Topic Lords

180. We Are All Stardust Poop


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Lords:

  • Ichiro
  • Adam
  • Topics:

    • I learned how to animate by watching cartoons as a child (and I'm curious what else folks absorbed as a child that impacted the kind of adult they became)
    • I created a Totally Human Rapper that can read up on a game and cut a rap video.
    • Frog Fractions is banned from AGDQ
    • "Frog Fractions" by Totally Human Rapper
    • Tiny Mass Games small games cycle.
    • Microtopics:

      • One of the episodes with a cold open.
      • Live from New York, it's.
      • Using ocean water as a mixer.
      • Being of poop and returning to poop.
      • Using the Boston river as a mixer.
      • Learning everything you know about love from Robotech.
      • Losing your fiancee and marrying an alien instead.
      • Paying $6/hr to play a MUD.
      • Corresponding with your MUD lover via dead tree letters.
      • Playing a MUD and cheating on one avatar with another avatar and eventually realizing that they are played by the same person.
      • Sleep is Death.
      • The cool part of the Metaverse circa 2005.
      • Learning what human relationships look like by watching Saturday morning cartoons.
      • Sarah and Duck.
      • Pocoyo.
      • Busting ghosts. (A very important time in a boy's life.)
      • Retired Men's Nude Beach Volleyball League.
      • The center of your Venn diagram as a creator.
      • Ichiro Paydirt.
      • If Tank Girl were a streamer.
      • Endless Seinfeld pulling a Microsoft Tay.
      • The year of the deluge of AI generated crap.
      • Making a BBS door game about traveling into space.
      • Zooming out of yourself and looking at it with ghost eyes.
      • A game that appears to be family-friendly but is actually porn-adjacent.
      • The Timic skip.
      • A very respectful way to play Frog Fractions.
      • The two concessions Jim made to game design in the Frog Fractions remaster.
      • Catering to the you demographic.
      • Blanking on Tim Ambrogi's name.
      • Noted base jumping game "ahh"
      • An underlying engine that just won't swear.
      • Saying something interesting enough to be debated by a bunch of people.
      • Stemming the tide of mediocrity across streaming platforms.
      • The value of making dinner for two people vs. making art for millions of people.
      • Having a thought in your head and wanting people to hear it.
      • Gluing all the ports shut.
      • Games that gradually destroy themselves.
      • Follow the Frog, an arcade action adventure.
      • Where Totally Human Rapper gets his ideas.
      • How to jailbreak ChatGPT.
      • A deck building auto battler without the deck.
      • A well-scoped game design.
      • Not really having anything to say but loving to wrestle with language.
      • An AI generated game about AI generated games.
      • Polishing a prototype enough to put it in front of a mass audience.
      • Rating AI-generated food.
      • Synergies and combinatorics.
      • The development process for each Frog Fractions game.
      • Answering to ask things.
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