The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering Mario around the screen:
Lords:
Topics:
- Chess, the Musical: a show that is universally acclaimed but no longer performed because it consistently loses money
- I believe live television to be the most exciting thing humans have invented
- Blaseball had $3 million in VC funding
- Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
- Why not RSS for text?
- Officiating weddings for your friends
Microtopics:
- The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering the Mario head.
- Who gets to say "roll theme song!"
- A community where the chances of someone acting in bad faith is negligible.
- DC Action News.
- All human communication is technicallt advertising.
- The generous Haste demo.
- A skipping stones on water kind of game.
- Sonic/Klonoa/late 90s/early 00s aesthetics.
- A karaoke favorite that is not very reasonably sensitive.
- All the Tims who did not work on Chess the Musical.
- The guy from Rent whose name you can't remember.
- Breakdancing while arbitrating a chess match.
- Internet radio stations.
- A Windows 95 theme of Chess the Musical.
- Installing Windows 95 themes on your Picotron desktop.
- Sex, Death and Live Television!
- Live TV mishaps that ruin entirely the wrong career.
- HQ.
- At five o'clock, there's gonna be a guy.
- The sense of spectacle you get from a live broadcast with a big audience.
- The time one of the leads forgot his entire monologue.
- The thrill of being part of a live performance as it's going wrong.
- Listening to Shoutcast channels on Winamp.
- Winamp's Shoutcast station registry.
- The childhood dream of owning a TV station and getting to make all the little station IDs.
- Netflix's abandoned "just fuck me up" button.
- Six episodes of Deep Space 9 on a single VHS tape.
- Drop 7 vs. Dropout TV.
- Getting entirely the wrong information from your survey about what people like about your product.
- Trying to sign up for Blaseball and failing.
- Funny names such as Dominic Marijuana.
- Jumping in and forcing some actions to happen.
- Needing your game to break so that you can write the way it breaks into the narrative of the story.
- Blaseball-likes.
- Terrorball. (Short for Territory Ball.)
- A list of all locations.
- The Scarborough Fairies.
- Resurrecting Jaylen Hotdogfingers.
- An online text mode football manager with a live chat.
- Fish Center.
- Determining which fish is best.
- Bringing a little bit of the live frisson to a fake live broadcast.
- Whether it's okay to read a poem more than once.
- Softly I go now, pad pad.
- Cats you had together.
- The cat that Hatricia Hop-Meow is based on.
- Blogs: do they exist?
- Making a point of finding an open source way to do your shit.
- A 24 hour cycle of live podcasts.
- TiVo for podcasts.
- Edging the feeling of whether you're watching live TV or not in a slip slidey timestream.
- Asking chat a question and then waiting 15 to 20 seconds for the response to come back.
- Bringing back RSS readers.
- The New Old Reader.
- Opening with the mawwige joke.
- Wanting people to want things.
- Going back to your old life except now your friends are married.
- Protecting The Lord from unauthorized clergymen.
- Paying $20 to the Universal Life Church so you can perform weddings in most states.
- Keeping the card in your wallet in case anyone tries to claim that you're not really an ordained minister.
