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Lords:
* Mike
* Kev
* http://www.radcade.com/
Topics
* Embracing creative chaos is very hard but paradoxically extremely common?
* Thanatosensitivity
* GDC happened this year! They really did it
* Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy By Thomas Lux
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48483/tarantulas-on-the-lifebuoy
* Being left handed in a right handed world
Microtopics:
* Wanting to learn to program and moving to Maine.
* Learning to program by implementing a meticulous copy of Metroid for the NES.
* Choosing to live a life that feels like an anime training montage.
* How to learn to program while having kids.
* Radical content for radical gamers.
* Having one's mind blown by works of art, as one does.
* The "stone soup bubblegum and baling wire everything went wrong" method of making art.
* What happens when the plan makes contact with the enemy.
* Writing a film with the magic of wintertime as a core theme and not being able to get the permit to film until spring.
* Iterating on your idea with insights you've gleaned from working on your idea.
* Ascertaining the recoverability of any given error.
* The kind of disaster that happens when a culture accustomed to low-cost-error problems tries to work on high-cost-error problems.
* Improvising bridges.
* Programming vs. the disciplined engineering fields.
* The pros and cons of storing a bunch of elephants on the roof.
* The user experience of death.
* Digital ghosts on LinkedIn.
* Logging in to LinkedIn for the first time in eight years and getting a bunch of IMs from a friend who died six years ago.
* Dealing with your dead friend's estate and having to close out all the relationships they were maintaining on OkCupid.
* Thanatechnologies.
* The human events taking place on a separate flow of time than internet time.
* Slug World.
* A human brain computer interaction conference at Noisebridge.
* alt.ctrl.GDC
* Spending all of GDC on the lawn.
* A GDC talk except instead of talking to an auditorium full of 500 people, you're talking to a hotel room full of five people.
* The Unconference Phenomenon.
* Substance-to-fluff ratios.
* Your three GDC lives.
* Going to the talks where they talk about the stuff we're doing to figure out how we can do our stuff better.
* The ascended platonic GDC.
* Getting all Dunbar's Numbered-out and spending all your time talking to people you know.
* Showing your game at a conference to increase the odds that one of the seven people at Sony who can get your game into the Spring Fever promotion will walk by and notice you.
* Making a leveraged play on your charisma and luck stats.
* GDC Santa with the sack of boxed copies of Glittermitten Grove.
* A map of TXT World stitched together out of screenshots, like in the good old days.
* A greybeard coming out of the woodwork to admire your ANSI art map.
* Disrespecting the expo.
* Realizing that somebody is about to ask you how your GDC is going and getting the drop on them by asking how their GDC is going first.
* Katie hauling off and gassing you up.
* The hazards of being Jim Stormdancer.
* A reward for not loving the death of the ugly and even the dangerous.
* The tangled underworld of your socks.
* Pretending to not be afraid of spiders because you don't want your son to be afraid of spiders.
* Growing up with rhino beetles in Liberia.
* Hog snakes.
* The extremely specific feeling of a desperate beetle clinging to your pruny fingertip.
* Formative bug experiences.
* Millions of termites growing wings to do their big ol' termite sex party.
* Sweeping up all the termites who are taking a nap after mating season to fry in palm oil as a special treat.
* The morning where the entire town is covered in bugs which sucks but you get to eat them which rules.
* Reminiscing about which body parts of a termite are saltiest.
* Getting accustomed to eating termites by the time you get to the bottom of the bag.
* Left-handed zippers.
* Trying to use the wrong scissors and assuming that you have some kind of developmental problem.
* The Uniball Jetstream Rollerball, with a pressurized ink reservoir.
* The prince who was promised.
* Fretting with your dominant hand.
* Picking a specific guitar string at speed.
* Whether handedness exists.
* Drawing with gross motor movements.
* Left-handed mugs.
* Left-handed drums vs. open-handed drums.
