Topic Lords

By Jim StormdancerComedy Education Arts

Topic Lords episodes

February 03, 2025276. The Yukon Territories Foodie Scene
Lords:
Remy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/
Abhi
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/Venba/
Topics:
Why does food taste better outside of Canada?
Xander asks: "Biased history is better"
Is it fair to make a new game console when we haven't finished the ones we already have?
Puranaanooru
https://oldtamilpoetry.com/2016/04/04/puranaanooru-256/
What's one IP you would like to adapt or work with?
Microtopics:
An image that allows you to attribute the text above it to the character in the image.
Knower. (The one who knows things.)
Losing your faith in God until you see the clip of Mario Kart showing 24 starting positions.
Visual novels with contextualized minigames.
Enjoying food more abroad.
Orbiting the United States.
Which state makes the best dosas.
The best Asian food ten minutes south of Vancouver.
Waves of immigration establishing generations of restaurants.
When there are finally enough immigrants in a city that one of them might open a restaurant to serve food to other immigrants.
Vancouver's restaurant licensing situation.
Vancouver's medallion system for food trucks.
No Good Pizza In My Back Yard!
NAID 96.
Jim's personal experience with Canadian food.
Whether it's what it sounds like.
Capturing the history of written language in your game.
The constant flux of our understanding of history.
Xander-biased history.
A very happy self-described sad boy.
Squeezing every last great game out of the Atari 2600 before creating a new game console.
Hoarding Pico-8 games on your desktop.
The golden era of video game development effort-to-return ratio.
New ways to make games look more expensive.
Outrageously high margins that you are not expected to fill.
Games that would still be fun if the graphics were worse.
Giving your PS5 to your dad so you can buy a PS5 Pro.
Brain hacking yourself.
PS5 Pro Max.
Realizing you don't need to upgrade your game console or in fact any consumer electronics ever again.
The Fairchild Channel F Pro, featuring S-Video.
The Dave the Diver revolution.
Failing enough that you decide to change.
Fortnite Money.
You can't read ancient Tamil?!
A small white lizard stuck to the wagon axle hub's spoke.
The purpose of art. (For people to examine it in 2000 years and find things out about you.)
Finding out what dead people thought.
Finding the time to be cruel.
Shocking Adventure Time moments.
Trusting what people write about themselves.
Finally understanding Xander Bias.
A love letter to Indian cinema.
Things Metroid Prime does to make you feel like you're inside a space suit.
Waiting for the Metroid IP to expire so you can make your Metroid fan game in your extreme old age.
Continuity nerds.
Reboot.
Vancouver-coded fictional cities.
Telus Storyhive.
An IP address you're dying to do.
Shouldn't Zelda and Sokoban be the same genre?
Atari 50 vs. UFO 50.
A murder mystery that you solve by playing video games.
Why the CBC is like that.
Brown Money.
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1 hr 9 min
January 27, 2025275. Angora Semiconductors
Lords:
Maxx
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=mildreth
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=delia
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=cosmicfault
Chall
Topics:
I love the steam deck
The puzzle of the Wikipedia did you know section
The neuroplasticity theory of why we dream
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DELHsgYRamy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination
https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/viral-image-unrecognisable-objects-creepy-14705067
She Needed a Hobby, by Maxx
Microtopics:
Comic Fury.
The most mediocre comic.
Mildreth of the Night.
Collage vs. ransom note.
A squirrel that finds a way to contact aliens.
Using Redbubble to host your webcomic.
Direct-to-cassette podcast episodes.
A co-op game that makes you raise your voice.
Overcooked but it's a train.
The part of the train that keeps you moist and warm.
How to run Pico-8 on the Steam Deck.
Not wanting to get a Steam Deck because you might drop it on your face.
How many liters a parrot is.
One of those massage beds where your face goes in a little hole and your hands dangle to reach the controls of the Steam Deck that's lying on the ground.
Waterproofing the Vive.
Games Done Pwick.
Sonic the Hedgehog looking like he ought to be a progress bar but he definitely isn't.
Emulators: you can do that!
Extremely intricate marble runs.
Retiring so you have enough time to configure the warping on your enormous loom.
The pleasant monotony of weaving vs. the meticulous craft of warping.
Tuning 1000 pianos at once.
Using a drop spindle to turn wool into thread.
Spinning wool straight from the rabbit.
Breeding for maximum stats on every axis.
Facts that are not particularly fun.
Seeing what the Wikipedia home page looks like on January 2nd, 2525.
Why is a mountain landscape?
Make-your-own-fun fun facts.
Who is this man? Why did he steal a horse?
Clicking on the nomination wizard.
Five Clicks to Jesus and other Wikipedia routing games.
Getting really into patterns and categories.
Shoehorning your favorite pop culture thing into everywhere you can fit it.
Mock Guffin.
Breaking down a story into a list of tropes.
Screen savers for the visual cortex.
Finding stories in the noise.
Different levels of the thing where you see patterns on the back of your eyelids.
How much can you see behind your eyes?
Running experiments on your own physiology.
New places on your body you haven't pressed yet.
Strobe lights for your ears.
Covering the speaker on your phone because you're too place to turn down the volume.
How text looks in your dreams.
Latching onto the idea of a story.
Tasting a lot of math problems before you go to sleep.
A gross crinkled dog texture.
Accidentally crocheting so much that you remake the universe.
The names of such unthinkable numbers.
A crochet pattern for an infinite Mobius strip.
Cool yarns from the local crafting store.
The ability to stick with a hobby.
Crocheting a functional internal combustion engine.
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1 hr 6 min
January 20, 2025274. Samuel Beckett's Animal Crossing Letters
Lords:
John
https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cutie-christmas
Elena
Topics:
Potluck advent calendar
NES games in my collection that are currently ranked rather low according to Science
http://8bitnintendo.science
Subtopic: I've grown to love engaging with criticism and differing opinions of silly things I like.
How animals read
https://jamchamb.net/projects/animal-crossing-letters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy-kIXzX5Cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlpWJ80d_Y
https://ailbey.tumblr.com/post/750880084257374208
https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Wrinkles-Drapery-Solutions-Drawing/dp/0823015874
https://www.drawright.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Colour-Atlas-Human-Anatomy/dp/0723408823
Microtopics:
Crispy Shrimp Balls.
What makes it Dim Sum?
Whether there's always a cart that you roll around.
Tapas Lords, a new ASMR podcast.
The Blade of Cutie Pants: a Very Cutie Christmas.
Christmas Dangerous Dave.
Here's a song. I'm going to scroll past that.
Stock footage of Godzilla attacks.
An album about making games in Kilk n Play.
Granny Cream's Hot Butter Ice Cream.
Jim's songs in the Hypnospace OST.
Knowing a lot of people just by hanging out and being entertaining.
Recognizing sounds by looking at them.
Tea and Jam Advent Calendars.
Tippy Tops.
3D-printed animals with wiggly arms.
Taking the economics of Halloween and applying it to Christmas.
Stocking Stuffers Every Day.
365-day Advent Calendars.
Santa with a Fanta.
Showing Home Alone to a kid who already loves setting up traps.
An Advent Calendar filled with traps.
Never playing board games but opening up the boxes and playing with the pieces.
Fake Winstons.
Getting 2.5 trinkets from each person.
Half-Lego, Half-Chocolate.
Why your favorite NES games are terrible.
Shipping a game that's no good but damned if it doesn't exist.
A Failure of Science.
Rare game or Rare game?
The Treasure Master walk cycle.
The worst NES games with the best soundtracks.
British developers succeeding on the Commodore 64 but failing on the NES because people are willing to pay 6 quid for the latest Rob Hubbard track, but not $50.
Your neighbor who had Big Nose Freaks Out.
Punching the clues.
Buying the 3D version of Urban Champion on purpose.
Trying to go back to Super Monkey Ball.
