web01.fireside.fm Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:50:55 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Pancelor” https://topiclords.com/tags/pancelor Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. en-us episodic The only place on the internet you can hear topics discussed! Jim Stormdancer Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. yes Jim Stormdancer jim@goombas.org 295. Fantasy Malware https://topiclords.com/fantasy-malware 3f54f77d-5f7b-4fcc-88d4-54c1f045eff3 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Andrew and Andrew. We discuss finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years, PICO-8 screen carts, Picotron viruses, and Quest by kittenmaster. 1:04:47 yes Lords: * Andrew * Andrew Topics: * Finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years * PICO-8 screen carts * Picotron Viruses * Quest by kittenmaster * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png Microtopics: * Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI. * The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen. * Make 10 Deluxe. * Double Mustache's Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples. * Lizard Multiplication Tables. * Total Toads. * Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum. * Children's Allegra, on Nick, Jr. * Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world. * Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle. * Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that's nowhere near shipping. * Using the lessons you've learned making small games to make a bigger game. * Making an N64 game for modern PCs. * Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story. * 3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass. * What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart. * Getting Keys in Rush 2. * How to collect keys in the middle of the air. * Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers. * Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets. * Arcade games with a save system. * Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system. * Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game. * Looking at Picotron and thinking "I don't have time to draw that many pixels." * The Tweet Jam Andrews. * Is this really that interesting, Andrew? * Foreshadowing the poem. * How much game can you fit on one screen? * Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters. * Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think. * Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen. * Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all. * STDIO jam. * Dig World and Dig World Realms. * Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text. * Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in. * Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers. * The people who memorize the eye exam chart. * Rotting ROT13 a different amount. * Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security. * Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions. * Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing. * How beginners expect game programming to work. * Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen. * A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons. * Turning off networking features for individual programs. * Writing a keylogger to read people's email and it turns out people's email is incredibly boring. * Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key. * Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it. * The first S is for Secure. * Screen carts vs. tweet carts. * Colon colon home colon colon. * Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.) * The new default Pico-8 code editor background color. * Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back. * Alfonzo's Bowling Challengs. * Unlocking HD streaming at level 2. Lords:

  • Andrew
  • Andrew

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.
  • The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen.
  • Make 10 Deluxe.
  • Double Mustache's Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples.
  • Lizard Multiplication Tables.
  • Total Toads.
  • Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum.
  • Children's Allegra, on Nick, Jr.
  • Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world.
  • Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle.
  • Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that's nowhere near shipping.
  • Using the lessons you've learned making small games to make a bigger game.
  • Making an N64 game for modern PCs.
  • Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story.
  • 3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass.
  • What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart.
  • Getting Keys in Rush 2.
  • How to collect keys in the middle of the air.
  • Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers.
  • Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets.
  • Arcade games with a save system.
  • Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system.
  • Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game.
  • Looking at Picotron and thinking "I don't have time to draw that many pixels."
  • The Tweet Jam Andrews.
  • Is this really that interesting, Andrew?
  • Foreshadowing the poem.
  • How much game can you fit on one screen?
  • Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters.
  • Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think.
  • Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen.
  • Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all.
  • STDIO jam.
  • Dig World and Dig World Realms.
  • Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text.
  • Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in.
  • Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers.
  • The people who memorize the eye exam chart.
  • Rotting ROT13 a different amount.
  • Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security.
  • Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions.
  • Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing.
  • How beginners expect game programming to work.
  • Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen.
  • A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons.
  • Turning off networking features for individual programs.
  • Writing a keylogger to read people's email and it turns out people's email is incredibly boring.
  • Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key.
  • Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it.
  • The first S is for Secure.
  • Screen carts vs. tweet carts.
  • Colon colon home colon colon.
  • Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.)
  • The new default Pico-8 code editor background color.
  • Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back.
  • Alfonzo's Bowling Challengs.
  • Unlocking HD streaming at level 2.

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  • Andrew
  • Andrew

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.
  • The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen.
  • Make 10 Deluxe.
  • Double Mustache's Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples.
  • Lizard Multiplication Tables.
  • Total Toads.
  • Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum.
  • Children's Allegra, on Nick, Jr.
  • Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world.
  • Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle.
  • Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that's nowhere near shipping.
  • Using the lessons you've learned making small games to make a bigger game.
  • Making an N64 game for modern PCs.
  • Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story.
  • 3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass.
  • What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart.
  • Getting Keys in Rush 2.
  • How to collect keys in the middle of the air.
  • Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers.
  • Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets.
  • Arcade games with a save system.
  • Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system.
  • Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game.
  • Looking at Picotron and thinking "I don't have time to draw that many pixels."
  • The Tweet Jam Andrews.
  • Is this really that interesting, Andrew?
  • Foreshadowing the poem.
  • How much game can you fit on one screen?
  • Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters.
  • Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think.
  • Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen.
  • Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all.
  • STDIO jam.
  • Dig World and Dig World Realms.
  • Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text.
  • Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in.
  • Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers.
  • The people who memorize the eye exam chart.
  • Rotting ROT13 a different amount.
  • Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security.
  • Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions.
  • Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing.
  • How beginners expect game programming to work.
  • Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen.
  • A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons.
  • Turning off networking features for individual programs.
  • Writing a keylogger to read people's email and it turns out people's email is incredibly boring.
  • Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key.
  • Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it.
  • The first S is for Secure.
  • Screen carts vs. tweet carts.
  • Colon colon home colon colon.
  • Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.)
  • The new default Pico-8 code editor background color.
  • Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back.
  • Alfonzo's Bowling Challengs.
  • Unlocking HD streaming at level 2.

