348. A Normal Spud Gun for Normal Children

Lords:

• Kate
• Andrew

Topics:

• Movies that are supposed to be good and kind of annoyingly are actually good
• Making friends when you're old
• Paris's pneumatic mail system
• Forgiven, by A. A. Milne
  • https://www.poeticous.com/a-a-milne/forgiven-i-found-a-little-beetle-so-that-beetle-was-his-name

Microtopics:

• The skill to make the noises that are in your head.
• Writing quests for Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
• Sanrio's NDA-enforcing snipers.
• A crocodile that was invented in 1978.
• Writing quests that force the artists to figure out how a crocodile would wear sunglasses.
• Writing the dialog tree as the player is clicking on options, like Gromit placing tracks right as the train is about to roll over them.
• Spending five years shipping the first part of a live service game and then shipping additional parts every few weeks.
• Trying to rebuild a house while someone is living in it.
• Lingo 2.
• Dungeon Gals.
• The kind of game you can't draw a map of.
• Teetering on the razor's edge of "I'm a genius" and "I don't understand anything."
• What does the developer tooling look like for games that have non-euclidean spaces?
• Duplicated spaces with secret warp volumes.
• The kind of movie that an Infinite Jest reader will recommend.
• Terry Cavanagh's game about making tea.
• Egg Game?
• Astonishing movie running times.
• Five minutes of two men intensely looking at each other.
• An adventure movie about two best friends who hate each other.
• James Joyce: maybe he's good?
• A guy who lives in the middle of nowhere who thinks about politics a lot and never talks to anyone.
• Gerry, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
• The art is coming from inside the head.
• Pro Shots vs. bootlegs.
• Jukebox musicals.
• Shawshank Redimension.
• Shawshank Redemption 2: Shawshank Herdemption.
• Communicating between cell blocks by flushing the toilet.
• Loove a.k.a. Flushed a.k.a. Lavatory Lovastory.
• Mixing your DNA with someone you've never seen.
• Florida Writing.
• Gravity Slingshotting around your hobbies to reach friendship.
• Going to GDC and making a bunch of game dev friends.
• Plateauing at two digits.
• Getting hobbies that put you in a room with people of your desired gender.
• Your co-worker at the call center who's married to the CEO of Twinings.
• Playing puzzle games on the Internet in front of a chatful of puzzle experts.
• The protagonist getting stuck on a puzzle and the narrator turning to the audience and saying "chat, help us out with this one."
• Making friends vs. keeping friends.
• The friendships that you both care enough about to have maintained.
• I Love a Thoont.
• Building a pneumo to relieve congestion on the telegraph system.
• When the telegraph was invented vs. when pneumatics were invented.
• Why banks had pneumatic drive thrus rather than the teller just handing you the stuff through the window like a fast food drive thrus.
• Whimsical coffee preparation.
• The cost of building a giant tube between the coasts of North America.
• The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.
• Inventing a frictionless tube.
• Preparing burritos to be magnetically fired.
• Rifled sewers.
• Plunging into the Lithosphere.
• A diagram that shows how the burrito gets heated.
• The Taste of Breaking the Sound Barrier.
• Getting your poem voice on.
• Whether A. A. Milne knew about hash tags.
• Non-Fungible Beetles.
• Oh great, the same beetle came back!
• The kind of look that means "it's me, the same beetle!"
• The XIX and XX centuries.
• Writing Very Blackly.
• Why Does Pooh Own a Shotgun?
• All the talking Winnie the Pooh animals turning out to be aliens, like Starfox.
• A pneumatic tube, except instead of burritos you're firing cork.
• Writing your thesis on pop guns and continuing to do post doc research on pop guns.
• Spud Guns vs. Potato Cannons.
• A Normal Spud Gun for Normal Children.
• Seeing that Wikipedia considers Spud Guns low importance and thinking of ways to make Spud Guns more important.
• Too Many Posts.