web01.fireside.fm Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:00:04 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Fif” https://topiclords.com/tags/fif Mon, 06 Oct 2025 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 311. Godzilla's Daily Routine https://topiclords.com/godzillas-daily-routine d20415cd-0b75-48a8-9a43-79cd872fe056 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: John and Fif. We discuss accidentally exploring a bunch of related subjects, the excellent progression system of Blues' Clues ABCs (1995), salty Licorice as the sixth taste, the Cubivore between-level limerick, and having 55,555 names. 1:04:37 yes Lords: * John * Fif Topics: * Accidentally exploring a bunch of related subjects and/or media * The excellent progression system of Blues' Clues ABCs (1995) * https://archive.org/details/blues-clues-blues-abc-time-activities-pc-cd-rom * Salty Licorice is the sixth taste * https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-sixth-sense-of-taste-salty-licorice/ * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice * The Cubivore between-level limerick * https://www.mobygames.com/game/11346/cubivore-survival-of-the-fittest/credits/gamecube/ * 55,555 names Microtopics: * Modern problems requiring modern solutions. * Leaving media behind. * Subscribing to PBS Passport via your local PBS affiliate. * Running out of media and just watching Peaceful Skeleton Realm Attacked By Helicopter over and over again. * Whether the Arctic Circle requires any age verification. * What even are Truck Nuts? * Why do trucks have such tiny nuts?? * Watching a movie every day because you're unemployed. * I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. * Independent used bookstores in the San Diego Area. * Used bookstores desperately trying to get rid of math textbooks. * The original Topic Lords. * Having a lot of knowledge that you can call on in a useful way. * Being old and having learned a lot of stuff. * Your mom describing your brain as "a bric-a-brac of useless facts." * Science Fiction Hall of Fame. * The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. * Someone who you forget as soon they go out of sight. * An SCP from the perspective of the SCP. * A really cool interactive fiction scene in France. * Rules lawyering your way out of yet another curse. * The 17th century demon cursing you to live forever and also that "whenever you send an email people won't be able to read what you wrote, they'll just say 'not more dick pill spam.'" * Word-based minigames. * The blank was in the sky. Blue had fun with her blank. * Making a game for three year olds warning them about insecure pedants on the Internet. * What year of our Lord was Bully released? * We don't talk about the 2010s. * The Milton Bradley Microvision. * The game is about cubes eating and fucking. * Trying to describe any flavor * Blue the Dog. * Scandinavian Delicacy Ammonium Chloride. * A quest to track down Circus Peanuts. * An edible earplug that tastes like fake bananas. * Red Vines and Black Red Vines. * Being the only grocery store in town that sells licorice and reeling in the only licorice eater in town. * That Rotting Shark Dish. * The white people equivalent of huitlacoche. * The Secret Cowbell. * The hip hop community realizing that you can increase the delay on the kick drum and rattle your entire car for several seconds. * Tigers can't see the sideshow, only cows can see the sideshow. * Piggy Fif. * A classic poem about cubes fucking. * Checking GameFAQs for a list of poems in Cubivore. * Piggy Playername's extremely distinctive manner of speaking. * Atlus Beast and Editing Beast. * The Cubivore trophy in Super Smash Bros. * A genetic progression that you need to do by transmogrifying into a progression of various beasts. * Entering a tunnel shaped like a heart and sitting in a flesh colored void until you attract 20 females into your harem. * Want to mate? Yes/no. * The Cubivore manual with the cutaway diagram of cube physiology. * Bully/Cubivore crossover fic. * Little Samson. * Get good at enjoying video games without being validated by a tiny purple cube, scrub. * The file you keep of all the names you'll answer to. * Pith, fip, pince, fifth, and fint. * People: they have a lot of names. * Being diagnosably bad at code switching. * Writing a random number of fs as a symbol representing your employee. * Choosing to be the banana taped to the wall. * Gaming naming. * Printing up a deck of constraints for when you're asking people to choose a name for you. * Paraeducation. * Jobs at The MADE. * The Worst Nintendo Store. * Teaching game design to young children every Saturday morning. * The forefront of the next generation of digital creators. Lords:

