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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Andrew”</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <title>335. Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll: Pick Any Two</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Andrew and Aubrianne. We discuss reading every Hugo-award-winning novel, accidentally making Frog Fractions 2.5, the perfect video game genre, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman, Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia CD from 1992, and fixing your slow computer with time travel</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Lords:
* Andrew
  * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
* Aubrianne
Topics:
* Reading every Hugo-award-winning novel
* I accidentally made Frog Fractions 2.5 before knowing what a frog fractions was
  * https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777
* I've discovered the perfect video game genre
  * https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644
* When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, by Walt Whitman
  * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer
* Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia CD from 1992
  * https://archive.org/details/the-software-toolworks-multimedia-encyclopedia-1.5-1992-12-english-cd
* I fixed my slow computer with time travel
  * https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
Microtopics:
* Plugging moving. 
* Apps that don't do things or have functionality. 
* Wearing one of those blood pressure cuffs all day. 
* The treadmill hacking into your heart rate monitor. 
* Getting your heart rate up by being aggravated at terrible exercise apps.
* Video games that only work with first party controllers because they patch the controller firmware. 
* The only team that was permitted to alter the microcode on the Nintendo 64's GPU.
* Reading every Hugo award winning novel. 
* Sci-fi authors in the 50s being obsessed with advancements in psychiatry. 
* What if there was an empire that spanned a continent. 
* Drinking a potion every morning to address your ADHD.
* Dissolving your gummy vitamin in liquid nitrogen and/or 
* Looking forward to the next time you get sick so you can take NyQuil again. 
* The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge.
* Why they let women write books now. 
* Advantages of AuDHD.
* The Hugo award, invented by the protagonist of Hugo's House of Horrors.
* Knock-off Sierra games.
* Feed the Ducks.
* The one with the Spider-Bat.
* Stealth plugging a classic Pico-8 game.
* Independently inventing Frog Fractions.
* Not-Vector Art. 
* Making games that don't have a secret thing in them. 
* Making Pizza Panda without ever telling anyone what you're working on. 
* Picking up a mouse with hats. 
* Just make a dumb thing that's silly and you can make fun gifs of it. 
* Splore 'em if you got 'em.
* XAMWWSKH, or "Exam Whiskey"
* Curses, or ncurses.
* Walking around this maze and running into this guy and suddenly you're playing a minigame.
* Whether weird shit keeps happening in Pac-Man, or happens only once. 
* Why wait at all? Just wake up each day and be surprised. 
* Aren't we all just building mazes for ourselves? 
* Why sports games still exist. 
* Why do people play sports video games when they could play sports in real life? 
* Snapping your fingers in order to better internalize the poem. 
* What have you over-intellectualized in your life?
* Your particular brainotype.
* Learning about muscles, joints and physiology. 
* A bicycle reflector they put on the moon so they could shoot lasers at it. 
* Measuring diagrams during your lecture. 
* The astronomer who lost his nose. 
* Revealing that you've drawn a moustache on Orion's Belt.
* Learning to read words by looking at a spectrogram. 
* Who knows what the Danes are up to? 
* Things that are not widely known but can be described. 
* Looking at really old computer stuff because that's fun. 
* Beautiful art that nobody made on purpose.
* Getting actors together in a room to read a scene together before discovering that that's exactly the wrong way to do video game voice acting.
* Aphantasia but for audiation. 
* Inability to audiate at different volumes or on the stereo spectrum. 
* Focusing really hard to fall asleep.
* Kick-starting your hypnagogic hallucination dream state. 
* Rolling that sleep boulder up the hill every day. 
* Retheming your 2026 Linux computer to look like Windows 95.
* Downloading 20 years of email history. 
* Playing Hunt the Wumpus on your dad's SIM-1.
* What game developers say now that "AI" means something else.
* What "drone" used to mean, and also what it meant before that.
* OpenRCT2 and FreeCiv.
* Making your customers less nauseous before they sit on a bench.
* Not having any restaurants at your theme park so that nobody throws up on your roller coaster. 
* Being unable to A/B test your brain because you only have one brain.
* Having a variety of weirdos on Jorts dot horse.  
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aubrianne</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Reading every Hugo-award-winning novel</li>
<li>I accidentally made Frog Fractions 2.5 before knowing what a frog fractions was

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777" rel="nofollow">https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>I&#39;ve discovered the perfect video game genre

<ul>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>When I Heard the Learn&#39;d Astronomer, by Walt Whitman

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer" rel="nofollow">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia CD from 1992

<ul>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/the-software-toolworks-multimedia-encyclopedia-1.5-1992-12-english-cd" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/the-software-toolworks-multimedia-encyclopedia-1.5-1992-12-english-cd</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>I fixed my slow computer with time travel

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Plugging moving. </li>
<li>Apps that don&#39;t do things or have functionality. </li>
<li>Wearing one of those blood pressure cuffs all day. </li>
<li>The treadmill hacking into your heart rate monitor. </li>
<li>Getting your heart rate up by being aggravated at terrible exercise apps.</li>
<li>Video games that only work with first party controllers because they patch the controller firmware. </li>
<li>The only team that was permitted to alter the microcode on the Nintendo 64&#39;s GPU.</li>
<li>Reading every Hugo award winning novel. </li>
<li>Sci-fi authors in the 50s being obsessed with advancements in psychiatry. </li>
<li>What if there was an empire that spanned a continent. </li>
<li>Drinking a potion every morning to address your ADHD.</li>
<li>Dissolving your gummy vitamin in liquid nitrogen and/or </li>
<li>Looking forward to the next time you get sick so you can take NyQuil again. </li>
<li>The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge.</li>
<li>Why they let women write books now. </li>
<li>Advantages of AuDHD.</li>
<li>The Hugo award, invented by the protagonist of Hugo&#39;s House of Horrors.</li>
<li>Knock-off Sierra games.</li>
<li>Feed the Ducks.</li>
<li>The one with the Spider-Bat.</li>
<li>Stealth plugging a classic Pico-8 game.</li>
<li>Independently inventing Frog Fractions.</li>
<li>Not-Vector Art. </li>
<li>Making games that don&#39;t have a secret thing in them. </li>
<li>Making Pizza Panda without ever telling anyone what you&#39;re working on. </li>
<li>Picking up a mouse with hats. </li>
<li>Just make a dumb thing that&#39;s silly and you can make fun gifs of it. </li>
<li>Splore &#39;em if you got &#39;em.</li>
<li>XAMWWSKH, or &quot;Exam Whiskey&quot;</li>
<li>Curses, or ncurses.</li>
<li>Walking around this maze and running into this guy and suddenly you&#39;re playing a minigame.</li>
<li>Whether weird shit keeps happening in Pac-Man, or happens only once. </li>
<li>Why wait at all? Just wake up each day and be surprised. </li>
<li>Aren&#39;t we all just building mazes for ourselves? </li>
<li>Why sports games still exist. </li>
<li>Why do people play sports video games when they could play sports in real life? </li>
<li>Snapping your fingers in order to better internalize the poem. </li>
<li>What have you over-intellectualized in your life?</li>
<li>Your particular brainotype.</li>
<li>Learning about muscles, joints and physiology. </li>
<li>A bicycle reflector they put on the moon so they could shoot lasers at it. </li>
<li>Measuring diagrams during your lecture. </li>
<li>The astronomer who lost his nose. </li>
<li>Revealing that you&#39;ve drawn a moustache on Orion&#39;s Belt.</li>
<li>Learning to read words by looking at a spectrogram. </li>
<li>Who knows what the Danes are up to? </li>
<li>Things that are not widely known but can be described. </li>
<li>Looking at really old computer stuff because that&#39;s fun. </li>
<li>Beautiful art that nobody made on purpose.</li>
<li>Getting actors together in a room to read a scene together before discovering that that&#39;s exactly the wrong way to do video game voice acting.</li>
<li>Aphantasia but for audiation. </li>
<li>Inability to audiate at different volumes or on the stereo spectrum. </li>
<li>Focusing really hard to fall asleep.</li>
<li>Kick-starting your hypnagogic hallucination dream state. </li>
<li>Rolling that sleep boulder up the hill every day. </li>
<li>Retheming your 2026 Linux computer to look like Windows 95.</li>
<li>Downloading 20 years of email history. </li>
<li>Playing Hunt the Wumpus on your dad&#39;s SIM-1.</li>
<li>What game developers say now that &quot;AI&quot; means something else.</li>
<li>What &quot;drone&quot; used to mean, and also what it meant before that.</li>
<li>OpenRCT2 and FreeCiv.</li>
<li>Making your customers less nauseous before they sit on a bench.</li>
<li>Not having any restaurants at your theme park so that nobody throws up on your roller coaster. </li>
<li>Being unable to A/B test your brain because you only have one brain.</li>
<li>Having a variety of weirdos on Jorts dot horse. </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>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aubrianne</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Reading every Hugo-award-winning novel</li>
<li>I accidentally made Frog Fractions 2.5 before knowing what a frog fractions was

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777" rel="nofollow">https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>I&#39;ve discovered the perfect video game genre

<ul>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>When I Heard the Learn&#39;d Astronomer, by Walt Whitman

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer" rel="nofollow">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia CD from 1992

<ul>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/the-software-toolworks-multimedia-encyclopedia-1.5-1992-12-english-cd" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/the-software-toolworks-multimedia-encyclopedia-1.5-1992-12-english-cd</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>I fixed my slow computer with time travel

