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243. Welcome To The Elder Zone

243. Welcome To The Elder Zone

Update: 2024-06-17
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Lords:




  • Andrew

  • Tyriq



Lords:





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.

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243. Welcome To The Elder Zone

243. Welcome To The Elder Zone

Jim Stormdancer