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Lords: Ryan Alexander Topics: Getting so agitated that you cook dinner What's an acquired taste that's worth acquiring? What's one that's not worth the effort? What's the point of even "acquiring" a taste for anything when there are probably infinite options you don't have to teach yourself to enjoy? Texturally enhanced alternative beverage Bagme Bloma https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bagme_Bloma M...

Lords: CisHetKayfaber BaseCase Topics: Raising third cultural kids as a second cultural individual Figuring out how to do creative projects that take longer than a weekend when you aren't getting paid for them. Someone sent me money on Venmo and now I need to sign up for Venmo if I want to have the money Farmyard Song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmyard_Song https://www.elyrics.net/read/a/aaron...

Lords: Jason https://jmac.org/ https://masto.nyc/@jmac Nathan Mommy's Best Games Everywhere Topics: When I paint my nails I don't paint my thumbnails. This is because I see my thumbnails all day long but I don't see my other fingernails nearly as often, and so every time I do I'm like "Whoa!!!!" Jukebox griefing Nintendo farmed out the development of Donkey Kong to an outside dev team, because the...

Lords: Andrew https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Aubrianne Topics: Knitting patterns are open source clothing This one weird trick will make your videogame feel original Esper says: "JRPGs are just menu games. Everything that's happening is an option in a menu doing some math, there's almost never timing involved. Why do they have to be 'battles?' I've always wanted to make a JRPG set in 1990 whe...

Lords: Chris Esper Topics: Geocaching The Miyoo Mini and other handheld emulation consoles I still think I could've made it as a highly paid Super Mario Bros. 35 coach. I should've gone for it. There's Not a Person Alive by David Donihue https://medium.com/@daviddonihue/theres-not-a-person-alive-poem-by-david-n-donihue-a1fcd714cc99 The strange semiparasocial relationship between a podcast editor a...

Lords: Chris Alex Topics: Living without software updates I like Cyberpunk 2077 I had a friend who would argue with the people collecting signatures in support of a proposed law. Not about the proposal itself, but the methodology behind it. PIECE A SHIT, possibly by Sam Pink https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kl_AeoXl.jpg Microtopics: Lord...

Lords: Abby https://abbydenton.podbean.com/ Michael https://www.tinybarbarian.com/ https://dawnoftimecomics.com/ Topics: That moment when the podcast ads don't play Lobsang Rampa I had a dream where I needed to recolor my teeth. Why don't video game character creators support this? "I've Been Writing You A Poem," by Abby Denton Cats you can ride, pre-He Man Microtopics: Cyber Cafe. Tiny Barbarian...

Lords: Jay Jenni https://youtube.com/@kiwami-japan?si=z03WRlRnur883JkN Topics: The dying art of learning a skill on a message board, such as pixel art or having long hair The Baldur's Gate 3 butthole chart https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/16dlml1/behold_the_chart_ever_made/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8 Is giving people ideas helpful? https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo Jam...

Lords: Stevie Avery Topics: A tour of silly medieval musical instruments The House of David, the baseball cult who all looked like oldtimey barbers. Arguing with Winston about how needing to pee works Avery's Non Mammalian Milk Corner Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/ode-mammoth-cheese-weighing-over-7000-pounds Microtopics: Why the show w...

Lords: Maxx Nick Topics: Puzzmo I'm worried about my tableware rotation strategy Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigaldi-Nanna's_museum It Was A Coffin That Sang, by Olena Davis https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/xBLG36yN.png Microtopics: Instead of giving someone a business card, stamping your information on them...

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...