Topic Lords

Lords: Matt https://mtrop.net/ Cort Topics: Doom Modding and You The Boston Marathon Stampede This 1989 Shigeru Miyamoto quote. "When pornography escalates, it eventually crosses into the grotesque. I think the world of 'hidden secrets' in games has almost reached that same grotesque level. It's reached a point where it isn't measured by common sense anymore. It's just people getting bored and loo...

Lords: Watson Wren Topics: Faction design in historical strategy games Linguistics makes it easier and harder to name things You belong in SLUSD. What is SLUSD? The Cremation of Sam McGee https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee The magic systems of Brandon Sanderson Microtopics: The Three-Body Problem (Not That One) Jade City; Jade Legacy. Making any non-creamy soup...

Lords: Mark Mark's top albums of 2025: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1InKh07sllCLF6cu9za0yhQvmGVC3ZHvM162XI1u1S9A Shirley Topics: If you want to be at the front of the stage at a show, just go there, literally no one is stopping you - or - THE ONLY THING YOU LACK IS WILL Elves and Using Religion to Protect Natural Spaces It's illegal to mod your EV to have custom engine noises Litany Agai...

Lords: Chris Fabian https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/ Topics: Oops, my 3D printer became a hobby GTA's AI is not trying to screw with you with its sudden lane changes and T-boning you at intersections, it's just oblivious. (Probably.) Esper says: "I can confirm the traffic AI in Cyberpunk 2077 is still hilarious. I set my car to 'auto drive' and after maybe 30 seconds it took a hard right into the oc...

Lords: Jason https://bumpyskies.com/ Ben https://www.zerofiftyone.net/ Topics: Prepping for a colonsocopy, the jmac way! https://fogknife.com/2023-12-31-my-colonoscopy-strategies.html How to do things you're bad at The Trustworthy Shirts Tournament https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116156921111844432 Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good...

Lords: Andrew https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Aubrianne Topics: Reading every Hugo-award-winning novel I accidentally made Frog Fractions 2.5 before knowing what a frog fractions was https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777 I've discovered the perfect video game genre https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644 When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, by Walt Whitman https://www.poetr...

Lords: SJ https://neutralzonehotel.com/ Benjamin Topics: TD Place Arena in Ottawa is really weird in an interesting way Learning to ice skate when you're 40 Is this keyboard layout more sensible than QWERTY? https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/VfpwY7be.jpg She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/4384...

Lords: AP https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/ Alexander Topics: The 5th Ramsey number Why Mr. Satan (from Dragonball) is one of my favorite characters in all of literature The Odyssey 2's ROM sprites https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Evl0wxIY.png https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3...

Lords: Jin https://awesomedonut.github.io/ Brad https://rainwarrior.ca/ Topics: The shareware games business model Thoughts on how to define femininity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48 The Great Molasses Flood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnRNfXm_k4 Entrance by Rainer Maria Rilke https://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2010/10/rilke-entrance-from-german.html Combining magic and sci...

Lords: Kory https://kbones.fun/ Andy https://highcadence.online/ Topics: The Gametank https://gametank.zone/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/clydeware/gametank I swear to God, I'm going to talk about auctions and auctions in games, it's super interesting and I don't want to get preempted a third time. Esper says: "There’s actually a game coming out in a week where you break into museums to heist real-...

Lords: Alex Shannon Topics: Japan in summer is too hot, but there's lots of cool festivals Why can't I have marzipan made by nuns in California? Podcast playlist problems Considering the Snail, by Thom Gunn https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52887/considering-the-snail Microtopics: Traveling. If you need a lot of stuff, or if that stuff needs you. Real Topic Aficionados. Last Life and other li...

Lords: Tyriq Watson Topics: My sleep experience over the holiday Esper says: "Cannabis can definitely help one get into a sleep state, but actually degrades the quality of sleep quite a bit. From personal experience my guess is this has to do with how it affects dreams, often precluding them from happening to begin with." Conlanging taught me how to judge good art Tate mode The Tyger, by William B...

Lords: Jesse Alex https://insertcredit.com/show/ https://discord.gg/dcofficial Topics: 90s Gen X "Internet High Weirdness" culture: SubGenius, DiLingo, Steve Jackson, the Looneys, KoL Writing a podcast about video games every week as someone who doesn’t really play many video games anymore The mystery of BunnyROM https://bunnyrom.neocities.org/ Junk by Richard Wilbur https://media24.fireside.fm/fi...

