Lords:
* Ben
* Andrew
Topics:
* Super Nintendo World's theming is on point
* The ABC of Style - A Guide to Plain English (book)
* Can you still rent game consoles?
* Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku
* https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm
* https://itch.io/jam/variety-megajam-2022/topic/2514101/2nd-poem-
* Pixel art impressionism
* https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1801616946837823790
Microtopics:
* The games you should've bought when the Steam Spring Sale was still going.
* Citizen Sleeper 2.
* Being excited about a new project until you landlord tells you to move out.
* Real-life POW blocks.
* Timing your punch so that the shell pops out.
* The park employees doing their best to ameliorate the bad game design of the theme park.
* Rushing to hit the snooze button so the piranha plant doesn't wake up.
* A plant that's not quite as big as Audrey II.
* Buying the wrist band so that you can punch blocks to get coins and find all the KONG letters.
* Using your shadow to interact with a video game.
* Running from the park entrance to your favorite ride right when the park opens and there's already a two hour line.
* A picture that you took with your camera and somehow they made reality look cel shaded.
* Super Mushroom Croutons.
* Clipping the AR goggles into the Mario hat.
* No matter where you look, stuff is happening all the time.
* Whether kids in Japan handle failure better than kids in California.
* A phone booth, except it exists.
* A book about pedantry.
* When to use difference vs. discrepancy.
* Reading text aloud but internalizing it not at all.
* The model of the mind where you are a passive observer sitting in the backseat thinking about pancakes while the driver is doing all the thinking and acting.
* Whether the person who struggles to read gets more out of the text than the person who reads effortlessly, because they're spending more time on it
* Two full pages about "like."
* Faces similar to faces you've never seen before.
* Drive it like you hate it vs. drive it as if you hate it.
* Utilizing a big word.
* Phrasing something in an awkward way for entertainment purposes.
* One of the more expensive things you can rent.
* Being able to afford all the games that you want. (Not that many game consoles.)
* Naughty Dog remaking The Last of Us for the third time.
* Sending an assassin to the Second to Last Blockbuster.
* Not knowing how a certain business works because you refuse to give them your social security number.
* Digitally renting a PS5. (It has fingers.)
* Putting stickers on your toilet claiming that it's an Xbox.
* Building a Mario Kart course into your house.
* Sharing your cool social security number.
* Pronouncing Japanese like someone who is covered in tattoos of Pokemon.
* Frog-jump-in Water-sound.
* Pond. Frog. Plop.
* Localizing a Japanese poem into sculpture.
* What is art? What is anything?
* Looking at a pixel art face and thinking "whoa, what's going on with that guy?"
* Pixel art being able to represent detail at a certain scale, but only if it aligns with the directionality of the grid.
* Trying to represent a cartoon world realistically.
* Walking into a dungeon and being surrounded by statues that look like sentries.
* Recognizing a blob of pixels as representing the idea of a decoration and never thinking about it again.
* Fan art of Dr. Robotnik's niece.
* High color, high detail, low resolution.
* Weird rendering techniques that are texture mapping adjacent.
* Line Cook.
* A blue lid that feels sort of mayo.
* Only realizing late in life that three lines makes a ladder.
* The main places that you don't post.