256. Donkey Kong Is A Tankie

Lords: * Mark * https://mythcarver.bandcamp.com/ * https://writhenhilt.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-sword-cult * Dungeon Synth: * https://fief.bandcamp.com/ * https://auramerlin.bandcamp.com/ * https://shadowknell.bandcamp.com/ * https://hillsfar.bandcamp.com/ * https://erang.bandcamp.com/ * Shirley * https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/some-lines-a-day.html Topics: * Naming a human * Boomers say that you get more conservative as you get older, but I just keep getting more liberal. * I'm scared to start recording Mario Odyssey * The Orc * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/6TcTlXuz.png Microtopics: * Writhen Hilt. * Writing a few sentences to achieve your goal. * Being extremely entertained by your drunken journal entries from a year ago. * Remembering the 140 years your son has been around. * Learningl from the dead. * How the archaeologists of the future are going to cope with social media, let alone the reams of LLM generated nonsense. * Detecting forged paintings via the radioactive isotopes that are only found in pigments manufactured after the detonation of the atomic bomb. * Low-background steel. * Scavenging steel from shipwrecks because you just can't make steel that good any more. * Pizza Pranks. * Packaging a USB stick as though it's a cassette tape. * Packaging your Dungeon Synth album on cassette in a Sega Genesis cartridge box. * Propsr Topics. * Calling your niece Billy Zane. * Naming your child Scooter. (Monotonously.) * Being unable to decide whether you're going to name your child Scooter or Squooter. * Some Wizard of Earrhsea ahit. * Holding power over your friends (magically, not legally) * Your name for a person carrying with it your relationship with that person. * Why they shipped a game called "Epic Mickey.* * Compaeing this year's top 50 baby names to the top 50 a century ago. * Mikse meeting Mikes. * The Bob Emergency. * One day there will be no more Bobs, and a door will close. * Continuing to refer to your nephew as a "little kid" even though he's 45 now. * Thinking you're getting more liberal but eventually realizing you're getting more apocalyptic. * Garbage-ass subreddits full of dis- and misinformation. * Battle Jackets vs. Jackets for Battle. * Pregnancy subreddits. * Checking out of gamer culture entirely. * Black metal communities dealing with white supremacists. * Can't we just have a place who love swords and wizards? * How to not run a Nazi bar. * Whether people get more liberal or more conservative as they age. * Stone cold hippies. * Explaining trans rights to your parents who are doing their best to understand. * Asking the AI-generated slush pile how to update your political beliefs. * Keeping younger people around who care about you enough to help you fix your shitty opinions. * Hungry for Jim topics. * Japanese cultural touchstones referenced in video games that just seem like nonsense to Americans. * Slavic folklore in the Witcher games. * Importing video games from more and more obscure countries because Japan is played out now. * Recognizing Greek heavy metal just from the riffs. * Vacuuming a couch and twenty one-dollar bills fly out of it. * Shagrat, you shag rats! * Rheumy weeping orbs that glare with hate. * Truly a poem of unknown provenance. * Shagrat doesn't deserve this! * We had some great topics today, y'all. * Mythcarver. * A discord for people who are due in the same month as you. * The Libras who won't let the dads in. * Circle time with other pregnant couples.