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Lords: Tyriq Jay Topics: I recently moved and I think I understand Having Stuff more now. Teaching my 3-year-old to use a mouse and keyboard. Kids learning software being a ghost of its former self. Interface traps Yelp! Review for God by Willow James Claire https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/ib998beS.jpg Starting a YouTube Channel for kid...

Lords: Ben JohnB Topics: Game & Watch Gallery Halloween's never on the weekend, so I made Novemberween Square mattresses Eight Line Poem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVqNJKQiPCA https://genius.com/3143344 The most entertaining bit of the new Spider-Man 2 game has been sitting on a bench Microtopics: Fellow Traveler. Citizen Sleeper: at least one person's game of the year. State fair taffy....

Lords Daniel https://www.cocoongame.com/ https://kbones.itch.io/dorks Alexander Topics: Octopus dreams Perception of memories. Why does actual recency and percieved recency often seem so at odds Hike on 58 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day World of Warcraft over the years / WoW Hardcore Mode The highest honor you can receive in mathematics...

Lords: Erica Ryan Topics: Dog Bone Facts We went to Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidatus_Desulforudis_audaxviator https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/avoid-the-noid/ Cancelling Texas: Praise the Sun My sister has played video games her whole life and somehow doesn't know about [the thing everyone knows happens in Final Fantasy VII] and I need help shielding her from this knowledge. Microtopic...

Lords: Mitch https://janmisali.tumblr.com/ https://www.seximal.net/ Andrew https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Topics: Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first mainline 2D Mario game since... (how many Super Mario games are there? update) Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw New survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/v...

Lords: Cort https://a.co/d/iRrEZcy Elena Topics: My due date is literally tomorrow Dogme 95 for web development Visits from the neighborhood cats Potato, by Jane Kenyon https://poets.org/poem/potato-0 Cooperative board games are hard to design Space themed coop trick-taking card game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284083/crew-quest-planet-nine Building a conlang generator from the phonology...

Lords: Andrew https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658150/Moonstone_Island/ Kate https://tunicgame.com/ Topics: British food is good, actually Really enjoying programming in MonoGame (and stop motion animation) Lightswitch abstraction limit Un petit d'un petit The Old Timey Computer Show Trying to get your friends to play a game that sucks to learn Winston has discovered that the ending of a story...

Lords: Will Chris Topics: Canoes Blowing soap bubbles with your hands, making cricket noises, "party tricks" nissan.com Nothing Is Too Small Not To Be Wondered About, by Mary Oliver https://thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/poetry-nothing-is-too-small-not-to-be-wondered-about-by-mary-oliver/ Would zombies try to hide the fact that they were zombies? Magic Microtopics: Soda Drinker Pro fo...

Lords: Hallie Tyriq Topics: People really like potatoes and I don't get it I wear shorts now. Why are these ants on my desk? The go-getters of predawn gym Non feathered dinosaurs in the public imagination Esper says: Magic: the Gathering does have feathered dinosaurs as part of its mesoamerican-inspired setting, which look cool as hell. Not all of them are completely covered or anything, but Gisha...

Lords: Lesley Nathan Topics: Thinking of survival shows like Alone, is "wilderness survival" a sport? Regional differences in the tone and caliber of NextDoor posts Pastry arbitrage The Light That Shines When Things End https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.png Wild takahē (TAH-kah-hay) have been reintroduced into the mountains of Ne...

Lords: JP Styger Topics: Wouldn't mind hearing Jim's thoughts on the recent Super Mario Bros Wonder video Souls departing / cartoon ghosts You're supposed to use a "spacer" with inhalers now Probably not a full topic but I finally ate that apple I was hyped for in my fist Topic Lords appearance Questions for a more experienced musician about learning to play piano + songwriting How do we teach our...

Lords: Alex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSjSkaBRD7k&list=PLBk6-z6v3pDKi3Q-9MeqUfupJswozircH&index=7 John Topics: That time I spent 4 days fasting in the woods Twins! Coming soon! Ahhhhh! The Zelda 1 second quest https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/806592-now-the-world-has-gone-to-bed-darkness-won-t-engulf Microtopics: Joyful communities. Whether discord logs can be subpoenaed. Encoding al...

Lords: JohnB CisHetKayFaber Topics: The human body is more similar than I'd like to shitty software (humans have chitinase in our DNA, immune system works like an antivirus) The origin of hiccups https://derinthescarletpescatarian.tumblr.com/post/723161770948231168/okay-so-the-thing-about-hiccups-is-that-you-have Twenty years ago there were like three real books about videogames that weren't strat...

Lords: CisHetKayFaber Phone Topics: Correction regarding a previous topic where I stated that Metal Gear Solid 2 was the most important game of 2023 https://twitter.com/othatsraspberry Children cannot be trusted to enjoy things, and maybe that's fine This list of extremely specific danger signs https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/720069329613357056 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads...

Lords: Mark Shirley Topics Lawn Angst: Why does the city get to decide what is a weed vs an acceptable plant? Learning to code is like a cheat code for life, or at least work Poop epidemiology https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/720886587343454208 Insomnolence by Charles Rafferty https://poets.org/poem/insomnolence Ville asks: "buying mysterious items that aren't labeled in a language you speak...

Lords: Alex Shannon Topics: Tree law https://www.tumblr.com/whistletown/721716818422677504 https://www.tumblr.com/whistletown/723346723280453632 Tax Heaven 3000 When I was a kid I read about a magic trick where if you touch your index fingers together and cross your eyes, a disembodied third finger appears between them. This is the kind of thing we had for entertainment in the 80s. https://www.poe...

Lords: Jenni Tyriq Topics: King Leonardo and His Short Subjects https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/KingLeonardoAndHisShortSubjects Nervous Subject https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Nervous_Subject Subject Zero https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Jack On the Subject of Poetry By W. S. Merwin https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=26014 Royal subjects Subject...

Lords: April Ryan Topics: John asks "Puzzles/puzzle games and challenges you find pleasant and brain-expanding vs. the ones that you just cannot get your head around." Which foods would be the most fun or the least fun to eat if you rotated them at a 90 degree angle first. https://www.ebay.com/itm/184633478236 The Shaggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY Instructions for Traveling West,...

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-4c...

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 F...

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-exege...

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 som...

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 contr...

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/200...

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...