Topic Lords

210. Good Ideas For Sam Barlow


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  • Andrew
    • https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658150/Moonstone_Island/
    • Kate
      • https://tunicgame.com/
      • Topics:

        • British food is good, actually
        • Really enjoying programming in MonoGame (and stop motion animation)
        • Lightswitch abstraction limit
        • Un petit d'un petit
        • The Old Timey Computer Show
        • Trying to get your friends to play a game that sucks to learn
        • Winston has discovered that the ending of a story is usually the most exciting part, so he doesn't want to watch whole movies any more, just the last twenty minutes of each
        • Microtopics:

          • Moonstone Island.
          • A tiny fox in a big world.
          • Cherry blues.
          • Something within your culture that is awful and bad.
          • Whatever can grow in the wet and dark. (Potatoes.)
          • Cool Whip based salads.
          • Yorkshire pudding. (The fluffy one.)
          • The non-spicy gravies.
          • J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's roast potato recipe.
          • Lamb going with mint and pork going with applesauce.
          • How to eat Vegemite or Marmite.
          • A man at the end of the table whose entire job is to carve meat for you.
          • A place to take your picky grandma to eat.
          • Bodega cats and bodega kids.
          • Doing stop motion animation as a goof.
          • The fun part of Dunning Krueger.
          • Doing a magic trick without knowing how the trick works and amazing yourself.
          • Leaning into the good times.
          • Accidentally getting good at an employable skill.
          • Flailing at the wall until the light switches are in the right position.
          • Off: just a different kind of on.
          • Doing your first pull request.
          • The fountain pen of the version control ecology.
          • Getting a bunch of little plant men to turn the lights on and off for me.
          • Poetry written in nonsensical French that is homophonic with English nursery rhymes.
          • An entire book for a very specific kind of nerd to have a sensible chuckle.
          • Allowing yourself one E, as a mistake.
          • A joke written back when people knew what am omnibus was.
          • Vintages footage from 1980s computer shows.
          • Dousing CD-Rs.
          • The Free Cake and Donuts Half-Hour.
          • Getting as many 35+ computer dorks as you can under a box before you pull the string.
          • Making two children fight each other on the British equivalent of Crash Bandicoot.
          • A policeman on a unicycle.
          • The imagined experience of programming the ZX Spectrum.
          • The other Cambridge.
          • Mac PCs.
          • The Oliver Twins.
          • Turning on all the shaders to make your programmer art look good.
          • Finding three extra Dizzy games in the attic.
          • Trying to tell your friends about a family tradition and while you're telling them you realize how messed up it is.
          • A pile of 500 cards that should really be a computer game instead.
          • A rule where every time you play a card you have to sigh a little bit.
          • A game where you torture your friends.
          • A food with the letter E in it.
          • Trying to have fun despite your friend who is making you play the game.
          • Have you guys heard about conclusions?
          • A bunch of stuff happening and then there's a riddle.
          • The Go Left Problem.
          • When games have secrets.
          • Pushing at the edges of a game and the game pops up a dialog saying "I noticed you pushing at my edges."
          • A password named "Susan."
          • A DVD where every interface to start the movie starts it at chapter 2 and chapter 1 is a secret.
          • Reading just the last word of a book.
          • Watching the first episode and the last episode of a sitcom and trying to guess which actors missing from the last episode died and which went to prison.
          • How to find your Mastodon name.
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