Topic Lords

263. Drafted Into The Applebee's Wars


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Lords:

  • Xalavier
  • Brianne
  • Topics:

    • Why do movies about contract killers skip over the good part of negotiating in excruciating detail the contract and clauses present?
    • Are fictional characters greater role models than real people?
    • The new Zelda game talks too much and I'm okay with that
    • Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish
      • https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/mahmoud-darwish-think-of-others.html
      • Should every person be forcibly drafted into a customer service job, like the military.
      • The horrible things I would do in the Criterion Closet, if given an opportunity.
        • Jim's evidence for why The Pest is memorable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAB8dNMoXZ0
        • Microtopics:

          • I Am Your Beast.
          • Making 50 games in 7 years.
          • A co-op Kaiju horror cooking game
          • The Name of the Rose meets Godzilla meets Lethal Company.
          • Power couples in games.
          • Moviegoers who want to know about contract law.
          • Search and replacing "murder" with "unalive" so that a contact killer can safely sue the client for breach of contact.
          • Pedantic legal contact killer law every week.
          • Lowering the bar so that we can all raise it later.
          • Doctor Odyssey.
          • Disheveled Detective.
          • The Autistic Coded Detective.
          • A ahow about autistic people written by neurotypical people.
          • Making a weekly podcast and scoffing at the TV shows that can only manage 24 episodes a year.
          • Asking google for the "podcast with the fewest episodes" and google just assuming you meant the podcast with the shortest running time.
          • Sending children to the sharps dump. (Because the kid asked for it and the parent signed a waiver.)
          • Desperately knocking on Google's door and beginning them to tell you where the furthest Denny's is.
          • The Waluigi-owned Denny's in the Andromeda Galaxy.
          • Role Models happening accidentally.
          • Donald Duck becoming a sex pest after edgier writers take over.
          • A form of self to aspire to.
          • 300 Rorschach Guys in a discord server.
          • An epic story that FromSoft will continue to plunder of its biggest plot elements for the next 30 years.
          • A character that you relate to and then you realize that's bad.
          • What do you do after you get what you want?
          • Leading a horde of ninja at the dictates of an Eldritch god.
          • Getting what you've been looking for and realizing that you're no longer the person who wanted that thing.
          • Role-playing a princess who has to talk to a litany of insufferable people.
          • Swinging your sword through grass to reveal rupees.
          • Zelda's Got an Onus.
          • Who you're thinking about as you pay your water bills.
          • Those who are nursed by clouds.
          • Shakespeare beeves.
          • GettingTikTok Mad.
          • The Death of Arthur.
          • Impacting media literacy for generations because you want to make a sassy pun.
          • Slipping into Belgian because you don't have enough mana to speak French.
          • The red phone in every publicly traded franchise restaurant that connects the customer directly to a random shareholder.
          • Working a Black Friday at a retail job and being awarded a purple heart.
          • Working a Best Buy Geek Squad tour of service to earn your citizenship.
          • The Criterion Closet.
          • The level of stardom you need to attain in order to remove movies from the Criterion Collection.
          • Supermarket Sweep.
          • Asking someone who took one year of high school French what you call someone who owns a closet.
          • I would not be normal and they would not be safe.
          • Landed noblemen who are super into Amontillado.
          • Where to lock the insufferable friend who went to film school.
          • How many Miami Vice episodes ended up in the Criterion Collection.
          • The movie that you remember the least.
          • Forgiving the insufferable film school attendees in your life because you can't think of a good punishment for them.
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