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]]> 287. Drive It Like You Hate It https://topiclords.com/drive-it-like-you-hate-it f8b9b522-5f29-450a-80f7-3baa72155c66 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Ben and Andrew. We discuss Super Nintendo World's theming, the ABCs of Style - A Guide to Plain English, renting game consoles, Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku, and pixel art impressionism. 1:03:32 yes Lords: * Ben * Andrew Topics: * Super Nintendo World's theming is on point * The ABC of Style - A Guide to Plain English (book) * Can you still rent game consoles? * Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku * https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm * https://itch.io/jam/variety-megajam-2022/topic/2514101/2nd-poem- * Pixel art impressionism * https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1801616946837823790 Microtopics: * The games you should've bought when the Steam Spring Sale was still going. * Citizen Sleeper 2. * Being excited about a new project until you landlord tells you to move out. * Real-life POW blocks. * Timing your punch so that the shell pops out. * The park employees doing their best to ameliorate the bad game design of the theme park. * Rushing to hit the snooze button so the piranha plant doesn't wake up. * A plant that's not quite as big as Audrey II. * Buying the wrist band so that you can punch blocks to get coins and find all the KONG letters. * Using your shadow to interact with a video game. * Running from the park entrance to your favorite ride right when the park opens and there's already a two hour line. * A picture that you took with your camera and somehow they made reality look cel shaded. * Super Mushroom Croutons. * Clipping the AR goggles into the Mario hat. * No matter where you look, stuff is happening all the time. * Whether kids in Japan handle failure better than kids in California. * A phone booth, except it exists. * A book about pedantry. * When to use difference vs. discrepancy. * Reading text aloud but internalizing it not at all. * The model of the mind where you are a passive observer sitting in the backseat thinking about pancakes while the driver is doing all the thinking and acting. * Whether the person who struggles to read gets more out of the text than the person who reads effortlessly, because they're spending more time on it * Two full pages about "like." * Faces similar to faces you've never seen before. * Drive it like you hate it vs. drive it as if you hate it. * Utilizing a big word. * Phrasing something in an awkward way for entertainment purposes. * One of the more expensive things you can rent. * Being able to afford all the games that you want. (Not that many game consoles.) * Naughty Dog remaking The Last of Us for the third time. * Sending an assassin to the Second to Last Blockbuster. * Not knowing how a certain business works because you refuse to give them your social security number. * Digitally renting a PS5. (It has fingers.) * Putting stickers on your toilet claiming that it's an Xbox. * Building a Mario Kart course into your house. * Sharing your cool social security number. * Pronouncing Japanese like someone who is covered in tattoos of Pokemon. * Frog-jump-in Water-sound. * Pond. Frog. Plop. * Localizing a Japanese poem into sculpture. * What is art? What is anything? * Looking at a pixel art face and thinking "whoa, what's going on with that guy?" * Pixel art being able to represent detail at a certain scale, but only if it aligns with the directionality of the grid. * Trying to represent a cartoon world realistically. * Walking into a dungeon and being surrounded by statues that look like sentries. * Recognizing a blob of pixels as representing the idea of a decoration and never thinking about it again. * Fan art of Dr. Robotnik's niece. * High color, high detail, low resolution. * Weird rendering techniques that are texture mapping adjacent. * Line Cook. * A blue lid that feels sort of mayo. * Only realizing late in life that three lines makes a ladder. * The main places that you don't post. Lords:

  • Ben
  • Andrew

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The games you should've bought when the Steam Spring Sale was still going.
  • Citizen Sleeper 2.
  • Being excited about a new project until you landlord tells you to move out.
  • Real-life POW blocks.
  • Timing your punch so that the shell pops out.
  • The park employees doing their best to ameliorate the bad game design of the theme park.
  • Rushing to hit the snooze button so the piranha plant doesn't wake up.
  • A plant that's not quite as big as Audrey II.
  • Buying the wrist band so that you can punch blocks to get coins and find all the KONG letters.
  • Using your shadow to interact with a video game.
  • Running from the park entrance to your favorite ride right when the park opens and there's already a two hour line.
  • A picture that you took with your camera and somehow they made reality look cel shaded.
  • Super Mushroom Croutons.
  • Clipping the AR goggles into the Mario hat.
  • No matter where you look, stuff is happening all the time.
  • Whether kids in Japan handle failure better than kids in California.
  • A phone booth, except it exists.
  • A book about pedantry.
  • When to use difference vs. discrepancy.
  • Reading text aloud but internalizing it not at all.
  • The model of the mind where you are a passive observer sitting in the backseat thinking about pancakes while the driver is doing all the thinking and acting.
  • Whether the person who struggles to read gets more out of the text than the person who reads effortlessly, because they're spending more time on it
  • Two full pages about "like."
  • Faces similar to faces you've never seen before.
  • Drive it like you hate it vs. drive it as if you hate it.
  • Utilizing a big word.
  • Phrasing something in an awkward way for entertainment purposes.
  • One of the more expensive things you can rent.
  • Being able to afford all the games that you want. (Not that many game consoles.)
  • Naughty Dog remaking The Last of Us for the third time.
  • Sending an assassin to the Second to Last Blockbuster.
  • Not knowing how a certain business works because you refuse to give them your social security number.
  • Digitally renting a PS5. (It has fingers.)
  • Putting stickers on your toilet claiming that it's an Xbox.
  • Building a Mario Kart course into your house.
  • Sharing your cool social security number.
  • Pronouncing Japanese like someone who is covered in tattoos of Pokemon.
  • Frog-jump-in Water-sound.
  • Pond. Frog. Plop.
  • Localizing a Japanese poem into sculpture.
  • What is art? What is anything?
  • Looking at a pixel art face and thinking "whoa, what's going on with that guy?"
  • Pixel art being able to represent detail at a certain scale, but only if it aligns with the directionality of the grid.
  • Trying to represent a cartoon world realistically.
  • Walking into a dungeon and being surrounded by statues that look like sentries.
  • Recognizing a blob of pixels as representing the idea of a decoration and never thinking about it again.
  • Fan art of Dr. Robotnik's niece.
  • High color, high detail, low resolution.
  • Weird rendering techniques that are texture mapping adjacent.
  • Line Cook.
  • A blue lid that feels sort of mayo.
  • Only realizing late in life that three lines makes a ladder.
  • The main places that you don't post.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

  • Ben
  • Andrew

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The games you should've bought when the Steam Spring Sale was still going.
  • Citizen Sleeper 2.
  • Being excited about a new project until you landlord tells you to move out.
  • Real-life POW blocks.
  • Timing your punch so that the shell pops out.
  • The park employees doing their best to ameliorate the bad game design of the theme park.
  • Rushing to hit the snooze button so the piranha plant doesn't wake up.
  • A plant that's not quite as big as Audrey II.
  • Buying the wrist band so that you can punch blocks to get coins and find all the KONG letters.
  • Using your shadow to interact with a video game.
  • Running from the park entrance to your favorite ride right when the park opens and there's already a two hour line.
  • A picture that you took with your camera and somehow they made reality look cel shaded.
  • Super Mushroom Croutons.
  • Clipping the AR goggles into the Mario hat.
  • No matter where you look, stuff is happening all the time.
  • Whether kids in Japan handle failure better than kids in California.
  • A phone booth, except it exists.
  • A book about pedantry.
  • When to use difference vs. discrepancy.
  • Reading text aloud but internalizing it not at all.
  • The model of the mind where you are a passive observer sitting in the backseat thinking about pancakes while the driver is doing all the thinking and acting.
  • Whether the person who struggles to read gets more out of the text than the person who reads effortlessly, because they're spending more time on it
  • Two full pages about "like."
  • Faces similar to faces you've never seen before.
  • Drive it like you hate it vs. drive it as if you hate it.
  • Utilizing a big word.
  • Phrasing something in an awkward way for entertainment purposes.
  • One of the more expensive things you can rent.
  • Being able to afford all the games that you want. (Not that many game consoles.)
  • Naughty Dog remaking The Last of Us for the third time.
  • Sending an assassin to the Second to Last Blockbuster.
  • Not knowing how a certain business works because you refuse to give them your social security number.
  • Digitally renting a PS5. (It has fingers.)
  • Putting stickers on your toilet claiming that it's an Xbox.
  • Building a Mario Kart course into your house.
  • Sharing your cool social security number.
  • Pronouncing Japanese like someone who is covered in tattoos of Pokemon.
  • Frog-jump-in Water-sound.
  • Pond. Frog. Plop.
  • Localizing a Japanese poem into sculpture.
  • What is art? What is anything?
  • Looking at a pixel art face and thinking "whoa, what's going on with that guy?"
  • Pixel art being able to represent detail at a certain scale, but only if it aligns with the directionality of the grid.
  • Trying to represent a cartoon world realistically.
  • Walking into a dungeon and being surrounded by statues that look like sentries.
  • Recognizing a blob of pixels as representing the idea of a decoration and never thinking about it again.
  • Fan art of Dr. Robotnik's niece.
  • High color, high detail, low resolution.
  • Weird rendering techniques that are texture mapping adjacent.
  • Line Cook.
  • A blue lid that feels sort of mayo.
  • Only realizing late in life that three lines makes a ladder.
  • The main places that you don't post.

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