Nostalgically revisiting your best Super Monkey Ball replays.
Accidentally transposing two digits and now you have a Super Monkey Ball world record.
Making local copies of videos you want to continue to exist.
Recognizing when something works for someone else but not you.
Writing letters to your animal neighbors.
The seven criteria to judge a letter.
How to safely write a letter about VVVVVV to your Animal Crossing neighbor.
Roleplaying James Joyce in Animal Crossing.
Teaching Animal Crossing a slur and then returning the cartridge to Gamestop.
Deciding that it's okay if local news stations freak out.
Taking joy in extremely mundane activities.
How you spend your moments and how you feel about them.
Watching TV so that in several decades you can go to a bar and find out who's the same age as you.
Practicing love by trying to love yourself.
The breakup song from the Wedding Singer.
Corollaries of aphantasia.
Blind people watching TV.
Learning to draw by studying human anatomy and proportions in detail and imagining the body kinesthetics.
Looney Tunes artists making faces in the mirror.
Knowing how bones go.
The Bone Book.
That's Topics!
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1 hr 6 min
January 13, 2025273. Why Isn't Dracula Good at Anything?
Lords:
Esper
https://ourbroadcastday.com/
RT-55J
https://rt-55j.itch.io/
Topics:
Memes where the specific instance of joke customization is frontloaded, while the punchline remains the same every time.
Making ZZT games in 2024
https://stale-meme.itch.io/the-king-in-yellow-borders
It's 2024 and still nobody has ported Mario 64 to the Commodore 64
https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cutie-christmas
What I Would Tell Eve by Maegen McAuliffe O’Leary
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1ez31sh/poem_what_i_would_tell_eve_by_maegen_mcauliffe/
"A vampire with a cheque-book, a solicitor, and a balance at the bank is not a plausible kind of creature." - Andrew Lang (contemporary reviewer of Dracula)
Do you think there were any Fortnite die-hards who got really upset when Fortnite started introducing Marvel and Star Wars guys to the game?
Microtopics:
A Muppet Christmas Carol.
Gradations of Michael Caine oldness.
The Museum of ZZT.
Wizened ZZT Wizards.
Taking a common idea and altering it in an interesting way.
Why do plays still exist?
Making up an audience to applaud you.
Rehearsing a conversation in a low-oxygen environment.
A guy walking around touching things in the world and flavor text appears.
The ZZT aspect ratio problem.
Sneaking into the office at night and playing ZZT in silent mode so you don't bother the janitor.
8-way movement in ZZT.
Reasons to stick with a certain set of constraints.
WeaveZZT.
Making a deck builder RPG in ZZT.
The safety and romance of a good set of constraints.
The King in Yellow Borders.
Oktrollberfest.
A found object horror game built in a fake ZZT engine.
Wario doing a ground pound and breaking the Youtube interface around the video.
Reading like 200 pages of Problem Sleuth and never getting around to Homestuck.
A program you can install to make your computer look like it's still running Windows Vista, and another you can install to make it feel like Obama is still president.
Porting ZZT to the Commodore 64.
An economy of people enjoying themselves.
Porting Mario 64 to ZZT and ending up on the front page of Planet Quake.
Tux Racer.
Scoping your game just big enough for people to see screen shots and get excited, but small enough that it's still finishable.
Mario 64's British Platformer Energy.
Whether Argonaut or Rare was a bigger influence on the design of Mario 64.
3D Construction Kit for the Commodore 64.
Trying to build a scene in PovRay.
What iPad kids were like in the mid-90s.
Whether or not Eve ate the best possible apple.
Plausible and implausible vampires.
Ahistorical vampire analysis.
Why there's chicken on the Streets of Rage
What the Antediluveans got up to.
The 14 million year war for Cybertron.
What did you eat for 14 million years?
Subsisting on pure unfiltered Sparklemotion.
Two robots punching each other in the face for millennia.
Nike sponsorships in Magic the Gathering.
A roadmap of Magic the Gathering Crossovers.
