Topic Lords

144. Vultures Who Know The Difference (Between Sugar And Aspartame)

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  • JohnB
    • https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo
    • Jesse

      • Topics:

      • Wario64
      • We need to bring back Dogme 95
      • Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name Again
        • https://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/
        • This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams
          • https://poets.org/poem/just-say
          • Whatever happened to outdoor pop machines?
            • https://lovepittsburghshop.com/blogs/love-pittsburgh/may-the-pop-machine-be-with-you
            • Godzilla

              • Microtopics:

              • A Link's Awakening speedrun that may surprise you.
              • Lord clouds.
              • What's the deal with Wario 64?
              • Asking Webster's Dictionary to define Wario 64.
              • Your source for video game deals.
              • How Wario64 feels about Chris Pratt voicing Mario.
              • Geralt in the bathtub.
              • Wario World for the GameCube.
              • The hidden origins of Wario64.
              • Ten rules for how to make a movie.
              • Lars von Trier being traumatized by a dolly shot and inventing Dogme 95.
              • Unintentional Dogme 95 movies.
              • Unboxing a Criterion Collection DVD live on the show and there's just a DVD in there.
              • Creative freedom, the worst constraint.
              • A recipe for the worst movies in the fucking world.
              • Dogme 95 drinking game.
              • Making a flag in the bucket.
              • The Adventure 2600 continuity.
              • Bats that can steal things that shouldn't be able to be stolen.
              • A video game quest that was very difficult and obscure until someone wrote a FAQ.
              • The ludonarrative consonance of following your self-destructive obsession at the same time your character follows their self-destructive obsession.
              • Being confused about a story beat in a video game and having to seek out a lore genius on the internet.
              • The Random House Annotated Fallen London.
              • Becoming St. Gawain's Candle.
              • How the icebox plums poem became a meme.
              • Learning about poutine on social media.
              • Satirical poetry in the 1960s.
              • Things that are Ira Glass's fault.
              • Extreme meminess.
              • Wanting a god damn plum right now.
              • Pictures of normal people that are considered heresy.
              • Deliberately making your podcast guest's audio sound bad.
              • Continuing to read poetry even though you're terrible at it.
              • Asking Siri to get you a substantial raise.
              • Checking the change return slots on the mobile phone bank for quarters, to do your part to sustain the soda vending machine economy.
              • The cost of a 510 ml bottle of pop these days.
              • The fastest pop machine in the world.
              • Joking about the day we record the show when it comes out weeks later and none of the listeners have any idea what you're talking about.
              • Applying the sugar tax to beverages sweetened with aspartame.
              • The Godzilla movie with Inspector Gadget in it.
              • Redheaded Stepzilla.
              • The three Godzilla movies that are out of print in the US. (But not on archive.org)
              • Having to license all the Kaiju separately.
              • Movies that are in the public domain because they were not explicitly labeled as copyrighted.
              • Public Domain Day.
              • The personality traits of Sherlock Holmes that are and aren't copyrighted.
              • The Beast at 20,000 Fathoms.
              • Messing up a slow-motion shot by undercranking the camera rather than overcranking, but it has to go into the movie like that because it was your only take.
              • Making a movie where you can do as many takes as you want but they all have to go in the finished film.
              • Godzilla taking some much needed time off.
              • Invasion of Astro-Monster.
              • Watching the entire Godzilla series and learning why people think Avengers: Endgame is good.
              • A latchkey kid in 1960s Japan overcoming his bullies by imagining that Godzilla is his friend.
              • A dinosaur falling in love with a lighthouse.
              • Empathizing with the dinosaur who is completely misunderstanding the situation.
              • Why the English speakers in Japanese or Korean films are such bad actors.
              • An island protector of these native people brought to society for reasons of Capitalism.

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