Podcasts about Frog Fractions

Lords: * Alex * Shannon Topics: * The rapid proliferation of identical mobile games * https://store.steampowered.com/app/2348100/YEAHYOUWANTTHOSEGAMESRIGHTSOHEREYOUGONOWLETSSEEYOUCLEARTHEM/ * Randomly generated time traveler loadout * Turning your body into 3D printer filament after you die * https://www.suspenders.com/products/1-1-2-undergarment-hold-up-reg-suspender-hip-clip-style-patented-no-slip-reg-clips * Girls Only Want One Thing, Isabel Correra * https://www.instagram.com/isabellecorreawrites/p/Cz3t1xQOnx/ Microtopics: * Alien Clay. * Gravity Falls. * Tryharding at Duolingo. * Removing the popsicle sticks in the right order or the king dies in lava. * Writing a solitaire game generator and uploading 30,000 solitaires to the app store. * Ads that are not even pretending to not be falsely advertising to you. * Mobile game advertisers all pretending that their games are the same non-existent game genre. * Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them! * People saying "that ad for a game where you pull out popsicle sticks until a king doesn't die looks pretty good but when I click on it it's a completely different game." * Lying to consumers in the 80s vs. lying to consumers today. * Ads that are just two horrifying images to get your adrenalin spiking. * Screaming Tamagotchi. * The Paw Patrol diagetically being funded by real life Paw Patrol merch sales. * Maximizing emotional whiplash when it doesn't matter which two emotions they are. * Having a week to prepare for a one way trip to Northern Italy in 1326. * Going on a trip and bringing along your undeveloped Broca's area. * Bootlegging reproducing GMO crop seeds in Renaissance Italy. * Wizard/Prophecy Person. * 21st Century Traveling Merchants. * Bringing your jar of penicillin mold to the 14th century. * Being stranded in Renaissance Italy and becoming travelling minstrels. * Larger bearded guy that wears suspenders (under a graphic tee) * When were you born? The 14th century. Fuck you. * Bringing a snack to the spooky extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan who lives in the woods. * Big ol' dogs. * Non-electronic megaphones. * A little top you can spin that's made of grandpa. * A magic genie that can grant any wish as it's for a small striated plastic trinket. * Getting turned into Redstone after you die. * A poorly-made fidget spinner that used to be your husband. * Shipping ashes and asking that ashes be put into things. * The sloughed off skin cells coating everything you send in the mail. * A shitty fidget spinner that just happens to have some human remains in it. * Where human composting is allowed. * Places it's no longer legal to bury a body. * The problem with imbuing symbols with value. * An alternative wedding ring that you switch to as necessary. * A plant that is a metaphor for death. * Grandpa living forever by being repeatedly melted down and 3D printed into a new toy when you get sick of the old once. * Bringing 3D printing back to 14th century Italy to revolutionize reliquaries. * Giving the world both Frog Fractions and Topics. * How many people you pass on the street each day are wearing suspenders under their shirt. * Hip Clips Style Under Ups. * A poem that's in the bucket twice. * Love is a seed and lust is a bird ravenous for seeds. * Burying the word sorry and seeing what grows. * Poetry that's just a paragraph of text. * What you're going to be if you eat the fruit of the sorry fruit. * Trying to imit inimitable things. * There's a lot of different women and they all want different things. (Except they all want to travel back in time.) * My Mother's Savage Daughter. * Girls only want one thing: to not be found on the Internet.

Lords: * Alexander * https://youtube.com/@L4MPLIGHT * Chall Topics: * Having an address after not having an address * Slopsquatting * Book curses * This boke ys myne, Eleanor Worcester * https://15thcfeminist.substack.com/p/the-preservation-of-womens-words * The David Lynch random number generator * Esper says: My personal favorite use of numbers stations is the brief “station ID” type messages on Secret Agent Radio, a radio station that plays funky groovy Bond soundtrack-type music. Every now and then between songs, you'll get a brief clip of creepy French-accented actual number station recordings, which really sells the vibe: https://somafm.com/player24/station/secretagent * Do game designers ever go into public policy or vice-versa? Microtopics: * Math. * An incredible youtube channel you don't know how to search for. * Lamplight but with a four. * Making art that only a tetrachromat could appreciate and then finding a tetrachromat to appreciate it. * The secret color: yellow. * Crashlands 2. * Watching X-Files until you've already seen all the Darin Morgan episodes. * Having twenty shirts to choose from and the same place to sit every day. * How long it takes to tire off the non-stop stream of novelty. * Working for yourself vs. working for someone else. * How to stop feeling like life is rushing past you. * Running a Kickstarter to get chores done around the house. * How to get your ADHD brain to do work in purpose. * Trying to get past the gauntlet of open browser tabs to the one where you get work done. * Running 100 times. * Productivity! * Buying a productivity calendar and then glaring at the calendar and saying "you can't trick me, calendar" * Nefarious NPM packages really popping off in the past few years. * Cool pens dot com. * Kazaam vs. Shazaam. * What people knew before they could search things on the Internet. * Dog bone facts. * The apocryphal things that LLMs like to say. * Lost books that we know about because they were mentioned in less old books. * The Actual Monster Mash. * Jeff Minter's Polybius. * Nobody ever releasing a fake Frog Fractions 2 even though Jim could never disavow it. * Hash tag relatable stories about medieval scribes. * Laws about book mishandling. * Dukes collecting books like treasures. * Putting a curse in your book to make sure nobody steals it. * The Falling Disease. * Irascibly Incoherent Book Curses. * May your NPM packages be infected with the falling disease. * A curse that can only curse people who can read. * Young people getting their grubby fingers dirty in the yard and leaving fingerprints in your books. * Someone left their bookmark in my book and the bookmark rotted again. * Cursing podcast bootleggers with the affliction where they always put their headphones on backwards. * The cheat code to unlock Nukey. * May your X button get stuck. * The wildest spelling that could possibly make sense. * A book that once belonged to a library. * Borrowing a book about space from your first grade teacher and forgetting to return it and learning about the ADHD shame procrastination spiral. * Blessed be he who steals this book. * Walking into a library and instantly being completely overwhelmed. * Giving your child the talk about where Little Free Libraries come from. * David Lynch giving you the weather in his all caps voice. * Why David Lynch never draws a 7. * The Reproducibility Crisis. * The Law of the Iterated Logarithm. * All the ways we make mistakes. * Coded drug drop messages on Britney Spears' Insagram. * The 485.152nd Amendment. * A great source of puns that must've existed for thousands of years. * How to predict whether your idea will work and then how to test whether it worked. * The Double Crossover Diamond Interchange.

Lords: * Jenni * Rebecca * https://toots.ravenoak.dev/@rebecca * Weft Magazine: https://www.weftmagazine.com/ Topics: * Getting emotionally ambushed by a children's toy piano * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g8fzwmnw8M * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvhdHkugIPE * All the non-art things you have to do to get external validation about your art * Explaining where owls come from * The Witches are Coming (excerpt) by Lindy West * https://playingintheworldgame.com/2021/11/15/the-witches-are-coming-by-lindy-west/ * Ask Me About Loom(s in video games) * Festive gazelles, vampire christmas, and the rest of the christmas card project: https://ravel.me/ggggbbybby/swc * What's a gamp? https://ravel.me/ggggbbybby/js2cawg * In case you need comfy fingering in your life: https://www.knitpicks.com/yarn/comfy-fingering/c/5420197 * The ravelry forum where we play old-lady Minecraft: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/warped-weavers Microtopics: * Weft: for weavers! * The Weft Zone. * A two and a half foot piano with five notes on it. * Are you the width of your arm? * Pushing a button to increase your team's number. * A white paper about how to not get a divorce when you go to burning man together. * Teaching kids all the animal names, even the ones they'll never encounter, like how we used to teach kids all the state capitals even for the states they'll never visit. * A bird with polka dot wings that could fly over the sea, and John Legend sings about it. * Expecting your child to eventually go through every age. * Now that your kid is 40, he can clean the poop from his own balls. * The umbilical cord being connected to weird meat inside your body. * Kidney bean figures connected by glowing blue lines in the astral plane. * Being paid to stay at home and solve puzzles on you computer. (And go to Zoom meetings.) * All the non-art things you need to do to get your art out there. * The Loom on Loom Island. * Exhibiting at Maker Fair and explaining how a loom works 50,000 times. * Happy last year's birthday! I made you something and it took me this long to finish it. * Getting a fanbase who has a parasocial relationship with you and having to pretend not to be a crotchety asshole. * What it takes to run a personal Mastodon instance. * Getting a call from the school and they're like "your instance isn't federating with the other instances, we need you to come pick it up." * Explaining to a six year old about sexual reproduction, DNA, mutations, and speciation so you can explain where owls come from. * Explaining to your baby that talking is when an organ vibrates in your throat that makes the air vibrate, but he doesn't know what air is, he thinks there's an ether. * What music you can play with the pentatonic scale. * Poko the cockatiel sitting Totoro. * The intern at the mobile factory who spent an afternoon downloading a hundred bootleg MIDIs so that the mobile plays. * Tooting the bad cone inside the house. * The person who would be playing the trumpet in your relationship. * Seeing someone knitting incorrectly in a TV show. * Patching better jokes into the hat DLC. * Using a sequence of transpilers to get your code from point A to point B. * People who make game engines wanting your to touch the engine as much as possible. * Wanting to declare a global variable and the developers say you can't do that but they point you to the bespoke language feature that does the same thing as global variables but in a much more complicated way. * Playing the Frog Fractions text adventure with a gamepad. * Funny looking pirates who are secretly advertisements. * Kidney beans, swans, and other delicious things. * Learning a song from a dye pot that turns things green. * A piano guitar that you just press on. * Showing your husband the Wikipedia page that proves that you hobby exists and he's like "anybody can edit Wikipedia." * Making a sculpture of the Eiffel tower without looking at any references and it ends up just being a letter A with the word "Paris" written nearby. * A coked-up knitting machine. * Spring has sprung so sprang your sprang. * Heddles and treadles and gamps. * Some of your best Comfy Fingering, please. * Basic Sour. * Smelling things in your mouth. * Getting tired of sucking your baby's snot through a tube and getting an electric appropriate. * Starting up Morrowind and being immediately presented with a guy who has a bad case of Bethesda Face. * The thirteen games that have looms in them. * The looms in Assassin's Creed being kind of historically accurate because Ubisoft's whole thing is being kind of historically accurate. * Subscribing to a service that periodically sends you different swatches of cloth so you can disassemble them and figure out how they're woven. * Festive Gazelles. * Happy Vampire Christmas! * Forum drama on Ravelry that ends up with the web designer no longer being allowed to talk directly to customers. * Creative mode for Minecraft except for a bunch of old ladies. * If you lose your bird bone just wait for another bird to hit your window. * Magazines as extremely slow podcasts. * Updating your gender and getting rid of your loser middle name while you're at it.

