Feb 03 2025 68 mins 36
Lords:
- Remy
- Abhi
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
- 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.
