Topic Lords

Lords:

• Alex
• Shannon

Topics:

• Japan in summer is too hot, but there's lots of cool festivals
• Why can't I have marzipan made by nuns in California?
• Podcast playlist problems
• Considering the Snail, by Thom Gunn
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52887/considering-the-snail

Microtopics:

• Traveling.
• If you need a lot of stuff, or if that stuff needs you.
• Real Topic Aficion...

Lords:

• Tyriq
• Watson

Topics:

• My sleep experience over the holiday
  • Esper says: "Cannabis can definitely help one get into a sleep state, but actually degrades the quality of sleep quite a bit. From personal experience my guess is this has to do with how it affects dreams, often precluding them from happening to begin with."
• Conlanging taught me how to judge good art
• Tate mode
• The Ty...

Lords:

• Jesse
• Alex
  • https://insertcredit.com/show/
  • https://discord.gg/dcofficial

Topics:

• 90s Gen X "Internet High Weirdness" culture: SubGenius, DiLingo, Steve Jackson, the Looneys, KoL
• Writing a podcast about video games every week as someone who doesn’t really play many video games anymore
• The mystery of BunnyROM
  • https://bunnyrom.neocities.org/
• Junk by Richard Wilbur

Lords:

• Josette
  • https://www.josetteseitz.com/
  • https://www.instagram.com/jo_seitz/
• Daniel

Topics:

• The overlap between musicians and rhythm game players
• Figure Skating and the upcoming Olympics
• In this short Life that only lasts an hour by Emily Dickinson
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56456/in-this-short-life-that-only-lasts-an-hour-1292
• The Reality of Hope
  • https://www...

Lords:

• Cort
• Ben

Topics:

• Oh man, remember the Geek Code?
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code
• I discovered a fun fact about my neighborhood
• Every 5x6 Nonogram
  • https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram
• The Calf Path by Sam Foss
  • https://poets.org/poem/calf-path
• Phillip Rivers

Microtopics:

• Secret Playstation Things.
• Transposing a matrix in SIMD.
• Reclaiming ...

Lords:

• Erica
• Micah
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/micahwrites/

Topics:

• Puerto Rico branded holiday jams
• Chive drama on Reddit
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1o0j6hq/cutting_a_cup_of_chives_everyday_until_the_reddit/
• How to cure tinnitus (maybe)
• The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46647/the-ballad-of-blasphemous-bill
• In...

Lords:

• Andrew
• Kate

Topics:

• The strange and alienating experience of learning to drive at 40
• The mottos of the livery companies of London
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mottos_and_halls_of_the_livery_companies
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mottos
• Independent They Stand!
  • https://archive.org/details/computer-games-magazine-issue-115-june-2000/page/n83/mode/2up?view=theater
  <...

Lords:

• Ryan
• CisHetKayfaber

Topics:

• My vocal stims are getting out of control now that I don't have pets.
• Training to become a Tetris Grandmaster
  • https://www.youtube.com/@cishetkayfaber/videos
• Switching to not-bifocals
• Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nntd2fgMUYw

Microtopics:

• Introducing yourself or plugging something.
• Going to Cape...

Lords:

• Maxx
• Michael

Topics:

• Reinventing pants
• Plortonomics (the economy in the game Slime Rancher)
• The Leaning American
• Maggie and Milly and Molly and May, by E. E. Cummings
  • https://poets.org/poem/maggie-and-milly-and-molly-and-may

Microtopics:

• Rabbits and writing.
• Buying the lede (but thankfully the rabbits dug it up)
• Lord Veterans
• Ancillary Justice, or The Imperial Radch.
• Rabb...

Lords:

• Linker
• Alexa

Topics:

• Variations in vampire stories: types of powers, origins of vampires, lack of consent lol
• Anthropomorphism/Connection in media
• Get a free burger when you join my rewards
• Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas
• What letter of the alphabet would win in a Royal Rumble
• Anti-Lesbian Vampire Propaganda of...

Lords:

• Hallie
• Peter
  • https://www.paschaefer.com/

Topics:

• Do you know where all your things are?
• How education doesn't melt
• Bebop Bytes Back
• Augustus Gloop by Roald Dahl
  • https://allpoetry.com/-Augustus-Gloop...-

Microtopics:

• The Directrix of Cybernetic Security.
• Unity licensing from Unity as Unity.
• Fantasy Book of the Month. (FBOM)
• Part zombie, part ghost.
• Accidenta...

Lords:

• Esper
• Cort

Topics:

• Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately
• Stateless procedural music
• Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files
• Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin
  • https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/

Microtopics:

• Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive.
• Puzzled Pint.
• Oh man, this ...

Lords:

• Mitch
• Kory

Topics:

• The Nintendo 64DD
• Wristwatch repair videos
• How to switch to Linux??
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan
• The ICZN's recommended method of determining the Latin grammatical gender of a word that isn't Latin

Microtopics:

• Being a fledgling your whole life.
• Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki.
• T...

Lords:

• Danny
  • https://linktr.ee/dannyBstyleband
• Josh
  • https://www.bonusstage.ca/
• Vitor
  • https://vitoramado.framer.website/

Topics:

• Games you love that nobody else knows exist
• I keep losing my sunglasses. How do I fix this?
• Homebrewing
• When did Bush stop hiding the facts??
• Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
  • https://allpoetry.com/mad-girl%27s-love-song
  • I didn...

Lords:

• Jenni
• Felicia

Topics:

• The Mr. T cartoon
• A hyper-specific comedy roast where it's just a couple giving each other shit for doing the dishes wrong
• The poem that wasn't on Yuji Naka's wall
• Sprouts, by Loryn Brantz
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0V0RfSkz.jpg
• The phenomenon where you're convinced you could...

Lords:

• John
• Kevin
  • https://www.youtube.com/@kevin_hainline

Topics:

• Asking for help / Dealing with the slightest criticism/suggestions/etc
• Roger Rabbit and Marvel vs. Capcom were big deals. How long until multiverse & crossover shit is exciting again?
• Update on media that makes me feel things vs. media that doesn't
• "Bell's Theorem"", a poem that I wrote, and then, at...

Lords:

• Elena
• Joël

Topics:

• The Luck Factor:
  • http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf
• Dual pilgrim certificate
• The return of PicoSteveMo
  • https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo-3
• Every poem, by every human
  • https://www.tumblr.com/nextworldover/793694487879827456/animatedamerican-atamascolily

Microtopics:

• Packing cubes.
• The Rolling Method.
• Modula...

Lords:

• Daniel
  • https://www.danielmullinsgames.com/
• Chris

Topics:

• Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance (psipog)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
• Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl" Koan
• Figwit
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
• Sudo-Ku
  • https://katlehmann.weebly.com/sudo-ku-a-multi-haiku-form.html
• Game Design: The form is arbitrary and n...

Lords:

• Danny
  • https://nightbrunchband.com/
• Walker
  • https://nightbrunchband.com/

Topics:

• You Probably Think This Song is About You
• The Perfect r/crappymusic Post: An audio tour of Archetypes
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0291r0zf.jpg
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
• Sample-based film scores ...