Lords: * Mitch * https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster * Nathan * https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/ Topics: * I wish someone told me all classic Star Trek was based on writer Ursula LeGuin * Ryu Numbers and Tom Scott Numbers * https://www.tumblr.com/tomscottnumber * How to get out of a chair * Have you seen the new show? by Orcboxer * https://www.tumblr.com/orcboxer/745859389762764801/poob-has-it-for-you * OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LhdhQEKtg * https://www.tumblr.com/fullanimationfilmartist Microtopics: * Mitch from jan Misali. * The episode where we have beef. * The milk frother attachment to the chain staff. * The milk frother is DLC you pay extra for that milk frother. * Hearing about Ursula Leguin for the first time. * The Wind's Twelve Quarters. * The Clock Before Armageddon. * Solving sexism, here on Topic Lords. * Living long enough to discover a new favorite sci-fi author. * What's interesting about Sapphire for the PC Engine, other than the price? * Dreams of gutting the collectors market. * Spending $2,000 on a rare game and trying to convince itself it's good enough to justify the price. * A game that is not very rare but it's still expensive because it's so good that people want to keep it. * Deciding at the last minute to not use motion controls for your Wii rhythm game. * Erdos numbers preceding Bacon numbers because of course it was mathematicians who came up with that shit. * What counts as a Bacon Connection. * A character who has been in a lot of crossover games. * The de facto authority on Ryu numbers. * Whether the frog at the end of TXT World is the same as the game from Frog Fractions. * Whether Hatricia from the Hat DLC is the same as the cat the wedding dress in the photo at the end of TXT World. * The British buy who wears a red shirt. * The ever-shifting discourse for what counts as a connection for Scott Numbers. * Adding rules to make a trivial game into a non-trivial game. * White men who have had a long Youtube career. * Whether Ryu has a surname. * Stephen Hawking's Sabbath number. * Movies and plays tending to tell different stories whereas recorded and live music tends to be the same music. * The hypothetical guy whose favorite movie is just one where they pointed a camera at a stage play. * Why do people love squats? * Doing a 500 pound deadlift to get out of bed. * Doing one exercise to get better at a slightly related exercise. * Fucking up your knees by getting out of a chair repeatedly. * Doing the old heave-ho thing to get out of a chair. * The Inherently Beautiful Design of Everyday Objects, by Bonald Normag. * Watching the X-Files with your wife. * Aged Like Me. * Putting your knees under the chair and standing up, and unbending your knees pushes the chair backwards and it falls over, but you're upright, and then like the punching bags with sand at the bottom the chair bounces back up and hits you in the ass so you don't even need to work to start walking. * A wheelchair with an extremely gentle ejection seat. * Why obese people have worse COVID outcomes. * How to make a bed that fat people want to lie in face-down. * A.C. Slatering. * Why isn't Jim an industrial designer? * Applying for an industrial design job and putting sharks on your resume. * Poob has it for you. * Screenshotting a Tumblr post and cropping out the username to post it on Tiktok and claiming that it's something your therapist told you. * The ghost you're talking about waving its hands in your face being like "I'm right here!" * Tumblr eras. * The event that convinced the Tumblr community that Tumblr users should not ever be in charge of anything. * The people who left Tumblr when they banned porn and then came back when Elon Musk bought Twitter. * The Tumblr Funnymen. * The Tumblr CEO personally harassing trans women off of Tumblr. * Someone who looks like they've been deactivated. * The miracle of Tumblr still being online. * The Poster's Curse. * Bucket, where are you? * A jumble of keywords that someone might hypothetically search for. * Distinctly amateurish outsider art in a way that only a human could create. * Beatboxing puppy! * A contextless segue into a musical number. * An hour long trailer for a twenty minute movie. * A movie made by people who were figuring out 3D animation as they were making it. * Legally distinct Marios rapping. * Being anti-AI art because you are extremely pro copyright law. * The beatboxing puppy scene that everybody forgot about. * It's cool when people make art. * Four consecutive narrators all explaining the same concepts in slightly different ways that slightly contradict each other. * A movie asking you to watch it over and over to pump up its numbers. * Wanting to see a sequel to "OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist" because you want to know what the title will be. * Complaining that Amazing Digital Circus is more important than your own movie.

Lords: * Adam * https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769410/Ash_AdamsGOBSMACKED/ * Linker * https://linker.itch.io/ Topics: * Ways you've changed in the last 20 years that have surprised you * Examples of x animal software running on y animal hardware (ie. fox being cat software on dog hardware) * This argument about whether erasure poetry is poetry * https://www.tumblr.com/whistletown/753096096947011584 * Favourite RPG (videogame or tabletop; open to interpretation) Microtopics: * Launching a game in the deep past. * Indiepocalypse. * After Journey's End vol. 2. * The Monthly Tape Club. * Games that are big enough or marketable enough. * Getting excited about this month's PC Gamer demo disk. * Zine-like game distribution. * Making a small game to express a thought. * Making a living making weird shit. * The methods of marketing a small game. * Practices that have existed for thousands of years. * The boom and bust cycle and why you might or might not get in on the next boom. * Making a shit-ton of money and continuing to pay your employees rather than laying them off. * Whether Gen Z is savvy to the MBA brain worms. * Whether Jim has a college degree. * New England Sarcastic. * Learning about having kids and wondering what it'd be like to have a purpose in life. * Being legally responsible for the survival of the worst roommate imaginable. * Other People's Dogs. * How is your life different from when you were 6 years old? * Becoming a permanent resident of Canada. * A local theater company producing your play. * Frog Fractions: it came from space. * A thing that expresses the maelstrom going on in my head (or soul) * The six 70s funk songs with a long enough stretch of isolated drums that they became the drums for every song ever. * How to make art as an expression of human needs. * Video games: they shouldn't exist. * Expressing a thought with the skills you enjoy flexing. * The virtues of having playtesters. * Bug software running on mammal hardware. * Tiny cats in the bodies of big cats. * Service dogs for cheetahs. * Remaining calm around humans because your dog buddy loves humans. * Erasure Poetry. * Oh Someone Oh God And Then Me. * Formalized rules for determining who gets credit for what when a bunch of people make a piece of art. * Legal precedents for copyright and reproduction rights. * Magnetic fridge poetry. * Inventing an art form that's even more constrained than pixel art somehow. * Unity of effect. * Looking at a blurry 16x16 tile and not being quite sure what it's supposed to be. * RPGs: what even are they? * What you can get away with within the aesthetics of a black and white Game Boy game. * Whether Breath of the Wild counts as an immersive sim and whether immersive sims count as RPGs * Getting into the topic weeds. * Chained Echoes. * Observing the sand running through the hourglass. * Social anxiety preventing you from enjoying tabletop RPGs. * Playing tabletop RPGs with a bunch of weird theater people. * Meeting your friend at a bar to catch up on the latest events in his tabletop RPG sessions. * How to use your name on social media.

Lords: * JohnB * Kory Topics: * I have become a vinyl record enjoyer * Teaching myself C++, or "I learned C++ when I should've learned C, AMA" * Forgetting things as a way of getting other things done * I Sat Belonely by John Lennon * https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/i-sat-belonely-poem-by-john-lennon/ * The vestigial organs of video games Microtopics: * Kbones' Wire Tripper, on display at Wonderville. * Easter eggs for fans of Gordy and the Monster Moon. * Ebirah, Horror of the Deep. * Watching Shin Godzilla immediately after Evangelion. * Dan Ryckert's nonsense over at Giant Bomb. * Listening to a Mario Party game on the radio. * Supplementing all your collecting hobbies with a creative hobby. * Grabbing the record player before the garbage collector does. * An auto-sustaining supply of sound bars entering and leaving the trash. * The Digital Jim Gift Shop. * The Frog Fractions OST Vinyl in Bug Mars Orange. * Auditioning for college radio by DJing a show to tape that won't be aired, just rated by a panel of experts. * The vinyl soundtrack to a Net Yaroze game. * Albums that have an odd number of sides. * Holographic tie fighters that spin around when you shine a light on them. * The Funkopopization of Vinyl. * Hobbies that are better if you have friends. * Using wood glue to clean an LP, then using an inverse record player to play music off the glue's negative grooves. * The glue's glue. * Station to Station, by David Bowie. * The experience of listening to an album all the way through. * Content-producing reasons. * An excuse to listen to an album with friends under the auspices of being productive. * Seeing the music by looking how wide the groove is. * Smooth jazz appreciation. * The Madden NFL of the record shop. * How to justify going to GDC when you're not a game developer. * How to ship a Love2D game. * Drag your file onto a Love Executable. * Putting together your first Arkanoid-like in Game Boy Assembly. * To create Red Dead Redemption, first add two binary digits. * Super FML. * Objectless games. * The data flow required to change screens in a Zelda-like game. * What happened to various aspects of the Adobe Flash ecosystem. * Why console games had such sluggish menus. * A bug where if you do it right you don't have to press A. * How to do a bureaucracy thing. * Keeping an important task in mind so you can accomplish all your less important tasks. * Trying to forget all but one thing you need to do because if you remember two things you'll just sit there being anxious. * Forgetting information that you do have vs. faking information that you don't have. * Foveated vision. * Yesterday's List. * How many Frog Fractions had to die because the most dangerous task was attempted first? * A little tiny little pig. * Balonely. * A Spaniard in the Works. * Reading your own book in your fictionalized biopic. * Whimsical Elisions. * Fun whimsical vs. dark whimsical. * Coming back from India and writing a hundred one minute songs that don't mean anything. * Music that you've listened to so much that it's like listening to breathing air. * Don't Pass Me By and Octopus' Garden. * Game mechanics that still exist because nobody's thought about them in a while. * Moon phases in Shin Megami Tensei. * Demon Fusion. * What Super Mario Wonder does with a combo since it doesn't have points. * A potentially dangerous vestigial organ in video games. * How to make pinball beginner friendly.

Lords: * Avery * Chris Topics: * Cross-Country Skiing * Putting art where advertising usually goes * Running Pico-8 on a Raspberry Pi * The Day I Fell Down the Toilet by Steve Turner * https://ramblinglisasbookreviews.com/2016/09/20/poem-the-day-i-fell-down-the-toilet-by-steve-turner/ * I thought "snow" was one thing but it is about a million different things Microtopics: * Looking for a job as a programmer but finding one as a bard. * A Transformers the Movie style power ballad. * Stopping having a job on purpose. * All the fun things you can do on mountains. * Carrying around a VR helmet so you can take photos of a mountain. * Snowy mountains on one side and lava fields on the other. * Towns named after regular guys. * Yelling at your barista that you live in Frisco. * The tier list of San Francisco's rarest nicknames. * The wrong kind of skiing. * A kind of hiking that is faster and also you can slide down the hill. * Cross-country snowboarding. * Repeatedly popping out of your ski boots and landing in the snow barefoot. * The most winter you've experienced in your entire life. * Taking snow home from the mountains and putting it in a cup in your freezer. * Breaking your toe while stage jumping. * Best ways to not save a hypothermic toe. * Devoting a portion of your massive intellect to making your friend's life interesting. * Back before the Internet was threatening. * The Avery ARG (or AARG). * Writing a short story about your friend in the form of a dating personals ad and posting hundreds of copies all over town. * Miranda July. * An app that crowdsources uncomfortable personal interactions. * A KFC billboard that has been defaced to unrecognizability but the life-sized statue of Colonel Sanders right next to it remains untouched. * Partnering with Safeway to distribute your zine on the back of Safeway receipts. * Mixing up your ammo with your pharmaceuticals so your mugger no longer feels iron deficient. * Whether it's morally okay to appreciate a well-made advertisement. * The advertisement where the guy is now on a horse. * Spray tan parties happening in your area. * Going to the buying place with your earth money. * Your favorite deodorant being discontinued and buying the very last crate and rationing them even though you go to the gym every day. * Handling Smellium with your bare hands. * Smelling what happened to the scientists who discovered Smellium. * Asking for a fun tool for Christmas even though you know you'll never have time to use it because maybe the idea of fun is enough. * The screen saver only paying attention to mouse and keyboard input so when you're playing games you need to jiggle the mouse every few minutes or the screen saver kicks in * Looking at headlines first thing in the morning to make yourself angry enough to get out of bed. * Seeing a headline saying "10,000 people join Mastodon" and thinking it's talking about the metal band. * A touring photographer whose job is is to photograph EDM acts staring at their laptops. * Software developers figure out a more effective way to make money than making their users happy. * Nonconsensual updates. * Writing demos, like in the 90s, back when computers were fun. * The optimism of feeling like computers were going to make people's lives better. * Finding cool programs to download onto your computer. * Getting a job writing Picotron BBSes in Lua. * Waiting until Chat GPT learns how to use Picotron. * Clippy but it's self-aware and hates itself. * Asking Clippy for stories about Bill Gates. * Desktop Pets. * Bonzi Buddy pointedly reminding you that he has your credit card number. * Writing a poem to get your dad to stop asking you if you're off the toilet. * The scene from Trainspotting where the protagonist dives into the toilet. * In twenty years when Winston is hosting Topic Lords and making Frog Fractions sequels. * downpour.games * Look at this, look what I did! * Seeing snowflakes for the second time in your life. * Snow: it's beautiful, unless it's in Avery's freezer. * A frozen lake that you can just run around on and dogs love it. * Snowboarding with a kite. * Cross country snowboarding while holding a Swiffer. * Contagious ice. * 28 different shapes for the waters to be in. * A metastable high pressure form of ice. * The sci-fi lore of obscure ice. * Virtually all the ice in the biosphere. * Pauly Shore's lifetime achievement Oscar. * Why climb a mountain when you could administer a Mastodon server?

