145. A Visceral Tobacco Consumption Experience

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Lords:

• Hallie
  • https://twitter.com/Hallie_9000/
• John
  • https://twitter.com/robohunkx

Topics:

• Finding value in shared imagined spaces and worlds outside of religious contexts
• Final Fantasy Challenge: Zero Story; and other vaporware games & mods of which no record exists on the internet
• Youtube streams movies now, and they have comments
• Canterbury Tales General Prologue, by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue

Microtopics:

• The Ten Timers Club.
• Podcasting for three years straight.
• Fantastical ideas for famous bands covering Garages songs.
• An increasingly hard to describe person.
• Reclaiming the asshole.
• The sort of thing that sometimes happens in Maine.
• Finding the right microphone settings.
• A podcast about what people think about that ends up being a video game podcast because that's what they're thinking about.
• The barnacle on the indie game scene life.
• Making a video game good on purpose.
• Talking to your friends who talk you out of grad school because you need to be talked out of grad school again
• Your own personal relationship with the divine.
• Shared imagined worlds and how we talk about them.
• Your friend asks how you're doing and you say "Han and Leia at the end of Empire" and your friend just nods.
• Fighting a great beast together.
• Promoting group cohesion by developing a shared frame of reference.
• How in the 70s everyone watched the same three TV channels but nowadays everyone has access to all of every form of media all the time, and whether that's a handicap for developing a shared cultural reference frame.
• Waxy potatoes vs. starchy potatoes.
• Where to find non-starchy potatoes.
• Harry Potter and the Sacred Texts.
• The act of interpretation and the creation of shared symbols.
• A Final Fantasy mod that you were very excited about in the early 00s but that now has no results on google.
• Abraham Lincoln Land vanishing from the internet.
• All the bad video games starring Tux.
• Your boss saying "let me show you how the Peter Principle works" and promoting you to Project Manager.
• Erasing the projects you are ashamed of from your personal web site.
• Adding a clause to your will about deleting all your novelty web sites.
• A web site where you write a bunch of fake reviews of fake bands and eventually start writing the songs yourself.
• Mutually executable languages.
• A betrayal of both movies and Youtube.
• Commenting with a timestamp of your favorite part of Napoleon Dynamite.
• Whether Pedro won the election on his own merits.
• Creating an audition tape for the musical extravaganza your employer is running, getting the part, and later finding out that you were the only one who applied.
• Whether John will ever release the video of him dancing like Napoleon Dynamite.
• An entire stanza of completely unintelligible Middle English.
• Wanting to go on pilgrimages to seek the Holy Blissful Martyr because spring is coming.
• Pronouncing all the silent letters.
• A well-SparkesNotes'd text.
• Having a poem memorized but not in order.
• How wishing someone a happy birthday before their birthday is illegal in Germany.
• The least surfer dude.
• Various tobacco saliva receptacles, some of which ding and some of which don't.
• Chewing tobacco but not having the self-respect to get a spittoon.
• The nicotine delivery method where you stick a tobacco blob under your lip like a walrus tusk and make TikTok videos.
• Dip a.k.a. Snus.
• A cool friend from Tennessee.
• Big League Chew, again.
• Asking the clerk for tar patches because nicotine patches don't give you melanoma.
• Ending the show early because you believe so vehemently that vaping is good for you.
• A pithy German word for having guested on Topic Lords ten times.