212. Back In My Day, Kids Actually Crossied The Road
November 13th, 2023
1 hr 10 mins 50 secs
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Lords:
- Mitch
- Andrew
Topics:
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first mainline 2D Mario game since... (how many Super Mario games are there? update)
- Owning the domain emailfordogs.com for some reason
- When I took my driver's test, a kid ran out onto the road in front of me, I braked, and the proctor made a check mark on his forms.
- Love in the Age of Google by Brian Bilston
- The Burrito Run (a form of physical exercise)
- The WarioWare series has become increasingly story-driven in every game since WarioWare: Snapped! (DSi, 2008)
Microtopics:
- Your names.
- Jokes that have or have not been done.
- The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.)
- A game which has no sequels.
- Pizza Panda dot Pizza.
- Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links.
- A polling feature that is great for polling people.
- Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything.
- How to make your audience stop clicking links.
- 358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games.
- A game called Super Mario Bros. Something.
- All the different years there hasn't been a new Super Mario game since.
- A controversy, but not one people care about.
- New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game.
- Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up.
- Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take.
- Looking at all these MS-DOS colors.
- Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it's just a guy!
- Mario games for MS-DOS.
- A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently.
- Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man.
- The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people.
- New Super Mario Bros. Mii.
- Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology.
- Super Mario Bros. Special.
- A smeary snapshot of your mind.
- A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make.
- Working on a game until it's ready.
- If you like Mario games, then it's one of them. If you don't then it's not.
- Super Mario Bros. Tudor.
- Super Mario Bros. Oneder.
- Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com.
- A hobby you used to be able to have.
- Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name.
- Rip the old spacejam.com.
- Space Jam: a New Legacy.
- Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com.
- A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver's test examiner and one child.
- Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test.
- A checkbox on the DMV test labeled "did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars."
- Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road.
- A smoke made with the fume of sighs.
- A poem that scans as a poem.
- A million monkeys using a million trackers.
- One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers.
- A new form of physical exercise.
- Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective.
- Copylefted exercise routines.
- There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine.
- Dogs who are like dogs.
- Dog theory.
- What's more habitual than eating lunch?
- Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.)
- Booger joke fart joke silly game.
- A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series.
- Wario's hiring process.
- A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head.
- Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it.
- The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series.
- Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction.
- The man who was too many Marios.
- Hearing Wario speak in full sentences.
- A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways.