This is the pre-show planning and banter for episode 308, recorded and edited basically by accident?? Enjoy??
Microtopics:
- The old saw that if the teacher is 15 minutes late, you are excused.
- All the hosts forgetting about the podcast so that episode just doesn't get recorded.
- The seam in the fish video.
- Procedurally vs. manually textured terrain.
- How to texture a limestone chunk.
- Whether Donkey Kong Bananza is deliberately evoking the sickly sheen of Donkey Kong Country's raytraced art.
- Procedurally decorating terrain in Techtonica.
- A lens flare shaped like bananas.
- Mario Kart opinions.
- Doing a stunt for the next 30 seconds.
- The Baja 1000 but with Mario Kart.
- How Mario Kart tries to make highways interesting.
- A souped-up Volkswagen Beetle driving 1000 miles through the desert
- Mario Kart except it's Desert Bus.
- A Hunter S. Thompson stand-in sent to report on Mario Kart races and ranting about the Mushroom Kingdom.
- Keeping your powder dry in case your anecdote gets promoted to Topic.
- Topics that have been in the bucket for a long time and probably will remain there for a long time.
- Doing a brass fall with your mouth.
- Finally learning to play "Imagine" on piano.
- Zoom's musician mode.
- Going on a date with twins to the same restaurant but neither one knows about the other, so you have to keep going into the bathroom and parting your hair the other way.
- The episode of Three's Company where there's a misunderstanding.
- Don Knotts making a weird face.
- Your prospective roommates explaining that you have to pretend to be gay so the landlord doesn't think you're all having sex with each other.
- More behind than ahead.
- Keeping cats in the Storage Atrium.
- Buying an organ from a salvage yard.
- Bartering with the organ maker's apprentice.
- The Estey Organ Company.
- Playing a bad prog rock solo on the analog synthesizer next to your couch.
- An organ with all of its organs showing.
- An accordion with zero subtlety.
- The difference between an electric piano and a digital piano.
- The Yamaha Clavinova with Advanced Wave Modeling.
- Don't play these notes unless you want to hear them forever.
- Topic Negotiation.
- Driving every single topic into the ground.
