Lords:
* JP
* https://jplebreton.com/
* Styger
* https://www.sf.gov/readysf
Topics:
* Is "Non-Super" Mario an alternate state of consciousness or identity, or merely an alternate physical state?
* "Hot defensive bee ball" + bees in general
* Solving all 24,976,511 5x5 nonograms
* https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram
* Poem Seen in a Motel Fan by Alberto Blanco
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/-_x1pv5l.jpg
* Werecreature logistics
* "The Ball is Back." Discuss.
Microtopics:
* The World of Video Games
* Your favorite granola coming back in stock.
* Working to make the world a slightly better place every day.
* Weird frustrating tethering.
* Levels that are about hauling ass.
* Being on the same train as someone for a few stops.
* The small version of yourself that you become when you lose your mushroom.
* Whether Small Mario has access to all of Super Mario's memories.
* What was the authorial intent of Alice growing bigger and smaller.
* Whether Small or Big Mario is the original default.
* Mario accumulating power and becoming an enormous hulking beast.
* Designing a level to support multiple player scales.
* Game series that have been both 2D and 3D platformers.
* Small Mario eating a mushroom and teleporting into a pocket dimension, swapping in Big Mario.
* Japanese hornets in an evolutionary arms race with Japanese honey bees.
* Bees forming a tight clump around a hive invader to make them uncomfortably warm.
* A baseball sized mass of bees smothering a huge horrible wasp.
* Touring beehives and giving seminars about the hot defensive bee ball.
* A multi-disciplinary bullshit operation.
* Enjoying your job.
* The degree to which they waggle.
* Bees having a dance-off to determine where to live.
* Extending the bee dance language to teach them orbital dynamics so they can find pollen sources in space.
* Candy that smells like a bee alarm pheromone.
* The NPC in Curse of Monkey Island who explains that merengue is made of eggs.
* What they call being "slashdotted" nowadays.
* Doing 15 puzzles and taking satisfaction in being 15 puzzles closer to not being able to play this game any more.
* Web sites: they shouldn't scale.
* Putting every 5x5 nonogram in the Library of Congress.
* Humanity dedicating all of its resources to solve every 6x6 nonogram.
* The 100 people in the world whose brains are tricked by this kind of fake work.
* The most interesting three-digit numbers.
* What happens when we run out of nonograms??
* The kayfabe of the community doing every 5x5 nonogram over and over again
* A convex mirror, a fisheye, a golden dome.
* Taking comfort in the continued existence of observers.
* Having all the resources to grow as a person but none of the incentives.
* Your little chunk of humanity's future.
* Things can get better but also they can get worse.
* The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, 60th Anniversary Edition.
* The official City Lights typeface.
* A dignified serif.
* A poem is when you do something interesting with typefaces.
* How to distribute your poem that does something interesting with fonts.
* Lycanthropy booths and other werewolf accommodations.
* It's not a disability but they still accommodate you.
* Seasonal Mania.
* Humans brains being affected by the sun and moon in ways we don't fully understand.
* Hospital intake numbers that correlate with the lunar cycle.
* What's the deal with the ball being back?
* A flying silver ball that sucks your brains out with a fork.
* Doing what you do just because.
* The ball: it has to be back.
* Watching an 80s horror movie and thinking "surely someone has made a Doom level of this"
* Inventing perfectly mirrored silver spheres entirely independently from ray tracers.
* Reporting back when you are further along on your Phantasm journey.
* Not being on the Internet because you're hanging out with the bees instead.
