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Lords:
* Erica
* Jesse
Topics:
* There's a Spanish word which officially cannot be written because the grammar and orthography conflict about how it should spelled/pronounced.
* My personal relationship with Disco Elysium
* Clue II: Murder in Disguise
* All of the Words on a Bottle of Rolling Rock Beer in a Different Order
* https://expatriotact.blogspot.com/2006/10/poets-corner-demetri-martin.html
* This year's beast of a Mystery Hunt
* Shareable alarms
Microtopics:
* Texans with nothing to plug.
* The Army Corp of Engineers coming to your town and kicking ass.
* No, and no.
* Fuck em, just get a laptop.
* Fact checking the dinner table conversation with your laptop.
* An interaction deemed normal.
* The Spanish double-L sound.
* Finally finding a way that spelling in English is more sensible than spelling in Spanish.
* Desperately avoiding hearing French spoken incorrectly.
* A place that is less like the rest of Canada than any part of the United States is like the United States.
* A good relaxing podcast that leads to substantial academic progress.
* Stormdancer Zero.
* Secret of Monkey Island with additional D&D stat checks and communism.
* Continents not connected to tectonic plates but instead freely floating in the mist.
* When your stats talk to you.
* Equipping a philosophical idea in your thought cabinet.
* Where the resource extraction happens.
* An alcoholic amnesiac video game protagonist.
* Finding the richest person in town to explain to you how the world works.
* Recreating all your characters from the ground up to be optimized for the game engine.
* Cheating past the final boss in Baldur's Gate because the alternative is starting from scratch with a viable build.
* Revising your thinking about the Gros Michel banana.
* Campy goofballs doing campy goofball shit except it's not Tim Curry this time.
* The guy whose name Jim can't remember who played Chuck on Better Call Saul.
* The VCR board game phenomenon.
* Scenes sort of adding up into a narrative if you squint.
* Seeing John Lithgow when nobody else sees him.
* How to get Michael Land to talk to you at CES.
* Out-of-work FMV actors.
* Specializing in loving horrible FMV games.
* The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
* DVD games vs. VCR games.
* A DVD arriving too late to save a drowning VCR game industry.
* The pride of seeing your topic grow up and take its place in the world.
* Panache, aplomb, and savoir-faire.
* Rolling, glass tanks of beverages that rocked that lined mountain.
* Women as the exception to implied maleness.
* A folk pop album featuring a disgraced CDC employee.
* 50 Cent rapping about going to prison for insider trading.
* The Topic Lords Guarantee.
* A series of interconnected puzzles that you solve as a team.
* Flavor text explaining why it's fun to solve this math problem.
* A beautiful puzzle hunt that is way too long.
* Assuming that being good at solving puzzles is the same skill as constructing puzzles.
* Waiting all year for a chocolate box that ends up being a marathon through Death Valley.
* How to test a 100-person puzzle hunt.
* Admonishing astronomers to "get good."
* Puzzles that are like tiny little gifts that open up and dance in front of you.
* A chip that controls a single light point on the wall.
* Doing something for free vs. doing it for a pittance.
* Losing your wedding ring but also your wedding ring screams once a day.
* Your screaming wedding ring following you from house to house.
* One o’clock: Time for Pants.
* Remembering that it's time for pants no matter what time zone you're in.
* The Playstation Vita's pants alarm.
* Playing a competitive minigame to see who can wake up fastest.
* Earning achievements for getting out of bed.
* The app that is the opposite of sex.
