web02.fireside.fm Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:01:30 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Nick” https://topiclords.com/tags/nick Mon, 18 Dec 2023 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 217. Rotate Your Plate Breakage https://topiclords.com/rotate-your-plate-breakage ebe5bfca-44f2-4c81-81d1-325e26746fed Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Maxx and Nick. We discuss Puzzmo, tableware rotation strategy, Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, and "It Was A Coffin That Sang," by Olena Davis 1:07:00 yes Lords: * Maxx * Nick Topics: * Puzzmo * I'm worried about my tableware rotation strategy * Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigaldi-Nanna's_museum * It Was A Coffin That Sang, by Olena Davis * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/xBLG36yN.png Microtopics: * Instead of giving someone a business card, stamping your information on them so they have to call you before they take a shower. * Where's George? * George isn't here. George was never here. * Canadians looking forward to when they can walk around with King Charles' face in their pocket. * Giving the barista a coupla chucks for a cup of coffee. * Money with RadarSat on it. * inaturalist dot org. * Taking a photo of a weird plant with a weird seed pod. * The fantasy of collecting information. * The game where you try to name every street in San Francisco. * Running all the streets in your city over the course of a decade. * Games Genie. * Lexicographic Ordering and Time Travel. * A sanctioned topic. (It's on the list.) * Wario Ware presenting you with a full sized crossword and giving you six seconds to solve it. * A fun little histogram. * Finally implementing the letter T. * Doing the crossword on paper and making your daughter enter your answers into the app. * Will Shortz coming out of his orb to carry out a hit on a competing puzzle. * Fugue Orbs. * Comparing the interface design of Connections and Red Herring. * Things Relating to Wonder Woman. * Extremely well SEO'd pestilences. * Arranging your dinner plates in a stack vs. in a queue. * Using all your plates evenly so they all break at the same time. * Rotating the Stock. * The dangers of Low-Sodium Perpetual Stew. * Default plates from the food service factory. * Airplane boarding algorithms and how to convince everyone in the terminal to follow yours. * Plates that are made for using. * A whole Jefferson, in your Republic dollars. * The urge to queue. * Lanesplitting your backpack. * History: it's a lot older than we think * Ancient cash registers. * Pranksters organizing the topic bucket. * How many museums deep are we? * The human wife. * Efficient.. Successful. Human. * Top five lists of your life. * How small a flavoring agent has to be to be considered a spice. * A twelve foot tall statue of either Zeus or Poseidon. * Myth- and Nationhood- Making. * A museum where you can feel wood cut with various tools. * Hearing about a cool metalworking museum but fixating on how the bathroom works. * Cool Bathroom Ghost. * The toilet commenting on your performance. * Piping bookshop noises into your bathroom. * Robert Stack's Solved Mysteries. * Being sad and trying to have a good sadness. * Michael Brough talking about his design process. * Fun exercise vs. shitty boring exercise. * What to do about the world ending. * Driving in circles around the McDonald's drive-thru ordering more and more coffee until they catch on. * Telling a joke on Twitter and an archaeologist getting it 1000 years from now. * The world's oldest joke. * A fart joke from 1900 BCE. * Reconstructive historical linguistics. * The linguistics of swearing and taboo. * Eater of bees. * Top five stanzas. Lords:

  • Maxx
  • Nick

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Instead of giving someone a business card, stamping your information on them so they have to call you before they take a shower.
  • Where's George?
  • George isn't here. George was never here.
  • Canadians looking forward to when they can walk around with King Charles' face in their pocket.
  • Giving the barista a coupla chucks for a cup of coffee.
  • Money with RadarSat on it.
  • inaturalist dot org.
  • Taking a photo of a weird plant with a weird seed pod.
  • The fantasy of collecting information.
  • The game where you try to name every street in San Francisco.
  • Running all the streets in your city over the course of a decade.
  • Games Genie.
  • Lexicographic Ordering and Time Travel.
  • A sanctioned topic. (It's on the list.)
  • Wario Ware presenting you with a full sized crossword and giving you six seconds to solve it.
  • A fun little histogram.
  • Finally implementing the letter T.
  • Doing the crossword on paper and making your daughter enter your answers into the app.
  • Will Shortz coming out of his orb to carry out a hit on a competing puzzle.
  • Fugue Orbs.
  • Comparing the interface design of Connections and Red Herring.
  • Things Relating to Wonder Woman.
  • Extremely well SEO'd pestilences.
