172. Don't Apply Any Torque To This Bag

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Lords:

• Alex
• Shannon

Topics:

• Incomprehensible PSAs (Remember to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide)
• Games which use player ignorance as a major mechanic (Outer Wilds, Tunic)
• Man out of Space Easiest
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE
• Stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot)
  • https://utopians.tumblr.com/post/659350035592609792/stepped-on-a-plum-overripe-plum-barefoot-it
• Australia trends (pre vs post pay, pay at pump vs parking meter vs toll camera)
• Bats! Micro & Mega

Microtopics:

• The Broken Earth Trilogy.
• The Lightly-Massaged Earth Trilogy.
• Turkish Delight vs. a Turkish Delight candy bar.
• A candy that gives you the feeling of nostalgia but no corresponding memories.
• Remembering to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide in the kitchen.
• The three onomatopoeias for applying sunscreen.
• Lamenting to your partner that you forgot to slip.
• Posters that just say "don't forget to slip slop slap seek and slide" with no further context.
• A cool grandpa following safety instructions.
• Actionable snake advice.
• Various ways to distinguish goats and sheep.
• A music video that is also a drunk driving PSA.
• How to use search atoms.
• If you're on the train, that's a shame.
• Rhyming platitudes about how social media is bad for your mental health and society as a whole.
• A music video trying to get across a safe sex message to the kids.
• Do They Even Know it's Christmas?
• Something jarring to hear on the radio.
• A desert wasteland full of crying children.
• Tunic.
• Reading the manual of the video game you just bought on the drive home.
• Evoking the idea of playing old video games.
• Jumping puzzles that cost you twenty minutes of your life if you fall.
• A Jules Verne conception of the solar system where other planets are a five minute rocket trip away.
• Learning a code and keeping it in your brain.
• The Hourglass Twins.
• Not being sure what to do so you go look at the moon.
• The kind of game where most of the fun is figuring out how to play the game.
• AAA games trying to make artistic statements about AAA games.
• Hatoful Boyfriend as a better Doki Doki Literature Club.
• A horror story about pigeons.
• An ablative heat shield on your butt.
• Manually aiming the rocket without being to look outside of your polyester bag.
• The legality of dropping a moose out of a spaceship.
• A safety mechanism that is not appealing to aerospace professionals.
• Landing an airplane on Mars and then remote-piloting Mars rovers from inside the airplane.
• The world's largest saltwater crocodile.
• Pulling the quick release flap on the crocodile's mouth.
• Don't Go To Space.
• It's the 60s, and it's a bag.
• A snorkel for when you land in the ocean and can't get out of your foam entombment capsule.
• Bringing along a shotgun in case your escape pod lands in Siberia.
• Clown First Lover Second.
• A single paragraph with 19 parenthetical phrases and no other punctuation.
• Deciding to hem your sweatpants.
• Plum Nightmare.
• Finding two extra poems inside an existing poem.
• What to expect when you read a poem.
• Whether it's illegal to drive barefoot.
• Bare feet and there's textures down here.
• The utter lack of technology at the pump.
• No-flush toilets.
• What kinds of towels they use to clean up messes in Australia.
• Public restrooms that automatically eject you if you're not done in ten minutes.
• Honeycomb candy with the same texture as instant coffee.
• Look to your left; look to your right; one of you is a bat.
• Visiting baby bats in the bat hospital.
• Bats as pollinators.
• Giving stuffed animals to baby bats.
• The pollinating and bug-eating ecosystem.
• A bat the size of a bat.
• Spectacled flying foxes.
• Bats reverse-nicheing back into mice.
• Bats becoming nocturnal to avoid their creditors.