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Plugging moving. </li>
<li>Apps that don&#39;t do things or have functionality. </li>
<li>Wearing one of those blood pressure cuffs all day. </li>
<li>The treadmill hacking into your heart rate monitor. </li>
<li>Getting your heart rate up by being aggravated at terrible exercise apps.</li>
<li>Video games that only work with first party controllers because they patch the controller firmware. </li>
<li>The only team that was permitted to alter the microcode on the Nintendo 64&#39;s GPU.</li>
<li>Reading every Hugo award winning novel. </li>
<li>Sci-fi authors in the 50s being obsessed with advancements in psychiatry. </li>
<li>What if there was an empire that spanned a continent. </li>
<li>Drinking a potion every morning to address your ADHD.</li>
<li>Dissolving your gummy vitamin in liquid nitrogen and/or </li>
<li>Looking forward to the next time you get sick so you can take NyQuil again. </li>
<li>The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge.</li>
<li>Why they let women write books now. </li>
<li>Advantages of AuDHD.</li>
<li>The Hugo award, invented by the protagonist of Hugo&#39;s House of Horrors.</li>
<li>Knock-off Sierra games.</li>
<li>Feed the Ducks.</li>
<li>The one with the Spider-Bat.</li>
<li>Stealth plugging a classic Pico-8 game.</li>
<li>Independently inventing Frog Fractions.</li>
<li>Not-Vector Art. </li>
<li>Making games that don&#39;t have a secret thing in them. </li>
<li>Making Pizza Panda without ever telling anyone what you&#39;re working on. </li>
<li>Picking up a mouse with hats. </li>
<li>Just make a dumb thing that&#39;s silly and you can make fun gifs of it. </li>
<li>Splore &#39;em if you got &#39;em.</li>
<li>XAMWWSKH, or &quot;Exam Whiskey&quot;</li>
<li>Curses, or ncurses.</li>
<li>Walking around this maze and running into this guy and suddenly you&#39;re playing a minigame.</li>
<li>Whether weird shit keeps happening in Pac-Man, or happens only once. </li>
<li>Why wait at all? Just wake up each day and be surprised. </li>
<li>Aren&#39;t we all just building mazes for ourselves? </li>
<li>Why sports games still exist. </li>
<li>Why do people play sports video games when they could play sports in real life? </li>
<li>Snapping your fingers in order to better internalize the poem. </li>
<li>What have you over-intellectualized in your life?</li>
<li>Your particular brainotype.</li>
<li>Learning about muscles, joints and physiology. </li>
<li>A bicycle reflector they put on the moon so they could shoot lasers at it. </li>
<li>Measuring diagrams during your lecture. </li>
<li>The astronomer who lost his nose. </li>
<li>Revealing that you&#39;ve drawn a moustache on Orion&#39;s Belt.</li>
<li>Learning to read words by looking at a spectrogram. </li>
<li>Who knows what the Danes are up to? </li>
<li>Things that are not widely known but can be described. </li>
<li>Looking at really old computer stuff because that&#39;s fun. </li>
<li>Beautiful art that nobody made on purpose.</li>
<li>Getting actors together in a room to read a scene together before discovering that that&#39;s exactly the wrong way to do video game voice acting.</li>
<li>Aphantasia but for audiation. </li>
<li>Inability to audiate at different volumes or on the stereo spectrum. </li>
<li>Focusing really hard to fall asleep.</li>
<li>Kick-starting your hypnagogic hallucination dream state. </li>
<li>Rolling that sleep boulder up the hill every day. </li>
<li>Retheming your 2026 Linux computer to look like Windows 95.</li>
<li>Downloading 20 years of email history. </li>
<li>Playing Hunt the Wumpus on your dad&#39;s SIM-1.</li>
<li>What game developers say now that &quot;AI&quot; means something else.</li>
<li>What &quot;drone&quot; used to mean, and also what it meant before that.</li>
<li>OpenRCT2 and FreeCiv.</li>
<li>Making your customers less nauseous before they sit on a bench.</li>
<li>Not having any restaurants at your theme park so that nobody throws up on your roller coaster. </li>
<li>Being unable to A/B test your brain because you only have one brain.</li>
<li>Having a variety of weirdos on Jorts dot horse. </li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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  <title>295. Fantasy Malware</title>
  <link>https://topiclords.com/fantasy-malware</link>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
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  <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Andrew and Andrew. We discuss finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years, PICO-8 screen carts, Picotron viruses, and Quest by kittenmaster.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:04:47</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Lords:
* Andrew
* Andrew
Topics:
* Finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years
* PICO-8 screen carts
* Picotron Viruses
* Quest by kittenmaster
  * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png
Microtopics:
* Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.
* The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen. 
* Make 10 Deluxe. 
* Double Mustache's Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples. 
* Lizard Multiplication Tables. 
* Total Toads.
* Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum.
* Children's Allegra, on Nick, Jr.
* Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world.
* Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle. 
* Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that's nowhere near shipping. 
* Using the lessons you've learned making small games to make a bigger game. 
* Making an N64 game for modern PCs.
* Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story. 
* 3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass. 
* What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart.
* Getting Keys in Rush 2.
* How to collect keys in the middle of the air. 
* Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers.
* Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets. 
* Arcade games with a save system. 
* Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system.
* Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game.
* Looking at Picotron and thinking "I don't have time to draw that many pixels."
* The Tweet Jam Andrews.
* Is this really that interesting, Andrew?
* Foreshadowing the poem. 
* How much game can you fit on one screen? 
* Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters.
* Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think. 
* Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen. 
* Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all. 
* STDIO jam. 
* Dig World and Dig World Realms. 
* Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text.
* Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in.
* Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers.
* The people who memorize the eye exam chart. 
* Rotting ROT13 a different amount.
* Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security. 
* Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions. 
* Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing. 
* How beginners expect game programming to work. 
* Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen.
* A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons. 
* Turning off networking features  for individual programs. 
* Writing a keylogger to read people's email and it turns out people's email is incredibly boring.
* Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key.
* Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it. 
* The first S is for Secure. 
* Screen carts vs. tweet carts.
* Colon colon home colon colon.
* Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.)
* The new default Pico-8 code editor background color.
* Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back.
* Alfonzo's Bowling Challengs.
* Unlocking HD streaming at level 2. 
</description>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew</li>
<li>Andrew</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years</li>
<li>PICO-8 screen carts</li>
<li>Picotron Viruses</li>
<li>Quest by kittenmaster

<ul>
<li><a href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png" rel="nofollow">https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.</li>
<li>The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen. </li>
<li>Make 10 Deluxe. </li>
<li>Double Mustache&#39;s Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples. </li>
<li>Lizard Multiplication Tables. </li>
<li>Total Toads.</li>
<li>Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum.</li>
<li>Children&#39;s Allegra, on Nick, Jr.</li>
<li>Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world.</li>
<li>Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle. </li>
<li>Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that&#39;s nowhere near shipping. </li>
<li>Using the lessons you&#39;ve learned making small games to make a bigger game. </li>
<li>Making an N64 game for modern PCs.</li>
<li>Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story. </li>
<li>3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass. </li>
<li>What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart.</li>
<li>Getting Keys in Rush 2.</li>
<li>How to collect keys in the middle of the air. </li>
<li>Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers.</li>
<li>Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets. </li>
<li>Arcade games with a save system. </li>
<li>Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game.</li>
<li>Looking at Picotron and thinking &quot;I don&#39;t have time to draw that many pixels.&quot;</li>
<li>The Tweet Jam Andrews.</li>
<li>Is this really that interesting, Andrew?</li>
<li>Foreshadowing the poem. </li>
<li>How much game can you fit on one screen? </li>
<li>Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters.</li>
<li>Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think. </li>
<li>Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen. </li>
<li>Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all. </li>
<li>STDIO jam. </li>
<li>Dig World and Dig World Realms. </li>
<li>Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text.</li>
<li>Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in.</li>
<li>Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers.</li>
<li>The people who memorize the eye exam chart. </li>
<li>Rotting ROT13 a different amount.</li>
<li>Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security. </li>
<li>Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions. </li>
<li>Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing. </li>
<li>How beginners expect game programming to work. </li>
<li>Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen.</li>
<li>A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons. </li>
<li>Turning off networking features  for individual programs. </li>
<li>Writing a keylogger to read people&#39;s email and it turns out people&#39;s email is incredibly boring.</li>
<li>Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key.</li>
<li>Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it. </li>
<li>The first S is for Secure. </li>
<li>Screen carts vs. tweet carts.</li>
<li>Colon colon home colon colon.</li>
<li>Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.)</li>
<li>The new default Pico-8 code editor background color.</li>
<li>Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back.</li>
<li>Alfonzo&#39;s Bowling Challengs.</li>
<li>Unlocking HD streaming at level 2.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
  </content:encoded>
  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew</li>
<li>Andrew</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years</li>
<li>PICO-8 screen carts</li>
<li>Picotron Viruses</li>
<li>Quest by kittenmaster

<ul>
<li><a href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png" rel="nofollow">https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.</li>
<li>The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen. </li>
<li>Make 10 Deluxe. </li>
<li>Double Mustache&#39;s Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples. </li>
<li>Lizard Multiplication Tables. </li>
<li>Total Toads.</li>
<li>Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum.</li>
<li>Children&#39;s Allegra, on Nick, Jr.</li>
<li>Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world.</li>
<li>Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle. </li>
<li>Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that&#39;s nowhere near shipping. </li>
<li>Using the lessons you&#39;ve learned making small games to make a bigger game. </li>
<li>Making an N64 game for modern PCs.</li>
<li>Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story. </li>
<li>3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass. </li>
<li>What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart.</li>
<li>Getting Keys in Rush 2.</li>
<li>How to collect keys in the middle of the air. </li>
<li>Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers.</li>
<li>Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets. </li>
<li>Arcade games with a save system. </li>
<li>Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game.</li>
<li>Looking at Picotron and thinking &quot;I don&#39;t have time to draw that many pixels.&quot;</li>
<li>The Tweet Jam Andrews.</li>
<li>Is this really that interesting, Andrew?</li>
<li>Foreshadowing the poem. </li>
<li>How much game can you fit on one screen? </li>
<li>Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters.</li>
<li>Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think. </li>
<li>Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen. </li>
<li>Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all. </li>
<li>STDIO jam. </li>
<li>Dig World and Dig World Realms. </li>
<li>Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text.</li>
<li>Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in.</li>
<li>Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers.</li>
<li>The people who memorize the eye exam chart. </li>
<li>Rotting ROT13 a different amount.</li>
<li>Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security. </li>
<li>Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions. </li>
<li>Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing. </li>
<li>How beginners expect game programming to work. </li>
<li>Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen.</li>
<li>A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons. </li>
<li>Turning off networking features  for individual programs. </li>
<li>Writing a keylogger to read people&#39;s email and it turns out people&#39;s email is incredibly boring.</li>
<li>Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key.</li>
<li>Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it. </li>
<li>The first S is for Secure. </li>
<li>Screen carts vs. tweet carts.</li>
<li>Colon colon home colon colon.</li>
<li>Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.)</li>
<li>The new default Pico-8 code editor background color.</li>
<li>Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back.</li>
<li>Alfonzo&#39;s Bowling Challengs.</li>
<li>Unlocking HD streaming at level 2.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
  </itunes:summary>
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<item>
  <title>264. Pickpocketed So Hard You Die</title>
  <link>https://topiclords.com/pickpocketed-so-hard-you-die</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">754ad184-e393-464a-a182-af9dbf5997ef</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/754ad184-e393-464a-a182-af9dbf5997ef.mp3" length="64827976" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Andrew and Aubrianne. We discuss coming to terms with being bad at video games, charging money for art, messy game design, To Be of Use by Marge Piercy, Films Noir, and Complementary Hobby Power Couples.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:07:31</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/cover.jpg?v=5"/>
  <description>Lords:
* Andrew
  * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
* Aubrianne
Topics:
* I will never get good at video games and that's okay
* Does charging (or even allowing donations) for something change its perception as a piece of art?
* Messy game design
* To Be of Use, Marge Piercy
  * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use
* Films Noir
* Complementary Hobby Power Couples
Microtopics:
* Just shakin' it a little bit. 
* The royal it. 
* Putting Homestar Runner on shuffle while you do homework. 
* Making Pico-8 games under an Internet name. 
* Your child petting a dog but when you try to pet the dog as well the dog is like "no, not you!"
* A beard or long braid as a fidget tool.
* Spectrum Cheater Reveals.
* Games where you have to plan ahead. 
* A very easy social slot to fit into. 
* How many extra organs does Master Chief have? 
* Watching your mom fail the same jump in Animal Well for twenty minutes. 
* Picking a garbage can in Fallout 3 where you keep all your stuff which works great until they patch garbage collection into the game. 
* A game that requires two skills and the two skills exist in two different people. 
* What happened to cheat codes? 
* Paying the pickpocket trainer to train you and then pickpocketing your money back. 
* Pickpocketing someone's vital organs. 
* Homestar Runner as the ultimate counter example. 
* What quilts are worth if you charged a fair wage for your time. 
* Spending half an hour convincing your nephew that this scarf really is worth $300.
* The only two millennials who haven't professionalized their hobbies. 
* Constructing your game design like a mathematical proof. 
* The promise of the text parser.
* All the weird bespoke deaths you could find in a Sierra game.
* Games intended for people who have more free time than you. 
* How to make it completely viable to make small games.
* A clever hack to market your video game (spend a bunch of money) 
* The promise of the 50 in one pirate kart.
* Trying to get the house gifts in every game in UFO 50.
* Collecting the umbrella and the pin an least a dozen times. 
* A Guided Tour of Barbuta.
* The black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls. 
* Doing what has to be done, again and again.
* A form of idleness that produces an incredibly amount of textiles. 
* Peruvian people spinning while they wait for the bus. 
* Why nobody gives a shit about rope and string.
* Appreciating the lasagna that's right in front of you. 
* Making a loaf of bread for your family that mostly eats peanut butter sandwiches.
* Making a little frowny face at "amphoras."
* Meeting a girl and wooing her with good semicolon usage. 
* Dressing up as Elaine and Guybrush for Halloween. 
* Whoppers Jr. and Games Boys Advance. 
* Classic Film Noir such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit. 
* That time Rita Hayworth made you realize you were gay. 
* Getting no movies from America for years and then getting a ton of movies from America all at once. 
* Pulpy low-budget melodramas. 
* The Hays Code.
* The five minute monologue where Quint describes the graphic sex scene between Jaws and the Hoth Ice Wampa
* Neo Noir. (Meaning from the 70a.)
* Modern art. (Meaning from the early 20th century.)
* Neo Noir films such as the Bourne Identity and Batman Begins 
* Bugs Bunny inventing the smoky noir saxophone. 
* A taxonomy of complementary hobby pairs. 
* Getting 20 musicians in a room and it's a total disaster. 
* Sheep growing so much extraneous wool that they fall on their backs and explode.
* Youtube recommending a video on how to flip a sheep over. 
* Sheep Tips: How to Flip a Sheep.
* A video of a guy getting out of a car and hopping a fence and running over to help a sheep who is stuck on its back like "what do I even do now?"
* Fellow Jorts Horsians.
* Deep lore of server outages. 
</description>
  <content:encoded>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aubrianne</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>I will never get good at video games and that&#39;s okay</li>
<li>Does charging (or even allowing donations) for something change its perception as a piece of art?</li>
<li>Messy game design</li>
<li>To Be of Use, Marge Piercy

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use" rel="nofollow">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Films Noir</li>
<li>Complementary Hobby Power Couples</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Just shakin&#39; it a little bit. </li>
<li>The royal it. </li>
<li>Putting Homestar Runner on shuffle while you do homework. </li>
<li>Making Pico-8 games under an Internet name. </li>
<li>Your child petting a dog but when you try to pet the dog as well the dog is like &quot;no, not you!&quot;</li>
<li>A beard or long braid as a fidget tool.</li>
<li>Spectrum Cheater Reveals.</li>
<li>Games where you have to plan ahead. </li>
<li>A very easy social slot to fit into. </li>
<li>How many extra organs does Master Chief have? </li>
<li>Watching your mom fail the same jump in Animal Well for twenty minutes. </li>
<li>Picking a garbage can in Fallout 3 where you keep all your stuff which works great until they patch garbage collection into the game. </li>
<li>A game that requires two skills and the two skills exist in two different people. </li>
<li>What happened to cheat codes? </li>
<li>Paying the pickpocket trainer to train you and then pickpocketing your money back. </li>
<li>Pickpocketing someone&#39;s vital organs. </li>
<li>Homestar Runner as the ultimate counter example. </li>
<li>What quilts are worth if you charged a fair wage for your time. </li>
<li>Spending half an hour convincing your nephew that this scarf really is worth $300.</li>
<li>The only two millennials who haven&#39;t professionalized their hobbies. </li>
<li>Constructing your game design like a mathematical proof. </li>
<li>The promise of the text parser.</li>
<li>All the weird bespoke deaths you could find in a Sierra game.</li>
<li>Games intended for people who have more free time than you. </li>
<li>How to make it completely viable to make small games.</li>
<li>A clever hack to market your video game (spend a bunch of money) </li>
<li>The promise of the 50 in one pirate kart.</li>
<li>Trying to get the house gifts in every game in UFO 50.</li>
<li>Collecting the umbrella and the pin an least a dozen times. </li>
<li>A Guided Tour of Barbuta.</li>
<li>The black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls. </li>
<li>Doing what has to be done, again and again.</li>
<li>A form of idleness that produces an incredibly amount of textiles. </li>
<li>Peruvian people spinning while they wait for the bus. </li>
<li>Why nobody gives a shit about rope and string.</li>
<li>Appreciating the lasagna that&#39;s right in front of you. </li>
<li>Making a loaf of bread for your family that mostly eats peanut butter sandwiches.</li>
<li>Making a little frowny face at &quot;amphoras.&quot;</li>
<li>Meeting a girl and wooing her with good semicolon usage. </li>
<li>Dressing up as Elaine and Guybrush for Halloween. </li>
<li>Whoppers Jr. and Games Boys Advance. </li>
<li>Classic Film Noir such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit. </li>
<li>That time Rita Hayworth made you realize you were gay. </li>
<li>Getting no movies from America for years and then getting a ton of movies from America all at once. </li>
<li>Pulpy low-budget melodramas. </li>
<li>The Hays Code.</li>
<li>The five minute monologue where Quint describes the graphic sex scene between Jaws and the Hoth Ice Wampa</li>
<li>Neo Noir. (Meaning from the 70a.)</li>
<li>Modern art. (Meaning from the early 20th century.)</li>
<li>Neo Noir films such as the Bourne Identity and Batman Begins </li>
<li>Bugs Bunny inventing the smoky noir saxophone. </li>
<li>A taxonomy of complementary hobby pairs. </li>
<li>Getting 20 musicians in a room and it&#39;s a total disaster. </li>
<li>Sheep growing so much extraneous wool that they fall on their backs and explode.</li>
<li>Youtube recommending a video on how to flip a sheep over. </li>
<li>Sheep Tips: How to Flip a Sheep.</li>
<li>A video of a guy getting out of a car and hopping a fence and running over to help a sheep who is stuck on its back like &quot;what do I even do now?&quot;</li>
<li>Fellow Jorts Horsians.</li>
<li>Deep lore of server outages.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
  </content:encoded>
  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aubrianne</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>I will never get good at video games and that&#39;s okay</li>
<li>Does charging (or even allowing donations) for something change its perception as a piece of art?</li>
<li>Messy game design</li>
<li>To Be of Use, Marge Piercy

