Topic Lords

45. Remember To Pronounce The Apostrophe

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  • John B is @YouOldSoAndSo everywhere.
    • 20th President of the United States James Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem: https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-james-a-garfields-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem
    • Khan Academy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EINpkcphsPQ
    • Nick is @NickPancakes on Twitter.

      • Topics:

      • Micro game jams, Weekend of ZZT
        • WarioWare D.I.Y. archive: https://archive.org/details/WarioWareDIYWarehouse
        • Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer (a.k.a. SMZ3): https://samus.link/
        • SGDQ2019 co-op speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uujsW7yFkZU
        • The primary motivation for information acquisition being grist for making and understanding jokes
          • Ken Jennings' books about knowledge acquisition and comedy:
          • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79195.Brainiac
          • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373629-planet-funny
          • These two contain the sum of all human knowledge:
          • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1745/8107/products/IMG_E1971_1400x.JPG?v=1571480346
          • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/BillyJoel_StormFront.jpg
          • Roblox as the most popular game platform
            • Downloading Wikipedia: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-download-wikipedia/
            • All roads lead to "philosophy" on Wikipedia: https://flowingdata.com/2011/06/08/all-roads-lead-to-philosophy-on-wikipedia/
            • Adopt Me!, one of the most popular games created in Roblox: https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/DreamCraft/Adopt_Me!
            • I Wanna Maker: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114940/I_Wanna_Maker/
            • Quill points out: this list of things unexpectedly named after people: https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/
              • "Widenius has three children – My, Max, and Maria – who inspired the names for MySQL, MaxDB and the MySQL-Max distribution, and MariaDB" https://twitter.com/davidjustodavid/status/1288903463422722049
              • Becoming a film nerd
                • Turner Classic Movies, from the same company that brings you Mortal Kombat: http://www.tcm.com/
                • They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? - 1,000 Greatest Films, compiled using a Metacritic-like approach of looking at other people's lists: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm
                • Also, their 1,000 Noir Films list: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm
                • The Narrow Margin (1952): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044954/
                • The Tall Target (1951): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044105/
                • A good starting list for train movies, by no means exhaustive or definitive: https://allgiftsconsidered.com/the-31-best-train-movies-of-all-time/
                • List of films on Netflix from the year 2000 and before, total count at the time of search approx. 250, compared to around 3,500 for 2001-2020 : https://reelgood.com/movies/source/netflix?filter-year_end=2000
                • Kanopy, a movie streaming service you may be able to use through your local library: https://www.kanopy.com/
                • Qwikster, b. 2011 d. 2011: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/5-reasons-why-qwikster-is-now-deadster/246465/
                • 1939, Hollywood's "annus mirabilis": https://ew.com/movies/2019/12/22/1939-hollywoods-greatest-year/
                • 1957 in Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_in_film
                • Patton Oswalt's book about becoming a film nerd, Silver Screen Fiend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571109-silver-screen-fiend
                • CBoyardee, Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden, and the failure of Barkley 2.
                  • CBoyardee's Dilbert trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rGUlVvVJ4
                  • www.nfl.com: Just check it out.
                  • Barkley, Shut Up and Jam Gaiden: https://www.talesofgames.com/related_game/barkley-shut-up-jam-gaiden/
                  • Hardcore Gaming 101 article about the game: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/barkley-shut-up-and-jam-gaiden/
                  • Barkley 2 Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/talesofgames/barkley-2-an-rpg-sequel-to-barkley-shut-up-and-jam
                  • Barkley 2 PAX Prime 2015 interview for PC Gamer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHSyDq_IyYE
                  • A longer look at Barkley 2 from that same PAX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni2hceqpqHA
                  • Barkley 2 - Janky Demo: https://talesofgames.itch.io/barkley-2
                  • The gun's of Barkley 2: https://bowelflies.tumblr.com/post/185855518364/the-magical-realms-of-t%C3%ADr-na-n%C3%B3g-escape-from
                  • Dingletopia, Gortarius' game that actually came out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1286140/Dingletopia_Nation_Under_Siege_by_Orcs/
                  • Not mentioned in the show, but CBoyardee also did some writing on the 2019 video game Katana ZERO: https://www.katanazero.com/
                  • Cyberdwarf Body Pillow (Warning: Tsundere): https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/767094-dakimakura-body-pillow

