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Lords:
* Daniel
* https://twitter.com/dmullinsgames
* Jonah
* https://works.rip/
Topics:
* Chop socky – when are we gonna get that energy back into the world media producing environment? Also listening to movies instead of watching them.
* The Resident Evil series
* Flettner airplanes
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmvHfIAszo
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6geOms33Dk
* Double feature:
* The Eel by Ogden Nash https://poetrysplash.tripod.com/ogdennash2.htm
* The Lama, by Ogden Nash https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/poetry/poem-a-day/lama
* Indonesia: The 4th most populous nation on Earth. You never hear about it
* Watching stuff "going into it without hearing anything about it" -- how do people actually do that? Also me walking into a movie theater.
Microtopics:
* A website for dead people who will pay $12/year for as long as they're dead.
* Hummus.
* Whether Inscryption is more popular than hummus.
* Starting a topic with an anecdote.
* Walking around a city with the audio of a movie playing on your headphones.
* Watching a foreign film subbed because you're too cool to realize there's a subbed version in the settings.
* What you notice when you strip the visuals out of a visual medium.
* Porting Doom to ears.
* Whether blind people have their own Steam.
* Going through several iterations of reinventing how you shoot zombies.
* A woman scaled up 2x on every axis.
* Brazil's first new console after the Megadrive.
* Porting Resident Evil 4 to the Megadrive.
* Jim's entire history with the Resident Evil stories.
* A goofy Zelda boss but it's in a horror game for some reason.
* Turning doing donuts in a two car garage into a boss fight.
* Being bad at puzzles that aren't supposed to be puzzles, like how to use this can opener.
* A Flettner airplane made out of KFC buckets.
* The Magnus effect.
* The downside of an airplane that drops like a rock if the engines lose power.
* The world's first portable steamroller.
* An airplane that is heavy enough to create its own runway.
* Putting a dog in the Youtube thumbnail.
* A poem that was short even before you cut the last 25%.
* A joke poem that becomes even more of a joke when you cut out the punchline.
* Dad giving you permission to memorize the shortest possible poem.
* Web design nostalgia.
* Hypertext protocols that predated HTTP.
* How HTTP ate every other hypertext protocol's lunch.
* This thing that was invented in the 70s.
* Tetris the Grand Master, and how it would be better with mouse input.
* Hypothetical keyboard-only interfaces for audio editing software.
* A keyboard macro scripting language thing for transcribing sheet music.
* How to pronounce "Latex"
* Pronouncing the typesetting puns.
* Being surprised when a country has almost as many people as the United States.
* Gamelan.
* Being Indonesian and knowing more about Indonesia than most people.
* Whether modern day Greeks get annoyed when you try to engage them about Greece 2000 years ago.
* Thinking you know where New Zealand is but not.
* Growing up in the US and spending all your geography points on remembering which state is which and not having any left for the rest of the world.
* Talking about yourself in any person.
* Why nobody reviews Frog Fractions games.
* Soda speak.
* Divesting yourself of places you might get spoiled.
* Middling Marvel Movie Buddies.
* How to make choices without having enough information to decide.
* Totally wasting your plug.
* The premier place to send answers to the Inscryption ARG.
* Counting the number of syllables in the sentence that claims to not be an ARG clue.
