252. A Properly Functioning Bag Nose
Update: 2024-08-19
Description
Lords:
- JohnB
- Kory
Topics:
- I have become a vinyl record enjoyer
- Teaching myself C++, or "I learned C++ when I should've learned C, AMA"
- Forgetting things as a way of getting other things done
- I Sat Belonely by John Lennon
- The vestigial organs of video games
Microtopics:
- Kbones' Wire Tripper, on display at Wonderville.
- Easter eggs for fans of Gordy and the Monster Moon.
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep.
- Watching Shin Godzilla immediately after Evangelion.
- Dan Ryckert's nonsense over at Giant Bomb.
- Listening to a Mario Party game on the radio.
- Supplementing all your collecting hobbies with a creative hobby.
- Grabbing the record player before the garbage collector does.
- An auto-sustaining supply of sound bars entering and leaving the trash.
- The Digital Jim Gift Shop.
- The Frog Fractions OST Vinyl in Bug Mars Orange.
- Auditioning for college radio by DJing a show to tape that won't be aired, just rated by a panel of experts.
- The vinyl soundtrack to a Net Yaroze game.
- Albums that have an odd number of sides.
- Holographic tie fighters that spin around when you shine a light on them.
- The Funkopopization of Vinyl.
- Hobbies that are better if you have friends.
- Using wood glue to clean an LP, then using an inverse record player to play music off the glue's negative grooves.
- The glue's glue.
- Station to Station, by David Bowie.
- The experience of listening to an album all the way through.
- Content-producing reasons.
- An excuse to listen to an album with friends under the auspices of being productive.
- Seeing the music by looking how wide the groove is.
- Smooth jazz appreciation.
- The Madden NFL of the record shop.
- How to justify going to GDC when you're not a game developer.
- How to ship a Love2D game.
- Drag your file onto a Love Executable.
- Putting together your first Arkanoid-like in Game Boy Assembly.
- To create Red Dead Redemption, first add two binary digits.
- Super FML.
- Objectless games.
- The data flow required to change screens in a Zelda-like game.
- What happened to various aspects of the Adobe Flash ecosystem.
- Why console games had such sluggish menus.
- A bug where if you do it right you don't have to press A.
- How to do a bureaucracy thing.
- Keeping an important task in mind so you can accomplish all your less important tasks.
- Trying to forget all but one thing you need to do because if you remember two things you'll just sit there being anxious.
- Forgetting information that you do have vs. faking information that you don't have.
- Foveated vision.
- Yesterday's List.
- How many Frog Fractions had to die because the most dangerous task was attempted first?
- A little tiny little pig.
- Balonely.
- A Spaniard in the Works.
- Reading your own book in your fictionalized biopic.
- Whimsical Elisions.
- Fun whimsical vs. dark whimsical.
- Coming back from India and writing a hundred one minute songs that don't mean anything.
- Music that you've listened to so much that it's like listening to breathing air.
- Don't Pass Me By and Octopus' Garden.
- Game mechanics that still exist because nobody's thought about them in a while.
- Moon phases in Shin Megami Tensei.
- Demon Fusion.
- What Super Mario Wonder does with a combo since it doesn't have points.
- A potentially dangerous vestigial organ in video games.
- How to make pinball beginner friendly.
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