web02.fireside.fm Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:42:49 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Styger” https://topiclords.com/tags/styger Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -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 303. A System of People Doing Stuff and Being Weirdos https://topiclords.com/a-system-of-people-doing-stuff-and-being-weirdos c514abe3-ee04-4a08-9f5f-3a4fd47bde31 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: JP and Styger. We discuss the nature of Mario vs. Super Mario, Hot Defensive Bee Ball, solving all 25 million 5x5 nonograms, Poem Seen in a Motel Fan by Alberto Blanco, werecreature logistics, and The Ball is Back. 1:06:04 yes Lords: * JP * https://jplebreton.com/ * Styger * https://www.sf.gov/readysf Topics: * Is "Non-Super" Mario an alternate state of consciousness or identity, or merely an alternate physical state? * "Hot defensive bee ball" + bees in general * Solving all 24,976,511 5x5 nonograms * https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram * Poem Seen in a Motel Fan by Alberto Blanco * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/-_x1pv5l.jpg * Werecreature logistics * "The Ball is Back." Discuss. Microtopics: * The World of Video Games * Your favorite granola coming back in stock. * Working to make the world a slightly better place every day. * Weird frustrating tethering. * Levels that are about hauling ass. * Being on the same train as someone for a few stops. * The small version of yourself that you become when you lose your mushroom. * Whether Small Mario has access to all of Super Mario's memories. * What was the authorial intent of Alice growing bigger and smaller. * Whether Small or Big Mario is the original default. * Mario accumulating power and becoming an enormous hulking beast. * Designing a level to support multiple player scales. * Game series that have been both 2D and 3D platformers. * Small Mario eating a mushroom and teleporting into a pocket dimension, swapping in Big Mario. * Japanese hornets in an evolutionary arms race with Japanese honey bees. * Bees forming a tight clump around a hive invader to make them uncomfortably warm. * A baseball sized mass of bees smothering a huge horrible wasp. * Touring beehives and giving seminars about the hot defensive bee ball. * A multi-disciplinary bullshit operation. * Enjoying your job. * The degree to which they waggle. * Bees having a dance-off to determine where to live. * Extending the bee dance language to teach them orbital dynamics so they can find pollen sources in space. * Candy that smells like a bee alarm pheromone. * The NPC in Curse of Monkey Island who explains that merengue is made of eggs. * What they call being "slashdotted" nowadays. * Doing 15 puzzles and taking satisfaction in being 15 puzzles closer to not being able to play this game any more. * Web sites: they shouldn't scale. * Putting every 5x5 nonogram in the Library of Congress. * Humanity dedicating all of its resources to solve every 6x6 nonogram. * The 100 people in the world whose brains are tricked by this kind of fake work. * The most interesting three-digit numbers. * What happens when we run out of nonograms?? * The kayfabe of the community doing every 5x5 nonogram over and over again * A convex mirror, a fisheye, a golden dome. * Taking comfort in the continued existence of observers. * Having all the resources to grow as a person but none of the incentives. * Your little chunk of humanity's future. * Things can get better but also they can get worse. * The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, 60th Anniversary Edition. * The official City Lights typeface. * A dignified serif. * A poem is when you do something interesting with typefaces. * How to distribute your poem that does something interesting with fonts. * Lycanthropy booths and other werewolf accommodations. * It's not a disability but they still accommodate you. * Seasonal Mania. * Humans brains being affected by the sun and moon in ways we don't fully understand. * Hospital intake numbers that correlate with the lunar cycle. * What's the deal with the ball being back? * A flying silver ball that sucks your brains out with a fork. * Doing what you do just because. * The ball: it has to be back. * Watching an 80s horror movie and thinking "surely someone has made a Doom level of this" * Inventing perfectly mirrored silver spheres entirely independently from ray tracers. * Reporting back when you are further along on your Phantasm journey. * Not being on the Internet because you're hanging out with the bees instead. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The World of Video Games
  • Your favorite granola coming back in stock.
  • Working to make the world a slightly better place every day.
  • Weird frustrating tethering.
  • Levels that are about hauling ass.
  • Being on the same train as someone for a few stops.
  • The small version of yourself that you become when you lose your mushroom.
  • Whether Small Mario has access to all of Super Mario's memories.
  • What was the authorial intent of Alice growing bigger and smaller.
  • Whether Small or Big Mario is the original default.
  • Mario accumulating power and becoming an enormous hulking beast.
  • Designing a level to support multiple player scales.
  • Game series that have been both 2D and 3D platformers.
  • Small Mario eating a mushroom and teleporting into a pocket dimension, swapping in Big Mario.
  • Japanese hornets in an evolutionary arms race with Japanese honey bees.
  • Bees forming a tight clump around a hive invader to make them uncomfortably warm.
  • A baseball sized mass of bees smothering a huge horrible wasp.
  • Touring beehives and giving seminars about the hot defensive bee ball.
  • A multi-disciplinary bullshit operation.
  • Enjoying your job.
  • The degree to which they waggle.
  • Bees having a dance-off to determine where to live.
  • Extending the bee dance language to teach them orbital dynamics so they can find pollen sources in space.
  • Candy that smells like a bee alarm pheromone.
  • The NPC in Curse of Monkey Island who explains that merengue is made of eggs.
  • What they call being "slashdotted" nowadays.
  • Doing 15 puzzles and taking satisfaction in being 15 puzzles closer to not being able to play this game any more.
  • Web sites: they shouldn't scale.
  • Putting every 5x5 nonogram in the Library of Congress.
  • Humanity dedicating all of its resources to solve every 6x6 nonogram.
  • The 100 people in the world whose brains are tricked by this kind of fake work.
  • The most interesting three-digit numbers.
  • What happens when we run out of nonograms??
  • The kayfabe of the community doing every 5x5 nonogram over and over again
  • A convex mirror, a fisheye, a golden dome.
  • Taking comfort in the continued existence of observers.
  • Having all the resources to grow as a person but none of the incentives.
  • Your little chunk of humanity's future.
  • Things can get better but also they can get worse.
  • The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, 60th Anniversary Edition.
  • The official City Lights typeface.
  • A dignified serif.
  • A poem is when you do something interesting with typefaces.
  • How to distribute your poem that does something interesting with fonts.
  • Lycanthropy booths and other werewolf accommodations.
  • It's not a disability but they still accommodate you.
  • Seasonal Mania.
  • Humans brains being affected by the sun and moon in ways we don't fully understand.
  • Hospital intake numbers that correlate with the lunar cycle.
  • What's the deal with the ball being back?
  • A flying silver ball that sucks your brains out with a fork.
  • Doing what you do just because.
  • The ball: it has to be back.
  • Watching an 80s horror movie and thinking "surely someone has made a Doom level of this"
  • Inventing perfectly mirrored silver spheres entirely independently from ray tracers.
  • Reporting back when you are further along on your Phantasm journey.
  • Not being on the Internet because you're hanging out with the bees instead.

