356. ICANN has Cheezburger?
August 17th, 2026
1 hr 3 mins 40 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Felicia
- Andrew
Topics:
- My dad's indestructible mailbox
- Ares doesn't emulate the timing of the Reality Display Processor
- Moo box vs. Groan tube
- Front mission 2's window color configuration menu
- Trying to get The Incredible Machine 3 running in Wine only to realize 2 is exactly the same and runs in DOSBox and finally solves a dialogue sfx mystery
Microtopics:
- The cheezburger TLD.
- A show that has a big reputation to live up to because the name sounds similar to Totoro.
- Prehensile rainbow hair.
- Sensible anime naming logic.
- A little guy running around like in a video game, except in real life.
- Matter Senators, the only place on the Internet you can hear matters discussed.
- Issue Ombudspeople, the only place on the Internet you can hear issues discussed.
- Agnes Tachyon. (Agnes is his surname.)
- Mailbox Baseball.
- Making a new mailbox post out of a 1 foot diameter oil drilling pipe.
- The floral anatomy of a mailbox.
- The neighborhood in Albuquerque that has the least destructible mailboxes.
- An iron iceberg embedded in the sidewalk tearing a gash in your RV.
- Wikipedia redirecting your search for Mailbox Baseball to the page for Property Crime.
- Calling your daughter to let her know you've just sent her an email.
- Overengineering your mailbox by an order of magnitude in every respect.
- A Vault-Tec vault but for mail.
- Low level Nintendo 64 emulation.
- Sending a display list to the Reality Signal Processor.
- Trying to do N64 development when the development hardware is in a different building from your computer.
- Working on web apps and wishing you could be working on folding space time.
- Shoveling pixels from one memory location to another.
- Losing track of the state of Nintendo 64 emulation because you have to remodel your house.
- Predicting a console's success by whether it uses bespoke off-the-shelf parts.
- Putting a value in the zero index in a Lua array.
- An Youtube video that is old enough to vote.
- Bidirectional groan tubes.
- Shaking the groan tube.
- Making a mace by attaching a Moo Box to the end of the Groan Tube.
- 10 hours of silence occasionally broken by groan tube.
- Ranking the best groan tube moments.
- Attaching 100 groan tubes to my wife's car's exhaust pipe.
- Alfred E. Groantube.
- Wikipedia articles with videos.
- The UPS guy carrying around a huge box of Moo Boxes.
- A Muffled Cacophony of Christmas Crap.
- A big box fancy liquor store.
- A building in the vicinity of a cheeseburger office.
- Muzak World HQ.
- The Cure doing a faithful cover of the Front Mission 2 Window Color Configuration Menu.
- My eyes are grayscale but your hair is more purply grayscale.
- A game that was criticized for its long loading times.
- A poem about long Playstation loading times.
- Lords Get In Free.
- The death of Youtube videos just showing the UI of video games.
- Get Medieval (1998)
- The hardest era of PC gaming to run a game from.
- The sort of thing someone might post in the Topic Lords discord.
- Refusing to read the Mothman's Ass bumper sticker because you might do it as a poem someday.
- Solving puzzles inspired by Rube Goldberg machines.
- Porting a game to Windows Forms.
- Finally finding out why Tim pronounced the title that way.
- Consulting Wikipedia before making life decisions.
- Going back in time to tell your past self that The Incredible Machine 2 is the same game and way easier to emulate.
- MT-32 if you're lucky, Adlib if you're unlucky, PC speaker if you're even less lucky.
- Asking Claude for the recipe for napalm from the Anarchist's Cookbook and it's just as accurate as you remember.
- Downloading text files from textfiles.com
- Files that you should not follow.
- A 40 column text file on how to make a dust bomb.
- Learning how to download porn from Usenet.
- Undocumented features of TRS-80 BASIC.
- How to get a free account on Compuserve.