Topic Lords

221. Fisher-Price My First Right Click Menu


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Lords:

  • Chris
  • Alex
  • Topics:

    • Living without software updates
    • I like Cyberpunk 2077
    • I 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 Pink
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      • Microtopics:

        • Lords 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        • Your phone popping up a window saying "you're a year and a half out of date, would you like to update?"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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