64. Going Out For Tacos In Germany

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Lords:
* John of the Maryland Johns
* Jay of Hypnospace
* http://www.hypnospace.net/
Topics:
* When you're more interested in following news about things than the things themselves: When will the rumored The Cure albums come out? No Man's Sky updates. What is Josh Sawyer working on?
* Realizing that your funny friend as a child was just repeating lines from HBO comedy specials that you weren't allowed to watch.
* The Terminator 2 soundtrack and the Fairlight CMI 3
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpYowxlwsU
* I couldn't find a source for the analog modeling synth running on a 60s mainframe, but I did find this example of early digital synthesis from 1961: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
* Fairlight is the name of a village in East Sussex, England. I could've sworn it was one of Santa's reindeer or something like that.
* Kevin asks "The diminishing returns technologically with each passing console generation. For instance, NES to SNES was a massive leap, whereas you can barely distinguish ps4 games from ps5 games."
* Adventures in cooking: share tales of delicious things you have made recently
Microtopics:
* A game about the old internet.
* Figuring out who DMed John.
* Doing better at a game than all the people who don't know that the game exists.
* Searching things a lot when you're on the toilet.
* Being more interested in news about the cure for COVID than about the cure itself.
* The three rumored The Cure albums that have been teased for the past four years.
* Identifying as someone who cares about video games long after you no longer have time to play video games.
* The cultural event of Blaseball.
* Whether you are less interested in things as you get older or if you just have less time.
* Not buying a Raspberry Pi because you definitely don't have time to play with it.
* Sitting two feet away from a 50 inch television and trying to get RetroArch working.
* Buying a NES and SNES Classic but never actually playing the games.
* Whether Bonk's Adventure is good in 2020.
* Kanye West naming an album Turbo Grafx 16.
* Naming your The Beatles tribute band The Beatles.
* Being exposed to Monty Python primarily by your friends who constantly quote lines out of context.
* Finally watching Monty Python and realizing your funny friend has never made an original joke in his life.
* Friends who communicate solely in movie one liners.
* Making friends with a kid who always says lines from Duke Nukem 3D and learning to say them yourself even though you've never heard of Duke Nukem.
* Whether anyone actually knew what Cornholio actually was.
* The abject cultural domination of Beavis and Butthead.
* Whether or not the listeners will want to know what a ROMpler is.
* A $60,000 industrial-strength sampler/synthesizer in your garage.
* Playing naturalistic orchestral samples at unnaturally low playback speeds.
* A terrifying grindy klaxon sound.
* An unstoppable liquid metal monster with a jaunty soundtrack.
* Supercomputers producing digital audio in not real time.
* The Mellotron.
* The brass hit sample used in Owner of a Lonely Heart.
* Whether Fairlight the warez group has any relation to Fairlight the synthesizer company.
* Emulating the crustiness of the Fairlight CMI.
* Where to find all the samples that came built-in to the Fairlight CMI.
* Audible frowns.
* Just throwing polygons at the rasterizer.
* Being clever and squeezing every last drop of performance out of the new consoles and it still doesn't look that much better.
* The visual quality of a console you grew up playing being acceptable forever.
* Noticing the hottest new game graphics for fifteen minutes and after that you're just playing a video game again.
* How we could be up to the NES 6 or the Wii U by now.
* Playing Wii Sports and not noticing or caring that the Wii can play other games.
* Completely ignoring F2P games until one of your relatives turns out to be susceptible to gambling addiction.
* How Nintendo spent the Breath of the Wild budget.
* Shielding your eyes when you see a map because you don't want to know too much about the world.
* Which Breath of the Wild HUD modes include a compass.
* Stuffed mushrooms.
* The only recipe that your family makes literally every Thanksgiving.
* Making a tray of stuffed mushrooms where the seasoning is different on every mushroom.
* A Delicious Chore.
* Eggs on toast with remoulade.
* The default thing you put on a sandwich.
* Espresso machine eggs.
* The hypothetical standalone steamer arm.
* Promising to not promote anyone's Kickstarter.
* What Jim will do with a sharp knife if he gets one for Christmas.
* Putting a salmon in the fridge until it desiccates.
* Whether scales are a kind of skin.
* Knowing you really ought to eat fish.
* Putting cabbage in the oven until it's melted cabbage.
* Two people who are the same height but one looks taller because their legs are longer.
* Dog content on this podcast.
* Allowing both pronunciations of Jay's name.
* Katie content on this podcast.
* A baby becoming a person after basically being a potato for a while.
* John's one (1) tweet.

