ElenaEsper says: "I will join both guests in also recommending Dropout, especially Game Changer. They are on to something really special with the shows they're making, very little makes me laugh as hard as the stuff on there."Tyriqhttps://50games.fun/Being witty and social is my favorite power fantasy to realizePopular music: sometimes popular because it's good?Where do we go after CohostBallad of the Veligerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Garstang?useskin=vector#The_Ballad_of_the_VeligerJapanese cold medicine. Promising the guy at the drug store you haven't taken this drug on the last week. Lulu Attack X.What the College Humor folks went on to do after graduating. 50 games for a fictional console.UFO 500.Super Mario Bros but it scrolls wrong. Google docs autocorrecting your Steam keys.Some weird shit that you're going to maybe discover. Why he's named Gordy.Being sharp and on it all the time in a conversational manner.The safety of a fantasy that is unrealistic to fulfill in real life.Picking a joke and connecting it to the prompt.Making a speech check and the DM thinks of a clever thing for you to say. Coming across as socially competent in a conversation and feeling great for the rest of the day.Looking at an extremely charismatic, competent character in a film and thinking "that's me! That's me in there!"People talking to you about Chappell Roan.Japanese translated cover of Good Luck Babe.Hearing a lot about an artist and thinking "this artist has a lot of attention and they don't need mine"The combination of a man, a woman, and bunch of instruments. Where people who like pop music hear new music.Pop music: not as popular as it used to be.The pros and cons of people enjoying a wider variety of pop culture. Fingerprints in the Clay. Having to make synthesizer music in prison because they won't let you have guitars. Not paying attention to the political context of the unintelligible screaming in your favorite album.Ancestors of the guitar that sound a little bit different from the guitar.People being unable to tell what amateurish synthesizer work sounds like. Instruments producing incidental noises that come alongside the sounds you intend to make, just by their nature as a physical object.Pink Pony Club, a song about dancing at a club.Authenticity vs. perceived authenticity.Trying to stay on top of fashion trends.Making noises because you feel compelled to.Finding one way or another to pay off the Capitalism demons.Having the genetic disposition to practice a lot.Seeking out things that are easy for you personally to become good at.Drawing because you are holding a pencil all the time and need to fidget, and stopping drawing forever when you are no longer in that life situation.Singing to yourself on the bus.An instrument that's just the screechy tube part of the bagpipes.A monotonic screech machine.Joining your church choir and knowing you're better than everybody else there.Doing a really good job and being relieved that nobody noticed.What does 12 year old Jim know? Certainly not where he's been for the past six months.Making a space for humans on the internet.Tumblr wins by doing absolutely nothing.The kind of person who is like "follow me onto this social media site I've just heard of right now"Artist Alley.The moral difference between "liking" and "reposting."The "reposting something without liking it" vs. "liking it without reposting it" truth table.A British citizen from the 19th century with a name that looks German.How the gastropod got its twist.Horny Foot Without.A poem that is just literally what it says on the tin.A little baby sea guy.A sonnet about the anatomy of the eyeball.What marine biology nerds got up to in 1928.Larval Forms and Other Zoological Verses.Red Seas Under Red Skies.Lamarckian evolution.Snails are great. (Except for the cone snail.)I'm on a sea slug diet.The class of pet that you never touch or interact with in any way.How to interact with fish.Whether koi care that you're petting them.Interacting with fish by having them clean your teeth.Enticing your pet octopus to do the dishes by covering them with fish paste.
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