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Lords:
* Kev Zettler
* http://radcade.com/
* Xalavier Nelson, Jr.
* https://xalaviermakeswords.itch.io/strange-scaffold-comics-vol-1
Topics:
* The fine art of professional wrestling
* Stealing the declaration of independence to save Nicolas Cage's life
* Atari 2600 Adventure's effectiveness as a port of Crowther and Woods Adventure
* Larry asks "That one time Taco Bell promised every American a free taco if the Mir space station hit a taco target in the indian Ocean but it missed by an entire hemisphere."
* Non-violent communication
* The threshold between an object/entity being large, and SO large that your brain can no longer process it effectively and you're no longer impressed
* Sucking a glass onto your face
Microtopics:
* Still the raddest place to play web games.
* An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs.
* Interacting with dogs in a whole new way.
* Being clean and dirty at the same time.
* Dog synergies.
* The legal standing of a game downloading a random guitar tab from the internet to make a dog play guitar.
* A scope creep game that ships.
* Whether professional wrestling is trashy.
* Audience-reactive improv theater performed by professional stunt men.
* Pro wrestling jargon creeping into your
* A work for marks who are smart marks and don't know when they're being worked or if they're not.
* Stealing vocabulary from Victorian urchins.
* Whether women's wrestling is still about macho posturing.
* Meme warfare thought devices.
* Muscled theatrical performers doing their dangedest
* Whether GDC is ever going to happen again.
* Whether GDC will be the same without Simon Carless.
* Whether Lost Levels can exist without GDC bringing everyone physically together and secretly reserving the physical venue.
* Every D-level game dev celebrity entering an arena and only one D-level game dev celebrity leaving.
* A contract sealed in blood that is a matter of public record.
* Having an hour and 45 minutes to save Nicholas Cage's life by stealing the Declaration of Independence.
* Finding out that Nicholas Cage was injured in a bear fighting accident and realizing that now's your time to shine.
* Finding out that isnicholascagenexttoabear.com isn't based on geolocation technology, it just scrapes TMZ for headlines that contain both "cage" and "bear."
* Why we still have to steal the Declaration of Independence if everyone is aware of the Nicholas Cage situation.
* Conspicuously walking down the street with the Declaration of Independence rolled up under your arm like a newspaper so that an urchin can snatch it away from you and you can pretend to be incensed.
* Finding out what Habeas Corpus means.
* Atari 2600 Adventure vs. Crowther and Woods Adventure.
* Adapting a text adventure to computer system that can't render text.
* Making a game where you explore until you find an ending in a context where all anyone's ever seen is games where you play for a high score.
* Remakes changing the meaning of the original.
* Inventing a 4D game platform to port Demon's Souls to.
* Hitting a taco target in the Indian ocean.
* Whether 40'x40' is a big taco or a small target for a space station.
* All of America having a taco-in-the-streets party.
* Dipping your girlfriend and smooching her as taco cheese falls from the sky.
* Mir falling from the sky every day being a small price to pay to solve world hunger.
* Taco Bell beginning to sweat as they realize the revolution is about to start.
* Alternate history fiction where the branch point is that Taco Bell gave every American a free taco after Mir hit their taco target.
* Non-Violent Communication.
* Communicating your lived experience backed with justification and couched in empathy.
* Instead of saying "you're annoying me," saying "I am annoyed because of you."
* The HALT principle.
* Big things making your brain go "ooh!"
* Being terrified of the scale of Jupiter but the sun being like "meh"
* Being terrified by an enormous mammoth but less terrified of the Earth when the Earth is bigger and closer than the mammoth.
* Being unable to process the scale of a large city but eventually becoming desensitized to it.
* Deciding whether to be impressed by something's size based on whether it's horizontal or vertical.
* The relief and comfort of realizing that humans don't make any fricking sense.
* Making New Year's Resolution of finally making sense of yourself and of the world.
* Different goals emerging from the same root: hubris.
* Not being able to form a seal on your face because you have a beard.
* Normalizing shaving a hole in your beard sized and situated to suck a drinking glass onto your face.
* Putting a drinking glass on your face in various configurations until one feels right.
* A drinking glass size rooted in a human arrogance that you can appreciate but that you can't encourage.
* Learning to suck a glass onto your face from the kid next to you at Applebee's.