  • Arranging your dinner plates in a stack vs. in a queue.
  • Using all your plates evenly so they all break at the same time.
  • Rotating the Stock.
  • The dangers of Low-Sodium Perpetual Stew.
  • Default plates from the food service factory.
  • Airplane boarding algorithms and how to convince everyone in the terminal to follow yours.
  • Plates that are made for using.
  • A whole Jefferson, in your Republic dollars.
  • The urge to queue.
  • Lanesplitting your backpack.
  • History: it's a lot older than we think
  • Ancient cash registers.
  • Pranksters organizing the topic bucket.
  • How many museums deep are we?
  • The human wife.
  • Efficient.. Successful. Human.
  • Top five lists of your life.
  • How small a flavoring agent has to be to be considered a spice.
  • A twelve foot tall statue of either Zeus or Poseidon.
  • Myth- and Nationhood- Making.
  • A museum where you can feel wood cut with various tools.
  • Hearing about a cool metalworking museum but fixating on how the bathroom works.
  • Cool Bathroom Ghost.
  • The toilet commenting on your performance.
  • Piping bookshop noises into your bathroom.
  • Robert Stack's Solved Mysteries.
  • Being sad and trying to have a good sadness.
  • Michael Brough talking about his design process.
  • Fun exercise vs. shitty boring exercise.
  • What to do about the world ending.
  • Driving in circles around the McDonald's drive-thru ordering more and more coffee until they catch on.
  • Telling a joke on Twitter and an archaeologist getting it 1000 years from now.
  • The world's oldest joke.
  • A fart joke from 1900 BCE.
  • Reconstructive historical linguistics.
  • The linguistics of swearing and taboo.
  • Eater of bees.
  • Top five stanzas.

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  • Maxx
  • Nick

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Instead of giving someone a business card, stamping your information on them so they have to call you before they take a shower.
  • Where's George?
  • George isn't here. George was never here.
  • Canadians looking forward to when they can walk around with King Charles' face in their pocket.
  • Giving the barista a coupla chucks for a cup of coffee.
  • Money with RadarSat on it.
  • inaturalist dot org.
  • Taking a photo of a weird plant with a weird seed pod.
  • The fantasy of collecting information.
  • The game where you try to name every street in San Francisco.
  • Running all the streets in your city over the course of a decade.
  • Games Genie.
  • Lexicographic Ordering and Time Travel.
  • A sanctioned topic. (It's on the list.)
  • Wario Ware presenting you with a full sized crossword and giving you six seconds to solve it.
  • A fun little histogram.
  • Finally implementing the letter T.
  • Doing the crossword on paper and making your daughter enter your answers into the app.
  • Will Shortz coming out of his orb to carry out a hit on a competing puzzle.
  • Fugue Orbs.
  • Comparing the interface design of Connections and Red Herring.
  • Things Relating to Wonder Woman.
  • Extremely well SEO'd pestilences.
  • Arranging your dinner plates in a stack vs. in a queue.
  • Using all your plates evenly so they all break at the same time.
  • Rotating the Stock.
  • The dangers of Low-Sodium Perpetual Stew.
  • Default plates from the food service factory.
  • Airplane boarding algorithms and how to convince everyone in the terminal to follow yours.
  • Plates that are made for using.
  • A whole Jefferson, in your Republic dollars.
  • The urge to queue.
  • Lanesplitting your backpack.
  • History: it's a lot older than we think
  • Ancient cash registers.
  • Pranksters organizing the topic bucket.
  • How many museums deep are we?
  • The human wife.
  • Efficient.. Successful. Human.
  • Top five lists of your life.
  • How small a flavoring agent has to be to be considered a spice.
  • A twelve foot tall statue of either Zeus or Poseidon.
  • Myth- and Nationhood- Making.
  • A museum where you can feel wood cut with various tools.
  • Hearing about a cool metalworking museum but fixating on how the bathroom works.
  • Cool Bathroom Ghost.
  • The toilet commenting on your performance.
  • Piping bookshop noises into your bathroom.
  • Robert Stack's Solved Mysteries.
  • Being sad and trying to have a good sadness.
  • Michael Brough talking about his design process.
  • Fun exercise vs. shitty boring exercise.
  • What to do about the world ending.
  • Driving in circles around the McDonald's drive-thru ordering more and more coffee until they catch on.
  • Telling a joke on Twitter and an archaeologist getting it 1000 years from now.
