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Lords:
* JP
* Styger
Topics:
* Wouldn't mind hearing Jim's thoughts on the recent Super Mario Bros Wonder video
* Souls departing / cartoon ghosts
* You're supposed to use a "spacer" with inhalers now
* Probably not a full topic but I finally ate that apple I was hyped for in my fist Topic Lords appearance
* Questions for a more experienced musician about learning to play piano + songwriting
* How do we teach our children to pirate?
Microtopics:
* The flu shot.
* Your TV patching itself.
* Going wading in a bog until laundry is invented.
* Dying of smoke inhalation until someone invents the chimney.
* A topic for Jim.
* Soliciting Mario opinions.
* Murdering an 80s kid with Mario footage.
* Squat anime Link.
* Mario with a grappling hook.
* Mario with asynchronous co-op partners.
* The new Mario game bringing the real freak shit.
* Developer quality of life.
* The unfortunate mythology of the industry.
* Getting to the moon more sustainably.
* Mike Mika's Donkey Kong gender swap mod.
* Big globs of ragu flying out of rotoscoped pixel men.
* The evolutionary dynamic range of AAA games.
* The boringness of violence.
* Realistic present day modern warfare.
* Making garbage that makes the world worse forever.
* Wanting to see your medium grow.
* A puzzle platformer using a first person shooter interface.
* Reaching a little bit for a different thing.
* Dealing a little bit of damage to a wall.
* A door turning a corpse into a squished blood paste sprite.
* Pikmin 3 as the most honest war game.
* No Dead Pikmin Speed Run.
* Getting more stuff back to your onion.
* Revisiting game mechanics from throughout the series.
* Outgrowing your childhood diseases.
* A big plastic cylinder the size of a breath.
* Audio iconography saying "look at this dickhead"
* A bong for your inhaler.
* All the surfaces between the air and your bronchial tubes.
* A major change in inhaler technology.
* Putting a bunch of programmer time into making conference calls sound good.
* Respironix Optichamber Diamond.
* Algorithms to cancel out the Mentos Jingle.
* Finally trying the new apple varietal on your birthday.
* Haphazard produce sections.
* Heapsorting apples.
* This apple is going to make you its bitch.
* Bad mealy apples in the 80s.
* Banana lore.
* As Seen In Snopes: Verified Not Bullshit Fruit.
* Getting the gist of a song and being able to do your own thing with it.
* Making noises that sound like nice music.
* Learning to play guitar while waiting for your maps to compile.
* Edly's Music Theory for Practical People.
* Learning to which suspicious-looking websites to trust.
* The Golden Age of Scams.
* oldversion.com
* Spiffy new Windows NT computers.
* Streaming services that you refuse to give money to.
* Doers of Game Piracy.
* Public opinion turning on piracy and copyright.
* Information literacy.
* The surviving websites where you don't mind being found.