228. Detecting Myself As Spam

Lords:

• Fif
• Mitch

Topics:

• The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions
• The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game
• Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics
• The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/
• No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery
• Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me"
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LhdhQEKtg

Microtopics:

• Two handfuls of times.
• Something very fivey about hands.
• Dependability and a detail-oriented nature.
• Putting your resume in the show notes.
• Naming your kid a list of two things.
• A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan.
• Naming games after verbs.
• Mario Push Button.
• The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot.
• Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them.
• All the time we have for Topic Lords.
• Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.)
• A dress-up fashion thing.
• Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability.
• Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting.
• Dorms in a castle.
• Hey, nice face.
• Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic.
• Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game.
• The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear.
• Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels.
• Eco-friendly or Eco-fail?
• Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong.
• Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam.
• The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck.
• Making your hearts for to quail.
• Poems including civil engineering advice.
• Good vs. bad nonsense poems.
• A fun poem to read.
• Paying money to engage with content.
• Deliberately slipping on a banana peel.
• What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules.
• School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on.
• Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen.
• Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take.
• A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens.
• Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you.
• Youtube koans.
• Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it.
• Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views.
• A PMV of the character you are obsessed with.
• The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys.
• Constantly deleting the shorts.
• Posting a tweet to youtube.com.
• Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube.
• Community captions and what happened to them.
• Doing annotations dirty.
• Nekoneko.
• Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly.
• Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert.