Topic Lords

194. How Good It Was, To Have A Toe


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Lords:

  • Danny
  • Danny
  • Topics:

    • Most Song Lyrics are redundant
    • Perfect fourths and fifths are named wrong
    • It's almost summer and that means it's time for Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer"
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg
      • Who wants to do a smutty poem?? We haven't done one of those
        • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47339/upon-julias-clothes
        • Oh yes
        • Celebrity Deaths are getting out of control
        • ZZT has achievements now
        • Microtopics:

          • Which Danny should go first.
          • The Noclip Archive.
          • Night Brunch.
          • Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness.
          • Whatever happened to MySpace.
          • The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with.
          • Stop making weird things!
          • Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message.
          • Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later.
          • The native language of rock and roll.
          • Prisencolinensinainciusol.
          • Irish rap.
          • All the ways music is redundant.
          • A very inefficient way to communicate factual information.
          • The Mentos jingle.
          • Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons.
          • Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed.
          • Teaching kids to love it.
          • What's perfect about a perfect fifth.
          • Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison."
          • Lydian to Locrian.
          • An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device.
          • Trying to bring up topics out in the wild.
          • Even majorer then major.
          • What it means to be far from A.
          • A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego.
          • Keyjazzing.
          • Weirdos making weirdo outsider art.
          • The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument.
          • Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head.
          • Something to watch.
          • Economy of movement.
          • Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space.
          • The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages.
          • Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts.
          • Smutty poetry.
          • Whether singer songwriters have parentheses.
          • The Diamond Fleece.
          • Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word.
          • Brave Vibrations.
          • What people thought was sexy in the 1600s.
          • Talking about a topic because people can hear you.
          • The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if"
          • America's Whitest City.
          • A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said.
          • Investigating the Cool S for ten years.
          • Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria.
          • People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed.
          • The first celebrity.
          • Increasing numbers of celebrities.
          • Industrialized celebrity.
          • Adopting a future grief machine.
          • Practicing grief.
          • Several generations of digital fish.
          • Trugoy the Dove.
          • Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music.
          • Downsides of everyone living forever.
          • This is a mistake. (Here I go.)
          • Pre-dead.
          • Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics.
          • Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call.
          • What a time to not want to be alive!
          • Doing squats so you can get out of a chair.
          • Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma.
          • Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames.
          • ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive.
          • Caverns of Kroz.
          • An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups.
          • Retro Achievements.
          • Modding emulators to add achievements to old games.
          • Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F.
          • Achievements as a ludological device.
          • Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for.
          • Citizen Game.
          • A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not.
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