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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

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.

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.

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"

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

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

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

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

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.

#food

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.

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?

Topic Lords #352: The Dim Sum Moose, ft. Alex and Shannon. We discuss trying to explain ghosts to a 3 year old, antler memories, summer homework, and Otzi Awake, by Max Lavergne

Available for patrons #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

Today on Twinbeard plays Mario, it's the part where we technically get to New Donk City but it's the shitty wet version of New Donk City

I finished A Game About Digging a Hole

It's about two hours long and the endgame sucks but the part where you dig a hole was fun. I was looking to see if there's DLC with another hole to dig. There *is* DLC -- a "full-length novella that tells the events leading up to the game’s iconic hole ... written by acclaimed German science-fiction author Ben Calvin Hary."

I am no longer annoyed that the endgame sucks. Finding about this bizarre DLC is an excellent payoff.

If anyone's still looking for the perfect first tattoo idea, look no further, you're welcome

Here's an interview with two of the developers of Hudson Soft's Super Mario Bros. Special

"It was too much for the specs we had available, and I think it was hard to play"

We took Winston to Target for the first time since he got really good at reading,

and you know how when you're in a commercial space you're inundated with signage that you ignore 99% of because it's garbage information? Winston hasn't learned that skill yet, so he was reading everything and curious about everything.

We spent 45 minutes fielding questions like "'Expect more, pay less?!' What does that mean?" and "Why does it say 'must-have gifts?'"

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