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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Abi”</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
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  <title>239. Public Universal Snoopy</title>
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  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Abi and Eva. We discuss the year of Snoopy girls, whether living fossils are better than the rest of us, Helious, Certain Women, emulators on iOS, and Public Universal Friend.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Lords:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Abi

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Eva

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://eslee.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://eslee.bandcamp.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://eslee.itch.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://eslee.itch.io/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://eslee.dev/portfolio/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://eslee.dev/portfolio/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Topics:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Will 2024 be the year of Snoopy girls?

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Are living fossils inherently better creatures or just really lucky?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Helious

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://toot.cat/@smp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://toot.cat/@smp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Certain Women 

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.hazeljaneplante.com/songbook" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.hazeljaneplante.com/songbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emulators are finally available for iOS, which is exciting until you realize you have to play Mario 64 with a touchscreen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Miko asks: "Public Universal Friend"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Microtopics:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Working through mental struggles in the form of Zelda dungeons.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Donating to Red Cross for Snoopy Merch.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Snoopy's place in the cultural zeitgeist.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Transcending Peanuts.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Who doesn't want a fun bird friend?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Crocheting and knitting making a major comeback.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Every year is the year of Linux on the Desktop.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Influencers wearing a Snoopy merch.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;NASA sending Snoopy to the Moon.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Giving your merch to NASA for free but charging the shit out of movie makers trying to make documentaries or authentic space movies.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Animals that are already so good they didn't need to keep evolving.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Leaving bacteria off your list because you couldn't even see them.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A little blobby thing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Scientists trying to write for the general public.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Naming an organism after the concept of having three eyes when it only has two eyes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Having two good eyes but evolving a third shitty eye just to annoy people.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Running executables of completely unknown provenance.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A game that was plausibly created by aliens if you haven't played very many interesting games.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Making up an incredible back story for your game to explain why you have no idea why colors work.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Good Wild Combo vs. Unused Insurance Bonus.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Looking up the artist of a work you loved in the 90s and they're still out there tooting.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wizened game developers posting on social media about their farm animals.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Designing interfaces for the phone.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Finding out that a person made a work you loved and preferring to have imagined it came from space.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Striving to be a cozy follow.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Retweeting a thing that does not make people angry.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Putting the poise in poison.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inherently terrifying bodies of water.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A big fish that's touching you now. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A level of repetition that is bordering on too much.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Songs of Love, Death and Pleasure.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Deliberately blurring the line between poems and songs.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Emulators-on-iOS era.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kirby Canvas Curse.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Playing Super Mario Land on a TI-84 calculator.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What old Nintendo games work well on an iPhone.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The EU repeatedly forcing Apple to get its shit together.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One- and two-thumbed smartphones.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Society of Universal Friends.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The thought process that led to the creation of Human Snoopy.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Cat Snoopy phenomenon.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Snoopy as a Psychonauts character.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Snoopy enjoying a pile of human femurs.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Notorious PUF.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Someone who was interesting enough to enter the historical record.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An attempt to seize the Friend and carry them off in an oxcart.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The distinction between abstinence and celibacy, and whether it exists now or in the 19th century.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Mouth of the Lord.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Naming yourself after a branch of the government.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DMing people on Discord. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Abi

<ul>
<li><a href="https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/" rel="nofollow">https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Eva

<ul>
<li><a href="https://eslee.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://eslee.bandcamp.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://eslee.itch.io/" rel="nofollow">https://eslee.itch.io/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://eslee.dev/portfolio/" rel="nofollow">https://eslee.dev/portfolio/</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Will 2024 be the year of Snoopy girls?

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls" rel="nofollow">https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831" rel="nofollow">https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Are living fossils inherently better creatures or just really lucky?</li>
<li>Helious

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://toot.cat/@smp" rel="nofollow">https://toot.cat/@smp</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Certain Women 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.hazeljaneplante.com/songbook" rel="nofollow">https://www.hazeljaneplante.com/songbook</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Emulators are finally available for iOS, which is exciting until you realize you have to play Mario 64 with a touchscreen</li>
<li>Miko asks: &quot;Public Universal Friend&quot;</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Working through mental struggles in the form of Zelda dungeons.</li>
<li>Donating to Red Cross for Snoopy Merch.</li>
<li>Snoopy&#39;s place in the cultural zeitgeist.</li>
<li>Transcending Peanuts.</li>
<li>Who doesn&#39;t want a fun bird friend?</li>
<li>Crocheting and knitting making a major comeback.</li>
<li>Every year is the year of Linux on the Desktop.</li>
<li>Influencers wearing a Snoopy merch.</li>
<li>NASA sending Snoopy to the Moon.</li>
<li>Giving your merch to NASA for free but charging the shit out of movie makers trying to make documentaries or authentic space movies.</li>
<li>Animals that are already so good they didn&#39;t need to keep evolving.</li>
<li>Leaving bacteria off your list because you couldn&#39;t even see them.</li>
<li>A little blobby thing.</li>
<li>Scientists trying to write for the general public.</li>
<li>Naming an organism after the concept of having three eyes when it only has two eyes.</li>
<li>Having two good eyes but evolving a third shitty eye just to annoy people.</li>
<li>Running executables of completely unknown provenance.</li>
<li>A game that was plausibly created by aliens if you haven&#39;t played very many interesting games.</li>
<li>Making up an incredible back story for your game to explain why you have no idea why colors work.</li>
<li>Good Wild Combo vs. Unused Insurance Bonus.</li>
<li>Looking up the artist of a work you loved in the 90s and they&#39;re still out there tooting.</li>
<li>Wizened game developers posting on social media about their farm animals.</li>
<li>Designing interfaces for the phone.</li>
<li>Finding out that a person made a work you loved and preferring to have imagined it came from space.</li>
<li>Striving to be a cozy follow.</li>
<li>Retweeting a thing that does not make people angry.</li>
<li>Putting the poise in poison.</li>
<li>Inherently terrifying bodies of water.</li>
<li>A big fish that&#39;s touching you now. </li>
<li>A level of repetition that is bordering on too much.</li>
<li>Songs of Love, Death and Pleasure.</li>
<li>Deliberately blurring the line between poems and songs.</li>
<li>The Emulators-on-iOS era.</li>
<li>Kirby Canvas Curse.</li>
<li>Playing Super Mario Land on a TI-84 calculator.</li>
<li>What old Nintendo games work well on an iPhone.</li>
<li>The EU repeatedly forcing Apple to get its shit together.</li>
<li>One- and two-thumbed smartphones.</li>
<li>The Society of Universal Friends.</li>
<li>The thought process that led to the creation of Human Snoopy.</li>
<li>The Cat Snoopy phenomenon.</li>
<li>Snoopy as a Psychonauts character.</li>
<li>Snoopy enjoying a pile of human femurs.</li>
<li>The Notorious PUF.</li>
<li>Someone who was interesting enough to enter the historical record.</li>
<li>An attempt to seize the Friend and carry them off in an oxcart.</li>
<li>The distinction between abstinence and celibacy, and whether it exists now or in the 19th century.</li>
<li>The Mouth of the Lord.</li>
<li>Naming yourself after a branch of the government.</li>
<li>DMing people on Discord.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Abi

