web02.fireside.fm Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:49:01 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Mitch” https://topiclords.com/tags/mitch Mon, 24 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 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.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 284. Spotting a Wild Misogyny https://topiclords.com/spotting-a-wild-misogyny b92e7f9b-b899-45ec-959d-08c0f0c59f4a Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Mitch and Nathan. We discuss Ursula LeGuin, Ryu Numbers and Tom Scott Numbers, how to get out of a chair, Have you seen the new show? by Orcboxer, and OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist 1:17:54 yes Lords: * Mitch * https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster * Nathan * https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/ Topics: * I wish someone told me all classic Star Trek was based on writer Ursula LeGuin * Ryu Numbers and Tom Scott Numbers * https://www.tumblr.com/tomscottnumber * How to get out of a chair * Have you seen the new show? by Orcboxer * https://www.tumblr.com/orcboxer/745859389762764801/poob-has-it-for-you * OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LhdhQEKtg * https://www.tumblr.com/fullanimationfilmartist Microtopics: * Mitch from jan Misali. * The episode where we have beef. * The milk frother attachment to the chain staff. * The milk frother is DLC you pay extra for that milk frother. * Hearing about Ursula Leguin for the first time. * The Wind's Twelve Quarters. * The Clock Before Armageddon. * Solving sexism, here on Topic Lords. * Living long enough to discover a new favorite sci-fi author. * What's interesting about Sapphire for the PC Engine, other than the price? * Dreams of gutting the collectors market. * Spending $2,000 on a rare game and trying to convince itself it's good enough to justify the price. * A game that is not very rare but it's still expensive because it's so good that people want to keep it. * Deciding at the last minute to not use motion controls for your Wii rhythm game. * Erdos numbers preceding Bacon numbers because of course it was mathematicians who came up with that shit. * What counts as a Bacon Connection. * A character who has been in a lot of crossover games. * The de facto authority on Ryu numbers. * Whether the frog at the end of TXT World is the same as the game from Frog Fractions. * Whether Hatricia from the Hat DLC is the same as the cat the wedding dress in the photo at the end of TXT World. * The British buy who wears a red shirt. * The ever-shifting discourse for what counts as a connection for Scott Numbers. * Adding rules to make a trivial game into a non-trivial game. * White men who have had a long Youtube career. * Whether Ryu has a surname. * Stephen Hawking's Sabbath number. * Movies and plays tending to tell different stories whereas recorded and live music tends to be the same music. * The hypothetical guy whose favorite movie is just one where they pointed a camera at a stage play. * Why do people love squats? * Doing a 500 pound deadlift to get out of bed. * Doing one exercise to get better at a slightly related exercise. * Fucking up your knees by getting out of a chair repeatedly. * Doing the old heave-ho thing to get out of a chair. * The Inherently Beautiful Design of Everyday Objects, by Bonald Normag. * Watching the X-Files with your wife. * Aged Like Me. * Putting your knees under the chair and standing up, and unbending your knees pushes the chair backwards and it falls over, but you're upright, and then like the punching bags with sand at the bottom the chair bounces back up and hits you in the ass so you don't even need to work to start walking. * A wheelchair with an extremely gentle ejection seat. * Why obese people have worse COVID outcomes. * How to make a bed that fat people want to lie in face-down. * A.C. Slatering. * Why isn't Jim an industrial designer? * Applying for an industrial design job and putting sharks on your resume. * Poob has it for you. * Screenshotting a Tumblr post and cropping out the username to post it on Tiktok and claiming that it's something your therapist told you. * The ghost you're talking about waving its hands in your face being like "I'm right here!" * Tumblr eras. * The event that convinced the Tumblr community that Tumblr users should not ever be in charge of anything. * The people who left Tumblr when they banned porn and then came back when Elon Musk bought Twitter. * The Tumblr Funnymen. * The Tumblr CEO personally harassing trans women off of Tumblr. * Someone who looks like they've been deactivated. * The miracle of Tumblr still being online. * The Poster's Curse. * Bucket, where are you? * A jumble of keywords that someone might hypothetically search for. * Distinctly amateurish outsider art in a way that only a human could create. * Beatboxing puppy! * A contextless segue into a musical number. * An hour long trailer for a twenty minute movie. * A movie made by people who were figuring out 3D animation as they were making it. * Legally distinct Marios rapping. * Being anti-AI art because you are extremely pro copyright law. * The beatboxing puppy scene that everybody forgot about. * It's cool when people make art. * Four consecutive narrators all explaining the same concepts in slightly different ways that slightly contradict each other. * A movie asking you to watch it over and over to pump up its numbers. * Wanting to see a sequel to "OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist" because you want to know what the title will be. * Complaining that Amazing Digital Circus is more important than your own movie. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Mitch from jan Misali.
  • The episode where we have beef.
  • The milk frother attachment to the chain staff.
  • The milk frother is DLC you pay extra for that milk frother.
  • Hearing about Ursula Leguin for the first time.
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
  • The Clock Before Armageddon.
  • Solving sexism, here on Topic Lords.
  • Living long enough to discover a new favorite sci-fi author.
  • What's interesting about Sapphire for the PC Engine, other than the price?
  • Dreams of gutting the collectors market.
  • Spending $2,000 on a rare game and trying to convince itself it's good enough to justify the price.
  • A game that is not very rare but it's still expensive because it's so good that people want to keep it.
  • Deciding at the last minute to not use motion controls for your Wii rhythm game.
  • Erdos numbers preceding Bacon numbers because of course it was mathematicians who came up with that shit.
  • What counts as a Bacon Connection.
  • A character who has been in a lot of crossover games.
  • The de facto authority on Ryu numbers.
  • Whether the frog at the end of TXT World is the same as the game from Frog Fractions.
  • Whether Hatricia from the Hat DLC is the same as the cat the wedding dress in the photo at the end of TXT World.
  • The British buy who wears a red shirt.
  • The ever-shifting discourse for what counts as a connection for Scott Numbers.
  • Adding rules to make a trivial game into a non-trivial game.
  • White men who have had a long Youtube career.
  • Whether Ryu has a surname.
  • Stephen Hawking's Sabbath number.
  • Movies and plays tending to tell different stories whereas recorded and live music tends to be the same music.
  • The hypothetical guy whose favorite movie is just one where they pointed a camera at a stage play.
  • Why do people love squats?
  • Doing a 500 pound deadlift to get out of bed.
  • Doing one exercise to get better at a slightly related exercise.
  • Fucking up your knees by getting out of a chair repeatedly.
  • Doing the old heave-ho thing to get out of a chair.
  • The Inherently Beautiful Design of Everyday Objects, by Bonald Normag.
  • Watching the X-Files with your wife.
  • Aged Like Me.
  • Putting your knees under the chair and standing up, and unbending your knees pushes the chair backwards and it falls over, but you're upright, and then like the punching bags with sand at the bottom the chair bounces back up and hits you in the ass so you don't even need to work to start walking.
  • A wheelchair with an extremely gentle ejection seat.
  • Why obese people have worse COVID outcomes.
  • How to make a bed that fat people want to lie in face-down.
  • A.C. Slatering.
  • Why isn't Jim an industrial designer?
  • Applying for an industrial design job and putting sharks on your resume.
  • Poob has it for you.
  • Screenshotting a Tumblr post and cropping out the username to post it on Tiktok and claiming that it's something your therapist told you.
  • The ghost you're talking about waving its hands in your face being like "I'm right here!"
  • Tumblr eras.
  • The event that convinced the Tumblr community that Tumblr users should not ever be in charge of anything.
  • The people who left Tumblr when they banned porn and then came back when Elon Musk bought Twitter.
  • The Tumblr Funnymen.
  • The Tumblr CEO personally harassing trans women off of Tumblr.
  • Someone who looks like they've been deactivated.
  • The miracle of Tumblr still being online.
  • The Poster's Curse.
  • Bucket, where are you?
  • A jumble of keywords that someone might hypothetically search for.
  • Distinctly amateurish outsider art in a way that only a human could create.
  • Beatboxing puppy!
  • A contextless segue into a musical number.
  • An hour long trailer for a twenty minute movie.
  • A movie made by people who were figuring out 3D animation as they were making it.
  • Legally distinct Marios rapping.
  • Being anti-AI art because you are extremely pro copyright law.
  • The beatboxing puppy scene that everybody forgot about.
  • It's cool when people make art.
  • Four consecutive narrators all explaining the same concepts in slightly different ways that slightly contradict each other.
  • A movie asking you to watch it over and over to pump up its numbers.
  • Wanting to see a sequel to "OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist" because you want to know what the title will be.
  • Complaining that Amazing Digital Circus is more important than your own movie.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Mitch from jan Misali.
  • The episode where we have beef.
  • The milk frother attachment to the chain staff.
  • The milk frother is DLC you pay extra for that milk frother.
  • Hearing about Ursula Leguin for the first time.
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
  • The Clock Before Armageddon.
  • Solving sexism, here on Topic Lords.
  • Living long enough to discover a new favorite sci-fi author.
  • What's interesting about Sapphire for the PC Engine, other than the price?
  • Dreams of gutting the collectors market.
  • Spending $2,000 on a rare game and trying to convince itself it's good enough to justify the price.
  • A game that is not very rare but it's still expensive because it's so good that people want to keep it.
  • Deciding at the last minute to not use motion controls for your Wii rhythm game.
  • Erdos numbers preceding Bacon numbers because of course it was mathematicians who came up with that shit.
  • What counts as a Bacon Connection.
  • A character who has been in a lot of crossover games.
  • The de facto authority on Ryu numbers.
  • Whether the frog at the end of TXT World is the same as the game from Frog Fractions.
  • Whether Hatricia from the Hat DLC is the same as the cat the wedding dress in the photo at the end of TXT World.
  • The British buy who wears a red shirt.
  • The ever-shifting discourse for what counts as a connection for Scott Numbers.
  • Adding rules to make a trivial game into a non-trivial game.
  • White men who have had a long Youtube career.
  • Whether Ryu has a surname.
  • Stephen Hawking's Sabbath number.
  • Movies and plays tending to tell different stories whereas recorded and live music tends to be the same music.
  • The hypothetical guy whose favorite movie is just one where they pointed a camera at a stage play.
  • Why do people love squats?
  • Doing a 500 pound deadlift to get out of bed.
  • Doing one exercise to get better at a slightly related exercise.
  • Fucking up your knees by getting out of a chair repeatedly.
  • Doing the old heave-ho thing to get out of a chair.
  • The Inherently Beautiful Design of Everyday Objects, by Bonald Normag.
  • Watching the X-Files with your wife.
  • Aged Like Me.
  • Putting your knees under the chair and standing up, and unbending your knees pushes the chair backwards and it falls over, but you're upright, and then like the punching bags with sand at the bottom the chair bounces back up and hits you in the ass so you don't even need to work to start walking.
  • A wheelchair with an extremely gentle ejection seat.
  • Why obese people have worse COVID outcomes.
  • How to make a bed that fat people want to lie in face-down.
  • A.C. Slatering.
  • Why isn't Jim an industrial designer?
  • Applying for an industrial design job and putting sharks on your resume.
  • Poob has it for you.
  • Screenshotting a Tumblr post and cropping out the username to post it on Tiktok and claiming that it's something your therapist told you.
  • The ghost you're talking about waving its hands in your face being like "I'm right here!"
  • Tumblr eras.
  • The event that convinced the Tumblr community that Tumblr users should not ever be in charge of anything.
  • The people who left Tumblr when they banned porn and then came back when Elon Musk bought Twitter.
  • The Tumblr Funnymen.
  • The Tumblr CEO personally harassing trans women off of Tumblr.
  • Someone who looks like they've been deactivated.
  • The miracle of Tumblr still being online.
  • The Poster's Curse.
  • Bucket, where are you?
  • A jumble of keywords that someone might hypothetically search for.
  • Distinctly amateurish outsider art in a way that only a human could create.
  • Beatboxing puppy!
  • A contextless segue into a musical number.
  • An hour long trailer for a twenty minute movie.
  • A movie made by people who were figuring out 3D animation as they were making it.
  • Legally distinct Marios rapping.
  • Being anti-AI art because you are extremely pro copyright law.
  • The beatboxing puppy scene that everybody forgot about.
  • It's cool when people make art.
  • Four consecutive narrators all explaining the same concepts in slightly different ways that slightly contradict each other.
  • A movie asking you to watch it over and over to pump up its numbers.
  • Wanting to see a sequel to "OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist" because you want to know what the title will be.
  • Complaining that Amazing Digital Circus is more important than your own movie.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 261. Chat Hurt Chatself in Chat's Confusion https://topiclords.com/chat-hurt-chatself-in-chats-confusion 429765dc-4c27-4000-9bfc-e861cef70663 Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Alex and Mitch. We discuss the wikipedia article about Football, classic Macintosh computers, the entomologists in Silence of the Lambs, With Apologies to Dr. Seuss by Supper Mario Broth, Archipelago, and deconstructing chat as a first person pronoun. 1:03:25 yes Lords: * Alex * https://www.youtube.com/@adiener * https://discord.com/invite/ZkV2zdb * Mitch * https://hbmmaster.tumblr.com/ * https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster * https://www.patreon.com/hbmmaster Topics: * The Wikipedia article about football * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football * Classic Macintosh computers * The entomologist nerds get like two minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs, but I'm pretty sure they directly inspired the whole genre of forensic investigation TV. * With Apologies to Dr. Seuss, by Supper Mario Broth * https://fxtwitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1807077109661114636 * Archipelago * https://archipelago.gg/ * That "chat is a fourth person pronoun" thing is impressively wrong Microtopics: * Off-the-cuff something. * Putting on the best talent show Cohost has ever seen. * Www.www.www * How to deal with multiple things that are called the same thing. * A list of things called Georgia. * A very opinionated move that you would not expect from a source as neutral as Wikipedia. * Sometimes your can carry the ball; sometimes you can't carry the ball. * What an IP address has to say about women in sports. * Sports: there's a place where you play it. * Watching Mexican TV and seeing an ad for "¡futbol americano!" * Repairing an old Mac that you found in an e-waste place. * Whether programming has changed since 1985. * Running an Electron app on a Mac Classic. * Switcher allowing you to run four 128k programs at a time on a 512k Mac. * How the 1991 Borland C++ debugger compares to the 2024 Visual Studio debugger. * Blah Blob, a Celeste-inspired platformer implemented as a Hypercard stack. * Sitting at the blender all day blending everything within arm's reach. * Steve Jobs' relationship with fans. * Wrapping your Xbox 360 in a towel to reflow the cracked solder. * Adding an extra lane to a highway to make the traffic worse. * Two awkwardly charming guys who help with an FBI investigation. * CSIvania. * The public domain jingle that precedes the poem. * Supper Mario Broth. * Wario's Shit Bone. * A Rare Gooper Bloober Goop Gooble Event. * Rhyming portend with event. * A textuovisual post. * Dr. Soup. * Whether the folks writing the Prima guide to Mario Sunshine get to personally ask Miyamoto what the weird goop enemies are called. * Bowser's Fury: the final Mario game. * F Boy: the F stands for fireball. * Trying to use a social media service when you don't know anyone on it. * In My Tumbl Opinion. * Weird Mario Enemies. * F Boy (Again) * Wanting a cool nickname like F Boy. * Explaining randomizers to someone who has never heard of video games. * Multi-game multiplayer randomizers. * A non-randomized randomizer. * Getting rupee donations left and right when all you need is a sword. * Unofficial archipelago support. * The hypothetical dad behind the fourth wall. * The hypothetical eighth month of the year. * Subtumbling. * How to tell the difference between a noun and a pronoun. * Old-fashioned home grown misinformation. * Getting from fourth wall to fourth person. * Fourth person perspective as an alternative term for first person plural. * Whether "dad" is a pronoun. * Chat hurt chatself in chat's confusion. * Rebageling images from 2014. * Agreeing with yourself from 10 years ago about which images are interesting. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Off-the-cuff something.
  • Putting on the best talent show Cohost has ever seen.
  • Www.www.www
  • How to deal with multiple things that are called the same thing.
  • A list of things called Georgia.
  • A very opinionated move that you would not expect from a source as neutral as Wikipedia.
  • Sometimes your can carry the ball; sometimes you can't carry the ball.
  • What an IP address has to say about women in sports.
  • Sports: there's a place where you play it.
  • Watching Mexican TV and seeing an ad for "¡futbol americano!"
  • Repairing an old Mac that you found in an e-waste place.
  • Whether programming has changed since 1985.
  • Running an Electron app on a Mac Classic.
  • Switcher allowing you to run four 128k programs at a time on a 512k Mac.
  • How the 1991 Borland C++ debugger compares to the 2024 Visual Studio debugger.
  • Blah Blob, a Celeste-inspired platformer implemented as a Hypercard stack.
  • Sitting at the blender all day blending everything within arm's reach.
  • Steve Jobs' relationship with fans.
  • Wrapping your Xbox 360 in a towel to reflow the cracked solder.
  • Adding an extra lane to a highway to make the traffic worse.
  • Two awkwardly charming guys who help with an FBI investigation.
  • CSIvania.
  • The public domain jingle that precedes the poem.
  • Supper Mario Broth.
  • Wario's Shit Bone.
  • A Rare Gooper Bloober Goop Gooble Event.
  • Rhyming portend with event.
  • A textuovisual post.
  • Dr. Soup.
  • Whether the folks writing the Prima guide to Mario Sunshine get to personally ask Miyamoto what the weird goop enemies are called.
  • Bowser's Fury: the final Mario game.
  • F Boy: the F stands for fireball.
  • Trying to use a social media service when you don't know anyone on it.
  • In My Tumbl Opinion.
  • Weird Mario Enemies.
  • F Boy (Again)
  • Wanting a cool nickname like F Boy.
  • Explaining randomizers to someone who has never heard of video games.
  • Multi-game multiplayer randomizers.
  • A non-randomized randomizer.
  • Getting rupee donations left and right when all you need is a sword.
  • Unofficial archipelago support.
  • The hypothetical dad behind the fourth wall.
  • The hypothetical eighth month of the year.
  • Subtumbling.
  • How to tell the difference between a noun and a pronoun.
  • Old-fashioned home grown misinformation.
  • Getting from fourth wall to fourth person.
  • Fourth person perspective as an alternative term for first person plural.
  • Whether "dad" is a pronoun.
  • Chat hurt chatself in chat's confusion.
  • Rebageling images from 2014.
  • Agreeing with yourself from 10 years ago about which images are interesting.

