73. 100 Free Pulls For Your Left Kidney

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Lords:

• Max
  • https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG
  • https://twitter.com/nonstandardmcd
• Ryan
  • https://twitter.com/RyanIkeComposer

Topics:

• What do you think is behind the human fascination with miniature things?
• What are things people assume about you, based on your profession, look, or general vibe, that are always untrue?
• How to fix speed runs
  • https://twitter.com/RavenWorks/status/1214615137056899072
• Yuri asks "Games you love, but really wish you did not. Maybe even games you really don't like much, but keep playing anyway, like a terrible reality tv show you can't look away from."
• Does anyone actually like Frame Interpolation? Am I the only one who always turns it off?
• There seems to be a zoological consensus that hippos share a unique, communal, organized hatred of humankind for reasons that cannot be explained through typical animal behavioral reasoning.
• A restaurant where all the glasses are the same size but if you order a large it gets poured out of a 55 gallon drum and if you order a small it gets filled with an eye dropper.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YGtQ40Qvs

Microtopics:

• Running a novelty Twitter account about Nonstandard McDonalds.
• Grabbing every flashlight on your house to light your live TV news appearance.
• Running a novelty Twitter account about the mundane business details of running a Long John Silver's.
• White Castle except even stinkier somehow.
• Making tiny novelty hamburgers out of gelatin and cornstarch.
• Miniature things which are their normal size but are smaller than you.
• Sneaking a secret, more interesting topic in after your overt one.
• Elixirs in a JRPG having expiration dates so you don't end the game with 80 of them, never having used a single one.
• Holding a Lego minifig in your hands and thinking "I could pop your head off any time I feel like it."
• Converting inches of height to thousands of dollars per year in salary, and how that works differently for men and women.
• Taking a knife edge turn into the patriarchy.
• Knowing you could mash the person you're talking to like a paper bird, but reassuring them that of course you would never do that.
• Mixing powders into paste and then pressing the paste into a mold.
• Going down the rabbit hole on slurry-based miniature food construction.
• The sad sashimi special you get at a shitty bar after work.
• New shapes of ennui that you've never known as a human being.
• Biting the brick of instant ramen and then washing it down with a bite of the brick of Golden Curry.
• Wanting to produce high quality audio but not really caring much about the quality of audio you listen to.
• Mostly playing video games on consoles that are at least ten years old.
• Tech workers wanting the least internet-connected kitchen appliances available.
• Growing up with hair that makes you look like you do a lot of drugs.
• Getting tossed into camp dirtbag.
• Trading McDonald's jokes with your novelty McDonald's account followers.
• Thinking about long hamburgers every day.
• A tablet you would etch your name into in ancient Egypt, on a hoagie bun.
• Getting a hoagie delivered from a pizza place like some kind of maniac.
• Resetting a game until you get a favorable result.
• Oops All Marathon Strats.
• Why Speedrun?
• Speedrunning as a way to share a game you love with the audience.
• The Timic Skip.
• The changes Jim made to Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition to make speedrunning it more fun.
• Designing your game to be interesting to reverse engineer.
• Tetris: The Grand Master.
• Cranking the skill ceiling on every aspect of Tetris to the absolute maximum.
• Stretching the rules of Tetris so much that the Tetris Company says "this has gone too far" and revokes your Tetris license.
• Designing a game with the assumption of fervent frame by frame analysis by the player base.
• Returning again and again to a game that doesn't respect your time.
• BeamNG.drive
• Gran Turismo Meets Garry's Mod.
• The most satisfying car crash simulator.
• Sitting in a sandbox and smashing Micro Machines together.
• A soft-body physics engine that is supposed to be for gearhead nerds but that you use to crash cars into each other and giggle.
• The cynicism setting in long before the dopamine cycle wears off.
• Deliberately avoiding gacha games because you might start paying for spins.
• Discreetly turning motion smoothing off on your parents' TV.
• Screening your roommates for whether or not they like motion smoothing.
• Looking at a 4k TV and not really noticing a difference.
• The hypothetical audience for motion smoothing.
• Whether Best Buy is your Best Bud.
• Stretching a 4:3 image to cover your 16:9 TV.
• The consumer paying for the chocolate company advertising on the chocolate bar.
• Negotiating with the car dealership by threatening to remove the license plate frame with the dealership's name on it from your car.
• The raw power of a hippopotamus.
• The hippo as a reification of mother earth's desire to cleanse the earth of humanity.
• Hippo Accelerationism.
• Importing hippos into every continent so they can kill even more people even faster.
• The fried banana stand at the San Diego Zoo.
• Why toucans don't swarm and devour humans.
• An abominably fat crow forging relationships left and right.
• Liking someone so much that you leave a big chunk of drywall on their doorstep.
• A forklift robot that can pour a beverage directly out of a 55 gallon drum.
• A chemical you can pour on any part of the pizza to form a crust there.
• A pizza fractal and it never stops, baby.
• Walking into a Sizzler and asking for the fruit lasagna.
• The buffet boom of the 80s.
• Sizzler representing choice in a country about freedom of choice.
• A four minute indoctrination video shown to new Sizzler employees.
• The thickest glasses known to man.