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Lords:
* CisHetKayFaber
* https://twitter.com/CisHetKayFaber
* https://www.upturnedtable.com/weekly-podcast-2/
* Dan
* https://strangecurrencies.org/
* https://twitter.com/SCReviewsDan
Topics:
* Learning something by doing, so you don't understand the theory behind it
* The lonely realization that most people don't really care that much about the things that make you unique (not depressing) (I promise)
* Shrek got a ten minute standing ovation at Cannes in 2001.
* The Jabberwocky
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
* Cursed connectors and adapters
* Vacationing alone is extremely efficient
* Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name
Microtopics:
* A name that has nothing to do with wrestling.
* Upturned Table.
* Topic hunger.
* Hearing something and playing it back.
* The particular rat-a-tat of that ratio.
* The difficulty of making art compelling and simple at the same time.
* In C.
* A proc-gen song that is different every time you hear it but you have to pick just version to put on the record.
* Meeting a group of people who all learned a skill in a certain context and being unable to convince them that you also have the skill but you learned it in a different context.
* Not wanting to tell your family that you are trans because they would be very interested.
* The dream of owning a board and card game store.
* Trying to convince an extremely modest person to tell you something interesting about themselves.
* Doing an interesting thing but not making a mental note to tell your friends about it because you never learned to tell stories.
* A guy whose family fled a corrupt governmental regime being surprised that you think that's interesting, because he knows hundreds of people who lived under a corrupt governmental regime.
* Discovering a viable competitor to Disney.
* Devaluing the Cannes Standing Ovation.
* The Sarcastic Standing Ovation.
* Shepard Tones.
* How many people you need to pay to stand and clap to extend a standing ovation indefinitely.
* Being the one guy who is yelling at everyone to stop applauding.
* Moving the last scene to after the credits roll so that people have to find out who the key grip is to see the whole story.
* Reading a game credits list on MobyGames and giving a standing ovation at the end.
* Vorpal, manxome, uffish, frabjous and other words that didn't exist at one point but now do.
* Understanding the rhythm of language even if the words don't make sense.
* Alice Liddel.
* A faithful musical TV adaptation of the entire Alice in Wonderland series.
* An adapter from pneumatic air to stereo XLR.
* Speakers and microphones as adapters between air pressure and electrical signal.
* Using a microphone as a speaker and a speaker as a microphone.
* The downsides of USB-C.
* A sticker with induction coils on it.
* Counting the pins on a Famicom cartridge.
* How you're supposed to blow into cartridges differently in the United States and in Japan.
* Breathing into your NES cartridge to apply a layer of condensation to the pins and improve connectivity.
* Dry vs. wet exhale.
* Bagpipe to stereo XLR connectors.
* A vacation where you go exactly where you want when you want and never need to form a consensus.
* The kind of AAA vacation that a 4000 person team of Ubisoft employees would go on.
* Spending most of your vacation listening to podcasts in your hotel room.
* Going on a vacation in order to scout out potential locations for future vacations.
* Walking into a book store and going to the zine section and downloading some bespoke local podcasts.
* Asking the concierge at the hotel what podcasts are good to listen to around here, and they suggest This American Life and Radiolab.
* A cloud of scenarios that you can choose to interact with.
* Whether the Last Constable is really last or whether she's just called that.
* Paying for a second candle.
* Waking up in the middle of the night to spend the turns you've accumulated so they don't go to waste.
* Sailing the Unterzee in a majestic pleasure yacht.
* Dreaming about going north.
* Breaking into a dentist's office to steak the jar of teeth from the cupboard in the back.
* Building up your Obscurity to endgame levels.
* Knowing that to solve the mystery you'll need to destroy yourself, and choosing to do it anyway.
* Playing the game to get to the text that you're trying to read.
* The grindiest content in the game.
* Selling your soul to devils and then realizing that you need to get it back so you can destroy it yourself.
* Hammering on the button until it tells you where to go.
* Whether anyone knows the plot of World of Warcraft.
* A great place to discuss topics with people who might become your friends.
