June 08, 2020

33. Two-Grass Of The Face

59 minutes

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Lords this week:

Craig was Jim's collaborator on Glittermitten Grove.

@craigtimpany on Twitter.

https://www.mostlytigerproof.com/

https://pinballheresies.com/

Shannon does a lot of different stuff!

@plentyofalcoves on Twitter.

Strucci Movies. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9DnjvObUcvvwrYbJ4-cLQ

Hbomberguy. https://www.youtube.com/user/hbomberguy

Struggle Sessions. http://www.strugglesession.us/

Critical Bits. https://www.criticalbitcast.com/

Topics:

2:51 What are the best attributes for a collaborator to have? The worst?

10:45 Craig's favourite language, Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin#Vocabulary

18:17 TempleOS

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/

TempleOS games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQtLv9GizKM

31:28 Quill asks: "What's your first memory being exposed to a computer?"

35:30 Why faking one's non-existence might not be a great career move.

41:32 Re: media consumption- "there are no guilty pleasures"- do you agree?

49:26 Did you know that daytime soaps air a new episode every weekday? How is this possible?

Every episode of Passions, on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu1cfjN6h09z6ssQcRwsJ8A/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid

Microtopics:

Getting some emails in six weeks.

Tweeting about a book about olives and getting in touch with the author and starting a podcast about olives.

A dumb joke that you are taking very seriously.

Creating one podcast episode per olive cultivar.

Deciding that you'd rather work with people you like than talented people.

The hypothetical coworker who is sufficiently good at their job that you put up with the death of everyone who enters the room with them.

The origin of the 10x programmer myth.

Never having met a 10x programmer, but having met a 10x QA tester.

The 10x singer who sings at 10x the pitch of regular singers.

Noodling vs. deliberate, thoughtful creation.

Whether having rock stars in your rock band is worth all the trashed hotel rooms.

A language derived from Australian sailor slang.

Mouth grass.

Trying to express a technical idea without using technical vocabulary.

The correspondence between the simplicity of vocabulary and the speed of spoken language.

Leaving space for audience participation.

A language that isn't a big compost heap like English.

English 2, where every single word is a swear word.

Making an operating system because God told you to.

Making a new operating system to talk to God because you don't trust MS-DOS.

Whether talking to God has more or less stringent security requirements than a voting machine.

Which mental illnesses make you a better programmer.

Implementing Minesweeper in your new OS in case you get bored talking to God.

The TempleOS indie game scene.

The music video generator Jim is never going to make.

Reconciling how you feel about a mentally ill asshole.

Being very online and really into the N-word.

Everyone loving your forum posts about weird bespoke operating system but being less into your race war posts.

Art and technology paradropped in from an alternate timeline.

Outsider art suspension bridges.

A trash peninsula that no longer has any homeless encampments on it.

Building a castle out of shopping carts and reclaimed concrete.

The text adventure that they named the genre after.

Dad bringing home an Amiga 500 and playing Marble Madness with you.

Accidentally flood-filling the wrong place and getting really upset because you don't know about the undo button.

The cool kid with the advanced Amiga 500 who becomes progressively less cool over time because his dad refuses to get a new computer.

Seeing Doom and realizing that your beloved Amiga is done for, and Commodore going out of business later that year.

Telling journalists that you don't exist when they approach you for an interview.

Backing away from the ARG puzzle you're designing when you realize solving it would involve doxxing yourself.

Building rapport with games journalists, but taking so long to make your next game that they've left the industry.

The impossibility of building a fan following in video games after 2013.

Wearing a ratty fake mustache for your Problematic Jim alter ego.

Lying about how you made the horse talk.

Trying and failing to preserve the mystery by giving a fake mundane answer.

Finding value in a work while still being critical of it.

Becoming the avatar of embarrassing pop music.

Reclaiming "guilty pleasure" to mean something you enjoy by a problematic creator.

Society shaming you more for liking Fall Out Buy than liking a Polanski film.

What it would take to turn the average band into sex pests.

Soap opera production schedules.

Actors playing the same role for sixty years.

Not watching The Simpsons or South Park any more, but figuring that South Park must be holding up better because nobody is posting embarrassing clips of it on Twitter.

Your creative voice ossifying in the 90s and having to write in that voice for the rest of your life.

Remaining in the Garfield mines for the rest of your life when Garfield's legacy of shitposts is already secure.

Hoping that "goodbye" in Tok Pisin is a transliteration of "see you in hell."

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