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Off-the-cuff something.
  • Putting on the best talent show Cohost has ever seen.
  • Www.www.www
  • How to deal with multiple things that are called the same thing.
  • A list of things called Georgia.
  • A very opinionated move that you would not expect from a source as neutral as Wikipedia.
  • Sometimes your can carry the ball; sometimes you can't carry the ball.
  • What an IP address has to say about women in sports.
  • Sports: there's a place where you play it.
  • Watching Mexican TV and seeing an ad for "¡futbol americano!"
  • Repairing an old Mac that you found in an e-waste place.
  • Whether programming has changed since 1985.
  • Running an Electron app on a Mac Classic.
  • Switcher allowing you to run four 128k programs at a time on a 512k Mac.
  • How the 1991 Borland C++ debugger compares to the 2024 Visual Studio debugger.
  • Blah Blob, a Celeste-inspired platformer implemented as a Hypercard stack.
  • Sitting at the blender all day blending everything within arm's reach.
  • Steve Jobs' relationship with fans.
  • Wrapping your Xbox 360 in a towel to reflow the cracked solder.
  • Adding an extra lane to a highway to make the traffic worse.
  • Two awkwardly charming guys who help with an FBI investigation.
  • CSIvania.
  • The public domain jingle that precedes the poem.
  • Supper Mario Broth.
  • Wario's Shit Bone.
  • A Rare Gooper Bloober Goop Gooble Event.
  • Rhyming portend with event.
  • A textuovisual post.
  • Dr. Soup.
  • Whether the folks writing the Prima guide to Mario Sunshine get to personally ask Miyamoto what the weird goop enemies are called.
  • Bowser's Fury: the final Mario game.
  • F Boy: the F stands for fireball.
  • Trying to use a social media service when you don't know anyone on it.
  • In My Tumbl Opinion.
  • Weird Mario Enemies.
  • F Boy (Again)
  • Wanting a cool nickname like F Boy.
  • Explaining randomizers to someone who has never heard of video games.
  • Multi-game multiplayer randomizers.
  • A non-randomized randomizer.
  • Getting rupee donations left and right when all you need is a sword.
  • Unofficial archipelago support.
  • The hypothetical dad behind the fourth wall.
  • The hypothetical eighth month of the year.
  • Subtumbling.
  • How to tell the difference between a noun and a pronoun.
  • Old-fashioned home grown misinformation.
  • Getting from fourth wall to fourth person.
  • Fourth person perspective as an alternative term for first person plural.
  • Whether "dad" is a pronoun.
  • Chat hurt chatself in chat's confusion.
  • Rebageling images from 2014.
  • Agreeing with yourself from 10 years ago about which images are interesting.

