Topic Lords

Lords:

• Matt
  • https://mtrop.net/
• Cort

Topics:

• Doom Modding and You
• The Boston Marathon Stampede
• This 1989 Shigeru Miyamoto quote. "When pornography escalates, it eventually crosses into the grotesque. I think the world of 'hidden secrets' in games has almost reached that same grotesque level. It's reached a point where it isn't measured by common sense anymore. It's jus...

Lords:

• Watson
• Wren

Topics:

• Faction design in historical strategy games
• Linguistics makes it easier and harder to name things
• You belong in SLUSD. What is SLUSD?
• The Cremation of Sam McGee
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee
• The magic systems of Brandon Sanderson

Microtopics:

• The Three-Body Problem (Not That One)
• Jade City; Jade Legacy.
• Making ...

Lords:

• Mark
  • Mark's top albums of 2025: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1InKh07sllCLF6cu9za0yhQvmGVC3ZHvM162XI1u1S9A
• Shirley

Topics:

• If you want to be at the front of the stage at a show, just go there, literally no one is stopping you - or - THE ONLY THING YOU LACK IS WILL
• Elves and Using Religion to Protect Natural Spaces
• It's illegal to mod your EV to have custom engine noise...

Lords:

• Chris
• Fabian
  • https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/

Topics:

• Oops, my 3D printer became a hobby
• GTA's AI is not trying to screw with you with its sudden lane changes and T-boning you at intersections, it's just oblivious. (Probably.)
  • Esper says: "I can confirm the traffic AI in Cyberpunk 2077 is still hilarious. I set my car to 'auto drive' and after maybe 30 seconds ...

Lords:

• Jason
  • https://bumpyskies.com/
• Ben
  • https://www.zerofiftyone.net/

Topics:

• Prepping for a colonsocopy, the jmac way!
  • https://fogknife.com/2023-12-31-my-colonoscopy-strategies.html
• How to do things you're bad at
• The Trustworthy Shirts Tournament
  • https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116156921111844432
• Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas...

Lords:

• Andrew
  • https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
• Aubrianne

Topics:

• Reading every Hugo-award-winning novel
• I accidentally made Frog Fractions 2.5 before knowing what a frog fractions was
  • https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=40777
• I've discovered the perfect video game genre
  • https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/116072652112241644
• When I Heard the Learn'd Astronom...

Lords:

• SJ
  • https://neutralzonehotel.com/
• Benjamin

Topics:

• TD Place Arena in Ottawa is really weird in an interesting way
• Learning to ice skate when you're 40
• Is this keyboard layout more sensible than QWERTY?
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/VfpwY7be.jpg
• She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron
  • https://www.poet...

Lords:

• AP
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
• Alexander

Topics:

• The 5th Ramsey number
• Why Mr. Satan (from Dragonball) is one of my favorite characters in all of literature
• The Odyssey 2's ROM sprites
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Evl0wxIY.png
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-upload...

Lords:

• Jin
  • https://awesomedonut.github.io/
• Brad
  • https://rainwarrior.ca/

Topics:

• The shareware games business model
• Thoughts on how to define femininity?
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48
• The Great Molasses Flood
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnRNfXm_k4
• Entrance by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • https://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2010/10/rilke-e...

Lords:

• Kory
  • https://kbones.fun/
• Andy
  • https://highcadence.online/

Topics:

• The Gametank
  • https://gametank.zone/
  • https://www.crowdsupply.com/clydeware/gametank
• I swear to God, I'm going to talk about auctions and auctions in games, it's super interesting and I don't want to get preempted a third time.
  • Esper says: "There’s actually a game coming out i...

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...