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Lords: Kate Andrew Topics: Movies that are supposed to be good and kind of annoyingly are actually good Making friends when you're old Paris's pneumatic mail system Forgiven, by A. A. Milne https://www.poeticous.com/a-a-milne/forgiven-i-found-a-little-beetle-so-that-beetle-was-his-name Microtopics: The skill to make the noises that are in your head. Writing quests for Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Sanrio's NDA-enforcing snipers. A crocodile that was invented in 1978. Writing quests that force the artists to figure out how a crocodile would wear sunglasses. Writing the dialog tree as the player is clicking on options, like Gromit placing tracks right as the train is about to roll over them. Spending five years shipping the first part of a live service game and then shipping additional parts every few weeks. Trying to rebuild a house while someone is living in it. Lingo 2. Dungeon Gals. The kind of game you can't draw a map of. Teetering on the razor's edge of "I'm a genius" and "I don't understand anything." What does the developer tooling look like for games that have non-euclidean spaces? Duplicated spaces with secret warp volumes. The kind of movie that an Infinite Jest reader will recommend. Terry Cavanagh's game about making tea. Egg Game? Astonishing movie running times. Five minutes of two men intensely looking at each other. An adventure movie about two best friends who hate each other. James Joyce: maybe he's good? A guy who lives in the middle of nowhere who thinks about politics a lot and never talks to anyone. Gerry, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The art is coming from inside the head. Pro Shots vs. bootlegs. Jukebox musicals. Shawshank Redimension. Shawshank Redemption 2: Shawshank Herdemption. Communicating between cell blocks by flushing the toilet. Loove a.k.a. Flushed a.k.a. Lavatory Lovastory. Mixing your DNA with someone you've never seen. Florida Writing. Gravity Slingshotting around your hobbies to reach friendship. Going to GDC and making a bunch of game dev friends. Plateauing at two digits. Getting hobbies that put you in a room with people of your desired gender. Your co-worker at the call center who's married to the CEO of Twinings. Playing puzzle games on the Internet in front of a chatful of puzzle experts. The protagonist getting stuck on a puzzle and the narrator turning to the audience and saying "chat, help us out with this one." Making friends vs. keeping friends. The friendships that you both care enough about to have maintained. I Love a Thoont. Building a pneumo to relieve congestion on the telegraph system. When the telegraph was invented vs. when pneumatics were invented. Why banks had pneumatic drive thrus rather than the teller just handing you the stuff through the window like a fast food drive thrus. Whimsical coffee preparation. The cost of building a giant tube between the coasts of North America. The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel. Inventing a frictionless tube. Preparing burritos to be magnetically fired. Rifled sewers. Plunging into the Lithosphere. A diagram that shows how the burrito gets heated. The Taste of Breaking the Sound Barrier. Getting your poem voice on. Whether A. A. Milne knew about hash tags. Non-Fungible Beetles. Oh great, the same beetle came back! The kind of look that means "it's me, the same beetle!" The XIX and XX centuries. Writing Very Blackly. Why Does Pooh Own a Shotgun? All the talking Winnie the Pooh animals turning out to be aliens, like Starfox. A pneumatic tube, except instead of burritos you're firing cork. Writing your thesis on pop guns and continuing to do post doc research on pop guns. Spud Guns vs. Potato Cannons. A Normal Spud Gun for Normal Children. Seeing that Wikipedia considers Spud Guns low importance and thinking of ways to make Spud Guns more important. Too Many Posts. Support Topic Lords

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://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night Microtopics: The Wordle Puzzmo and Dall-E shitposts channel. Plugging your turbulence forecasting web site at both ends. Kids picking a name for themselves at age 8 and then being stuck with it forever. Going to court and the judge is named "velociraptor#1993" and that's just normal. Trying to pick a baby name and suggesting the name of your great grandmother whom you never met, velociraptor1993. People still being named Baker even though nobody bakes any more. Ripped off vs. stolen. Colonoscopy Strategies. Poorly understood advice from well meaning friends. Drinking squid ink the day before your colonoscopy. A power-blasted clean empty warehouse of a colon. Why are you still listening to these colonoscopy