331. Earbuds Are a Type of Sandwich
February 23rd, 2026
1 hr 12 mins 8 secs
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Topics:
- The Gametank
- I swear to God, I'm going to talk about auctions and auctions in games, it's super interesting and I don't want to get preempted a third time.
- Esper says: "There’s actually a game coming out in a week where you break into museums to heist real-life African artifacts with the goal of returning them to their rightful homes! It’s called Relooted and looks pretty cool." https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/Relooted/
- Winston figured out how to watch TV at 2AM
- Dragonfly Catcher, by Chiyo-ni
- I just lost a snapshot of my life in mp3 format.
Microtopics:
- Multi-time lords.
- K-Bones dot fun.
- CachyOS.
- Scrubbing topics against the corrugated metal washboard of discussion.
- Leaning into the microphone and saying "topics."
- Helping Andy quit his day job tonight.
- What MAGfest used to stand for.
- Playing with SGI hardware in the Old-Ass Computer Room.
- Game consoles that output square video.
- Getting pixels into the framebuffer of the Fairchild Channel F.
- Seeing a fun puzzle to solve but not solving it because you already have way too many projects.
- Through-hole soldering.
- Replacing volatile memory with F-RAM.
- Preparing to have fun.
- Reaching the point in your life where you don't want to bother with the war game, you just want to paint the miniatures.
- What do you call it when you pair up with three people?
- Throupling up for the next 45 minutes.
- Who has time to both solder things and play video games?
- Why Robotron 2084 was more difficult in emulation than in the arcade.
- How to pronounce SNES.
- Shmups slowing down when there are more objects on the screen, and game designers incorporating that into the game design.
- The ZX Spectrum Next and the Mega 65.
- A game console that only 150 people own and they get super excited whenever a new game comes out for it.
- Game development like a caveman would do it.
- Whether more than one person can take the under.
- The rules of Monopoly as written vs. the folk rules.
- eBay auctions as an extremely boring game.
- First price vs. second price auctions.
- Visiting the real money auction house in Diablo and finding out just how little your time and effort is worth.
- The Gold Standard of the Hat Meta.
- An evolutionary branch of PVP that's distinct from Yomi.
- What to do when you want to play Avalon Hill's Dune.
- Fence Lara Croft's Stolen Treasures.
- Lara Croft's Stolen Antiquities Simulator.
- Winning a bunch of Saltybucks on Saltybet.
- Age-appropriate behavior.
- Speedrun watching TV at 2 AM.
- Live and Don't Learn.
- Explaining jet lag to a two year old.
- Watching MTV's Liquid Television block until 2:30 AM.
- Finally sitting your son down to have the Aeon Flux talk.
- Haiku that end "that's it, that's the haiku" even though that's too many syllables.
- Hiking in the wilderness and encountering or not encountering a dragonfly.
- People at risk of owning a Game Tank.
- Broadly appealing messages sent out to farm likes.
- The psychological cost of having 20,000 people following you.
- Choosing your Mastodon instance based on what domain name William Gibson thought was funny.
- The Mazzy Star song that's on the Batman Forever soundtrack.
- iPod shuffles always insisting you're not pregnant no matter how much you pee on them.
- Ephemeral preservation of a time in your life.
- A biological weapon that removes your ability to perceive music as music.
- You die young, or you live long enough to see Nine Inch Nails become dad rock.
- Music Inspired by the Soundtrack.
- Putting your MP3 collection on striped RAID arrays for the benefit of future archaeologists.