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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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1:06:15

178. The Lathe Of Kojima

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2023/03/20

Lords: * CisHetKeyfaber * Phone Topics: * Calculus ruined incremental games for me * SFF PCs are ridiculous and hilarious * What's the deal with HDR? * Ode to Ice Cream by Vada Sultenfuss (from the movie My Girl) * Metal Gear Solid 2 is the most important game of 2023 Microtopics: * Appropriating wrestling culture. * Idle games vs. incremental games. * Trimps. * Physics and calculus educators each pretending the other field doesn't exist. * Jerk as a unit of measurement. * Ruining a child's

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1:03:35

177. An Episode Your Landlord Should Not Listen To

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2023/03/13

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Alicia * Ryan * Just type his name into google. Topics: * Seattle's reaction to snow vs the Bay Area's reaction to rain: who is more dramatic? * Would you rather fart bones once a month or have Goldeneye "big head mode" on in real life for a year? * Moral philosophy lessons from the California DMV * Nancy * https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1966/08/18/nancy/ * Common everyday items that

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176. A Diglett Slightly Tan

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2023/03/06

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Hallie * John B Topics: * Tabletop RPGs as educational platform * Flicky-likes * Etch A Sketch Animator 2000 * Poem: "My Brother's Head Should Be Replaced" by Jack Prelutsky * https://youtu.be/TYXJyxT7QN4?t=1330 * Buff Diglett Microtopics: * 471 very positive reviews. * Pizza Tower, the Tower of Pizza. * Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular. * Taking a drink of your Safeway brand Diet Cola

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175. This Movie Has Marky Mark In It

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2023/02/27

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * Jesse Topics: * There's a Spanish word which officially cannot be written because the grammar and orthography conflict about how it should spelled/pronounced. * My personal relationship with Disco Elysium * Clue II: Murder in Disguise * All of the Words on a Bottle of Rolling Rock Beer in a Different Order * https://expatriotact.blogspot.com/2006/10/poets-corner-demetri-martin.html *

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1:05:42

174. Occam's Raccoon

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2023/02/20

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Chris * Alexander Topics: * Words with similar sounds/meanings but no relation to each other at all. * Virtual marble runs with guns * https://www.youtube.com/@mikan2d * The "broom method" of dealing with a hydrogen leak * https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/706885583716466688 * Poem by Dr. Seuss: “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come

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1:03:41

173. How Much Anxiety Does Your Car Have?

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2023/02/13

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * Tyriq Topics: * Nancy and having a continuous tone for a hundred years * Recommendations * Adding trinkets to other people's time capsules * A Psalm for the Wild-Built https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/705362430786748416/guooey-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky Microtopics: * Looking down a lot while you're on a walk. * What is this Meta for? * Discovering that there is a cliff and

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1:16:40

172. Don't Apply Any Torque To This Bag

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2023/02/06

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Alex * Shannon Topics: * Incomprehensible PSAs (Remember to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide) * Games which use player ignorance as a major mechanic (Outer Wilds, Tunic) * Man out of Space Easiest * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE * Stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) * https://utopians.tumblr.com/post/659350035592609792/stepped-on-a-plum-overripe-plum-barefoot-it * Australia

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1:09:48

171. Reasons To Not Throw Your Phone In The Ocean

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2023/01/30

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * CisHetKayFaber * Kev Topics: * Food from dreams and nightmares * https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/man-dream-kings-hand-snack * Han Unification happened in Unicode and every time they add more emojis to the Unicode spec it literally hurts * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification * The Super Mega Crossword *

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1:08:52

170. My Brain Likes The Things I Like

Topic Lords ·

2023/01/23

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * FourBitFriday in all the places * Cort * Leftover Pumpkin Pie Curry https://savethefood.com/recipes/leftover-pumpkin-pie-and-turkey-curry/ Topics: * Fantasy consoles * https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy * Tyriq's 80s homework * 80s homework playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0NtJp8szqsl4Ek0lZHqvHjaX * Tyriq's reaction:

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169. Topicless

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2023/01/16

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * John * robohunkx on Twitter, robohunk on most social media platforms * Tim * Jamestown+ * The Pathless * https://github.com/westquote/squidtasks Topics: * America's self-denying culture of compartmentalization * Deus Ex: Revision is a mod for Deus Ex that changes maps just enough that it feels like a new game without losing what made the original special. * Napster pranks and more