Support Topic Lords

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • The World of Video Games
  • Your favorite granola coming back in stock.
  • Working to make the world a slightly better place every day.
  • Weird frustrating tethering.
  • Levels that are about hauling ass.
  • Being on the same train as someone for a few stops.
  • The small version of yourself that you become when you lose your mushroom.
  • Whether Small Mario has access to all of Super Mario's memories.
  • What was the authorial intent of Alice growing bigger and smaller.
  • Whether Small or Big Mario is the original default.
  • Mario accumulating power and becoming an enormous hulking beast.
  • Designing a level to support multiple player scales.
  • Game series that have been both 2D and 3D platformers.
  • Small Mario eating a mushroom and teleporting into a pocket dimension, swapping in Big Mario.
  • Japanese hornets in an evolutionary arms race with Japanese honey bees.
  • Bees forming a tight clump around a hive invader to make them uncomfortably warm.
  • A baseball sized mass of bees smothering a huge horrible wasp.
  • Touring beehives and giving seminars about the hot defensive bee ball.
  • A multi-disciplinary bullshit operation.
  • Enjoying your job.
  • The degree to which they waggle.
  • Bees having a dance-off to determine where to live.
  • Extending the bee dance language to teach them orbital dynamics so they can find pollen sources in space.
  • Candy that smells like a bee alarm pheromone.
  • The NPC in Curse of Monkey Island who explains that merengue is made of eggs.
  • What they call being "slashdotted" nowadays.
  • Doing 15 puzzles and taking satisfaction in being 15 puzzles closer to not being able to play this game any more.
  • Web sites: they shouldn't scale.
  • Putting every 5x5 nonogram in the Library of Congress.
  • Humanity dedicating all of its resources to solve every 6x6 nonogram.
  • The 100 people in the world whose brains are tricked by this kind of fake work.
  • The most interesting three-digit numbers.
  • What happens when we run out of nonograms??
  • The kayfabe of the community doing every 5x5 nonogram over and over again
  • A convex mirror, a fisheye, a golden dome.
  • Taking comfort in the continued existence of observers.
  • Having all the resources to grow as a person but none of the incentives.
  • Your little chunk of humanity's future.
  • Things can get better but also they can get worse.
  • The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, 60th Anniversary Edition.
  • The official City Lights typeface.
  • A dignified serif.
  • A poem is when you do something interesting with typefaces.
  • How to distribute your poem that does something interesting with fonts.
  • Lycanthropy booths and other werewolf accommodations.
  • It's not a disability but they still accommodate you.
  • Seasonal Mania.
  • Humans brains being affected by the sun and moon in ways we don't fully understand.
  • Hospital intake numbers that correlate with the lunar cycle.
  • What's the deal with the ball being back?
  • A flying silver ball that sucks your brains out with a fork.
  • Doing what you do just because.
  • The ball: it has to be back.
  • Watching an 80s horror movie and thinking "surely someone has made a Doom level of this"
  • Inventing perfectly mirrored silver spheres entirely independently from ray tracers.
  • Reporting back when you are further along on your Phantasm journey.
  • Not being on the Internet because you're hanging out with the bees instead.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 206. Waiting Around for Laundry To Be Invented https://topiclords.com/waiting-around-for-laundry-to-be-invented f7c88162-9481-41d2-b6e9-1ddd2d777d39 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: JP and Styger. We discuss Super Mario Bros. Wonder, souls departing, using a spacer with inhalers, revisiting the Cosmic Crisp, how to learn to play piano, and teaching our children to pirate. 1:21:40 yes Lords: * JP * Styger Topics: * Wouldn't mind hearing Jim's thoughts on the recent Super Mario Bros Wonder video * Souls departing / cartoon ghosts * You're supposed to use a "spacer" with inhalers now * Probably not a full topic but I finally ate that apple I was hyped for in my fist Topic Lords appearance * Questions for a more experienced musician about learning to play piano + songwriting * How do we teach our children to pirate? Microtopics: * The flu shot. * Your TV patching itself. * Going wading in a bog until laundry is invented. * Dying of smoke inhalation until someone invents the chimney. * A topic for Jim. * Soliciting Mario opinions. * Murdering an 80s kid with Mario footage. * Squat anime Link. * Mario with a grappling hook. * Mario with asynchronous co-op partners. * The new Mario game bringing the real freak shit. * Developer quality of life. * The unfortunate mythology of the industry. * Getting to the moon more sustainably. * Mike Mika's Donkey Kong gender swap mod. * Big globs of ragu flying out of rotoscoped pixel men. * The evolutionary dynamic range of AAA games. * The boringness of violence. * Realistic present day modern warfare. * Making garbage that makes the world worse forever. * Wanting to see your medium grow. * A puzzle platformer using a first person shooter interface. * Reaching a little bit for a different thing. * Dealing a little bit of damage to a wall. * A door turning a corpse into a squished blood paste sprite. * Pikmin 3 as the most honest war game. * No Dead Pikmin Speed Run. * Getting more stuff back to your onion. * Revisiting game mechanics from throughout the series. * Outgrowing your childhood diseases. * A big plastic cylinder the size of a breath. * Audio iconography saying "look at this dickhead" * A bong for your inhaler. * All the surfaces between the air and your bronchial tubes. * A major change in inhaler technology. * Putting a bunch of programmer time into making conference calls sound good. * Respironix Optichamber Diamond. * Algorithms to cancel out the Mentos Jingle. * Finally trying the new apple varietal on your birthday. * Haphazard produce sections. * Heapsorting apples. * This apple is going to make you its bitch. * Bad mealy apples in the 80s. * Banana lore. * As Seen In Snopes: Verified Not Bullshit Fruit. * Getting the gist of a song and being able to do your own thing with it. * Making noises that sound like nice music. * Learning to play guitar while waiting for your maps to compile. * Edly's Music Theory for Practical People. * Learning to which suspicious-looking websites to trust. * The Golden Age of Scams. * oldversion.com * Spiffy new Windows NT computers. * Streaming services that you refuse to give money to. * Doers of Game Piracy. * Public opinion turning on piracy and copyright. * Information literacy. * The surviving websites where you don't mind being found. Lords:

  • JP
  • Styger

Topics:

  • Wouldn't mind hearing Jim's thoughts on the recent Super Mario Bros Wonder video
  • Souls departing / cartoon ghosts
  • You're supposed to use a "spacer" with inhalers now
  • Probably not a full topic but I finally ate that apple I was hyped for in my fist Topic Lords appearance
  • Questions for a more experienced musician about learning to play piano + songwriting
  • How do we teach our children to pirate?

Microtopics:

  • The flu shot.
  • Your TV patching itself.
  • Going wading in a bog until laundry is invented.
  • Dying of smoke inhalation until someone invents the chimney.
  • A topic for Jim.
  • Soliciting Mario opinions.
  • Murdering an 80s kid with Mario footage.
  • Squat anime Link.
  • Mario with a grappling hook.
  • Mario with asynchronous co-op partners.
  • The new Mario game bringing the real freak shit.
  • Developer quality of life.
  • The unfortunate mythology of the industry.
  • Getting to the moon more sustainably.
  • Mike Mika's Donkey Kong gender swap mod.
  • Big globs of ragu flying out of rotoscoped pixel men.
  • The evolutionary dynamic range of AAA games.
  • The boringness of violence.
  • Realistic present day modern warfare.
  • Making garbage that makes the world worse forever.
  • Wanting to see your medium grow.
  • A puzzle platformer using a first person shooter interface.
  • Reaching a little bit for a different thing.
  • Dealing a little bit of damage to a wall.
  • A door turning a corpse into a squished blood paste sprite.
  • Pikmin 3 as the most honest war game.
  • No Dead Pikmin Speed Run.
  • Getting more stuff back to your onion.
  • Revisiting game mechanics from throughout the series.
  • Outgrowing your childhood diseases.
  • A big plastic cylinder the size of a breath.
  • Audio iconography saying "look at this dickhead"
  • A bong for your inhaler.
  • All the surfaces between the air and your bronchial tubes.
  • A major change in inhaler technology.
  • Putting a bunch of programmer time into making conference calls sound good.
  • Respironix Optichamber Diamond.
  • Algorithms to cancel out the Mentos Jingle.
  • Finally trying the new apple varietal on your birthday.
  • Haphazard produce sections.
  • Heapsorting apples.
  • This apple is going to make you its bitch.
  • Bad mealy apples in the 80s.
  • Banana lore.
  • As Seen In Snopes: Verified Not Bullshit Fruit.
  • Getting the gist of a song and being able to do your own thing with it.
  • Making noises that sound like nice music.
  • Learning to play guitar while waiting for your maps to compile.
  • Edly's Music Theory for Practical People.
  • Learning to which suspicious-looking websites to trust.
  • The Golden Age of Scams.
  • oldversion.com
  • Spiffy new Windows NT computers.
  • Streaming services that you refuse to give money to.
  • Doers of Game Piracy.
  • Public opinion turning on piracy and copyright.
  • Information literacy.
  • The surviving websites where you don't mind being found.

Support Topic Lords

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  • JP
  • Styger

Topics:

  • Wouldn't mind hearing Jim's thoughts on the recent Super Mario Bros Wonder video
  • Souls departing / cartoon ghosts
  • You're supposed to use a "spacer" with inhalers now
  • Probably not a full topic but I finally ate that apple I was hyped for in my fist Topic Lords appearance
  • Questions for a more experienced musician about learning to play piano + songwriting
  • How do we teach our children to pirate?

