317. This Bass Line Stinks (Non-Derogatory)
November 17th, 2025
1 hr 9 mins 18 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Danny
- Josh
- Vitor
Topics:
- Games you love that nobody else knows exist
- I keep losing my sunglasses. How do I fix this?
- Homebrewing
- When did Bush stop hiding the facts??
- Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
- https://allpoetry.com/mad-girl%27s-love-song
- I didn't actually have four poems in mind that made me say oh shit but skimming the list, this could be them:
- https://www.tumblr.com/ailbey/750880084257374208
- https://cih.ucsd.edu/sites/cih.ucsd.edu/files/cfm/When%20I%20am%20among%20the%20Trees%20by%20Mary%20Oliver.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave_and_Weep
- https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/705362430786748416/guooey-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky
Microtopics
- Video game music man.
- Playing a guitar part that someone else wrote by clicking with a mouse.
- A very fun interesting exercise that you appreciate.
- Bass dives.
- Playing bass with extra fingers.
- Walking into the luthier's workshop asking to pay them to put a whammy bar on a bass and they're like *fuck you, that's disgusting."
- Harold Drumsman.
- Tympanum Factotum.
- Super Stardust vs. Super Rub-a-Dub.
- The twin stick shooter you made all your bandmates play.
- The most 1989 thing you've ever seen.
- A lopsided castle shape drawn out of block characters.
- Seeing a Lamborghini game and wondering "who would ever play that??"
- Modding modern-resolution models and textures into an N64 game.
- A game that looks like dogshit but with modern emulation it's extremely high resolution dogshit.
- Impressing your dad at how good you are at the one video game he lets you play.
- Hemiroids.
- Art style becoming a monoculture more easily in small communities.
- Dirty Dancing except Baby never dances again.
- Phalanx. (The banjo game.)
- The banjo player going inside the ship for the European box art.
- Engineering Jones and the Time Thieves of DSPea.
- Games that quiz you on what sorts of consulting services your company needs.
- Finding a pair of crudely drawn breasts in a collection of Windows 3.1 icons on Uncle Dave's PC and thinking "Uncle Dave is into some weird shit."
- Prescription sunglasses vs. Just For Fun sunglasses.
- Doing something that makes you look funny and preparing a five minute angry rant to spit at anyone who looks at you funny.
- Lacquering your eyes with a substance that darkens in the sunlight.
- Lacquering your skin instead of wearing clothes.
- Buying more and more expensive sunglasses until you stop losing them.
- Pushing 32.
- Being the mead guy and everyone sends you mead making videos.
- Fermenting honey in the hot dog water.
- Making a slurry of hot dogs and ethanol in the blender.
- Letting honey sit in the closet until it becomes mead.
- Putting mead in the beehive to give back to the community.
- Giving all the hallucinogens to all the manufacturing insects to see if they make exciting new kinds of silk and honey.
- Kirkland Signature Mead.
- Going into an underground tavern in Sweden and eating boar and lingonberries.
- Distilling and getting all the wrong -thanols.
- Putting a couple shots of moonshine in a cup of Booster Juice.
- Could potato pizza sprout more potato.
- Have you ever heard a plant scream during a job interview?
- There is no ethical consumption under life.
- Connecting plants up to synthesizers.
- The sound of two black holes colliding. (Bloop!)
- Data Audializaion.
- How Windows XP users discovered that bush hid the facts.
- When did Bush get Microsoft to disable the "Bush hid the facts" Easter egg.
- The mongoose is a common sight on the Earth.
- The mongoose's shadow casts a faint glow upon the ancient tree.
- Reading aloud and trying to understand what you're reading at the same time.
- Cool as fuck yours truly uwu.
- The four poems that made you say "oh shit."
- Art that communicates ideas vs. art that communicates feelings.
- Bonus stage.
- Rock Band Karaoke.