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Lords:
* Danny
* https://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/
* Akash
* https://www.akashthakkar.com/
Topics:
* 100KHz microphones
* There's an entire town in Alaska that's contained entirely in one building - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/whittier-alaska-american-story/
* Tired: CRT filter in emulated video games. Wired: grainy magazine screenshot filter in emulated video games
* http://folklore.usc.edu/childrens-song-hitler-is-a-jerk/
* Coming back to games months after starting, forgetting what happened, totally forgetting how to play, and never playing again/starting over
* Vampire Survivors genre name
Microtopics:
* Sleeping with 20,000 podcasts.
* Hyper Light Waiter.
* Rift of the Necrodancer.
* Picking up a dog ribcage and the rest of the dog comes with it.
* A cat flowing out of your hands like water.
* Which organ you smell with.
* Dipping your fingies into the chicken vat to refresh the chicken smell.
* Serendipity, providence, kismet, fate: Stormdancing.
* Nyquist vs. Dayquist.
* A big talking world snake named Carlosti, just like in the Edda.
* Pitching a character's voice down four semitones to indicate that they're the bad guy.
* Inventing a sound never heard before.
* Doing a fun click.
* Whether to take Tidal seriously.
* Moving to a town that lives in a shopping mall.
* Snowpiercer but the wheels fell off.
* Signing your kids up for Twitter because they have to learn about death somehow.
* A tiktok sensation dancing with a subway sandwich.
* Visiting the sewage treatment plant next to the Forever 21.
* The only two Invisible War fans in the world, on the same podcast together.
* Crimothy, Jermdom and Frenchalor.
* The Archie Effect.
* A video card that's broken in an extremely specific way.
* Reading a brochure about Super Metroid over and over.
* A controller made of marzipan.
* 2x Sai vs. SuperEagle.
* DLSS but for pixel art.
* Star Wars but every six seconds it's a different director.
* Paying composers to make original music because you enjoy the idea of paying people to do work.
* A poem by Nega-Kanye West.
* The engine that drives the popularity of the "Whistle while you work / Hitler is a jerk" rhyme.
* Bratwurst vs. Vienna Sausage.
* Whether Data has functional genitalia.
* The episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation where Data stars in a porn film in order to better understand that part of the human experience.
* Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X Porn Parody: it's a satire.
* Trying to find the Star Trek Next Generation Triple-X porn parody but all you can find is endless copies of the Babylon 5 porn parody.
* Searching the internet and the universe for an answer.
* Pressing both the sticks in and the sea monkeys come out.
* What's cool about Dark Souls.
* Trying to get your mom to play Skyrim with the Macho Man Randy Savage mod installed.
* Video games: fuck the whole town!
* Game of the Year in the sense of Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
* Roguelikes: they're like Rogue.
* Single-stick shooters.
* The kind of game that a CSI character would play.
* What Fortnite was before it was a PubG clone.
* The extremely bitter blog post about the Edge team giving up and wrapping Chromium.
* Where to play Frog Fractions 4 and 5.
* How to feel about numbers.
* The most expensive Vampire Survivor-likes.
* Where to find Drop 7 2.
* Arcade Paradise.
* Bootleg Fractions.