  • The world's oldest joke.
  • A fart joke from 1900 BCE.
  • Reconstructive historical linguistics.
  • The linguistics of swearing and taboo.
  • Eater of bees.
  • Top five stanzas.

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]]> 101. Flatty the Flat Globe https://topiclords.com/flatty-the-flat-globe a5402c41-6c5e-46bf-a6dd-43cd456b898f Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Nick and Greg. We discuss anthropomorphized inanimate objects, Quaker names, why car doors get shitty shut, Go West - Call Me, what's on the grill if you're "grillin up some 'good boys,'" and overly complicated navel-gazing plots in video games. 1:04:23 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Nick * https://twitter.com/NickPancakes * Greg * https://twitter.com/simgreed * https://store.steampowered.com/app/945490/LittleSquareThings/ Topics: * Anthropomorphized inanimate objects * Quaker Names * https://zeugmalitotes.tumblr.com/post/656465316855119872/fishpilled-these-guys-were-onto-something-i-think * Why do car doors get Shitty Shut * Go West - Call Me * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV0ugZumyJU * What's on the grill if you're "grillin up some 'good boys'" * Overly complicated navel-gazing plots in video games, especially those that absolutely do not need plots Microtopics: * Completing the set of Duckfeed guests. * Health care simulation. * The moth having himself a journey. * Hydrodynamics of the bloodstream. * Little Square Things. * Filling your life with media about anthropomorphized inanimate objects. * Whether Data needs hair. * Giving your shiny yellow skin for legal reasons. * A talking garage that is hungry for cars. * Does that anthropomorphic talking chair even eat ass? * A talking map of the United States. * Whether someone already mentioned the talking photo booth. * Clocky the talking map. * The "marry it" joke. * Cortana receiving your one-star review of trying to rename this folder. * Preserved Fish. * Morris Morris, Jr. * Experience Burt Merrick. * Preserved Fish writing his own Wikipedia page. * Signing in to leave a flower. * Leaving a Blingee on your ancestor's grave. * A door that is shut but it's not flush with the doorway and the "door ajar" alarm goes off. * A car upgrade where if you partially close the door it closes it the rest of the way for you. * Why don't they make two planes out of the black box material, one on top of the other. * A car door that is in many respects shut. * Go back to sleep and wake up properly, dipshit. * Trying to make Shitty Shut happen with Gen Z by getting on TikTok and using a filter that makes you look young and doing meme dances. * Teaching your three year old to call it "shitty shut" and when grownups tell him he shouldn't use the word "shitty," whispering from the bushes "yes you should!" * Euphemism withdrawal. * Steadfastly refusing to swear but still calling it a shitpost because that's what you call it. * The clip art dude sailing across the screen. * Doing one dance and your shadow doing a slightly different dance. * Reshooting a scene but keeping the same shadows as before. * Pop quiz: sideburn on only one side of the face, or slept on a greasy bench? * An entertaining slow watch. * A fire hydrant made of a pie tin and aluminum foil. * Singing into a fan. * Everybody realizing that there is someone on the ceiling. * The Gentle Exorcist. * A sheriff labeled "boy." * A drug store full of a band. * The additional challenge of a mechanical bull mounted upside down on the ceiling. * Figuring out how to do a special effects shot for a story moment and then deciding to put the effect in every other shot regardless of whether it makes sense. * Watching a 40 year old music video and then tracking down the director and asking if you win a prize for being the first to notice a specific joke. * The falling yellow liquid spilling forth within the billiards bar. * Go low, Ken and sons. * Whether people say that they have some "bad" "boys" on the "grill," why don't you "pop" on "over." * The thing where you carve a hot dog into an octopus shape. * A hot dog that is too polite to burst if you put it in the microwave. * Why every dog is a "good boy" but none of them are great. * The Go West Music Video Cinematic Universe. * Bad boys who are also bad dancers. * The Ultimate Good Boy. * Running out the time rewind potion. * A puzzle game with story except for the enormous lore dump at the end. * Bob's Game. * Being really into the story of the development of Bob's Game except for all the pain and human suffering. * ARGeez. * Renaming your game to "OK" so nobody can search for it. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Completing the set of Duckfeed guests.
  • Health care simulation.
  • The moth having himself a journey.
  • Hydrodynamics of the bloodstream.
  • Little Square Things.
  • Filling your life with media about anthropomorphized inanimate objects.
