Topic Lords

39. A Delicious Mushball

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  • Shane is a Jesuit Regent who used to make video games.
    • https://twitter.com/OptimistPanda
    • Donate to the Jesuit Refugee Service: https://jrs.net/donate
    • Nathan makes games mostly about jumping and shooting 2D monsters.
      • https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames
      • http://mommysbestgames.com/

        • Topics:

        • Beforeigners (Norwegian TV show about refugees from different historical periods showing up in present-day)
          • Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASr0n5LnWnU
          • Curating your child's entertainment so they grow up with good taste
          • I spent half an hour watching someone solve a Sudoku and it was amazing
            • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9aUIxdb4
            • Brandon asks: "Taking care of children vs taking care of pets"
            • Other jobs game designers would do well performing, after they leave game dev
            • History of changing worldviews -- not just Darwin, but things like the Big Bang and Continental Drift were originally seen as crackpot fringe theories

              • Microtopics:

              • Saying your names at the beginning of the podcast and activating your wonder twin powers.
              • Quality inventive gameplay-driven entertainment.
              • Doing an earnest plug for once.
              • Figuring out how to make games for someone other than gamers.
              • Your game dev heroes being in their fifties and chasing success they had in their twenties.
              • Taking a vow of poverty and annoying off your wife and child.
              • Needing to find a patron because your art is not commercially viable.
              • No longer having your finger on the pulse of indie games.
              • Assuming the internet will be all over a particular TV series but somehow there are not endless memes about it.
              • Vikings apparating into modern Oslo and and solving a murder mystery.
              • The show about Vikings solving a modern-day murder mystery somehow not incorporating The Immigrant Song.
              • The American remake of Beforeigners where it's still about vikings so the protagonists can be white.
              • Finding out that a game is only four hours long and asking if it could be two hours instead.
              • Introducing video games to your child in order of release so they develop a taste for the classics.
              • Figuring out how to introduce your child to the Internet without ruining them.
              • Installing an internet proxy to protect your child from depraved porn by replacing it with videos of normal people having normal sex.
              • Today's teens playing Bushido Blade and discovering that it has a pocket sand button.
              • The classic game history situations.
              • Wanting your child to like all the hobbies you think are boring.
              • Watching a man repeatedly astonish himself at his own ability to solve a puzzle.
              • Feeling like you are in conversation with the puzzle designer.
              • Watching a movie over and over again.
              • Taking the smallest possible step when a problem seems impossible.
              • One of those Master Class videos if the person was discovering that they were a master while making the video.
              • A five year old taking the family car to California to buy a Lamborghini with the $3 in his pocket.
              • Feeling your family tree stretching out forwards into the future and behind you into the past.
              • Watching your child grow agency and opinions and knowing it's your responsibility to shape them.
              • You and the cat enjoying each other's company while the cat doesn't die.
              • Your kid doing something bad and everybody looking at you.
              • Cheering when your child goes down the stairs correctly.
              • Game design teaching you to see the world as systems.
              • Studying economics at an academic level and feeling like you're turning our game design skills inside out.
              • Trying to convince people outside of game development that being a game developer has taught you anything meaningful.
              • Being failed up to a level design role because anyone can scrub out a tile map.
              • Level designers getting more respect when it started requiring technical chops.
              • Needing a web page and getting your nephew to do it rather than paying an expensive consultant, because frankly 99% of people can't tell the difference.
              • Trying to write your own CSS renderer because you don't want to just make it a web page.
              • Trying to convince your friends that you were once a big shot in the game dev world.
              • The Societate Jesu having an incredible faction progression.
              • Giving people progressively cooler titles instead of raises.
              • Getting an extra year of being a priest before you die.
              • Doing a cool thing while you're alone and getting bummed out that nobody saw it.
              • Trying to throw fruits and vegetables as close as possible to the ceiling without actually hitting it.
              • Hating doing marketing so much that you invent a project where the whole point is that it's a secret and you'll never promote it.
              • How South America kind of fits right into Africa.
              • Hypothesizing continental drift and the scientific community telling you to fuck right off.
              • The lost continent of Lemuria.
              • Fringe scientific theories only gaining traction when existing scientists die.
              • Taking comfort in the fact that how people in the past were wrong but what we believe now is definitely correct and we'll never have to change our minds.
              • Being presented with contrary evidence and dying on the spot.
              • The most delicious bolus.
              • Eating cookie dough rather than ruining it by putting it in the oven.
              • The variety of textures and flavors of drinking milk and then eating cookies. (Not dipping the cookies in milk.)
              • The worldview shift that leads you to change your handle from Cynical Panda to Optimist Panda.
              • Playing Bomberman '93 with your nine year old and eventually having to explain to him that 93 is your dad's age.
              • An alternate-history Spock-with-a-goatee video game console.
              • Living in your house for 30 years and suddenly discovering three additional rooms.
              • Buying a NES and SNES classic even though you've been playing those games in emulation since the 90s.

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