Lords:
* Jason
* https://jmac.org/
* https://masto.nyc/@jmac
* Nathan
* Mommy's Best Games Everywhere
Topics:
* When I paint my nails I don't paint my thumbnails. This is because I see my thumbnails all day long but I don't see my other fingernails nearly as often, and so every time I do I'm like "Whoa!!!!"
* Jukebox griefing
* Nintendo farmed out the development of Donkey Kong to an outside dev team, because they didn't have an in-house video game team yet. Donkey Kong was that team's first game. Their second game was Zaxxon.
* Hypothetical explanations for the paradox
* https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bZmUoKct.png
* Thinking about RGB color programming for games, then wondering about how the color actually happens on monitors.
* Bach drew a loopy doodle at the top of the cover of his original manuscript of "The Well Tempered Clavier". It looks like he was just warming up his pen-hand, but scholars have been arguing for years that it contains secret codes about how to well-temper a clavier
Microtopics:
* Interactive Fiction Land.
* Panoptikum Budapest.
* Bumpy Grumpy's emotional arc.
* Frantic Frank.
* Men and male-presenting persons with painted nails.
* Painting just one fingernail dark green and wondering whether that's a hankie code thing.
* What's going on with my thumbs?
* Your non-thumb fingernails.
* Painting your nails and repeatedly rediscovering them.
* Looking like an android. (But in a cool way.)
* Forehead loaves.
* Starting to pay attention to where your fingers are.
* Why not to wear a magnetic nose stud.
* Being old enough to remember when you had to walk up to the jukebox to queue up Beat It by Michael Jackson ten times in a row.
* Getting into a jukebox griefing war with someone you've never met.
* Walking up to the jukebox and typing in the binary code of the WAV file you want to play.
* Binary data played back at audio rates.
* The math describing Mario's jump arc.
* Making the first racing video game and thinking "well that's racing games sorted."
* Satoru Iwata's understanding of Mario's last name.
* Mario: a weird little dude.
* Drill Dozer.
* How to run a video game business when games are sold on cassette tape for six pounds which is way too heavy for a video game.
* Platformers where you go off the edge of the screen and end up on another screen and each screen has a name.
* Inflation hypothesis and the youngness argument.
* Earth is purposefully isolated. (Planetarium hypothesis.)
* They are here undetected vs. they are here unacknowledged.
* Arguing about a sexy robot.
* Ironically Sexy Robots
* The Fudd Paradox, by Ray Bradbury.
* People who just want to toss salad and don't want to know about your weird slang.
* Gender-expansive anthropomorphic rabbits.
* Blank verse vs. free verse.
* Burning Monkey Solitaire.
* What your cat sees when he's swatting at Kratos.
* How blue is blue?
* Watching old episodes of Bob Ross and you can't follow along any more because they don't make Mummy Brown anymore.
* The Opaque See-Through TV.
* Seeing a see-through TV at CES and asking the guy at the booth what use case is of a see-through TV and he's like "to look cool at CES."
* Ribbed monitors.
* The secret textures of the Nintendo 3DS.
* All kinds of words that you don't know how to pronounce.
* The Moogseum.
* Bach's looping doodle.
* The structure of the J.S. Bach speedrunning community.
* A community obsessing over minutia and never worrying about whether it's true or important because it's just some bullshit you made up and agreed to care about.
* Hungry music theorists who need human connection.
* Sponsoring AGDQ with your clavier etudes.
* Black MIDI.
* Using up all the claviers in the world during your clavier speedrunning event.
* The Fetaverse.
* Making an arcade cabinet.