<ul>
<li><a href="https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/" rel="nofollow">https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Eva

<ul>
<li><a href="https://eslee.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://eslee.bandcamp.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://eslee.itch.io/" rel="nofollow">https://eslee.itch.io/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://eslee.dev/portfolio/" rel="nofollow">https://eslee.dev/portfolio/</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Will 2024 be the year of Snoopy girls?

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls" rel="nofollow">https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831" rel="nofollow">https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Are living fossils inherently better creatures or just really lucky?</li>
<li>Helious

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://toot.cat/@smp" rel="nofollow">https://toot.cat/@smp</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Certain Women 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.hazeljaneplante.com/songbook" rel="nofollow">https://www.hazeljaneplante.com/songbook</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Emulators are finally available for iOS, which is exciting until you realize you have to play Mario 64 with a touchscreen</li>
<li>Miko asks: &quot;Public Universal Friend&quot;</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Working through mental struggles in the form of Zelda dungeons.</li>
<li>Donating to Red Cross for Snoopy Merch.</li>
<li>Snoopy&#39;s place in the cultural zeitgeist.</li>
<li>Transcending Peanuts.</li>
<li>Who doesn&#39;t want a fun bird friend?</li>
<li>Crocheting and knitting making a major comeback.</li>
<li>Every year is the year of Linux on the Desktop.</li>
<li>Influencers wearing a Snoopy merch.</li>
<li>NASA sending Snoopy to the Moon.</li>
<li>Giving your merch to NASA for free but charging the shit out of movie makers trying to make documentaries or authentic space movies.</li>
<li>Animals that are already so good they didn&#39;t need to keep evolving.</li>
<li>Leaving bacteria off your list because you couldn&#39;t even see them.</li>
<li>A little blobby thing.</li>
<li>Scientists trying to write for the general public.</li>
<li>Naming an organism after the concept of having three eyes when it only has two eyes.</li>
<li>Having two good eyes but evolving a third shitty eye just to annoy people.</li>
<li>Running executables of completely unknown provenance.</li>
<li>A game that was plausibly created by aliens if you haven&#39;t played very many interesting games.</li>
<li>Making up an incredible back story for your game to explain why you have no idea why colors work.</li>
<li>Good Wild Combo vs. Unused Insurance Bonus.</li>
<li>Looking up the artist of a work you loved in the 90s and they&#39;re still out there tooting.</li>
<li>Wizened game developers posting on social media about their farm animals.</li>
<li>Designing interfaces for the phone.</li>
<li>Finding out that a person made a work you loved and preferring to have imagined it came from space.</li>
<li>Striving to be a cozy follow.</li>
<li>Retweeting a thing that does not make people angry.</li>
<li>Putting the poise in poison.</li>
<li>Inherently terrifying bodies of water.</li>
<li>A big fish that&#39;s touching you now. </li>
<li>A level of repetition that is bordering on too much.</li>
<li>Songs of Love, Death and Pleasure.</li>
<li>Deliberately blurring the line between poems and songs.</li>
<li>The Emulators-on-iOS era.</li>
<li>Kirby Canvas Curse.</li>
<li>Playing Super Mario Land on a TI-84 calculator.</li>
<li>What old Nintendo games work well on an iPhone.</li>
<li>The EU repeatedly forcing Apple to get its shit together.</li>
<li>One- and two-thumbed smartphones.</li>
<li>The Society of Universal Friends.</li>
<li>The thought process that led to the creation of Human Snoopy.</li>
<li>The Cat Snoopy phenomenon.</li>
<li>Snoopy as a Psychonauts character.</li>
<li>Snoopy enjoying a pile of human femurs.</li>
<li>The Notorious PUF.</li>
<li>Someone who was interesting enough to enter the historical record.</li>
<li>An attempt to seize the Friend and carry them off in an oxcart.</li>
<li>The distinction between abstinence and celibacy, and whether it exists now or in the 19th century.</li>
<li>The Mouth of the Lord.</li>
<li>Naming yourself after a branch of the government.</li>
<li>DMing people on Discord.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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