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]]> 228. Detecting Myself as Spam https://topiclords.com/detecting-myself-as-spam d8cdd8a4-e918-4281-89fd-dfe65a7f00e8 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Fif and Mitch. We discuss the Ace Attorney series' naming conventions, the kissing mechanic in Bully, Podcast Prep Sheet, the Tay Bridge Disaster, the user interface in Bully, and comments asking "why did the algorithm recommend this to me" 1:10:47 yes Lords: * Fif * Mitch Topics: * The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions * The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game * Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics * The Tay Bridge Disaster * https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/ * No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery * Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LhdhQEKtg Microtopics: * Two handfuls of times. * Something very fivey about hands. * Dependability and a detail-oriented nature. * Putting your resume in the show notes. * Naming your kid a list of two things. * A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan. * Naming games after verbs. * Mario Push Button. * The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot. * Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them. * All the time we have for Topic Lords. * Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.) * A dress-up fashion thing. * Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability. * Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting. * Dorms in a castle. * Hey, nice face. * Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic. * Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game. * The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear. * Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels. * Eco-friendly or Eco-fail? * Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong. * Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam. * The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck. * Making your hearts for to quail. * Poems including civil engineering advice. * Good vs. bad nonsense poems. * A fun poem to read. * Paying money to engage with content. * Deliberately slipping on a banana peel. * What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules. * School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on. * Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen. * Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take. * A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens. * Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you. * Youtube koans. * Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it. * Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views. * A PMV of the character you are obsessed with. * The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys. * Constantly deleting the shorts. * Posting a tweet to youtube.com. * Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube. * Community captions and what happened to them. * Doing annotations dirty. * Nekoneko. * Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly. * Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert. Lords:

  • Fif
  • Mitch

Topics:

  • The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions
  • The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game
  • Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery
  • Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me"

Microtopics:

  • Two handfuls of times.
  • Something very fivey about hands.
  • Dependability and a detail-oriented nature.
  • Putting your resume in the show notes.
  • Naming your kid a list of two things.
  • A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan.
  • Naming games after verbs.
  • Mario Push Button.
  • The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot.
  • Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them.
  • All the time we have for Topic Lords.
  • Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.)
  • A dress-up fashion thing.
  • Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability.
  • Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting.
  • Dorms in a castle.
  • Hey, nice face.
  • Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic.
  • Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game.
  • The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear.
  • Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels.
  • Eco-friendly or Eco-fail?
  • Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong.
  • Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam.
  • The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck.
  • Making your hearts for to quail.
  • Poems including civil engineering advice.
  • Good vs. bad nonsense poems.
  • A fun poem to read.
  • Paying money to engage with content.
  • Deliberately slipping on a banana peel.
  • What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules.
  • School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on.
  • Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen.
  • Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take.
  • A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens.
  • Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you.
  • Youtube koans.
  • Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it.
  • Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views.
  • A PMV of the character you are obsessed with.
  • The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys.
  • Constantly deleting the shorts.
  • Posting a tweet to youtube.com.
  • Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube.
  • Community captions and what happened to them.
  • Doing annotations dirty.
  • Nekoneko.
  • Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly.
  • Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert.

