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Lords:
* Avery
* https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases
* Jay
* https://twitter.com/jaytholen
Topics:
* Kowloon Walled City
* Internet communities gaining a reputation and then changing over time as members mature.
* The moral cost of the 303 Devilfish clone
* Justified and Ancient
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg
* Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/Peeo6xZqeVs
* Cyber Nexus internet cafe in Lakeland Florida and late 1990s internet cafes in general
* https://twitter.com/jaytholen/status/1370002162063990786
Microtopics:
* Putting all of Spotify on shuffle.
* Spotify rejecting your album because you put lyrics on the album cover.
* Immersing yourself in a shitty visual aesthetic until you love it and the guy at the record label rejects your album cover.
* Renaming your company to Content Distribution Baby now but the logo is still a baby on a CD.
* The Godaddy man and the pets dot com sock puppet.
* A demon face in the middle of a circuit board.
* The part of the show where we look at image search results together.
* Visiting Kowloon Walled City for the cheap dentistry.
* Going to a nightmare city to get your teeth worked on: an opportunity to die.
* One of several problems with working seven days a week and never taking a break.
* Blame! or perhaps Blam!
* Trying to live in the dystopian future where the construction nanobots run wild and convert all matter on the planet into endless nonsense staircases and ventilation ducts.
* The protagonist having a really cool gun.
* When the author doesn't know what's interesting about their own setting.
* Having to write a novel because nobody's invented D&D source books yet.
* Feeling like an outsider because you don't know which Dale Earnhardt crashed into a wall.
* An online pixel art isometric place to hang out.
* Being a jerk to people in an organized manner.
* Audio production subforums.
* How internet communities get radicalized and how they mellow out.
* Ironically doing outrageous stuff on the internet.
* The strange purity of being ahead of the curve.
* Memes as a bannable offense.
* Getting a Something Awful forum account for your birthday and never looking at it because you don't like awful things.
* A synthesizer for the singer songwriter who doesn't have a bass player.
* Discovering the future of techno in the bargain bin.
* The history of the TB-303.
* The Prophet-5 vs. the Prophet-6.
* A drum pad that is the first of its kind.
* The thing with the egg breaking against a wall and how you always side with the egg.
* Creating reproductions of saught after out of print old stuff.
* Having two guitars, one tuned in fifths and one tuned like a ukulele.
* Writing music that could never be played.
* Making games because you want to get your music in front of people.
* Jim Stormdancer and the Frog Fractions Players.
* Finally receiving the obscurity you've been craving.
* Writing a book about the KLF as a lens into your particular moral philosophy.
* Drum or Brown?
* Doom Demon Invisible.
* 5 times voted CMA female vocalist Tammy Wynette.
* Trying to gesture at Discordianism or other forms of alternative mysticism.
* Making a new game in character as a character from your last game.
* The Burning Man man.
* Presented with the Most Coveted Living Legend Award Sponsored By TNN.
* Hiring randos to sing and play instruments on your album and hiring entirely different randos to be in your music video.
* King Boy D and the other guy.
* Burning a million quid and then going around asking people why you burned a million quid.
* Good names for internet cafes.
* A square of computers.
* Not recognizing Stargate decor and assuming it's just sci fi Egypt themed.
* Losing at Quake for your birthday while your parents watch a Pink Floyd DVD with the owner of the Internet cafe.
* Which one is Cyber and which one is Nexus?
* Not remembering why your band was invited to play a set at the Interface of Language and Technology.
* That's a level 12 mage, get off of that!
* Whether an internet cafe is the same thing as a cyber cafe.
* The regular at your coffee shop who scalps tickets for a living.
* Whipping out a 61 key MIDI controller to write tracks at Starbucks.
* Trying to avoid situations where you'd accidentally give a philosophy lecture.
* What is an organism and what organisms do.
* Whether Aristotle knows that whales are mammals.
* A category of things that have an effect.
