Topic Lords

296. Do You Know About The Sun?


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The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering Mario around the screen:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyezQsI-v-s
  • Lords:

    • John
    • Esper
    • Topics:

      • Chess, the Musical: a show that is universally acclaimed but no longer performed because it consistently loses money
      • I believe live television to be the most exciting thing humans have invented
      • Blaseball had $3 million in VC funding
      • Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
        • https://allpoetry.com/Pad,-Pad
        • Why not RSS for text?
        • Officiating weddings for your friends
        • Microtopics:

          • The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering the Mario head.
          • Who gets to say "roll theme song!"
          • A community where the chances of someone acting in bad faith is negligible.
          • DC Action News.
          • All human communication is technicallt advertising.
          • The generous Haste demo.
          • A skipping stones on water kind of game.
          • Sonic/Klonoa/late 90s/early 00s aesthetics.
          • A karaoke favorite that is not very reasonably sensitive.
          • All the Tims who did not work on Chess the Musical.
          • The guy from Rent whose name you can't remember.
          • Breakdancing while arbitrating a chess match.
          • Internet radio stations.
          • A Windows 95 theme of Chess the Musical.
          • Installing Windows 95 themes on your Picotron desktop.
          • Sex, Death and Live Television!
          • Live TV mishaps that ruin entirely the wrong career.
          • HQ.
          • At five o'clock, there's gonna be a guy.
          • The sense of spectacle you get from a live broadcast with a big audience.
          • The time one of the leads forgot his entire monologue.
          • The thrill of being part of a live performance as it's going wrong.
          • Listening to Shoutcast channels on Winamp.
          • Winamp's Shoutcast station registry.
          • The childhood dream of owning a TV station and getting to make all the little station IDs.
          • Netflix's abandoned "just fuck me up" button.
          • Six episodes of Deep Space 9 on a single VHS tape.
          • Drop 7 vs. Dropout TV.
          • Getting entirely the wrong information from your survey about what people like about your product.
          • Trying to sign up for Blaseball and failing.
          • Funny names such as Dominic Marijuana.
          • Jumping in and forcing some actions to happen.
          • Needing your game to break so that you can write the way it breaks into the narrative of the story.
          • Blaseball-likes.
          • Terrorball. (Short for Territory Ball.)
          • A list of all locations.
          • The Scarborough Fairies.
          • Resurrecting Jaylen Hotdogfingers.
          • An online text mode football manager with a live chat.
          • Fish Center.
          • Determining which fish is best.
          • Bringing a little bit of the live frisson to a fake live broadcast.
          • Whether it's okay to read a poem more than once.
          • Softly I go now, pad pad.
          • Cats you had together.
          • The cat that Hatricia Hop-Meow is based on.
          • Blogs: do they exist?
          • Making a point of finding an open source way to do your shit.
          • A 24 hour cycle of live podcasts.
          • TiVo for podcasts.
          • Edging the feeling of whether you're watching live TV or not in a slip slidey timestream.
          • Asking chat a question and then waiting 15 to 20 seconds for the response to come back.
          • Bringing back RSS readers.
          • The New Old Reader.
          • Opening with the mawwige joke.
          • Wanting people to want things.
          • Going back to your old life except now your friends are married.
          • Protecting The Lord from unauthorized clergymen.
          • Paying $20 to the Universal Life Church so you can perform weddings in most states.
          • Keeping the card in your wallet in case anyone tries to claim that you're not really an ordained minister.
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