296. Do You Know About The Sun?

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June 23rd, 2025

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The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering Mario around the screen:

Lords:

  • John
  • Esper

Topics:

  • Chess, the Musical: a show that is universally acclaimed but no longer performed because it consistently loses money
  • I believe live television to be the most exciting thing humans have invented
  • Blaseball had $3 million in VC funding
  • Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
  • Why not RSS for text?
  • Officiating weddings for your friends

Microtopics:

  • The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering the Mario head.
  • Who gets to say "roll theme song!"
  • A community where the chances of someone acting in bad faith is negligible.
  • DC Action News.
  • All human communication is technicallt advertising.
  • The generous Haste demo.
  • A skipping stones on water kind of game.
  • Sonic/Klonoa/late 90s/early 00s aesthetics.
  • A karaoke favorite that is not very reasonably sensitive.
  • All the Tims who did not work on Chess the Musical.
  • The guy from Rent whose name you can't remember.
  • Breakdancing while arbitrating a chess match.
  • Internet radio stations.
  • A Windows 95 theme of Chess the Musical.
  • Installing Windows 95 themes on your Picotron desktop.
  • Sex, Death and Live Television!
  • Live TV mishaps that ruin entirely the wrong career.
  • HQ.
  • At five o'clock, there's gonna be a guy.
  • The sense of spectacle you get from a live broadcast with a big audience.
  • The time one of the leads forgot his entire monologue.
  • The thrill of being part of a live performance as it's going wrong.
  • Listening to Shoutcast channels on Winamp.
  • Winamp's Shoutcast station registry.
  • The childhood dream of owning a TV station and getting to make all the little station IDs.
  • Netflix's abandoned "just fuck me up" button.
  • Six episodes of Deep Space 9 on a single VHS tape.
  • Drop 7 vs. Dropout TV.
  • Getting entirely the wrong information from your survey about what people like about your product.
  • Trying to sign up for Blaseball and failing.
  • Funny names such as Dominic Marijuana.
  • Jumping in and forcing some actions to happen.
  • Needing your game to break so that you can write the way it breaks into the narrative of the story.
  • Blaseball-likes.
  • Terrorball. (Short for Territory Ball.)
  • A list of all locations.
  • The Scarborough Fairies.
  • Resurrecting Jaylen Hotdogfingers.
  • An online text mode football manager with a live chat.
  • Fish Center.
  • Determining which fish is best.
  • Bringing a little bit of the live frisson to a fake live broadcast.
  • Whether it's okay to read a poem more than once.
  • Softly I go now, pad pad.
  • Cats you had together.
  • The cat that Hatricia Hop-Meow is based on.
  • Blogs: do they exist?
  • Making a point of finding an open source way to do your shit.
  • A 24 hour cycle of live podcasts.
  • TiVo for podcasts.
  • Edging the feeling of whether you're watching live TV or not in a slip slidey timestream.
  • Asking chat a question and then waiting 15 to 20 seconds for the response to come back.
  • Bringing back RSS readers.
  • The New Old Reader.
  • Opening with the mawwige joke.
  • Wanting people to want things.
  • Going back to your old life except now your friends are married.
  • Protecting The Lord from unauthorized clergymen.
  • Paying $20 to the Universal Life Church so you can perform weddings in most states.
  • Keeping the card in your wallet in case anyone tries to claim that you're not really an ordained minister.
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