Topic Lords

315. I Can't Believe It's Butter


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Lords:

  • John
  • Kevin
    • https://www.youtube.com/@kevin_hainline
    • Topics:

      • Asking for help / Dealing with the slightest criticism/suggestions/etc
      • Roger Rabbit and Marvel vs. Capcom were big deals. How long until multiverse & crossover shit is exciting again?
      • Update on media that makes me feel things vs. media that doesn't
      • "Bell's Theorem"", a poem that I wrote, and then, at a poetry reading someone suggested the next poem and it demonstrated how good poets are pretty amazing and I am not a good poet
        • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkNH-KlDCAMRNsI6hDZjlyvOpAgM2TsP8x-lIp5TeqQ/edit?usp=sharing
        • We're in a golden age of new official localizations and rereleases of old games (and why am I not playing them?!)
        • Microtopics:

          • Some guy on the internet.
          • Transparent aluminum ukuleles.
          • Hurting your fingers because your ukulele action is too high.
          • Do you still call them cowboy chords when you play them on a ukulele?
          • An astronomer making a series of Youtube videos about Jurassic Park.
          • The history of Mr. DNA.
          • How much kids in the early 90s loved Jamaicans.
          • Solving a 30 year old Internet mystery.
          • Suing Michael Crichton to make him put you in the Jurassic Park acknowledgements section.
          • The Ancient DNA Study Group.
          • Ian Malcolm just saying a bunch of lines from James Gleick's "Chaos."
          • Going into slow motion to show all the Victorian era pickpocketing.
          • Asking an august astronomer to critique your work and squirming as he critiques your work.
          • Therapy-style processing via Topic Lords.
          • People who like being asked for help because it gives them an opportunity to help.
          • The German word for being a person.
          • Being so overly polite that people feel obligated to reassure you that you don't need to be so polite, which is a big pain.
          • After someone helps you, asking for clarification on whether they wanted to help or if they felt obligated.
          • How to save Jim a lot of time and effort.
          • Two people coming from the same gross Internet soup. (Not 4chan)
          • The friends you made on the Pokey the Penguin mailing list.
          • Swearing to kids these days that the internet was good once.
          • Finding the exact right gif for your animated profile picture.
          • Pretend socialization: it's still socialization.
          • Knowing a guy by his Internet handle for decades and suddenly having to call him his birth name.
          • When crossovers started being a thing.
          • The Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people, saying the stage for the world depicted in Bio Freaks for the N64.
          • Daffy and Donald playing rival pianos.
          • Detective Munch's cameo in Fortnite.
          • Konami Wai Wai World.
          • Vib Ribbon n Astro Bot.
          • Why am I on this show when I could be playing Vib Ribbon?
          • Burning episodes of Topic Lords to CD-R so you can play them in Vib Ribbon.
          • Extremely pixelated vector art.
          • The save the cat moment on Topic Lords.
          • Mind-blowing crossover media events where the mind-blowing part is how much they paid all the lawyers to negotiate the deal.
          • Why the indie game scene hadn't produced a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with public domain characters like Robin Hood, Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and Abraham Lincoln.
          • Reagan-Gorbachev.
          • Which president was kidnapped by ninjas.
          • Choosing to let the ninjas keep Ronald Reagan.
          • Ape Out: Get Back In There!
          • Pushing the left stick to lean and pushing the triggers to lift either foot.
          • Trying to play a video game in which you dislike the protagonist.
          • A guy whose defining trait is that he tries to get out of every conversation as quickly as possible.
          • Playing with the mismatch between what the player wants and what the player character wants.
          • Upsetting the apple cart of how video games work.
          • A minimap that takes up the top fifth of the screen but is nonfunctional until you unlock it halfway through the game.
          • Which Jurassic Park video game is most interesting and which is most fun.
          • Looking down at your cleavage to see your health meter.
          • Saying the secret word and screaming real loud.
          • A poem based on a physics thing.
          • Forgetting your ex girlfriend's face, along with all the state capitals.
          • Time pointing an arrow at your back, and you walk.
          • The New Physicality of Long-Distance Love.
          • Sending a poet up on the spaceship to drain buckets from downtown.
          • A poem written sometime between 1936 and 1992.
          • Off-Topic Lords, a place for people who shout answers at podcasts in grocery stores.
          • A collection of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun games.
          • Kid Dracula.
          • Mother 3's copyright nightmare.
          • Mario Paint on the Switch 2.
          • Who was the Terry that Chris Houlihan replaced in Nintendo World Cup?
          • Satellaview games ported to the Switch.
          • Batman Loves Him a Parallelogram.
          • Joining the discord for the best PicoSteveMo experience.
          • KevinHainlineOnYoutube.com
          • Naming a distant galaxy after yourself and other astronomers mocking you mercilessly.
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