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This is the pre-show planning and banter for episode 308, recorded and edited basically by accident?? Enjoy??

Microtopics:

  • The old saw that if the teacher is 15 minutes late, you are excused.
  • All the hosts forgetting about the podcast so that episode just doesn't get recorded.
  • The seam in the fish video.
  • Procedurally vs. manually textured terrain.
  • How to texture a limestone chunk.
  • Whether Donkey Kong Bananza is deliberately evoking the sickly sheen of Donkey Kong Country's raytraced art.
  • Procedurally decorating terrain in Techtonica.
  • A lens flare shaped like bananas.
  • Mario Kart opinions.
  • Doing a stunt for the next 30 seconds.
  • The Baja 1000 but with Mario Kart.
  • How Mario Kart tries to make highways interesting.
  • A souped-up Volkswagen Beetle driving 1000 miles through the desert
  • Mario Kart except it's Desert Bus.
  • A Hunter S. Thompson stand-in sent to report on Mario Kart races and ranting about the Mushroom Kingdom.
  • Keeping your powder dry in case your anecdote gets promoted to Topic.
  • Topics that have been in the bucket for a long time and probably will remain there for a long time.
  • Doing a brass fall with your mouth.
  • Finally learning to play "Imagine" on piano.
  • Zoom's musician mode.
  • Going on a date with twins to the same restaurant but neither one knows about the other, so you have to keep going into the bathroom and parting your hair the other way.
  • The episode of Three's Company where there's a misunderstanding.
  • Don Knotts making a weird face.
  • Your prospective roommates explaining that you have to pretend to be gay so the landlord doesn't think you're all having sex with each other.
  • More behind than ahead.
  • Keeping cats in the Storage Atrium.
  • Buying an organ from a salvage yard.
  • Bartering with the organ maker's apprentice.
  • The Estey Organ Company.
  • Playing a bad prog rock solo on the analog synthesizer next to your couch.
  • An organ with all of its organs showing.
  • An accordion with zero subtlety.
  • The difference between an electric piano and a digital piano.
  • The Yamaha Clavinova with Advanced Wave Modeling.
  • Don't play these notes unless you want to hear them forever.
  • Topic Negotiation.
  • Driving every single topic into the ground.

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This is the pre-show planning and banter for episode 308, recorded and edited basically by accident?? Enjoy??

Microtopics:

  • The old saw that if the teacher is 15 minutes late, you are excused.
  • All the hosts forgetting about the podcast so that episode just doesn't get recorded.
  • The seam in the fish video.
  • Procedurally vs. manually textured terrain.
  • How to texture a limestone chunk.
  • Whether Donkey Kong Bananza is deliberately evoking the sickly sheen of Donkey Kong Country's raytraced art.
  • Procedurally decorating terrain in Techtonica.
  • A lens flare shaped like bananas.
  • Mario Kart opinions.
  • Doing a stunt for the next 30 seconds.
  • The Baja 1000 but with Mario Kart.
  • How Mario Kart tries to make highways interesting.
  • A souped-up Volkswagen Beetle driving 1000 miles through the desert
  • Mario Kart except it's Desert Bus.
  • A Hunter S. Thompson stand-in sent to report on Mario Kart races and ranting about the Mushroom Kingdom.
  • Keeping your powder dry in case your anecdote gets promoted to Topic.
  • Topics that have been in the bucket for a long time and probably will remain there for a long time.
  • Doing a brass fall with your mouth.
  • Finally learning to play "Imagine" on piano.
  • Zoom's musician mode.
  • Going on a date with twins to the same restaurant but neither one knows about the other, so you have to keep going into the bathroom and parting your hair the other way.
  • The episode of Three's Company where there's a misunderstanding.
  • Don Knotts making a weird face.
  • Your prospective roommates explaining that you have to pretend to be gay so the landlord doesn't think you're all having sex with each other.
  • More behind than ahead.
  • Keeping cats in the Storage Atrium.
  • Buying an organ from a salvage yard.
  • Bartering with the organ maker's apprentice.
  • The Estey Organ Company.
  • Playing a bad prog rock solo on the analog synthesizer next to your couch.
  • An organ with all of its organs showing.
  • An accordion with zero subtlety.
  • The difference between an electric piano and a digital piano.
  • The Yamaha Clavinova with Advanced Wave Modeling.
  • Don't play these notes unless you want to hear them forever.
  • Topic Negotiation.
  • Driving every single topic into the ground.

Support Topic Lords

  continue reading

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