Lords:

Kory
- https://kbones.fun/
Andy
- https://highcadence.online/

Topics:

The Gametank
- https://gametank.zone/
- https://www.crowdsupply.com/clydeware/gametank
I swear to God, I'm going to talk about auctions and auctions in games, it's super interesting and I don't want to get preempted a third time.
- Esper says: "There’s actually a game coming out in a week where you break into museums to heist real-life African artifacts with the goal of returning them to their rightful homes! It’s called Relooted and looks pretty cool." https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/Relooted/
Winston figured out how to watch TV at 2AM
Dragonfly Catcher, by Chiyo-ni
- https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/115933940306986226
I just lost a snapshot of my life in mp3 format.

Microtopics:

Multi-time lords.
K-Bones dot fun.
CachyOS.
Scrubbing topics against the corrugated metal washboard of discussion.
Leaning into the microphone and saying "topics."
Helping Andy quit his day job tonight.
What MAGfest used to stand for.
Playing with SGI hardware in the Old-Ass Computer Room.
Game consoles that output square video.
Getting pixels into the framebuffer of the Fairchild Channel F.
Seeing a fun puzzle to solve but not solving it because you already have way too many projects.
Through-hole soldering.
Replacing volatile memory with F-RAM.
Preparing to have fun.
Reaching the point in your life where you don't want to bother with the war game, you just want to paint the miniatures.
What do you call it when you pair up with three people?
Throupling up for the next 45 minutes.
Who has time to both solder things and play video games?
Why Robotron 2084 was more difficult in emulation than in the arcade.
How to pronounce SNES.
Shmups slowing down when there are more objects on the screen, and game designers incorporating that into the game design.
The ZX Spectrum Next and the Mega 65.
A game console that only 150 people own and they get super excited whenever a new game comes out for it.
Game development like a caveman would do it.
Whether more than one person can take the under.
The rules of Monopoly as written vs. the folk rules.
eBay auctions as an extremely boring game.
First price vs. second price auctions.
Visiting the real money auction house in Diablo and finding out just how little your time and effort is worth.
The Gold Standard of the Hat Meta.
An evolutionary branch of PVP that's distinct from Yomi.
What to do when you want to play Avalon Hill's Dune.
Fence Lara Croft's Stolen Treasures.
Lara Croft's Stolen Antiquities Simulator.
Winning a bunch of Saltybucks on Saltybet.
Age-appropriate behavior.
Speedrun watching TV at 2 AM.
Live and Don't Learn.
Explaining jet lag to a two year old.
Watching MTV's Liquid Television block until 2:30 AM.
Finally sitting your son down to have the Aeon Flux talk.
Haiku that end "that's it, that's the haiku" even though that's too many syllables.
Hiking in the wilderness and encountering or not encountering a dragonfly.
People at risk of owning a Game Tank.
Broadly appealing messages sent out to farm likes.
The psychological cost of having 20,000 people following you.
Choosing your Mastodon instance based on what domain name William Gibson thought was funny.
The Mazzy Star song that's on the Batman Forever soundtrack.
iPod shuffles always insisting you're not pregnant no matter how much you pee on them.
Ephemeral preservation of a time in your life.
A biological weapon that removes your ability to perceive music as music.
You die young, or you live long enough to see Nine Inch Nails become dad rock.
Music Inspired by the Soundtrack.
Putting your MP3 collection on striped RAID arrays for the benefit of future archaeologists.

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