stories? Skip to the end of the episode where I ask you to give money to the patreon. The tattoo on the inside of your colon of an arrow indicating "this polyp right here" Staying up until 3 AM drinking an entire jerry can of mineral wax. Referring to the COVID pandemic as "the pandy" The colonoscopy robot's tattoo gun. Knowing all the names of parts of the intestines because of the difficult boss fight inside an intestine at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Hideo Kojima setting out to design a game to force people to write strategy guides about traversing the human rectum. What Google searches Hideo Kojima was trying to inspire when he designed Snatcher. Writing a strategy guide for drinking a five gallon can of lemon-flavored gym socks. Slightly chewy boiled sweets. Whether Jim should already have had a colonoscopy by now. Getting your colon cancer screening kit in the mail and it swishes when you shake the box. The tattoo scissor robot: it's out there waiting for you. Getting an image of someone else's intestines tattooed on the inside of your intestines. Getting "how's my driving" or "if you can read this you're too close" or "we bought this before we realized Elon was a fascist" tattooed on the inside of your intestines. Striving to be more comfortable with being bad at skills. All the ways you can fail at throwing pottery. Learning to enjoy being bad at the piano. The doodle that Bach drew on the cover of Well Tempered Clavier. Flanderizing yourself because nobody else will. Art forms where you accumulate physical evidence of your skill progression. Recording three audio books and observing yourself getting better at recording audio books. Audible's gig economy thing. Never studying piano because you get too much done when you procrastinate studying piano. Converted telephone microphones. Trying to learn to play piano with a broken digital piano and really getting into electronics repair. Playing live music and being completely at the mercy of time passing. The Moogseum in Asheville, North Carolina. The aspect of human existence that you're most missing out on. Sitting there watching people play music and wishing you could also play music. Learning to play the Final Countdown riff or the Axel F riff and being set for life. Following a tutorial to create a convincing cover of Satisfaction by Benny Benassi. Rip it Up, by Orange Juice. Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. The Lesser Trolley Problems. Whether viewers of The Good Place are more likely to value moral philosophy. M*A*S*H vs. Moomins. Who would go around wearing a M*A*S*H shirt in 2026? Deciding how much to trust a Moomins aficionado without knowing how old they are. Identifying Moomins on sight. Owl House vs. Owl City. People who go around wearing Owl House shirts without thinking about all the passers by assuming that they mean the Fireflies band. What the characters in Interstellar think of Dylan Thomas. The last wave by soaking in the green bay. Whether you should get mad before you die. Breathing life and fire into those who yet live. Showing people an argument for losing so that they get mad and win instead. Charitable Reads Book Club, LLC. Production values that are way too high for this bit. Soupertasters 15, with guest star Michael Caine. Corn poems vs. carrot poems. Support Topic Lords

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.org/poems/43844/she-walks-in-beauty Microtopics: Neutral Zone Hotel. Heated Rivalry. What a loon sounds like. Going to Canada but never going outside. A real dickhead in the history of hockey. Needing a new hockey arena and a new football stadium and putting one on top of the other. Backwards ice. Canadian Tire Center. The Ottawa '67s. Realizing that your two arenas on top of one another will collapse instantly if you ever hold two events at once. Asbestos sprinkles falling from the ceiling and delighting the crowd. Ice skaters falling over because the ice is too cold. What's up with fighting in hockey? When ice hockey goaltenders got masks. Regulating sports violence with additional violence. Spontaneous vs. pre-arranged hockey fights. The Gordie Howe Hat Trick. A triple double, except instead of impacting the outcome of the game, it impacts your soul. The Punch-up In Piestany and other bench-clearing brawls. Hockey's Post-Headshot Era. Learning new skills as an adult. The Kraken Community Iceplex. Complaining about swizzles for months. Pumping your legs to propel yourself forward. Swizzles vs. backwards swizzles. The point at which ice skating classes branch out into hockey classes and figure skating classes. Beer League teams. Born knowing how to skate. Jusse Saros erasure. Hockey players getting concussed by swimming while drunk. Circle to confirm and X to back out. A