Episodes
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44. Oops! All Biogel
August 24th, 2020 | 58 mins 1 sec
jenni, maxx
Lords: Jenni and Maxx. We discuss having a good time duplicating thought work, the Japanese crop microbiome, the PXL-2000 camcorder, embedding a movie in the Wikipedia page about the movie, pooping the shape of what you ate, and discovering that you love writing dialog trees.
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43. You Vs. The One Your Mom Told You To Worry About
August 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
jonah, xander
Lords: Alexander and Jonah. We discuss games on the TI-83, the jazz fusion act that secretly inspired all video game music, Wikipedia disagreeing with itself, rap cliche origins, leisurely game jamming, cartography on weirdly-shaped worlds, and the Doctor Who theme.
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42. Refrigerator Roy, or Stephanie I'm So Sorry
August 10th, 2020 | 1 hr 14 mins
elizabeth, erica
Lords: Elizabeth and Erica. We discuss driving the bookmobile in rural Washington, arguing with your husband about the insects in your fridge, picking an effective charity, erotica in the public library, and hiring assistants (for field biology) and then trying to live with them.
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41. Non-Euclidean Christianity
August 3rd, 2020 | 1 hr 10 mins
ryan, tyriq
Lords this week: Ryan and Tyriq. We discuss fandoms you can't be a part of, pointless automatons, vegan jazz standards, grappling with your legacy, consistency of idiolect, and how to appeal to Gen Z so we don't get guillotined along with the boomers.
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40. I'll Show Them... I'll Invent Superman!
July 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
jesse, john
Lords this week: John and Jesse. We discuss Canadian Heritage Minutes, working with people of a different skill level, 3D games being ugly, losing your old web sites, and the lost Willie Brown records.
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39. A Delicious Mushball
July 20th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
nathan, shane
Lords this week: Shane and Nathan. We discuss Beforeigners, curating your child's entertainment so they grow up with good taste, watching someone do Sudoku, taking care of children vs. taking care of pets, jobs game designers could find after they leave game dev, and the history of changing worldviews.
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38. Inside The Atomic Purple Man
July 13th, 2020 | 56 mins 11 secs
nathalie, rachel
Lords this week: Nathalie and Rachel. We discuss horse-sized ridable animals, depicting dinosaurs as giant birds, daylight savings time abuse in speed runs, hands-free browsing, upgrading yourself, putting a dog in a video game that you can't pet, the cool S, whether it's okay to name something you're about to eat, and terrible foods from your childhood.
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37. Fela Cooties
July 6th, 2020 | 59 mins 36 secs
beek, jay
Lords this week: Jay and Chris. We discuss songwriting constraint decks, the advantages of CD-ROMs over web sites, bananas, sample choices in 90s techno, the genres available in the ID3 tag, and everything2.com.
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36. Look At An Octopus While You Shower
June 29th, 2020 | 51 mins 14 secs
april, jenni
The show we recorded live at Duckfest 2020! Lords: Jenni and April. We discuss befriending ravens, replacing taxes with a PVP mobile game, consenting on behalf of your clone, ways to die in a puzzle game, sea monster bathroom bathroom decorations, wrangling badgers, babies climbing on furniture, and the White-Spotted Clearwing.
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35. Nick Cave's Meow Mix Murder Ballads
June 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
dan, erica
Lords this week: Erica and Dan. We discuss unreliable narrators in pop music, everything bad about where we live, toddlers remembering everything you don't want them to, simulating people's voices, ants, and Pokemon Stay.
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34. We Don't Talk About Poop Stonehenge
June 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
elena, shannon
Lords this week: Elena and Shannon. We discuss lucid or recurring dreams, the eight kinds of fun, our favorite Dewey Decimal System classification, being the guy with hats just in case you go bald, and plants.
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33. Two-Grass Of The Face
June 8th, 2020 | 59 mins 6 secs
craig, strucci
Lords this week: Shannon and Craig. We discuss desirable collaborator attributes, Tok Pisin, TempleOS, our first memories of a computer, faking your own non-existence, whether or not guilty pleasures exist, and daytime soaps somehow producing 250 episodes a year.
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32. Tandem CPAP
June 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
laura, rachel
Lords this week: Rachel and Laura. We discuss wooden clothes hangers, anthropomorphic food, breathing soup in your sleep, sliding doors, magically acquiring useless skills, trying to interpret stories from hundreds of years ago, and Multi-Mario races.
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31. seedhutch.horse
May 25th, 2020 | 54 mins 57 secs
chris, jenni
Lords this week: Jenni and Chris. We discuss anxiety and OCD as culturally adaptive behaviors, asking your employer to pay you in Nook Miles, Animal Crossing speed runs, printing toilet paper at home, protecting your floppy disks from magnets, apocalypse gardening, Amazon taking Murder She Wrote away from us, and winding up with more social obligations than you had before quarantine.
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30. Century Of The Fruitbat
May 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
chall, cornell
Lords this week: Chris and Chris. We discuss Wikipedia descriptions of plots, the modern thank you note, writing a book about anything, Tom Nook, melodicas, Ursula Vernon, and skateboard culture.
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29. Respect The Hustler, Not The Hustle
May 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
gary, jenni
Lords this week: Jenni and Gary. We discuss deciding to eat vegetables, Stephen King writing about boners, airplane respiration strategies, resourcefulness when you don't have the right tool, becoming aware of your mortality, the MT-80s MIDI boom box, doing things because you assume it's what other adults do, and being cursed to listen to only one song for eternity.