342. Psycho Mantis Says To Drink Mercury

Lords:

• Nathan
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/
• Robb
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/

Topics:

• I got pulled into the world of Eurorack modular synthesizers and now I'm finding myself trying to make cogent arguments for bringing uranium ore into the household.
• Ectoparasites
• Stairs are the driving of walking
• The Beaufort Wind Scale, found by nontanne
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/c8PXM396.jpg

Microtopics:

• Year 14 of Cyberganked development.
• Cryptozookeeper.
• Struggling to play Yankee Doodle Dandy because the piano teacher doesn't want to hear your rendition of Axel F.
• Being hit up for $25 by the state.
• A text adventure with little pictures.
• Composing your 3D scene using pictures you took at the Denver haunted house your friend runs.
• Including an in-game explanation for why you chose to use the CGA colors.
• Playing TXT World and wondering "why would anyone make a game that looks like that?"
• How do you afford to take seven years to make a game?
• Finagling money out of various governments during COVID.
• Turning off the fish so that you can see the cat.
• Spending thousands of dollars to go to GDC and pitch your game to publishers and finding no takers because your game isn't a roguelike or a deck builder.
• Financial solvency isn't everything it's cracked up to be!
• Existing as a person on earth and being as old as possible.
• Life hacks for making your publisher go out of business.
• A spreadsheet of 450 game publishers that existed in 2023 whereas now there's just Epic and Roblox.
• Chainsaws and rocket launchers and other things you have in your front yard.
• Chainsaws vs. Chainstaffs.
• Measuring the IQ of every single Topic Lords listener.
• Asking your artist to make it 10% grosser.
• I know you have a good working relationship with your artist, but wouldn't you have had a better time alone in a dark room making bullshit with stable diffusion?
• The Bloodlust Software art style.
• Showing your four year old nephew how to throw a spear as Scorpion, then spending the rest of the afternoon shouting "get over here!" at each other.
• Your Eurorack habit leading you to import uranium.
• So-called "synthesizer music."
• Shitpost Eurorack Modules.
• Enriching uranium.
• Talking to everyone about the uranium-based Eurorack module you want to buy in order to shift the Overton Window until buying the uranium-based Eurorack module seems totally normal.
• Making the most incredible techno everyone's ever heard before dying of radiation poisoning, like Marie Curie.
• What the Moog Modular would be like if Bob Moog only designed shitpost modules.
• The three reasons to buy a hardware synthesizer.
• Making art on the same device you use to doom scroll.
• Sitting there with a jeweler's screwdriver trying to tune your synthesizer.
• Coming on Topic Lords to declare that you're not a pervert.
• Deckard's Dream.
• Spending $5000 on a new synthesizer, making one song, and selling it for 75 cents on Bandcamp.
• Making things go twang in the 70s.
• The kind of parasites Slimer would have.
• Fixing a toilet in space.
• Tongue-eating isopods.
• Eating a tongue and then becoming the tongue. You are what you eat!
• Making Elevator Action and then getting in a multi-floor shootout in an office building.
• Alpha Gal, the matriarch that makes you allergic to beef.
• Teaming up with the Kool-Aid Man to fight the tick that makes you allergic to the color red.
• A floor except every step you take is higher than the last and after you take a few steps you're way up in the air.
• The accident-per-mile-traveled for stairs.
• How your family reacts the second time you fall down the stairs.
• What a caveman would think of stairs.
• What simple machine a staircase is.
• Hiding from the Dalek on the second floor because Daleks don't understand desires.
• Umbrellas difficult to use.
• A poem that came from the sea.
• Might Order an Extra Mango Lassi.
• Whether the scoville scale is logarithmic.
• Arguing against preventing forest forest.
• Bringing a machete to the farmer's market because what are the chances there are two machetes at the farmer's market?
• Sea Heaps Up.
• Fresh Gale vs. Whole Gale.
• Never having been outside in the wind but trying to guess what happens in a moderate gale.
• Taking a seven foot Chainstaff to MAGFest.
• 3D printing a giant spear for your Hornet costume.
• Sign-twirling your seven foot bone spear and terrifying all the MAGFest attendees.