking is AWESOME! Thank you for working this hard to make the subtitles like this, that's incredible.
Sadly the colors are probably gonna have to change, I was very excited about them being on theme. Accessibility comes first though and I rather it not be an eyestrain. I appreciate the compliments! -Khaztaroth
@@SecretSleepoverSociety A bit late but, I wanted to say if you want to keep doing the colors, there is a way in the video caption settings to turn on video override, to change the captions to be your own preference! /gen
I love that we know from the monkeys the Bards beliefs include "idiot has saw," and Jacob walked right up to the guy who asked him for a hammer carrying a saw, that guy's got to be telling stories later about what this idiot he met
I’m not hard of hearing or deaf at all, but these subtitles are done so much better than I’m used to so I’ve started leaving them on for SSS! You’re a legend Khaz!
Every time I see thumbnail of first vod for this game "Big God" by Florence and the Machine starts playing in my head but it replaces "god" with "hog". I hope this will curse someone else.
I think it's really interesting that while the bards consider builders to be fools, their language has the most words for tools of the languages we've encountered so far.
Bards seem to have a working class looked down upon as idiots who may actually be close to a revolution overthrowing the Bard upper class if not for the protagonist showing them they can be free in the abbey with the Devotees who work communally instead.
I love the glyphs in the thumbnail! Olive says: “I seek freedom” (which is very funny). Joy’s glyphs are a little strange, and I’m not sure if they’re accurate to the Bard’s sentence structure, but they translate verbatim to: “Me Free Play”. Maybe it’s supposed to be “I’m free to play” ?
the amazing thumbnail is enough said, here's cats 0:12 background olive was digging 1:28 excellent cat tree appreciation time + olive does some great product marketing 2:53 confused olive goes nuts 3:29 temporary freedom from saturn 3:50 2 cats, 1 tree 4:36 occasionally combat + presidential alert: the girls have begun fighting 8:53 tall olive 11:00 loaf olive + cat scratch deterent + cat art 12:37 beautiful background cat placement is very appreciated 13:09 olive goes down 18:07 hi olive 20:38 olive's being weird 21:27 olive being a brave hazard to herself 21:58 brief lap olive 29:59 gift for jacob + proud olive runnin 37:18 hey olive + lap cat 40:57 why olive + beeeg cat + current invisibility 48:30 she twitchin 56:50 olive did a thing 59:43 olive departs for the background table corner and cat tree 1:05:40 olive won't stop 1:11:47 curled up, sleeping olive 1:22:25 joy did a pretty step 1:26:31 joy wanted tree, but olive interfered + very happy cats + cute cat storytimes 1:29:10 olive's up and going out 1:30:47 olives gone 1:33:25 mournful meow 1:34:40 hey joy 1:38:49 corner cat 1:43:03 joy goes to background table corner 1:57:20 check put joy 1:59:31 hi olive + big hug 2:01:44 late start showing off cat tower
fun fact: facilitated communication is a real thing that allows people with little-to-no speech and low control over their movements to use aac (augmentative and alternative communication) devices.
Praise be to Khaz for blowing it out of the water with these subtitles!! Having someone be so cognizant and considerate of people with various disabilities is so unbelievably kind. Khaz Is King!!
I imagine that either you already know this or someone in chat/comments has mentioned it, but if you like Chants of Senaar, you should definitely check out Heaven's Vault if you haven't already. It's another game where translating an ancient language plays a central role. Thanks for the stream!
Watching your streams have always been super comforting to me and my husband, but this video deserves a special shout out. I had surgery on the 12th and unexpectedly had to stay overnight due to complications. Anyone who has stayed in a hospital overnight knows how absolutely impossible it is to sleep, so I popped my headphones in and watched this VOD. Immediately calmed me down and I managed to fall asleep for the first time. Thankyou to Jacob, Julia and the editors for producing such amazing content. One day we'll catch a live stream, in the meantime just know your VODs are our comfort watch.
two hours never went by so fast!! i was genuinely upset when they said they were gonna end the stream lmaooo Also? full captions? AND they're colour coded!? [chef's kiss] a work of art
I've been playing along with this game (read: playing until I get stuck on a stealth challenge & then waiting for SSS to solve it; I'm a linguist, not a Gamer) and it's been so fun!
