221. Fisher-Price My First Right Click Menu

Lords:

• Chris
• Alex

Topics:

• Living without software updates
• I like Cyberpunk 2077
• I had a friend who would argue with the people collecting signatures in support of a proposed law. Not about the proposal itself, but the methodology behind it.
• PIECE A SHIT, possibly by Sam Pink
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Microtopics:

• Lords of Topics.
• Asking your mom if this Thanksgiving turkey is Frog Fractions 3.
• Haiku Hero.
• How to talk to the press.
• An email from the guy who sent me the quirky thing from before.
• The Last Biceps.
• Filling your house with electronics that continuously ask you to do things.
• How to interact with the Internet on an old un-updated computer.
• Snap craft something or other.
• Turning off Windows updates for over a year and nothing bad happens because security best practices are bullshit.
• Visiting twinbeard.com to find out about the beads in Jim's ears.
• Searching Google for the little balls in your ears.
• Your phone popping up a window saying "you're a year and a half out of date, would you like to update?" and hitting the back button as fast as you can.
• Windows updates adding AI functionality to MS Paint.
• Making uneducated guesses about how someone else's code works.
• Searching for a program on your computer and Windows gives you Bing results for that program's name.
• A sneaky hacker man doing non lethal takedowns.
• Making a complicated video game and then patching it into a completely different complicated video game after the guides have all been written.
• Trying to explain to someone why the story of Half-Life is cool and realizing halfway through your explanation that it's not that cool actually.
• Cool things that build immersion.
• A guy saying "have a seat" and a contextual actionicon appearing over a chair.
• Voluminous closets full of costumes for virtual dress-up.
• Delivering exposition in cars.
• All the weird things people will put on their body in the cyber future.
• A fictional city halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• Recovering a stolen painting by showing a satellite.
• A city with lots of neat stuff to do.
• Querulous Friend's Advocate.
• The Everyone Gets a Pony Initiative of 2023.
• Filibustering people collecting signatures in front of the grocery store.
• How much do you believe in the political causes you're promoting?
• Watching your friend play games in a little window on your second monitor.
• Mr. Feeny recording car AI voices.
• Getting into World of Warcraft because you are stressed about starting a new job.
• Level 1 Superman killing rats to collect 10 rat pelts.
• Fun ways to fight crowds of mooks.
• The things you see on your limbs when you see your limbs.
• Replacing all the mirrors with cyber mirrors.
• The doctor pulling out your cyber eyes and putting them in a drawer and all you can see is the inside of the drawer.
• Lost games dev techniques such as palette swaps.
• A screenshot of a book.
• A poem painting a picture of a time and place.
• Maybe Sam Pink.
• Writing a bunch of messages to someone and making their phone vibrate every five seconds for a full minute.
• Notification throttling.
• Fanciful technological panaceas.
• Ultra poetry where each line has animation and timing.
• Making a word wiggle in a sine wave to indicate that it's a spooky ghost noise.
• Poem Lords.
• Seven poems on the itinerary. (But we'll only have time for three of them.)