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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Danm”</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <description>Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
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    <itunes:author>Jim Stormdancer</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
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  <title>283. Dracula's Big Happy Polycule</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jim Stormdancer</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Dan and Daniel. We discuss whether Dracula could escape Groundhog Day, how to know if you're in a golden era, Indiana Jones is supposed to look good?? and Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Lords:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dan

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://orionblasters.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://orionblasters.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Daniel&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Could Dracula escape Groundhog Day?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How to know you’re in a golden era&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Indiana Jones is supposed to look good??

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&amp;amp;v=f1fWB5HP7s8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&amp;amp;amp;v=f1fWB5HP7s8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/pMNUZSdU.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/pMNUZSdU.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Deciding to get a teleprompter on episode 283.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Molly James Band. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mid-century lounge music.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describing yourself as a cross between Pink Floyd and Doja Cat.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shooting a music video the day after the election.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The sun and the battery life racing each other to ruin your forest concert first.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What does Dracula get up to? Does he have hobbies? &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A lawyer hired to buy Dracula a new house &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Scrubbing all the proper nouns out of your fan fiction.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dracula as smoldering sex bomb vs. Dracula as a weird old man.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Figuring out how to not cancel Dracula. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A D&amp;amp;D campaign where you need to recruit a therapist into the party as part of your goal is to convince Dracula to become a better person.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dracula being verbally abused by all his wives.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Batman playing Flappy Bird while he waits behind the curtain to ambush the villain.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Extremely high powered Nerf rifles. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Joining a community and ascertaining what they need.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Living through a golden age and not realizing until later.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Feeling grateful for the good things you once had. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Being reluctant to push your awesome community because you're afraid it's going to grow too large.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Figuring out how to 3D print blasters.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mentoring under Captain Slug.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Realizing that your hobby is suddenly your primary source of income. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How to be part of a burgeoning music scene.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The cool kid at GDC.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ways Jim could've made Glittermitten Grove more accessible without losing the interesting game design. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Getting email from a parent saying that their kid wants to become a mechanical engineer because of you Nerf blaster design. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A video game that is the third best Indiana Jones film. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Who is this technology helping, and how to we stop listening to their opinions? &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Playstation Four and a Half.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A game with a lot of whirling debris.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Finding new ways to make more expensive every day. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How you'd put a loot box in a Pico-8 game. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The mental health community arguing about when it's okay to sleep with your therapist. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A/B tasting topics to see which ones get more downloads.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Staying up late enough to get hungry. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What kind of salad you'd put Doritos in. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What kind of salad you'd put a Clif bar in.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Clif bars: fall off of us! &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Disappointing dolmas.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your everyday carry web browser. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The difference between Chrome and Chromium. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why doesn't everyone just compile their own Firefox?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bawling at the typewriter about not having the thing you're writing a poem about. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Deciding your book of love poetry to your therapist.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Saving your fan mail to be read at your funeral. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Archaeologists tooting Interesting exchanges written in cuneiform. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Future archaeologists training AI to peruse the entire corpus of tweets to find the choicest memes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The time to look for an out. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Serenading the audience with the address they can mail cash to. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Where all the best Lords hang out.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Dan

<ul>
<li><a href="https://orionblasters.com/" rel="nofollow">https://orionblasters.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life" rel="nofollow">https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Daniel</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Could Dracula escape Groundhog Day?</li>
<li>How to know you’re in a golden era</li>
<li>Indiana Jones is supposed to look good??

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&v=f1fWB5HP7s8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&amp;v=f1fWB5HP7s8</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf

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

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Deciding to get a teleprompter on episode 283.</li>
<li>The Molly James Band. </li>
<li>Mid-century lounge music.</li>
<li>Describing yourself as a cross between Pink Floyd and Doja Cat.</li>
<li>Shooting a music video the day after the election.</li>
<li>The sun and the battery life racing each other to ruin your forest concert first.</li>
<li>What does Dracula get up to? Does he have hobbies? </li>
<li>A lawyer hired to buy Dracula a new house </li>
<li>Scrubbing all the proper nouns out of your fan fiction.</li>
<li>Dracula as smoldering sex bomb vs. Dracula as a weird old man.</li>
<li>Figuring out how to not cancel Dracula. </li>
<li>A D&amp;D campaign where you need to recruit a therapist into the party as part of your goal is to convince Dracula to become a better person.</li>
<li>Dracula being verbally abused by all his wives.</li>
<li>Batman playing Flappy Bird while he waits behind the curtain to ambush the villain.</li>
<li>Extremely high powered Nerf rifles. </li>
<li>Joining a community and ascertaining what they need.</li>
<li>Living through a golden age and not realizing until later.</li>
<li>Feeling grateful for the good things you once had. </li>
<li>Being reluctant to push your awesome community because you&#39;re afraid it&#39;s going to grow too large.</li>
<li>Figuring out how to 3D print blasters.</li>
<li>Mentoring under Captain Slug.</li>
<li>Realizing that your hobby is suddenly your primary source of income. </li>
<li>How to be part of a burgeoning music scene.</li>
<li>The cool kid at GDC.</li>
<li>Ways Jim could&#39;ve made Glittermitten Grove more accessible without losing the interesting game design. </li>
<li>Getting email from a parent saying that their kid wants to become a mechanical engineer because of you Nerf blaster design. </li>
<li>A video game that is the third best Indiana Jones film. </li>
<li>Who is this technology helping, and how to we stop listening to their opinions? </li>
<li>Playstation Four and a Half.</li>
<li>A game with a lot of whirling debris.</li>
<li>Finding new ways to make more expensive every day. </li>
<li>How you&#39;d put a loot box in a Pico-8 game. </li>
<li>The mental health community arguing about when it&#39;s okay to sleep with your therapist. </li>
<li>A/B tasting topics to see which ones get more downloads.</li>
<li>Staying up late enough to get hungry. </li>
<li>What kind of salad you&#39;d put Doritos in. </li>
<li>What kind of salad you&#39;d put a Clif bar in.</li>
<li>Clif bars: fall off of us! </li>
<li>Disappointing dolmas.</li>
<li>Your everyday carry web browser. </li>
<li>The difference between Chrome and Chromium. </li>
<li>Why doesn&#39;t everyone just compile their own Firefox?</li>
<li>Bawling at the typewriter about not having the thing you&#39;re writing a poem about. </li>
<li>Deciding your book of love poetry to your therapist.</li>
<li>Saving your fan mail to be read at your funeral. </li>
<li>Archaeologists tooting Interesting exchanges written in cuneiform. </li>
<li>Future archaeologists training AI to peruse the entire corpus of tweets to find the choicest memes.</li>
<li>The time to look for an out. </li>
<li>Serenading the audience with the address they can mail cash to. </li>
<li>Where all the best Lords hang out. </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>Dan

