Topic Lords

172. Don't Apply Any Torque To This Bag

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Lords:

  • Alex
  • Shannon

    • Topics:

    • Incomprehensible 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 Easiest
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE
      • Stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot)
        • https://utopians.tumblr.com/post/659350035592609792/stepped-on-a-plum-overripe-plum-barefoot-it
        • Australia trends (pre vs post pay, pay at pump vs parking meter vs toll camera)
        • Bats! Micro & Mega

          • Microtopics:

          • The 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.

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