web01.fireside.fm Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:44:41 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Rimbo” https://topiclords.com/tags/rimbo Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0700 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 47. Santa Barbarella https://topiclords.com/santa-barbarella ad133e0c-219a-446b-93f6-6650e51b1bff Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Chris and Jimmy. We discuss what Obispo means, Starflight, drums you play standing up, tweeting Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass before you dig in, and the failure of CD audio. 58:52 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Chris's album "The Lost Backups" is out now! * https://b-e-e-k.bandcamp.com/ * https://twitter.com/CHRISdelCAMINO * https://www.instagram.com/chrisdelcamino/ * Jimmy is on LinkedIn. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkd3fowcFs * https://open.spotify.com/track/4nHfs2e1bRAeS5JHVa50yh?si=EO2vBDQSrGJ5ov7s5x0Bw Topics: * 22 years later, I am able to answer Rimbo's question he asked me on the way to Wesside '98: "What is an Obispo" * Why "Starflight" is the greatest PC game ever made * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight * Drums that you play standing up (and double-sided drums) * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8XELwxAuw * Bulbous Cretin asks: "Tweeting the contents of Fred Flinstone’s frozen carcass before you dig in" * https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/permafrozen-dinner/604069/ * 16 bits is not enough and destroyed music Microtopics: * Plugging a 21 year old song that you still can't believe you wrote. * Musicians deserving royalties. * The secret fourth guest. * The rolling golden hills driving down the 101. * Knowing all the technical musical terms in Spanish but not knowing how to say "mop." * What would happen to the Cookie Monster if Big Bird was blue. * Whether or not the Topic Lords audience knows about the demo scene. * Whether or not Unreal by Future Crew is the same thing as Unreal Engine by Tim Sweeney. * Demo scenes and then demo parties. * Visiting Montreal and hiding in a high school gym for three days rather than seeing the amazing city with its amazing architecture. * Wanting to hold the Great American Demo Party. * Whether or not you should cover the ice when you hold a huge party in an ice rink. * Assembly 2010 mostly being a big LAN party with the demo scene folks tucked away in the corner. * The sun going down at 11 PM. * Boozembly 2010 taking place in the woods behind Assembly 2010. * Plugging a PC keyboard into your Mac and all the keys work perfectly in Schism Tracker. * Giving up on the Macintosh after decades because Mac hardware and MacOS are terrible now. * A laptop that is so broken that it shuts down every computer on the wifi network you try to connect it to. * Advertising the latest Macbook as having a physical escape key. * Running Ubuntu as an app on Windows. * The secret 16-color CGA mode if you plug in a composite monitor. * Modern nostalgia for the terrible four-color CGA palettes. * Storing an entire universe on a two-sided 360k floppy disk. * Landing on a planet and finding The Ancients and finding enough fuel to get to three stars over. * Stuffing The Ancients into your warp drive because there is no better fuel. * A project where you don't have to worry about bugfixes because if something breaks, the user just runs it again. * The thousands or millions of people out there who would give you money if they knew your product existed. * The market for Frog Fractions-themed N95 masks. * Making a live post to r/tipofmyjoystick asking for the identity of an educational space game during the podcast in hopes that someone replies before we finish recording. * Misremembering which band's drummer plays a snare drum and a tranceaphone. * A drum kit with tom toms so high that you have to jump up to reach them. * Two wildly different drum heads using the same resonation chamber. * Soundproofing a shed by adding 2500 pounds of sheet rock to the walls. * Converting sound pressure waves into heat. * Measuring the frequency response of these egg crates. * Putting squares on the walls having no effect on the sound of your saxophone escaping the room and annoying the people on the other side of the wall. * Walking right up to your wall and speaking and it sounding like you plugged your ears. * Placing yourself in a space by listening to reflections. * Spinning up the Periscope server on Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass so that you can Periscope yourself eating Fred Flintstone. * Making Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass lip-sync to WAP. * Who, exactly, needs to apologize for this topic. * Discovering that humans don't have a gizzard and really wanting a gizzard. * Whether or not a Twinkie is technically meat. * Texas Twinkies. * Wanting to eat 35,000 year old Mammoth meat but it turns into a smelly liquid when you thaw it. * Thousand year eggs not looking a day older than 150. * Which genres CD quality is and isn't good enough for. * Frequency-based MP3 audio being decoded into PCM so it can be sent out of a speaker, and then back into a frequency-based format by your cochlea so it can reach your brain. * The Magic Mushroom PC dot com. * Running timecube.com at the DOS prompt. * Classical music having way too much dynamic range. * Riding the volume knob to not go deaf while listening to the William Tell Overture. * Visible color banding during dark scenes in a movie. * El Camino except it's Del like Del Taco. * What LinkedIn is for. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Plugging a 21 year old song that you still can't believe you wrote.
