web01.fireside.fm Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:00:03 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Gerstmann” https://topiclords.com/tags/gerstmann Mon, 17 Mar 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 282. Check Out My Feetbook! https://topiclords.com/check-out-my-feetbook c0d14253-140e-41bb-b27f-b2c7370e315c Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Jeff and Danny. We discuss what's happening on Bluesky, using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places you've lived, and Dad Talk: what do we do about porn? 1:11:01 yes Lords: * Jeff * https://dopeassvideogames.com/ * Danny * https://www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs Topics: * What's happening on Bluesky. * Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived * Dad talk: what do we do about porn? Microtopics: * The Good Morning America series finale. * Covering video games online. * Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites. * Nintendo Disasters. * Reviewing every individual version of FIFA 2011. * The Sega Master System catalog. * Choosing not to do something because someone else has done it before. * A Weird Slop of People. * The CD-32 version of Alfred Chicken. * The Noclip documentary about PiCoSteveMo. * Blood and Fear and Nolf and Shogo and Condemned. * A hardware Pico-8 solution. * Explaining how to and how not to reply. * Enjoying social media because you need a place to type your garbage. * An Eternal September Situation. * Repeating Daily Show jokes from five years ago. * An oral history of Bluesky users. * Jimmy Fallon posting a picture of himself holding a Nintendo Switch. * The Ford vs. Chevy argument over and over again until we're all dead. * Laying your employees off based on their Klout scores. * What aspects of social media you can leave behind once you get a goat farm. * Having goats and not even posting pictures of them. * Goats as a gateway drug to other ungulates. * Did I get drunk and order 20 snakes again? * Boxcars: Where the Hobos Go. * Jumping in a train car full of refined materials. * Reminiscing about the time you lived in London and remembering everything that sucks about living in London. * A warped melting representation of your childhood memories. * An emotional VR moment. * Floating in space and hearing a cacophony of national anthems screaming up at you. * That time they added your uncle's farm to Google Street View. * Looking back on previous eras of your life and remembering why you don't want that kind of life any more. * The guy you know who mined bitcoins on his CPU and then spent it on black market Provigil. * Why do something that's going to make money when you can do ridiculous bullshit instead? * Three year olds who know how to use a remote control. * Areas of human interaction that you are just not prepared for. * Just putting your Zip disk in the file server and grabbing whatever's there. * What kind of porn the owner of the video rental place is personally obsessed with. * Why do you never see porn scored with tracker music? * Deep appreciation of porn that is made for somebody else * Beavis and Butthead trading cards. * Scintillating pizza delivery. * Explaining to your child that porn is fictional, not a documentary, and leaving it at that. * Your daughter asking you questions about Sonic the Hedgehog that you're not prepared to answer. * Encountering boys who play Minecraft. * Deploying new words to the wrong people. * Laying in bed and cursing at ghosts to calm yourself down. * An entire generation who goes to the gym and doesn't just watch CKY2K and break things. * Doing all the drugs so that you can explain what drugs are like to your children. * Learning how to fall as a child so you can fall safely as an adult. * Smoking Ice and waking up in San Francisco. * Pulling over, opening the hood, and punching the engine block over and over. * A poem that somebody else will read. * Whether the money has changed the Dwarf Fortress developers. Lords:

Topics:

  • What's happening on Bluesky.
  • Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived
  • Dad talk: what do we do about porn?

Microtopics:

