• Erica
• Krissy

Topics:

• The Battle of Food Dog and Valley Jump Park
• The Wilson Wolfe Affair, or, how I spent $350 on the mysterious wolfe in the sky
• This tabletop RPG with scripting support
  • https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116246406043573614
• Why the heck are we making everything smart these days? And why is the security so terrible (A.K.A. The Lovense Story)
• The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot
  • https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats

Microtopics:

• The first and still only place you can discuss topics.
• Writing down your plugs ahead of time.
• The happy ending you deserve.
• A small child crawling into your bed in the middle of the night and asking the questions that keep him up at night, such as "can you one-shot a Silver Boss Bokoblin with a regular arrow and a Lizal strong bow?"
• Giving your child a classical education. (In Zelda and Mario games.)
• Living in Virginia near a bunch of Confederate monuments.
• Looking at the battle map to see where the soldiers come down from the Food Lion.
• The monument to not building anything.
• Sonically-enforced exclusion zones.
• Whether there's sound in the eye of the hurricane.
• What they call the Wal-Mart in Puerto Rico.
• Podcasts on which it's okay to hate the French.
• Quebecois LARPing as French.
• History: it's all around us, and it keeps happening.
• Wanting to spend $350 on the wolf in the sky but the wolf just won't take your money.
• Simulacra Games.
• Spinning a zoetrope.
• Questioning the palness of these supposed pals.
• Little mom and pop shops exhorting you to solve this unsolved cold case murder.
• Side stories extending the lore.
• Applying heat to make the secret message appear, then applying cold to make the message disappear so that the next person can apply heat to make the secret message appear.
• Being so busy making your video game that you don't have the spare energy to solve an interesting puzzle.
• Kitchen table ARGs.
• Dang you, Mr. Stormdancer!
• Always coming up with your schemes.
• What happened to the Twinbeard corporation.
• Paying $800 a year in something something taxes to keep your corporation going.
• Incorporating in the state of Delaware.
• Licensing the Frog Fractions brand for a dollar.
• Retiring and making Pico-8 games for the rest of your life.
• It's like PiCoSteveMo all year!
• Reading your program aloud to the DM who executes it in his head.
• Reading your program aloud to the DM who tells you there's a syntax error on line 397.
• Writing out a program to present to the class.
• You went over my helmet?!
• Programming in Logo and watching the turtle move around the screen.
• Rehabilitating the image of Lisp-like languages by changing the parentheses to square brackets which are much cooler.
• Are you a friend of humans?
• Crossing your legs into a storytelling position.
• Picking your job based on what's funniest.
• How smart do you have to be to be a fridge.
• Pulling out your phone and opening your banking app to see how much cash is in your smart wallet.
• Hacking smart butt plugs.
• Whether hacking an insecure smart butt plug is funnier or less funny than making the smart butt plug in the first place.
• Login functions that don't require a password.
• Can you get a virus from a smart butt plug?
• The consequences of your smart butt plug getting taken over by hackers.
• Messaging all your Facebook friends explaining that your smart butt plug was hacked and if the butt plug sends a message saying "help I'm trapped in a butt plug," it's not really from you.
• Working for the U.S. govt hacking pacemakers.
• The chat is coming from inside the butt.
• The three names of a cat.
• Munkustrap, Quaxo, Coricopat, Bombalurina, and Jellylorum.
• A cat in profound meditation.
• Looking up TS Eliot in the phone book.
• Child Jordan Mechner looking up the lyricist of the Wizard of Oz in the phone book and calling him up.
• Doing a Doctor Who joke that nobody gets.
• How many members of The Who are still alive.
• Effanineffability.
• Up to the Neck in Weber.

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