  • John
  • Fif

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Modern problems requiring modern solutions.
  • Leaving media behind.
  • Subscribing to PBS Passport via your local PBS affiliate.
  • Running out of media and just watching Peaceful Skeleton Realm Attacked By Helicopter over and over again.
  • Whether the Arctic Circle requires any age verification.
  • What even are Truck Nuts?
  • Why do trucks have such tiny nuts??
  • Watching a movie every day because you're unemployed.
  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
  • Independent used bookstores in the San Diego Area.
  • Used bookstores desperately trying to get rid of math textbooks.
  • The original Topic Lords.
  • Having a lot of knowledge that you can call on in a useful way.
  • Being old and having learned a lot of stuff.
  • Your mom describing your brain as "a bric-a-brac of useless facts."
  • Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
  • Someone who you forget as soon they go out of sight.
  • An SCP from the perspective of the SCP.
  • A really cool interactive fiction scene in France.
  • Rules lawyering your way out of yet another curse.
  • The 17th century demon cursing you to live forever and also that "whenever you send an email people won't be able to read what you wrote, they'll just say 'not more dick pill spam.'"
  • Word-based minigames.
  • The blank was in the sky. Blue had fun with her blank.
  • Making a game for three year olds warning them about insecure pedants on the Internet.
  • What year of our Lord was Bully released?
  • We don't talk about the 2010s.
  • The Milton Bradley Microvision.
  • The game is about cubes eating and fucking.
  • Trying to describe any flavor
  • Blue the Dog.
  • Scandinavian Delicacy Ammonium Chloride.
  • A quest to track down Circus Peanuts.
  • An edible earplug that tastes like fake bananas.
  • Red Vines and Black Red Vines.
  • Being the only grocery store in town that sells licorice and reeling in the only licorice eater in town.
  • That Rotting Shark Dish.
  • The white people equivalent of huitlacoche.
  • The Secret Cowbell.
  • The hip hop community realizing that you can increase the delay on the kick drum and rattle your entire car for several seconds.
  • Tigers can't see the sideshow, only cows can see the sideshow.
  • Piggy Fif.
  • A classic poem about cubes fucking.
  • Checking GameFAQs for a list of poems in Cubivore.
  • Piggy Playername's extremely distinctive manner of speaking.
  • Atlus Beast and Editing Beast.
  • The Cubivore trophy in Super Smash Bros.
  • A genetic progression that you need to do by transmogrifying into a progression of various beasts.
  • Entering a tunnel shaped like a heart and sitting in a flesh colored void until you attract 20 females into your harem.
  • Want to mate? Yes/no.
  • The Cubivore manual with the cutaway diagram of cube physiology.
  • Bully/Cubivore crossover fic.
  • Little Samson.
  • Get good at enjoying video games without being validated by a tiny purple cube, scrub.
  • The file you keep of all the names you'll answer to.
  • Pith, fip, pince, fifth, and fint.
  • People: they have a lot of names.
  • Being diagnosably bad at code switching.
  • Writing a random number of fs as a symbol representing your employee.
  • Choosing to be the banana taped to the wall.
  • Gaming naming.
  • Printing up a deck of constraints for when you're asking people to choose a name for you.
  • Paraeducation.
  • Jobs at The MADE.
  • The Worst Nintendo Store.
  • Teaching game design to young children every Saturday morning.
  • The forefront of the next generation of digital creators.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