keyboard with all the calculator buttons on it. Interviewing the animator who designed the weird keyboard in Bubblegum Crisis. An argument for Colemak over Dvorak. The Z, X, C and V keys staying right where they are. Switching keyboard layouts to keep your college roommates from screwing with you. Why boredom is a good thing. Desperately trying to fill today's 16 waking hours with something, anything. Making content for the Internet. Cloudless climes and starry skies. Whether Lord Byron got his title by being on the show. Trying to rhyme brow and glow. Whether they had non-rhyming poetry 200 years ago. Only remembering your anxiety dreams. The recurring dream where you explore stone stairs leading down from a decrepit old fishing house, going deeper and deeper each time you have the dream until you finally get to the bottom of the stairs and find out what your whole life has been leading to. Tiny hockey community discords. Support Topic Lords

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-from-german.html Combining magic and science in science fantasy. Microtopics: Lizard for the NES. Retrofuturism in ancient China. Silkpunk Origins. Ultima-inspired indie RPGs from 1994. Passing around public domain games on floppy disks. Registering shareware to get rid of the nag screen. Adventure game hint books as a second channel of income. Asking your mom to get a money order to register the shareware version of Impulse Tracker so you can get the Stereo Wav Writer. Front loading all the good levels in the shareware episode and selling the crap in the registered episodes. The Ur-Quan Masters. Printing to PDF. Uploading your music to mp3.com. Cracking shareware using a known plaintext attack. Drawing an image with so much entropy that the Save Robot dances for longer than usual and then plays a sad sound. A three hour deep dive on the very popular vampire novel Twilight. Going online and googling masculine and/or feminine traits. The Four Pillars of Femininity. Pants: they're for barbarians. Whether Stephanie Meyer was trying to write a treatise on idealized gender roles or whether she was just writing what she thought was cool and fun. Popular depictions of women who are masculine in behavior but feminine in appearance. Why can't your girlfriend both look like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and eat hamburgers like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Why women work so well as horror protagonists. Do people cry less in Marvel movies? Someone crying so hard in a movie that you start to worry about the actor's social life. Tolkien adding a second female character to Lord of the Rings just so he can make the "I am no man" linguistic joke. Boston: it's not a year. Painting your giant molasses tank brown so it's harder to notice that it's leaking. All the children in town walking up and licking the giant leaking molasses tank whenever they feel like a snack. Waking up in a pile of dead bodies with your mouth full of molasses. Big Enough to be Horrible. Getting your architectural plans approved by a government body. Gilding the lily when the lily is already extremely memetic. Fame: look what it does to people. Building a giant tank of anything in the middle of a city. Where do you put your 50 million gallons of molasses? What happens if you poke the Demon Core with a screwdriver? Scientists getting too excited to keep being careful. A black and slender tree. A word kept in the mouth to grow. Eveningfall. Putting a tree in the sky while you're creating the world. The game you're making giving you ideas about the game you're making. Navigating the scientific method in a fantastical universe. Lit RPG. Dungeon Crawler Carl. Using a quarter of the words in your novel to explain the rules of the world like a board game manual. Jedi using their powers to boil water for tea. Enslaving Jedi to run your steam engine with their mind powers. Jedi Inflation. Two words that sound good together and now it's your name. Support 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 Aficionados. Last Life and other lives. Watching a TV series you like and then going back and watching the same episodes again from a different character's perspective. Napping all day and seeing street festivals at night. Walking around with a tower of flaming candles on your head that keep getting tangled in power lines. Why aren't the modern World's Fairs as exciting as the ones from 150 years ago? Making a couple weeks vanish in lieu of a millennium and a half of leap days. Naming your baby Person Who Packs For Themselves. Naming your baby "Supplanter" The littlest bean that's currently born. Growing up enough to realize that everybody is named Luke now. How Bob used to be the funny fake name but now it's Jeremy. The Bob Emergency. The