317. This Bass Line Stinks (Non-Derogatory)

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November 17th, 2025

1 hr 9 mins 18 secs

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  • 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.
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