Lords: * Chris * Dev * https://devinbusha.artstation.com/ Topics: * Taking Improv classes has been life changing. * Practicing 3 keyboard layouts at the same time * I bought store brand salt. You wouldn't think this would be a big deal but it turns out to be * I Once Snorted an Eight Ball with Santa, by Richie Zaborowske * https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-once-snorted-an-eight-ball-with-santa * Are all creative ideas very derivative, or is it just my ideas Microtopics: * Pickleball. * Weird shapes the birdie flies in. * The sport that has level design. * Mindful breathing. * You are now breathing mindfully. * Looking forward to being at square one. * Getting the real data once you stop paying attention. * Thespians in High School. * Spinning a wheel to figure out what emotion to feel. * Whether the yes and rule only works for comedy. * Pancakes. Are. Starchy. * Being late to your job that's on fire because you were stuck behind the fire truck. * Celebrating your own failures. * How to play Lemmings in 2024. * Self-esteem. * Immediately vibing with a new sport. * Autotuning except it's completely manual. * A bunch of joysticks that you twiddle with your fingers to do letters. * Colemak vs. Colemak DH. * Keyboards that are laid out in columns. * Splitting up the typing test into QWERTY, Dvorak and Colemak. * Palm Pilot Graffiti. * The Lord's Prayer in Gregg. * Shorthand. (Originally called Briefhand.) * Good ciphers for room escape puzzles. * Are QR codes based on the mazes in Zelda 2? * Flaky sea salt vs. coarse sea salt. * Adding a biting experience to make your food more heterogeneous. * Edible chemistry. * The last time you pinched salt. * Audially-rewarding salt grinders. * Science Youtuber Hank Green. * Warning pregnant women to not eat too much salty licorice. * Supertaster-outing Tic Tacs that regular people love but supertasters immediately vomit. * We've got a level six kaiju supertaster on our hands! * The guy who gets paid too much to taste ice cream. * The kind of person who doesn't salt their food but instead repeatedly licks a salt lick throughout the meal. * Heads swirling around like snow globes. * A poem that doesn't do anything with line breaks but does do something interesting with sentence lengths. * A poem that you might read on a bathroom stall. * Wearing the little hat and pulling on the cord that makes the horn toot. * The ecology that grows around the dumpster. * The crane swinging porta potties around. * An extremely expensive way to have fun * Heading towards the era of having kids. * Asking for payment for software that is not being maintained. * Minesweeper but X. * An idea that is worth doing but not obviously worth doing. * How to make Missile Command fun in a new and interesting way. * A boxing essay with questionable authenticity. * Strategies for enjoying Frog Fractions. * Rangers and the new way they handle animals. * Yes-anding whatever ideas come to you. * Ancient primals that were interlocked in battle. * Someone thinking of an idea. * Constantly listening for cues. * What do inanimate objects do? * Buying a giant bag of googly eyes and putting them on everything. * Not posting on Twitter.

Lords: * Ryan * Alexander Topics: * Getting so agitated that you cook dinner * What's an acquired taste that's worth acquiring? What's one that's not worth the effort? What's the point of even "acquiring" a taste for anything when there are probably infinite options you don't have to teach yourself to enjoy? * Texturally enhanced alternative beverage * Bagme Bloma * https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bagme_Bloma Microtopics: * How the science gets done. * Measuring the height of a flagpole by measuring its shadow. * Using calculus to find the surface area of a potato. * Measuring and re-measuring until you get the result you want. * Confronting your professor about their involvement in Frog Fractions 2. * Country and Western music fused with synth heavy prog rock. * Using the gun to parallel park. * That time Ryan died while recording Topic Lords. * Getting so agitated that you do some differential equations. * New guy just dropped: guy who whenever he thinks about death he has to make a sandwich. * The first step towards rejecting a task: assessing the task. * Today is a good day to fill your Prius with snakes. * The Raccoon Prius story. * Hilarious mothers. * The inside of a Prius: nothing but corners. * Officer, it's not what you think. No, not that either. * Putting the AC on so the python in the back seat gets sluggish. * Getting a fork and spoon and twirling up snakes like spaghetti. * A taste worth busting your ass for. * An oral history of tricking alcohol post your tongue. * An entire generation that has never had to work to enjoy things because there are so many things that are easy to enjoy. * Twelve year olds from Alabama calling you a cuck. * New ideas that you haven't been thinking of even without looking at your phone. * Hiking: it's just hard walking. * Getting so agitated that you developed a taste for hiking. * The guy in the Fred Meyer buying Reese's cups while wearing a tuxedo. * The Men's Wearhome. * The Men's Wearhouse employee who is not allowed to tell you that they don't have anything for fat people so he brings out less and less flattering outfits until you take the hint. * Orbitz. (The soft drink from 1996.) * A proto-boba. * Drinking a random test tube from a bioengineering lab. * What if everyone had a number floating above their heads that represented the number of times they had to drink Orbitz before they developed a taste for Orbitz and now that Orbitz is out of production everyone's number stays the same forever * Big Dick's Energy. * Flavor-blasted slushies. * The sense-horror of drinking an Orbitz. * Shelf-stable tapioca pearls. * A free-to-play game for your tongue. * Texturally subdued beverages. * Decaf Red Bull. * The hypothetical beverage enthusiast who wants a decaf Red Bull. * How to make Orbitz in your toilet. * How many Orbitz you have to drink to reach Nirvana. * eBay sellers insisting that you don't drink the thirty year old novelty beverage they're selling you. * Thinking a poem is a Middle Earth thing but it's actually a regular Earth thing. * Poetry that is alliterative rather than rhyming. * Making art by fucking around with a new medium. * Music in a foreign language. * What Simlish sounds like in different languages. * A quest to discover why they started dotting the letter Y. * Expecting scrolls in 3 to 5 days.

Lords: * CisHetKayfaber * BaseCase Topics: * Raising third cultural kids as a second cultural individual * Figuring out how to do creative projects that take longer than a weekend when you aren't getting paid for them. * Someone sent me money on Venmo and now I need to sign up for Venmo if I want to have the money * Farmyard Song * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmyard_Song * https://www.elyrics.net/read/a/aaron-copland-lyrics/i-bought-me-a-cat-lyrics.html * We've been subscribed to Universal Yums for over a year now, and the sweet snacks range from "unremarkable" to "unbelievably great" to "not my cup of tea but interesting", whereas the savory snacks are mostly bad. What's going on there? Microtopics: * Not being permitted to plug anything. * A unique situation in which you are gendered a lot less. * Australian Treat Arnott's Mint Slice. * Crossover of snacks from Australia to Japan. * Gentleman's agreements among cookie manufacturers. * Patenting your cookie recipe. * Touring school administrators. * Being friends with a lot of Coca Cola people. * Really enjoying multiculturalism. * Producing a good person. * Taking credit for the time your daughter didn't play Mario for six months. * Focusing on the aspects of the situation that you find meaningful. * What does and doesn't count as a childhood development milestone. * Being good at the work people are expecting you to do. * Doing worksheets outside. * What children report back from their experience at school. * Attempting to pirate the Montessori curriculum. * A really fun month. * Projects you can accomplish in a weekend. * Why you don't have more to show for all your free time. * Refusing to call someone stupid or lazy and having to figure out why they're actually failing. * Coping strategies to get things done. * Advice that is not helpful for neurodivergent people. * Breaking a task into subtasks and putting them on a schedule. * The first time you encountered the concept of a to-do list. * Brain tech. * Hammock time. (Or shower time.) * Showers: It's Wet In There. * Exultation of showers. * Watching someone start a hobby and immediately excel at it. * Finding a good community to learn how to do a thing. * Joining a discord with experts in many things. * Learning how to program and realizing that this makes you good at everything because programming is the hardest thing humans do. * Sending money to a phone number vs. sending money to an email address. * Canadians wishing each other money. * Nice things to do when you don't want to defraud people. * Opening a whole raft of phishing opportunities. * Visa getting a cut of every transaction that happens ever. * Whether every person in the world could live in Canada. * The Cocaine Mayor. * A traditional that is credited to Aaron Copeland. * Cats saying "fiddle-eye-fee." * Not being a raging misogynist but engaging in raging misogyny anyway. * The era when the onomatopoeia for a dog barking was "bow wow." * Onomatopoeia that is literal like "bang" vs. onomatopoeia that is more of a stretch like "shimmy shack shimmy shack." * Riffing on Aaron Copeland's sexuality. * Trying to shit enough to keep up with your toilet paper subscription. * A product built for people who have kids but do not have kids. * The mechanism by which the "Launch Frog Fractions 2" button launched Frog Fractions 2. * The great Loot Box crash of 2019. * Snacks that come with an instruction manual. * Ketchup flavored potato chips. * What you reach for when you're feeling snacky. * A potato chip palate that is just far too sophisticated. * Smoked ham potato chips. * Harry Potter jelly beans ruining snacks forever. * Only liking eating things that taste good. * This is bad, but is it bad in a new, interesting way? * The worst kind of bad. * Observing a terrible sprawling work and thinking "wow, you really did a thing here." * The recontextualization of earlier elements based on later knowledge. * Discord Lords. * Listening to ads because you have gloves on. * How to join the Topic Lords discord. * A recently minted lord who edits the show. * Lords Eat Free.

Lords: * Chris * Alex Topics: * Living without software updates * I like Cyberpunk 2077 * I had a friend who would argue with the people collecting signatures in support of a proposed law. Not about the proposal itself, but the methodology behind it. * PIECE A SHIT, possibly by Sam Pink * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kl_AeoXl.jpg Microtopics: * Lords of Topics. * Asking your mom if this Thanksgiving turkey is Frog Fractions 3. * Haiku Hero. * How to talk to the press. * An email from the guy who sent me the quirky thing from before. * The Last Biceps. * Filling your house with electronics that continuously ask you to do things. * How to interact with the Internet on an old un-updated computer. * Snap craft something or other. * Turning off Windows updates for over a year and nothing bad happens because security best practices are bullshit. * Visiting twinbeard.com to find out about the beads in Jim's ears. * Searching Google for the little balls in your ears. * Your phone popping up a window saying "you're a year and a half out of date, would you like to update?" and hitting the back button as fast as you can. * Windows updates adding AI functionality to MS Paint. * Making uneducated guesses about how someone else's code works. * Searching for a program on your computer and Windows gives you Bing results for that program's name. * A sneaky hacker man doing non lethal takedowns. * Making a complicated video game and then patching it into a completely different complicated video game after the guides have all been written. * Trying to explain to someone why the story of Half-Life is cool and realizing halfway through your explanation that it's not that cool actually. * Cool things that build immersion. * A guy saying "have a seat" and a contextual actionicon appearing over a chair. * Voluminous closets full of costumes for virtual dress-up. * Delivering exposition in cars. * All the weird things people will put on their body in the cyber future. * A fictional city halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. * Recovering a stolen painting by showing a satellite. * A city with lots of neat stuff to do. * Querulous Friend's Advocate. * The Everyone Gets a Pony Initiative of 2023. * Filibustering people collecting signatures in front of the grocery store. * How much do you believe in the political causes you're promoting? * Watching your friend play games in a little window on your second monitor. * Mr. Feeny recording car AI voices. * Getting into World of Warcraft because you are stressed about starting a new job. * Level 1 Superman killing rats to collect 10 rat pelts. * Fun ways to fight crowds of mooks. * The things you see on your limbs when you see your limbs. * Replacing all the mirrors with cyber mirrors. * The doctor pulling out your cyber eyes and putting them in a drawer and all you can see is the inside of the drawer. * Lost games dev techniques such as palette swaps. * A screenshot of a book. * A poem painting a picture of a time and place. * Maybe Sam Pink. * Writing a bunch of messages to someone and making their phone vibrate every five seconds for a full minute. * Notification throttling. * Fanciful technological panaceas. * Ultra poetry where each line has animation and timing. * Making a word wiggle in a sine wave to indicate that it's a spooky ghost noise. * Poem Lords. * Seven poems on the itinerary. (But we'll only have time for three of them.)

Lords * Daniel * https://www.cocoongame.com/ * https://kbones.itch.io/dorks * Alexander Topics: * Octopus dreams * Perception of memories. Why does actual recency and percieved recency often seem so at odds * Hike on 58 * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day * World of Warcraft over the years / WoW Hardcore Mode * The highest honor you can receive in mathematics is to have your name uncapitalized. * Polywater * My brain is polluted by trochaic trimeter recognition Microtopics: * Preventative care. * COVID lucky streaks. * Being able to go to the ER. * How to spell Cocoon. * Moth guys carrying orbs on their backs. * Boss battles that you wouldn't expect. * Wilford Brimley's agelessness. * Octopus nightmares. * The octopus equivalent of rapid eye movement. * Meeting sapient crows and asking them whether Y or Z should be up. * Which memories stick better. * Perception of time when you have a routine vs. when you don't. * Arranging your life to maximize perceived lifespan. * Different ways to have an adventure. * Shooby doooby doggie. * A sports rule that sounds like a 17776 plot point * Why the Bob Emergency is an emergency. * The best quarterbacks getting stuck in an endless hike and football ending forever. * The one person who hasn't played Frog Fractions but just listens to Topic Lords because they like topics so much. * Summer's lease. * Reading a poem aloud without knowing what "ow'st" means or how to pronounce it. * Words that used to rhyme but don't anymore. * Meter recognize meter. * Writing all your sonnets during COVID lockdown. * A poem about a dude that Shakespeare is not in love with. * Woe is me, etc. * Piss Jugman vs Piss Jugm'n. * Making phonetic reforms that don't take. * Smoothing off any rough edges or peculiarities. * Permadeath taking inspiration from real life. * A fun thing that you wouldn't have expected to see. * Enjoying spending time in the world. * Hold the W key and cruise through it. * The difference between wanting something vs. liking it. * Abelian. * The opposite of how you would think honor works. * Great honors: brands hate them! * Whether to capitalize "lynchian," "kafkaesque" or "quixotic" * Eternal abstract universal objects. * Teaching truck drivers where to put their piss jugs. * The highest honor Piss Jugman can receive. * The surname Piss. * What is the average Piss lifespan? * A real life Bobby Tables moment. * The Polywater Gap. * Water that scientists have sweated in. * Buying a can of Soviet Scientist Sweat in a Japanese vending machine. * Polyester intoxication. * Liquids with a lower freezing temperature than water. * The Polywater Doodle. * A metabolism described by Richard Feynman. * Brain Pollution. * The particular better of the first line of Aqualung by Jethro Tull. * Singing "parallelipiped" to the tune of Aqualung. * Hearing random phrases in your life. * Spelling "yogurt" backwards. * Trying to understand the New York Times' effect on man. * A killer rap album based on alliteration rather than rhyming. * Poetry that rhymes on the second to last syllable rather than the last. * The baffling cosmology of Butter Dorks.

