Topic Lords

49. A Very Wet Hell

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Lords:

  • April is @aprilsaur on Twitter.
  • John remains a mystery.

    • Topics:

    • Climate-aware architecture
      • https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1013941701293928449
      • https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
      • On Dungeons & Dragons: focusing on the characters vs focusing on the story
      • Why do people say "ahh" after taking a drink
        • https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/special-shows/the-mystery-hour/human-body/why-do-people-say-ahh-after-finishing-a-drink/
        • Miko asks: "Perpetual Stew, a food that instead of being cooked once and then eaten, continues to be cooked for up to five hundred years (while occasionally also being eaten, but not in its entirety)"
        • That strange feeling when you move to a new state and the laws around plastic bags are different, and other weird differences between places
          • The Afghan-Mexican fusion burrito shop in Albany that we didn't name on the podcast: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-hot-shop/Location?oid=1113434
          • You want the "tropical" or the "cajun," depending on how spicy you like it.

            • Microtopics:

            • Seasons that aren't summer and states that aren't California.
            • John of the Commonwealth of Virginia Johns.
            • Calling yourself a Commonwealther but not knowing all the deep Commonwealth cuts.
            • Not having a city name because you're between cities and so calling yourself a "census designated place."
            • An experience that you had that is in the past.
            • Plugging a suspiciously expensive hat that players love.
            • Not being able to have hobbies because you just bought a house.
            • California, where it's sunny for hundreds of years and then suddenly a thunderstorm covers the entire state in tens of thousands of lightning strikes.
            • Not having to get your home repairs done before people visit because nobody can ever visit.
            • The good news is: podcasting.
            • Not having had a basement in decades.
            • Discovering that Virgina is a tiny piece of a giant land mass called North America.
            • Buying the Frog Fractions hat DLC for all your friends.
            • An extremely Californian form of hell.
            • Architects forgetting that climate exists after air conditioning is invented.
            • Fantasizing about winning the lottery when you never play the lottery.
            • The downside of climate control via architecture.
            • The feeling of tatami mats under your feet.
            • Realizing that having bugs in your floor sometimes is just the price you pay for having floor mats that bugs like to live in.
            • The tortilla mouse story.
            • Discovering that a mouse is living in your bag of tortillas and signing a contract with the mouse that it will just eat the tortillas and not destroy the rest of your house or breed.
            • Cats discovering extremely stale candy in the cabinet under the sink.
            • A squirrel spinning a corn tortilla like a steering wheel and eating it from the outside in.
            • A squirrel spinning a tortilla like a sign spinner.
            • Joining a D&D campaign late.
            • Knowing what your characters are about and creating situations where the characters have something to play against.
            • Making sure your players have stakes in the story being told.
            • A dope encounter on a luxury liner where you have to follow a bard with an anti-magic field.
            • A D&D campaign where all the players just hang out and eat Doritos.
            • Crafting a narrative by building outwards from a single dramatic moment.
            • Not knowing anything about the company you own half of.
            • The mystery of the Ultraviolet City.
            • Collaboratively inventing a story with your friends.
            • Having a beverage with you and being able to test a beverage hypothesis.
            • The sensation of a little bit of cool air passing over the various nerve endings in the inner mouth area.
            • Whether pooping is a social construct.
            • A two year old fixating on the color of Pepsi.
            • Tripping out on your own sensory experience.
            • Some real good honest mischief.
            • Taking a deeper breath so you can drink more.
            • Getting out the whiteboard to teach your infant son how to drink and belch.
            • A gentle sweet boy forcibly closing your laptop so you'll pay attention to him.
            • Perpetual stool, which also hangs around for 500 years.
            • Living for as long as you can keep the stew going.
            • Being caretaker for a stew that is 300 years older than you.
            • Making sure you eat all the meat out of your stew before it goes bad and spoils the rest of the stew.
            • Filling your house with the smell of fresh baked bread.
            • A bread recipe where you just put all the ingredients in a pan and then bake it.
            • A gradient of cheese.
            • Broccoli with horrible stinky cheese melted on top.
            • Jumping on any excuse to make an elaborate ridiculous meal.
            • Visiting your friends in Virginia but never talking to them because of COVID.
            • Going ballistic whenever you see a deer.
            • Making everyone sign an NDA before they can listen to this episode of your podcast.
            • Some sort of palace of food.
            • Two grocery bags being filled before you even realize what's happening.
            • Stipulating that the burrito rant has occurred.
            • Differing vehicle registration laws in Virginia and California.
            • Running a bunch of stop signs because they don't write the word "stop" on the ground in Portland, they only have the red sign.
            • How to proceed with the ARG when you believe you've solved the mystery of John's identity.

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