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AlexShannonIncomprehensible PSAs (Remember to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide)Games which use player ignorance as a major mechanic (Outer Wilds, Tunic)Man out of Space Easiesthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSEStepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot)https://utopians.tumblr.com/post/659350035592609792/stepped-on-a-plum-overripe-plum-barefoot-itAustralia trends (pre vs post pay, pay at pump vs parking meter vs toll camera)Bats! Micro & MegaThe Broken Earth Trilogy.The Lightly-Massaged Earth Trilogy.Turkish Delight vs. a Turkish Delight candy bar.A candy that gives you the feeling of nostalgia but no corresponding memories.Remembering to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide in the kitchen.The three onomatopoeias for applying sunscreen.Lamenting to your partner that you forgot to slip.Posters that just say "don't forget to slip slop slap seek and slide" with no further context.A cool grandpa following safety instructions.Actionable snake advice.Various ways to distinguish goats and sheep.A music video that is also a drunk driving PSA.How to use search atoms.If you're on the train, that's a shame.Rhyming platitudes about how social media is bad for your mental health and society as a whole.A music video trying to get across a safe sex message to the kids.Do They Even Know it's Christmas?Something jarring to hear on the radio.A desert wasteland full of crying children.Tunic.Reading the manual of the video game you just bought on the drive home.Evoking the idea of playing old video games.Jumping puzzles that cost you twenty minutes of your life if you fall.A Jules Verne conception of the solar system where other planets are a five minute rocket trip away.Learning a code and keeping it in your brain.The Hourglass Twins.Not being sure what to do so you go look at the moon.The kind of game where most of the fun is figuring out how to play the game.AAA games trying to make artistic statements about AAA games.Hatoful Boyfriend as a better Doki Doki Literature Club.A horror story about pigeons.An ablative heat shield on your butt.Manually aiming the rocket without being to look outside of your polyester bag.The legality of dropping a moose out of a spaceship.A safety mechanism that is not appealing to aerospace professionals.Landing an airplane on Mars and then remote-piloting Mars rovers from inside the airplane.The world's largest saltwater crocodile.Pulling the quick release flap on the crocodile's mouth.Don't Go To Space.It's the 60s, and it's a bag.A snorkel for when you land in the ocean and can't get out of your foam entombment capsule.Bringing along a shotgun in case your escape pod lands in Siberia.Clown First Lover Second.A single paragraph with 19 parenthetical phrases and no other punctuation.Deciding to hem your sweatpants.Plum Nightmare.Finding two extra poems inside an existing poem.What to expect when you read a poem.Whether it's illegal to drive barefoot.Bare feet and there's textures down here.The utter lack of technology at the pump.No-flush toilets.What kinds of towels they use to clean up messes in Australia.Public restrooms that automatically eject you if you're not done in ten minutes.Honeycomb candy with the same texture as instant coffee.Look to your left; look to your right; one of you is a bat.Visiting baby bats in the bat hospital.Bats as pollinators.Giving stuffed animals to baby bats.The pollinating and bug-eating ecosystem.A bat the size of a bat.Spectacled flying foxes.Bats reverse-nicheing back into mice.Bats becoming nocturnal to avoid their creditors.