Topic Lords

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Abby https://twitter.com/mizabitha http://abbydenton.podbean.com/ John B https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo Topics: The 1998 Tips & Tricks Magazine Video Game Codebook, a Larry Flynt publication that is not porn but, in a certain sense, is not unlike porn Why grease 2 is the best superhero musical; a mild defense of the 60s su...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Xalavier https://twitter.com/WritNelson https://store.steampowered.com/app/1246250/An_Airport_for_Aliens_Currently_Run_by_Dogs/ Tom https://twitter.com/tv_neato https://www.patreon.com/StrangeScaffold Topics: Shaped CDs and other data formats too cool to live in 2021 https://vgmdb.net/album/819 The Steve Jackson RPG you called on...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Jenni jenni@jennipolodna.com Kole https://duckfeed.tv/ https://twitter.com/koleross Topics: Whether or not you should stop animals who are thieves. We're gonna reach a point where Americans know about Eurovision pretty soon, so prepare for that "CRL couldn't afford the movie license for their video game adaptation of Blade Runner...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Nathan https://twitter.com/NathanShorts Chris https://twitter.com/MrChrisLHall/ Topics: Are mysteries actually better when you know who dun it? Renting apartments that come with weird artifacts Monster Island was a play-by-mail MMO written in QuickBasic that ran from 1989 to 2017. https://if50.substack.com/p/1989-monster-island h...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Tyriq https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday/ https://frror.bandcamp.com/releases Ryan https://twitter.com/RyanIkeComposer https://www.instagram.com/ryanikeaudio/ Topics: What do animals know? Do they know things? How do we find out? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F Can we all just be adults and admit that...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Sam @SamJ314 on Twitter. Chris chrism3141@gmail.com Topics: We can't even describe spacetime because of our faulty perception of time, and how it relates to optical illusions. Optical illusion: https://imgur.com/t6YdyVr Flatland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland 3 guys with non-transitive dice and a non-reproducing animal....

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Gary http://duckfeed.tv/ https://www.patreon.com/duckfeedtv/ https://twitter.com/garybuh Brayton Bogwater convention coming to your town soon! Topics: Spirit Halloween's Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3PL2DxHye4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIbE6_Lt2w A drug you never want to try This list of people's favori...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Alex is on the Topic Lords Discord. Shannon is offering vaccines. Topics: Human-led gaming over the internet (like escape rooms). How the DM is walking a line of controlling everything vs being completely controlled by the players. How to design games to be played like this over the internet. Best and worst parts of camping. Shut...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Erica @YerrikTRB on Twitter Erica plugs Kitchen! The Musical, and also Micah’s books: https://tinyurl.com/46k5zfnm Micah @micahwrites on Twitter Micah plugs Bermudez Triangle, “Chilling Tales for Dark Nights” https://www.youtube.com/user/chillingtaleswi Topics: In praise of bad hidden object games HOPAs, or Hidden Object Puzzle A...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Stevie https://www.hryx.net/ Avery might be on Spotify. Topics: BREAKING NON MAMMALIAN MILK NEWS: the Arapaima, the largest freshwater fish, feeds its young with a milky white substance that has a hormone found in mammal milk. Boats https://www.vesselfinder.com/ https://twitter.com/sfships https://twitter.com/Nature_Grrrl/status/...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Hallie @hallie_9000 Chris will find you. Topics: The Pokemon Sylveon is supposed to be cute but it freaks me out and let me tell you why Savory french toast. Remember briefcases? People would just bring paperwork home with them. To work more, at home, for free. Fucked up, if you think about it. Everytime we touch Detective Pikach...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Alexander Amanda Topics: The disappointment of sci-fi stories that are just reskins of stuff that happens on Earth. My bitcoin. https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/543952090800734209 I can't decide whether I'm more annoyed that Wienerschnitzel doesn't serve schnitzel, or that they did for three months in 2017 as a gag. Jesse a...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Styger JP http://vectorpoem.com/ Topics: Comestibles as fan fiction The most unexpected CD to be launched from the face of the Cenobite from Hellraiser 3 that launches CDs out of his face. https://cenobite.fandom.com/wiki/CD I got a mandolin slicer for Christmas from someone who was afraid to use it, and I am also afraid to use i...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: John Bettonville https://twitter.com/robohunkx Alex Diener https://twitter.com/ThemsAllTook Topics: Blaseball: the Musical https://blaseballthemusical.com https://blaseballpodcast.com https://catacalypto.substack.com https://blandcamp.com https://medium.com/the-game-bland/shell-your-idols-blaseball-and-the-attention-economy-74037...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Laura https://twitter.com/lmichet Brendon https://twitter.com/BlendoGames April https://twitter.com/aprilsaur Topics: If you were locked in a Home Depot overnight with 19 other people and you wouldn’t be let out until only one person survived, and also all the lights were turned off, what would you do? What's up with teeth. They...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Tyriq https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday Chris https://twitter.com/MrChrisLHall Topics: Revisiting Game Maker after 10 years, and getting right back into it What's your jrpg/anime vocal quirk? Electric showers Weval - Someday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wEvzqdDZg UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists https://en.wikipedia...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords Maxx maxx.infinity@gmail.com http://mechcem.itch.io/ Aaron http://aaronsee.media/ Topics: The TV Show Russian Doll and emotionally correct magic logic My favorite captchas http://www.captchacomics.com/index.php?i=1540 AI-remastered Rick Astley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ocykBzWDiM Kegel based video games and sex UI https://w...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Ryan https://twitter.com/RyanIkeComposer Alicia https://www.instagram.com/historianraptor/ Topics: How many throw pillows is too many? Does it depend on number of pillows? Size of furniture? Number of family members? Softness/firmness level? Why are yawns considered a sign of boredom? Art packs/music disks https://16colo.rs/pack/...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Avery might be on Spotify! https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases Stevie is at @hryx on Twitter, and hryx.net Topics: In my home town of San Jose, CA there is a Statue of the serpent god Quetzalcoatl. It looks like a large piece of perfectly formed dog poop. Everyone calls it "the poop snake." Let's talk about bad public art. S...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: 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 h...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Ben https://twitter.com/AussieBen Michelle https://twitter.com/riding_red https://www.sciencealert.com/ Topics: Dora the Explorer and the City of Gold was a delightful surprise We're about to land another rover on Mars and that is super way cool Michelle: "Just clarifying that most discarded rocket stages don't end up in low-Eart...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Elena Quil Topics: Some people put on music and then just talk over it instead of singing along?? Why Being the only person in a movie theater/concert A Spirograph but for your butt Daniel asks "Legacy board games such as Pandemic Legacy or Gloomhaven." Weird sleeping apparatuses "House Special Live Frog in Hot Stone Pot" on the...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: James is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Triplefox Jesse is on Twitter. Topics: One of the last "most wanted" Nazi war criminals lives in my town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Oberlander What's Michael?, the other cartoon fat cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Michael%3F There are several What's Michael anime seri...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Hallie https://twitter.com/Hallie_9000 Jenni jenni@jennipolodna.com Riff and Jenni play Policenauts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnaryt7Vd-U&list=PLQqC_GkS4_4ZgJEvjj31kQpY75-Pnmbul Topics: Tarot readings using meme templates In the musical Cats, jellicle cats ascend to the Heaviside Layer & come back reborn, therefore...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Mara plugs Libby. https://libbyapp.com/welcome maracaelin@gmail.com Derek plugs LibriVox. https://librivox.org/ https://twitter.com/derekcaelin https://mastodon.technology/@argus Topics: Should we spare our children from our own game nostalgia? Working libraries of famous people getting acquired by institutions Winston's latest t...