Lords:

• JP


• Shepard

Topics:

• Damn it, Microsoft added something worthwhile to Office.


• Favorite DOS game soundtracks?


• The Balatro Discourse


• Faith is a Fine Invention, by Emily Dickinson
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/
  
  

Microtopics:

• Artist Alley.


• Scrolling down a web page and seeing a bunch of cool stuff.


• Seeing a list and wondering "how did this list happen"?


• Steam Farming Fest.


• Trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up.


• Eating eggs and rice when you have tummy troubles.


• The file you all edit to make the deposit slip.


• Taking data from multiple columns and putting them all in a single list.


• Becoming the spreadsheet wizard.


• Installation wizards.


• Why nobody calls a software feature a "wizard" any more


• A window into the dialectic of wizards.


• The LLM hype tornado.


• Renting video software from Blockbuster.


• Back when any media was a "tape"


• Enumerating the kinds of MS-DOS audio hardware.


• Emitting a blast of data.


• Enjoying a video game in 4, 16 or 256 colors.


• How Doom sounded on the internal PC speaker.


• Playing multiplayer Doom on a four computer LAN where two of the computers don't have sound cards.


• The Doom source port family tree.


• Whether Linux supported the internal PC speaker.


• Playing each MIDI note with the off-the-track square wave.


• Holding on to a joke for several minutes.


• Doing sound effects via the Roland MT-32.


• FM synth guitars sounding more evil than real guitars.


• Synthesizers that are fancier than other synthesizers and are therefore better.


• The ambient music on the Doom soundtrack.


• The Lost Vikings soundtrack.


• Games with tracker soundtracks.


• The tracker music era.


• A roguelike deck builder kind of a thing.


• A huge hit within your social horizon.


• Beginners hoping to project intelligence and competence.


• The kind of mixing of data and code that Lua makes easy to do.


• How to deploy a Love2D game to consoles.


• A cool game idea that's just a bunch of cards doing stuff.


• Sean Barrett's STB libraries.


• The ability to change your mind without having to throw away a bunch of work.


• Ambient complexity vs. intrinsic complexity.


• Hot takes escaping containment.


• The Celeste character controller.


• Software security practices that do not apply to a single player indie game.


• Looking at code and seeing all the things that it used to be.


• Looking at code solving a problem in a domain you are unfamiliar with.


• An Emily Dickinson poem that reads like a response to an argument she had at dinner.


• Situations where you can directly observe what's happening.


• All the filters preventing you from bursting out into song.


• Esprit de escalier.


• Who was Emily Dickinson owning?


• A contempt for faith and a sense that microscopes are good.


• Knowing that nobody reads your blog, but taking satisfaction in the knowledge that someone hypothetically could.


• Excavating spiritual truth from apocryphal ramblings.


• The app that holds all the texts you don't send for ransom.


• Digging through people's trash but with fewer steps.

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