246. Send An Envelope Of Guacamole For Analysis

Lords:

• Jay
• Alex

Topics:

• Mexican food outside San Diego (Having lived in Colorado, Ohio, and now Melbourne)
• Releasing my first commercial video game
• The being an uncle of camping
• Skyscrapers by Matt Haig
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/QM4hPodE.jpg
• Attempting to preserve 40 years' worth of data

Microtopics:

• A puzzle adventure game starring a ferret.
• DROD-likes.
• Sending an envelope full of guacamole to a food lab so they can tell you a list of ingredients.
• Reaching in the window so you can finally drive a million dollar Porsche.
• Letting the Ewok sit in the driver's seat but not actually letting it drive the car.
• Whether Ewoks get old enough to drive.
• Throw Rock.
• Making a game by first making your own level editor, image editor, audio synthesizer and music composition tools.
• Finding playtesters by letting them come to you.
• An eyeball that charges a laser when you step in front of it.
• Deliberately optimizing your game to take up as little disk space as possible.
• A project that starts moving much faster when you figure out what kind of project it should be.
• Writing a 3D modeler so that you can get your 2D game on Steam.
• Working with a professional artist.
• Rendering fur.
• Games with turns that represent less than a second of in-game time.
• The mind-feel of a turn length.
• A game that was so good that the developers went back decades later to make it playable.
• The Mud and the Slime.
• How to play DROD without any roach timers.
• Which DROD is the best one to start with.
• Sokoban with swordplay.
• The level in King Dugan's Dungeon that's nothing but roach queens.
• Optimizing your sword movements well enough that you can move forward while fighting.
• Puzzles that are just hard enough to engage your mind while you do something else.
• Visiting someone who is camping and then going home to sleep in your own bed.
• Building a fire and making s'mores in the bathroom.
• Camping expenses.
• Giving gifts to adults who can already buy whatever they want.
• Deliberately choosing a vacation that is especially exhausting.
• Spending two days each visiting seven different family friends.
• Your grandparents taking you camping and they sleep in the RV while you have to sleep in the tent.
• Buying an onion bloomer for $600 and insisting that your family eat a blooming onion every night to justify the purchase.
• Skyscrapers made out of words
• Training yourself to visualize words in the wrong orientation.
• Puzzling out what the title of the poem would've been if the typesetter hadn't messed it up
• Cross-sectional art.
• Poems that are intended to be viewed rather than read aloud.
• Anti-poem poems.
• Every project you've ever worked on (on a computer)
• Good usable archives.
• The unique digital footprint of your life.
• Getting the bits from a SCSI hard drive in an old Mac that doesn't boot up.
• Apple Desktop Bus Connection.
• The miraculous ubiquity and longevity of USB-A.
• Figuring out how to hook up a digital video player that requires a Firewire connection.
• The MacOS resource fork.
• What the .sit and .hqx extensions meant.
• Gamma Zee.
• Using social media to actually do things.