• Kevin
  
• Nicholas

Topics:

• Mina the Hollower, game learning/difficulty curves adjusting challenge through options/modifiers
  
• Not having a day job any more, the blank page creative block is real. How do i come up with ideas if I don't hate my day job
  
• Arcade 1 Up
  
• "Hail, Poetry," from The Pirates of Penzance, by W.S. Gilbert
  
  • https://karenspoetryspot.blogspot.com/2007/11/hail-poetry-by-ws-gilbert.html
    
• Wanting to make better food at home BUT within the unique constraints of cooking at home, budget, time, specialised equipment.
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXy12xVnRs
    
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38nrUFFpaw

Microtopics:

• The only show on the Internet where topics are discussed.
  
• You Are Light.
  
• Working with Planetaria.
  
• The Game Club.
  
• A way to curate and discuss games.
  
• Steam reviews that don't count.
  
• Completely giving up on tuning your game's difficulty curve and just dropping the tuning parameters in the player's lap.
  
• Normie focus testing.
  
• Putting the half damage option in the gameplay settings and then putting the no damage option in the accessibility settings.
  
• Whether it's still crunch if you're doing it to yourself.
  
• Invalidating achievements when the player uses the accessibility options because you still think of them as cheats and want the player to think of them as cheats even as you call them accessibility options.
  
• Throwing poop over the wall until the boss dies.
  
• Needing a big brother to hand your controller to to play the hard parts.
  
• Making all your best prototypes when you're unhappy at your job.
  
• Have you heard the good word about PiCoSteveMo?
  
• Coming up with a commercially viable prototype ASAP.
  
• Making the first thing that comes to mind as quickly as possible and then throwing it away immediately.
  
• Becoming a postie so you finally have a day job to hate.
  
• Quote-unquote living the dream
  
• Why you only get one life in Canabalt.
  
• Kids looking at Las Vegas and thinking it looks like bullshit for old people but they still like the feeling of gambling so the play a lot of Binding of Isaac instead.
  
• Opening up Pokemon cards packs on Twitch.
  
• Opening the pack of Magic cards because you want to feel that rush but you feel nothing because you don't play Magic and don't know what cards are good.
  
• Looking for the Magic cards with the coolest quotes on them.
  
• Installing a Pac-Man cabinet to liven up your living room's aesthetics.
  
• An arcade cabinet that has no controls, it just cycles through the attract modes of various arcade games.
  
• Why you want the arcade cabinet to be taller than you are.
  
• Putting a tablecloth over the cocktail arcade cabinet when you have your fancy guests over but it keeps making the weird noises so they're like "what's going on down there??"
  
• Topic Lords off-season attract mode game jam.
  
• Creepypasta attract modes.
  
• The four player Avengers arcade game where the attract mode was just the entire running time of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
  
• The Minecraft Dungeons arcade machine.
  
• Arcade games extruding collectible hero cards.
  
• The F-Zero arcade game that you can put your GameCube memory card into to unlock exclusive levels.
  
• Zoomers no longer having access to video games because legally they're considered "experiences."
  
• Gilbert and Sullivan.
  
• Divine Emollient: it's life's moisturizer.
  
• Stopping what you're doing to go listen to Pirates of Penzance.
  
• Kevin Kline as the Pirate King.
  
• Constant emollients on hand.
  
• Poetry getting down on one knee and proposing to you.
  
• The state of musical theater in the late 1800s.
  
• Contexts in which you hear about flowing founts.
  
• Poetry's ability to make you want to moisturize.
  
• Being into cooking but everyone else suddenly getting way more into cooking.
  
• The Mr. Beastification of food Youtube.
  
• Using broth from concentrate and it's fine because you don't know any better.
  
• Finding new vegetables and trying to figure out how to cook them.
  
• Whole spices vs. pre-ground spices.
  
• Team Less Time.
  
• Why you keep hearing exhortations not to deep fry a turkey.
  
