web01.fireside.fm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:44:41 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Kevin” https://topiclords.com/tags/kevin Mon, 03 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 315. I Can't Believe It's Butter https://topiclords.com/i-cant-believe-its-butter 4093f8b9-084c-4226-9770-d338c841abb1 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: John and Kevin. We discuss dealing with criticism, how long until multiverse/crossover media is exciting again, cringe that's so cringey it's no longer upsetting, Bell's Theorem by Kevin Hainline, and the golden age of new official localizations of old games. 1:20:00 yes Lords: * John * Kevin * https://www.youtube.com/@kevin_hainline Topics: * Asking for help / Dealing with the slightest criticism/suggestions/etc * Roger Rabbit and Marvel vs. Capcom were big deals. How long until multiverse & crossover shit is exciting again? * Update on media that makes me feel things vs. media that doesn't * "Bell's Theorem"", a poem that I wrote, and then, at a poetry reading someone suggested the next poem and it demonstrated how good poets are pretty amazing and I am not a good poet * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkNH-KlDCAMRNsI6hDZjlyvOpAgM2TsP8x-lIp5TeqQ/edit?usp=sharing * We're in a golden age of new official localizations and rereleases of old games (and why am I not playing them?!) Microtopics: * Some guy on the internet. * Transparent aluminum ukuleles. * Hurting your fingers because your ukulele action is too high. * Do you still call them cowboy chords when you play them on a ukulele? * An astronomer making a series of Youtube videos about Jurassic Park. * The history of Mr. DNA. * How much kids in the early 90s loved Jamaicans. * Solving a 30 year old Internet mystery. * Suing Michael Crichton to make him put you in the Jurassic Park acknowledgements section. * The Ancient DNA Study Group. * Ian Malcolm just saying a bunch of lines from James Gleick's "Chaos." * Going into slow motion to show all the Victorian era pickpocketing. * Asking an august astronomer to critique your work and squirming as he critiques your work. * Therapy-style processing via Topic Lords. * People who like being asked for help because it gives them an opportunity to help. * The German word for being a person. * Being so overly polite that people feel obligated to reassure you that you don't need to be so polite, which is a big pain. * After someone helps you, asking for clarification on whether they wanted to help or if they felt obligated. * How to save Jim a lot of time and effort. * Two people coming from the same gross Internet soup. (Not 4chan) * The friends you made on the Pokey the Penguin mailing list. * Swearing to kids these days that the internet was good once. * Finding the exact right gif for your animated profile picture. * Pretend socialization: it's still socialization. * Knowing a guy by his Internet handle for decades and suddenly having to call him his birth name. * When crossovers started being a thing. * The Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people, saying the stage for the world depicted in Bio Freaks for the N64. * Daffy and Donald playing rival pianos. * Detective Munch's cameo in Fortnite. * Konami Wai Wai World. * Vib Ribbon n Astro Bot. * Why am I on this show when I could be playing Vib Ribbon? * Burning episodes of Topic Lords to CD-R so you can play them in Vib Ribbon. * Extremely pixelated vector art. * The save the cat moment on Topic Lords. * Mind-blowing crossover media events where the mind-blowing part is how much they paid all the lawyers to negotiate the deal. * Why the indie game scene hadn't produced a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with public domain characters like Robin Hood, Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and Abraham Lincoln. * Reagan-Gorbachev. * Which president was kidnapped by ninjas. * Choosing to let the ninjas keep Ronald Reagan. * Ape Out: Get Back In There! * Pushing the left stick to lean and pushing the triggers to lift either foot. * Trying to play a video game in which you dislike the protagonist. * A guy whose defining trait is that he tries to get out of every conversation as quickly as possible. * Playing with the mismatch between what the player wants and what the player character wants. * Upsetting the apple cart of how video games work. * A minimap that takes up the top fifth of the screen but is nonfunctional until you unlock it halfway through the game. * Which Jurassic Park video game is most interesting and which is most fun. * Looking down at your cleavage to see your health meter. * Saying the secret word and screaming real loud. * A poem based on a physics thing. * Forgetting your ex girlfriend's face, along with all the state capitals. * Time pointing an arrow at your back, and you walk. * The New Physicality of Long-Distance Love. * Sending a poet up on the spaceship to drain buckets from downtown. * A poem written sometime between 1936 and 1992. * Off-Topic Lords, a place for people who shout answers at podcasts in grocery stores. * A collection of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun games. * Kid Dracula. * Mother 3's copyright nightmare. * Mario Paint on the Switch 2. * Who was the Terry that Chris Houlihan replaced in Nintendo World Cup? * Satellaview games ported to the Switch. * Batman Loves Him a Parallelogram. * Joining the discord for the best PicoSteveMo experience. * KevinHainlineOnYoutube.com * Naming a distant galaxy after yourself and other astronomers mocking you mercilessly. Lords:

Topics:

  • Asking for help / Dealing with the slightest criticism/suggestions/etc
  • Roger Rabbit and Marvel vs. Capcom were big deals. How long until multiverse & crossover shit is exciting again?
  • Update on media that makes me feel things vs. media that doesn't
  • "Bell's Theorem"", a poem that I wrote, and then, at a poetry reading someone suggested the next poem and it demonstrated how good poets are pretty amazing and I am not a good poet
  • We're in a golden age of new official localizations and rereleases of old games (and why am I not playing them?!)

Microtopics:

  • Some guy on the internet.
  • Transparent aluminum ukuleles.
  • Hurting your fingers because your ukulele action is too high.
  • Do you still call them cowboy chords when you play them on a ukulele?
  • An astronomer making a series of Youtube videos about Jurassic Park.
  • The history of Mr. DNA.
  • How much kids in the early 90s loved Jamaicans.
  • Solving a 30 year old Internet mystery.
  • Suing Michael Crichton to make him put you in the Jurassic Park acknowledgements section.
  • The Ancient DNA Study Group.
  • Ian Malcolm just saying a bunch of lines from James Gleick's "Chaos."
  • Going into slow motion to show all the Victorian era pickpocketing.
  • Asking an august astronomer to critique your work and squirming as he critiques your work.
  • Therapy-style processing via Topic Lords.
  • People who like being asked for help because it gives them an opportunity to help.
  • The German word for being a person.
  • Being so overly polite that people feel obligated to reassure you that you don't need to be so polite, which is a big pain.
  • After someone helps you, asking for clarification on whether they wanted to help or if they felt obligated.
  • How to save Jim a lot of time and effort.
  • Two people coming from the same gross Internet soup. (Not 4chan)
  • The friends you made on the Pokey the Penguin mailing list.
  • Swearing to kids these days that the internet was good once.
  • Finding the exact right gif for your animated profile picture.
  • Pretend socialization: it's still socialization.
  • Knowing a guy by his Internet handle for decades and suddenly having to call him his birth name.
  • When crossovers started being a thing.
  • The Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people, saying the stage for the world depicted in Bio Freaks for the N64.
  • Daffy and Donald playing rival pianos.
  • Detective Munch's cameo in Fortnite.
  • Konami Wai Wai World.
  • Vib Ribbon n Astro Bot.
  • Why am I on this show when I could be playing Vib Ribbon?
  • Burning episodes of Topic Lords to CD-R so you can play them in Vib Ribbon.
  • Extremely pixelated vector art.
  • The save the cat moment on Topic Lords.
  • Mind-blowing crossover media events where the mind-blowing part is how much they paid all the lawyers to negotiate the deal.
  • Why the indie game scene hadn't produced a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with public domain characters like Robin Hood, Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and Abraham Lincoln.
  • Reagan-Gorbachev.
  • Which president was kidnapped by ninjas.
  • Choosing to let the ninjas keep Ronald Reagan.
  • Ape Out: Get Back In There!
  • Pushing the left stick to lean and pushing the triggers to lift either foot.
  • Trying to play a video game in which you dislike the protagonist.
  • A guy whose defining trait is that he tries to get out of every conversation as quickly as possible.
  • Playing with the mismatch between what the player wants and what the player character wants.
  • Upsetting the apple cart of how video games work.
  • A minimap that takes up the top fifth of the screen but is nonfunctional until you unlock it halfway through the game.
  • Which Jurassic Park video game is most interesting and which is most fun.
  • Looking down at your cleavage to see your health meter.
  • Saying the secret word and screaming real loud.
  • A poem based on a physics thing.
  • Forgetting your ex girlfriend's face, along with all the state capitals.
  • Time pointing an arrow at your back, and you walk.
  • The New Physicality of Long-Distance Love.
  • Sending a poet up on the spaceship to drain buckets from downtown.
  • A poem written sometime between 1936 and 1992.
  • Off-Topic Lords, a place for people who shout answers at podcasts in grocery stores.
  • A collection of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun games.
  • Kid Dracula.
  • Mother 3's copyright nightmare.
  • Mario Paint on the Switch 2.
  • Who was the Terry that Chris Houlihan replaced in Nintendo World Cup?
  • Satellaview games ported to the Switch.
  • Batman Loves Him a Parallelogram.
  • Joining the discord for the best PicoSteveMo experience.
  • KevinHainlineOnYoutube.com
  • Naming a distant galaxy after yourself and other astronomers mocking you mercilessly.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

