Topic Lords

281. Mr. Nukem Was My Father


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Lords:

  • Stevie
  • Bri
  • Topics:

    • 3D modeling and my lack of visual imagination
    • Cutthroat compounds (my linguistic specialty) – current pursuit is "verb-em" last names – I'm researching the origins of the fictional law offices of Dewey Cheatum and Howe
    • Pocket Warwick and other lost software
    • For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano
      • https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1fvzv1f/poem_for_a_student_who_used_ai_to_write_a_paper/
      • Colma's city motto "It's Great to Be Alive in Colma" is great marketing
      • Microtopics:

        • Silly inventor and brainstormer.
        • Writing code that generates audio.
        • Giving talks at the Odd Salon.
        • Coffeehouse revolutionary thinkers.
        • Classic Hughes Behavior.
        • Looking at Blender again every seven to ten years.
        • Imagining a place in any level of detail. (Other than the name.)
        • The memory of what a tiger looks like, and whether it rotated on a Lazy Susan.
        • Whether seeing things in a dream feels similar to visualization.
        • Needing a license to operate as an engineer, but anyone can call themselves an Imagineer.
        • Weenies and MacGuffins.
        • Drawing something in 2D and tracing it in Blender.
        • Different ways to approach level design.
        • Thinking of something and putting it in your game.
        • Getting your game design playable as soon as possible so you can find out if it's any good.
        • A verb and its direct object.
        • Misers and drunks and cowards and gluttons.
        • Kick 'em Jenny.
        • Bop It!
        • Plastic keys where the point of the key is that it immediately breaks and you have to buy a new one.
        • Lawyer jokes from 19th century Australia.
        • Whether Nukem is his last name or just a nickname.
        • Syntactic freezes.
        • Rude slang words that end up on listicles.
        • How "cacafuego" became "spitfire."
        • Etymonline shrugging and giving up.
        • Not knowing about the alternate pronunciation of parentheses and processes until you get an office job.
        • Choosing a comma as one of your hills.
        • A unit of sound and meaning that you use to modify another unit of sound and meaning.
        • How to pronounce Warwick Davis.
        • A Jib Jab.
        • A Tamagotchi Situation.
        • Boatswains and forecastles.
        • Adding redundancy for clarity and also removing it for efficiency.
        • If you still have a Jaz disk, what do you even do with it?
        • Going to MagFest to see a chip metal band called Master Boot Record and he's throwing floppy disks with Deluxe Paint on them into the crowd.
        • Sharing a birthday with a Kentucky Derby winner but not being sure if he's a person or a horse.
        • The Friendliest Friend!
        • Stu Sutcliffe, the sixth Beatle.
        • International Snooker 2012 and Seven Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover.
        • Fantasy consoles that only run Final Fantasy games.
        • If it's your first time at Nice Club, you have to Nice.
        • Seeing a generation grow up using automation to do a task that you had to do by hand and feeling one way or another about it.
        • How to tell whether somebody can reason about a topic and express their thoughts clearly.
        • Underpants Gnome Plans.
        • Polishing your thought processes until you find one that you agree with.
        • Defending Your Thesis, directed by Al Brooks.
        • The only place on the Internet you can hear advice about going to college.
        • Colma Secrets.
        • Noone ever stops in Colma (on purpose)
        • Everyone who came to San Francisco and died.
        • Go By Train.
        • Calling the Colma Historical Society to see if they have a living volunteer there that day.
        • Calling a song "Going to Colma" and hoping that the phrase catches on as a euphemism for Kicking the Bucket.
        • The Joy of Actual Citizens and People Involved in Government.
        • Encyclopedia Briannica.
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