AlexeiEvanSilt clouds & underwater visibility as a game mechanicThe bass pro shop pyramid and the utility calculations of weird buildingsWhat happens when your Firefox root certificate expires?The Ailing Mirror-Smithhttps://medium.com/@EvanBalster/the-ailing-mirror-smith-9c4b5a76cd#9520Roguelike Celebration. Virtual conferences.How to be in a conversation with one person in a room and not the whole room. Drinking a polymorph potion to put a different animal emoji next to your user name. Roguelikes and Roguelikers.Topic munching and topic grazing.How to design non-violent roguelikes.Spending your paw prints on the "become water" skill so when a human tries to pick you up, you just flow out of their hands. Imitone.Abruptly tooting a horn.Reading an email and then pointing at it and yelling "sold!"DSP for game developers. Video essays about maritime disasters. Penetration diving. Huge warning signs in front of every underwater cave.Silt Warnings. Guideline Entanglement. Moving in more directional axes than you normally do. Fast things that live underwater. Panicking and forgetting that the game is turn based.Playing Nethack with a screen reader.Multi stage dives to deliver oxygen further and further into a cave system. Retrieving the bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald. Inventing special hells to put yourself through because the existing hells aren't good enough. Gabe Newell's lack of fear response. Remembering the time you blacked out and thinking "the brain is really cool."Borrowing some time from your cat attack to give to the car crash.Scout the Floof.Running out of adrenalin and being extremely calm. Entering and exiting Tennessee in a state of intense unreality.Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt.The acoustic properties of a gigantic metal pyramid. Getting married inside the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid. Hotel rooms attached up the back of the giant fish.Why the Egyptians built pyramids rather than other cooler shapes. A procedurally generated lady in Canada. Importing the Burning Man from Burning Man. Stopping at Saskatchewan for gas.Home of the World's Biggest Dad.Building Ram Pumps in Dwarf Fortress. Great Pyramid Ram Pump. Mummy Tea.A terrible waste of tax dollars that brings joy to children all around the world. Firefox telling you "oh shit, you need to update now, dog."Configuring Windows Firewall to not allow Windows Updates.Protecting your users from malware by opening the floodgates of Internet ads.Encino Man. Handing Firefox a Baby Ruth and it's like "this tastes like plastic."Picking tiny hills to die on as a way to remain mentally stable.Escalating lack of politeness from a UK security firm.Nitric Acid Piano: sounds great but hurts like heck to play. 3D printing new fingernails right onto your bare cuticles every morning. Working on a long project in which you see more potency than clarity of purpose. Valorizing craft for the sake of craft, disconnected from the use of it.In the worst case scenario, how could your tool be used?Avoiding doing evil by making morally neutral art.Sitting on multiple generations of Cold War techno-optimism.Keita Takahashi's manifesto about being a video game romantic.Designing things that people can do and enjoy in the world we want to live in.Striving to bring people some small amount of a positive emotion.Making curry for your colleagues and going totally overboard on it.I'm going to go do evil with this curry.Learning the flavors of new herbs and spices.Fenugreek leaf.The worst time in history to get enthusiastic about cooking quiche.Trying to figure out how to post.
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