300. Dave's Kid Doesn't Know How To Spit
July 21st, 2025
1 hr 7 mins 26 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Jenni
- Tyriq
Topics:
- Internal Monologue Soundboards
- Ash wants to be the very best, but at what cost? When is competition a bad thing?
- The different ways people play games
- Friendship is a skill
- Water… Earth… Fire… Air… which bending is best bending?
Microtopics:
- Scrubbin' Trouble.
- Figuring out how to do a multiplayer roguelike.
- Power leveling all your skills at once and hoping it's enough.
- Looking at the comments, because there might be something good in there.
- The Dawn of Our Topic Lords Century.
- Why all ducks sound like that.
- Hearing a sound an incorporating it into your internal monologue.
- Saying "good morning" whenever you pick up the phone no matter what time of day it is.
- Alone in the Dark Hedge Maze Mafioso Barks.
- Talkin' Barks.
- A vault full of clones of a guy named Gary and the only thing they can say is "Gary"
- You're a cluster of cells wafting through the universe and latching onto phrases you hear on the internet.
- Kids who think they invented being dumb on the Internet.
- The Bill Nye theme song sound board.
- Wanting to be the very best, like noone ever was, and defining "best" as "kindest."
- Wanting to be the very best, and then being it, and then no longer being it and losing your entire sense of identity.
- What if you're on a spaceship? Lots of weird things happen on a spaceship.
- Striving to be the most benevolent god, like noone ever was.
- The sound of angering the giant goose.
- Trying to get your significant other to play Outer Wilds because you can't fly the spaceship.
- Solving puzzles with the internet.
- Super Metroid + Link to the Past and other multi-game randomizers.
- Lies on video game forums.
- The Search for the Last Great Secret.
- A Clop or a Girp.
- Collecting meat for a Roguelike Celebration talk.
- Holding a meeting about all the ways your project could potentially fail.
- Good mortem!
- Going back in time and all humans clump together like a giant Katamari.
- Friendship as a skill vs. friendship as a natural outcome of your life circumstances.
- Friendship decay, a a problem that neurotypicals have.
- Keeping up with real life friends vs. with Internet friends.
- Online games as a third place.
- Complaining about all the ways in which your are socially incompetent.
- Inviting people over for a listening party.
- Not knowing what number you're thinking of but knowing that it's either odd or even.
- Filling away tidbits of information.
- The Y2K problem where when pro people start being over 127 years old, everyone remembers them as being -128.
- Things that are impossible to think about because you have no frame of reference.
- Making yourself a little coffee treat and scrolling reddit so you can stop thinking about death.
- Water is imba!
- Whether magma falls under bending Earth or bending Fire.
- Highly fluid particulate sand.
- Which bending is most delicious, according to avatarfandom.com
- The cosmology of Jefferson Starship's "We Built This City"
- Whether circuit bending is still fun now that everything is software-controlled.
- Circuit bending your electric together.
- The Goodbye Noise.
- Odd Object dot Zone.
- Hamster Disco.