February 20, 2023

174. Occam's Raccoon

1 hour 5 minutes

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Lords:

Chris

Alexander

Topics:

Words with similar sounds/meanings but no relation to each other at all.

Virtual marble runs with guns

https://www.youtube.com/@mikan2d

The "broom method" of dealing with a hydrogen leak

https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/706885583716466688

Poem by Dr. Seuss: “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

Loveland Frog (Ohio frog bigfoot?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog

Ghosts are real: what are the economic consequences?

Microtopics:

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.

Lords starting with Xa.

Moving boxes that have handles built in.

All else being equal, a raccoon did it.

Proto-Indo-European.

Putting the S in Island.

The era of Topic Lords when we only discussed Shakespeare.

Some of the things you expect are wrong, and vice-versa.

Bacteria finding proteins hanging around and deciding "this is part of me now."

Branching path structures shooting red and blue bullets at each other.

Escalating Revenge Core Destruction.

If pachinko were extremely elaborate and violent.

Oil timers.

Turning over the rectangle on your desk and forcing the red and green combatants to fight for you once more.

Apollonian circles.

The ancestry of Firefox.

Web browsers surrounded by water on all sides.

Using the entirety of your computing resources to do basically nothing.

A phone app that makes your phone display Flying Toasters but only while it's in your pocket.

Computers that are really good at getting hot and not very good at not getting hot.

An air conditioner but backwards.

Marbula One.

Marble races except every marble is armed with an assault rifle.

The year you finally get into Blaseball.

How Blaseball works.

How to detect a fire that you can't see.

Glass Onion: debunked.

A hell planet completely saturated with a volatile gas populated by lava monsters.

Why leave the house? Just send a probe and infer the existence of your neighbors.

What "from" means in "escape from the tank"

The jingle the hydrogen truck plays as it trundles by.

The Snack of the Stars.

Safety testing various propellants.

What your voice sounds like without any transmission medium.

The Gregorian Underwater Choir.

Naming Helium after the sun because that's where we discovered it.

The Lorax threatening you with a bat.

My huge sawed off flashlight.

Stay back, officer, it's just just a flashlight.

Replacing your self-defense rabies bat every time it dies.

Brushing your self-defense bat's teeth.

Dr. Zeus's book of adult poetry.

Is the Death Star brutalist? Can brutalist architecture be round?

Bee Barns.

A four foot tall frog guy who lives in the woods.

A frog guy. A guy who is a frog.

A frog guy caught between two worlds of posture.

A Wikipedia user whose thing is to make photo illustrations of cryptids and extinct animals.

What happens to Pikachu's soul when it dies.

Ghosts: what do they do all day?

Ghosts exist, and they can talk, and they know all about the afterlife, but also they're huge liars.

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February 20, 2023

174. Occam's Raccoon

1 hour 5 minutes

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

Lords:

Chris

Alexander

Topics:

Words with similar sounds/meanings but no relation to each other at all.

Virtual marble runs with guns

https://www.youtube.com/@mikan2d

The "broom method" of dealing with a hydrogen leak

https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/706885583716466688

Loveland Frog (Ohio frog bigfoot?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog

Ghosts are real: what are the economic consequences?

Microtopics:

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.

Lords starting with Xa.

Moving boxes that have handles built in.

All else being equal, a raccoon did it.

Proto-Indo-European.

Putting the S in Island.

The era of Topic Lords when we only discussed Shakespeare.

Some of the things you expect are wrong, and vice-versa.

Bacteria finding proteins hanging around and deciding "this is part of me now."

Branching path structures shooting red and blue bullets at each other.

Escalating Revenge Core Destruction.

If pachinko were extremely elaborate and violent.

Oil timers.

Turning over the rectangle on your desk and forcing the red and green combatants to fight for you once more.

Apollonian circles.

The ancestry of Firefox.

Web browsers surrounded by water on all sides.

Using the entirety of your computing resources to do basically nothing.

A phone app that makes your phone display Flying Toasters but only while it's in your pocket.

Computers that are really good at getting hot and not very good at not getting hot.

An air conditioner but backwards.

Marbula One.

Marble races except every marble is armed with an assault rifle.

The year you finally get into Blaseball.

How Blaseball works.

How to detect a fire that you can't see.

Glass Onion: debunked.

A hell planet completely saturated with a volatile gas populated by lava monsters.

Why leave the house? Just send a probe and infer the existence of your neighbors.

What "from" means in "escape from the tank"

The jingle the hydrogen truck plays as it trundles by.

The Snack of the Stars.

Safety testing various propellants.

What your voice sounds like without any transmission medium.

The Gregorian Underwater Choir.

Naming Helium after the sun because that's where we discovered it.

The Lorax threatening you with a bat.

My huge sawed off flashlight.

Stay back, officer, it's just just a flashlight.

Replacing your self-defense rabies bat every time it dies.

Brushing your self-defense bat's teeth.

Dr. Zeus's book of adult poetry.

Is the Death Star brutalist? Can brutalist architecture be round?

Bee Barns.

A four foot tall frog guy who lives in the woods.

A frog guy. A guy who is a frog.

A frog guy caught between two worlds of posture.

A Wikipedia user whose thing is to make photo illustrations of cryptids and extinct animals.

What happens to Pikachu's soul when it dies.

Ghosts: what do they do all day?

Ghosts exist, and they can talk, and they know all about the afterlife, but also they're huge liars.

Support Topic Lords

...more

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