e425 — Cone Heads

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Published 24 July 2023

Michael, Michael and Andy are all back together for this opening weekend episode.  Topics for this show include stories about autonomous vehicles, new & old games including , , , and as well as a discussion about the laptop.  

Starting things off this episode, is an article from Schneier on Security detailing how some people are causing autonomous vehicles to stop driving by placing a code on the hood of the car.  The discussion on this topic reminds Michael M of the Harvey Mudd College prank policy (see show notes below).  

Next on the list is a game that blends photography of real objects with the in-game / in-world experience called Viewfinder.  Check out the YouTube video below to see how it operates.  Could there be a View-Master + Viewfinder integration sometime in the future?  Andy brings up Dave the Diver (#DTD) as a game he’s spending time on.  He’s having so much fun with it that it is preventing him from getting started with Baldur’s Gate 3.

Sticking with the games theme, the cohosts reminisce about Dungeons & Dragons.  They react to an article from PC Gamer that takes a strong position that all the newfangled electronics that replace imagination are a detriment to the game.

Wrapping up this episode with a discussion on the Framework repairable & upgradeable computer, Andy shares a couple of additional cool hardware links.

Are you a purist when it comes to playing D&D or do you take full advantage of technology?  Are you a fan of repairing your computer yourself?  Did you have a weekend?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz (our home for now) and let us know! 

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Selected Article Links

Cones

Schneier on Security post: Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone

Vice article: ‘Week of Cone’: Activist Group Is Protesting Driverless Cars by Disabling Them With Traffic Cones

Harvey Mudd College Prank Policy

Reality Games

New World Notes article: Viewfinder Finally Playable On Steam & PS5 For Brain-Melting Indie Fun

View-Master Wikipedia entry

Kotaku article: This Ocean-Diving RPG Never Stops Adding Brilliant New Ideas

Baldur’s Gate 3

Five Things On Friday

Games

PC Gamer article: D&D’s upcoming virtual tabletop radiates a big-budget misunderstanding of what matters in role-playing games

Roll20 Marketplace

Gizmodo article: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Is Still Blowing Minds, 20 Years Later

KOTOR Wikipedia entry

Games at Work e102 — I’ve got Plasticity

Hardware

The Verge article: Framework Laptop 16: our exclusive hands-on

Framework midboard QR code resolves to their job postings

DevTerm

ClockworkPi

CrowdSupply MNT Reform

Ultimate Hacking Keyboard Trackpoint Module

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