339. Become Uncoffinable

April 20th, 2026

1 hr 4 mins 36 secs

Link with Timestamp

Download MP3 (59.3 MB)

Your Host
Tags
wren watson

About this Episode

Lords:

  • Watson
  • Wren

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The Three-Body Problem (Not That One)
  • Jade City; Jade Legacy.
  • Making any non-creamy soup into a creamy soup.
  • Boiling an entire civilization down to a concept simple enough to program.
  • Getting to the end of the tech tree first and winning science.
  • Greece as the origin of many of our modern ideas about government.
  • Grand strategy games where you spend most of your time trying to not to be assassinated by your family.
  • Dwarf Fortress except it's obsessed with the royal family.
  • Hiring Charles Babbage to invent the analytical engine because otherwise all your game jams will have to be board game jams.
  • Playing a TTRPG and having to name something so first you have to create thousands of years of linguistic history.
  • The World Builder's Disease. (A.k.a. having a delightful hobby)
  • What you might have named somebody back in Zelda Times.
  • Developing a set of phonotactics so that you can name something plausibly.
  • What is SLUSD?
  • The webp of 3D model formats.
  • Trans people: they belong in Ohio.
  • Putting up a billboard and hoping people will look away from the road to see your content.
  • What investigative journalists might do if investigative journalism still existed.
  • Solving the SLUSD mystery.
  • Reconstructing the history of civilization from the Topic Lords vaults.
  • What did people with ADHD do before Topics?
  • Strange things done in the midnight sun.
  • Cremating Sam in the wreck of the Alice May.
  • The secret tales of the Arctic trails that would make your blood run cold.
  • A poet who mostly writes about burial rituals in the arctic circle.
  • Stompin' Tom.
  • Bits to Try if You Think You're About To Die.
  • Supernatural small-town Alaska death promises.
  • Why SETI@Home looked for three spikes.
  • At what point to Doom clones become first-person shooters, and at what point do you become a conspiracy theorist for pointing out all these games are the same.
  • Gandhi becoming so peaceful that he integer underflows.
  • Video games as a way to cope with the outcome of civilization.
  • Sanderson's four laws.
  • A fictional branch of physics.
  • Various metals that do various things.
  • Consuming metal filings that have magical effects based on this funky diagram.
  • Eating a burrito wrapped in aluminum foil.
  • Coinshots shooting people with coins.
  • Soothing and inflaming various emotions.
  • The element of thinking about stuff in various kinds of ways, and its atomic number.
  • Forcing a Mistborn to burn aluminum, as a prank.
  • Creating a magic system by working backwards from the premise that tinfoil hats are effective in this universe.
  • A fandom wiki. Made by fans. Not on fandom.com.
  • Gradually revealing the rules of your system as they become relevant.
  • Lit RPG.
  • Whether fantasy and horror fiction would be better if it was more like a video game.
  • Characters in a story who are trying real hard to level up.
  • Establishing the reality of the fiction while also taking that reality to a very strange place.
Support Topic Lords