Jim Stormdancer

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This shopping cart wheel hacking web site might be the most practical day-to-day useful thing to come out of Defcon

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Netflix just got The Kid Detective,

a dark comedy/film noir about an Encyclopedia Brown stand-in, grown up to be a depressed failing private investigator. I think it's really good and I think it'd especially appeal to anyone who worries that they peaked as a child.

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There's this extended sequence in The Kid Detective where the protagonist (an adult detective) breaks into someone's home to investigate them as a murder suspect, then when the family unexpectedly arrives home, runs to hide in the closet of a teen boy, gets stuck there for most of the day as the kid sits at his computer, almost escapes, then has to hide in the sister's closet, where he's stuck for most of the night as she sits at her computer.

They're both depicted as listening to D-grade production music standing in for mid-00s emo, a very funny bit of characterization. They're also both shown playing this terrible single-player low frame rate Pong. I'd assumed that was because the filmmakers didn't want to license video of a real game, but very shortly afterwards we see the protagonist morosely playing a very plausible current-gen driving game, so, no, it's intended characterization that these kids just fucking love this terrible Pong knock-off.

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Netflix just got The Kid Detective,

a dark comedy/film noir about an Encyclopedia Brown stand-in, grown up to be a depressed failing private investigator. I think it's really good and I think it'd especially appeal to anyone who worries that they peaked as a child.

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Topic Lords #354: Peer-To-Peer Edible Arrangements, ft. Gabe and Pancelor. We discuss building your own synthesizer (it won't save you any money), clipboard proprioception, the latest podcast description length drama, Fig, 6. “I I I Strong Stronger Strongest” Braggadocio Rap Rerebrace, by Douglas Kearney, conversations in real life vs. discord, and having "over a decade of experience in the interior design industry"

Available for patrons, #355: Slapped Silly by the Fondue Vortex, ft. Kevin and Nicholas. We discuss adjusting game difficulty curves through accessibility options, having creative block because you don't have a day job any more, Arcade 1 Up, Hail Poetry by W.S. Gilbert, and wanting to make better food at home but not wanting to spend more time or more money on equipment or ingredients

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Today on Twinbeard plays Mario, it's the quietest drum set I've ever heard in my life

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I'm playing a game called Little Rocket Lab, which is kind of like Stardew Valley except with factory automation in place of farming

You come back to the small town you were born in and try to finish the rocket that your mom designed but never got to build before she died.

After a plot-mandated disaster at the rocket silo, the townsfolk have pitched in to help with repairs, in the form of offering their homes as factory space. This involves a sequence of constrained automation puzzles where you try to make a certain number of parts per minute while working around the furniture in their living room.

Real life small townsfolk should take lessons. Instead of complaining about the environmental impact of data centers, they should be part of the solution by offering to host them in their living rooms.

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Little Rocket Lab continues to be an argument in favor of zoning laws. After I set the Apollo rocket in my back yard on fire, the mayor held a town meeting at the church to determine whether I should be allowed to continue building an Apollo rocket in my back yard. The townsfolk overwhelmingly voted yes, saying things like "she helped me repair the bridge," then they left the church and they were all blocked from getting home by my nightmare tangle of conveyor belts carrying things around town.

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was astonished to hear a full topic about scots wikipedia with no mention of the huge scandal around how in 2020 it came out that it was 50% fabricated by a US teen over the course of years (link to follow, assuming your submit box is open)

I had no idea! That explains why half the articles were about Street Sharks

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I'm playing a game called Little Rocket Lab, which is kind of like Stardew Valley except with factory automation in place of farming

You come back to the small town you were born in and try to finish the rocket that your mom designed but never got to build before she died.

After a plot-mandated disaster at the rocket silo, the townsfolk have pitched in to help with repairs, in the form of offering their homes as factory space. This involves a sequence of constrained automation puzzles where you try to make a certain number of parts per minute while working around the furniture in their living room.

Real life small townsfolk should take lessons. Instead of complaining about the environmental impact of data centers, they should be part of the solution by offering to host them in their living rooms.

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Just found out that long-time Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies was lead programmer on Space Station Silicon Valley for the Nintendo 64

Sometimes you just peak early and can never duplicate your early success. There's no shame in it.

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Topic Lords #353: Hell Yeah, Mold! ft. Tyriq and Linker. We discuss favorite greek mythology media, the accordion children of BART, Adult Arnold Palmer, Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, what kind of pareidolia animals have, and childhood obsessions that we circled back to in adulthood

Available for patrons, #354: Peer-To-Peer Edible Arrangements, ft. Gabe and Pancelor. We discuss building your own synthesizer (it won't save you any money), clipboard proprioception, the latest podcast description length drama, Fig, 6. “I I I Strong Stronger Strongest” Braggadocio Rap Rerebrace, by Douglas Kearney, conversations in real life vs. discord, and having "over a decade of experience in the interior design industry"

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Today on Twinbeard plays Mario we finally arrive in New Donk City proper

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One thing this new series is making clear to me is that N64 trash feels much worse to me than the NES trash did

I don't think the N64 had a higher percentage of trash on it than the NES did. I think it's that early bad 3D made that whole generation trash, so a good game is still trash and a bad game is trash twice

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It's Halloween season, and you know what that means?

It means it's time to start pre-gaming your PiCoSteveMo project

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I heard the term "pizza martyr" today,referring to the person who stays in the kitchen to cook a bunch of pizzas in a row while everyone else eats.

But I'm here to tell you that if you're not a party person, being the pizza martyr is *great*. You can spend an hour on a project and talk to maybe one or two folks, rather than standing in the loud room with a dozen people talking at once, and nobody will ask why you don't join the party, because you *already have* a recognized party role.

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Okay, I didn't think too hard about this when I was 10, but, like, what is this attack?

Was this a Bruce Lee movie trope that I missed? Is this the "Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu" kids today are always talking about?

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I saw a guy with a shirt saying SUPER BOWL LIV

I'm not a sports guy, but I guess they started giving them people names, like hurricanes?

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Funny Super Bowl numbers are coming faster and faster. It took 30 years to get to Super Bowl XXX, but only another 10 to get Super Bowl XL. Super Bowl L would've been funny if they hadn't been cowards and called it "50" instead. And LIV was just four years later. Extrapolate that graph and soon we'll be having several funny Super Bowls a year.