The Guitar Hero game where you could make Kurt Cobain perform Run DMC.
Rated E for Explicit.
A PubG with fort building mechanics.
Winning your first game of Fortnite and retiring forever.
The Super Smash Instinct.
Monetizing a child's insatiable gambling instincts.
Playing a video game and worrying about the developer's immortal soul.
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1 hr 3 min
January 06, 2025272. Beakknifed in Busch Gardens
Lords:
Ryan
Cort
Topics:
Is it possible to make a "meat flavored" potato chip that's not disgusting.
Meandering Pico-8 tracker jabbering
Do you think anyone has ever used the "Add or Remove Programs" interface to add a program?
Tommy C
https://genius.com/Dan-le-sac-vs-scroobius-pip-tommy-c-lyrics
Advent calendars are just tiny bulk-rate loot crates
Microtopics:
Ryan Ike Audio on Instagram.
How to make music and have balance in your life.
If there's nothing to fail at, what are you bad at?
Stand Elsewhere, an Oregon Trail-like.
Converting 50s pop songs to chunky four channel chip tunes.
The Pico-8 Splore database.
Asking a friend to make music for your PiCoSteveMo game, and having to explain what a PiCoSteveMo is, then Pico-8, trackers, music, sound, air, matter, and existence itself.
Potatoed Chips.
Romanian Beef Bolognese Flavored Potato Chips.
Abuela's All-Day Braised Carnitas potato chips.
Hate-buying a terrible flavor potato chips over and over so you can make everybody you know taste them.
Raw Hamburger flavored potato chips that moo when you eat them.
The Doritos Brain-hack.
Looking at the box of Frosted Mini-Wheats with a shrimp on the box and thinking "that's a little shrimpy"
Cool American Doritos.
Eat the cool. They knew the risks.
A bowl of M&Ms with a single Skittle in it.
Fresh Meat Potato Chips.
Walking into the Frito-Lay factory, dangling your jaw open and waiting for come what may.
All Night Nippon Shredded Abuela's Braised Carnitas.
The Taki's One-Chip Challenge.
Inviting all your friends over to try the new Strawberry Mochi Dill Pickle potato chips.
Explaining to your daughter's friends' parents that we're going to give your children tablets I got on the Internet and then we're going to eat lots of food and it's going to taste really weird. The FDA doesn't allow you to put this in food but I need you to dissolve this on your tongue.
Par-boiling your soft palate in lemon juice because it tastes so amazing.
Reprogramming your tongue to remix your palate.
What to do if you love both music and spreadsheets.
Art tools that make your tummy feel icky.
Mr. Lee by the Bobbettes.
What trackers are good at.
An extremely Bojangles tracker configuration.
Trying to do Math Rock in the Pico-8 tracker.
Triggering patterns 0 through 7 as instruments.
Whether the Add or Remove Programs interface can add a program.
Windows Sandbox.
Jacking your whole life up but your Windows desktop is pristine.
Getting a burner desktop for write-ins.
Inventing a guy named Dampiel and getting mad at him even years later.
Classic Dampy.
Renaming your game to doom.exe and suddenly Nvidia cards run it way better.
Putting a comment in your shader saying "Dear Nvidia, please make this shader look rad."
The Valve guy refusing to tell you how the math is wrong.
A selection of gags, hand movements and facial expressions.
Dying onstage while the audience applauds.
Feigning death so often as part of your comedy act so when you really die during your routine it'll be hilarious.
Death: just a bad deal all around.
Not my birth mom, but my robo-mom.
Having a death so weird that even as an extremely minor celebrity you end up on TMZ.
Doing extensive R&D so that you can somehow be murdered by a flamingo.
A bloodied flamingo wearing Ryan Ike's glasses.
Walking through the zoo looking for opportunities for environmental storytelling.
Accidentally doing an immaculate 360 Christ Air and then dying on impact.
Thinking of one funny scenario a month.
A treat that's busting the seams of the Advent Calendar door.
A sack of little handmade animal ornaments.
