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• CisHetKayFaber
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.patreon.com/CisHetKayFaber
  
  


• Andrew
  
  
  
  
  • https://luxurybunkers.bandcamp.com/album/killer-karen
  
  

Topics:

• People say the craziest stuff in front of janitors.


• Revisiting development of a creative work after 20 years


• Naming conventions in the demo scene vs. the ZZT scene


• How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/how-to-be-perfect
  
  


• Floops, a 3D cartoon character generated in VRML in the mid-90's internet

Microtopics:

• Putting all your stress from the last three months into a single EP.


• Brains pooping right into your ears.


• Refusing to talk about Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.


• Are you allowed to talk to janitors??


• Being assumed to be part of a group (openly racist people) that you are not actually part of.


• The risks of letting other people clean up after you.


• How do you know when it's time to eat candy when you don't have the candy gland?


• Giving yourself heat stroke because you don't realize it's too hot.


• Making a plan for how to not get heat stroke!


• Not having a thirst meter but your snacking meter is pegged 24/7.


• The inability to sleep and eat at the same time.


• How to tell if you're on SSRIs.


• Cyclothymia.


• "You have to do this now or I'm going to stare at you."


• A VR exercise app where if your heart rate drops too low all the NPCs start staring at you.


• The cost of not taking care of yourself.


• Clinging to your flow state for dear life.


• Feeling like you've done a thing vs. actually doing the thing.


• Sedarising and unsedarising your essay.


• The many eras of cancelling David Sedaris.


• Independent tabletop game developers in the Osaka area.


• Writing to explore your own thought space.


• Writing the program and then running the program.


• Taking a twenty year break between essay drafts so you can revisit your ideas fresh.


• Cyberpunk-coded online handles.


• Attaching a political ideology to the ZZT scene.


• Role-playing bring a small business owner as you make art in your bedroom and share it with the online community.


• Social capital in the cracking community.


• The era in your life when you didn't even know it was possible to pay for computer games.


• Who'd win in a fight, Slayer, or Mega Slayer ZZ9 Final?


• The revealed philosophies of different online communities.


• Shareware and early web nostalgia.


• A wild time to be on the Internet.


• Enjoying lo-fi versions of a thing.


• A movie with bad special effects that look great in the pirated cammed version.


• Straightening your room before you save the world.


• Not doing anything to make what you want impossible.


• Using attractive stamps, like the one with the tornado on it.


• Carrying the only poem you like around with you on index cards.


• Living in a culture where respect for the elderly is out of control.


• The age at which you get to elbow your way to the front of every line.


• Getting paid to tell people how to do things better.


• Things you had to learn outside of school.


• A guy who looks like he's eaten every lemon in the world.


• Ron Padgett celebrity lookalikes.


• An alarm clock that wakes you up by shouting "I'm looking forward to the Internet of things!" in your own voice.


• Who's been to cocktail parties and when, and did you discuss VRML?


• Hand animating 3D cartoons by typing VRML.


• Vtubers in the 90s.


• Making things and putting them on the Internet and everyone just assumes you just prompted an AI to make it.


• Demystifying the magic pixie dust.


• The burly wizard with a hammer and anvil who knows how to make the metal not brittle.


• NAND to Tetris and Cryptopals. (Not the blockchain kind.)


• Learning to never roll your own crypto.


• Magic. (Derogatory.)


• Punished for understanding the assignment.

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