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

Lords:

John of the Maryland Johns
Jay of Hypnospace

http://www.hypnospace.net/

Topics:

When you're more interested in following news about things than the things themselves: When will the rumored The Cure albums come out? No Man's Sky updates. What is Josh Sawyer working on?
Realizing that your funny friend as a child was just repeating lines from HBO comedy specials that you weren't allowed to watch.
The Terminator 2 soundtrack and the Fairlight CMI 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpYowxlwsU
I couldn't find a source for the analog modeling synth running on a 60s mainframe, but I did find this example of early digital synthesis from 1961: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
Fairlight is the name of a village in East Sussex, England. I could've sworn it was one of Santa's reindeer or something like that.

Kevin asks "The diminishing returns technologically with each passing console generation. For instance, NES to SNES was a massive leap, whereas you can barely distinguish ps4 games from ps5 games."
Adventures in cooking: share tales of delicious things you have made recently

Microtopics:

A game about the old internet.
Figuring out who DMed John.
Doing better at a game than all the people who don't know that the game exists.
Searching things a lot when you're on the toilet.
Being more interested in news about the cure for COVID than about the cure itself.
The three rumored The Cure albums that have been teased for the past four years.
Identifying as someone who cares about video games long after you no longer have time to play video games.
The cultural event of Blaseball.
Whether you are less interested in things as you get older or if you just have less time.
Not buying a Raspberry Pi because you definitely don't have time to play with it.
Sitting two feet away from a 50 inch television and trying to get RetroArch working.
Buying a NES and SNES Classic but never actually playing the games.
Whether Bonk's Adventure is good in 2020.
Kanye West naming an album Turbo Grafx 16.
Naming your The Beatles tribute band The Beatles.
Being exposed to Monty Python primarily by your friends who constantly quote lines out of context.
Finally watching Monty Python and realizing your funny friend has never made an original joke in his life.
Friends who communicate solely in movie one liners.
Making friends with a kid who always says lines from Duke Nukem 3D and learning to say them yourself even though you've never heard of Duke Nukem.
Whether anyone actually knew what Cornholio actually was.
The abject cultural domination of Beavis and Butthead.
Whether or not the listeners will want to know what a ROMpler is.
A $60,000 industrial-strength sampler/synthesizer in your garage.
Playing naturalistic orchestral samples at unnaturally low playback speeds.
A terrifying grindy klaxon sound.
An unstoppable liquid metal monster with a jaunty soundtrack.
Supercomputers producing digital audio in not real time.
The Mellotron.
The brass hit sample used in Owner of a Lonely Heart.
Whether Fairlight the warez group has any relation to Fairlight the synthesizer company.
Emulating the crustiness of the Fairlight CMI.
Where to find all the samples that came built-in to the Fairlight CMI.
Audible frowns.
Just throwing polygons at the rasterizer.
Being clever and squeezing every last drop of performance out of the new consoles and it still doesn't look that much better.
The visual quality of a console you grew up playing being acceptable forever.
Noticing the hottest new game graphics for fifteen minutes and after that you're just playing a video game again.
How we could be up to the NES 6 or the Wii U by now.
Playing Wii Sports and not noticing or caring that the Wii can play other games.
Completely ignoring F2P games until one of your relatives turns out to be susceptible to gambling addiction.
How Nintendo spent the Breath of the Wild budget.
Shielding your eyes when you see a map because you don't want to know too much about the world.
Which Breath of the Wild HUD modes include a compass.
Stuffed mushrooms.
The only recipe that your family makes literally every Thanksgiving.
Making a tray of stuffed mushrooms where the seasoning is different on every mushroom.
A Delicious Chore.
Eggs on toast with remoulade.
The default thing you put on a sandwich.
Espresso machine eggs.
The hypothetical standalone steamer arm.
Promising to not promote anyone's Kickstarter.
What Jim will do with a sharp knife if he gets one for Christmas.
Putting a salmon in the fridge until it desiccates.
Whether scales are a kind of skin.
Knowing you really ought to eat fish.
Putting cabbage in the oven until it's melted cabbage.
Two people who are the same height but one looks taller because their legs are longer.
Dog content on this podcast.
Allowing both pronunciations of Jay's name.
Katie content on this podcast.
A baby becoming a person after basically being a potato for a while.
John's one (1) tweet.

Support Topic Lords