The Joy of Mastery.
Empty Advent Calendars.
Going shopping for used candy after Halloween.
Terrible Novelty Potato Chip of the Day.
One big Advent calendar the size of a barn door with 365 doors in it.
The Mayan Advent Calendar.
Automats.
Wheel of Fortune except you're assembling a wheel and not a phrase.
Spin the wheel, make a deal!
The first podcast of the rest of your life.
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1 hr 7 min
December 30, 2024271. Ego Death Mario
Lords
Tyriq
Stevie
Avery
Topics:
What is Dr. Mario's specialty?
Boutique sardines
Street Sharks (and the lies about them)
PiCoSteveMo is over! (as of this recording)
Microtopics:
Throwing out an idea like a plate of spaghetti, or a grenade.
Odd Object.
Piggy-back dual plugs.
Now! That's What I Call Avery Burke, Vol. VII.
Jason Shiga.
Older kids who are into roughhousing and watching shark movies.
Audio Issues Because of Dog.
The only place on the Internet you can hear cardboard boxes rubbing against each other.
Two hours of an attractive woman scraping her thumbnail on a microphone.
Dr. Mario telling someone that they only have-a four months to live-a.
The weird forehead mirror that old-timey doctors wear.
The opinions of someone who's eaten cat food.
Grandma barging in while you're eating dog food.
Flintstones Cannibalism Vitamins.
Barney's PTSD after the Neanderthal Wars.
Wacky Races, the original MCU.
Dr. Mario's pill pusherside hustle causing the opioid crisis.
Ego Death Mario microdosing the germs in the pill bottle who transcend to the great pill bottle in the sky.
Coming up with the conceit that your band is enemies with sea mammals and making all future audiences hate you.
Three adorable sardines rowing a boat shaped like a dragon.
An octopus tentacle that looks like a serial port or a 2x6 spot light.
The animal that you're eating depicted in cartoon form as cheering you on.
An anthropomorphic ginger root eating a ginger candy.
Single-serving black characters.
Eating a fish and finding an entire spine.
The weirdest bone to find.
Free floating animals gathering into a colony and turning into a face.
The most popular fish sauce in ancient Rome.
Sealing a whale hand in a trash can with duct tape for two years until it starts leaking and your roommate has to help you dispose of it wearing a hazmat suit.
Tucking a whale bone under your trench coat and sneaking out of the museum.
Famous whale disposal techniqus.
Fishwife, fish life!
Not knowing about the preexisting work that your favorite cartoon is in conversation with because you're a kid and don't know anything.
Slammu, Ripster and Streex.
Michelangelo, Leonardo, DiCaprio, and Don Angelo.
Vin Diesel being very excited about the Street Sharks.
IP Homeopathy.
Sexy Mummy Costume.
Using mumnies as train fuel because they are so plentiful.
You can't get Mummy Brown any more because of Woke.
Who has and hasn't heard of Tommy Tallarico.
A toy that lets you shoot at the TV screen during the interactive parts of Captain Power.
Fresh off the PiCoSteveMo boat.
Graph going up emoji.
Lots of different skill levels going on in there.
Aardvarks and anteaters.
A three hour celebration of weird things that games can be.
Look Who's The Shining Two!
Why the Sokoban puzzle in Ocarina of Time sucks.
Puzzles vs. situations.
Tony and the Tony Mechanic.
The Thought Leader of the Thinky Games Community.
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1 hr 12 min
December 23, 2024270. B-Roll of the Big Bang
Lords:
Alexander
Hallie
Topics:
Making AI drunk
Alexander's name generator, rehosted: http://twinbeard.com/names/
How Star Wars being bought Disney is basically the same thing as the Roman Empire converting to Christianity
Electromagnetism
Super Bon Bon (according to Google search)
https://www.google.com/search?q=super+bon+bon+lyrics
Using flow theory and Kubler Ross grief to drive learning systems
Animals you want to pet, but cannot.
Microtopics:
A Game Called Anomaly.
