206. Waiting Around For Laundry To Be Invented

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.