• Danny
  • https://linktr.ee/dannyBstyleband
• Josh
  • https://www.bonusstage.ca/
• Vitor
  • https://vitoramado.framer.website/

Topics:

• Games you love that nobody else knows exist
• I keep losing my sunglasses. How do I fix this?
• Homebrewing
• When did Bush stop hiding the facts??
• Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
  • https://allpoetry.com/mad-girl%27s-love-song
  • I didn't actually have four poems in mind that made me say oh shit but skimming the list, this could be them:
  • https://www.tumblr.com/ailbey/750880084257374208
  • https://cih.ucsd.edu/sites/cih.ucsd.edu/files/cfm/When%20I%20am%20among%20the%20Trees%20by%20Mary%20Oliver.pdf
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave_and_Weep
  • https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/705362430786748416/guooey-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky

Microtopics

• Video game music man.
• Playing a guitar part that someone else wrote by clicking with a mouse.
  
• A very fun interesting exercise that you appreciate.
• Bass dives.
• Playing bass with extra fingers.
• Walking into the luthier's workshop asking to pay them to put a whammy bar on a bass and they're like "fuck you, that's disgusting."
• Harold Drumsman.
• Tympanum Factotum.
• Super Stardust vs. Super Rub-a-Dub.
• The twin stick shooter you made all your bandmates play.
• The most 1989 thing you've ever seen.
• A lopsided castle shape drawn out of block characters.
• Seeing a Lamborghini game and wondering "who would ever play that??"
• Modding modern-resolution models and textures into an N64 game.
• A game that looks like dogshit but with modern emulation it's extremely high resolution dogshit.
• Impressing your dad at how good you are at the one video game he lets you play.
• Hemiroids.
• Art style becoming a monoculture more easily in small communities.
• Dirty Dancing except Baby never dances again.
• Phalanx. (The banjo game.)
• The banjo player going inside the ship for the European box art.
• Engineering Jones and the Time Thieves of DSPea.
• Games that quiz you on what sorts of consulting services your company needs.
• Finding a pair of crudely drawn breasts in a collection of Windows 3.1 icons on Uncle Dave's PC and thinking "Uncle Dave is into some weird shit."
• Prescription sunglasses vs. Just For Fun sunglasses.
• Doing something that makes you look funny and preparing a five minute angry rant to spit at anyone who looks at you funny.
• Lacquering your eyes with a substance that darkens in the sunlight.
• Lacquering your skin instead of wearing clothes.
• Buying more and more expensive sunglasses until you stop losing them.
• Pushing 32.
• Being the mead guy and everyone sends you mead making videos.
• Fermenting honey in the hot dog water.
• Making a slurry of hot dogs and ethanol in the blender.
• Letting honey sit in the closet until it becomes mead.
• Putting mead in the beehive to give back to the community.
• Giving all the hallucinogens to all the manufacturing insects to see if they make exciting new kinds of silk and honey.
• Kirkland Signature Mead.
• Going into an underground tavern in Sweden and eating boar and lingonberries.
• Distilling and getting all the wrong -thanols.
• Putting a couple shots of moonshine in a cup of Booster Juice.
• Could potato pizza sprout more potato.
• Have you ever heard a plant scream during a job interview?
• There is no ethical consumption under life.
• Connecting plants up to synthesizers.
• The sound of two black holes colliding. (Bloop!)
• Data Audializaion.
• How Windows XP users discovered that bush hid the facts.
• When did Bush get Microsoft to disable the "Bush hid the facts" Easter egg.
• The mongoose is a common sight on the Earth.
• The mongoose's shadow casts a faint glow upon the ancient tree.
• Reading aloud and trying to understand what you're reading at the same time.
• Cool as fuck yours truly uwu.
• The four poems that made you say "oh shit."
• Art that communicates ideas vs. art that communicates feelings.
• Bonus stage.
• Rock Band Karaoke.

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• Danny
• Kim

Topics:

• Animorphs
• My keyboard is registering double inputs again help me
• Youtube channels that summarize movies like Cliff's Notes
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXD1jAZBdZ4u0K-GLYC77Q/videos
  • https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2799
• CatGPT
• M3gan; technology horror movies
• You don't get points for coins in Super Mario World!

