256. Donkey Kong Is A Tankie

Lords:

• Mark
  • https://mythcarver.bandcamp.com/
  • https://writhenhilt.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-sword-cult
  • Dungeon Synth:
  • https://fief.bandcamp.com/
  • https://auramerlin.bandcamp.com/
  • https://shadowknell.bandcamp.com/
  • https://hillsfar.bandcamp.com/
  • https://erang.bandcamp.com/
• Shirley
  • https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/some-lines-a-day.html

Topics:

• Naming a human
• Boomers say that you get more conservative as you get older, but I just keep getting more liberal.
• I'm scared to start recording Mario Odyssey
• The Orc
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/6TcTlXuz.png

Microtopics:

• Writhen Hilt.
• Writing a few sentences to achieve your goal.
• Being extremely entertained by your drunken journal entries from a year ago.
• Remembering the 140 years your son has been around.
• Learningl from the dead.
• How the archaeologists of the future are going to cope with social media, let alone the reams of LLM generated nonsense.
• Detecting forged paintings via the radioactive isotopes that are only found in pigments manufactured after the detonation of the atomic bomb.
• Low-background steel.
• Scavenging steel from shipwrecks because you just can't make steel that good any more.
• Pizza Pranks.
• Packaging a USB stick as though it's a cassette tape.
• Packaging your Dungeon Synth album on cassette in a Sega Genesis cartridge box.
• Propsr Topics.
• Calling your niece Billy Zane.
• Naming your child Scooter. (Monotonously.)
• Being unable to decide whether you're going to name your child Scooter or Squooter.
• Some Wizard of Earrhsea ahit.
• Holding power over your friends (magically, not legally)
• Your name for a person carrying with it your relationship with that person.
• Why they shipped a game called "Epic Mickey.*
• Compaeing this year's top 50 baby names to the top 50 a century ago.
• Mikse meeting Mikes.
• The Bob Emergency.
• One day there will be no more Bobs, and a door will close.
• Continuing to refer to your nephew as a "little kid" even though he's 45 now.
• Thinking you're getting more liberal but eventually realizing you're getting more apocalyptic.
• Garbage-ass subreddits full of dis- and misinformation.
• Battle Jackets vs. Jackets for Battle.
• Pregnancy subreddits.
• Checking out of gamer culture entirely.
• Black metal communities dealing with white supremacists.
• Can't we just have a place who love swords and wizards?
• How to not run a Nazi bar.
• Whether people get more liberal or more conservative as they age.
• Stone cold hippies.
• Explaining trans rights to your parents who are doing their best to understand.
• Asking the AI-generated slush pile how to update your political beliefs.
• Keeping younger people around who care about you enough to help you fix your shitty opinions.
• Hungry for Jim topics.
• Japanese cultural touchstones referenced in video games that just seem like nonsense to Americans.
• Slavic folklore in the Witcher games.
• Importing video games from more and more obscure countries because Japan is played out now.
• Recognizing Greek heavy metal just from the riffs.
• Vacuuming a couch and twenty one-dollar bills fly out of it.
• Shagrat, you shag rats!
• Rheumy weeping orbs that glare with hate.
• Truly a poem of unknown provenance.
• Shagrat doesn't deserve this!
• We had some great topics today, y'all.
• Mythcarver.
• A discord for people who are due in the same month as you.
• The Libras who won't let the dads in.
• Circle time with other pregnant couples.