279. Concrete Peanut Butter Condensate

Lords:

• Kory
• James

Topics:

• I've been reading more lately, and ditching the eReader sure has helped
• Journey to the Planets
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWiJ1Mn-aY
• Send Me to Heaven
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven
• My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, by William Shakespeare
  • https://poets.org/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130
• Re: Smooth Criminal. Are criminals like peanut butter?
• My journey to make photography as labor intensive as possible and learn to enjoy it again in the process

Microtopics:

• A circulating cadre of hobbies.
• Corpseflower blooms.
• A forum to complain about the state of e-Readers.
• eReaders launching as a perfect product and then slowly morphing into shitty phones.
• Autosleep anxiety.
• Increased difficulty of finding reference art now that stable diffusion exists.
• Turning off all your screens in order to accomplish something.
• Accordioning ebooks.
• Breaking out into meat space with tiny Greek busts.
• Freedom to do it the wrong way.
• Reading the last page of a book so you don't have the temptation of reading the last page of the book.
• Physical bit rot books.
• Buying more than one book.
• Collecting treasure in order to get home.
• A flying around in space mini game.
• Dying from comets.
• Designing a game that you would never play.
  
• Art that is better in some contexts than others.
• King's Quest.
• Tuning your adventure game difficulty based on how distracting the real world is.
• Difficulty ramping in adventure games.
• The text adventure prototype of Outer Wilds.
• Untitled Goose Game's melding of the adventure game and the stealth sandbox.
• Brock the Investigator's melding of the adventure game and the belt scroller.
• An adventure game where the solution to the puzzle is to run up and kick something.
• Games that would've been a useful referent for Gunhouse if it had existed.
• The I'm Rich era of phone app development.
• Let's Play videos of Send Me to Heaven.
• App Store review bits that are not very well received.
• If hairs be wires then black wires growing on her head.
• Quoting a Shakespeare sonnet in your diss track.
• Whether "reeks" has the same connotation in Early Modern English.
• It's true but you shouldn't say it vs. I just think they're neat.
• Whether the Smooth Criminal is the kind where you need to stir the oil in
• Smooth criminals vs. chunky criminals.
• In what ways criminals are like peanut butter?
• What would a chunky rap sheet look like?
• A pristine unopened criminal.
• Getting merged in some sort of valve situation.
• Scientists studying the stripey toothpaste to discover how it stays striped.
• That movie where every character is the same person.
• Regressing to the analog wherever possible.
• Developing film without a dark room, using a dark bag.
• Obsessing over a single photograph until the color balance is perfect.
• Photography tropes that read as fancy.
• The instinct to replicate the superficial qualities of an analog process in its digital equivalent.
• Authentically taking a terrible picture with a terrible camera.
• Getting sick of what fancy used to mean and figuring out what fancy means going forward.
• Hypernice photography.
• Art that has way too much detail.