April 25, 2022

131. GDC Santa Rides Again

1 hour 7 minutes

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Lords:

Mike

Kev

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Topics

Embracing creative chaos is very hard but paradoxically extremely common?

Thanatosensitivity

GDC happened this year! They really did it

Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy By Thomas Lux

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48483/tarantulas-on-the-lifebuoy

Being left handed in a right handed world

Microtopics:

Wanting to learn to program and moving to Maine.

Learning to program by implementing a meticulous copy of Metroid for the NES.

Choosing to live a life that feels like an anime training montage.

How to learn to program while having kids.

Radical content for radical gamers.

Having one's mind blown by works of art, as one does.

The "stone soup bubblegum and baling wire everything went wrong" method of making art.

What happens when the plan makes contact with the enemy.

Writing a film with the magic of wintertime as a core theme and not being able to get the permit to film until spring.

Iterating on your idea with insights you've gleaned from working on your idea.

Ascertaining the recoverability of any given error.

The kind of disaster that happens when a culture accustomed to low-cost-error problems tries to work on high-cost-error problems.

Improvising bridges.

Programming vs. the disciplined engineering fields.

The pros and cons of storing a bunch of elephants on the roof.

The user experience of death.

Digital ghosts on LinkedIn.

Logging in to LinkedIn for the first time in eight years and getting a bunch of IMs from a friend who died six years ago.

Dealing with your dead friend's estate and having to close out all the relationships they were maintaining on OkCupid.

Thanatechnologies.

The human events taking place on a separate flow of time than internet time.

Slug World.

A human brain computer interaction conference at Noisebridge.

alt.ctrl.GDC

Spending all of GDC on the lawn.

A GDC talk except instead of talking to an auditorium full of 500 people, you're talking to a hotel room full of five people.

The Unconference Phenomenon.

Substance-to-fluff ratios.

Your three GDC lives.

Going to the talks where they talk about the stuff we're doing to figure out how we can do our stuff better.

The ascended platonic GDC.

Getting all Dunbar's Numbered-out and spending all your time talking to people you know.

Showing your game at a conference to increase the odds that one of the seven people at Sony who can get your game into the Spring Fever promotion will walk by and notice you.

Making a leveraged play on your charisma and luck stats.

GDC Santa with the sack of boxed copies of Glittermitten Grove.

A map of TXT World stitched together out of screenshots, like in the good old days.

A greybeard coming out of the woodwork to admire your ANSI art map.

Disrespecting the expo.

Realizing that somebody is about to ask you how your GDC is going and getting the drop on them by asking how their GDC is going first.

Katie hauling off and gassing you up.

The hazards of being Jim Stormdancer.

A reward for not loving the death of the ugly and even the dangerous.

The tangled underworld of your socks.

Pretending to not be afraid of spiders because you don't want your son to be afraid of spiders.

Growing up with rhino beetles in Liberia.

Hog snakes.

The extremely specific feeling of a desperate beetle clinging to your pruny fingertip.

Formative bug experiences.

Millions of termites growing wings to do their big ol' termite sex party.

Sweeping up all the termites who are taking a nap after mating season to fry in palm oil as a special treat.

The morning where the entire town is covered in bugs which sucks but you get to eat them which rules.

Reminiscing about which body parts of a termite are saltiest.

Getting accustomed to eating termites by the time you get to the bottom of the bag.

Left-handed zippers.

Trying to use the wrong scissors and assuming that you have some kind of developmental problem.

The Uniball Jetstream Rollerball, with a pressurized ink reservoir.

The prince who was promised.

Fretting with your dominant hand.

Picking a specific guitar string at speed.

Whether handedness exists.

Drawing with gross motor movements.

Left-handed mugs.

Left-handed drums vs. open-handed drums.

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