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Lords:
* Chris
* Alexander
Topics:
* Words with similar sounds/meanings but no relation to each other at all.
* Virtual marble runs with guns
* https://www.youtube.com/@mikan2d
* The "broom method" of dealing with a hydrogen leak
* https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/706885583716466688
* Poem by Dr. Seuss: “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
* Loveland Frog (Ohio frog bigfoot?)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog
* Ghosts are real: what are the economic consequences?
Microtopics:
* Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
* Lords starting with Xa.
* Moving boxes that have handles built in.
* All else being equal, a raccoon did it.
* Proto-Indo-European.
* Putting the S in Island.
* The era of Topic Lords when we only discussed Shakespeare.
* Some of the things you expect are wrong, and vice-versa.
* Bacteria finding proteins hanging around and deciding "this is part of me now."
* Branching path structures shooting red and blue bullets at each other.
* Escalating Revenge Core Destruction.
* If pachinko were extremely elaborate and violent.
* Oil timers.
* Turning over the rectangle on your desk and forcing the red and green combatants to fight for you once more.
* Apollonian circles.
* The ancestry of Firefox.
* Web browsers surrounded by water on all sides.
* Using the entirety of your computing resources to do basically nothing.
* A phone app that makes your phone display Flying Toasters but only while it's in your pocket.
* Computers that are really good at getting hot and not very good at not getting hot.
* An air conditioner but backwards.
* Marbula One.
* Marble races except every marble is armed with an assault rifle.
* The year you finally get into Blaseball.
* How Blaseball works.
* How to detect a fire that you can't see.
* Glass Onion: debunked.
* A hell planet completely saturated with a volatile gas populated by lava monsters.
* Why leave the house? Just send a probe and infer the existence of your neighbors.
* What "from" means in "escape from the tank"
* The jingle the hydrogen truck plays as it trundles by.
* The Snack of the Stars.
* Safety testing various propellants.
* What your voice sounds like without any transmission medium.
* The Gregorian Underwater Choir.
* Naming Helium after the sun because that's where we discovered it.
* The Lorax threatening you with a bat.
* My huge sawed off flashlight.
* Stay back, officer, it's just just a flashlight.
* Replacing your self-defense rabies bat every time it dies.
* Brushing your self-defense bat's teeth.
* Dr. Zeus's book of adult poetry.
* Is the Death Star brutalist? Can brutalist architecture be round?
* Bee Barns.
* A four foot tall frog guy who lives in the woods.
* A frog guy. A guy who is a frog.
* A frog guy caught between two worlds of posture.
* A Wikipedia user whose thing is to make photo illustrations of cryptids and extinct animals.
* What happens to Pikachu's soul when it dies.
* Ghosts: what do they do all day?
* Ghosts exist, and they can talk, and they know all about the afterlife, but also they're huge liars.
