Lords:
* Andrew
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658150/Moonstone_Island/
* Kate
* https://tunicgame.com/
Topics:
* British food is good, actually
* Really enjoying programming in MonoGame (and stop motion animation)
* Lightswitch abstraction limit
* Un petit d'un petit
* The Old Timey Computer Show
* Trying to get your friends to play a game that sucks to learn
* Winston has discovered that the ending of a story is usually the most exciting part, so he doesn't want to watch whole movies any more, just the last twenty minutes of each
Microtopics:
* Moonstone Island.
* A tiny fox in a big world.
* Cherry blues.
* Something within your culture that is awful and bad.
* Whatever can grow in the wet and dark. (Potatoes.)
* Cool Whip based salads.
* Yorkshire pudding. (The fluffy one.)
* The non-spicy gravies.
* J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's roast potato recipe.
* Lamb going with mint and pork going with applesauce.
* How to eat Vegemite or Marmite.
* A man at the end of the table whose entire job is to carve meat for you.
* A place to take your picky grandma to eat.
* Bodega cats and bodega kids.
* Doing stop motion animation as a goof.
* The fun part of Dunning Krueger.
* Doing a magic trick without knowing how the trick works and amazing yourself.
* Leaning into the good times.
* Accidentally getting good at an employable skill.
* Flailing at the wall until the light switches are in the right position.
* Off: just a different kind of on.
* Doing your first pull request.
* The fountain pen of the version control ecology.
* Getting a bunch of little plant men to turn the lights on and off for me.
* Poetry written in nonsensical French that is homophonic with English nursery rhymes.
* An entire book for a very specific kind of nerd to have a sensible chuckle.
* Allowing yourself one E, as a mistake.
* A joke written back when people knew what am omnibus was.
* Vintages footage from 1980s computer shows.
* Dousing CD-Rs.
* The Free Cake and Donuts Half-Hour.
* Getting as many 35+ computer dorks as you can under a box before you pull the string.
* Making two children fight each other on the British equivalent of Crash Bandicoot.
* A policeman on a unicycle.
* The imagined experience of programming the ZX Spectrum.
* The other Cambridge.
* Mac PCs.
* The Oliver Twins.
* Turning on all the shaders to make your programmer art look good.
* Finding three extra Dizzy games in the attic.
* Trying to tell your friends about a family tradition and while you're telling them you realize how messed up it is.
* A pile of 500 cards that should really be a computer game instead.
* A rule where every time you play a card you have to sigh a little bit.
* A game where you torture your friends.
* A food with the letter E in it.
* Trying to have fun despite your friend who is making you play the game.
* Have you guys heard about conclusions?
* A bunch of stuff happening and then there's a riddle.
* The Go Left Problem.
* When games have secrets.
* Pushing at the edges of a game and the game pops up a dialog saying "I noticed you pushing at my edges."
* A password named "Susan."
* A DVD where every interface to start the movie starts it at chapter 2 and chapter 1 is a secret.
* Reading just the last word of a book.
* Watching the first episode and the last episode of a sitcom and trying to guess which actors missing from the last episode died and which went to prison.
* How to find your Mastodon name.