• Deep frying gnocchi.
  
• Slapped silly by the Fondue Vortex.
  
• Which family gets the onion bloomer this week and is eating nothing but blooming onions all week.
  
• Relative onion size on different continents.
  
• WoW Classic but for fast food.

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• Ben
• Nicholas

Topics:

• Let me describe to you the Australian treats I sent my Canadian friend
• The UX of live sport is terrible
• Game jam idea!
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play
• I Continue to Dream, by Langston Hughes
  • https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-13632
• Being overly patriotic and repping the national identity but only when around foreigners, is this something everyone does or just aussies?

Microtopics:

• Projects that you can't talk about yet
• Telling a joke for international joke day.
• A very busy day for Australians.
• Sending 3 kilos of lollies to your co-worker in Canada.
• It's the way it shatters that matters.
• Cherry Ripes.
• The thinking man's candy.
• Chicken Crimpy.
• A biscuit inspired by Golden Gaytime.
• "It's hard to have a Gaytime on your own."
• Renaming chocolate jelly babies to be less racist.
• A real enthusiasm for desiccated coconut.
• Butter chicken parmigiana.
• P burger candy.
• Whether kangaroos are hunted or farmed.
• Whether kangaroos are the same size as the kangaroo fruit.
• The waiter in Japan staring at you until you eat the single slice of kiwi.
• The official ranking of fruit prestige in Japan, with melon only being bested by keys and Galaga ships.
• How many footballs they have in Australia. (At least three, maybe six.)
• A sport where nobody can tell when somebody has scored so the whole audience is constantly on edge.
• The theme song for the guy coming up to bat.
• Booing when your team scores, because they didn't score more.
• Whether Eurovision is better when you're not in Europe.
• Correlating sports with Eurovision.
• A little song and dance that's definitely not political.
• XFL camera operators running around on the field.
• Improving sports broadcasts with drone cameras.
• A comprehensive list of games that are causes for negligence.
• Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows (or the same games played in the sky).
• Avoiding the line to be avoided.
• Making a mark on a wall and deciding if it looks like an elephant.
• There's no throwing, Buddha! This is not a cause for negligence.
• How the Buddha feels about the Mersenne Twister.
• An abacus except it's a roller coaster track.
• Tracing letters in the air or on a friend's back.
• Even more games Buddha would not play.
• The minigame from the beginning of Mario 64 where you stretch out his eyes.
• What Shall it Be?
• In this game you are the video game and you are the one being played.
• A video game adaptation of the less half fun of Pictionary.
• Kinect Charades.
• Using the Kinect voice to say "it's goat!"
• It turns out Molyneux was wearing the business all along.
• Turning your dream into art. Like a video game! Or something more artistic.
• Dubbing your podcast onto cassette tape and calling it an Audio Zine.
• The Creative Labs Creative Zen.
• Setting up your sound card and hearing digitized speech in Leisure Suit Larry.
• Fond memories of listening to digital audio on your Creative Labs Sound Blaster.
• Dr. Sbaitso and Dr. Sbaitso imitators.
• What you do when your dad isn't around to help you boot up Red Alert.
• An FMV adventure game set in Germany.
• The Red Alert installation experience.
• Tim Curry giving his all in the Red Alert FMV cutscenes.
• An oral history of Tim Curry's escape into the one place uncorrupted by capitalism.
• Enjoying the Aboriginal Sauce at Outback Steakhouse.
• Australians explaining that America also started as a prison colony
• Hamilton didn't talk about this!
• The Simpsons writing room discovering the Coriolis effect and realizing that they need to tell the world so it's lucky that anything they write will be broadcast on national television and on streaming services for decades to come.
• Everyone in your age bracket having the first ten seasons of the Simpsons memorized.
• Finding Frinkiac, analogous to discovering a new Blender plug-in.
• Lying on the couch and taking a photo of the TV.
• Having a mobile game and sending the APK to anyone who asks nicely.

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