Topic Lords
Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
Episodes
June 16, 2025 • 64 mins
Lords:
* Andrew
* Andrew
Topics:
* Finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years
* PICO-8 screen carts
* Picotron Viruses
* Quest by kittenmaster
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png
Microtopics:
* Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.
* The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen.
* Make 10 Deluxe...
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June 9, 2025 • 60 mins
Lords:
* Alex
* Shannon
Topics:
* The rapid proliferation of identical mobile games
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/2348100/YEAHYOUWANTTHOSEGAMESRIGHTSOHEREYOUGONOWLETSSEEYOUCLEARTHEM/
* Randomly generated time traveler loadout
* Turning your body into 3D printer filament after you die
* https://www.suspenders.com/products/1-1-2-undergarment-hold-up-reg-suspender-hip-clip-style-patented-no-slip-reg-clips
* Girls Only Want ...
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June 2, 2025 • 69 mins
Lords:
* Kory
* Andy
Topics:
* Whim-based coding
* How do you make and maintain a buddy on the Internet?
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKRFd4J_1w
* That oscilloscope demo
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8CzrPG9S0U&
* Peripheriques Like Halos, by Robert Montgomery
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/fmr9gsma.jpg
* https://globalizationofcalifornia.com...
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May 26, 2025 • 64 mins
Lords:
* Alexander
* https://youtube.com/@L4MPLIGHT
* Chall
Topics:
* Having an address after not having an address
* Slopsquatting
* Book curses
* This boke ys myne, Eleanor Worcester
* https://15thcfeminist.substack.com/p/the-preservation-of-womens-words
* The David Lynch random number generator
* Esper says: My personal favorite use of numbers stations is the brief “station ID” type messages on Secret Agent Radio, a radio ...
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May 19, 2025 • 68 mins
Lords:
* Alexei
* Evan
Topics:
* Silt clouds & underwater visibility as a game mechanic
* The bass pro shop pyramid and the utility calculations of weird buildings
* What happens when your Firefox root certificate expires?
* The Ailing Mirror-Smith
* https://medium.com/@EvanBalster/the-ailing-mirror-smith-9c4b5a76cd#9520
Microtopics:
* Roguelike Celebration.
* Virtual conferences.
* How to be in a conversation with one person i...
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May 12, 2025 • 62 mins
Lords:
* Lena
* Droqen
Topics:
* Kill gameplay
* https://droqen.itch.io/the-end-of-gameplay
* The thrill of firefighting on live service games, and how to stop
* It was D and K who showed me the way
* https://newforum.droqen.com/index.php?topic=705
Microtopics:
* Great content.
* Multiplayer games that are focused on human connection.
* Farmers' markets.
* Kinopio. (The mind-mapping software.)
* Just barfing stuff onto the p...
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May 5, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* CisHetKayFaber
* https://www.patreon.com/CisHetKayFaber
* Andrew
* https://luxurybunkers.bandcamp.com/album/killer-karen
Topics:
* People say the craziest stuff in front of janitors.
* Revisiting development of a creative work after 20 years
* Naming conventions in the demo scene vs. the ZZT scene
* How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/how-to-be-perfect
* Floops, a 3D carto...
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April 28, 2025 • 74 mins
Lords:
* Jenni
* Rebecca
* https://toots.ravenoak.dev/@rebecca
* Weft Magazine: https://www.weftmagazine.com/
Topics:
* Getting emotionally ambushed by a children's toy piano
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g8fzwmnw8M
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvhdHkugIPE
* All the non-art things you have to do to get external validation about your art
* Explaining where owls come from
* The Witches are Coming (excerpt) by Lindy ...
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April 21, 2025 • 63 mins
Lords:
* Ben
* Andrew
Topics:
* Super Nintendo World's theming is on point
* The ABC of Style - A Guide to Plain English (book)
* Can you still rent game consoles?
* Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku
* https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm
* https://itch.io/jam/variety-megajam-2022/topic/2514101/2nd-poem-
* Pixel art impressionism
* https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1801616946837823790
Microtopics:
* The g...
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April 14, 2025 • 62 mins
Lords:
* John
* Tyriq
* https://oddobject.zone/
Topics:
* "Is it harder with twins than with one?" "I wouldn't know."
