Lords:
* Esper
* Cort
Topics:
* Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately
* Stateless procedural music
* Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files
* Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin
* https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/
Microtopics:
* Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive.
* Puzzled Pint.
* Oh man, this one's a real quart!
* Puzzled Pint getting you through to the next MIT Mystery Hunt.
* Blippo Plus.
* If you're going to watch TV, why not watch TV from another dimension?
* Capturing broadcast artifacts and CRT fuzz on a 1-bit display.
* An amateur DSPist. (Such as myself.)
* Whether Lucas Pope took time away from his busy life as a pirate actuary to make a video about temporally-stable dithering.
* Dr. Richard Garfield, who loves lasagna and hates Mondays.
* Final Fantasy espers vs. Magic the Gathering espers.
* All the different licenses Wizards of the Coast is using to fuck up Magic the Gathering.
* How to play Magic the Gathering without getting your ass kicked by a SpongeBob deck.
* Splitbeard, my nemesis.
* The Kickstarter backer tier that nobody pledged to get.
* Jim's beard braids, still floating around in a Ziploc bag somewhere.
* Electroswing Jackson.
* Trying to continue to evolve as an artist after you named yourself Chrono Trigger Remix DJ.
* A sci-fi weird constructed zone.
* The guy on the team who comes up with names like "banalia"
* Fake scam Oxford English Dictionaries.
* A Finn named Viznut.
* The C program on Viznut's business card.
* Recognizing the twelfth root of two in an obfuscated C program.
* Bytebeat.
* Generating audio in ShaderToy.
* A closed form function of T that produces the Terminator theme.
* Learning how to put GLSL into the GPU.
* Needing the preceding 200 samples to produce the current sample so you just start at T-200 and start crunching numbers.
* The oldest film on Netflix. (From 1987.)
* Trying to finish X-Files before it leaves your streaming service.
* Esper's power over the Futurama production schedule.
* Why would you attack and dethrone God when you could summon God to help you fight a slime?
* Trying to summon your god in a tough JRPG battle and she's like "not right now I'm editing a podcast."
* Trying to describe a vocal sample without saying what the voice is saying.
* The bitrate itself shaping new phonemes.
* Wahoo vs. wahey vs. waheh.
* The great darkness where sleep goes and farther death goes.
* The gods choking on all the dreams you forget.
* The dump trucks of tasteless gruel keep coming.
* How to prevent the data miners determining exactly how far the mystery goes.
* You Can't Data Mine Fallen London.
* The character who doesn't exist in the game, only the game data files, because he erased himself.
* Media where you can predict how much longer the story goes and media where you can't.
* The forty second episode of Topic Lords.
* The episode of Game Changer that had the fake "end of video" screen before the episode continues.
* Hitting tab to switch to the next field.
* Hitting tab to highlight the secret clickable button.
* Bittorrenting all eight hours of Bandersnatch and watching every scene in random order.
* How many names does a Seaman know?
* Escaping the internet.
* Binge watching the PiCoSteveMo development thread.