Topics:

  • Asking for help / Dealing with the slightest criticism/suggestions/etc
  • Roger Rabbit and Marvel vs. Capcom were big deals. How long until multiverse & crossover shit is exciting again?
  • Update on media that makes me feel things vs. media that doesn't
  • "Bell's Theorem"", a poem that I wrote, and then, at a poetry reading someone suggested the next poem and it demonstrated how good poets are pretty amazing and I am not a good poet
  • We're in a golden age of new official localizations and rereleases of old games (and why am I not playing them?!)

Microtopics:

  • Some guy on the internet.
  • Transparent aluminum ukuleles.
  • Hurting your fingers because your ukulele action is too high.
  • Do you still call them cowboy chords when you play them on a ukulele?
  • An astronomer making a series of Youtube videos about Jurassic Park.
  • The history of Mr. DNA.
  • How much kids in the early 90s loved Jamaicans.
  • Solving a 30 year old Internet mystery.
  • Suing Michael Crichton to make him put you in the Jurassic Park acknowledgements section.
  • The Ancient DNA Study Group.
  • Ian Malcolm just saying a bunch of lines from James Gleick's "Chaos."
  • Going into slow motion to show all the Victorian era pickpocketing.
  • Asking an august astronomer to critique your work and squirming as he critiques your work.
  • Therapy-style processing via Topic Lords.
  • People who like being asked for help because it gives them an opportunity to help.
  • The German word for being a person.
  • Being so overly polite that people feel obligated to reassure you that you don't need to be so polite, which is a big pain.
  • After someone helps you, asking for clarification on whether they wanted to help or if they felt obligated.
  • How to save Jim a lot of time and effort.
  • Two people coming from the same gross Internet soup. (Not 4chan)
  • The friends you made on the Pokey the Penguin mailing list.
  • Swearing to kids these days that the internet was good once.
  • Finding the exact right gif for your animated profile picture.
  • Pretend socialization: it's still socialization.
  • Knowing a guy by his Internet handle for decades and suddenly having to call him his birth name.
  • When crossovers started being a thing.
  • The Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people, saying the stage for the world depicted in Bio Freaks for the N64.
  • Daffy and Donald playing rival pianos.
  • Detective Munch's cameo in Fortnite.
  • Konami Wai Wai World.
  • Vib Ribbon n Astro Bot.
  • Why am I on this show when I could be playing Vib Ribbon?
  • Burning episodes of Topic Lords to CD-R so you can play them in Vib Ribbon.
  • Extremely pixelated vector art.
  • The save the cat moment on Topic Lords.
  • Mind-blowing crossover media events where the mind-blowing part is how much they paid all the lawyers to negotiate the deal.
  • Why the indie game scene hadn't produced a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with public domain characters like Robin Hood, Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and Abraham Lincoln.
  • Reagan-Gorbachev.
  • Which president was kidnapped by ninjas.
  • Choosing to let the ninjas keep Ronald Reagan.
  • Ape Out: Get Back In There!
  • Pushing the left stick to lean and pushing the triggers to lift either foot.
  • Trying to play a video game in which you dislike the protagonist.
  • A guy whose defining trait is that he tries to get out of every conversation as quickly as possible.
  • Playing with the mismatch between what the player wants and what the player character wants.
  • Upsetting the apple cart of how video games work.
  • A minimap that takes up the top fifth of the screen but is nonfunctional until you unlock it halfway through the game.
  • Which Jurassic Park video game is most interesting and which is most fun.
  • Looking down at your cleavage to see your health meter.
  • Saying the secret word and screaming real loud.
  • A poem based on a physics thing.
  • Forgetting your ex girlfriend's face, along with all the state capitals.
  • Time pointing an arrow at your back, and you walk.
  • The New Physicality of Long-Distance Love.
  • Sending a poet up on the spaceship to drain buckets from downtown.
  • A poem written sometime between 1936 and 1992.
  • Off-Topic Lords, a place for people who shout answers at podcasts in grocery stores.
  • A collection of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun games.
  • Kid Dracula.
  • Mother 3's copyright nightmare.
  • Mario Paint on the Switch 2.
  • Who was the Terry that Chris Houlihan replaced in Nintendo World Cup?
  • Satellaview games ported to the Switch.
  • Batman Loves Him a Parallelogram.
  • Joining the discord for the best PicoSteveMo experience.
  • KevinHainlineOnYoutube.com
  • Naming a distant galaxy after yourself and other astronomers mocking you mercilessly.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 234. Plunge Correctly for High Score https://topiclords.com/plunge-correctly-for-high-score 39ac5f31-4f4d-449b-98d4-f2e6bd793494 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: JohnB and Kevin. We discuss Don Quixote, the Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown series, whether phones need to ring, Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, and whether pinball is supposed to be fun. 1:10:03 yes Lords: * JohnB * Kevin * JADES data: https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/public/ Topics: * Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don Quixote * The Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerds * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MysteriesoftheUnknown * https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distantastronomicalobjectsiceberg/ * https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenon * https://archive.org/details/DreamsAndDreaming201809/page/n33/mode/2up * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lal0aWAys0k * Thomas Edison didn't think telephones needed to ring. He figured the caller could just start yelling "hello" at you even before you answered the phone * Desiderata * https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html * https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lessonimages/lesson372/PoloniusExcerpt.pdf * Is pinball meant to be fun? Can you lose a quarter at an arcade faster in a game cabinet or in a pinball machine? * https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/07/06/arcade-holy-grail-the-pinball-circus/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtVBb8rOok * https://archive.org/details/TILTTheBattleToSavePinballDisc2Extras Microtopics: * Dog ownership. * A living creature that just wanders around the house. * Picking up warm soft weird thing. * Cracking open a cold one. * Computers flush with science data. * The deepest images humans have ever taken. * Finding distances to individual galaxies. * Listicles you can peruse. * Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself. * Bug Mars 2. * The Glass Universe. * Hiring women and calling them computers. * A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose. * Some public domain books being more readable than others. * Pun localization. * North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas. * How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic. * Whether we respect English majors on this show. * Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now. * Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza. * The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills. * The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody. * Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction. * Don Coyote. * Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make. * The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read. * The 80s resurgence of New Age thought. * Mystic Places. * The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library. * Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library. * The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide. * Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool. * The Spaceships of Ezekiel. * The JWST iceberg. * The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg. * A tin can and a string with a battery attached. * Hello, fellow phone owner. * A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message. * Funny ways to answer the phone. * E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero. * The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s. * Nice things to do and be. * Desiderata vs. Deteriorata. * Advice giving poems. * Skin cancer is mid. * Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya. * Avoiding loud and aggressive persons. * Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century. * Baffleball. * Pinball features to make things easier for beginners. * The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game. * Tilt-sensing plum bobs. * A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment. * The Black Hole for Personal Reasons. * A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball. * Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball. * Multidisc! * Pinball tables by George Gomez. * Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best. * Free play skee-ball. * Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique. * Twitter forgiveness. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Dog ownership.
  • A living creature that just wanders around the house.
  • Picking up warm soft weird thing.
  • Cracking open a cold one.
  • Computers flush with science data.
  • The deepest images humans have ever taken.
  • Finding distances to individual galaxies.
  • Listicles you can peruse.
  • Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself.
  • Bug Mars 2.
  • The Glass Universe.
  • Hiring women and calling them computers.
  • A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose.
  • Some public domain books being more readable than others.
  • Pun localization.
  • North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas.
  • How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic.
  • Whether we respect English majors on this show.
  • Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now.
  • Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza.
  • The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills.
  • The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody.
  • Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction.
  • Don Coyote.
  • Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make.
  • The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read.
  • The 80s resurgence of New Age thought.
  • Mystic Places.
  • The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library.
  • Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library.
  • The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide.
  • Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool.
  • The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
  • The JWST iceberg.
  • The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg.
  • A tin can and a string with a battery attached.
  • Hello, fellow phone owner.
  • A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message.
  • Funny ways to answer the phone.
  • E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero.
  • The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s.
  • Nice things to do and be.
  • Desiderata vs. Deteriorata.
  • Advice giving poems.
  • Skin cancer is mid.
  • Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya.
  • Avoiding loud and aggressive persons.
  • Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century.
  • Baffleball.
  • Pinball features to make things easier for beginners.
  • The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game.
  • Tilt-sensing plum bobs.
  • A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment.
  • The Black Hole for Personal Reasons.
  • A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball.
  • Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball.
  • Multidisc!
  • Pinball tables by George Gomez.
  • Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best.
  • Free play skee-ball.
  • Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique.
  • Twitter forgiveness.

