Topic Lords

260. This Sentient Life Could've Been An Email


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Lords:

  • Jenni
  • Chris
  • Topics:

    • Are corporate mascots in US culture age-locked to a generation? I have done no research about this
    • The continuation of our species depends on balls being able to taste soy sauce
    • BB-8 changed my tire
    • The Woodchuck, by Sam Pink
      • https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/wg09x5/poem_the_woodchuck_by_sam_pink/
      • Microtopics:

        • Too much dick content for one show.
        • What kind of fetus dong shot engagement you're looking for.
        • When they smear the goo on your belly.
        • Throwing a gender reveal party and the uncle nobody wants around is like "I don't believe you" and you get to whip out the photo of the kid's dick.
        • Shipping a person in Q4.
        • Automating the Omelas kid.
        • The Disney suffering animatronic child asking passers by to walk away from Omelas.
        • Gen Z no longer needing to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas because they live in modern society.
        • Gardening in one of the hardest places in the world to garden.
        • What's the grass for?
        • An office park spending millions of gallons of water to maintain a lawn nobody ever walks on or looks at.
        • What if the Omelas kid is a dick? What if they're treating him really well and he just has impossibly high standards and hates everything.
        • An electrical problem that's very pronounced when Jenni turns on the blender.
        • The Golden Age of Corporate Mascots.
        • Undead Corporate Mascots.
        • Trying to find a picture of the Toucan Sam redesign and ending up on Deviant Art.
        • Howard and Nester.
        • Whether American kids will tolerate anime.
        • President of the Nintendo No Fun Club.
        • Spending $200 on the Nintendo hint line trying to solve the last screen in Solstice.
        • An adventure game that's also a platformer where if your toe touches a candle flame it's an instant game over.
        • Inventing terrible camera angles in a 2D game.
        • It's 3D, but on your Speccy!
        • Trusting a YouTube documentary more the longer the video is.
        • Are Domo Kun and Hello Kitty free agents?
        • Cap'n Crunch guest starring in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
        • A Roma who was once helpful.
        • Eating a sandwich and getting the sandwich tattooed on your bicep because.
        • A baby name that Boomer moms love.
        • Remington Steel On At 7PM After Matlock Jones.
        • Getting into a thing with people on Metafilter.
        • POV: when your girlfriend gets you Swedish meatballs at Ikea.
        • Whether Frosthaven is important to the testicles tasting umami story.
        • Vanilloid receptors.
        • Why you can shock your tongue with a 9 volt battery but you can't shock your forearm even if it's wet.
        • The chef with the tiny spoon in your testicles making sure to get the exact right MSG level in your semen.
        • Peppers hacking mammal biology.
        • Seeds who enjoy being digested by birds.
        • The cardioprotective benefit of spicy food.
        • The Ones Who Bring it Back to Omelas.
        • Broccoli evolving into crabs.
        • This is canon: BB-8 drives a 2016 Corolla.
        • Pretending that you are talking to a Youtube audience while you make s sandwich.
        • Just a li'l guy who rolls around on a ball.
        • R2D2: a mean mean man.
        • The floor falling out of the Pinto while you're driving it.
        • A rubber pad with friction stripes on it.
        • Turning it until it feels like you broke it, but you didn't and you have to keep going.
        • After the cake comes out of the oven the recipe stops having steps.
        • How to get help from Linux users.
        • The entire wheel snapping off the axle as you're parking at Camerica Bank.
        • Different car, same maintenance strategy.
        • Driving a car until it can no longer be ontologically be classified as a car.
        • Churchill's Irregulars.
        • Waiting for Peter Jackson to mansplain to you the sound a car makes when the wheel snaps off.
        • Delving too deeply into the Cars cinematic universe.
        • A Mastodon setting that hides all of Jim's BB-8 toots.
        • How to find people to follow on Nectarine.
        • The dying MUD you joined in 1997.
        • Radioactive names such as Hitler and Sheldon.
        • Joining a social media service and it tells you there are no posts.
        • Sam Pink strikes again.
        • The emotional arc of putting a tiny hat on a woodchuck.
        • A woodchuck you would definitely do a murder to.
        • Ampersand at the beginning of the line.
        • The Furniture That Rolled Away From Omelas.
        • Why the computer is mad in I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream.
        • Looking for sentient life in the universe when you have dolphins at home.
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