Microtopics

• A video game man.
• The Animorphs train.
• Children committing war crimes and having to live with the consequences.
• How many books are in the Animorphs series.
• The Visser Chronicles.
• Yeerks living in the Yeerk pool.
• Finding the person whose car you stole and explaining "here's your car back, I did a bunch of war crimes in it"
• Hearing someone explain Animorphs repeatedly and never forming a single opinion.
• The horror of noses moving around.
• Refusing to read graphic novels because you can't read and look at pictures at the same time.
• Animorphs: Shattered Reality.
• Why boys don't read Animorphs.
• Marco turning into an Andalyte.
• Eating via your hooves.
• F for Furry.
• The canonical source for all sexualities.
• Non-Consensual Dippin' Dots.
• Haunted Headphones.
• How to compliment your partner's flams.
• Taking a movie and turning it into a TikTok.
• The dude from Dark with the face.
• Twisted social experiment: whoever survives til the end gets to live.
• 2000 Year Old Head Again??
• Blind Man Who Robbers Are Trying To Avoid For A Movie.
• This Garfield Comic is Too Highbrow.
• A Simple Rhyming Man.
• I Had a Lover's Quarrel with the World.
• A chat bot that only replies with cat memes.
• An extremely asymmetric cat.
• Hiding inside the couch.
• A cat wearing a neckerchief.
• AI dolls in horror movies.
• A movie that is advertised relentlessly on whatever wavelength you're on.
• Content warning: hilarious child death. The whole movie theater will laugh.
• Haunted TikTok.
• Topic Lords M3gan Edition.
• Robot vs. Firmware Updates.
• Robot vs. EULA.
• Horror stories about firmware updates.
• A toilet that screams at you if you're not licensed to shit in it.
• Bathrooms that self clean whether you're still in there or not.
• How many points coins are worth in all the different Mario games.
• Incentivizing children to stomp on goombas.
• Frog Fractions as an expression of score-related trauma.
• An email where it's hard to tell who is fucking with whom.
• The kind of people who like a game and leave a negative review on Steam that is clearly a joke but actually click the thumbs down button.
• Curling: the most horny sport.
• The game where people crouch really low and try to get a stone into a button.
• Playing Frog Fractions for 420 hours.
• The modern experience of being verified on Twitter.
• The time Frog Fractions was crashing when you played it in France.

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Lords:

• Danny
  • https://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/
• Akash
  • https://www.akashthakkar.com/

Topics:

• 100KHz microphones
• There's an entire town in Alaska that's contained entirely in one building - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/whittier-alaska-american-story/
• Tired: CRT filter in emulated video games. Wired: grainy magazine screenshot filter in emulated video games
• http://folklore.usc.edu/childrens-song-hitler-is-a-jerk/
• Coming back to games months after starting, forgetting what happened, totally forgetting how to play, and never playing again/starting over
• Vampire Survivors genre name

Microtopics:

• Sleeping with 20,000 podcasts.
• Hyper Light Waiter.
• Rift of the Necrodancer.
• Picking up a dog ribcage and the rest of the dog comes with it.
• A cat flowing out of your hands like water.
• Which organ you smell with.
• Dipping your fingies into the chicken vat to refresh the chicken smell.
• Serendipity, providence, kismet, fate: Stormdancing.
• Nyquist vs. Dayquist.
• A big talking world snake named Carlosti, just like in the Edda.
• Pitching a character's voice down four semitones to indicate that they're the bad guy.
• Inventing a sound never heard before.
• Doing a fun click.
• Whether to take Tidal seriously.
• Moving to a town that lives in a shopping mall.
• Snowpiercer but the wheels fell off.
• Signing your kids up for Twitter because they have to learn about death somehow.
• A tiktok sensation dancing with a subway sandwich.
• Visiting the sewage treatment plant next to the Forever 21.
• The only two Invisible War fans in the world, on the same podcast together.
• Crimothy, Jermdom and Frenchalor.
• The Archie Effect.
• A video card that's broken in an extremely specific way.
• Reading a brochure about Super Metroid over and over.
• A controller made of marzipan.
• 2x Sai vs. SuperEagle.
• DLSS but for pixel art.
• Star Wars but every six seconds it's a different director.
• Paying composers to make original music because you enjoy the idea of paying people to do work.
• A poem by Nega-Kanye West.
• The engine that drives the popularity of the "Whistle while you work / Hitler is a jerk" rhyme.
• Bratwurst vs. Vienna Sausage.
• Whether Data has functional genitalia.
• The episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation where Data stars in a porn film in order to better understand that part of the human experience.
• Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X Porn Parody: it's a satire.
• Trying to find the Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X porn parody but all you can find is endless copies of the Babylon 5 porn parody.
• Searching the internet and the universe for an answer.
• Pressing both the sticks in and the sea monkeys come out.
• What's cool about Dark Souls.
• Trying to get your mom to play Skyrim with the Macho Man Randy Savage mod installed.
• Video games: fuck the whole town!
• Game of the Year in the sense of Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
• Roguelikes: they're like Rogue.
• Single-stick shooters.
• The kind of game that a CSI character would play.
• What Fortnite was before it was a PubG clone.
• The extremely bitter blog post about the Edge team giving up and wrapping Chromium.
• Where to play Frog Fractions 4 and 5.
• How to feel about numbers.
• The most expensive Vampire Survivor-likes.
• Where to find Drop 7 2.
• Arcade Paradise.
• Bootleg Fractions.

