344. All Teeth Are Equally Smooth in the Eyes of the Lord

Lords:

• Lena
• Cory

Topics:

• Re: Cory's teeth topic, there's so many artists making teeth
• It would actually rule to be immortal, and all those stories about how it's not are just cope
• How committed to the bit is committed to the bit enough?
• A poem by Evan Balster, shared with us at GDC: A shapeless figure, locked away Inside a realm she godly sways; To weave in light and shadow, there, A living, breathing world from air. And nightly does she host a guest Who comes and goes at own behest, And time to time might take the throne To make the place a toy his own And on the morn to leave the mess Its keeper cleans, without protest. For lonely is the weaving-hand, The breaking-one's its only friend.

Microtopics:

• Topic Lords-themed hangouts.
• Indie City Games.
• Two Truths and a Lie, a science fiction detective story.
• A disgusting old man using an army of combat drones to find out what happened to his ex-boyfriend.
• Two topics for the price of one.
• Tooth dreams.
• Considering what to do about your teeth as you go through various phases of having or not having teeth.
• What people say if your femur is yellow.
• People dying from mouth problems.
• Going to the tooth artists and customizing your new teeth, just like Build-a-Bear.
• Reaching into your mouth and pushing the button on your artificial tooth that plays your catchphrase.
• The artist who illustrates your subject in stages as you dissect it.
• Illustrating gross health things in a way that people can understand.
• The cartoon amoeba that teaches you how to not get salmonella.
• The kind of people who comment on Fecal Transplant Explainer videos.
• Teeth: you chew with them.
• Hitting up your dentist for extra teeth because the last ones were delicious.
• The thing you have in your mouth the most that you're not allowed to eat. (Your teeth.)
• Gradually eating your own teeth because you grind your own teeth at night.
• Different sets of dentures for different vibes.
• How to get glow in the dark teeth.
• Discovering the hard way that your fake teeth don't fluoresce under UV light.
• An entire generation of Americans going into the dentist together, like Hands Across America, to get all their teeth pulled so they can get dentures.
• Losing all your teeth just in time for COVID.
• Learning to not feel like you have to explain why you don't have any teeth.
• Depressing people with possible existences that your mind can create.
• What to do with the people who get too old to have good opinions.
• Trying to maintain a continuous personality day to day.
• Immortality vs. just living a really long time.
• Burning it all down for the sake of your legacy.
• Continuing to try to save people's lives and eventually inventing immortality.
• Death: it's really cool actually.
• Coming face to face with death and realizing it's not scary at all.
• A Satanist and his wife selling everything to open a shop where they refuse to sell you human skulls and serial killer memorabilia.
• Not needing a Memento Mori room because you already think about death all the time.
• Transferring a marble from the future jar to the past jar to remind yourself not to waste this day.
• Having a child and tossing it on the pile of existing children that everyone's already taking care of.
• All there is to learn in the universe.
• The Sword in the Stone.
• Working all of physics out from first principles because it's fun and you have that kind of time.
• Deciding to spend 100 years just hanging out with a tree and you don't even have podcasts.
• Icehenge.
• Associated Press title capitalization rules.
• A decision that is awesome for everything except your wallet.
• Artists who don't like what they make and don't enjoy the process, they just have to do it.
• Not doing art for long enough to realize how unhappy you are because you're not doing art.
• Making games because it's cool and fun to make games.
• Making yourself happier by pretending to be happy.
• What's bad about being too happy?
• Oh thank God, a crisis!
• A series of dreams in which the dream world is aware of you and hates you.
• Lonely is the weaving hand, the breaking one its only friend.
• Why you should be grateful when your son throws his trash on the floor.
• The most mystical thing that we get to regularly experience.
• Déjà rêvé.
• One of the worst ways to determine whether you're dreaming.
• Morpheus refusing to explain the Matrix in words even though he could describe it in 30 seconds.
• Spoilers: the events of Inception did not actually occur.