351. The Flushable Soda Can

Lords:

• Chall
• RT-55J
  • https://samarantes.neocities.org/
  • https://metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?id=878

Topics:

• Remembering the Dynowarz
• Instagram private server, and social media thoughts every Mastodon user had already
• Why don't CPUs do analog arithmetic?
• Leaves, by Ursula LeGuin
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148293/leaves-5bd9e153d78b2

Microtopics:

• DogTroid, the first Metroid ROM hack to star a dog.
• Self-finishing games.
• Sparkling water: it's like water but a lot more interesting.
• Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi.
• What sodas foam the most in response to a mento.
• Foam persistence.
• Foaminess reactions of a mento on various vintagesn of Diet Coke.
• Jolt Cola: all the sugar, twice the caffeine, three times the foam.
• A can of soda that's safe to open in a bathroom stall.
• Artisanal Coca Cola cans on Etsy that finally allow you to open a can of soda in a bathroom stall without anyone realizing you're drinking a Coke on the toilet.
• Flushable soda cans: as flushable as a flushable wipe.
• Why do toilets have pee traps when the pee deserves to be free?
• The second worst game in your NES collection.
• Desert Chrome title screens.
• Playing as a little spaceman until you enter the dinosaur mech.
• Shooting some alien brain or maybe a heart.
• 8bitnintendo.science
• How to pick what video games to buy in the late 1980s.
• How Metroid improved on the maze-with-keys genre.
• Nanosaur.
• A velociraptor with a techno-backpack.
• A game that is exhilarating and scary and endless when you're a child turning out to be a twenty minute trifle when you're an adult.
• Trespasser (1998)
• Simulation dinosaur emotions but you can't find a good balance so you just permanently lock them all to angry.
• Installing a violent action game about dinosaurs in the elementary school computer lab because dinosaurs are technically educational.
• Revisiting games that perplexed you as a child.
• Playing bad video games because no matter how bad they are they're still better than going outside and talking to people.
• The one where Kirby eats a car.
• The Roblox-like games you can find by logging into third party Minecraft servers.
• Starting your own Pixelfed server.
• Following the only person you know on Mastodon.
• Bluesky's recommendation algorithms recommendeding you nothing but bots.
• Inventing Internet forums from first principles.
• When your brain makes up garbage and you need a void to shove it into.
• Doing your part to make AI worse.
• CSS Crimes.
• How to find people to follow on Cohost.
• Signing up for a social media site and looking around and realizing you doing know anyone here.
• Mining and reposting.
• The ongoing maintenance requirements of running a Mastodon server.
• Ways you can interact with your family that only work if you have an iOS developer in the family.
• Off-box SQL database backup.
• Hypothetical IRC servers that support chat logs.
• Hardware random number generation.
• The pot of boiling water every Intel CPU draws thermal noise from for random number generation.
• The most commonly used analog computers in 2026.
• The market forces that led to semi-modular synthesizers being available for $300.
• Using your analog CPU to run a million instances of Lunar Lander at once.
• A rustic summer retreat ranch in the hills of Napa Valley, California.
• What makes us perceive the gradient of identities over the course of someone's life as a single identity.
• The most ephemeral thing possible.
• Musing for a few sentences and then thinking "hmm, I could put some line breaks in here and then publish it."
• Musing about the nature of identity, with line breaks.
• Topic Slingers.
• Topics: throw them around a lil bit. They love it. A lot of people don't know that.