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Lords:
- Ryan Ike is a composer at @RyanIkeComposer. Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is now available on Switch!
- Gary Butterfield is a podcaster at @GaryBuh (terfieldPodcaster). He will be torturing himself for your entertainment from Dec 20-23. http://duckfeed.tv/duckstream/
Topics:
- 4:45 How long do you spend on media you don't like before giving up?
- 19:05 What if food screamed when you ate it??
- 26:46 The SP-1200 and other fetishized creative tools.
- 35:12 If you had anything close to Kojima's level of auteur power in your field, what would you do with it?
- 45:05 How would you be useful in a post-apocalypse?
- 53:30 Why can't we run in a non-athletic setting?
Microtopics:
- Introducing yourself like a Pokemon.
- Graduating to being level two e-friends.
- The Spider-Man channel, the Ice Man channel, and the Firestar channel.
- Consuming things between now and when you die.
- Making game as if people have nothing to do but play your game.
- Being okay with never consuming the art you purchase.
- Min-maxing your enjoyment you have before you become a pile of inanimate carbon.
- Checking in on The Ice Man Christmas Spectacular and it's already snowing.
- Failing to explain the Battle of the Bulge.
- The intended cadence of using two question marks.
- Topic Joker's Trick.
- Associating the sound of screaming with everything tasty.
- String cheese yelling "string cheese" as you eat it to raise string cheese awareness.
- Everyone remembering where they were when food started screaming.
- Deaf people all remembering when they got Subway and learned to hear.
- David Fincher's Seven 2: Ate.
- The wailing of the ghosts of Hades echoing through Hamilton Middle School.
- The screaming and eating minutes.
- The horrible price of being a Topic Lord.
- All the layers of your sandwich singing like a barbershop quartet.
- Humanity learning to photosynthesize.
- The glucose in an IV drip whispering the time you'll die as it goes into your vein.
- Mailing your representative to ask them to vote no on the Screaming Food Act.
- The totemic power of a sampler with 256k of ram.
- PewDiePie endorsing a particular brand of streaming microphone.
- Making a cooking knife made out of dinosaur bones.
- Recording a song with Kurt Cobain's guitar.
- Recording a song with a guitar made from Kurt Cobain's body.
- A rock legend being bone-morphed into a Stratocaster.
- Being totally down with your bones used for something cool.
- Being a Topic Knave.
- Being called a genius until it breaks you.
- Being confused about whether a boat is a fortunate or unfortunate boat.
- Putting together a team to make the game to match your vanity soundtrack.
- Making a soundtrack you could paint on the side of a van.
- Auteur power inevitably turning you into a monster, and choosing to lean into that.
- Living with the comfort hose pointed at your face.
- Having no knees and a lot of money.
- Eating yourself because you are among the 1% most self-actualized.
- Dancing in a cage for a warlord because nobody needs your chiptune cover of Carry On My Wayward Son after the screaming vegetables cause World War 3.
- Getting real good at the spoons because pianos are too heavy.
- Accidentally starting fires with your thick prescription glasses.
- Murdering every Applebee's employee so you're the best chef in your future village.
- Being good with children even though you hate them.
- Terrifying passers-by because you just wanted to get your shopping done faster.
- Running to catch your yogurt like it's a bus.
- Onlookers wondering why you're always breaking up with Janine every time they see you.
- Thinking you're going to get a free sample but instead getting a sales pitch.
- Talking into a celery stalk to get out of an awkward situation.
