Topic Lords

157. The Boy Who Cried ARG

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  • Tyriq
    • https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
    • https://frror.bandcamp.com/
    • Chall
      • https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall

        • Topics:

        • The future/present of Jim's mario videos.
          • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0Ntxnf9mof2tU-QZLQ0Mq6zd
          • Catatcomb Kids lore in the context of the fact that I like worldbuilding but find it hard to tell actual stories.
          • Bigger Luke
          • The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band.
            • http://www.syndicjournal.us/a-ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-60-narrations/ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-the-green-street-mortuary-marching-band/
            • Have you seen any phantom kangaroos? And also: should I choose to believe in cryptids? If so, which ones?

              • Microtopics:

              • Giving someone else's biography.
              • 7-Day Roguelikes.
              • Feeling ambiently like you are hanging out with somebody.
              • An emulator that works when you are not screen-capturing in OBS, but freezes when you are.
              • Making a backup of your Bowser's Fury save.
              • Video recording setup evolutions.
              • The pros and cons of extremely variable video lengths.
              • Playing Tony Hawk with Mario modded in.
              • What working on a Zelda game does to a person, psychologically.
              • Doing things that make people believe you're doing an ARG.
              • Twinbeard Rates Mario.
              • A robot co-host that eventually starts finishing your words for you.
              • Wanting to be a writer until you try writing.
              • A world that naturally develops in your brain.
              • How to tell stories.
              • Coming up with a bunch of characters that want things.
              • Reading stories in hopes that stories rub off on you.
              • Putting yourself in a situation where you write a lot of dialog trees.
              • How to make a platformer without doing any level design.
              • Expecting the same person to write the music and the lyrics.
              • The difference in the ideation process of world building and story telling.
              • A fact about the world that is true.
              • Captain Thalmoo surveying the battlefield.
              • Figuring out mid-burrito that there was a war, and deciding who won it.
              • A grain that flowers like lavender.
              • Searching Fiverr for Conlangers.
              • Paying $2 for something at the Dollar Store.
              • Logging Onto JimNet.
              • The Canon Bigger Luke Hypothesis vs. the Hamill Hypothesis.
              • The Inch-Luke Hypothesis.
              • Inch-Lukers.
              • Bigger Luke conspiracy theorists just assume that Han Solo stays the same size.
              • The real Skywalker was the bigger Luke all along.
              • The Boy Who Cried ARG.
              • Promising your wife that your son will not be Frog Fractions 3.
              • How many pages of laws a person is subject to at any given time.
              • Designing an ARG for your teenage son and he's like "ugh dad, again?"
              • Mortuary marching bands.
              • The patriarch who has just croaked.
              • The sister with the bent frame.
              • Uncle Louie with the wig.
              • Getting a free concert because someone died.
              • A funeral as a pleasant gathering of people you haven't seen in a long time.
              • Getting arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
              • Dressing up as an ancient sea captain.
              • How many funerals this marching band is playing today.
              • Hiring your nephew who has a Casiotone keyboard to play your funeral.
              • Hiring the Green Street Mortuary Marching Band to play at your kid's birthday but all they know how to play is Taps.
              • Bringing an axe to the funeral in case there's an emergency and you need to open up the coffin quickly.
              • If a guitar is an axe, a tuba is a bent axe.
              • Unbending the Tuba.
              • Why brass instruments are so twisty.
              • If you unwind a French horn it'll reach the moon and back.
              • The large flutes that are curly.
              • The son of a flautist.
              • A bookshelf that you blow into and music comes out.
              • Potential downsides of cryptids.
              • Wanting to take EMF meters into a creepy house even though you don't believe in ghosts.
              • The script scientists developed to let you fall in love at will.
              • How many blue coins out of five you would rate your wife.
              • Taking the Race IAT every week and analyzing your results over time.

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