August 01, 2022

145. A Visceral Tobacco Consumption Experience

1 hour

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Lords:

Hallie

https://twitter.com/Hallie_9000/

John

https://twitter.com/robohunkx

Topics:

Finding value in shared imagined spaces and worlds outside of religious contexts

Final Fantasy Challenge: Zero Story; and other vaporware games & mods of which no record exists on the internet

Youtube streams movies now, and they have comments

Canterbury Tales General Prologue, by Geoffrey Chaucer

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue

Microtopics:

The Ten Timers Club.

Podcasting for three years straight.

Fantastical ideas for famous bands covering Garages songs.

An increasingly hard to describe person.

Reclaiming the asshole.

The sort of thing that sometimes happens in Maine.

Finding the right microphone settings.

A podcast about what people think about that ends up being a video game podcast because that's what they're thinking about.

The barnacle on the indie game scene life.

Making a video game good on purpose.

Talking to your friends who talk you out of grad school because you need to be talked out of grad school again

Your own personal relationship with the divine.

Shared imagined worlds and how we talk about them.

Your friend asks how you're doing and you say "Han and Leia at the end of Empire" and your friend just nods.

Fighting a great beast together.

Promoting group cohesion by developing a shared frame of reference.

How in the 70s everyone watched the same three TV channels but nowadays everyone has access to all of every form of media all the time, and whether that's a handicap for developing a shared cultural reference frame.

Waxy potatoes vs. starchy potatoes.

Where to find non-starchy potatoes.

Harry Potter and the Sacred Texts.

The act of interpretation and the creation of shared symbols.

A Final Fantasy mod that you were very excited about in the early 00s but that now has no results on google.

Abraham Lincoln Land vanishing from the internet.

All the bad video games starring Tux.

Your boss saying "let me show you how the Peter Principle works" and promoting you to Project Manager.

Erasing the projects you are ashamed of from your personal web site.

Adding a clause to your will about deleting all your novelty web sites.

A web site where you write a bunch of fake reviews of fake bands and eventually start writing the songs yourself.

Mutually executable languages.

A betrayal of both movies and Youtube.

Commenting with a timestamp of your favorite part of Napoleon Dynamite.

Whether Pedro won the election on his own merits.

Creating an audition tape for the musical extravaganza your employer is running, getting the part, and later finding out that you were the only one who applied.

Whether John will ever release the video of him dancing like Napoleon Dynamite.

An entire stanza of completely unintelligible Middle English.

Wanting to go on pilgrimages to seek the Holy Blissful Martyr because spring is coming.

Pronouncing all the silent letters.

A well-SparkesNotes'd text.

Having a poem memorized but not in order.

How wishing someone a happy birthday before their birthday is illegal in Germany.

The least surfer dude.

Various tobacco saliva receptacles, some of which ding and some of which don't.

Chewing tobacco but not having the self-respect to get a spittoon.

The nicotine delivery method where you stick a tobacco blob under your lip like a walrus tusk and make TikTok videos.

Dip a.k.a. Snus.

A cool friend from Tennessee.

Big League Chew, again.

Asking the clerk for tar patches because nicotine patches don't give you melanoma.

Ending the show early because you believe so vehemently that vaping is good for you.

A pithy German word for having guested on Topic Lords ten times.

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