210. Good Ideas For Sam Barlow

Lords:

• Andrew
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658150/Moonstone_Island/
• Kate
  • https://tunicgame.com/

Topics:

• British food is good, actually
• Really enjoying programming in MonoGame (and stop motion animation)
• Lightswitch abstraction limit
• Un petit d'un petit
• The Old Timey Computer Show
• Trying to get your friends to play a game that sucks to learn
• Winston has discovered that the ending of a story is usually the most exciting part, so he doesn't want to watch whole movies any more, just the last twenty minutes of each

Microtopics:

• Moonstone Island.
• A tiny fox in a big world.
• Cherry blues.
• Something within your culture that is awful and bad.
• Whatever can grow in the wet and dark. (Potatoes.)
• Cool Whip based salads.
• Yorkshire pudding. (The fluffy one.)
• The non-spicy gravies.
• J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's roast potato recipe.
• Lamb going with mint and pork going with applesauce.
• How to eat Vegemite or Marmite.
• A man at the end of the table whose entire job is to carve meat for you.
• A place to take your picky grandma to eat.
• Bodega cats and bodega kids.
• Doing stop motion animation as a goof.
• The fun part of Dunning Krueger.
• Doing a magic trick without knowing how the trick works and amazing yourself.
• Leaning into the good times.
• Accidentally getting good at an employable skill.
• Flailing at the wall until the light switches are in the right position.
• Off: just a different kind of on.
• Doing your first pull request.
• The fountain pen of the version control ecology.
• Getting a bunch of little plant men to turn the lights on and off for me.
• Poetry written in nonsensical French that is homophonic with English nursery rhymes.
• An entire book for a very specific kind of nerd to have a sensible chuckle.
• Allowing yourself one E, as a mistake.
• A joke written back when people knew what am omnibus was.
• Vintages footage from 1980s computer shows.
• Dousing CD-Rs.
• The Free Cake and Donuts Half-Hour.
• Getting as many 35+ computer dorks as you can under a box before you pull the string.
• Making two children fight each other on the British equivalent of Crash Bandicoot.
• A policeman on a unicycle.
• The imagined experience of programming the ZX Spectrum.
• The other Cambridge.
• Mac PCs.
• The Oliver Twins.
• Turning on all the shaders to make your programmer art look good.
• Finding three extra Dizzy games in the attic.
• Trying to tell your friends about a family tradition and while you're telling them you realize how messed up it is.
• A pile of 500 cards that should really be a computer game instead.
• A rule where every time you play a card you have to sigh a little bit.
• A game where you torture your friends.
• A food with the letter E in it.
• Trying to have fun despite your friend who is making you play the game.
• Have you guys heard about conclusions?
• A bunch of stuff happening and then there's a riddle.
• The Go Left Problem.
• When games have secrets.
• Pushing at the edges of a game and the game pops up a dialog saying "I noticed you pushing at my edges."
• A password named "Susan."
• A DVD where every interface to start the movie starts it at chapter 2 and chapter 1 is a secret.
• Reading just the last word of a book.
• Watching the first episode and the last episode of a sitcom and trying to guess which actors missing from the last episode died and which went to prison.
• How to find your Mastodon name.