308B. Oops, All Microtopics!

This is the pre-show planning and banter for episode 308, recorded and edited basically by accident?? Enjoy??

Microtopics:

• The old saw that if the teacher is 15 minutes late, you are excused.
• All the hosts forgetting about the podcast so that episode just doesn't get recorded.
• The seam in the fish video.
• Procedurally vs. manually textured terrain.
• How to texture a limestone chunk.
• Whether Donkey Kong Bananza is deliberately evoking the sickly sheen of Donkey Kong Country's raytraced art.
• Procedurally decorating terrain in Techtonica.
• A lens flare shaped like bananas.
• Mario Kart opinions.
• Doing a stunt for the next 30 seconds.
• The Baja 1000 but with Mario Kart.
• How Mario Kart tries to make highways interesting.
• A souped-up Volkswagen Beetle driving 1000 miles through the desert
• Mario Kart except it's Desert Bus.
• A Hunter S. Thompson stand-in sent to report on Mario Kart races and ranting about the Mushroom Kingdom.
• Keeping your powder dry in case your anecdote gets promoted to Topic.
• Topics that have been in the bucket for a long time and probably will remain there for a long time.
• Doing a brass fall with your mouth.
• Finally learning to play "Imagine" on piano.
• Zoom's musician mode.
  
• Going on a date with twins to the same restaurant but neither one knows about the other, so you have to keep going into the bathroom and parting your hair the other way.
• The episode of Three's Company where there's a misunderstanding.
• Don Knotts making a weird face.
• Your prospective roommates explaining that you have to pretend to be gay so the landlord doesn't think you're all having sex with each other.
• More behind than ahead.
• Keeping cats in the Storage Atrium.
• Buying an organ from a salvage yard.
  
• Bartering with the organ maker's apprentice.
• The Estey Organ Company.
• Playing a bad prog rock solo on the analog synthesizer next to your couch.
• An organ with all of its organs showing.
• An accordion with zero subtlety.
• The difference between an electric piano and a digital piano.
• The Yamaha Clavinova with Advanced Wave Modeling.
• Don't play these notes unless you want to hear them forever.
• Topic Negotiation.
• Driving every single topic into the ground.