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[Ep321] Breaking the Seal Jul 28, 2021

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What’s up, Shenanites! This week, we talk about wet noodle whips, stress stew, and the walled garden. We’ve also got two -- that’s right, TWO! -- brand new podcast segments for you this ep: Seth’s English Language Corner and DUNKWATCH 2021. Will this be the first and only time that these segments appear? Who’s to say? Once there’s a turn, then there’s the possibility of a return.

Questions answered (abbreviated):

ribdot: How are you bros doing so far with your New Year's dunks?
satellite: Has the recent news about Blizzard’s working culture made you rethink supporting their games? (answered incidentally)

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[Ep320] Non-ergonomically Close Jul 21, 2021

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Hail, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss good gestures, brain quirks, and arbitrary rules. The first step of any undertaking is visibility. You can’t think about the problems you’re trying to solve until you know what those problems are. If you don’t know what you’re trying to do, then you’re just doing things randomly. And like we’ve said before, it’s fine to flip randomly, but you better know what gradient you’re looking for.

Questions answered (abbreviated):

TimConceivable: Where in the Bscotch universe did Narwhal Online take place?
challosis: Do y'all ever need to use focus techniques like pomodoro?

Things mentioned:

Favro.com
Regular expressions

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[Ep319] The Human Experience Jul 14, 2021

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How’s it going, Shenanites? This week, we talk about the fractal universe, flippin’ bacteria, and urgent chaos. When you navigate by chemical receptors, the best you can do is to flip flop around until you find a nutrient gradient to pay attention to. Even a fancy flip is better than no flip when you’re trying to find new local maxima. Or maybe it isn’t. Everything is chaos.

Questions answered (abbreviated):

BscotchKarl: What kinds of interesting people have you guys networked with over the years? Who was the most interesting of all the people you've met?

Things mentioned:

Most Days (https://www.mostdays.com/)
Habitica (https://habitica.com/)
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker (https://bit.ly/36w5tHJ)

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[Ep318] Swirly Diagonals Jul 07, 2021

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Good day, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss the torch problem, confetti cards , and table scraps. We’ve talked about project creep and scope creep - now let’s talk about complexity creep! People expand the fill the spaces that they’re in, whether those spaces are physical or virtual. You know you’re outgrowing your current systems if you spend most of your time handing off work instead of actually doing the work. If you don’t filter the noise, then everything is chaos.

If you’re curious about Seth’s Warcraft logs… (https://bit.ly/3xpKvG7)

Questions answered (abbreviated):

Fraser_: Waaay back in episode 73, you talked about eventually expanding beyond games. What's happened to this goal in the intervening years?
Flyhoppie Axerompa: Seth what is your class/spec in WoW?

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[Ep317] The Exploding Bloviation Jun 30, 2021

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Hiya, Shenanites! This week, we talk about automagic, motion waste, and toothpaste mining. Sometimes when you use a robot that’s designed for someone else, you have to build another robot to undo some of the design. Better than doing it yourself probably. There are a lot of questions you should ask yourself when you’re investigating a new tool. Chief of these should be “but does it work though?”

Questions answered (abbreviated):

Xeflat Doorveer: What other kinds things have you delegated to your robots so you don't have to think about or do?

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[Ep316] Cloth Airplanes Jun 23, 2021

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Good day, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss extraneous chats, what happens in the margins, and your house bones. It’s weird to think that we all live in a skeleton that we fill with personalized guts. And that, even though you and your life are changing constantly, that skeleton always stays the same. Well, at least until you decide to turn all your outlets right side up again, but who wants to go to all the effort to do that?

Questions answered (abbreviated):

Woland77: Now that you've gone completely remote for your studio, do you think you'll stay in St. Louis? Do you ever think about relocating yourselves or the studio?

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[Ep315] Probability Collapse Jun 16, 2021

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Hello, Shenanites! It’s a bit of a shorter episode this week because Sam got a new mic and it did NOT want to play nice. Even still, we talk about things that don’t exist, things that do exist, and CHAOS. There are infinite variables that influence what will happen, and you can’t predict them all. But once what happens happens, it’s already happened, so does it matter that you can't predict it? Talking about chaos is like talking about time travel -- confusing.

Questions answered (abbreviated):

blondeviking91: Have you gotten any 5-star 1-star reviews?

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[Ep314] Human Paste Jun 09, 2021

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Greetings, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss metajokes, how little people know, and bikeshedding. Sometimes figuring out the when for tackling a problem involves figuring out the why. You don’t wanna put Bandaids on poop piles. That solves nothing. Instead, consider putting on your fanciest boa and buying some avocados. We’re pretty sure that’ll bring us all one step closer to a better world.

Questions answered (abbreviated):

QuantumAnomaly: What's the coolest way you've dunked on everyone outside of your work lives?
Flyhoppie Axerompa: When I tell people I am a video game developer the most common question I get is, "Have you worked on anything I have heard of?" Do you bros ever get this question? How do you handle it?
challosis: What is the balance between implementing new features to test designs and cleaning up known bugs to make the game less fragile/easier to add more things?

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[Ep313] Hermit Crab Life Jun 02, 2021

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Salutations, Shenanites! This week, we talk about Victorian treatises, invisible structures, and how people aren’t robots. People are also different from each other - who knew? As it turns out, when you acknowledge those two facts, you can construct a conscientious, flexible environment that actually prioritizes a person’s experience. Let’s make the implicit explicit. There’s no reason to have the Inquisition design your office chair.

It was another day of bloviating, so we didn’t get the questions this week -- next week, we promise!

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[Ep312] The Feature Jank Tradeoff May 26, 2021

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Ahoy, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss dinosaur clipping, the purpose of ghosts, and perpetual impostor syndrome. Starting a creative project is like crossing a rickety rope bridge over a deep canyon -- if you think too much about the distance to the ground, you’ll never take the first step. And sometimes you need to prioritize the experience over technical perfection. After all, people will put up with a lot if they get to ride a triceratops.

Questions answered (abbreviated):

Mowrompa Kimmaquompa: When you first started making games, did you have this kind of performative impostor syndrome? If so, how did you overcome it?

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