Topic Lords

184. Times New Orange


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  • Alexicographic
    • https://twitter.com/alexicographic
    • https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames
    • Andrew
      • https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/
      • Topics:

        • The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together?
        • Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion
        • Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one.
          • https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pro-fake
          • The Orange by Wendy Cope
            • https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange
            • Learning Italian from a cartoon dog
            • Being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking
              • https://www.themcelroy.family/2020/7/31/21348515/maxfundrive-2020-how-to-fake-an-interest-in-woodworking
              • RIP List of Video Games Considered Artistic
                • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_video_games_considered_artistic
                • https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/
                • https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21152082-declaration-by-chef-floriano-pellegrino
                • Microtopics:

                  • kittenm4ster's PICO-8 games.
                  • Vibing with the Alfonzo's Bowling Challenge ethos.
                  • A game that is implemented in under 8000 tokens.
                  • The ideal game pitch.
                  • Chocolate and cheese and something.
                  • Choccoli.
                  • Chocolate and gravy.
                  • A lukewarm Americano.
                  • A bunch of foodies who really know their foodstuffs.
                  • A fish being strangled by Red Vines.
                  • A GPU that has food inside of it.
                  • The Turing test for whether computers can taste foods.
                  • Asking Chat GPT what three foods you can combine to create a bomb in your kitchen.
                  • Whether Gallium has calories.
                  • Three people on a podcast who all think "trailers" should come after the movie
                  • Finding out about a movie by seeing a trailer in a movie theater even though trailers are constantly spilling out of every screen you own.
                  • Getting the wiggles out.
                  • How to make the lives of people who enjoy looking at ads a little bit worse.
                  • Yelling "fire" before the movie starts so fewer people pay attention to the pre-movie ads.
                  • Wanting to become the reason all movies have "no leopards in the theater" PSAs now.
                  • A toddler watching Youtube, yelling "no!" and throwing the phone on the ground when an ad plays.
                  • Pushing the lever to receive your stochastic reward.
                  • Youtube deciding you've seen enough ads lately and taking pity on you.
                  • Trying to explain to a four year old how to play a light gun game but the game is over before you finish explaining.
                  • The Space Alien Busting Song.
                  • Drawing new mountains on the moon to test your camera's moon mode.
                  • Here's the moon again.
                  • A filter to replace pictures of your wife with the moon.
                  • A Snapchat filter that makes you feel like you used to be attractive.
                  • A filter that takes your bad photos of the moon and makes them even worse.
                  • The worst bunny in the moon.
                  • A good poem that rhymes.
                  • Turtle metaconsistency.
                  • Enormous and hilarious oranges.
                  • Good art here, you guys.
                  • Reading poetry in the original Helvetica.
                  • BorgiaPro on various font downloading sites.
                  • A cartoon that is entertaining even if you are not learning Italian.
                  • Finding Armando's old hat in the attic.
                  • Asking the clouds to move so that your hat can protect you from the sun.
                  • Working within a constraint that produces delightful nonsense.
                  • Photocopying yourself to create a black and white clone.
                  • What drugs they'll give to kids in what countries.
                  • Growing up but continuing to take the same drugs.
                  • A little girl who is also a dog.
                  • Subtitles that don't match what's being said aloud.
                  • Watching Italian TV using a VPN.
                  • The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical with the roller skates.
                  • Roller bladers dancing in weird futuristic costumes.
                  • Having positive fun experiences with language.
                  • Learning a new language while skydiving.
                  • Hiring an experienced skydiver who can give you foreign language lessons while you're both falling from a plane.
                  • Getting bored while skydiving and looking at your phone but there's no WiFi up there.
                  • How McElroy fans compliment someone's woodworking.
                  • How to Fake an Interest in Woodworking.
                  • Arguing about whether games are art.
                  • All the games that anyone's ever called art.
                  • Finding information about a deleted page on Wikipedia.
                  • Philosophical debate on the creative qualia of electronic structured play. (Roger Ebert has a subheading.)
                  • Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes philosophical zombies.
                  • Whether the List of Zombie Video Games on Wikipedia includes voodoo zombies.
                  • What Casinos are trying to do to attract kids who like video games.
                  • Whether Lechuck is a voodoo zombie or a Romero zombie.
                  • Hohokum.
                  • Finding a bunch of snakes that each have different names.
                  • What happens when you collect all the things. (Art.)
                  • List of Paintings Considered Artistic.
                  • Gimmick food that is more about the experience of eating a weird thing than the food itself.
                  • A restaurant that doesn't have plates and just pours the food into your cupped hands.
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