Topic Lords
Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
Episodes
April 21, 2025 • 63 mins
Lords:
* Ben
* Andrew
Topics:
* Super Nintendo World's theming is on point
* The ABC of Style - A Guide to Plain English (book)
* Can you still rent game consoles?
* Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku
* https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm
* https://itch.io/jam/variety-megajam-2022/topic/2514101/2nd-poem-
* Pixel art impressionism
* https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1801616946837823790
Microtopics:
* The g...
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April 14, 2025 • 62 mins
Lords:
* John
* Tyriq
* https://oddobject.zone/
Topics:
* "Is it harder with twins than with one?" "I wouldn't know."
* Would it be neat or terrible to live on a supercontinent
* That X-Files episode when Scully scanned an alien artifact in a grocery store's bar code reader
* When I Am Among The Trees by Mary Oliver
* https://cih.ucsd.edu/sites/cih.ucsd.edu/files/cfm/When%20I%20am%20among%20the%20Trees%20by%20Mary%20Oliver.pdf
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April 7, 2025 • 67 mins
Lords:
* Erica
* Jenni
Topics:
* The chaos you missed
* Having a baby is like being assigned a set of hobbies you don't necessarily care about but are expected to engage in full-time
* Do people actually live longer in Greece and Japan or do they just have more pension fraud?
* Too Many Women Become Desperate, by Infinite Sexy Marriage
* https://bsky.app/profile/infinitesexy.bsky.social/post/3lcxskqdmoc26
* Is it possible to neve...
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March 31, 2025 • 77 mins
Lords:
* Mitch
* https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster
* Nathan
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/
Topics:
* I wish someone told me all classic Star Trek was based on writer Ursula LeGuin
* Ryu Numbers and Tom Scott Numbers
* https://www.tumblr.com/tomscottnumber
* How to get out of a chair
* Have you seen the new show? by Orcboxer
* https://www.tumblr.com/orcboxer/745859389762764801/poob-has-it-for-you
*...
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March 24, 2025 • 64 mins
Lords:
* Dan
* https://orionblasters.com/
* https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life
* Daniel
Topics:
* Could Dracula escape Groundhog Day?
* How to know you’re in a golden era
* Indiana Jones is supposed to look good??
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&v=f1fWB5HP7s8
* Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/pMNU...
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March 17, 2025 • 71 mins
Lords:
* Jeff
* https://dopeassvideogames.com/
* Danny
* https://www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs
Topics:
* What's happening on Bluesky.
* Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived
* Dad talk: what do we do about porn?
Microtopics:
* The Good Morning America series finale.
* Covering video games online.
* Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites.
* Nintendo Disasters.
* R...
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March 10, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* Stevie
* Bri
Topics:
* 3D modeling and my lack of visual imagination
* Cutthroat compounds (my linguistic specialty) – current pursuit is "verb-em" last names – I'm researching the origins of the fictional law offices of Dewey Cheatum and Howe
* Pocket Warwick and other lost software
* For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano
* https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1fvzv1f/poemforastudentwhouseda...
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March 3, 2025 • 81 mins
Lords:
* Andi
* Casey
Topics:
* Lifehacks as communion with the divine
* I decided to fire my computer
* Winston is starting to forget things
Microtopics:
* A Star Trek watchalong podcast that doesn't exist yet.
* Positing that what you said is no longer an NDA violation by the time this episode comes out.
* Plugging a fake game that you worked on.
* Astrobot.
* Horror movie clinky noises that you can't hear over the PS4 fan noises...
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February 24, 2025 • 65 mins
Lords:
* Kory
* James
Topics:
* I've been reading more lately, and ditching the eReader sure has helped
* Journey to the Planets
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWiJ1Mn-aY
* Send Me to Heaven
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SendMeto_Heaven
* My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, by William Shakespeare
* https://poets.org/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130
* Re: Smooth Criminal. Are criminals like peanut...
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February 17, 2025 • 56 mins
Lords:
* Avery
* Linker
Topics:
* Twin Peaks
* Myxozoa
* How storytelling is failing us
* Bones and Shadows, by John Philip Johnson
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56581/bones-and-shadows
* Novelizing films that originated as novels
Microtopics:
* A spike of interest corresponding with every episode you're on.
* How many hate listeners Topic Lords has.
* Chiaroscuro.
* Buying Linker's games so he doesn't die.
* Watch...
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February 10, 2025 • 74 mins
Lords:
* Andrew
* Kate
Topics:
* Is it okay to make a game that is boring
* My friend wants me to play WoW. Should I?