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use" rel="nofollow">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Films Noir</li>
<li>Complementary Hobby Power Couples</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Just shakin&#39; it a little bit. </li>
<li>The royal it. </li>
<li>Putting Homestar Runner on shuffle while you do homework. </li>
<li>Making Pico-8 games under an Internet name. </li>
<li>Your child petting a dog but when you try to pet the dog as well the dog is like &quot;no, not you!&quot;</li>
<li>A beard or long braid as a fidget tool.</li>
<li>Spectrum Cheater Reveals.</li>
<li>Games where you have to plan ahead. </li>
<li>A very easy social slot to fit into. </li>
<li>How many extra organs does Master Chief have? </li>
<li>Watching your mom fail the same jump in Animal Well for twenty minutes. </li>
<li>Picking a garbage can in Fallout 3 where you keep all your stuff which works great until they patch garbage collection into the game. </li>
<li>A game that requires two skills and the two skills exist in two different people. </li>
<li>What happened to cheat codes? </li>
<li>Paying the pickpocket trainer to train you and then pickpocketing your money back. </li>
<li>Pickpocketing someone&#39;s vital organs. </li>
<li>Homestar Runner as the ultimate counter example. </li>
<li>What quilts are worth if you charged a fair wage for your time. </li>
<li>Spending half an hour convincing your nephew that this scarf really is worth $300.</li>
<li>The only two millennials who haven&#39;t professionalized their hobbies. </li>
<li>Constructing your game design like a mathematical proof. </li>
<li>The promise of the text parser.</li>
<li>All the weird bespoke deaths you could find in a Sierra game.</li>
<li>Games intended for people who have more free time than you. </li>
<li>How to make it completely viable to make small games.</li>
<li>A clever hack to market your video game (spend a bunch of money) </li>
<li>The promise of the 50 in one pirate kart.</li>
<li>Trying to get the house gifts in every game in UFO 50.</li>
<li>Collecting the umbrella and the pin an least a dozen times. </li>
<li>A Guided Tour of Barbuta.</li>
<li>The black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls. </li>
<li>Doing what has to be done, again and again.</li>
<li>A form of idleness that produces an incredibly amount of textiles. </li>
<li>Peruvian people spinning while they wait for the bus. </li>
<li>Why nobody gives a shit about rope and string.</li>
<li>Appreciating the lasagna that&#39;s right in front of you. </li>
<li>Making a loaf of bread for your family that mostly eats peanut butter sandwiches.</li>
<li>Making a little frowny face at &quot;amphoras.&quot;</li>
<li>Meeting a girl and wooing her with good semicolon usage. </li>
<li>Dressing up as Elaine and Guybrush for Halloween. </li>
<li>Whoppers Jr. and Games Boys Advance. </li>
<li>Classic Film Noir such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit. </li>
<li>That time Rita Hayworth made you realize you were gay. </li>
<li>Getting no movies from America for years and then getting a ton of movies from America all at once. </li>
<li>Pulpy low-budget melodramas. </li>
<li>The Hays Code.</li>
<li>The five minute monologue where Quint describes the graphic sex scene between Jaws and the Hoth Ice Wampa</li>
<li>Neo Noir. (Meaning from the 70a.)</li>
<li>Modern art. (Meaning from the early 20th century.)</li>
<li>Neo Noir films such as the Bourne Identity and Batman Begins </li>
<li>Bugs Bunny inventing the smoky noir saxophone. </li>
<li>A taxonomy of complementary hobby pairs. </li>
<li>Getting 20 musicians in a room and it&#39;s a total disaster. </li>
<li>Sheep growing so much extraneous wool that they fall on their backs and explode.</li>
<li>Youtube recommending a video on how to flip a sheep over. </li>
<li>Sheep Tips: How to Flip a Sheep.</li>
<li>A video of a guy getting out of a car and hopping a fence and running over to help a sheep who is stuck on its back like &quot;what do I even do now?&quot;</li>
<li>Fellow Jorts Horsians.</li>
<li>Deep lore of server outages.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
  </itunes:summary>
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  <title>243. Welcome to the Elder Zone</title>
  <link>https://topiclords.com/welcome-to-the-elder-zone</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">f62fa628-976f-4955-8ed6-0c124c842fea</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/f62fa628-976f-4955-8ed6-0c124c842fea.mp3" length="60497919" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Andrew and Tyriq. We discuss the Church of the SubGenius, making FreeCell vs. playing FreeCell, how do we get to a place where our primary tool for productivity is not also our primary avenue of distraction? and "&lt;3 Team Schiff", by Team Schiff </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:03:01</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/cover.jpg?v=5"/>
  <description>Lords:
* Andrew
* Tyriq
Lords:
* The Church of the SubGenius
* Making FreeCell is kind of like playing FreeCell
* How do we get to a place where our primary tool for productivity is not also our primary avenue of distraction?
* "&amp;lt;3 Team Schiff", by Team Schiff 
  * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png
Microtopics:
* World Building Notes
* An accent you cannot discern the origin of.
* Fun worlds that I've thought of.
* A world where hair is the source of all life.
* A port of Freecell to the Playdate that might never be released.
* J.R. Bob Dobbs, a salesman from the 1950s.
* Whether Discord (the IRC client) is named after Discordianism.
* Tyriq Reads Wikipedia.
* Principia Discordia.
* An extremely profitable troll.
* Good and bad reasons to troll.
* Making your weird fun art without worrying about people taking you way too seriously fifty years from now.
* Whether submarines are named after the Church of the Subgenus.
* Rewriting your entire game in C.
* Playing Freecell Validly.
* A latecomer to Freecell.
* The one known impossible Freecell seed.
* The Freecell Helleed vs. the Minesweeper Dream Board.
* The looking at the cube phase and the turning the cube phase.
* Typeshift speed run hacks.
* Knowing a 38-letter word.
* Undo trees.
* The New York Times games package being sold separately from the newspaper.
* The diction of the New York Times crossword puzzle.
* Doing Greek letter flash cards to up your crossword game.
* Words that come up a lot when you're mashing letters together.
* A job where you don't use a computer? In this economy?
* Sequencer-based techno.
* Constraints that fit the UI extremely well.
* An interface that makes a lot of sense for the Game Boy.
* Printing out the entirety of Wikipedia so you can go offline for a while.
* The compressed size of Wikipedia.
* Here's a thing and the only thing it does is have information on it.
* Hanging out in the library with people vs. with books.
* The three best things in life.
* Opening the tiny drawer and flipping through the tiny cards with your tiny hands and using your tiny eyes to read the tiny text.
* Downloading information about a spider that links to another spider.
* Using robots.txt to ward off all kinds of creatures, not just robots.
* 999: Extraterrestrial Worlds.
* Abandoning the Dewey Decimal System after you discover that numbers go higher than 999.
* Stopping to end.
* This Cat Does Not Exist.
* The perfect source of images that have never been used before.
* An art project that invents politicians and texts people imploring them to donate to the campaign and that's how the art project gets funding.
* What Socrates would have said about the Banksy that shredded itself.
* Your legal name with a bunch of letters removed.
* Picking an online handle that's very hard to pronounce to make sure people don't call you that in real life.
* Giving everybody you meet a different name for yourself.
* Having more friends than you've ever had.
* Having hobbies that put you in a room with people.
* Libraries as raucous hangouts.
* Inviting tweens to play video games in the back rooms (but not in a shady way)
* A citizen saying "hey, library, can I use a room?"
* Your local library, featuring the Middle-Aged Zone.
* Lego Security Theater.
* An unordered list of links. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew</li>
<li>Tyriq</li>
</ul>

<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>The Church of the SubGenius</li>
<li>Making FreeCell is kind of like playing FreeCell</li>
<li>How do we get to a place where our primary tool for productivity is not also our primary avenue of distraction?</li>
<li>&quot;&lt;3 Team Schiff&quot;, by Team Schiff 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png" rel="nofollow">https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>World Building Notes</li>
<li>An accent you cannot discern the origin of.</li>
<li>Fun worlds that I&#39;ve thought of.</li>
<li>A world where hair is the source of all life.</li>
<li>A port of Freecell to the Playdate that might never be released.</li>
<li>J.R. Bob Dobbs, a salesman from the 1950s.</li>
<li>Whether Discord (the IRC client) is named after Discordianism.</li>
<li>Tyriq Reads Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Principia Discordia.</li>
<li>An extremely profitable troll.</li>
<li>Good and bad reasons to troll.</li>
<li>Making your weird fun art without worrying about people taking you way too seriously fifty years from now.</li>
<li>Whether submarines are named after the Church of the Subgenus.</li>
<li>Rewriting your entire game in C.</li>
<li>Playing Freecell Validly.</li>
<li>A latecomer to Freecell.</li>
<li>The one known impossible Freecell seed.</li>
<li>The Freecell Helleed vs. the Minesweeper Dream Board.</li>
<li>The looking at the cube phase and the turning the cube phase.</li>
<li>Typeshift speed run hacks.</li>
<li>Knowing a 38-letter word.</li>
<li>Undo trees.</li>
<li>The New York Times games package being sold separately from the newspaper.</li>
<li>The diction of the New York Times crossword puzzle.</li>
<li>Doing Greek letter flash cards to up your crossword game.</li>
<li>Words that come up a lot when you&#39;re mashing letters together.</li>
<li>A job where you don&#39;t use a computer? In this economy?</li>
<li>Sequencer-based techno.</li>
<li>Constraints that fit the UI extremely well.</li>
<li>An interface that makes a lot of sense for the Game Boy.</li>
<li>Printing out the entirety of Wikipedia so you can go offline for a while.</li>
<li>The compressed size of Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Here&#39;s a thing and the only thing it does is have information on it.</li>
<li>Hanging out in the library with people vs. with books.</li>
<li>The three best things in life.</li>
<li>Opening the tiny drawer and flipping through the tiny cards with your tiny hands and using your tiny eyes to read the tiny text.</li>
<li>Downloading information about a spider that links to another spider.</li>
<li>Using robots.txt to ward off all kinds of creatures, not just robots.</li>
<li>999: Extraterrestrial Worlds.</li>
<li>Abandoning the Dewey Decimal System after you discover that numbers go higher than 999.</li>
<li>Stopping to end.</li>
<li>This Cat Does Not Exist.</li>
<li>The perfect source of images that have never been used before.</li>
<li>An art project that invents politicians and texts people imploring them to donate to the campaign and that&#39;s how the art project gets funding.</li>
<li>What Socrates would have said about the Banksy that shredded itself.</li>
<li>Your legal name with a bunch of letters removed.</li>
<li>Picking an online handle that&#39;s very hard to pronounce to make sure people don&#39;t call you that in real life.</li>
<li>Giving everybody you meet a different name for yourself.</li>
<li>Having more friends than you&#39;ve ever had.</li>
<li>Having hobbies that put you in a room with people.</li>
<li>Libraries as raucous hangouts.</li>
<li>Inviting tweens to play video games in the back rooms (but not in a shady way)</li>
<li>A citizen saying &quot;hey, library, can I use a room?&quot;</li>
<li>Your local library, featuring the Middle-Aged Zone.</li>
<li>Lego Security Theater.</li>
<li>An unordered list of links.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew</li>
<li>Tyriq</li>
</ul>

