354. Peer-To-Peer Edible Arrangements
August 3rd, 2026
57 mins 25 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Gabe
- Andrew
Topics:
- Building your own synthesizer will not save you any money
- Clipboard proprioception
- The latest podcast description length drama
- Fig, 6. “I I I Strong Stronger Strongest” Braggadocio Rap Rerebrace, by Douglas Kearney
- https://poems.com/poem/fig-6-i-i-i-strong-stronger-strongest-braggadocio-rap-rerebrace/
- Esper says: "Comic lettering is certainly done digitally these days, but there's a lot of traditional and even hybrid lettering too. A whole world out there."
- https://poems.com/poem/fig-6-i-i-i-strong-stronger-strongest-braggadocio-rap-rerebrace/
- Conversations in real life vs. discord
- Having “over a decade of experience in the interior design industry”
Microtopics:
- Gabe's Action Arcade Roguelike.
- Spelunky with less secrets and more upgrades.
- Randomized item behavior.
- Tasteful Pranking.
- Using earbuds as earplugs in a pinch.
- The short but wrong description.
- Timed Mashing Games.
- A building that exists continuously.
- Why would you pay someone else to do something that you can do yourself?
- A 70%-complete noise maker.
- Deliberately building your modular synthesizer to be incompatible with every modular standard so you're not tempted to buy any modules.
- Synthesizers as folk instruments, every one unique and owned by a weird uncle.
- SDL taking your sine wave and making it pretty.
- An online MIDI thing which is pretty annoying.
- Video: it has so much more data than audio.
- How to make your audio engine samples play at the right time.
- Electricity: it just happens.
- Hitting undo on the breadboard when you blow up some capacitors.
- Making a synthesizer by drawing a circuit with a graphite pencil.
- Being old enough to have once seen a PCB that was laid out by hand.
- Having something important in your clipboard and knowing you'd better put it somewhere soon before it's lost.
- Sending files to your phone over the local Wi-Fi.
- Parts of your body you doing trust.
- Prodding the clipboard until it reluctantly copies the text like a surely teenager.
- Emailing support and slowly realizing that support is actually the guy who makes the decisions.
- What life could be like if venture capital didn't exist.
- Putting a warning on the 4001st M&M.
- How to send an edible arrangement without knowing someone's address.
- Inventing something that already exists.
- Inventing a process and thinking "that's too simple to work" but later you find out it does and has a name.
- Getting sick of using a rhyming dictionary to write poems so you just cut and paste a list of rhyming words right into the poem.
- A poem that it feels wrong to read aloud.
- What is a line break but moving to a new place where the next word starts?
- A poem that is approved by the Comics Code Authority.
- How all the comic book letterers came to have the exact same handwriting.
- A word that starts with a through e and ends with song.
- Talking online vs. talking in person.
- Trying to quietly talk to your neighbor in discord voice chat.
- Why Discord doesn't allow you to place voice chats participants in Dolby 7.1 space.
- Tuning your proximity happening settings.
- Three people pairing off and having two conversations at once.
- The next talk show guest coming out and everybody moving one chair over.
- That time Andy Richter tried to have a side conversation with Norm MacDonald while Conan O'Brien was talking to the next guest.
- That thing where two people are hard to tell apart because their voices are similar to each other.
- Your e-commerce platform giving your image a random four digit number.
- Choosing guests based on whose voice compliments yours.
- Being on a weekly video game podcast and realizing you'd better play some goddamn video games this week or you won't have anything to talk about.
- Changing topics when there are three minutes left on the show.
- Trying to finish recording the show when your laptop is at 7% battery life.
- An incredible way to pull rank.
- Telling the airline employee that you work in aerospace and you deserve more leg room.
- Promising your Kickstarter backers to go to Denny's for lunch.
- Bluesky handles that are a palindrome of themselves.