A tarot-based GM-less storytelling game about a sinister organization investigating a supernatural The KGB (not that one)
Deliberately lo-fi neural nets.
Real to less-real name sliders.
What Jamden Ovenson is up to these days.
Cranking the tipsy slider all way up.
anomaly.
Things humans can do with new tools.
Setting desired and undesired objectives for your learning designers.
Learning to speak as many languages as possible so that Godzilla does not rise from the briny deep.
Refusing to let the AI drive the bus.
A very big json dump.
The Mac Mini in your closet that runs your witch's familiars.
Things that are obvious to you but not to anyone else.
Cool apocryphal acts, bro.
Getting into Christ before it was cool.
Decanonizing anything that doesn't serve your power interests.
Bible/Star Wars crossover fan fiction.
Once you eat the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Metals that can be turned into a magnet.
Where to even start with spin?
Whether protons are physical objects.
The language of perceiving the world.
Reading a poem about quantum physics.
Finally understanding the mathematics of love so you can ditch the love poetry and find the best lovers in the math department.
Which types of quark are super effective against other types of quark.
Why they call it electromagnetism.
But what about the Bullet Galaxies?
Weakly-interactive massive particles, or WIMPs.
Another particle that we thought up.
Microphones not picking up your tinnitus.
Extremely slow and old neutrinos.
Cosmic Microwave Background Average Frame of Reference.
The Soul Coughing cadence.
A poem, but it's performed in a certain rhythm. Some white guy should invent that and take credit for it.
Song Meanings Blog Dot Com.
Helping drive exploration of new ideas.
Making a name generator so bad that nobody uses it more than once.
Patterns and responses that characterize human behavior.
Grief as a mechanism to address overfitting in the human learning model.
The Parable of the Spandrel.
Possibilities that are more probable than Godzilla having eaten your house.
Depression as a way to just sit there.
Automatons with anxiety.
Entering random Game Genie codes into your neural net.
Wanting to pet a service dog because he's the best boy.
Service dogs having their own service dogs, recursively all the way down.
A chicken named Regular Expressions, or Reggie for short.
Digging in anything that looks diggable.
Being desperately confused by objects that you can see through but not walk through.
Ways to not get tricked by yourself or others.
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December 16, 2024269. Wet-Ass Planetoid
Lords:
Tyriq
Alex
Topics:
Trying to superficially familiarize myself with every country
The log burner fan
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S68d58689db54401f9a434456881cbdfcf/4-Blade-Heat-Powered-Stove-Fan-Log-Wood-Burner-Eco-Friendly-Quiet-Fireplace-Fan-WinterWarm.jpg
Drilling this chair for ancient water
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, by Kenneth Koch
https://allpoetry.com/Variations-On-A-Theme-By-William-Carlos-Williams
Boichik bagels
Boxfish skeletons are wilder than seahorse skeletons
Microtopics:
Saya Gray.
Least-favorite UFO 50 games.
Treating the city you live in as if you're a tourist.
Going to obscure corners of parking lots.
A way to have an adventure in real life.
The tiny squishy seal that's no longer in your back pocket.
Web sites that are nothing but quizzes.
Trying to name every country.
This Sporcle quiz's opinion about which disputed territories count as countries.
Feeling more worldly after you memorize the names of every country.
Learning katakana and then being annoyed when signs do katakana wrong.
The curse of perfect-pitch.
Corrupted Pitch.
Tuning your whole band to the same out of tune guitar.
Hearing sounds in your head but only the sounds you're also hearing with your ears.
State.gov hosting PDF reports of the US government's opinion of every country.
Dear diary, today I did a cool fishing trade with Norway.
The Four Guineas.
The Place Across the Woods.
A giant CPU heat sink in gunmetal black sitting on top of your wood burning stove.
Devices powered by ambient temperature differentials.
The spinning thing on the roof that looks like a macaroon.
Putting googly eyes on your turbine roof vents.
Whether Stirling Engines are useful for anything other than a demonstration of the principles of the Stirling Engine.
