Lords:
* Jay
* Alex
Topics:
* Mexican food outside San Diego (Having lived in Colorado, Ohio, and now Melbourne)
* Releasing my first commercial video game
* The being an uncle of camping
* Skyscrapers by Matt Haig
* https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/QM4hPodE.jpg
* Attempting to preserve 40 years' worth of data
Microtopics:
* A puzzle adventure game starring a ferret.
* DROD-likes.
* Sending an envelope full of guacamole to a food lab so they can tell you a list of ingredients.
* Reaching in the window so you can finally drive a million dollar Porsche.
* Letting the Ewok sit in the driver's seat but not actually letting it drive the car.
* Whether Ewoks get old enough to drive.
* Throw Rock.
* Making a game by first making your own level editor, image editor, audio synthesizer and music composition tools.
* Finding playtesters by letting them come to you.
* An eyeball that charges a laser when you step in front of it.
* Deliberately optimizing your game to take up as little disk space as possible.
* A project that starts moving much faster when you figure out what kind of project it should be.
* Writing a 3D modeler so that you can get your 2D game on Steam.
* Working with a professional artist.
* Rendering fur.
* Games with turns that represent less than a second of in-game time.
* The mind-feel of a turn length.
* A game that was so good that the developers went back decades later to make it playable.
* The Mud and the Slime.
* How to play DROD without any roach timers.
* Which DROD is the best one to start with.
* Sokoban with swordplay.
* The level in King Dugan's Dungeon that's nothing but roach queens.
* Optimizing your sword movements well enough that you can move forward while fighting.
* Puzzles that are just hard enough to engage your mind while you do something else.
* Visiting someone who is camping and then going home to sleep in your own bed.
* Building a fire and making s'mores in the bathroom.
* Camping expenses.
* Giving gifts to adults who can already buy whatever they want.
* Deliberately choosing a vacation that is especially exhausting.
* Spending two days each visiting seven different family friends.
* Your grandparents taking you camping and they sleep in the RV while you have to sleep in the tent.
* Buying an onion bloomer for $600 and insisting that your family eat a blooming onion every night to justify the purchase.
* Skyscrapers made out of words
* Training yourself to visualize words in the wrong orientation.
* Puzzling out what the title of the poem would've been if the typesetter hadn't messed it up
* Cross-sectional art.
* Poems that are intended to be viewed rather than read aloud.
* Anti-poem poems.
* Every project you've ever worked on (on a computer)
* Good usable archives.
* The unique digital footprint of your life.
* Getting the bits from a SCSI hard drive in an old Mac that doesn't boot up.
* Apple Desktop Bus Connection.
* The miraculous ubiquity and longevity of USB-A.
* Figuring out how to hook up a digital video player that requires a Firewire connection.
* The MacOS resource fork.
* What the .sit and .hqx extensions meant.
* Gamma Zee.
* Using social media to actually do things.
