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Lords:
* Rusty is Rusty#1990 on Discord.
* Rusty's Discord bot: https://deepfake-bot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* Chris is @MrChrisLHall on Twitter.
Topics:
* 2:39 Games that are work.
* 12:40 Twitter bots posting photos of people and cats that do not exist
* https://twitter.com/DoesNotExistBot
* https://twitter.com/normalcatpics
* 17:15 The best way to future proof your job against AI takeover is to get a job that machines are already better at but humans still do it anyway.
* 24:34 Quill asks: "Have you ever seen the different verbal naming systems for hexadecimal? They're all amazing. My favorite numbers are eggteen and chris."
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal#Verbalanddigitalrepresentations
* 28:07 Where do you find folk games? Like Sticks or Contact or Fish Bowl. There must be some really amazing ones out there that I've never heard of.
* 36:55 My recording rig for podcasting
* http://sonic-pi.net/
* Live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1m0aX9Lpts
* The Failure of the iPad. http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2020/01/29/thefailureofthe_ipad/
* 45:02 When you're old and only remember jokes, the only way to learn new things is to make jokes about them.
* https://mnemosyne-proj.org/
Microtopics:
* Non-consensually turning a Discord user into a Discord bot.
* A recurring topic on this particular episode.
* Lightly-flavored seltzer water.
* Entering the Konami code at a soda fountain to get the secret flavor.
* Getting tasks in your inbox and doing the tasks and getting more tasks as a reward.
* Not having to take part in the office drama.
* A complete lack of scrum master.
* The fantasy of doing a job and getting fairly compensated.
* The plausibility of having fun at your job.
* Letting others pay the cost of the harm you're doing to the world.
* Loving to play games where you clean up messes while your real life home gets worse and worse.
* Playing a game about a housecleaning robot and deciding doing housework could make you happy in real life too.
* Not falling for it when mom tries to turn cleaning your room into a game.
* Teenagers going out of their way to be helpful in the household.
* Toddlers wanting to do what adults do.
* Finding out 18 years later your theory is correct.
* The lego: nature's caltrop.
* Writing an angry letter to the Lego corporation asking why they don't make squishy legos.
* Wearing only half a pair of glasses.
* Choosing Markov Chains because they work better than Tensorflow.
* Having enough ram to store 1.5 billion floating point values.
* Whether the Dalai Lama has ever used ICQ, and if so why hasn't Jim talked to him.
* Some people running really fast, but not as fast as cars, but we still pay them to do it.
* The emergency board meeting that the CEO of running called when the speed of cars eclipsed the speed of runners.
* Becoming an artisanal trucker on Etsy when computers take your trucking job.
* Decking out your artisanal delivery truck in old-timey neon reminiscent of the 80s when people still had jobs.
* The part of your brain dedicated to determining the gender of the driver who is trying to kill you.
* Being a very chill person except when you're driving alone.
* An angry meditation on driving in heavy traffic.
* The only time your infant son has ever heard you be angry.
* Bringing your date to see Black Swan without realizing it's secretly a horror movie.
* Just waiting for the great black scary bird to show up.
* Pronouncing 1E as "Eggteen."
* Knowing your pointer is a bad pointer when it's pointing to DEADBEEF.
* Magic numbers such as 0xDECAFC0FFEE15BAD.
* Michael Jackson moonwalking on the moon.
* That feeling when you find that the altar is co-aligned in Minetown in Nethack.
* Playing tag but not knowing who invented it.
* Having water at home but trying not to brag about it.
* A really inefficient way of getting at musicking.
* Choosing a software package because you just download and run it without doing a bunch of sysadmin bullshit.
* Being frustrated that there are still some things you can do on a computer but not on a phone.
* Having an example that you wanted to use but not being able to remember what it was.
* Remembering what a word means because you once imagined a monkey saying it.
* Deliberately cracking yourself up so you can remember Bob's last name.
* Thinking of the time I thought your name was "Blob."
* Only remembering to buy the funniest items on your grocery list.
* Memorizing your grocery list and then being stuck with the same grocery list for the rest of your life.
* The persistent allure of a shelf of physical media even in the era of digital downloads.
* Being intrigued by Bee Simulator but not being $48 intrigued.
* Bee dances that are sufficiently expressive to articulate game reviews.
* Git cloning the mind of someone with a good memory so you can remember things better.
* Only being able to remember monkeys brachiating, but remembering the hell out of it.
