205. It's Cool To Get A Letter

Lords:
* Alex
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSjSkaBRD7k&list=PLBk6-z6v3pDKi3Q-9MeqUfupJswozircH&index=7
* John
Topics:
* That time I spent 4 days fasting in the woods
* Twins! Coming soon! Ahhhhh!
* The Zelda 1 second quest
* https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/806592-now-the-world-has-gone-to-bed-darkness-won-t-engulf
Microtopics:
* Joyful communities.
* Whether discord logs can be subpoenaed.
* Encoding all your mail in ROT13 to keep them safe from the snoops at the NSA.
* Finishing with your DSP design work so your employer sends you into the basement to make cardboard boxes.
* Someone in the early 2000s with a high pitched voice.
* Remembering your grandma's phone number from when you were six but not remembering any phone numbers since then.
* Thinky Puzzle Games.
* An Alan Hazelden thing.
* Tom Brown's Tracker School.
* Going into the woods and sitting in one spot for four days.
* A good, productive, safe time.
* Keeping control of your emotions.
* How to know when to stop.
* Doing a ritual at sunrise.
* Having animal encounters.
* Trees dripping water on you.
* Doing the most boring thing for four days straight so you can never be bored again.
* A really cool thing to do in your twenties.
* Sonic showers screaming at you until you're clean.
* Lacking the experience to understand what's coming for you.
* Going through some shit and loving it.
* What if it all works out?
* The experience of knowing twins.
* Taking advantage of the Groupon for college tuition.
* Hanging your fears on milestones.
* Taking your parental leave consecutively.
* Daycare as a microcosm of communal living.
* Showing people what you're working on.
* Making a living putting your kids on social media until your kids get old enough to express that they don't like it.
* Wearing a shirt saying "I do not consent to be photographed."
* A conversation with a five year old about scrub jays.
* Sharing media with an allowlist.
* Setting permissions on who can see your photos.
* Sharing photos with your family by handing out USB drives.
* A visual novel that is extremely interested in your personal financial information.
* A pen connected to a matrix of hundreds of other pens so you can sign your name hundreds of times at once.
* The Zelda one-second quest.
* Naming yourself Zelda as a shortcut for understanding this topic.
* Naming your character Zelda without understanding the consequences.
* Red bubbles that take your sword away.
* An obvious door that you can walk through.
* Iwata Asks.
* Accidentally using only half the space available.
* Zelda randomizers.
* SMZ3.
* How to make Super Mario World a metroidvania.
* Marvin putting in work.
* Capturing a particular level of snark.
* Reading books in high school that you won't understand until you're 30.
* The California Raisins as the sequel to the Grapes of Wrath.
* The kind of person who works really hard in high school.
* Xanthan gum.
* Trochaic something or other.
* I had a theory about music and then I made all these friends!

Lords:

Alex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSjSkaBRD7k&list=PLBk6-z6v3pDKi3Q-9MeqUfupJswozircH&index=7

John

Topics:

That time I spent 4 days fasting in the woods
Twins! Coming soon! Ahhhhh!
The Zelda 1 second quest
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/806592-now-the-world-has-gone-to-bed-darkness-won-t-engulf

Microtopics:

Joyful communities.
Whether discord logs can be subpoenaed.
Encoding all your mail in ROT13 to keep them safe from the snoops at the NSA.
Finishing with your DSP design work so your employer sends you into the basement to make cardboard boxes.
Someone in the early 2000s with a high pitched voice.
Remembering your grandma's phone number from when you were six but not remembering any phone numbers since then.
Thinky Puzzle Games.
An Alan Hazelden thing.
Tom Brown's Tracker School.
Going into the woods and sitting in one spot for four days.
A good, productive, safe time.
Keeping control of your emotions.
How to know when to stop.
Doing a ritual at sunrise.
Having animal encounters.
Trees dripping water on you.
Doing the most boring thing for four days straight so you can never be bored again.
A really cool thing to do in your twenties.
Sonic showers screaming at you until you're clean.
Lacking the experience to understand what's coming for you.
Going through some shit and loving it.
What if it all works out?
The experience of knowing twins.
Taking advantage of the Groupon for college tuition.
Hanging your fears on milestones.
Taking your parental leave consecutively.
Daycare as a microcosm of communal living.
Showing people what you're working on.
Making a living putting your kids on social media until your kids get old enough to express that they don't like it.
Wearing a shirt saying "I do not consent to be photographed."
A conversation with a five year old about scrub jays.
Sharing media with an allowlist.
Setting permissions on who can see your photos.
Sharing photos with your family by handing out USB drives.
A visual novel that is extremely interested in your personal financial information.
A pen connected to a matrix of hundreds of other pens so you can sign your name hundreds of times at once.
The Zelda one-second quest.
Naming yourself Zelda as a shortcut for understanding this topic.
Naming your character Zelda without understanding the consequences.
Red bubbles that take your sword away.
An obvious door that you can walk through.
Iwata Asks.
Accidentally using only half the space available.
Zelda randomizers.
SMZ3.
How to make Super Mario World a metroidvania.
Marvin putting in work.
Capturing a particular level of snark.
Reading books in high school that you won't understand until you're 30.
The California Raisins as the sequel to the Grapes of Wrath.
The kind of person who works really hard in high school.
Xanthan gum.
Trochaic something or other.
I had a theory about music and then I made all these friends!

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