Lords:

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

Topics:

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

Microtopics:

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

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Lords:

• Jay is working on an expansion to Hypnospace Outlaw.
  • https://twitter.com/jaytholen
  • Rollin' With Tholen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZFm1FLx6E
• Chris's album "The Lost Backups" will hopefully be out by the time this episode airs.
  • https://twitter.com/CHRISdelCAMINO
  • https://twitter.com/beekChiptunes
  • https://www.instagram.com/chrisdelcamino/

Topics:

• 7:06 I'm looking for ideas for my "songwriters" "tarot deck"
  • The Most Wanted Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg
  • The Most Unwanted Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
• 19:05 Did CD-ROM multimedia programs have advantages over later formats (fancy websites, mobile apps, etc.) or is it just nostalgia?
  • Ishkur's Guide. http://music.ishkur.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishkur%27s_Guide_to_Electronic_Music
• 26:47 Banana Variety Box results
  • "The Coronavirus Is Bringing Back a 1,000-Year-Old ‘Cheese’ in Japan" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-make-so-cheese
• 33:58 Craig asks: "Picking the right speech sample for the breakdown in your '90s techno. Compare and contrast, 'I am not an Atomic Playboy' from Second Reality vs. 'Ow that hurts' from Ballz: The Director's Cut for 3DO"
  • Ballz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AhNn9vB-Lw
  • Second Reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJF0vUtVpCM
  • Legion of Rock Stars. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqSsybm3hJ5g6P7wbhfTXUk_RtM1wbUFA
  • 2 Legit 2 Quit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yun_uAiaVY
  • The Mollusk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5K_w9Tbhoc
• 41:23 The genres available in the ID3 tag. They look like a 14 year old just started naming genres off the top of his head and stopped when he hit 128. Where did this come from and why have we let it persist for so long?
  • Milton Fludgecow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWl8phxrP78&list=PLvKD5LjgylqZhQaxtDa00t1sh19MYzB9R
• 46:14 Who remembers everything2.com?
  • https://everything2.com/user/chrisjh

Microtopics:

• Adding even more Internet to your fake Internet.
• Hearing someone pronounce their own name wrong in a YouTube video and shaking your fist at the screen.
• Changing your name because you're just looking to make your way.
• The multitude of four-letter B and K names in the demo scene.
• Promoting your album because hopefully you'll finish it before this episode is out.
• Dreaming your friend a horrible job history.
• A pair of tongs with a sticker on them saying "Super Atheist."
• The guy in the pharmacy whose only job is to not give people their prescription.
• Getting your doctorate for free because you're dating a doctor.
• Forgetting all about Peter Schmidt.
• Buying chord pack after chord pack and eventually giving up and buying the ultra-rare G11/F# card from a collector.
• An app that scans your Spotify play list and generates a list of constraints to write songs under.
• A team of researchers writing the perfect song by surveying listeners about what elements of music that they like the most.
• A team of researchers writing the worst possible song by surveying listeners about what elements of music that they hate the most.
• A rap opera about life on the farm with a children's choir singing holiday and corporate jingles.
• Breaking your jaw harp because your jaw is just too strong.
• People hating different kinds of music in 2020 from what they hated in the 1990s.
• The identity of the accordion player on the floppy disks Jim dropped as he was arrested by time travelers.
• Round Robin Key Clicks From A Skype Call.
• Waiting for CD-ROMs in the 90s being faster than modern web pages.
• Clicking on Miles Davis' face and reading about Hard Bop.
• A topic you are interested enough in to buy a CD-ROM about it.
• Jobs paying well until investors realize they're money-losers.
• One person's perspective on how all electronic music breaks down.
• Information that is thorough and well-presented memetically dominating over information that is arguably more accurate but less accessible.
• Finding a guide to obscure music genres and worrying that they might be magic spells.
• Eating a bunch of weird bananas and deciding that all bananas basically taste the same.
• Militant banana forums rallying the troops to take down Jim's boring banana opinions.
• Recognizing differences between apple cultivars.
• Growing up eating the Red Delicious because it's red and delicious.
• Which apple cultivar Snow White ate.
• The apple core as a social construct.
• Why the Japanese don't like cheese when your toddler proves that it's super easy to develop a taste for cheese.
• Seagulls eating rats now that humans are out of the way.
• Whether or not the Ballz Directors Cut for 3DO OST is homophobic.
• Analyzing the music theory behind the Ballz Directors Cut for 3DO OST.
• Getting a band together and playing a song you all remember poorly and that's it, that's the album.
• Having heard 20 seconds of a comedy song and not needing to listen to the remaining five minutes.
• Trying to make fun of a clown.
• Writing questions that generate techno samples in response.
• All protocol and format technology decisions being made by 14 year olds.
• Whether or not Chanson is a portmanteau of Chiptune Hanson.
• The difference between Afrobeat and Afrobeats.
• Not adding Shoegaze to Winamp until 2010.
• A pre-Wikipedia attempt to invent the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
• Making your web that is a sequel to your previous web site, so you give it the same name but add a 2.
• Wikipedia except that instead of an editorial voice it has a poem about a pomegranate.
• The most popular chord progressions staying about the same for the past 20 years.
• Sliding an open chord up the neck and leaving the open strings where they are.
• There probably being a music theory name for the musical trick you like to do.
• Counting in binary while meditating because if you just count in decimal you'll lose track when you think of something else.
• A classic web app where you submit a form and the server generates the HTML you will see in response.
• Accidentally lording it over someone.
• Having a fake thing you fool yourself into believing is important so you can procrastinate doing it and get the real work done.
• How to abbreviate Murder Hornet Keeper into a demo scene handle.
• Learning German from Wolfenstein 3D.

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