221. Fisher-Price My First Right Click Menu

Lords: * Chris * Alex Topics: * Living without software updates * I like Cyberpunk 2077 * I had a friend who would argue with the people collecting signatures in support of a proposed law. Not about the proposal itself, but the methodology behind it. * PIECE A SHIT, possibly by Sam Pink * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kl_AeoXl.jpg Microtopics: * Lords of Topics. * Asking your mom if this Thanksgiving turkey is Frog Fractions 3. * Haiku Hero. * How to talk to the press. * An email from the guy who sent me the quirky thing from before. * The Last Biceps. * Filling your house with electronics that continuously ask you to do things. * How to interact with the Internet on an old un-updated computer. * Snap craft something or other. * Turning off Windows updates for over a year and nothing bad happens because security best practices are bullshit. * Visiting twinbeard.com to find out about the beads in Jim's ears. * Searching Google for the little balls in your ears. * Your phone popping up a window saying "you're a year and a half out of date, would you like to update?" and hitting the back button as fast as you can. * Windows updates adding AI functionality to MS Paint. * Making uneducated guesses about how someone else's code works. * Searching for a program on your computer and Windows gives you Bing results for that program's name. * A sneaky hacker man doing non lethal takedowns. * Making a complicated video game and then patching it into a completely different complicated video game after the guides have all been written. * Trying to explain to someone why the story of Half-Life is cool and realizing halfway through your explanation that it's not that cool actually. * Cool things that build immersion. * A guy saying "have a seat" and a contextual actionicon appearing over a chair. * Voluminous closets full of costumes for virtual dress-up. * Delivering exposition in cars. * All the weird things people will put on their body in the cyber future. * A fictional city halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. * Recovering a stolen painting by showing a satellite. * A city with lots of neat stuff to do. * Querulous Friend's Advocate. * The Everyone Gets a Pony Initiative of 2023. * Filibustering people collecting signatures in front of the grocery store. * How much do you believe in the political causes you're promoting? * Watching your friend play games in a little window on your second monitor. * Mr. Feeny recording car AI voices. * Getting into World of Warcraft because you are stressed about starting a new job. * Level 1 Superman killing rats to collect 10 rat pelts. * Fun ways to fight crowds of mooks. * The things you see on your limbs when you see your limbs. * Replacing all the mirrors with cyber mirrors. * The doctor pulling out your cyber eyes and putting them in a drawer and all you can see is the inside of the drawer. * Lost games dev techniques such as palette swaps. * A screenshot of a book. * A poem painting a picture of a time and place. * Maybe Sam Pink. * Writing a bunch of messages to someone and making their phone vibrate every five seconds for a full minute. * Notification throttling. * Fanciful technological panaceas. * Ultra poetry where each line has animation and timing. * Making a word wiggle in a sine wave to indicate that it's a spooky ghost noise. * Poem Lords. * Seven poems on the itinerary. (But we'll only have time for three of them.)