Lords: Josette https://www.josetteseitz.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jo_seitz/ Daniel Topics: The overlap between musicians and rhythm game players Figure Skating and the upcoming Olympics In this short Life that only lasts an hour by Emily Dickinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56456/in-this-short-life-that-only-lasts-an-hour-1292 The Reality of Hope https://www.therealityofhope.co.uk...

Lords: Cort Ben Topics: Oh man, remember the Geek Code? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code I discovered a fun fact about my neighborhood Every 5x6 Nonogram https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram The Calf Path by Sam Foss https://poets.org/poem/calf-path Phillip Rivers Microtopics: Secret Playstation Things. Transposing a matrix in SIMD. Reclaiming your plug. Trying and failing to use Libby....

Lords: Erica Micah https://www.reddit.com/r/micahwrites/ Topics: Puerto Rico branded holiday jams Chive drama on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1o0j6hq/cutting_a_cup_of_chives_everyday_until_the_reddit/ How to cure tinnitus (maybe) The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46647/the-ballad-of-blasphemous-bill In defense of making movies seq...

Lords: Andrew Kate Topics: The strange and alienating experience of learning to drive at 40 The mottos of the livery companies of London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mottos_and_halls_of_the_livery_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mottos Independent They Stand! https://archive.org/details/computer-games-magazine-issue-115-june-2000/page/n83/mode/2up?view=theater Leda and the...

Lords: Ryan CisHetKayfaber Topics: My vocal stims are getting out of control now that I don't have pets. Training to become a Tetris Grandmaster https://www.youtube.com/@cishetkayfaber/videos Switching to not-bifocals Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nntd2fgMUYw Microtopics: Introducing yourself or plugging something. Going to Cape Town for Playtopia. Enemies to enem...

Lords: Maxx Michael Topics: Reinventing pants Plortonomics (the economy in the game Slime Rancher) The Leaning American Maggie and Milly and Molly and May, by E. E. Cummings https://poets.org/poem/maggie-and-milly-and-molly-and-may Microtopics: Rabbits and writing. Buying the lede (but thankfully the rabbits dug it up) Lord Veterans Ancillary Justice, or The Imperial Radch. Rabbits who want nothin...

Lords: Linker Alexa Topics: Variations in vampire stories: types of powers, origins of vampires, lack of consent lol Anthropomorphism/Connection in media Get a free burger when you join my rewards Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas What letter of the alphabet would win in a Royal Rumble Anti-Lesbian Vampire Propaganda of the...

Lords: Hallie Peter https://www.paschaefer.com/ Topics: Do you know where all your things are? How education doesn't melt Bebop Bytes Back Augustus Gloop by Roald Dahl https://allpoetry.com/-Augustus-Gloop...- Microtopics: The Directrix of Cybernetic Security. Unity licensing from Unity as Unity. Fantasy Book of the Month. (FBOM) Part zombie, part ghost. Accidentally GenMoing your WriMo. A house w...

Lords: Esper Cort Topics: Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately Stateless procedural music Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/ Microtopics: Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive. Puzzled Pint. Oh man, this one's a real quart! Puzzled...

Lords: Mitch Kory Topics: The Nintendo 64DD Wristwatch repair videos How to switch to Linux?? Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan The ICZN's recommended method of determining the Latin grammatical gender of a word that isn't Latin Microtopics: Being a fledgling your whole life. Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki. The episode of Topic Lords whe...

Lords: Danny https://linktr.ee/dannyBstyleband Josh https://www.bonusstage.ca/ Vitor https://vitoramado.framer.website/ Topics: Games you love that nobody else knows exist I keep losing my sunglasses. How do I fix this? Homebrewing When did Bush stop hiding the facts?? Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath https://allpoetry.com/mad-girl%27s-love-song I didn't actually have four poems in mind that m...

Lords: Jenni Felicia Topics: The Mr. T cartoon A hyper-specific comedy roast where it's just a couple giving each other shit for doing the dishes wrong The poem that wasn't on Yuji Naka's wall Sprouts, by Loryn Brantz https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0V0RfSkz.jpg The phenomenon where you're convinced you could do way better at the...