Topic Lords

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: David Erica https://https://twitter.com/YerrikTRB/ Topics: Two plant families for the apocalypse I choose you, Marine Phytoplankton! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton#Diversity I choose you, Apiaceae! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae I choose you, Poaceae! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae I choose you, Fabace...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Danielle https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Fq8V-L5rfNvGa-DAQBPsg Alexander https://twitter.com/adlleong Topics: Learning to figure skate as an adult Cursed mnemonics we never question What was the first thing you remember buying online? "Chi dara fine al gran dolore? L’ore" from House of Leav...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Tyriq https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday Xander Topics: The year was 1998, and choosing a name with numbers in it was a completely normal thing to do. http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning How do you overcome the inertia of old familiar tools when trying to learn ne...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Hallie https://twitter.com/Hallie_9000/ https://twitter.com/watchyourrass https://twitter.com/HouseRulesCast Chris Topics: Playing card finishes Esper Quinn adds: "As a decades long Magic: the Gathering player, card condition, handling and protection is something I've actually spent a lot of time thinking about. There's a guy on...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Maxx https://mechcem.itch.io/ https://www.instagram.com/maxxyamasaki/ Ananda https://www.instagram.com/a__gabo/ Topics: Rare videos of European Hamsters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf06WJQ4FnE Would you rather eat: the last dragon or a human being? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu What happened in the editor culture that m...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Ryan https://twitter.com/ryanikecomposer/ https://www.instagram.com/ryanikeaudio Chall https://twitter.com/MrChrisLHall/ Topics: What position do you sleep in and based on that which of us on the podcast is going to die first? Are limes overpowered? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy#/media/File:Citrus_tern_cb_simplifi...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Daniel https://twitter.com/dmullinsgames Jonah https://works.rip/ Topics: Chop socky – when are we gonna get that energy back into the world media producing environment? Also listening to movies instead of watching them. The Resident Evil series Flettner airplanes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmvHfIAszo https://www.youtube.co...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Jenni @horsewizrd Chris Topics: The coming schism between Wordle purists & Wordle metagamers Amazon kindle fantasy best-sellers is ruled by niches that nobody outside of kindle or Royal Road users have heard of https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football In high school I knew a guy who, one time, managed to use up all the ink i...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Eitan https://www.firehosegames.com/ Xalavier https://twitter.com/WritNelson Topics: When I was a kid I hated gym class. Now I'm kinda sad that no one forces me to play sports on a semi-regular basis How long is it polite to stare at a person before it gets weird for you, specifically (assuming they haven't seen you). When asked...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Brad @bradspendlove on Twitter Check out https://twitter.com/so_writing , especially episode 6 Quil Topics: What superpowers like shrinking and invisibility suggest about how we conceptualize reality Is there a point where you can call the silly things you make "art" and not feel like an absolute tool about it? Not a debate about...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Laura https://twitter.com/lmichet/ https://lauramichet.itch.io/tallbagel2 Rachel https://twitter.com/rachel_sala/ http://wildhonesty.com/ Topics: You are walking down the street one day when your hand transforms into a stapler! For the next 60 minutes, your hand is a stapler from the wrist up. The next day, at the same time, your...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: CisHetKayFaber https://twitter.com/CisHetKayFaber https://www.upturnedtable.com/weekly-podcast-2/ Dan https://strangecurrencies.org/ https://twitter.com/SC_Reviews_Dan Topics: Learning something by doing, so you don't understand the theory behind it The lonely realization that most people don't really care that much about the thi...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Maxx maxx.infinity@gmail.com Elena https://propinquity.me/ Topics: Been playing Celeste recently and I'm real into the themes of conflict with oneself vs acceptance of oneself The museum of Jurassic Technology and when it's okay to lie to your audience Human jaw shrinkage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_jaw_shrinkage Feedin...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Danny https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/ April https://twitter.com/aprilsaur Topics: Favorite desserts for when it's hot out The horror of almost being older than Princess Diana The developer of Abraham Lincolnland has gone on to run a business selling shirts with Vaporwave Abraham Lincoln's Face on them. http://www.lincolnsoft.com...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: JP John B https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo https://twitter.com/vs_everyone Topics: Showing "Akira" to someone who has never seen any anime before and telling them, "this is what all anime is like" https://twitter.com/kbonds420/status/1378850398665125892 Bizarro, Dan Hibiki, Homsar, and other not-quite-doppelgangers/parodies who...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Erica Abby Topics: Scale modeling hacks for broke hobbyists Nobody should live here redux: nobody should live here either Anal Sampling Mechanism Wallace Stevens - The Emperor of Ice Cream https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream Andrei Tarkovsky, game designer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyzFSsN...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: James https://twitter.com/triplefox Tyriq https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday Topics: Nostalgia is a curse https://bluerenga.blog/tag/adventure-500/?order=ASC Nonogram puzzles https://www.kesiev.com/stampadia/ As the exodus continues, all that will be left of the public-facing internet will increasingly be the people too hard-heade...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Stevie Avery https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/ Topics: Collectable cheetos on Ebay https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=rare+cheeto Japanese websites are stuck in the 90s. Any theories? https://search.marginalia.nu/ Medieval European and ancient Egyptian philosophy. Brad asks "Denatured alcohol: alcohol that has poison added to it...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Mark Shirley Topics: Neuroscience! Fertility tracking is more complicated than I realized. When it turns out that a character in a movie is movie-star hot because it's a plot point, rather than because they're portrayed by a movie star, and I guess then the audience is supposed to pretend all the other characters, also played by...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Ryan https://twitter.com/ryanikecomposer/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldtX4d5qanA Jenni https://twitter.com/horsewizrd/ Topics: Video games providing an illusion of competency & how jarring it is when they don't Carcinization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation Manualism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwxvOKuLUQ0...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Shannon Alex Topics: Corn maze vs hedge maze: which one is better? What's the best maze material? World Record Corn Maze in Dixon CA: https://www.coolpatchpumpkins.com/ Projectable Halloween Decoration Animations https://vimeo.com/465549120 For the halloween season: the spookiest story I know, about Dave Mustaine sleeping on a ch...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Tyriq FourBitFriday everywhere. https://www.ckgame.net/ Chall @MrChrisLHall Topics: How cars age vs how people age Learning the wrong lesson from childrens media (due to being an incompetent child) BOFH: Servers Under Siege https://www.old-games.com/download/1796/bastard-operator-from-hell-servers Korn - Freak on a Leash https://...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Elena https://www.propinquity.me/ Nova https://novalinium.com/ Topics: Things I have learned about myself from being a professional matchmaker The Mother of All Demos The wine-dark sea TWRP - Starlight Brigade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Q3i5w6-Ug Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/VsFcnzBJlt4 Challenges in sc...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Avery https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases Jay https://twitter.com/jaytholen Topics: Kowloon Walled City Internet communities gaining a reputation and then changing over time as members mature. The moral cost of the 303 Devilfish clone Justified and Ancient https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg Unedited (syncable) comme...

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Nathan https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames/ http://www.mommysbestgames.com/ Tyriq https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday/ https://www.ckgame.net/ Topics: The length of poles with which to not touch things as a measure of repulsion Weezer just released a new album. You can already listen to it, on demand, for free on youtube. How do th...