Topic Lords

156. Society Is Moving In A Direction

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Lords:

  • Alex
    • https://twitter.com/alexicographic
    • https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames/
    • JP
      • http://vectorpoem.com/

        • Topics:

        • Your gravestone has a button people can press to play a sound clip, 10 seconds or less. It can loop or be a one-shot, your preference. What sound clip does your gravestone play?
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u8Fd7EHYAg
          • Counting the beats in eenie-meenie
          • SoundScan and the SoundScan Era
            • https://www.theringer.com/music/2021/5/25/22452539/soundscan-billboard-charts-streaming-numbers
            • There Will Come Soft Rains
              • https://poets.org/poem/there-will-come-soft-rains
              • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
              • The scorched-earth strategy for Lowest Positive Unique Integer
              • "Leaving beautiful ruins" in a videogame

                • Microtopics:

                • A return of many-storied adventure game developers.
                • A point and click adventure game that changed the trajectory of your life.
                • Suspenders as an architectural feature.
                • Onesie pajamas with a trap door.
                • People sneaking up behind you and trying to unbutton your poop flap.
                • Thoughts that are meant to remain unthought.
                • The famous elongated "some."
                • A marketing executive saying "nobody will know what a 'tetralogy' is."
                • Whether your game studio logo has a sound.
                • Console startup noises.
                • The button your loved ones can press on your gravestone to hear the Dreamcast startup sound.
                • King Solomoning the gif-vs-gif debate.
                • The governing body that decides whether your death is cool enough to warrant a gif of your death on your tombstone.
                • The kind of people who gravitate to a job that rates everyone's deaths on a five-star scale.
                • The IP situation surrounding your gravestone's looping wav button.
                • Your tombstone jukebox that plays David Bowie songs when people put a quarter in and the quarters all end up in your casket and if David Bowie wants them he can damn well come and get them.
                • Wagering on your ability to read emergent situations.
                • Electric Football.
                • Covering a metal plate with quarters and flipping the switch that makes the plate vibrate, creating the quarter configuration for optimal money gouging.
                • Becoming really good at beating a rigged game.
                • Becoming really good at funnel cake.
                • Dentists not understanding the motivations people have for drinking soda.
                • Largest Sip.
                • The liminal space between a Sip and a Gulp.
                • Gaming the outcome in Eenie Meenie Miney Moe.
                • Whether Eenie Meenie Miney Moe is a solved game.
                • A great opportunity to practice believing the lies that we form our wesociety on.
                • When Billboard switched from a call-stores-and-ask data collection system to an automated system to gather song sales data, and rap and R&B suddenly started dominating the charts.
                • Rockists fudging the numbers.
                • The pros and cons of getting a Billboard Hot 100 hit.
                • Jukebox charts.
                • The Billboard Humming chart based on them listening to the songs people are humming to themselves on the street.
                • Who loves the radio hits that everyone you know hates? (People you don't know.)
                • Knowing where to stick that quarter.
                • White dudes making 17 minute songs.
                • Axis of Discourse.
                • A directory of mp3s in your Jellyfin server.
                • Napster pivoting to NFTs but nobody notices or cares.
                • Nostalgia for the Spanish Flu.
                • A giant ball of iron with life forms clinging to it.
                • The earth continuing to be a lump of iron no matter how badly we treat it.
                • Potential human extinction and whether birds would notice it.
                • A fully-automated human house of the near to far future.
                • A band of roving pranksters in the post-apocalypse who are running around transmitting bad Roomba firmware updates.
                • Rolling up on prom with your entourage of four Half-Life scientists and five Barneys.
                • Rolling up on the rap battle with your entourage of backup singer Roombas trailing behind you.
                • The Mad Max series as prepper porn.
                • A good shelf to rest on in the collective psyche.
                • Friend deterrent strategies.
                • How strategy disclosure alters the gameplay of Rock Paper Scissors.
                • Disclosing ahead of the game or Rock Paper Scissors that your strategy will be to punch your opponent repeatedly, and how that affects the way the game is played.
                • Satisfactory: an open-world factory building game.
                • Building your factories and then leaving them behind.
                • Emergent haunted houses in abandoned player-built structures in persistent-world multiplayer games.
                • Having an idea for a game feature and having to build the whole game to try the feature out.
                • Being scared of weird old crap.
                • Adding Pokemon to Minecraft.
                • The last gasp of mainstream PC gaming before phones happened.
                • An 11 year old game developer getting thrown into the Capitalist snake pit.
                • The Human Attention Zoo.
                • Kids (or adults) having goofs.
                • The Golden Age of the Moddable Game Engine.
                • Getting a job based on your Roblox portfolio.

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