This is a track I did for the Frog Fractions 2 ARG, it was meant to be an artifact from the remains of the civilization of Bug Mars. It's a song of mourning in the last days of a dying civilization. Lyrics: There was no war, there was no victory No grand defeat to make some sense of the Things that we lost, things that we gave for free Because we never understood That when it's gone, it's gone for good The sparkles kill and then they fade away The heart grows still amid the world's decay Even the atmosphere has bled away And still we never understood That when it's gone, it's gone for good

Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures. It's also a tiny part of the Frog Fractions extended universe, brought to us by Jim Stormdancer....

This community is a big tent. We welcome folks from all backgrounds, and all levels of experience with computers. Heck, on our last episode, we celebrated an article written by someone who is, rounding down, a lawyer! A constant question I ponder is: what's the best way to introduce someone to the world of FoC? If someone is a workaday programmer, or a non-programmer, what can we share with them to help them understand our area of interest? A personal favourite is the New Media Reader, but it's long and dense. An obvious crowd-pleaser is Inventing on Principle. Bonnie Nardi's A Small Matter of Programming deserves a place on the list, especially if the reader is already an avid programmer who doesn't yet understand the point of end-user programming. They might ask, "Why should typical computer users bother learning to program?" Well, that's the wrong question! Instead, we should start broader. Why do we use computers? What do we use them to do? What happens when they don't do what we want? Who controls what they do? Will this ever change? What change do we want? Nardi challenges us to explore these questions, and gives the reader a gentle but definitive push in a positive direction. Next time, we're… considered harmful? #### $ We have launched a Patreon! => patreon.com/futureofcoding If, with the warmth in your heart and the wind in your wallet, you so choose to support this show then please know that we are tremendously grateful. Producing this show takes a minor mountain of effort, and while the countless throngs of adoring fair-weather fans will surely arrive eventually, the small kilo-cadre of diehard listeners we've accrued so far makes each new episode a true joy to share. Through thick and thin (mostly thin since the sponsorship landscape turned barren) we're going to keep doing our darnedest to make something thought-provoking with an independent spirit. If that tickles you pink, throw some wood in our fireplace! (Yes, Ivan is writing this, how can you tell?) Also, it doesn't hurt that the 2nd bonus episode — "Inherently Spatial" — is one of the best episodes of the show yet. It defrags so hard; you'll love it. #### Init Bug report: Frog Fractions. Oh the indignity! Hey, it's The Witness in our show notes again. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is the better game, even if it spawned Only Up and other copycats that miss the point. The Looker gets the point. Getting Over It is a triumph that emerged from a genre of games that are hard to play: Octodad, QWOP, I Am Bread Braid arguably spawned the genre of high-minded & heady puzzlers that all try to say something profound through their design. Cookie Clicker and Universal Paperclips are good incremental games. Jump King and Only Up are intentionally bad. Flappy Bird was accidentally good. Surgeon Simulator and Goat Simulator are purely for the laughs. Stanley Parable, like Getting Over It, brings in the voice of the creator to (say) invite rumination on the fourth wall, which is what make them transcendent. Here's the trailer for Bennett Foddy's new game, Baby Steps. So on the one hand we have all these "bad" and """bad""" and sometimes badgames, which actually end up doing quite well in advancing the culture. On the other hand we have The Witness, The Talos Principal, Swapper, Antichamber, QUBE, and all these high-minded puzzly games, which despite their best efforts to say something through their design… kinda don't. When comparing the "interactivity" of these games, it's tempting to talk about the mechanics (or dynamics), but that formal definition feels a little too precise. We mean something looser — something closer to the colloquial meaning when "Gamers" talk about "game mechanics". Silent Football might be an example of "sports as art". Mao is a card game where explaining the rules is forbidden. #### Main The Partially Examined Life is one of Jimmy's favourite philosophy podcasts. Two essays from Scientific American's 1991 Special Issue Communications, Computers and Networks are referenced in the first chapter, one by Larry Tesler and one by Alan Kay. The other essays in this issue are also quite interesting to reflect on from our position 30 years hence. Apple's Knowledge Navigator video, and HP's 1995 video, are speculative fiction marketing about conversational agents. Rewind.ai is one of those "Computer, when did I last degauss the tachyon masticator?" tools. (Oh, Lifestreams…) S-GPT is Federico Viticci's iOS/Mac Shortcut that strings together ChatGPT and various Shortcuts features, so that you can do some nifty automation stuff via a conversational interface. It feels like similar things could be built — heck, probably already have been built — with "If-Tuh-Tuh-Tuh" or Zapier. When Ivan reaches for domain-specific terminology, LUT, Arri Alexa, and Redcome easily because, like, he wishes he had occasion to use them. To hear the story about the Secret Service busting down young Jimmy's door, listen to his episode on the Code With Jason podcast. C Is Not a Low-level Language — a fantastic article about the illusion that our source code closely matches what actually happens during execution. What Follows from Empirical Software Research? Not much, according to Jimmy in this delightful article. Jimmy likes to reference Minecraft's "redstone" which acts a bit like a programming system, so here, have a video about redstone. Ivan saw this video via Mastodon, about someone making a "real" camera in Blender, and… just… 

Lords: * Maxx * Avery Topics: * Change Ringing * The differences between American and Japanese robotics teams * This rug * https://www.rugstudio.com/funrugsfuntimeshapecomfts-163multi.aspx * A few days after I ordered it they emailed me canceling the order. I'm pretty sure this rug doesn't exist. * Look what we found in the park in the dark * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/KmODxwhW.jpg * Grandma giving you a world's best grandma mug Microtopics: * Topics. Disgust. * A video game experience that you will find relatable if you've ever moved. * Making prototype furniture out of huge Tetris blocks and then forcing your friends to carry them around every time you move onto a new house. * The kind of friend who believes the world should be a certain way and then acts like it is. * Just frogs. Toads too. Mostly turtles. * Frog-themed 8th birthday parties. * Running a frog rescue out of your van. * Frog Fractions 2: Revenge of the Fallen. * Writing Bonfire of the Vanities but never reading it. * Sport meets art: spart. * Method ringing with two cycle sine waves. * Installing a huge church organ in your home because they were giving it away for free but when you play a note the whole building catches on fire. * Free Pianos On Line! * Babysitting someone's upright piano while they go on the lam. * The mattress story but with a piano. * Where the warehouse came from. * When the landlord comes by and you have to put a microphone over your bed to convince him that this is a recording studio, not a bedroom. * Getting a pipe organ so you can play it while holding your brain in a jar and cackling. * Sliding down the whale rib. * Donating your brain to art so that they can slide it down the whale rib and try to hit a target. * Experiencing change ringing in a regal square. * Memorial ringing * Bell ringing machines. * Robots competing in team sports. * Microsumo. * Sumo printers smashing into each other. * Making a fighting toaster for the fighting toaster league. * Battle Bots vs. Robot Jox. * Department stores with an entire floor for stationery. * Buying Gundam models and never putting them together and just having a bunch of robot heads lying around. * Major innovations in robot mouse maze navigation. * A mouse with an inverted helicopter to keep it on the ground. * A 3D maze with a robot mouse that can walk on walls and ceilings. * Fun rugs fun time shapes to impress your teens with a trendy sense of style when you bring it into their room. * A rug covered with keywords from the 90s internet. * $87 for not that big of a rug. * Bonding with your child over ISP servers. * A visitor trying to bond with you about your ironic decor and you have to explain that sorry, no, it's supposed to be ironic. * The illuminated manuscript version of an the ironic internet rug. * A fantastic place to buy nuts and other bulk items. * A limit of 1 kilogram of tapioca pearls per customer. * Bringing the tapioca balls to life in the rice cooker. * Inventing a new way to dispose of tapioca pearls every single day. * Tiktok schticks that are connected to a minimum wage jobs so even if your tiktok starts making a bunch of money you still can't quit your shitty job. * Having anxiety dreams about the coffee shop you worked at years ago. * Non-mammalian milk enthusiasm. * Being someone's non-mammalian milk guy. * A bipedal walrus with jaundiced eyes in a jar the size of a walrus and it knows you're here. * Leaving a turtle in the park and it's a 50/50 tossup whether it immediately dies or has a litter of a thousand baby turtles that devour the entire ecosystem. * Companies that are named after the business that used to be in the building. * A 1950s sign with a bowling pin on it that says "Safeway." * Walking into the DNA lounge and demanding that they sequence some DNA. * Military challenge coins. * Meeting the world's best grandma and she hands you a "world's greatest grandma" mug to prove it. * Seek god coin??

Nintendo has generally done a great job of making classic Mario games widely available; no matter the system, you'll be able to play Super Mario Bros. and its sequels in some form. But not all Mario games get that kind of support, and in fact, there are a few that have been all but forgotten since their original release. This week, Jim Stormdancer (of Frog Fractions and Topic Lords fame) joins us for a look at five Mario games that never got a second chance at life, after which we'll get into Limited Run Games' showcase, classic games disappearing, Microsoft edging closer to finally gobbling up Activision, and your favorite movie-based games.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Ferret64 with me, YemmytheFerret! This episode covers video game news and occurrences between 5-29 and 6-3-23 including: Street Fighter 6, Planet of Lana, Medal of Honor Vanguard, Frog Fractions, Meta Quest 3 reveal, Redfall Bloomberg report, Yuji Naka facing jail and fines, Hideo Kojima won't be involved with MGS remake, Devolver showcase announced, Ubisoft Forward showcase announced, Dolphin Emulator 'sold out' by Valve, Sith Lords KOTOR DLC cancelled on Switch, Over the Hedge HD remaster?, Jedi: Survivor Stats, Spider-Man 2 info, Alan Wake 2, Six Days in Fallujah finally coming out, Hot Wheels Unleashed 2, Everybody 1 2 Switch, PS+ Essentials June 2023 Games, and much more! Thank you for listening on all platforms! Song in the intro and outro: Night Shade - Adhesive Wombat. TimeStamps: 00:00 Intro 01:28 What I've Been Playing 39:44 Video Game News 01:15:33 Coming Soon 01:34:24 Closing

