Podcast appearances and mentions of zack parsons

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Jenni * @horsewizrd * Chris Topics: * The coming schism between Wordle purists & Wordle metagamers * Amazon kindle fantasy best-sellers is ruled by niches that nobody outside of kindle or Royal Road users have heard of * https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football * In high school I knew a guy who, one time, managed to use up all the ink in a ball-point pen. The ink tube in there was just totally empty, it was astonishing. Nowadays whenever we run out of olive oil I get the same thrill. I did it! I used all the oil! * The Tiger, by Nael, Age 6 * https://twitter.com/826DC/status/966009025090473985 * Why can't Wizards or any of the clones figure out how to make D&D fun to play at high levels? Why is this an unsolved design? * Zardoz & Barbarella have similar energy except Zardoz comes across as sincere & Barbarella comes across as falsely ironic to hide the sincerity Microtopics: * Jim's sip of tea. * Making your husband Sleepytime tea so he goes to sleep while recording the podcast. * Making a video of yourself arguing with your cooking teacher to post to social media. * What is a Wordle? * The Wordle sheriff joke. * Muting the green block emoji so you stop seeing all the Wordle bragging. * How to improve Wordle's psychic damage output. * Wordle except instead of five letters it's five abstract concepts. * Paranormal reverse-harem. * Pricing your paranormal reverse-harem book at $250 and discounting it 99% so users are like "paranormal reverse-harem for $2.50? I can't afford not to!" * All the topics you can't sell books about on Amazon and all the coded tags you use to sell them anyway. * Whether Amazon will ban your book as containing bestiality if the genitalia is on the human side of the minotaur. * A horse with human intelligence with a penis growing out of its back, and whether anyone has sex with the penis. * The liminal space between bestiality and reverse-bestiality. * Arguing in traffic court that your car is just a collection of atoms and the distinction between those atoms and those of the world it's traveling with respect to exists entirely in our minds. * Doing a crime just to go to Horse Court and see that horse judge you. * Admitting that you are That Guy. * Sending your pens to the pen dimension. * Graduating from high school and discovering that the weird lump on the knuckle of your middle finger isn't just you having a weird skeleton. * Writing good handwriting. * Refilling the salt pig from the salt cylinder. * When the sauce is burning and the only solution is to salt it right now. * Going to Horse Court to decide which of you bought the pepper grinder. * Popular with the robots. * Whether the poem works on a third level. * Writing the best poem. * Viral Poetry Sensation "The Tiger." * An "invisibility cloak" which is just an empty hanger. * A magic supply store where half the items are just jokes on the purchaser. * The adult poetry workshop where you drink a glass of wine and transcribe "The Tiger" by Nael, age 6, then take it home and show it to your parents. * Trying to look at the thumb tips your friends are going on about. * Braving Omicron to buy a thumb tip. * Hypnotizing a napkin. * A magic trick where you make a rubber band disappear, but only for yourself. * Aging two years while dead. * Whether Nethack's difficulty curve is better than D&D's. * A weird combination of spells that is broken in a non-numerical way. * What the wizard did when the spaghetti-os were on too high a shelf to reach. * Letting the players fight Thor even though you know they'll figure out a way to kill Thor. * Thor swinging his hammer and killing you without having to roll any dice because Thor doesn't have stats. * The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance. * Godlike wizards feuding over who took the leftovers out of the office fridge because they ran out of real problems to solve. * The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance, except with football. * That Insidious Beast by Zack Parsons. * Instructions for a fruit. * There is no Antimemetics Division, by qntm. * Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. * Sean Connery in a red diaperkini. * The big head that floats around and vomits guns and explains how guns are better than penes. * When they invented the concept of copies of movies. * Your deal with the devil where if you fail to make Lord of the Rings you have to make Zardoz, but you succeed you get to make King Kong. * Scantily clad rocket people. * Barbarella lying in a thumb harp being yelled at by a dude wearing a Dalek and reading from a piano roll. * Learning how to draw by looking at promotional shots from Barbarella. * Mario fanfiction through the lens of Cyberpunk. * Whether they have sarcasm in Japan. * Tom Nook slapping his own nipples for ten hours.

Kurt Cobain finds horror in Waxahachie, Texas. Explicit. Read more by Steve and Zack at: TheBadGuysWin.com Support “WTF, D&D” on Patreon. “WTF, D&D: Cthulhu '90s Solo Project – Serving the Servants (Part 2)” Steve Sumner and Zack Parsons thebadguyswin.com/2016/01/wtf-dd-cthulhu-90s-solo-project-serving-the-servants-part-2/ Text … Continue reading →

Kurt Cobain goes on a vision quest in southern California. Explicit. Read more by Steve and Zack at: TheBadGuysWin.com Support “WTF, D&D” on Patreon. “WTF, D&D: Cthulhu '90s Solo Project – Serving the Servants (Part 1)” Steve Sumner and Zack … Continue reading →

Steve and Zack play Call of Cthulhu as Kurt Cobain, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Eazy-E versus Saddam Hussein in the early '90s. Explicit. Read more by Steve and Zack at: TheBadGuysWin.com Support “WTF, D&D” on Patreon. “WTF, D&D: Hard … Continue reading →

Signs is a scary little movie.  It has some plot holes to be sure but it holds up as a horror/sci-fi Hitchcockian thriller. Ignore the jerk director and enjoy it for what it is.   Warning: At 37:54 Eric tries to drop some knowledge about the movie. After hearing this, Brother J decides that the dropped knowledge doesn’t help the plot holes and actually hurts the watching experience. So there’s that.   You’ll also hear the sounds of hell and the sounds of dying cosmonauts (all tricks, no one was harmed in the making of these recordings – as far as we know) Housekeeping starts at 1:01:45, you’ll hear some train stories.   References:   Blumhouse Films Fred Sanford Dummy Reel SOUNDS OF HELL - Coast to Coast AM Snopes - Well to Hell The Lost Cosmonauts Numbers Station recording Zack Parsons interview with M Night Shyamalan 12 Monkeys (TV Series) Helix (TV Series)   File length 1:16:28 File Size 70.4 MB   Subscribe to us on iTunes Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at www.notinacreepyway.com

It's Remembrance Day, which means it's time for us to honor those who will someday be lost in the Blood Space War with the most solemn event possible: a fun parade! Also we hear from one young Night Vale citizen whose life has already been changed forever by this future war. This episode was co-written with Zack Parsons. The voice of Basimah was Aliee Chan. Weather: "Sharon" by Good San Juan (goodsanjuan.bandcamp.com) Music: Disparition, disparition.info. Logo: Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com. Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

In this episode the guys get biblical with Darren Aronofsky's Noah. Then Albert tells the story of the Worst Canoe Trip Ever, talks about what James Horner's life and passing meant to him, and Tony shares information about the wonders of dying from Ebola. Download it now! Links: James Horner dies The Rocketeer Soundtrack The Martian by Andy Weir Hot Zone by Richard Preston The Terror by Dan Simmons Liminal States by Zack Parsons

The Telephone Service finally fixes the only telephone booth in town, and a submarine arrives from faraway Nulogorsk. Plus, a new campaign from the Tourism Board, we meet our station's newest program director, and strange texts from a mountaintop, if you can believe that. This episode was co-written with Zack Parsons. The voice of Lauren Mallard was Lauren Sharpe. Weather: "Offering" by Black City Lights. blackcitylights.bandcamp.com Music: Disparition, disparition.info. Logo: Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

The Wallaby family successfully lobbies the School Board to finally allow a computer in school to help their daughter Megan. Plus, a concert from Dark Owl Records and Amnesty Day at the public library. This episode was co-written with Zack Parsons. Weather: “Better Go!” by Mal Blum http://www.malblum.com Music: Disparition, disparition.info. Logo: Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

A traveler arrives in Night Vale. What does he want? Why has Jerry's Tacos returned? Plus, the mayor calls an emergency press conference, another round of corrections, and a look at the community calendar. The lead story in this episode was contributed by Zack Parsons. Find out more about Zack's novel, LIMINIAL STATES, at liminalstates.com. Weather: "Jews for Jesus Blues" by Clem Snide clemsnide.com Music: Disparition, disparition.info Logo: Rob Wilson, silastom.com Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

A conversation about ridiculous military hardware and highly un-epic science fiction with Zack Parsons, editor at the popular humor site Something Awful and author of My Tank is Fight!: Deranged Inventions of World War II.

Interview with My Tank is Fight! Author Zack Parsons