January 03, 2022

115. Intrusive Thought Simulator

1 hour 19 minutes

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Lords:

CisHetKayFaber

https://twitter.com/CisHetKayFaber

https://www.upturnedtable.com/weekly-podcast-2/

Dan

https://strangecurrencies.org/

https://twitter.com/SC_Reviews_Dan

Topics:

Learning something by doing, so you don't understand the theory behind it

The lonely realization that most people don't really care that much about the things that make you unique (not depressing) (I promise)

Shrek got a ten minute standing ovation at Cannes in 2001.

The Jabberwocky

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky

Cursed connectors and adapters

Vacationing alone is extremely efficient

Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name

Microtopics:

A name that has nothing to do with wrestling.

Upturned Table.

Topic hunger.

Hearing something and playing it back.

The particular rat-a-tat of that ratio.

The difficulty of making art compelling and simple at the same time.

In C.

A proc-gen song that is different every time you hear it but you have to pick just version to put on the record.

Meeting a group of people who all learned a skill in a certain context and being unable to convince them that you also have the skill but you learned it in a different context.

Not wanting to tell your family that you are trans because they would be very interested.

The dream of owning a board and card game store.

Trying to convince an extremely modest person to tell you something interesting about themselves.

Doing an interesting thing but not making a mental note to tell your friends about it because you never learned to tell stories.

A guy whose family fled a corrupt governmental regime being surprised that you think that's interesting, because he knows hundreds of people who lived under a corrupt governmental regime.

Discovering a viable competitor to Disney.

Devaluing the Cannes Standing Ovation.

The Sarcastic Standing Ovation.

Shepard Tones.

How many people you need to pay to stand and clap to extend a standing ovation indefinitely.

Being the one guy who is yelling at everyone to stop applauding.

Moving the last scene to after the credits roll so that people have to find out who the key grip is to see the whole story.

Reading a game credits list on MobyGames and giving a standing ovation at the end.

Vorpal, manxome, uffish, frabjous and other words that didn't exist at one point but now do.

Understanding the rhythm of language even if the words don't make sense.

Alice Liddel.

A faithful musical TV adaptation of the entire Alice in Wonderland series.

An adapter from pneumatic air to stereo XLR.

Speakers and microphones as adapters between air pressure and electrical signal.

Using a microphone as a speaker and a speaker as a microphone.

The downsides of USB-C.

A sticker with induction coils on it.

Counting the pins on a Famicom cartridge.

How you're supposed to blow into cartridges differently in the United States and in Japan.

Breathing into your NES cartridge to apply a layer of condensation to the pins and improve connectivity.

Dry vs. wet exhale.

Bagpipe to stereo XLR connectors.

A vacation where you go exactly where you want when you want and never need to form a consensus.

The kind of AAA vacation that a 4000 person team of Ubisoft employees would go on.

Spending most of your vacation listening to podcasts in your hotel room.

Going on a vacation in order to scout out potential locations for future vacations.

Walking into a book store and going to the zine section and downloading some bespoke local podcasts.

Asking the concierge at the hotel what podcasts are good to listen to around here, and they suggest This American Life and Radiolab.

A cloud of scenarios that you can choose to interact with.

Whether the Last Constable is really last or whether she's just called that.

Paying for a second candle.

Waking up in the middle of the night to spend the turns you've accumulated so they don't go to waste.

Sailing the Unterzee in a majestic pleasure yacht.

Dreaming about going north.

Breaking into a dentist's office to steak the jar of teeth from the cupboard in the back.

Building up your Obscurity to endgame levels.

Knowing that to solve the mystery you'll need to destroy yourself, and choosing to do it anyway.

Playing the game to get to the text that you're trying to read.

The grindiest content in the game.

Selling your soul to devils and then realizing that you need to get it back so you can destroy it yourself.

Hammering on the button until it tells you where to go.

Whether anyone knows the plot of World of Warcraft.

A great place to discuss topics with people who might become your friends.

