June 20, 2022

139. She Died As A Space Racist

58 minutes

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Lords:

Dan

https://strangecurrencies.org/

https://twitter.com/SC_Reviews_Dan

Shepard

They are known as Earthnova in the Discord and has one published work: http://thelitmag.com/2021-edition/this-story-has-a-ghost-in-it/

Topics:

Only playing narrative/story-driven video games once

Sometimes life is like an adventure game, a skill or item that's useless when you get it is needed years later

Sleng Teng Riddim

https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng-riddim.html

Here's an argument that the riff originated with David Bowie: https://axischemicals.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-digital-reggae-kingpin/

Tyger! Tyger! by Robin Johnson

https://mobile.twitter.com/rdouglasjohnson/status/1517804673998237697

The internet and college are two great tastes that taste terrible together.

The first time I beat my father at Scrabble

Explaining traffic jams, or at least this one traffic jam

Microtopics:

Wanting to see all the stuff.

Replaying a series of four RPG length games to see the alternate endings.

Getting the most video game endings for your dollar.

Tenable and untenable ways to have an adventure.

Recapturing the magic of your first time (with emulators).

Getting every video game you wanted for a system and then enjoying that for 10 minutes.

A giant archive of every DOS game ever.

Losing your nostalgia for old games via emulation, but keeping your nostalgia for the box art.

Falling out of love with Windows Vista.

Keeping your custard pie intact until the yeti needs it.

The bread maker approach to learning a new skill.

Why there are no cupcakes in Frog Fractions 2.

Playing Go against someone better than you and suddenly losing.

The Go community rallying around the identity that computers can't beat the best Go players.

Whether computer Go has shaped the way humans play Go.

An extra creative extra special humany thing.

Beating a chess expert by convincing them to play something else.

John Henry's retirement plan.

Being promised a Yamaha DX7 but receiving a Casio MT-40 instead.

Writing a part for a rock and roll rhythm section that is accidentally a great reggae rhythm section.

The origins of the Amen Break.

Setting up a situation where you can write your own notes.

Figuring out where the genre can go with this new tonality.

Stripy guys and chonky units.

The best kind of tigers. (Floofers.)

Learning about slant rhymes one morning and that afternoon writing a poem that rhymes "eye" with "symmetry."

Blake hearing about the Great Vowel Shift from his grandpa and deciding that that would be a great way to make Tyger! Tyger! sound old timey.

Googling why Blake tried to rhyme "eye" with "symmetry" and finding dozens of implausible theories, all expressed with complete confidence.

Making an impression on the world of poetry by not being good at it.

Hipster throwbacks to the great vowel shift.

Calvin and Hobbes panoply of tiger poems.

Holding off on reading more Calvin and Hobbes tiger poems until you’re done recording the podcast.

Not letting online schooling get in the way of your online education.

Whether someone will figure out how to do a college class online before we transition back to in-person classes.

Whether ASL is especially well suited to bring taught over Zoom.

Doing yard work and wearing protective equipment so you can't pull out your phone to check Twitter.

Lying down in court.

Realizing for the first time that your parents don't know everything.

A framed photo of the one time your mom won at Risk.

The one thing you and your dad are both interested in.

Sports montage of getting better at Scrabble.

Driving or better yet watching movies with cars in them.

Everybody slowing down to take a look at the two headed chicken.

Driving towards a shadow and being blinded by the sun to what's beyond the shadow.

A time loop where the car in front of you slows down for no reason and then you slow down for a good reason but the car behind you thinks you're slowing down for no reason.

A car driving on a road.

Stacking a bunch of human reaction speeds on top of each other.

Slot cars as a fun and disastrous solution to traffic.

The slot car model of public transit.

Finding everybody on the Discord.

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