web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:13:15 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Kory” https://topiclords.com/tags/kory Mon, 23 Feb 2026 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 331. Earbuds Are a Type of Sandwich https://topiclords.com/earbuds-are-a-type-of-sandwich 4ca1fd03-7aa5-44ab-91f7-e22042c13402 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Kory and Andy. We discuss the Game Tank, auctions in games, how to watch TV at 2AM, Dragonfly Catcher by Chiyo-ni, and losing a snapshot of your life in MP3 format 1:12:08 yes Lords: * Kory * https://kbones.fun/ * Andy * https://highcadence.online/ Topics: * The Gametank * https://gametank.zone/ * https://www.crowdsupply.com/clydeware/gametank * I swear to God, I'm going to talk about auctions and auctions in games, it's super interesting and I don't want to get preempted a third time. * Esper says: "There’s actually a game coming out in a week where you break into museums to heist real-life African artifacts with the goal of returning them to their rightful homes! It’s called Relooted and looks pretty cool." https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/Relooted/ * Winston figured out how to watch TV at 2AM * Dragonfly Catcher, by Chiyo-ni * https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/115933940306986226 * I just lost a snapshot of my life in mp3 format. Microtopics: * Multi-time lords. * K-Bones dot fun. * CachyOS. * Scrubbing topics against the corrugated metal washboard of discussion. * Leaning into the microphone and saying "topics." * Helping Andy quit his day job tonight. * What MAGfest used to stand for. * Playing with SGI hardware in the Old-Ass Computer Room. * Game consoles that output square video. * Getting pixels into the framebuffer of the Fairchild Channel F. * Seeing a fun puzzle to solve but not solving it because you already have way too many projects. * Through-hole soldering. * Replacing volatile memory with F-RAM. * Preparing to have fun. * Reaching the point in your life where you don't want to bother with the war game, you just want to paint the miniatures. * What do you call it when you pair up with three people? * Throupling up for the next 45 minutes. * Who has time to both solder things and play video games? * Why Robotron 2084 was more difficult in emulation than in the arcade. * How to pronounce SNES. * Shmups slowing down when there are more objects on the screen, and game designers incorporating that into the game design. * The ZX Spectrum Next and the Mega 65. * A game console that only 150 people own and they get super excited whenever a new game comes out for it. * Game development like a caveman would do it. * Whether more than one person can take the under. * The rules of Monopoly as written vs. the folk rules. * eBay auctions as an extremely boring game. * First price vs. second price auctions. * Visiting the real money auction house in Diablo and finding out just how little your time and effort is worth. * The Gold Standard of the Hat Meta. * An evolutionary branch of PVP that's distinct from Yomi. * What to do when you want to play Avalon Hill's Dune. * Fence Lara Croft's Stolen Treasures. * Lara Croft's Stolen Antiquities Simulator. * Winning a bunch of Saltybucks on Saltybet. * Age-appropriate behavior. * Speedrun watching TV at 2 AM. * Live and Don't Learn. * Explaining jet lag to a two year old. * Watching MTV's Liquid Television block until 2:30 AM. * Finally sitting your son down to have the Aeon Flux talk. * Haiku that end "that's it, that's the haiku" even though that's too many syllables. * Hiking in the wilderness and encountering or not encountering a dragonfly. * People at risk of owning a Game Tank. * Broadly appealing messages sent out to farm likes. * The psychological cost of having 20,000 people following you. * Choosing your Mastodon instance based on what domain name William Gibson thought was funny. * The Mazzy Star song that's on the Batman Forever soundtrack. * iPod shuffles always insisting you're not pregnant no matter how much you pee on them. * Ephemeral preservation of a time in your life. * A biological weapon that removes your ability to perceive music as music. * You die young, or you live long enough to see Nine Inch Nails become dad rock. * Music Inspired by the Soundtrack. * Putting your MP3 collection on striped RAID arrays for the benefit of future archaeologists. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Multi-time lords.
  • K-Bones dot fun.
  • CachyOS.
  • Scrubbing topics against the corrugated metal washboard of discussion.
  • Leaning into the microphone and saying "topics."
  • Helping Andy quit his day job tonight.
  • What MAGfest used to stand for.
  • Playing with SGI hardware in the Old-Ass Computer Room.
  • Game consoles that output square video.
  • Getting pixels into the framebuffer of the Fairchild Channel F.
  • Seeing a fun puzzle to solve but not solving it because you already have way too many projects.
  • Through-hole soldering.
  • Replacing volatile memory with F-RAM.
  • Preparing to have fun.
  • Reaching the point in your life where you don't want to bother with the war game, you just want to paint the miniatures.
  • What do you call it when you pair up with three people?
  • Throupling up for the next 45 minutes.
  • Who has time to both solder things and play video games?
  • Why Robotron 2084 was more difficult in emulation than in the arcade.
  • How to pronounce SNES.
  • Shmups slowing down when there are more objects on the screen, and game designers incorporating that into the game design.
  • The ZX Spectrum Next and the Mega 65.
  • A game console that only 150 people own and they get super excited whenever a new game comes out for it.
  • Game development like a caveman would do it.
  • Whether more than one person can take the under.
  • The rules of Monopoly as written vs. the folk rules.
  • eBay auctions as an extremely boring game.
  • First price vs. second price auctions.
  • Visiting the real money auction house in Diablo and finding out just how little your time and effort is worth.
  • The Gold Standard of the Hat Meta.
  • An evolutionary branch of PVP that's distinct from Yomi.
  • What to do when you want to play Avalon Hill's Dune.
  • Fence Lara Croft's Stolen Treasures.
  • Lara Croft's Stolen Antiquities Simulator.
  • Winning a bunch of Saltybucks on Saltybet.
  • Age-appropriate behavior.
  • Speedrun watching TV at 2 AM.
  • Live and Don't Learn.
  • Explaining jet lag to a two year old.
  • Watching MTV's Liquid Television block until 2:30 AM.
  • Finally sitting your son down to have the Aeon Flux talk.
  • Haiku that end "that's it, that's the haiku" even though that's too many syllables.
  • Hiking in the wilderness and encountering or not encountering a dragonfly.
  • People at risk of owning a Game Tank.
  • Broadly appealing messages sent out to farm likes.
  • The psychological cost of having 20,000 people following you.
  • Choosing your Mastodon instance based on what domain name William Gibson thought was funny.
  • The Mazzy Star song that's on the Batman Forever soundtrack.
  • iPod shuffles always insisting you're not pregnant no matter how much you pee on them.
  • Ephemeral preservation of a time in your life.
  • A biological weapon that removes your ability to perceive music as music.
  • You die young, or you live long enough to see Nine Inch Nails become dad rock.
  • Music Inspired by the Soundtrack.
  • Putting your MP3 collection on striped RAID arrays for the benefit of future archaeologists.

