167. Riker's Doing The Biting

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Lords:

• Danny
  • https://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/
• Akash
  • https://www.akashthakkar.com/

Topics:

• 100KHz microphones
• There's an entire town in Alaska that's contained entirely in one building - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/whittier-alaska-american-story/
• Tired: CRT filter in emulated video games. Wired: grainy magazine screenshot filter in emulated video games
• http://folklore.usc.edu/childrens-song-hitler-is-a-jerk/
• Coming back to games months after starting, forgetting what happened, totally forgetting how to play, and never playing again/starting over
• Vampire Survivors genre name

Microtopics:

• Sleeping with 20,000 podcasts.
• Hyper Light Waiter.
• Rift of the Necrodancer.
• Picking up a dog ribcage and the rest of the dog comes with it.
• A cat flowing out of your hands like water.
• Which organ you smell with.
• Dipping your fingies into the chicken vat to refresh the chicken smell.
• Serendipity, providence, kismet, fate: Stormdancing.
• Nyquist vs. Dayquist.
• A big talking world snake named Carlosti, just like in the Edda.
• Pitching a character's voice down four semitones to indicate that they're the bad guy.
• Inventing a sound never heard before.
• Doing a fun click.
• Whether to take Tidal seriously.
• Moving to a town that lives in a shopping mall.
• Snowpiercer but the wheels fell off.
• Signing your kids up for Twitter because they have to learn about death somehow.
• A tiktok sensation dancing with a subway sandwich.
• Visiting the sewage treatment plant next to the Forever 21.
• The only two Invisible War fans in the world, on the same podcast together.
• Crimothy, Jermdom and Frenchalor.
• The Archie Effect.
• A video card that's broken in an extremely specific way.
• Reading a brochure about Super Metroid over and over.
• A controller made of marzipan.
• 2x Sai vs. SuperEagle.
• DLSS but for pixel art.
• Star Wars but every six seconds it's a different director.
• Paying composers to make original music because you enjoy the idea of paying people to do work.
• A poem by Nega-Kanye West.
• The engine that drives the popularity of the "Whistle while you work / Hitler is a jerk" rhyme.
• Bratwurst vs. Vienna Sausage.
• Whether Data has functional genitalia.
• The episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation where Data stars in a porn film in order to better understand that part of the human experience.
• Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X Porn Parody: it's a satire.
• Trying to find the Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X porn parody but all you can find is endless copies of the Babylon 5 porn parody.
• Searching the internet and the universe for an answer.
• Pressing both the sticks in and the sea monkeys come out.
• What's cool about Dark Souls.
• Trying to get your mom to play Skyrim with the Macho Man Randy Savage mod installed.
• Video games: fuck the whole town!
• Game of the Year in the sense of Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
• Roguelikes: they're like Rogue.
• Single-stick shooters.
• The kind of game that a CSI character would play.
• What Fortnite was before it was a PubG clone.
• The extremely bitter blog post about the Edge team giving up and wrapping Chromium.
• Where to play Frog Fractions 4 and 5.
• How to feel about numbers.
• The most expensive Vampire Survivor-likes.
• Where to find Drop 7 2.
• Arcade Paradise.
• Bootleg Fractions.