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Movies that are supposed to be good and kind of annoyingly are actually good
Making friends when you're old
Paris's pneumatic mail system
Forgiven, by A. A. Milne
- https://www.poeticous.com/a-a-milne/forgiven-i-found-a-little-beetle-so-that-beetle-was-his-name

Microtopics:

The skill to make the noises that are in your head.
Writing quests for Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
Sanrio's NDA-enforcing snipers.
A crocodile that was invented in 1978.
Writing quests that force the artists to figure out how a crocodile would wear sunglasses.
Writing the dialog tree as the player is clicking on options, like Gromit placing tracks right as the train is about to roll over them.
Spending five years shipping the first part of a live service game and then shipping additional parts every few weeks.
Trying to rebuild a house while someone is living in it.
Lingo 2.
Dungeon Gals.
The kind of game you can't draw a map of.
Teetering on the razor's edge of "I'm a genius" and "I don't understand anything."
What does the developer tooling look like for games that have non-euclidean spaces?
Duplicated spaces with secret warp volumes.
The kind of movie that an Infinite Jest reader will recommend.
Terry Cavanagh's game about making tea.
Egg Game?
Astonishing movie running times.
Five minutes of two men intensely looking at each other.
An adventure movie about two best friends who hate each other.
James Joyce: maybe he's good?
A guy who lives in the middle of nowhere who thinks about politics a lot and never talks to anyone.
Gerry, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
The art is coming from inside the head.
Pro Shots vs. bootlegs.
Jukebox musicals.
Shawshank Redimension.
Shawshank Redemption 2: Shawshank Herdemption.
Communicating between cell blocks by flushing the toilet.
Loove a.k.a. Flushed a.k.a. Lavatory Lovastory.
Mixing your DNA with someone you've never seen.
Florida Writing.
Gravity Slingshotting around your hobbies to reach friendship.
Going to GDC and making a bunch of game dev friends.
Plateauing at two digits.
Getting hobbies that put you in a room with people of your desired gender.
Your co-worker at the call center who's married to the CEO of Twinings.
Playing puzzle games on the Internet in front of a chatful of puzzle experts.
The protagonist getting stuck on a puzzle and the narrator turning to the audience and saying "chat, help us out with this one."
Making friends vs. keeping friends.
The friendships that you both care enough about to have maintained.
I Love a Thoont.
Building a pneumo to relieve congestion on the telegraph system.
When the telegraph was invented vs. when pneumatics were invented.
Why banks had pneumatic drive thrus rather than the teller just handing you the stuff through the window like a fast food drive thrus.
Whimsical coffee preparation.
The cost of building a giant tube between the coasts of North America.
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.
Inventing a frictionless tube.
Preparing burritos to be magnetically fired.
Rifled sewers.
Plunging into the Lithosphere.
A diagram that shows how the burrito gets heated.
The Taste of Breaking the Sound Barrier.
Getting your poem voice on.
Whether A. A. Milne knew about hash tags.
Non-Fungible Beetles.
Oh great, the same beetle came back!
The kind of look that means "it's me, the same beetle!"
The XIX and XX centuries.
Writing Very Blackly.
Why Does Pooh Own a Shotgun?
All the talking Winnie the Pooh animals turning out to be aliens, like Starfox.
A pneumatic tube, except instead of burritos you're firing cork.
Writing your thesis on pop guns and continuing to do post doc research on pop guns.
Spud Guns vs. Potato Cannons.
A Normal Spud Gun for Normal Children.
Seeing that Wikipedia considers Spud Guns low importance and thinking of ways to make Spud Guns more important.
Too Many Posts.

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