May 23, 2022

135. I've Been A Bad, Bad French

1 hour 15 minutes

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Lords:

Nate

http://mommysbestgames.com/

https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames/

Fred

https://twitter.com/brobbeh

Topics:

Why do rice cookers play music but not microwaves?

https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/1516205625662836739

If all your needs are met in a utopian society will we still need sports and competition?

Hot Ice, Cool Sounds

Goblin Time by Emma

https://mastodon.art/@emmajuettner/108103474257806186

Esper says: "My long-held suspicion has always been that humans are generally way less prone to salt-related health issues than suggested by nutritional science. I think a lot of that stuff was ginned up by cigarette companies trying to deflect blame. But I try not to go full-on conspiracy theory about it."

Nerds candy has a Dungeons and Dragons themed box. Is this good for D&D?

If the four horsemen of the apocalypse were recruiting for a fifth member, how would you convince them to hire you?

Microtopics:

A shmup about how Microsoft screwed up their Xbox 360 dashboard.

Screaming for 24 hours straight and having a heart attack, or vice versa.

Remastering your obscure protest game and needing to build a museum explaining the context for the protest.

An educational title about how to find games on the new Xbox 360 dashboard.

An infinite runner with extremely awkward horse controls.

Using all the right dark patterns.

Meeting an indie game developer in San Francisco and recognizing him because he's a white guy with a beard and glasses who likes Dark Souls.

A pot that's specifically for rice and it knows when to school cooking the rice.

Only rice cookers get to sing a song.

Installing an AI in your microwave so your microwave can try to murder you.

A codependent washing machine.

Landlords in California doing an end run around renter's rights.

The keyless entry system on your apartment that has a battery backup just so it can play "These Boots are Made for Walking" when it can't let you in because the power is out.

3D printing some laundry to fold because people are bored in your Utopia.

Extremely soporific TV.

A mashup of music and sports.

Gathering to watch a live band play while a chef makes crepes.

Whether you can be bored while watching two things at the same time.

An orchestra trying to live-score a basketball game.

Trying to listen to an arcade game in the arcade.

Goblins in our community.

A bullet point list of how you can help a goblin.

Spicy radish waffles.

Blackwheat crepes and whether they're really black.

Lemonade crepes.

Dipping a sandwich in mustard.

The pros and cons of salting food.

Chickens laying pre-salted eggs.

Paying a monthly subscription to Monsanto to keep up the injections that make your tongue exude its own salt.

Getting in line to hate Monsanto.

Whether nerds are more or less likely to eat Nerds candy.

A candy for people who forgot D&D exists.

Candy&D.

A series of Nerds-themed D&D campaigns.

Hiring people and paying them.

Star Trek Jeopardy where 70% of the answers are 1980s pop culture because the federation is obsessed with the 80s.

Seeing yet another college sports question in the New York Times crossword and deciding whether to get irrationally angry at Will Shortz.

What Jim embodies that is the worst thing.

Death, war, famine, pestilence, crypto and late-onset melatonin.

John Cleese teaching sex ed in a boarding school.

Starting with death and going downhill from there.

Convincing Death to not kill anyone and Death just rides off and mopes.

Whether the four horsemen listen to podcasts or if the internet is down during the apocalypse.

The four new horsemen of the new apocalypse: crypto, gaslighting, late-onset melatonin and Elon Musk.

How to find people to follow on Mastodon.

How to be a part of a human-sized community.

The Topic Lords subreddit.

The photo of a middle school basketball team that somebody posted to the Topic Lords subreddit.

How to keep spam bots out of your Discord.

Batbarian.

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