web02.fireside.fm Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:35:51 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Josh” https://topiclords.com/tags/josh Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 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 317. This Bass Line Stinks (Non-Derogatory) https://topiclords.com/this-bass-line-stinks-non-derogatory be7a0222-a000-4a86-8680-cc7249d64983 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lord: Danny, Josh, Vitor. We discuss games you love that nobody else knows exist, how to stop losing your sunglasses, homebrewing, when did Bush stop hiding the facts?, and Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath. 1:09:18 yes Lords: * 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/DoNotStandatMyGraveand_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. Lords:

Topics:

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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Topics:

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.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 21. Strip Laser Tag https://topiclords.com/strip-laser-tag 21980aac-4622-4cbf-a0ab-f4c38f6014bd Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords this week: Elena and Josh. We discuss procrastination as a coping mechanism, Newcomb's problem, celebrating Christmas by saying you have a machine gun, the fear that other podcasts might start discussing topics, McMaster-Carr, conlanging with toddlers, and preserving old software. 1:07:53 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Josh makes Thunk. https://www.youtube.com/user/THUNKShow * Elena is on the Topic Lords discord. Topics: * 2:29 Procrastination, or, avoidance as a protective coping mechanism * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27sass * 13:08 Newcomb's Problem * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27sparadox * 19:46 Celebrating Christmas by saying you have a machine gun * https://twitter.com/mogwaipoet/status/1210729053465931781 * 26:16 Kevin asks: "The fear that other podcasts will steal your idea to discuss topics." * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilightsleep * http://bash.org/ * 32:09 McMaster-Carr * https://www.mcmaster.com/ * http://thistothat.com/ * "Satisfying Spiral Liquid Bubbler Timer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFLNpSqzn7o * 41:34 Conlanging with toddlers * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language * 50:26 Preserving old software * THUG Pro. http://www.thugpro.com/ * "Ozimals did give rabbit owners a brief chance to save their rabbits. Before shutting down, they gave away items which make rabbits not need food – and leaves them sterile. Some rabbits will live on forever, the last of their kind." https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/19/second-life-ozimals-pet-rabbits-dying/ * The Lifecycle of Software Objects. https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/8/644/files/2017/08/Chiang-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects-q3tsuw.pdf * Rolled Out, the Super Monkey Ball clone. https://blog.rolledoutgame.com/ Microtopics: * Being old and knowing nothing. * Finding out that you can buy citric acid and put it in your drinking water. * Finding out that you can buy concrete and put it in your toilet. * The refreshing concrete toilet. * Regretting agreeing to do a thing you really enjoy. * Defeating procrastinating by discovering what you're afraid of and reframing it or interceding. * Worrying that you're incapable of surviving in a capitalist system. * Tracing every fear back to a fear of dying alone, like how every page on Wikipedia leads to Philosophy. * Wanting to do a thing but having no effective mechanism to prefer any given thing over any other and doing nothing. * Hearing syllables and then "ass" and pretending you understand. * Learning a word that you didn't know and then explaining it to other people. * Breaking your task into small steps and doing the first step. * Listening to your emotion and being like "what's your deal" * Self-acceptance helping when beating yourself up doesn't. * Instead of writing, taking copious notes and then skipping right to editing the notes into a completed text. * Laying out an outline and then finishing the essay by removing the bullet points. * Having an idea in each hand and holding two more in your left foot and trying to squinch them together into a linear series of thoughts. * Everything being related to everything else. * Giving people the tools they need to engage with topics. * A future-knowing genie who knows you're going to have pizza tonight. * Someone having done this topic already on a different podcast. * Being the genie you want to see in the world. * Causality seeming to flow in reverse. * Reassuring the genie that you're not the kind of person who takes two boxes. * The genie turning out to just be a guy with a rubber duck. * An odd Christmas greeting that you are here for. * Living next to people who think it's festive to announce how armed they are. * Knocking on your neighbor's door and asking for a cup of machine gun. * A corpse wearing a santa hat. * Trying to think of any movie that doesn't depict a corpse that could've worn a santa hat. * Some of your best friends having machine guns. * Being charmed by the utilitarian and efficient design of firearms. * Crying in a VR game and the tears filling up the mask until you drown. * Strip laser tag. * A topic peasant just waltzing in and talking about topics. * Editing out the guy hiding with a gun in post. * Having an unconscionable amount of bash.org memorized. * Waking up from your drugged haze to a flaming burnt cake in the oven and your house is burning down. * Being sad because the folks at Chipotle forgot your burrito but then your wife reminds you that you've eaten it already and you just forgot. * Everything that you could possibly need to build a thing. * Spinning around in an enormous magical hardware store with arms outstretched and an inventory robot fluttering around your skirt and landing on your finger. * Metal boxy objects of mysterious provenance. * The reaction speed of your transition lenses. * Welding masks transitioning to near-opaque in less than a millisecond because at any moment you might use a plasma beam that is brighter than the surface of the sun. * Installing permanent earplugs powered by your greasy earwax. * Not needing McMaster-Carr after Josh just tells you the answer. * An oil timer forcing a door to open or close slowly. * Having an idea for a cool Youtube video and assuming there's probably a cool Youtube guy who's already done it. * A toddler teaching you how to teach dragon language and the dragons being annoyed you didn't ask them. * Asking one of the indigineous people what the name of the hated rival tribe is named and them saying a slur and then being like "okay you're all that now." * Circumlocuting around the concept of the color green. * Summing up your engineering degree as "f=ma" and "you can't push a rope" and saving your listeners five years. * A fairly ingenious use of math that we've had sitting around forever. * Sliding rules getting us to the moon because we hadn't invented calculators yet. * The content being the same but the context changing. * The NES being the game dev platform that is most likely to survive the next thousand years. * Trolling through aerospace source code looking for funny comments. * Deleting your source code to free up space because nobody is ever going to need to port or revise Final Fantasy 7. * Planning a heist to retrieve the floppy disks stashed above the acoustic ceiling tiles of a dry cleaning service. * Games being reasonably well-preserved but other kinds of software being mostly lost because teenaged nerds don't care about it. * AI pets dying because the company that manufactured them went out of business. * Your GMO dog dying because the manufacturer's SSL certificate expired. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Being old and knowing nothing.
