103. The 303 Beethoven Used

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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) commentary: https://youtu.be/Peeo6xZqeVs
* Cyber Nexus internet cafe in Lakeland Florida and late 1990s internet cafes in general
* https://twitter.com/jaytholen/status/1370002162063990786
Microtopics:
* Putting all of Spotify on shuffle.
* Spotify rejecting your album because you put lyrics on the album cover.
* Immersing yourself in a shitty visual aesthetic until you love it and the guy at the record label rejects your album cover.
* Renaming your company to Content Distribution Baby now but the logo is still a baby on a CD.
* The Godaddy man and the pets dot com sock puppet.
* A demon face in the middle of a circuit board.
* The part of the show where we look at image search results together.
* Visiting Kowloon Walled City for the cheap dentistry.
* Going to a nightmare city to get your teeth worked on: an opportunity to die.
* One of several problems with working seven days a week and never taking a break.
* Blame! or perhaps Blam!
* Trying to live in the dystopian future where the construction nanobots run wild and convert all matter on the planet into endless nonsense staircases and ventilation ducts.
* The protagonist having a really cool gun.
* When the author doesn't know what's interesting about their own setting.
* Having to write a novel because nobody's invented D&D source books yet.
* Feeling like an outsider because you don't know which Dale Earnhardt crashed into a wall.
* An online pixel art isometric place to hang out.
* Being a jerk to people in an organized manner.
* Audio production subforums.
* How internet communities get radicalized and how they mellow out.
* Ironically doing outrageous stuff on the internet.
* The strange purity of being ahead of the curve.
* Memes as a bannable offense.
* Getting a Something Awful forum account for your birthday and never looking at it because you don't like awful things.
* A synthesizer for the singer songwriter who doesn't have a bass player.
* Discovering the future of techno in the bargain bin.
* The history of the TB-303.
* The Prophet-5 vs. the Prophet-6.
* A drum pad that is the first of its kind.
* The thing with the egg breaking against a wall and how you always side with the egg.
* Creating reproductions of saught after out of print old stuff.
* Having two guitars, one tuned in fifths and one tuned like a ukulele.
* Writing music that could never be played.
* Making games because you want to get your music in front of people.
* Jim Stormdancer and the Frog Fractions Players.
* Finally receiving the obscurity you've been craving.
* Writing a book about the KLF as a lens into your particular moral philosophy.
* Drum or Brown?
* Doom Demon Invisible.
* 5 times voted CMA female vocalist Tammy Wynette.
* Trying to gesture at Discordianism or other forms of alternative mysticism.
* Making a new game in character as a character from your last game.
* The Burning Man man.
* Presented with the Most Coveted Living Legend Award Sponsored By TNN.
* Hiring randos to sing and play instruments on your album and hiring entirely different randos to be in your music video.
* King Boy D and the other guy.
* Burning a million quid and then going around asking people why you burned a million quid.
* Good names for internet cafes.
* A square of computers.
* Not recognizing Stargate decor and assuming it's just sci fi Egypt themed.
* Losing at Quake for your birthday while your parents watch a Pink Floyd DVD with the owner of the Internet cafe.
* Which one is Cyber and which one is Nexus?
* Not remembering why your band was invited to play a set at the Interface of Language and Technology.
* That's a level 12 mage, get off of that!
* Whether an internet cafe is the same thing as a cyber cafe.
* The regular at your coffee shop who scalps tickets for a living.
* Whipping out a 61 key MIDI controller to write tracks at Starbucks.
* Trying to avoid situations where you'd accidentally give a philosophy lecture.
* What is an organism and what organisms do.
* Whether Aristotle knows that whales are mammals.
* A category of things that have an effect.

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) commentary: https://youtu.be/Peeo6xZqeVs

Cyber Nexus internet cafe in Lakeland Florida and late 1990s internet cafes in general

https://twitter.com/jaytholen/status/1370002162063990786

Microtopics:

Putting all of Spotify on shuffle.
Spotify rejecting your album because you put lyrics on the album cover.
Immersing yourself in a shitty visual aesthetic until you love it and the guy at the record label rejects your album cover.
Renaming your company to Content Distribution Baby now but the logo is still a baby on a CD.
The Godaddy man and the pets dot com sock puppet.
A demon face in the middle of a circuit board.
The part of the show where we look at image search results together.
Visiting Kowloon Walled City for the cheap dentistry.
Going to a nightmare city to get your teeth worked on: an opportunity to die.
One of several problems with working seven days a week and never taking a break.
Blame! or perhaps Blam!
Trying to live in the dystopian future where the construction nanobots run wild and convert all matter on the planet into endless nonsense staircases and ventilation ducts.
The protagonist having a really cool gun.
When the author doesn't know what's interesting about their own setting.
Having to write a novel because nobody's invented D&D source books yet.
Feeling like an outsider because you don't know which Dale Earnhardt crashed into a wall.
An online pixel art isometric place to hang out.
Being a jerk to people in an organized manner.
Audio production subforums.
How internet communities get radicalized and how they mellow out.
Ironically doing outrageous stuff on the internet.
The strange purity of being ahead of the curve.
Memes as a bannable offense.
Getting a Something Awful forum account for your birthday and never looking at it because you don't like awful things.
A synthesizer for the singer songwriter who doesn't have a bass player.
Discovering the future of techno in the bargain bin.
The history of the TB-303.
The Prophet-5 vs. the Prophet-6.
A drum pad that is the first of its kind.
The thing with the egg breaking against a wall and how you always side with the egg.
Creating reproductions of saught after out of print old stuff.
Having two guitars, one tuned in fifths and one tuned like a ukulele.
Writing music that could never be played.
Making games because you want to get your music in front of people.
Jim Stormdancer and the Frog Fractions Players.
Finally receiving the obscurity you've been craving.
Writing a book about the KLF as a lens into your particular moral philosophy.
Drum or Brown?
Doom Demon Invisible.
5 times voted CMA female vocalist Tammy Wynette.
Trying to gesture at Discordianism or other forms of alternative mysticism.
Making a new game in character as a character from your last game.
The Burning Man man.
Presented with the Most Coveted Living Legend Award Sponsored By TNN.
Hiring randos to sing and play instruments on your album and hiring entirely different randos to be in your music video.
King Boy D and the other guy.
Burning a million quid and then going around asking people why you burned a million quid.
Good names for internet cafes.
A square of computers.
Not recognizing Stargate decor and assuming it's just sci fi Egypt themed.
Losing at Quake for your birthday while your parents watch a Pink Floyd DVD with the owner of the Internet cafe.
Which one is Cyber and which one is Nexus?
Not remembering why your band was invited to play a set at the Interface of Language and Technology.
That's a level 12 mage, get off of that!
Whether an internet cafe is the same thing as a cyber cafe.
The regular at your coffee shop who scalps tickets for a living.
Whipping out a 61 key MIDI controller to write tracks at Starbucks.
Trying to avoid situations where you'd accidentally give a philosophy lecture.
What is an organism and what organisms do.
Whether Aristotle knows that whales are mammals.
A category of things that have an effect.

Support Topic Lords