255. We're Truly On The Bleeding Edge Of Something

Lords:

• Adam
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769410/Ash__Adams_GOBSMACKED/
• Linker
  • https://linker.itch.io/

Topics:

• Ways you've changed in the last 20 years that have surprised you
• Examples of x animal software running on y animal hardware (ie. fox being cat software on dog hardware)
• This argument about whether erasure poetry is poetry
  • https://www.tumblr.com/whistletown/753096096947011584
• Favourite RPG (videogame or tabletop; open to interpretation)

Microtopics:

• Launching a game in the deep past.
• Indiepocalypse.
• After Journey's End vol. 2.
• The Monthly Tape Club.
• Games that are big enough or marketable enough.
• Getting excited about this month's PC Gamer demo disk.
• Zine-like game distribution.
• Making a small game to express a thought.
• Making a living making weird shit.
• The methods of marketing a small game.
• Practices that have existed for thousands of years.
• The boom and bust cycle and why you might or might not get in on the next boom.
• Making a shit-ton of money and continuing to pay your employees rather than laying them off.
• Whether Gen Z is savvy to the MBA brain worms.
• Whether Jim has a college degree.
• New England Sarcastic.
• Learning about having kids and wondering what it'd be like to have a purpose in life.
• Being legally responsible for the survival of the worst roommate imaginable.
• Other People's Dogs.
• How is your life different from when you were 6 years old?
• Becoming a permanent resident of Canada.
• A local theater company producing your play.
• Frog Fractions: it came from space.
• A thing that expresses the maelstrom going on in my head (or soul)
• The six 70s funk songs with a long enough stretch of isolated drums that they became the drums for every song ever.
• How to make art as an expression of human needs.
• Video games: they shouldn't exist.
• Expressing a thought with the skills you enjoy flexing.
• The virtues of having playtesters.
• Bug software running on mammal hardware.
• Tiny cats in the bodies of big cats.
• Service dogs for cheetahs.
• Remaining calm around humans because your dog buddy loves humans.
• Erasure Poetry.
• Oh Someone Oh God And Then Me.
• Formalized rules for determining who gets credit for what when a bunch of people make a piece of art.
• Legal precedents for copyright and reproduction rights.
• Magnetic fridge poetry.
• Inventing an art form that's even more constrained than pixel art somehow.
• Unity of effect.
• Looking at a blurry 16x16 tile and not being quite sure what it's supposed to be.
• RPGs: what even are they?
• What you can get away with within the aesthetics of a black and white Game Boy game.
• Whether Breath of the Wild counts as an immersive sim and whether immersive sims count as RPGs
• Getting into the topic weeds.
• Chained Echoes.
• Observing the sand running through the hourglass.
• Social anxiety preventing you from enjoying tabletop RPGs.
• Playing tabletop RPGs with a bunch of weird theater people.
• Meeting your friend at a bar to catch up on the latest events in his tabletop RPG sessions.
• How to use your name on social media.