328. Darth Icky

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…