362. It's Me, Your Own Guy
September 28th, 2026
1 hr 15 mins 40 secs
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Lords:
Topics:
- Making a daily show
- Beatspell (Rhythm Heaven Groove)
- The Topic Lords IMDB page
- Dad are you at bus stop riding on a bus at work
- Oops! 45% of tumblr users don't read the plaintext above a poll before participating in the poll
Microtopics:
- Plugging purposes.
- Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn.
- August 3rd until the end of linear time.
- If you like moving pixels entering your eyeballs, you'll love this Youtube series.
- Dulcet apple pie.
- The Super Mario Wiki Mario Awards.
- Everyone's second-least favorite Mario thing.
- Calling a thing mediocre when you don't want to admit that it's good
- Using a botnet to convince everyone that "dogshit" is a laudatory word.
- Words more laudatory than "perfect."
- Stealing an idea from someone who also stole it.
- Playing exactly one Mario level a day.
- Youtube banning a certain kind of video because it's too cool.
- Personally knowing everyone who watches your Youtube channel.
- How hard it is to get Youtube to show you channels with less than 20 views a day.
- Rhythm Heavens: there are five of them now!
- A rhythm roguelike where you fight enemies by dancing at them.
- How to play Rhythm Heaven if you don't have a Switch.
- The Rhythm Heaven Groove developers apologizing about latency issues and then doing nothing to fix them.
- Rhythm games with excellent lag calibration facilities.
- The screen reader robot getting morose and depressed when you turn it off.
- Blind people playing Rhythm Heaven Groove.
- Blind-accessible video games.
- Lesbian Beatspell lore.
- Dodging the time warp and ending up in the future.
- Making the show more lovable so listeners spontaneously do thankless rote data entry tasks.
- Explaining to grandma what a podcast is every time you see her.
- Shoutcast stations.
- Going to bat for vods.
- Incidental line breaks.
- A poem that's a poem in the same way that an open-faced sandwich is a sandwich.
- Come on, thankless Topic Subject!
- The 55% of Tumblr users that read a poll before answering it.
- Being on your way to go to a building.
- Explaining important context in tiny text.
- Maintaining a list of alternative titles of Mario games.
- Survey techniques that come off as condescending.
- Super Mario DVD menu games.
- Hiring people to localize your gimmick Mario survey into EFIGS.
- Mario the blunt object.
- The Paper Mario Sticker Star inflection point.
- Whether the Japanese Super Mario Portal would classify Fire Emblem as an RPG.
- Coming up with examples of things that aren't video games but also aren't funny to call a video game.
- The Choose Your Own Adventure Interactive DVD.
- Whether Black Mirror Bandersnatch is a video game.
- Whether mayonnaise is a video game.
- Quest for the Rings for the Odyssey 2.
- Asking someone to make you a sandwich without specifying what kind of sandwich.
- Deciding that you like video games and therefore video games that you don't like aren't actually video games.
- Smashing binaries.
- A film is something that has Freddie Krueger in it.
- Gamers vs. Moviegoers.