Microtopics:

  • The flu shot.
  • Your TV patching itself.
  • Going wading in a bog until laundry is invented.
  • Dying of smoke inhalation until someone invents the chimney.
  • A topic for Jim.
  • Soliciting Mario opinions.
  • Murdering an 80s kid with Mario footage.
  • Squat anime Link.
  • Mario with a grappling hook.
  • Mario with asynchronous co-op partners.
  • The new Mario game bringing the real freak shit.
  • Developer quality of life.
  • The unfortunate mythology of the industry.
  • Getting to the moon more sustainably.
  • Mike Mika's Donkey Kong gender swap mod.
  • Big globs of ragu flying out of rotoscoped pixel men.
  • The evolutionary dynamic range of AAA games.
  • The boringness of violence.
  • Realistic present day modern warfare.
  • Making garbage that makes the world worse forever.
  • Wanting to see your medium grow.
  • A puzzle platformer using a first person shooter interface.
  • Reaching a little bit for a different thing.
  • Dealing a little bit of damage to a wall.
  • A door turning a corpse into a squished blood paste sprite.
  • Pikmin 3 as the most honest war game.
  • No Dead Pikmin Speed Run.
  • Getting more stuff back to your onion.
  • Revisiting game mechanics from throughout the series.
  • Outgrowing your childhood diseases.
  • A big plastic cylinder the size of a breath.
  • Audio iconography saying "look at this dickhead"
  • A bong for your inhaler.
  • All the surfaces between the air and your bronchial tubes.
  • A major change in inhaler technology.
  • Putting a bunch of programmer time into making conference calls sound good.
  • Respironix Optichamber Diamond.
  • Algorithms to cancel out the Mentos Jingle.
  • Finally trying the new apple varietal on your birthday.
  • Haphazard produce sections.
  • Heapsorting apples.
  • This apple is going to make you its bitch.
  • Bad mealy apples in the 80s.
  • Banana lore.
  • As Seen In Snopes: Verified Not Bullshit Fruit.
  • Getting the gist of a song and being able to do your own thing with it.
  • Making noises that sound like nice music.
  • Learning to play guitar while waiting for your maps to compile.
  • Edly's Music Theory for Practical People.
  • Learning to which suspicious-looking websites to trust.
  • The Golden Age of Scams.
  • oldversion.com
  • Spiffy new Windows NT computers.
  • Streaming services that you refuse to give money to.
  • Doers of Game Piracy.
  • Public opinion turning on piracy and copyright.
  • Information literacy.
  • The surviving websites where you don't mind being found.

