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318. Fast Thick Pants

318. Fast Thick Pants

Update: 2025-11-24
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  • Mitch

  • Kory



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Microtopics:




  • Being a fledgling your whole life.

  • Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki.

  • The episode of Topic Lords where we specifically didn't discuss what's happening in Washington DC.

  • A show with nobody on it discussing nothing.

  • Putting money in the jukebox to have three minutes of peace and quiet.

  • A noise cancellation podcast that guesses what noise you'll probably be surrounded by when you listen.

  • The least notable of Nintendo's major failures.

  • What if we added a floppy disk reader to compete with the Playstation?

  • In retrospect, it sounds like a bad idea, but at the time, it also sounded like a bad idea.

  • Paying $100 for a plastic replica of a Virtual Boy to play Virtual Boy games on your Switch.

  • The rich tapestry of homebrew games for the Virtual Boy.

  • Why isn't the Nintendo 64DD in Super Smash Bros. Brawl?

  • Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 64DD.

  • People writing very politely worded letters to Nintendo and getting Mother 3 released.

  • Playing with the 3D sculpture mini game on the title screen of Donkey Kong Bananza and thinking "I bet I could do something cool with this if I was an artist"

  • Mario Artist Polygon Studio.

  • Wario Ware as a spinoff of the Mario Paint series.

  • Family BASIC for the Famicom Disk System.

  • The Tonkachi Editor.

  • Mario 64 2 for the Game Boy Advance.

  • Vegging out by binging wristwatch repair videos.

  • Jewels on the movement that you ambiently know of.

  • Using a ruby or sapphire as a bearing for a mechanical device.

  • Synthetic corundum.

  • Why the little work is going back and forth.

  • Solving a very particular problem at a very micro scale.

  • Transistor radios advertising how many transistors are in there.

  • The World's First 128-Bit Web Site!

  • What 1990s video game enthusiasts knew about numbers of bits.

  • 1.21 Gigaflops!

  • The sad state of Nintendo 64 emulation.

  • Nintendo Classics – Nintendo Switch Online.

  • Migrating all the executables you use to the inside of virtual machines running Windows XP.

  • Winboat.

  • Linux distributions with as much or as little configuration as you want

  • How they made Linux good.

  • The year of Linux on the Desktop.

  • Attaching an IR transceiver to the GPIO pins.

  • Setting the oven via PHP script.

  • Getting an ancient Thinkpad to install Linux on.

  • The red nub in the middle of the keyboard.

  • Whether there's any possible way this $50 Thinkpad doesn't run Pico-8.

  • A stately pleasure dome decreed.

  • Women wailing for their demon lovers.

  • Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a native speaker of early modern English, or he's Just Like That?

  • A poem that starts with a real Rubik's Cube of a sentence.

  • How Adam Saltzman does it.

  • Procrastinating game development by installing Linux on everything.

  • The Zoologist with naming dibs.

  • Finally getting to name a beetle and choosing to name it a word borrowed from Serbo-Croatian just to piss people off.

  • The ICZN's stance on Serbo-Croatian.

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318. Fast Thick Pants

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