<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>The Church of the SubGenius</li>
<li>Making FreeCell is kind of like playing FreeCell</li>
<li>How do we get to a place where our primary tool for productivity is not also our primary avenue of distraction?</li>
<li>&quot;&lt;3 Team Schiff&quot;, by Team Schiff 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png" rel="nofollow">https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>World Building Notes</li>
<li>An accent you cannot discern the origin of.</li>
<li>Fun worlds that I&#39;ve thought of.</li>
<li>A world where hair is the source of all life.</li>
<li>A port of Freecell to the Playdate that might never be released.</li>
<li>J.R. Bob Dobbs, a salesman from the 1950s.</li>
<li>Whether Discord (the IRC client) is named after Discordianism.</li>
<li>Tyriq Reads Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Principia Discordia.</li>
<li>An extremely profitable troll.</li>
<li>Good and bad reasons to troll.</li>
<li>Making your weird fun art without worrying about people taking you way too seriously fifty years from now.</li>
<li>Whether submarines are named after the Church of the Subgenus.</li>
<li>Rewriting your entire game in C.</li>
<li>Playing Freecell Validly.</li>
<li>A latecomer to Freecell.</li>
<li>The one known impossible Freecell seed.</li>
<li>The Freecell Helleed vs. the Minesweeper Dream Board.</li>
<li>The looking at the cube phase and the turning the cube phase.</li>
<li>Typeshift speed run hacks.</li>
<li>Knowing a 38-letter word.</li>
<li>Undo trees.</li>
<li>The New York Times games package being sold separately from the newspaper.</li>
<li>The diction of the New York Times crossword puzzle.</li>
<li>Doing Greek letter flash cards to up your crossword game.</li>
<li>Words that come up a lot when you&#39;re mashing letters together.</li>
<li>A job where you don&#39;t use a computer? In this economy?</li>
<li>Sequencer-based techno.</li>
<li>Constraints that fit the UI extremely well.</li>
<li>An interface that makes a lot of sense for the Game Boy.</li>
<li>Printing out the entirety of Wikipedia so you can go offline for a while.</li>
<li>The compressed size of Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Here&#39;s a thing and the only thing it does is have information on it.</li>
<li>Hanging out in the library with people vs. with books.</li>
<li>The three best things in life.</li>
<li>Opening the tiny drawer and flipping through the tiny cards with your tiny hands and using your tiny eyes to read the tiny text.</li>
<li>Downloading information about a spider that links to another spider.</li>
<li>Using robots.txt to ward off all kinds of creatures, not just robots.</li>
<li>999: Extraterrestrial Worlds.</li>
<li>Abandoning the Dewey Decimal System after you discover that numbers go higher than 999.</li>
<li>Stopping to end.</li>
<li>This Cat Does Not Exist.</li>
<li>The perfect source of images that have never been used before.</li>
<li>An art project that invents politicians and texts people imploring them to donate to the campaign and that&#39;s how the art project gets funding.</li>
<li>What Socrates would have said about the Banksy that shredded itself.</li>
<li>Your legal name with a bunch of letters removed.</li>
<li>Picking an online handle that&#39;s very hard to pronounce to make sure people don&#39;t call you that in real life.</li>
<li>Giving everybody you meet a different name for yourself.</li>
<li>Having more friends than you&#39;ve ever had.</li>
<li>Having hobbies that put you in a room with people.</li>
<li>Libraries as raucous hangouts.</li>
<li>Inviting tweens to play video games in the back rooms (but not in a shady way)</li>
<li>A citizen saying &quot;hey, library, can I use a room?&quot;</li>
<li>Your local library, featuring the Middle-Aged Zone.</li>
<li>Lego Security Theater.</li>
<li>An unordered list of links.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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  <title>223. Three Hats to Scoop up a Mouse</title>
  <link>https://topiclords.com/three-hats-to-scoop-up-a-mouse</link>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
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  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Andrew and Aubrianne. We discuss knitting patterns as open source clothing, making your video game feel original, using insert after all, The Garden by Shel Silverstein, and aphantasia but for audiation.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:12:38</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Lords:
* Andrew
  * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
* Aubrianne
Topics:
* Knitting patterns are open source clothing
* This one weird trick will make your videogame feel original
  * Esper says: "JRPGs are just menu games. Everything that's happening is an option in a menu doing some math, there's almost never timing involved. Why do they have to be 'battles?' I've always wanted to make a JRPG set in 1990 where instead of getting in battles, you're just a band from Detroit on tour. There's probably enough going on that you could make interesting JRPG 'battles' and story and characters out of that. 'Audience response' as an HP meter that goes up instead of down, I guess."
* I noticed myself using insert. It turns out I use insert.
* https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-the-garden-annotated
  * Esper says: "The best summation of Black Mirror I ever heard was: 'Can I have an apple?' 'No, there are only Cyber Apples.' 'Can I have a Cyber Apple?' 'No.'"
* Aphantasia but for audiation. Is that a thing?
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LE8scke8
Microtopics:
* Wool socks.
* The thing Jim heard about wool.
* Making a rope out of human hair.
* Whether there are multiple Columbos or just one.
* Which one of you is the programmer and which one is the rubber duck?
* A human 3D printer.
* Keeping your hands busy.
* Stim vs. fidget.
* How to end a conversation that is not during a D&amp;amp;D session.
* Discovering that your entire personality is a coping mechanism.
* YarnTube.
* The fine line between dressing like a grandma and dressing like a really slutty grandma.
* It's a tube. Figure it out.
* Doing it badly until you figure out how to do it better.
* Making a game that is fun even if it doesn't have health bars.
* Instead of doing the easy and obvious things, do something really hard instead.
* Why video games have conflict.
* Disaccord between you and everyone else in the video game.
* Definitely arguably.
* Kids learning from people who are not their parents.
* Smashing a bunch of things together until fun emerges.
* It's not a game where you jump over pits and it's not a game where you hit people with swords so what even is it??
* Dating anime ladies by clicking through text.
* A caveat among recommenders.
* Video game dialog that makes you feel conflicted about shooting Nazis.
* Remembering people's tweets.
* The Rule of Thirds of video game dialog.
* Executing a bad idea very well.
* No One Weird Trick for learning to play cello.
* The insert key as part of your typing repertoire.
* Whether pause/break still works.
* A keyboard without the LinkedIn key.
* Getting your grandma online.
* Pushing the pizza key on the keyboard and the CD-ROM drive opens and there it is.
* Rifled plumbing that allows sewage to flow in a clockwise spiral while clean water flows in a counterclockwise spiral and they never touch.
* A surprise poem where none of your fruit is food.
* How to make a poem fit on Pinterest.
* No combat in my poems.
* Doing your best to make a good thing but never thinking your own work is good even after you experience great success.
* A grocery list with a Black Mirror twist ending.
* Having money in Venmo but you need to sign up for Venmo to get it.
* Listening to a thing if you want to know what it sounds like.
* Anauralia: the silent mind.
* It takes your whole brain to be you, it doesn't have time to be other people too.
* Not watching Black Mirror so that you can believe everyone when they tell you lies about Black Mirror.
* It was Emma Thompson all along.
* The difficulty of remembering Maggie Gyllenhaal.
* Getting ripped while sitting motionless at your desk.
* That fat jiggling machine from the 50s.
* A weighted hula hoop to massage your guts.
* Jorts Horse.
* A bunch of millennials shitposting.
* Trying to distribute your games locally by stapling a floppy disk to a telephone pole 
* Microtransaction pump games.
* Sneaking into an arcade with a new arcade game in your back pocket and furtively shoving your new game between two existing arcade games. 
</description>
  <content:encoded>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aubrianne</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Knitting patterns are open source clothing</li>
<li>This one weird trick will make your videogame feel original

<ul>
<li>Esper says: &quot;JRPGs are just menu games. Everything that&#39;s happening is an option in a menu doing some math, there&#39;s almost never timing involved. Why do they have to be &#39;battles?&#39; I&#39;ve always wanted to make a JRPG set in 1990 where instead of getting in battles, you&#39;re just a band from Detroit on tour. There&#39;s probably enough going on that you could make interesting JRPG &#39;battles&#39; and story and characters out of that. &#39;Audience response&#39; as an HP meter that goes up instead of down, I guess.&quot;</li>
</ul></li>
<li>I noticed myself using insert. It turns out I use insert.</li>
<li><a href="https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-the-garden-annotated" rel="nofollow">https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-the-garden-annotated</a>

<ul>
<li>Esper says: &quot;The best summation of Black Mirror I ever heard was: &#39;Can I have an apple?&#39; &#39;No, there are only Cyber Apples.&#39; &#39;Can I have a Cyber Apple?&#39; &#39;No.&#39;&quot;</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aphantasia but for audiation. Is that a thing?

