293. Pasting The Sickos Face Back And Forth Forever

Lords:

• Kory
• Andy

Topics:

• Whim-based coding
• How do you make and maintain a buddy on the Internet?
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKRFd4J_1w
• That oscilloscope demo
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8CzrPG9S0U&
• Peripheriques Like Halos, by Robert Montgomery
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/fmr9gsma.jpg
  • https://globalizationofcalifornia.com/alameda-county-i-580-political-signs-spark-free-speech-fight/
• Enhancing a party with a bespoke bar menu.
• Creating a threatening windows batch file and leaving it on the desktop to frighten an application into not crashing

Microtopics:

• Kbones.
• When was the last time you invested in yourself?
• Getting FM to sound like anything except a bell.
• The American Psycho meme of FM syntheses.
• A griminess level somewhere between Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3.
• The Yamaha DX7 presets.
• An aggressively nonlinear approach to productivity.
• Doing board game AI until it becomes boring and then moving on to something else
• A lifelong ADHD enjoyer.
• Trying to explain "burndown rate" without knowing the term burndown rate or what burndown rate is.
• Getting ideas out of your brain so it can think about something else for a while.
• Games that you aren't allowed to play for fun.
• The M stands for Money.
• Whim-based topics.
• Segue-free zones.
• Essness and Snez.
• Maintaining friendships via custom chat stickers.
• Stickers you use in your daily life.
• Discord For Andy.
• Anonymous inscrutable pixel faces.
• A sticker of Princess Rosaline shrugging with the text "Skill Issue?"
• The rich ecology of daily Garfield recap podcasts.
• Conflating RJ-45 and RJ-11.
• Which One's The Astromech??
• Two superpowers at one.
• How to win the Frog Fractions ARG.
• Classic Raster Bars.
• Reading a 40k stream of consciousness essay scrolling by the bottom of the screen in a pixelated font
• Scrubbing right to Cronologia.
• Doing surgery on the topic bucket right now.
• That Oscilloscope Demo.
• Converting your laptop into tent mode.
• Zamboni Mayhem.
• Running a video signal through a reverb pedal.
• Stereo oscilloscopes.
• Pringle of Scotland: once you pop, you can't stop.
• A picture of a wall with a bunch of balloon letters spelling out a phrase.
• Non-elected councils called ABAG and ICLEI.
• A weird thing that's been kind of near you your whole life.
• The final Neon Genesis Evangelization 3.0+1.0 movie.
• A gripe session with themed cocktails.
• Continuing to think of puns and refusing to pass any of them up.
• Taking a Negroni and calling it LCL.
• A 55 gallon drum of Tom Collins with a valve on it.
• Walking by the booze aisle and everything looks delicious. (Even though it's not.)
• Everyone's favorite topic.
• Waving a .bat around to make your computer behave.
• Sorry about your synapses!
• An angry phone call from your mom circa 1995.
• Telling the sand how to think and making the little guy run around.
• Writing a bad song and immediately sending it to all your friends.
• Pivoting to pay-per-reload.
• Discovering what the requirements are as you discover the game you are making.
• Crashing Pico-8 so hard that it reverts to Japanese.