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]]> Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Multi-time lords.
  • K-Bones dot fun.
  • CachyOS.
  • Scrubbing topics against the corrugated metal washboard of discussion.
  • Leaning into the microphone and saying "topics."
  • Helping Andy quit his day job tonight.
  • What MAGfest used to stand for.
  • Playing with SGI hardware in the Old-Ass Computer Room.
  • Game consoles that output square video.
  • Getting pixels into the framebuffer of the Fairchild Channel F.
  • Seeing a fun puzzle to solve but not solving it because you already have way too many projects.
  • Through-hole soldering.
  • Replacing volatile memory with F-RAM.
  • Preparing to have fun.
  • Reaching the point in your life where you don't want to bother with the war game, you just want to paint the miniatures.
  • What do you call it when you pair up with three people?
  • Throupling up for the next 45 minutes.
  • Who has time to both solder things and play video games?
  • Why Robotron 2084 was more difficult in emulation than in the arcade.
  • How to pronounce SNES.
  • Shmups slowing down when there are more objects on the screen, and game designers incorporating that into the game design.
  • The ZX Spectrum Next and the Mega 65.
  • A game console that only 150 people own and they get super excited whenever a new game comes out for it.
  • Game development like a caveman would do it.
  • Whether more than one person can take the under.
  • The rules of Monopoly as written vs. the folk rules.
  • eBay auctions as an extremely boring game.
  • First price vs. second price auctions.
  • Visiting the real money auction house in Diablo and finding out just how little your time and effort is worth.
  • The Gold Standard of the Hat Meta.
  • An evolutionary branch of PVP that's distinct from Yomi.
  • What to do when you want to play Avalon Hill's Dune.
  • Fence Lara Croft's Stolen Treasures.
  • Lara Croft's Stolen Antiquities Simulator.
  • Winning a bunch of Saltybucks on Saltybet.
  • Age-appropriate behavior.
  • Speedrun watching TV at 2 AM.
  • Live and Don't Learn.
  • Explaining jet lag to a two year old.
  • Watching MTV's Liquid Television block until 2:30 AM.
  • Finally sitting your son down to have the Aeon Flux talk.
  • Haiku that end "that's it, that's the haiku" even though that's too many syllables.
  • Hiking in the wilderness and encountering or not encountering a dragonfly.
  • People at risk of owning a Game Tank.
  • Broadly appealing messages sent out to farm likes.
  • The psychological cost of having 20,000 people following you.
  • Choosing your Mastodon instance based on what domain name William Gibson thought was funny.
  • The Mazzy Star song that's on the Batman Forever soundtrack.
  • iPod shuffles always insisting you're not pregnant no matter how much you pee on them.
  • Ephemeral preservation of a time in your life.
  • A biological weapon that removes your ability to perceive music as music.
  • You die young, or you live long enough to see Nine Inch Nails become dad rock.
  • Music Inspired by the Soundtrack.
  • Putting your MP3 collection on striped RAID arrays for the benefit of future archaeologists.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 318. Fast Thick Pants https://topiclords.com/fast-thick-pants bfc3d0cd-5b4d-4421-9ab9-f714987d61ff Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Kory and Mitch. We discuss the Nintendo 64DD, wristwatch repair videos, how to switch to Linux, Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the ICZN's recommended method of determining the Latin grammatical gender of a word that isn't Latin 1:06:10 yes Lords: * Mitch * Kory Topics: * The Nintendo 64DD * Wristwatch repair videos * How to switch to Linux?? * Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan * The ICZN's recommended method of determining the Latin grammatical gender of a word that isn't Latin Microtopics: * Being a fledgling your whole life. * Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki. * The episode of Topic Lords where we specifically didn't discuss what's happening in Washington DC. * A show with nobody on it discussing nothing. * Putting money in the jukebox to have three minutes of peace and quiet. * A noise cancellation podcast that guesses what noise you'll probably be surrounded by when you listen. * The least notable of Nintendo's major failures. * What if we added a floppy disk reader to compete with the Playstation? * In retrospect, it sounds like a bad idea, but at the time, it also sounded like a bad idea. * Paying $100 for a plastic replica of a Virtual Boy to play Virtual Boy games on your Switch. * The rich tapestry of homebrew games for the Virtual Boy. * Why isn't the Nintendo 64DD in Super Smash Bros. Brawl? * Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 64DD. * People writing very politely worded letters to Nintendo and getting Mother 3 released. * Playing with the 3D sculpture mini game on the title screen of Donkey Kong Bananza and thinking "I bet I could do something cool with this if I was an artist" * Mario Artist Polygon Studio. * Wario Ware as a spinoff of the Mario Paint series. * Family BASIC for the Famicom Disk System. * The Tonkachi Editor. * Mario 64 2 for the Game Boy Advance. * Vegging out by binging wristwatch repair videos. * Jewels on the movement that you ambiently know of. * Using a ruby or sapphire as a bearing for a mechanical device. * Synthetic corundum. * Why the little work is going back and forth. * Solving a very particular problem at a very micro scale. * Transistor radios advertising how many transistors are in there. * The World's First 128-Bit Web Site! * What 1990s video game enthusiasts knew about numbers of bits. * 1.21 Gigaflops! * The sad state of Nintendo 64 emulation. * Nintendo Classics – Nintendo Switch Online. * Migrating all the executables you use to the inside of virtual machines running Windows XP. * Winboat. * Linux distributions with as much or as little configuration as you want * How they made Linux good. * The year of Linux on the Desktop. * Attaching an IR transceiver to the GPIO pins. * Setting the oven via PHP script. * Getting an ancient Thinkpad to install Linux on. * The red nub in the middle of the keyboard. * Whether there's any possible way this $50 Thinkpad doesn't run Pico-8. * A stately pleasure dome decreed. * Women wailing for their demon lovers. * Five miles meandering with a mazy motion. * Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a native speaker of early modern English, or he's Just Like That? * A poem that starts with a real Rubik's Cube of a sentence. * How Adam Saltzman does it. * Procrastinating game development by installing Linux on everything. * The Zoologist with naming dibs. * Finally getting to name a beetle and choosing to name it a word borrowed from Serbo-Croatian just to piss people off. * The ICZN's stance on Serbo-Croatian. Lords:

  • Mitch
  • Kory

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Being a fledgling your whole life.
  • Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki.
  • The episode of Topic Lords where we specifically didn't discuss what's happening in Washington DC.
  • A show with nobody on it discussing nothing.
  • Putting money in the jukebox to have three minutes of peace and quiet.
  • A noise cancellation podcast that guesses what noise you'll probably be surrounded by when you listen.
  • The least notable of Nintendo's major failures.
  • What if we added a floppy disk reader to compete with the Playstation?
  • In retrospect, it sounds like a bad idea, but at the time, it also sounded like a bad idea.
  • Paying $100 for a plastic replica of a Virtual Boy to play Virtual Boy games on your Switch.
  • The rich tapestry of homebrew games for the Virtual Boy.
  • Why isn't the Nintendo 64DD in Super Smash Bros. Brawl?
  • Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 64DD.
  • People writing very politely worded letters to Nintendo and getting Mother 3 released.
  • Playing with the 3D sculpture mini game on the title screen of Donkey Kong Bananza and thinking "I bet I could do something cool with this if I was an artist"
  • Mario Artist Polygon Studio.
  • Wario Ware as a spinoff of the Mario Paint series.
  • Family BASIC for the Famicom Disk System.
  • The Tonkachi Editor.
  • Mario 64 2 for the Game Boy Advance.
  • Vegging out by binging wristwatch repair videos.
  • Jewels on the movement that you ambiently know of.
  • Using a ruby or sapphire as a bearing for a mechanical device.
  • Synthetic corundum.
  • Why the little work is going back and forth.
  • Solving a very particular problem at a very micro scale.
  • Transistor radios advertising how many transistors are in there.
  • The World's First 128-Bit Web Site!
  • What 1990s video game enthusiasts knew about numbers of bits.
  • 1.21 Gigaflops!
  • The sad state of Nintendo 64 emulation.
  • Nintendo Classics – Nintendo Switch Online.
  • Migrating all the executables you use to the inside of virtual machines running Windows XP.
  • Winboat.
  • Linux distributions with as much or as little configuration as you want
  • How they made Linux good.
  • The year of Linux on the Desktop.
  • Attaching an IR transceiver to the GPIO pins.
  • Setting the oven via PHP script.
  • Getting an ancient Thinkpad to install Linux on.
  • The red nub in the middle of the keyboard.
  • Whether there's any possible way this $50 Thinkpad doesn't run Pico-8.
  • A stately pleasure dome decreed.
  • Women wailing for their demon lovers.
  • Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a native speaker of early modern English, or he's Just Like That?
  • A poem that starts with a real Rubik's Cube of a sentence.
  • How Adam Saltzman does it.
  • Procrastinating game development by installing Linux on everything.
  • The Zoologist with naming dibs.
  • Finally getting to name a beetle and choosing to name it a word borrowed from Serbo-Croatian just to piss people off.
  • The ICZN's stance on Serbo-Croatian.

