184. Times New Orange

Lords:

• Alexicographic
  • https://twitter.com/alexicographic
  • https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames
• Andrew
  • https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/

Topics:

• The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together?
• Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion
• Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one.
  • https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake
• The Orange by Wendy Cope
  • https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange
• Learning Italian from a cartoon dog
• Being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking
  • https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking
• RIP List of Video Games Considered Artistic
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_video_games_considered_artistic
  • https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/
  • https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino

Microtopics:

• kittenm4ster's PICO-8 games.
• Vibing with the Alfonzo's Bowling Challenge ethos.
• A game that is implemented in under 8000 tokens.
• The ideal game pitch.
• Chocolate and cheese and something.
• Choccoli.
• Chocolate and gravy.
• A lukewarm Americano.
• A bunch of foodies who really know their foodstuffs.
• A fish being strangled by Red Vines.
• A GPU that has food inside of it.
• The Turing test for whether computers can taste foods.
• Asking Chat GPT what three foods you can combine to create a bomb in your kitchen.
• Whether Gallium has calories.
• Three people on a podcast who all think "trailers" should come after the movie
• Finding out about a movie by seeing a trailer in a movie theater even though trailers are constantly spilling out of every screen you own.
• Getting the wiggles out.
• How to make the lives of people who enjoy looking at ads a little bit worse.
• Yelling "fire" before the movie starts so fewer people pay attention to the pre-movie ads.
• Wanting to become the reason all movies have "no leopards in the theater" PSAs now.
• A toddler watching Youtube, yelling "no!" and throwing the phone on the ground when an ad plays.
• Pushing the lever to receive your stochastic reward.
• Youtube deciding you've seen enough ads lately and taking pity on you.
• Trying to explain to a four year old how to play a light gun game but the game is over before you finish explaining.
• The Space Alien Busting Song.
• Drawing new mountains on the moon to test your camera's moon mode.
• Here's the moon again.
• A filter to replace pictures of your wife with the moon.
• A Snapchat filter that makes you feel like you used to be attractive.
• A filter that takes your bad photos of the moon and makes them even worse.
• The worst bunny in the moon.
• A good poem that rhymes.
• Turtle metaconsistency.
• Enormous and hilarious oranges.
• Good art here, you guys.
• Reading poetry in the original Helvetica.
• BorgiaPro on various font downloading sites.
• A cartoon that is entertaining even if you are not learning Italian.
• Finding Armando's old hat in the attic.
• Asking the clouds to move so that your hat can protect you from the sun.
• Working within a constraint that produces delightful nonsense.
• Photocopying yourself to create a black and white clone.
• What drugs they'll give to kids in what countries.
• Growing up but continuing to take the same drugs.
• A little girl who is also a dog.
• Subtitles that don't match what's being said aloud.
• Watching Italian TV using a VPN.
• The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical with the roller skates.
• Roller bladers dancing in weird futuristic costumes.
• Having positive fun experiences with language.
• Learning a new language while skydiving.
• Hiring an experienced skydiver who can give you foreign language lessons while you're both falling from a plane.
• Getting bored while skydiving and looking at your phone but there's no WiFi up there.
• How McElroy fans compliment someone's woodworking.
• How to Fake an Interest in Woodworking.
• Arguing about whether games are art.
• All the games that anyone's ever called art.
• Finding information about a deleted page on Wikipedia.
• Philosophical debate on the creative qualia of electronic structured play. (Roger Ebert has a subheading.)
• Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes philosophical zombies.
• Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes voodoo zombies.
• What Casinos are trying to do to attract kids who like video games.
• Whether Lechuck is a voodoo zombie or a Romero zombie.
• Hohokum.
• Finding a bunch of snakes that each have different names.
• What happens when you collect all the things. (Art.)
• List of Paintings Considered Artistic.
• Gimmick food that is more about the experience of eating a weird thing than the food itself.
• A restaurant that doesn't have plates and just pours the food into your cupped hands.