Support Topic Lords

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Dog ownership.
  • A living creature that just wanders around the house.
  • Picking up warm soft weird thing.
  • Cracking open a cold one.
  • Computers flush with science data.
  • The deepest images humans have ever taken.
  • Finding distances to individual galaxies.
  • Listicles you can peruse.
  • Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself.
  • Bug Mars 2.
  • The Glass Universe.
  • Hiring women and calling them computers.
  • A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose.
  • Some public domain books being more readable than others.
  • Pun localization.
  • North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas.
  • How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic.
  • Whether we respect English majors on this show.
  • Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now.
  • Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza.
  • The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills.
  • The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody.
  • Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction.
  • Don Coyote.
  • Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make.
  • The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read.
  • The 80s resurgence of New Age thought.
  • Mystic Places.
  • The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library.
  • Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library.
  • The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide.
  • Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool.
  • The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
  • The JWST iceberg.
  • The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg.
  • A tin can and a string with a battery attached.
  • Hello, fellow phone owner.
  • A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message.
  • Funny ways to answer the phone.
  • E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero.
  • The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s.
  • Nice things to do and be.
  • Desiderata vs. Deteriorata.
  • Advice giving poems.
  • Skin cancer is mid.
  • Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya.
  • Avoiding loud and aggressive persons.
  • Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century.
  • Baffleball.
  • Pinball features to make things easier for beginners.
  • The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game.
  • Tilt-sensing plum bobs.
  • A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment.
  • The Black Hole for Personal Reasons.
  • A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball.
  • Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball.
  • Multidisc!
  • Pinball tables by George Gomez.
  • Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best.
  • Free play skee-ball.
  • Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique.
  • Twitter forgiveness.

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Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The James Webb Space Telescope.
  • The thing you get the most DMs about.
  • Recording a fan's answering machine message in the Mario Frustration voice.
  • The guy who "fixed" the NES triangle wave.
  • Bandlimiting your oscillators.
  • What the real Lordheads know.
  • Another place to shitpost.
  • 3D entertainment.
  • Deku momentum problems.
  • The analog stick mod for Mario 64 DS.
  • A remaster that is in direct conversation with what it's remastering.
  • The pros and cons of Mario 64 DS.
  • Abandoned let's-plays.
  • Waterworld for the Virtual Boy.
  • Wario Ware and Rhythm Heaven.
  • How to give Nintendo money in 2022.
  • Prodigy Child Wins Every Award Given.
  • Pausing movies to read the nonsense headlines that the prop designers didn't expect you to read.
  • Pausing the movie to complain about the nonsensical Scrabble game depicted.
  • A movie about people who don't know how to play Clue.
  • A mahjongg game that is a literary microcosm of the players' lives.
  • Leaning across the couch to your girlfriend and saying "that's Chappie's chess game."
  • Playing Super Mario Bros. with the Power Glove.
  • The Steam reviews for the 8-bit wrestling game that appears for three seconds in The Wrestler.
  • The only digital camera that was under $100 in the 90s.
  • How to get images off of the Game Boy Camera.
  • Hooking together a TV, VCR, SNES, Super Game Boy and Game Boy Camera and plugging it in with a very long extension cord so you can shoot a movie outdoors.
  • An in-your-face student film about what happens when computers can detect emotion.
  • Using your Game Boy Camera as a webcam on Twitch.
  • The Game Boy Camera's music sequencer.
  • The Game Boy Camera asking ROM hackers if they are feeling ok.
  • The Gold Zelda Camera.
  • The gold Breath of the Wild cartridge that tastes like the Master Sword.
  • The Cool Cam.
  • The Lefty RX.
  • Ranking candy by its volume to surface area ratio.
  • Getting sick of candy corn naysayers.
  • Wax Lips: Ya Gotta Eat 'Em!
  • A powder that's been glued into a little puck.
  • What the American Oil and Gas Historical Society has to say about wax lips.
  • The oleaginous history of wax lips.
  • Edible dinosaur bones.
  • Bananasaurus Rex-flavored string cheese.
  • The Genius of the Hero falling to the Middling Stature of the Merely Talented.
  • Looking back on your best work and knowing you'll probably never best it but still liking your life more now.
  • A short story with extra line breaks.
  • Turning any text into a poem by resizing the window so there are extra line breaks.
  • Robert Altman's follow-up to MASH.
  • A retelling of Icarus featuring the wicked witch saying a slur.
  • What it means to be conscious.
  • Godel, Escher, Bach: I am a Strange Loop except more confusing.
  • Writing a book for the general public and having to figure out how to make your ideas fun.
  • Searching YouTube for "Crab Cannon" and only finding music for weirdos and no cannons of any kind.
  • Martin Gardner's column about math games in Scientific American.
  • Metamagical Themas.
  • Using math to do fun space stuff.
  • Stream Frasier Online Free.
  • Rubik's Cube except spelled like an asshole.

