354. Peer-To-Peer Edible Arrangements

Lords:

• Gabe
  
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/4076590/GAARL__Gabes_Action_Arcade_RogueLike/
    
• Andrew
  
  • https://pancelor.com/

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."
    
• 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.