Topic Lords

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Lords:

  • CisHetKayFaber
  • Kev

    • Topics:

    • Food from dreams and nightmares
      • https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/man-dream-kings-hand-snack
      • Han Unification happened in Unicode and every time they add more emojis to the Unicode spec it literally hurts
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
        • The Super Mega Crossword
          • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/crosswords/super-mega-2022-clues.html
          • Down by the Bay by Raffi
            • https://www.vulture.com/2015/12/finding-raffi-c-v-r.html
            • Video game franchises known for secrets
            • Five-tined forks
              • [NMS] https://www.google.com/search?q=five-tined+forks&tbm=isch
              • Horrible exceptions to rule34
                • After recording, CisHetKayFaber managed to find their holy grail videos depicting the "exception." Jim's example is much better, but Kev was also correct in having faith in human ingenuity.

                  • Microtopics:

                  • First time long time.
                  • A very light hobby that is kind of shallow.
                  • Getting really into Rubik's Cube because you already love flash cards.
                  • Being reminded of something right before you were about to forget it.
                  • How best to memorize pizza coding and microphone specs.
                  • Ignoring the room and being annoyed when people talk to you.
                  • Work life balance being too tilted toward life
                  • The King's Hand.
                  • Orange Creamsicle Mashed Potatoes.
                  • M&M fingernails.
                  • A tweet and what happened with it.
                  • Biting something with the wrong texture and having to stare at a wall for ten minutes.
                  • UTF-8 character encoding.
                  • Adding support for Asian languages to Unicode without consulting any native speakers for advice.
                  • The international new global meme language of the internet.
                  • PuzzleMania.
                  • All the downsides of doing a crossword on paper.
                  • Words that just happen a lot when you're constructing a crossword puzzle.
                  • The Elden Ring of crossword puzzles.
                  • Doing the crossword puzzle on paper so that when you're done you can say "looks right to me" and there's no app to tell you you're wrong.
                  • Reading crossword puzzle clues to your wife as she falls asleep.
                  • A time traveler from the future who invented time travel to bring us excellent children's songs.
                  • A national treasure (Canada)
                  • A fly wearing a tie, a bear combing its hair, a llama eating pajamas, &c.
                  • A song intended to be performed improvisationally.
                  • Extending the finger family song by adding more fingers.
                  • Messing the cadence up with your fake mother voice.
                  • Where the watermelons roam.
                  • A mom saying nonsense that really makes you think.
                  • Avoiding your mom because she keeps saying weird shit about a goose kissing a moose.
                  • Unlocking a branch of a storyline by fulfilling a set of conditions.
                  • Subverting overused fantasy tropes.
                  • Finding a cool castle by going down a secret cliffside stairway into a hidden cave.
                  • Systems that point you everywhere on the map.
                  • Secrets of all sorts of scopes.
                  • The Doom thing where they point out that you didn't find all the secrets.
                  • Frog Fractions containing Rule 34 of itself.
                  • Reacting to five-tined fork.
                  • The fork optimization function that decided that four is the right number of tines.
                  • Unknowing a conversation.
                  • A Victorian flex of a fork.
                  • When die-casting was invented.
                  • A shovel with teeth.
                  • Seven-tined sporks.
                  • The Pornography Lord.
                  • Human pairings and human activities that you would expect there to be pornography of.
                  • Linda Hunt smugly declaring "ass to ass"
                  • AI pornographers buying sex dice on eBay.
                  • Weird combinations of words you can plug into a search engine.
                  • People don't want everything; people only want some things.
                  • The Frog Fractions pornography gap.

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