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Lords:
* Hallie
* https://twitter.com/Hallie_9000/
* John
* https://twitter.com/robohunkx
Topics:
* Finding value in shared imagined spaces and worlds outside of religious contexts
* Final Fantasy Challenge: Zero Story; and other vaporware games & mods of which no record exists on the internet
* Youtube streams movies now, and they have comments
* Canterbury Tales General Prologue, by Geoffrey Chaucer
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue
Microtopics:
* The Ten Timers Club.
* Podcasting for three years straight.
* Fantastical ideas for famous bands covering Garages songs.
* An increasingly hard to describe person.
* Reclaiming the asshole.
* The sort of thing that sometimes happens in Maine.
* Finding the right microphone settings.
* A podcast about what people think about that ends up being a video game podcast because that's what they're thinking about.
* The barnacle on the indie game scene life.
* Making a video game good on purpose.
* Talking to your friends who talk you out of grad school because you need to be talked out of grad school again
* Your own personal relationship with the divine.
* Shared imagined worlds and how we talk about them.
* Your friend asks how you're doing and you say "Han and Leia at the end of Empire" and your friend just nods.
* Fighting a great beast together.
* Promoting group cohesion by developing a shared frame of reference.
* How in the 70s everyone watched the same three TV channels but nowadays everyone has access to all of every form of media all the time, and whether that's a handicap for developing a shared cultural reference frame.
* Waxy potatoes vs. starchy potatoes.
* Where to find non-starchy potatoes.
* Harry Potter and the Sacred Texts.
* The act of interpretation and the creation of shared symbols.
* A Final Fantasy mod that you were very excited about in the early 00s but that now has no results on google.
* Abraham Lincoln Land vanishing from the internet.
* All the bad video games starring Tux.
* Your boss saying "let me show you how the Peter Principle works" and promoting you to Project Manager.
* Erasing the projects you are ashamed of from your personal web site.
* Adding a clause to your will about deleting all your novelty web sites.
* A web site where you write a bunch of fake reviews of fake bands and eventually start writing the songs yourself.
* Mutually executable languages.
* A betrayal of both movies and Youtube.
* Commenting with a timestamp of your favorite part of Napoleon Dynamite.
* Whether Pedro won the election on his own merits.
* Creating an audition tape for the musical extravaganza your employer is running, getting the part, and later finding out that you were the only one who applied.
* Whether John will ever release the video of him dancing like Napoleon Dynamite.
* An entire stanza of completely unintelligible Middle English.
* Wanting to go on pilgrimages to seek the Holy Blissful Martyr because spring is coming.
* Pronouncing all the silent letters.
* A well-SparkesNotes'd text.
* Having a poem memorized but not in order.
* How wishing someone a happy birthday before their birthday is illegal in Germany.
* The least surfer dude.
* Various tobacco saliva receptacles, some of which ding and some of which don't.
* Chewing tobacco but not having the self-respect to get a spittoon.
* The nicotine delivery method where you stick a tobacco blob under your lip like a walrus tusk and make TikTok videos.
* Dip a.k.a. Snus.
* A cool friend from Tennessee.
* Big League Chew, again.
* Asking the clerk for tar patches because nicotine patches don't give you melanoma.
* Ending the show early because you believe so vehemently that vaping is good for you.
* A pithy German word for having guested on Topic Lords ten times.
