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Lords this week:
* Craig was Jim's collaborator on Glittermitten Grove.
* @craigtimpany on Twitter.
* https://www.mostlytigerproof.com/
* https://pinballheresies.com/
* Shannon does a lot of different stuff!
* @plentyofalcoves on Twitter.
* Strucci Movies. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9DnjvObUcvvwrYbJ4-cLQ
* Hbomberguy. https://www.youtube.com/user/hbomberguy
* Struggle Sessions. http://www.strugglesession.us/
* Critical Bits. https://www.criticalbitcast.com/
Topics:
* 2:51 What are the best attributes for a collaborator to have? The worst?
* 10:45 Craig's favourite language, Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin#Vocabulary
* 18:17 TempleOS
* http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/
* TempleOS games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQtLv9GizKM
* 31:28 Quill asks: "What's your first memory being exposed to a computer?"
* 35:30 Why faking one's non-existence might not be a great career move.
* 41:32 Re: media consumption- "there are no guilty pleasures"- do you agree?
* 49:26 Did you know that daytime soaps air a new episode every weekday? How is this possible?
* Every episode of Passions, on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu1cfjN6h09z6ssQcRwsJ8A/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid
Microtopics:
* Getting some emails in six weeks.
* Tweeting about a book about olives and getting in touch with the author and starting a podcast about olives.
* A dumb joke that you are taking very seriously.
* Creating one podcast episode per olive cultivar.
* Deciding that you'd rather work with people you like than talented people.
* The hypothetical coworker who is sufficiently good at their job that you put up with the death of everyone who enters the room with them.
* The origin of the 10x programmer myth.
* Never having met a 10x programmer, but having met a 10x QA tester.
* The 10x singer who sings at 10x the pitch of regular singers.
* Noodling vs. deliberate, thoughtful creation.
* Whether having rock stars in your rock band is worth all the trashed hotel rooms.
* A language derived from Australian sailor slang.
* Mouth grass.
* Trying to express a technical idea without using technical vocabulary.
* The correspondence between the simplicity of vocabulary and the speed of spoken language.
* Leaving space for audience participation.
* A language that isn't a big compost heap like English.
* English 2, where every single word is a swear word.
* Making an operating system because God told you to.
* Making a new operating system to talk to God because you don't trust MS-DOS.
* Whether talking to God has more or less stringent security requirements than a voting machine.
* Which mental illnesses make you a better programmer.
* Implementing Minesweeper in your new OS in case you get bored talking to God.
* The TempleOS indie game scene.
* The music video generator Jim is never going to make.
* Reconciling how you feel about a mentally ill asshole.
* Being very online and really into the N-word.
* Everyone loving your forum posts about weird bespoke operating system but being less into your race war posts.
* Art and technology paradropped in from an alternate timeline.
* Outsider art suspension bridges.
* A trash peninsula that no longer has any homeless encampments on it.
* Building a castle out of shopping carts and reclaimed concrete.
* The text adventure that they named the genre after.
* Dad bringing home an Amiga 500 and playing Marble Madness with you.
* Accidentally flood-filling the wrong place and getting really upset because you don't know about the undo button.
* The cool kid with the advanced Amiga 500 who becomes progressively less cool over time because his dad refuses to get a new computer.
* Seeing Doom and realizing that your beloved Amiga is done for, and Commodore going out of business later that year.
* Telling journalists that you don't exist when they approach you for an interview.
* Backing away from the ARG puzzle you're designing when you realize solving it would involve doxxing yourself.
* Building rapport with games journalists, but taking so long to make your next game that they've left the industry.
* The impossibility of building a fan following in video games after 2013.
* Wearing a ratty fake mustache for your Problematic Jim alter ego.
* Lying about how you made the horse talk.
* Trying and failing to preserve the mystery by giving a fake mundane answer.
* Finding value in a work while still being critical of it.
* Becoming the avatar of embarrassing pop music.
* Reclaiming "guilty pleasure" to mean something you enjoy by a problematic creator.
* Society shaming you more for liking Fall Out Buy than liking a Polanski film.
* What it would take to turn the average band into sex pests.
* Soap opera production schedules.
* Actors playing the same role for sixty years.
* Not watching The Simpsons or South Park any more, but figuring that South Park must be holding up better because nobody is posting embarrassing clips of it on Twitter.
* Your creative voice ossifying in the 90s and having to write in that voice for the rest of your life.
* Remaining in the Garfield mines for the rest of your life when Garfield's legacy of shitposts is already secure.
* Hoping that "goodbye" in Tok Pisin is a transliteration of "see you in hell."