guy you call Baker because he's a baker. The canonical order of ore value in video games. Hacking your save file at home, just like in the good old days. Selling marzipan in a dark room with a turntable and a bell. Things you can eat in some parts of the world that you can't eat in others. San Diego's Best Seattle Burrito. The essence of fine Mexican foods. Australians telling candy companies "stop trying to make Halloween happen" That friend who has digestive issues eating salmon, but only in specific countries. The politics of buying Girl Scout cookies. The best place to sell a Girl Scout cookies on UCSD campus. Boy Scouts trying to sell popcorn, with seemingly no awareness that popcorn is not remotely as good as Girl Scout Cookies. Kobey's Swap Meet. Getting an old timey surgical mannequin at a swap meet so you can practice your surgery. Kids today trying to figure out how to operate a VCR like they're playing Myst. What happens if you put a VHS tape in backwards? Netflix's "continue watching" category, for movies you didn't like enough to finish. We don't want to hear your bra podcasts! The Stanford professor you're gardening for asking you what podcast you're listening to and now you have to explain your weird hobby to your employer. How to listen to podcasts without your boss sneaking up on you. The first time you've been to the dentist without headphones this millennium. Introvert Dentists. Tooth care advice that you forget immediately. Extremely symmetrical knots in a power cable. Climbing, sailing and caving knots. What is a snail's fury? Why is this snail so mad? A turtle that's decided it's go time. Getting really excited about the turtle races at the Renaissance Fair. Watching a carnival game where four people throw five spears each at targets attached to a wall of hay, and none of them manage to hit the wall. Axe throwing bars, where you have a beer and throw axes. Taking up axe throwing as a hobby because whenever someone gets killed with an axe, the police will be sad if they don't have any suspects. Axe throwing failure modes. Dominant javelin throwing strategies. Throwing a javelin further by spinning around like a discus thrower. Bullets: they go where they want. Support Topic Lords

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 https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Al2MMuFX.png https://github.com/jdonland/bookmarks Autopsy, by Ross Sutherland: https://pastebin.com/raw/npCuYjLj Disney saved Star Wars by buying it from Lucasfilm. This is what Saved Star Wars looks like. Cycling's hour record https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Mens_hour_records_progression.svg/2560px-Mens_hour_records_progression.svg.png Microtopics: A gold star Canadian. Cousin show Insert Credit. One of the world's foremost experts on DC Comics. Filling in the gaps with bonus episodes. The lost episode of topic lords that might one day be produced. Spreadsheet Secrets. Detritus and ruins of the culture that came before yours. (Gen-X.) Whether Steve Jackson is still doing the GURPS thing. Where did Gen-X come from, and why did it disappear? Your personal relationship with They Might Be Giants. The weirdos who first colonized the Internet in search of the community they weren't finding in their lives. Nerds riding high on military funding and founding new religions with varying degrees of mockery. British comedy crossing the ocean and losing its cultural context, so a generation of American nerds grow up with a more absurdist sense of humor than the previous generations. Sitting at your computer running IRC in 1996, staring at the screen waiting for someone to say something. Classical Education as a shared cultural context so rich people can understand each other's jokes. Halfway into the 2020s, still thinking about the Roaring Twenties whenever anyone names the decade. Everybody forgetting how to group history by decade after a twenty years of not easily being able to talk about "the 00s" and "the 10s." Playing video games from the ages of 5 to 20 and then stopping forever. Asking some of the most thoughtful people you know questions about video games. The exhaustion of trying to keep video games in your life. Artists and critics with opinions that are wildly out of step with their audience. Video game companies that have great logos. People who are so good at telling interesting stories about the bad video games that they're playing that they convince you to buy the game and then you're like "where's the interesting game they talked about" Talking to the same oldbies every week. An 18 year old kid obsessed with the Atari Jaguar wandering into the middle-aged video game club and everyone is like "sickos face yes emoji" Trying to track down the manufacturer of Digital Princess