252. A Properly Functioning Bag Nose

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
  • https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/i-sat-belonely-poem-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.