164. Dead Bodies Are Always In The First Place You Look

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Lords:

• Nathan
  • MommysBestGames on Twitter.
• Tyriq
  • FourBitFriday everywhere.

Topics:

• Octopodes, continued
• My wife and I are both teaching our son to drive, with separate lessons. It's going OK but with bumps.
• The most widely-used crack for The Colonel's Bequest works by breaking the random number generator. This has wide-ranging effects on the gameplay.
  • https://www.benshoof.org/blog/case-cracked
• How are we going to fix the camera in Mario Odyssey?

Microtopics:

• Game Type DX.
• Implementing the Xbox dashboard and trying to get it approved by Sony.
• The most serious episode of Topic Lords.
• Bringing up Octopuses every three years.
• Giving yourself an electric shock because you're so bored.
• Sea pork.
• Eating the animals that are extremely convenient to farm.
• Aoes sitting around waiting for something interesting to happen.
• Chimpanzee pranks.
• Making art because that's what people do.
• Trying to disentangle making art from making a living.
• Whether zoo animals would prefer their natural habitat or whether they just enjoy a chill cool time.
• Inventing an octopus psychologist to figure out what parts of their lives they like and what parts could be improved.
• Children of Time and Children of Ruin.
• Molluscs having a good time.
• Terraforming gone awry.
• The impossibility of talking smart people out of bad ideas.
• Why a teenager might or might not want to learn to drive.
• How hard to push the brakes and how hard to push the gas.
• Pushing the gas too hard and the car is like no, take a deep breath and try again.
• Terrifying two lane roads.
• Whether to start turning before you reach the stop sign.
• Driving in Atlanta.
• Learning to drive because you have to get to college somehow.
• The responsibility of being in charge of heavy machinery.
• Driving and suddenly realizing you need to be paying way more attention right now.
• Saying the worst possible thing to someone who is already anxious.
• Detective adventure game structure.
• The botched Red Baron Easter egg.
• Walking by windows whenever possible.
• Blinking, fidgeting and moving with lifeless constancy.
• Serious Sam 3's copy protection scorpion.
• Finding the thing you're not expecting in the first place you look.
• Whether the Law and Order video games implement both Law and Order.
• A detective game where you spend most of your energy preventing the detective from having a nervous breakdown or hurting somebody.
• Game design that is driven by fun tech.
• Getting a fancy new drill press and for a while all the furniture you make has a bunch of extra holes for no apparent reason.
• An RPG character with the ability to manipulate the RNG.
• A game design critique of darts.
• Fingers in the brain, squishing.
• Why Game Genie codes are encrypted.
• The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 level editor.
• BASIC Programming and Computer Intro.
• The guy who wrote half of the Odyssey 2's game catalog.
• Whether console exclusives, or indeed video game systems at all, should exist.
• Why they set Mario Galaxy on planetoids.
• Looking into a shoebox of fun.
• Mario's fluctuating weight throughout the series.
• A classic 3D platformer problem.
• Manipulating the camera while you touch all kinds of other buttons.
• The kind of Mario game that your dad can play.
• Been solved. Not fun.
• Trying to show Portal to people who have never played first-person shooters.