Lords:

• Kory
  
  
  
  
  • https://kbones.fun/
  
  


• Andy
  
  
  
  
  • https://highcadence.online/
  
  

Topics:

• The Gametank
  
  
  
  
  • https://gametank.zone/
  
  
  • https://www.crowdsupply.com/clydeware/gametank
  
  


• I swear to God, I'm going to talk about auctions and auctions in games, it's super interesting and I don't want to get preempted a third time.
  
  
  
  
  • Esper says: "There’s actually a game coming out in a week where you break into museums to heist real-life African artifacts with the goal of returning them to their rightful homes! It’s called Relooted and looks pretty cool." https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/Relooted/
  
  


• Winston figured out how to watch TV at 2AM


• Dragonfly Catcher, by Chiyo-ni
  
  
  
  
  • https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/115933940306986226
  
  


• I just lost a snapshot of my life in mp3 format.

Microtopics:

• Multi-time lords.


• K-Bones dot fun.


• CachyOS.


• Scrubbing topics against the corrugated metal washboard of discussion.


• Leaning into the microphone and saying "topics."


• Helping Andy quit his day job tonight.


• What MAGfest used to stand for.


• Playing with SGI hardware in the Old-Ass Computer Room.


• Game consoles that output square video.


• Getting pixels into the framebuffer of the Fairchild Channel F.


• Seeing a fun puzzle to solve but not solving it because you already have way too many projects.


• Through-hole soldering.


• Replacing volatile memory with F-RAM.


• Preparing to have fun.


• Reaching the point in your life where you don't want to bother with the war game, you just want to paint the miniatures.


• What do you call it when you pair up with three people?


• Throupling up for the next 45 minutes.


• Who has time to both solder things and play video games?


• Why Robotron 2084 was more difficult in emulation than in the arcade.


• How to pronounce SNES.


• Shmups slowing down when there are more objects on the screen, and game designers incorporating that into the game design.


• The ZX Spectrum Next and the Mega 65.


• A game console that only 150 people own and they get super excited whenever a new game comes out for it.


• Game development like a caveman would do it.


• Whether more than one person can take the under.


• The rules of Monopoly as written vs. the folk rules.


• eBay auctions as an extremely boring game.


• First price vs. second price auctions.


• Visiting the real money auction house in Diablo and finding out just how little your time and effort is worth.


• The Gold Standard of the Hat Meta.


• An evolutionary branch of PVP that's distinct from Yomi.


• What to do when you want to play Avalon Hill's Dune.


• Fence Lara Croft's Stolen Treasures.


• Lara Croft's Stolen Antiquities Simulator.


• Winning a bunch of Saltybucks on Saltybet.


• Age-appropriate behavior.


• Speedrun watching TV at 2 AM.


• Live and Don't Learn.


• Explaining jet lag to a two year old.


• Watching MTV's Liquid Television block until 2:30 AM.


• Finally sitting your son down to have the Aeon Flux talk.


• Haiku that end "that's it, that's the haiku" even though that's too many syllables.


• Hiking in the wilderness and encountering or not encountering a dragonfly.


• People at risk of owning a Game Tank.


• Broadly appealing messages sent out to farm likes.


• The psychological cost of having 20,000 people following you.


• Choosing your Mastodon instance based on what domain name William Gibson thought was funny.


• The Mazzy Star song that's on the Batman Forever soundtrack.


• iPod shuffles always insisting you're not pregnant no matter how much you pee on them.


• Ephemeral preservation of a time in your life.


• A biological weapon that removes your ability to perceive music as music.


• You die young, or you live long enough to see Nine Inch Nails become dad rock.


• Music Inspired by the Soundtrack.


• Putting your MP3 collection on striped RAID arrays for the benefit of future archaeologists.

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