Lords:

• Esper
  
  
  
  
  • https://ourbroadcastday.com/
  
  


• RT-55J
  
  
  
  
  • https://rt-55j.itch.io/
  
  

Topics:

• Memes where the specific instance of joke customization is frontloaded, while the punchline remains the same every time.


• Making ZZT games in 2024
  
  
  
  
  • https://stale-meme.itch.io/the-king-in-yellow-borders
  
  


• It's 2024 and still nobody has ported Mario 64 to the Commodore 64
  
  
  
  
  • https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cutie-christmas
  
  


• What I Would Tell Eve by Maegen McAuliffe O’Leary
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1ez31sh/poem_what_i_would_tell_eve_by_maegen_mcauliffe/
  
  


• "A vampire with a cheque-book, a solicitor, and a balance at the bank is not a plausible kind of creature." - Andrew Lang (contemporary reviewer of Dracula)


• Do you think there were any Fortnite die-hards who got really upset when Fortnite started introducing Marvel and Star Wars guys to the game?

Microtopics:

• A Muppet Christmas Carol.


• Gradations of Michael Caine oldness.


• The Museum of ZZT.


• Wizened ZZT Wizards.


• Taking a common idea and altering it in an interesting way.


• Why do plays still exist?


• Making up an audience to applaud you.


• Rehearsing a conversation in a low-oxygen environment.


• A guy walking around touching things in the world and flavor text appears.


• The ZZT aspect ratio problem.


• Sneaking into the office at night and playing ZZT in silent mode so you don't bother the janitor.


• 8-way movement in ZZT.


• Reasons to stick with a certain set of constraints.


• WeaveZZT.


• Making a deck builder RPG in ZZT.


• The safety and romance of a good set of constraints.


• The King in Yellow Borders.


• Oktrollberfest.


• A found object horror game built in a fake ZZT engine.


• Wario doing a ground pound and breaking the Youtube interface around the video.


• Reading like 200 pages of Problem Sleuth and never getting around to Homestuck.


• A program you can install to make your computer look like it's still running Windows Vista, and another you can install to make it feel like Obama is still president.


• Porting ZZT to the Commodore 64.


• An economy of people enjoying themselves.


• Porting Mario 64 to ZZT and ending up on the front page of Planet Quake.


• Tux Racer.


• Scoping your game just big enough for people to see screen shots and get excited, but small enough that it's still finishable.


• Mario 64's British Platformer Energy.


• Whether Argonaut or Rare was a bigger influence on the design of Mario 64.


• 3D Construction Kit for the Commodore 64.


• Trying to build a scene in PovRay.


• What iPad kids were like in the mid-90s.


• Whether or not Eve ate the best possible apple.


• Plausible and implausible vampires.


• Ahistorical vampire analysis.


• Why there's chicken on the Streets of Rage


• What the Antediluveans got up to.


• The 14 million year war for Cybertron.


• What did you eat for 14 million years?


• Subsisting on pure unfiltered Sparklemotion.


• Two robots punching each other in the face for millennia.


• Nike sponsorships in Magic the Gathering.


• A roadmap of Magic the Gathering Crossovers.


• The Guitar Hero game where you could make Kurt Cobain perform Run DMC.


• Rated E for Explicit.


• A PubG with fort building mechanics.


• Winning your first game of Fortnite and retiring forever.


• The Super Smash Instinct.


• Monetizing a child's insatiable gambling instincts.


• Playing a video game and worrying about the developer's immortal soul.

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