Lords:

• Esper


• Cort

Topics:

• Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately


• Stateless procedural music


• Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files


• Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin
  
  
  
  
  • https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/
  
  

Microtopics:

• Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive.


• Puzzled Pint.


• Oh man, this one's a real quart!


• Puzzled Pint getting you through to the next MIT Mystery Hunt.


• Blippo Plus.


• If you're going to watch TV, why not watch TV from another dimension?


• Capturing broadcast artifacts and CRT fuzz on a 1-bit display.


• An amateur DSPist. (Such as myself.)


• Whether Lucas Pope took time away from his busy life as a pirate actuary to make a video about temporally-stable dithering.


• Dr. Richard Garfield, who loves lasagna and hates Mondays.


• Final Fantasy espers vs. Magic the Gathering espers.


• All the different licenses Wizards of the Coast is using to fuck up Magic the Gathering.


• How to play Magic the Gathering without getting your ass kicked by a SpongeBob deck.


• Splitbeard, my nemesis.


• The Kickstarter backer tier that nobody pledged to get.


• Jim's beard braids, still floating around in a Ziploc bag somewhere.


• Electroswing Jackson.


• Trying to continue to evolve as an artist after you named yourself Chrono Trigger Remix DJ.


• A sci-fi weird constructed zone.


• The guy on the team who comes up with names like "banalia"


• Fake scam Oxford English Dictionaries.


• A Finn named Viznut.


• The C program on Viznut's business card.


• Recognizing the twelfth root of two in an obfuscated C program.


• Bytebeat.


• Generating audio in ShaderToy.


• A closed form function of T that produces the Terminator theme.


• Learning how to put GLSL into the GPU.


• Needing the preceding 200 samples to produce the current sample so you just start at T-200 and start crunching numbers.


• The oldest film on Netflix. (From 1987.)


• Trying to finish X-Files before it leaves your streaming service.


• Esper's power over the Futurama production schedule.


• Why would you attack and dethrone God when you could summon God to help you fight a slime?


• Trying to summon your god in a tough JRPG battle and she's like "not right now I'm editing a podcast."


• Trying to describe a vocal sample without saying what the voice is saying.


• The bitrate itself shaping new phonemes.


• Wahoo vs. wahey vs. waheh.


• The great darkness where sleep goes and farther death goes.


• The gods choking on all the dreams you forget.


• The dump trucks of tasteless gruel keep coming.


• How to prevent the data miners determining exactly how far the mystery goes.


• You Can't Data Mine Fallen London.


• The character who doesn't exist in the game, only the game data files, because he erased himself.


• Media where you can predict how much longer the story goes and media where you can't.


• The forty second episode of Topic Lords.


• The episode of Game Changer that had the fake "end of video" screen before the episode continues.


• Hitting tab to switch to the next field.


• Hitting tab to highlight the secret clickable button.


• Bittorrenting all eight hours of Bandersnatch and watching every scene in random order.


• How many names does a Seaman know?


• Escaping the internet.


• Binge watching the PiCoSteveMo development thread.

Support Topic Lords