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Lords:
* John B is @YouOldSoAndSo everywhere.
* 20th President of the United States James Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem: https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-james-a-garfields-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem
* Khan Academy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EINpkcphsPQ
* Nick is @NickPancakes on Twitter.
Topics:
* Micro game jams, Weekend of ZZT
* WarioWare D.I.Y. archive: https://archive.org/details/WarioWareDIYWarehouse
* Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer (a.k.a. SMZ3): https://samus.link/
* SGDQ2019 co-op speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uujsW7yFkZU
* The primary motivation for information acquisition being grist for making and understanding jokes
* Ken Jennings' books about knowledge acquisition and comedy:
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79195.Brainiac
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373629-planet-funny
* These two contain the sum of all human knowledge:
* https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1745/8107/products/IMGE19711400x.JPG?v=1571480346
* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/BillyJoelStormFront.jpg
* Roblox as the most popular game platform
* Downloading Wikipedia: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-download-wikipedia/
* All roads lead to "philosophy" on Wikipedia: https://flowingdata.com/2011/06/08/all-roads-lead-to-philosophy-on-wikipedia/
* Adopt Me!, one of the most popular games created in Roblox: https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/DreamCraft/AdoptMe!
* I Wanna Maker: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114940/IWannaMaker/
* Quill points out: this list of things unexpectedly named after people: https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/
* "Widenius has three children – My, Max, and Maria – who inspired the names for MySQL, MaxDB and the MySQL-Max distribution, and MariaDB" https://twitter.com/davidjustodavid/status/1288903463422722049
* Becoming a film nerd
* Turner Classic Movies, from the same company that brings you Mortal Kombat: http://www.tcm.com/
* They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? - 1,000 Greatest Films, compiled using a Metacritic-like approach of looking at other people's lists: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm
* Also, their 1,000 Noir Films list: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm
* The Narrow Margin (1952): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044954/
* The Tall Target (1951): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044105/
* A good starting list for train movies, by no means exhaustive or definitive: https://allgiftsconsidered.com/the-31-best-train-movies-of-all-time/
* List of films on Netflix from the year 2000 and before, total count at the time of search approx. 250, compared to around 3,500 for 2001-2020 : https://reelgood.com/movies/source/netflix?filter-yearend=2000
* Kanopy, a movie streaming service you may be able to use through your local library: https://www.kanopy.com/
* Qwikster, b. 2011 d. 2011: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/5-reasons-why-qwikster-is-now-deadster/246465/
* 1939, Hollywood's "annus mirabilis": https://ew.com/movies/2019/12/22/1939-hollywoods-greatest-year/
* 1957 in Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957infilm
* Patton Oswalt's book about becoming a film nerd, Silver Screen Fiend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571109-silver-screen-fiend
* CBoyardee, Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden, and the failure of Barkley 2.
* CBoyardee's Dilbert trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rGUlVvVJ4
* www.nfl.com: Just check it out.
* Barkley, Shut Up and Jam Gaiden: https://www.talesofgames.com/relatedgame/barkley-shut-up-jam-gaiden/
* Hardcore Gaming 101 article about the game: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/barkley-shut-up-and-jam-gaiden/
* Barkley 2 Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/talesofgames/barkley-2-an-rpg-sequel-to-barkley-shut-up-and-jam
* Barkley 2 PAX Prime 2015 interview for PC Gamer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHSyDqIyYE
* A longer look at Barkley 2 from that same PAX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni2hceqpqHA
* Barkley 2 - Janky Demo: https://talesofgames.itch.io/barkley-2
* The gun's of Barkley 2: https://bowelflies.tumblr.com/post/185855518364/the-magical-realms-of-t%C3%ADr-na-n%C3%B3g-escape-from
* Dingletopia, Gortarius' game that actually came out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1286140/DingletopiaNationUnderSiegebyOrcs/
* Not mentioned in the show, but CBoyardee also did some writing on the 2019 video game Katana ZERO: https://www.katanazero.com/
* Cyberdwarf Body Pillow (Warning: Tsundere): https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/767094-dakimakura-body-pillow
Microtopics:
* What the insulin pod had to say.
