Topic Lords

Dec 09 2024 268 ep. 65 mins 303
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Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.

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268. Puzzles For Puzzle Enjoyers

Dec 09 2024 59 mins  
Lords: James https://pounced-on.me/@Triplefox Kev https://kevzettler.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@MikeMotion83 Topics: Copyparty Egg punk vs. chain punk Going geocaching three times https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/ugJWqQdP.jpg Septic Tanks https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/im

267. Unburying The Duck

Dec 02 2024 73 mins  
Lords: John Erica Topics: Golden owl pre-post-mortem https://goldenowlhunt.com/ Twin update: one year later Notepad has support for alternative line endings now Goodnight Moon (And/or Goodnight Dune?) https://www.firstcry.com/intelli/articles/goodnight-moon-nursery-rhyme/ Microtopics: The waiting list to get into the Topic Lords discord. What goes on the lords-onl

266. Voronoi Cookies

Nov 25 2024 67 mins  
Lords: Ben Andrew Topics: Baking: precise science of measurement or do it all by feel? (People have very different philosophies of muffins) I've gotten into making crosswords this year and recently had the idea to start putting them on postcards and leaving them in public places for people to find. Am I becoming the Riddler? Is this fine? I just found out that there aren&

265. We're Here To Make This Slide Floppy

Nov 18 2024 70 mins  
Lords: Tim Chris Topics: Noodles? Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free will Choosing an integrator https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/ Lucky Jim (old song) https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/U7zR1RCa.png Collaborative music as a game design p

264. Pickpocketed So Hard You Die

Nov 11 2024 67 mins  
Lords: Andrew https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Aubrianne Topics: I will never get good at video games and that's okay Does charging (or even allowing donations) for something change its perception as a piece of art? Messy game design To Be of Use, Marge Piercy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use Films Noir Complementary Hobby Power Couples

263. Drafted Into The Applebee's Wars

Nov 04 2024 69 mins  
Lords: Xalavier Brianne Topics: Why do movies about contract killers skip over the good part of negotiating in excruciating detail the contract and clauses present? Are fictional characters greater role models than real people? The new Zelda game talks too much and I'm okay with that Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/mahmoud-dar

262. Real Meal, Fictional Man

Oct 28 2024 70 mins  
Lords: CisHetKayFaber Maxx Topics: Food-focused Japanese TV If "fish don't exist," then how do pescetarians? PicoSteveMo is back! https://wikipoem.org/ Verisimilitude in play (My daughter plays GTA and Roblox) (The shifting nature of what is appropriate for children) Microtopics: Emotionally connecting with a dying web site and meeting up with other users in

261. Chat Hurt Chatself In Chat's Confusion

Oct 21 2024 63 mins  
Lords: Alex https://www.youtube.com/@adiener https://discord.com/invite/ZkV2zdb Mitch https://hbmmaster.tumblr.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster https://www.patreon.com/hbmmaster Topics: The Wikipedia article about football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football Classic Macintosh computers The entomologist nerds get like two minutes of screen time in Silence of

260. This Sentient Life Could've Been An Email

Oct 14 2024 75 mins  
Lords: Jenni Chris Topics: Are corporate mascots in US culture age-locked to a generation? I have done no research about this The continuation of our species depends on balls being able to taste soy sauce BB-8 changed my tire The Woodchuck, by Sam Pink https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/wg09x5/poem_the_woodchuck_by_sam_pink/ Microtopics: Too much dick content fo

259. All Bag, No Pipes

Oct 07 2024 68 mins  
Lords: Elena Esper says: "I will join both guests in also recommending Dropout, especially Game Changer. They are on to something really special with the shows they're making, very little makes me laugh as hard as the stuff on there." Tyriq https://50games.fun/ Topics: Being witty and social is my favorite power fantasy to realize Popular music: sometimes