The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering Mario around the screen:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyezQsI-v-s

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• Chess, the Musical: a show that is universally acclaimed but no longer performed because it consistently loses money


• I believe live television to be the most exciting thing humans have invented


• Blaseball had $3 million in VC funding


• Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
  
  
  
  
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• Why not RSS for text?


• Officiating weddings for your friends

Microtopics:

• The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering the Mario head.


• Who gets to say "roll theme song!"


• A community where the chances of someone acting in bad faith is negligible.


• DC Action News.


• All human communication is technicallt advertising.


• The generous Haste demo.


• A skipping stones on water kind of game.


• Sonic/Klonoa/late 90s/early 00s aesthetics.


• A karaoke favorite that is not very reasonably sensitive.
  


• All the Tims who did not work on Chess the Musical.


• The guy from Rent whose name you can't remember.


• Breakdancing while arbitrating a chess match.


• Internet radio stations.


• A Windows 95 theme of Chess the Musical.


• Installing Windows 95 themes on your Picotron desktop.


• Sex, Death and Live Television!


• Live TV mishaps that ruin entirely the wrong career.


• HQ.


• At five o'clock, there's gonna be a guy.


• The sense of spectacle you get from a live broadcast with a big audience.


• The time one of the leads forgot his entire monologue.


• The thrill of being part of a live performance as it's going wrong.


• Listening to Shoutcast channels on Winamp.


• Winamp's Shoutcast station registry.


• The childhood dream of owning a TV station and getting to make all the little station IDs.


• Netflix's abandoned "just fuck me up" button.


• Six episodes of Deep Space 9 on a single VHS tape.


• Drop 7 vs. Dropout TV.


• Getting entirely the wrong information from your survey about what people like about your product.


• Trying to sign up for Blaseball and failing.


• Funny names such as Dominic Marijuana.


• Jumping in and forcing some actions to happen.


• Needing your game to break so that you can write the way it breaks into the narrative of the story.


• Blaseball-likes.


• Terrorball. (Short for Territory Ball.)


• A list of all locations.


• The Scarborough Fairies.


• Resurrecting Jaylen Hotdogfingers.


• An online text mode football manager with a live chat.


• Fish Center.


• Determining which fish is best.


• Bringing a little bit of the live frisson to a fake live broadcast.


• Whether it's okay to read a poem more than once.


• Softly I go now, pad pad.


• Cats you had together.


• The cat that Hatricia Hop-Meow is based on.


• Blogs: do they exist?


• Making a point of finding an open source way to do your shit.


• A 24 hour cycle of live podcasts.


• TiVo for podcasts.


• Edging the feeling of whether you're watching live TV or not in a slip slidey timestream.


• Asking chat a question and then waiting 15 to 20 seconds for the response to come back.


• Bringing back RSS readers.


• The New Old Reader.


• Opening with the mawwige joke.


• Wanting people to want things.


• Going back to your old life except now your friends are married.


• Protecting The Lord from unauthorized clergymen.


• Paying $20 to the Universal Life Church so you can perform weddings in most states.


• Keeping the card in your wallet in case anyone tries to claim that you're not really an ordained minister.

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