Topic Lords

332. Boston: It's Not a Year


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Lords:

  • Jin
    • https://awesomedonut.github.io/
    • Brad
      • https://rainwarrior.ca/
      • Topics:

        • The shareware games business model
        • Thoughts on how to define femininity?
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48
          • The Great Molasses Flood
            • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnRNfXm_k4
            • Entrance by Rainer Maria Rilke
              • https://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2010/10/rilke-entrance-from-german.html
              • Combining magic and science in science fantasy.
              • Microtopics:

                • Lizard for the NES.
                • Retrofuturism in ancient China.
                • Silkpunk Origins.
                • Ultima-inspired indie RPGs from 1994.
                • Passing around public domain games on floppy disks.
                • Registering shareware to get rid of the nag screen.
                • Adventure game hint books as a second channel of income.
                • Asking your mom to get a money order to register the shareware version of Impulse Tracker so you can get the Stereo Wav Writer.
                • Front loading all the good levels in the shareware episode and selling the crap in the registered episodes.
                • The Ur-Quan Masters.
                • Printing to PDF.
                • Uploading your music to mp3.com.
                • Cracking shareware using a known plaintext attack.
                • Drawing an image with so much entropy that the Save Robot dances for longer than usual and then plays a sad sound.
                • A three hour deep dive on the very popular vampire novel Twilight.
                • Going online and googling masculine and/or feminine traits.
                • The Four Pillars of Femininity.
                • Pants: they're for barbarians.
                • Whether Stephanie Meyer was trying to write a treatise on idealized gender roles or whether she was just writing what she thought was cool and fun.
                • Popular depictions of women who are masculine in behavior but feminine in appearance.
                • Why can't your girlfriend both look like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and eat hamburgers like Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
                • Why women work so well as horror protagonists.
                • Do people cry less in Marvel movies?
                • Someone crying so hard in a movie that you start to worry about the actor's social life.
                • Tolkien adding a second female character to Lord of the Rings just so he can make the "I am no man" linguistic joke.
                • Boston: it's not a year.
                • Painting your giant molasses tank brown so it's harder to notice that it's leaking.
                • All the children in town walking up and licking the giant leaking molasses tank whenever they feel like a snack.
                • Waking up in a pile of dead bodies with your mouth full of molasses.
                • Big Enough to be Horrible.
                • Getting your architectural plans approved by a government body.
                • Gilding the lily when the lily is already extremely memetic.
                • Fame: look what it does to people.
                • Building a giant tank of anything in the middle of a city.
                • Where do you put your 50 million gallons of molasses?
                • What happens if you poke the Demon Core with a screwdriver?
                • Scientists getting too excited to keep being careful.
                • A black and slender tree.
                • A word kept in the mouth to grow.
                • Eveningfall.
                • Putting a tree in the sky while you're creating the world.
                • The game you're making giving you ideas about the game you're making.
                • Navigating the scientific method in a fantastical universe.
                • Lit RPG.
                • Dungeon Crawler Carl.
                • Using a quarter of the words in your novel to explain the rules of the world like a board game manual.
                • Jedi using their powers to boil water for tea.
                • Enslaving Jedi to run your steam engine with their mind powers.
                • Jedi Inflation.
                • Two words that sound good together and now it's your name.
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