275. Angora Semiconductors
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Episode description
Lords:
* Maxx
* https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=mildreth
* https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=delia
* https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=cosmicfault
* Chall
Topics:
* I love the steam deck
* The puzzle of the Wikipedia did you know section
* The neuroplasticity theory of why we dream
* https://www.instagram.com/reel/DELHsgYRamy/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination
* https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/viral-image-unrecognisable-objects-creepy-14705067
* She Needed a Hobby, by Maxx
Microtopics:
* Comic Fury.
* The most mediocre comic.
* Mildreth of the Night.
* Collage vs. ransom note.
* A squirrel that finds a way to contact aliens.
* Using Redbubble to host your webcomic.
* Direct-to-cassette podcast episodes.
* A co-op game that makes you raise your voice.
* Overcooked but it's a train.
* The part of the train that keeps you moist and warm.
* How to run Pico-8 on the Steam Deck.
* Not wanting to get a Steam Deck because you might drop it on your face.
* How many liters a parrot is.
* One of those massage beds where your face goes in a little hole and your hands dangle to reach the controls of the Steam Deck that's lying on the ground.
* Waterproofing the Vive.
* Games Done Pwick.
* Sonic the Hedgehog looking like he ought to be a progress bar but he definitely isn't.
* Emulators: you can do that!
* Extremely intricate marble runs.
* Retiring so you have enough time to configure the warping on your enormous loom.
* The pleasant monotony of weaving vs. the meticulous craft of warping.
* Tuning 1000 pianos at once.
* Using a drop spindle to turn wool into thread.
* Spinning wool straight from the rabbit.
* Breeding for maximum stats on every axis.
* Facts that are not particularly fun.
* Seeing what the Wikipedia home page looks like on January 2nd, 2525.
* Why is a mountain landscape?
* Make-your-own-fun fun facts.
* Who is this man? Why did he steal a horse?
* Clicking on the nomination wizard.
* Five Clicks to Jesus and other Wikipedia routing games.
* Getting really into patterns and categories.
* Shoehorning your favorite pop culture thing into everywhere you can fit it.
* Mock Guffin.
* Breaking down a story into a list of tropes.
* Screen savers for the visual cortex.
* Finding stories in the noise.
* Different levels of the thing where you see patterns on the back of your eyelids.
* How much can you see behind your eyes?
* Running experiments on your own physiology.
* New places on your body you haven't pressed yet.
* Strobe lights for your ears.
* Covering the speaker on your phone because you're too place to turn down the volume.
* How text looks in your dreams.
* Latching onto the idea of a story.
* Tasting a lot of math problems before you go to sleep.
* A gross crinkled dog texture.
* Accidentally crocheting so much that you remake the universe.
* The names of such unthinkable numbers.
* A crochet pattern for an infinite Mobius strip.
* Cool yarns from the local crafting store.
* The ability to stick with a hobby.
* Crocheting a functional internal combustion engine.