256. Donkey Kong Is A Tankie
Update: 2024-09-16
Description
Lords:
- Mark
- Shirley
Topics:
- Naming a human
- Boomers say that you get more conservative as you get older, but I just keep getting more liberal.
- I'm scared to start recording Mario Odyssey
- The Orc
Microtopics:
- Writhen Hilt.
- Writing a few sentences to achieve your goal.
- Being extremely entertained by your drunken journal entries from a year ago.
- Remembering the 140 years your son has been around.
- Learningl from the dead.
- How the archaeologists of the future are going to cope with social media, let alone the reams of LLM generated nonsense.
- Detecting forged paintings via the radioactive isotopes that are only found in pigments manufactured after the detonation of the atomic bomb.
- Low-background steel.
- Scavenging steel from shipwrecks because you just can't make steel that good any more.
- Pizza Pranks.
- Packaging a USB stick as though it's a cassette tape.
- Packaging your Dungeon Synth album on cassette in a Sega Genesis cartridge box.
- Propsr Topics.
- Calling your niece Billy Zane.
- Naming your child Scooter. (Monotonously.)
- Being unable to decide whether you're going to name your child Scooter or Squooter.
- Some Wizard of Earrhsea ahit.
- Holding power over your friends (magically, not legally)
- Your name for a person carrying with it your relationship with that person.
- Why they shipped a game called "Epic Mickey.*
- Compaeing this year's top 50 baby names to the top 50 a century ago.
- Mikse meeting Mikes.
- The Bob Emergency.
- One day there will be no more Bobs, and a door will close.
- Continuing to refer to your nephew as a "little kid" even though he's 45 now.
- Thinking you're getting more liberal but eventually realizing you're getting more apocalyptic.
- Garbage-ass subreddits full of dis- and misinformation.
- Battle Jackets vs. Jackets for Battle.
- Pregnancy subreddits.
- Checking out of gamer culture entirely.
- Black metal communities dealing with white supremacists.
- Can't we just have a place who love swords and wizards?
- How to not run a Nazi bar.
- Whether people get more liberal or more conservative as they age.
- Stone cold hippies.
- Explaining trans rights to your parents who are doing their best to understand.
- Asking the AI-generated slush pile how to update your political beliefs.
- Keeping younger people around who care about you enough to help you fix your shitty opinions.
- Hungry for Jim topics.
- Japanese cultural touchstones referenced in video games that just seem like nonsense to Americans.
- Slavic folklore in the Witcher games.
- Importing video games from more and more obscure countries because Japan is played out now.
- Recognizing Greek heavy metal just from the riffs.
- Vacuuming a couch and twenty one-dollar bills fly out of it.
- Shagrat, you shag rats!
- Rheumy weeping orbs that glare with hate.
- Truly a poem of unknown provenance.
- Shagrat doesn't deserve this!
- We had some great topics today, y'all.
- Mythcarver.
- A discord for people who are due in the same month as you.
- The Libras who won't let the dads in.
- Circle time with other pregnant couples.
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