160. Dracula Never Brushes His Teeth

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Lords:

• Elena
• Shannon

Topics:

• I went to Burning Man and now maybe I don't bite my nails?
• Pros and cons of vampirism
• Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined at the brain. They share thoughts, senses and control of their bodies.
• "Gray cube, rectangular light"
  • https://codewriteplay.com/2019/09/10/legends-of-gamedev-clarissa-darling/

Microtopics:

• Nominally saving everybody a big hassle but in fact completely failing to do the job.
• Checking the double secret server.
• Will Wood.
• Listening to music but not learning a lot.
• Biting your cuticles.
• The Burning Man dust/paste situation.
• Trying to get dust under your fingernails when you don't have fingernails.
• Getting rid of the textures on your face which just causes more textures to happen.
• A cuticle lab kit with fancy sticks and creams that you don't understand.
• Nail-buffing cubes.
• Losing some unpredictable aspect of your person at Burning Man.
• A man made up of all the aspects of personalities that he stole from Burning Man attendees.
• Leaving your nail biting behind in the temple.
• Cutting your nails short ever since you got that gardening gig.
• The weird traveling bruise you get when you hit your fingernail too hard.
• Every shovelful had so much danger in it.
• The perils of gardening barefoot.
• Wearing gloves but not wearing shoes because you like the mud between your toes.
• Dracula Daily.
• Starting a mailing list for someone else's diary.
• Couriers telling you that they delivered the boxes of soil and thanks for the shillings.
• Explaining what a vampire is after the vampire is already dead.
• Vampirism as a pyramid scheme.
• Leaving and returning to your soldered-closed coffin at will.
• God's meaner creatures.
• Vampirism as a recipe for seasonal affective disorder.
• What a bummer it'd be to discover that hell is real.
• Living a thousand subjective years and learning a bunch of skills.
• Getting up every night and finding a child to eat because that's all you have time for.
• Dracula the trainspotter.
• The Kirby dimension that his victims all go to and hang out together.
• Offering value to the world that compensates for the person you have to kill and eat every day.
• The guy in Dracula that is obsessed with technology and records his diary on wax cylinders but doesn't think to write the date on them.
• Doctor C-Word.
• The Blood of Manly Men.
• God Sends Us Men When We Want Them.
• Running out of manly blood but luckily a Texan shows up.
• Affixing small electric lights to your chest so that you can explore a basement.
• The spider that got so big that it was just a really big spider, you know, the really big spider everybody talks about.
• How our intuition for what makes a person can be thrown off completely by simple biology.
• Two brains that are slightly overlapped.
• A closed system that can answer questions about itself.
• Raising a child as if it is two people.
• Split-brain patients.
• Interpreting the two hemispheres of the brain as two individual people who are working in concert.
• The storytelling part of our brain that we call consciousness.
• Having control of three legs and an arm vs. three arms and a leg.
• Trying to relate your subjective experience to other people.
• What is the self?
• A dog that likes another dog but doesn't like a different dog.
• Cantilevered rainbows.
• Clarissa Explains it All.
• Clarissa Explains Indie Game Development.
• Processing events in your life by making games about them.
• Bringing out the special poetry lady to teach you poetry.
• Writing a book of poetry where the typesetter also has to be a poet.
• Writing a poem where you describe the scene from Fullmetal Alchemist where the two brothers burn down their house and your teacher is like "are you ok"
• Writing a poem from the perspective of the piece of paper you're holding up to protect yourself from the rain and your poetry circle is like "I'm so sorry about your sister"
• How to write a relatable poem.
• The extra fridge that holds the food that you don't ever actually eat.
• Who's got the tiger with the baseball bat?
• Fragments of different jagged shapes.
• Zero-Inbox Your Fridge.