Lords:

• Alexei


• Evan

Topics:

• Silt clouds & underwater visibility as a game mechanic


• The bass pro shop pyramid and the utility calculations of weird buildings


• What happens when your Firefox root certificate expires?


• The Ailing Mirror-Smith
  
  
  
  
  • https://medium.com/@EvanBalster/the-ailing-mirror-smith-9c4b5a76cd#9520
  
  

Microtopics:

• Roguelike Celebration.


• Virtual conferences.


• How to be in a conversation with one person in a room and not the whole room.


• Drinking a polymorph potion to put a different animal emoji next to your user name.


• Roguelikes and Roguelikers.


• Topic munching and topic grazing.


• How to design non-violent roguelikes.


• Spending your paw prints on the "become water" skill so when a human tries to pick you up, you just flow out of their hands.


• Imitone.


• Abruptly tooting a horn.


• Reading an email and then pointing at it and yelling "sold!"


• DSP for game developers.


• Video essays about maritime disasters.


• Penetration diving.


• Huge warning signs in front of every underwater cave.


• Silt Warnings.


• Guideline Entanglement.


• Moving in more directional axes than you normally do.


• Fast things that live underwater.


• Panicking and forgetting that the game is turn based.


• Playing Nethack with a screen reader.


• Multi stage dives to deliver oxygen further and further into a cave system.


• Retrieving the bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald.


• Inventing special hells to put yourself through because the existing hells aren't good enough.


• Gabe Newell's lack of fear response.


• Remembering the time you blacked out and thinking "the brain is really cool."


• Borrowing some time from your cat attack to give to the car crash.


• Scout the Floof.


• Running out of adrenalin and being extremely calm.


• Entering and exiting Tennessee in a state of intense unreality.


• Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt.


• The acoustic properties of a gigantic metal pyramid.


• Getting married inside the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid.


• Hotel rooms attached up the back of the giant fish.


• Why the Egyptians built pyramids rather than other cooler shapes.


• A procedurally generated lady in Canada.


• Importing the Burning Man from Burning Man.


• Stopping at Saskatchewan for gas.


• Home of the World's Biggest Dad.


• Building Ram Pumps in Dwarf Fortress.


• Great Pyramid Ram Pump.


• Mummy Tea.


• A terrible waste of tax dollars that brings joy to children all around the world.


• Firefox telling you "oh shit, you need to update now, dog."


• Configuring Windows Firewall to not allow Windows Updates.


• Protecting your users from malware by opening the floodgates of Internet ads.


• Encino Man.


• Handing Firefox a Baby Ruth and it's like "this tastes like plastic."


• Picking tiny hills to die on as a way to remain mentally stable.


• Escalating lack of politeness from a UK security firm.


• Nitric Acid Piano: sounds great but hurts like heck to play.


• 3D printing new fingernails right onto your bare cuticles every morning.


• Working on a long project in which you see more potency than clarity of purpose.


• Valorizing craft for the sake of craft, disconnected from the use of it.


• In the worst case scenario, how could your tool be used?


• Avoiding doing evil by making morally neutral art.


• Sitting on multiple generations of Cold War techno-optimism.


• Keita Takahashi's manifesto about being a video game romantic.


• Designing things that people can do and enjoy in the world we want to live in.


• Striving to bring people some small amount of a positive emotion.


• Making curry for your colleagues and going totally overboard on it.


• I'm going to go do evil with this curry.


• Learning the flavors of new herbs and spices.


• Fenugreek leaf.


• The worst time in history to get enthusiastic about cooking quiche.


• Trying to figure out how to post.

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