Topic Lords

136. Thanks For Inventing Dengue Fever, Mark Rosewater

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  • Erica plugs increasing optional mask compliance by farting
  • Jenni plugs birds
  • Jim plugs metaplugs repeating plugs

    • Topics:

    • The System, and by extension, The Talenti Cup System
    • Decentralizing social media is gonna be real good for people not yelling at each other & kinda bad for sharing specialized information
    • We just taught Winston about "peeing in the woods" when we were going on a hike and now he wants to "pee in the woods" everywhere
      • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud
      • Mark Rosewater designed devil fruits
      • Esper says: "As a longtime (since 1999, with only one substantial break) Magic: the Gathering player, it does my heart good to hear Mark Rosewater come up. His GDC talk about lessons he's learned in designing games is really sharp stuff (if a little 101 in places), check it out sometime."
      • Decarbonizing the language

        • Microtopics:

        • Meta-plugging repeating plugs.
        • Bee Movie but it’s text to speech.
        • Increasing optional mask compliance by farting.
        • Mass: the volume of gas inside you, and how to increase its compliance.
        • A meme that people teach to each other.
        • Packing a shoe into a box and opening up a big box of mold years later.
        • Categories of things that fit into one-pint gelato cups.
        • The Body Box.
        • How to make itinerant lifestyles bearable and possible.
        • Organizing your entire house into the House Box.
        • Using your Dunbar number to keep track of your house plants.
        • Getting on Topic Lords by searching "pineapple on pizza"
        • Social media platforms that are owned by a rich asshole.
        • Drastically improving productivity in the workplace by banning the email forwarding of news articles.
        • The overwhelming feeling of shame when you don't have a take on the latest discourse.
        • Going on Tori Amos AOL chat to talk to your social group.
        • Buddha's list of 89 things that make you angry.
        • We've invented a new way to be angry.
        • Repeating topics because you've forgotten what you were just talking about.
        • Peeing in the laundry closet and calling it peeing in the woods.
        • Explaining to a three year old when it's ok and when it's not ok to pee outside.
        • Pee-ka-boo.
        • Everything sucks and I have no control over anything but I can poop in the front yard.
        • Taking increasingly larger shits in Richard Kind's cat box.
        • How George Clooney gets away with poop modification.
        • Taking increasingly larger shits in the Li-Cor machine that measures leaf respiration.
        • Whether playing Tom Jones at work constitutes sexual harassment.
        • Tom Jones in his leisure suit.
        • Cleaning up the lyrics to make rock and roll palatable to white people but leaving in the line about the "one-eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store."
        • Whether it's still sexual harassment if nobody points out that it's sexual harassment.
        • Jocund company.
        • Telling the story of the time you saw a bunch of daffodils.
        • Seeing a bunch of daffodils and shouting "Fuck! These fucking flowers are fucking pretty as shit!"
        • Conceiving of yourself as an indoor person, separate from the outdoors.
        • Reading a Japanese dictionary of dirty words and saying "Fuck! These fucking dirty words are fucking good as shit!"
        • Conceiving of interior spaces as being one with exterior spaced.
        • You can't unpee the bush.
        • Finding and eating devil fruits.
        • Eating the fruit that lets you talk to dragons when dragons don't exist.
        • Seeing a gun dog and assuming that it was a dog that ate a gun fruit but actually it was a gun that ate a dog fruit.
        • What happens if you eat a second devil fruit.
        • Dengue fever creeping up into Texas from Mexico.
        • The best place to contract Dengue Fever.
        • Burning the candle at both ends of the day.
        • Eating the burrito from both ends.
        • Harvesting the bioluminescent fungus.
        • Turbines on a windless morn.
        • Burning solar panels as a fuel source.
        • The worst thing to happen to Twitter/the best thing to happen to Mastodon.
        • The Dunbar Number for plants.
        • Voting someone out of the marriage because there's only room for one person in here.

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