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Lords:
* John of the Maryland Johns
* Jay of Hypnospace
* http://www.hypnospace.net/
Topics:
* When you're more interested in following news about things than the things themselves: When will the rumored The Cure albums come out? No Man's Sky updates. What is Josh Sawyer working on?
* Realizing that your funny friend as a child was just repeating lines from HBO comedy specials that you weren't allowed to watch.
* The Terminator 2 soundtrack and the Fairlight CMI 3
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpYowxlwsU
* I couldn't find a source for the analog modeling synth running on a 60s mainframe, but I did find this example of early digital synthesis from 1961: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
* Fairlight is the name of a village in East Sussex, England. I could've sworn it was one of Santa's reindeer or something like that.
* Kevin asks "The diminishing returns technologically with each passing console generation. For instance, NES to SNES was a massive leap, whereas you can barely distinguish ps4 games from ps5 games."
* Adventures in cooking: share tales of delicious things you have made recently
Microtopics:
* A game about the old internet.
* Figuring out who DMed John.
* Doing better at a game than all the people who don't know that the game exists.
* Searching things a lot when you're on the toilet.
* Being more interested in news about the cure for COVID than about the cure itself.
* The three rumored The Cure albums that have been teased for the past four years.
* Identifying as someone who cares about video games long after you no longer have time to play video games.
* The cultural event of Blaseball.
* Whether you are less interested in things as you get older or if you just have less time.
* Not buying a Raspberry Pi because you definitely don't have time to play with it.
* Sitting two feet away from a 50 inch television and trying to get RetroArch working.
* Buying a NES and SNES Classic but never actually playing the games.
* Whether Bonk's Adventure is good in 2020.
* Kanye West naming an album Turbo Grafx 16.
* Naming your The Beatles tribute band The Beatles.
* Being exposed to Monty Python primarily by your friends who constantly quote lines out of context.
* Finally watching Monty Python and realizing your funny friend has never made an original joke in his life.
* Friends who communicate solely in movie one liners.
* Making friends with a kid who always says lines from Duke Nukem 3D and learning to say them yourself even though you've never heard of Duke Nukem.
* Whether anyone actually knew what Cornholio actually was.
* The abject cultural domination of Beavis and Butthead.
* Whether or not the listeners will want to know what a ROMpler is.
* A $60,000 industrial-strength sampler/synthesizer in your garage.
* Playing naturalistic orchestral samples at unnaturally low playback speeds.
* A terrifying grindy klaxon sound.
* An unstoppable liquid metal monster with a jaunty soundtrack.
* Supercomputers producing digital audio in not real time.
* The Mellotron.
* The brass hit sample used in Owner of a Lonely Heart.
* Whether Fairlight the warez group has any relation to Fairlight the synthesizer company.
* Emulating the crustiness of the Fairlight CMI.
* Where to find all the samples that came built-in to the Fairlight CMI.
* Audible frowns.
* Just throwing polygons at the rasterizer.
* Being clever and squeezing every last drop of performance out of the new consoles and it still doesn't look that much better.
* The visual quality of a console you grew up playing being acceptable forever.
* Noticing the hottest new game graphics for fifteen minutes and after that you're just playing a video game again.
* How we could be up to the NES 6 or the Wii U by now.
* Playing Wii Sports and not noticing or caring that the Wii can play other games.
* Completely ignoring F2P games until one of your relatives turns out to be susceptible to gambling addiction.
* How Nintendo spent the Breath of the Wild budget.
* Shielding your eyes when you see a map because you don't want to know too much about the world.
* Which Breath of the Wild HUD modes include a compass.
* Stuffed mushrooms.
* The only recipe that your family makes literally every Thanksgiving.
* Making a tray of stuffed mushrooms where the seasoning is different on every mushroom.
* A Delicious Chore.
* Eggs on toast with remoulade.
* The default thing you put on a sandwich.
* Espresso machine eggs.
* The hypothetical standalone steamer arm.
* Promising to not promote anyone's Kickstarter.
* What Jim will do with a sharp knife if he gets one for Christmas.
* Putting a salmon in the fridge until it desiccates.
* Whether scales are a kind of skin.
* Knowing you really ought to eat fish.
* Putting cabbage in the oven until it's melted cabbage.
* Two people who are the same height but one looks taller because their legs are longer.
* Dog content on this podcast.
* Allowing both pronunciations of Jay's name.
* Katie content on this podcast.
* A baby becoming a person after basically being a potato for a while.
* John's one (1) tweet.