ChrisAlexLiving without software updatesI like Cyberpunk 2077I had a friend who would argue with the people collecting signatures in support of a proposed law. Not about the proposal itself, but the methodology behind it.PIECE A SHIT, possibly by Sam Pinkhttps://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kl_AeoXl.jpgLords of Topics.Asking your mom if this Thanksgiving turkey is Frog Fractions 3.Haiku Hero.How to talk to the press.An email from the guy who sent me the quirky thing from before.The Last Biceps.Filling your house with electronics that continuously ask you to do things.How to interact with the Internet on an old un-updated computer.Snap craft something or other.Turning off Windows updates for over a year and nothing bad happens because security best practices are bullshit.Visiting twinbeard.com to find out about the beads in Jim's ears.Searching Google for the little balls in your ears.Your phone popping up a window saying "you're a year and a half out of date, would you like to update?" and hitting the back button as fast as you can.Windows updates adding AI functionality to MS Paint.Making uneducated guesses about how someone else's code works.Searching for a program on your computer and Windows gives you Bing results for that program's name.A sneaky hacker man doing non lethal takedowns.Making a complicated video game and then patching it into a completely different complicated video game after the guides have all been written.Trying to explain to someone why the story of Half-Life is cool and realizing halfway through your explanation that it's not that cool actually.Cool things that build immersion.A guy saying "have a seat" and a contextual actionicon appearing over a chair.Voluminous closets full of costumes for virtual dress-up.Delivering exposition in cars.All the weird things people will put on their body in the cyber future.A fictional city halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.Recovering a stolen painting by showing a satellite.A city with lots of neat stuff to do.Querulous Friend's Advocate.The Everyone Gets a Pony Initiative of 2023.Filibustering people collecting signatures in front of the grocery store.How much do you believe in the political causes you're promoting?Watching your friend play games in a little window on your second monitor.Mr. Feeny recording car AI voices.Getting into World of Warcraft because you are stressed about starting a new job.Level 1 Superman killing rats to collect 10 rat pelts.Fun ways to fight crowds of mooks.The things you see on your limbs when you see your limbs.Replacing all the mirrors with cyber mirrors.The doctor pulling out your cyber eyes and putting them in a drawer and all you can see is the inside of the drawer.Lost games dev techniques such as palette swaps.A screenshot of a book.A poem painting a picture of a time and place.Maybe Sam Pink.Writing a bunch of messages to someone and making their phone vibrate every five seconds for a full minute.Notification throttling.Fanciful technological panaceas.Ultra poetry where each line has animation and timing.Making a word wiggle in a sine wave to indicate that it's a spooky ghost noise.Poem Lords.Seven poems on the itinerary. (But we'll only have time for three of them.)
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