• Andrew
  • https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
• Aubrianne

Topics:

• Reading every Hugo-award-winning novel
• I accidentally made Frog Fractions 2.5 before knowing what a frog fractions was
  • https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777
• I've discovered the perfect video game genre
  • https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644
• When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, by Walt Whitman
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer
• Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia CD from 1992
  • https://archive.org/details/the-software-toolworks-multimedia-encyclopedia-1.5-1992-12-english-cd
• I fixed my slow computer with time travel
  • https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Microtopics:

• Plugging moving.
• Apps that don't do things or have functionality.
• Wearing one of those blood pressure cuffs all day.
• The treadmill hacking into your heart rate monitor.
• Getting your heart rate up by being aggravated at terrible exercise apps.
• Video games that only work with first party controllers because they patch the controller firmware.
• The only team that was permitted to alter the microcode on the Nintendo 64's GPU.
• Reading every Hugo award winning novel.
• Sci-fi authors in the 50s being obsessed with advancements in psychiatry.
• What if there was an empire that spanned a continent.
• Drinking a potion every morning to address your ADHD.
• Dissolving your gummy vitamin in liquid nitrogen and/or
• Looking forward to the next time you get sick so you can take NyQuil again.
• The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge.
• Why they let women write books now.
• Advantages of AuDHD.
• The Hugo award, invented by the protagonist of Hugo's House of Horrors.
• Knock-off Sierra games.
• Feed the Ducks.
• The one with the Spider-Bat.
• Stealth plugging a classic Pico-8 game.
• Independently inventing Frog Fractions.
• Not-Vector Art.
• Making games that don't have a secret thing in them.
• Making Pizza Panda without ever telling anyone what you're working on.
• Picking up a mouse with hats.
• Just make a dumb thing that's silly and you can make fun gifs of it.
• Splore 'em if you got 'em.
• XAMWWSKH, or "Exam Whiskey"
• Curses, or ncurses.
• Walking around this maze and running into this guy and suddenly you're playing a minigame.
• Whether weird shit keeps happening in Pac-Man, or happens only once.
• Why wait at all? Just wake up each day and be surprised.
• Aren't we all just building mazes for ourselves?
• Why sports games still exist.
• Why do people play sports video games when they could play sports in real life?
• Snapping your fingers in order to better internalize the poem.
• What have you over-intellectualized in your life?
• Your particular brainotype.
• Learning about muscles, joints and physiology.
• A bicycle reflector they put on the moon so they could shoot lasers at it.
• Measuring diagrams during your lecture.
• The astronomer who lost his nose.
• Revealing that you've drawn a moustache on Orion's Belt.
• Learning to read words by looking at a spectrogram.
• Who knows what the Danes are up to?
• Things that are not widely known but can be described.
• Looking at really old computer stuff because that's fun.
• Beautiful art that nobody made on purpose.
• Getting actors together in a room to read a scene together before discovering that that's exactly the wrong way to do video game voice acting.
• Aphantasia but for audiation.
• Inability to audiate at different volumes or on the stereo spectrum.
• Focusing really hard to fall asleep.
• Kick-starting your hypnagogic hallucination dream state.
• Rolling that sleep boulder up the hill every day.
• Retheming your 2026 Linux computer to look like Windows 95.
• Downloading 20 years of email history.
• Playing Hunt the Wumpus on your dad's SIM-1.
• What game developers say now that "AI" means something else.
• What "drone" used to mean, and also what it meant before that.
• OpenRCT2 and FreeCiv.
• Making your customers less nauseous before they sit on a bench.
• Not having any restaurants at your theme park so that nobody throws up on your roller coaster.
• Being unable to A/B test your brain because you only have one brain.
• Having a variety of weirdos on Jorts dot horse.

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• Andrew
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• Aubrianne

Topics:

• I will never get good at video games and that's okay
• Does charging (or even allowing donations) for something change its perception as a piece of art?
• Messy game design
• To Be of Use, Marge Piercy
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use
• Films Noir
• Complementary Hobby Power Couples

Microtopics:

• Just shakin' it a little bit.
• The royal it.
• Putting Homestar Runner on shuffle while you do homework.
• Making Pico-8 games under an Internet name.
• Your child petting a dog but when you try to pet the dog as well the dog is like "no, not you!"
• A beard or long braid as a fidget tool.
• Spectrum Cheater Reveals.
• Games where you have to plan ahead.
• A very easy social slot to fit into.
• How many extra organs does Master Chief have?
• Watching your mom fail the same jump in Animal Well for twenty minutes.
• Picking a garbage can in Fallout 3 where you keep all your stuff which works great until they patch garbage collection into the game.
• A game that requires two skills and the two skills exist in two different people.
• What happened to cheat codes?
• Paying the pickpocket trainer to train you and then pickpocketing your money back.
• Pickpocketing someone's vital organs.
• Homestar Runner as the ultimate counter example.
• What quilts are worth if you charged a fair wage for your time.
• Spending half an hour convincing your nephew that this scarf really is worth $300.
• The only two millennials who haven't professionalized their hobbies.
• Constructing your game design like a mathematical proof.
• The promise of the text parser.
• All the weird bespoke deaths you could find in a Sierra game.
• Games intended for people who have more free time than you.
• How to make it completely viable to make small games.
• A clever hack to market your video game (spend a bunch of money)
• The promise of the 50 in one pirate kart.
• Trying to get the house gifts in every game in UFO 50.
• Collecting the umbrella and the pin an least a dozen times.
• A Guided Tour of Barbuta.
• The black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls.
• Doing what has to be done, again and again.
• A form of idleness that produces an incredibly amount of textiles.
• Peruvian people spinning while they wait for the bus.
• Why nobody gives a shit about rope and string.
• Appreciating the lasagna that's right in front of you.
• Making a loaf of bread for your family that mostly eats peanut butter sandwiches.
• Making a little frowny face at "amphoras."
• Meeting a girl and wooing her with good semicolon usage.
• Dressing up as Elaine and Guybrush for Halloween.
• Whoppers Jr. and Games Boys Advance.
• Classic Film Noir such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
• That time Rita Hayworth made you realize you were gay.
• Getting no movies from America for years and then getting a ton of movies from America all at once.
• Pulpy low-budget melodramas.
• The Hays Code.
• The five minute monologue where Quint describes the graphic sex scene between Jaws and the Hoth Ice Wampa
• Neo Noir. (Meaning from the 70a.)
• Modern art. (Meaning from the early 20th century.)
• Neo Noir films such as the Bourne Identity and Batman Begins
• Bugs Bunny inventing the smoky noir saxophone.
• A taxonomy of complementary hobby pairs.
• Getting 20 musicians in a room and it's a total disaster.
• Sheep growing so much extraneous wool that they fall on their backs and explode.
• Youtube recommending a video on how to flip a sheep over.
• Sheep Tips: How to Flip a Sheep.
• A video of a guy getting out of a car and hopping a fence and running over to help a sheep who is stuck on its back like "what do I even do now?"
• Fellow Jorts Horsians.
• Deep lore of server outages.

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• Andrew
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• Aubrianne

Topics:

• Knitting patterns are open source clothing
• This one weird trick will make your videogame feel original
  • Esper says: "JRPGs are just menu games. Everything that's happening is an option in a menu doing some math, there's almost never timing involved. Why do they have to be 'battles?' I've always wanted to make a JRPG set in 1990 where instead of getting in battles, you're just a band from Detroit on tour. There's probably enough going on that you could make interesting JRPG 'battles' and story and characters out of that. 'Audience response' as an HP meter that goes up instead of down, I guess."
• I noticed myself using insert. It turns out I use insert.
• https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-the-garden-annotated
  • Esper says: "The best summation of Black Mirror I ever heard was: 'Can I have an apple?' 'No, there are only Cyber Apples.' 'Can I have a Cyber Apple?' 'No.'"
• Aphantasia but for audiation. Is that a thing?
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LE8scke8

Microtopics:

• Wool socks.
• The thing Jim heard about wool.
• Making a rope out of human hair.
• Whether there are multiple Columbos or just one.
• Which one of you is the programmer and which one is the rubber duck?
• A human 3D printer.
• Keeping your hands busy.
• Stim vs. fidget.
• How to end a conversation that is not during a D&D session.
• Discovering that your entire personality is a coping mechanism.
• YarnTube.
• The fine line between dressing like a grandma and dressing like a really slutty grandma.
• It's a tube. Figure it out.
• Doing it badly until you figure out how to do it better.
• Making a game that is fun even if it doesn't have health bars.
• Instead of doing the easy and obvious things, do something really hard instead.
• Why video games have conflict.
• Disaccord between you and everyone else in the video game.
• Definitely arguably.
• Kids learning from people who are not their parents.
• Smashing a bunch of things together until fun emerges.
• It's not a game where you jump over pits and it's not a game where you hit people with swords so what even is it??
• Dating anime ladies by clicking through text.
• A caveat among recommenders.
• Video game dialog that makes you feel conflicted about shooting Nazis.
• Remembering people's tweets.
• The Rule of Thirds of video game dialog.
• Executing a bad idea very well.
• No One Weird Trick for learning to play cello.
• The insert key as part of your typing repertoire.
• Whether pause/break still works.
• A keyboard without the LinkedIn key.
• Getting your grandma online.
• Pushing the pizza key on the keyboard and the CD-ROM drive opens and there it is.
• Rifled plumbing that allows sewage to flow in a clockwise spiral while clean water flows in a counterclockwise spiral and they never touch.
• A surprise poem where none of your fruit is food.
• How to make a poem fit on Pinterest.
• No combat in my poems.
• Doing your best to make a good thing but never thinking your own work is good even after you experience great success.
• A grocery list with a Black Mirror twist ending.
• Having money in Venmo but you need to sign up for Venmo to get it.
• Listening to a thing if you want to know what it sounds like.
• Anauralia: the silent mind.
• It takes your whole brain to be you, it doesn't have time to be other people too.
• Not watching Black Mirror so that you can believe everyone when they tell you lies about Black Mirror.
• It was Emma Thompson all along.
• The difficulty of remembering Maggie Gyllenhaal.
• Getting ripped while sitting motionless at your desk.
• That fat jiggling machine from the 50s.
• A weighted hula hoop to massage your guts.
• Jorts Horse.
• A bunch of millennials shitposting.
• Trying to distribute your games locally by stapling a floppy disk to a telephone pole
• Microtransaction pump games.
• Sneaking into an arcade with a new arcade game in your back pocket and furtively shoving your new game between two existing arcade games.

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