Lords: * Danny * Kim Topics: * Animorphs * My keyboard is registering double inputs again help me * Youtube channels that summarize movies like Cliff's Notes * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXD1jAZBdZ4u0K-GLYC77Q/videos * https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2799 * CatGPT * M3gan; technology horror movies * You don't get points for coins in Super Mario World! Microtopics * A video game man. * The Animorphs train. * Children committing war crimes and having to live with the consequences. * How many books are in the Animorphs series. * The Visser Chronicles. * Yeerks living in the Yeerk pool. * Finding the person whose car you stole and explaining "here's your car back, I did a bunch of war crimes in it" * Hearing someone explain Animorphs repeatedly and never forming a single opinion. * The horror of noses moving around. * Refusing to read graphic novels because you can't read and look at pictures at the same time. * Animorphs: Shattered Reality. * Why boys don't read Animorphs. * Marco turning into an Andalyte. * Eating via your hooves. * F for Furry. * The canonical source for all sexualities. * Non-Consensual Dippin' Dots. * Haunted Headphones. * How to compliment your partner's flams. * Taking a movie and turning it into a TikTok. * The dude from Dark with the face. * Twisted social experiment: whoever survives til the end gets to live. * 2000 Year Old Head Again?? * Blind Man Who Robbers Are Trying To Avoid For A Movie. * This Garfield Comic is Too Highbrow. * A Simple Rhyming Man. * I Had a Lover's Quarrel with the World. * A chat bot that only replies with cat memes. * An extremely asymmetric cat. * Hiding inside the couch. * A cat wearing a neckerchief. * AI dolls in horror movies. * A movie that is advertised relentlessly on whatever wavelength you're on. * Content warning: hilarious child death. The whole movie theater will laugh. * Haunted TikTok. * Topic Lords M3gan Edition. * Robot vs. Firmware Updates. * Robot vs. EULA. * Horror stories about firmware updates. * A toilet that screams at you if you're not licensed to shit in it. * Bathrooms that self clean whether you're still in there or not. * How many points coins are worth in all the different Mario games. * Incentivizing children to stomp on goombas. * Frog Fractions as an expression of score-related trauma. * An email where it's hard to tell who is fucking with whom. * The kind of people who like a game and leave a negative review on Steam that is clearly a joke but actually click the thumbs down button. * Curling: the most horny sport. * The game where people crouch really low and try to get a stone into a button. * Playing Frog Fractions for 420 hours. * The modern experience of being verified on Twitter. * The time Frog Fractions was crashing when you played it in France.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we catch up on our mail bag and tackle a ton of different topics. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Issues covered: catching up on the mail bag, kind words, jumping down onto back of a Chardalyn Dragon, the most important bowling bowl in the universe, frames for playing games, when are you playing the game, going deep on a game and joining its community, moments of discovery, reflections on the 'cast, how we approach our play, what you miss when you play and what you look up later, communities around game, responsive move sets, where you put your investment in development, learning the move sets, invading and being invaded, having a manager, getting way deeper into the game, the stress levels of the game, adventure mode, the Very Pouty Bard, the stress levels of this game, sunk cost fallacy, the weight of continuing a game, expecting not to get too deep in the game. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Dwarf Fortress, Kodie Martin, Super Mario 64, John Romero, Vampire: The Masquerade, Brian Mitsoda, Collin "The Shots" James Tiberius Tsougas, Diablo, EverQuest, PlayStation, David Brevik, Dungeons & Dragons, Troy Mashburn, 343 Industries, Brian Taylor, Alien, Final Fantasy IX, Nier: Automata, OliverUV, Jason Grinblat, Freehold Games, Boatmurdered, Dark Souls, Kruggsmash, Tarn and Zach Adams, Eve Online, Frog Fractions, Brenda Romero, Train (board game), Sea of Thieves, Valheim, Roll20, Johnny "Pockets" Grattan, Minecraft, Legend of Zelda, Jeff Cannata, World of Warcraft, The Dungeon Run, LucasArts, Game Theory Group, Harley Baldwin White-Wiedow, The Walking Dead, Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds, Assassin's Creed, Luke Caspar Pearson, Sandra Youkhana, Keza MacDonald, Jason Killingsworth, YOU DIED, Michael Justice, FROM Software, Namco Bandai, Skyrim, Jeffool, Artimage, X-COM, Pong, Kingdom Hearts, Demons's Souls, Civilization, Magic: The Gathering, Flight of the Conchords, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: New game series!  Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Lords: * Ichiro * Adam Topics: * I learned how to animate by watching cartoons as a child (and I'm curious what else folks absorbed as a child that impacted the kind of adult they became) * I created a Totally Human Rapper that can read up on a game and cut a rap video. * Frog Fractions is banned from AGDQ * "Frog Fractions" by Totally Human Rapper * Tiny Mass Games small games cycle. Microtopics: * One of the episodes with a cold open. * Live from New York, it's. * Using ocean water as a mixer. * Being of poop and returning to poop. * Using the Boston river as a mixer. * Learning everything you know about love from Robotech. * Losing your fiancee and marrying an alien instead. * Paying $6/hr to play a MUD. * Corresponding with your MUD lover via dead tree letters. * Playing a MUD and cheating on one avatar with another avatar and eventually realizing that they are played by the same person. * Sleep is Death. * The cool part of the Metaverse circa 2005. * Learning what human relationships look like by watching Saturday morning cartoons. * Sarah and Duck. * Pocoyo. * Busting ghosts. (A very important time in a boy's life.) * Retired Men's Nude Beach Volleyball League. * The center of your Venn diagram as a creator. * Ichiro Paydirt. * If Tank Girl were a streamer. * Endless Seinfeld pulling a Microsoft Tay. * The year of the deluge of AI generated crap. * Making a BBS door game about traveling into space. * Zooming out of yourself and looking at it with ghost eyes. * A game that appears to be family-friendly but is actually porn-adjacent. * The Timic skip. * A very respectful way to play Frog Fractions. * The two concessions Jim made to game design in the Frog Fractions remaster. * Catering to the you demographic. * Blanking on Tim Ambrogi's name. * Noted base jumping game "ahh" * An underlying engine that just won't swear. * Saying something interesting enough to be debated by a bunch of people. * Stemming the tide of mediocrity across streaming platforms. * The value of making dinner for two people vs. making art for millions of people. * Having a thought in your head and wanting people to hear it. * Gluing all the ports shut. * Games that gradually destroy themselves. * Follow the Frog, an arcade action adventure. * Where Totally Human Rapper gets his ideas. * How to jailbreak ChatGPT. * A deck building auto battler without the deck. * A well-scoped game design. * Not really having anything to say but loving to wrestle with language. * An AI generated game about AI generated games. * Polishing a prototype enough to put it in front of a mass audience. * Rating AI-generated food. * Synergies and combinatorics. * The development process for each Frog Fractions game. * Answering to ask things. *

This week we have a bonus session interview with Jim Stormdancer of Twinbeard Studios, who are responsible for the outlandish and hilarious Frog Fractions series. You can find Jim & Twinbeard Studio's at twitter.com/@mogwai_poet, https://cohost.org/mogwai-poet, & @mogwai_poet@mastodon.social. The Frog Fractions series is available now on Steam. Don't forget to follow/reach us at: Twitter: @SuperGGRadio Email: SuperGGRadio@gmail.com Wordpress: www.superggradio.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuperGGRadio Twitch: Twitch.tv/superggradio Youtube: http://tiny.cc/1xr07y

