318. Fast Thick Pants

Lords:

• Mitch
• Kory

Topics:

• The Nintendo 64DD
• Wristwatch repair videos
• How to switch to Linux??
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan
• The ICZN's recommended method of determining the Latin grammatical gender of a word that isn't Latin

Microtopics:

• Being a fledgling your whole life.
• Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki.
• The episode of Topic Lords where we specifically didn't discuss what's happening in Washington DC.
• A show with nobody on it discussing nothing.
• Putting money in the jukebox to have three minutes of peace and quiet.
• A noise cancellation podcast that guesses what noise you'll probably be surrounded by when you listen.
• The least notable of Nintendo's major failures.
• What if we added a floppy disk reader to compete with the Playstation?
• In retrospect, it sounds like a bad idea, but at the time, it also sounded like a bad idea.
• Paying $100 for a plastic replica of a Virtual Boy to play Virtual Boy games on your Switch.
• The rich tapestry of homebrew games for the Virtual Boy.
• Why isn't the Nintendo 64DD in Super Smash Bros. Brawl?
• Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 64DD.
• People writing very politely worded letters to Nintendo and getting Mother 3 released.
• Playing with the 3D sculpture mini game on the title screen of Donkey Kong Bananza and thinking "I bet I could do something cool with this if I was an artist"
• Mario Artist Polygon Studio.
• Wario Ware as a spinoff of the Mario Paint series.
• Family BASIC for the Famicom Disk System.
• The Tonkachi Editor.
• Mario 64 2 for the Game Boy Advance.
• Vegging out by binging wristwatch repair videos.
• Jewels on the movement that you ambiently know of.
• Using a ruby or sapphire as a bearing for a mechanical device.
• Synthetic corundum.
• Why the little work is going back and forth.
• Solving a very particular problem at a very micro scale.
• Transistor radios advertising how many transistors are in there.
• The World's First 128-Bit Web Site!
• What 1990s video game enthusiasts knew about numbers of bits.
• 1.21 Gigaflops!
• The sad state of Nintendo 64 emulation.
• Nintendo Classics – Nintendo Switch Online.
• Migrating all the executables you use to the inside of virtual machines running Windows XP.
• Winboat.
• Linux distributions with as much or as little configuration as you want
• How they made Linux good.
• The year of Linux on the Desktop.
• Attaching an IR transceiver to the GPIO pins.
• Setting the oven via PHP script.
• Getting an ancient Thinkpad to install Linux on.
• The red nub in the middle of the keyboard.
• Whether there's any possible way this $50 Thinkpad doesn't run Pico-8.
• A stately pleasure dome decreed.
• Women wailing for their demon lovers.
• Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a native speaker of early modern English, or he's Just Like That?
• A poem that starts with a real Rubik's Cube of a sentence.
• How Adam Saltzman does it.
• Procrastinating game development by installing Linux on everything.
• The Zoologist with naming dibs.
• Finally getting to name a beetle and choosing to name it a word borrowed from Serbo-Croatian just to piss people off.
• The ICZN's stance on Serbo-Croatian.