303. A System Of People Doing Stuff And Being Weirdos

Lords:

• JP
  • https://jplebreton.com/
• Styger
  • https://www.sf.gov/readysf

Topics:

• Is "Non-Super" Mario an alternate state of consciousness or identity, or merely an alternate physical state?
• "Hot defensive bee ball" + bees in general
• Solving all 24,976,511 5x5 nonograms
  • https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram
• Poem Seen in a Motel Fan by Alberto Blanco
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/-_x1pv5l.jpg
• Werecreature logistics
• "The Ball is Back." Discuss.

Microtopics:

• The World of Video Games
• Your favorite granola coming back in stock.
• Working to make the world a slightly better place every day.
• Weird frustrating tethering.
• Levels that are about hauling ass.
• Being on the same train as someone for a few stops.
• The small version of yourself that you become when you lose your mushroom.
• Whether Small Mario has access to all of Super Mario's memories.
• What was the authorial intent of Alice growing bigger and smaller.
• Whether Small or Big Mario is the original default.
• Mario accumulating power and becoming an enormous hulking beast.
• Designing a level to support multiple player scales.
• Game series that have been both 2D and 3D platformers.
• Small Mario eating a mushroom and teleporting into a pocket dimension, swapping in Big Mario.
• Japanese hornets in an evolutionary arms race with Japanese honey bees.
• Bees forming a tight clump around a hive invader to make them uncomfortably warm.
• A baseball sized mass of bees smothering a huge horrible wasp.
• Touring beehives and giving seminars about the hot defensive bee ball.
• A multi-disciplinary bullshit operation.
• Enjoying your job.
• The degree to which they waggle.
• Bees having a dance-off to determine where to live.
• Extending the bee dance language to teach them orbital dynamics so they can find pollen sources in space.
• Candy that smells like a bee alarm pheromone.
• The NPC in Curse of Monkey Island who explains that merengue is made of eggs.
• What they call being "slashdotted" nowadays.
• Doing 15 puzzles and taking satisfaction in being 15 puzzles closer to not being able to play this game any more.
• Web sites: they shouldn't scale.
• Putting every 5x5 nonogram in the Library of Congress.
• Humanity dedicating all of its resources to solve every 6x6 nonogram.
• The 100 people in the world whose brains are tricked by this kind of fake work.
• The most interesting three-digit numbers.
• What happens when we run out of nonograms??
• The kayfabe of the community doing every 5x5 nonogram over and over again
• A convex mirror, a fisheye, a golden dome.
• Taking comfort in the continued existence of observers.
• Having all the resources to grow as a person but none of the incentives.
• Your little chunk of humanity's future.
• Things can get better but also they can get worse.
• The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, 60th Anniversary Edition.
• The official City Lights typeface.
• A dignified serif.
• A poem is when you do something interesting with typefaces.
• How to distribute your poem that does something interesting with fonts.
• Lycanthropy booths and other werewolf accommodations.
• It's not a disability but they still accommodate you.
• Seasonal Mania.
• Humans brains being affected by the sun and moon in ways we don't fully understand.
• Hospital intake numbers that correlate with the lunar cycle.
• What's the deal with the ball being back?
• A flying silver ball that sucks your brains out with a fork.
• Doing what you do just because.
• The ball: it has to be back.
• Watching an 80s horror movie and thinking "surely someone has made a Doom level of this"
• Inventing perfectly mirrored silver spheres entirely independently from ray tracers.
• Reporting back when you are further along on your Phantasm journey.
• Not being on the Internet because you're hanging out with the bees instead.