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  • Fif
  • Mitch

Topics:

  • The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions
  • The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game
  • Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery
  • Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me"

Microtopics:

  • Two handfuls of times.
  • Something very fivey about hands.
  • Dependability and a detail-oriented nature.
  • Putting your resume in the show notes.
  • Naming your kid a list of two things.
  • A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan.
  • Naming games after verbs.
  • Mario Push Button.
  • The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot.
  • Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them.
  • All the time we have for Topic Lords.
  • Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.)
  • A dress-up fashion thing.
  • Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability.
  • Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting.
  • Dorms in a castle.
  • Hey, nice face.
  • Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic.
  • Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game.
  • The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear.
  • Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels.
  • Eco-friendly or Eco-fail?
  • Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong.
  • Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam.
  • The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck.
  • Making your hearts for to quail.
  • Poems including civil engineering advice.
  • Good vs. bad nonsense poems.
  • A fun poem to read.
  • Paying money to engage with content.
  • Deliberately slipping on a banana peel.
  • What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules.
  • School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on.
  • Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen.
  • Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take.
  • A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens.
  • Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you.
  • Youtube koans.
  • Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it.
  • Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views.
  • A PMV of the character you are obsessed with.
  • The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys.
  • Constantly deleting the shorts.
  • Posting a tweet to youtube.com.
  • Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube.
  • Community captions and what happened to them.
  • Doing annotations dirty.
  • Nekoneko.
  • Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly.
  • Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 212. Back in My Day, Kids Actually Crossied the Road https://topiclords.com/back-in-my-day-kids-actually-crossied-the-road 852f0f94-acae-468d-a370-9aedef1e5a3e Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Mitch and Andrew. We discuss how many Super Mario games there are now, owning the domain emailfordogs.com, whether the DMV is hiring kids to jump in front of your car, Love in the Age of Google, the Burrito Run, and storytelling in the WarioWare series. 1:10:50 yes Lords: * Mitch * https://janmisali.tumblr.com/ * https://www.seximal.net/ * Andrew * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Topics: * Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first mainline 2D Mario game since... (how many Super Mario games are there? update) * Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw * New survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/viewform * Owning the domain emailfordogs.com for some reason * When I took my driver's test, a kid ran out onto the road in front of me, I braked, and the proctor made a check mark on his forms. * Love in the Age of Google by Brian Bilston * https://brianbilston.com/2018/08/ * The Burrito Run (a form of physical exercise) * The WarioWare series has become increasingly story-driven in every game since WarioWare: Snapped! (DSi, 2008) Microtopics: * Your names. * Jokes that have or have not been done. * The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.) * A game which has no sequels. * Pizza Panda dot Pizza. * Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links. * A polling feature that is great for polling people. * Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything. * How to make your audience stop clicking links. * 358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games. * A game called Super Mario Bros. Something. * All the different years there hasn't been a new Super Mario game since. * A controversy, but not one people care about. * New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game. * Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up. * Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take. * Looking at all these MS-DOS colors. * Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it's just a guy! * Mario games for MS-DOS. * A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently. * Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man. * The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people. * New Super Mario Bros. Mii. * Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology. * Super Mario Bros. Special. * A smeary snapshot of your mind. * A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make. * Working on a game until it's ready. * If you like Mario games, then it's one of them. If you don't then it's not. * Super Mario Bros. Tudor. * Super Mario Bros. Oneder. * Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com. * A hobby you used to be able to have. * Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name. * Rip the old spacejam.com. * Space Jam: a New Legacy. * Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com. * A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver's test examiner and one child. * Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test. * A checkbox on the DMV test labeled "did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars." * Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road. * A smoke made with the fume of sighs. * A poem that scans as a poem. * A million monkeys using a million trackers. * One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers. * A new form of physical exercise. * Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective. * Copylefted exercise routines. * There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine. * Dogs who are like dogs. * Dog theory. * What's more habitual than eating lunch? * Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.) * Booger joke fart joke silly game. * A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series. * Wario's hiring process. * A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head. * Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it. * The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series. * Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction. * The man who was too many Marios. * Hearing Wario speak in full sentences. * A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Your names.
  • Jokes that have or have not been done.
  • The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.)
  • A game which has no sequels.
  • Pizza Panda dot Pizza.
  • Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links.
  • A polling feature that is great for polling people.
  • Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything.
  • How to make your audience stop clicking links.
  • 358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games.
  • A game called Super Mario Bros. Something.
  • All the different years there hasn't been a new Super Mario game since.
  • A controversy, but not one people care about.
  • New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game.
  • Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up.
  • Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take.
  • Looking at all these MS-DOS colors.
  • Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it's just a guy!
  • Mario games for MS-DOS.
  • A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently.
  • Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man.
  • The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people.
  • New Super Mario Bros. Mii.
  • Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology.
  • Super Mario Bros. Special.
  • A smeary snapshot of your mind.
  • A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make.
  • Working on a game until it's ready.
  • If you like Mario games, then it's one of them. If you don't then it's not.
  • Super Mario Bros. Tudor.
  • Super Mario Bros. Oneder.
  • Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com.
  • A hobby you used to be able to have.
  • Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name.
  • Rip the old spacejam.com.
  • Space Jam: a New Legacy.
  • Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com.
  • A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver's test examiner and one child.
  • Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test.
  • A checkbox on the DMV test labeled "did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars."
  • Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road.
  • A smoke made with the fume of sighs.
  • A poem that scans as a poem.
  • A million monkeys using a million trackers.
  • One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers.
  • A new form of physical exercise.
  • Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective.
  • Copylefted exercise routines.
  • There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine.
  • Dogs who are like dogs.
  • Dog theory.
  • What's more habitual than eating lunch?
  • Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.)
  • Booger joke fart joke silly game.
  • A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series.
  • Wario's hiring process.
  • A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head.
  • Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it.
  • The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series.
  • Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction.
  • The man who was too many Marios.
  • Hearing Wario speak in full sentences.
  • A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways.

