231. Game: The Game And Music Experience

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Lords:

• Jeff
  • http://dopeassvideogames.com/
• Tyriq
  • https://fourbitfriday.itch.io/

Topics:

• The shame of not remembering any good jokes for kids and having to write jokes on the spot for impatient children
• What's your favorite genre to consume that you have no interest in making (or think you'd suck at?)
• High Sidin'
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5INAxH1HD7s
• Poetry
  • https://poets.org/poem/poetry
• Every mammal has a fish

Microtopics:

• Line of sight for the fog of war.
• Plugging unplugging.
• How to keep looking at TikTok when your phone is destroyed.
• Telling your kid that Youtube broke.
• Youtube videos that teach your child how to give a thumbs up.
• Having more kids because it pays for itself.
• Why did the princess have no dresses?
• Explaining to a four year old about the $20 Sack Pyramid.
• Weaning yourself off of saying /s by saying "wocka wocka" instead.
• Teaching your kids better standards for comedy.
• Snow White did this and then Belle was there and Ariel was there with her human legs.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but for making pie.
• Looking up knock knock jokes online.
• Your kid finding your secret hoard of popsicle sticks and realizing you didn't just make all those jokes up from your head.
• Things you want to have made but don't want to make
• Trying to surprise yourself with your own level design.
• Wallowing in the stuckness.
• Whether game developers know when they're making a bad game.
• Playtesting the shit out of a game because you enjoy playtesting so much.
• Questionable hip hop.
• Thrashy hyperpop.
• Full-time access to a green screen and what it does to your head.
• Comedy FMV games.
• Making a career out of making bad art except it's funny and having to live with yourself.
• Approachable game projects.
• Pivoting from making an action RPG to making a Vampire Survivors clone in the space of a weekend.
• Making a bunch of efforts and they're all terrible.
• Whispering into a distortion pedal.
• Putting your vocals through a bunch of effects pedals because your lyrics are terrible.
• Enjoying an art creation process until you get too self conscious and ruin it.
• Wallowing in the stuckness.
• Making art and never showing it to anybody.
• A twin stick shooter that's just for me.
• Game Heads.
• Onlookers getting hyphy.
• "Side Show" by 415.
• Back when Oakland was in the 415 area code.
• Turning tight ones.
• Turning brodies in an intersection while commuters look at your 15-inch subwoofers.
• Rogue car events.
• Game: the Games and Music Experience.
• A lowrider with the entirely wrong number of switches.
• Whether Boots Riley and Too Short still live in Oakland.
• Aspirational trailer music choices.
• Car Stealth: drive around a corner and hide.
• Missing Rock Band but not missing it enough to install Fortnite.
• Initiating taunts in Fortnite by strumming the guitar controller.
• The immovable critic twinkling his skin.
• Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.
• Poetry with a diss track vibe to it.
• Good going, dumbass, you got into poetry.
• Whether poetry should rhyme.
• Discriminating against business documents.
• Putting a poem on genius.com and adding a "wocka wocka" annotation after every joke.
• Spending an hour searching for animal names followed by "fish"
• Which fish have the thickest bones?
• Buffalo Fish Wings.
• A fish that is way too big and shaped like the letter D.
• Is Beyonce a Nicki Minaj friends??
• Grandma's big bowl of worsties.
• Energy drinks that make you want to disassemble a clock radio.
• Drinking C4.
• The guy you know who always has at least three Red Bulls on him at all times.
• Bringing home a one-of-a-kind Monet even though you know your roommate is a Monet fiend and will eat it immediately.
• The Master P of devouring Kit Kats.
• The Queen of Bites and Sips.
• Your duty to eat snacks before they go bad.
• Eating one marshmallow right now.
• The shitposty garbage that made Twitter fun.
• Here's some pants pooping jokes, wocka wocka.

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