Topic Lords
318 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsEvery week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
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245. It Was You, Old Man Molyneux!
July 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBLords: * Ben * Nicholas Topics: * Let me describe to you the Australian treats I sent my Canadian friend * The UX of live sport is terrible * Game jam idea! * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofgamesthatBuddhawouldnot_play * I Continue to Dream, by Langston Hughes * https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-13632 * Being overly patriotic and repping the national identity but only when around foreigners, is this something everyone does or just aussies? Microtopics: * Projects that you ca...
244. Get Gimbal Locked, Dean!
June 24, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBLords: * Daniel * Andrew Topics: * Hyperthymesia * Animal Well * Bad news for my google alerts: "Twinbeard" is the name of the Helldivers 2 community manager * Twinbeard reacts! https://twitter.com/TheTwinbeard/status/1805711034281349388 * Dean asks "I know there are many seniors who are looking to start a business during retirement. For those who haven't settled on an idea yet, I'd love to suggest house flipping as a good way to earn income. May I write about this topic in a free article f...
243. Welcome To The Elder Zone
June 17, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBLords: * Andrew * Tyriq Lords: * The Church of the SubGenius * Making FreeCell is kind of like playing FreeCell * How do we get to a place where our primary tool for productivity is not also our primary avenue of distraction? * "<3 Team Schiff", by Team Schiff * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/kNKMVgFF.png Microtopics: * World Building Notes * An accent you cannot discern the origin of. * Fun worlds that I've thought of. * A wor...
242. Malware For Labyrinths
June 10, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBLords: * Maxx * JP Topics: * The different kinds of "changing your mind" in creative work * What texture did you think clouds were as a kid? * Infinity Island * Sleep, by Jorge Luis Borges * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=38645 * Chippendale Mupps and the slowest nerves Microtopics: * Knowing the names of zero outdoor cats in your neighborhood. * Canny outdoor cats who are adapted to city life and don't need your plugs. * Obi like the belt or like the Star ...
241. Brad Garrett Must Eat!
June 03, 2024 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBLords: * Abby * https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10813 * Pat * https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperheartcom/gotchacards Topics: * The pear scene * Capsule machines vs. claw games * Designing UIs for TV * This be the Verse, by Philip Larkin * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse Microtopics: * My Brother the Car. * A card game that is not totally random. * Deciding to focus on something else in 2020. * Rock Paper Scissors vs. Rock Scissors Paper. *...
240. Who Was Emily Dickinson Owning?
May 27, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBLords: * JP * Shepard Topics: * Damn it, Microsoft added something worthwhile to Office. * Favorite DOS game soundtracks? * The Balatro Discourse * Faith is a Fine Invention, by Emily Dickinson * https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/ Microtopics: * Artist Alley. * Scrolling down a web page and seeing a bunch of cool stuff. * Seeing a list and wondering "how did this list happen"? * Steam Farming Fest. * Trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up. * Eating...
239. Public Universal Snoopy
May 20, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBLords: * Abi * https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/ * Eva * https://eslee.bandcamp.com/ * https://eslee.itch.io/ * https://eslee.dev/portfolio/ Topics: * Will 2024 be the year of Snoopy girls? * https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls * https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831 * Are living fossils inherently better creatures or just really lucky? * Helious * https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/ * https://toot....
238. Talk To Me Like A Doctor Who Gives A Shit
May 13, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBLords: * CisHetKayFaber * Jenni Topics: * Interesting/weird foley sounds in games * Finding out about pop culture when it shows up in ASMR videos * CisHetKayFaber, correcting small breast mammography takes: "Mammograms seem to suck for everyone, and my initial take of, 'they just keep going' is correct while later discussion where I used it as an example where 'best effort,' in the healthcare system feels like lack of care wasn't appropriate even if that broader point is generally true." ...
237. Through The Pooping Glass
May 06, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBLords: * Avery * Chris Topics: * Cross-Country Skiing * Putting art where advertising usually goes * Running Pico-8 on a Raspberry Pi * The Day I Fell Down the Toilet by Steve Turner * https://ramblinglisasbookreviews.com/2016/09/20/poem-the-day-i-fell-down-the-toilet-by-steve-turner/ * I thought "snow" was one thing but it is about a million different things Microtopics: * Looking for a job as a programmer but finding one as a bard. * A Transformers the Movie style power ballad. * Stopping...
