Topic Lords

120. The Mouse Is For Hippies And Slackers

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Lords:

  • Daniel
    • https://twitter.com/dmullinsgames
    • Jonah
      • https://works.rip/

        • Topics:

        • Chop socky – when are we gonna get that energy back into the world media producing environment? Also listening to movies instead of watching them.
        • The Resident Evil series
        • Flettner airplanes
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmvHfIAszo
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6geOms33Dk
          • Double feature:
            • The Eel by Ogden Nash https://poetrysplash.tripod.com/ogdennash2.htm
            • The Lama, by Ogden Nash https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/poetry/poem-a-day/lama
            • Indonesia: The 4th most populous nation on Earth. You never hear about it
            • Watching stuff "going into it without hearing anything about it" -- how do people actually do that? Also me walking into a movie theater.

              • Microtopics:

              • A website for dead people who will pay $12/year for as long as they're dead.
              • Hummus.
              • Whether Inscryption is more popular than hummus.
              • Starting a topic with an anecdote.
              • Walking around a city with the audio of a movie playing on your headphones.
              • Watching a foreign film subbed because you're too cool to realize there's a subbed version in the settings.
              • What you notice when you strip the visuals out of a visual medium.
              • Porting Doom to ears.
              • Whether blind people have their own Steam.
              • Going through several iterations of reinventing how you shoot zombies.
              • A woman scaled up 2x on every axis.
              • Brazil's first new console after the Megadrive.
              • Porting Resident Evil 4 to the Megadrive.
              • Jim's entire history with the Resident Evil stories.
              • A goofy Zelda boss but it's in a horror game for some reason.
              • Turning doing donuts in a two car garage into a boss fight.
              • Being bad at puzzles that aren't supposed to be puzzles, like how to use this can opener.
              • A Flettner airplane made out of KFC buckets.
              • The Magnus effect.
              • The downside of an airplane that drops like a rock if the engines lose power.
              • The world's first portable steamroller.
              • An airplane that is heavy enough to create its own runway.
              • Putting a dog in the Youtube thumbnail.
              • A poem that was short even before you cut the last 25%.
              • A joke poem that becomes even more of a joke when you cut out the punchline.
              • Dad giving you permission to memorize the shortest possible poem.
              • Web design nostalgia.
              • Hypertext protocols that predated HTTP.
              • How HTTP ate every other hypertext protocol's lunch.
              • This thing that was invented in the 70s.
              • Tetris the Grand Master, and how it would be better with mouse input.
              • Hypothetical keyboard-only interfaces for audio editing software.
              • A keyboard macro scripting language thing for transcribing sheet music.
              • How to pronounce "Latex"
              • Pronouncing the typesetting puns.
              • Being surprised when a country has almost as many people as the United States.
              • Gamelan.
              • Being Indonesian and knowing more about Indonesia than most people.
              • Whether modern day Greeks get annoyed when you try to engage them about Greece 2000 years ago.
              • Thinking you know where New Zealand is but not.
              • Growing up in the US and spending all your geography points on remembering which state is which and not having any left for the rest of the world.
              • Talking about yourself in any person.
              • Why nobody reviews Frog Fractions games.
              • Soda speak.
              • Divesting yourself of places you might get spoiled.
              • Middling Marvel Movie Buddies.
              • How to make choices without having enough information to decide.
              • Totally wasting your plug.
              • The premier place to send answers to the Inscryption ARG.
              • Counting the number of syllables in the sentence that claims to not be an ARG clue.

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