300. Dave's Kid Doesn't Know How To Spit

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July 21st, 2025

1 hr 7 mins 26 secs

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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.
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