  • Whether Data needs hair.
  • Giving your shiny yellow skin for legal reasons.
  • A talking garage that is hungry for cars.
  • Does that anthropomorphic talking chair even eat ass?
  • A talking map of the United States.
  • Whether someone already mentioned the talking photo booth.
  • Clocky the talking map.
  • The "marry it" joke.
  • Cortana receiving your one-star review of trying to rename this folder.
  • Preserved Fish.
  • Morris Morris, Jr.
  • Experience Burt Merrick.
  • Preserved Fish writing his own Wikipedia page.
  • Signing in to leave a flower.
  • Leaving a Blingee on your ancestor's grave.
  • A door that is shut but it's not flush with the doorway and the "door ajar" alarm goes off.
  • A car upgrade where if you partially close the door it closes it the rest of the way for you.
  • Why don't they make two planes out of the black box material, one on top of the other.
  • A car door that is in many respects shut.
  • Go back to sleep and wake up properly, dipshit.
  • Trying to make Shitty Shut happen with Gen Z by getting on TikTok and using a filter that makes you look young and doing meme dances.
  • Teaching your three year old to call it "shitty shut" and when grownups tell him he shouldn't use the word "shitty," whispering from the bushes "yes you should!"
  • Euphemism withdrawal.
  • Steadfastly refusing to swear but still calling it a shitpost because that's what you call it.
  • The clip art dude sailing across the screen.
  • Doing one dance and your shadow doing a slightly different dance.
  • Reshooting a scene but keeping the same shadows as before.
  • Pop quiz: sideburn on only one side of the face, or slept on a greasy bench?
  • An entertaining slow watch.
  • A fire hydrant made of a pie tin and aluminum foil.
  • Singing into a fan.
  • Everybody realizing that there is someone on the ceiling.
  • The Gentle Exorcist.
  • A sheriff labeled "boy."
  • A drug store full of a band.
  • The additional challenge of a mechanical bull mounted upside down on the ceiling.
  • Figuring out how to do a special effects shot for a story moment and then deciding to put the effect in every other shot regardless of whether it makes sense.
  • Watching a 40 year old music video and then tracking down the director and asking if you win a prize for being the first to notice a specific joke.
  • The falling yellow liquid spilling forth within the billiards bar.
  • Go low, Ken and sons.
  • Whether people say that they have some "bad" "boys" on the "grill," why don't you "pop" on "over."
  • The thing where you carve a hot dog into an octopus shape.
  • A hot dog that is too polite to burst if you put it in the microwave.
  • Why every dog is a "good boy" but none of them are great.
  • The Go West Music Video Cinematic Universe.
  • Bad boys who are also bad dancers.
  • The Ultimate Good Boy.
  • Running out the time rewind potion.
  • A puzzle game with story except for the enormous lore dump at the end.
  • Bob's Game.
  • Being really into the story of the development of Bob's Game except for all the pain and human suffering.
  • ARGeez.
  • Renaming your game to "OK" so nobody can search for it.

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Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Completing the set of Duckfeed guests.
  • Health care simulation.
  • The moth having himself a journey.
  • Hydrodynamics of the bloodstream.
  • Little Square Things.
  • Filling your life with media about anthropomorphized inanimate objects.
  • Whether Data needs hair.
  • Giving your shiny yellow skin for legal reasons.
  • A talking garage that is hungry for cars.
  • Does that anthropomorphic talking chair even eat ass?
  • A talking map of the United States.
  • Whether someone already mentioned the talking photo booth.
  • Clocky the talking map.
  • The "marry it" joke.
  • Cortana receiving your one-star review of trying to rename this folder.
  • Preserved Fish.
  • Morris Morris, Jr.
  • Experience Burt Merrick.
  • Preserved Fish writing his own Wikipedia page.
  • Signing in to leave a flower.
  • Leaving a Blingee on your ancestor's grave.
  • A door that is shut but it's not flush with the doorway and the "door ajar" alarm goes off.
  • A car upgrade where if you partially close the door it closes it the rest of the way for you.
  • Why don't they make two planes out of the black box material, one on top of the other.
  • A car door that is in many respects shut.
  • Go back to sleep and wake up properly, dipshit.
  • Trying to make Shitty Shut happen with Gen Z by getting on TikTok and using a filter that makes you look young and doing meme dances.
  • Teaching your three year old to call it "shitty shut" and when grownups tell him he shouldn't use the word "shitty," whispering from the bushes "yes you should!"