* An extremely sexy insulin pod telegraphing its own death.
* Mourning many insulin pods at a rapid clip.
* President Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
* Making your first ZZT game.
* Doing fetch quest after fetch quest until two AIs fall in love and a nuclear reactor explodes.
* Attempts to archive the user-uploaded games before the Wario Ware DIY servers get shut down.
* The only Meat Boy game to come out for the Wii.
* A demon that can only exist on sand and is formed of the sand.
* ShareCart, the save format shared between many different games so you can save in one game and load in another.
* How much Dr. Sbaitso likes you and how much his henchmen like you.
* Spending an afternoon trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes.
* Flipping random bits to see what comes out there other end.
* Generating a hash of a large file twice in a row and getting two different results.
* Seeing an exciting glitch in Super Mario 64 and nobody being able to replicate it until someone tries flipping bits in RAM like a solar ray might.
* The randomizer hack that combines Link to the Past and Super Metroid into a single game.
* Thirty people all making different games and hoping something interesting comes from mashing them together.
* Why the heck everyone is suddenly talking about cake.
* The primary use for your understanding of the world being making and understanding comedy.
* Your filters going to sleep first, so you make weirder connections when you're half-asleep.
* How everyone would know all the world capitals if you had also been obsessed with them as a child.
* Spending 10% of your brain on how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism and the rest on the lyrics to "We Didn't Start The Fire."
* How to download Wikipedia so you can give your son Wikipedia before you give him internet access.
* How Roblox is a much more popular game platform than any you've ever touched.
* Not knowing how to make games that appeal to children, but knowing how to make games that remind 40 year olds of when they were children.
* The incredibly accurate clone of Counterstrike that some rando made inside of Roblox.
* Roblox users calling platforming levels "Obbies."
* The window in your life where you don't talk to children.
* Watching a four year old play Minecraft and they're just breaking and replacing the same block over and over to see if it happens the same way every time.
* A Roblox level that is just a series of waterslides.
* "I Wanna Maker," for making your own masocore platformers.
* How PageRank is named after Larry Page and Debian is named after Deb and Ian.
* How Price Club is named after Sol Price and Main St. in San Fransisco is named after Charles Main.
* Jim trying to figure out when humans first called a street Main St. and giving up.
* "Taco Bell" appropriating respectfully because it respects the romance language adjective-noun order.
* Reading about aptronyms in Marilyn vos Savant's column.
* Sending your octuplets to a carnival owned by Larry Kidkill.
* The late NASCAR racer Dick Trickle.
* Changing our names to Fuck and starting a band called The Fucks and that's it, that's the tweet.
* Unemployment as a prerequisite for starting any hobby as an adult.
* Film Noir figuring out how to tell adult stories after the Hayes Code was enacted.
* The constraints of being set on a train leading to compelling storytelling.
* The train movie as a slightly less constrained bottle episode.
* Whether they allow trains on the Internet Movie Car Database.
* Yelling at librarians until morale improved.
* Libraries often offering ebooks and movie streaming.
* Netflix streaming having a limited selection of movies but the disc mailing service having every DVD, but it takes two or three days to get it.
* Filmmakers being huge nerds and that's why they keep making movies about making movies.
* 1939 and 1957 in filmmaking.
* The history of Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden.
* Destroying Manhattan by performing a Chaos Dunk.
* Setting your cyberpunk universe after basketball has been outlawed.
* The dangers of running a successful Kickstarter.
* The game design conceit that there should be way too much of everything.
* Bizarre unthinkable development processes that somehow in the end produce a shippable game.
* A 397-page forum thread of people asking "Where is Barkley 2?"
* The second concrete product of the Barkley 2 Kickstarter, after the CyberDwarf body pillow.