**Gameplay spoilers:** You're forced to backtrack later anyways so it doesn't matter about tying up loose ends as soon as possible. You'll still have to go slightly out of your way to 100% a language but at least you'll be in the same zone. Same goes for finding the "Something has changed in the tower!" things but those are easy to find. Also damn they blasted through Bard translations, that took me forever.
The Bard's language is definately the one that has the most potential for being a roadblock, but I think the two of them were at a significant advantage due to Julia making the connection *really* early to Japanese. Unlike English, which uses SVO word order, Japanese uses SOV. The Bards use OSV which is different from both, but just having that frame of mind that sentences can be formulated in different ways puts you in the right headspace to automatically re-order the words as you translate.
I was obsessed with this game until I solved it. I played it only a week or two before you guys started and it made me so happy that you two found it as well
The last word I discovered in the Bard language was "idiot." I honestly thought it meant "brave," and the bards were saying the warriors were brave, and asking "do you want to ascend? Are you brave?" Learning that one word made me realize the Bards are total dicks. This is a great game.
Bought the game halfway through episode 1, spent last weekend entirely devoted to finishing it, making a complete map of the game b/c I kept getting lost. Thank you for bringing this excellent game to my attention so I could have an obsession!
I've been watching vods of this stream for forever, and it is literally only this stream, through the power of subtitles, that the name of one of the subscribers is "Reed Marks Dammit" and not "Read Marx, dammit". I have, for all this time, been convinced that there was just someone whose name was a command telling me to pick up the communists manifesto, and I never once questioned it. Anyway, thanks for all the hard work
You were actually right, it is "read." Although a lot of the sub names are pretty accurate out of the transcriber I don't double check them because that would take very long. -Khaztaroth
I have the same colour association to lessons, I think the classrooms in some schools do actually have some colour coordination within the classrooms so certain areas of the school where certain classes take place are all one colour
So math has typically been blue for me -- partially assigned by the teachers -- and this discussion has lead me to wonder: is there a gendered bias underlying such assignments? E.g., math typically being considered a "boy subject" (because stem misogyny etc, yadda yadda) more often getting assigned blue than red? But that hypothesis would require way more data.
I haven't bought this game yet, but I immediately added it to my Steam wishlist after the first stream. It's a gorgeous game that's very clearly inspired by games like Journey and the Pathless. And I think you guys mentioned that it's made by a grad student? Damn impressive work!
I bought this game after the second stream and absolutely loved it! It's so interesting to see where J+J struggle vs where I struggled, and how differently they approach things. Excited to see y'all play this to the end
I went and 100%-ed the game after watching the first 2 episodes (thankfully I didn't like remember that much so I didn't have a huge leg up) but watching Jacob and Julia absolutely 360-no-scope-one-shot some of the words in the bards language on a dang hunch made me feel like an absolute fool cuz most of that languages words took me so long to figure out
the bard language is the hardest to logic out. These guys arent afraid to brute force some of the unknowns on the page which makes it easier later on. I think its a lot less interesting way to play. I wish the game had some sort of cooldown that prevented you from attempting a bunch of words quickly after a wrong guess
My partner and I bought this game after your first stream. We just finished it tonight, absolutely 10/10 game. We’re sad it’s over and need more! Thanks for streaming so we could find this gem ❤
I bought this game half way through the first vod and hyperfixated my way through it in one sitting instead of sleeping. Great game, but watching yall play it is the better experience for me i think.
Agh! The way this game shows how a language itself is made off of the values and biases the society holds... the same word for 'labourers' and 'idiots,' the way the Bards language is built for poetry and the Alchemists is built for science, their triangular words for what is on top of the tower, 'God,' 'Duty,' 'Beauty,' its so cool.
Jacob's folder color system was exactly the same as mine! Green = science (because you always think about green bubbling liquids in beakers when you think science) Yellow = history (because old weathered documents are yellow) Blue = Math (because cold and calculating, plus my brother's favorite color was blue and ge was good at math and his name has math in it) red = english (because it has more emotions in it than other subjects plus it was my favorite subject and red was always my color in board games) other subjects get purple and orange and other colors
Commenting works. Thank you so much, I'm pleased with the result. Also, the reception to the subtitles by the community has been amazing so I'm super happy about it. -Khaztaroth
Interestingly, we can see a fragment of lost language (as in, glyphs that can't be recorded in the journal) on the broken inscription by the purple door in the sewers. On the top, there's the warriors' glyph for fortress, with the bards' glyph underneath, and then a fragment of the devotees' lost glyph for fortress. You can clearly see the edges of their "place" modifier and one of the arrows from their "warrior" glyph. Presumably, the arrows mean "weapon" when separated from the "man" modifier. We also get some insight into bard society, as their glyphs for "bard", "warrior" and "man" all include the 5-shaped curl, signifying that bards and warriors are different classes of people, whereas "idiot" and "brother" don't, since any people regardless of class can be idiots or brothers. Even bards can be idiots, as seen in the play where the "idiot bard" follows the path of ascension.