  • The Good Morning America series finale.
  • Covering video games online.
  • Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites.
  • Nintendo Disasters.
  • Reviewing every individual version of FIFA 2011.
  • The Sega Master System catalog.
  • Choosing not to do something because someone else has done it before.
  • A Weird Slop of People.
  • The CD-32 version of Alfred Chicken.
  • The Noclip documentary about PiCoSteveMo.
  • Blood and Fear and Nolf and Shogo and Condemned.
  • A hardware Pico-8 solution.
  • Explaining how to and how not to reply.
  • Enjoying social media because you need a place to type your garbage.
  • An Eternal September Situation.
  • Repeating Daily Show jokes from five years ago.
  • An oral history of Bluesky users.
  • Jimmy Fallon posting a picture of himself holding a Nintendo Switch.
  • The Ford vs. Chevy argument over and over again until we're all dead.
  • Laying your employees off based on their Klout scores.
  • What aspects of social media you can leave behind once you get a goat farm.
  • Having goats and not even posting pictures of them.
  • Goats as a gateway drug to other ungulates.
  • Did I get drunk and order 20 snakes again?
  • Boxcars: Where the Hobos Go.
  • Jumping in a train car full of refined materials.
  • Reminiscing about the time you lived in London and remembering everything that sucks about living in London.
  • A warped melting representation of your childhood memories.
  • An emotional VR moment.
  • Floating in space and hearing a cacophony of national anthems screaming up at you.
  • That time they added your uncle's farm to Google Street View.
  • Looking back on previous eras of your life and remembering why you don't want that kind of life any more.
  • The guy you know who mined bitcoins on his CPU and then spent it on black market Provigil.
  • Why do something that's going to make money when you can do ridiculous bullshit instead?
  • Three year olds who know how to use a remote control.
  • Areas of human interaction that you are just not prepared for.
  • Just putting your Zip disk in the file server and grabbing whatever's there.
  • What kind of porn the owner of the video rental place is personally obsessed with.
  • Why do you never see porn scored with tracker music?
  • Deep appreciation of porn that is made for somebody else
  • Beavis and Butthead trading cards.
  • Scintillating pizza delivery.
  • Explaining to your child that porn is fictional, not a documentary, and leaving it at that.
  • Your daughter asking you questions about Sonic the Hedgehog that you're not prepared to answer.
  • Encountering boys who play Minecraft.
  • Deploying new words to the wrong people.
  • Laying in bed and cursing at ghosts to calm yourself down.
  • An entire generation who goes to the gym and doesn't just watch CKY2K and break things.
  • Doing all the drugs so that you can explain what drugs are like to your children.
  • Learning how to fall as a child so you can fall safely as an adult.
  • Smoking Ice and waking up in San Francisco.
  • Pulling over, opening the hood, and punching the engine block over and over.
  • A poem that somebody else will read.
  • Whether the money has changed the Dwarf Fortress developers.

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Topics:

  • What's happening on Bluesky.
  • Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived
  • Dad talk: what do we do about porn?

Microtopics:

  • The Good Morning America series finale.
  • Covering video games online.
  • Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites.
  • Nintendo Disasters.
  • Reviewing every individual version of FIFA 2011.
  • The Sega Master System catalog.
  • Choosing not to do something because someone else has done it before.
  • A Weird Slop of People.
  • The CD-32 version of Alfred Chicken.
  • The Noclip documentary about PiCoSteveMo.
  • Blood and Fear and Nolf and Shogo and Condemned.
  • A hardware Pico-8 solution.
  • Explaining how to and how not to reply.
  • Enjoying social media because you need a place to type your garbage.
  • An Eternal September Situation.
  • Repeating Daily Show jokes from five years ago.
  • An oral history of Bluesky users.
  • Jimmy Fallon posting a picture of himself holding a Nintendo Switch.
  • The Ford vs. Chevy argument over and over again until we're all dead.
  • Laying your employees off based on their Klout scores.
  • What aspects of social media you can leave behind once you get a goat farm.
  • Having goats and not even posting pictures of them.
  • Goats as a gateway drug to other ungulates.
  • Did I get drunk and order 20 snakes again?
  • Boxcars: Where the Hobos Go.
  • Jumping in a train car full of refined materials.
  • Reminiscing about the time you lived in London and remembering everything that sucks about living in London.
  • A warped melting representation of your childhood memories.
  • An emotional VR moment.
  • Floating in space and hearing a cacophony of national anthems screaming up at you.
  • That time they added your uncle's farm to Google Street View.
  • Looking back on previous eras of your life and remembering why you don't want that kind of life any more.
  • The guy you know who mined bitcoins on his CPU and then spent it on black market Provigil.
  • Why do something that's going to make money when you can do ridiculous bullshit instead?
  • Three year olds who know how to use a remote control.
  • Areas of human interaction that you are just not prepared for.
  • Just putting your Zip disk in the file server and grabbing whatever's there.
  • What kind of porn the owner of the video rental place is personally obsessed with.
  • Why do you never see porn scored with tracker music?
  • Deep appreciation of porn that is made for somebody else
  • Beavis and Butthead trading cards.
  • Scintillating pizza delivery.
  • Explaining to your child that porn is fictional, not a documentary, and leaving it at that.
  • Your daughter asking you questions about Sonic the Hedgehog that you're not prepared to answer.
  • Encountering boys who play Minecraft.
  • Deploying new words to the wrong people.
  • Laying in bed and cursing at ghosts to calm yourself down.
  • An entire generation who goes to the gym and doesn't just watch CKY2K and break things.
  • Doing all the drugs so that you can explain what drugs are like to your children.
  • Learning how to fall as a child so you can fall safely as an adult.
  • Smoking Ice and waking up in San Francisco.
  • Pulling over, opening the hood, and punching the engine block over and over.
  • A poem that somebody else will read.
  • Whether the money has changed the Dwarf Fortress developers.