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LE8scke8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LE8scke8</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Wool socks.</li>
<li>The thing Jim heard about wool.</li>
<li>Making a rope out of human hair.</li>
<li>Whether there are multiple Columbos or just one.</li>
<li>Which one of you is the programmer and which one is the rubber duck?</li>
<li>A human 3D printer.</li>
<li>Keeping your hands busy.</li>
<li>Stim vs. fidget.</li>
<li>How to end a conversation that is not during a D&amp;D session.</li>
<li>Discovering that your entire personality is a coping mechanism.</li>
<li>YarnTube.</li>
<li>The fine line between dressing like a grandma and dressing like a really slutty grandma.</li>
<li>It&#39;s a tube. Figure it out.</li>
<li>Doing it badly until you figure out how to do it better.</li>
<li>Making a game that is fun even if it doesn&#39;t have health bars.</li>
<li>Instead of doing the easy and obvious things, do something really hard instead.</li>
<li>Why video games have conflict.</li>
<li>Disaccord between you and everyone else in the video game.</li>
<li>Definitely arguably.</li>
<li>Kids learning from people who are not their parents.</li>
<li>Smashing a bunch of things together until fun emerges.</li>
<li>It&#39;s not a game where you jump over pits and it&#39;s not a game where you hit people with swords so what even is it??</li>
<li>Dating anime ladies by clicking through text.</li>
<li>A caveat among recommenders.</li>
<li>Video game dialog that makes you feel conflicted about shooting Nazis.</li>
<li>Remembering people&#39;s tweets.</li>
<li>The Rule of Thirds of video game dialog.</li>
<li>Executing a bad idea very well.</li>
<li>No One Weird Trick for learning to play cello.</li>
<li>The insert key as part of your typing repertoire.</li>
<li>Whether pause/break still works.</li>
<li>A keyboard without the LinkedIn key.</li>
<li>Getting your grandma online.</li>
<li>Pushing the pizza key on the keyboard and the CD-ROM drive opens and there it is.</li>
<li>Rifled plumbing that allows sewage to flow in a clockwise spiral while clean water flows in a counterclockwise spiral and they never touch.</li>
<li>A surprise poem where none of your fruit is food.</li>
<li>How to make a poem fit on Pinterest.</li>
<li>No combat in my poems.</li>
<li>Doing your best to make a good thing but never thinking your own work is good even after you experience great success.</li>
<li>A grocery list with a Black Mirror twist ending.</li>
<li>Having money in Venmo but you need to sign up for Venmo to get it.</li>
<li>Listening to a thing if you want to know what it sounds like.</li>
<li>Anauralia: the silent mind.</li>
<li>It takes your whole brain to be you, it doesn&#39;t have time to be other people too.</li>
<li>Not watching Black Mirror so that you can believe everyone when they tell you lies about Black Mirror.</li>
<li>It was Emma Thompson all along.</li>
<li>The difficulty of remembering Maggie Gyllenhaal.</li>
<li>Getting ripped while sitting motionless at your desk.</li>
<li>That fat jiggling machine from the 50s.</li>
<li>A weighted hula hoop to massage your guts.</li>
<li>Jorts Horse.</li>
<li>A bunch of millennials shitposting.</li>
<li>Trying to distribute your games locally by stapling a floppy disk to a telephone pole </li>
<li>Microtransaction pump games.</li>
<li>Sneaking into an arcade with a new arcade game in your back pocket and furtively shoving your new game between two existing arcade games.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
  </content:encoded>
  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aubrianne</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Knitting patterns are open source clothing</li>
<li>This one weird trick will make your videogame feel original

<ul>
<li>Esper says: &quot;JRPGs are just menu games. Everything that&#39;s happening is an option in a menu doing some math, there&#39;s almost never timing involved. Why do they have to be &#39;battles?&#39; I&#39;ve always wanted to make a JRPG set in 1990 where instead of getting in battles, you&#39;re just a band from Detroit on tour. There&#39;s probably enough going on that you could make interesting JRPG &#39;battles&#39; and story and characters out of that. &#39;Audience response&#39; as an HP meter that goes up instead of down, I guess.&quot;</li>
</ul></li>
<li>I noticed myself using insert. It turns out I use insert.</li>
<li><a href="https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-the-garden-annotated" rel="nofollow">https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-the-garden-annotated</a>

<ul>
<li>Esper says: &quot;The best summation of Black Mirror I ever heard was: &#39;Can I have an apple?&#39; &#39;No, there are only Cyber Apples.&#39; &#39;Can I have a Cyber Apple?&#39; &#39;No.&#39;&quot;</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Aphantasia but for audiation. Is that a thing?

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LE8scke8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LE8scke8</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Wool socks.</li>
<li>The thing Jim heard about wool.</li>
<li>Making a rope out of human hair.</li>
<li>Whether there are multiple Columbos or just one.</li>
<li>Which one of you is the programmer and which one is the rubber duck?</li>
<li>A human 3D printer.</li>
<li>Keeping your hands busy.</li>
<li>Stim vs. fidget.</li>
<li>How to end a conversation that is not during a D&amp;D session.</li>
<li>Discovering that your entire personality is a coping mechanism.</li>
<li>YarnTube.</li>
<li>The fine line between dressing like a grandma and dressing like a really slutty grandma.</li>
<li>It&#39;s a tube. Figure it out.</li>
<li>Doing it badly until you figure out how to do it better.</li>
<li>Making a game that is fun even if it doesn&#39;t have health bars.</li>
<li>Instead of doing the easy and obvious things, do something really hard instead.</li>
<li>Why video games have conflict.</li>
<li>Disaccord between you and everyone else in the video game.</li>
<li>Definitely arguably.</li>
<li>Kids learning from people who are not their parents.</li>
<li>Smashing a bunch of things together until fun emerges.</li>
<li>It&#39;s not a game where you jump over pits and it&#39;s not a game where you hit people with swords so what even is it??</li>
<li>Dating anime ladies by clicking through text.</li>
<li>A caveat among recommenders.</li>
<li>Video game dialog that makes you feel conflicted about shooting Nazis.</li>
<li>Remembering people&#39;s tweets.</li>
<li>The Rule of Thirds of video game dialog.</li>
<li>Executing a bad idea very well.</li>
<li>No One Weird Trick for learning to play cello.</li>
<li>The insert key as part of your typing repertoire.</li>
<li>Whether pause/break still works.</li>
<li>A keyboard without the LinkedIn key.</li>
<li>Getting your grandma online.</li>
<li>Pushing the pizza key on the keyboard and the CD-ROM drive opens and there it is.</li>
<li>Rifled plumbing that allows sewage to flow in a clockwise spiral while clean water flows in a counterclockwise spiral and they never touch.</li>
<li>A surprise poem where none of your fruit is food.</li>
<li>How to make a poem fit on Pinterest.</li>
<li>No combat in my poems.</li>
<li>Doing your best to make a good thing but never thinking your own work is good even after you experience great success.</li>
<li>A grocery list with a Black Mirror twist ending.</li>
<li>Having money in Venmo but you need to sign up for Venmo to get it.</li>
<li>Listening to a thing if you want to know what it sounds like.</li>
<li>Anauralia: the silent mind.</li>
<li>It takes your whole brain to be you, it doesn&#39;t have time to be other people too.</li>
<li>Not watching Black Mirror so that you can believe everyone when they tell you lies about Black Mirror.</li>
<li>It was Emma Thompson all along.</li>
<li>The difficulty of remembering Maggie Gyllenhaal.</li>
<li>Getting ripped while sitting motionless at your desk.</li>
<li>That fat jiggling machine from the 50s.</li>
<li>A weighted hula hoop to massage your guts.</li>
<li>Jorts Horse.</li>
<li>A bunch of millennials shitposting.</li>
<li>Trying to distribute your games locally by stapling a floppy disk to a telephone pole </li>
<li>Microtransaction pump games.</li>
<li>Sneaking into an arcade with a new arcade game in your back pocket and furtively shoving your new game between two existing arcade games.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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  <title>212. Back in My Day, Kids Actually Crossied the Road</title>
  <link>https://topiclords.com/back-in-my-day-kids-actually-crossied-the-road</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">852f0f94-acae-468d-a370-9aedef1e5a3e</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/852f0f94-acae-468d-a370-9aedef1e5a3e.mp3" length="68014914" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Mitch and Andrew. We discuss how many Super Mario games there are now, owning the domain emailfordogs.com, whether the DMV is hiring kids to jump in front of your car, Love in the Age of Google, the Burrito Run, and storytelling in the WarioWare series.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:10:50</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/cover.jpg?v=5"/>
  <description>Lords:
* Mitch
  * https://janmisali.tumblr.com/
  * https://www.seximal.net/
* Andrew
  * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
Topics:
* Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first mainline 2D Mario game since... (how many Super Mario games are there? update)
  * Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw
  * New survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/viewform
* Owning the domain emailfordogs.com for some reason
* When I took my driver's test, a kid ran out onto the road in front of me, I braked, and the proctor made a check mark on his forms.
* Love in the Age of Google by Brian Bilston
  * https://brianbilston.com/2018/08/
* The Burrito Run (a form of physical exercise)
* The WarioWare series has become increasingly story-driven in every game since WarioWare: Snapped! (DSi, 2008)
Microtopics:
* Your names.
* Jokes that have or have not been done.
* The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.)
* A game which has no sequels.
* Pizza Panda dot Pizza.
* Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links.
* A polling feature that is great for polling people.
* Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything.
* How to make your audience stop clicking links.
* 358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games.
* A game called Super Mario Bros. Something.
* All the different years there hasn't been a new Super Mario game since.
* A controversy, but not one people care about.
* New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game.
* Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up.
* Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take.
* Looking at all these MS-DOS colors.
* Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it's just a guy!
* Mario games for MS-DOS.
* A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently.
* Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man.
* The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people.
* New Super Mario Bros. Mii.
* Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology.
* Super Mario Bros. Special.
* A smeary snapshot of your mind.
* A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make.
* Working on a game until it's ready.
* If you like Mario games, then it's one of them. If you don't then it's not.
* Super Mario Bros. Tudor.
* Super Mario Bros. Oneder.
* Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com.
* A hobby you used to be able to have.
* Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name.
* Rip the old spacejam.com.
* Space Jam: a New Legacy.
* Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com.
* A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver's test examiner and one child.
* Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test.
* A checkbox on the DMV test labeled "did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars."
* Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road.
* A smoke made with the fume of sighs.
* A poem that scans as a poem.
* A million monkeys using a million trackers.
* One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers.
* A new form of physical exercise.
* Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective.
* Copylefted exercise routines.
* There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine.
* Dogs who are like dogs.
* Dog theory.
* What's more habitual than eating lunch?
* Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.)
* Booger joke fart joke silly game.
* A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series.
* Wario's hiring process.
* A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head.
* Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it.
* The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series.
* Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction.
* The man who was too many Marios.
* Hearing Wario speak in full sentences.
* A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Mitch

<ul>
<li><a href="https://janmisali.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">https://janmisali.tumblr.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.seximal.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.seximal.net/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first mainline 2D Mario game since... (how many Super Mario games are there? update)

<ul>
<li>Original video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw</a></li>
<li>New survey: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/viewform" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/viewform</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Owning the domain emailfordogs.com for some reason</li>
<li>When I took my driver&#39;s test, a kid ran out onto the road in front of me, I braked, and the proctor made a check mark on his forms.</li>
<li>Love in the Age of Google by Brian Bilston

