120. The Mouse is For Hippies and Slackers

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Daniel https://twitter.com/dmullinsgames Jonah https://works.rip/ Topics: Chop socky – when are we gonna get that energy back into the world media producing environment? Also listening to movies instead of watching them. The Resident Evil series Flettner airplanes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmvHfIAszo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6geOms33Dk Double feature: The Eel by Ogden Nash https://poetrysplash.tripod.com/ogdennash2.htm The Lama, by Ogden Nash https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/poetry/poem-a-day/lama Indonesia: The 4th most populous nation on Earth. You never hear about it Watching stuff "going into it without hearing anything about it" -- how do people actually do that? Also me walking into a movie theater. Microtopics: A website for dead people who will pay $12/year for as long as they're dead. Hummus. Whether Inscryption is more popular than hummus. Starting a topic with an anecdote. Walking around a city with the audio of a movie playing on your headphones. Watching a foreign film subbed because you're too cool to realize there's a subbed version in the settings. What you notice when you strip the visuals out of a visual medium. Porting Doom to ears. Whether blind people have their own Steam. Going through several iterations of reinventing how you shoot zombies. A woman scaled up 2x on every axis. Brazil's first new console after the Megadrive. Porting Resident Evil 4 to the Megadrive. Jim's entire history with the Resident Evil stories. A goofy Zelda boss but it's in a horror game for some reason. Turning doing donuts in a two car garage into a boss fight. Being bad at puzzles that aren't supposed to be puzzles, like how to use this can opener. A Flettner airplane made out of KFC buckets. The Magnus effect. The downside of an airplane that drops like a rock if the engines lose power. The world's first portable steamroller. An airplane that is heavy enough to create its own runway. Putting a dog in the Youtube thumbnail. A poem that was short even before you cut the last 25%. A joke poem that becomes even more of a joke when you cut out the punchline. Dad giving you permission to memorize the shortest possible poem. Web design nostalgia. Hypertext protocols that predated HTTP. How HTTP ate every other hypertext protocol's lunch. This thing that was invented in the 70s. Tetris the Grand Master, and how it would be better with mouse input. Hypothetical keyboard-only interfaces for audio editing software. A keyboard macro scripting language thing for transcribing sheet music. How to pronounce "Latex" Pronouncing the typesetting puns. Being surprised when a country has almost as many people as the United States. Gamelan. Being Indonesian and knowing more about Indonesia than most people. Whether modern day Greeks get annoyed when you try to engage them about Greece 2000 years ago. Thinking you know where New Zealand is but not. Growing up in the US and spending all your geography points on remembering which state is which and not having any left for the rest of the world. Talking about yourself in any person. Why nobody reviews Frog Fractions games. Soda speak. Divesting yourself of places you might get spoiled. Middling Marvel Movie Buddies. How to make choices without having enough information to decide. Totally wasting your plug. The premier place to send answers to the Inscryption ARG. Counting the number of syllables in the sentence that claims to not be an ARG clue.