About the show
Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
Episodes
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267. Unburying The Duck
December 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 13 mins
erica, john
Lords: John and Erica. We discuss Golden Owl Pre-Post-Mortem, one year of having twins, notepad's support for alternative line endings, and Goodnight Moon (plus Goodnight Dune)
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266. Voronoi Cookies
November 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
benwilson, zarf
Lords: Ben and Andrew. We discuss baking with precise measurement vs. by feel, making crosswords, how many weeks there are in a year, The Rules by Leila Chatti, building fidgeting into a Zoom lecture, and Things of Science.
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265. We're Here To Make This Slide Floppy
November 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
chris, tim
Lords: Tim and Chris. We discuss noodles, the impoverishment of the question, choosing an integrator, Lucky Jim (old song), and collaborative music as a game design problem.
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264. Pickpocketed So Hard You Die
November 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
andrew, aubrianne
Lords: Andrew and Aubrianne. We discuss coming to terms with being bad at video games, charging money for art, messy game design, To Be of Use by Marge Piercy, Films Noir, and Complementary Hobby Power Couples.
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263. Drafted Into The Applebee's Wars
November 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
brianne, xalavier
Lords: Xalavier and Brianne. We discuss movies about contract killers doing contract negotiation, whether fictional characters are better role models than real people, the new Zelda game talks too much and I'm okay with that, Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish, enacting a customer service draft, and doing terrible things to the Criterion Closet.
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262. Real Meal, Fictional Man
October 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
chkf, maxx
Lords: CisHetKayFaber and Maxx. We discuss food-focused Japanese TV, how pescetarians exist if fish don't, the return of PicoSteveMo, wikipoem.org, and the shifting nature of what is appropriate for children.
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261. Chat Hurt Chatself In Chat's Confusion
October 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 3 mins
diener, mitch
Lords: Alex and Mitch. We discuss the wikipedia article about Football, classic Macintosh computers, the entomologists in Silence of the Lambs, With Apologies to Dr. Seuss by Supper Mario Broth, Archipelago, and deconstructing chat as a first person pronoun.
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260. This Sentient Life Could've Been An Email
October 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
chris, jenni
Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss whether corporate mascots are age-locked to a generation, balls being able to taste soy sauce, BB-8 changed my tire, and The Woodchuck by Sam Pink.
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259. All Bag, No Pipes
October 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
elena, tyriq
Lords: Elena and Tyriq. We discuss being witty and social as a power fantasy, popular music: sometimes popular because it's good, where do we go after Cohost, and Ballad of the Veliger by Walter Garstang.
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258. Only The Head Of The Deer Sparks Joy
September 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
cort, marks
Lords: Cort and Mark. We discuss things you've found in the trash, traveling with children, Adventures with BB-8, Burma Shave Sign by Andrew Plotkin, the useless superpowers game, and whether Mega Man suffers ennui
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257. Stinky Judo
September 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 14 mins
nathan, tom
Lords: Nathan and Tom. We discuss France stealing breakdancing during the 2024 Olympics, growing to an age where media is good, how are you saying goodbye to trigraphs, Rain by Raymond Carver, how to pronounce things you normally just type, and rolling in NES tetris.
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256. Donkey Kong Is A Tankie
September 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 16 mins
mark, shirley
Lords: Mark and Shirley. We discuss naming a human, getting more liberal as you get older, I'm scared to start recording Mario Odyssey, and The Orc
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255. We're Truly On The Bleeding Edge Of Something
September 9th, 2024 | 59 mins 2 secs
adam, linker
Lords: Adam and Linker. We discuss ways you've changed in 20 years, examples of X animal software running on Y animal hardware, whether erasure poetry counts as poetry, and your favorite RPG (whatever that means)
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254. Help Me Get Over The Pervert Hump
September 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
alicia, ryan
Lords: Ryan and Alicia. We discuss asking people what they're into without sounding like a pervert, Arctic Expeditions and man's hubris, Asterix Park, and I Won't Call You Pretty, by L.E. Bowman
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253. A Unified Theory Of Hot Dog Preference
August 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 3 mins
Lords: Wacy and Chris. We discuss difficulties with long-term traveling, Norway, why they don't have novelty whipped cream, and The Dirt Man Song.
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252. A Properly Functioning Bag Nose
August 19th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
johnb, kory
Lords: JohnB, Kory. We discuss vinyl records, teaching yourself C++, forgetting things as a way of getting things done, I Sat Belonely by John Lennon, and the vestigial organs of video games.