Support Topic Lords

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Your names.
  • Jokes that have or have not been done.
  • The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.)
  • A game which has no sequels.
  • Pizza Panda dot Pizza.
  • Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links.
  • A polling feature that is great for polling people.
  • Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything.
  • How to make your audience stop clicking links.
  • 358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games.
  • A game called Super Mario Bros. Something.
  • All the different years there hasn't been a new Super Mario game since.
  • A controversy, but not one people care about.
  • New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game.
  • Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up.
  • Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take.
  • Looking at all these MS-DOS colors.
  • Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it's just a guy!
  • Mario games for MS-DOS.
  • A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently.
  • Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man.
  • The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people.
  • New Super Mario Bros. Mii.
  • Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology.
  • Super Mario Bros. Special.
  • A smeary snapshot of your mind.
  • A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make.
  • Working on a game until it's ready.
  • If you like Mario games, then it's one of them. If you don't then it's not.
  • Super Mario Bros. Tudor.
  • Super Mario Bros. Oneder.
  • Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com.
  • A hobby you used to be able to have.
  • Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name.
  • Rip the old spacejam.com.
  • Space Jam: a New Legacy.
  • Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com.
  • A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver's test examiner and one child.
  • Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test.
  • A checkbox on the DMV test labeled "did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars."
  • Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road.
  • A smoke made with the fume of sighs.
  • A poem that scans as a poem.
  • A million monkeys using a million trackers.
  • One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers.
  • A new form of physical exercise.
  • Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective.
  • Copylefted exercise routines.
  • There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine.
  • Dogs who are like dogs.
  • Dog theory.
  • What's more habitual than eating lunch?
  • Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.)
  • Booger joke fart joke silly game.
  • A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series.
  • Wario's hiring process.
  • A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head.
  • Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it.
  • The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series.
  • Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction.
  • The man who was too many Marios.
  • Hearing Wario speak in full sentences.
  • A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 163. The Mean Horse Scenario https://topiclords.com/the-mean-horse-scenario 65dd8d59-7751-407a-b7b0-6cc96898fa1e Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Mitch and Laura. We discuss how to get around in the post apocalypse, Super Mario Wiki, the GTA San Andreas conversation system, Last Straw by George Starbuck, and the gradual inflation of Youtube video length. 1:04:15 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mitch * https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster * https://www.google.com/search?q=w * https://www.seximal.net/ * Laura * https://twitter.com/lmichet * https://cohost.org/lmichet Topics: * What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this? * The Super Mario Wiki is a beacon that other fan wikis should look to for inspiration * The GTA San Andreas conversation system * Last Straw, by George Starbuck http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2021/04/george-starbuck-nationalpoetrymonth.html * The gradual inflation of standard youtube video length Microtopics: * Lowercase jan, capital Misali. * Collecting all 905 Pokemon after 25 years. * R-rated Pokemon competitor, "Seximals." * Free-range porn, or legitimate educational resource? * First impressions of seximal.net. * Counting up to 99 on your hands. * College basketball's tactical use of base 6. * The binary number represented by flipping someone the bird with both hands. * The Airworld situation. * A sled pulled by domesticated zombies. * Solving the tire problem so you can bike around in the post-apocalypse. * Horses destroying society by kicking every building down with their powerful legs. * Horsefingers. * Horseknuckles. * Being just tall enough for a horse to try to eat your hair. * Shoveling poop out of the bear bone barn. * Standards of accuracy and editorial quality in the Super Mario Wiki. * Niwa, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. * What Mario Wiki has to say about the Berlin Wall. * Abraham Lincoln's place in the Mario Canon. * Organizing the Marvel Wiki by universe number. * The most objective possible method of sorting a list of universes. * Regular Peter Parker vs. Ultimate Peter Parker. * 10 seconds of scrolling. * A wealth of information not intended for a phone screen. * The ontological difference between characters and allies. * What species exist in the world of Mario? * Action Toad. * The wiki article about Baby Mario, a distinct character from the times various Marios have been babies. * The love child of Bowser and Shigeru Miyamoto. * Making invitations to your bachelor party with Mario Print World. * Different forms of pounding your butt on the ground. * The Ground Pound, also known as the Hip Drop, Pound the Ground attack, Bounce, Butt-Bash, Jump Smash, Smash Attack, and Butt Stomp. * How wikis get away with not being normalized databases. * A loose simulacrum of conversation. * A conversation that takes the form of a hand wave and then a gulf a million miles wide. * Pausing for several minutes to contemplate whether you've ever eaten octopus for breakfast. * Fifty ways to say "please don't hit me in the head with that wrench." * The Heaven's Vault conversation system. * Ten different voice actors saying the same twenty lines. * A normal poetry thing. * Trying to find the poem "The Last Straw" by George Starbuck but Google only wants to show you articles about how Starbucks doesn't have straws any more. * Poems that use two meters at once. * Showing the frivolity of the line lengths. * Back when Youtube videos were limited to ten minutes. * Just sitting here making feature films by myself. * Al Gore, the guy who invented the Algorithm. * Promising things in the show notes that definitely aren't going to go there. * What happens in an ecosystem where there is no pressure to make your work shorter. * People who have time to watch a three hour Youtube video. * Watching a movie over the course of a week, ten minutes at a time. * Multitasking poorly. * How to find people on Cohost. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

  • What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this?
  • The Super Mario Wiki is a beacon that other fan wikis should look to for inspiration
  • The GTA San Andreas conversation system
  • Last Straw, by George Starbuck http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2021/04/george-starbuck-nationalpoetrymonth.html
  • The gradual inflation of standard youtube video length

Microtopics:

  • Lowercase jan, capital Misali.
  • Collecting all 905 Pokemon after 25 years.
  • R-rated Pokemon competitor, "Seximals."
  • Free-range porn, or legitimate educational resource?
  • First impressions of seximal.net.
  • Counting up to 99 on your hands.
  • College basketball's tactical use of base 6.
  • The binary number represented by flipping someone the bird with both hands.
  • The Airworld situation.
  • A sled pulled by domesticated zombies.
  • Solving the tire problem so you can bike around in the post-apocalypse.
  • Horses destroying society by kicking every building down with their powerful legs.
  • Horsefingers.
  • Horseknuckles.
  • Being just tall enough for a horse to try to eat your hair.
  • Shoveling poop out of the bear bone barn.
  • Standards of accuracy and editorial quality in the Super Mario Wiki.
  • Niwa, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance.
  • What Mario Wiki has to say about the Berlin Wall.
  • Abraham Lincoln's place in the Mario Canon.
  • Organizing the Marvel Wiki by universe number.
  • The most objective possible method of sorting a list of universes.
  • Regular Peter Parker vs. Ultimate Peter Parker.
  • 10 seconds of scrolling.
  • A wealth of information not intended for a phone screen.
  • The ontological difference between characters and allies.
  • What species exist in the world of Mario?
  • Action Toad.
  • The wiki article about Baby Mario, a distinct character from the times various Marios have been babies.
  • The love child of Bowser and Shigeru Miyamoto.
  • Making invitations to your bachelor party with Mario Print World.
  • Different forms of pounding your butt on the ground.
  • The Ground Pound, also known as the Hip Drop, Pound the Ground attack, Bounce, Butt-Bash, Jump Smash, Smash Attack, and Butt Stomp.
  • How wikis get away with not being normalized databases.
  • A loose simulacrum of conversation.
  • A conversation that takes the form of a hand wave and then a gulf a million miles wide.
  • Pausing for several minutes to contemplate whether you've ever eaten octopus for breakfast.
  • Fifty ways to say "please don't hit me in the head with that wrench."
  • The Heaven's Vault conversation system.
  • Ten different voice actors saying the same twenty lines.
  • A normal poetry thing.
  • Trying to find the poem "The Last Straw" by George Starbuck but Google only wants to show you articles about how Starbucks doesn't have straws any more.
  • Poems that use two meters at once.
  • Showing the frivolity of the line lengths.
  • Back when Youtube videos were limited to ten minutes.
  • Just sitting here making feature films by myself.
  • Al Gore, the guy who invented the Algorithm.
  • Promising things in the show notes that definitely aren't going to go there.
  • What happens in an ecosystem where there is no pressure to make your work shorter.
  • People who have time to watch a three hour Youtube video.
  • Watching a movie over the course of a week, ten minutes at a time.
  • Multitasking poorly.
  • How to find people on Cohost.

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Lords:

Topics:

  • What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this?
  • The Super Mario Wiki is a beacon that other fan wikis should look to for inspiration
  • The GTA San Andreas conversation system
  • Last Straw, by George Starbuck http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2021/04/george-starbuck-nationalpoetrymonth.html
  • The gradual inflation of standard youtube video length

Microtopics:

  • Lowercase jan, capital Misali.
  • Collecting all 905 Pokemon after 25 years.
  • R-rated Pokemon competitor, "Seximals."
  • Free-range porn, or legitimate educational resource?
  • First impressions of seximal.net.
  • Counting up to 99 on your hands.
  • College basketball's tactical use of base 6.
  • The binary number represented by flipping someone the bird with both hands.
  • The Airworld situation.
  • A sled pulled by domesticated zombies.
  • Solving the tire problem so you can bike around in the post-apocalypse.
  • Horses destroying society by kicking every building down with their powerful legs.
  • Horsefingers.
  • Horseknuckles.
  • Being just tall enough for a horse to try to eat your hair.
  • Shoveling poop out of the bear bone barn.
  • Standards of accuracy and editorial quality in the Super Mario Wiki.
  • Niwa, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance.
  • What Mario Wiki has to say about the Berlin Wall.
  • Abraham Lincoln's place in the Mario Canon.
  • Organizing the Marvel Wiki by universe number.
  • The most objective possible method of sorting a list of universes.
  • Regular Peter Parker vs. Ultimate Peter Parker.
  • 10 seconds of scrolling.
  • A wealth of information not intended for a phone screen.
  • The ontological difference between characters and allies.
  • What species exist in the world of Mario?
  • Action Toad.
  • The wiki article about Baby Mario, a distinct character from the times various Marios have been babies.
  • The love child of Bowser and Shigeru Miyamoto.
  • Making invitations to your bachelor party with Mario Print World.
  • Different forms of pounding your butt on the ground.
  • The Ground Pound, also known as the Hip Drop, Pound the Ground attack, Bounce, Butt-Bash, Jump Smash, Smash Attack, and Butt Stomp.
  • How wikis get away with not being normalized databases.
  • A loose simulacrum of conversation.
  • A conversation that takes the form of a hand wave and then a gulf a million miles wide.
  • Pausing for several minutes to contemplate whether you've ever eaten octopus for breakfast.
  • Fifty ways to say "please don't hit me in the head with that wrench."
  • The Heaven's Vault conversation system.
  • Ten different voice actors saying the same twenty lines.
  • A normal poetry thing.
  • Trying to find the poem "The Last Straw" by George Starbuck but Google only wants to show you articles about how Starbucks doesn't have straws any more.
  • Poems that use two meters at once.
  • Showing the frivolity of the line lengths.
  • Back when Youtube videos were limited to ten minutes.
  • Just sitting here making feature films by myself.
  • Al Gore, the guy who invented the Algorithm.
  • Promising things in the show notes that definitely aren't going to go there.
  • What happens in an ecosystem where there is no pressure to make your work shorter.
  • People who have time to watch a three hour Youtube video.
  • Watching a movie over the course of a week, ten minutes at a time.
  • Multitasking poorly.
  • How to find people on Cohost.