  • Musicians deserving royalties.
  • The secret fourth guest.
  • The rolling golden hills driving down the 101.
  • Knowing all the technical musical terms in Spanish but not knowing how to say "mop."
  • What would happen to the Cookie Monster if Big Bird was blue.
  • Whether or not the Topic Lords audience knows about the demo scene.
  • Whether or not Unreal by Future Crew is the same thing as Unreal Engine by Tim Sweeney.
  • Demo scenes and then demo parties.
  • Visiting Montreal and hiding in a high school gym for three days rather than seeing the amazing city with its amazing architecture.
  • Wanting to hold the Great American Demo Party.
  • Whether or not you should cover the ice when you hold a huge party in an ice rink.
  • Assembly 2010 mostly being a big LAN party with the demo scene folks tucked away in the corner.
  • The sun going down at 11 PM.
  • Boozembly 2010 taking place in the woods behind Assembly 2010.
  • Plugging a PC keyboard into your Mac and all the keys work perfectly in Schism Tracker.
  • Giving up on the Macintosh after decades because Mac hardware and MacOS are terrible now.
  • A laptop that is so broken that it shuts down every computer on the wifi network you try to connect it to.
  • Advertising the latest Macbook as having a physical escape key.
  • Running Ubuntu as an app on Windows.
  • The secret 16-color CGA mode if you plug in a composite monitor.
  • Modern nostalgia for the terrible four-color CGA palettes.
  • Storing an entire universe on a two-sided 360k floppy disk.
  • Landing on a planet and finding The Ancients and finding enough fuel to get to three stars over.
  • Stuffing The Ancients into your warp drive because there is no better fuel.
  • A project where you don't have to worry about bugfixes because if something breaks, the user just runs it again.
  • The thousands or millions of people out there who would give you money if they knew your product existed.
  • The market for Frog Fractions-themed N95 masks.
  • Making a live post to r/tipofmyjoystick asking for the identity of an educational space game during the podcast in hopes that someone replies before we finish recording.
  • Misremembering which band's drummer plays a snare drum and a tranceaphone.
  • A drum kit with tom toms so high that you have to jump up to reach them.
  • Two wildly different drum heads using the same resonation chamber.
  • Soundproofing a shed by adding 2500 pounds of sheet rock to the walls.
  • Converting sound pressure waves into heat.
  • Measuring the frequency response of these egg crates.
  • Putting squares on the walls having no effect on the sound of your saxophone escaping the room and annoying the people on the other side of the wall.
  • Walking right up to your wall and speaking and it sounding like you plugged your ears.
  • Placing yourself in a space by listening to reflections.
  • Spinning up the Periscope server on Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass so that you can Periscope yourself eating Fred Flintstone.
  • Making Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass lip-sync to WAP.
  • Who, exactly, needs to apologize for this topic.
  • Discovering that humans don't have a gizzard and really wanting a gizzard.
  • Whether or not a Twinkie is technically meat.
  • Texas Twinkies.
  • Wanting to eat 35,000 year old Mammoth meat but it turns into a smelly liquid when you thaw it.
  • Thousand year eggs not looking a day older than 150.
  • Which genres CD quality is and isn't good enough for.
  • Frequency-based MP3 audio being decoded into PCM so it can be sent out of a speaker, and then back into a frequency-based format by your cochlea so it can reach your brain.
  • The Magic Mushroom PC dot com.
