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Lords:
* Nate
* http://mommysbestgames.com/
* https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames/
* Fred
* https://twitter.com/brobbeh
Topics:
* Why do rice cookers play music but not microwaves?
* https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/1516205625662836739
* If all your needs are met in a utopian society will we still need sports and competition?
* Hot Ice, Cool Sounds
* Goblin Time by Emma
* https://mastodon.art/@emmajuettner/108103474257806186
* Esper says: "My long-held suspicion has always been that humans are generally way less prone to salt-related health issues than suggested by nutritional science. I think a lot of that stuff was ginned up by cigarette companies trying to deflect blame. But I try not to go full-on conspiracy theory about it."
* Nerds candy has a Dungeons and Dragons themed box. Is this good for D&D?
* If the four horsemen of the apocalypse were recruiting for a fifth member, how would you convince them to hire you?
Microtopics:
* A shmup about how Microsoft screwed up their Xbox 360 dashboard.
* Screaming for 24 hours straight and having a heart attack, or vice versa.
* Remastering your obscure protest game and needing to build a museum explaining the context for the protest.
* An educational title about how to find games on the new Xbox 360 dashboard.
* An infinite runner with extremely awkward horse controls.
* Using all the right dark patterns.
* Meeting an indie game developer in San Francisco and recognizing him because he's a white guy with a beard and glasses who likes Dark Souls.
* A pot that's specifically for rice and it knows when to school cooking the rice.
* Only rice cookers get to sing a song.
* Installing an AI in your microwave so your microwave can try to murder you.
* A codependent washing machine.
* Landlords in California doing an end run around renter's rights.
* The keyless entry system on your apartment that has a battery backup just so it can play "These Boots are Made for Walking" when it can't let you in because the power is out.
* 3D printing some laundry to fold because people are bored in your Utopia.
* Extremely soporific TV.
* A mashup of music and sports.
* Gathering to watch a live band play while a chef makes crepes.
* Whether you can be bored while watching two things at the same time.
* An orchestra trying to live-score a basketball game.
* Trying to listen to an arcade game in the arcade.
* Goblins in our community.
* A bullet point list of how you can help a goblin.
* Spicy radish waffles.
* Blackwheat crepes and whether they're really black.
* Lemonade crepes.
* Dipping a sandwich in mustard.
* The pros and cons of salting food.
* Chickens laying pre-salted eggs.
* Paying a monthly subscription to Monsanto to keep up the injections that make your tongue exude its own salt.
* Getting in line to hate Monsanto.
* Whether nerds are more or less likely to eat Nerds candy.
* A candy for people who forgot D&D exists.
* Candy&D.
* A series of Nerds-themed D&D campaigns.
* Hiring people and paying them.
* Star Trek Jeopardy where 70% of the answers are 1980s pop culture because the federation is obsessed with the 80s.
* Seeing yet another college sports question in the New York Times crossword and deciding whether to get irrationally angry at Will Shortz.
* What Jim embodies that is the worst thing.
* Death, war, famine, pestilence, crypto and late-onset melatonin.
* John Cleese teaching sex ed in a boarding school.
* Starting with death and going downhill from there.
* Convincing Death to not kill anyone and Death just rides off and mopes.
* Whether the four horsemen listen to podcasts or if the internet is down during the apocalypse.
* The four new horsemen of the new apocalypse: crypto, gaslighting, late-onset melatonin and Elon Musk.
* How to find people to follow on Mastodon.
* How to be a part of a human-sized community.
* The Topic Lords subreddit.
* The photo of a middle school basketball team that somebody posted to the Topic Lords subreddit.
* How to keep spam bots out of your Discord.
* Batbarian.
