47. Santa Barbarella

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Lords:

• Chris's album "The Lost Backups" is out now!
  • https://b-e-e-k.bandcamp.com/
  • https://twitter.com/CHRISdelCAMINO
  • https://www.instagram.com/chrisdelcamino/
• Jimmy is on LinkedIn.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkd3_fowcFs
  • https://open.spotify.com/track/4nHfs2e1bRAeS5JHVa50yh?si=EO2vB_DQSrGJ5ov7s5x0Bw

Topics:

• 22 years later, I am able to answer Rimbo's question he asked me on the way to Wesside '98: "What is an Obispo"
• Why "Starflight" is the greatest PC game ever made
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight
• Drums that you play standing up (and double-sided drums)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8XELwxAuw
• Bulbous Cretin asks: "Tweeting the contents of Fred Flinstone’s frozen carcass before you dig in"
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/permafrozen-dinner/604069/
• 16 bits is not enough and destroyed music

Microtopics:

• Plugging a 21 year old song that you still can't believe you wrote.
• Musicians deserving royalties.
• The secret fourth guest.
• The rolling golden hills driving down the 101.
• Knowing all the technical musical terms in Spanish but not knowing how to say "mop."
• What would happen to the Cookie Monster if Big Bird was blue.
• Whether or not the Topic Lords audience knows about the demo scene.
• Whether or not Unreal by Future Crew is the same thing as Unreal Engine by Tim Sweeney.
• Demo scenes and then demo parties.
• Visiting Montreal and hiding in a high school gym for three days rather than seeing the amazing city with its amazing architecture.
• Wanting to hold the Great American Demo Party.
• Whether or not you should cover the ice when you hold a huge party in an ice rink.
• Assembly 2010 mostly being a big LAN party with the demo scene folks tucked away in the corner.
• The sun going down at 11 PM.
• Boozembly 2010 taking place in the woods behind Assembly 2010.
• Plugging a PC keyboard into your Mac and all the keys work perfectly in Schism Tracker.
• Giving up on the Macintosh after decades because Mac hardware and MacOS are terrible now.
• A laptop that is so broken that it shuts down every computer on the wifi network you try to connect it to.
• Advertising the latest Macbook as having a physical escape key.
• Running Ubuntu as an app on Windows.
• The secret 16-color CGA mode if you plug in a composite monitor.
• Modern nostalgia for the terrible four-color CGA palettes.
• Storing an entire universe on a two-sided 360k floppy disk.
• Landing on a planet and finding The Ancients and finding enough fuel to get to three stars over.
• Stuffing The Ancients into your warp drive because there is no better fuel.
• A project where you don't have to worry about bugfixes because if something breaks, the user just runs it again.
• The thousands or millions of people out there who would give you money if they knew your product existed.
• The market for Frog Fractions-themed N95 masks.
• Making a live post to r/tipofmyjoystick asking for the identity of an educational space game during the podcast in hopes that someone replies before we finish recording.
• Misremembering which band's drummer plays a snare drum and a tranceaphone.
• A drum kit with tom toms so high that you have to jump up to reach them.
• Two wildly different drum heads using the same resonation chamber.
• Soundproofing a shed by adding 2500 pounds of sheet rock to the walls.
• Converting sound pressure waves into heat.
• Measuring the frequency response of these egg crates.
• Putting squares on the walls having no effect on the sound of your saxophone escaping the room and annoying the people on the other side of the wall.
• Walking right up to your wall and speaking and it sounding like you plugged your ears.
• Placing yourself in a space by listening to reflections.
• Spinning up the Periscope server on Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass so that you can Periscope yourself eating Fred Flintstone.
• Making Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass lip-sync to WAP.
• Who, exactly, needs to apologize for this topic.
• Discovering that humans don't have a gizzard and really wanting a gizzard.
• Whether or not a Twinkie is technically meat.
• Texas Twinkies.
• Wanting to eat 35,000 year old Mammoth meat but it turns into a smelly liquid when you thaw it.
• Thousand year eggs not looking a day older than 150.
• Which genres CD quality is and isn't good enough for.
• Frequency-based MP3 audio being decoded into PCM so it can be sent out of a speaker, and then back into a frequency-based format by your cochlea so it can reach your brain.
• The Magic Mushroom PC dot com.
• Running timecube.com at the DOS prompt.
• Classical music having way too much dynamic range.
• Riding the volume knob to not go deaf while listening to the William Tell Overture.
• Visible color banding during dark scenes in a movie.
• El Camino except it's Del like Del Taco.
• What LinkedIn is for.