  • Running timecube.com at the DOS prompt.
  • Classical music having way too much dynamic range.
  • Riding the volume knob to not go deaf while listening to the William Tell Overture.
  • Visible color banding during dark scenes in a movie.
  • El Camino except it's Del like Del Taco.
  • What LinkedIn is for.

Support Topic Lords

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Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Plugging a 21 year old song that you still can't believe you wrote.
  • Musicians deserving royalties.
  • The secret fourth guest.
  • The rolling golden hills driving down the 101.
  • Knowing all the technical musical terms in Spanish but not knowing how to say "mop."
  • What would happen to the Cookie Monster if Big Bird was blue.
  • Whether or not the Topic Lords audience knows about the demo scene.
  • Whether or not Unreal by Future Crew is the same thing as Unreal Engine by Tim Sweeney.
  • Demo scenes and then demo parties.
  • Visiting Montreal and hiding in a high school gym for three days rather than seeing the amazing city with its amazing architecture.
  • Wanting to hold the Great American Demo Party.
  • Whether or not you should cover the ice when you hold a huge party in an ice rink.
  • Assembly 2010 mostly being a big LAN party with the demo scene folks tucked away in the corner.
  • The sun going down at 11 PM.
  • Boozembly 2010 taking place in the woods behind Assembly 2010.
  • Plugging a PC keyboard into your Mac and all the keys work perfectly in Schism Tracker.
  • Giving up on the Macintosh after decades because Mac hardware and MacOS are terrible now.
  • A laptop that is so broken that it shuts down every computer on the wifi network you try to connect it to.
  • Advertising the latest Macbook as having a physical escape key.
  • Running Ubuntu as an app on Windows.
  • The secret 16-color CGA mode if you plug in a composite monitor.
  • Modern nostalgia for the terrible four-color CGA palettes.
  • Storing an entire universe on a two-sided 360k floppy disk.
  • Landing on a planet and finding The Ancients and finding enough fuel to get to three stars over.
  • Stuffing The Ancients into your warp drive because there is no better fuel.
  • A project where you don't have to worry about bugfixes because if something breaks, the user just runs it again.
  • The thousands or millions of people out there who would give you money if they knew your product existed.
  • The market for Frog Fractions-themed N95 masks.
  • Making a live post to r/tipofmyjoystick asking for the identity of an educational space game during the podcast in hopes that someone replies before we finish recording.
  • Misremembering which band's drummer plays a snare drum and a tranceaphone.
  • A drum kit with tom toms so high that you have to jump up to reach them.
  • Two wildly different drum heads using the same resonation chamber.
  • Soundproofing a shed by adding 2500 pounds of sheet rock to the walls.
  • Converting sound pressure waves into heat.
  • Measuring the frequency response of these egg crates.
  • Putting squares on the walls having no effect on the sound of your saxophone escaping the room and annoying the people on the other side of the wall.
  • Walking right up to your wall and speaking and it sounding like you plugged your ears.
  • Placing yourself in a space by listening to reflections.
  • Spinning up the Periscope server on Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass so that you can Periscope yourself eating Fred Flintstone.
  • Making Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass lip-sync to WAP.
  • Who, exactly, needs to apologize for this topic.
  • Discovering that humans don't have a gizzard and really wanting a gizzard.
  • Whether or not a Twinkie is technically meat.
  • Texas Twinkies.
  • Wanting to eat 35,000 year old Mammoth meat but it turns into a smelly liquid when you thaw it.
  • Thousand year eggs not looking a day older than 150.
  • Which genres CD quality is and isn't good enough for.
  • Frequency-based MP3 audio being decoded into PCM so it can be sent out of a speaker, and then back into a frequency-based format by your cochlea so it can reach your brain.
  • The Magic Mushroom PC dot com.
  • Running timecube.com at the DOS prompt.
  • Classical music having way too much dynamic range.
  • Riding the volume knob to not go deaf while listening to the William Tell Overture.
  • Visible color banding during dark scenes in a movie.
  • El Camino except it's Del like Del Taco.
  • What LinkedIn is for.

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