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

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September 9th, 2024

59 mins 2 secs

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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.
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