Lords:

• Andrew
  
  
  
  
  • https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
  
  


• Aubrianne

Topics:

• I will never get good at video games and that's okay


• Does charging (or even allowing donations) for something change its perception as a piece of art?


• Messy game design


• To Be of Use, Marge Piercy
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use
  
  


• Films Noir


• Complementary Hobby Power Couples

Microtopics:

• Just shakin' it a little bit.


• The royal it.


• Putting Homestar Runner on shuffle while you do homework.


• Making Pico-8 games under an Internet name.


• Your child petting a dog but when you try to pet the dog as well the dog is like "no, not you!"


• A beard or long braid as a fidget tool.


• Spectrum Cheater Reveals.


• Games where you have to plan ahead.


• A very easy social slot to fit into.


• How many extra organs does Master Chief have?


• Watching your mom fail the same jump in Animal Well for twenty minutes.


• Picking a garbage can in Fallout 3 where you keep all your stuff which works great until they patch garbage collection into the game.


• A game that requires two skills and the two skills exist in two different people.


• What happened to cheat codes?


• Paying the pickpocket trainer to train you and then pickpocketing your money back.


• Pickpocketing someone's vital organs.


• Homestar Runner as the ultimate counter example.


• What quilts are worth if you charged a fair wage for your time.


• Spending half an hour convincing your nephew that this scarf really is worth $300.


• The only two millennials who haven't professionalized their hobbies.


• Constructing your game design like a mathematical proof.


• The promise of the text parser.


• All the weird bespoke deaths you could find in a Sierra game.


• Games intended for people who have more free time than you.


• How to make it completely viable to make small games.


• A clever hack to market your video game (spend a bunch of money)


• The promise of the 50 in one pirate kart.


• Trying to get the house gifts in every game in UFO 50.


• Collecting the umbrella and the pin an least a dozen times.


• A Guided Tour of Barbuta.


• The black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls.


• Doing what has to be done, again and again.


• A form of idleness that produces an incredibly amount of textiles.


• Peruvian people spinning while they wait for the bus.


• Why nobody gives a shit about rope and string.


• Appreciating the lasagna that's right in front of you.


• Making a loaf of bread for your family that mostly eats peanut butter sandwiches.


• Making a little frowny face at "amphoras."


• Meeting a girl and wooing her with good semicolon usage.


• Dressing up as Elaine and Guybrush for Halloween.


• Whoppers Jr. and Games Boys Advance.


• Classic Film Noir such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit.


• That time Rita Hayworth made you realize you were gay.


• Getting no movies from America for years and then getting a ton of movies from America all at once.


• Pulpy low-budget melodramas.


• The Hays Code.


• The five minute monologue where Quint describes the graphic sex scene between Jaws and the Hoth Ice Wampa


• Neo Noir. (Meaning from the 70a.)


• Modern art. (Meaning from the early 20th century.)


• Neo Noir films such as the Bourne Identity and Batman Begins


• Bugs Bunny inventing the smoky noir saxophone.


• A taxonomy of complementary hobby pairs.


• Getting 20 musicians in a room and it's a total disaster.


• Sheep growing so much extraneous wool that they fall on their backs and explode.


• Youtube recommending a video on how to flip a sheep over.


• Sheep Tips: How to Flip a Sheep.


• A video of a guy getting out of a car and hopping a fence and running over to help a sheep who is stuck on its back like "what do I even do now?"


• Fellow Jorts Horsians.


• Deep lore of server outages.

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