Fluids moving through spaces of different sizes.
Injection molded hollow chunky boys.
Extremely mundane time capsules.
A Chair for Scientists.
A giant plastic-encased garbage ravioli.
Entire ecosystems that have existed without light for thousands of years.
Your FEMA-approved disaster preparedness chair.
Sorting all the water molecules on earth from newest to oldest.
Artists' depictions of the Hadean Earth.
The biggest wettest comet in the universe.
Don Quixote, the sopping wet comet.
Free sharps, only used once!
Writing a piece for prepared guitar after your kid fills the guitar with crayons.
Unprepared Pianos.
Juicy cold March wind.
A fair-use parody.
AI analysis of poetry that completely misses the point.
Editing Wikipedia to say that Lil Jon went to Harvard.
List of Rivers in Togo.
What a Specific Guy!
Registering an account to vandalize Wikipedia every few months for years.
Supermarket bagels.
Boiling round bread in water with crustaceans from the Bronx.
Making your own water to make coffee with.
Where to get food-grade lye.
Pastrami lox.
Seahorse skeletons.
Every Platonic Solid Has a Fish.
Where babies breathe from.
Fish without ribcages.
Caltrops arranged into a fish.
Using a pufferfish skeleton as a fidget toy.
The pufferfish at the center of our solar system.
The kind of decoration you see in a lobster joint.
Tropes of the open ocean.
The guy preventing you from being able to find search results for the Atari game Toobin'.
The loudest drinks in the world.
The Toobin' zone in LEGO Dimensions.
Chucking whole unopened cans of beer from your inner tube.
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December 09, 2024268. Puzzles for Puzzle Enjoyers
Lords:
James
https://pounced-on.me/@Triplefox
Kev
https://kevzettler.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@MikeMotion83
Topics:
Copyparty
Egg punk vs. chain punk
Going geocaching three times
https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/ugJWqQdP.jpg
Septic Tanks
https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/q0tW8KtD.jpg
Certain kinds of trash you don't see any more
Mosquito bites
Microtopics:
Multiple recurring lords.
Going back to an earlier episode to listen to the plugs.
Agreeing to a copy party without knowing what it is.
Multi-part RARs.
Putting together educational material for your hypothetical younger self.
Manually extracting files over a physical USB connection.
Org-mode.
A collection of ogg vorbis music.
Your personal learning mind-map for learning how to draw.
The bottom end of expertise.
Two contrasting branches of the punk community.
Nerdy; dancey; influenced by Devo.
Musical genres refusing to converge no matter how close they get.
genres refusing to converge no matter how close they get.
How old you have to be to know about My Bloody Valentine.
Finally getting your act together and installing the right app and logging into the right web site.
Finding excuses to be more engaged with nature.
Having conversations, like you do with friends in a park.
Finding an Altoids tin where you would expect to find a bunch of spider webs.
Walking through half-nature in near-complete darkness.
Climbing down a rocky embankment in near-complete darkness with your phone in one hand.
Caches getting muggled.
Null Island.
Realizing that you're about to go on the bad kind of adventure.
A passing wizard complimenting you on your ironic orc-detecting sword.
A stuffed BB-8 that you use for photo opportunities.
Leaving one line of your toilet poem blank in case you think of a good rhyme for "too."
The kind of poem you put in your bathroom.
A pithy way to say what to put in the toilet.
Telling the restaurant's poet laureate that he really nailed that septic tank poem.
Using a black marker to redact the line about cigarette butts from your poem.
A book that reads like browsing Reddit.
Taking your mind off of your butt for five minutes.
Whether Law and Order was ever an accurate depiction of police procedure.
How they convicted or didn't convict the latest perp.
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
TV Guides lying on the street.
The genre of children's craft made from newspaper.
Archaeologists finding a thousand year old USB drive and finding a bunch of PDFs and videos about how to learn to draw.
FAT16 vs. FAT32.
Multi-volume ARJ files.
