30. Century Of The Fruitbat

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Lords:

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Topics:

• 2:07 Wikipedia descriptions of fighting game stories
  • The Rad Project. http://web.archive.org/web/20070406100535/http://www.flammie.net/vse/things/rad/index.htm
• 13:05 Is there a 21st century version of the thank-you note?
  • The Double Disappearance of Walter Fozbek. http://bookembob.blogspot.com/2011/07/double-disappearance-of-walter-fozbek.html
  • The Selective Attention Test. https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo
• 26:27 I'm pretty sure I could write a book about anything
  • Dolphin flip in slow motion. https://youtu.be/37C1KOSgTAk
• 32:49 Kevin asks: "Tom Nook: Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?"
• 38:37 Melodica purchased online
• 48:43 Ursula Vernon is rad
  • Weird fruit gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/gallery/7872409/weird-fruit
• 57:01 Peering in on skateboard culture from the outside
  • So Deep + juggling pins. https://youtu.be/9pvzWY-lSRw

Microtopics:

• Risking sounding like a corporate shill.
• Whether or not Wikipedia is pretty great.
• Wikipedia's editorial tone when describing ridiculous stories.
• Finding a video embed in the middle of a textbook page and trying to press it.
• A book with squiggle underlines wherever the author screwed up.
• Having to come up with narrative justification for 500 one-on-one fights in a row.
• The guy you just kicked off a cliff offering you cakes because nobody should have to fight on an empty stomach.
• Your pet frog jumping on a box in your back yard marked radioactive, growing to massive size, then jumping down a huge hole that is also in your back yard for some reason.
• The Japanese version of the wacky frog tank story just being factions at war in the post apocalypse.
• Mega Man except you are a gnarly wizard instead of a robot.
• A floating Buddha named "Surprise" shooting you in the back.
• If Astro Boy were a mailman.
• Merging the wacky frog tank story and the post apocalyptic war story into a single canonical timeline in the new Switch release.
• Writing on paper made of trees with a pen and it's 2020.
• Writing a thank you note when a relative hands you a twenty dollar bill.
• Writing a jam game for every special occasion because it's more fun than writing a card.
• The correct plural of Magnum Opus.
• Returning to Lazy Land.
• The videos you like best inevitably being taken down due to copyright strikes because that's the world we live in now.
• YouTube telling you that some videos have been removed from your playlist but not telling you which.
• A digital representation of what it's like to grow old.
• Making a USB drive ark and taking two of every genre of music.
• Your Google ad profile gaining sentience and making credit card purchases behind your back but also getting a job and making your credit card payments on time.
• Going to work and nobody remembering who you are.
• Going into the office wearing a gorilla costume and eventually sending in a gorilla to do your job and it turns out the gorilla is better at your job than you are.
• Using a gorilla Snapchat filter on a gorilla to make it look like a human who's trying to look like a gorilla.
• Waking up in parallel dino world where everyone is a dinosaur and your dinosaur twin waking up in human world where everyone is a human, because you both had a mad scientist neighbor.
• Making a note of how to disguise yourself as a dinosaur because you never know when you'll end up in dinosaur world.
• Doing a face swap with your cat during the conference call so everyone is too horrified to notice the gorilla in the background.
• A pedalboard except it's Instagram filters.
• Chaining Instagram filters to create a truly epic fursona.
• Reverse college, where you get paid to forget things.
• Getting paid a dollar per paragraph about skateboard tricks.
• A varial kickflip except instead of splitting the axes of rotation between your feet, doing all the rotation with your front foot.
• Writing a book with your 18 month old and it's just the words poop, ball, bath and meow over and over and over.
• Your toddler growing up to discover axes and cops, like leaves changing colors in autumn.
• A raccoon who is very friendly and has taken a lot of your money.
• Whether Tom Nook is a slum lord.
• A dog with five fingers, an apron, and a whole lot of bells.
• Being in debt forever because your landlord keeps building you a bigger and bigger house.
• A 100% speedrun of Adobe Photoshop.
• Adding achievements, particle effects, and screenshake to Visual Studio.
• Two melodica players coincidentally bringing their instruments to the same party and locking eyes from across the room.
• Cheap, portable musical instruments you can have with you at all times and practice with at the drop of a hat.
• A tube with six holes in it.
• Penny whistles always being in D because it's one more than C.
• Wikipedia diving deep into the lore of each musical scale.
• The cute face of the otamatone being almost assuredly more entertaining than the notes you play with it.
• Penny whistles with a conical bore staying in tune better than cylindrical ones.
• The monomyth of the boy who sneaks up on a seal while she's bathing and steals her skin and she turns out to be a beautiful human woman and now she has to marry him.
• The origin of the pear-with-teeth meme.
• The Biting Pear of Salamanca.
• Whether anyone named Ursula is still alive today.
• An interesting reaction to discovering that your daughter is made of birch bark.
• A dead whale falling to the ocean floor and feeding scavengers for years.
• Spending your whole life waiting for a whale to die.
• Zombie worms growing like flowers in the lightless garden of a sunken whale corpse.
• A tiny kobold fondling an eggplant.
• Giving your wife a picture of a fruit with teeth for her birthday.
• Your skateboard being stolen twice in the same day.
• Angsty skateboarders lashing out at the world around them via sick kickflips.
• Fighting everyone around you being morally equivalent to fighting no-one.
• A nine year old girl in a tutu doing a double heelflip.
• The cost of skateboarding being measured in hospital visits, especially when you are 40 and overweight.
• Wearing an inflatable dinosaur suit and skateboarding in a bounce house for maximum safety.
• Wanting to get into skateboarding but you're scared of dying and none of your friends have trucks.
• Hacky sack looking fun but actually it's a lie built on a throne of falsehoods and pain.
• Narrowing an artefact's origin down to the Century of the Fruitbat.
• Musicians dancing while they play just to show off that they are good enough at music and dancing that they can do both at the same time.
• Being entirely out of both topics and lords.