Topic Lords

348. A Normal Spud Gun for Normal Children


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Lords:

  • Kate
  • Andrew
  • Topics:

    • Movies that are supposed to be good and kind of annoyingly are actually good
    • Making friends when you're old
    • Paris's pneumatic mail system
    • Forgiven, by A. A. Milne
      • https://www.poeticous.com/a-a-milne/forgiven-i-found-a-little-beetle-so-that-beetle-was-his-name
      • Microtopics:

        • The skill to make the noises that are in your head.
        • Writing quests for Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
        • Sanrio's NDA-enforcing snipers.
        • A crocodile that was invented in 1978.
        • Writing quests that force the artists to figure out how a crocodile would wear sunglasses.
        • Writing the dialog tree as the player is clicking on options, like Gromit placing tracks right as the train is about to roll over them.
        • Spending five years shipping the first part of a live service game and then shipping additional parts every few weeks.
        • Trying to rebuild a house while someone is living in it.
        • Lingo 2.
        • Dungeon Gals.
        • The kind of game you can't draw a map of.
        • Teetering on the razor's edge of "I'm a genius" and "I don't understand anything."
        • What does the developer tooling look like for games that have non-euclidean spaces?
        • Duplicated spaces with secret warp volumes.
        • The kind of movie that an Infinite Jest reader will recommend.
        • Terry Cavanagh's game about making tea.
        • Egg Game?
        • Astonishing movie running times.
        • Five minutes of two men intensely looking at each other.
        • An adventure movie about two best friends who hate each other.
        • James Joyce: maybe he's good?
        • A guy who lives in the middle of nowhere who thinks about politics a lot and never talks to anyone.
        • Gerry, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
        • The art is coming from inside the head.
        • Pro Shots vs. bootlegs.
        • Jukebox musicals.
        • Shawshank Redimension.
        • Shawshank Redemption 2: Shawshank Herdemption.
        • Communicating between cell blocks by flushing the toilet.
        • Loove a.k.a. Flushed a.k.a. Lavatory Lovastory.
        • Mixing your DNA with someone you've never seen.
        • Florida Writing.
        • Gravity Slingshotting around your hobbies to reach friendship.
        • Going to GDC and making a bunch of game dev friends.
        • Plateauing at two digits.
        • Getting hobbies that put you in a room with people of your desired gender.
        • Your co-worker at the call center who's married to the CEO of Twinings.
        • Playing puzzle games on the Internet in front of a chatful of puzzle experts.
        • The protagonist getting stuck on a puzzle and the narrator turning to the audience and saying "chat, help us out with this one."
        • Making friends vs. keeping friends.
        • The friendships that you both care enough about to have maintained.
        • I Love a Thoont.
        • Building a pneumo to relieve congestion on the telegraph system.
        • When the telegraph was invented vs. when pneumatics were invented.
        • Why banks had pneumatic drive thrus rather than the teller just handing you the stuff through the window like a fast food drive thrus.
        • Whimsical coffee preparation.
        • The cost of building a giant tube between the coasts of North America.
        • The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.
        • Inventing a frictionless tube.
        • Preparing burritos to be magnetically fired.
        • Rifled sewers.
        • Plunging into the Lithosphere.
        • A diagram that shows how the burrito gets heated.
        • The Taste of Breaking the Sound Barrier.
        • Getting your poem voice on.
        • Whether A. A. Milne knew about hash tags.
        • Non-Fungible Beetles.
        • Oh great, the same beetle came back!
        • The kind of look that means "it's me, the same beetle!"
        • The XIX and XX centuries.
        • Writing Very Blackly.
        • Why Does Pooh Own a Shotgun?
        • All the talking Winnie the Pooh animals turning out to be aliens, like Starfox.
        • A pneumatic tube, except instead of burritos you're firing cork.
        • Writing your thesis on pop guns and continuing to do post doc research on pop guns.
        • Spud Guns vs. Potato Cannons.
        • A Normal Spud Gun for Normal Children.
        • Seeing that Wikipedia considers Spud Guns low importance and thinking of ways to make Spud Guns more important.
        • Too Many Posts.
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