324. You Don't Love Staggering?
January 5th, 2026
1 hr 18 mins
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Lords:
- Andrew
- Kate
Topics:
- The strange and alienating experience of learning to drive at 40
- The mottos of the livery companies of London
- Independent They Stand!
- Leda and the Swan, by William Butler Yeats
- Predecimalization currency in the UK
- DIY TTRPG mapping software, the ridiculous way
Microtopics:
- Streaming making maps of video games on the Internet.
- The people who are willing to watch someone map out every corner of this sprawling and convoluted game.
- Writing about video games and writing video games.
- Dicey territory. (Which is only appropriate.)
- King Stephen, which will have been great.
- Fun jokes and oblique references.
- Forty and a half years old.
- Building your life around not being able to drive a car.
- Pockets of civilization separated by vast stretches of asphalt.
- The car unsteering itself unless you hold the steering wheel in place.
- Someone yelling at you with their little beep beep horn.
- Learning a skill and forgetting how you learn it.
- Learning a skill before you find out that learning is hard.
- The false sense of immortality that allows people to get into a car.
- During your driving test, pushing the drift button but the driving instructor is like "I don't see any blue sparks"
- Learning to drive when you're six years old.
- Getting your Lego Land driving license.
- Awarding the worst student in your driving class the "most spirited" driver's license.
- Explaining what livery companies are by reading the Wikipedia page also.
- The Worshipful Company of Communicators.
- Everything's so good, bread especially.
- A great motto for clockmakers.
- Does anyone know any cool Latin mottos?
- When are all these servants having time to go out and have mottos??
- The Soggiest God you can Muster.
- The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists finding a Latin word that is also a snack food for their motto.
- Painting, staining, and compelling obedience.
- Sticking with Hope Classic.
- Shoemakers making jokes about supporting their customers.
- Getting the salt/wit pun in there for people who know Latin.
- Africa: always producing some novelty.
- The 2000 IGF.
- How to read a magazine together on a podcast.
- John Carmack's Finger Server.
- Doom Guy.
- John Romero's specific type of memory.
- How they invented mouse look.
- Turning with the arrow keys and aiming a reticle around the screen with the mouse.
- Dragging the mouse to the top of your cool dinosaur mouse pad.
- Why doesn't Microsoft Excel keep the mouse cursor in the center of the screen?
- The FPS phone interface where you swipe on the touchscreen until the button you want to press is in the center of the screen, then pull the trigger on the back of the phone and a shotgun sound plays.
- Fold-away interface panels.
- Thousand Hells, by the developer of King of Dragon Pass.
- All the video games named "Rift" or "The Rift"
- How can those terrified vague pink fingers push the feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
- Zeus disguised as a swan.
- Whether Marylin Monroe will would've loved Hades.
- Going to Wikipedia's list of mottos because you need some more mottos.
- How many ha'ppenies to a thruppence?
- The half crown, worth 2/6.
- Several hundred quarterfarthings.
- Decimal Day, 1971.
- Extremely forgeable coins.
- Dividing the day into two sets of twelve.
- Decimalization. (Based on 10 fingers.)
- Tuppence and Thruppence.
- IBM calling it "hexadecimal" because they refuse to say "sexadecimal" out loud.
- Theater of the Mind storytelling.
- Importing an occlusion map.
- Tinting what the players can see green and tinting what the DM can see red or blue.
- Swapping the lenses in anaglyph glasses so one person can only see red and the other can only see blue.
- Hanging a projector from the ceiling and projecting the D&D map on the table.
- A projector of uncertain parentage.
- Harebrained vs. cockamamie.
- A fun puzzle you can run off and waste a bunch of time solving.
- A stochastic cinema where you never know if it's going to be comedy or horror and everything seems totally real to you and is about your personal failings.
- Focusing on wibbly dream state.
- How to exhale with your nose plugged.
- Losing your Apple Watch on Mt. Everest and going back up to look for it and it turns out you dropped it in the shower.
- Topics going into the bucket that nobody ever sees.
- Writing a secret on a piece of paper and burying it on a hill with a single tree on it on a moonlit night.