Topic Lords

279. Concrete Peanut Butter Condensate


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Lords:

  • Kory
  • James
  • Topics:

    • I've been reading more lately, and ditching the eReader sure has helped
    • Journey to the Planets
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWiJ1Mn-aY
      • Send Me to Heaven
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven
        • My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, by William Shakespeare
          • https://poets.org/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130
          • Re: Smooth Criminal. Are criminals like peanut butter?
          • My journey to make photography as labor intensive as possible and learn to enjoy it again in the process
          • Microtopics:

            • A circulating cadre of hobbies.
            • Corpseflower blooms.
            • A forum to complain about the state of e-Readers.
            • eReaders launching as a perfect product and then slowly morphing into shitty phones.
            • Autosleep anxiety.
            • Increased difficulty of finding reference art now that stable diffusion exists.
            • Turning off all your screens in order to accomplish something.
            • Accordioning ebooks.
            • Breaking out into meat space with tiny Greek busts.
            • Freedom to do it the wrong way.
            • Reading the last page of a book so you don't have the temptation of reading the last page of the book.
            • Physical bit rot books.
            • Buying more than one book.
            • Collecting treasure in order to get home.
            • A flying around in space mini game.
            • Dying from comets.
            • Designing a game that you would never play.
            • Art that is better in some contexts than others.
            • King's Quest.
            • Tuning your adventure game difficulty based on how distracting the real world is.
            • Difficulty ramping in adventure games.
            • The text adventure prototype of Outer Wilds.
            • Untitled Goose Game's melding of the adventure game and the stealth sandbox.
            • Brock the Investigator's melding of the adventure game and the belt scroller.
            • An adventure game where the solution to the puzzle is to run up and kick something.
            • Games that would've been a useful referent for Gunhouse if it had existed.
            • The I'm Rich era of phone app development.
            • Let's Play videos of Send Me to Heaven.
            • App Store review bits that are not very well received.
            • If hairs be wires then black wires growing on her head.
            • Quoting a Shakespeare sonnet in your diss track.
            • Whether "reeks" has the same connotation in Early Modern English.
            • It's true but you shouldn't say it vs. I just think they're neat.
            • Whether the Smooth Criminal is the kind where you need to stir the oil in
            • Smooth criminals vs. chunky criminals.
            • In what ways criminals are like peanut butter?
            • What would a chunky rap sheet look like?
            • A pristine unopened criminal.
            • Getting merged in some sort of valve situation.
            • Scientists studying the stripey toothpaste to discover how it stays striped.
            • That movie where every character is the same person.
            • Regressing to the analog wherever possible.
            • Developing film without a dark room, using a dark bag.
            • Obsessing over a single photograph until the color balance is perfect.
            • Photography tropes that read as fancy.
            • The instinct to replicate the superficial qualities of an analog process in its digital equivalent.
            • Authentically taking a terrible picture with a terrible camera.
            • Getting sick of what fancy used to mean and figuring out what fancy means going forward.
            • Hypernice photography.
            • Art that has way too much detail.
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