Topic Lords

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  • Max
    • https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG
    • https://twitter.com/nonstandardmcd
    • Ryan
      • https://twitter.com/RyanIkeComposer

        • Topics:

        • What do you think is behind the human fascination with miniature things?
        • What are things people assume about you, based on your profession, look, or general vibe, that are always untrue?
        • How to fix speed runs
          • https://twitter.com/RavenWorks/status/1214615137056899072
          • Yuri asks "Games you love, but really wish you did not. Maybe even games you really don't like much, but keep playing anyway, like a terrible reality tv show you can't look away from."
          • Does anyone actually like Frame Interpolation? Am I the only one who always turns it off?
          • There seems to be a zoological consensus that hippos share a unique, communal, organized hatred of humankind for reasons that cannot be explained through typical animal behavioral reasoning.
          • A restaurant where all the glasses are the same size but if you order a large it gets poured out of a 55 gallon drum and if you order a small it gets filled with an eye dropper.
            • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YGtQ40Qvs

              • Microtopics:

              • Running a novelty Twitter account about Nonstandard McDonalds.
              • Grabbing every flashlight on your house to light your live TV news appearance.
              • Running a novelty Twitter account about the mundane business details of running a Long John Silver's.
              • White Castle except even stinkier somehow.
              • Making tiny novelty hamburgers out of gelatin and cornstarch.
              • Miniature things which are their normal size but are smaller than you.
              • Sneaking a secret, more interesting topic in after your overt one.
              • Elixirs in a JRPG having expiration dates so you don't end the game with 80 of them, never having used a single one.
              • Holding a Lego minifig in your hands and thinking "I could pop your head off any time I feel like it."
              • Converting inches of height to thousands of dollars per year in salary, and how that works differently for men and women.
              • Taking a knife edge turn into the patriarchy.
              • Knowing you could mash the person you're talking to like a paper bird, but reassuring them that of course you would never do that.
              • Mixing powders into paste and then pressing the paste into a mold.
              • Going down the rabbit hole on slurry-based miniature food construction.
              • The sad sashimi special you get at a shitty bar after work.
              • New shapes of ennui that you've never known as a human being.
              • Biting the brick of instant ramen and then washing it down with a bite of the brick of Golden Curry.
              • Wanting to produce high quality audio but not really caring much about the quality of audio you listen to.
              • Mostly playing video games on consoles that are at least ten years old.
              • Tech workers wanting the least internet-connected kitchen appliances available.
              • Growing up with hair that makes you look like you do a lot of drugs.
              • Getting tossed into camp dirtbag.
              • Trading McDonald's jokes with your novelty McDonald's account followers.
              • Thinking about long hamburgers every day.
              • A tablet you would etch your name into in ancient Egypt, on a hoagie bun.
              • Getting a hoagie delivered from a pizza place like some kind of maniac.
              • Resetting a game until you get a favorable result.
              • Oops All Marathon Strats.
              • Why Speedrun?
              • Speedrunning as a way to share a game you love with the audience.
              • The Timic Skip.
              • The changes Jim made to Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition to make speedrunning it more fun.
              • Designing your game to be interesting to reverse engineer.
              • Tetris: The Grand Master.
              • Cranking the skill ceiling on every aspect of Tetris to the absolute maximum.
              • Stretching the rules of Tetris so much that the Tetris Company says "this has gone too far" and revokes your Tetris license.
              • Designing a game with the assumption of fervent frame by frame analysis by the player base.
              • Returning again and again to a game that doesn't respect your time.
              • BeamNG.drive
              • Gran Turismo Meets Garry's Mod.
              • The most satisfying car crash simulator.
              • Sitting in a sandbox and smashing Micro Machines together.
              • A soft-body physics engine that is supposed to be for gearhead nerds but that you use to crash cars into each other and giggle.
              • The cynicism setting in long before the dopamine cycle wears off.
              • Deliberately avoiding gacha games because you might start paying for spins.
              • Discreetly turning motion smoothing off on your parents' TV.
              • Screening your roommates for whether or not they like motion smoothing.
              • Looking at a 4k TV and not really noticing a difference.
              • The hypothetical audience for motion smoothing.
              • Whether Best Buy is your Best Bud.
              • Stretching a 4:3 image to cover your 16:9 TV.
              • The consumer paying for the chocolate company advertising on the chocolate bar.
              • Negotiating with the car dealership by threatening to remove the license plate frame with the dealership's name on it from your car.
              • The raw power of a hippopotamus.
              • The hippo as a reification of mother earth's desire to cleanse the earth of humanity.
              • Hippo Accelerationism.
              • Importing hippos into every continent so they can kill even more people even faster.
              • The fried banana stand at the San Diego Zoo.
              • Why toucans don't swarm and devour humans.
              • An abominably fat crow forging relationships left and right.
              • Liking someone so much that you leave a big chunk of drywall on their doorstep.
              • A forklift robot that can pour a beverage directly out of a 55 gallon drum.
              • A chemical you can pour on any part of the pizza to form a crust there.
              • A pizza fractal and it never stops, baby.
              • Walking into a Sizzler and asking for the fruit lasagna.
              • The buffet boom of the 80s.
              • Sizzler representing choice in a country about freedom of choice.
              • A four minute indoctrination video shown to new Sizzler employees.
              • The thickest glasses known to man.

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