283. Dracula's Big Happy Polycule

Lords: * Dan * https://orionblasters.com/ * https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life * Daniel Topics: * Could Dracula escape Groundhog Day? * How to know you’re in a golden era * Indiana Jones is supposed to look good?? * https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&v=f1fWB5HP7s8 * Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/pMNUZSdU.jpg Microtopics: * Deciding to get a teleprompter on episode 283. * The Molly James Band. * Mid-century lounge music. * Describing yourself as a cross between Pink Floyd and Doja Cat. * Shooting a music video the day after the election. * The sun and the battery life racing each other to ruin your forest concert first. * What does Dracula get up to? Does he have hobbies? * A lawyer hired to buy Dracula a new house * Scrubbing all the proper nouns out of your fan fiction. * Dracula as smoldering sex bomb vs. Dracula as a weird old man. * Figuring out how to not cancel Dracula. * A D&D campaign where you need to recruit a therapist into the party as part of your goal is to convince Dracula to become a better person. * Dracula being verbally abused by all his wives. * Batman playing Flappy Bird while he waits behind the curtain to ambush the villain. * Extremely high powered Nerf rifles. * Joining a community and ascertaining what they need. * Living through a golden age and not realizing until later. * Feeling grateful for the good things you once had. * Being reluctant to push your awesome community because you're afraid it's going to grow too large. * Figuring out how to 3D print blasters. * Mentoring under Captain Slug. * Realizing that your hobby is suddenly your primary source of income. * How to be part of a burgeoning music scene. * The cool kid at GDC. * Ways Jim could've made Glittermitten Grove more accessible without losing the interesting game design. * Getting email from a parent saying that their kid wants to become a mechanical engineer because of you Nerf blaster design. * A video game that is the third best Indiana Jones film. * Who is this technology helping, and how to we stop listening to their opinions? * Playstation Four and a Half. * A game with a lot of whirling debris. * Finding new ways to make more expensive every day. * How you'd put a loot box in a Pico-8 game. * The mental health community arguing about when it's okay to sleep with your therapist. * A/B tasting topics to see which ones get more downloads. * Staying up late enough to get hungry. * What kind of salad you'd put Doritos in. * What kind of salad you'd put a Clif bar in. * Clif bars: fall off of us! * Disappointing dolmas. * Your everyday carry web browser. * The difference between Chrome and Chromium. * Why doesn't everyone just compile their own Firefox? * Bawling at the typewriter about not having the thing you're writing a poem about. * Deciding your book of love poetry to your therapist. * Saving your fan mail to be read at your funeral. * Archaeologists tooting Interesting exchanges written in cuneiform. * Future archaeologists training AI to peruse the entire corpus of tweets to find the choicest memes. * The time to look for an out. * Serenading the audience with the address they can mail cash to. * Where all the best Lords hang out.