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Lords:
* Josh makes Thunk. https://www.youtube.com/user/THUNKShow
* Elena is on the Topic Lords discord.
Topics:
* 2:29 Procrastination, or, avoidance as a protective coping mechanism
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27sass
* 13:08 Newcomb's Problem
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27sparadox
* 19:46 Celebrating Christmas by saying you have a machine gun
* https://twitter.com/mogwaipoet/status/1210729053465931781
* 26:16 Kevin asks: "The fear that other podcasts will steal your idea to discuss topics."
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilightsleep
* http://bash.org/
* 32:09 McMaster-Carr
* https://www.mcmaster.com/
* http://thistothat.com/
* "Satisfying Spiral Liquid Bubbler Timer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFLNpSqzn7o
* 41:34 Conlanging with toddlers
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language
* 50:26 Preserving old software
* THUG Pro. http://www.thugpro.com/
* "Ozimals did give rabbit owners a brief chance to save their rabbits. Before shutting down, they gave away items which make rabbits not need food – and leaves them sterile. Some rabbits will live on forever, the last of their kind." https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/19/second-life-ozimals-pet-rabbits-dying/
* The Lifecycle of Software Objects. https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/8/644/files/2017/08/Chiang-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects-q3tsuw.pdf
* Rolled Out, the Super Monkey Ball clone. https://blog.rolledoutgame.com/
Microtopics:
* Being old and knowing nothing.
* Finding out that you can buy citric acid and put it in your drinking water.
* Finding out that you can buy concrete and put it in your toilet.
* The refreshing concrete toilet.
* Regretting agreeing to do a thing you really enjoy.
* Defeating procrastinating by discovering what you're afraid of and reframing it or interceding.
* Worrying that you're incapable of surviving in a capitalist system.
* Tracing every fear back to a fear of dying alone, like how every page on Wikipedia leads to Philosophy.
* Wanting to do a thing but having no effective mechanism to prefer any given thing over any other and doing nothing.
* Hearing syllables and then "ass" and pretending you understand.
* Learning a word that you didn't know and then explaining it to other people.
* Breaking your task into small steps and doing the first step.
* Listening to your emotion and being like "what's your deal"
* Self-acceptance helping when beating yourself up doesn't.
* Instead of writing, taking copious notes and then skipping right to editing the notes into a completed text.
* Laying out an outline and then finishing the essay by removing the bullet points.
* Having an idea in each hand and holding two more in your left foot and trying to squinch them together into a linear series of thoughts.
* Everything being related to everything else.
* Giving people the tools they need to engage with topics.
* A future-knowing genie who knows you're going to have pizza tonight.
* Someone having done this topic already on a different podcast.
* Being the genie you want to see in the world.
* Causality seeming to flow in reverse.
* Reassuring the genie that you're not the kind of person who takes two boxes.
* The genie turning out to just be a guy with a rubber duck.
* An odd Christmas greeting that you are here for.
* Living next to people who think it's festive to announce how armed they are.
* Knocking on your neighbor's door and asking for a cup of machine gun.
* A corpse wearing a santa hat.
* Trying to think of any movie that doesn't depict a corpse that could've worn a santa hat.
* Some of your best friends having machine guns.
* Being charmed by the utilitarian and efficient design of firearms.
* Crying in a VR game and the tears filling up the mask until you drown.
* Strip laser tag.
* A topic peasant just waltzing in and talking about topics.
* Editing out the guy hiding with a gun in post.
* Having an unconscionable amount of bash.org memorized.
* Waking up from your drugged haze to a flaming burnt cake in the oven and your house is burning down.
* Being sad because the folks at Chipotle forgot your burrito but then your wife reminds you that you've eaten it already and you just forgot.
* Everything that you could possibly need to build a thing.
* Spinning around in an enormous magical hardware store with arms outstretched and an inventory robot fluttering around your skirt and landing on your finger.
* Metal boxy objects of mysterious provenance.
* The reaction speed of your transition lenses.
* Welding masks transitioning to near-opaque in less than a millisecond because at any moment you might use a plasma beam that is brighter than the surface of the sun.
* Installing permanent earplugs powered by your greasy earwax.
* Not needing McMaster-Carr after Josh just tells you the answer.
* An oil timer forcing a door to open or close slowly.
* Having an idea for a cool Youtube video and assuming there's probably a cool Youtube guy who's already done it.
* A toddler teaching you how to teach dragon language and the dragons being annoyed you didn't ask them.
* Asking one of the indigineous people what the name of the hated rival tribe is named and them saying a slur and then being like "okay you're all that now."
* Circumlocuting around the concept of the color green.
* Summing up your engineering degree as "f=ma" and "you can't push a rope" and saving your listeners five years.
* A fairly ingenious use of math that we've had sitting around forever.
* Sliding rules getting us to the moon because we hadn't invented calculators yet.
* The content being the same but the context changing.
* The NES being the game dev platform that is most likely to survive the next thousand years.
* Trolling through aerospace source code looking for funny comments.
* Deleting your source code to free up space because nobody is ever going to need to port or revise Final Fantasy 7.
* Planning a heist to retrieve the floppy disks stashed above the acoustic ceiling tiles of a dry cleaning service.
* Games being reasonably well-preserved but other kinds of software being mostly lost because teenaged nerds don't care about it.
* AI pets dying because the company that manufactured them went out of business.
* Your GMO dog dying because the manufacturer's SSL certificate expired.
