180. We Are All Stardust Poop

Lords:

• Ichiro
• Adam

Topics:

• I learned how to animate by watching cartoons as a child (and I'm curious what else folks absorbed as a child that impacted the kind of adult they became)
• I created a Totally Human Rapper that can read up on a game and cut a rap video.
• Frog Fractions is banned from AGDQ
• "Frog Fractions" by Totally Human Rapper
• Tiny Mass Games small games cycle.

Microtopics:

• One of the episodes with a cold open.
• Live from New York, it's.
• Using ocean water as a mixer.
• Being of poop and returning to poop.
• Using the Boston river as a mixer.
• Learning everything you know about love from Robotech.
• Losing your fiancee and marrying an alien instead.
• Paying $6/hr to play a MUD.
• Corresponding with your MUD lover via dead tree letters.
• Playing a MUD and cheating on one avatar with another avatar and eventually realizing that they are played by the same person.
• Sleep is Death.
• The cool part of the Metaverse circa 2005.
• Learning what human relationships look like by watching Saturday morning cartoons.
• Sarah and Duck.
• Pocoyo.
• Busting ghosts. (A very important time in a boy's life.)
• Retired Men's Nude Beach Volleyball League.
• The center of your Venn diagram as a creator.
• Ichiro Paydirt.
• If Tank Girl were a streamer.
• Endless Seinfeld pulling a Microsoft Tay.
• The year of the deluge of AI generated crap.
• Making a BBS door game about traveling into space.
• Zooming out of yourself and looking at it with ghost eyes.
• A game that appears to be family-friendly but is actually porn-adjacent.
• The Timic skip.
• A very respectful way to play Frog Fractions.
• The two concessions Jim made to game design in the Frog Fractions remaster.
• Catering to the you demographic.
• Blanking on Tim Ambrogi's name.
• Noted base jumping game "ahh"
• An underlying engine that just won't swear.
• Saying something interesting enough to be debated by a bunch of people.
• Stemming the tide of mediocrity across streaming platforms.
• The value of making dinner for two people vs. making art for millions of people.
• Having a thought in your head and wanting people to hear it.
• Gluing all the ports shut.
• Games that gradually destroy themselves.
• Follow the Frog, an arcade action adventure.
• Where Totally Human Rapper gets his ideas.
• How to jailbreak ChatGPT.
• A deck building auto battler without the deck.
• A well-scoped game design.
• Not really having anything to say but loving to wrestle with language.
• An AI generated game about AI generated games.
• Polishing a prototype enough to put it in front of a mass audience.
• Rating AI-generated food.
• Synergies and combinatorics.
• The development process for each Frog Fractions game.
• Answering to ask things.