September 15, 2025

308B. Oops, All Microtopics!

28 minutes

This is the pre-show planning and banter for episode 308, recorded and edited basically by accident?? Enjoy??

Microtopics:

The old saw that if the teacher is 15 minutes late, you are excused.

All the hosts forgetting about the podcast so that episode just doesn't get recorded.

The seam in the fish video.

Procedurally vs. manually textured terrain.

How to texture a limestone chunk.

Whether Donkey Kong Bananza is deliberately evoking the sickly sheen of Donkey Kong Country's raytraced art.

Procedurally decorating terrain in Techtonica.

A lens flare shaped like bananas.

Mario Kart opinions.

Doing a stunt for the next 30 seconds.

The Baja 1000 but with Mario Kart.

How Mario Kart tries to make highways interesting.

A souped-up Volkswagen Beetle driving 1000 miles through the desert

Mario Kart except it's Desert Bus.

A Hunter S. Thompson stand-in sent to report on Mario Kart races and ranting about the Mushroom Kingdom.

Keeping your powder dry in case your anecdote gets promoted to Topic.

Topics that have been in the bucket for a long time and probably will remain there for a long time.

Doing a brass fall with your mouth.

Finally learning to play "Imagine" on piano.

Zoom's musician mode.

Going on a date with twins to the same restaurant but neither one knows about the other, so you have to keep going into the bathroom and parting your hair the other way.

The episode of Three's Company where there's a misunderstanding.

Don Knotts making a weird face.

Your prospective roommates explaining that you have to pretend to be gay so the landlord doesn't think you're all having sex with each other.

More behind than ahead.

Keeping cats in the Storage Atrium.

Buying an organ from a salvage yard.

Bartering with the organ maker's apprentice.

The Estey Organ Company.

Playing a bad prog rock solo on the analog synthesizer next to your couch.

An organ with all of its organs showing.

An accordion with zero subtlety.

The difference between an electric piano and a digital piano.

The Yamaha Clavinova with Advanced Wave Modeling.

Don't play these notes unless you want to hear them forever.

Topic Negotiation.

Driving every single topic into the ground.

Support Topic Lords

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