<ul>
<li><a href="https://orionblasters.com/" rel="nofollow">https://orionblasters.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life" rel="nofollow">https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Daniel</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Could Dracula escape Groundhog Day?</li>
<li>How to know you’re in a golden era</li>
<li>Indiana Jones is supposed to look good??

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&v=f1fWB5HP7s8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&amp;v=f1fWB5HP7s8</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf

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

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Deciding to get a teleprompter on episode 283.</li>
<li>The Molly James Band. </li>
<li>Mid-century lounge music.</li>
<li>Describing yourself as a cross between Pink Floyd and Doja Cat.</li>
<li>Shooting a music video the day after the election.</li>
<li>The sun and the battery life racing each other to ruin your forest concert first.</li>
<li>What does Dracula get up to? Does he have hobbies? </li>
<li>A lawyer hired to buy Dracula a new house </li>
<li>Scrubbing all the proper nouns out of your fan fiction.</li>
<li>Dracula as smoldering sex bomb vs. Dracula as a weird old man.</li>
<li>Figuring out how to not cancel Dracula. </li>
<li>A D&amp;D campaign where you need to recruit a therapist into the party as part of your goal is to convince Dracula to become a better person.</li>
<li>Dracula being verbally abused by all his wives.</li>
<li>Batman playing Flappy Bird while he waits behind the curtain to ambush the villain.</li>
<li>Extremely high powered Nerf rifles. </li>
<li>Joining a community and ascertaining what they need.</li>
<li>Living through a golden age and not realizing until later.</li>
<li>Feeling grateful for the good things you once had. </li>
<li>Being reluctant to push your awesome community because you&#39;re afraid it&#39;s going to grow too large.</li>
<li>Figuring out how to 3D print blasters.</li>
<li>Mentoring under Captain Slug.</li>
<li>Realizing that your hobby is suddenly your primary source of income. </li>
<li>How to be part of a burgeoning music scene.</li>
<li>The cool kid at GDC.</li>
<li>Ways Jim could&#39;ve made Glittermitten Grove more accessible without losing the interesting game design. </li>
<li>Getting email from a parent saying that their kid wants to become a mechanical engineer because of you Nerf blaster design. </li>
<li>A video game that is the third best Indiana Jones film. </li>
<li>Who is this technology helping, and how to we stop listening to their opinions? </li>
<li>Playstation Four and a Half.</li>
<li>A game with a lot of whirling debris.</li>
<li>Finding new ways to make more expensive every day. </li>
<li>How you&#39;d put a loot box in a Pico-8 game. </li>
<li>The mental health community arguing about when it&#39;s okay to sleep with your therapist. </li>
<li>A/B tasting topics to see which ones get more downloads.</li>
<li>Staying up late enough to get hungry. </li>
<li>What kind of salad you&#39;d put Doritos in. </li>
<li>What kind of salad you&#39;d put a Clif bar in.</li>
<li>Clif bars: fall off of us! </li>
<li>Disappointing dolmas.</li>
<li>Your everyday carry web browser. </li>
<li>The difference between Chrome and Chromium. </li>
<li>Why doesn&#39;t everyone just compile their own Firefox?</li>
<li>Bawling at the typewriter about not having the thing you&#39;re writing a poem about. </li>
<li>Deciding your book of love poetry to your therapist.</li>
<li>Saving your fan mail to be read at your funeral. </li>
<li>Archaeologists tooting Interesting exchanges written in cuneiform. </li>
<li>Future archaeologists training AI to peruse the entire corpus of tweets to find the choicest memes.</li>
<li>The time to look for an out. </li>
<li>Serenading the audience with the address they can mail cash to. </li>
<li>Where all the best Lords hang out. </li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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