Support Topic Lords

]]> 80. Xenogears Disc 3 for Smash https://topiclords.com/xenogears-disc-3-for-smash bc92920f-3e26-4055-8cb9-9ede5371a472 Mon, 03 May 2021 08:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Styger and JP. We discuss food as fan fiction, the most unexpected CD to be launched from the face of the Cenobite from Hellraiser 3 that launches CDs out of his face, mandolin slicers, Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr., the oldest food you've eaten, why pigeons love nacho cheese, and a list of every move in every Mario game. 1:04:32 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Styger * JP * http://vectorpoem.com/ Topics: * Comestibles as fan fiction * The most unexpected CD to be launched from the face of the Cenobite from Hellraiser 3 that launches CDs out of his face. * https://cenobite.fandom.com/wiki/CD * I got a mandolin slicer for Christmas from someone who was afraid to use it, and I am also afraid to use it. * Ghostbusters, by Ray Parker Jr. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ * Bustin'. https://youtu.be/0tdyUgW6WE * You Could Stop at Five or Six Stores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1OHha9agg * Jeffrey Tambor Is NOT the Guy From "Ghost" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVLWybFpwo * JoJo: Trick with cigarettes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJwD8q-OXLQ * Oldest food you've eaten. ie oldest substance or object you've consumed. * https://youtu.be/Ga5JrN9DrVI * Do pigeons love nacho cheese? * Here's an alphabetical list of every move in every Mario game, from "1,000-Fold Arms – Paper Mario: The Origami King" to "Zero Laser – Super Smash Bros. Brawl." * https://www.mariowiki.com/Listofspecial_moves * A. How would you fix this list? * B. Who wants to do a podcast series where we rank them all? Microtopics: * Attack the Block. * Movies where a delineated area is involved in some kind of fight. * Lord quality: trying to keep it high. * Cooking dinner as a fusion of the cuisines of the two countries that you are about to watch play a sport. * White game designers in the 70s deciding that there isn't anything spicier than paprika in this astonishing fantasy world. * Doing some home cooking and inventing a new sandwich in the style of the McDonald's fish fillet. * The $100 cheese steak. * A chef getting famous by serving incredibly high end Big Macs to rich people. * Each bottle of Tabasco tasting uniform even though they're all composed of peppers grown in many different countries. * How to explain cenobites to Thomas Jefferson. * A transporter accident aesthetic. * Not liking the music in the club so you turn the DJ into a cenobite with a CD drive for a mouth. * Supertramp's Breakfast in America. * All known AOL installer CD-ROMs originating with the cenobite who launches CDs out of his face. * A CD that was killed by Mountain Dew. * The cenobite with a CD drive for a face launching Xenogears disc 3 at you. * Xenogears disc 3 for Super Smash Bros. * Sympathy for the developers of Xenogears and in fact of any video game. * Novelty CD shapes. * CD-ROMs cut to the size of business cards with your portfolio on them. * Destroying a slot loading CD drive by putting a small or oddly shaped CD in it. * Learning to trust yourself to be around sharp knives. * Strapping a mandolin slicer to yourself like a keytar. * A great spooky house under the freeway. * A house made of neon tubing like the ghost ship at the end of Monkey Island. * Telekinesing the furniture. * Being haunted by ghosts that are clearly just a couple dudes in t-shirts. * Getting a bunch of B-list celebrities to shout "Ghostbusters" and act scared. * Getting movie footage for your music video by pointing a video camera at the movie screen. * Finding synergies between disparate elements of pop culture. * Bleh hands. * Slimer with a dozen cocktail weenies in his craw. * Reaching a compromise that will allow Ray Parker Jr. to haunt your home in peace. * The Ghostbusters hiring spectral Ray Parker Jr. to haunt folks and drum up business. * Vincent Schiavelli's filmography. * A Ghostbusters/Columbo crossover episode. * The trick where Chevy Chase eats a cigarette. * Slimer always believing that he ate the whole thing. * Food age. * Eating extremely old cough drops. * Not being able to tell if cough drops have gone bad because they always taste like that. * Asking someone with a philosophy degree whether cough drops are a food. * Accidentally taking enough philosophy classes to qualify for a degree and someone tracks you down to hand you your philosophy degree like a subpoena. * Bog cheese. * Whether anyone has successfully eaten millennia-old frozen mammoth meat or if it all turned into black goo. * Several thousand year old tomb honey. * Unboxing and eating military rations on video. * Eating hardtack from the American civil war in 2016. * Being extremely upbeat about rancid meat. * How to tell if vacuum sealed food has botulism. * Having the vocabulary to describe all the different ways food can go bad. * Trying to buy civil war hardtack on eBay and bidding on a pile of rocks. * The most pigeon-dense place you've lived. * Taking incredible risks for a single cheeto. * Whether nacho cheese is incredibly beautiful to a tetrachromat. * Nacho cheese as a nest building materials. * Global incidence of human tetrachromacy. * Space photos recolored into the visible spectrum so humans can look at them. * Pointing a spectroscope at nacho cheese to figure out what pigeons see. * The world's tiniest superpower. * How to grow up in America without having played a bunch of Mario games. * List of soups. * Sitting at your Wizard's Desk for too long and getting Wizard's Foot. * Fan wikis taking the shape of fan patience. * Begging the wiki editors to turn this list into a normalized database table. * An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can jump. * An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can't jump. * Mario visiting San Francisco. * The Golden Gate Bridge existing in the Mario multiverse. * Japan fitting perfectly in the Super Mario Bros. 3 universe, because Japan is also a magical foreign land I've never visited. * The alternate reality where Mario Odyssey depicted world tourism in a hyper-realistic fashion. * Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as a fictionalized depiction of an Olympics that never happened. * ESPN broadcasting CPU vs. CPU basketball matches in NBA 2K. * Linking to a web site but not encouraging people to go there. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Attack the Block.
  • Movies where a delineated area is involved in some kind of fight.
  • Lord quality: trying to keep it high.
  • Cooking dinner as a fusion of the cuisines of the two countries that you are about to watch play a sport.
  • White game designers in the 70s deciding that there isn't anything spicier than paprika in this astonishing fantasy world.
  • Doing some home cooking and inventing a new sandwich in the style of the McDonald's fish fillet.
  • The $100 cheese steak.
  • A chef getting famous by serving incredibly high end Big Macs to rich people.
  • Each bottle of Tabasco tasting uniform even though they're all composed of peppers grown in many different countries.
  • How to explain cenobites to Thomas Jefferson.
  • A transporter accident aesthetic.
  • Not liking the music in the club so you turn the DJ into a cenobite with a CD drive for a mouth.
  • Supertramp's Breakfast in America.
  • All known AOL installer CD-ROMs originating with the cenobite who launches CDs out of his face.
  • A CD that was killed by Mountain Dew.
  • The cenobite with a CD drive for a face launching Xenogears disc 3 at you.
  • Xenogears disc 3 for Super Smash Bros.
  • Sympathy for the developers of Xenogears and in fact of any video game.
  • Novelty CD shapes.
  • CD-ROMs cut to the size of business cards with your portfolio on them.
  • Destroying a slot loading CD drive by putting a small or oddly shaped CD in it.
  • Learning to trust yourself to be around sharp knives.
  • Strapping a mandolin slicer to yourself like a keytar.
  • A great spooky house under the freeway.
  • A house made of neon tubing like the ghost ship at the end of Monkey Island.
  • Telekinesing the furniture.
  • Being haunted by ghosts that are clearly just a couple dudes in t-shirts.
  • Getting a bunch of B-list celebrities to shout "Ghostbusters" and act scared.
  • Getting movie footage for your music video by pointing a video camera at the movie screen.
  • Finding synergies between disparate elements of pop culture.
  • Bleh hands.
  • Slimer with a dozen cocktail weenies in his craw.
  • Reaching a compromise that will allow Ray Parker Jr. to haunt your home in peace.
  • The Ghostbusters hiring spectral Ray Parker Jr. to haunt folks and drum up business.
  • Vincent Schiavelli's filmography.
  • A Ghostbusters/Columbo crossover episode.
  • The trick where Chevy Chase eats a cigarette.
  • Slimer always believing that he ate the whole thing.
  • Food age.
  • Eating extremely old cough drops.
  • Not being able to tell if cough drops have gone bad because they always taste like that.
  • Asking someone with a philosophy degree whether cough drops are a food.
  • Accidentally taking enough philosophy classes to qualify for a degree and someone tracks you down to hand you your philosophy degree like a subpoena.
  • Bog cheese.
  • Whether anyone has successfully eaten millennia-old frozen mammoth meat or if it all turned into black goo.
  • Several thousand year old tomb honey.
  • Unboxing and eating military rations on video.
  • Eating hardtack from the American civil war in 2016.
  • Being extremely upbeat about rancid meat.
  • How to tell if vacuum sealed food has botulism.
  • Having the vocabulary to describe all the different ways food can go bad.
  • Trying to buy civil war hardtack on eBay and bidding on a pile of rocks.
  • The most pigeon-dense place you've lived.
  • Taking incredible risks for a single cheeto.
  • Whether nacho cheese is incredibly beautiful to a tetrachromat.
  • Nacho cheese as a nest building materials.
  • Global incidence of human tetrachromacy.
  • Space photos recolored into the visible spectrum so humans can look at them.
  • Pointing a spectroscope at nacho cheese to figure out what pigeons see.
  • The world's tiniest superpower.
  • How to grow up in America without having played a bunch of Mario games.
  • List of soups.
  • Sitting at your Wizard's Desk for too long and getting Wizard's Foot.
  • Fan wikis taking the shape of fan patience.
  • Begging the wiki editors to turn this list into a normalized database table.
  • An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can jump.
  • An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can't jump.
  • Mario visiting San Francisco.
  • The Golden Gate Bridge existing in the Mario multiverse.
  • Japan fitting perfectly in the Super Mario Bros. 3 universe, because Japan is also a magical foreign land I've never visited.
  • The alternate reality where Mario Odyssey depicted world tourism in a hyper-realistic fashion.
  • Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as a fictionalized depiction of an Olympics that never happened.
  • ESPN broadcasting CPU vs. CPU basketball matches in NBA 2K.
  • Linking to a web site but not encouraging people to go there.