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on 2006's Dwarf Fortress. We explore our failures by telling some stories about our experiences, and describing what that tells us about what this game is and what its systems might be. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Our first Fortresses Issues covered: needing a Trade Depot, changing state of a building, feedback on buildings, iconography challenges in a game of this scale, the emotional state of your dwarves, seeing a melancholy dwarf, a dwarf wading into a pond, state vacillation, being aware of the passage of time, building a really good fortress that fails anyway, the underground river, a drowning cat and a shaking room, enjoying the failure, maybe having to plan ahead for the failures, storytelling as a vessel to understand the game, being unable to attach to dwarves as individuals due to cognitive load, gaining attachment to particular dwarves, developing your game in public vs private and the dev story attached, what language its in, moving to Simple Direct Layer, the feral cat and its bad seed kitten, the jaguar battle and post-traumatic stress, going in and out of a bedroom, the confluence of so many systems and story generation, messing up my first trade, the arrival of additional dwarves, wanting some kind of save states, "Happiness is a thing," wanting a chair, early strategy tips from Brett, not knowing how to farm, hunting vermin, intent in design choices, the actual interaction vs the way we talk about it, movie recording and wanting to share, wanting a bit more information about why things aren't happening, wanting a game to be the entire presentation, short runs and roguelikes, judging for the IGF, accidentally summoning a bunch of zombies, layering in more stuff with text and leaning into subverting your story. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Sophie's Choice, Sim City, Civilization, Virginia Woolf, Rogue, X-COM, Battlecruiser 3K, Tarn and Zach Adams, pfs:Write, DOS, Dark Souls, Sam, Spelunky, Nethack, A Dark Room, Frog Fractions, Zachary Crownover, Plundered Hearts, Thief II: The Metal Age, Dishonored, Prey, Dead Space, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: The most recent Windows version Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Plundered Hearts, the pirate romance text adventure, and also turning to a short bonus discussion about Twine games. We mostly discuss our takeaways before turning to the bonus discussion. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 0:18 Takeaways 51:02 Break 51:12 Bonus Discussion Issues covered: text adventure length, an introductory adventure and the audience it sought, being unable to market, a diversion to Rogue Legacy 2, finding a parser bug, game pack-ins, losing a thing to the parser, a garter on a crocodile, waiting and responding to player choice, playtesting internally, not knowing to wait, inventory combination vs revisiting every location you've missed, failure-driven games, piecing clues together through trial and error, choosing your verbs carefully, whether there are multiple solutions, the hostility of a trial-and-error design, subverting your genre through mechanics, Tim's life as a series of flow charts, a structure still used today, flow charts for puzzle steps, working back from a problem to the solution, responding to your players, using good writing to provide a rich experience, interesting work coming from diverse sources, being playful with text, Twine as an environment, what you can do with good writing and simple tools, text effects, the approachability of the tools, personal games, an experimental game and interpretation, the structure of "howling dogs," simulation aspects, commentary on games, the default response and the "that's interesting," poetic/evocative/allusive tone, being in a browser and the affordances, a commentary on the games industry, the anxiety-provoking games, feeling seen, being exactly spot-on, a learning tool, the value of constraints. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Dark Souls, Zork, Infocom, Byte, Nibble, EGM, Nintendo Power, Rogue Legacy 2, Halo, LucasArts, Day of the Tentacle, Emily Short, Counterfeit Monkey, Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Dungeons & Dragons, MYST, Space Quest, King's Quest, Reed Knight, Ron Gilbert, Peter Pan, Errol Flynn, Geena Davis, Cutthroat Island, Matthew Modine, Activision, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Chris Klimas, Hypercard, howling dogs, Porpentine, The Writer Will Do Something, Matthew Seiji Burns, Tom Bissell, Game Developer magazine, Magical Wasteland, IF Comp, Andrew Plotkin, Meg Jayanth, Richard Hofmeier, Papers Please, Hot Pockets, Mountain Dew, Warhammer, Frog Fractions, Universal Paperclips, Frank Lantz, HP Lovecraft, Melville, Shakespeare, Mark Laidlaw, Eliza, Zachtronics, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Errors! It was not Papers, Please (which is also excellent and by Lucas Pope), but Cart Life that was by Richard Hofmeier Links: When You Say One Thing and Mean Your Motherboard Next time: ...?! Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Lords: * CisHetKayFaber * Kev Topics: * Food from dreams and nightmares * https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/man-dream-kings-hand-snack * Han Unification happened in Unicode and every time they add more emojis to the Unicode spec it literally hurts * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification * The Super Mega Crossword * https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/crosswords/super-mega-2022-clues.html * Down by the Bay by Raffi * https://www.vulture.com/2015/12/finding-raffi-c-v-r.html * Video game franchises known for secrets * Five-tined forks * [NMS] https://www.google.com/search?q=five-tined+forks&tbm=isch * Horrible exceptions to rule34 * After recording, CisHetKayFaber managed to find their holy grail videos depicting the "exception." Jim's example is much better, but Kev was also correct in having faith in human ingenuity. Microtopics: * First time long time. * A very light hobby that is kind of shallow. * Getting really into Rubik's Cube because you already love flash cards. * Being reminded of something right before you were about to forget it. * How best to memorize pizza coding and microphone specs. * Ignoring the room and being annoyed when people talk to you. * Work life balance being too tilted toward life * The King's Hand. * Orange Creamsicle Mashed Potatoes. * M&M fingernails. * A tweet and what happened with it. * Biting something with the wrong texture and having to stare at a wall for ten minutes. * UTF-8 character encoding. * Adding support for Asian languages to Unicode without consulting any native speakers for advice. * The international new global meme language of the internet. * PuzzleMania. * All the downsides of doing a crossword on paper. * Words that just happen a lot when you're constructing a crossword puzzle. * The Elden Ring of crossword puzzles. * Doing the crossword puzzle on paper so that when you're done you can say "looks right to me" and there's no app to tell you you're wrong. * Reading crossword puzzle clues to your wife as she falls asleep. * A time traveler from the future who invented time travel to bring us excellent children's songs. * A national treasure (Canada) * A fly wearing a tie, a bear combing its hair, a llama eating pajamas, &c. * A song intended to be performed improvisationally. * Extending the finger family song by adding more fingers. * Messing the cadence up with your fake mother voice. * Where the watermelons roam. * A mom saying nonsense that really makes you think. * Avoiding your mom because she keeps saying weird shit about a goose kissing a moose. * Unlocking a branch of a storyline by fulfilling a set of conditions. * Subverting overused fantasy tropes. * Finding a cool castle by going down a secret cliffside stairway into a hidden cave. * Systems that point you everywhere on the map. * Secrets of all sorts of scopes. * The Doom thing where they point out that you didn't find all the secrets. * Frog Fractions containing Rule 34 of itself. * Reacting to five-tined fork. * The fork optimization function that decided that four is the right number of tines. * Unknowing a conversation. * A Victorian flex of a fork. * When die-casting was invented. * A shovel with teeth. * Seven-tined sporks. * The Pornography Lord. * Human pairings and human activities that you would expect there to be pornography of. * Linda Hunt smugly declaring "ass to ass" * AI pornographers buying sex dice on eBay. * Weird combinations of words you can plug into a search engine. * People don't want everything; people only want some things. * The Frog Fractions pornography gap.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * FourBitFriday in all the places * Cort * Leftover Pumpkin Pie Curry https://savethefood.com/recipes/leftover-pumpkin-pie-and-turkey-curry/ Topics: * Fantasy consoles * https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy * Tyriq's 80s homework * 80s homework playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0NtJp8szqsl4Ek0lZHqvHjaX * Tyriq's reaction: https://topiclords.com/articles/80s-homework-reaction * I meant New Kids on the Block, of course. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Starr * You can't slake an earworm with 3/4 of a chorus * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlAeEcVnnvo * https://youtu.be/rI3yD3WAcz4 * Aesop Rock - Ruby 81 * https://genius.com/Aesop-rock-ruby-81-lyrics Microtopics: * The album you finished. * A song that is entirely made of uncleared samples. * Turning leftover pumpkin pie into delicious pumpkin spice curry. * Interactive Pico-8 holiday cards. * Artificial constraints pegged at a level of technology somewhere in the 80s. * Writing specs for Pico-16 so that you don't accidentally make Pico-16 when you're making Pico-8. * Seeking a box to work within. * The most played entry in your Steam library is something your kids left running for weeks. * A collection of 50 games made for a console that never existed. * List of Fantasy Consoles. * The fantasy console hidden as an Easter egg in the Frog Fractions hat DLC. * Four joysticks in your garage waiting for an arcade machine to be installed into. * Languages that transpile to Lua. * Emulating the PlayStation 9. * A fantasy console for making 4D games. * A popular game engine that starts with the letters UN. * Civilisation's relationship with art. * Hop's Big Adventure in the Gift Dimension. * All the problems with Lua. * The Pico-8 show with the Pico-Lords. * All the things people were doing in the 80s. * Playing an inaudible guitar. * The sound of somebody being chased. * All the good Meat Loaf albums. * An inspiring thing that shows up a lot in your life. * A hip hop album entirely devoid of metaphor. * Listening to the first fifteen seconds of each song on an album. * Drums that are emblematic of everything you hate about the 80s. * A big decade with a lot of things happening. * Gil Scott-Heron. * Music that is distinctly of the 80s vs. music that happened to be released in the 80s. * The musical equivalent of oatmeal. * Not liking the whole chorus, but liking the first chord change in the chorus. * The bass part of Like a Prayer. * Your superpower: knowing what marmite tastes like and knowing your don't like it. * Hyperactive j-pop with way too many chord changes. * Creating a mashup that is better than the sum of its parts, but only for ten seconds. * Purging an earworm with another earworm. * We Need a Bigger Dumpster, by Cheek Face. * The parts of your brain that you're not on speaking terms with. * A photographic memory for all audio except for words. * Songs about love or romance or being horny: get that shit out of here. * "Baby Got Back," a song about Sir Mix A Lot's infant and her extremely loaded diaper. * Waking the sleeping beagle. * Some kind of intentional arson. * Painting an evocative picture of an extremely specific moment in time. * Uncles and aunts and stuff everywhere. * Thank you, Genius! * Bad or text-to-speech bad? * Trying to fix all instances of a given fact that is wrong everywhere on the internet. * Wesley Willis writing the story song "Oil Express" because he wanted to write about oil changes. * Lords Rule, Nuff Said.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * John * robohunkx on Twitter, robohunk on most social media platforms * Tim * Jamestown+ * The Pathless * https://github.com/westquote/squidtasks Topics: * America's self-denying culture of compartmentalization * Deus Ex: Revision is a mod for Deus Ex that changes maps just enough that it feels like a new game without losing what made the original special. * Napster pranks and more generally, fun with the early internet's poor security * The Last Titan * https://topiclords.com/articles/the-last-titan * Topic Lords update: A review of the Gros Michel (aka "Big Mike") banana * If AI can tell better stories than you, is it still worth telling them (and why)? Microtopics: * Planning around time zone differences. * What bots are left after the bot purge. * Text parsers that make it sound like you have silly accents. * C++ Coroutines for Everyone! * Playing the Frog Fractions soundtrack on mandolin at Jim's wedding reception. * Seeing friends catch up. * Waiting until the weekend to celebrate your birthday because weekdays are not for fun things. * Topicless Topic Peasants. * Planning to do things all week so you have things to look forward to all week. * How to schedule a movie night. * How to hang out with your friends on weekends. * Hanging out with your friends once a week because your internet audience demands it. * Setting traps for yourself so that you involuntarily have fun. * How you felt in the Fall of 2014. * Embracing making bad things. * Making bad art and dropping it in the company Slack. * April cameos. * What to do when Jim makes a mistake. * Watching a 3D film on a 2D viewing apparatus. * New super duper secret places to sneak around in. * Lay D Denton. * Let me tell you about my Napster pranks. * A very specific example of Napster interactions. * Authorless messages. * Renaming your band's music to have the same name as popular songs so people will download it on Napster. * A very benign internet security prank. * Telling your friend that you've made an AI chatbot but actually it's you typing the replies and she falls in love with the AI and wants to talk to it all the time. * Philly Boys. * Taking bets on whether any given domain name leads to porn. * Writing a cease and desist letter to the owner of a domain name that you want, claiming that you need it for your nonexistent porn company. * Getting out of legal jeopardy by constructing a gay porn web site. * An old god, his glory lost to memory. * A computer named Roboticus that you can't bear to decommission. * Looking on a diorama of dusty objects that represent your lost past. * Banana history. * A banana that you've never tasted. * Buying fruit from the Miami Fruit Organization. * The shocking flavor of electrolytes. * Fat Mike vs. Big Mike. * Quantifying 45 apple varietals without realizing that there is also wide variance within varietals. * Having to eat 10,000 bananas before you can safely say you know what they taste like. * Eating a bunch of types of bananas and realizing that they all pretty much taste the same. * Cotton candy flavored grapes. * Strawberries the size (and flavor) of a human heart. * Grapples vs. grapples. * A banana that is certainly a banana that you can eat. * The time Deep Blue glitched out and made a random chess move and Garry Kasparov couldn't figure it out and resigned the match. * Teaching a computer how to get flummoxed. * The purpose of making art. * What about Mario coins? * K-Mart music. * Smarty Pants, Brain Quest and Booty Blocks.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Danny * https://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/ * Akash * https://www.akashthakkar.com/ Topics: * 100KHz microphones * There's an entire town in Alaska that's contained entirely in one building - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/whittier-alaska-american-story/ * Tired: CRT filter in emulated video games. Wired: grainy magazine screenshot filter in emulated video games * http://folklore.usc.edu/childrens-song-hitler-is-a-jerk/ * Coming back to games months after starting, forgetting what happened, totally forgetting how to play, and never playing again/starting over * Vampire Survivors genre name Microtopics: * Sleeping with 20,000 podcasts. * Hyper Light Waiter. * Rift of the Necrodancer. * Picking up a dog ribcage and the rest of the dog comes with it. * A cat flowing out of your hands like water. * Which organ you smell with. * Dipping your fingies into the chicken vat to refresh the chicken smell. * Serendipity, providence, kismet, fate: Stormdancing. * Nyquist vs. Dayquist. * A big talking world snake named Carlosti, just like in the Edda. * Pitching a character's voice down four semitones to indicate that they're the bad guy. * Inventing a sound never heard before. * Doing a fun click. * Whether to take Tidal seriously. * Moving to a town that lives in a shopping mall. * Snowpiercer but the wheels fell off. * Signing your kids up for Twitter because they have to learn about death somehow. * A tiktok sensation dancing with a subway sandwich. * Visiting the sewage treatment plant next to the Forever 21. * The only two Invisible War fans in the world, on the same podcast together. * Crimothy, Jermdom and Frenchalor. * The Archie Effect. * A video card that's broken in an extremely specific way. * Reading a brochure about Super Metroid over and over. * A controller made of marzipan. * 2x Sai vs. SuperEagle. * DLSS but for pixel art. * Star Wars but every six seconds it's a different director. * Paying composers to make original music because you enjoy the idea of paying people to do work. * A poem by Nega-Kanye West. * The engine that drives the popularity of the "Whistle while you work / Hitler is a jerk" rhyme. * Bratwurst vs. Vienna Sausage. * Whether Data has functional genitalia. * The episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation where Data stars in a porn film in order to better understand that part of the human experience. * Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X Porn Parody: it's a satire. * Trying to find the Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X porn parody but all you can find is endless copies of the Babylon 5 porn parody. * Searching the internet and the universe for an answer. * Pressing both the sticks in and the sea monkeys come out. * What's cool about Dark Souls. * Trying to get your mom to play Skyrim with the Macho Man Randy Savage mod installed. * Video games: fuck the whole town! * Game of the Year in the sense of Time Magazine's Man of the Year. * Roguelikes: they're like Rogue. * Single-stick shooters. * The kind of game that a CSI character would play. * What Fortnite was before it was a PubG clone. * The extremely bitter blog post about the Edge team giving up and wrapping Chromium. * Where to play Frog Fractions 4 and 5. * How to feel about numbers. * The most expensive Vampire Survivor-likes. * Where to find Drop 7 2. * Arcade Paradise. * Bootleg Fractions.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * Maxx Topics: * Freesound.org and the delight of sharing things without fame * https://freesound.org/people/Bram/sounds/15543/ * https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/369065/ * https://freesound.org/people/smokenweewALT/ * Shutting down the FF2 ARG Twitter account * Leisure in the 70s * Snow by David Berman * https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/snow-14 * The some potatoes diet * Plants that can see sorta? * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786/ Microtopics: * The Topic Lords discord. * Meeting friends in the Kingdom of Loathing chat. * A virtual birthday party crashing app. * Piranesi. * A website where people post sound. * Wav laundering. * Purchasing a lion sound effect from an off-Broadway sound effect shop. * Sending over the can crushing noises that you selected. * Someone's friend pretending to be a bird. * Having a roommate named Phil all of whose passwords were “Phil” * AAA games with Freesound user names in the credits. * Recognizing Brick Drop 5 from Dope Dragon 69's Freesound portfolio. * Officer, I was just making a video game! * The psychology of why no Freesound user has uploaded a good pneumatic tube delivery sound. * The bank teller watching you and registering your surprise at being delivered a tube. * The bank tellers noticing that you are shitting into the pneumatic delivery tube and lifting the Gallagher tarp in front of their faces. * Getting ready for bed and then suddenly recording an episode of Topic Lords. * SmokenweewALT recording water flowing sounds in Flushing, Queens. * The best Wikipedia pages. * Toe Cleavage. * Cats who have jobs. * Finding things on Wikipedia that are not directly related to one another. * Tweeting your disappointment that a weird thing turns out to be part of the Frog Fractions ARG. * The alternate reality where Frog Fractions 2 launched but nobody ever found it. * The final unsolved (and now unsolvable) FF2 ARG puzzle. * Who was solving things? * New ways to not be at work. * Another word for having a good time. * Choosing photos to represent the concept of leisure. * Phil relaxing on the couch next to his toilet paper. * Someone who doesn't have a bed but does have two lanterns. * The guy who has spent fifteen years uploading pictures of his foreskin to Wikipedia just in case someone needs a picture of foreskin. * Spending so long thinking about someone that you're unsure whether they're notorious to anyone but you. * A foreskin in repose. * Believing that genes are immortal survival machines that use our disposable bodies to endlessly replicate themselves. * The concept of leisure as a human right. * Serious vs. casual leisure. * Project-based leisure projects. * A poem stapled to the wall in a laundromat in Massachusetts. * Voices hanging close in the new acoustics. * Explaining to your little brother that the snow angels are angel corpses that a nearby farmer murdered. * Lying to your child just a little bit, as a treat. * The Seattle Space Noodle. * The last Burger King in Amsterdam. * The most normal person you know. * Running an impromptu experiment on the internet by asking strangers to eat nothing but potatoes and report back. * Trying the all-potatoes diet for thirty years. * Eating 40 potatoes a day. * Game designer and science communicator Nicky Case. * Halftato. * Overdosing on potassium. * Doctors telling you to cool it with the potassium. * Why doctors don't know how much chemotherapy to give obese people. * The doctor from the phrenology department measuring your neck to see if you have sleep apnea. * Parasitic plants imitating the host plant's leaves. * Recognizing silhouettes of birds from an 8x8 monochrome image. * Rapidly changing the hydraulics of your leaves. * A forest of Max mimicry.