                    • Microtopics:

                    • What the insulin pod had to say.
                    • An extremely sexy insulin pod telegraphing its own death.
                    • Mourning many insulin pods at a rapid clip.
                    • President Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
                    • Making your first ZZT game.
                    • Doing fetch quest after fetch quest until two AIs fall in love and a nuclear reactor explodes.
                    • Attempts to archive the user-uploaded games before the Wario Ware DIY servers get shut down.
                    • The only Meat Boy game to come out for the Wii.
                    • A demon that can only exist on sand and is formed of the sand.
                    • ShareCart, the save format shared between many different games so you can save in one game and load in another.
                    • How much Dr. Sbaitso likes you and how much his henchmen like you.
                    • Spending an afternoon trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes.
                    • Flipping random bits to see what comes out there other end.
                    • Generating a hash of a large file twice in a row and getting two different results.
                    • Seeing an exciting glitch in Super Mario 64 and nobody being able to replicate it until someone tries flipping bits in RAM like a solar ray might.
                    • The randomizer hack that combines Link to the Past and Super Metroid into a single game.
                    • Thirty people all making different games and hoping something interesting comes from mashing them together.
                    • Why the heck everyone is suddenly talking about cake.
                    • The primary use for your understanding of the world being making and understanding comedy.
                    • Your filters going to sleep first, so you make weirder connections when you're half-asleep.
                    • How everyone would know all the world capitals if you had also been obsessed with them as a child.
                    • Spending 10% of your brain on how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism and the rest on the lyrics to "We Didn't Start The Fire."
                    • How to download Wikipedia so you can give your son Wikipedia before you give him internet access.
                    • How Roblox is a much more popular game platform than any you've ever touched.
                    • Not knowing how to make games that appeal to children, but knowing how to make games that remind 40 year olds of when they were children.
                    • The incredibly accurate clone of Counterstrike that some rando made inside of Roblox.
                    • Roblox users calling platforming levels "Obbies."
                    • The window in your life where you don't talk to children.
                    • Watching a four year old play Minecraft and they're just breaking and replacing the same block over and over to see if it happens the same way every time.
                    • A Roblox level that is just a series of waterslides.
                    • "I Wanna Maker," for making your own masocore platformers.
                    • How PageRank is named after Larry Page and Debian is named after Deb and Ian.
                    • How Price Club is named after Sol Price and Main St. in San Fransisco is named after Charles Main.
                    • Jim trying to figure out when humans first called a street Main St. and giving up.
                    • "Taco Bell" appropriating respectfully because it respects the romance language adjective-noun order.
                    • Reading about aptronyms in Marilyn vos Savant's column.
                    • Sending your octuplets to a carnival owned by Larry Kidkill.
                    • The late NASCAR racer Dick Trickle.
                    • Changing our names to Fuck and starting a band called The Fucks and that's it, that's the tweet.
                    • Unemployment as a prerequisite for starting any hobby as an adult.
                    • Film Noir figuring out how to tell adult stories after the Hayes Code was enacted.
                    • The constraints of being set on a train leading to compelling storytelling.
                    • The train movie as a slightly less constrained bottle episode.
                    • Whether they allow trains on the Internet Movie Car Database.
                    • Yelling at librarians until morale improved.
                    • Libraries often offering ebooks and movie streaming.
                    • Netflix streaming having a limited selection of movies but the disc mailing service having every DVD, but it takes two or three days to get it.
                    • Filmmakers being huge nerds and that's why they keep making movies about making movies.
                    • 1939 and 1957 in filmmaking.
                    • The history of Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden.
                    • Destroying Manhattan by performing a Chaos Dunk.
                    • Setting your cyberpunk universe after basketball has been outlawed.
                    • The dangers of running a successful Kickstarter.
                    • The game design conceit that there should be way too much of everything.
                    • Bizarre unthinkable development processes that somehow in the end produce a shippable game.
                    • A 397-page forum thread of people asking "Where is Barkley 2?"
                    • The second concrete product of the Barkley 2 Kickstarter, after the CyberDwarf body pillow.

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