157. The Boy Who Cried ARG

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Lords:
* Tyriq
* https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
* https://frror.bandcamp.com/
* Chall
* https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall
Topics:
* The future/present of Jim's mario videos.
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0Ntxnf9mof2tU-QZLQ0Mq6zd
* Catatcomb Kids lore in the context of the fact that I like worldbuilding but find it hard to tell actual stories.
* Bigger Luke
* The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band.
* http://www.syndicjournal.us/a-ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-60-narrations/ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-the-green-street-mortuary-marching-band/
* Have you seen any phantom kangaroos? And also: should I choose to believe in cryptids? If so, which ones?
Microtopics:
* Giving someone else's biography.
* 7-Day Roguelikes.
* Feeling ambiently like you are hanging out with somebody.
* An emulator that works when you are not screen-capturing in OBS, but freezes when you are.
* Making a backup of your Bowser's Fury save.
* Video recording setup evolutions.
* The pros and cons of extremely variable video lengths.
* Playing Tony Hawk with Mario modded in.
* What working on a Zelda game does to a person, psychologically.
* Doing things that make people believe you're doing an ARG.
* Twinbeard Rates Mario.
* A robot co-host that eventually starts finishing your words for you.
* Wanting to be a writer until you try writing.
* A world that naturally develops in your brain.
* How to tell stories.
* Coming up with a bunch of characters that want things.
* Reading stories in hopes that stories rub off on you.
* Putting yourself in a situation where you write a lot of dialog trees.
* How to make a platformer without doing any level design.
* Expecting the same person to write the music and the lyrics.
* The difference in the ideation process of world building and story telling.
* A fact about the world that is true.
* Captain Thalmoo surveying the battlefield.
* Figuring out mid-burrito that there was a war, and deciding who won it.
* A grain that flowers like lavender.
* Searching Fiverr for Conlangers.
* Paying $2 for something at the Dollar Store.
* Logging Onto JimNet.
* The Canon Bigger Luke Hypothesis vs. the Hamill Hypothesis.
* The Inch-Luke Hypothesis.
* Inch-Lukers.
* Bigger Luke conspiracy theorists just assume that Han Solo stays the same size.
* The real Skywalker was the bigger Luke all along.
* The Boy Who Cried ARG.
* Promising your wife that your son will not be Frog Fractions 3.
* How many pages of laws a person is subject to at any given time.
* Designing an ARG for your teenage son and he's like "ugh dad, again?"
* Mortuary marching bands.
* The patriarch who has just croaked.
* The sister with the bent frame.
* Uncle Louie with the wig.
* Getting a free concert because someone died.
* A funeral as a pleasant gathering of people you haven't seen in a long time.
* Getting arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
* Dressing up as an ancient sea captain.
* How many funerals this marching band is playing today.
* Hiring your nephew who has a Casiotone keyboard to play your funeral.
* Hiring the Green Street Mortuary Marching Band to play at your kid's birthday but all they know how to play is Taps.
* Bringing an axe to the funeral in case there's an emergency and you need to open up the coffin quickly.
* If a guitar is an axe, a tuba is a bent axe.
* Unbending the Tuba.
* Why brass instruments are so twisty.
* If you unwind a French horn it'll reach the moon and back.
* The large flutes that are curly.
* The son of a flautist.
* A bookshelf that you blow into and music comes out.
* Potential downsides of cryptids.
* Wanting to take EMF meters into a creepy house even though you don't believe in ghosts.
* The script scientists developed to let you fall in love at will.
* How many blue coins out of five you would rate your wife.
* Taking the Race IAT every week and analyzing your results over time.

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

Lords:

Tyriq

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

Chall

https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall

Topics:

The future/present of Jim's mario videos.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0Ntxnf9mof2tU-QZLQ0Mq6zd

Catatcomb Kids lore in the context of the fact that I like worldbuilding but find it hard to tell actual stories.
Bigger Luke
The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band.

http://www.syndicjournal.us/a-ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-60-narrations/ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-the-green-street-mortuary-marching-band/

Have you seen any phantom kangaroos? And also: should I choose to believe in cryptids? If so, which ones?

Microtopics:

Giving someone else's biography.
7-Day Roguelikes.
Feeling ambiently like you are hanging out with somebody.
An emulator that works when you are not screen-capturing in OBS, but freezes when you are.
Making a backup of your Bowser's Fury save.
Video recording setup evolutions.
The pros and cons of extremely variable video lengths.
Playing Tony Hawk with Mario modded in.
What working on a Zelda game does to a person, psychologically.
Doing things that make people believe you're doing an ARG.
Twinbeard Rates Mario.
A robot co-host that eventually starts finishing your words for you.
Wanting to be a writer until you try writing.
A world that naturally develops in your brain.
How to tell stories.
Coming up with a bunch of characters that want things.
Reading stories in hopes that stories rub off on you.
Putting yourself in a situation where you write a lot of dialog trees.
How to make a platformer without doing any level design.
Expecting the same person to write the music and the lyrics.
The difference in the ideation process of world building and story telling.
A fact about the world that is true.
Captain Thalmoo surveying the battlefield.
Figuring out mid-burrito that there was a war, and deciding who won it.
A grain that flowers like lavender.
Searching Fiverr for Conlangers.
Paying $2 for something at the Dollar Store.
Logging Onto JimNet.
The Canon Bigger Luke Hypothesis vs. the Hamill Hypothesis.
The Inch-Luke Hypothesis.
Inch-Lukers.
Bigger Luke conspiracy theorists just assume that Han Solo stays the same size.
The real Skywalker was the bigger Luke all along.
The Boy Who Cried ARG.
Promising your wife that your son will not be Frog Fractions 3.
How many pages of laws a person is subject to at any given time.
Designing an ARG for your teenage son and he's like "ugh dad, again?"
Mortuary marching bands.
The patriarch who has just croaked.
The sister with the bent frame.
Uncle Louie with the wig.
Getting a free concert because someone died.
A funeral as a pleasant gathering of people you haven't seen in a long time.
Getting arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
Dressing up as an ancient sea captain.
How many funerals this marching band is playing today.
Hiring your nephew who has a Casiotone keyboard to play your funeral.
Hiring the Green Street Mortuary Marching Band to play at your kid's birthday but all they know how to play is Taps.
Bringing an axe to the funeral in case there's an emergency and you need to open up the coffin quickly.
If a guitar is an axe, a tuba is a bent axe.
Unbending the Tuba.
Why brass instruments are so twisty.
If you unwind a French horn it'll reach the moon and back.
The large flutes that are curly.
The son of a flautist.
A bookshelf that you blow into and music comes out.
Potential downsides of cryptids.
Wanting to take EMF meters into a creepy house even though you don't believe in ghosts.
The script scientists developed to let you fall in love at will.
How many blue coins out of five you would rate your wife.
Taking the Race IAT every week and analyzing your results over time.

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