Topic Lords

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 car...

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 super...

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.wi...

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 Bugzoo...

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 be...

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 https://...

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 trai...

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. http...

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 per...

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 purp...

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 seein...

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 ep...

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 Sunn...

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...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! 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/196...

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

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

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

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

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! 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-o...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! 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 https://www.nyt...

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

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

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! 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/5...

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