236. Your Child Is About The Size Of A Game Boy Advance
April 29, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBLords: * Mark * Shirley Topics: * Egypt sweater! * https://www.etsy.com/listing/233409089/amazing-1940s-egyptian-fair-isle-jumper * At the end of this film, are we supposed to want Indy to save Elsa? To go off happily together? (I say no.) * Kazim is the best character in Last Crusade * https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IP54S-ZZtyE * Portrait of my Brother as Indiana Jones * https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/portrait-of-my-brother-as-indiana-jones-by-amorak-huey/ * Sallah: The hardest...
235. Ennui Golf
April 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBLords: * Jenni * Xalavier Topics: * How do centaur internal organs work * What is the most unlikely horror franchise to adapt to games? * Do boomerangs work? * Serious KAAAND! * https://www.reddit.com/r/TopicLords/comments/1b3j3nu/serious_kaaand/ * Most game mascots are the sexual avatars of their creators * The Ted Dabney Experience Microtopics: * Rusty Lake. * An intriguing, terrifying morsel. * Whether it's okay to lie on this show. * Life Eater. * The horror fantasy kidnapping sim space...
234. Plunge Correctly For High Score
April 15, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBLords: * JohnB * Kevin * JADES data: https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/public/ Topics: * Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don Quixote * The Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerds * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MysteriesoftheUnknown * https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distantastronomicalobjectsiceberg/ * https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenon * http...
233. A Huge Pile Of Gold You Just Use To Shoot Porn On
April 08, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBLords: * Jonah * AC Topics: * When was the last time you listened to a song backwards? * Decentralized manufacturing * Are there other terms like "foodies," to describe those who are super into universal bodily functions? * The Bathroom Line, by Jesse Thurston * Playtesting legos Microtopics: * Pet Rock Dot Site * Whether rhythm is a kind of sound. * A rhythm synthesizer that produces control voltages. * All the things you could hypothetically like about New York City. * Crowded speculative r...
232. Where's The Poem, Zaborowske?
April 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBLords: * Chris * Dev * https://devinbusha.artstation.com/ Topics: * Taking Improv classes has been life changing. * Practicing 3 keyboard layouts at the same time * I bought store brand salt. You wouldn't think this would be a big deal but it turns out to be * I Once Snorted an Eight Ball with Santa, by Richie Zaborowske * https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-once-snorted-an-eight-ball-with-santa * Are all creative ideas very derivative, or is it just my ideas Microtopics: * Pickleball. ...
231. Game: The Game And Music Experience
March 25, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBLords: * Jeff * http://dopeassvideogames.com/ * Tyriq * https://fourbitfriday.itch.io/ Topics: * The shame of not remembering any good jokes for kids and having to write jokes on the spot for impatient children * What's your favorite genre to consume that you have no interest in making (or think you'd suck at?) * High Sidin' * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5INAxH1HD7s * Poetry * https://poets.org/poem/poetry * Every mammal has a fish Microtopics: * Line of sight for the fog of war. ...
230. What's God Even Made Of Anymore?
March 18, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBLords: * Mike * Jake Topics: * Cameras are peaking -- what's next? * Is the mysterious disappearing, or just mystery? * Preschool security practices * At the Feast in the Great Hall, by Ursula Leguin * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/1-EFinaN.png * It's not boring to talk about dreams Microtopics: * The great state of Maine. * A project you've been working on for a long time. * Inventing a game developer community in Michigan. * ...
229. This Show Now Available On Cockroach DNA
March 11, 2024 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBLords: * Megan * Lexi Topics: * Erik Satie's performance indications * https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=4497 * Instant food from other cultures (why isn't everyone eating maggi noodles??) * Seasonal decorations * Delhi Metro * https://docs.google.com/document/d/17k75ftxEn2xR-tJkLSV4H8st5BFAxPNxE3BNCXDI6Go/edit * Becoming Immortal by being predictable * Living in different climates (e.g. my experiences with the harsh winters of Chicago vs swelte...
228. Detecting Myself As Spam
March 04, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBLords: * Fif * Mitch Topics: * The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions * The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game * Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics * The Tay Bridge Disaster * https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/ * No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery * Comments tha...
227. Maximal Overlap With The Dork
February 26, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBLords: * Erica * Kory * https://kbones.itch.io/ Topics: * Mystery Hunt 2024 * Developing my first video game * Wearing glasses prevents COVID * English Ending Song, by Ryoji Yoshitomi * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/AxA-XP8E.png * How to make satisfying non-violent gameplay * @[email protected] Microtopics: * Letting go of concepts of yourself that you believe. * Losing a concept of yourself as a person and just becomi...
226. Ilk-Action Lawsuit
February 19, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBLords: * 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 Microtopics: * How the science gets done. * Measuring the height of a flagpole by ...