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Microtopics:

  • Attack the Block.
  • Movies where a delineated area is involved in some kind of fight.
  • Lord quality: trying to keep it high.
  • Cooking dinner as a fusion of the cuisines of the two countries that you are about to watch play a sport.
  • White game designers in the 70s deciding that there isn't anything spicier than paprika in this astonishing fantasy world.
  • Doing some home cooking and inventing a new sandwich in the style of the McDonald's fish fillet.
  • The $100 cheese steak.
  • A chef getting famous by serving incredibly high end Big Macs to rich people.
  • Each bottle of Tabasco tasting uniform even though they're all composed of peppers grown in many different countries.
  • How to explain cenobites to Thomas Jefferson.
  • A transporter accident aesthetic.
  • Not liking the music in the club so you turn the DJ into a cenobite with a CD drive for a mouth.
  • Supertramp's Breakfast in America.
  • All known AOL installer CD-ROMs originating with the cenobite who launches CDs out of his face.
  • A CD that was killed by Mountain Dew.
  • The cenobite with a CD drive for a face launching Xenogears disc 3 at you.
  • Xenogears disc 3 for Super Smash Bros.
  • Sympathy for the developers of Xenogears and in fact of any video game.
  • Novelty CD shapes.
  • CD-ROMs cut to the size of business cards with your portfolio on them.
  • Destroying a slot loading CD drive by putting a small or oddly shaped CD in it.
  • Learning to trust yourself to be around sharp knives.
  • Strapping a mandolin slicer to yourself like a keytar.
  • A great spooky house under the freeway.
  • A house made of neon tubing like the ghost ship at the end of Monkey Island.
  • Telekinesing the furniture.
  • Being haunted by ghosts that are clearly just a couple dudes in t-shirts.
  • Getting a bunch of B-list celebrities to shout "Ghostbusters" and act scared.
  • Getting movie footage for your music video by pointing a video camera at the movie screen.
  • Finding synergies between disparate elements of pop culture.
  • Bleh hands.
  • Slimer with a dozen cocktail weenies in his craw.
  • Reaching a compromise that will allow Ray Parker Jr. to haunt your home in peace.
  • The Ghostbusters hiring spectral Ray Parker Jr. to haunt folks and drum up business.
  • Vincent Schiavelli's filmography.
  • A Ghostbusters/Columbo crossover episode.
  • The trick where Chevy Chase eats a cigarette.
  • Slimer always believing that he ate the whole thing.
  • Food age.
  • Eating extremely old cough drops.
  • Not being able to tell if cough drops have gone bad because they always taste like that.
  • Asking someone with a philosophy degree whether cough drops are a food.
  • Accidentally taking enough philosophy classes to qualify for a degree and someone tracks you down to hand you your philosophy degree like a subpoena.
  • Bog cheese.
  • Whether anyone has successfully eaten millennia-old frozen mammoth meat or if it all turned into black goo.
  • Several thousand year old tomb honey.
  • Unboxing and eating military rations on video.
  • Eating hardtack from the American civil war in 2016.
  • Being extremely upbeat about rancid meat.
  • How to tell if vacuum sealed food has botulism.
  • Having the vocabulary to describe all the different ways food can go bad.
  • Trying to buy civil war hardtack on eBay and bidding on a pile of rocks.
  • The most pigeon-dense place you've lived.
  • Taking incredible risks for a single cheeto.
  • Whether nacho cheese is incredibly beautiful to a tetrachromat.
  • Nacho cheese as a nest building materials.
  • Global incidence of human tetrachromacy.
  • Space photos recolored into the visible spectrum so humans can look at them.
  • Pointing a spectroscope at nacho cheese to figure out what pigeons see.
  • The world's tiniest superpower.
  • How to grow up in America without having played a bunch of Mario games.
  • List of soups.
  • Sitting at your Wizard's Desk for too long and getting Wizard's Foot.
  • Fan wikis taking the shape of fan patience.
  • Begging the wiki editors to turn this list into a normalized database table.
  • An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can jump.
  • An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can't jump.
  • Mario visiting San Francisco.
  • The Golden Gate Bridge existing in the Mario multiverse.
  • Japan fitting perfectly in the Super Mario Bros. 3 universe, because Japan is also a magical foreign land I've never visited.
  • The alternate reality where Mario Odyssey depicted world tourism in a hyper-realistic fashion.
  • Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as a fictionalized depiction of an Olympics that never happened.
  • ESPN broadcasting CPU vs. CPU basketball matches in NBA 2K.
  • Linking to a web site but not encouraging people to go there.