Frog Fractions 2 is a video game with a cult following that was created by Jim Stormdancer. The game has a lot of lore and is text-based. Part of the fun of the release of the game was to hide pieces of it in other games. Learn more about the game in this episode with special guest Jim Stormdancer and your hosts Victor Varnado, KSN and Rachel Teichman, LMSW! Produced and hosted by Victor Varnado & Rachel Teichman Full Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Fractions_2 WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT ON PATREON!https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcast Find us on social media! https://www.facebook.com/WikiListen Instagram @WikiListen Twitter @Wiki_Listen Get bonus content on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patron Game Week! Join us as we review our time with the edutainment titan of the industry, Frog Fractions. What is 1/2 of 3/4? Do frogs dream? What color pants and shirt will Jacob be wearing, and do those colors make sense together? Find out in this 1 hour special of Frog Fractions.Find all our social media:https://linktr.ee/thefirsthourSupport the show

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Kev * Cort * Cort's new album: https://postgoodism.bandcamp.com/album/tourism * The Frog Fractions vinyl: https://www.turtlepalstapes.com/product/frog-fractions-green * Monty Python's three-sided record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMontyPythonMatchingTieandHandkerchief * Locked grooves: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/locked-grooves-endless-fun-literally/ * The Most Wanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jId-qaEwuvI * The Most Unwanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 Topics: * Before age ~4 you don't really make long-term memories, but you can develop long-term habits. How to best exploit this. * Spark : The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/B08RZD6D4Z * Extreme "kids in trench coat" trope scenarios * Necrophilic landscape http://2dcloud.com/the-necrophilic-landscape * Artist Morgan Vogel https://www.tcj.com/morgan-vogel-1986-2020/ * Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined at the brain. They share thoughts, senses and control of their bodies. * "Autopsy" by Ross Sutherland * I can't find a text transcript online, just a few records of Ross performing the poem. Nor does Ross himself have a "home page" per se. Here's a link to his podcast, it's great: https://www.imaginaryadvice.com/ * Neighbors overplaying the same playlist * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrettyWoman(soundtrack) * https://www.worstideaofalltime.com/ * Is it unambiguously good that technology makes creative expression easier? Microtopics: * Mic on, pants off. * The inherent meaningless of "limited editions" in a finite universe ultimately bound for a slow heat death. * Vinyl record Easter eggs. * A big ol' spiral cut into the vinyl. * Limited characteristics of a physical process. * Mental models of what it means to master an album. * Novelty vinyl colors. * Jim's burgeoning record collection. * The most glorious twenty minute act of art terrorism. * Losing access to your old memories because your brain changed formats. * How to erase medical debt by just not paying it. * Borrowing money from your toddler. * Spark: the revolution of exercise or some other subtitle. * Mollusks eating their own nervous systems. * Eating your own childhood to launch yourself into adulthood. * Upping the emotional stakes with large animals and near-death experiences. * Putting your girlfriend in mortal danger so that she's more likely to want to marry you. * Getting pigeonholed as a really good butt. * Getting surgically separated so you can disguise yourself as two kids in a trench coat. * The hemispheres of the brain as independent entities which happen to share a body. * Lumps of biology. * Every person's unique inability to speak to other people's interiority. * Walkie-talkie telepathy vs. "perfect mutual understanding" telepathy. * One mind with two faces. * Superhuman limb/vocal cord coordination. * Segue Week. * Burroughs cut-ups. * Vigorous grandparenting with a face of terror. * A modern-day television quiz show phoenix. * The impenetrable free-form rhymes of a heart attack in October. * The greets. * Tracker music instrument names as cut-up poetry generators. * Super Obituaries! * The potentially transformative effect of reading your own obituary. * The perverse incentives behind soliciting reviews of unfinished games. * The awesome power of knowing that your feedback will be considered. * The neighbor who only listens to Rod Stewart's Greatest Hits over and over again. * Listening to entire albums until you're so sick of them that you underflow and love them again. * The song you have to listen to to get to Roxette's It Must Have Been Love. * Bad podcast ideas. * Novelty t-shirts whose joke is only funny once, but you still wear it once a week * The shirt with the Fight Club and the cognitive science reference on it. * Shirts/tattoos as pop culture dog whistles. * Getting a tattoo of the Colossus' weak points so that you can meet the people who stab you there. * Naming your game's public alpha something innocent so it doesn't arouse suspicion when your friends see you playing it. * The hazards of wearing a shirt promoting a pop culture reference you know nothing about. * Wearing a shirt that makes people try to talk to you about a video game you've never played. * All the people you disappointed in high school. * NPCs in Thief Deadly Shadows talking about how hard it is to get a job making games. * A bright future where nobody can make a living making video games. * A bright future where AIs curate collections of AI-generated content. * A case for the 1991 film "Super Mario Brothers" as the pinnacle of entertainment. * Charles Martinet doing the Mario voice as he leaps to his death from a roof in "The Game."

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday * https://frror.bandcamp.com/ * Chall * https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall Topics: * The future/present of Jim's mario videos. * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0Ntxnf9mof2tU-QZLQ0Mq6zd * Catatcomb Kids lore in the context of the fact that I like worldbuilding but find it hard to tell actual stories. * Bigger Luke * The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band. * http://www.syndicjournal.us/a-ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-60-narrations/ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-the-green-street-mortuary-marching-band/ * Have you seen any phantom kangaroos? And also: should I choose to believe in cryptids? If so, which ones? Microtopics: * Giving someone else's biography. * 7-Day Roguelikes. * Feeling ambiently like you are hanging out with somebody. * An emulator that works when you are not screen-capturing in OBS, but freezes when you are. * Making a backup of your Bowser's Fury save. * Video recording setup evolutions. * The pros and cons of extremely variable video lengths. * Playing Tony Hawk with Mario modded in. * What working on a Zelda game does to a person, psychologically. * Doing things that make people believe you're doing an ARG. * Twinbeard Rates Mario. * A robot co-host that eventually starts finishing your words for you. * Wanting to be a writer until you try writing. * A world that naturally develops in your brain. * How to tell stories. * Coming up with a bunch of characters that want things. * Reading stories in hopes that stories rub off on you. * Putting yourself in a situation where you write a lot of dialog trees. * How to make a platformer without doing any level design. * Expecting the same person to write the music and the lyrics. * The difference in the ideation process of world building and story telling. * A fact about the world that is true. * Captain Thalmoo surveying the battlefield. * Figuring out mid-burrito that there was a war, and deciding who won it. * A grain that flowers like lavender. * Searching Fiverr for Conlangers. * Paying $2 for something at the Dollar Store. * Logging Onto JimNet. * The Canon Bigger Luke Hypothesis vs. the Hamill Hypothesis. * The Inch-Luke Hypothesis. * Inch-Lukers. * Bigger Luke conspiracy theorists just assume that Han Solo stays the same size. * The real Skywalker was the bigger Luke all along. * The Boy Who Cried ARG. * Promising your wife that your son will not be Frog Fractions 3. * How many pages of laws a person is subject to at any given time. * Designing an ARG for your teenage son and he's like "ugh dad, again?" * Mortuary marching bands. * The patriarch who has just croaked. * The sister with the bent frame. * Uncle Louie with the wig. * Getting a free concert because someone died. * A funeral as a pleasant gathering of people you haven't seen in a long time. * Getting arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." * Dressing up as an ancient sea captain. * How many funerals this marching band is playing today. * Hiring your nephew who has a Casiotone keyboard to play your funeral. * Hiring the Green Street Mortuary Marching Band to play at your kid's birthday but all they know how to play is Taps. * Bringing an axe to the funeral in case there's an emergency and you need to open up the coffin quickly. * If a guitar is an axe, a tuba is a bent axe. * Unbending the Tuba. * Why brass instruments are so twisty. * If you unwind a French horn it'll reach the moon and back. * The large flutes that are curly. * The son of a flautist. * A bookshelf that you blow into and music comes out. * Potential downsides of cryptids. * Wanting to take EMF meters into a creepy house even though you don't believe in ghosts. * The script scientists developed to let you fall in love at will. * How many blue coins out of five you would rate your wife. * Taking the Race IAT every week and analyzing your results over time.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * http://false-panels.com/ * Nelson * https://twitter.com/WritNelson/ Topics: * How many random numbers you can dial before you contact someone who is expecting you * Pocket versions of your art. (Mini games, mini sculpture, mini songs?) * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaveMatthewsBandChicagoRiver_incident * https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer Microtopics: * Being non-binary in Washington. * Witch Strandings. * The crucial aspects that define a traditional Strand-Like. * What makes the nurturing not feel bad/weird? * Physically inhabiting a mouse cursor. * Playing shuffleboard on a Mario Golf power meter using the Oblivion persuasion wheel. * Several things that people like, existing at the same time. * Why nobody but Jim is making Frog Fractions games. * Dialing random phone numbers until you reach someone you know. * A nightmare creature from the abyss waiting by the phone for your call. * Everyone having exactly one mom and exactly one faceless nightmare creature waiting by the phone. * Phone number Minesweeper. * Birthday parties as an opportunity to force your friends to play the weird game you just designed. * Guessing the phone number of the burner phone in front of you. * Computers you can talk to in your local area. * Hacking the government mainframe that has all the Nintendo games. * Needing to have a soul before your soul can be sucked out through the phone. * Finding out how smart dolphins are after they meet the being from beyond the abyss. * Holding on to your childhood dreams of stealing a series of towers for your tower collection. * Figuring out how to put custom ringtones on your flip phone even though the Verizon rep said it was impossible. * What the Kidz Bop version says instead of "it smells like R. Kelly's sheets." * A coat that smells like my baseball cleats, yikesssss. * What if football wasn't good? * What would happen if a child held all of baseball in their hands? * Futilitris. * Supernova SWF Enabler. * Working in the Kidz Bop factory. * Who Put Goku In Fortnite? * Ending the game immediately when somebody drops the come bomb. * Not being allowed to say dang or shit. * The through line from miniature replica sculptures to Kidz Bop Breaking Bad. * Kidz Bop Oldboy. * The French opera singer who replaced her girlfriend with a dummy and then set the nunnery on fire so it looked like her girlfriend died in the fire, but her opera singing was so good that the king had to pardon her. * If Jim was arrested for dumping 800 pounds of sewage on an open air tour boat, how many people would try to solve the ARG? * Wiping the raw sewage off of your face and wondering aloud "is this Frog Fractions 2?" * Going to jail for making a cursed tweet. * What if your tweet only goes viral after the cursed tweet law is enacted? * Having to read your tweet aloud to everyone who liked it. * Going to jail for writing a cursed tweet and being sentenced to having to explain it to your mom. * All-ages interactive sculptures. * A child with a tiny screwdriver installing an emergency communication system in case someone has a bad time in their Radio Flyer. * A pretty intense poem by a pretty intense dude. * Why or why not to be a writer. * Warning young people against destroying themselves. * Being deeply desperately driven by the essence of what you are creating. * Needing somebody to remind you that your work has value. * The different coping strategies required to create a work that takes half an hour to finish vs. years to finish. * False panels.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Dan * https://strangecurrencies.org/ * https://twitter.com/SCReviewsDan * Shepard * They are known as Earthnova in the Discord and has one published work: http://thelitmag.com/2021-edition/this-story-has-a-ghost-in-it/ Topics: * Only playing narrative/story-driven video games once * Sometimes life is like an adventure game, a skill or item that's useless when you get it is needed years later * Sleng Teng Riddim * https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng-riddim.html * Here's an argument that the riff originated with David Bowie: https://axischemicals.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-digital-reggae-kingpin/ * Tyger! Tyger! by Robin Johnson * https://mobile.twitter.com/rdouglasjohnson/status/1517804673998237697 * The internet and college are two great tastes that taste terrible together. * The first time I beat my father at Scrabble * Explaining traffic jams, or at least this one traffic jam Microtopics: * Wanting to see all the stuff. * Replaying a series of four RPG length games to see the alternate endings. * Getting the most video game endings for your dollar. * Tenable and untenable ways to have an adventure. * Recapturing the magic of your first time (with emulators). * Getting every video game you wanted for a system and then enjoying that for 10 minutes. * A giant archive of every DOS game ever. * Losing your nostalgia for old games via emulation, but keeping your nostalgia for the box art. * Falling out of love with Windows Vista. * Keeping your custard pie intact until the yeti needs it. * The bread maker approach to learning a new skill. * Why there are no cupcakes in Frog Fractions 2. * Playing Go against someone better than you and suddenly losing. * The Go community rallying around the identity that computers can't beat the best Go players. * Whether computer Go has shaped the way humans play Go. * An extra creative extra special humany thing. * Beating a chess expert by convincing them to play something else. * John Henry's retirement plan. * Being promised a Yamaha DX7 but receiving a Casio MT-40 instead. * Writing a part for a rock and roll rhythm section that is accidentally a great reggae rhythm section. * The origins of the Amen Break. * Setting up a situation where you can write your own notes. * Figuring out where the genre can go with this new tonality. * Stripy guys and chonky units. * The best kind of tigers. (Floofers.) * Learning about slant rhymes one morning and that afternoon writing a poem that rhymes "eye" with "symmetry." * Blake hearing about the Great Vowel Shift from his grandpa and deciding that that would be a great way to make Tyger! Tyger! sound old timey. * Googling why Blake tried to rhyme "eye" with "symmetry" and finding dozens of implausible theories, all expressed with complete confidence. * Making an impression on the world of poetry by not being good at it. * Hipster throwbacks to the great vowel shift. * Calvin and Hobbes panoply of tiger poems. * Holding off on reading more Calvin and Hobbes tiger poems until you're done recording the podcast. * Not letting online schooling get in the way of your online education. * Whether someone will figure out how to do a college class online before we transition back to in-person classes. * Whether ASL is especially well suited to bring taught over Zoom. * Doing yard work and wearing protective equipment so you can't pull out your phone to check Twitter. * Lying down in court. * Realizing for the first time that your parents don't know everything. * A framed photo of the one time your mom won at Risk. * The one thing you and your dad are both interested in. * Sports montage of getting better at Scrabble. * Driving or better yet watching movies with cars in them. * Everybody slowing down to take a look at the two headed chicken. * Driving towards a shadow and being blinded by the sun to what's beyond the shadow. * A time loop where the car in front of you slows down for no reason and then you slow down for a good reason but the car behind you thinks you're slowing down for no reason. * A car driving on a road. * Stacking a bunch of human reaction speeds on top of each other. * Slot cars as a fun and disastrous solution to traffic. * The slot car model of public transit. * Finding everybody on the Discord.