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]]> 99. I Want You to Never Show Me This https://topiclords.com/i-want-you-to-never-show-me-this 18433b63-bb09-4530-a28b-089e3a8403ab Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Mitch and Xander. We discuss what qualifies as a Mario game, spectrum of porcupine tunings by eigenmonzos, the Letter C, finding the light switch in this bed and breakfast, the bizarre CD-ROM game Monty Python made in the 90s, and how Tumblr is almost good. 1:01:51 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mitch * https://twitter.com/hbmmaster/ * https://www.youtube.com/user/HBMmaster8472 * Xander Topics: * The title "Super Smash Brothers for Nintendo 3DS" is the first two lines of a haiku * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw * Spectrum of porcupine tunings by eigenmonzos * The Letter C * Finding the light switch in this bed and breakfast * https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/1419337769386536964 * The bizarre CD-ROM game Monty Python made in the 90s * Tumblr would be a good website if it wasn't such a bad website Microtopics: * Starting to meet up just in time for the Delta variant to show up. * jan Misali of the Youtube channel jan Misali. * Using Bing to google things. * A recent video you will have made. * How many games are in the Super Mario series. * Super Smash Bros / For Nintendo 3DS / It's Coming This Fall * Super Mario 64DS HD For Nintendo Switch. * The only three games that everyone can agree are Super Mario games. * Super Mario's Wacky Worlds for the Phillips CD-i. * Not knowing who to vote for comptroller so googling each candidate's name with "is good" and picking the one with the most results. * Whether Super Mario Run is a platformer. * The bare minimum of procgen required for a game to count as an endless runner. * When there's no consensus, there's no communication. * The Super Mario Artist series. * Any game you can look at counting as a "video game* because video is Latin for "I see." * Xenharmonics and microtonal music. * Subdividing the octave into 19 psychoacoustically equal segments. * The Venn diagram between people interested in microtonal music and people who understand singular value decomposition. * Enjoying 17-TET music but only the parts that would've sounded better in 12-TET. * Learning enough about Super Mario Bros. Special to decide whether it's a game. * All the different ways you could count things. * The only nontrivial solution to the cannonball problem. * Finding the center of a shape by cutting it out of cardboard and balancing it on your finger. * The Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers. * 39,474 different ways to find the center of a triangle. * Being wrong about the letter C. * Spelling it SD-ROM but still pronouncing it CD-ROM. * The fault of vulgar Latin. * Proto-Western Romance. * What Q means to us. * Slicing up a house into apartments by roping off a stairway. * Things depicted as normal in Hollywood movies that can't possibly be normal, such as flipping a switch to activate spinning blades in your sink. * Dedicated garbage knives that are just for cutting up garbage, that you keep next to the regular kitchen knives and they look the same but you know which ones are which. * The part of the infomercial for the Sink Knife Gun that's black and white where the lady is struggling to cut up her sink drain trash by sticking knives down there and wiggling them around. * Making a smoothie with a mortar and pestle. * Whether the Sarlacc Pit inspired garbage disposals or vice versa. * A Taco Bell built into a striking, memorable building. * A game you could check out at the local video store. * Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time. * CD-ROM experiences. * Minigames that mess with your interface. * The outer space labyrinth mine cart puzzle tying together all the unrelated Monty Python sketches. * Completing a game and it changes your desktop wallpaper to a congratulations screen. * Completing a level and unlocking audio you can set as your answering machine message. * Solving the secret for intergalactic success. * Topics you might like: food. * The quintessential Tumblr story. * The Tale of John Green's Favorite Taste. * Reblogging a post and then editing it so it looks like the person you were reblogging said something else. * John Green as in "The Bum Bum Song" John Green. * What it took to convince Tumblr to finally make it so you can't edit other people's posts. * Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra discussing John Green's Favorite Taste. * The Insane Clown Posse's web master writing a web chat server with no security whatsoever. * Feeling cool because you ruined it for everybody else. * Googling just the letter W. * Dueling George W. Bush to the death over ownership of the letter W. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Starting to meet up just in time for the Delta variant to show up.
  • jan Misali of the Youtube channel jan Misali.
  • Using Bing to google things.
  • A recent video you will have made.
  • How many games are in the Super Mario series.
  • Super Smash Bros / For Nintendo 3DS / It's Coming This Fall
  • Super Mario 64DS HD For Nintendo Switch.
  • The only three games that everyone can agree are Super Mario games.
  • Super Mario's Wacky Worlds for the Phillips CD-i.
  • Not knowing who to vote for comptroller so googling each candidate's name with "is good" and picking the one with the most results.
  • Whether Super Mario Run is a platformer.
  • The bare minimum of procgen required for a game to count as an endless runner.
  • When there's no consensus, there's no communication.
  • The Super Mario Artist series.
  • Any game you can look at counting as a "video game* because video is Latin for "I see."
  • Xenharmonics and microtonal music.
  • Subdividing the octave into 19 psychoacoustically equal segments.
  • The Venn diagram between people interested in microtonal music and people who understand singular value decomposition.
  • Enjoying 17-TET music but only the parts that would've sounded better in 12-TET.
  • Learning enough about Super Mario Bros. Special to decide whether it's a game.
  • All the different ways you could count things.
  • The only nontrivial solution to the cannonball problem.
  • Finding the center of a shape by cutting it out of cardboard and balancing it on your finger.
  • The Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers.
  • 39,474 different ways to find the center of a triangle.
  • Being wrong about the letter C.
  • Spelling it SD-ROM but still pronouncing it CD-ROM.
  • The fault of vulgar Latin.
  • Proto-Western Romance.
  • What Q means to us.
  • Slicing up a house into apartments by roping off a stairway.
  • Things depicted as normal in Hollywood movies that can't possibly be normal, such as flipping a switch to activate spinning blades in your sink.
  • Dedicated garbage knives that are just for cutting up garbage, that you keep next to the regular kitchen knives and they look the same but you know which ones are which.
  • The part of the infomercial for the Sink Knife Gun that's black and white where the lady is struggling to cut up her sink drain trash by sticking knives down there and wiggling them around.
  • Making a smoothie with a mortar and pestle.
  • Whether the Sarlacc Pit inspired garbage disposals or vice versa.
  • A Taco Bell built into a striking, memorable building.
  • A game you could check out at the local video store.
  • Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time.
  • CD-ROM experiences.
  • Minigames that mess with your interface.
  • The outer space labyrinth mine cart puzzle tying together all the unrelated Monty Python sketches.
  • Completing a game and it changes your desktop wallpaper to a congratulations screen.
  • Completing a level and unlocking audio you can set as your answering machine message.
  • Solving the secret for intergalactic success.
  • Topics you might like: food.
  • The quintessential Tumblr story.
  • The Tale of John Green's Favorite Taste.
  • Reblogging a post and then editing it so it looks like the person you were reblogging said something else.
  • John Green as in "The Bum Bum Song" John Green.
  • What it took to convince Tumblr to finally make it so you can't edit other people's posts.
  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra discussing John Green's Favorite Taste.
  • The Insane Clown Posse's web master writing a web chat server with no security whatsoever.
  • Feeling cool because you ruined it for everybody else.
  • Googling just the letter W.
  • Dueling George W. Bush to the death over ownership of the letter W.

