224. Following A Garden Hose Around In The Dark

Topic Lords

Lords:

• Jason
  • https://jmac.org/
  • https://masto.nyc/@jmac
• Nathan
  • Mommy's Best Games Everywhere

Topics:

• When I paint my nails I don't paint my thumbnails. This is because I see my thumbnails all day long but I don't see my other fingernails nearly as often, and so every time I do I'm like "Whoa!!!!"
• Jukebox griefing
• Nintendo farmed out the development of Donkey Kong to an outside dev team, because they didn't have an in-house video game team yet. Donkey Kong was that team's first game. Their second game was Zaxxon.
• Hypothetical explanations for the paradox
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bZmUoKct.png
• Thinking about RGB color programming for games, then wondering about how the color actually happens on monitors.
• Bach drew a loopy doodle at the top of the cover of his original manuscript of "The Well Tempered Clavier". It looks like he was just warming up his pen-hand, but scholars have been arguing for years that it contains secret codes about how to well-temper a clavier

Microtopics:

• Interactive Fiction Land.
• Panoptikum Budapest.
• Bumpy Grumpy's emotional arc.
• Frantic Frank.
• Men and male-presenting persons with painted nails.
• Painting just one fingernail dark green and wondering whether that's a hankie code thing.
• What's going on with my thumbs?
• Your non-thumb fingernails.
• Painting your nails and repeatedly rediscovering them.
• Looking like an android. (But in a cool way.)
• Forehead loaves.
• Starting to pay attention to where your fingers are.
• Why not to wear a magnetic nose stud.
• Being old enough to remember when you had to walk up to the jukebox to queue up Beat It by Michael Jackson ten times in a row.
• Getting into a jukebox griefing war with someone you've never met.
• Walking up to the jukebox and typing in the binary code of the WAV file you want to play.
• Binary data played back at audio rates.
• The math describing Mario's jump arc.
• Making the first racing video game and thinking "well that's racing games sorted."
• Satoru Iwata's understanding of Mario's last name.
• Mario: a weird little dude.
• Drill Dozer.
• How to run a video game business when games are sold on cassette tape for six pounds which is way too heavy for a video game.
• Platformers where you go off the edge of the screen and end up on another screen and each screen has a name.
• Inflation hypothesis and the youngness argument.
• Earth is purposefully isolated. (Planetarium hypothesis.)
• They are here undetected vs. they are here unacknowledged.
• Arguing about a sexy robot.
• Ironically Sexy Robots
• The Fudd Paradox, by Ray Bradbury.
• People who just want to toss salad and don't want to know about your weird slang.
• Gender-expansive anthropomorphic rabbits.
• Blank verse vs. free verse.
• Burning Monkey Solitaire.
• What your cat sees when he's swatting at Kratos.
• How blue is blue?
• Watching old episodes of Bob Ross and you can't follow along any more because they don't make Mummy Brown anymore.
• The Opaque See-Through TV.
• Seeing a see-through TV at CES and asking the guy at the booth what use case is of a see-through TV and he's like "to look cool at CES."
• Ribbed monitors.
• The secret textures of the Nintendo 3DS.
• All kinds of words that you don't know how to pronounce.
• The Moogseum.
• Bach's looping doodle.
• The structure of the J.S. Bach speedrunning community.
• A community obsessing over minutia and never worrying about whether it's true or important because it's just some bullshit you made up and agreed to care about.
• Hungry music theorists who need human connection.
• Sponsoring AGDQ with your clavier etudes.
• Black MIDI.
• Using up all the claviers in the world during your clavier speedrunning event.
• The Fetaverse.
• Making an arcade cabinet.

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