127: Not a Cactus in Sight
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2015
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-follow-up:
- Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0
- Follow-up:
- Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian)
- On-demand resources API and
NSProgress(via @Hunter) - Marco tries to deny he likes playing games
- Desert Golfing
- Alto's Adventure
- Prison Architect
- Theme Hospital
- OpenTTD, the rewritten and expanded Transport Tycoon
- Intel's tick-tock seems to be over
- Reddit kerfuffle
- CGP Grey's video: What is Reddit?
- Hello Internet #43
- Rocket #26 and #27
- Laurie Voss's two tweets (sorry for the wrong gender pronoun)
- Post-show:
- More on Reddit
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do you pronounce STAHP? |
| 0:03.0 | What? |
| 0:04.0 | That's not a word. |
| 0:05.0 | Yes it is. |
| 0:06.0 | Well, not really. |
| 0:07.0 | But it's what the kids say when they really want you to stop doing something. |
| 0:09.0 | Is it stop? |
| 0:10.0 | I guess. |
| 0:11.0 | Stop? |
| 0:12.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:13.0 | Something like that. |
| 0:14.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to go with stop. |
| 0:16.0 | Like maybe like the great lakes accent? |
| 0:19.0 | Stop. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes, because that's what this podcast needs is more talk about regional accents. |
| 0:25.0 | Yes, definitely. |
| 0:26.0 | I actually got called out at work today in a happy way. |
| 0:31.0 | Co-worker asked me a coworker that I just started working with. |
| 0:34.0 | Asked me if I was from Jersey. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, that part wasn't happy at all. |
| 0:37.0 | That was miserable. |
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