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JP
- https://jplebreton.com/
Styger
- https://www.sf.gov/readysf

Topics:

Is "Non-Super" Mario an alternate state of consciousness or identity, or merely an alternate physical state?
"Hot defensive bee ball" + bees in general
Solving all 24,976,511 5x5 nonograms
- https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram
Poem Seen in a Motel Fan by Alberto Blanco
- https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/-_x1pv5l.jpg
Werecreature logistics
"The Ball is Back." Discuss.

Microtopics:

The World of Video Games
Your favorite granola coming back in stock.
Working to make the world a slightly better place every day.
Weird frustrating tethering.
Levels that are about hauling ass.
Being on the same train as someone for a few stops.
The small version of yourself that you become when you lose your mushroom.
Whether Small Mario has access to all of Super Mario's memories.
What was the authorial intent of Alice growing bigger and smaller.
Whether Small or Big Mario is the original default.
Mario accumulating power and becoming an enormous hulking beast.
Designing a level to support multiple player scales.
Game series that have been both 2D and 3D platformers.
Small Mario eating a mushroom and teleporting into a pocket dimension, swapping in Big Mario.
Japanese hornets in an evolutionary arms race with Japanese honey bees.
Bees forming a tight clump around a hive invader to make them uncomfortably warm.
A baseball sized mass of bees smothering a huge horrible wasp.
Touring beehives and giving seminars about the hot defensive bee ball.
A multi-disciplinary bullshit operation.
Enjoying your job.
The degree to which they waggle.
Bees having a dance-off to determine where to live.
Extending the bee dance language to teach them orbital dynamics so they can find pollen sources in space.
Candy that smells like a bee alarm pheromone.
The NPC in Curse of Monkey Island who explains that merengue is made of eggs.
What they call being "slashdotted" nowadays.
Doing 15 puzzles and taking satisfaction in being 15 puzzles closer to not being able to play this game any more.
Web sites: they shouldn't scale.
Putting every 5x5 nonogram in the Library of Congress.
Humanity dedicating all of its resources to solve every 6x6 nonogram.
The 100 people in the world whose brains are tricked by this kind of fake work.
The most interesting three-digit numbers.
What happens when we run out of nonograms??
The kayfabe of the community doing every 5x5 nonogram over and over again
A convex mirror, a fisheye, a golden dome.
Taking comfort in the continued existence of observers.
Having all the resources to grow as a person but none of the incentives.
Your little chunk of humanity's future.
Things can get better but also they can get worse.
The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, 60th Anniversary Edition.
The official City Lights typeface.
A dignified serif.
A poem is when you do something interesting with typefaces.
How to distribute your poem that does something interesting with fonts.
Lycanthropy booths and other werewolf accommodations.
It's not a disability but they still accommodate you.
Seasonal Mania.
Humans brains being affected by the sun and moon in ways we don't fully understand.
Hospital intake numbers that correlate with the lunar cycle.
What's the deal with the ball being back?
A flying silver ball that sucks your brains out with a fork.
Doing what you do just because.
The ball: it has to be back.
Watching an 80s horror movie and thinking "surely someone has made a Doom level of this"
Inventing perfectly mirrored silver spheres entirely independently from ray tracers.
Reporting back when you are further along on your Phantasm journey.
Not being on the Internet because you're hanging out with the bees instead.

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