225. Showers: It's Wet In There
February 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBLords: * 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-copland-lyrics/i-bought-me-a-cat-lyrics.html * We've been subscribed to Univ...
224. Following A Garden Hose Around In The Dark
February 05, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBLords: * 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 they didn't have an in-house video game team yet. Donkey Kong was that team's ...
223. Three Hats To Scoop Up A Mouse
January 29, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBLords: * 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 where instead of getting in battles, you're just a band from Detroit on tour. There'...
222. Barkley In Retrograde
January 22, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBLords: * 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 and the people on the podcast * Struggling to relearn high school Spanish Microt...
221. Fisher-Price My First Right Click Menu
January 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBLords: * 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: * Lords of Topics. * Asking your mom if this Thanksgiving turkey is Frog Fractions 3....
220. An Oral History Of Men Riding Cats
January 08, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBLords: * 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 DX. * An exciting new way to give me money. * The gamut of barbaria...
219. Jeff Bezos's Butthole Guy
January 01, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBLords: * 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/beholdthechartevermade/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8 * Is giving people ideas helpful? * https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo * James asks "Why is configuring the thing more enjoyable than using the thing...
218. Darmok And Jalad Go To White Castle
December 25, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBLords: * 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 works like that. * Asking people if they understand what's going on. * Spy sof...
217. Rotate Your Plate Breakage
December 18, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBLords: * 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 so they have to call you before they take a shower. * Where's George? * Geo...
216. I Forget What We Do But We're About To Do It
December 11, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBLords: * 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 kids and the lack of useful information on the topic. Microtopics: * Ben and Jerr...
215. Taffy Arbitrage Tips
December 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBLords: * 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. * Where to find seasonal taffy bargains. * Terrifying taffy flavors. * Si...
214. Oh Shit! That Guy's Got Horse Legs!
November 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBLords * 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 is to have your name uncapitalized. * Polywater * My brain is polluted b...
213. Urine-Based Interactions With The Scientific Community
November 20, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBLords: * Erica * Ryan Topics: * Dog Bone Facts * We went to Cuba * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CandidatusDesulforudisaudaxviator * 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. Microtopics: * The COVID booster as a form of recreational drug use. * Puking, but not for th...
212. Back In My Day, Kids Actually Crossied The Road
November 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBLords: * 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/viewform * Owning the domain emailfordogs.com for some reason * When I t...
211. Window-Peering Jim Checking Out Your Cats
November 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBLords: * 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 up * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonorityhierarchy * Linear al...
210. Good Ideas For Sam Barlow
October 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBLords: * 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 is usually the most exciting part, so he doesn't want to watch whole mo...
209. Do Caterpillars Anticipate?
October 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBLords: * 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 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. * Finding someone to port your game to...
208. E.T. Shot First
October 16, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBLords: * 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 Gishath is a good example of how to make a dinosaur look really intimidating and pow...
207. Muppet Bird Generation Ship
October 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBLords: * 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 New Zealand * How are we feeling about the Boston Robotics advancements? Welcome ...
206. Waiting Around For Laundry To Be Invented
October 02, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBLords: * 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 children to pirate? Microtopics: * The flu shot. * Your TV patching itself. * Go...
205. It's Cool To Get A Letter
September 25, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBLords: * 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 all your mail in ROT13 to keep them safe from the snoops at the NSA. * Finishing with...
204. Defrag My Colon
September 18, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBLords: * 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 strategy guides and now there are hundreds. * "untitled" by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz * h...
203. Only Girls Get Duck Combs For Christmas
September 11, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBLords: * 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/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Tkr719yF.jpg * https://fil...
202. Tim Was My Jim
September 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBLords: * 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 from the Asian supermarket because the picture on the front looks good, th...
201. Don't Be Distressed, It's Just Australia
August 28, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBLords: * 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.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156405/outbreaks * Best food byproduc...
200. My Banana Has Bones
August 21, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBLords: * 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 13 * https://www.mobygames.com/game/84773/subject-13/ Microtop...
199. The Hum Of The Universe Sounded Like A Bug Zapper
August 14, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBLords: * 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, by Joy Sullivan * https://joysullivan.substack.com/p/how-to-leave-a-life * ...
198. I'm Not Leaving Until Someone Sequences This Cup Of Spit
August 07, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBLords: * 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-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/KmODxwhW.jpg * Grandma giving you a world's best gra...
197. It's No Moist Shit, But I'll Eat It
July 31, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MBLords: * 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 Ferlinghetti * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42860/sometime-dur...
196. Active Time Battle Internet Relay Chat
July 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBLords: * 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-exegesis-.html * "Seen and Not Seen" by Talking Heads * https://genius.com/Talkin...