September 27, 2021

101. Flatty The Flat Globe

1 hour 4 minutes

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Lords:

Nick

https://twitter.com/NickPancakes

Greg

https://twitter.com/simgreed

https://store.steampowered.com/app/945490/Little_Square_Things/

Topics:

Anthropomorphized inanimate objects

Quaker Names

https://zeugmalitotes.tumblr.com/post/656465316855119872/fishpilled-these-guys-were-onto-something-i-think

Why do car doors get Shitty Shut

Go West - Call Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV0ugZumyJU

What's on the grill if you're "grillin up some 'good boys'"

Overly complicated navel-gazing plots in video games, especially those that absolutely do not need plots

Microtopics:

Completing the set of Duckfeed guests.

Health care simulation.

The moth having himself a journey.

Hydrodynamics of the bloodstream.

Little Square Things.

Filling your life with media about anthropomorphized inanimate objects.

Whether Data needs hair.

Giving your shiny yellow skin for legal reasons.

A talking garage that is hungry for cars.

Does that anthropomorphic talking chair even eat ass?

A talking map of the United States.

Whether someone already mentioned the talking photo booth.

Clocky the talking map.

The "marry it" joke.

Cortana receiving your one-star review of trying to rename this folder.

Preserved Fish.

Morris Morris, Jr.

Experience Burt Merrick.

Preserved Fish writing his own Wikipedia page.

Signing in to leave a flower.

Leaving a Blingee on your ancestor's grave.

A door that is shut but it's not flush with the doorway and the "door ajar" alarm goes off.

A car upgrade where if you partially close the door it closes it the rest of the way for you.

Why don't they make two planes out of the black box material, one on top of the other.

A car door that is in many respects shut.

Go back to sleep and wake up properly, dipshit.

Trying to make Shitty Shut happen with Gen Z by getting on TikTok and using a filter that makes you look young and doing meme dances.

Teaching your three year old to call it "shitty shut" and when grownups tell him he shouldn't use the word "shitty," whispering from the bushes "yes you should!"

Euphemism withdrawal.

Steadfastly refusing to swear but still calling it a shitpost because that's what you call it.

The clip art dude sailing across the screen.

Doing one dance and your shadow doing a slightly different dance.

Reshooting a scene but keeping the same shadows as before.

Pop quiz: sideburn on only one side of the face, or slept on a greasy bench?

An entertaining slow watch.

A fire hydrant made of a pie tin and aluminum foil.

Singing into a fan.

Everybody realizing that there is someone on the ceiling.

The Gentle Exorcist.

A sheriff labeled "boy."

A drug store full of a band.

The additional challenge of a mechanical bull mounted upside down on the ceiling.

Figuring out how to do a special effects shot for a story moment and then deciding to put the effect in every other shot regardless of whether it makes sense.

Watching a 40 year old music video and then tracking down the director and asking if you win a prize for being the first to notice a specific joke.

The falling yellow liquid spilling forth within the billiards bar.

Go low, Ken and sons.

Whether people say that they have some "bad" "boys" on the "grill," why don't you "pop" on "over."

The thing where you carve a hot dog into an octopus shape.

A hot dog that is too polite to burst if you put it in the microwave.

Why every dog is a "good boy" but none of them are great.

The Go West Music Video Cinematic Universe.

Bad boys who are also bad dancers.

The Ultimate Good Boy.

Running out the time rewind potion.

A puzzle game with story except for the enormous lore dump at the end.

Bob's Game.

Being really into the story of the development of Bob's Game except for all the pain and human suffering.

ARGeez.

Renaming your game to "OK" so nobody can search for it.

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