276. The Yukon Territories Foodie Scene
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Episode description
Lords:
* Remy
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/
* Abhi
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/Venba/
Topics:
* Why does food taste better outside of Canada?
* Xander asks: "Biased history is better"
* Is it fair to make a new game console when we haven't finished the ones we already have?
* Puranaanooru
* https://oldtamilpoetry.com/2016/04/04/puranaanooru-256/
* What's one IP you would like to adapt or work with?
Microtopics:
* An image that allows you to attribute the text above it to the character in the image.
* Knower. (The one who knows things.)
* Losing your faith in God until you see the clip of Mario Kart showing 24 starting positions.
* Visual novels with contextualized minigames.
* Enjoying food more abroad.
* Orbiting the United States.
* Which state makes the best dosas.
* The best Asian food ten minutes south of Vancouver.
* Waves of immigration establishing generations of restaurants.
* When there are finally enough immigrants in a city that one of them might open a restaurant to serve food to other immigrants.
* Vancouver's restaurant licensing situation.
* Vancouver's medallion system for food trucks.
* No Good Pizza In My Back Yard!
* NAID 96.
* Jim's personal experience with Canadian food.
* Whether it's what it sounds like.
* Capturing the history of written language in your game.
* The constant flux of our understanding of history.
* Xander-biased history.
* A very happy self-described sad boy.
* Squeezing every last great game out of the Atari 2600 before creating a new game console.
* Hoarding Pico-8 games on your desktop.
* The golden era of video game development effort-to-return ratio.
* New ways to make games look more expensive.
* Outrageously high margins that you are not expected to fill.
* Games that would still be fun if the graphics were worse.
* Giving your PS5 to your dad so you can buy a PS5 Pro.
* Brain hacking yourself.
* PS5 Pro Max.
* Realizing you don't need to upgrade your game console or in fact any consumer electronics ever again.
* The Fairchild Channel F Pro, featuring S-Video.
* The Dave the Diver revolution.
* Failing enough that you decide to change.
* Fortnite Money.
* You can't read ancient Tamil?!
* A small white lizard stuck to the wagon axle hub's spoke.
* The purpose of art. (For people to examine it in 2000 years and find things out about you.)
* Finding out what dead people thought.
* Finding the time to be cruel.
* Shocking Adventure Time moments.
* Trusting what people write about themselves.
* Finally understanding Xander Bias.
* A love letter to Indian cinema.
* Things Metroid Prime does to make you feel like you're inside a space suit.
* Waiting for the Metroid IP to expire so you can make your Metroid fan game in your extreme old age.
* Continuity nerds.
* Reboot.
* Vancouver-coded fictional cities.
* Telus Storyhive.
* An IP address you're dying to do.
* Shouldn't Zelda and Sokoban be the same genre?
* Atari 50 vs. UFO 50.
* A murder mystery that you solve by playing video games.
* Why the CBC is like that.
* Brown Money.