Topic Lords

205. It's Cool To Get A Letter


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  • Alex
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSjSkaBRD7k&list=PLBk6-z6v3pDKi3Q-9MeqUfupJswozircH&index=7
    • John
    • Topics:

      • That time I spent 4 days fasting in the woods
      • Twins! Coming soon! Ahhhhh!
      • The Zelda 1 second quest
      • https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/806592-now-the-world-has-gone-to-bed-darkness-won-t-engulf
      • Microtopics:

        • Joyful communities.
        • Whether discord logs can be subpoenaed.
        • Encoding all your mail in ROT13 to keep them safe from the snoops at the NSA.
        • Finishing with your DSP design work so your employer sends you into the basement to make cardboard boxes.
        • Someone in the early 2000s with a high pitched voice.
        • Remembering your grandma's phone number from when you were six but not remembering any phone numbers since then.
        • Thinky Puzzle Games.
        • An Alan Hazelden thing.
        • Tom Brown's Tracker School.
        • Going into the woods and sitting in one spot for four days.
        • A good, productive, safe time.
        • Keeping control of your emotions.
        • How to know when to stop.
        • Doing a ritual at sunrise.
        • Having animal encounters.
        • Trees dripping water on you.
        • Doing the most boring thing for four days straight so you can never be bored again.
        • A really cool thing to do in your twenties.
        • Sonic showers screaming at you until you're clean.
        • Lacking the experience to understand what's coming for you.
        • Going through some shit and loving it.
        • What if it all works out?
        • The experience of knowing twins.
        • Taking advantage of the Groupon for college tuition.
        • Hanging your fears on milestones.
        • Taking your parental leave consecutively.
        • Daycare as a microcosm of communal living.
        • Showing people what you're working on.
        • Making a living putting your kids on social media until your kids get old enough to express that they don't like it.
        • Wearing a shirt saying "I do not consent to be photographed."
        • A conversation with a five year old about scrub jays.
        • Sharing media with an allowlist.
        • Setting permissions on who can see your photos.
        • Sharing photos with your family by handing out USB drives.
        • A visual novel that is extremely interested in your personal financial information.
        • A pen connected to a matrix of hundreds of other pens so you can sign your name hundreds of times at once.
        • The Zelda one-second quest.
        • Naming yourself Zelda as a shortcut for understanding this topic.
        • Naming your character Zelda without understanding the consequences.
        • Red bubbles that take your sword away.
        • An obvious door that you can walk through.
        • Iwata Asks.
        • Accidentally using only half the space available.
        • Zelda randomizers.
        • SMZ3.
        • How to make Super Mario World a metroidvania.
        • Marvin putting in work.
        • Capturing a particular level of snark.
        • Reading books in high school that you won't understand until you're 30.
        • The California Raisins as the sequel to the Grapes of Wrath.
        • The kind of person who works really hard in high school.
        • Xanthan gum.
        • Trochaic something or other.
        • I had a theory about music and then I made all these friends!
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