310. Dance Like The Universe Is An Empty Wasteland

Lords

• Alexander
• Kev

Topics:

• "Floaty movement" in games
• The power to give people clutter that they can't throw away
  • https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/yorkdoom/palweb/week12/palwk12.htm
  • https://www.anabuzzalino.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/book-of-kells.jpg
• Dunning Kruger got debunked!
  • https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/
• With or Without Witnesses, by Hasbro, Inc.
  • https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/457/alloy-myr
  • Esper says: "A lot of the lore and worldbuilding of Magic is conveyed through flavor text, but there’s also about a novel’s worth of writing for each set distributed as webfiction and a few dozen novels throughout the game's history. It’s good stuff, usually!"
• The instinct to not swing a heavy object at someone, even when you're supposed to
• Japanese curry

Microtopics:

• The Humble Screw.
• What it might take to be good at hammering nails.
• Fingerbashing.
• An inclined plane that goes around in a circle.
• Metric Rules Football.
• Whether a state machine is the same kind of thing as a wedge.
• Clockwork Maiden.
• Speedrunning, cleaning and dating.
• Floaty movement.
• The JPEG artifact of physics simulation.
• How to Unit Test a video game.
• Using MIDI knobs to tune your game's physics.
• Game Oriented Assembly Lisp.
• Hot Reloading Workflow.
• Why Naughty Dog stopped using Lisp.
• Just going about your life when suddenly you have to use Perl for something.
• Peak Node.JS/SAAS years.
• Walk/run/sprint transition speed.
• Getting an special drink for your guys.
• Medieval style calligraphy.
• Gifting someone with a burden for the rest of their lives.
• Pouring rocks into your dad's pocket because that's where you keep your rocks.
• The kitten going to sleep behind your laptop because it's warm back there.
• Here's how someone in the 14th century would've written these words.
• How to say "fuck around and find out" in medieval Latin.
• Writing a meme in 14th century Blackletter Hand.
• Sans-serif calligraphy.
• The ancient Greeks trying to invent ASCII art but they couldn't close the deal.
• Letters placed inside other letters.
• Autocorrelation.
• Figures 8 and 9.
• Coming out of discussion the topic with a better understanding of the topic.
• Using a bird feather to write.
• Knowledge that we used to have and now have again.
• Learning to Topic Lords while doing home improvement stuff.
• Scrapping your fragile human body to merge with the machines.
• Rainbows in Space.
• Suns going around in circles regardless of whether anyone's looking.
• A semi-conscious little robot dude.
• Calling the Qualia Function.
• A real messed-up looking machine cat.
• Communicating the story solely via flavor text on mana dorks.
• A squadron of little kids waving wooden swords at each other.
• How do you turn sword fighting into something you can do in a video game?
• East Bay Rat Motorcycle Club Flight Nights.
• Situations where they ask if you want a mouth guard.
• Asking the ref at the boxing match what the etiquette is for tapping out.
• The crowd roaring when they realize you're a southpaw.
• Punching a guy you just met three seconds ago.
• Did you end up cutting that girl's head off?
• Renaissance MMA.
• That Awkward Sparring Feeling.
• A simulacrum of kicking each other in the face.
• Getting a part-time job at your favorite curry shop so you can learn the recipe.
• What part of curry is the curry?
• The curry you eat so you don't die.
• Emperor Riding a Dragon to the Forbidden Palace.
• The advantage of a burger as a fast food staple.
• How to make curry convenient.
• Rendang.
• Dry curry.
• Joining a discord and asking "what are all these users for??"
• Which user is which lord on which episode?