255. We're Truly On The Bleeding Edge Of Something
September 9th, 2024
59 mins 2 secs
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Lords:
- Adam
- Linker
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
- 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.