277. Tunic 2, For Lords Only

Lords:

• Andrew
• Kate

Topics:

• Is it okay to make a game that is boring
• My friend wants me to play WoW. Should I?
• How to melt chocolate
• Kate's Wallace and Gromit song
  • https://bsky.app/profile/hownottodraw.bsky.social/post/3lfctso62a22q
• VFX is like cooking, game design is like baking
• Looksmaxxing

Microtopics:

• Adam Atomic's Pico-8 renaissance.
• Vampire vs. Pope Army
• Still Kate.
• Grass and flowers and touching them.
• The bifurcation of Bluesky into Twitter 2 and Mastodon into Not Twitter.
• The different kinds of people who tell you you're doing it wrong on different social media services.
• Looking at Bluesky and realizing it's just like Twitter, and having a reaction to that realization.
• Comparing your mood before using an internet service to your mood afterwards.
• You're the cow, baby!
• A story about living in a village of fewer than twenty people where nothing happens for thirty years.
• Countervailing forces preventing your game design from becoming a worry stone.
• Going outside and being bored until being bored stops feeling like an assault on all your senses.
• Talking to your mates in the pub about your new socks.
• Your mayonnaise manufacturing district.
• YAGNI.
• That time your ex-husband stole your knife and without a knife you can't cut food! Or ropes!
• Needing medical help and asking the guy in your village who owns half an encyclopedia.
• A miserable experience that is worth doing.
• The big advantage of playing World of Warcraft in Hardcore mode.
• WoW Classic and WoW Classic Classic.
• A game about killing 40 rats.
• The game for children that do annoying dances.
• Who knows about causality?
• The two year period when game designers played nothing but World of Warcraft.
• Getting addicted to an MMO and never contributing anything to society ever again.
• Entering into an activity with a miserly determination to not have fun.
• What it takes to do a dungeon.
• The spaces between the exciting parts.
• Melting chocolate on top of parchment paper.
• Melting chocolate with a hair dryer.
• A Fraught Bark Experience.
• Mouthfuls of raw flour.
• Cake Batter Bark.
• Rescuing seized chocolate.
• Counterintuitive chocolate behavior.
• Baking: It's Stupid.
• Adding a tart cheese to cream of mushrooms soup.
• Reading the poem as if you're not singing it in your head.
• Asking the vicar to share a stir-fry.
• Adding swear words to the Wallace and Gromit theme.
• Leggy Desert Boy, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
• The verse in Eleanor Rigby where they talk about cooking and eating dinner.
• Words that rhyme with "pint."
• Rhyming "pint" with "2019."
• Inventing an OC named "blorange" to solve your rhyming problems.
• Taking flavors and synthesizing new flavors.
• Hammering on the "fun" button for forty or fifty years.
• Having the one hit and not needing another hit.
• Exploring a multidimensional design space and tapping on all the walls to see which ones are destructible.
• Starting to make a game and finding out whether it's an easy game to make.
• Langoliers.
• Night Snacker.
• Releasing games exclusively in the Topic Lords discord.
• The art of turning your mortal vessel into a weapon.
• Softmaxxing vs. Hardmaxxing.
• Doing tongue exercises to sharpen your jaw.
• The Wikipedia page with the most scare quotes on it.
• Limb-lengthening surgery.
• Dabbing: it's just extremely short-term looksmaxxing.
• When two subcultures have two different words for the same idea.
• Whether the Xes in "Looksmaxxing" are the kisses and the Os the hugs, or vice versa.
• Whether the Xes in are the kisses and the Os are the hugs or whether the Xes are the dead eyes on the cartoon face.
• Archiving the VODs.