293. Pasting The Sickos Face Back And Forth Forever
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Episode description
Lords:
* Kory
* Andy
Topics:
* Whim-based coding
* How do you make and maintain a buddy on the Internet?
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKRFd4J_1w
* That oscilloscope demo
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8CzrPG9S0U&
* Peripheriques Like Halos, by Robert Montgomery
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/fmr9gsma.jpg
* https://globalizationofcalifornia.com/alameda-county-i-580-political-signs-spark-free-speech-fight/
* Enhancing a party with a bespoke bar menu.
* Creating a threatening windows batch file and leaving it on the desktop to frighten an application into not crashing
Microtopics:
* Kbones.
* When was the last time you invested in yourself?
* Getting FM to sound like anything except a bell.
* The American Psycho meme of FM syntheses.
* A griminess level somewhere between Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3.
* The Yamaha DX7 presets.
* An aggressively nonlinear approach to productivity.
* Doing board game AI until it becomes boring and then moving on to something else
* A lifelong ADHD enjoyer.
* Trying to explain "burndown rate" without knowing the term burndown rate or what burndown rate is.
* Getting ideas out of your brain so it can think about something else for a while.
* Games that you aren't allowed to play for fun.
* The M stands for Money.
* Whim-based topics.
* Segue-free zones.
* Essness and Snez.
* Maintaining friendships via custom chat stickers.
* Stickers you use in your daily life.
* Discord For Andy.
* Anonymous inscrutable pixel faces.
* A sticker of Princess Rosaline shrugging with the text "Skill Issue?"
* The rich ecology of daily Garfield recap podcasts.
* Conflating RJ-45 and RJ-11.
* Which One's The Astromech??
* Two superpowers at one.
* How to win the Frog Fractions ARG.
* Classic Raster Bars.
* Reading a 40k stream of consciousness essay scrolling by the bottom of the screen in a pixelated font
* Scrubbing right to Cronologia.
* Doing surgery on the topic bucket right now.
* That Oscilloscope Demo.
* Converting your laptop into tent mode.
* Zamboni Mayhem.
* Running a video signal through a reverb pedal.
* Stereo oscilloscopes.
* Pringle of Scotland: once you pop, you can't stop.
* A picture of a wall with a bunch of balloon letters spelling out a phrase.
* Non-elected councils called ABAG and ICLEI.
* A weird thing that's been kind of near you your whole life.
* The final Neon Genesis Evangelization 3.0+1.0 movie.
* A gripe session with themed cocktails.
* Continuing to think of puns and refusing to pass any of them up.
* Taking a Negroni and calling it LCL.
* A 55 gallon drum of Tom Collins with a valve on it.
* Walking by the booze aisle and everything looks delicious. (Even though it's not.)
* Everyone's favorite topic.
* Waving a .bat around to make your computer behave.
* Sorry about your synapses!
* An angry phone call from your mom circa 1995.
* Telling the sand how to think and making the little guy run around.
* Writing a bad song and immediately sending it to all your friends.
* Pivoting to pay-per-reload.
* Discovering what the requirements are as you discover the game you are making.
* Crashing Pico-8 so hard that it reverts to Japanese.
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