  • Finding out that you can buy citric acid and put it in your drinking water.
  • Finding out that you can buy concrete and put it in your toilet.
  • The refreshing concrete toilet.
  • Regretting agreeing to do a thing you really enjoy.
  • Defeating procrastinating by discovering what you're afraid of and reframing it or interceding.
  • Worrying that you're incapable of surviving in a capitalist system.
  • Tracing every fear back to a fear of dying alone, like how every page on Wikipedia leads to Philosophy.
  • Wanting to do a thing but having no effective mechanism to prefer any given thing over any other and doing nothing.
  • Hearing syllables and then "ass" and pretending you understand.
  • Learning a word that you didn't know and then explaining it to other people.
  • Breaking your task into small steps and doing the first step.
  • Listening to your emotion and being like "what's your deal"
  • Self-acceptance helping when beating yourself up doesn't.
  • Instead of writing, taking copious notes and then skipping right to editing the notes into a completed text.
  • Laying out an outline and then finishing the essay by removing the bullet points.
  • Having an idea in each hand and holding two more in your left foot and trying to squinch them together into a linear series of thoughts.
  • Everything being related to everything else.
  • Giving people the tools they need to engage with topics.
  • A future-knowing genie who knows you're going to have pizza tonight.
  • Someone having done this topic already on a different podcast.
  • Being the genie you want to see in the world.
  • Causality seeming to flow in reverse.
  • Reassuring the genie that you're not the kind of person who takes two boxes.
  • The genie turning out to just be a guy with a rubber duck.
  • An odd Christmas greeting that you are here for.
  • Living next to people who think it's festive to announce how armed they are.
  • Knocking on your neighbor's door and asking for a cup of machine gun.
  • A corpse wearing a santa hat.
  • Trying to think of any movie that doesn't depict a corpse that could've worn a santa hat.
  • Some of your best friends having machine guns.
  • Being charmed by the utilitarian and efficient design of firearms.
  • Crying in a VR game and the tears filling up the mask until you drown.
  • Strip laser tag.
  • A topic peasant just waltzing in and talking about topics.
  • Editing out the guy hiding with a gun in post.
  • Having an unconscionable amount of bash.org memorized.
  • Waking up from your drugged haze to a flaming burnt cake in the oven and your house is burning down.
  • Being sad because the folks at Chipotle forgot your burrito but then your wife reminds you that you've eaten it already and you just forgot.
  • Everything that you could possibly need to build a thing.
  • Spinning around in an enormous magical hardware store with arms outstretched and an inventory robot fluttering around your skirt and landing on your finger.
  • Metal boxy objects of mysterious provenance.
  • The reaction speed of your transition lenses.
  • Welding masks transitioning to near-opaque in less than a millisecond because at any moment you might use a plasma beam that is brighter than the surface of the sun.
  • Installing permanent earplugs powered by your greasy earwax.
  • Not needing McMaster-Carr after Josh just tells you the answer.
  • An oil timer forcing a door to open or close slowly.
  • Having an idea for a cool Youtube video and assuming there's probably a cool Youtube guy who's already done it.
  • A toddler teaching you how to teach dragon language and the dragons being annoyed you didn't ask them.
  • Asking one of the indigineous people what the name of the hated rival tribe is named and them saying a slur and then being like "okay you're all that now."
  • Circumlocuting around the concept of the color green.
  • Summing up your engineering degree as "f=ma" and "you can't push a rope" and saving your listeners five years.
  • A fairly ingenious use of math that we've had sitting around forever.
