Lords:

• Jin
  
  
  
  
  • https://awesomedonut.github.io/
  
  


• Brad
  
  
  
  
  • https://rainwarrior.ca/
  
  

Topics:

• The shareware games business model


• Thoughts on how to define femininity?
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48
  
  


• The Great Molasses Flood
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnRNfXm_k4
  
  


• Entrance by Rainer Maria Rilke
  
  
  
  
  • https://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2010/10/rilke-entrance-from-german.html
  
  


• Combining magic and science in science fantasy.

Microtopics:

• Lizard for the NES.


• Retrofuturism in ancient China.


• Silkpunk Origins.


• Ultima-inspired indie RPGs from 1994.


• Passing around public domain games on floppy disks.


• Registering shareware to get rid of the nag screen.


• Adventure game hint books as a second channel of income.


• Asking your mom to get a money order to register the shareware version of Impulse Tracker so you can get the Stereo Wav Writer.


• Front loading all the good levels in the shareware episode and selling the crap in the registered episodes.


• The Ur-Quan Masters.


• Printing to PDF.


• Uploading your music to mp3.com.


• Cracking shareware using a known plaintext attack.


• Drawing an image with so much entropy that the Save Robot dances for longer than usual and then plays a sad sound.


• A three hour deep dive on the very popular vampire novel Twilight.


• Going online and googling masculine and/or feminine traits.


• The Four Pillars of Femininity.


• Pants: they're for barbarians.


• Whether Stephanie Meyer was trying to write a treatise on idealized gender roles or whether she was just writing what she thought was cool and fun.


• Popular depictions of women who are masculine in behavior but feminine in appearance.


• Why can't your girlfriend both look like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and eat hamburgers like Buffy the Vampire Slayer?


• Why women work so well as horror protagonists.


• Do people cry less in Marvel movies?


• Someone crying so hard in a movie that you start to worry about the actor's social life.


• Tolkien adding a second female character to Lord of the Rings just so he can make the "I am no man" linguistic joke.


• Boston: it's not a year.


• Painting your giant molasses tank brown so it's harder to notice that it's leaking.


• All the children in town walking up and licking the giant leaking molasses tank whenever they feel like a snack.


• Waking up in a pile of dead bodies with your mouth full of molasses.


• Big Enough to be Horrible.


• Getting your architectural plans approved by a government body.


• Gilding the lily when the lily is already extremely memetic.


• Fame: look what it does to people.


• Building a giant tank of anything in the middle of a city.


• Where do you put your 50 million gallons of molasses?


• What happens if you poke the Demon Core with a screwdriver?


• Scientists getting too excited to keep being careful.


• A black and slender tree.


• A word kept in the mouth to grow.


• Eveningfall.


• Putting a tree in the sky while you're creating the world.


• The game you're making giving you ideas about the game you're making.


• Navigating the scientific method in a fantastical universe.


• Lit RPG.


• Dungeon Crawler Carl.


• Using a quarter of the words in your novel to explain the rules of the world like a board game manual.


• Jedi using their powers to boil water for tea.


• Enslaving Jedi to run your steam engine with their mind powers.


• Jedi Inflation.


• Two words that sound good together and now it's your name.

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