Doki Doki Literature Club is far from a cute dating sim. Jess McDonell presents 10 Video Games That Aren't What You Think... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Play the game, then come back and listen to this podcast. How to talk about one of the more peculiar games of the last decade… Inscryption is a lot and it's hard to describe it without spoiling it. It's a deck-builder, it's an escape room, it's a roller coaster of a roguelike (sort of). You can approximate this game's vibe by combining the strategy of Slay the Spire, the wonder of Myst, the adventure of Jumanji, and the weirdness of Adaptation. Perhaps it's best to say Inscryption could not be experienced any other way than as a video game. It is a testament to what the medium is capable of. Play it! The great transcendence awaits. Our next game for the gameclub is going to be Chrono Trigger from 1995: https://store.steampowered.com/app/613830/CHRONO_TRIGGER/ Happy gaming. Everywhere that you can find us: https://linktr.ee/wideflank Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 01:45 - Inscryption facts 03:41 - Spoiler alert! 05:23 - Deck-builders and roguelikes - we're in! 06:54 - Act 1 and the ambience of the cabin. 14:10 - The health scales. 15:10 - Sacrificing as a theme. 17:00 - Kaycee's Mod and the card game mechanics. 20:33 - Deck consistency, lack of synergies, card removal and comparing it to other card games. 34:43 - The game cheats so you can cheat too. And how that works with roguelikes. 35:56 - Best Death Cards. 38:05 - Inscryption isn't a roguelike deck-builder really… 41:09 - I thought I got it. Act 2. 43:34 - Blair Witch Project type videos in a SD card and fantasy as an adult. 49:10 - Getting back on board with the game. 53:46 - A game for card game players. 56:50 - The conversation in Discord about the game. 58:37 - Another new world! Act 3. 01:02:42 - The bosses of Botopia breaking the fourth wall. The circular wall. 01:14:10 - The climax of the bosses through the end of the game. 01:20:11 - Why is Luke playing this game and why am I playing this game? 01:21:18 - Secrets. 01:24:25 - Luke playing the game vs. you playing the game. 01:28:03 - Video games are art and a unique medium. 01:33:46 - Ratings. 01:39:28 - A game and revelation about the experience of playing video games. Show Notes: Slay the Spire - https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/ Daniel Mullins episode on Eggplant - https://eggplant.show/84-digging-the-rabbit-hole-with-daniel-mullins-inscryption A Circular Wall? Reformulating the Fourth Wall for Video Games - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/a-circular-wall-reformulating-the-fourth-wall-for-video-games Frog Fractions - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1194840/Frog_Fractions_Game_of_the_Decade_Edition/

Join us as we interview Jim Stormdancer, creator of the Frog Fractions games, as he tells us about his experiences and reasonings behind the creation of the games, some details we wanted to discuss with him, and his experience as a podcaster and writer! Jim was an amazing guest and we hope you enjoy this episode! We will still be off until mid- to late November while we work on season two, but we hope you stick along!  Edited by Lucy, Media and Production by Lisi. Follow our socials! Instagram: @glutenfreegamingpod Twitter: @gfgamingpod Email us: glutenfreegamingpod@gmail.com Support us on Patreon (video games are expensive): patron.com/glutenfreegaming Rate and review us on iTunes to help get the word out about the pod! Follow Lisi on twitch at twitch.tv/Lisi_Galaxy and follow her @Lisi_Galaxy on Instagram. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glutenfreegaming/support

Lisi and Lucy play as Hop (Mr. Hop to you) in the amazingly creative and hilarious Frog Fractions! So jump up for Lucy and Lisi's final episode of the first season of Gluten Free Gaming! We are so excited to have spent the last eleven weeks with you guys, and we cannot wait to do more! We have a surprise coming soon, so stay tuned! Edited by Lucy, Media and Production by Lisi. Follow our socials! Instagram: @glutenfreegamingpod Twitter: @gfgamingpod Email us: glutenfreegamingpod@gmail.com Support us on Patreon (video games are expensive): patron.com/glutenfreegaming Rate and review us on iTunes to help get the word out about the pod! Follow Lisi on twitch at twitch.tv/Lisi_Galaxy and follow her @Lisi_Galaxy on Instagram. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glutenfreegaming/support

Jim Stormdancer, developer of Frog Fractions and host of Topic Lords joins the panel to hearld/warn of the return of The Noid, how to craft an ARG, and The Insert Credit Greatest Game of All Time (ICGGOAT). (Content warning: This episode contains strong language.) Questions this week: We Need To Talk About The Noid (00:57) What game did you have to learn to like before liking it? (06:29) Is there a line between surprising players and not giving them the game they paid for? (09:34) What do we have to say about NFTs? (15:27) Which game series have the most interesting naming and numbering conventions? (20:08) Dirtbag Kory asks: What are the best games about electricity? (25:52) What are the game design principles behind a good ARG? (31:39) What would your video game vanity license plate be? (37:53) What's the best Star Wars game, and how could you make a better one? (40:57) What is the Paddington 2 of video games? (46:13) LIGHTNING ROUND: Adjectivity (51:33) Think YOU have better answers than the panel? You don't! But you can discuss the episode here in the insert credit forums. A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: The Noid Hatsune Miku

In this weeks interstitial episode, Jared, Ky, and Ben talk about their time playing Frog Fractions. This game is wonderfully insane and takes us all over the place. If you haven't played this game I would highly recommend playing at least some of it before listening, because Frog Fractions is something you have to experience.  Find us on Twitter and Instagram @PlayAlongPod. Episodes of this podcast go up every Tuesday at 9 am PST. Music is done by https://boqeh.bandcamp.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Caty McCarthy from USgamer joins us to chat about the mystery that is Blaseball, the madcap action of Fall Guys, free-to-play Halo Infinite, Frog Fractions 3 through 9, PS5 gadget compatibility, the horror of carpeted bathrooms, and... the assembled guestThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5928697/advertisement

It's an odd episode - Brad's deep in a game still under embargo, so he doesn't have much he's allowed to talk about this week, and Carlos brings us back to Fallout 76: Wastelanders in the continuing saga of his post-apocalyptic journeys. Titles discussed in this episode include: Skelattack Evan's Remains Help Will Come Tomorrow Liberated Depth of Extinction Ys: memories of Celceta Nioh 2 Fallout 76: Wastelanders ALSO, the guys talk about the incredible 1000+ games for $5 bundle at Itch.io in housekeeping at the top of the show. As promised, here's a few picks from each of them. Carlos' picks: Night in the woods A short hike Celeste Minit Catlateral damage Wide ocean big jacket Pikuniku Gnog Speed dating for ghosts Village monsters Brad's picks: Arcade spirits Loot Rascals Far From Noise Glittermitten Grove (aka Frog Fractions 2) Golf Peaks Old Man's Journey Astrologaster Plunge Octodad: Dadliest Catch Neversong Wampus

Frog Fractions will not teach you how to fraction. It's also free and you can play it here: http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/ It's highly recommended that you play the game before you listen. It should only take about an hour to complete depending on how quick you are at discovering its tricks.  Outro music: Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 'Epic Steps' by Tonalysis (http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03699) You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod Or download the podcast from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thebestgamesperiod Don't forget to sign up for Extra Life to help sick and injured kids in hospitals around the US and Canada by playing games! Support us on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/bestgamesperiod

The sixth episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk. In this episode, we have Brent, Chris, TJ and David discuss their Watchlist/Playlist before diving headfirst into the 89th Academy Awards, going over the winners, the kerfuffle over the last award, and general overview discussions about what this year's ceremony means going forward. The direct podcast RSS feed is here. And please contact us through email, Facebook (movies, TV, games), and Twitter. Intro Homework Follow-up: The Kings of Summer Watchlist/Playlist: TJ - Split, Get Out, Black Mirror, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Walking Dead Chris - Battlestar Galactica, Daniel Dwyer's Noclip Game Documentaries, Playing: Astroneers Brent - The Americans, American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J., American Crime, Archer, Arrested Development, Batman: The Animated Series, Adventure Time, Battlestar Galactica, Playing: Skyrim David - Imaginary Worlds (podcast), Ninotchka, Rear Window, Girls, Crashing, Legion, Playing: Fallout: New Vegas Main Topic: Oscar Reactions... wut happened? General Discussion: King Kong: Skull Island, The Visit, The Last Airbender, Avatar, Rocket League, Doom, Street Fighter II, Hideo Kojima, Mortal Kombat, Tomb Raider, The Witness, Spleunky, Frog Fractions, Polybius, The Night Of, The Killing, Caprica, Doug Loves Movies (podcast), Designated Survivor, Horizon: Zero Dawn, La La Land, Moonlight, Fantastic Beasts, Hacksaw Ridge, Jackie, Manchester by the Sea, Fences, The Hurt Locker, Sing, Arrival, A Man Called Ove, Kubo and the Two Strings, Suicide Squad New Homework Assignment: Swingers (Slight warning: Some mild language)

Ryan and Matt "Fake Lively" Amberg are back and bisquick about the first 3 Friday the 13th movies and Rogue One Again before it's on to time spent with WWE 2K16, New Super Mario Bros U, holiday Clustertruck, Google VR, competitive Overwatch, Forza Horizon 3, snippets of Codenames and Carcassonne, Super Mario Run, LEGO Dimensions a la Mission Impossible and Sonic the Hedgehog, and at long last the functioning of Frog Fractions. It should have ended there but it turns out Steam is a thing, Remedy talked details (3) about their next game, and some Oculus dude did a whoopsie!

We're back in the studio for the first Bombcast of 2017 with thoughts on all the Dead Risings, World of Warcraft past and present, the mystery of Double Dragon IV, the great 3DS shortage, and the stealth-ish launch of Frog Fractions 2.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5928697/advertisement

Hello 2017, goodbye 2016. Our first episode of the year has us playing a ton of Stardew Valley on PS4 as well as some more VR with Superhot VR. In our news we talk about all the January free games, Frog Fractions 2 hidden inside another game, a fancy statue from Kojima Productions and we remember Carrie Fisher who passed away at the end of 2016. Finally we talk about all the releases you should be excited about in 2017 such as Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, South Park and much more. Plus we have two HUGE console releases this year with the Nintendo Switch and Project Scorpio! Also, stay tuned for the end of the podcast as we feature a guest musician with her debut track on SoundCloud called "Honey Whiskey." WOND3R is an artist you may know of as OMGCosplay on Instagram and other social channels. She is an incredible cosplayer and also very talented at creating music. Thank you to OMGCosplay for letting us feature your track in our debut podcast of 2017! You can find her music here: https://soundcloud.com/wond3rmusic You can also follow her cosplay adventures on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/omgcosplay/ We also interviewed her at AKON 2016 which you can check out on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/nxJ84vPAl_A Show Notes: 01:17 - Stardew Valley 14:28 - Superhot VR 20:22 - Free Games for January 24:44 - Gaming News 35:03 - The Future of 2017 The Inner Gamer is a podcast built for the casual gamer. Your weekly dose of video game news, reviews, opinions and discussions every Tuesday. Like what you hear? Share our podcast with your friends! Also be sure and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave us a review! You can find all of our social channels at www.theinnergamer.net. If you have any questions or suggestions please reach out to us at hello@theinnergamer.net. CREDITS: "Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.net Woman Announcer - Arie Guerra; Austin, TX based Actress "Honey Whiskey" by WOND3R

As Q4 marches on, we're splitting our time between Watch Dogs 2 and Dishonored 2 this week, and filling in what remains with Nintendo Switch pricing rumors, the mysterious whereabouts of Frog Fractions 2, and reflections on Street Fighter III, vector moniThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5928697/advertisement

The gang's all back from PAX and unnervingly battered and bruised, but even wrestling injuries can't stand in the way of talk about the best of the show, Housemarque's latest, the end of the Xbox 360, the uncertain whereabouts of Frog Fractions 2, and, umThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5928697/advertisement