  • Euphemism withdrawal.
  • Steadfastly refusing to swear but still calling it a shitpost because that's what you call it.
  • The clip art dude sailing across the screen.
  • Doing one dance and your shadow doing a slightly different dance.
  • Reshooting a scene but keeping the same shadows as before.
  • Pop quiz: sideburn on only one side of the face, or slept on a greasy bench?
  • An entertaining slow watch.
  • A fire hydrant made of a pie tin and aluminum foil.
  • Singing into a fan.
  • Everybody realizing that there is someone on the ceiling.
  • The Gentle Exorcist.
  • A sheriff labeled "boy."
  • A drug store full of a band.
  • The additional challenge of a mechanical bull mounted upside down on the ceiling.
  • Figuring out how to do a special effects shot for a story moment and then deciding to put the effect in every other shot regardless of whether it makes sense.
  • Watching a 40 year old music video and then tracking down the director and asking if you win a prize for being the first to notice a specific joke.
  • The falling yellow liquid spilling forth within the billiards bar.
  • Go low, Ken and sons.
  • Whether people say that they have some "bad" "boys" on the "grill," why don't you "pop" on "over."
  • The thing where you carve a hot dog into an octopus shape.
  • A hot dog that is too polite to burst if you put it in the microwave.
  • Why every dog is a "good boy" but none of them are great.
  • The Go West Music Video Cinematic Universe.
  • Bad boys who are also bad dancers.
  • The Ultimate Good Boy.
  • Running out the time rewind potion.
  • A puzzle game with story except for the enormous lore dump at the end.
  • Bob's Game.
  • Being really into the story of the development of Bob's Game except for all the pain and human suffering.
  • ARGeez.
  • Renaming your game to "OK" so nobody can search for it.

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]]> 45. Remember to Pronounce the Apostrophe https://topiclords.com/remember-to-pronounce-the-apostrophe 1c9cfd57-bd96-46e1-ad6b-fdfb36abbe03 Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: John B and Nick. We discuss micro game jams, human knowledge as grist for comedy, Roblox as the most popular game platform, things unexpectedly named after people, becoming a film nerd, and Barkley 2. 1:03:14 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * John B is @YouOldSoAndSo everywhere. * 20th President of the United States James Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem: https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-james-a-garfields-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem * Khan Academy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EINpkcphsPQ * Nick is @NickPancakes on Twitter. Topics: * Micro game jams, Weekend of ZZT * WarioWare D.I.Y. archive: https://archive.org/details/WarioWareDIYWarehouse * Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer (a.k.a. SMZ3): https://samus.link/ * SGDQ2019 co-op speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uujsW7yFkZU * The primary motivation for information acquisition being grist for making and understanding jokes * Ken Jennings' books about knowledge acquisition and comedy: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79195.Brainiac * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373629-planet-funny * These two contain the sum of all human knowledge: * https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1745/8107/products/IMGE19711400x.JPG?v=1571480346 * https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/BillyJoelStormFront.jpg * Roblox as the most popular game platform * Downloading Wikipedia: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-download-wikipedia/ * All roads lead to "philosophy" on Wikipedia: https://flowingdata.com/2011/06/08/all-roads-lead-to-philosophy-on-wikipedia/ * Adopt Me!, one of the most popular games created in Roblox: https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/DreamCraft/AdoptMe! * I Wanna Maker: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114940/IWannaMaker/ * Quill points out: this list of things unexpectedly named after people: https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/ * "Widenius has three children – My, Max, and Maria – who inspired the names for MySQL, MaxDB and the MySQL-Max distribution, and MariaDB" https://twitter.com/davidjustodavid/status/1288903463422722049 * Becoming a film nerd * Turner Classic Movies, from the same company that brings you Mortal Kombat: http://www.tcm.com/ * They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? - 1,000 Greatest Films, compiled using a Metacritic-like approach of looking at other people's lists: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm * Also, their 1,000 Noir Films list: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm * The Narrow Margin (1952): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044954/ * The Tall Target (1951): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044105/ * A good starting list for train movies, by no means exhaustive or definitive: https://allgiftsconsidered.com/the-31-best-train-movies-of-all-time/ * List of films on Netflix from the year 2000 and before, total count at the time of search approx. 