The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering Mario around the screen:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyezQsI-v-s
Lords:
* John
* Esper
Topics:
* Chess, the Musical: a show that is universally acclaimed but no longer performed because it consistently loses money
* I believe live television to be the most exciting thing humans have invented
* Blaseball had $3 million in VC funding
* Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
* https://allpoetry.com/Pad,-Pad
* Why not RSS for text?
* Officiating weddings for your friends
Microtopics:
* The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering the Mario head.
* Who gets to say "roll theme song!"
* A community where the chances of someone acting in bad faith is negligible.
* DC Action News.
* All human communication is technicallt advertising.
* The generous Haste demo.
* A skipping stones on water kind of game.
* Sonic/Klonoa/late 90s/early 00s aesthetics.
* A karaoke favorite that is not very reasonably sensitive.
* All the Tims who did not work on Chess the Musical.
* The guy from Rent whose name you can't remember.
* Breakdancing while arbitrating a chess match.
* Internet radio stations.
* A Windows 95 theme of Chess the Musical.
* Installing Windows 95 themes on your Picotron desktop.
* Sex, Death and Live Television!
* Live TV mishaps that ruin entirely the wrong career.
* HQ.
* At five o'clock, there's gonna be a guy.
* The sense of spectacle you get from a live broadcast with a big audience.
* The time one of the leads forgot his entire monologue.
* The thrill of being part of a live performance as it's going wrong.
* Listening to Shoutcast channels on Winamp.
* Winamp's Shoutcast station registry.
* The childhood dream of owning a TV station and getting to make all the little station IDs.
* Netflix's abandoned "just fuck me up" button.
* Six episodes of Deep Space 9 on a single VHS tape.
* Drop 7 vs. Dropout TV.
* Getting entirely the wrong information from your survey about what people like about your product.
* Trying to sign up for Blaseball and failing.
* Funny names such as Dominic Marijuana.
* Jumping in and forcing some actions to happen.
* Needing your game to break so that you can write the way it breaks into the narrative of the story.
* Blaseball-likes.
* Terrorball. (Short for Territory Ball.)
* A list of all locations.
* The Scarborough Fairies.
* Resurrecting Jaylen Hotdogfingers.
* An online text mode football manager with a live chat.
* Fish Center.
* Determining which fish is best.
* Bringing a little bit of the live frisson to a fake live broadcast.
* Whether it's okay to read a poem more than once.
* Softly I go now, pad pad.
* Cats you had together.
* The cat that Hatricia Hop-Meow is based on.
* Blogs: do they exist?
* Making a point of finding an open source way to do your shit.
* A 24 hour cycle of live podcasts.
* TiVo for podcasts.
* Edging the feeling of whether you're watching live TV or not in a slip slidey timestream.
* Asking chat a question and then waiting 15 to 20 seconds for the response to come back.
* Bringing back RSS readers.
* The New Old Reader.
* Opening with the mawwige joke.
* Wanting people to want things.
* Going back to your old life except now your friends are married.
* Protecting The Lord from unauthorized clergymen.
* Paying $20 to the Universal Life Church so you can perform weddings in most states.
* Keeping the card in your wallet in case anyone tries to claim that you're not really an ordained minister.