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  • Mitch
  • Kory

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Being a fledgling your whole life.
  • Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki.
  • The episode of Topic Lords where we specifically didn't discuss what's happening in Washington DC.
  • A show with nobody on it discussing nothing.
  • Putting money in the jukebox to have three minutes of peace and quiet.
  • A noise cancellation podcast that guesses what noise you'll probably be surrounded by when you listen.
  • The least notable of Nintendo's major failures.
  • What if we added a floppy disk reader to compete with the Playstation?
  • In retrospect, it sounds like a bad idea, but at the time, it also sounded like a bad idea.
  • Paying $100 for a plastic replica of a Virtual Boy to play Virtual Boy games on your Switch.
  • The rich tapestry of homebrew games for the Virtual Boy.
  • Why isn't the Nintendo 64DD in Super Smash Bros. Brawl?
  • Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 64DD.
  • People writing very politely worded letters to Nintendo and getting Mother 3 released.
  • Playing with the 3D sculpture mini game on the title screen of Donkey Kong Bananza and thinking "I bet I could do something cool with this if I was an artist"
  • Mario Artist Polygon Studio.
  • Wario Ware as a spinoff of the Mario Paint series.
  • Family BASIC for the Famicom Disk System.
  • The Tonkachi Editor.
  • Mario 64 2 for the Game Boy Advance.
  • Vegging out by binging wristwatch repair videos.
  • Jewels on the movement that you ambiently know of.
  • Using a ruby or sapphire as a bearing for a mechanical device.
  • Synthetic corundum.
  • Why the little work is going back and forth.
  • Solving a very particular problem at a very micro scale.
  • Transistor radios advertising how many transistors are in there.
  • The World's First 128-Bit Web Site!
  • What 1990s video game enthusiasts knew about numbers of bits.
  • 1.21 Gigaflops!
  • The sad state of Nintendo 64 emulation.
  • Nintendo Classics – Nintendo Switch Online.
  • Migrating all the executables you use to the inside of virtual machines running Windows XP.
  • Winboat.
  • Linux distributions with as much or as little configuration as you want
  • How they made Linux good.
  • The year of Linux on the Desktop.
  • Attaching an IR transceiver to the GPIO pins.
  • Setting the oven via PHP script.
  • Getting an ancient Thinkpad to install Linux on.
  • The red nub in the middle of the keyboard.
  • Whether there's any possible way this $50 Thinkpad doesn't run Pico-8.
  • A stately pleasure dome decreed.
  • Women wailing for their demon lovers.
  • Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a native speaker of early modern English, or he's Just Like That?
  • A poem that starts with a real Rubik's Cube of a sentence.
  • How Adam Saltzman does it.
  • Procrastinating game development by installing Linux on everything.
  • The Zoologist with naming dibs.
  • Finally getting to name a beetle and choosing to name it a word borrowed from Serbo-Croatian just to piss people off.
  • The ICZN's stance on Serbo-Croatian.

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]]> 302. Frog Fractions 2 OST 2: Still Croakin' https://topiclords.com/frog-fractions-2-ost-2-still-croakin 4f74eb0b-f13b-4937-9de0-ad00ae589314 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Kory and Ryan. We discuss incorrect facts they teach you in school, remaking your game yet again, accidentally finding a cat on vacation, and Being Boring by Wendy Cope. 1:22:06 yes Lords: * Kory * Ryan Topics: * Incorrect stuff they teach you in school (blood, bats, soda cans, etc) * Oops I’ve started over remaking my game again, ECS edition * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OkkHSQjWg * https://bevy.org/ * Accidentally finding a cat on vacation * Being Boring, by Wendy Cope * https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/18ihpmd/poembeingboringbywendy_cope/ Microtopics: * Watching an epicurean professional licking the Switch and Switch 2 cartridges back to back. * Switch 2 cartridges that don't contain a game but still taste disgusting. * A digital key that tastes awful. * 1 in 100,000 Switch 2 cartridges tasting absolutely delicious. * Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Relorded. * How many people have licked the Switch game you just bought used. * A construction worker spitting a big loog of chew and there's a Switch cartridge floating in it. * Not everybody is Jim Stormdancer. * And independent game design aficionado. * The New York Mayoral primary. * Hackmud. * Games that get two soundtracks while some games don't even get one. * Disasterpeace's Soupertasters theme song. * How to prove that your blood is not blue until it hits the air. * Why do bats e-chocolate?? * What color lobsters are until you cook them. * In space, noone can not see your blue blood. * Eating a 9-volt battery that tastes like chocolate. * Strawberry flavored chocolate that you puff on. * Hey, look who capitalism finally enslaved. * A can of A&W Root Beer that folds in on itself like a neutron star and you don't get to drink any because it's just empty space. * Believing the thing you were told before you turned 18. * Bodyboarding on a plank of wood in an open field. * An empire of the skies and caves. * Whether the tritone was ever illegal. * Education as a Russian doll of nested simplifications. * Wait, this isn't plum pudding! * Blood color facts. * Tuning your piano down to A=420. * Making one mistake and proceeding from the premise that everything you know is wrong. * A t-shirt reading "My favorite guests don't have their fontanelles closed yet." * How to structure your game world. * A grid of lights that are flickering on and off. * The tilty wooden labyrinth with holes in it. * Always on the lookout for the next engine to rewrite your game in. * One of those newfangled scripting languages that targets the NES. * Renting a magic want and running from kiosk to kiosk doing quests. * Finding the Pinecone of Peril. * Capacitative touch interfaces aren't magical for you?? * Asymptotically approaching cat saturation. * Framily. * Hot and cold running cat slides. * Weird reverb where things don't echo right because everything's wet. * A Rainforest Cafe the size of several football fields. * Rainforest Cafe Chic. * A liquid balance tied to your QR code. * Jailbreaking the soda fountain DRM, yelling "kill the banks" and spraying everyone with Mr. Pibb. * Striving to be as boring as possible. * Being boring. (In a good way.) * Being asked how you're doing and scrambling to come up with something interesting to say. * Trying to explain the Video Game History Foundation to your boss. * The Video Game Thing Guy. * Maintaining a garden and posting your harvests on your private Instagram. * Stopping someone on the street and asking them what are the last six vegetables you grew. * How to perform boredom after people realize that yawning means you're tired. * Starting to make omelets a new way. * Asking how someone is doing and bracing yourself for the answer. * Getting emotional and intellectual sustenance from cleaning the bathroom. * The me that comes up when you google my name. Lords:

  • Kory
  • Ryan

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Watching an epicurean professional licking the Switch and Switch 2 cartridges back to back.
  • Switch 2 cartridges that don't contain a game but still taste disgusting.
  • A digital key that tastes awful.
  • 1 in 100,000 Switch 2 cartridges tasting absolutely delicious.
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Relorded.
  • How many people have licked the Switch game you just bought used.
  • A construction worker spitting a big loog of chew and there's a Switch cartridge floating in it.
  • Not everybody is Jim Stormdancer.
  • And independent game design aficionado.
  • The New York Mayoral primary.
  • Hackmud.
  • Games that get two soundtracks while some games don't even get one.
  • Disasterpeace's Soupertasters theme song.
  • How to prove that your blood is not blue until it hits the air.
  • Why do bats e-chocolate??
  • What color lobsters are until you cook them.
  • In space, noone can not see your blue blood.
  • Eating a 9-volt battery that tastes like chocolate.
  • Strawberry flavored chocolate that you puff on.
  • Hey, look who capitalism finally enslaved.
  • A can of A&W Root Beer that folds in on itself like a neutron star and you don't get to drink any because it's just empty space.
  • Believing the thing you were told before you turned 18.
  • Bodyboarding on a plank of wood in an open field.
  • An empire of the skies and caves.
  • Whether the tritone was ever illegal.
  • Education as a Russian doll of nested simplifications.
  • Wait, this isn't plum pudding!
  • Blood color facts.
  • Tuning your piano down to A=420.
  • Making one mistake and proceeding from the premise that everything you know is wrong.
  • A t-shirt reading "My favorite guests don't have their fontanelles closed yet."
  • How to structure your game world.
  • A grid of lights that are flickering on and off.
  • The tilty wooden labyrinth with holes in it.
  • Always on the lookout for the next engine to rewrite your game in.
  • One of those newfangled scripting languages that targets the NES.
  • Renting a magic want and running from kiosk to kiosk doing quests.
  • Finding the Pinecone of Peril.
  • Capacitative touch interfaces aren't magical for you??
  • Asymptotically approaching cat saturation.
  • Framily.
  • Hot and cold running cat slides.
  • Weird reverb where things don't echo right because everything's wet.
  • A Rainforest Cafe the size of several football fields.
  • Rainforest Cafe Chic.
  • A liquid balance tied to your QR code.
  • Jailbreaking the soda fountain DRM, yelling "kill the banks" and spraying everyone with Mr. Pibb.
  • Striving to be as boring as possible.
  • Being boring. (In a good way.)
  • Being asked how you're doing and scrambling to come up with something interesting to say.
  • Trying to explain the Video Game History Foundation to your boss.
  • The Video Game Thing Guy.
  • Maintaining a garden and posting your harvests on your private Instagram.
  • Stopping someone on the street and asking them what are the last six vegetables you grew.
  • How to perform boredom after people realize that yawning means you're tired.
  • Starting to make omelets a new way.
  • Asking how someone is doing and bracing yourself for the answer.
  • Getting emotional and intellectual sustenance from cleaning the bathroom.
  • The me that comes up when you google my name.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

  • Kory
  • Ryan

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Watching an epicurean professional licking the Switch and Switch 2 cartridges back to back.
  • Switch 2 cartridges that don't contain a game but still taste disgusting.
  • A digital key that tastes awful.
  • 1 in 100,000 Switch 2 cartridges tasting absolutely delicious.
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Relorded.
  • How many people have licked the Switch game you just bought used.
  • A construction worker spitting a big loog of chew and there's a Switch cartridge floating in it.
  • Not everybody is Jim Stormdancer.
  • And independent game design aficionado.
  • The New York Mayoral primary.
  • Hackmud.
  • Games that get two soundtracks while some games don't even get one.
  • Disasterpeace's Soupertasters theme song.
  • How to prove that your blood is not blue until it hits the air.
  • Why do bats e-chocolate??
  • What color lobsters are until you cook them.
  • In space, noone can not see your blue blood.
  • Eating a 9-volt battery that tastes like chocolate.
  • Strawberry flavored chocolate that you puff on.
  • Hey, look who capitalism finally enslaved.
  • A can of A&W Root Beer that folds in on itself like a neutron star and you don't get to drink any because it's just empty space.
  • Believing the thing you were told before you turned 18.
  • Bodyboarding on a plank of wood in an open field.
  • An empire of the skies and caves.
  • Whether the tritone was ever illegal.
  • Education as a Russian doll of nested simplifications.
  • Wait, this isn't plum pudding!
  • Blood color facts.
  • Tuning your piano down to A=420.
  • Making one mistake and proceeding from the premise that everything you know is wrong.
  • A t-shirt reading "My favorite guests don't have their fontanelles closed yet."
  • How to structure your game world.
  • A grid of lights that are flickering on and off.
  • The tilty wooden labyrinth with holes in it.
  • Always on the lookout for the next engine to rewrite your game in.
  • One of those newfangled scripting languages that targets the NES.
  • Renting a magic want and running from kiosk to kiosk doing quests.
  • Finding the Pinecone of Peril.
  • Capacitative touch interfaces aren't magical for you??
  • Asymptotically approaching cat saturation.
  • Framily.
  • Hot and cold running cat slides.
  • Weird reverb where things don't echo right because everything's wet.
  • A Rainforest Cafe the size of several football fields.
  • Rainforest Cafe Chic.
  • A liquid balance tied to your QR code.
  • Jailbreaking the soda fountain DRM, yelling "kill the banks" and spraying everyone with Mr. Pibb.
  • Striving to be as boring as possible.
  • Being boring. (In a good way.)
  • Being asked how you're doing and scrambling to come up with something interesting to say.
  • Trying to explain the Video Game History Foundation to your boss.
  • The Video Game Thing Guy.
  • Maintaining a garden and posting your harvests on your private Instagram.
  • Stopping someone on the street and asking them what are the last six vegetables you grew.
  • How to perform boredom after people realize that yawning means you're tired.
  • Starting to make omelets a new way.
  • Asking how someone is doing and bracing yourself for the answer.
  • Getting emotional and intellectual sustenance from cleaning the bathroom.
  • The me that comes up when you google my name.

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]]> 293. Pasting the Sickos Face Back and Forth Forever https://topiclords.com/pasting-the-sickos-face-back-and-forth-forever d957c321-9bc4-4991-8474-5fc77f22a2ce Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Kory and Andy. We discuss whim-based coding, making friends on the internet, the oscilloscope demo, Peripheriques Like Halos by Robert Montgomery, enhancing a party with a bespoke bar menu, and creating a threatening windows batch file and leaving it on the desktop to frighten an application into not crashing 1:09:32 yes Lords: * Kory * Andy Topics: * Whim-based coding * How do you make and maintain a buddy on the Internet? * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKRFd4J_1w * That oscilloscope demo * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8CzrPG9S0U& * Peripheriques Like Halos, by Robert Montgomery * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/fmr9gsma.jpg * https://globalizationofcalifornia.com/alameda-county-i-580-political-signs-spark-free-speech-fight/ * Enhancing a party with a bespoke bar menu. * Creating a threatening windows batch file and leaving it on the desktop to frighten an application into not crashing Microtopics: * Kbones. * When was the last time you invested in yourself? * Getting FM to sound like anything except a bell. * The American Psycho meme of FM syntheses. * A griminess level somewhere between Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3. * The Yamaha DX7 presets. * An aggressively nonlinear approach to productivity. * Doing board game AI until it becomes boring and then moving on to something else * A lifelong ADHD enjoyer. * Trying to explain "burndown rate" without knowing the term burndown rate or what burndown rate is. * Getting ideas out of your brain so it can think about something else for a while. * Games that you aren't allowed to play for fun. * The M stands for Money. * Whim-based topics. * Segue-free zones. * Essness and Snez. * Maintaining friendships via custom chat stickers. * Stickers you use in your daily life. * Discord For Andy. * Anonymous inscrutable pixel faces. * A sticker of Princess Rosaline shrugging with the text "Skill Issue?" * The rich ecology of daily Garfield recap podcasts. * Conflating RJ-45 and RJ-11. * Which One's The Astromech?? * Two superpowers at one. * How to win the Frog Fractions ARG. * Classic Raster Bars. * Reading a 40k stream of consciousness essay scrolling by the bottom of the screen in a pixelated font * Scrubbing right to Cronologia. * Doing surgery on the topic bucket right now. * That Oscilloscope Demo. * Converting your laptop into tent mode. * Zamboni Mayhem. * Running a video signal through a reverb pedal. * Stereo oscilloscopes. * Pringle of Scotland: once you pop, you can't stop. * A picture of a wall with a bunch of balloon letters spelling out a phrase. * Non-elected councils called ABAG and ICLEI. * A weird thing that's been kind of near you your whole life. * The final Neon Genesis Evangelization 3.0+1.0 movie. * A gripe session with themed cocktails. * Continuing to think of puns and refusing to pass any of them up. * Taking a Negroni and calling it LCL. * A 55 gallon drum of Tom Collins with a valve on it. * Walking by the booze aisle and everything looks delicious. (Even though it's not.) * Everyone's favorite topic. * Waving a .bat around to make your computer behave. * Sorry about your synapses! * An angry phone call from your mom circa 1995. * Telling the sand how to think and making the little guy run around. * Writing a bad song and immediately sending it to all your friends. * Pivoting to pay-per-reload. * Discovering what the requirements are as you discover the game you are making. * Crashing Pico-8 so hard that it reverts to Japanese. Lords:

