178. The Lathe of Kojima

Lords: CisHetKeyfaber Phone Topics: Calculus ruined incremental games for me SFF PCs are ridiculous and hilarious What's the deal with HDR? Ode to Ice Cream by Vada Sultenfuss (from the movie My Girl) Metal Gear Solid 2 is the most important game of 2023 Microtopics: Appropriating wrestling culture. Idle games vs. incremental games. Trimps. Physics and calculus educators each pretending the other field doesn't exist. Jerk as a unit of measurement. Ruining a child's mathematical career by teaching them linear algebra. Floating point precision. Optimizing the area under the curve. What's the jerk of my progress? Position, speed, acceleration, jerk, jounce, hyperjerk, metajounce, binge warp, migrational spank, barflurch, dark jaunt, catastrophic snap, whipfuck, and Newton's Torment. A real aerodynamic phenomenon. Ruining the bench racers. The kind of people who form an online community around a game. The NGU IDLE speedrunning community. Slaying the starting area killing slimes for 90 hours. How big 26.8 liters is. Rehoming your PC. How many shoeboxes your PC case is equivalent to. A graphics card that is perpendicular to the motherboard. How many parakeets could fit in your PC case using modern parakeet packing algorithms. Making a novelty enormous soda can to use as a fake scale comparison in photos. Bending your hand at a weird angle. JEBKAC. The jerk of your PC case. Turning the gamma up in order to see a video game. Squashed gamuts. Adding more bits to describe the color. HDMI stratification. The colors that future mankind will invent. Being unable to use certain hex color triplets because the Pantone license expired. When ice cream tastes good. Poems written by works in progress. B.R.R. (Before Rocky Road) Not having seen My Girl but having seen the cover at Blockbuster. Growing up in a mortuary. Bragging that you know how to play the theme to Jaws on the piano. Nick at Nite. Playing with Legos with I Love Lucy in the background. Timeshared cable channels. Nickelodeon's audience being kids and Nick at Nite's audience being the elderly so the channel's average audience is middle-aged. The most important game of 2023. The core switcheroo. Psycho Mantis reading your memory card. Playing a really whiny guy who just sucks. Whether they've invented pausing cutscenes yet. Pausing a 40 minute cutscene to go make pizza rolls. AI heel turns. Metal Gear Solid 2 beating out Vampire Survivors for most important game of 2022. Why Hideo Kojima's dialog sounds like an American 90s movie. Political theory outsider art. The anti-Noby Noby Boy. A discord channel brimming with Lords.