Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords)
Lords:
* Tyriq
* https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
* https://frror.bandcamp.com/
* Stevie
* https://www.hryx.net
Topics:
* Watching TAS videos and wondering how much of what is happening is necessary vs flourish
* If Jeff Bezos wanted to recreate Jurassic Park
* Chocolate-dipped fruit has such an enormous gulf between perceived effort and actual effort that as a gift giver or potluck attendee you are all but obligated to take advantage
* Strong Men, Riding Horses by Gwendolyn Brooks
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28113
* The creators of Earthworm Jim: Where are they now?
Microtopics:
* Tunic.
* Finding collectible pages of a game's manual inside the game.
* Games in fake languages.
* Playing imported games in emulation and trying to figure out how to play even though you don't speak the language.
* Curveballs.
* A monthly in-person cozy casual game development meetup.
* Discovering what people mean by "within" when people say "inquire within."
* What happened to all of the art.
* What a whale bone smells like after you clean it.
* Whether it's grosser to drink bone marrow or eat oysters.
* The most charming of all the crabs.
* TAS runs.
* The various kinds of tools that might assist you in creating a tool-assisted speed run.
* Human-Mediated Speed Runs, or HMSRs.
* Proving the ideal speed run.
* Some kind of sequence that is based on a timer.
* When the TAS run does a little dance and you're trying to figure out whether that's important to the run or if they're just killing time.
* The game became Snake.
* Whether coffee cures or causes cancer.
* Like listening in a mirror.
* The vapors.
* Trillionaires not being as rich as they used to be.
* A big big island full of organisms that are just waiting to be coated in gold.
* Painting your entire body and dying somehow.
* Lemur-friendly paints.
* People who've eaten breakfast and then died.
* Dipping some shit in some crap.
* Watching Food Network to discover the Science of Chocolate.
* An attractive morsel.
* Pastries with fruit fillings.
* A solid cube of a mass of dessert-object.
* Taking advice from someone who hasn't even been on several hundred podcasts.
* Frantically putting the Topic Lords banner back on your wall when you see Jim approaching.
* Releasing Topic Lords episodes.
* Shuffling off of this mortal topic.
* Making a movie to promote your new chocolate bar.
* A type of chocolate that tries to be solid.
* Spaghetti-Os as a back formation of Spaghetti-O-ification, which is what happens when pasta passes through a black hole's event horizon.
* Using Hawking radiation to retrieve lost Spaghetti-Os from within black holes.
* The movie playing the sound of somebody peeing to let you know that now's when you get up to use the bathroom.
* A crowd of people doing foley work for a restaurant scene in Murder She Wrote.
* Picking somebody for Animatronic Angela Lansbury to murder and then picking somebody for her to pin it on when she solves the crime.
* The fine line between true and false.
* The fine line between foot and floor.
* Desert-eyed, rentless strong men pasted to stars already.
* A source of praise for the patriarchy.
* Addled by landlords.
* Whether being pasted to the stars is good.
* The elbow of the topics.
* Earthworm Jim.
* A muscular goofball earthworm.
* Whether you can say "groovy" and still be angry.
* A strict no-sequels policy.
* Not the thing you're here to talk about.
* George "The Fat Man" Sanger.
* Wall-E but a Roomba but also one of those 90s wireless phone cradles.
* Games you can play for free on the web.
* All the good times we had at Blockbuster Video renting movies from Blockbuster Video.
* How public libraries still exist and offer more movies than your local Blockbuster Video had and they're free and you keep them for a month rather than two days but nobody gives a shit because libraries don't have branding or advertising.
* A perfect solution to a problem that everybody wants solved urgently.
* Weirdly buff creatures that should not be buff.
* Music band with animal companion solves mystery.
* The Dog & The Stoner & The Band & The Ghost.
* Queen Slug-for-a-Butt.
