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Lords:
* Andrew
* Tyriq
Lords:
* The Church of the SubGenius
* Making FreeCell is kind of like playing FreeCell
* How do we get to a place where our primary tool for productivity is not also our primary avenue of distraction?
* "<3 Team Schiff", by Team Schiff
* https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png
Microtopics:
* World Building Notes
* An accent you cannot discern the origin of.
* Fun worlds that I've thought of.
* A world where hair is the source of all life.
* A port of Freecell to the Playdate that might never be released.
* J.R. Bob Dobbs, a salesman from the 1950s.
* Whether Discord (the IRC client) is named after Discordianism.
* Tyriq Reads Wikipedia.
* Principia Discordia.
* An extremely profitable troll.
* Good and bad reasons to troll.
* Making your weird fun art without worrying about people taking you way too seriously fifty years from now.
* Whether submarines are named after the Church of the Subgenus.
* Rewriting your entire game in C.
* Playing Freecell Validly.
* A latecomer to Freecell.
* The one known impossible Freecell seed.
* The Freecell Helleed vs. the Minesweeper Dream Board.
* The looking at the cube phase and the turning the cube phase.
* Typeshift speed run hacks.
* Knowing a 38-letter word.
* Undo trees.
* The New York Times games package being sold separately from the newspaper.
* The diction of the New York Times crossword puzzle.
* Doing Greek letter flash cards to up your crossword game.
* Words that come up a lot when you're mashing letters together.
* A job where you don't use a computer? In this economy?
* Sequencer-based techno.
* Constraints that fit the UI extremely well.
* An interface that makes a lot of sense for the Game Boy.
* Printing out the entirety of Wikipedia so you can go offline for a while.
* The compressed size of Wikipedia.
* Here's a thing and the only thing it does is have information on it.
* Hanging out in the library with people vs. with books.
* The three best things in life.
* Opening the tiny drawer and flipping through the tiny cards with your tiny hands and using your tiny eyes to read the tiny text.
* Downloading information about a spider that links to another spider.
* Using robots.txt to ward off all kinds of creatures, not just robots.
* 999: Extraterrestrial Worlds.
* Abandoning the Dewey Decimal System after you discover that numbers go higher than 999.
* Stopping to end.
* This Cat Does Not Exist.
* The perfect source of images that have never been used before.
* An art project that invents politicians and texts people imploring them to donate to the campaign and that's how the art project gets funding.
* What Socrates would have said about the Banksy that shredded itself.
* Your legal name with a bunch of letters removed.
* Picking an online handle that's very hard to pronounce to make sure people don't call you that in real life.
* Giving everybody you meet a different name for yourself.
* Having more friends than you've ever had.
* Having hobbies that put you in a room with people.
* Libraries as raucous hangouts.
* Inviting tweens to play video games in the back rooms (but not in a shady way)
* A citizen saying "hey, library, can I use a room?"
* Your local library, featuring the Middle-Aged Zone.
* Lego Security Theater.
* An unordered list of links.