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We discuss using the word "lord" as a joke, emergency preparedness, Cosmic Crisp: the apple with a launch date, whether horses exist, being an amateur naturalist from another part of the country, and what makes hotels scary. 1:03:59 yes Lords: * JP recommends Esperpento. http://esperpentotapasrestaurant.com/ * Styger recommends Esperpento and Yamo. https://www.theinfatuation.com/san-francisco/reviews/yamo Topics: * 1:52 A brief history of JP using "Lords" as a comedy word, 2008-present, and why British people will probably never "get" this quasijoke. * 9:00 Emergency preparedness! * The SFFD neighborhood emergency response team: https://sf-fire.org/neighborhood-emergency-response-team-nert * 16:55 The apple with a launch date. https://story.californiasunday.com/cosmic-crisp-apple-launch * 23:15 Larry asks: "Are there horses" * Miniature horses as service animals: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=miniature+therapy+horse&ia=images&iax=images * 28:39 Being an amateur naturalist from another part of the country. * Sneakers: navigating San Francisco by sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM * "Watch Dogs 2: Touring San Francisco's Famous Landmarks" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F9l19j4XY * 43:15 What makes some hotels scarier than others? * "It should be illegal for horror movies to advertise." https://twitter.com/okexactly/status/1185756975612727297?s=20 * "If you make that film as a bleak drama, then we’re making it for like, an audience of three. So what might be a deterrent to an audience in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another, and it just felt like a no-brainer to channel that through a horror-movie filter." https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/hereditarys-ari-aster-breaks-down-his-upsetting-film.html * Scratch and sniff feelie in Leather Goddesses of Phobos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeatherGoddessesofPhobos Microtopics: * Hypothesizing about how much business your internet review gets a small business. * A restaurant in San Francisco somehow not going out of business. * Reassuring meme carriers that they are still good people. * Majestic yet ridiculous muscledudes. * Dreaming a GDC talk. * Taking the "lord" title seriously because you are probably ruled by literal lords. * Our sister podcast across the pond, Topic Senators. * Distinguishing lords from non-lords by their shoulder armor. * Preppers going from being a joke to an aspiration. * Realizing that literally none of your skills would help you in the apocalypse. * Drinking pee through a Life Straw and it still tasting like pee. * California-branded disasters. * Naming your produce via an Internet poll. * Produce having a launch date. * Lining up at Safeway for produce's midnight launch. * Eating berries exclusive to your region. * Believing horses still exist because you've seen them once. * Being almost sure horses aren't a hoax. * Inserting horses into the historical record. * Duckbilled platypi being obviously bullshit. * Every platypus having been secretly manufactured by the Tyrell Corporation. * LA and San Francisco merging because Philip K Dick didn't predict rising construction costs. * Finding out that miniature horses can be service animals. * Service ponies in the soup aisle. * Someone defacing an explanatory sign to make people believe that horses can be service animals. * Miniature ponies being grandfathered in. * Everyone choosing the mockingbird as their state bird. * Being annoyed that trees are the wrong trees. * Being young enough for them to just be trees I guess. * The sky being the wrong sky. * Seeing freeway exit signs for Jupiter. * The Golden Gate Bridge getting wrecked. * A story being grounded in geography. * Stepping out of the movie theater into the neighborhood the movie you saw was set in and feeling like you're still in the movie. * Everyone's effective hometown being San Francisco because that's where every movie is set. * Getting experience points for taking selfies. * The Coit Tower secretly being a giant hologram full of horses. * The arbitrariness of what makes a hotel scary. * The horror of a hotel room possibly having bedbugs. * Not being scared by a movie because you chose to watch it. * The cute robot doing all the murders. * The TV edit of Robocop somehow being even more traumatic. * Sneaking an art house movie into your horror movie. * No longer being affected by supernatural horror but being terrified of movies with car accidents. * The implicit social contract that horror movies shouldn't address the horror of real life. * The ethics of advertising horror movies. * The ad that places a horrible idea in your mind and promises closure/the antidote if you pay for the full movie. * Buying a tub of baked beans at the concession stand and feeling good for five minutes. * Refilling the essential oil cartridge for gunfire. * Not wanting to smell Bioshock, or most video games really. 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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Hypothesizing about how much business your internet review gets a small business.
  • A restaurant in San Francisco somehow not going out of business.
  • Reassuring meme carriers that they are still good people.
  • Majestic yet ridiculous muscledudes.
  • Dreaming a GDC talk.
  • Taking the "lord" title seriously because you are probably ruled by literal lords.
  • Our sister podcast across the pond, Topic Senators.
  • Distinguishing lords from non-lords by their shoulder armor.
  • Preppers going from being a joke to an aspiration.
  • Realizing that literally none of your skills would help you in the apocalypse.
  • Drinking pee through a Life Straw and it still tasting like pee.
  • California-branded disasters.
  • Naming your produce via an Internet poll.
  • Produce having a launch date.
  • Lining up at Safeway for produce's midnight launch.
  • Eating berries exclusive to your region.
  • Believing horses still exist because you've seen them once.
  • Being almost sure horses aren't a hoax.
  • Inserting horses into the historical record.
  • Duckbilled platypi being obviously bullshit.
  • Every platypus having been secretly manufactured by the Tyrell Corporation.
  • LA and San Francisco merging because Philip K Dick didn't predict rising construction costs.
  • Finding out that miniature horses can be service animals.
  • Service ponies in the soup aisle.
  • Someone defacing an explanatory sign to make people believe that horses can be service animals.
  • Miniature ponies being grandfathered in.
  • Everyone choosing the mockingbird as their state bird.
  • Being annoyed that trees are the wrong trees.
  • Being young enough for them to just be trees I guess.
  • The sky being the wrong sky.
  • Seeing freeway exit signs for Jupiter.
  • The Golden Gate Bridge getting wrecked.
  • A story being grounded in geography.
  • Stepping out of the movie theater into the neighborhood the movie you saw was set in and feeling like you're still in the movie.
  • Everyone's effective hometown being San Francisco because that's where every movie is set.
  • Getting experience points for taking selfies.
  • The Coit Tower secretly being a giant hologram full of horses.
  • The arbitrariness of what makes a hotel scary.
  • The horror of a hotel room possibly having bedbugs.
  • Not being scared by a movie because you chose to watch it.
  • The cute robot doing all the murders.
  • The TV edit of Robocop somehow being even more traumatic.
  • Sneaking an art house movie into your horror movie.
  • No longer being affected by supernatural horror but being terrified of movies with car accidents.
  • The implicit social contract that horror movies shouldn't address the horror of real life.
  • The ethics of advertising horror movies.
  • The ad that places a horrible idea in your mind and promises closure/the antidote if you pay for the full movie.
  • Buying a tub of baked beans at the concession stand and feeling good for five minutes.
  • Refilling the essential oil cartridge for gunfire.
  • Not wanting to smell Bioshock, or most video games really.

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Hypothesizing about how much business your internet review gets a small business.
  • A restaurant in San Francisco somehow not going out of business.
  • Reassuring meme carriers that they are still good people.
  • Majestic yet ridiculous muscledudes.
  • Dreaming a GDC talk.
  • Taking the "lord" title seriously because you are probably ruled by literal lords.
  • Our sister podcast across the pond, Topic Senators.
  • Distinguishing lords from non-lords by their shoulder armor.
  • Preppers going from being a joke to an aspiration.
  • Realizing that literally none of your skills would help you in the apocalypse.
  • Drinking pee through a Life Straw and it still tasting like pee.
  • California-branded disasters.
  • Naming your produce via an Internet poll.
  • Produce having a launch date.
  • Lining up at Safeway for produce's midnight launch.
  • Eating berries exclusive to your region.
  • Believing horses still exist because you've seen them once.
  • Being almost sure horses aren't a hoax.
  • Inserting horses into the historical record.
  • Duckbilled platypi being obviously bullshit.
  • Every platypus having been secretly manufactured by the Tyrell Corporation.
  • LA and San Francisco merging because Philip K Dick didn't predict rising construction costs.
  • Finding out that miniature horses can be service animals.
  • Service ponies in the soup aisle.
  • Someone defacing an explanatory sign to make people believe that horses can be service animals.
  • Miniature ponies being grandfathered in.
  • Everyone choosing the mockingbird as their state bird.
  • Being annoyed that trees are the wrong trees.
  • Being young enough for them to just be trees I guess.
  • The sky being the wrong sky.
  • Seeing freeway exit signs for Jupiter.
  • The Golden Gate Bridge getting wrecked.
  • A story being grounded in geography.
  • Stepping out of the movie theater into the neighborhood the movie you saw was set in and feeling like you're still in the movie.
  • Everyone's effective hometown being San Francisco because that's where every movie is set.
  • Getting experience points for taking selfies.
  • The Coit Tower secretly being a giant hologram full of horses.
  • The arbitrariness of what makes a hotel scary.
  • The horror of a hotel room possibly having bedbugs.
  • Not being scared by a movie because you chose to watch it.
  • The cute robot doing all the murders.
  • The TV edit of Robocop somehow being even more traumatic.
  • Sneaking an art house movie into your horror movie.
  • No longer being affected by supernatural horror but being terrified of movies with car accidents.
  • The implicit social contract that horror movies shouldn't address the horror of real life.
  • The ethics of advertising horror movies.
  • The ad that places a horrible idea in your mind and promises closure/the antidote if you pay for the full movie.
  • Buying a tub of baked beans at the concession stand and feeling good for five minutes.
  • Refilling the essential oil cartridge for gunfire.
  • Not wanting to smell Bioshock, or most video games really.

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