Lords:
* CisHetKayFaber
* https://www.patreon.com/CisHetKayFaber
* Andrew
* https://luxurybunkers.bandcamp.com/album/killer-karen
Topics:
* People say the craziest stuff in front of janitors.
* Revisiting development of a creative work after 20 years
* Naming conventions in the demo scene vs. the ZZT scene
* How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/how-to-be-perfect
* Floops, a 3D cartoon character generated in VRML in the mid-90's internet
Microtopics:
* Putting all your stress from the last three months into a single EP.
* Brains pooping right into your ears.
* Refusing to talk about Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
* Are you allowed to talk to janitors??
* Being assumed to be part of a group (openly racist people) that you are not actually part of.
* The risks of letting other people clean up after you.
* How do you know when it's time to eat candy when you don't have the candy gland?
* Giving yourself heat stroke because you don't realize it's too hot.
* Making a plan for how to not get heat stroke!
* Not having a thirst meter but your snacking meter is pegged 24/7.
* The inability to sleep and eat at the same time.
* How to tell if you're on SSRIs.
* Cyclothymia.
* "You have to do this now or I'm going to stare at you."
* A VR exercise app where if your heart rate drops too low all the NPCs start staring at you.
* The cost of not taking care of yourself.
* Clinging to your flow state for dear life.
* Feeling like you've done a thing vs. actually doing the thing.
* Sedarising and unsedarising your essay.
* The many eras of cancelling David Sedaris.
* Independent tabletop game developers in the Osaka area.
* Writing to explore your own thought space.
* Writing the program and then running the program.
* Taking a twenty year break between essay drafts so you can revisit your ideas fresh.
* Cyberpunk-coded online handles.
* Attaching a political ideology to the ZZT scene.
* Role-playing bring a small business owner as you make art in your bedroom and share it with the online community.
* Social capital in the cracking community.
* The era in your life when you didn't even know it was possible to pay for computer games.
* Who'd win in a fight, Slayer, or Mega Slayer ZZ9 Final?
* The revealed philosophies of different online communities.
* Shareware and early web nostalgia.
* A wild time to be on the Internet.
* Enjoying lo-fi versions of a thing.
* A movie with bad special effects that look great in the pirated cammed version.
* Straightening your room before you save the world.
* Not doing anything to make what you want impossible.
* Using attractive stamps, like the one with the tornado on it.
* Carrying the only poem you like around with you on index cards.
* Living in a culture where respect for the elderly is out of control.
* The age at which you get to elbow your way to the front of every line.
* Getting paid to tell people how to do things better.
* Things you had to learn outside of school.
* A guy who looks like he's eaten every lemon in the world.
* Ron Padgett celebrity lookalikes.
* An alarm clock that wakes you up by shouting "I'm looking forward to the Internet of things!" in your own voice.
* Who's been to cocktail parties and when, and did you discuss VRML?
* Hand animating 3D cartoons by typing VRML.
* Vtubers in the 90s.
* Making things and putting them on the Internet and everyone just assumes you just prompted an AI to make it.
* Demystifying the magic pixie dust.
* The burly wizard with a hammer and anvil who knows how to make the metal not brittle.
* NAND to Tetris and Cryptopals. (Not the blockchain kind.)
* Learning to never roll your own crypto.
* Magic. (Derogatory.)
* Punished for understanding the assignment.