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Topics:

• Remembering the Dynowarz
• Instagram private server, and social media thoughts every Mastodon user had already
• Why don't CPUs do analog arithmetic?
• Leaves, by Ursula LeGuin
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Microtopics:

• DogTroid, the first Metroid ROM hack to star a dog.
• Self-finishing games.
• Sparkling water: it's like water but a lot more interesting.
• Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi.
• What sodas foam the most in response to a mento.
• Foam persistence.
• Foaminess reactions of a mento on various vintagesn of Diet Coke.
• Jolt Cola: all the sugar, twice the caffeine, three times the foam.
• A can of soda that's safe to open in a bathroom stall.
• Artisanal Coca Cola cans on Etsy that finally allow you to open a can of soda in a bathroom stall without anyone realizing you're drinking a Coke on the toilet.
• Flushable soda cans: as flushable as a flushable wipe.
• Why do toilets have pee traps when the pee deserves to be free?
• The second worst game in your NES collection.
• Desert Chrome title screens.
• Playing as a little spaceman until you enter the dinosaur mech.
• Shooting some alien brain or maybe a heart.
• 8bitnintendo.science
• How to pick what video games to buy in the late 1980s.
• How Metroid improved on the maze-with-keys genre.
• Nanosaur.
• A velociraptor with a techno-backpack.
• A game that is exhilarating and scary and endless when you're a child turning out to be a twenty minute trifle when you're an adult.
• Trespasser (1998)
• Simulation dinosaur emotions but you can't find a good balance so you just permanently lock them all to angry.
• Installing a violent action game about dinosaurs in the elementary school computer lab because dinosaurs are technically educational.
• Revisiting games that perplexed you as a child.
• Playing bad video games because no matter how bad they are they're still better than going outside and talking to people.
• The one where Kirby eats a car.
• The Roblox-like games you can find by logging into third party Minecraft servers.
• Starting your own Pixelfed server.
• Following the only person you know on Mastodon.
• Bluesky's recommendation algorithms recommendeding you nothing but bots.
• Inventing Internet forums from first principles.
• When your brain makes up garbage and you need a void to shove it into.
• Doing your part to make AI worse.
• CSS Crimes.
• How to find people to follow on Cohost.
• Signing up for a social media site and looking around and realizing you doing know anyone here.
• Mining and reposting.
• The ongoing maintenance requirements of running a Mastodon server.
• Ways you can interact with your family that only work if you have an iOS developer in the family.
• Off-box SQL database backup.
• Hypothetical IRC servers that support chat logs.
• Hardware random number generation.
• The pot of boiling water every Intel CPU draws thermal noise from for random number generation.
• The most commonly used analog computers in 2026.
• The market forces that led to semi-modular synthesizers being available for $300.
• Using your analog CPU to run a million instances of Lunar Lander at once.
• A rustic summer retreat ranch in the hills of Napa Valley, California.
• What makes us perceive the gradient of identities over the course of someone's life as a single identity.
• The most ephemeral thing possible.
• Musing for a few sentences and then thinking "hmm, I could put some line breaks in here and then publish it."
• Musing about the nature of identity, with line breaks.
• Topic Slingers.
• Topics: throw them around a lil bit. They love it. A lot of people don't know that.

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Topics:

• Memes where the specific instance of joke customization is frontloaded, while the punchline remains the same every time.
• Making ZZT games in 2024
  • https://stale-meme.itch.io/the-king-in-yellow-borders
• It's 2024 and still nobody has ported Mario 64 to the Commodore 64
  • https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cutie-christmas
• What I Would Tell Eve by Maegen McAuliffe O’Leary
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1ez31sh/poem_what_i_would_tell_eve_by_maegen_mcauliffe/
• "A vampire with a cheque-book, a solicitor, and a balance at the bank is not a plausible kind of creature." - Andrew Lang (contemporary reviewer of Dracula)
• Do you think there were any Fortnite die-hards who got really upset when Fortnite started introducing Marvel and Star Wars guys to the game?

Microtopics:

• A Muppet Christmas Carol.
• Gradations of Michael Caine oldness.
• The Museum of ZZT.
• Wizened ZZT Wizards.
• Taking a common idea and altering it in an interesting way.
• Why do plays still exist?
• Making up an audience to applaud you.
• Rehearsing a conversation in a low-oxygen environment.
• A guy walking around touching things in the world and flavor text appears.
• The ZZT aspect ratio problem.
• Sneaking into the office at night and playing ZZT in silent mode so you don't bother the janitor.
• 8-way movement in ZZT.
• Reasons to stick with a certain set of constraints.
• WeaveZZT.
• Making a deck builder RPG in ZZT.
• The safety and romance of a good set of constraints.
• The King in Yellow Borders.
• Oktrollberfest.
• A found object horror game built in a fake ZZT engine.
• Wario doing a ground pound and breaking the Youtube interface around the video.
• Reading like 200 pages of Problem Sleuth and never getting around to Homestuck.
• A program you can install to make your computer look like it's still running Windows Vista, and another you can install to make it feel like Obama is still president.
• Porting ZZT to the Commodore 64.
• An economy of people enjoying themselves.
• Porting Mario 64 to ZZT and ending up on the front page of Planet Quake.
• Tux Racer.
• Scoping your game just big enough for people to see screen shots and get excited, but small enough that it's still finishable.
• Mario 64's British Platformer Energy.
• Whether Argonaut or Rare was a bigger influence on the design of Mario 64.
• 3D Construction Kit for the Commodore 64.
• Trying to build a scene in PovRay.
• What iPad kids were like in the mid-90s.
• Whether or not Eve ate the best possible apple.
• Plausible and implausible vampires.
• Ahistorical vampire analysis.
• Why there's chicken on the Streets of Rage
• What the Antediluveans got up to.
• The 14 million year war for Cybertron.
• What did you eat for 14 million years?
• Subsisting on pure unfiltered Sparklemotion.
• Two robots punching each other in the face for millennia.
• Nike sponsorships in Magic the Gathering.
• A roadmap of Magic the Gathering Crossovers.
• The Guitar Hero game where you could make Kurt Cobain perform Run DMC.
• Rated E for Explicit.
• A PubG with fort building mechanics.
• Winning your first game of Fortnite and retiring forever.
• The Super Smash Instinct.
• Monetizing a child's insatiable gambling instincts.
• Playing a video game and worrying about the developer's immortal soul.

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