Friend. Mysterious ROM images that nobody knows the origin of because nobody asked. A Tamagotchi where your little guy can be a fighter plane or Sponge Bob. Mysteriously good Tamagotchi software floating around. The reason M&Ms come in different colors. An egg that your umbrella with an eye can hatch from. Why you can't ship a container full of cheap junk to the United States any more. Middle English style poetry. Sheer shards of shattered tumblers. Modern English alliterative verse. It's cool what people do with words. Paying so much attention to the alliteration that you miss the meaning of the poem. All the Babu Frik Funko Pops that will still be around long after all the stars go out. Hephaestus' Hammer, all gunked up in microplastics. Quoting other poems in the middle of your poem. Publishing a book of all the poems we've read on Topic Lords and then being sued for copyright infringement. A poem that originated on Jim's fridge. Diminishing Mandalorian Returns. The goddamned Ewoks shit. The Droids cartoon. The future of Star Wars: jokes about Star Wars?? The Day the Clown Cried of Star Wars. The angriest you've ever been watching a movie. The third good Star Wars movie. Stealing good ideas from cool fiction. One guy who got lucky a couple times and a thousand yes men enabling him for the next 40 years. Planet Moriband. Finally finding a guy you can call Mace Windu. Waiting for Jar-Jar. Sometimes you just need drivel that you like. Buying a tangerine and noticing that it's a Star Wars-branded tangerine. Technology improving the way we interact with wind resistance. 1890 guy on his velocipede getting mad at all the new Space Bikes. Instituting new rules stating that your bicycle has to look like a bicycle. Ivory Tower Cycle Men. Vampire Tactics. The most prestigious world record in professional cycling. Keeping track of the world record best dress at a fashion show. What about Funny Cars? What's so funny about them? Trying to break the Merckx record using Merckx's original bicycle and outfit. Everyone tying the same world record forever. Riding 270 miles a day for a year. Walking to work 23 miles a day, both ways, because you love suffering and hate bicycles. Detective Comics Comics. Support Topic Lords

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 your plug. Trying and failing to use Libby. Failing to check out library books from your toilet. State-sanctioned piracy. The restaurant where you had the dinner for your wedding. The "my wife" voice. Suddenly having nieces. Hadad and Barney on Black Square Day. The Talos Principal DLC. The Geek Code Era. VMS or OS/2 as a defining feature of your personality. Dilbert, Perl, Doom, and X-Files: all equally culturally relevant to this day. The Natural Bears Classification System for Gay Men. The Human Code. Your favorite grocery store's end-of-year recap. The story of a Venezuelan woman between age 30 and 55, and her top 2000 interests. Your favorite vowel in text messages you've sent this year. What they call that AE vowel. Speedrunning your entire email history in a weekend. The Miracle Mile, where all the tar pits are. Noted monster Sean "Diddy" Combs. Two hip hop producers getting mad at each other. Putting a plaque at your hotel explaining that Jim Morrison did not die at this hotel. Being the plaque you want to see in the world. Whether the Museum of Jurassic Technology has reopened after the fire. A very earnest museum about a history that never was. Wandering around dazed after every 5x5 nonogram is solved. Doing your part to serve humanity by solving nonograms. Do you remember where you were when Every 5x5 Nonogram Section 303 was finished? Why a dippy bird can't keep you online. Gesturing at the idea of collectively solving a problem. Why we haven't heard from Peter Molyneux in a while. What three digit numbers nonogram solvers think are interesting. Sending 96 million solved nonograms into space as proof to alien life that humans are still capable of collective action. Feeling bad about having installed an ad blocker and loading up a four hour block of ads from 80s TV. Being prosecuted for use of ad blockers. Look at that smirk. That's a man who knows he's preaching but getting away with it. Getting a deck of flash cards to learn all of the pentameters. Three iambs and a reverse iamb. Your favorite good poems and your favorite shitpost poems. Tony Gang Flame War. Refusing to tackle the 40 year old quarterback after his wallet falls out on the field and the photos of his ten children unfold. The median age of football players rising into retirement age as teenagers learn about the health risks and refuse to participate. Using NBA 2K as a metaphor for the decline of civilization. LA finally getting a football team again. (They have two now.) Whether they're still playing Starcraft. Broken 19 year olds who can't play Starcraft any more because their APMs are too low. The experience of attending a live e-Sports event. Whether they sell hot dogs and beer to the crowd at the live League of Legends event or if it's all GamerGrub and Feastables. A Youtube shitpost made in Garry's Mod. Channing Tatum playing the toilet in the Skibidi Toilet movie. Al Gore: still alive? Whether Wilford Brimley got plastic surgery to look that old. Support Topic Lords

