Lords:

• Nate
  • http://mommysbestgames.com/
  • https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames/
• Fred
  • https://twitter.com/brobbeh

Topics:

• Why do rice cookers play music but not microwaves?
  • https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/1516205625662836739
• If all your needs are met in a utopian society will we still need sports and competition?
• Hot Ice, Cool Sounds
• Goblin Time by Emma
  • https://mastodon.art/@emmajuettner/108103474257806186
  • Esper says: "My long-held suspicion has always been that humans are generally way less prone to salt-related health issues than suggested by nutritional science. I think a lot of that stuff was ginned up by cigarette companies trying to deflect blame. But I try not to go full-on conspiracy theory about it."
• Nerds candy has a Dungeons and Dragons themed box. Is this good for D&D?
• If the four horsemen of the apocalypse were recruiting for a fifth member, how would you convince them to hire you?

Microtopics:

• A shmup about how Microsoft screwed up their Xbox 360 dashboard.
• Screaming for 24 hours straight and having a heart attack, or vice versa.
• Remastering your obscure protest game and needing to build a museum explaining the context for the protest.
• An educational title about how to find games on the new Xbox 360 dashboard.
• An infinite runner with extremely awkward horse controls.
• Using all the right dark patterns.
• Meeting an indie game developer in San Francisco and recognizing him because he's a white guy with a beard and glasses who likes Dark Souls.
• A pot that's specifically for rice and it knows when to school cooking the rice.
• Only rice cookers get to sing a song.
• Installing an AI in your microwave so your microwave can try to murder you.
• A codependent washing machine.
• Landlords in California doing an end run around renter's rights.
• The keyless entry system on your apartment that has a battery backup just so it can play "These Boots are Made for Walking" when it can't let you in because the power is out.
• 3D printing some laundry to fold because people are bored in your Utopia.
• Extremely soporific TV.
• A mashup of music and sports.
• Gathering to watch a live band play while a chef makes crepes.
• Whether you can be bored while watching two things at the same time.
• An orchestra trying to live-score a basketball game.
• Trying to listen to an arcade game in the arcade.
• Goblins in our community.
• A bullet point list of how you can help a goblin.
• Spicy radish waffles.
• Blackwheat crepes and whether they're really black.
• Lemonade crepes.
• Dipping a sandwich in mustard.
• The pros and cons of salting food.
• Chickens laying pre-salted eggs.
• Paying a monthly subscription to Monsanto to keep up the injections that make your tongue exude its own salt.
• Getting in line to hate Monsanto.
• Whether nerds are more or less likely to eat Nerds candy.
• A candy for people who forgot D&D exists.
• Candy&D.
• A series of Nerds-themed D&D campaigns.
• Hiring people and paying them.
• Star Trek Jeopardy where 70% of the answers are 1980s pop culture because the federation is obsessed with the 80s.
• Seeing yet another college sports question in the New York Times crossword and deciding whether to get irrationally angry at Will Shortz.
• What Jim embodies that is the worst thing.
• Death, war, famine, pestilence, crypto and late-onset melatonin.
• John Cleese teaching sex ed in a boarding school.
• Starting with death and going downhill from there.
• Convincing Death to not kill anyone and Death just rides off and mopes.
• Whether the four horsemen listen to podcasts or if the internet is down during the apocalypse.
• The four new horsemen of the new apocalypse: crypto, gaslighting, late-onset melatonin and Elon Musk.
• How to find people to follow on Mastodon.
• How to be a part of a human-sized community.
• The Topic Lords subreddit.
• The photo of a middle school basketball team that somebody posted to the Topic Lords subreddit.
• How to keep spam bots out of your Discord.
• Batbarian.

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