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Lords:
* Dan
* https://strangecurrencies.org/
* https://twitter.com/SCReviewsDan
* Shepard
* They are known as Earthnova in the Discord and has one published work: http://thelitmag.com/2021-edition/this-story-has-a-ghost-in-it/
Topics:
* Only playing narrative/story-driven video games once
* Sometimes life is like an adventure game, a skill or item that's useless when you get it is needed years later
* Sleng Teng Riddim
* https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng-riddim.html
* Here's an argument that the riff originated with David Bowie: https://axischemicals.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-digital-reggae-kingpin/
* Tyger! Tyger! by Robin Johnson
* https://mobile.twitter.com/rdouglasjohnson/status/1517804673998237697
* The internet and college are two great tastes that taste terrible together.
* The first time I beat my father at Scrabble
* Explaining traffic jams, or at least this one traffic jam
Microtopics:
* Wanting to see all the stuff.
* Replaying a series of four RPG length games to see the alternate endings.
* Getting the most video game endings for your dollar.
* Tenable and untenable ways to have an adventure.
* Recapturing the magic of your first time (with emulators).
* Getting every video game you wanted for a system and then enjoying that for 10 minutes.
* A giant archive of every DOS game ever.
* Losing your nostalgia for old games via emulation, but keeping your nostalgia for the box art.
* Falling out of love with Windows Vista.
* Keeping your custard pie intact until the yeti needs it.
* The bread maker approach to learning a new skill.
* Why there are no cupcakes in Frog Fractions 2.
* Playing Go against someone better than you and suddenly losing.
* The Go community rallying around the identity that computers can't beat the best Go players.
* Whether computer Go has shaped the way humans play Go.
* An extra creative extra special humany thing.
* Beating a chess expert by convincing them to play something else.
* John Henry's retirement plan.
* Being promised a Yamaha DX7 but receiving a Casio MT-40 instead.
* Writing a part for a rock and roll rhythm section that is accidentally a great reggae rhythm section.
* The origins of the Amen Break.
* Setting up a situation where you can write your own notes.
* Figuring out where the genre can go with this new tonality.
* Stripy guys and chonky units.
* The best kind of tigers. (Floofers.)
* Learning about slant rhymes one morning and that afternoon writing a poem that rhymes "eye" with "symmetry."
* Blake hearing about the Great Vowel Shift from his grandpa and deciding that that would be a great way to make Tyger! Tyger! sound old timey.
* Googling why Blake tried to rhyme "eye" with "symmetry" and finding dozens of implausible theories, all expressed with complete confidence.
* Making an impression on the world of poetry by not being good at it.
* Hipster throwbacks to the great vowel shift.
* Calvin and Hobbes panoply of tiger poems.
* Holding off on reading more Calvin and Hobbes tiger poems until you’re done recording the podcast.
* Not letting online schooling get in the way of your online education.
* Whether someone will figure out how to do a college class online before we transition back to in-person classes.
* Whether ASL is especially well suited to bring taught over Zoom.
* Doing yard work and wearing protective equipment so you can't pull out your phone to check Twitter.
* Lying down in court.
* Realizing for the first time that your parents don't know everything.
* A framed photo of the one time your mom won at Risk.
* The one thing you and your dad are both interested in.
* Sports montage of getting better at Scrabble.
* Driving or better yet watching movies with cars in them.
* Everybody slowing down to take a look at the two headed chicken.
* Driving towards a shadow and being blinded by the sun to what's beyond the shadow.
* A time loop where the car in front of you slows down for no reason and then you slow down for a good reason but the car behind you thinks you're slowing down for no reason.
* A car driving on a road.
* Stacking a bunch of human reaction speeds on top of each other.
* Slot cars as a fun and disastrous solution to traffic.
* The slot car model of public transit.
* Finding everybody on the Discord.
