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Lords:
* Chris's album "The Lost Backups" is out now!
* https://b-e-e-k.bandcamp.com/
* https://twitter.com/CHRISdelCAMINO
* https://www.instagram.com/chrisdelcamino/
* Jimmy is on LinkedIn.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkd3fowcFs
* https://open.spotify.com/track/4nHfs2e1bRAeS5JHVa50yh?si=EO2vBDQSrGJ5ov7s5x0Bw
Topics:
* 22 years later, I am able to answer Rimbo's question he asked me on the way to Wesside '98: "What is an Obispo"
* Why "Starflight" is the greatest PC game ever made
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight
* Drums that you play standing up (and double-sided drums)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8XELwxAuw
* Bulbous Cretin asks: "Tweeting the contents of Fred Flinstone’s frozen carcass before you dig in"
* https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/permafrozen-dinner/604069/
* 16 bits is not enough and destroyed music
Microtopics:
* Plugging a 21 year old song that you still can't believe you wrote.
* Musicians deserving royalties.
* The secret fourth guest.
* The rolling golden hills driving down the 101.
* Knowing all the technical musical terms in Spanish but not knowing how to say "mop."
* What would happen to the Cookie Monster if Big Bird was blue.
* Whether or not the Topic Lords audience knows about the demo scene.
* Whether or not Unreal by Future Crew is the same thing as Unreal Engine by Tim Sweeney.
* Demo scenes and then demo parties.
* Visiting Montreal and hiding in a high school gym for three days rather than seeing the amazing city with its amazing architecture.
* Wanting to hold the Great American Demo Party.
* Whether or not you should cover the ice when you hold a huge party in an ice rink.
* Assembly 2010 mostly being a big LAN party with the demo scene folks tucked away in the corner.
* The sun going down at 11 PM.
* Boozembly 2010 taking place in the woods behind Assembly 2010.
* Plugging a PC keyboard into your Mac and all the keys work perfectly in Schism Tracker.
* Giving up on the Macintosh after decades because Mac hardware and MacOS are terrible now.
* A laptop that is so broken that it shuts down every computer on the wifi network you try to connect it to.
* Advertising the latest Macbook as having a physical escape key.
* Running Ubuntu as an app on Windows.
* The secret 16-color CGA mode if you plug in a composite monitor.
* Modern nostalgia for the terrible four-color CGA palettes.
* Storing an entire universe on a two-sided 360k floppy disk.
* Landing on a planet and finding The Ancients and finding enough fuel to get to three stars over.
* Stuffing The Ancients into your warp drive because there is no better fuel.
* A project where you don't have to worry about bugfixes because if something breaks, the user just runs it again.
* The thousands or millions of people out there who would give you money if they knew your product existed.
* The market for Frog Fractions-themed N95 masks.
* Making a live post to r/tipofmyjoystick asking for the identity of an educational space game during the podcast in hopes that someone replies before we finish recording.
* Misremembering which band's drummer plays a snare drum and a tranceaphone.
* A drum kit with tom toms so high that you have to jump up to reach them.
* Two wildly different drum heads using the same resonation chamber.
* Soundproofing a shed by adding 2500 pounds of sheet rock to the walls.
* Converting sound pressure waves into heat.
* Measuring the frequency response of these egg crates.
* Putting squares on the walls having no effect on the sound of your saxophone escaping the room and annoying the people on the other side of the wall.
* Walking right up to your wall and speaking and it sounding like you plugged your ears.
* Placing yourself in a space by listening to reflections.
* Spinning up the Periscope server on Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass so that you can Periscope yourself eating Fred Flintstone.
* Making Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass lip-sync to WAP.
* Who, exactly, needs to apologize for this topic.
* Discovering that humans don't have a gizzard and really wanting a gizzard.
* Whether or not a Twinkie is technically meat.
* Texas Twinkies.
* Wanting to eat 35,000 year old Mammoth meat but it turns into a smelly liquid when you thaw it.
* Thousand year eggs not looking a day older than 150.
* Which genres CD quality is and isn't good enough for.
* Frequency-based MP3 audio being decoded into PCM so it can be sent out of a speaker, and then back into a frequency-based format by your cochlea so it can reach your brain.
* The Magic Mushroom PC dot com.
* Running timecube.com at the DOS prompt.
* Classical music having way too much dynamic range.
* Riding the volume knob to not go deaf while listening to the William Tell Overture.
* Visible color banding during dark scenes in a movie.
* El Camino except it's Del like Del Taco.
* What LinkedIn is for.
