205. It's Cool To Get A Letter

Lords:

• Alex
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSjSkaBRD7k&list=PLBk6-z6v3pDKi3Q-9MeqUfupJswozircH&index=7
• John

Topics:

• That time I spent 4 days fasting in the woods
• Twins! Coming soon! Ahhhhh!
• The Zelda 1 second quest
• https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/806592-now-the-world-has-gone-to-bed-darkness-won-t-engulf

Microtopics:

• Joyful communities.
• Whether discord logs can be subpoenaed.
• Encoding all your mail in ROT13 to keep them safe from the snoops at the NSA.
• Finishing with your DSP design work so your employer sends you into the basement to make cardboard boxes.
• Someone in the early 2000s with a high pitched voice.
• Remembering your grandma's phone number from when you were six but not remembering any phone numbers since then.
• Thinky Puzzle Games.
• An Alan Hazelden thing.
• Tom Brown's Tracker School.
• Going into the woods and sitting in one spot for four days.
• A good, productive, safe time.
• Keeping control of your emotions.
• How to know when to stop.
• Doing a ritual at sunrise.
• Having animal encounters.
• Trees dripping water on you.
• Doing the most boring thing for four days straight so you can never be bored again.
• A really cool thing to do in your twenties.
• Sonic showers screaming at you until you're clean.
• Lacking the experience to understand what's coming for you.
• Going through some shit and loving it.
• What if it all works out?
• The experience of knowing twins.
• Taking advantage of the Groupon for college tuition.
• Hanging your fears on milestones.
• Taking your parental leave consecutively.
• Daycare as a microcosm of communal living.
• Showing people what you're working on.
• Making a living putting your kids on social media until your kids get old enough to express that they don't like it.
• Wearing a shirt saying "I do not consent to be photographed."
• A conversation with a five year old about scrub jays.
• Sharing media with an allowlist.
• Setting permissions on who can see your photos.
• Sharing photos with your family by handing out USB drives.
• A visual novel that is extremely interested in your personal financial information.
• A pen connected to a matrix of hundreds of other pens so you can sign your name hundreds of times at once.
• The Zelda one-second quest.
• Naming yourself Zelda as a shortcut for understanding this topic.
• Naming your character Zelda without understanding the consequences.
• Red bubbles that take your sword away.
• An obvious door that you can walk through.
• Iwata Asks.
• Accidentally using only half the space available.
• Zelda randomizers.
• SMZ3.
• How to make Super Mario World a metroidvania.
• Marvin putting in work.
• Capturing a particular level of snark.
• Reading books in high school that you won't understand until you're 30.
• The California Raisins as the sequel to the Grapes of Wrath.
• The kind of person who works really hard in high school.
• Xanthan gum.
• Trochaic something or other.
• I had a theory about music and then I made all these friends!