Nathanhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/Robbhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/I got pulled into the world of Eurorack modular synthesizers and now I'm finding myself trying to make cogent arguments for bringing uranium ore into the household.EctoparasitesStairs are the driving of walkingThe Beaufort Wind Scale, found by nontannehttps://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/c8PXM396.jpgYear 14 of Cyberganked development. Cryptozookeeper.Struggling to play Yankee Doodle Dandy because the piano teacher doesn't want to hear your rendition of Axel F.Being hit up for $25 by the state. A text adventure with little pictures. Composing your 3D scene using pictures you took at the Denver haunted house your friend runs.Including an in-game explanation for why you chose to use the CGA colors. Playing TXT World and wondering "why would anyone make a game that looks like that?"How do you afford to take seven years to make a game? Finagling money out of various governments during COVID.Turning off the fish so that you can see the cat. Spending thousands of dollars to go to GDC and pitch your game to publishers and finding no takers because your game isn't a roguelike or a deck builder. Financial solvency isn't everything it's cracked up to be! Existing as a person on earth and being as old as possible.Life hacks for making your publisher go out of business.A spreadsheet of 450 game publishers that existed in 2023 whereas now there's just Epic and Roblox.Chainsaws and rocket launchers and other things you have in your front yard.Chainsaws vs. Chainstaffs.Measuring the IQ of every single Topic Lords listener.Asking your artist to make it 10% grosser.I know you have a good working relationship with your artist, but wouldn't you have had a better time alone in a dark room making bullshit with stable diffusion?The Bloodlust Software art style. Showing your four year old nephew how to throw a spear as Scorpion, then spending the rest of the afternoon shouting "get over here!" at each other. Your Eurorack habit leading you to import uranium. So-called "synthesizer music."Shitpost Eurorack Modules. Enriching uranium. Talking to everyone about the uranium-based Eurorack module you want to buy in order to shift the Overton Window until buying the uranium-based Eurorack module seems totally normal. Making the most incredible techno everyone's ever heard before dying of radiation poisoning, like Marie Curie.What the Moog Modular would be like if Bob Moog only designed shitpost modules. The three reasons to buy a hardware synthesizer. Making art on the same device you use to doom scroll. Sitting there with a jeweler's screwdriver trying to tune your synthesizer. Coming on Topic Lords to declare that you're not a pervert.Deckard's Dream.Spending $5000 on a new synthesizer, making one song, and selling it for 75 cents on Bandcamp.Making things go twang in the 70s.The kind of parasites Slimer would have.Fixing a toilet in space.Tongue-eating isopods.Eating a tongue and then becoming the tongue. You are what you eat!Making Elevator Action and then getting in a multi-floor shootout in an office building.Alpha Gal, the matriarch that makes you allergic to beef.Teaming up with the Kool-Aid Man to fight the tick that makes you allergic to the color red. A floor except every step you take is higher than the last and after you take a few steps you're way up in the air.The accident-per-mile-traveled for stairs. How your family reacts the second time you fall down the stairs. What a caveman would think of stairs. What simple machine a staircase is. Hiding from the Dalek on the second floor because Daleks don't understand desires. Umbrellas difficult to use. A poem that came from the sea. Might Order an Extra Mango Lassi.Whether the scoville scale is logarithmic. Arguing against preventing forest forest. Bringing a machete to the farmer's market because what are the chances there are two machetes at the farmer's market? Sea Heaps Up. Fresh Gale vs. Whole Gale.Never having been outside in the wind but trying to guess what happens in a moderate gale.Taking a seven foot Chainstaff to MAGFest.3D printing a giant spear for your Hornet costume. Sign-twirling your seven foot bone spear and terrifying all the MAGFest attendees. 
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