82. Breadless French Toast a la Dig Dug
May 17th, 2021
59 mins 29 secs
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Topics:
- The Pokemon Sylveon is supposed to be cute but it freaks me out and let me tell you why
- Savory french toast.
- Remember briefcases? People would just bring paperwork home with them. To work more, at home, for free. Fucked up, if you think about it.
- Everytime we touch Detective Pikachu
- The ethics of making a robot daughter
Microtopics:
- Whether it's possible to do Soupertasters remotely.
- What show this even is.
- Never watching the best episode of a show because if you do the rest will be worse than that.
- A game where you explore a tavern and then the game ends.
- History littered with the corpses of couch-co-op-only games.
- A hypothetical podcast about the dark history of cribbage.
- The best vertically scrolling shooter set on British colonial Mars.
- Adding faeries to rebalance the meta which has been overrun by dragons.
- A little quadruped with features.
- Ribbon-like feelers that make you drop your guard.
- OG European fairies who steal children and leave rusty nails in their place.
- A cute fairy dog that will fuck your shit up when you're not looking vibe.
- The mortifying ordeal of realizing that all the Pokemon who look like they're wearing clothes? That's actually their skin.
- A Syveon swinging around Viridian City like Spider-Man, eating birds and avoiding cold iron.
- Turkey-flavored bread.
- Making a Monte Cristo with savory French toast.
- A sweet omelette with a lot more bread than egg.
- Breadless French toast.
- Omelette a la Dig Dug.
- Filling crepes.
- Using eggs as glue for putting a bunch of yummies together.
- Lobster burritos.
- What briefcases are for.
- A game where you've got a corgi and you've gotta get her somewhere to do stuff.
- Bringing a knife to a briefcase fight.
- Using briefcases to store underwear.
- Whether you want to sit in the briefcase or boxercase section.
- Asking president Clinton "boxers or briefs?" on a live Q&A.
- An adorable chonky Pikachu.
- Detective Pikachu turning out way better than it had any right to be.
- Two and a half hours of Pikachu jazzercising.
- Whether Pikachu is made of shiny plastic like in Pokemon Go or is furry like a mouse like in Detective Pikachu.
- Hiring internet meme people to do concept art for your movie.
- Pokemon MC Hammer's extremely baggy purple leg skin.
- Realistic Homer Simpson and realistic Mario.
- Diving straight into your uncanny valley reflex and poking it with a stick.
- Doing an image search for "realistic Mr. Mime" and regretting it immediately.
- Psychic stigmata.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation and Frankenstein's conflicting takes on whether it's a good idea to construct an artificial person.
- Trying to make a robot daughter but accidently making a murder bot.
- Committing your kid to Git so you can roll back when they find out about the time you spent on 4chan.
- Best practices for doing AI research without committing murder all the time.
- The "bunch of delicious stuff in a pan plus eggs" approach to AI research vs. the "frittata" approach to AI research.
- Observing and understanding the outcome of training a neural network and writing an ordinary program to do the same thing.
- Agreement.
- The alternate ending of Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein accidentally installs a baker's hand on the monster and it goes on a baking rampage using up all the flour in town.
- To what degree parents can be held responsible for what their children do.
- How it's okay to disown your parents but not your children.
- A chatbot with servomotors in it.
- A Furby molar.
- A burden too great to bear alone.
- A Furby living in a hollowed out tooth filled with corks.
- Waking up next to a ceramic tooth with a face every morning.
- Whether MAME has Furby support.
- Douglas.
- A Furby with baked beans instead of skin.
- A Furby with teeth in the middle and it's not okay.