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Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The James Webb Space Telescope.
  • The thing you get the most DMs about.
  • Recording a fan's answering machine message in the Mario Frustration voice.
  • The guy who "fixed" the NES triangle wave.
  • Bandlimiting your oscillators.
  • What the real Lordheads know.
  • Another place to shitpost.
  • 3D entertainment.
  • Deku momentum problems.
  • The analog stick mod for Mario 64 DS.
  • A remaster that is in direct conversation with what it's remastering.
  • The pros and cons of Mario 64 DS.
  • Abandoned let's-plays.
  • Waterworld for the Virtual Boy.
  • Wario Ware and Rhythm Heaven.
  • How to give Nintendo money in 2022.
  • Prodigy Child Wins Every Award Given.
  • Pausing movies to read the nonsense headlines that the prop designers didn't expect you to read.
  • Pausing the movie to complain about the nonsensical Scrabble game depicted.
  • A movie about people who don't know how to play Clue.
  • A mahjongg game that is a literary microcosm of the players' lives.
  • Leaning across the couch to your girlfriend and saying "that's Chappie's chess game."
  • Playing Super Mario Bros. with the Power Glove.
  • The Steam reviews for the 8-bit wrestling game that appears for three seconds in The Wrestler.
  • The only digital camera that was under $100 in the 90s.
  • How to get images off of the Game Boy Camera.
  • Hooking together a TV, VCR, SNES, Super Game Boy and Game Boy Camera and plugging it in with a very long extension cord so you can shoot a movie outdoors.
  • An in-your-face student film about what happens when computers can detect emotion.
  • Using your Game Boy Camera as a webcam on Twitch.
  • The Game Boy Camera's music sequencer.
  • The Game Boy Camera asking ROM hackers if they are feeling ok.
  • The Gold Zelda Camera.
  • The gold Breath of the Wild cartridge that tastes like the Master Sword.
  • The Cool Cam.
  • The Lefty RX.
  • Ranking candy by its volume to surface area ratio.
  • Getting sick of candy corn naysayers.
  • Wax Lips: Ya Gotta Eat 'Em!
  • A powder that's been glued into a little puck.
  • What the American Oil and Gas Historical Society has to say about wax lips.
  • The oleaginous history of wax lips.
  • Edible dinosaur bones.
  • Bananasaurus Rex-flavored string cheese.
  • The Genius of the Hero falling to the Middling Stature of the Merely Talented.
  • Looking back on your best work and knowing you'll probably never best it but still liking your life more now.
  • A short story with extra line breaks.
  • Turning any text into a poem by resizing the window so there are extra line breaks.
  • Robert Altman's follow-up to MASH.
  • A retelling of Icarus featuring the wicked witch saying a slur.
  • What it means to be conscious.
  • Godel, Escher, Bach: I am a Strange Loop except more confusing.
  • Writing a book for the general public and having to figure out how to make your ideas fun.
  • Searching YouTube for "Crab Cannon" and only finding music for weirdos and no cannons of any kind.
  • Martin Gardner's column about math games in Scientific American.
  • Metamagical Themas.
  • Using math to do fun space stuff.
  • Stream Frasier Online Free.
  • Rubik's Cube except spelled like an asshole.

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