Topic Lords

40. I'll Show Them... I'll Invent Superman!

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Lords:

  • John
    • Biker Chicks Tier List. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1591151119
    • Jesse
      • https://twitter.com/thefringthing

        • Topics:

        • Canadian Heritage Minutes
          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadarm
          • YouTube playlist of Heritage Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWANopglXI&list=PL1848FF9428CA9A4A
          • List of Heritage Minutes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Minutes
          • What are your tips for collaborating with people with a higher or lower skill level than you?
          • Are we allowed to talk yet about how for decades all 3D games were incredibly ugly
            • https://twitter.com/BlazeHedgehog/status/1247200134057717760
            • The website I build in high school & college is lost to the ages, or: how to reconstruct memories of your past without external records
            • The lost Willie Brown records
              • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac
              • Willie Brown - Future Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9rC8olaVY
              • "Grandma Blues" cover (prank?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9xhKLJbXs
              • PBS History Detectives episode about Paramount Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKQbZV4lQk4

                • Microtopics:

                • Being a playable character in Frog Fractions 2.
                • Ranking every Biker Chick from worst to best.
                • Regretting not having more Canadian Lords on the show.
                • Still making your TV PSAs even though nobody watches TV any more.
                • The big robotic articulating arm on the space shuttles.
                • That time Quebec was going to quit Canada.
                • A group shot with one teen of every ethnicity and gender configuration.
                • Reenacting the time someone told the creator of Superman that nobody will care about Superman.
                • Canada's revolting safety PSAs.
                • Hanging maple syrup for treason.
                • The biggest man-made explosion prior to the invention of nuclear weapons.
                • Celebrating the people who people who became successful after leaving your country.
                • Trading on the low-key anti-Americanism that is part of the Canadian national identity.
                • Taking a 45 minute break to worship the military.
                • Deciding that an idea is important and jamming it into the brain of millions of people.
                • Doing your best to enjoy yourself even though you are the worst musician at this particular jam session.
                • The high pressure world of game jamming.
                • The anxiety of waiting to be picked for a sports team.
                • Trusting your collaborators.
                • Not being a mentor so much as a friend who is around to answer questions.
                • Feeling like you failed your tutoring student but he was pleased and passed his course, so probably it was fine.
                • The ongoing war between R programmers and Python programmers.
                • Making your favorite programming language tolerable by totally replacing the syntax.
                • The smoke effect in Super Mario 64 looking like the MS Paint graffiti tool.
                • Goldeneye slappy hands.
                • The difficulty of going back to the video games of the Ugly Period.
                • Playing old video games on an unreasonably large CRT TV that you can't move by yourself.
                • Using modern technology to remove the texture filtering from Nintendo 64 games.
                • Conditioning gamers to desire the next step in graphical realism.
                • An epic story with three CDs full of cutscenes.
                • The old movie connoisseurs who want to see only the best examples of terrible stilted 1940s acting.
                • Making a video game in the mid 00s and having to support both SD and HD aspect ratios.
                • Moving your web site from Geocities to a cooler hosting provider in France who then stops hosting web sites because of a change in French law.
                • A gap in your personal history where no written records exist because they were on the early internet.
                • Letting a web site expire because you built it on old technology that your hosting provider now charges extra to support.
                • A government form asking you to remember every place you've lived for the past fifteen years.
                • The threshold for memory sticking.
                • What we would do with our missing histories if we had them.
                • Allowing yourself to remember a period in your life and then putting it in deep storage.
                • The object as a record of a moment.
                • Dredging the river near the defunct Paramount Records factory in Wisconsin, in hopes of finding pre-war blues records.
                • Old blues music now being exclusively the province of rich white boomers.
                • Writing and recording a fake Willie Brown song to prank record collectors.
                • Recording blues albums so you can sell phonograph cabinets to Black folks who can finally afford nice things.
                • Your record company being unable to obtain shellac during World War 2, so you go back to making chairs.
                • Training a neural network on old blues records to recreate a song using the single shard of the shattered shellac record you found.
                • Finding shards of different shattered shellac records that happen to fit together, and mashing them up.
                • Digitizing LPs by putting them on a flatbed scanner.
                • That time a news broadcast showed the QR code of someone's Bitcoin wallet on screen and someone immediately emptied it.
                • Cutting a new key based on a photograph of someone's key ring, when it's way easier to just break a window.
                • Recovering ancient room ambience by analyzing the striation on ancient pottery.
                • Breaking a code by beating the decryption key out of somebody and not having to read any cryptanalysis white papers.
                • Putting fake information about yourself on Spokeo as part of your personal ARG.

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