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Lords:
* Tyriq
* FourBitFriday in all the places
* Cort
* Leftover Pumpkin Pie Curry https://savethefood.com/recipes/leftover-pumpkin-pie-and-turkey-curry/
Topics:
* Fantasy consoles
* https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
* Tyriq's 80s homework
* 80s homework playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0NtJp8szqsl4Ek0lZHqvHjaX
* Tyriq's reaction: https://topiclords.com/articles/80s-homework-reaction
* I meant New Kids on the Block, of course.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Starr
* You can't slake an earworm with 3/4 of a chorus
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlAeEcVnnvo
* https://youtu.be/rI3yD3WAcz4
* Aesop Rock - Ruby 81
* https://genius.com/Aesop-rock-ruby-81-lyrics
Microtopics:
* The album you finished.
* A song that is entirely made of uncleared samples.
* Turning leftover pumpkin pie into delicious pumpkin spice curry.
* Interactive Pico-8 holiday cards.
* Artificial constraints pegged at a level of technology somewhere in the 80s.
* Writing specs for Pico-16 so that you don't accidentally make Pico-16 when you're making Pico-8.
* Seeking a box to work within.
* The most played entry in your Steam library is something your kids left running for weeks.
* A collection of 50 games made for a console that never existed.
* List of Fantasy Consoles.
* The fantasy console hidden as an Easter egg in the Frog Fractions hat DLC.
* Four joysticks in your garage waiting for an arcade machine to be installed into.
* Languages that transpile to Lua.
* Emulating the PlayStation 9.
* A fantasy console for making 4D games.
* A popular game engine that starts with the letters UN.
* Civilisation's relationship with art.
* Hop's Big Adventure in the Gift Dimension.
* All the problems with Lua.
* The Pico-8 show with the Pico-Lords.
* All the things people were doing in the 80s.
* Playing an inaudible guitar.
* The sound of somebody being chased.
* All the good Meat Loaf albums.
* An inspiring thing that shows up a lot in your life.
* A hip hop album entirely devoid of metaphor.
* Listening to the first fifteen seconds of each song on an album.
* Drums that are emblematic of everything you hate about the 80s.
* A big decade with a lot of things happening.
* Gil Scott-Heron.
* Music that is distinctly of the 80s vs. music that happened to be released in the 80s.
* The musical equivalent of oatmeal.
* Not liking the whole chorus, but liking the first chord change in the chorus.
* The bass part of Like a Prayer.
* Your superpower: knowing what marmite tastes like and knowing your don't like it.
* Hyperactive j-pop with way too many chord changes.
* Creating a mashup that is better than the sum of its parts, but only for ten seconds.
* Purging an earworm with another earworm.
* We Need a Bigger Dumpster, by Cheek Face.
* The parts of your brain that you're not on speaking terms with.
* A photographic memory for all audio except for words.
* Songs about love or romance or being horny: get that shit out of here.
* "Baby Got Back," a song about Sir Mix A Lot's infant and her extremely loaded diaper.
* Waking the sleeping beagle.
* Some kind of intentional arson.
* Painting an evocative picture of an extremely specific moment in time.
* Uncles and aunts and stuff everywhere.
* Thank you, Genius!
* Bad or text-to-speech bad?
* Trying to fix all instances of a given fact that is wrong everywhere on the internet.
* Wesley Willis writing the story song "Oil Express" because he wanted to write about oil changes.
* Lords Rule, Nuff Said.
