Topic Lords

67. Immersion Blended Lasagna

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Lords:

  • Tim
    • https://giantsquidstudios.com/
    • Nathan
      • https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames
      • http://mommysbestgames.com/website_store/index.html

        • Topics:

        • Are there any negatives to having an easy mode that takes the player through the entire game? Should the "best ending" be locked somehow in easy mode?
        • Why are we drawn to art that updisturbs, depresses, or scares? (And yes, "catharsis" is a weak answer!)
        • How Super Mario 35 (and maybe battle royales in general) solved the worst unsolvable problem of multiplayer
        • John asks: "Licensing issues and content guidelines have led to a homogenized aesthetic on YouTube that leads to all produced-in-bulk videos for children having the same sound effects and music."
        • What's different (better or worse) about playing games with kids? Do you play games with your kids?
        • What sports would be more interesting with low/0 gravity? Or with higher gravity?
        • Tim's vegan commune cooking disaster stories

          • Microtopics:

          • Shoot 1-Up.
          • Controlling all your spaceships at the same time.
          • The big thing about Galaga.
          • The forever scrolling timeline of new content that you're fed all the time.
          • The funniest Boris Vallejo painting.
          • Being bummed to find out that Boris Vallejo was looking at people and painting them rather than just imagining them.
          • Name-dropping Tom of Finland.
          • Staring at pink blobs all the time.
          • Making sure you're not wearing your good socks because they're about to be blown off.
          • Looping the game twice with no deaths and no bombs.
          • Jamestown.
          • Being forced to do something unpleasant to feel a sense of satisfaction when you are given what you want.
          • Not supporting an easy mode as well as you should have because you assumed those people could just play co-op.
          • Bringing in a playtester who has never used a mouse before.
          • Not valuing your own fake accomplishments as much because other people accomplished the same fake accomplishments more easily.
          • Save the Date, by Chris Cornell.
          • Having to wake up to play Super Hard mode.
          • The necessity of hand-tuning all the enemy AI in shoot em up difficulty levels.
          • Psychoanalyzing the entire human race at once.
          • People turning to media to experience strong emotions.
          • Whether it's easier to elicit good or bad emotions in the viewer.
          • The safety of seeing a horrible thing that will definitely never happen to you.
          • Being unusually upset by the Boston Marathon bombing because you recently ran a marathon.
          • Knowing that an album is going to fuck you up because it is too proximate, and choosing not to listen.
          • A scary movie taking months to purge from your brain.
          • The relief of when the demons show up.
          • People lining up at a party to play That Dragon Cancer.
          • How movies basically never hurt children.
          • Wanting to know what's in the box but also knowing that what's in the box will ruin your life for months.
          • How you lose half the time in multiplayer games.
          • Super Mario 35.
          • The various ways video games can make you feel like you're winning harder.
          • Taking turns feeling good at video games.
          • We Didn't Playtest This At All
          • Everybody choosing a number and everybody who chose 5 being the winner.
          • Trying to win at Scrabble based on style points.
          • Coming up with as many secondary win conditions as possible so that everybody can win even if they lost.
          • Choosing a safeword to indicate that it's time to switch topics.
          • Making all your own opulently animated scenes.
          • Playing games as a way to develop social relationships.
          • Empowering your son to express himself even though he's making a shitty Pokemon deck.
          • Finding non-combat activities to do with the Pokemon that are not very good at combat.
          • Buying SNES Classic to play games with your son and then realizing that there are more worthwhile games to play than those that merely entertain.
          • Games which give you value that you can take out into the world.
          • Wanting to show your kid the good stuff so that they can have a better life than you did.
          • Learning music theory by listening to Justin Bieber.
          • Worrying that you'll pollute your kid's natural interests with your taste in video games.
          • A very nice video game world for other people to explore.
          • Staring at people and saying "papaya" until they're like "why do you keep saying papaya"
          • Skateboarding in low gravity.
          • Full contact basketball with trampolines.
          • Immersion Blender Night.
          • Immersion blended salad.
          • Immersion blended vegan lasagna.
          • Learning the hard way that flambe does not burn off that much of the alcohol.
          • A gargantuan stock pot of chocolatey oatmeal that is far too salty for human consumption.
          • Improvising around your cooking mistakes.
          • Promising to talk about Paddington 2 next episode.
          • Going to the Giant Squid web page and checking out Tim's bio.
          • Barf-sealed copies of Pig Eat Ball.

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