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Lords:
* Tyriq
* https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
* Chris
* https://twitter.com/MrChrisLHall
Topics:
* Revisiting Game Maker after 10 years, and getting right back into it
* What's your jrpg/anime vocal quirk?
* Electric showers
* Weval - Someday
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wEvzqdDZg
* UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCOIntangibleCulturalHeritageLists
Microtopics:
* A game that has been in early access for 7,000 years.
* Coming back to software you last used a decade ago and finding that it has a night theme now.
* Old vs. new Game Maker.
* Knowing the context a word is borrowed from and assuming more meaning carried over than actually did.
* Terms that programming borrowed from philosophy, like "monad" and "blockchain."
* Function-shaped functions.
* Seeing people misuse a tool and trying to decide whether it'd be better to teach them how to use the tool, or make a new tool that works how they expect.
* That time someone tried to port Catacomb Kids to C++ before realizing that someone had been adding features to this game for ten years.
* The Dark Theme era.
* Jim just happening to know how many lines of code the Frog Fractions remaster is.
* How many lines of code is reasonable for an action roguelike that one person has worked on for ten years.
* Measuring code complexity by zipping it and looking at the file size.
* Designing the rules of a game to stop people from ruining it for themselves.
* How your laugh maps to your blood type.
* Deciding that when a character says "..." that means that they farted, and suddenly being able to enjoy Visual Novels.
* Whether Jay Gatsby saying "old sport" all the time is the same phenomenon as Moogles always saying "kupo."
* Typing in a swear word when an Animal Crossing character asks you for a new catchphrase and returning the cartridge to GameStop who will sell it to a small child and it'll end up on the local news.
* Incorporating goat noises into your speech in a subtle enough way that people aren't sure if you just made a goat noise.
* Everybody having their own weird noise that they made repeatedly instead of just having a face.
* Deciding that your signature isn't cool enough and hiring a signature designer to help you out.
* Whether "signature designer" is a real job you can make a living doing.
* Designing a different unique fart for every character in your JRPG so they each have a fart that fits your personality.
* Why making a fart noise with your tongue is called a "raspberry."
* How nobody can tell you've got a duck call under your COVID mask until it's too late.
* A showerhead plugged into a wall outlet.
* Heating water as it passes through the showerhead.
* Reassuring onlookers that you've been showering in an electric shower for decades and you've only been shocked a few times and you just have to not touch the metal plumbing.
* Wearing rubber shoes in the shower so the electric showerhead doesn't electrocute you.
* How nobody posting in the thread about electric showers has died.
* Electric showers waking you up even more effectively than regular showers.
* Not knowing what people want from things.
* Nuclear pacemakers.
* The number of nuclear pacemakers still in use today.
* Your nuclear pacemaker keeping your heart beating long after the rest of you has died.
* The Council of the Nuclear Hearts.
* Plugging your electric shower right into your nuclear heart.
* Electric flamethrowers.
* Lighting your cigarette with a tiny taser.
* 24 seconds of zooming in on the forest canopy.
* A video which is very dense with frames.
* A video which is exactly the kind of video that video codecs are be bad at encoding.
* Star Turns.
* A web site where people can repost your content uncredited and go viral.
* A guest accidentally unplugging their headphones followed by thirty seconds of "can you hear me? I can hear you."
* Standing on a floor that is painted to give you vertigo.
* Buildings that are cool in this video.
* Getting really excited every time you see aerial photography.
* Freeways.
* Starting with macro shots of urban environments and transitioning to wider shots of rural environments.
* Canopy shyness.
* Voronoi diagrams.
* Preserving aspects of human culture that don't take the form of a physical object.
* Intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.
* Intangible culture lost in the natural process of human becomingness.
* Whether history is worth knowing.
* A series of Duke Nukem strategy guides collected in the Library of Congress, rebound to look like a hardcover from the 1950s.
* What it takes to preserve a skill that a community of people practices over the course of their lives.
* Dance notation for very constrained types of dance.
* Tugging rituals.
* Avalanche risk management.
* Notation for bee dances.
* Dance notation which is just a list of where all the ping pong balls were.
* How every culture agrees that Kiki is the spiky one and Bouba is the round one.
* Wine horses.
* A very Western centric view of how many instruments have ever existed.
* How to make the number four out of only letters.