  • John
  • Fif

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Modern problems requiring modern solutions.
  • Leaving media behind.
  • Subscribing to PBS Passport via your local PBS affiliate.
  • Running out of media and just watching Peaceful Skeleton Realm Attacked By Helicopter over and over again.
  • Whether the Arctic Circle requires any age verification.
  • What even are Truck Nuts?
  • Why do trucks have such tiny nuts??
  • Watching a movie every day because you're unemployed.
  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
  • Independent used bookstores in the San Diego Area.
  • Used bookstores desperately trying to get rid of math textbooks.
  • The original Topic Lords.
  • Having a lot of knowledge that you can call on in a useful way.
  • Being old and having learned a lot of stuff.
  • Your mom describing your brain as "a bric-a-brac of useless facts."
  • Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
  • Someone who you forget as soon they go out of sight.
  • An SCP from the perspective of the SCP.
  • A really cool interactive fiction scene in France.
  • Rules lawyering your way out of yet another curse.
  • The 17th century demon cursing you to live forever and also that "whenever you send an email people won't be able to read what you wrote, they'll just say 'not more dick pill spam.'"
  • Word-based minigames.
  • The blank was in the sky. Blue had fun with her blank.
  • Making a game for three year olds warning them about insecure pedants on the Internet.
  • What year of our Lord was Bully released?
  • We don't talk about the 2010s.
  • The Milton Bradley Microvision.
  • The game is about cubes eating and fucking.
  • Trying to describe any flavor
  • Blue the Dog.
  • Scandinavian Delicacy Ammonium Chloride.
  • A quest to track down Circus Peanuts.
  • An edible earplug that tastes like fake bananas.
  • Red Vines and Black Red Vines.
  • Being the only grocery store in town that sells licorice and reeling in the only licorice eater in town.
  • That Rotting Shark Dish.
  • The white people equivalent of huitlacoche.
  • The Secret Cowbell.
  • The hip hop community realizing that you can increase the delay on the kick drum and rattle your entire car for several seconds.
  • Tigers can't see the sideshow, only cows can see the sideshow.
  • Piggy Fif.
  • A classic poem about cubes fucking.
  • Checking GameFAQs for a list of poems in Cubivore.
  • Piggy Playername's extremely distinctive manner of speaking.
  • Atlus Beast and Editing Beast.
  • The Cubivore trophy in Super Smash Bros.
  • A genetic progression that you need to do by transmogrifying into a progression of various beasts.
  • Entering a tunnel shaped like a heart and sitting in a flesh colored void until you attract 20 females into your harem.
  • Want to mate? Yes/no.
  • The Cubivore manual with the cutaway diagram of cube physiology.
  • Bully/Cubivore crossover fic.
  • Little Samson.
  • Get good at enjoying video games without being validated by a tiny purple cube, scrub.
  • The file you keep of all the names you'll answer to.
  • Pith, fip, pince, fifth, and fint.
  • People: they have a lot of names.
  • Being diagnosably bad at code switching.
  • Writing a random number of fs as a symbol representing your employee.
  • Choosing to be the banana taped to the wall.
  • Gaming naming.
  • Printing up a deck of constraints for when you're asking people to choose a name for you.
  • Paraeducation.
  • Jobs at The MADE.
  • The Worst Nintendo Store.
  • Teaching game design to young children every Saturday morning.
  • The forefront of the next generation of digital creators.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 228. Detecting Myself as Spam https://topiclords.com/detecting-myself-as-spam d8cdd8a4-e918-4281-89fd-dfe65a7f00e8 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Fif and Mitch. We discuss the Ace Attorney series' naming conventions, the kissing mechanic in Bully, Podcast Prep Sheet, the Tay Bridge Disaster, the user interface in Bully, and comments asking "why did the algorithm recommend this to me" 1:10:47 yes Lords: * Fif * Mitch Topics: * The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions * The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game * Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics * The Tay Bridge Disaster * https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/ * No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery * Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LhdhQEKtg Microtopics: * Two handfuls of times. * Something very fivey about hands. * Dependability and a detail-oriented nature. * Putting your resume in the show notes. * Naming your kid a list of two things. * A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan. * Naming games after verbs. * Mario Push Button. * The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot. * Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them. * All the time we have for Topic Lords. * Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.) * A dress-up fashion thing. * Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability. * Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting. * Dorms in a castle. * Hey, nice face. * Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic. * Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game. * The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear. * Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels. * Eco-friendly or Eco-fail? * Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong. * Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam. * The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck. * Making your hearts for to quail. * Poems including civil engineering advice. * Good vs. bad nonsense poems. * A fun poem to read. * Paying money to engage with content. * Deliberately slipping on a banana peel. * What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules. * School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on. * Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen. * Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take. * A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens. * Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you. * Youtube koans. * Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it. * Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views. * A PMV of the character you are obsessed with. * The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys. * Constantly deleting the shorts. * Posting a tweet to youtube.com. * Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube. * Community captions and what happened to them. * Doing annotations dirty. * Nekoneko. * Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly. * Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert. Lords:

  • Fif
  • Mitch

Topics:

  • The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions
  • The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game
  • Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery
  • Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me"

Microtopics:

  • Two handfuls of times.
  • Something very fivey about hands.
  • Dependability and a detail-oriented nature.
  • Putting your resume in the show notes.
  • Naming your kid a list of two things.
  • A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan.
  • Naming games after verbs.
  • Mario Push Button.
  • The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot.
  • Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them.
  • All the time we have for Topic Lords.
  • Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.)
  • A dress-up fashion thing.
  • Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability.
  • Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting.
  • Dorms in a castle.
  • Hey, nice face.
  • Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic.
  • Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game.
  • The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear.
  • Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels.
  • Eco-friendly or Eco-fail?
  • Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong.
  • Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam.
  • The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck.
  • Making your hearts for to quail.
  • Poems including civil engineering advice.
  • Good vs. bad nonsense poems.
  • A fun poem to read.
  • Paying money to engage with content.
  • Deliberately slipping on a banana peel.
  • What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules.
  • School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on.
  • Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen.
  • Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take.
  • A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens.
  • Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you.
  • Youtube koans.
  • Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it.
  • Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views.
  • A PMV of the character you are obsessed with.
  • The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys.
  • Constantly deleting the shorts.
  • Posting a tweet to youtube.com.
  • Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube.
  • Community captions and what happened to them.
  • Doing annotations dirty.
  • Nekoneko.
  • Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly.
  • Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

  • Fif
  • Mitch

Topics:

  • The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions
  • The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game
  • Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery
  • Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me"

Microtopics:

  • Two handfuls of times.
  • Something very fivey about hands.
  • Dependability and a detail-oriented nature.
  • Putting your resume in the show notes.
  • Naming your kid a list of two things.
  • A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan.
  • Naming games after verbs.
  • Mario Push Button.
  • The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot.
  • Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them.
  • All the time we have for Topic Lords.
  • Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.)
  • A dress-up fashion thing.
  • Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability.
  • Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting.
  • Dorms in a castle.
  • Hey, nice face.
  • Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic.
  • Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game.
  • The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear.
  • Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels.
  • Eco-friendly or Eco-fail?
  • Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong.
  • Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam.
  • The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck.
  • Making your hearts for to quail.
  • Poems including civil engineering advice.
  • Good vs. bad nonsense poems.
  • A fun poem to read.
  • Paying money to engage with content.
  • Deliberately slipping on a banana peel.
  • What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules.
  • School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on.
  • Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen.
  • Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take.
  • A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens.
  • Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you.
  • Youtube koans.
  • Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it.
  • Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views.
  • A PMV of the character you are obsessed with.
  • The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys.
  • Constantly deleting the shorts.
  • Posting a tweet to youtube.com.
  • Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube.
  • Community captions and what happened to them.
  • Doing annotations dirty.
  • Nekoneko.
  • Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly.
  • Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert.

Support Topic Lords

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