* Would it be neat or terrible to live on a supercontinent
* That X-Files episode when Scully scanned an alien artifact in a grocery store's bar code reader
* When I Am Among The Trees by Mary Oliver
* https://cih.ucsd.edu/sites/cih.ucsd.edu/files/cfm/When%20I%20am%20among%20the%20Trees%20by%20Mary%20Oliver.pdf
...
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April 7, 2025 • 67 mins
Lords:
* Erica
* Jenni
Topics:
* The chaos you missed
* Having a baby is like being assigned a set of hobbies you don't necessarily care about but are expected to engage in full-time
* Do people actually live longer in Greece and Japan or do they just have more pension fraud?
* Too Many Women Become Desperate, by Infinite Sexy Marriage
* https://bsky.app/profile/infinitesexy.bsky.social/post/3lcxskqdmoc26
* Is it possible to neve...
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March 31, 2025 • 77 mins
Lords:
* Mitch
* https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster
* Nathan
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/
Topics:
* I wish someone told me all classic Star Trek was based on writer Ursula LeGuin
* Ryu Numbers and Tom Scott Numbers
* https://www.tumblr.com/tomscottnumber
* How to get out of a chair
* Have you seen the new show? by Orcboxer
* https://www.tumblr.com/orcboxer/745859389762764801/poob-has-it-for-you
*...
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March 24, 2025 • 64 mins
Lords:
* Dan
* https://orionblasters.com/
* https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life
* Daniel
Topics:
* Could Dracula escape Groundhog Day?
* How to know you’re in a golden era
* Indiana Jones is supposed to look good??
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&v=f1fWB5HP7s8
* Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/pMNU...
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March 17, 2025 • 71 mins
Lords:
* Jeff
* https://dopeassvideogames.com/
* Danny
* https://www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs
Topics:
* What's happening on Bluesky.
* Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived
* Dad talk: what do we do about porn?
Microtopics:
* The Good Morning America series finale.
* Covering video games online.
* Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites.
* Nintendo Disasters.
* R...
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March 10, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* Stevie
* Bri
Topics:
* 3D modeling and my lack of visual imagination
* Cutthroat compounds (my linguistic specialty) – current pursuit is "verb-em" last names – I'm researching the origins of the fictional law offices of Dewey Cheatum and Howe
* Pocket Warwick and other lost software
* For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano
* https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1fvzv1f/poemforastudentwhouseda...
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March 3, 2025 • 81 mins
Lords:
* Andi
* Casey
Topics:
* Lifehacks as communion with the divine
* I decided to fire my computer
* Winston is starting to forget things
Microtopics:
* A Star Trek watchalong podcast that doesn't exist yet.
* Positing that what you said is no longer an NDA violation by the time this episode comes out.
* Plugging a fake game that you worked on.
* Astrobot.
* Horror movie clinky noises that you can't hear over the PS4 fan noises...
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February 24, 2025 • 65 mins
Lords:
* Kory
* James
Topics:
* I've been reading more lately, and ditching the eReader sure has helped
* Journey to the Planets
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWiJ1Mn-aY
* Send Me to Heaven
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SendMeto_Heaven
* My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, by William Shakespeare
* https://poets.org/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130
* Re: Smooth Criminal. Are criminals like peanut...
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February 17, 2025 • 56 mins
Lords:
* Avery
* Linker
Topics:
* Twin Peaks
* Myxozoa
* How storytelling is failing us
* Bones and Shadows, by John Philip Johnson
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56581/bones-and-shadows
* Novelizing films that originated as novels
Microtopics:
* A spike of interest corresponding with every episode you're on.
* How many hate listeners Topic Lords has.
* Chiaroscuro.
* Buying Linker's games so he doesn't die.
* Watch...
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February 10, 2025 • 74 mins
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
* https://bsky.app/profile/hownottodraw.bsky.social/post/3lfctso62a22q
* 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 ...
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February 3, 2025 • 68 mins
Lords:
* Remy
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/
* Abhi
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/Venba/
Topics:
* Why does food taste better outside of Canada?
* Xander asks: "Biased history is better"
* Is it fair to make a new game console when we haven't finished the ones we already have?
* Puranaanooru
* https://oldtamilpoetry.com/2016/04/04/puranaanooru-256/
* What's one IP you would like to ad...
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