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Topics:

The Battle of Food Dog and Valley Jump Park
The Wilson Wolfe Affair, or, how I spent $350 on the mysterious wolfe in the sky
This tabletop RPG with scripting support
- https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116246406043573614
Why the heck are we making everything smart these days? And why is the security so terrible (A.K.A. The Lovense Story)
The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot
- https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats

Microtopics:

The first and still only place you can discuss topics.
Writing down your plugs ahead of time.
The happy ending you deserve.
A small child crawling into your bed in the middle of the night and asking the questions that keep him up at night, such as "can you one-shot a Silver Boss Bokoblin with a regular arrow and a Lizal strong bow?"
Giving your child a classical education. (In Zelda and Mario games.)
Living in Virginia near a bunch of Confederate monuments.
Looking at the battle map to see where the soldiers come down from the Food Lion.
The monument to not building anything.
Sonically-enforced exclusion zones.
Whether there's sound in the eye of the hurricane.
What they call the Wal-Mart in Puerto Rico.
Podcasts on which it's okay to hate the French.
Quebecois LARPing as French.
History: it's all around us, and it keeps happening.
Wanting to spend $350 on the wolf in the sky but the wolf just won't take your money.
Simulacra Games.
Spinning a zoetrope.
Questioning the palness of these supposed pals.
Little mom and pop shops exhorting you to solve this unsolved cold case murder.
Side stories extending the lore.
Applying heat to make the secret message appear, then applying cold to make the message disappear so that the next person can apply heat to make the secret message appear.
Being so busy making your video game that you don't have the spare energy to solve an interesting puzzle.
Kitchen table ARGs.
Dang you, Mr. Stormdancer!
Always coming up with your schemes.
What happened to the Twinbeard corporation.
Paying $800 a year in something something taxes to keep your corporation going.
Incorporating in the state of Delaware.
Licensing the Frog Fractions brand for a dollar.
Retiring and making Pico-8 games for the rest of your life.
It's like PiCoSteveMo all year!
Reading your program aloud to the DM who executes it in his head.
Reading your program aloud to the DM who tells you there's a syntax error on line 397.
Writing out a program to present to the class.
You went over my helmet?!
Programming in Logo and watching the turtle move around the screen.
Rehabilitating the image of Lisp-like languages by changing the parentheses to square brackets which are much cooler.
Are you a friend of humans?
Crossing your legs into a storytelling position.
Picking your job based on what's funniest.
How smart do you have to be to be a fridge.
Pulling out your phone and opening your banking app to see how much cash is in your smart wallet.
Hacking smart butt plugs.
Whether hacking an insecure smart butt plug is funnier or less funny than making the smart butt plug in the first place.
Login functions that don't require a password.
Can you get a virus from a smart butt plug?
The consequences of your smart butt plug getting taken over by hackers.
Messaging all your Facebook friends explaining that your smart butt plug was hacked and if the butt plug sends a message saying "help I'm trapped in a butt plug," it's not really from you.
Working for the U.S. govt hacking pacemakers.
The chat is coming from inside the butt.
The three names of a cat.
Munkustrap, Quaxo, Coricopat, Bombalurina, and Jellylorum.
A cat in profound meditation.
Looking up TS Eliot in the phone book.
Child Jordan Mechner looking up the lyricist of the Wizard of Oz in the phone book and calling him up.
Doing a Doctor Who joke that nobody gets.
How many members of The Who are still alive.
Effanineffability.
Up to the Neck in Weber.

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