274. Samuel Beckett's Animal Crossing Letters

Lords:

• John
  • https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cutie-christmas
• Elena

Topics:

• Potluck advent calendar
• NES games in my collection that are currently ranked rather low according to Science
  • http://8bitnintendo.science
  • Subtopic: I've grown to love engaging with criticism and differing opinions of silly things I like.
• How animals read
  • https://jamchamb.net/projects/animal-crossing-letters
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy-kIXzX5Cc
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlpWJ80d_Y
• https://ailbey.tumblr.com/post/750880084257374208
  • https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Wrinkles-Drapery-Solutions-Drawing/dp/0823015874
  • https://www.drawright.com/
  • https://www.amazon.com/Colour-Atlas-Human-Anatomy/dp/0723408823

Microtopics:

• Crispy Shrimp Balls.
• What makes it Dim Sum?
• Whether there's always a cart that you roll around.
• Tapas Lords, a new ASMR podcast.
• The Blade of Cutie Pants: a Very Cutie Christmas.
• Christmas Dangerous Dave.
• Here's a song. I'm going to scroll past that.
• Stock footage of Godzilla attacks.
• An album about making games in Kilk n Play.
• Granny Cream's Hot Butter Ice Cream.
• Jim's songs in the Hypnospace OST.
• Knowing a lot of people just by hanging out and being entertaining.
• Recognizing sounds by looking at them.
• Tea and Jam Advent Calendars.
• Tippy Tops.
• 3D-printed animals with wiggly arms.
• Taking the economics of Halloween and applying it to Christmas.
• Stocking Stuffers Every Day.
• 365-day Advent Calendars.
• Santa with a Fanta.
• Showing Home Alone to a kid who already loves setting up traps.
• An Advent Calendar filled with traps.
• Never playing board games but opening up the boxes and playing with the pieces.
• Fake Winstons.
• Getting 2.5 trinkets from each person.
• Half-Lego, Half-Chocolate.
• Why your favorite NES games are terrible.
• Shipping a game that's no good but damned if it doesn't exist.
• A Failure of Science.
• Rare game or Rare game?
• The Treasure Master walk cycle.
• The worst NES games with the best soundtracks.
• British developers succeeding on the Commodore 64 but failing on the NES because people are willing to pay 6 quid for the latest Rob Hubbard track, but not $50.
• Your neighbor who had Big Nose Freaks Out.
• Punching the clues.
• Buying the 3D version of Urban Champion on purpose.
• Trying to go back to Super Monkey Ball.
• Nostalgically revisiting your best Super Monkey Ball replays.
• Accidentally transposing two digits and now you have a Super Monkey Ball world record.
• Making local copies of videos you want to continue to exist.
• Recognizing when something works for someone else but not you.
• Writing letters to your animal neighbors.
• The seven criteria to judge a letter.
• How to safely write a letter about VVVVVV to your Animal Crossing neighbor.
• Roleplaying James Joyce in Animal Crossing.
• Teaching Animal Crossing a slur and then returning the cartridge to Gamestop.
• Deciding that it's okay if local news stations freak out.
• Taking joy in extremely mundane activities.
• How you spend your moments and how you feel about them.
• Watching TV so that in several decades you can go to a bar and find out who's the same age as you.
• Practicing love by trying to love yourself.
• The breakup song from the Wedding Singer.
• Corollaries of aphantasia.
• Blind people watching TV.
• Learning to draw by studying human anatomy and proportions in detail and imagining the body kinesthetics.
• Looney Tunes artists making faces in the mirror.
• Knowing how bones go.
• The Bone Book.
• That's Topics!