203. Only Girls Get Duck Combs For Christmas

Lords:

• CisHetKayFaber
• Phone

Topics:

• Correction regarding a previous topic where I stated that Metal Gear Solid 2 was the most important game of 2023
  • https://twitter.com/othatsraspberry
• Children cannot be trusted to enjoy things, and maybe that's fine
• This list of extremely specific danger signs
  • https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/720069329613357056
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Tkr719yF.jpg
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/9unswnr6.jpg
• "Bank Account" by Louis Cole
  • https://genius.com/Louis-cole-bank-account-lyrics
• Technical beliefs you have which may be regarded as superstition, but are true to your experience (I'm convinced my new microphone is worse)

Microtopics:

• The part where Jim talks.
• Splitting your mutuals.
• The kind of person who goes to Bluesky vs. who goes to Mastodon.
• A relationship with an editor. (Like Emacs.) (Or Vim)
• Wanting to see what Shaq posts.
• The human zoo of bad takes.
• Who sent Shaq a Bluesky invite??
• O' That's Raspberry
• Metal Gear Apologies.
• Sending Konami money to fund the port of Metal Gear Solid 4.
• Optimizing for extremely specific hardware and getting entrenched.
• Shaders languishing on PS3.
• PT's final resting place.
• Konami diversifying into video games in the 80s when it's lucrative and dediversifying when it stops being as lucrative in the 2010s
• A lot of weird business practices involving Slurpees and banking
• All the places the Vita port of Metal Gear Solid 2 went on to.
• The Worlds of Power novelization of Metal Gear.
• A Narpas Sword scenario.
• Cutscene inflation.
• What happened to cutscene lengths after voice acting became cheap.
• Encoding movies on a disc for free.
• Time to Crate vs. Time to When Your Input Matters.
• Ramen waterslides.
• Annoying things that little kids do that adults also do.
• Playing video games and parenting at the same time.
• Whether it's still abuse if it's happening in the Netherlands.
• Expectations people place on their children for Christmas vs. for Halloween.
• Distorted beer.
• Getting a bunch of stuff you don't want for Christmas.
• A sweater with Mario or a cool dinosaur on it.
• Swapping the Barbie and GI Joe voice boxes and whether that's a plot point of the Barbie movie.
• Chewbacca dancing on top of the twin towers as they collapse.
• Taking wire cutters to the electrical substation and getting some free copper.
• I don't feel 130 kilovolts; I'm a perfect sphere.
• Creating a situation where people are safe even if they're not paying attention.
• Flying around in a tornado googling "what do you do when you're flying around in a tornado"
• Is it .webm or .webnn?
• All the three letter acronyms that ought to be on the internet rug you can't get.
• The giant System 7 floppy disk blanket.
• A blanket with the Mac startup sound on it.
• Missing out on some drum solos.
• A poem based on a true story.
• Being afraid to look at your tax returns.
• Getting single taxed and double social security benefits.
• Replacing your old snowball with a new snowball.
• Your thing as a person trained in audio engineering.
• Getting a very insensitive microphone so that it only picks up the sounds you want it to.
• Jim's advice for recording your voice.
• A Shure SM-57B with the Cloudlifter.
• Technical knowledge for smart people.
• Solid state drives failing without warning.
• A high pitched whine imparting a natural warmth to your voice.
• Recording your voice with a $15 boom arm.
• Using shittier tools as you get more experienced.
• A cover of a Weezer song that's rendered unlistenable hematite l because of the string squeak.
• The inability to process and retain information about LinkedIn's purpose.