December 13, 2021

112. Getting A Lot Of Vengabus Vibes From This

52 minutes

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Lords:

John B

https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo

https://twitter.com/vs_everyone

Topics:

Showing "Akira" to someone who has never seen any anime before and telling them, "this is what all anime is like"

https://twitter.com/kbonds420/status/1378850398665125892

Bizarro, Dan Hibiki, Homsar, and other not-quite-doppelgangers/parodies who exist in the same world as their progenitors

https://twitter.com/TheDemoScout/status/1457602338013728769

The Tonkachi Editor

https://glitchcat7.com/the-complete-history-of-kaizo-mario/

"There was an Old Man of St. Bees, by W.S. Gilbert

https://edwardleartrail.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/there-was-an-old-man-of-st-bees/

Microtopics:

Capcom vs. Everyone.

Corpus maintenance.

Death from Seventh Seal vs. Death from Castlevania.

Moms teaming up based on both being tagged "mom."

The philosophy of tagging tools.

Alt-Universe Prompts Bot.

Coming up with a list of every character in pop culture.

The Ryu Number.

Gary Busey playing himself in Hitman 2.

Shattered Shield At Shattered Shield.

Saturday Night Anime on the Sci-Fi channel.

Roger Ebert's favorite early 90s anime.

Anime that is just Cyberpunk C-Span.

Mario's Macross for the SNES.

Evolutionary bottlenecks in video game design.

The Akira Bike Slide Tribute.

A completely ridiculous context in which to invoke the Akira Bike Slide.

Serious war movie guy plummeting to his death.

A generic karate guy with similar moves.

Spoilers for all of Mr. Karate's sons.

Inventing a new protagonist based on a typo.

Meeting a savvy and helpful hologram that is a projection of an AI run by the World Trade Organization, and later meeting the pop star the AI is based on and she's a total asshole.

Meeting the Evil Scooby Doo Gang in the Evil Mystery Mobile.

A story about the mirror people escaping from behind the mirror and it turns out you were one of them the whole time!!

Wholesome Comedy Doppelgangers.

Batzarro, the world's worst detective, who killed his own parents and is trying to solve the murder.

Planning out your Mario mod on graph paper and then typing it into the hex editor with the Famicom controller.

Conlon Nancarrow manually cutting strips of paper out of a piano roll.

Making tiny ROM hacks using the Game Genie.

The Awakening of Tinkerers.

A landmark case in IP law.

Trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes because it's the 90s and you have nothing better to do.

Hacking Game Genie codes to give you even more lives.

Parts of the logic which are scrutable.

Talking about garbage and finding out if it makes it into the show.

Scrupulously avoiding burning cast.

Burning Cast Xtreme Fishing.

A chair with only three legs.

Playing a glitchy video game and reality starts breaking down in front of you.

Dumping computational work directly into the framebuffer.

The episode of That 70s Show that was about circuit-bending Pong.

When things look like they should rhyme but don't.

Robot Carnival.

Rainy weather in San Francisco on this cursed episode of Topic Lords.

Overthinking the poem.

The Uncarrot Tarot.

The clashing colors of slant rhymes.

Metamagical Themas.

Jokes you can play musically.

A disaster episode of Topic Lords.

The Mote In His Eye.

Being here for history.

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