• Jeff
  • https://dopeassvideogames.com/
• Danny
  • https://www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs

Topics:

• What's happening on Bluesky.
• Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived
• Dad talk: what do we do about porn?

Microtopics:

• The Good Morning America series finale.
• Covering video games online.
• Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites.
• Nintendo Disasters.
• Reviewing every individual version of FIFA 2011.
• The Sega Master System catalog.
• Choosing not to do something because someone else has done it before.
• A Weird Slop of People.
• The CD-32 version of Alfred Chicken.
• The Noclip documentary about PiCoSteveMo.
• Blood and Fear and Nolf and Shogo and Condemned.
• A hardware Pico-8 solution.
• Explaining how to and how not to reply.
• Enjoying social media because you need a place to type your garbage.
• An Eternal September Situation.
• Repeating Daily Show jokes from five years ago.
• An oral history of Bluesky users.
• Jimmy Fallon posting a picture of himself holding a Nintendo Switch.
• The Ford vs. Chevy argument over and over again until we're all dead.
• Laying your employees off based on their Klout scores.
• What aspects of social media you can leave behind once you get a goat farm.
• Having goats and not even posting pictures of them.
• Goats as a gateway drug to other ungulates.
• Did I get drunk and order 20 snakes again?
• Boxcars: Where the Hobos Go.
• Jumping in a train car full of refined materials.
• Reminiscing about the time you lived in London and remembering everything that sucks about living in London.
• A warped melting representation of your childhood memories.
• An emotional VR moment.
• Floating in space and hearing a cacophony of national anthems screaming up at you.
• That time they added your uncle's farm to Google Street View.
• Looking back on previous eras of your life and remembering why you don't want that kind of life any more.
• The guy you know who mined bitcoins on his CPU and then spent it on black market Provigil.
• Why do something that's going to make money when you can do ridiculous bullshit instead?
• Three year olds who know how to use a remote control.
• Areas of human interaction that you are just not prepared for.
• Just putting your Zip disk in the file server and grabbing whatever's there.
• What kind of porn the owner of the video rental place is personally obsessed with.
• Why do you never see porn scored with tracker music?
• Deep appreciation of porn that is made for somebody else
• Beavis and Butthead trading cards.
• Scintillating pizza delivery.
• Explaining to your child that porn is fictional, not a documentary, and leaving it at that.
• Your daughter asking you questions about Sonic the Hedgehog that you're not prepared to answer.
• Encountering boys who play Minecraft.
• Deploying new words to the wrong people.
• Laying in bed and cursing at ghosts to calm yourself down.
• An entire generation who goes to the gym and doesn't just watch CKY2K and break things.
• Doing all the drugs so that you can explain what drugs are like to your children.
• Learning how to fall as a child so you can fall safely as an adult.
• Smoking Ice and waking up in San Francisco.
• Pulling over, opening the hood, and punching the engine block over and over.
• A poem that somebody else will read.
• Whether the money has changed the Dwarf Fortress developers.

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• Jeff
  • http://dopeassvideogames.com/
• Tyriq
  • https://fourbitfriday.itch.io/

Topics:

• The shame of not remembering any good jokes for kids and having to write jokes on the spot for impatient children
• What's your favorite genre to consume that you have no interest in making (or think you'd suck at?)
• High Sidin'
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5INAxH1HD7s
• Poetry
  • https://poets.org/poem/poetry
• Every mammal has a fish

Microtopics:

• Line of sight for the fog of war.
• Plugging unplugging.
• How to keep looking at TikTok when your phone is destroyed.
• Telling your kid that Youtube broke.
• Youtube videos that teach your child how to give a thumbs up.
• Having more kids because it pays for itself.
• Why did the princess have no dresses?
• Explaining to a four year old about the $20 Sack Pyramid.
• Weaning yourself off of saying /s by saying "wocka wocka" instead.
• Teaching your kids better standards for comedy.
• Snow White did this and then Belle was there and Ariel was there with her human legs.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but for making pie.
• Looking up knock knock jokes online.
• Your kid finding your secret hoard of popsicle sticks and realizing you didn't just make all those jokes up from your head.
• Things you want to have made but don't want to make
• Trying to surprise yourself with your own level design.
• Wallowing in the stuckness.
• Whether game developers know when they're making a bad game.
• Playtesting the shit out of a game because you enjoy playtesting so much.
• Questionable hip hop.
• Thrashy hyperpop.
• Full-time access to a green screen and what it does to your head.
• Comedy FMV games.
• Making a career out of making bad art except it's funny and having to live with yourself.
• Approachable game projects.
• Pivoting from making an action RPG to making a Vampire Survivors clone in the space of a weekend.
• Making a bunch of efforts and they're all terrible.
• Whispering into a distortion pedal.
• Putting your vocals through a bunch of effects pedals because your lyrics are terrible.
• Enjoying an art creation process until you get too self conscious and ruin it.
• Wallowing in the stuckness.
• Making art and never showing it to anybody.
• A twin stick shooter that's just for me.
• Game Heads.
• Onlookers getting hyphy.
• "Side Show" by 415.
• Back when Oakland was in the 415 area code.
• Turning tight ones.
• Turning brodies in an intersection while commuters look at your 15-inch subwoofers.
• Rogue car events.
• Game: the Games and Music Experience.
• A lowrider with the entirely wrong number of switches.
• Whether Boots Riley and Too Short still live in Oakland.
• Aspirational trailer music choices.
• Car Stealth: drive around a corner and hide.
• Missing Rock Band but not missing it enough to install Fortnite.
• Initiating taunts in Fortnite by strumming the guitar controller.
• The immovable critic twinkling his skin.
• Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.
• Poetry with a diss track vibe to it.
• Good going, dumbass, you got into poetry.
• Whether poetry should rhyme.
• Discriminating against business documents.
• Putting a poem on genius.com and adding a "wocka wocka" annotation after every joke.
• Spending an hour searching for animal names followed by "fish"
• Which fish have the thickest bones?
• Buffalo Fish Wings.
• A fish that is way too big and shaped like the letter D.
• Is Beyonce a Nicki Minaj friends??
• Grandma's big bowl of worsties.
• Energy drinks that make you want to disassemble a clock radio.
• Drinking C4.
• The guy you know who always has at least three Red Bulls on him at all times.
• Bringing home a one-of-a-kind Monet even though you know your roommate is a Monet fiend and will eat it immediately.
• The Master P of devouring Kit Kats.
• The Queen of Bites and Sips.
• Your duty to eat snacks before they go bad.
• Eating one marshmallow right now.
• The shitposty garbage that made Twitter fun.
• Here's some pants pooping jokes, wocka wocka.

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