250, compared to around 3,500 for 2001-2020 : https://reelgood.com/movies/source/netflix?filter-yearend=2000 * Kanopy, a movie streaming service you may be able to use through your local library: https://www.kanopy.com/ * Qwikster, b. 2011 d. 2011: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/5-reasons-why-qwikster-is-now-deadster/246465/ * 1939, Hollywood's "annus mirabilis": https://ew.com/movies/2019/12/22/1939-hollywoods-greatest-year/ * 1957 in Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957infilm * Patton Oswalt's book about becoming a film nerd, Silver Screen Fiend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571109-silver-screen-fiend * CBoyardee, Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden, and the failure of Barkley 2. * CBoyardee's Dilbert trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rGUlVvVJ4 * www.nfl.com: Just check it out. * Barkley, Shut Up and Jam Gaiden: https://www.talesofgames.com/relatedgame/barkley-shut-up-jam-gaiden/ * Hardcore Gaming 101 article about the game: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/barkley-shut-up-and-jam-gaiden/ * Barkley 2 Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/talesofgames/barkley-2-an-rpg-sequel-to-barkley-shut-up-and-jam * Barkley 2 PAX Prime 2015 interview for PC Gamer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHSyDqIyYE * A longer look at Barkley 2 from that same PAX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni2hceqpqHA * Barkley 2 - Janky Demo: https://talesofgames.itch.io/barkley-2 * The gun's of Barkley 2: https://bowelflies.tumblr.com/post/185855518364/the-magical-realms-of-t%C3%ADr-na-n%C3%B3g-escape-from * Dingletopia, Gortarius' game that actually came out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1286140/DingletopiaNationUnderSiegebyOrcs/ * Not mentioned in the show, but CBoyardee also did some writing on the 2019 video game Katana ZERO: https://www.katanazero.com/ * Cyberdwarf Body Pillow (Warning: Tsundere): https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/767094-dakimakura-body-pillow Microtopics: * What the insulin pod had to say. * An extremely sexy insulin pod telegraphing its own death. * Mourning many insulin pods at a rapid clip. * President Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem. * Making your first ZZT game. * Doing fetch quest after fetch quest until two AIs fall in love and a nuclear reactor explodes. * Attempts to archive the user-uploaded games before the Wario Ware DIY servers get shut down. * The only Meat Boy game to come out for the Wii. * A demon that can only exist on sand and is formed of the sand. * ShareCart, the save format shared between many different games so you can save in one game and load in another. * How much Dr. Sbaitso likes you and how much his henchmen like you. * Spending an afternoon trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes. * Flipping random bits to see what comes out there other end. * Generating a hash of a large file twice in a row and getting two different results. * Seeing an exciting glitch in Super Mario 64 and nobody being able to replicate it until someone tries flipping bits in RAM like a solar ray might. * The randomizer hack that combines Link to the Past and Super Metroid into a single game. * Thirty people all making different games and hoping something interesting comes from mashing them together. * Why the heck everyone is suddenly talking about cake. * The primary use for your understanding of the world being making and understanding comedy. * Your filters going to sleep first, so you make weirder connections when you're half-asleep. * How everyone would know all the world capitals if you had also been obsessed with them as a child. * Spending 10% of your brain on how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism and the rest on the lyrics to "We Didn't Start The Fire." * How to download Wikipedia so you can give your son Wikipedia before you give him internet access. * How Roblox is a much more popular game platform than any you've ever touched. * Not knowing how to make games that appeal to children, but knowing how to make games that remind 40 year olds of when they were children. * The incredibly accurate clone of Counterstrike that some rando made inside of Roblox. * Roblox users calling platforming levels "Obbies." * The window in your life where you don't talk to children. * Watching a four year old play Minecraft and they're just breaking and replacing the same block over and over to see if it happens the same way every time. * A Roblox level that is just a series of waterslides. * "I Wanna Maker," for making your own masocore platformers. * How PageRank is named after Larry Page and Debian is named after Deb and Ian. * How Price Club is named after Sol Price and Main St. in San Fransisco is named after Charles Main. * Jim trying to figure out when humans first called a street Main St. and giving up. * "Taco Bell" appropriating respectfully because it respects the romance language adjective-noun order. * Reading about aptronyms in Marilyn vos Savant's column. * Sending your octuplets to a carnival owned by Larry Kidkill. * The late NASCAR racer Dick Trickle. * Changing our names to Fuck and starting a band called The Fucks and that's it, that's the tweet. * Unemployment as a prerequisite for starting any hobby as an adult. * Film Noir figuring out how to tell adult stories after the Hayes Code was enacted. * The constraints of being set on a train leading to compelling storytelling. * The train movie as a slightly less constrained bottle episode. * Whether they allow trains on the Internet Movie Car Database. * Yelling at librarians until morale improved. * Libraries often offering ebooks and movie streaming. * Netflix streaming having a limited selection of movies but the disc mailing service having every DVD, but it takes two or three days to get it. * Filmmakers being huge nerds and that's why they keep making movies about making movies. * 1939 and 1957 in filmmaking. * The history of Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden. * Destroying Manhattan by performing a Chaos Dunk. * Setting your cyberpunk universe after basketball has been outlawed. * The dangers of running a successful Kickstarter. * The game design conceit that there should be way too much of everything. * Bizarre unthinkable development processes that somehow in the end produce a shippable game. * A 397-page forum thread of people asking "Where is Barkley 2?" * The second concrete product of the Barkley 2 Kickstarter, after the CyberDwarf body pillow. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • What the insulin pod had to say.
