40. I'll Show Them... I'll Invent Superman‪!‬ Topic Lords

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Lords:



John


Biker Chicks Tier List. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1591151119

Jesse


https://twitter.com/thefringthing



Topics:



Canadian Heritage Minutes


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadarm
YouTube playlist of Heritage Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWANopglXI&list=PL1848FF9428CA9A4A
List of Heritage Minutes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Minutes

What are your tips for collaborating with people with a higher or lower skill level than you?
Are we allowed to talk yet about how for decades all 3D games were incredibly ugly


https://twitter.com/BlazeHedgehog/status/1247200134057717760

The website I build in high school & college is lost to the ages, or: how to reconstruct memories of your past without external records
The lost Willie Brown records


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac
Willie Brown - Future Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9rC8olaVY
"Grandma Blues" cover (prank?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9xhKLJbXs
PBS History Detectives episode about Paramount Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKQbZV4lQk4



Microtopics:



Being a playable character in Frog Fractions 2.
Ranking every Biker Chick from worst to best.
Regretting not having more Canadian Lords on the show.
Still making your TV PSAs even though nobody watches TV any more.
The big robotic articulating arm on the space shuttles.
That time Quebec was going to quit Canada.
A group shot with one teen of every ethnicity and gender configuration.
Reenacting the time someone told the creator of Superman that nobody will care about Superman.
Canada's revolting safety PSAs.
Hanging maple syrup for treason.
The biggest man-made explosion prior to the invention of nuclear weapons.
Celebrating the people who people who became successful after leaving your country.
Trading on the low-key anti-Americanism that is part of the Canadian national identity.
Taking a 45 minute break to worship the military.
Deciding that an idea is important and jamming it into the brain of millions of people.
Doing your best to enjoy yourself even though you are the worst musician at this particular jam session.
The high pressure world of game jamming.
The anxiety of waiting to be picked for a sports team.
Trusting your collaborators.
Not being a mentor so much as a friend who is around to answer questions.
Feeling like you failed your tutoring student but he was pleased and passed his course, so probably it was fine.
The ongoing war between R programmers and Python programmers.
Making your favorite programming language tolerable by totally replacing the syntax.
The smoke effect in Super Mario 64 looking like the MS Paint graffiti tool.
Goldeneye slappy hands.
The difficulty of going back to the video games of the Ugly Period.
Playing old video games on an unreasonably large CRT TV that you can't move by yourself.
Using modern technology to remove the texture filtering from Nintendo 64 games.
Conditioning gamers to desire the next step in graphical realism.
An epic story with three CDs full of cutscenes.
The old movie connoisseurs who want to see only the best examples of terrible stilted 1940s acting.
Making a video game in the mid 00s and having to support both SD and HD aspect ratios.
Moving your web site from Geocities to a cooler hosting provider in France who then stops hosting web sites because of a change in French law.
A gap in your personal history where no written records exist because they were on the early internet.
Letting a web site expire because you built it on old technology that your hosting provider now charges extra to support.
A government form asking you to remember every place you've lived for the past fifteen years.
The threshold for memory sticking.
What we would do with our missing histories if we had them.
Allowing yourself to remember a period in your life and then putting it in deep storage.
The object as a