Topic Lords

211. Window-Peering Jim Checking Out Your Cats


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Lords:

  • Cort
    • https://a.co/d/iRrEZcy
    • Elena
    • Topics:

      • My due date is literally tomorrow
      • Dogme 95 for web development
      • Visits from the neighborhood cats
      • Potato, by Jane Kenyon
        • https://poets.org/poem/potato-0
        • Cooperative board games are hard to design
          • Space themed coop trick-taking card game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284083/crew-quest-planet-nine
          • Building a conlang generator from the phonology up
            • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonority_hierarchy
            • Linear algebra cursed conlang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze5i_e_ryTk
            • Microtopics:

              • The Be Real App.
              • Posting your mortifying skin condition for all the internet to see.
              • Being born.
              • The Dance Dance Revolution song "20,November," by Earth Wind and Fire.
              • PiCoSteveMo.
              • Tossing around hastily drawn concept art with your team.
              • Being born, again.
              • Having a kid for someone else.
              • Eating cigarettes off of the sidewalk.
              • A grab bag of thousands of possible pregnancy symptoms.
              • Literacy as a symptom of pregnancy.
              • A visceral reminder that you are part of a long chain of humans.
              • Which came first, humans or birth?
              • The comfort of the humans who are still around having individual experiences even after you die.
              • Tips n Tricks for dealing with fear of death.
              • Inviting dead people onto the show.
              • Asking for more pro-death art so you can feel better about death.
              • Pro-life, in the literal sense.
              • Flowers and mushrooms growing up through the bones.
              • Returning to the universe to nurture it.
              • Dumb Ways to Die.
              • Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives.
              • Thought experiments about something weird that could happen.
              • The Egg by Andy Weir.
              • Covering birth and death in the same topic.
              • Looking at photos of yourself from five years ago and thinking "oh shit!"
              • I am choosing to no longer have conscious experience, mom. You wouldn't understand, mom.
              • Swedish with a mouthful of potatoes.
              • Dogme 95.
              • Enpoopification.
              • A protocol for exchanging information on a computer.
              • Rewinding to a kinder, simpler web.
              • Avoiding all this gestures at the world
              • New rule: no web servers more powerful than a Raspberry Pi.
              • The cool thing that was on the web in the mid-90s.
              • Making art and putting it on the internet and getting a fan base.
              • The teenage gamer comic series making a comic about prostate exams.
              • Sharding the internet.
              • El Goonish Shive.
              • Anime hammers that you do when someone is being a pervert.
              • Coming to personal revelations regarding your neurodivergence or gender situation.
              • How to be a successful artist.
              • Not knowing if your favorite webcomic had ads because you use an adblocker.
              • Working at your parents animation studio as an inbetweener.
              • Merging your cats into one cat.
              • Neighborhood coyotes.
              • Cats beyond the reach of fear.
              • Window-peering Jim: he's just checking out your remodel.
              • Putting a GoPro on your neighbor's cat and livestreaming the inside of their house.
              • Cats with amazing life stories that they'll never tell you.
              • The consort of coffee grounds.
              • Making shepherd's pie for an entire hamlet.
              • A possibly accidental double line break.
              • A line break corresponding to a conceptual boundary.
              • The Story of Mel: a Real Programmer.
              • Adding left angle brackets to the start of every line until word wrap makes it a poem.
              • Blackout poetry.
              • Pumping gas as an element of Cottagecore.
              • A hamlet is just a city in New Jersey.
              • The fireworks on your forehead game.
              • A game where everyone stops talking.
              • The Yelling Game.
              • A dedicated period of yelling.
              • Space-themed trick taking games.
              • The Spaceteam card game.
              • Coming up with a set of place names that sound like they're from the same culture.
              • Assigning syllable groups to a morpheme.
              • Asking Claude.
              • Interpolating the obvious things.
              • The Sonority Hierarchy.
              • A gradient from less vowel-like to more vowel-like.
              • Cursed Conlangs.
              • Generating syllables and mushing them together.
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