  • An extremely sexy insulin pod telegraphing its own death.
  • Mourning many insulin pods at a rapid clip.
  • President Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
  • Making your first ZZT game.
  • Doing fetch quest after fetch quest until two AIs fall in love and a nuclear reactor explodes.
  • Attempts to archive the user-uploaded games before the Wario Ware DIY servers get shut down.
  • The only Meat Boy game to come out for the Wii.
  • A demon that can only exist on sand and is formed of the sand.
  • ShareCart, the save format shared between many different games so you can save in one game and load in another.
  • How much Dr. Sbaitso likes you and how much his henchmen like you.
  • Spending an afternoon trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes.
  • Flipping random bits to see what comes out there other end.
  • Generating a hash of a large file twice in a row and getting two different results.
  • Seeing an exciting glitch in Super Mario 64 and nobody being able to replicate it until someone tries flipping bits in RAM like a solar ray might.
  • The randomizer hack that combines Link to the Past and Super Metroid into a single game.
  • Thirty people all making different games and hoping something interesting comes from mashing them together.
  • Why the heck everyone is suddenly talking about cake.
  • The primary use for your understanding of the world being making and understanding comedy.
  • Your filters going to sleep first, so you make weirder connections when you're half-asleep.
  • How everyone would know all the world capitals if you had also been obsessed with them as a child.
  • Spending 10% of your brain on how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism and the rest on the lyrics to "We Didn't Start The Fire."
  • How to download Wikipedia so you can give your son Wikipedia before you give him internet access.
  • How Roblox is a much more popular game platform than any you've ever touched.
  • Not knowing how to make games that appeal to children, but knowing how to make games that remind 40 year olds of when they were children.
  • The incredibly accurate clone of Counterstrike that some rando made inside of Roblox.
  • Roblox users calling platforming levels "Obbies."
  • The window in your life where you don't talk to children.
  • Watching a four year old play Minecraft and they're just breaking and replacing the same block over and over to see if it happens the same way every time.
  • A Roblox level that is just a series of waterslides.
  • "I Wanna Maker," for making your own masocore platformers.
  • How PageRank is named after Larry Page and Debian is named after Deb and Ian.
  • How Price Club is named after Sol Price and Main St. in San Fransisco is named after Charles Main.
  • Jim trying to figure out when humans first called a street Main St. and giving up.
  • "Taco Bell" appropriating respectfully because it respects the romance language adjective-noun order.
  • Reading about aptronyms in Marilyn vos Savant's column.
  • Sending your octuplets to a carnival owned by Larry Kidkill.
  • The late NASCAR racer Dick Trickle.
  • Changing our names to Fuck and starting a band called The Fucks and that's it, that's the tweet.
  • Unemployment as a prerequisite for starting any hobby as an adult.
  • Film Noir figuring out how to tell adult stories after the Hayes Code was enacted.
  • The constraints of being set on a train leading to compelling storytelling.
  • The train movie as a slightly less constrained bottle episode.
  • Whether they allow trains on the Internet Movie Car Database.
  • Yelling at librarians until morale improved.
  • Libraries often offering ebooks and movie streaming.
  • Netflix streaming having a limited selection of movies but the disc mailing service having every DVD, but it takes two or three days to get it.
  • Filmmakers being huge nerds and that's why they keep making movies about making movies.
  • 1939 and 1957 in filmmaking.
  • The history of Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden.
