Topic Lords

175. This Movie Has Marky Mark In It

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Lords:

  • Erica
  • Jesse

    • Topics:

    • There's a Spanish word which officially cannot be written because the grammar and orthography conflict about how it should spelled/pronounced.
    • My personal relationship with Disco Elysium
    • Clue II: Murder in Disguise
    • All of the Words on a Bottle of Rolling Rock Beer in a Different Order
      • https://expatriotact.blogspot.com/2006/10/poets-corner-demetri-martin.html
      • This year's beast of a Mystery Hunt
      • Shareable alarms

        • Microtopics:

        • Texans with nothing to plug.
        • The Army Corp of Engineers coming to your town and kicking ass.
        • No, and no.
        • Fuck em, just get a laptop.
        • Fact checking the dinner table conversation with your laptop.
        • An interaction deemed normal.
        • The Spanish double-L sound.
        • Finally finding a way that spelling in English is more sensible than spelling in Spanish.
        • Desperately avoiding hearing French spoken incorrectly.
        • A place that is less like the rest of Canada than any part of the United States is like the United States.
        • A good relaxing podcast that leads to substantial academic progress.
        • Stormdancer Zero.
        • Secret of Monkey Island with additional D&D stat checks and communism.
        • Continents not connected to tectonic plates but instead freely floating in the mist.
        • When your stats talk to you.
        • Equipping a philosophical idea in your thought cabinet.
        • Where the resource extraction happens.
        • An alcoholic amnesiac video game protagonist.
        • Finding the richest person in town to explain to you how the world works.
        • Recreating all your characters from the ground up to be optimized for the game engine.
        • Cheating past the final boss in Baldur's Gate because the alternative is starting from scratch with a viable build.
        • Revising your thinking about the Gros Michel banana.
        • Campy goofballs doing campy goofball shit except it's not Tim Curry this time.
        • The guy whose name Jim can't remember who played Chuck on Better Call Saul.
        • The VCR board game phenomenon.
        • Scenes sort of adding up into a narrative if you squint.
        • Seeing John Lithgow when nobody else sees him.
        • How to get Michael Land to talk to you at CES.
        • Out-of-work FMV actors.
        • Specializing in loving horrible FMV games.
        • The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
        • DVD games vs. VCR games.
        • A DVD arriving too late to save a drowning VCR game industry.
        • The pride of seeing your topic grow up and take its place in the world.
        • Panache, aplomb, and savoir-faire.
        • Rolling, glass tanks of beverages that rocked that lined mountain.
        • Women as the exception to implied maleness.
        • A folk pop album featuring a disgraced CDC employee.
        • 50 Cent rapping about going to prison for insider trading.
        • The Topic Lords Guarantee.
        • A series of interconnected puzzles that you solve as a team.
        • Flavor text explaining why it's fun to solve this math problem.
        • A beautiful puzzle hunt that is way too long.
        • Assuming that being good at solving puzzles is the same skill as constructing puzzles.
        • Waiting all year for a chocolate box that ends up being a marathon through Death Valley.
        • How to test a 100-person puzzle hunt.
        • Admonishing astronomers to "get good."
        • Puzzles that are like tiny little gifts that open up and dance in front of you.
        • A chip that controls a single light point on the wall.
        • Doing something for free vs. doing it for a pittance.
        • Losing your wedding ring but also your wedding ring screams once a day.
        • Your screaming wedding ring following you from house to house.
        • One o’clock: Time for Pants.
        • Remembering that it's time for pants no matter what time zone you're in.
        • The Playstation Vita's pants alarm.
        • Playing a competitive minigame to see who can wake up fastest.
        • Earning achievements for getting out of bed.
        • The app that is the opposite of sex.

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