Lords:

• Adam
  
  
  
  
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769410/Ash__Adams_GOBSMACKED/
  
  


• Linker
  
  
  
  
  • https://linker.itch.io/
  
  

Topics:

• Ways you've changed in the last 20 years that have surprised you


• Examples of x animal software running on y animal hardware (ie. fox being cat software on dog hardware)


• This argument about whether erasure poetry is poetry
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.tumblr.com/whistletown/753096096947011584
  
  


• Favourite RPG (videogame or tabletop; open to interpretation)

Microtopics:

• Launching a game in the deep past.


• Indiepocalypse.


• After Journey's End vol. 2.


• The Monthly Tape Club.


• Games that are big enough or marketable enough.


• Getting excited about this month's PC Gamer demo disk.


• Zine-like game distribution.


• Making a small game to express a thought.


• Making a living making weird shit.


• The methods of marketing a small game.


• Practices that have existed for thousands of years.


• The boom and bust cycle and why you might or might not get in on the next boom.


• Making a shit-ton of money and continuing to pay your employees rather than laying them off.


• Whether Gen Z is savvy to the MBA brain worms.


• Whether Jim has a college degree.


• New England Sarcastic.


• Learning about having kids and wondering what it'd be like to have a purpose in life.


• Being legally responsible for the survival of the worst roommate imaginable.


• Other People's Dogs.


• How is your life different from when you were 6 years old?


• Becoming a permanent resident of Canada.


• A local theater company producing your play.


• Frog Fractions: it came from space.


• A thing that expresses the maelstrom going on in my head (or soul)


• The six 70s funk songs with a long enough stretch of isolated drums that they became the drums for every song ever.


• How to make art as an expression of human needs.


• Video games: they shouldn't exist.


• Expressing a thought with the skills you enjoy flexing.


• The virtues of having playtesters.


• Bug software running on mammal hardware.


• Tiny cats in the bodies of big cats.


• Service dogs for cheetahs.


• Remaining calm around humans because your dog buddy loves humans.


• Erasure Poetry.


• Oh Someone Oh God And Then Me.


• Formalized rules for determining who gets credit for what when a bunch of people make a piece of art.


• Legal precedents for copyright and reproduction rights.


• Magnetic fridge poetry.


• Inventing an art form that's even more constrained than pixel art somehow.


• Unity of effect.


• Looking at a blurry 16x16 tile and not being quite sure what it's supposed to be.


• RPGs: what even are they?


• What you can get away with within the aesthetics of a black and white Game Boy game.


• Whether Breath of the Wild counts as an immersive sim and whether immersive sims count as RPGs


• Getting into the topic weeds.


• Chained Echoes.


• Observing the sand running through the hourglass.


• Social anxiety preventing you from enjoying tabletop RPGs.


• Playing tabletop RPGs with a bunch of weird theater people.


• Meeting your friend at a bar to catch up on the latest events in his tabletop RPG sessions.


• How to use your name on social media.

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