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]]> 231. Game: the Game and Music Experience https://topiclords.com/game-the-game-and-music-experience e195dcd0-a83a-4aec-8c91-43d906199bd0 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Jeff and Tyriq. We discuss writing jokes on the spot for impatient children, your favorite genre that you have no interest in making, High Sidin', Poetry, and every mammal's fish. 1:11:49 yes Lords: * Jeff * http://dopeassvideogames.com/ * Tyriq * https://fourbitfriday.itch.io/ Topics: * The shame of not remembering any good jokes for kids and having to write jokes on the spot for impatient children * What's your favorite genre to consume that you have no interest in making (or think you'd suck at?) * High Sidin' * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5INAxH1HD7s * Poetry * https://poets.org/poem/poetry * Every mammal has a fish Microtopics: * Line of sight for the fog of war. * Plugging unplugging. * How to keep looking at TikTok when your phone is destroyed. * Telling your kid that Youtube broke. * Youtube videos that teach your child how to give a thumbs up. * Having more kids because it pays for itself. * Why did the princess have no dresses? * Explaining to a four year old about the $20 Sack Pyramid. * Weaning yourself off of saying /s by saying "wocka wocka" instead. * Teaching your kids better standards for comedy. * Snow White did this and then Belle was there and Ariel was there with her human legs. * The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but for making pie. * Looking up knock knock jokes online. * Your kid finding your secret hoard of popsicle sticks and realizing you didn't just make all those jokes up from your head. * Things you want to have made but don't want to make * Trying to surprise yourself with your own level design. * Wallowing in the stuckness. * Whether game developers know when they're making a bad game. * Playtesting the shit out of a game because you enjoy playtesting so much. * Questionable hip hop. * Thrashy hyperpop. * Full-time access to a green screen and what it does to your head. * Comedy FMV games. * Making a career out of making bad art except it's funny and having to live with yourself. * Approachable game projects. * Pivoting from making an action RPG to making a Vampire Survivors clone in the space of a weekend. * Making a bunch of efforts and they're all terrible. * Whispering into a distortion pedal. * Putting your vocals through a bunch of effects pedals because your lyrics are terrible. * Enjoying an art creation process until you get too self conscious and ruin it. * Wallowing in the stuckness. * Making art and never showing it to anybody. * A twin stick shooter that's just for me. * Game Heads. * Onlookers getting hyphy. * "Side Show" by 415. * Back when Oakland was in the 415 area code. * Turning tight ones. * Turning brodies in an intersection while commuters look at your 15-inch subwoofers. * Rogue car events. * Game: the Games and Music Experience. * A lowrider with the entirely wrong number of switches. * Whether Boots Riley and Too Short still live in Oakland. * Aspirational trailer music choices. * Car Stealth: drive around a corner and hide. * Missing Rock Band but not missing it enough to install Fortnite. * Initiating taunts in Fortnite by strumming the guitar controller. * The immovable critic twinkling his skin. * Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. * Poetry with a diss track vibe to it. * Good going, dumbass, you got into poetry. * Whether poetry should rhyme. * Discriminating against business documents. * Putting a poem on genius.com and adding a "wocka wocka" annotation after every joke. * Spending an hour searching for animal names followed by "fish" * Which fish have the thickest bones? * Buffalo Fish Wings. * A fish that is way too big and shaped like the letter D. * Is Beyonce a Nicki Minaj friends?? * Grandma's big bowl of worsties. * Energy drinks that make you want to disassemble a clock radio. * Drinking C4. * The guy you know who always has at least three Red Bulls on him at all times. * Bringing home a one-of-a-kind Monet even though you know your roommate is a Monet fiend and will eat it immediately. * The Master P of devouring Kit Kats. * The Queen of Bites and Sips. * Your duty to eat snacks before they go bad. * Eating one marshmallow right now. * The shitposty garbage that made Twitter fun. * Here's some pants pooping jokes, wocka wocka. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Line of sight for the fog of war.
