276. The Yukon Territories Foodie Scene

Lords:

• Remy
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• Abhi
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Topics:

• Why does food taste better outside of Canada?
• Xander asks: "Biased history is better"
• Is it fair to make a new game console when we haven't finished the ones we already have?
• Puranaanooru
  • https://oldtamilpoetry.com/2016/04/04/puranaanooru-256/
• What's one IP you would like to adapt or work with?

Microtopics:

• An image that allows you to attribute the text above it to the character in the image.
• Knower. (The one who knows things.)
• Losing your faith in God until you see the clip of Mario Kart showing 24 starting positions.
• Visual novels with contextualized minigames.
• Enjoying food more abroad.
• Orbiting the United States.
• Which state makes the best dosas.
• The best Asian food ten minutes south of Vancouver.
• Waves of immigration establishing generations of restaurants.
• When there are finally enough immigrants in a city that one of them might open a restaurant to serve food to other immigrants.
• Vancouver's restaurant licensing situation.
• Vancouver's medallion system for food trucks.
• No Good Pizza In My Back Yard!
• NAID 96.
• Jim's personal experience with Canadian food.
• Whether it's what it sounds like.
• Capturing the history of written language in your game.
• The constant flux of our understanding of history.
• Xander-biased history.
• A very happy self-described sad boy.
• Squeezing every last great game out of the Atari 2600 before creating a new game console.
• Hoarding Pico-8 games on your desktop.
• The golden era of video game development effort-to-return ratio.
• New ways to make games look more expensive.
• Outrageously high margins that you are not expected to fill.
• Games that would still be fun if the graphics were worse.
• Giving your PS5 to your dad so you can buy a PS5 Pro.
• Brain hacking yourself.
• PS5 Pro Max.
• Realizing you don't need to upgrade your game console or in fact any consumer electronics ever again.
• The Fairchild Channel F Pro, featuring S-Video.
• The Dave the Diver revolution.
• Failing enough that you decide to change.
• Fortnite Money.
• You can't read ancient Tamil?!
• A small white lizard stuck to the wagon axle hub's spoke.
• The purpose of art. (For people to examine it in 2000 years and find things out about you.)
• Finding out what dead people thought.
• Finding the time to be cruel.
• Shocking Adventure Time moments.
• Trusting what people write about themselves.
• Finally understanding Xander Bias.
• A love letter to Indian cinema.
• Things Metroid Prime does to make you feel like you're inside a space suit.
• Waiting for the Metroid IP to expire so you can make your Metroid fan game in your extreme old age.
• Continuity nerds.
• Reboot.
• Vancouver-coded fictional cities.
• Telus Storyhive.
• An IP address you're dying to do.
• Shouldn't Zelda and Sokoban be the same genre?
• Atari 50 vs. UFO 50.
• A murder mystery that you solve by playing video games.
• Why the CBC is like that.
• Brown Money.