130. Gilding The Lemur

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Lords:
* Tyriq
* https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
* https://frror.bandcamp.com/
* Stevie
* https://www.hryx.net
Topics:
* Watching TAS videos and wondering how much of what is happening is necessary vs flourish
* If Jeff Bezos wanted to recreate Jurassic Park
* Chocolate-dipped fruit has such an enormous gulf between perceived effort and actual effort that as a gift giver or potluck attendee you are all but obligated to take advantage
* Strong Men, Riding Horses by Gwendolyn Brooks
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28113
* The creators of Earthworm Jim: Where are they now?
Microtopics:
* Tunic.
* Finding collectible pages of a game's manual inside the game.
* Games in fake languages.
* Playing imported games in emulation and trying to figure out how to play even though you don't speak the language.
* Curveballs.
* A monthly in-person cozy casual game development meetup.
* Discovering what people mean by "within" when people say "inquire within."
* What happened to all of the art.
* What a whale bone smells like after you clean it.
* Whether it's grosser to drink bone marrow or eat oysters.
* The most charming of all the crabs.
* TAS runs.
* The various kinds of tools that might assist you in creating a tool-assisted speed run.
* Human-Mediated Speed Runs, or HMSRs.
* Proving the ideal speed run.
* Some kind of sequence that is based on a timer.
* When the TAS run does a little dance and you're trying to figure out whether that's important to the run or if they're just killing time.
* The game became Snake.
* Whether coffee cures or causes cancer.
* Like listening in a mirror.
* The vapors.
* Trillionaires not being as rich as they used to be.
* A big big island full of organisms that are just waiting to be coated in gold.
* Painting your entire body and dying somehow.
* Lemur-friendly paints.
* People who've eaten breakfast and then died.
* Dipping some shit in some crap.
* Watching Food Network to discover the Science of Chocolate.
* An attractive morsel.
* Pastries with fruit fillings.
* A solid cube of a mass of dessert-object.
* Taking advice from someone who hasn't even been on several hundred podcasts.
* Frantically putting the Topic Lords banner back on your wall when you see Jim approaching.
* Releasing Topic Lords episodes.
* Shuffling off of this mortal topic.
* Making a movie to promote your new chocolate bar.
* A type of chocolate that tries to be solid.
* Spaghetti-Os as a back formation of Spaghetti-O-ification, which is what happens when pasta passes through a black hole's event horizon.
* Using Hawking radiation to retrieve lost Spaghetti-Os from within black holes.
* The movie playing the sound of somebody peeing to let you know that now's when you get up to use the bathroom.
* A crowd of people doing foley work for a restaurant scene in Murder She Wrote.
* Picking somebody for Animatronic Angela Lansbury to murder and then picking somebody for her to pin it on when she solves the crime.
* The fine line between true and false.
* The fine line between foot and floor.
* Desert-eyed, rentless strong men pasted to stars already.
* A source of praise for the patriarchy.
* Addled by landlords.
* Whether being pasted to the stars is good.
* The elbow of the topics.
* Earthworm Jim.
* A muscular goofball earthworm.
* Whether you can say "groovy" and still be angry.
* A strict no-sequels policy.
* Not the thing you're here to talk about.
* George "The Fat Man" Sanger.
* Wall-E but a Roomba but also one of those 90s wireless phone cradles.
* Games you can play for free on the web.
* All the good times we had at Blockbuster Video renting movies from Blockbuster Video.
* How public libraries still exist and offer more movies than your local Blockbuster Video had and they're free and you keep them for a month rather than two days but nobody gives a shit because libraries don't have branding or advertising.
* A perfect solution to a problem that everybody wants solved urgently.
* Weirdly buff creatures that should not be buff.
* Music band with animal companion solves mystery.
* The Dog & The Stoner & The Band & The Ghost.
* Queen Slug-for-a-Butt.

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

Lords:

Tyriq

https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
https://frror.bandcamp.com/

Stevie

https://www.hryx.net

Topics:

Watching TAS videos and wondering how much of what is happening is necessary vs flourish
If Jeff Bezos wanted to recreate Jurassic Park
Chocolate-dipped fruit has such an enormous gulf between perceived effort and actual effort that as a gift giver or potluck attendee you are all but obligated to take advantage
Strong Men, Riding Horses by Gwendolyn Brooks

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28113

The creators of Earthworm Jim: Where are they now?

Microtopics:

Tunic.
Finding collectible pages of a game's manual inside the game.
Games in fake languages.
Playing imported games in emulation and trying to figure out how to play even though you don't speak the language.
Curveballs.
A monthly in-person cozy casual game development meetup.
Discovering what people mean by "within" when people say "inquire within."
What happened to all of the art.
What a whale bone smells like after you clean it.
Whether it's grosser to drink bone marrow or eat oysters.
The most charming of all the crabs.
TAS runs.
The various kinds of tools that might assist you in creating a tool-assisted speed run.
Human-Mediated Speed Runs, or HMSRs.
Proving the ideal speed run.
Some kind of sequence that is based on a timer.
When the TAS run does a little dance and you're trying to figure out whether that's important to the run or if they're just killing time.
The game became Snake.
Whether coffee cures or causes cancer.
Like listening in a mirror.
The vapors.
Trillionaires not being as rich as they used to be.
A big big island full of organisms that are just waiting to be coated in gold.
Painting your entire body and dying somehow.
Lemur-friendly paints.
People who've eaten breakfast and then died.
Dipping some shit in some crap.
Watching Food Network to discover the Science of Chocolate.
An attractive morsel.
Pastries with fruit fillings.
A solid cube of a mass of dessert-object.
Taking advice from someone who hasn't even been on several hundred podcasts.
Frantically putting the Topic Lords banner back on your wall when you see Jim approaching.
Releasing Topic Lords episodes.
Shuffling off of this mortal topic.
Making a movie to promote your new chocolate bar.
A type of chocolate that tries to be solid.
Spaghetti-Os as a back formation of Spaghetti-O-ification, which is what happens when pasta passes through a black hole's event horizon.
Using Hawking radiation to retrieve lost Spaghetti-Os from within black holes.
The movie playing the sound of somebody peeing to let you know that now's when you get up to use the bathroom.
A crowd of people doing foley work for a restaurant scene in Murder She Wrote.
Picking somebody for Animatronic Angela Lansbury to murder and then picking somebody for her to pin it on when she solves the crime.
The fine line between true and false.
The fine line between foot and floor.
Desert-eyed, rentless strong men pasted to stars already.
A source of praise for the patriarchy.
Addled by landlords.
Whether being pasted to the stars is good.
The elbow of the topics.
Earthworm Jim.
A muscular goofball earthworm.
Whether you can say "groovy" and still be angry.
A strict no-sequels policy.
Not the thing you're here to talk about.
George "The Fat Man" Sanger.
Wall-E but a Roomba but also one of those 90s wireless phone cradles.
Games you can play for free on the web.
All the good times we had at Blockbuster Video renting movies from Blockbuster Video.
How public libraries still exist and offer more movies than your local Blockbuster Video had and they're free and you keep them for a month rather than two days but nobody gives a shit because libraries don't have branding or advertising.
A perfect solution to a problem that everybody wants solved urgently.
Weirdly buff creatures that should not be buff.
Music band with animal companion solves mystery.
The Dog & The Stoner & The Band & The Ghost.
Queen Slug-for-a-Butt.

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