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Topic Lords

Jim Stormdancer

Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they"ve been fixated on this week.

comedy

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1:04:26

198. I'm Not Leaving Until Someone Sequences This Cup...

Topic Lords ·

2023/08/07

Lords: * Maxx * Avery Topics: * Change Ringing * The differences between American and Japanese robotics teams * This rug * https://www.rugstudio.com/funrugsfuntimeshapecomfts-163multi.aspx * A few days after I ordered it they emailed me canceling the order. I'm pretty sure this rug doesn't exist. * Look what we found in the park in the dark * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/KmODxwhW.jpg * Grandma giving you a world's best grandma

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197. It's No Moist Shit, But I'll Eat It

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2023/07/31

Lords: * Mikel * https://www.lasertimepodcast.com/category/videogame-apocalypse/ * Diana * https://www.lasertimepodcast.com/category/thirty-twenty-ten/ Topics: * Banishment is still legal as a punishment in Georgia (the state) * From an evolutionary standpoint, why is it so hard to admit you're wrong? * Minesweeper speed running * http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Dreamboard * Sometime During Eternity, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti *

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1:11:01

196. Active Time Battle Internet Relay Chat

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2023/07/24

Lords: * John * JohnB Topics: * The word "juxtapose" seemed hyperspecific and esoteric when I first learned it in school, but has proven incredibly common and useful * Farewell to Cheap Bots Done Quick and the tens of thousands benevolent Twitter bots it powered: * https://twitter.com/v21/status/1643932890105884673 * Temple of Apshai's manual * https://fogknife.com/2023-05-31-the-book-of-apshai-a-personal-exegesis-.html * "Seen and Not Seen" by Talking Heads *

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195. Persian Castle Day At The Climbing Gym

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2023/07/17

Lords: * Alexicographic * Kev Topics: * Sports are good actually? Apparently? * Haunted articles of clothing * Burrito R&D * Casey at the Bat * https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ernest-lawrence-thayer/casey-at-the-bat/ * Becoming a vtuber after losing a bet * Getting a guided tour of a TV show Microtopics: * Streaming daily. * The Tears of the Kingdom thread in the Topic Lords discord. * A rigid self-conception as someone who does not like sports. * Roller derby. * Whether skateboarding is a

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1:19:15

194. How Good It Was, To Have A Toe

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2023/07/10

Lords: * Danny * Danny Topics: * Most Song Lyrics are redundant * Perfect fourths and fifths are named wrong * It's almost summer and that means it's time for Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg * Who wants to do a smutty poem?? We haven't done one of those * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47339/upon-julias-clothes * Oh yes * Celebrity Deaths are getting out of control * ZZT has achievements now Microtopics: * Which Danny should go first. * The

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193. Pull Down Your Murphy Toilet

Topic Lords ·

2023/07/03

Lords: * Elena * Quil Topics: * Human Pudding, and why popular media can't depict bad art, only bad taste * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHmctamVEA * https://www.notinhalloffame.com/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 * I got a van! * Corporate art: From industrial musicals of the 50s-70s to this Staples logo unveiling * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWUhqoAGsfk * https://philolexian.blogspot.com/2006/11/kilmer-2005.html Microtopics: * A very good New York Times crossword. *

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1:06:52

192. The Prime Number Shitting Bear

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2023/06/26

Lords * CisHetKayfaber * Charlie Topics: * Umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work * Articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower (futurevision) * I'm not sure what archipelago.gg is but if I read this paragraph aloud maybe we can figure it out together * https://archipelago.gg/ * A copypasta from this page: * https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3 * Why is a skill less

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1:03:16

191. Carbonated Cream Of Mushroom Latte

Topic Lords ·

2023/06/19

Lords: * Chris * Wacy Topics: * Crafting little guys * Negotiating how to play Zelda together * Cream of mushroom latte * ChatGPT wrote a poem about zelda * Climbing real rocks Microtopics: * The Marble Hornets/Slender Man oeuvre. * Copying and pasting a video. * Sharing a movie you liked with a friend over IM by copying and pasting the title. * The turnip in Breath of the Wild. * Attempting and failing to enjoy wood carving. * Stabbing the Korok until it is less fuzzy. * A Snapchat filter that

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190. The Linguistic Eggplant-Dick Collapse

Topic Lords ·

2023/06/12

Lords: * Tyriq * Hallie Topics: * The world needs more clues for secrets nearby * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXow3d3-b0 * How kids on tv used to hate leftovers * Smartphone sales declined 11% in 2022 while sales of flip phones doubled * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken * What will emoji look like in 100 years? * I have invented a conspiracy regarding the shape of hand-held supermarket baskets Microtopics: * Lumps. * Lumpy Space Princess. * The best Space

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55:44

189. If You Don't Know Who Your Wario Is, You're The...

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2023/06/05

Lords: * Alexander * Yaros Topics: * Somewhat Dim Mirror * Unique and weird self-bootstrapping computer language - Forth * I've been getting emails from an Online Casino Guide offering analysis of the relative popularity of characters from the Mario Bros. movie. How did they get my email, and how did they know that this is the kind of thing I want to gamble on? * The Kraken, by Alfred Tennyson * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheKraken(poem) * NES dev scene and new games still being released *

