Epizódjegyzetek
Lords:
• Farbs
• https://farbs.org/
• Hallie
• https://moveslow.info/
Topics:
• The only way to truly beat Dark Souls is to achieve enlightenment
• Writing is a serialization problem
• Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies was lead programmer on Space Station Silicon Valley for the Nintendo 64.
• Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn
• Learning by copying
• Meandering thread of execution: https://mastodon.social/@Farbs/112679557654266096
Microtopics:
• Systems where people make meaning out of joy and suffering.
• Weighing in on whether video games will still exist a month from now.
• Linking the fire or not linking the fire.
• Video games that were popular when saving games was expensive.
• Who invented corpse runs?
• Finishing your whole life believing you're the hero.
• Whether the narrator of the Dark Souls trailer is a character in the game.
• Doing the thing you've already proven you can do.
• The three stages of grief: betrayal, anger, sense of victory.
• Secondhand lore.
• Seeking paleblood to transcend the hunt.
• Lounging Carl: he's just chillin'.
• Getting all the platinum trophies to achieve enlightenment.
• If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. It's worth 50 souls every time!
• A meter going up and a bell ringing and you're a better person now!
• Daoism Dives.
• Force Witches.
• Tedious and annoying programming problems.
• Taking a nebulous interconnected cloud of data and turning it into a stream of bytes, and vice versa.
• Metaphorical Kevin Bacon Game.
• Developing your serialization scheme iteratively.
• Sorting your evidence by persuasiveness.
• Working with data in different ways.
• Turning a video game into a sequence of experiences.
• Looking at the world as a set of events rather than as a set of objects.
• A video game series where you steal cars.
• Having just one good work in you and being proud that you made that one good work.
• Shipping a game that's not in the Grand Theft Auto series for the first time in decades.
• Clicking on the blog button and it just says "nope" and then clicking on the games button and there's a PHP error.
• Void Bastards printing sound effects on the doorways, just like Hunt the Wumpus.
• Making the math do pretty things.
• Plugging functions into each other.
• Doing all your level design by writing stacked modifiers in C code.
• Stacking up a bunch of quality of life features and that's it, that's your content authoring system.
• Forever panting and forever young.
• A sad sack with consumption, bullied by Lord Byron.
• Isn't it nice to not be subject to the passage of time?
• This urn is never going to catch its breath.
• Following your feelings and always being right.
• Poetry as form of lossy compression.
• Roger Ebert claiming that poetry can never be art.
• Rebuilding Zelda 1 in Voxatron.
• Pausing the whole game while a single important thing happens.
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