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The statute of limitations on spoilers implies a social contract where we agree to consume media as soon as it's available instead of consuming it at the right time for ourselves
This list of words that men know but women don't, and vice versahttps://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9/tables/2https://twitter.com/v21/status/1372635082205364226/photo/1Ozymandias by Percy Shelleyhttps://discoverpoetry.com/poems/percy-bysshe-shelley/ozymandias/https://twitter.com/PateraQuetzaI/status/115630089273324339241 out of 42 people start life with some time to chill by themselves in the womb but twins don't, what's that like
Oldschool AD&D is hard to start but ultimately less video/board gamey which is great
Wordle speed runs are surprisingly rivetinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4qPtOelv8Plugging every Xalavier Nelson game.Standing in a three bean soup.Everyone's favorite Fire Emblem hero, Spiky Ball Tree.Sweetgum.Producing liquid amber but not calling it liquid amber for trademark reasons.Whether it's possible to have green wood.A traumatic formative art school experience that you take out on trees for the rest of your life.Ablative armor.Spoilers for the first novel ever written.Seeing Empire Strikes Back dozens of times in the theater while in the womb.A spoiler policy that makes people hate you.Getting consent to gaslight your girlfriend about movies she hasn't watched.Picking a movie line to be the only joke you ever say.The list of movies for which there is no statute of limitations on spoilers.Using a pen knife to cut open your forearm to reveal the servomotors inside any time there's a lull in the conversation.The SpoilOrbs.Inventing the video game haptics to allow a game designer to kick you in the balls.Kittencore Dark Souls.Junji-ito's cat diary.Clutter in movies.Hiring excellent schlubby actors.Back when it was notable and interesting that Linda Hamilton got fit for Terminator 2.Getting an AI on the job.Laura Panini.Live coding skeletal animation.Rotating around a creepy lady.Asking if anyone's seen something but nobody has.When you push the button on the monitor and it goes all wibbly wobbly for a second.A list going there.A word that you only know if you read a lot of G.K. Chesterson.Little Kirbys that help you out in the event of a prolapse.How nobody in the UK knows what "goober" or "wine gums" means.Abseiling and rappelling.Putting "kerbside" on a list of words that Americans don't know.Polearms that were descended from boar hunting.Asking a thousand Americans to say yes or no to every word in the dictionary.The Katana Yakuza Thesis.Reading poetry in a funny voice.The kind of person who would end a poem with a semicolon.Reciting a poem about a guy you met yesterday who told you most of the poem.Hearing from a guy about a rotting stump of a conquest.Writing a poem where you meet a guy who tells you about a song that used to be on his iPod that you can no longer download from mp3 dot com.Yelling at a long dead poet about punctuation.Poetry about not knowing something but it's unclear whether nobody knows the thing or if it's just the poet's personal ignorance.Painting ancient Greek statues flesh-colored.Percy Shelley the nonsense man.Smash Mouth cancelling their concert at your county fair after they got famous.How to pronounce "shewed"What's wrong with looking upon me?23 And Me informing you that you have a mom.The familial incest tab on 23 And Me.Twins: There's Two Of Them.Twins in the womb listening to the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack and elbowing each other.A person who could exist and would be attractive.Geocities turn of the century vibes.The t-shirt that Jim's wife bought him.How Futurama made the name "Hubert" cool but "Pubert" is still no good.Having six kids and naming them all Pubert.Naming an ice cream shop "Fucklers" because who can stop you? (The police.)Fucklers: Sole Owner of my Name Ice-Creamery.The holding company that owns every disused mascot.The Hamm's Beer Bear.Wordle speed run categories.Mathematicians who debunk Minecraft speed runs.Trying to invent fake commentary for a sport you know nothing about.Yelling advice to recorded speed runs.Watching everybody believe Wordle conspiracy theories.Comparing notes about reality.Preferring having friends over being right.The absolute best time to get off of social media.
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