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Lords:

• Danny is @dannyBstyle on Twitter and plugs vaping.
• Alex is @adlleong on Twitter and plugs the Ian Knot shoelace tying method. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

Topics:

• Invisible walls in games
• BluBlockers
• Bees take their lives into their hands every time they get thirsty
• Nick Asks "♪ God only knows what I’d pee without poo ♪"
• My wife is afraid of dogs that wear people clothes
• Every response to "thank you" is rude
• The multivarious ways being a child genius can screw you

Microtopics:

• The good content.
• Some kind of invisible wall.
• What we already know about Blaseball.
• A fantastic way to keep the player inbounds.
• Manically trying to explore this island while on the run from the military.
• Cops being the yetis of life.
• Blizzard blowing up your best party spot by shipping the final Ironforge Airfield.
• Whether Microsoft will ruin Bethesda games by making them fix all those fun bugs before launching.
• Fixing all the bugs in your game by applying The Cloud to it.
• Playing the Turok remaster and they ruined it by removing all the fog.
• Going to Canadian Tire because you live in Canada now.
• The most technologically advanced sunglasses you can buy.
• A Geordi Laforge type of deal.
• Dipping your whole head in the black film you use to watch solar eclipses so you can get a good night's sleep.
• How to get back from Canada.
• Canada being so polite they even let the smoke in.
• Still not being able to do a Canadian accent after two years.
• Moving to Vancouver expecting a frozen wasteland.
• Thrill-seeking bees refusing to wear their masks.
• Being stung by one of those wasps that look like bees and being scared of bees for decades.
• Whether insects have the capacity for complex emotions such as vengeance.
• Why Danny isn't doing better if unbridled anger is such an evolutionary advantage.
• Replacing creative workers with AI that you can pay in exposure.
• Whether "brown area" is a less racist term than "gray area."
• Seeing the most enormous dog butthole and screaming inside your heart.
• Trimming back the hair around your dog's butthole to make it look bigger.
• A poster with a dog butthole in it saying "Have you seen this butthole? Now you have."
• Doing AI upscaling on the picture of the dog butthole that looks like Jesus so we can see the true face of God.
• Assholes being okay until the poop comes out.
• A human proportioned body with a dog head.
• A therapy session by proxy.
• Why dog clothes only cover the butt in Canada.
• Dogs wearing ties on PBS.
• Saying "my uncanny valley is just really wide" to your partner every night before bed instead of "I love you."
• Moving to Canada expecting everyone to be polite but they're just rude with an "eh" after it.
• A full-throated "hey."
• The most terrifying thing about being in Canada.
• Whether anyone has checked on the Canadian bacon.
• Writing to Tim Horton and demanding that in Canada Canadian bacon just be called "here bacon."
• A new credit card payment device where you need to punch in your zip code with your nose.
• Enacting publicly-funded health care so that everyone can afford to grow a moustache and use StachePay.
• Leveraging your raw intelligence to do your school assignments, rather than learning the material, and eventually hitting a brick wall because you've never actually learned anything.
• Getting along better with your teachers than with other kids, because you want to talk about what Gorbachev is up to.
• Getting through school and several jobs without ever learning how to work.
• Thriving when given instructions to follow.
• The shame of discovering that just because the school system worked for you, that doesn't mean it'll work for everyone.
• Walking around wearing a t-shirt saying "ask me about the pledge of allegiance" and leaving a trail of horrified Canadians in your wake.
• Taking your four year old to protests because now they have tear gas made out of Pedialyte.
• Being $300 deep into the Dark Souls series but still not liking any of them.
• Replaying old video games because playing new ones is too stressful.
• Revisiting old media you've liked not because of the story but because it puts you in a place or mood.
• Deciding to play a game because of its aesthetics and then having to find out what the game is like moment to moment and whether you want to do that with your life.
• How Animal Crossing New Horizons probably saved the human species.
• Only having so many button presses before your joints start to hurt.
• Whether in Japan, every time you enter or leave a room, you have to politely listen to someone recite a prepared speech at you for 30 seconds, like in Animal Crossing.

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