web02.fireside.fm Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:29:36 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Cory” https://topiclords.com/tags/cory Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. en-us episodic The only place on the internet you can hear topics discussed! Jim Stormdancer Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. yes Jim Stormdancer jim@goombas.org 344. All Teeth Are Equally Smooth in the Eyes of the Lord https://topiclords.com/all-teeth-are-equally-smooth-in-the-eyes-of-the-lord f6cbd977-6e2a-475b-8673-65508ae6080d Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Lena and Cory. We discuss artists who make teeth, how it rules to be immortal, how committed to the bit is committed to the bit enough, A Shapeless Figure, by Evan Balster 57:30 yes <p>Lords:</p> <ul> <li>Lena</li> <li>Cory</li> </ul> <p>Topics:</p> <ul> <li>Re: Cory's teeth topic, there's so many artists making teeth</li> <li>It would actually rule to be immortal, and all those stories about how it's not are just cope</li> <li>How committed to the bit is committed to the bit enough?</li> <li>A poem by Evan Balster, shared with us at GDC: A shapeless figure, locked away Inside a realm she godly sways; To weave in light and shadow, there, A living, breathing world from air. And nightly does she host a guest Who comes and goes at own behest, And time to time might take the throne To make the place a toy his own And on the morn to leave the mess Its keeper cleans, without protest. For lonely is the weaving-hand, The breaking-one's its only friend.</li> </ul> <p>Microtopics:</p> <ul> <li>Topic Lords-themed hangouts.</li> <li>Indie City Games. </li> <li>Two Truths and a Lie, a science fiction detective story. </li> <li>A disgusting old man using an army of combat drones to find out what happened to his ex-boyfriend. </li> <li>Two topics for the price of one. </li> <li>Tooth dreams. </li> <li>Considering what to do about your teeth as you go through various phases of having or not having teeth. </li> <li>What people say if your femur is yellow. </li> <li>People dying from mouth problems. </li> <li>Going to the tooth artists and customizing your new teeth, just like Build-a-Bear.</li> <li>Reaching into your mouth and pushing the button on your artificial tooth that plays your catchphrase.</li> <li>The artist who illustrates your subject in stages as you dissect it. </li> <li>Illustrating gross health things in a way that people can understand. </li> <li>The cartoon amoeba that teaches you how to not get salmonella. </li> <li>The kind of people who comment on Fecal Transplant Explainer videos. </li> <li>Teeth: you chew with them. </li> <li>Hitting up your dentist for extra teeth because the last ones were delicious. </li> <li>The thing you have in your mouth the most that you're not allowed to eat. (Your teeth.)</li> <li>Gradually eating your own teeth because you grind your own teeth at night. </li> <li>Different sets of dentures for different vibes.</li> <li>How to get glow in the dark teeth. </li> <li>Discovering the hard way that your fake teeth don't fluoresce under UV light. </li> <li>An entire generation of Americans going into the dentist together, like Hands Across America, to get all their teeth pulled so they can get dentures. </li> <li>Losing all your teeth just in time for COVID.</li> <li>Learning to not feel like you have to explain why you don't have any teeth. </li> <li>Depressing people with possible existences that your mind can create.</li> <li>What to do with the people who get too old to have good opinions. </li> <li>Trying to maintain a continuous personality day to day. </li> <li>Immortality vs. just living a really long time. </li> <li>Burning it all down for the sake of your legacy. </li> <li>Continuing to try to save people's lives and eventually inventing immortality. </li> <li>Death: it's really cool actually. </li> <li>Coming face to face with death and realizing it's not scary at all. </li> <li>A Satanist and his wife selling everything to open a shop where they refuse to sell you human skulls and serial killer memorabilia.</li> <li>Not needing a Memento Mori room because you already think about death all the time. </li> <li>Transferring a marble from the future jar to the past jar to remind yourself not to waste this day. </li> <li>Having a child and tossing it on the pile of existing children that everyone's already taking care of. </li> <li>All there is to learn in the universe. </li> <li>The Sword in the Stone. </li> <li>Working all of physics out from first principles because it's fun and you have that kind of time.</li> <li>Deciding to spend 100 years just hanging out with a tree and you don't even have podcasts. </li> <li>Icehenge.</li> <li>Associated Press title capitalization rules.</li> <li>A decision that is awesome for everything except your wallet.</li> <li>Artists who don't like what they make and don't enjoy the process, they just have to do it. </li> <li>Not doing art for long enough to realize how unhappy you are because you're not doing art. </li> <li>Making games because it's cool and fun to make games.</li> <li>Making yourself happier by pretending to be happy. </li> <li>What's bad about being too happy? </li> <li>Oh thank God, a crisis!</li> <li>A series of dreams in which the dream world is aware of you and hates you. </li> <li>Lonely is the weaving hand, the breaking one its only friend. </li> <li>Why you should be grateful when your son throws his trash on the floor. </li> <li>The most mystical thing that we get to regularly experience. </li> <li>Déjà rêvé.</li> <li>One of the worst ways to determine whether you're dreaming.</li> <li>Morpheus refusing to explain the Matrix in words even though he could describe it in 30 seconds. </li> <li>Spoilers: the events of Inception did not actually occur. </li> </ul> Lords:

  • Lena
  • Cory

Topics:

  • Re: Cory's teeth topic, there's so many artists making teeth
  • It would actually rule to be immortal, and all those stories about how it's not are just cope
  • How committed to the bit is committed to the bit enough?
  • A poem by Evan Balster, shared with us at GDC: A shapeless figure, locked away Inside a realm she godly sways; To weave in light and shadow, there, A living, breathing world from air. And nightly does she host a guest Who comes and goes at own behest, And time to time might take the throne To make the place a toy his own And on the morn to leave the mess Its keeper cleans, without protest. For lonely is the weaving-hand, The breaking-one's its only friend.

Microtopics:

  • Topic Lords-themed hangouts.
  • Indie City Games.
  • Two Truths and a Lie, a science fiction detective story.
  • A disgusting old man using an army of combat drones to find out what happened to his ex-boyfriend.
  • Two topics for the price of one.
  • Tooth dreams.
  • Considering what to do about your teeth as you go through various phases of having or not having teeth.
  • What people say if your femur is yellow.
  • People dying from mouth problems.
  • Going to the tooth artists and customizing your new teeth, just like Build-a-Bear.
  • Reaching into your mouth and pushing the button on your artificial tooth that plays your catchphrase.
  • The artist who illustrates your subject in stages as you dissect it.
  • Illustrating gross health things in a way that people can understand.
  • The cartoon amoeba that teaches you how to not get salmonella.
  • The kind of people who comment on Fecal Transplant Explainer videos.
  • Teeth: you chew with them.
  • Hitting up your dentist for extra teeth because the last ones were delicious.
  • The thing you have in your mouth the most that you're not allowed to eat. (Your teeth.)
  • Gradually eating your own teeth because you grind your own teeth at night.
  • Different sets of dentures for different vibes.
  • How to get glow in the dark teeth.
  • Discovering the hard way that your fake teeth don't fluoresce under UV light.
  • An entire generation of Americans going into the dentist together, like Hands Across America, to get all their teeth pulled so they can get dentures.
  • Losing all your teeth just in time for COVID.
  • Learning to not feel like you have to explain why you don't have any teeth.
  • Depressing people with possible existences that your mind can create.
  • What to do with the people who get too old to have good opinions.
  • Trying to maintain a continuous personality day to day.
  • Immortality vs. just living a really long time.
  • Burning it all down for the sake of your legacy.
  • Continuing to try to save people's lives and eventually inventing immortality.
  • Death: it's really cool actually.
  • Coming face to face with death and realizing it's not scary at all.
  • A Satanist and his wife selling everything to open a shop where they refuse to sell you human skulls and serial killer memorabilia.
  • Not needing a Memento Mori room because you already think about death all the time.
  • Transferring a marble from the future jar to the past jar to remind yourself not to waste this day.
  • Having a child and tossing it on the pile of existing children that everyone's already taking care of.
  • All there is to learn in the universe.
  • The Sword in the Stone.
  • Working all of physics out from first principles because it's fun and you have that kind of time.
  • Deciding to spend 100 years just hanging out with a tree and you don't even have podcasts.
  • Icehenge.
  • Associated Press title capitalization rules.
  • A decision that is awesome for everything except your wallet.
  • Artists who don't like what they make and don't enjoy the process, they just have to do it.
  • Not doing art for long enough to realize how unhappy you are because you're not doing art.
  • Making games because it's cool and fun to make games.
  • Making yourself happier by pretending to be happy.
  • What's bad about being too happy?
  • Oh thank God, a crisis!
  • A series of dreams in which the dream world is aware of you and hates you.
  • Lonely is the weaving hand, the breaking one its only friend.
  • Why you should be grateful when your son throws his trash on the floor.
  • The most mystical thing that we get to regularly experience.
  • Déjà rêvé.
  • One of the worst ways to determine whether you're dreaming.
  • Morpheus refusing to explain the Matrix in words even though he could describe it in 30 seconds.
  • Spoilers: the events of Inception did not actually occur.