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Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Starting to meet up just in time for the Delta variant to show up.
  • jan Misali of the Youtube channel jan Misali.
  • Using Bing to google things.
  • A recent video you will have made.
  • How many games are in the Super Mario series.
  • Super Smash Bros / For Nintendo 3DS / It's Coming This Fall
  • Super Mario 64DS HD For Nintendo Switch.
  • The only three games that everyone can agree are Super Mario games.
  • Super Mario's Wacky Worlds for the Phillips CD-i.
  • Not knowing who to vote for comptroller so googling each candidate's name with "is good" and picking the one with the most results.
  • Whether Super Mario Run is a platformer.
  • The bare minimum of procgen required for a game to count as an endless runner.
  • When there's no consensus, there's no communication.
  • The Super Mario Artist series.
  • Any game you can look at counting as a "video game* because video is Latin for "I see."
  • Xenharmonics and microtonal music.
  • Subdividing the octave into 19 psychoacoustically equal segments.
  • The Venn diagram between people interested in microtonal music and people who understand singular value decomposition.
  • Enjoying 17-TET music but only the parts that would've sounded better in 12-TET.
  • Learning enough about Super Mario Bros. Special to decide whether it's a game.
  • All the different ways you could count things.
  • The only nontrivial solution to the cannonball problem.
  • Finding the center of a shape by cutting it out of cardboard and balancing it on your finger.
  • The Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers.
  • 39,474 different ways to find the center of a triangle.
  • Being wrong about the letter C.
  • Spelling it SD-ROM but still pronouncing it CD-ROM.
  • The fault of vulgar Latin.
  • Proto-Western Romance.
  • What Q means to us.
  • Slicing up a house into apartments by roping off a stairway.
  • Things depicted as normal in Hollywood movies that can't possibly be normal, such as flipping a switch to activate spinning blades in your sink.
  • Dedicated garbage knives that are just for cutting up garbage, that you keep next to the regular kitchen knives and they look the same but you know which ones are which.
  • The part of the infomercial for the Sink Knife Gun that's black and white where the lady is struggling to cut up her sink drain trash by sticking knives down there and wiggling them around.
  • Making a smoothie with a mortar and pestle.
  • Whether the Sarlacc Pit inspired garbage disposals or vice versa.
  • A Taco Bell built into a striking, memorable building.
  • A game you could check out at the local video store.
  • Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time.
  • CD-ROM experiences.
  • Minigames that mess with your interface.
  • The outer space labyrinth mine cart puzzle tying together all the unrelated Monty Python sketches.
  • Completing a game and it changes your desktop wallpaper to a congratulations screen.
  • Completing a level and unlocking audio you can set as your answering machine message.
  • Solving the secret for intergalactic success.
  • Topics you might like: food.
  • The quintessential Tumblr story.
  • The Tale of John Green's Favorite Taste.
  • Reblogging a post and then editing it so it looks like the person you were reblogging said something else.
  • John Green as in "The Bum Bum Song" John Green.
  • What it took to convince Tumblr to finally make it so you can't edit other people's posts.
  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra discussing John Green's Favorite Taste.
  • The Insane Clown Posse's web master writing a web chat server with no security whatsoever.
  • Feeling cool because you ruined it for everybody else.
  • Googling just the letter W.
  • Dueling George W. Bush to the death over ownership of the letter W.

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]]> 63. How To Travel With a Dishwasher Salmon https://topiclords.com/how-to-travel-with-a-dishwasher-salmon cfe378cf-31d1-4b4e-b76d-b55fa0f52d84 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Mitch and Chris. Topics: Hades, turning "literally" pedantry back on itself, gasoline toast, mismatched timelines, how The Game (mind game) is not very well designed, and the worst letters of the alphabet. 1:05:38 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Chris * https://imgur.com/a/7dFeaa8 * Mitch * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJOh5FKisc0hUlEeWFBlD-w * https://twitter.com/hbmmaster * https://www.patreon.com/hbmmaster Topics: * Why the game Hades is great * People who get upset about the use of the word "literally" often say stuff like "you don't mean literally, you mean figuratively!", even though the use they're complaining about very obviously does not mean figuratively * Gasoline toast * HORG: http://www.horg.com/horg/ * Dishwasher salmon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N8q2xkirCQ * Ville asks "Oxford University was founded 200 years before the Aztec Empire and the subway in London began operation during the American Civil War. Either someone's messing with the timeline or we all have a very askew picture of how history's supposed to be laid out." * The Game (the one Wikipedia helpfully disambiguates as "The Game (mind game)") is not very well designed * The Best Five Plants * Multiocular O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O * W: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y Microtopics: * Writing your title in lowercase so that you know it's not part of your name. * Taking one look at a game and saying "this is a Chris game." * Hades. * A video game set in a Mike Mignola painting. * Game development legerdemain. * Pressing left trigger to pet Cerberus. * Voice acting in video games. * Needing to change a voice line and having to splice together existing lines because you're never going to see the actor again. * Needing to generalize a voice acted tutorial saying "press the A button" and just cutting out the word A. * Doing your best impression of the Afro Samurai and Samuel L Jackson angrily knocks at the door dressed as the Afro Samurai. * Knowing enough Greek mythology to appreciate these Greek mythology gags. * Describing your backstory to the bard. * Fishing minigames. * Getting the voice actor to learn Blender so you can finally pet the other two heads. * How people use "literally" these days. * How "really" used to mean "actually" and "very" meant "truly" but people started using them in hyperbole and now it's just an intensifier. * Sarcasm as a driver of linguistic change. * Covering food with gasoline and setting it on fire. * How the little plastic clip influences the bread's flavor. * Gasoline clams. * Covering a bagged loaf of bread in gasoline and setting it on fire and a loaf of perfect toast emerges. * Remembering that you were going to say something about the bag clip thing. * Making gasoline toast when gas prices were negative and getting your toast for free. * The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group. * Going to a web site about bag clips and not seeing anything with a spring in it. * Soaking your fish in lye until it becomes a delicacy. * Dishwasher salmon. * How every dishwasher is at the perfect temperature to cook salmon. * Trying to cook salmon in your dishwasher because you're not a serious dude yet. * Cooking a salmon in dishwashers around the world. * Going on the internet and telling lies about salmon preparation. * Lutefisk, and specifically how somebody invented Lutefisk. * The gravest of apologies to anyone currently eating dishwasher salmon. * The third time Jim went to jail for an idea originating on this podcast. * Cleopatra's temporal proximity to Pizza Hut. * Time and pizza being flat circles. * A quote-shaped hole in this conversation that you have the chance to fill. * Whether a hole in the ground that a wheelbarrow goes through counts as a subway. * Impressing your Corgi with facts about London. * The Game (mind game) * A game you can't stop playing, according to the rules. * How to win The Game (mind game) * Whether it's a game if you can't choose not to play. * People explaining The Game to you over and over again in hopes that you'll become as angry as they are that you just lost the game. * The sort of thing that passed for cool in board games from before 1990. * Video games with hexagons in them. * Arguing about the best five of something. * The worst five forbs. * Coating the hillside with six inch hemispheres of itching hairs. * A forb that is always full of doves, which is bad somehow. * The Angry Video Game Nerd except it's a plant nerd being angry about plants. * The bottom five letters of the alphabet. * The sequel to lowercase b. * Taking the q out of queen so it's spelled ueen. (But still pronounced "queen.") * Updating the alphabet to get rid of c k s w and q. * British people always dropping the t even though they supposedly love it. * Revising English spelling so that every word is just spelled "a" but each word has a unique font size. * Registering google.com except instead of two os it's the "oo" ligature. * The origin of uppercase. * Explaining to the clerk at the DMV that your name is Chris except the C is illuminated. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