  • Plugging unplugging.
  • How to keep looking at TikTok when your phone is destroyed.
  • Telling your kid that Youtube broke.
  • Youtube videos that teach your child how to give a thumbs up.
  • Having more kids because it pays for itself.
  • Why did the princess have no dresses?
  • Explaining to a four year old about the $20 Sack Pyramid.
  • Weaning yourself off of saying /s by saying "wocka wocka" instead.
  • Teaching your kids better standards for comedy.
  • Snow White did this and then Belle was there and Ariel was there with her human legs.
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but for making pie.
  • Looking up knock knock jokes online.
  • Your kid finding your secret hoard of popsicle sticks and realizing you didn't just make all those jokes up from your head.
  • Things you want to have made but don't want to make
  • Trying to surprise yourself with your own level design.
  • Wallowing in the stuckness.
  • Whether game developers know when they're making a bad game.
  • Playtesting the shit out of a game because you enjoy playtesting so much.
  • Questionable hip hop.
  • Thrashy hyperpop.
  • Full-time access to a green screen and what it does to your head.
  • Comedy FMV games.
  • Making a career out of making bad art except it's funny and having to live with yourself.
  • Approachable game projects.
  • Pivoting from making an action RPG to making a Vampire Survivors clone in the space of a weekend.
  • Making a bunch of efforts and they're all terrible.
  • Whispering into a distortion pedal.
  • Putting your vocals through a bunch of effects pedals because your lyrics are terrible.
  • Enjoying an art creation process until you get too self conscious and ruin it.
  • Wallowing in the stuckness.
  • Making art and never showing it to anybody.
  • A twin stick shooter that's just for me.
  • Game Heads.
  • Onlookers getting hyphy.
  • "Side Show" by 415.
  • Back when Oakland was in the 415 area code.
  • Turning tight ones.
  • Turning brodies in an intersection while commuters look at your 15-inch subwoofers.
  • Rogue car events.
  • Game: the Games and Music Experience.
  • A lowrider with the entirely wrong number of switches.
  • Whether Boots Riley and Too Short still live in Oakland.
  • Aspirational trailer music choices.
  • Car Stealth: drive around a corner and hide.
  • Missing Rock Band but not missing it enough to install Fortnite.
  • Initiating taunts in Fortnite by strumming the guitar controller.
  • The immovable critic twinkling his skin.
  • Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.
  • Poetry with a diss track vibe to it.
  • Good going, dumbass, you got into poetry.
  • Whether poetry should rhyme.
  • Discriminating against business documents.
  • Putting a poem on genius.com and adding a "wocka wocka" annotation after every joke.
  • Spending an hour searching for animal names followed by "fish"
  • Which fish have the thickest bones?
  • Buffalo Fish Wings.
  • A fish that is way too big and shaped like the letter D.
  • Is Beyonce a Nicki Minaj friends??
  • Grandma's big bowl of worsties.
  • Energy drinks that make you want to disassemble a clock radio.
  • Drinking C4.
  • The guy you know who always has at least three Red Bulls on him at all times.
  • Bringing home a one-of-a-kind Monet even though you know your roommate is a Monet fiend and will eat it immediately.
  • The Master P of devouring Kit Kats.
  • The Queen of Bites and Sips.
  • Your duty to eat snacks before they go bad.
  • Eating one marshmallow right now.
  • The shitposty garbage that made Twitter fun.
  • Here's some pants pooping jokes, wocka wocka.

