243. Welcome To The Elder Zone

Lords:

• Andrew
• Tyriq

Lords:

• The Church of the SubGenius
• Making FreeCell is kind of like playing FreeCell
• How do we get to a place where our primary tool for productivity is not also our primary avenue of distraction?
• "<3 Team Schiff", by Team Schiff
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png

Microtopics:

• World Building Notes
• An accent you cannot discern the origin of.
• Fun worlds that I've thought of.
• A world where hair is the source of all life.
• A port of Freecell to the Playdate that might never be released.
• J.R. Bob Dobbs, a salesman from the 1950s.
• Whether Discord (the IRC client) is named after Discordianism.
• Tyriq Reads Wikipedia.
• Principia Discordia.
• An extremely profitable troll.
• Good and bad reasons to troll.
• Making your weird fun art without worrying about people taking you way too seriously fifty years from now.
• Whether submarines are named after the Church of the Subgenus.
• Rewriting your entire game in C.
• Playing Freecell Validly.
• A latecomer to Freecell.
• The one known impossible Freecell seed.
• The Freecell Helleed vs. the Minesweeper Dream Board.
• The looking at the cube phase and the turning the cube phase.
• Typeshift speed run hacks.
• Knowing a 38-letter word.
• Undo trees.
• The New York Times games package being sold separately from the newspaper.
• The diction of the New York Times crossword puzzle.
• Doing Greek letter flash cards to up your crossword game.
• Words that come up a lot when you're mashing letters together.
• A job where you don't use a computer? In this economy?
• Sequencer-based techno.
• Constraints that fit the UI extremely well.
• An interface that makes a lot of sense for the Game Boy.
• Printing out the entirety of Wikipedia so you can go offline for a while.
• The compressed size of Wikipedia.
• Here's a thing and the only thing it does is have information on it.
• Hanging out in the library with people vs. with books.
• The three best things in life.
• Opening the tiny drawer and flipping through the tiny cards with your tiny hands and using your tiny eyes to read the tiny text.
• Downloading information about a spider that links to another spider.
• Using robots.txt to ward off all kinds of creatures, not just robots.
• 999: Extraterrestrial Worlds.
• Abandoning the Dewey Decimal System after you discover that numbers go higher than 999.
• Stopping to end.
• This Cat Does Not Exist.
• The perfect source of images that have never been used before.
• An art project that invents politicians and texts people imploring them to donate to the campaign and that's how the art project gets funding.
• What Socrates would have said about the Banksy that shredded itself.
• Your legal name with a bunch of letters removed.
• Picking an online handle that's very hard to pronounce to make sure people don't call you that in real life.
• Giving everybody you meet a different name for yourself.
• Having more friends than you've ever had.
• Having hobbies that put you in a room with people.
• Libraries as raucous hangouts.
• Inviting tweens to play video games in the back rooms (but not in a shady way)
• A citizen saying "hey, library, can I use a room?"
• Your local library, featuring the Middle-Aged Zone.
• Lego Security Theater.
• An unordered list of links.