Lords:
* Daniel
* https://www.danielmullinsgames.com/
* Chris
Topics:
* Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance (psipog)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
* Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl" Koan
* Figwit
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
* Sudo-Ku
* https://katlehmann.weebly.com/sudo-ku-a-multi-haiku-form.html
* Game Design: The form is arbitrary and not worth much thought. What's interesting is how you play in and with the form. See The Witness, Undertale, Sokoban games, Pinball machines
Microtopics:
* Introducing yourself twice.
* Spider mites and spider mite exterminators.
* Exterminating your spider mite infestation with a washcloth.
* Diatomaceous earth mines in your hometown.
* The paperwork necessary when your diatomaceous earth mine accidentally breaks through into the neighboring nitroglycerin mine.
* How to develop psychic powers of various kinds.
* Learning to meditate in service of manifesting your psiballs.
* Learning how to spin a watch around on the Psipog Archive.
* A 90 year old dude who has been meditating all his life but still doesn't have psychic powers: maybe he's just bad at it?
* The secret geometry that lets you talk to space beings.
* Who wants to talk to space beings?
* How to make progress on what mysteries we have left.
* Reinventing all of physics from first principles.
* How does nobody know about creating energy balls with your mind??
* Choosing not to do the thought experiments that have no good possible outcome.
* Sitting at a desk made of laminated particleboard.
* Pseudo-complex meals.
* When civilization collapses, how am I gonna make a Big Mac??
* Taking the time to get to know every person you meet and understand every safety you interact with.
* Wanting to know a secret that nobody else knows.
* How not to pronounce "koan."
* What do you do after you finish your gruel?
* Becoming enlightened during Ikea furniture assembly.
* Ancient Chinese yo momma jokes.
* The enlightened experience of inhabiting a mind vs. the bowl needs to be washed again.
* Questions that science cannot answer.
* Probing your blood.
* Measuring your blood chemistry while you wash the dishes to determine whether you're a good person.
* How to measure how many people you've helped.
* Short-circuiting your friend's money metaphor before it starts.
* An incredibly wise computer refusing to tell you the answer because it's too nuanced.
* Concrete actionable advice that you can trust every time.
* Figwit pre- and post lines.
* How things went viral before social media.
* The Figwit obsession: it's weird.
* Tracking down Figwit's Topps card to look up his RBI.
* Why is it the "one" ring when all the Nazguls also have rings??
* Lord of the Rings fans and how much they love it when podcasters are confused about Lord of the Rings lore.
* Effective fandom activism at its most innocent and pure.
* Where were you when you found out Sonic was going to be in Smash?
* A button that was effective so they pushed it a lot.
* A Small Brown that Peter Jackson put inside the Real Brown.
* Topic Lords Movie Secrets Special.
* Sudo-Ku.
* A fun gimmick that results in a worse poem.
* Americans: do they do Haiku wrong??
* Syllables vs. sound units.
* One pthong and more than one pthong.
* Spending too much time reading about the form.
* Drawing a line on a grid.
* A valid approach to making interesting stuff.
* The Pacific Pinball Museum.
* Pinball as kinetic electromechanical art.
* Electromechanical puppet shows at Musee Mechanique.
* If Pixar existed in 1800, what would they do?
* What if you're playing DDR but it's a joke?
* High concept jam games.
* Alien vs. Predator but you're roommates with the Alien.
* Advantages and disadvantages of starting from an existing design.
* Advantages of having a slightly different goal from everyone else in your field.
* Chess with time travel.
