Jasonhttps://jmac.org/https://masto.nyc/@jmacNathanMommy's Best Games EverywhereWhen I paint my nails I don't paint my thumbnails. This is because I see my thumbnails all day long but I don't see my other fingernails nearly as often, and so every time I do I'm like "Whoa!!!!"Jukebox griefingNintendo farmed out the development of Donkey Kong to an outside dev team, because they didn't have an in-house video game team yet. Donkey Kong was that team's first game. Their second game was Zaxxon.Hypothetical explanations for the paradoxhttps://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bZmUoKct.pngThinking about RGB color programming for games, then wondering about how the color actually happens on monitors.Bach drew a loopy doodle at the top of the cover of his original manuscript of "The Well Tempered Clavier". It looks like he was just warming up his pen-hand, but scholars have been arguing for years that it contains secret codes about how to well-temper a clavierInteractive Fiction Land.Panoptikum Budapest.Bumpy Grumpy's emotional arc.Frantic Frank.Men and male-presenting persons with painted nails.Painting just one fingernail dark green and wondering whether that's a hankie code thing.What's going on with my thumbs?Your non-thumb fingernails.Painting your nails and repeatedly rediscovering them.Looking like an android. (But in a cool way.)Forehead loaves.Starting to pay attention to where your fingers are.Why not to wear a magnetic nose stud.Being old enough to remember when you had to walk up to the jukebox to queue up Beat It by Michael Jackson ten times in a row.Getting into a jukebox griefing war with someone you've never met.Walking up to the jukebox and typing in the binary code of the WAV file you want to play.Binary data played back at audio rates.The math describing Mario's jump arc.Making the first racing video game and thinking "well that's racing games sorted."Satoru Iwata's understanding of Mario's last name.Mario: a weird little dude.Drill Dozer.How to run a video game business when games are sold on cassette tape for six pounds which is way too heavy for a video game.Platformers where you go off the edge of the screen and end up on another screen and each screen has a name.Inflation hypothesis and the youngness argument.Earth is purposefully isolated. (Planetarium hypothesis.)They are here undetected vs. they are here unacknowledged.Arguing about a sexy robot.Ironically Sexy RobotsThe Fudd Paradox, by Ray Bradbury.People who just want to toss salad and don't want to know about your weird slang.Gender-expansive anthropomorphic rabbits.Blank verse vs. free verse.Burning Monkey Solitaire.What your cat sees when he's swatting at Kratos.How blue is blue?Watching old episodes of Bob Ross and you can't follow along any more because they don't make Mummy Brown anymore.The Opaque See-Through TV.Seeing a see-through TV at CES and asking the guy at the booth what use case is of a see-through TV and he's like "to look cool at CES."Ribbed monitors.The secret textures of the Nintendo 3DS.All kinds of words that you don't know how to pronounce.The Moogseum.Bach's looping doodle.The structure of the J.S. Bach speedrunning community.A community obsessing over minutia and never worrying about whether it's true or important because it's just some bullshit you made up and agreed to care about.Hungry music theorists who need human connection.Sponsoring AGDQ with your clavier etudes.Black MIDI.Using up all the claviers in the world during your clavier speedrunning event.The Fetaverse.Making an arcade cabinet.
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