Topic Lords

310. Dance Like The Universe Is An Empty Wasteland


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  • Alexander
  • Kev
  • Topics:

    • "Floaty movement" in games
    • The power to give people clutter that they can't throw away
      • https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/yorkdoom/palweb/week12/palwk12.htm
      • https://www.anabuzzalino.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/book-of-kells.jpg
      • Dunning Kruger got debunked!
        • https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/
        • With or Without Witnesses, by Hasbro, Inc.
          • https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/457/alloy-myr
          • Esper says: "A lot of the lore and worldbuilding of Magic is conveyed through flavor text, but there’s also about a novel’s worth of writing for each set distributed as webfiction and a few dozen novels throughout the game's history. It’s good stuff, usually!"
          • The instinct to not swing a heavy object at someone, even when you're supposed to
          • Japanese curry
          • Microtopics:

            • The Humble Screw.
            • What it might take to be good at hammering nails.
            • Fingerbashing.
            • An inclined plane that goes around in a circle.
            • Metric Rules Football.
            • Whether a state machine is the same kind of thing as a wedge.
            • Clockwork Maiden.
            • Speedrunning, cleaning and dating.
            • Floaty movement.
            • The JPEG artifact of physics simulation.
            • How to Unit Test a video game.
            • Using MIDI knobs to tune your game's physics.
            • Game Oriented Assembly Lisp.
            • Hot Reloading Workflow.
            • Why Naughty Dog stopped using Lisp.
            • Just going about your life when suddenly you have to use Perl for something.
            • Peak Node.JS/SAAS years.
            • Walk/run/sprint transition speed.
            • Getting an special drink for your guys.
            • Medieval style calligraphy.
            • Gifting someone with a burden for the rest of their lives.
            • Pouring rocks into your dad's pocket because that's where you keep your rocks.
            • The kitten going to sleep behind your laptop because it's warm back there.
            • Here's how someone in the 14th century would've written these words.
            • How to say "fuck around and find out" in medieval Latin.
            • Writing a meme in 14th century Blackletter Hand.
            • Sans-serif calligraphy.
            • The ancient Greeks trying to invent ASCII art but they couldn't close the deal.
            • Letters placed inside other letters.
            • Autocorrelation.
            • Figures 8 and 9.
            • Coming out of discussion the topic with a better understanding of the topic.
            • Using a bird feather to write.
            • Knowledge that we used to have and now have again.
            • Learning to Topic Lords while doing home improvement stuff.
            • Scrapping your fragile human body to merge with the machines.
            • Rainbows in Space.
            • Suns going around in circles regardless of whether anyone's looking.
            • A semi-conscious little robot dude.
            • Calling the Qualia Function.
            • A real messed-up looking machine cat.
            • Communicating the story solely via flavor text on mana dorks.
            • A squadron of little kids waving wooden swords at each other.
            • How do you turn sword fighting into something you can do in a video game?
            • East Bay Rat Motorcycle Club Flight Nights.
            • Situations where they ask if you want a mouth guard.
            • Asking the ref at the boxing match what the etiquette is for tapping out.
            • The crowd roaring when they realize you're a southpaw.
            • Punching a guy you just met three seconds ago.
            • Did you end up cutting that girl's head off?
            • Renaissance MMA.
            • That Awkward Sparring Feeling.
            • A simulacrum of kicking each other in the face.
            • Getting a part-time job at your favorite curry shop so you can learn the recipe.
            • What part of curry is the curry?
            • The curry you eat so you don't die.
            • Emperor Riding a Dragon to the Forbidden Palace.
            • The advantage of a burger as a fast food staple.
            • How to make curry convenient.
            • Rendang.
            • Dry curry.
            • Joining a discord and asking "what are all these users for??"
            • Which user is which lord on which episode?
            • Support Topic Lords

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