  • Kory
  • Andy

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Kbones.
  • When was the last time you invested in yourself?
  • Getting FM to sound like anything except a bell.
  • The American Psycho meme of FM syntheses.
  • A griminess level somewhere between Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3.
  • The Yamaha DX7 presets.
  • An aggressively nonlinear approach to productivity.
  • Doing board game AI until it becomes boring and then moving on to something else
  • A lifelong ADHD enjoyer.
  • Trying to explain "burndown rate" without knowing the term burndown rate or what burndown rate is.
  • Getting ideas out of your brain so it can think about something else for a while.
  • Games that you aren't allowed to play for fun.
  • The M stands for Money.
  • Whim-based topics.
  • Segue-free zones.
  • Essness and Snez.
  • Maintaining friendships via custom chat stickers.
  • Stickers you use in your daily life.
  • Discord For Andy.
  • Anonymous inscrutable pixel faces.
  • A sticker of Princess Rosaline shrugging with the text "Skill Issue?"
  • The rich ecology of daily Garfield recap podcasts.
  • Conflating RJ-45 and RJ-11.
  • Which One's The Astromech??
  • Two superpowers at one.
  • How to win the Frog Fractions ARG.
  • Classic Raster Bars.
  • Reading a 40k stream of consciousness essay scrolling by the bottom of the screen in a pixelated font
  • Scrubbing right to Cronologia.
  • Doing surgery on the topic bucket right now.
  • That Oscilloscope Demo.
  • Converting your laptop into tent mode.
  • Zamboni Mayhem.
  • Running a video signal through a reverb pedal.
  • Stereo oscilloscopes.
  • Pringle of Scotland: once you pop, you can't stop.
  • A picture of a wall with a bunch of balloon letters spelling out a phrase.
  • Non-elected councils called ABAG and ICLEI.
  • A weird thing that's been kind of near you your whole life.
  • The final Neon Genesis Evangelization 3.0+1.0 movie.
  • A gripe session with themed cocktails.
  • Continuing to think of puns and refusing to pass any of them up.
  • Taking a Negroni and calling it LCL.
  • A 55 gallon drum of Tom Collins with a valve on it.
  • Walking by the booze aisle and everything looks delicious. (Even though it's not.)
  • Everyone's favorite topic.
  • Waving a .bat around to make your computer behave.
  • Sorry about your synapses!
  • An angry phone call from your mom circa 1995.
  • Telling the sand how to think and making the little guy run around.
  • Writing a bad song and immediately sending it to all your friends.
  • Pivoting to pay-per-reload.
  • Discovering what the requirements are as you discover the game you are making.
  • Crashing Pico-8 so hard that it reverts to Japanese.

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  • Kory
  • Andy

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Kbones.
  • When was the last time you invested in yourself?
  • Getting FM to sound like anything except a bell.
  • The American Psycho meme of FM syntheses.
  • A griminess level somewhere between Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3.
  • The Yamaha DX7 presets.
  • An aggressively nonlinear approach to productivity.
  • Doing board game AI until it becomes boring and then moving on to something else
  • A lifelong ADHD enjoyer.
  • Trying to explain "burndown rate" without knowing the term burndown rate or what burndown rate is.
  • Getting ideas out of your brain so it can think about something else for a while.
  • Games that you aren't allowed to play for fun.
  • The M stands for Money.
  • Whim-based topics.
  • Segue-free zones.
  • Essness and Snez.
  • Maintaining friendships via custom chat stickers.
  • Stickers you use in your daily life.
  • Discord For Andy.
  • Anonymous inscrutable pixel faces.
  • A sticker of Princess Rosaline shrugging with the text "Skill Issue?"
  • The rich ecology of daily Garfield recap podcasts.
  • Conflating RJ-45 and RJ-11.
  • Which One's The Astromech??
  • Two superpowers at one.
  • How to win the Frog Fractions ARG.
  • Classic Raster Bars.
  • Reading a 40k stream of consciousness essay scrolling by the bottom of the screen in a pixelated font
  • Scrubbing right to Cronologia.
  • Doing surgery on the topic bucket right now.
  • That Oscilloscope Demo.
  • Converting your laptop into tent mode.
  • Zamboni Mayhem.
  • Running a video signal through a reverb pedal.
  • Stereo oscilloscopes.
  • Pringle of Scotland: once you pop, you can't stop.
  • A picture of a wall with a bunch of balloon letters spelling out a phrase.
  • Non-elected councils called ABAG and ICLEI.
  • A weird thing that's been kind of near you your whole life.
  • The final Neon Genesis Evangelization 3.0+1.0 movie.
  • A gripe session with themed cocktails.
  • Continuing to think of puns and refusing to pass any of them up.
  • Taking a Negroni and calling it LCL.
  • A 55 gallon drum of Tom Collins with a valve on it.
  • Walking by the booze aisle and everything looks delicious. (Even though it's not.)
  • Everyone's favorite topic.
  • Waving a .bat around to make your computer behave.
  • Sorry about your synapses!
  • An angry phone call from your mom circa 1995.
  • Telling the sand how to think and making the little guy run around.
  • Writing a bad song and immediately sending it to all your friends.
  • Pivoting to pay-per-reload.
  • Discovering what the requirements are as you discover the game you are making.
  • Crashing Pico-8 so hard that it reverts to Japanese.

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]]> 279. Concrete Peanut Butter Condensate https://topiclords.com/concrete-peanut-butter-condensate a54a2052-edaf-40de-8713-acfd8a60f76e Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Kory and James. We discuss ditching your eReader, Journey to the Planets, Send Me to Heaven, My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, whether criminals are like peanut butter, and enjoying photography by making it as labor intensive as possible. 1:05:40 yes Lords: * Kory * James Topics: * I've been reading more lately, and ditching the eReader sure has helped * Journey to the Planets * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWiJ1Mn-aY * Send Me to Heaven * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SendMeto_Heaven * My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, by William Shakespeare * https://poets.org/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130 * Re: Smooth Criminal. Are criminals like peanut butter? * My journey to make photography as labor intensive as possible and learn to enjoy it again in the process Microtopics: * A circulating cadre of hobbies. * Corpseflower blooms. * A forum to complain about the state of e-Readers. * eReaders launching as a perfect product and then slowly morphing into shitty phones. * Autosleep anxiety. * Increased difficulty of finding reference art now that stable diffusion exists. * Turning off all your screens in order to accomplish something. * Accordioning ebooks. * Breaking out into meat space with tiny Greek busts. * Freedom to do it the wrong way. * Reading the last page of a book so you don't have the temptation of reading the last page of the book. * Physical bit rot books. * Buying more than one book. * Collecting treasure in order to get home. * A flying around in space mini game. * Dying from comets. * Designing a game that you would never play. * Art that is better in some contexts than others. * King's Quest. * Tuning your adventure game difficulty based on how distracting the real world is. * Difficulty ramping in adventure games. * The text adventure prototype of Outer Wilds. * Untitled Goose Game's melding of the adventure game and the stealth sandbox. * Brock the Investigator's melding of the adventure game and the belt scroller. * An adventure game where the solution to the puzzle is to run up and kick something. * Games that would've been a useful referent for Gunhouse if it had existed. * The I'm Rich era of phone app development. * Let's Play videos of Send Me to Heaven. * App Store review bits that are not very well received. * If hairs be wires then black wires growing on her head. * Quoting a Shakespeare sonnet in your diss track. * Whether "reeks" has the same connotation in Early Modern English. * It's true but you shouldn't say it vs. I just think they're neat. * Whether the Smooth Criminal is the kind where you need to stir the oil in * Smooth criminals vs. chunky criminals. * In what ways criminals are like peanut butter? * What would a chunky rap sheet look like? * A pristine unopened criminal. * Getting merged in some sort of valve situation. * Scientists studying the stripey toothpaste to discover how it stays striped. * That movie where every character is the same person. * Regressing to the analog wherever possible. * Developing film without a dark room, using a dark bag. * Obsessing over a single photograph until the color balance is perfect. * Photography tropes that read as fancy. * The instinct to replicate the superficial qualities of an analog process in its digital equivalent. * Authentically taking a terrible picture with a terrible camera. * Getting sick of what fancy used to mean and figuring out what fancy means going forward. * Hypernice photography. * Art that has way too much detail. Lords:

  • Kory
  • James

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • A circulating cadre of hobbies.
  • Corpseflower blooms.
  • A forum to complain about the state of e-Readers.
  • eReaders launching as a perfect product and then slowly morphing into shitty phones.
  • Autosleep anxiety.
  • Increased difficulty of finding reference art now that stable diffusion exists.
  • Turning off all your screens in order to accomplish something.
  • Accordioning ebooks.
  • Breaking out into meat space with tiny Greek busts.
  • Freedom to do it the wrong way.
  • Reading the last page of a book so you don't have the temptation of reading the last page of the book.
  • Physical bit rot books.
  • Buying more than one book.
  • Collecting treasure in order to get home.
  • A flying around in space mini game.
  • Dying from comets.
  • Designing a game that you would never play.
  • Art that is better in some contexts than others.
  • King's Quest.
  • Tuning your adventure game difficulty based on how distracting the real world is.
  • Difficulty ramping in adventure games.
  • The text adventure prototype of Outer Wilds.
  • Untitled Goose Game's melding of the adventure game and the stealth sandbox.
  • Brock the Investigator's melding of the adventure game and the belt scroller.
  • An adventure game where the solution to the puzzle is to run up and kick something.
  • Games that would've been a useful referent for Gunhouse if it had existed.
  • The I'm Rich era of phone app development.
  • Let's Play videos of Send Me to Heaven.
  • App Store review bits that are not very well received.
  • If hairs be wires then black wires growing on her head.
  • Quoting a Shakespeare sonnet in your diss track.
  • Whether "reeks" has the same connotation in Early Modern English.
  • It's true but you shouldn't say it vs. I just think they're neat.
  • Whether the Smooth Criminal is the kind where you need to stir the oil in
  • Smooth criminals vs. chunky criminals.
  • In what ways criminals are like peanut butter?
  • What would a chunky rap sheet look like?
  • A pristine unopened criminal.
  • Getting merged in some sort of valve situation.
  • Scientists studying the stripey toothpaste to discover how it stays striped.
  • That movie where every character is the same person.
  • Regressing to the analog wherever possible.
  • Developing film without a dark room, using a dark bag.
  • Obsessing over a single photograph until the color balance is perfect.
  • Photography tropes that read as fancy.
  • The instinct to replicate the superficial qualities of an analog process in its digital equivalent.
  • Authentically taking a terrible picture with a terrible camera.
  • Getting sick of what fancy used to mean and figuring out what fancy means going forward.
  • Hypernice photography.
  • Art that has way too much detail.

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]]> Lords:

  • Kory
  • James

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • A circulating cadre of hobbies.
  • Corpseflower blooms.
  • A forum to complain about the state of e-Readers.
  • eReaders launching as a perfect product and then slowly morphing into shitty phones.
  • Autosleep anxiety.
  • Increased difficulty of finding reference art now that stable diffusion exists.
  • Turning off all your screens in order to accomplish something.
  • Accordioning ebooks.
  • Breaking out into meat space with tiny Greek busts.
  • Freedom to do it the wrong way.
  • Reading the last page of a book so you don't have the temptation of reading the last page of the book.
  • Physical bit rot books.
  • Buying more than one book.
  • Collecting treasure in order to get home.
  • A flying around in space mini game.
  • Dying from comets.
  • Designing a game that you would never play.
  • Art that is better in some contexts than others.
  • King's Quest.
  • Tuning your adventure game difficulty based on how distracting the real world is.
  • Difficulty ramping in adventure games.
  • The text adventure prototype of Outer Wilds.
  • Untitled Goose Game's melding of the adventure game and the stealth sandbox.
  • Brock the Investigator's melding of the adventure game and the belt scroller.
  • An adventure game where the solution to the puzzle is to run up and kick something.
  • Games that would've been a useful referent for Gunhouse if it had existed.
  • The I'm Rich era of phone app development.
  • Let's Play videos of Send Me to Heaven.
  • App Store review bits that are not very well received.
  • If hairs be wires then black wires growing on her head.
  • Quoting a Shakespeare sonnet in your diss track.
  • Whether "reeks" has the same connotation in Early Modern English.
  • It's true but you shouldn't say it vs. I just think they're neat.
  • Whether the Smooth Criminal is the kind where you need to stir the oil in
  • Smooth criminals vs. chunky criminals.
  • In what ways criminals are like peanut butter?
  • What would a chunky rap sheet look like?
  • A pristine unopened criminal.
  • Getting merged in some sort of valve situation.
  • Scientists studying the stripey toothpaste to discover how it stays striped.
  • That movie where every character is the same person.
  • Regressing to the analog wherever possible.
  • Developing film without a dark room, using a dark bag.
  • Obsessing over a single photograph until the color balance is perfect.
  • Photography tropes that read as fancy.
  • The instinct to replicate the superficial qualities of an analog process in its digital equivalent.
  • Authentically taking a terrible picture with a terrible camera.
  • Getting sick of what fancy used to mean and figuring out what fancy means going forward.
  • Hypernice photography.
  • Art that has way too much detail.

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]]> 252. A Properly Functioning Bag Nose https://topiclords.com/a-properly-functioning-bag-nose d46ad0bc-759e-48f5-9a8f-112aa5c91e07 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: JohnB, Kory. We discuss vinyl records, teaching yourself C++, forgetting things as a way of getting things done, I Sat Belonely by John Lennon, and the vestigial organs of video games. 1:04:40 yes Lords: * JohnB * Kory Topics: * I have become a vinyl record enjoyer * Teaching myself C++, or "I learned C++ when I should've learned C, AMA" * Forgetting things as a way of getting other things done * I Sat Belonely by John Lennon * https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/i-sat-belonely-poem-by-john-lennon/ * The vestigial organs of video games Microtopics: * Kbones' Wire Tripper, on display at Wonderville. * Easter eggs for fans of Gordy and the Monster Moon. * Ebirah, Horror of the Deep. * Watching Shin Godzilla immediately after Evangelion. * Dan Ryckert's nonsense over at Giant Bomb. * Listening to a Mario Party game on the radio. * Supplementing all your collecting hobbies with a creative hobby. * Grabbing the record player before the garbage collector does. * An auto-sustaining supply of sound bars entering and leaving the trash. * The Digital Jim Gift Shop. * The Frog Fractions OST Vinyl in Bug Mars Orange. * Auditioning for college radio by DJing a show to tape that won't be aired, just rated by a panel of experts. * The vinyl soundtrack to a Net Yaroze game. * Albums that have an odd number of sides. * Holographic tie fighters that spin around when you shine a light on them. * The Funkopopization of Vinyl. * Hobbies that are better if you have friends. * Using wood glue to clean an LP, then using an inverse record player to play music off the glue's negative grooves. * The glue's glue. * Station to Station, by David Bowie. * The experience of listening to an album all the way through. * Content-producing reasons. * An excuse to listen to an album with friends under the auspices of being productive. * Seeing the music by looking how wide the groove is. * Smooth jazz appreciation. * The Madden NFL of the record shop. * How to justify going to GDC when you're not a game developer. * How to ship a Love2D game. * Drag your file onto a Love Executable. * Putting together your first Arkanoid-like in Game Boy Assembly. * To create Red Dead Redemption, first add two binary digits. * Super FML. * Objectless games. * The data flow required to change screens in a Zelda-like game. * What happened to various aspects of the Adobe Flash ecosystem. * Why console games had such sluggish menus. * A bug where if you do it right you don't have to press A. * How to do a bureaucracy thing. * Keeping an important task in mind so you can accomplish all your less important tasks. * Trying to forget all but one thing you need to do because if you remember two things you'll just sit there being anxious. * Forgetting information that you do have vs. faking information that you don't have. * Foveated vision. * Yesterday's List. * How many Frog Fractions had to die because the most dangerous task was attempted first? * A little tiny little pig. * Balonely. * A Spaniard in the Works. * Reading your own book in your fictionalized biopic. * Whimsical Elisions. * Fun whimsical vs. dark whimsical. * Coming back from India and writing a hundred one minute songs that don't mean anything. * Music that you've listened to so much that it's like listening to breathing air. * Don't Pass Me By and Octopus' Garden. * Game mechanics that still exist because nobody's thought about them in a while. * Moon phases in Shin Megami Tensei. * Demon Fusion. * What Super Mario Wonder does with a combo since it doesn't have points. * A potentially dangerous vestigial organ in video games. * How to make pinball beginner friendly. Lords:

  • JohnB
  • Kory

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Kbones' Wire Tripper, on display at Wonderville.
  • Easter eggs for fans of Gordy and the Monster Moon.
  • Ebirah, Horror of the Deep.
  • Watching Shin Godzilla immediately after Evangelion.
  • Dan Ryckert's nonsense over at Giant Bomb.
  • Listening to a Mario Party game on the radio.
  • Supplementing all your collecting hobbies with a creative hobby.
  • Grabbing the record player before the garbage collector does.
  • An auto-sustaining supply of sound bars entering and leaving the trash.
  • The Digital Jim Gift Shop.
  • The Frog Fractions OST Vinyl in Bug Mars Orange.
  • Auditioning for college radio by DJing a show to tape that won't be aired, just rated by a panel of experts.
  • The vinyl soundtrack to a Net Yaroze game.
  • Albums that have an odd number of sides.
  • Holographic tie fighters that spin around when you shine a light on them.
  • The Funkopopization of Vinyl.
  • Hobbies that are better if you have friends.
  • Using wood glue to clean an LP, then using an inverse record player to play music off the glue's negative grooves.
  • The glue's glue.
  • Station to Station, by David Bowie.
  • The experience of listening to an album all the way through.
  • Content-producing reasons.
  • An excuse to listen to an album with friends under the auspices of being productive.
  • Seeing the music by looking how wide the groove is.
  • Smooth jazz appreciation.
  • The Madden NFL of the record shop.
  • How to justify going to GDC when you're not a game developer.
  • How to ship a Love2D game.
  • Drag your file onto a Love Executable.
  • Putting together your first Arkanoid-like in Game Boy Assembly.
  • To create Red Dead Redemption, first add two binary digits.
  • Super FML.
  • Objectless games.
  • The data flow required to change screens in a Zelda-like game.
  • What happened to various aspects of the Adobe Flash ecosystem.
  • Why console games had such sluggish menus.
  • A bug where if you do it right you don't have to press A.
  • How to do a bureaucracy thing.
  • Keeping an important task in mind so you can accomplish all your less important tasks.
  • Trying to forget all but one thing you need to do because if you remember two things you'll just sit there being anxious.
  • Forgetting information that you do have vs. faking information that you don't have.
  • Foveated vision.
  • Yesterday's List.
  • How many Frog Fractions had to die because the most dangerous task was attempted first?
  • A little tiny little pig.
  • Balonely.
  • A Spaniard in the Works.
  • Reading your own book in your fictionalized biopic.
  • Whimsical Elisions.
  • Fun whimsical vs. dark whimsical.
  • Coming back from India and writing a hundred one minute songs that don't mean anything.
  • Music that you've listened to so much that it's like listening to breathing air.
  • Don't Pass Me By and Octopus' Garden.
  • Game mechanics that still exist because nobody's thought about them in a while.
  • Moon phases in Shin Megami Tensei.
  • Demon Fusion.
  • What Super Mario Wonder does with a combo since it doesn't have points.
  • A potentially dangerous vestigial organ in video games.
  • How to make pinball beginner friendly.

Support Topic Lords

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  • JohnB
  • Kory

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Kbones' Wire Tripper, on display at Wonderville.
  • Easter eggs for fans of Gordy and the Monster Moon.
  • Ebirah, Horror of the Deep.
  • Watching Shin Godzilla immediately after Evangelion.
  • Dan Ryckert's nonsense over at Giant Bomb.
  • Listening to a Mario Party game on the radio.
  • Supplementing all your collecting hobbies with a creative hobby.
  • Grabbing the record player before the garbage collector does.
  • An auto-sustaining supply of sound bars entering and leaving the trash.
  • The Digital Jim Gift Shop.
  • The Frog Fractions OST Vinyl in Bug Mars Orange.
  • Auditioning for college radio by DJing a show to tape that won't be aired, just rated by a panel of experts.
  • The vinyl soundtrack to a Net Yaroze game.
  • Albums that have an odd number of sides.
  • Holographic tie fighters that spin around when you shine a light on them.
  • The Funkopopization of Vinyl.
  • Hobbies that are better if you have friends.
  • Using wood glue to clean an LP, then using an inverse record player to play music off the glue's negative grooves.
  • The glue's glue.
  • Station to Station, by David Bowie.
  • The experience of listening to an album all the way through.
  • Content-producing reasons.
  • An excuse to listen to an album with friends under the auspices of being productive.
  • Seeing the music by looking how wide the groove is.
  • Smooth jazz appreciation.
  • The Madden NFL of the record shop.
  • How to justify going to GDC when you're not a game developer.
  • How to ship a Love2D game.
  • Drag your file onto a Love Executable.
  • Putting together your first Arkanoid-like in Game Boy Assembly.
  • To create Red Dead Redemption, first add two binary digits.
  • Super FML.
  • Objectless games.
  • The data flow required to change screens in a Zelda-like game.
  • What happened to various aspects of the Adobe Flash ecosystem.
  • Why console games had such sluggish menus.
  • A bug where if you do it right you don't have to press A.
  • How to do a bureaucracy thing.
  • Keeping an important task in mind so you can accomplish all your less important tasks.
  • Trying to forget all but one thing you need to do because if you remember two things you'll just sit there being anxious.
  • Forgetting information that you do have vs. faking information that you don't have.
  • Foveated vision.
  • Yesterday's List.
  • How many Frog Fractions had to die because the most dangerous task was attempted first?
  • A little tiny little pig.
  • Balonely.
  • A Spaniard in the Works.
  • Reading your own book in your fictionalized biopic.
  • Whimsical Elisions.
  • Fun whimsical vs. dark whimsical.
  • Coming back from India and writing a hundred one minute songs that don't mean anything.
  • Music that you've listened to so much that it's like listening to breathing air.
  • Don't Pass Me By and Octopus' Garden.
  • Game mechanics that still exist because nobody's thought about them in a while.
  • Moon phases in Shin Megami Tensei.
  • Demon Fusion.
  • What Super Mario Wonder does with a combo since it doesn't have points.
  • A potentially dangerous vestigial organ in video games.
  • How to make pinball beginner friendly.

