Lords:

Jesse
Alex
- https://insertcredit.com/show/
- https://discord.gg/dcofficial

Topics:

90s Gen X "Internet High Weirdness" culture: SubGenius, DiLingo, Steve Jackson, the Looneys, KoL
Writing a podcast about video games every week as someone who doesn’t really play many video games anymore
The mystery of BunnyROM
- https://bunnyrom.neocities.org/
Junk by Richard Wilbur
- https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Al2MMuFX.png
- https://github.com/jdonland/bookmarks
- Autopsy, by Ross Sutherland: https://pastebin.com/raw/npCuYjLj
Disney saved Star Wars by buying it from Lucasfilm. This is what Saved Star Wars looks like.
Cycling's hour record
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Mens_hour_records_progression.svg/2560px-Mens_hour_records_progression.svg.png

Microtopics:

A gold star Canadian.
Cousin show Insert Credit.
One of the world's foremost experts on DC Comics.
Filling in the gaps with bonus episodes.
The lost episode of topic lords that might one day be produced.
Spreadsheet Secrets.
Detritus and ruins of the culture that came before yours. (Gen-X.)
Whether Steve Jackson is still doing the GURPS thing.
Where did Gen-X come from, and why did it disappear?
Your personal relationship with They Might Be Giants.
The weirdos who first colonized the Internet in search of the community they weren't finding in their lives.
Nerds riding high on military funding and founding new religions with varying degrees of mockery.
British comedy crossing the ocean and losing its cultural context, so a generation of American nerds grow up with a more absurdist sense of humor than the previous generations.
Sitting at your computer running IRC in 1996, staring at the screen waiting for someone to say something.
Classical Education as a shared cultural context so rich people can understand each other's jokes.
Halfway into the 2020s, still thinking about the Roaring Twenties whenever anyone names the decade.
Everybody forgetting how to group history by decade after a twenty years of not easily being able to talk about "the 00s" and "the 10s."
Playing video games from the ages of 5 to 20 and then stopping forever.
Asking some of the most thoughtful people you know questions about video games.
The exhaustion of trying to keep video games in your life.
Artists and critics with opinions that are wildly out of step with their audience.
Video game companies that have great logos.
People who are so good at telling interesting stories about the bad video games that they're playing that they convince you to buy the game and then you're like "where's the interesting game they talked about"
Talking to the same oldbies every week.
An 18 year old kid obsessed with the Atari Jaguar wandering into the middle-aged video game club and everyone is like "sickos face yes emoji"
Trying to track down the manufacturer of Digital Princess Friend.
Mysterious ROM images that nobody knows the origin of because nobody asked.
A Tamagotchi where your little guy can be a fighter plane or Sponge Bob.
Mysteriously good Tamagotchi software floating around.
The reason M&Ms come in different colors.
An egg that your umbrella with an eye can hatch from.
Why you can't ship a container full of cheap junk to the United States any more.
Middle English style poetry.
Sheer shards of shattered tumblers.
Modern English alliterative verse.
It's cool what people do with words.
Paying so much attention to the alliteration that you miss the meaning of the poem.
All the Babu Frik Funko Pops that will still be around long after all the stars go out.
Hephaestus' Hammer, all gunked up in microplastics.
Quoting other poems in the middle of your poem.
Publishing a book of all the poems we've read on Topic Lords and then being sued for copyright infringement.
A poem that originated on Jim's fridge.
Diminishing Mandalorian Returns.
The goddamned Ewoks shit.
The Droids cartoon.
The future of Star Wars: jokes about Star Wars??
The Day the Clown Cried of Star Wars.
The angriest you've ever been watching a movie.
The third good Star Wars movie.
Stealing good ideas from cool fiction.
One guy who got lucky a couple times and a thousand yes men enabling him for the next 40 years.
Planet Moriband.
Finally finding a guy you can call Mace Windu.
Waiting for Jar-Jar.
Sometimes you just need drivel that you like.
Buying a tangerine and noticing that it's a Star Wars-branded tangerine.
Technology improving the way we interact with wind resistance.
1890 guy on his velocipede getting mad at all the new Space Bikes.
Instituting new rules stating that your bicycle has to look like a bicycle.
Ivory Tower Cycle Men.
Vampire Tactics.
The most prestigious world record in professional cycling.
Keeping track of the world record best dress at a fashion show.
What about Funny Cars? What's so funny about them?
Trying to break the Merckx record using Merckx's original bicycle and outfit.
Everyone tying the same world record forever.
Riding 270 miles a day for a year.
Walking to work 23 miles a day, both ways, because you love suffering and hate bicycles.
Detective Comics Comics.

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