262. Real Meal, Fictional Man
Update: 2024-10-28
Description
Lords:
- CisHetKayFaber
- Maxx
Topics:
- Food-focused Japanese TV
- If "fish don't exist," then how do pescetarians?
- PicoSteveMo is back!
- https://wikipoem.org/
- Verisimilitude in play (My daughter plays GTA and Roblox) (The shifting nature of what is appropriate for children)
Microtopics:
- Emotionally connecting with a dying web site and meeting up with other users in Seattle.
- What the Cohost diaspora is doing to do.
- Drive-by bad opinions.
- Where people live in Australia, on average.
- CSS Crimes.
- Using external image hosts to continue blogging on Cohost after it is in read-only mode.
- URL shortening services reusing old links.
- Meeting up with people you have a loose association with and having a good time together.
- The Bowling League Mafia taking up every lane every day with tournaments so nobody else can bowl.
- A TV drama where a traveling salesman keeps being hungry at different train stations.
- Seeing a meal that looks delicious but you're full and can't eat a whole nother meal.
- Whether food becomes fictional as soon as you eat it.
- Watching satellite TV on your flip phone.
- OneSeg.
- Your email address being owned by your phone carrier.
- A phone that closes and has great battery life.
- The golden age of food-focused broadcast TV.
- A celebrity who's interested in food goes and eats at a restaurant.
- This Burger Weighs 30 Pounds!
- Midnight Diner.
- The Karate Kid but with ramen.
- Watching a Youtube of the video gamers.
- Ordinary People, Extraordinary Food.
- Whether pescetarians exist.
- The researchers in the shark lab you used to work at calling dolphins fish.
- Fish eyes: nature's boba.
- A block of gouda floating in the ocean.
- Fish that stop being fish when you think about it too hard.
- Disagreeing with beavers about what tree to cut down, but you're conflict avoidant so the beaver always wins.
- Haven't we all argued with beavers?
- Crows stealing the naan out of your naan and curry.
- Jungle Crows who sound like an adult man doing an impression of crows.
- Crows who are really good at Japanese T9.
- The nets you put over your garbage that can't possibly keep the crows out.
- Picking Steves from a continuity standpoint.
- Finding any excuse to make a Stephen King Sokoban.
- Deliberately awkward control schemes.
- A thousand prototyping girls in space.
- A poem without any line breaks in it.
- The zine era of web design, when people would just type HTML and it would become a web page.
- Phrases that make sense locally but not globally.
- A comedian who is in lots of things.
- The kind of poem you'd get if you put a poem on a wiki.
- The kind of thing that would probably be read on this show.
- The kind of web site that you'd run into when you're doing an ARG.
- Installing Roblox on the PS5 to teach your daughter to read English better.
- Playing a game with purple vomiting everywhere.
- The ways a 7 year old interacts with a Grand Theft Auto.
- Teaching yourself how to drive in Grand Theft Auto and obeying all the traffic laws.
- Not shielding your kid from media but talking to them about it instead.
- Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens.
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