Topic Lords

Lords:

• Andrew


• Kate

Topics:

• Is it okay to make a game that is boring


• My friend wants me to play WoW. Should I?


• How to melt chocolate


• Kate's Wallace and Gromit song
  
  
  
  
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• VFX is like cooking, game design is like baking


• Looksmaxxing

Microtopics:

• Adam Atomic's Pico-8 renaissance.


• Vampire vs. Pope Army


• Still Kate.


• Grass and flowers and touching them.


• The bifurcation of Bluesky into Twitter 2 and Mastodon into Not Twitter.


• The different kinds of people who tell you you're doing it wrong on different social media services.


• Looking at Bluesky and realizing it's just like Twitter, and having a reaction to that realization.


• Comparing your mood before using an internet service to your mood afterwards.


• You're the cow, baby!


• A story about living in a village of fewer than twenty people where nothing happens for thirty years.


• Countervailing forces preventing your game design from becoming a worry stone.


• Going outside and being bored until being bored stops feeling like an assault on all your senses.


• Talking to your mates in the pub about your new socks.


• Your mayonnaise manufacturing district.


• YAGNI.


• That time your ex-husband stole your knife and without a knife you can't cut food! Or ropes!


• Needing medical help and asking the guy in your village who owns half an encyclopedia.


• A miserable experience that is worth doing.


• The big advantage of playing World of Warcraft in Hardcore mode.


• WoW Classic and WoW Classic Classic.


• A game about killing 40 rats.


• The game for children that do annoying dances.


• Who knows about causality?


• The two year period when game designers played nothing but World of Warcraft.


• Getting addicted to an MMO and never contributing anything to society ever again.


• Entering into an activity with a miserly determination to not have fun.


• What it takes to do a dungeon.


• The spaces between the exciting parts.


• Melting chocolate on top of parchment paper.


• Melting chocolate with a hair dryer.


• A Fraught Bark Experience.


• Mouthfuls of raw flour.


• Cake Batter Bark.


• Rescuing seized chocolate.


• Counterintuitive chocolate behavior.


• Baking: It's Stupid.


• Adding a tart cheese to cream of mushrooms soup.


• Reading the poem as if you're not singing it in your head.


• Asking the vicar to share a stir-fry.


• Adding swear words to the Wallace and Gromit theme.


• Leggy Desert Boy, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.


• The verse in Eleanor Rigby where they talk about cooking and eating dinner.


• Words that rhyme with "pint."


• Rhyming "pint" with "2019."


• Inventing an OC named "blorange" to solve your rhyming problems.


• Taking flavors and synthesizing new flavors.


• Hammering on the "fun" button for forty or fifty years.


• Having the one hit and not needing another hit.


• Exploring a multidimensional design space and tapping on all the walls to see which ones are destructible.


• Starting to make a game and finding out whether it's an easy game to make.


• Langoliers.


• Night Snacker.


• Releasing games exclusively in the Topic Lords discord.


• The art of turning your mortal vessel into a weapon.


• Softmaxxing vs. Hardmaxxing.


• Doing tongue exercises to sharpen your jaw.


• The Wikipedia page with the most scare quotes on it.


• Limb-lengthening surgery.


• Dabbing: it's just extremely short-term looksmaxxing.


• When two subcultures have two different words for the same idea.


• Whether the Xes in "Looksmaxxing" are the kisses and the Os the hugs, or vice versa.


• Whether the Xes in are the kisses and the Os are the hugs or whether the Xes are the dead eyes on the cartoon face.


• Archiving the VODs.

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