Lords:
* Chris
* Alex
Topics:
* Living without software updates
* I like Cyberpunk 2077
* I had a friend who would argue with the people collecting signatures in support of a proposed law. Not about the proposal itself, but the methodology behind it.
* PIECE A SHIT, possibly by Sam Pink
* https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kl_AeoXl.jpg
Microtopics:
* Lords of Topics.
* Asking your mom if this Thanksgiving turkey is Frog Fractions 3.
* Haiku Hero.
* How to talk to the press.
* An email from the guy who sent me the quirky thing from before.
* The Last Biceps.
* Filling your house with electronics that continuously ask you to do things.
* How to interact with the Internet on an old un-updated computer.
* Snap craft something or other.
* Turning off Windows updates for over a year and nothing bad happens because security best practices are bullshit.
* Visiting twinbeard.com to find out about the beads in Jim's ears.
* Searching Google for the little balls in your ears.
* Your phone popping up a window saying "you're a year and a half out of date, would you like to update?" and hitting the back button as fast as you can.
* Windows updates adding AI functionality to MS Paint.
* Making uneducated guesses about how someone else's code works.
* Searching for a program on your computer and Windows gives you Bing results for that program's name.
* A sneaky hacker man doing non lethal takedowns.
* Making a complicated video game and then patching it into a completely different complicated video game after the guides have all been written.
* Trying to explain to someone why the story of Half-Life is cool and realizing halfway through your explanation that it's not that cool actually.
* Cool things that build immersion.
* A guy saying "have a seat" and a contextual actionicon appearing over a chair.
* Voluminous closets full of costumes for virtual dress-up.
* Delivering exposition in cars.
* All the weird things people will put on their body in the cyber future.
* A fictional city halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
* Recovering a stolen painting by showing a satellite.
* A city with lots of neat stuff to do.
* Querulous Friend's Advocate.
* The Everyone Gets a Pony Initiative of 2023.
* Filibustering people collecting signatures in front of the grocery store.
* How much do you believe in the political causes you're promoting?
* Watching your friend play games in a little window on your second monitor.
* Mr. Feeny recording car AI voices.
* Getting into World of Warcraft because you are stressed about starting a new job.
* Level 1 Superman killing rats to collect 10 rat pelts.
* Fun ways to fight crowds of mooks.
* The things you see on your limbs when you see your limbs.
* Replacing all the mirrors with cyber mirrors.
* The doctor pulling out your cyber eyes and putting them in a drawer and all you can see is the inside of the drawer.
* Lost games dev techniques such as palette swaps.
* A screenshot of a book.
* A poem painting a picture of a time and place.
* Maybe Sam Pink.
* Writing a bunch of messages to someone and making their phone vibrate every five seconds for a full minute.
* Notification throttling.
* Fanciful technological panaceas.
* Ultra poetry where each line has animation and timing.
* Making a word wiggle in a sine wave to indicate that it's a spooky ghost noise.
* Poem Lords.
* Seven poems on the itinerary. (But we'll only have time for three of them.)