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]]> Lords:

  • Lena
  • Cory

Topics:

  • Re: Cory's teeth topic, there's so many artists making teeth
  • It would actually rule to be immortal, and all those stories about how it's not are just cope
  • How committed to the bit is committed to the bit enough?
  • A poem by Evan Balster, shared with us at GDC: A shapeless figure, locked away Inside a realm she godly sways; To weave in light and shadow, there, A living, breathing world from air. And nightly does she host a guest Who comes and goes at own behest, And time to time might take the throne To make the place a toy his own And on the morn to leave the mess Its keeper cleans, without protest. For lonely is the weaving-hand, The breaking-one's its only friend.

Microtopics:

  • Topic Lords-themed hangouts.
  • Indie City Games.
  • Two Truths and a Lie, a science fiction detective story.
  • A disgusting old man using an army of combat drones to find out what happened to his ex-boyfriend.
  • Two topics for the price of one.
  • Tooth dreams.
  • Considering what to do about your teeth as you go through various phases of having or not having teeth.
  • What people say if your femur is yellow.
  • People dying from mouth problems.
  • Going to the tooth artists and customizing your new teeth, just like Build-a-Bear.
  • Reaching into your mouth and pushing the button on your artificial tooth that plays your catchphrase.
  • The artist who illustrates your subject in stages as you dissect it.
  • Illustrating gross health things in a way that people can understand.
  • The cartoon amoeba that teaches you how to not get salmonella.
  • The kind of people who comment on Fecal Transplant Explainer videos.
  • Teeth: you chew with them.
  • Hitting up your dentist for extra teeth because the last ones were delicious.
  • The thing you have in your mouth the most that you're not allowed to eat. (Your teeth.)
  • Gradually eating your own teeth because you grind your own teeth at night.
  • Different sets of dentures for different vibes.
  • How to get glow in the dark teeth.
  • Discovering the hard way that your fake teeth don't fluoresce under UV light.
  • An entire generation of Americans going into the dentist together, like Hands Across America, to get all their teeth pulled so they can get dentures.
  • Losing all your teeth just in time for COVID.
  • Learning to not feel like you have to explain why you don't have any teeth.
  • Depressing people with possible existences that your mind can create.
  • What to do with the people who get too old to have good opinions.
  • Trying to maintain a continuous personality day to day.
  • Immortality vs. just living a really long time.
  • Burning it all down for the sake of your legacy.
  • Continuing to try to save people's lives and eventually inventing immortality.
  • Death: it's really cool actually.
  • Coming face to face with death and realizing it's not scary at all.
  • A Satanist and his wife selling everything to open a shop where they refuse to sell you human skulls and serial killer memorabilia.
  • Not needing a Memento Mori room because you already think about death all the time.
  • Transferring a marble from the future jar to the past jar to remind yourself not to waste this day.
  • Having a child and tossing it on the pile of existing children that everyone's already taking care of.
  • All there is to learn in the universe.
  • The Sword in the Stone.
  • Working all of physics out from first principles because it's fun and you have that kind of time.
  • Deciding to spend 100 years just hanging out with a tree and you don't even have podcasts.
  • Icehenge.
  • Associated Press title capitalization rules.
  • A decision that is awesome for everything except your wallet.
  • Artists who don't like what they make and don't enjoy the process, they just have to do it.
  • Not doing art for long enough to realize how unhappy you are because you're not doing art.
  • Making games because it's cool and fun to make games.
  • Making yourself happier by pretending to be happy.
  • What's bad about being too happy?
  • Oh thank God, a crisis!
  • A series of dreams in which the dream world is aware of you and hates you.
  • Lonely is the weaving hand, the breaking one its only friend.
  • Why you should be grateful when your son throws his trash on the floor.
  • The most mystical thing that we get to regularly experience.
  • Déjà rêvé.
  • One of the worst ways to determine whether you're dreaming.
  • Morpheus refusing to explain the Matrix in words even though he could describe it in 30 seconds.
  • Spoilers: the events of Inception did not actually occur.

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