  • Sliding rules getting us to the moon because we hadn't invented calculators yet.
  • The content being the same but the context changing.
  • The NES being the game dev platform that is most likely to survive the next thousand years.
  • Trolling through aerospace source code looking for funny comments.
  • Deleting your source code to free up space because nobody is ever going to need to port or revise Final Fantasy 7.
  • Planning a heist to retrieve the floppy disks stashed above the acoustic ceiling tiles of a dry cleaning service.
  • Games being reasonably well-preserved but other kinds of software being mostly lost because teenaged nerds don't care about it.
  • AI pets dying because the company that manufactured them went out of business.
  • Your GMO dog dying because the manufacturer's SSL certificate expired.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Being old and knowing nothing.
  • Finding out that you can buy citric acid and put it in your drinking water.
  • Finding out that you can buy concrete and put it in your toilet.
  • The refreshing concrete toilet.
  • Regretting agreeing to do a thing you really enjoy.
  • Defeating procrastinating by discovering what you're afraid of and reframing it or interceding.
  • Worrying that you're incapable of surviving in a capitalist system.
  • Tracing every fear back to a fear of dying alone, like how every page on Wikipedia leads to Philosophy.
  • Wanting to do a thing but having no effective mechanism to prefer any given thing over any other and doing nothing.
  • Hearing syllables and then "ass" and pretending you understand.
  • Learning a word that you didn't know and then explaining it to other people.
  • Breaking your task into small steps and doing the first step.
  • Listening to your emotion and being like "what's your deal"
  • Self-acceptance helping when beating yourself up doesn't.
  • Instead of writing, taking copious notes and then skipping right to editing the notes into a completed text.
  • Laying out an outline and then finishing the essay by removing the bullet points.
  • Having an idea in each hand and holding two more in your left foot and trying to squinch them together into a linear series of thoughts.
  • Everything being related to everything else.
  • Giving people the tools they need to engage with topics.
  • A future-knowing genie who knows you're going to have pizza tonight.
  • Someone having done this topic already on a different podcast.
  • Being the genie you want to see in the world.
  • Causality seeming to flow in reverse.
  • Reassuring the genie that you're not the kind of person who takes two boxes.
  • The genie turning out to just be a guy with a rubber duck.
  • An odd Christmas greeting that you are here for.
  • Living next to people who think it's festive to announce how armed they are.
  • Knocking on your neighbor's door and asking for a cup of machine gun.
  • A corpse wearing a santa hat.
  • Trying to think of any movie that doesn't depict a corpse that could've worn a santa hat.
  • Some of your best friends having machine guns.
  • Being charmed by the utilitarian and efficient design of firearms.
  • Crying in a VR game and the tears filling up the mask until you drown.
  • Strip laser tag.
  • A topic peasant just waltzing in and talking about topics.
  • Editing out the guy hiding with a gun in post.
  • Having an unconscionable amount of bash.org memorized.
  • Waking up from your drugged haze to a flaming burnt cake in the oven and your house is burning down.
  • Being sad because the folks at Chipotle forgot your burrito but then your wife reminds you that you've eaten it already and you just forgot.
  • Everything that you could possibly need to build a thing.
  • Spinning around in an enormous magical hardware store with arms outstretched and an inventory robot fluttering around your skirt and landing on your finger.
  • Metal boxy objects of mysterious provenance.
  • The reaction speed of your transition lenses.
  • Welding masks transitioning to near-opaque in less than a millisecond because at any moment you might use a plasma beam that is brighter than the surface of the sun.
  • Installing permanent earplugs powered by your greasy earwax.
  • Not needing McMaster-Carr after Josh just tells you the answer.
  • An oil timer forcing a door to open or close slowly.
  • Having an idea for a cool Youtube video and assuming there's probably a cool Youtube guy who's already done it.
  • A toddler teaching you how to teach dragon language and the dragons being annoyed you didn't ask them.
  • Asking one of the indigineous people what the name of the hated rival tribe is named and them saying a slur and then being like "okay you're all that now."
  • Circumlocuting around the concept of the color green.
  • Summing up your engineering degree as "f=ma" and "you can't push a rope" and saving your listeners five years.
  • A fairly ingenious use of math that we've had sitting around forever.
  • Sliding rules getting us to the moon because we hadn't invented calculators yet.
  • The content being the same but the context changing.
  • The NES being the game dev platform that is most likely to survive the next thousand years.
  • Trolling through aerospace source code looking for funny comments.
  • Deleting your source code to free up space because nobody is ever going to need to port or revise Final Fantasy 7.
  • Planning a heist to retrieve the floppy disks stashed above the acoustic ceiling tiles of a dry cleaning service.
  • Games being reasonably well-preserved but other kinds of software being mostly lost because teenaged nerds don't care about it.
  • AI pets dying because the company that manufactured them went out of business.
  • Your GMO dog dying because the manufacturer's SSL certificate expired.

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