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188. An Extremely Gendered Sniper Rifle

Topic Lords ·

2023/05/29

Lords: * Maxx * Erica Topics: * Zines and Jam Games; stuff that's understood to be breakable * https://itch.io/c/689872/indiepocalypse * Birding in the pandemic * Itinerant Filmmakers * http://www.meltonbarker.org/ * Meditation on Capitalism * I found the tweet that the image came from, but still don't know the author of the poem: https://twitter.com/Sierra_OffLine/status/1100852286585221122 Microtopics: * The Bugzooka * Booms and busts of little insect invasions. * A little vacuum chamber

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1:08:13

187. The Second-Best Whale Playground In Emeryville

Topic Lords ·

2023/05/22

Lords: * Cort * Stephan * https://lonelystarsoftware.itch.io/playdapon Topics: * USB-C cables that only work in one orientation * http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/04/usb-c-and-plague-of-grackles.html * Playgrounds seem to have gotten really good again in the last ten years * Bedtime guitar update * Where the Wild Things Are * https://genius.com/Maurice-sendak-where-the-wild-things-are-annotated * Classic hardware has become a kind of fantasy console *

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186. ADHD Shame Graveyard Of Browser Tabs

Topic Lords ·

2023/05/15

Lords: * Tim * Ben * https://linktr.ee/zerofiftyone Topics: * My Thursday Night * The daunting thought of: there is so much music that exists now - it's more than likely that your favorite song in the world is out there and you'll never find it in your lifetime. * I've been working on a small game in my spare time and I never want to ship it. I just want to have friends playtest forever. * Fine Feather *

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1:00:33

185. 2000-Year-Old Head, Again??

Topic Lords ·

2023/05/08

Lords: * Danny * Kim Topics: * Animorphs * My keyboard is registering double inputs again help me * Youtube channels that summarize movies like Cliff's Notes * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXD1jAZBdZ4u0K-GLYC77Q/videos * https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2799 * CatGPT * M3gan; technology horror movies * You don't get points for coins in Super Mario World! Microtopics * A video game man. * The Animorphs train. * Children committing war crimes and having to live with the

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1:03:08

184. Times New Orange

Topic Lords ·

2023/05/01

Lords: * Alexicographic * https://twitter.com/alexicographic * https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames * Andrew * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Topics: * The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together? * Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion * Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one. *

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1:01:17

183. The Radioactive Scone Problem

Topic Lords ·

2023/04/24

Lords: * John * Quil Topics: * Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to play a Legend of Zelda game before every aspect of it is documented on the internet * RCA's implementation of color television is one of the most impressive engineering feats of the 20th century * The guy next to me on BART talked to me the entire ride home from GDC. He made me play the phone game he was addicted to and compared my performance to the coworker he was also making play the game. He got a call from his wife and

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1:02:53

182. Baby Baby Mario

Topic Lords ·

2023/04/17

Lords: * Jenni * https://intfiction.org/t/lets-play-cragne-manor/56472 * Chris * https://trustory.fm/cool-time-dice-hour/ Topics: * All the stuff we did in the 90s that is horrifying to modern parents now, like sleepovers and latchkey kids * The movie for Jurassic Park 2 is somehow worse than the book and the book is very bad. * The VR episode of Nowhere Man * I fucked up my car by running over a mattress on purpose * https://vhsviscera.tumblr.com/post/705867030403973120 * There was a space

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1:04:00

181. My Own Personal Kennedy Assassination

Topic Lords ·

2023/04/10

Lords: * Avery * Tyriq Topics: * Adam, Father of all humankind, was maybe a giant * Heathcliff is still going and it's weird * I've heard a million novelty metal covers but still nobody's done Truly Scrumptious / Doll on a Music Box from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * "The Phone Call" by James Tate Microtopics: * Withholding all your best URLs until the end of the episode. * Using lowercase Ls in place of Is and seeing if anybody notices. * Leaving capitalizations to the whims of chaos. (Your fingers.) *

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180. We Are All Stardust Poop

Topic Lords ·

2023/04/03

Lords: * Ichiro * Adam Topics: * I learned how to animate by watching cartoons as a child (and I'm curious what else folks absorbed as a child that impacted the kind of adult they became) * I created a Totally Human Rapper that can read up on a game and cut a rap video. * Frog Fractions is banned from AGDQ * "Frog Fractions" by Totally Human Rapper * Tiny Mass Games small games cycle. Microtopics: * One of the episodes with a cold open. * Live from New York, it's. * Using ocean water as a mixer. *

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1:03:02

179. Get Bad

Topic Lords ·

2023/03/27

Lords: * Alex * Shannon Topics: * Reading music badly * Minigame: guess the animal from bad old-timey descriptions * How to pronounce "MacPaint" * https://www.tumblr.com/destinationtoast/708530541060816896 * Airport teleportation Microtopics: * Games that you should not play if you get addicted to games. * Roguelikes that take a reasonable amount of time to play if you are bad at them. * We're Not That Bad!™ * The Sunnyvale Singers. * Producing music with a piano. * Two guards, one who can't read a

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