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Line of sight for the fog of war.
  • Plugging unplugging.
  • How to keep looking at TikTok when your phone is destroyed.
  • Telling your kid that Youtube broke.
  • Youtube videos that teach your child how to give a thumbs up.
  • Having more kids because it pays for itself.
  • Why did the princess have no dresses?
  • Explaining to a four year old about the $20 Sack Pyramid.
  • Weaning yourself off of saying /s by saying "wocka wocka" instead.
  • Teaching your kids better standards for comedy.
  • Snow White did this and then Belle was there and Ariel was there with her human legs.
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but for making pie.
  • Looking up knock knock jokes online.
  • Your kid finding your secret hoard of popsicle sticks and realizing you didn't just make all those jokes up from your head.
  • Things you want to have made but don't want to make
  • Trying to surprise yourself with your own level design.
  • Wallowing in the stuckness.
  • Whether game developers know when they're making a bad game.
  • Playtesting the shit out of a game because you enjoy playtesting so much.
  • Questionable hip hop.
  • Thrashy hyperpop.
  • Full-time access to a green screen and what it does to your head.
  • Comedy FMV games.
  • Making a career out of making bad art except it's funny and having to live with yourself.
  • Approachable game projects.
  • Pivoting from making an action RPG to making a Vampire Survivors clone in the space of a weekend.
  • Making a bunch of efforts and they're all terrible.
  • Whispering into a distortion pedal.
  • Putting your vocals through a bunch of effects pedals because your lyrics are terrible.
  • Enjoying an art creation process until you get too self conscious and ruin it.
  • Wallowing in the stuckness.
  • Making art and never showing it to anybody.
  • A twin stick shooter that's just for me.
  • Game Heads.
  • Onlookers getting hyphy.
  • "Side Show" by 415.
  • Back when Oakland was in the 415 area code.
  • Turning tight ones.
  • Turning brodies in an intersection while commuters look at your 15-inch subwoofers.
  • Rogue car events.
  • Game: the Games and Music Experience.
  • A lowrider with the entirely wrong number of switches.
  • Whether Boots Riley and Too Short still live in Oakland.
  • Aspirational trailer music choices.
  • Car Stealth: drive around a corner and hide.
  • Missing Rock Band but not missing it enough to install Fortnite.
  • Initiating taunts in Fortnite by strumming the guitar controller.
  • The immovable critic twinkling his skin.
  • Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.
  • Poetry with a diss track vibe to it.
  • Good going, dumbass, you got into poetry.
  • Whether poetry should rhyme.
  • Discriminating against business documents.
  • Putting a poem on genius.com and adding a "wocka wocka" annotation after every joke.
  • Spending an hour searching for animal names followed by "fish"
  • Which fish have the thickest bones?
  • Buffalo Fish Wings.
  • A fish that is way too big and shaped like the letter D.
  • Is Beyonce a Nicki Minaj friends??
  • Grandma's big bowl of worsties.
  • Energy drinks that make you want to disassemble a clock radio.
  • Drinking C4.
  • The guy you know who always has at least three Red Bulls on him at all times.
  • Bringing home a one-of-a-kind Monet even though you know your roommate is a Monet fiend and will eat it immediately.
  • The Master P of devouring Kit Kats.
  • The Queen of Bites and Sips.
  • Your duty to eat snacks before they go bad.
  • Eating one marshmallow right now.
  • The shitposty garbage that made Twitter fun.
  • Here's some pants pooping jokes, wocka wocka.

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