Topic Lords

By: Jim Stormdancer
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  • Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
    © 2025 Jim Stormdancer
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Art Comedy & Humour
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  • 276. The Yukon Territories Foodie Scene

    276. The Yukon Territories Foodie Scene
    Feb 3 2025
    Lords: * Remy * https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/ * Abhi * https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/Venba/ Topics: * Why does food taste better outside of Canada? * Xander asks: "Biased history is better" * Is it fair to make a new game console when we haven't finished the ones we already have? * Puranaanooru * https://oldtamilpoetry.com/2016/04/04/puranaanooru-256/ * What's one IP you would like to adapt or work with? Microtopics: * An image that allows you to attribute the text above it to the character in the image. * Knower. (The one who knows things.) * Losing your faith in God until you see the clip of Mario Kart showing 24 starting positions. * Visual novels with contextualized minigames. * Enjoying food more abroad. * Orbiting the United States. * Which state makes the best dosas. * The best Asian food ten minutes south of Vancouver. * Waves of immigration establishing generations of restaurants. * When there are finally enough immigrants in a city that one of them might open a restaurant to serve food to other immigrants. * Vancouver's restaurant licensing situation. * Vancouver's medallion system for food trucks. * No Good Pizza In My Back Yard! * NAID 96. * Jim's personal experience with Canadian food. * Whether it's what it sounds like. * Capturing the history of written language in your game. * The constant flux of our understanding of history. * Xander-biased history. * A very happy self-described sad boy. * Squeezing every last great game out of the Atari 2600 before creating a new game console. * Hoarding Pico-8 games on your desktop. * The golden era of video game development effort-to-return ratio. * New ways to make games look more expensive. * Outrageously high margins that you are not expected to fill. * Games that would still be fun if the graphics were worse. * Giving your PS5 to your dad so you can buy a PS5 Pro. * Brain hacking yourself. * PS5 Pro Max. * Realizing you don't need to upgrade your game console or in fact any consumer electronics ever again. * The Fairchild Channel F Pro, featuring S-Video. * The Dave the Diver revolution. * Failing enough that you decide to change. * Fortnite Money. * You can't read ancient Tamil?! * A small white lizard stuck to the wagon axle hub's spoke. * The purpose of art. (For people to examine it in 2000 years and find things out about you.) * Finding out what dead people thought. * Finding the time to be cruel. * Shocking Adventure Time moments. * Trusting what people write about themselves. * Finally understanding Xander Bias. * A love letter to Indian cinema. * Things Metroid Prime does to make you feel like you're inside a space suit. * Waiting for the Metroid IP to expire so you can make your Metroid fan game in your extreme old age. * Continuity nerds. * Reboot. * Vancouver-coded fictional cities. * Telus Storyhive. * An IP address you're dying to do. * Shouldn't Zelda and Sokoban be the same genre? * Atari 50 vs. UFO 50. * A murder mystery that you solve by playing video games. * Why the CBC is like that. * Brown Money.
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    1 hr and 8 mins

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