<ul>
<li><a href="https://brianbilston.com/2018/08/" rel="nofollow">https://brianbilston.com/2018/08/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Burrito Run (a form of physical exercise)</li>
<li>The WarioWare series has become increasingly story-driven in every game since WarioWare: Snapped! (DSi, 2008)</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Your names.</li>
<li>Jokes that have or have not been done.</li>
<li>The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.)</li>
<li>A game which has no sequels.</li>
<li>Pizza Panda dot Pizza.</li>
<li>Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links.</li>
<li>A polling feature that is great for polling people.</li>
<li>Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything.</li>
<li>How to make your audience stop clicking links.</li>
<li>358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games.</li>
<li>A game called Super Mario Bros. Something.</li>
<li>All the different years there hasn&#39;t been a new Super Mario game since.</li>
<li>A controversy, but not one people care about.</li>
<li>New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up.</li>
<li>Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take.</li>
<li>Looking at all these MS-DOS colors.</li>
<li>Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it&#39;s just a guy!</li>
<li>Mario games for MS-DOS.</li>
<li>A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently.</li>
<li>Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man.</li>
<li>The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people.</li>
<li>New Super Mario Bros. Mii.</li>
<li>Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Special.</li>
<li>A smeary snapshot of your mind.</li>
<li>A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make.</li>
<li>Working on a game until it&#39;s ready.</li>
<li>If you like Mario games, then it&#39;s one of them. If you don&#39;t then it&#39;s not.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Tudor.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Oneder.</li>
<li>Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com.</li>
<li>A hobby you used to be able to have.</li>
<li>Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name.</li>
<li>Rip the old spacejam.com.</li>
<li>Space Jam: a New Legacy.</li>
<li>Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com.</li>
<li>A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver&#39;s test examiner and one child.</li>
<li>Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test.</li>
<li>A checkbox on the DMV test labeled &quot;did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars.&quot;</li>
<li>Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road.</li>
<li>A smoke made with the fume of sighs.</li>
<li>A poem that scans as a poem.</li>
<li>A million monkeys using a million trackers.</li>
<li>One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers.</li>
<li>A new form of physical exercise.</li>
<li>Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective.</li>
<li>Copylefted exercise routines.</li>
<li>There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine.</li>
<li>Dogs who are like dogs.</li>
<li>Dog theory.</li>
<li>What&#39;s more habitual than eating lunch?</li>
<li>Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.)</li>
<li>Booger joke fart joke silly game.</li>
<li>A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series.</li>
<li>Wario&#39;s hiring process.</li>
<li>A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head.</li>
<li>Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it.</li>
<li>The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series.</li>
<li>Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction.</li>
<li>The man who was too many Marios.</li>
<li>Hearing Wario speak in full sentences.</li>
<li>A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Mitch

<ul>
<li><a href="https://janmisali.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">https://janmisali.tumblr.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.seximal.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.seximal.net/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first mainline 2D Mario game since... (how many Super Mario games are there? update)

<ul>
<li>Original video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw</a></li>
<li>New survey: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/viewform" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/viewform</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Owning the domain emailfordogs.com for some reason</li>
<li>When I took my driver&#39;s test, a kid ran out onto the road in front of me, I braked, and the proctor made a check mark on his forms.</li>
<li>Love in the Age of Google by Brian Bilston

<ul>
<li><a href="https://brianbilston.com/2018/08/" rel="nofollow">https://brianbilston.com/2018/08/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Burrito Run (a form of physical exercise)</li>
<li>The WarioWare series has become increasingly story-driven in every game since WarioWare: Snapped! (DSi, 2008)</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Your names.</li>
<li>Jokes that have or have not been done.</li>
<li>The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.)</li>
<li>A game which has no sequels.</li>
<li>Pizza Panda dot Pizza.</li>
<li>Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links.</li>
<li>A polling feature that is great for polling people.</li>
<li>Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything.</li>
<li>How to make your audience stop clicking links.</li>
<li>358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games.</li>
<li>A game called Super Mario Bros. Something.</li>
<li>All the different years there hasn&#39;t been a new Super Mario game since.</li>
<li>A controversy, but not one people care about.</li>
<li>New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up.</li>
<li>Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take.</li>
<li>Looking at all these MS-DOS colors.</li>
<li>Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it&#39;s just a guy!</li>
<li>Mario games for MS-DOS.</li>
<li>A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently.</li>
<li>Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man.</li>
<li>The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people.</li>
<li>New Super Mario Bros. Mii.</li>
<li>Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Special.</li>
<li>A smeary snapshot of your mind.</li>
<li>A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make.</li>
<li>Working on a game until it&#39;s ready.</li>
<li>If you like Mario games, then it&#39;s one of them. If you don&#39;t then it&#39;s not.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Tudor.</li>
<li>Super Mario Bros. Oneder.</li>
<li>Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com.</li>
<li>A hobby you used to be able to have.</li>
<li>Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name.</li>
<li>Rip the old spacejam.com.</li>
<li>Space Jam: a New Legacy.</li>
<li>Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com.</li>
<li>A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver&#39;s test examiner and one child.</li>
<li>Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test.</li>
<li>A checkbox on the DMV test labeled &quot;did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars.&quot;</li>
<li>Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road.</li>
<li>A smoke made with the fume of sighs.</li>
<li>A poem that scans as a poem.</li>
<li>A million monkeys using a million trackers.</li>
<li>One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers.</li>
<li>A new form of physical exercise.</li>
<li>Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective.</li>
<li>Copylefted exercise routines.</li>
<li>There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine.</li>
<li>Dogs who are like dogs.</li>
<li>Dog theory.</li>
<li>What&#39;s more habitual than eating lunch?</li>
<li>Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.)</li>
<li>Booger joke fart joke silly game.</li>
<li>A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series.</li>
<li>Wario&#39;s hiring process.</li>
<li>A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head.</li>
<li>Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it.</li>
<li>The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series.</li>
<li>Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction.</li>
<li>The man who was too many Marios.</li>
<li>Hearing Wario speak in full sentences.</li>
<li>A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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  <title>184. Times New Orange</title>
  <link>https://topiclords.com/times-new-orange</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">d960d39d-0ad6-4e40-b8d6-429e84024a66</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/d960d39d-0ad6-4e40-b8d6-429e84024a66.mp3" length="60889759" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Alexicographic and Andrew. We discuss what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together, talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion, the truth about Moon Mode, The Orange by Wendy Cope, learning Italian from a cartoon dog, being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking, and List of Video Games Considered Artistic</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:03:08</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/cover.jpg?v=5"/>
  <description>Lords:
* Alexicographic
  * https://twitter.com/alexicographic
  * https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames
* Andrew
  * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
Topics:
* The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together?
* Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion
* Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one.
  * https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake
* The Orange by Wendy Cope
  * https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange
* Learning Italian from a cartoon dog
* Being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking
  * https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking
* RIP List of Video Games Considered Artistic
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articlesfordeletion/Listofvideogamesconsidered_artistic
  * https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/
  * https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino
Microtopics:
* kittenm4ster's PICO-8 games.
* Vibing with the Alfonzo's Bowling Challenge ethos.
* A game that is implemented in under 8000 tokens.
* The ideal game pitch.
* Chocolate and cheese and something.
* Choccoli.
* Chocolate and gravy.
* A lukewarm Americano.
* A bunch of foodies who really know their foodstuffs.
* A fish being strangled by Red Vines.
* A GPU that has food inside of it.
* The Turing test for whether computers can taste foods.
* Asking Chat GPT what three foods you can combine to create a bomb in your kitchen.
* Whether Gallium has calories.
* Three people on a podcast who all think "trailers" should come after the movie 
* Finding out about a movie by seeing a trailer in a movie theater even though trailers are constantly spilling out of every screen you own.
* Getting the wiggles out.
* How to make the lives of people who enjoy looking at ads a little bit worse.
* Yelling "fire" before the movie starts so fewer people pay attention to the pre-movie ads.
* Wanting to become the reason all movies have "no leopards in the theater" PSAs now.
* A toddler watching Youtube, yelling "no!" and throwing the phone on the ground when an ad plays.
* Pushing the lever to receive your stochastic reward.
* Youtube deciding you've seen enough ads lately and taking pity on you.
* Trying to explain to a four year old how to play a light gun game but the game is over before you finish explaining.
* The Space Alien Busting Song.
* Drawing new mountains on the moon to test your camera's moon mode.
* Here's the moon again.
* A filter to replace pictures of your wife with the moon.
* A Snapchat filter that makes you feel like you used to be attractive.
* A filter that takes your bad photos of the moon and makes them even worse.
* The worst bunny in the moon.
* A good poem that rhymes.
* Turtle metaconsistency.
* Enormous and hilarious oranges.
* Good art here, you guys.
* Reading poetry in the original Helvetica.
* BorgiaPro on various font downloading sites.
* A cartoon that is entertaining even if you are not learning Italian.
* Finding Armando's old hat in the attic.
* Asking the clouds to move so that your hat can protect you from the sun.
* Working within a constraint that produces delightful nonsense.
* Photocopying yourself to create a black and white clone.
* What drugs they'll give to kids in what countries.
* Growing up but continuing to take the same drugs.
* A little girl who is also a dog.
* Subtitles that don't match what's being said aloud.
* Watching Italian TV using a VPN.
* The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical with the roller skates.
* Roller bladers dancing in weird futuristic costumes.
* Having positive fun experiences with language.
* Learning a new language while skydiving.
* Hiring an experienced skydiver who can give you foreign language lessons while you're both falling from a plane.
* Getting bored while skydiving and looking at your phone but there's no WiFi up there.
* How McElroy fans compliment someone's woodworking.
* How to Fake an Interest in Woodworking.
* Arguing about whether games are art.
* All the games that anyone's ever called art.
* Finding information about a deleted page on Wikipedia.
* Philosophical debate on the creative qualia of electronic structured play. (Roger Ebert has a subheading.)
* Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes philosophical zombies.
* Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes voodoo zombies.
* What Casinos are trying to do to attract kids who like video games.
* Whether Lechuck is a voodoo zombie or a Romero zombie.
* Hohokum.
* Finding a bunch of snakes that each have different names.
* What happens when you collect all the things. (Art.)
* List of Paintings Considered Artistic.
* Gimmick food that is more about the experience of eating a weird thing than the food itself.
* A restaurant that doesn't have plates and just pours the food into your cupped hands.
</description>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Alexicographic

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/alexicographic" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/alexicographic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together?</li>
<li>Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion</li>
<li>Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one.

