196. Active Time Battle Internet Relay Chat

Lords:

• John
• JohnB

Topics:

• The word "juxtapose" seemed hyperspecific and esoteric when I first learned it in school, but has proven incredibly common and useful
• Farewell to Cheap Bots Done Quick and the tens of thousands benevolent Twitter bots it powered:
  • https://twitter.com/v21/status/1643932890105884673
• Temple of Apshai's manual
  • https://fogknife.com/2023-05-31-the-book-of-apshai-a-personal-exegesis-.html
• "Seen and Not Seen" by Talking Heads
  • https://genius.com/Talking-heads-seen-and-not-seen-lyrics
• The new Zelda game several weeks in feels like the phase of a Civilization game where much, but not all, of the world has been revealed

Microtopics:

• John and John as well.
• A John of Many Names.
• The Frog Fractions Soundtrack of the Decade Edition Vinyl.
• Being sued for copying a song's vibes.
• Aldi Barcodes.
• Noise-cancelling the sound of eating crackers.
• Just scan it. It's food.
• A word full of high-scoring Scrabble tiles.
• Juxtaposing a police station.
• A history of "juxtapose" waiting in the wings like a Batman origin story.
• Pre-35 words.
• Biff going back in time to 17th century Prague to be thrown out a window but surviving because he landed in a pile of manure.
• An upbeat song about tolerating people that you hate.
• The invention of defenestration.
• Farewell to Cheap Bots Done Quick.
• Sharing a fun tweet.
• Being technical enough to look at nested braces and know what that means.
• Bots in Space.
• Capcom vs. Everyone.
• Temple of Apshai.
• A text adventure except they couldn't fit any of the text on the floppy.
• Action RPGs that demand you manage your stats and inventory on paper.
• Solo D&D adventure books.
• Dragon's on a Chip.
• Video games that come with books that you need to read to play the game.
• A thick boy, full of lore.
• The philosophy of city planning.
• What is an Earth for?
• Tunic.
• What StarTropics did with the letter.
• Sentinel Worlds One: Future Magic.
• [See paragraph 3.]
• 1980s computer game copy protection.
• Bringing the Shenzhen I/O manual to work to study it on the job.
• Why the main campaign in Shenzhen I/O is so much better than the bonus campaign.
• Keeping an ideal facial structure fixed in your mind for years.
• Musical mumbling.
• Songs that are just a Shower Thoughts post.
• The long-term discipline of adjusting your facial features over time.
• Thinking about wider, thinner lips during the instrumental breakdown.
• Trying to save SACD albums.
• The Depths.
• Sharing your location precisely.
• There are four places: go to them.
• The Ghost King Rauru.
• The Calamity Ganon Calamity.
• A dragon with really weird exaggerated eyelashes that you can run around on.
• Giving up on horses.
• Unique items of dubious usefulness.
• Okay boomer, it's called a Purah Pad now.
• Finding a tiny rock to jump off of to go into bullet time.
• The two-fan hoverbike.
• Skating around atop frozen gourmet meat.