  • Why the game Hades is great
  • People who get upset about the use of the word "literally" often say stuff like "you don't mean literally, you mean figuratively!", even though the use they're complaining about very obviously does not mean figuratively
  • Gasoline toast
  • Ville asks "Oxford University was founded 200 years before the Aztec Empire and the subway in London began operation during the American Civil War. Either someone's messing with the timeline or we all have a very askew picture of how history's supposed to be laid out."
  • The Game (the one Wikipedia helpfully disambiguates as "The Game (mind game)") is not very well designed
  • The Best Five Plants

Microtopics:

  • Writing your title in lowercase so that you know it's not part of your name.
  • Taking one look at a game and saying "this is a Chris game."
  • Hades.
  • A video game set in a Mike Mignola painting.
  • Game development legerdemain.
  • Pressing left trigger to pet Cerberus.
  • Voice acting in video games.
  • Needing to change a voice line and having to splice together existing lines because you're never going to see the actor again.
  • Needing to generalize a voice acted tutorial saying "press the A button" and just cutting out the word A.
  • Doing your best impression of the Afro Samurai and Samuel L Jackson angrily knocks at the door dressed as the Afro Samurai.
  • Knowing enough Greek mythology to appreciate these Greek mythology gags.
  • Describing your backstory to the bard.
  • Fishing minigames.
  • Getting the voice actor to learn Blender so you can finally pet the other two heads.
  • How people use "literally" these days.
  • How "really" used to mean "actually" and "very" meant "truly" but people started using them in hyperbole and now it's just an intensifier.
  • Sarcasm as a driver of linguistic change.
  • Covering food with gasoline and setting it on fire.
  • How the little plastic clip influences the bread's flavor.
  • Gasoline clams.
  • Covering a bagged loaf of bread in gasoline and setting it on fire and a loaf of perfect toast emerges.
  • Remembering that you were going to say something about the bag clip thing.
  • Making gasoline toast when gas prices were negative and getting your toast for free.
  • The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.
  • Going to a web site about bag clips and not seeing anything with a spring in it.
  • Soaking your fish in lye until it becomes a delicacy.
  • Dishwasher salmon.
  • How every dishwasher is at the perfect temperature to cook salmon.
  • Trying to cook salmon in your dishwasher because you're not a serious dude yet.
  • Cooking a salmon in dishwashers around the world.
  • Going on the internet and telling lies about salmon preparation.
  • Lutefisk, and specifically how somebody invented Lutefisk.
  • The gravest of apologies to anyone currently eating dishwasher salmon.
  • The third time Jim went to jail for an idea originating on this podcast.
  • Cleopatra's temporal proximity to Pizza Hut.
  • Time and pizza being flat circles.
  • A quote-shaped hole in this conversation that you have the chance to fill.
  • Whether a hole in the ground that a wheelbarrow goes through counts as a subway.
  • Impressing your Corgi with facts about London.
  • The Game (mind game)
  • A game you can't stop playing, according to the rules.
  • How to win The Game (mind game)
  • Whether it's a game if you can't choose not to play.
  • People explaining The Game to you over and over again in hopes that you'll become as angry as they are that you just lost the game.
  • The sort of thing that passed for cool in board games from before 1990.
  • Video games with hexagons in them.
  • Arguing about the best five of something.
  • The worst five forbs.
  • Coating the hillside with six inch hemispheres of itching hairs.
  • A forb that is always full of doves, which is bad somehow.
  • The Angry Video Game Nerd except it's a plant nerd being angry about plants.
  • The bottom five letters of the alphabet.
  • The sequel to lowercase b.
  • Taking the q out of queen so it's spelled ueen. (But still pronounced "queen.")
  • Updating the alphabet to get rid of c k s w and q.
  • British people always dropping the t even though they supposedly love it.
  • Revising English spelling so that every word is just spelled "a" but each word has a unique font size.
  • Registering google.com except instead of two os it's the "oo" ligature.
  • The origin of uppercase.
  • Explaining to the clerk at the DMV that your name is Chris except the C is illuminated.

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Lords:

Topics:

  • Why the game Hades is great
  • People who get upset about the use of the word "literally" often say stuff like "you don't mean literally, you mean figuratively!", even though the use they're complaining about very obviously does not mean figuratively
  • Gasoline toast
  • Ville asks "Oxford University was founded 200 years before the Aztec Empire and the subway in London began operation during the American Civil War. Either someone's messing with the timeline or we all have a very askew picture of how history's supposed to be laid out."
  • The Game (the one Wikipedia helpfully disambiguates as "The Game (mind game)") is not very well designed
  • The Best Five Plants

Microtopics:

  • Writing your title in lowercase so that you know it's not part of your name.
  • Taking one look at a game and saying "this is a Chris game."
  • Hades.
  • A video game set in a Mike Mignola painting.
  • Game development legerdemain.
  • Pressing left trigger to pet Cerberus.
  • Voice acting in video games.
  • Needing to change a voice line and having to splice together existing lines because you're never going to see the actor again.
  • Needing to generalize a voice acted tutorial saying "press the A button" and just cutting out the word A.
  • Doing your best impression of the Afro Samurai and Samuel L Jackson angrily knocks at the door dressed as the Afro Samurai.
  • Knowing enough Greek mythology to appreciate these Greek mythology gags.
  • Describing your backstory to the bard.
  • Fishing minigames.
  • Getting the voice actor to learn Blender so you can finally pet the other two heads.
  • How people use "literally" these days.
  • How "really" used to mean "actually" and "very" meant "truly" but people started using them in hyperbole and now it's just an intensifier.
  • Sarcasm as a driver of linguistic change.
  • Covering food with gasoline and setting it on fire.
  • How the little plastic clip influences the bread's flavor.
  • Gasoline clams.
  • Covering a bagged loaf of bread in gasoline and setting it on fire and a loaf of perfect toast emerges.
  • Remembering that you were going to say something about the bag clip thing.
  • Making gasoline toast when gas prices were negative and getting your toast for free.
  • The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.
  • Going to a web site about bag clips and not seeing anything with a spring in it.
  • Soaking your fish in lye until it becomes a delicacy.
  • Dishwasher salmon.
  • How every dishwasher is at the perfect temperature to cook salmon.
  • Trying to cook salmon in your dishwasher because you're not a serious dude yet.
  • Cooking a salmon in dishwashers around the world.
  • Going on the internet and telling lies about salmon preparation.
  • Lutefisk, and specifically how somebody invented Lutefisk.
  • The gravest of apologies to anyone currently eating dishwasher salmon.
  • The third time Jim went to jail for an idea originating on this podcast.
  • Cleopatra's temporal proximity to Pizza Hut.
  • Time and pizza being flat circles.
  • A quote-shaped hole in this conversation that you have the chance to fill.
  • Whether a hole in the ground that a wheelbarrow goes through counts as a subway.
  • Impressing your Corgi with facts about London.
  • The Game (mind game)
  • A game you can't stop playing, according to the rules.
  • How to win The Game (mind game)
  • Whether it's a game if you can't choose not to play.
  • People explaining The Game to you over and over again in hopes that you'll become as angry as they are that you just lost the game.
  • The sort of thing that passed for cool in board games from before 1990.
  • Video games with hexagons in them.
  • Arguing about the best five of something.
  • The worst five forbs.
  • Coating the hillside with six inch hemispheres of itching hairs.
  • A forb that is always full of doves, which is bad somehow.
  • The Angry Video Game Nerd except it's a plant nerd being angry about plants.
  • The bottom five letters of the alphabet.
  • The sequel to lowercase b.
  • Taking the q out of queen so it's spelled ueen. (But still pronounced "queen.")
  • Updating the alphabet to get rid of c k s w and q.
  • British people always dropping the t even though they supposedly love it.
  • Revising English spelling so that every word is just spelled "a" but each word has a unique font size.
  • Registering google.com except instead of two os it's the "oo" ligature.
  • The origin of uppercase.
  • Explaining to the clerk at the DMV that your name is Chris except the C is illuminated.

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