<ul>
<li><a href="https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake" rel="nofollow">https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Orange by Wendy Cope

<ul>
<li><a href="https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange" rel="nofollow">https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Learning Italian from a cartoon dog</li>
<li>Being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking" rel="nofollow">https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>RIP List of Video Games Considered Artistic

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_video_games_considered_artistic" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_video_games_considered_artistic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/" rel="nofollow">https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino" rel="nofollow">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>kittenm4ster&#39;s PICO-8 games.</li>
<li>Vibing with the Alfonzo&#39;s Bowling Challenge ethos.</li>
<li>A game that is implemented in under 8000 tokens.</li>
<li>The ideal game pitch.</li>
<li>Chocolate and cheese and something.</li>
<li>Choccoli.</li>
<li>Chocolate and gravy.</li>
<li>A lukewarm Americano.</li>
<li>A bunch of foodies who really know their foodstuffs.</li>
<li>A fish being strangled by Red Vines.</li>
<li>A GPU that has food inside of it.</li>
<li>The Turing test for whether computers can taste foods.</li>
<li>Asking Chat GPT what three foods you can combine to create a bomb in your kitchen.</li>
<li>Whether Gallium has calories.</li>
<li>Three people on a podcast who all think &quot;trailers&quot; should come after the movie </li>
<li>Finding out about a movie by seeing a trailer in a movie theater even though trailers are constantly spilling out of every screen you own.</li>
<li>Getting the wiggles out.</li>
<li>How to make the lives of people who enjoy looking at ads a little bit worse.</li>
<li>Yelling &quot;fire&quot; before the movie starts so fewer people pay attention to the pre-movie ads.</li>
<li>Wanting to become the reason all movies have &quot;no leopards in the theater&quot; PSAs now.</li>
<li>A toddler watching Youtube, yelling &quot;no!&quot; and throwing the phone on the ground when an ad plays.</li>
<li>Pushing the lever to receive your stochastic reward.</li>
<li>Youtube deciding you&#39;ve seen enough ads lately and taking pity on you.</li>
<li>Trying to explain to a four year old how to play a light gun game but the game is over before you finish explaining.</li>
<li>The Space Alien Busting Song.</li>
<li>Drawing new mountains on the moon to test your camera&#39;s moon mode.</li>
<li>Here&#39;s the moon again.</li>
<li>A filter to replace pictures of your wife with the moon.</li>
<li>A Snapchat filter that makes you feel like you used to be attractive.</li>
<li>A filter that takes your bad photos of the moon and makes them even worse.</li>
<li>The worst bunny in the moon.</li>
<li>A good poem that rhymes.</li>
<li>Turtle metaconsistency.</li>
<li>Enormous and hilarious oranges.</li>
<li>Good art here, you guys.</li>
<li>Reading poetry in the original Helvetica.</li>
<li>BorgiaPro on various font downloading sites.</li>
<li>A cartoon that is entertaining even if you are not learning Italian.</li>
<li>Finding Armando&#39;s old hat in the attic.</li>
<li>Asking the clouds to move so that your hat can protect you from the sun.</li>
<li>Working within a constraint that produces delightful nonsense.</li>
<li>Photocopying yourself to create a black and white clone.</li>
<li>What drugs they&#39;ll give to kids in what countries.</li>
<li>Growing up but continuing to take the same drugs.</li>
<li>A little girl who is also a dog.</li>
<li>Subtitles that don&#39;t match what&#39;s being said aloud.</li>
<li>Watching Italian TV using a VPN.</li>
<li>The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical with the roller skates.</li>
<li>Roller bladers dancing in weird futuristic costumes.</li>
<li>Having positive fun experiences with language.</li>
<li>Learning a new language while skydiving.</li>
<li>Hiring an experienced skydiver who can give you foreign language lessons while you&#39;re both falling from a plane.</li>
<li>Getting bored while skydiving and looking at your phone but there&#39;s no WiFi up there.</li>
<li>How McElroy fans compliment someone&#39;s woodworking.</li>
<li>How to Fake an Interest in Woodworking.</li>
<li>Arguing about whether games are art.</li>
<li>All the games that anyone&#39;s ever called art.</li>
<li>Finding information about a deleted page on Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Philosophical debate on the creative qualia of electronic structured play. (Roger Ebert has a subheading.)</li>
<li>Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes philosophical zombies.</li>
<li>Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes voodoo zombies.</li>
<li>What Casinos are trying to do to attract kids who like video games.</li>
<li>Whether Lechuck is a voodoo zombie or a Romero zombie.</li>
<li>Hohokum.</li>
<li>Finding a bunch of snakes that each have different names.</li>
<li>What happens when you collect all the things. (Art.)</li>
<li>List of Paintings Considered Artistic.</li>
<li>Gimmick food that is more about the experience of eating a weird thing than the food itself.</li>
<li>A restaurant that doesn&#39;t have plates and just pours the food into your cupped hands.</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>Alexicographic

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/alexicographic" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/alexicographic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Andrew

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together?</li>
<li>Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion</li>
<li>Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one.

<ul>
<li><a href="https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake" rel="nofollow">https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Orange by Wendy Cope

<ul>
<li><a href="https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange" rel="nofollow">https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Learning Italian from a cartoon dog</li>
<li>Being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking" rel="nofollow">https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>RIP List of Video Games Considered Artistic

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_video_games_considered_artistic" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_video_games_considered_artistic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/" rel="nofollow">https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino" rel="nofollow">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>kittenm4ster&#39;s PICO-8 games.</li>
<li>Vibing with the Alfonzo&#39;s Bowling Challenge ethos.</li>
<li>A game that is implemented in under 8000 tokens.</li>
<li>The ideal game pitch.</li>
<li>Chocolate and cheese and something.</li>
<li>Choccoli.</li>
<li>Chocolate and gravy.</li>
<li>A lukewarm Americano.</li>
<li>A bunch of foodies who really know their foodstuffs.</li>
<li>A fish being strangled by Red Vines.</li>
<li>A GPU that has food inside of it.</li>
<li>The Turing test for whether computers can taste foods.</li>
<li>Asking Chat GPT what three foods you can combine to create a bomb in your kitchen.</li>
<li>Whether Gallium has calories.</li>
<li>Three people on a podcast who all think &quot;trailers&quot; should come after the movie </li>
<li>Finding out about a movie by seeing a trailer in a movie theater even though trailers are constantly spilling out of every screen you own.</li>
<li>Getting the wiggles out.</li>
<li>How to make the lives of people who enjoy looking at ads a little bit worse.</li>
<li>Yelling &quot;fire&quot; before the movie starts so fewer people pay attention to the pre-movie ads.</li>
<li>Wanting to become the reason all movies have &quot;no leopards in the theater&quot; PSAs now.</li>
<li>A toddler watching Youtube, yelling &quot;no!&quot; and throwing the phone on the ground when an ad plays.</li>
<li>Pushing the lever to receive your stochastic reward.</li>
<li>Youtube deciding you&#39;ve seen enough ads lately and taking pity on you.</li>
<li>Trying to explain to a four year old how to play a light gun game but the game is over before you finish explaining.</li>
<li>The Space Alien Busting Song.</li>
<li>Drawing new mountains on the moon to test your camera&#39;s moon mode.</li>
<li>Here&#39;s the moon again.</li>
<li>A filter to replace pictures of your wife with the moon.</li>
<li>A Snapchat filter that makes you feel like you used to be attractive.</li>
<li>A filter that takes your bad photos of the moon and makes them even worse.</li>
<li>The worst bunny in the moon.</li>
<li>A good poem that rhymes.</li>
<li>Turtle metaconsistency.</li>
<li>Enormous and hilarious oranges.</li>
<li>Good art here, you guys.</li>
<li>Reading poetry in the original Helvetica.</li>
<li>BorgiaPro on various font downloading sites.</li>
<li>A cartoon that is entertaining even if you are not learning Italian.</li>
<li>Finding Armando&#39;s old hat in the attic.</li>
<li>Asking the clouds to move so that your hat can protect you from the sun.</li>
<li>Working within a constraint that produces delightful nonsense.</li>
<li>Photocopying yourself to create a black and white clone.</li>
<li>What drugs they&#39;ll give to kids in what countries.</li>
<li>Growing up but continuing to take the same drugs.</li>
<li>A little girl who is also a dog.</li>
<li>Subtitles that don&#39;t match what&#39;s being said aloud.</li>
<li>Watching Italian TV using a VPN.</li>
<li>The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical with the roller skates.</li>
<li>Roller bladers dancing in weird futuristic costumes.</li>
<li>Having positive fun experiences with language.</li>
<li>Learning a new language while skydiving.</li>
<li>Hiring an experienced skydiver who can give you foreign language lessons while you&#39;re both falling from a plane.</li>
<li>Getting bored while skydiving and looking at your phone but there&#39;s no WiFi up there.</li>
<li>How McElroy fans compliment someone&#39;s woodworking.</li>
<li>How to Fake an Interest in Woodworking.</li>
<li>Arguing about whether games are art.</li>
<li>All the games that anyone&#39;s ever called art.</li>
<li>Finding information about a deleted page on Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Philosophical debate on the creative qualia of electronic structured play. (Roger Ebert has a subheading.)</li>
<li>Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes philosophical zombies.</li>
<li>Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes voodoo zombies.</li>
<li>What Casinos are trying to do to attract kids who like video games.</li>
<li>Whether Lechuck is a voodoo zombie or a Romero zombie.</li>
<li>Hohokum.</li>
<li>Finding a bunch of snakes that each have different names.</li>
<li>What happens when you collect all the things. (Art.)</li>
<li>List of Paintings Considered Artistic.</li>
<li>Gimmick food that is more about the experience of eating a weird thing than the food itself.</li>
<li>A restaurant that doesn&#39;t have plates and just pours the food into your cupped hands.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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