Putting together dual-purpose CDs for punk banks.
CD-ROMs shaped like a business card.
Inserting mini-CDs into a slot loading CD drive.
What it takes to make an indie Gamecube game.
Side-factoids about Luigi's Mansion.
Luigi's Mansion counting the volume of dust you've vacuumed through the whole playthrough.
The new Duck Tales game modeling the physics of every treasure you can collect so you can swim in them.
Mosquito activity in the midwest.
Hanging out around mosquito predators.
Mosquitos waking up for the gloaming and then going back to bed.
Finding the one high-altitude spot in the Panhandle to avoid the mosquitos.
Feeling bad about killng mosquitos after playing Hollow Knight.
Your favorite mind control force.
Golfers hitting that ball to make the number go down when they could just play less and it'd stay at 0 forever.
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December 02, 2024267. Unburying the Duck
Lords:
John
Erica
Topics:
Golden owl pre-post-mortem
https://goldenowlhunt.com/
Twin update: one year later
Notepad has support for alternative line endings now
Goodnight Moon (And/or Goodnight Dune?)
https://www.firstcry.com/intelli/articles/goodnight-moon-nursery-rhyme/
Microtopics:
The waiting list to get into the Topic Lords discord.
What goes on the lords-only channel.
The first rule of being a lord.
It's the end of the show somewhere in the world.
Frog Fractions Royalty.
Topic Lords Con East.
Choosing pairs of lords.
What lords have been on the show least recently.
Mystery with a B.
Responsibility to the lords.
ARG goings-on.
Maze of Games.
Rubber hose ARG solving
Digging up the golden owl and replacing it with a duck.
The minimum number of golden owls you are allowed to cast in France.
The History of the Owl Stuff.
Commemorating your love of the Golden Owl by purchasing this commemorative Golden Owl.
The Mystery of the Golden Owl that nobody wanted solved.
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Going and burying a duck
Unburying the Duck and putting the Owl back.
Looking through the Heart of France.
Another cursed treasure hunt in the can.
Ancient alternatives to zip files.
Re-scoping your puzzle hunt on the fly.
Telling twins apart using phrenology.
Twin identification strategies.
Let me see your flecks!
Checking your placental mammals for belly buttons.
Platypodes.
Jock twin/nerd twin.
Having children as a way to practice solving problems together.
Who forgot to take a nap today? (Everyone on the show.)
Flailing limbs kicking your bedmate all night.
Rocking your kid to sleep and then depositing them in the crib like Indy swapping out the golden idol.
How to teach babies to sleep.
Wearing children until the children no longer tolerate it.
A good selection of kid-friendly music.
A guy with a soothing British voice saying interesting things for ten minutes.
How much coffee to give a six year old right before bed.
Waiting for your kid to realize that when it's 1am he doesn't have to ask you if he can watch TV.
Just show me the byte order marker!
Adding tabs to Notepad.
Everyone agreeing to go back to WordStar.
What software developers do once a program is finished and perfect.
Loading CSV files into R.
Accidentally updating Excel.
The kind of person who is passionate about the latest cutting edge version of all software, who works in tech and is in charge of all update systems.
Adobe Premiere updates that ruin your team's entire workflow.
Why JWZ is no longer rich.
Seeing all the trailing spaces at the end of the line.
Jobs that require you to be able to distinguish between a tab character and the equivalent number of spaces.
How Unity handles upgrades and versioning.
The 75th anniversary of Goodnight Moon.
Why the New York Times's list of most borrowed children's library books of all time doesn't contain Goodnight Moon.
When Goodnight Moon says "Goodnight Nobody" and you immediately assume that the old lady died.
The calming effect of going over an inventory of really nice soothing things.
The Margaret Wise Brown ouevre.
Goodnight Dune.
Good night, shai-hulud bursting out of the dune.
Good night, Bene Gesserit witch whispering "they tried and died."
Too much of every character giving their internal monologue in italics.
Virginia Facebook's extremely cheap antiques.
Floating in the No-Room.
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