Lords:
* JP
* Shepard
Topics:
* Damn it, Microsoft added something worthwhile to Office.
* Favorite DOS game soundtracks?
* The Balatro Discourse
* Faith is a Fine Invention, by Emily Dickinson
* https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/
Microtopics:
* Artist Alley.
* Scrolling down a web page and seeing a bunch of cool stuff.
* Seeing a list and wondering "how did this list happen"?
* Steam Farming Fest.
* Trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up.
* Eating eggs and rice when you have tummy troubles.
* The file you all edit to make the deposit slip.
* Taking data from multiple columns and putting them all in a single list.
* Becoming the spreadsheet wizard.
* Installation wizards.
* Why nobody calls a software feature a "wizard" any more
* A window into the dialectic of wizards.
* The LLM hype tornado.
* Renting video software from Blockbuster.
* Back when any media was a "tape"
* Enumerating the kinds of MS-DOS audio hardware.
* Emitting a blast of data.
* Enjoying a video game in 4, 16 or 256 colors.
* How Doom sounded on the internal PC speaker.
* Playing multiplayer Doom on a four computer LAN where two of the computers don't have sound cards.
* The Doom source port family tree.
* Whether Linux supported the internal PC speaker.
* Playing each MIDI note with the off-the-track square wave.
* Holding on to a joke for several minutes.
* Doing sound effects via the Roland MT-32.
* FM synth guitars sounding more evil than real guitars.
* Synthesizers that are fancier than other synthesizers and are therefore better.
* The ambient music on the Doom soundtrack.
* The Lost Vikings soundtrack.
* Games with tracker soundtracks.
* The tracker music era.
* A roguelike deck builder kind of a thing.
* A huge hit within your social horizon.
* Beginners hoping to project intelligence and competence.
* The kind of mixing of data and code that Lua makes easy to do.
* How to deploy a Love2D game to consoles.
* A cool game idea that's just a bunch of cards doing stuff.
* Sean Barrett's STB libraries.
* The ability to change your mind without having to throw away a bunch of work.
* Ambient complexity vs. intrinsic complexity.
* Hot takes escaping containment.
* The Celeste character controller.
* Software security practices that do not apply to a single player indie game.
* Looking at code and seeing all the things that it used to be.
* Looking at code solving a problem in a domain you are unfamiliar with.
* An Emily Dickinson poem that reads like a response to an argument she had at dinner.
* Situations where you can directly observe what's happening.
* All the filters preventing you from bursting out into song.
* Esprit de escalier.
* Who was Emily Dickinson owning?
* A contempt for faith and a sense that microscopes are good.
* Knowing that nobody reads your blog, but taking satisfaction in the knowledge that someone hypothetically could.
* Excavating spiritual truth from apocryphal ramblings.
* The app that holds all the texts you don't send for ransom.
* Digging through people's trash but with fewer steps.
