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Lords:
* Tyriq
* https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
* https://frror.bandcamp.com/
* Chall
* https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall
Topics:
* The future/present of Jim's mario videos.
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0Ntxnf9mof2tU-QZLQ0Mq6zd
* Catatcomb Kids lore in the context of the fact that I like worldbuilding but find it hard to tell actual stories.
* Bigger Luke
* The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band.
* http://www.syndicjournal.us/a-ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-60-narrations/ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-the-green-street-mortuary-marching-band/
* Have you seen any phantom kangaroos? And also: should I choose to believe in cryptids? If so, which ones?
Microtopics:
* Giving someone else's biography.
* 7-Day Roguelikes.
* Feeling ambiently like you are hanging out with somebody.
* An emulator that works when you are not screen-capturing in OBS, but freezes when you are.
* Making a backup of your Bowser's Fury save.
* Video recording setup evolutions.
* The pros and cons of extremely variable video lengths.
* Playing Tony Hawk with Mario modded in.
* What working on a Zelda game does to a person, psychologically.
* Doing things that make people believe you're doing an ARG.
* Twinbeard Rates Mario.
* A robot co-host that eventually starts finishing your words for you.
* Wanting to be a writer until you try writing.
* A world that naturally develops in your brain.
* How to tell stories.
* Coming up with a bunch of characters that want things.
* Reading stories in hopes that stories rub off on you.
* Putting yourself in a situation where you write a lot of dialog trees.
* How to make a platformer without doing any level design.
* Expecting the same person to write the music and the lyrics.
* The difference in the ideation process of world building and story telling.
* A fact about the world that is true.
* Captain Thalmoo surveying the battlefield.
* Figuring out mid-burrito that there was a war, and deciding who won it.
* A grain that flowers like lavender.
* Searching Fiverr for Conlangers.
* Paying $2 for something at the Dollar Store.
* Logging Onto JimNet.
* The Canon Bigger Luke Hypothesis vs. the Hamill Hypothesis.
* The Inch-Luke Hypothesis.
* Inch-Lukers.
* Bigger Luke conspiracy theorists just assume that Han Solo stays the same size.
* The real Skywalker was the bigger Luke all along.
* The Boy Who Cried ARG.
* Promising your wife that your son will not be Frog Fractions 3.
* How many pages of laws a person is subject to at any given time.
* Designing an ARG for your teenage son and he's like "ugh dad, again?"
* Mortuary marching bands.
* The patriarch who has just croaked.
* The sister with the bent frame.
* Uncle Louie with the wig.
* Getting a free concert because someone died.
* A funeral as a pleasant gathering of people you haven't seen in a long time.
* Getting arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
* Dressing up as an ancient sea captain.
* How many funerals this marching band is playing today.
* Hiring your nephew who has a Casiotone keyboard to play your funeral.
* Hiring the Green Street Mortuary Marching Band to play at your kid's birthday but all they know how to play is Taps.
* Bringing an axe to the funeral in case there's an emergency and you need to open up the coffin quickly.
* If a guitar is an axe, a tuba is a bent axe.
* Unbending the Tuba.
* Why brass instruments are so twisty.
* If you unwind a French horn it'll reach the moon and back.
* The large flutes that are curly.
* The son of a flautist.
* A bookshelf that you blow into and music comes out.
* Potential downsides of cryptids.
* Wanting to take EMF meters into a creepy house even though you don't believe in ghosts.
* The script scientists developed to let you fall in love at will.
* How many blue coins out of five you would rate your wife.
* Taking the Race IAT every week and analyzing your results over time.