@@Quintinohthree That's fair. When I watched part 1, I was thinking it meant "clash/conflict", or indeed "war". Having just watched part 3, I was in the bardic mindset of "A weapon, the warrior carries". Goes to show how easily one can be influenced by exposure to language and culture, even in fiction.
@@KittyKatalina In any case it's a beautiful world with open ends waiting to be explored. I sincerely hope the developers are already thinking of a sequel, because I can think of so many ways to add on to this story with new languages, new mechanics and new stories to discover.
54:45 I’m realizing now on my second watch through of this that the artists explicitly don’t like building, which means they don’t think architecture is an art form, but they DO like making games, explicitly including game design as an art form to them lol. May not be the kind of “game design” we think of now but it is still designing something to be played.
FINALLY someone with the same subject-color associations as me! the one jacob forgot was red for english/language arts. i also had purple for foreign languages.
Noun Town could be considered the real languages version of this game, if you are interested! You can explore youe surroundings and discover the language through conversation or by looking at objects etc.
32:48 I just want to point out, that last stream Jacob had said “I’m so tired, I can’t even solve an 8 piece puzzle. Good thing he found it this stream. This is a 9 piece
for the record I have only ever seen "theater" in America, for all meanings. Words ending in -re is almost exclusively traditional English (British, Canadian, Australian, etc)
I forget where I picked this up from, but somebody suggested using "grey" for lighter shades (closer to whitE) and "gray" for darker shades (closer to blAck) and I haven't been able to stop doing that since. And maybe it's not considered correct, but it at least created some consistency in how I spell it.
this is incredibly random but i am reeling from the fact that jacob and i had the same color coding for school subjects because ive never met anyone who had the exact same four colors as me for math, science, english, and social studies
I know I'm not the intended audience since I'm not HoH, just auditory processing issues, but the high vibrance on the colors for the subtitles against the black background makes it so I can't read it without eye pain I know that's something hard to balance since some people can see high saturation more easily, but just to put it out there as a factor (I also don't know how high the actual saturation is, but having it on black makes it very bright for me) I'm really enjoying watching this game though and appreciate all the work the community is doing to make SSS accessible! ❤
I've received several comments pointing that out, today's (10/15) VoD will have different colors that aren't as bright but hopefully still distinct enough for colorblind people. Once I have the style finalized I'll update all other VoDs to have the style we did up on. I do appreciate the feedback on it and I'm hoping to make them as good as possible. -Khaztaroth
oh the color of the subtitles is very bright this time around, i dont know if that's a thing that can be adjusted? i do enjoy that they have different colors though even if i have to disable that cause of the brightness
You can disable the "Video Override" settings in your RU-vid caption settings. On PC/Desktop, click the settings button, then "Subtitles/CC". In the top right click "Options", then "Font Color" and then in the upper right you can click "Video Override" and switch it to "Off" which will set it back to white or whatever color you use. I didn't know this setting was there myself and only just found it! Very useful!
I will probably try to tone down the brightness next time around. They are fully saturated colors to prevent them from being too close to each other for colorblind people. Finding colors that are distinct enough but not awful to look at is a challenge I've yet to overcome. I will keep trying though. -Khaztaroth
@@SecretSleepoverSociety Thanks for keeping us colorblind folk in mind! Everyone's different, obviously, and I don't know what parameters you have available, but with low saturation colors I tend to have no issues if there's a value difference between the two colors as well (darker, lighter). Being on opposite hues helps too, the blue and yellow are distinct, even at lower saturation.
Good to know, I was thinking of changing Jacob's green for yellow and making Julia's blue softer, leaving plain white for when both are speaking. I'll try it out for Sunday and if that works better I could retroactively change the rest. -Khaztaroth
@@SecretSleepoverSociety Ha! I guess I proved my colorblind credentials by not noticing Jacob's were green, not yellow! Easy to notice now, though. Vision is weird. Thanks, Khaz!
