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Lords:
* Erica
* Maxx
Topics:
* Freesound.org and the delight of sharing things without fame
* https://freesound.org/people/Bram/sounds/15543/
* https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/369065/
* https://freesound.org/people/smokenweewALT/
* Shutting down the FF2 ARG Twitter account
* Leisure in the 70s
* Snow by David Berman
* https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/snow-14
* The some potatoes diet
* Plants that can see sorta?
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786/
Microtopics:
* The Topic Lords discord.
* Meeting friends in the Kingdom of Loathing chat.
* A virtual birthday party crashing app.
* Piranesi.
* A website where people post sound.
* Wav laundering.
* Purchasing a lion sound effect from an off-Broadway sound effect shop.
* Sending over the can crushing noises that you selected.
* Someone's friend pretending to be a bird.
* Having a roommate named Phil all of whose passwords were “Phil”
* AAA games with Freesound user names in the credits.
* Recognizing Brick Drop 5 from Dope Dragon 69's Freesound portfolio.
* Officer, I was just making a video game!
* The psychology of why no Freesound user has uploaded a good pneumatic tube delivery sound.
* The bank teller watching you and registering your surprise at being delivered a tube.
* The bank tellers noticing that you are shitting into the pneumatic delivery tube and lifting the Gallagher tarp in front of their faces.
* Getting ready for bed and then suddenly recording an episode of Topic Lords.
* SmokenweewALT recording water flowing sounds in Flushing, Queens.
* The best Wikipedia pages.
* Toe Cleavage.
* Cats who have jobs.
* Finding things on Wikipedia that are not directly related to one another.
* Tweeting your disappointment that a weird thing turns out to be part of the Frog Fractions ARG.
* The alternate reality where Frog Fractions 2 launched but nobody ever found it.
* The final unsolved (and now unsolvable) FF2 ARG puzzle.
* Who was solving things?
* New ways to not be at work.
* Another word for having a good time.
* Choosing photos to represent the concept of leisure.
* Phil relaxing on the couch next to his toilet paper.
* Someone who doesn't have a bed but does have two lanterns.
* The guy who has spent fifteen years uploading pictures of his foreskin to Wikipedia just in case someone needs a picture of foreskin.
* Spending so long thinking about someone that you're unsure whether they're notorious to anyone but you.
* A foreskin in repose.
* Believing that genes are immortal survival machines that use our disposable bodies to endlessly replicate themselves.
* The concept of leisure as a human right.
* Serious vs. casual leisure.
* Project-based leisure projects.
* A poem stapled to the wall in a laundromat in Massachusetts.
* Voices hanging close in the new acoustics.
* Explaining to your little brother that the snow angels are angel corpses that a nearby farmer murdered.
* Lying to your child just a little bit, as a treat.
* The Seattle Space Noodle.
* The last Burger King in Amsterdam.
* The most normal person you know.
* Running an impromptu experiment on the internet by asking strangers to eat nothing but potatoes and report back.
* Trying the all-potatoes diet for thirty years.
* Eating 40 potatoes a day.
* Game designer and science communicator Nicky Case.
* Halftato.
* Overdosing on potassium.
* Doctors telling you to cool it with the potassium.
* Why doctors don't know how much chemotherapy to give obese people.
* The doctor from the phrenology department measuring your neck to see if you have sleep apnea.
* Parasitic plants imitating the host plant's leaves.
* Recognizing silhouettes of birds from an 8x8 monochrome image.
* Rapidly changing the hydraulics of your leaves.
* A forest of Max mimicry.
