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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