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]]> 227. Maximal Overlap With the Dork https://topiclords.com/maximal-overlap-with-the-dork 46cc7ef6-74d0-4098-b402-5bdf5ca5a3d1 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Erica and Kory. We discuss Mystery Hunt 2024, developing your first video game, wearing glasses to prevent COVID, English Ending Song by Ryoji Yoshitomi, and how to make satisfying non-violent gameplay 1:13:21 yes Lords: * Erica * Kory * https://kbones.itch.io/ Topics: * Mystery Hunt 2024 * Developing my first video game * Wearing glasses prevents COVID * English Ending Song, by Ryoji Yoshitomi * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/AxA-XP8E.png * How to make satisfying non-violent gameplay * @DJTentMode@mstdn.party Microtopics: * Letting go of concepts of yourself that you believe. * Losing a concept of yourself as a person and just becoming free-floating thoughts. * 47 year old house painters. * Growing up to be a pluripotent human being. * Finding cool and positive Internet spaces to hang out in. * Excavating old Bubsy memorabilia. * Checking the maps on your telephone. * Defining yourself as someone who doesn't eat free cheese samples. * Scientists researching how to be cool and cringe at the same time. * 2023 Game of the Year Gordy and the Monster Moon. * Protocols and processes that presume that if you are good at solving puzzles then you must also be good at designing puzzles. * The humble beginnings of the MIT Mystery Hunt. * Puzzle Inflation. * Instant stooging. * People who are obligated to prevent their children from dying. * Server migration problems. * Accidentally writing the same puzzle as someone else. * Premium content for listeners who want to subscribe. * Putting sprites on the screen and accepting controller input. * Game design by proxy. * Your local Barcade with a Pico-8 cabinet. * Buttoning up a game to make it a shippable product. * Whether the knife is detecting a dork. * Butter golems. * Bugs that make games more fun. * Building a high end gaming PC and only running Pico-8 on it * I can't believe they buttered Jorts! * Meeting the guy who runs the Indie Arcade at Magfest. * Waiting 40 years for opportunities to fall in your lap. * Think Buick. * A cat that is not on the show. * Of all the exposed mucus membranes on your face, the eyes are two of them. * Projectile transmission. * Did this COVID infection rate study control for popularity? * Hitting 40 and embracing the cringe. * Wearing chemistry goggles in public. * Myopic basketball players. * Things you can put on your face to look like a superhero in disguise. * The Wario Land 4 soundtrack. * Making ogg vorbis rips of the Wario Land 4 soundtrack to put on Napster. * A gem of a poem to be hidden in a Wario game. * Playing back vocals with single-syllable samples. * Our collective dream diary. * Your dreams melting into your pillow with all the dust mites. * Everything is impermanent, especially video games. * A shocking removal of an important human from your life. * Making your peace with the time you have forgotten. * The natural high you get from blowing things up. * Throwing apples at a Snorlax until it wakes up. * Cooking games. * Matching happy looking fruits of different sizes. * Watching carefully as two peaches slide together. * Designing video games for 5-year olds on T. * Dropping things that merge in a two dimensional space with gravity. * The boy has two dads. * What can I do that is nonviolent and crunchy and interesting and solvable? * Looking for inspiration outside of video games. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Letting go of concepts of yourself that you believe.
  • Losing a concept of yourself as a person and just becoming free-floating thoughts.
  • 47 year old house painters.
  • Growing up to be a pluripotent human being.
  • Finding cool and positive Internet spaces to hang out in.
  • Excavating old Bubsy memorabilia.
  • Checking the maps on your telephone.
  • Defining yourself as someone who doesn't eat free cheese samples.
  • Scientists researching how to be cool and cringe at the same time.
  • 2023 Game of the Year Gordy and the Monster Moon.
  • Protocols and processes that presume that if you are good at solving puzzles then you must also be good at designing puzzles.
  • The humble beginnings of the MIT Mystery Hunt.
  • Puzzle Inflation.
  • Instant stooging.
  • People who are obligated to prevent their children from dying.
  • Server migration problems.
  • Accidentally writing the same puzzle as someone else.
  • Premium content for listeners who want to subscribe.
  • Putting sprites on the screen and accepting controller input.
  • Game design by proxy.
  • Your local Barcade with a Pico-8 cabinet.
  • Buttoning up a game to make it a shippable product.
  • Whether the knife is detecting a dork.
  • Butter golems.
  • Bugs that make games more fun.
  • Building a high end gaming PC and only running Pico-8 on it
  • I can't believe they buttered Jorts!
  • Meeting the guy who runs the Indie Arcade at Magfest.
  • Waiting 40 years for opportunities to fall in your lap.
  • Think Buick.
  • A cat that is not on the show.
  • Of all the exposed mucus membranes on your face, the eyes are two of them.
  • Projectile transmission.
  • Did this COVID infection rate study control for popularity?
  • Hitting 40 and embracing the cringe.
  • Wearing chemistry goggles in public.
  • Myopic basketball players.
  • Things you can put on your face to look like a superhero in disguise.
  • The Wario Land 4 soundtrack.
  • Making ogg vorbis rips of the Wario Land 4 soundtrack to put on Napster.
  • A gem of a poem to be hidden in a Wario game.
  • Playing back vocals with single-syllable samples.
  • Our collective dream diary.
  • Your dreams melting into your pillow with all the dust mites.
  • Everything is impermanent, especially video games.
  • A shocking removal of an important human from your life.
  • Making your peace with the time you have forgotten.
  • The natural high you get from blowing things up.
  • Throwing apples at a Snorlax until it wakes up.
  • Cooking games.
  • Matching happy looking fruits of different sizes.
  • Watching carefully as two peaches slide together.
  • Designing video games for 5-year olds on T.
  • Dropping things that merge in a two dimensional space with gravity.
  • The boy has two dads.
  • What can I do that is nonviolent and crunchy and interesting and solvable?
  • Looking for inspiration outside of video games.

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Letting go of concepts of yourself that you believe.
  • Losing a concept of yourself as a person and just becoming free-floating thoughts.
  • 47 year old house painters.
  • Growing up to be a pluripotent human being.
  • Finding cool and positive Internet spaces to hang out in.
  • Excavating old Bubsy memorabilia.
  • Checking the maps on your telephone.
  • Defining yourself as someone who doesn't eat free cheese samples.
  • Scientists researching how to be cool and cringe at the same time.
  • 2023 Game of the Year Gordy and the Monster Moon.
  • Protocols and processes that presume that if you are good at solving puzzles then you must also be good at designing puzzles.
  • The humble beginnings of the MIT Mystery Hunt.
  • Puzzle Inflation.
  • Instant stooging.
  • People who are obligated to prevent their children from dying.
  • Server migration problems.
  • Accidentally writing the same puzzle as someone else.
  • Premium content for listeners who want to subscribe.
  • Putting sprites on the screen and accepting controller input.
  • Game design by proxy.
  • Your local Barcade with a Pico-8 cabinet.
  • Buttoning up a game to make it a shippable product.
  • Whether the knife is detecting a dork.
  • Butter golems.
  • Bugs that make games more fun.
  • Building a high end gaming PC and only running Pico-8 on it
  • I can't believe they buttered Jorts!
  • Meeting the guy who runs the Indie Arcade at Magfest.
  • Waiting 40 years for opportunities to fall in your lap.
  • Think Buick.
  • A cat that is not on the show.
  • Of all the exposed mucus membranes on your face, the eyes are two of them.
  • Projectile transmission.
  • Did this COVID infection rate study control for popularity?
  • Hitting 40 and embracing the cringe.
  • Wearing chemistry goggles in public.
  • Myopic basketball players.
  • Things you can put on your face to look like a superhero in disguise.
  • The Wario Land 4 soundtrack.
  • Making ogg vorbis rips of the Wario Land 4 soundtrack to put on Napster.
  • A gem of a poem to be hidden in a Wario game.
  • Playing back vocals with single-syllable samples.
  • Our collective dream diary.
  • Your dreams melting into your pillow with all the dust mites.
  • Everything is impermanent, especially video games.
  • A shocking removal of an important human from your life.
  • Making your peace with the time you have forgotten.
  • The natural high you get from blowing things up.
  • Throwing apples at a Snorlax until it wakes up.
  • Cooking games.
  • Matching happy looking fruits of different sizes.
  • Watching carefully as two peaches slide together.
  • Designing video games for 5-year olds on T.
  • Dropping things that merge in a two dimensional space with gravity.
  • The boy has two dads.
  • What can I do that is nonviolent and crunchy and interesting and solvable?
  • Looking for inspiration outside of video games.

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