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1:19:37

168. Take A Gasket, Leave A Gasket

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2023/01/09

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * Jenni Topics: * Stronger with Stogner * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0MwD8dyko * What is & isn't ahegao, prescriptivistly * Wanna Feel Old? 10 Hilarious Examples Of Anti-Piracy Measures In Video Games * https://screenrant.com/anti-piracy-video-games-funny/ * The Lanyard by Billy Collins * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50975/the-lanyard * The "what the fuck" genre

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1:05:13

167. Riker's Doing The Biting

Topic Lords ·

2023/01/02

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Danny * https://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/ * Akash * https://www.akashthakkar.com/ Topics: * 100KHz microphones * There's an entire town in Alaska that's contained entirely in one building - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/whittier-alaska-american-story/ * Tired: CRT filter in emulated video games. Wired: grainy magazine screenshot filter in emulated video games *

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1:11:31

166. There's Only One Best Topic

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2022/12/26

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * Maxx Topics: * Freesound.org and the delight of sharing things without fame * https://freesound.org/people/Bram/sounds/15543/ * https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/369065/ * https://freesound.org/people/smokenweewALT/ * Shutting down the FF2 ARG Twitter account * Leisure in the 70s * Snow by David Berman * https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/snow-14 * The some potatoes

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1:11:22

165. Spitting Wiggly Air

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2022/12/19

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mark * Shirley Topics: * What would you do if you came downstairs and all of my clothes and my glasses were on the floor in a heap in a puddle of water? * Aphasia: What doesn't it mean? * Dr. Icecreamwala * https://www.icecreamderm.com/ * Eternal Champion - I Am The Hammer * https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-hammer * Teen Censorship (what to restrict, if anything?) * SCA

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1:12:56

164. Dead Bodies Are Always In The First Place You Look

Topic Lords ·

2022/12/12

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Nathan * MommysBestGames on Twitter. * Tyriq * FourBitFriday everywhere. Topics: * Octopodes, continued * My wife and I are both teaching our son to drive, with separate lessons. It's going OK but with bumps. * The most widely-used crack for The Colonel's Bequest works by breaking the random number generator. This has wide-ranging effects on the gameplay. *

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1:04:15

163. The Mean Horse Scenario

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2022/12/05

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mitch * https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster * https://www.google.com/search?q=w * https://www.seximal.net/ * Laura * https://twitter.com/lmichet * https://cohost.org/lmichet Topics: * What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this? * The Super Mario Wiki is a

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162. The Best Lawyer On Fiverr

Topic Lords ·

2022/11/28

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Quil * Maxx Topics: * Maybe I just don't like apples * Opposite Costco * The Sweet Science * The Village and the Curious Hole * http://thesciencesalon.blogspot.com/p/village-and-curious-hole.html * BALLU the best robot * https://youtu.be/EdSoUbXirVI * https://www.strandbeest.com/ * https://youtube.com/shorts/lbxJlwQ6-U8 Microtopics: * Making robots and video games in Seattle. * Cohost

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161. How Much Can This Dog Deadlift?

Topic Lords ·

2022/11/21

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Shannon * Avery Topics: * Measure words * Is color even real? * https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/hdrdlt/poemmycatissadspencermadsen/ Microtopics: * Game Changer. * Why various albums aren't on Spotify. * During the American Revolution when the British were always quartering punk bands in colonial household. * The Bug Porn calendar that Shannon drew for the FF2 ARG. * A singular bug in

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1:05:23

160. Dracula Never Brushes His Teeth

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2022/11/14

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Elena * Shannon Topics: * I went to Burning Man and now maybe I don't bite my nails? * Pros and cons of vampirism * Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined at the brain. They share thoughts, senses and control of their bodies. * "Gray cube, rectangular light" * https://codewriteplay.com/2019/09/10/legends-of-gamedev-clarissa-darling/ Microtopics: * Nominally saving everybody a big hassle but

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1:06:47

159. It's Beautiful That We Once Existed

Topic Lords ·

2022/11/07

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Kev * Cort * Cort's new album: https://postgoodism.bandcamp.com/album/tourism * The Frog Fractions vinyl: https://www.turtlepalstapes.com/product/frog-fractions-green * Monty Python's three-sided record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMontyPythonMatchingTieandHandkerchief * Locked grooves: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/locked-grooves-endless-fun-literally/ * The Most Wanted

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