170. My Brain Likes The Things I Like

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Lords:

• Tyriq
  • FourBitFriday in all the places
• Cort
  • Leftover Pumpkin Pie Curry https://savethefood.com/recipes/leftover-pumpkin-pie-and-turkey-curry/

Topics:

• Fantasy consoles
  • https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
• Tyriq's 80s homework
  • 80s homework playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0NtJp8szqsl4Ek0lZHqvHjaX
  • Tyriq's reaction: https://topiclords.com/articles/80s-homework-reaction
  • I meant New Kids on the Block, of course.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Starr
• You can't slake an earworm with 3/4 of a chorus
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlAeEcVnnvo
  • https://youtu.be/rI3yD3WAcz4
• Aesop Rock - Ruby 81
  • https://genius.com/Aesop-rock-ruby-81-lyrics

Microtopics:

• The album you finished.
• A song that is entirely made of uncleared samples.
• Turning leftover pumpkin pie into delicious pumpkin spice curry.
• Interactive Pico-8 holiday cards.
• Artificial constraints pegged at a level of technology somewhere in the 80s.
• Writing specs for Pico-16 so that you don't accidentally make Pico-16 when you're making Pico-8.
• Seeking a box to work within.
• The most played entry in your Steam library is something your kids left running for weeks.
• A collection of 50 games made for a console that never existed.
• List of Fantasy Consoles.
• The fantasy console hidden as an Easter egg in the Frog Fractions hat DLC.
• Four joysticks in your garage waiting for an arcade machine to be installed into.
• Languages that transpile to Lua.
• Emulating the PlayStation 9.
• A fantasy console for making 4D games.
• A popular game engine that starts with the letters UN.
• Civilisation's relationship with art.
• Hop's Big Adventure in the Gift Dimension.
• All the problems with Lua.
• The Pico-8 show with the Pico-Lords.
• All the things people were doing in the 80s.
• Playing an inaudible guitar.
• The sound of somebody being chased.
• All the good Meat Loaf albums.
• An inspiring thing that shows up a lot in your life.
• A hip hop album entirely devoid of metaphor.
• Listening to the first fifteen seconds of each song on an album.
• Drums that are emblematic of everything you hate about the 80s.
• A big decade with a lot of things happening.
• Gil Scott-Heron.
• Music that is distinctly of the 80s vs. music that happened to be released in the 80s.
• The musical equivalent of oatmeal.
• Not liking the whole chorus, but liking the first chord change in the chorus.
• The bass part of Like a Prayer.
• Your superpower: knowing what marmite tastes like and knowing your don't like it.
• Hyperactive j-pop with way too many chord changes.
• Creating a mashup that is better than the sum of its parts, but only for ten seconds.
• Purging an earworm with another earworm.
• We Need a Bigger Dumpster, by Cheek Face.
• The parts of your brain that you're not on speaking terms with.
• A photographic memory for all audio except for words.
• Songs about love or romance or being horny: get that shit out of here.
• "Baby Got Back," a song about Sir Mix A Lot's infant and her extremely loaded diaper.
• Waking the sleeping beagle.
• Some kind of intentional arson.
• Painting an evocative picture of an extremely specific moment in time.
• Uncles and aunts and stuff everywhere.
• Thank you, Genius!
• Bad or text-to-speech bad?
• Trying to fix all instances of a given fact that is wrong everywhere on the internet.
• Wesley Willis writing the story song "Oil Express" because he wanted to write about oil changes.
• Lords Rule, Nuff Said.