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 Leda and the Swan, by William Butler Yeats https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43292/leda-and-the-swan Predecimalization currency in the UK DIY TTRPG mapping software, the ridiculous way Microtopics: Streaming making maps of video games on the Internet. The people who are willing to watch someone map out every corner of this sprawling and convoluted game. Writing about video games and writing video games. Dicey territory. (Which is only appropriate.) King Stephen, which will have been great. Fun jokes and oblique references. Forty and a half years old. Building your life around not being able to drive a car. Pockets of civilization separated by vast stretches of asphalt. The car unsteering itself unless you hold the steering wheel in place. Someone yelling at you with their little beep beep horn. Learning a skill and forgetting how you learn it. Learning a skill before you find out that learning is hard. The false sense of immortality that allows people to get into a car. During your driving test, pushing the drift button but the driving instructor is like "I don't see any blue sparks" Learning to drive when you're six years old. Getting your Lego Land driving license. Awarding the worst student in your driving class the "most spirited" driver's license. Explaining what livery companies are by reading the Wikipedia page also. The Worshipful Company of Communicators. Everything's so good, bread especially. A great motto for clockmakers. Does anyone know any cool Latin mottos? When are all these servants having time to go out and have mottos?? The Soggiest God you can Muster. The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists finding a Latin word that is also a snack food for their motto. Painting, staining, and compelling obedience. Sticking with Hope Classic. Shoemakers making jokes about supporting their customers. Getting the salt/wit pun in there for people who know Latin. Africa: always producing some novelty. The 2000 IGF. How to read a magazine together on a podcast. John Carmack's Finger Server. Doom Guy. John Romero's specific type of memory. How they invented mouse look. Turning with the arrow keys and aiming a reticle around the screen with the mouse. Dragging the mouse to the top of your cool dinosaur mouse pad. Why doesn't Microsoft Excel keep the mouse cursor in the center of the screen? The FPS phone interface where you swipe on the touchscreen until the button you want to press is in the center of the screen, then pull the trigger on the back of the phone and a shotgun sound plays. Fold-away interface panels. Thousand Hells, by the developer of King of Dragon Pass. All the video games named "Rift" or "The Rift" How can those terrified vague pink fingers push the feathered glory from her loosening thighs? Zeus disguised as a swan. Whether Marylin Monroe will would've loved Hades. Going to Wikipedia's list of mottos because you need some more mottos. How many ha'ppenies to a thruppence? The half crown, worth 2/6. Several hundred quarterfarthings. Decimal Day, 1971. Extremely forgeable coins. Dividing the day into two sets of twelve. Decimalization. (Based on 10 fingers.) Tuppence and Thruppence. IBM calling it "hexadecimal" because they refuse to say "sexadecimal" out loud. Theater of the Mind storytelling. Importing an occlusion map. Tinting what the players can see green and tinting what the DM can see red or blue. Swapping the lenses in anaglyph glasses so one person can only see red and the other can only see blue. Hanging a projector from the ceiling and projecting the D&D map on the table. A projector of uncertain parentage. Harebrained vs. cockamamie. A fun puzzle you can run off and waste a bunch of time solving. A stochastic cinema where you never know if it's going to be comedy or horror and everything seems totally real to you and is about your personal failings. Focusing on wibbly dream state. How to exhale with your nose plugged. Losing your Apple Watch on Mt. Everest and going back up to look for it and it turns out you dropped it in the shower. Topics going into the bucket that nobody ever sees. Writing a secret on a piece of paper and burying it on a hill with a single tree on it on a moonlit night. Support Topic Lords