Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Audio Lot Episode May 01, 2021

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The Audio Lot Episode: A Craigslist Find, Everyone Comes Together, Eight Thousand Dollars, The Haul, The Cataloging, The Life of Mark Pines, A Future to Live Forever. An episode about a haul out of Connecticut that I got to play a minor part in, and which represents one of the reasons we all like to do this work. It'll be months before this bears fruit, but the results will be truly enjoyable.

The Morning Scans Episode Apr 28, 2021

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The Morning Scans Episode: A Delight When I Wake Up, DPI and Depth, The Bad Old Days, The Best of Now, 2 millimeters, The Improvements, A Truly Infinite Task, A Mostly Wonderful Time, A Job Perk You Can Share.

An appreciation for what we have, and yet another invitation to visit.

The Whimsical Episode Apr 24, 2021

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The Whimsical Episode: A Never-Found GET LAMP Feature, The Importance of Whimsy and Extra Effort, ANSI Art, A Very Loud Flap, 100 Years Ago, 100 Years from Now, Tossing Embers from a Moving Train.

The 100-Year Traveler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Soames

The 100-Year Easter Egg: Trials Fusion: https://www.polygon.com/2015/6/12/8771657/report-trials-evolution-riddle-solved

The Tascam Portastudio Episode Apr 21, 2021

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The Tascam Portastudio Episode: All the Access in the World, A High School Band, Music and Sound, The Portastudio, Multitrack Recording, Control of Time, 2 Albums and Singles, A Quiet Drifting Away. Also: An Actor to Remember a Friend.

The music Jeremy and I did continues to have a page with links to many of the songs we made on the Tascam: http://www.cow.net/bis/

The Summer Romance Episode Apr 18, 2021

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The Summer Romance Episode: Visitation, Summer, Neighborhood, Patio, Atari, A Unicorn, Artwork, Dreams, Every Day, Dinner, A Handshake.

A tale of a summer romance long ago.

The absolute best book on the artwork of Atari and both the people behind it and capturing the loveliness of it all is "The Art of Atari" by Tim Lapetino. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Tim-Lapetino/dp/1524101036

The Monk and the Sherpa Mar 07, 2021

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The Monk and the Sherpa: 40 Years with Chris Orcutt, Our Divergent Paths, The Focus, My Carnival, The Bedrock, Tales of Long-Term Friendship, Console Games, New Eyes, A Journey. Chris has a blog at https://orcutt.net/weblog/blog/ where he posts something like 3-4 times a year. If you want to get hit with a novelette every season, this is the blog for you.

Naturally, his books are all for sale: https://orcutt.net/weblog/buy-books/

The Buried Source Treasure Episode Mar 03, 2021

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The Buried Source Treasure Episode: An Ocean of Material. The Hidden Treasures. The Infocom Source Code. The As-Yet Undiscovered Dragon Hoard. The Wonder of These Offers. Drop Them Off, Run Away. Spells in a Cabinet. My historical source collection on Github: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories

The collection of game source at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/gamesourcecode

The Left Arm Episode Feb 28, 2021

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The Left Arm Episode: Medical Malady, Shakespeare in the Park, Saxophone Guy, Weird Inflatable Couch, A Minor But Not Minor Injury, Another Arm Injury, My Limits, How I Will Be Found.

A rumination on my medical limits and physical changes with age.

The Bad Review Episode Feb 26, 2021

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The Bad Review Episode: Grateful and Happy, A Cascade of Good Reviews, That Single Arrow from the Crowd, Motivations for Criticism, The BBS Documentary Not Made, GET LAMP and a Thousand Choices, Empathy. Plus: Bring it On.

The Myst Episode Jan 29, 2021

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The Myst Episode: Rent Control, Harvard Square, An Educational Store, A Clickable Image, Lost Hours, Never at Home, An Impossible Depth, A Fake Impossible Depth, A Special Moment, Another Game I Like, Cyan's Headquarters, Craft of the Millers. Thoughts on how hard Myst hit me at the time, along with what made it so special.

I mention an AI for playing text adventures made up on the spot. It's located here:

https://play.aidungeon.io/main/landing

It's... something to experience. Definitely try it out.

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