Feb 24 2025 65 mins 35
Lords:
- Kory
- James
Topics:
- I've been reading more lately, and ditching the eReader sure has helped
- Journey to the Planets
- Send Me to Heaven
- My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, by William Shakespeare
- Re: Smooth Criminal. Are criminals like peanut butter?
- My journey to make photography as labor intensive as possible and learn to enjoy it again in the process
Microtopics:
- A circulating cadre of hobbies.
- Corpseflower blooms.
- A forum to complain about the state of e-Readers.
- eReaders launching as a perfect product and then slowly morphing into shitty phones.
- Autosleep anxiety.
- Increased difficulty of finding reference art now that stable diffusion exists.
- Turning off all your screens in order to accomplish something.
- Accordioning ebooks.
- Breaking out into meat space with tiny Greek busts.
- Freedom to do it the wrong way.
- Reading the last page of a book so you don't have the temptation of reading the last page of the book.
- Physical bit rot books.
- Buying more than one book.
- Collecting treasure in order to get home.
- A flying around in space mini game.
- Dying from comets.
- Designing a game that you would never play.
- Art that is better in some contexts than others.
- King's Quest.
- Tuning your adventure game difficulty based on how distracting the real world is.
- Difficulty ramping in adventure games.
- The text adventure prototype of Outer Wilds.
- Untitled Goose Game's melding of the adventure game and the stealth sandbox.
- Brock the Investigator's melding of the adventure game and the belt scroller.
- An adventure game where the solution to the puzzle is to run up and kick something.
- Games that would've been a useful referent for Gunhouse if it had existed.
- The I'm Rich era of phone app development.
- Let's Play videos of Send Me to Heaven.
- App Store review bits that are not very well received.
- If hairs be wires then black wires growing on her head.
- Quoting a Shakespeare sonnet in your diss track.
- Whether "reeks" has the same connotation in Early Modern English.
- It's true but you shouldn't say it vs. I just think they're neat.
- Whether the Smooth Criminal is the kind where you need to stir the oil in
- Smooth criminals vs. chunky criminals.
- In what ways criminals are like peanut butter?
- What would a chunky rap sheet look like?
- A pristine unopened criminal.
- Getting merged in some sort of valve situation.
- Scientists studying the stripey toothpaste to discover how it stays striped.
- That movie where every character is the same person.
- Regressing to the analog wherever possible.
- Developing film without a dark room, using a dark bag.
- Obsessing over a single photograph until the color balance is perfect.
- Photography tropes that read as fancy.
- The instinct to replicate the superficial qualities of an analog process in its digital equivalent.
- Authentically taking a terrible picture with a terrible camera.
- Getting sick of what fancy used to mean and figuring out what fancy means going forward.
- Hypernice photography.
- Art that has way too much detail.
