meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Accidental Tech Podcast

494: Ultra-Wideband Park Bench

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sponsored by:

  • Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit.
  • Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code atp for 10% off your first order.
  • Instabug: The visibility you need to build top-quality apps.

Become a member for ad-free episodes and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Do you or your kids or have you or your kids discover geometry dash yet geometry dash?

0:06.9

I have no idea what you're talking about. Is that like number of hunters? I don't know. No, it's it's a game

0:11.4

so this is like

0:12.9

My kid has been obsessed with this game for a number of months now and it's one of those games that like spreads to every child's

0:19.9

Friend the basic gameplay. It's kind of like flappy bird where you're looking at jumping up and down

0:24.2

But taken to the most ridiculous extreme possible to the point where it's this now

0:29.9

It's this huge world the game itself not only does it have a million levels that I have just

0:36.1

Huge amounts of complexity tons of visual distractions. It's like crack for your brain if you if your brain works a certain way

0:42.8

Like it's just this huge amount of stuff on screen all to for this basically, you know, this like instant death kind of

0:49.4

Frustrating hardcore kind of jumping game and what's interesting about so there's also a level editor in it

0:56.1

And so of course my kid has gotten into making his own levels and you can submit your levels

1:00.3

It's all right in the game and what I love about this thing

1:02.9

This is not an effort jump for dash what I love about this thing is that

1:06.1

It there are no in-app purchases as far as I can tell it's you pay two bucks for the game and you just have it and that's it impossible

1:13.5

Yeah, and and the guy you know, I think he does very well

1:16.7

Basically the number of people who who play it and it's you know, it's been around for a long time

1:21.8

It's but it's still going strong like you know my kid tells me there's like a hundred levels added all like every day or something by people

1:29.3

And they get featured every day and like there's all and it's a huge community there's youtubers playing it talking about all

1:34.8

That's pretty much how we found it like it is it is kind of a joy to me to see this game

1:40.2

succeeding in the way it does because it's succeeding in the way that iOS games used to back before everything was in a

1:47.0

net purchase garbage vest

1:48.1

It's just a game that you pay for and you have it and there and like

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marco Arment, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Marco Arment and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.