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Lords:
* JP
* John B
* https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo
* https://twitter.com/vs_everyone
Topics:
* Showing "Akira" to someone who has never seen any anime before and telling them, "this is what all anime is like"
* https://twitter.com/kbonds420/status/1378850398665125892
* Bizarro, Dan Hibiki, Homsar, and other not-quite-doppelgangers/parodies who exist in the same world as their progenitors
* https://twitter.com/TheDemoScout/status/1457602338013728769
* The Tonkachi Editor
* https://glitchcat7.com/the-complete-history-of-kaizo-mario/
* "There was an Old Man of St. Bees, by W.S. Gilbert
* https://edwardleartrail.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/there-was-an-old-man-of-st-bees/
Microtopics:
* Capcom vs. Everyone.
* Corpus maintenance.
* Death from Seventh Seal vs. Death from Castlevania.
* Moms teaming up based on both being tagged "mom."
* The philosophy of tagging tools.
* Alt-Universe Prompts Bot.
* Coming up with a list of every character in pop culture.
* The Ryu Number.
* Gary Busey playing himself in Hitman 2.
* Shattered Shield At Shattered Shield.
* Saturday Night Anime on the Sci-Fi channel.
* Roger Ebert's favorite early 90s anime.
* Anime that is just Cyberpunk C-Span.
* Mario's Macross for the SNES.
* Evolutionary bottlenecks in video game design.
* The Akira Bike Slide Tribute.
* A completely ridiculous context in which to invoke the Akira Bike Slide.
* Serious war movie guy plummeting to his death.
* A generic karate guy with similar moves.
* Spoilers for all of Mr. Karate's sons.
* Inventing a new protagonist based on a typo.
* Meeting a savvy and helpful hologram that is a projection of an AI run by the World Trade Organization, and later meeting the pop star the AI is based on and she's a total asshole.
* Meeting the Evil Scooby Doo Gang in the Evil Mystery Mobile.
* A story about the mirror people escaping from behind the mirror and it turns out you were one of them the whole time!!
* Wholesome Comedy Doppelgangers.
* Batzarro, the world's worst detective, who killed his own parents and is trying to solve the murder.
* Planning out your Mario mod on graph paper and then typing it into the hex editor with the Famicom controller.
* Conlon Nancarrow manually cutting strips of paper out of a piano roll.
* Making tiny ROM hacks using the Game Genie.
* The Awakening of Tinkerers.
* A landmark case in IP law.
* Trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes because it's the 90s and you have nothing better to do.
* Hacking Game Genie codes to give you even more lives.
* Parts of the logic which are scrutable.
* Talking about garbage and finding out if it makes it into the show.
* Scrupulously avoiding burning cast.
* Burning Cast Xtreme Fishing.
* A chair with only three legs.
* Playing a glitchy video game and reality starts breaking down in front of you.
* Dumping computational work directly into the framebuffer.
* The episode of That 70s Show that was about circuit-bending Pong.
* When things look like they should rhyme but don't.
* Robot Carnival.
* Rainy weather in San Francisco on this cursed episode of Topic Lords.
* Overthinking the poem.
* The Uncarrot Tarot.
* The clashing colors of slant rhymes.
* Metamagical Themas.
* Jokes you can play musically.
* A disaster episode of Topic Lords.
* The Mote In His Eye.
* Being here for history.
