Topic Lords

Lords:

• Erica
• Krissy

Topics:

• The Battle of Food Dog and Valley Jump Park
• The Wilson Wolfe Affair, or, how I spent $350 on the mysterious wolfe in the sky
• This tabletop RPG with scripting support
  • https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116246406043573614
• Why the heck are we making everything smart these days? And why is the security so terrible (A.K.A. The Lovense Story)
• The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot ...

Lords:

• Ron
  • https://grumpygamer.com/
• Kevin
  • https://rubixsqube.itch.io/

Topics:

• Do you do easy or hard tasks first?
• Magic (not the gathering, prestidigitation) as it exists in 2026
• The thing that makes text adventures interesting
• The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, by Tracy K. Smith
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55517/the-universe-original-motion-picture-soundtr...

Lords:

• Aubrey
  • http://glowhno.com/
• Avery

Topics:

• Every day since 1981 Yuri Borisovich Norstein and his wife Francheska Yarbusova have worked on their masterpice--an animated adaptaion of Gogol's short story The Overcoat. They couple is now in their 80s and will most likely never complete their film.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat_(animated_film)
• Video game urban legends
  • ht...

Lords:

• Lena
• Cory

Topics:

• Re: Cory's teeth topic, there's so many artists making teeth
• It would actually rule to be immortal, and all those stories about how it's not are just cope
• How committed to the bit is committed to the bit enough?
• A poem by Evan Balster, shared with us at GDC: A shapeless figure, locked away Inside a realm she godly sways; To weave in light and shadow, there, A living, breathing world from ...

Lords:

• Jenni
• Chris

Topics:

• Having to relearn how to autism mask for parenting situations because the rules are different APPARENTLY
• Only after five years learning to how make an irrigation system for a thousand plants, do I finally truly understand Han Solo's struggles with the Millenium Falcon.
• The D&D conspiracy theory I saw a few days ago and can't find now
• Don't Ever Kill the Buddha, by adzolotl
  • htt...

Lords:

• Nathan
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/
• Robb
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/

Topics:

• I got pulled into the world of Eurorack modular synthesizers and now I'm finding myself trying to make cogent arguments for bringing uranium ore into the household.
• Ectoparasites
• Stairs are the driving of walking
• The Beaufort Wind Scale, found by nontanne...

Lords:

• Andrew
  • https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
• Noel
  • https://noelcody.itch.io/

Topics:

• Moss Moss design & process
• Being gaslit by an open-source 3D physics engine
• ACME products
• Splinter by Carl Sandburg
  • https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327262-Splinter-by-Carl-Sandburg

Microtopics:

• Blippo+
• Wearing merch for a TV show in the Blippo+ cosmology.
• The bureau where you ...

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 just people getting bored and looking...

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 any non-c...

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 noises
• Litany Against ...

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 it took a hard right into the ...

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
  • https:...

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 Astronomer, by Walt Whitm...

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.poetryfoundation....

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-uploads-2024/images...

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-entrance-f...

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 in a week where you b...

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 Aficionados.
• Last Life ...

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 Tyger, by William Bla...