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* Daniel
* https://www.cocoongame.com/
* https://kbones.itch.io/dorks
* Alexander
Topics:
* Octopus dreams
* Perception of memories. Why does actual recency and percieved recency often seem so at odds
* Hike on 58
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day
* World of Warcraft over the years / WoW Hardcore Mode
* The highest honor you can receive in mathematics is to have your name uncapitalized.
* Polywater
* My brain is polluted by trochaic trimeter recognition
Microtopics:
* Preventative care.
* COVID lucky streaks.
* Being able to go to the ER.
* How to spell Cocoon.
* Moth guys carrying orbs on their backs.
* Boss battles that you wouldn't expect.
* Wilford Brimley's agelessness.
* Octopus nightmares.
* The octopus equivalent of rapid eye movement.
* Meeting sapient crows and asking them whether Y or Z should be up.
* Which memories stick better.
* Perception of time when you have a routine vs. when you don't.
* Arranging your life to maximize perceived lifespan.
* Different ways to have an adventure.
* Shooby doooby doggie.
* A sports rule that sounds like a 17776 plot point
* Why the Bob Emergency is an emergency.
* The best quarterbacks getting stuck in an endless hike and football ending forever.
* The one person who hasn't played Frog Fractions but just listens to Topic Lords because they like topics so much.
* Summer's lease.
* Reading a poem aloud without knowing what "ow'st" means or how to pronounce it.
* Words that used to rhyme but don't anymore.
* Meter recognize meter.
* Writing all your sonnets during COVID lockdown.
* A poem about a dude that Shakespeare is not in love with.
* Woe is me, etc.
* Piss Jugman vs Piss Jugm'n.
* Making phonetic reforms that don't take.
* Smoothing off any rough edges or peculiarities.
* Permadeath taking inspiration from real life.
* A fun thing that you wouldn't have expected to see.
* Enjoying spending time in the world.
* Hold the W key and cruise through it.
* The difference between wanting something vs. liking it.
* Abelian.
* The opposite of how you would think honor works.
* Great honors: brands hate them!
* Whether to capitalize "lynchian," "kafkaesque" or "quixotic"
* Eternal abstract universal objects.
* Teaching truck drivers where to put their piss jugs.
* The highest honor Piss Jugman can receive.
* The surname Piss.
* What is the average Piss lifespan?
* A real life Bobby Tables moment.
* The Polywater Gap.
* Water that scientists have sweated in.
* Buying a can of Soviet Scientist Sweat in a Japanese vending machine.
* Polyester intoxication.
* Liquids with a lower freezing temperature than water.
* The Polywater Doodle.
* A metabolism described by Richard Feynman.
* Brain Pollution.
* The particular better of the first line of Aqualung by Jethro Tull.
* Singing "parallelipiped" to the tune of Aqualung.
* Hearing random phrases in your life.
* Spelling "yogurt" backwards.
* Trying to understand the New York Times' effect on man.
* A killer rap album based on alliteration rather than rhyming.
* Poetry that rhymes on the second to last syllable rather than the last.
* The baffling cosmology of Butter Dorks.