December 12, 2022

164. Dead Bodies Are Always In The First Place You Look

1 hour 12 minutes

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Lords:

Nathan

MommysBestGames on Twitter.

Tyriq

FourBitFriday everywhere.

Topics:

Octopodes, continued

My wife and I are both teaching our son to drive, with separate lessons. It's going OK but with bumps.

The most widely-used crack for The Colonel's Bequest works by breaking the random number generator. This has wide-ranging effects on the gameplay.

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/case-cracked

How are we going to fix the camera in Mario Odyssey?

Microtopics:

Game Type DX.

Implementing the Xbox dashboard and trying to get it approved by Sony.

The most serious episode of Topic Lords.

Bringing up Octopuses every three years.

Giving yourself an electric shock because you're so bored.

Sea pork.

Eating the animals that are extremely convenient to farm.

Aoes sitting around waiting for something interesting to happen.

Chimpanzee pranks.

Making art because that's what people do.

Trying to disentangle making art from making a living.

Whether zoo animals would prefer their natural habitat or whether they just enjoy a chill cool time.

Inventing an octopus psychologist to figure out what parts of their lives they like and what parts could be improved.

Children of Time and Children of Ruin.

Molluscs having a good time.

Terraforming gone awry.

The impossibility of talking smart people out of bad ideas.

Why a teenager might or might not want to learn to drive.

How hard to push the brakes and how hard to push the gas.

Pushing the gas too hard and the car is like no, take a deep breath and try again.

Terrifying two lane roads.

Whether to start turning before you reach the stop sign.

Driving in Atlanta.

Learning to drive because you have to get to college somehow.

The responsibility of being in charge of heavy machinery.

Driving and suddenly realizing you need to be paying way more attention right now.

Saying the worst possible thing to someone who is already anxious.

Detective adventure game structure.

The botched Red Baron Easter egg.

Walking by windows whenever possible.

Blinking, fidgeting and moving with lifeless constancy.

Serious Sam 3's copy protection scorpion.

Finding the thing you're not expecting in the first place you look.

Whether the Law and Order video games implement both Law and Order.

A detective game where you spend most of your energy preventing the detective from having a nervous breakdown or hurting somebody.

Game design that is driven by fun tech.

Getting a fancy new drill press and for a while all the furniture you make has a bunch of extra holes for no apparent reason.

An RPG character with the ability to manipulate the RNG.

A game design critique of darts.

Fingers in the brain, squishing.

Why Game Genie codes are encrypted.

The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 level editor.

BASIC Programming and Computer Intro.

The guy who wrote half of the Odyssey 2's game catalog.

Whether console exclusives, or indeed video game systems at all, should exist.

Why they set Mario Galaxy on planetoids.

Looking into a shoebox of fun.

Mario's fluctuating weight throughout the series.

A classic 3D platformer problem.

Manipulating the camera while you touch all kinds of other buttons.

The kind of Mario game that your dad can play.

Been solved. Not fun.

Trying to show Portal to people who have never played first-person shooters.

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December 12, 2022

164. Dead Bodies Are Always In The First Place You Look

1 hour 12 minutes

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Nathan

MommysBestGames on Twitter.

Tyriq

FourBitFriday everywhere.

Topics:

Octopodes, continued

My wife and I are both teaching our son to drive, with separate lessons. It's going OK but with bumps.

The most widely-used crack for The Colonel's Bequest works by breaking the random number generator. This has wide-ranging effects on the gameplay.

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/case-cracked

How are we going to fix the camera in Mario Odyssey?

Microtopics:

Game Type DX.

Implementing the Xbox dashboard and trying to get it approved by Sony.

The most serious episode of Topic Lords.

Bringing up Octopuses every three years.

Giving yourself an electric shock because you're so bored.

Sea pork.

Eating the animals that are extremely convenient to farm.

Aoes sitting around waiting for something interesting to happen.

Chimpanzee pranks.

Making art because that's what people do.

Trying to disentangle making art from making a living.

Whether zoo animals would prefer their natural habitat or whether they just enjoy a chill cool time.

Inventing an octopus psychologist to figure out what parts of their lives they like and what parts could be improved.

Children of Time and Children of Ruin.

Molluscs having a good time.

Terraforming gone awry.

The impossibility of talking smart people out of bad ideas.

Why a teenager might or might not want to learn to drive.

How hard to push the brakes and how hard to push the gas.

Pushing the gas too hard and the car is like no, take a deep breath and try again.

Terrifying two lane roads.

Whether to start turning before you reach the stop sign.

Driving in Atlanta.

Learning to drive because you have to get to college somehow.

The responsibility of being in charge of heavy machinery.

Driving and suddenly realizing you need to be paying way more attention right now.

Saying the worst possible thing to someone who is already anxious.

Detective adventure game structure.

The botched Red Baron Easter egg.

Walking by windows whenever possible.

Blinking, fidgeting and moving with lifeless constancy.

Serious Sam 3's copy protection scorpion.

Finding the thing you're not expecting in the first place you look.

Whether the Law and Order video games implement both Law and Order.

A detective game where you spend most of your energy preventing the detective from having a nervous breakdown or hurting somebody.

Game design that is driven by fun tech.

Getting a fancy new drill press and for a while all the furniture you make has a bunch of extra holes for no apparent reason.

An RPG character with the ability to manipulate the RNG.

A game design critique of darts.

Fingers in the brain, squishing.

Why Game Genie codes are encrypted.

The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 level editor.

BASIC Programming and Computer Intro.

The guy who wrote half of the Odyssey 2's game catalog.

Whether console exclusives, or indeed video game systems at all, should exist.

Why they set Mario Galaxy on planetoids.

Looking into a shoebox of fun.

Mario's fluctuating weight throughout the series.

A classic 3D platformer problem.

Manipulating the camera while you touch all kinds of other buttons.

The kind of Mario game that your dad can play.

Been solved. Not fun.

Trying to show Portal to people who have never played first-person shooters.

Support Topic Lords

...more

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