Topic Lords

48. Long Furby

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Lords:

  • Abby
    • https://twitter.com/mizabitha
    • http://abbydenton.podbean.com/
    • John
      • https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo

        • Topics:

        • A-life and v-pets of the late 90s: why did they die, where do we see them today (pokemon go, etc)
          • Nano Pets commercial with catchy jingle: https://youtu.be/R_KIwHHMVmQ?t=298
          • The only Wappy dog review on Metacritic: https://www.pocketgamer.com/articles/047860/wappy-dog/
          • Stack Up video by Jeremy Parish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8RHzSW2yo
          • Stack Up in WarioWare, Inc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WBXh5cLJt4
          • A Long Furby: https://twitter.com/LongFurby/status/1002690751988453379
          • Another Long Furby: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/long-furby-wife-guy
          • Furby source code: http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf
          • DadDoes review of Wappy Dog: http://www.daddoes.com/3912/wappy-dog-review/
          • San Diego, CA
            • Everything John forgot to mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California
            • Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve®: https://torreypine.org/
            • Geisel Library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Library
            • San Diego Zoo Safari Park: https://www.sdzsafaripark.org/
            • International Cottages at Balboa Park: http://www.sdhpr.org/
            • Salty licorice/salmiak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice
            • I have many friends, and am very popular, and awesome, and rumors about my smell are greatly exaggerated- John.
            • San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_Station
            • San Diego depicted in the 1998 Midway arcade game California Speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lSX1aUHQw
            • Hotel del Coronado: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_del_Coronado
            • “Nobody’s perfect.”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHhr-aaLnI
            • Harmony Gold’s most popular move in years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk3p6hIdVeM
            • Send your Robotech questions and comments to: https://twitter.com/marwilliamson
            • California is on fire; get in the van, loser, we’re all moving to Pittsburgh.
            • Bloodlust Software and the 90s indie game scene
              • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5KIss6csA
              • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming
              • Not A Butt Face asks: "Marble Hornets Sex Tape ie. A Found Footage Style Webseries but the footage being sifted through is on Sex Tapes and just out of frame or partially obscured is a lurking unknown creature. Could this ever work?"

                • Microtopics:

                • Being a cyborg and being out of the closet.
                • Doing standup comedy in an empty room.
                • Figuring out the best way to get a podcast onto your phone.
                • Kevin Spacey ruining your podcast.
                • A 20th-anniversary digital Tamagotchi.
                • F2P Tamagotchi all getting horrible pain disorders that demand you pay daily microtransactions or they just scream all day.
                • A large company that operates suspiciously.
                • Reading a lot of Newsweek in grade school.
                • Getting high on your own supply of Newsweek.
                • An eight year old wearing a blazer with elbow pads picking up a Newsweek at the book fair to read about Tamagotchi.
                • Shaking the Chao garden to make the Chao fight.
                • Whether or not Nintendogs go to heaven.
                • Neglecting your real dog because you have an exciting new virtual dog.
                • Sickening podcast guests with your Pokemon Go strategies.
                • The sensor on Wappy Dog's tail that only exists so it can get upset that you pulled its tail.
                • That one banger on the Wappy Dog OST.
                • Your Robotic Operating Buddy's ability to pick up discs of a certain size and move them in an arc around itself.
                • Playing Stack Up over Skype and having to call your friend and have him reset the puzzle whenever ROB fucks up and drops the pieces on the floor.
                • The baffling absence of YouTube videos of Gizmo Furby interacting with Yoda Furby.
                • Steven Spielberg patrolling the internet for videos of Gizmo Furby talking to Yoda Furby and shutting them the heck down because that's not canon. (George Lucas is fine with it.)
                • A village of Furbies living on after the extinction of the human race.
                • Yes! Dad does!
                • Wappy Dog being immortal, but if he did die somehow he'd go straight to hell.
                • Pikachu turning to the player and asking "who was the last person you kissed?"
                • Trying to make a game that creates the same reaction in every player.
                • Confusing Yoot Saito and Noob Saibot.
                • Playing SimCity 2000 on a Game Boy Advance.
                • Becoming a chef so that you can figure out why burritos are better in San Diego than anywhere else in the world.
                • A library raised up in little feet with a swirly tail called The Spang-Dangler Building.
                • A library that looks like a big concrete tree.
                • A library that looks like a space invader.
                • Discovering Finnish Salty Licorice and finally not having to share your candy with your friends.
                • Lurking in the floorboards so that you can visit your introvert friend without them noticing.
                • Those big concrete nipples on Camp Pendleton.
                • Driving from Camp Pendleton to Mexico in less than a minute and then turning around and driving across an aircraft carrier.
                • Doctor Seuss's favorite San Diego hangouts.
                • Whether Jack Lemmon likes it hot in the ending of Some Like It Hot.
                • Taking part in the panda breeding program in the 70s.
                • Not knowing what the San Diego Convention Center looks like outside of Comic Con and just assuming it's always swarming with nerds.
                • None of the speakers showing up for the big Robotech panel at Wondercon so the marketing director steps up with PowerPoint presentation describing Robotech merch.
                • Everyone losing their shit over Robotech skate decks.
                • Singing and dancing when the sky turns black.
                • Trying to hide violence from children so the children rebel by celebrating violence as much as possible.
                • A full-featured Mortal Kombat clone developed by two high school students.
                • Whether One Must Fall stands up.
                • Choosing to release the first free-and-good-enough NES emulator and calling it NESticle.
                • How the mouse pointer for NESticle was actually a severed hand, and only the Windows icon was a scrotum.
                • Keeping your emulation legit by deleting your ROMs every 24 hours.
                • The only place the long-rumored SNESticle was ever released.
                • How early SNES emulators didn't handle transparency so you had to manually toggle the cloud layer in order to see anything.
                • Shock value Flash cartoons before and after 9/11.
                • A gif of a plane crashing into Oprah.
                • Going into work each day with the intent of trying to get fired.
                • Who today is carrying on the Bloodlust Software ethos.
                • Making the same ultra-violent video game as everyone else but adding narration explaining that "violence is bad and this game is important."
                • A hyper-detailed art style evocative of biology and gross innards without actually depicting any gore.
                • A tasteful logo that represents a butt pooping.
                • A barely-visible monster lurking in the background of every video uploaded to Pornhub.
                • Porkin' Across America.
                • Finding people who were already going to make a series of sex tapes and offering to lurk in the background in your Slenderman costume.
                • Training a neural network to insert Slenderman into the background of every movie.
                • Writing erotic House of Leaves fan fiction and waiting for the Internet to discover and reenact it.
                • An art critic giving your life a B+.

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