* How to melt chocolate
* Kate's Wallace and Gromit song
* https://bsky.app/profile/hownottodraw.bsky.social/post/3lfctso62a22q
* VFX is like cooking, game design is like baking
* Looksmaxxing
Microtopics:
* Adam Atomic's Pico-8 renaissance.
* Vampire vs. Pope Army
* Still Kate.
* Grass and flowers and touching ...
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February 3, 2025 • 68 mins
Lords:
* Remy
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/
* Abhi
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/Venba/
Topics:
* Why does food taste better outside of Canada?
* Xander asks: "Biased history is better"
* Is it fair to make a new game console when we haven't finished the ones we already have?
* Puranaanooru
* https://oldtamilpoetry.com/2016/04/04/puranaanooru-256/
* What's one IP you would like to ad...
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January 27, 2025 • 65 mins
Lords:
* Maxx
* https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=mildreth
* https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=delia
* https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=cosmicfault
* Chall
Topics:
* I love the steam deck
* The puzzle of the Wikipedia did you know section
* The neuroplasticity theory of why we dream
* https://www.instagram.com/reel/DELHsgYRamy/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination
* https:...
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January 20, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* John
* https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cutie-christmas
* Elena
Topics:
* Potluck advent calendar
* NES games in my collection that are currently ranked rather low according to Science
* http://8bitnintendo.science
* Subtopic: I've grown to love engaging with criticism and differing opinions of silly things I like.
* How animals read
* https://jamchamb.net/projects/animal-crossing-letters
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January 13, 2025 • 62 mins
Lords:
* Esper
* https://ourbroadcastday.com/
* RT-55J
* https://rt-55j.itch.io/
Topics:
* Memes where the specific instance of joke customization is frontloaded, while the punchline remains the same every time.
* Making ZZT games in 2024
* https://stale-meme.itch.io/the-king-in-yellow-borders
* It's 2024 and still nobody has ported Mario 64 to the Commodore 64
* https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cut...
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January 6, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* Ryan
* Cort
Topics:
* Is it possible to make a "meat flavored" potato chip that's not disgusting.
* Meandering Pico-8 tracker jabbering
* Do you think anyone has ever used the "Add or Remove Programs" interface to add a program?
* Tommy C
* https://genius.com/Dan-le-sac-vs-scroobius-pip-tommy-c-lyrics
* Advent calendars are just tiny bulk-rate loot crates
Microtopics:
* Ryan Ike Audio on Instagram.
* How to make music ...
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December 30, 2024 • 71 mins
Lords
* Tyriq
* Stevie
* Avery
Topics:
* What is Dr. Mario's specialty?
* Boutique sardines
* Street Sharks (and the lies about them)
* PiCoSteveMo is over! (as of this recording)
Microtopics:
* Throwing out an idea like a plate of spaghetti, or a grenade.
* Odd Object.
* Piggy-back dual plugs.
* Now! That's What I Call Avery Burke, Vol. VII.
* Jason Shiga.
* Older kids who are into roughhousing and watching shark movies.
* Audio...
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December 23, 2024 • 68 mins
Lords:
* Alexander
* Hallie
Topics:
* Making AI drunk
* Alexander's name generator, rehosted: http://twinbeard.com/names/
* How Star Wars being bought Disney is basically the same thing as the Roman Empire converting to Christianity
* Electromagnetism
* Super Bon Bon (according to Google search)
* https://www.google.com/search?q=super+bon+bon+lyrics
* Using flow theory and Kubler Ross grief to drive learning systems
* Animals y...
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December 16, 2024 • 60 mins
Lords:
* Tyriq
* Alex
Topics:
* Trying to superficially familiarize myself with every country
* The log burner fan
* https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S68d58689db54401f9a434456881cbdfcf/4-Blade-Heat-Powered-Stove-Fan-Log-Wood-Burner-Eco-Friendly-Quiet-Fireplace-Fan-WinterWarm.jpg
* Drilling this chair for ancient water
* Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, by Kenneth Koch
* https://allpoetry.com/Variations-On-A-Theme-By-...
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December 9, 2024 • 59 mins
Lords:
* James
* https://pounced-on.me/@Triplefox
* Kev
* https://kevzettler.com/
* https://www.youtube.com/@MikeMotion83
Topics:
* Copyparty
* Egg punk vs. chain punk
* Going geocaching three times
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/ugJWqQdP.jpg
* Septic Tanks
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c6460...
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