  • Destroying Manhattan by performing a Chaos Dunk.
  • Setting your cyberpunk universe after basketball has been outlawed.
  • The dangers of running a successful Kickstarter.
  • The game design conceit that there should be way too much of everything.
  • Bizarre unthinkable development processes that somehow in the end produce a shippable game.
  • A 397-page forum thread of people asking "Where is Barkley 2?"
  • The second concrete product of the Barkley 2 Kickstarter, after the CyberDwarf body pillow.

Support Topic Lords

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Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • What the insulin pod had to say.
  • An extremely sexy insulin pod telegraphing its own death.
  • Mourning many insulin pods at a rapid clip.
  • President Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
  • Making your first ZZT game.
  • Doing fetch quest after fetch quest until two AIs fall in love and a nuclear reactor explodes.
  • Attempts to archive the user-uploaded games before the Wario Ware DIY servers get shut down.
  • The only Meat Boy game to come out for the Wii.
  • A demon that can only exist on sand and is formed of the sand.
  • ShareCart, the save format shared between many different games so you can save in one game and load in another.
  • How much Dr. Sbaitso likes you and how much his henchmen like you.
  • Spending an afternoon trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes.
  • Flipping random bits to see what comes out there other end.
  • Generating a hash of a large file twice in a row and getting two different results.
  • Seeing an exciting glitch in Super Mario 64 and nobody being able to replicate it until someone tries flipping bits in RAM like a solar ray might.
  • The randomizer hack that combines Link to the Past and Super Metroid into a single game.
  • Thirty people all making different games and hoping something interesting comes from mashing them together.
  • Why the heck everyone is suddenly talking about cake.
  • The primary use for your understanding of the world being making and understanding comedy.
  • Your filters going to sleep first, so you make weirder connections when you're half-asleep.
  • How everyone would know all the world capitals if you had also been obsessed with them as a child.
  • Spending 10% of your brain on how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism and the rest on the lyrics to "We Didn't Start The Fire."
  • How to download Wikipedia so you can give your son Wikipedia before you give him internet access.
  • How Roblox is a much more popular game platform than any you've ever touched.
  • Not knowing how to make games that appeal to children, but knowing how to make games that remind 40 year olds of when they were children.
  • The incredibly accurate clone of Counterstrike that some rando made inside of Roblox.
  • Roblox users calling platforming levels "Obbies."
  • The window in your life where you don't talk to children.
  • Watching a four year old play Minecraft and they're just breaking and replacing the same block over and over to see if it happens the same way every time.
  • A Roblox level that is just a series of waterslides.
  • "I Wanna Maker," for making your own masocore platformers.
  • How PageRank is named after Larry Page and Debian is named after Deb and Ian.
  • How Price Club is named after Sol Price and Main St. in San Fransisco is named after Charles Main.
  • Jim trying to figure out when humans first called a street Main St. and giving up.
  • "Taco Bell" appropriating respectfully because it respects the romance language adjective-noun order.
  • Reading about aptronyms in Marilyn vos Savant's column.
  • Sending your octuplets to a carnival owned by Larry Kidkill.
  • The late NASCAR racer Dick Trickle.
  • Changing our names to Fuck and starting a band called The Fucks and that's it, that's the tweet.
  • Unemployment as a prerequisite for starting any hobby as an adult.
  • Film Noir figuring out how to tell adult stories after the Hayes Code was enacted.
  • The constraints of being set on a train leading to compelling storytelling.
  • The train movie as a slightly less constrained bottle episode.
  • Whether they allow trains on the Internet Movie Car Database.
  • Yelling at librarians until morale improved.
  • Libraries often offering ebooks and movie streaming.
  • Netflix streaming having a limited selection of movies but the disc mailing service having every DVD, but it takes two or three days to get it.
  • Filmmakers being huge nerds and that's why they keep making movies about making movies.
  • 1939 and 1957 in filmmaking.
  • The history of Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden.
  • Destroying Manhattan by performing a Chaos Dunk.
  • Setting your cyberpunk universe after basketball has been outlawed.
  • The dangers of running a successful Kickstarter.
  • The game design conceit that there should be way too much of everything.
  • Bizarre unthinkable development processes that somehow in the end produce a shippable game.
  • A 397-page forum thread of people asking "Where is Barkley 2?"
  • The second concrete product of the Barkley 2 Kickstarter, after the CyberDwarf body pillow.

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