Support Topic Lords

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January 03, 2022

115. Intrusive Thought Simulator

1 hour 19 minutes

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

CisHetKayFaber

https://twitter.com/CisHetKayFaber

https://www.upturnedtable.com/weekly-podcast-2/

Dan

https://strangecurrencies.org/

https://twitter.com/SC_Reviews_Dan

Topics:

Learning something by doing, so you don't understand the theory behind it

The lonely realization that most people don't really care that much about the things that make you unique (not depressing) (I promise)

Shrek got a ten minute standing ovation at Cannes in 2001.

The Jabberwocky

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky

Cursed connectors and adapters

Vacationing alone is extremely efficient

Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name

Microtopics:

A name that has nothing to do with wrestling.

Upturned Table.

Topic hunger.

Hearing something and playing it back.

The particular rat-a-tat of that ratio.

The difficulty of making art compelling and simple at the same time.

In C.

A proc-gen song that is different every time you hear it but you have to pick just version to put on the record.

Meeting a group of people who all learned a skill in a certain context and being unable to convince them that you also have the skill but you learned it in a different context.

Not wanting to tell your family that you are trans because they would be very interested.

The dream of owning a board and card game store.

Trying to convince an extremely modest person to tell you something interesting about themselves.

Doing an interesting thing but not making a mental note to tell your friends about it because you never learned to tell stories.

A guy whose family fled a corrupt governmental regime being surprised that you think that's interesting, because he knows hundreds of people who lived under a corrupt governmental regime.

Discovering a viable competitor to Disney.

Devaluing the Cannes Standing Ovation.

The Sarcastic Standing Ovation.

Shepard Tones.

How many people you need to pay to stand and clap to extend a standing ovation indefinitely.

Being the one guy who is yelling at everyone to stop applauding.

Moving the last scene to after the credits roll so that people have to find out who the key grip is to see the whole story.

Reading a game credits list on MobyGames and giving a standing ovation at the end.

Vorpal, manxome, uffish, frabjous and other words that didn't exist at one point but now do.

Understanding the rhythm of language even if the words don't make sense.

Alice Liddel.

A faithful musical TV adaptation of the entire Alice in Wonderland series.

An adapter from pneumatic air to stereo XLR.

Speakers and microphones as adapters between air pressure and electrical signal.

Using a microphone as a speaker and a speaker as a microphone.

The downsides of USB-C.

A sticker with induction coils on it.

Counting the pins on a Famicom cartridge.

How you're supposed to blow into cartridges differently in the United States and in Japan.

Breathing into your NES cartridge to apply a layer of condensation to the pins and improve connectivity.

Dry vs. wet exhale.

Bagpipe to stereo XLR connectors.

A vacation where you go exactly where you want when you want and never need to form a consensus.

The kind of AAA vacation that a 4000 person team of Ubisoft employees would go on.

Spending most of your vacation listening to podcasts in your hotel room.

Going on a vacation in order to scout out potential locations for future vacations.

Walking into a book store and going to the zine section and downloading some bespoke local podcasts.

Asking the concierge at the hotel what podcasts are good to listen to around here, and they suggest This American Life and Radiolab.

A cloud of scenarios that you can choose to interact with.

Whether the Last Constable is really last or whether she's just called that.

Paying for a second candle.

Waking up in the middle of the night to spend the turns you've accumulated so they don't go to waste.

Sailing the Unterzee in a majestic pleasure yacht.

Dreaming about going north.

Breaking into a dentist's office to steak the jar of teeth from the cupboard in the back.

Building up your Obscurity to endgame levels.

Knowing that to solve the mystery you'll need to destroy yourself, and choosing to do it anyway.

Playing the game to get to the text that you're trying to read.

The grindiest content in the game.

Selling your soul to devils and then realizing that you need to get it back so you can destroy it yourself.

Hammering on the button until it tells you where to go.

Whether anyone knows the plot of World of Warcraft.

A great place to discuss topics with people who might become your friends.

Support Topic Lords

...more

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