208. E.T. Shot First

Lords:

• Hallie
• Tyriq

Topics:

• People really like potatoes and I don't get it
• I wear shorts now.
• Why are these ants on my desk?
• The go-getters of predawn gym
• Non feathered dinosaurs in the public imagination
  • Esper says: Magic: the Gathering does have feathered dinosaurs as part of its mesoamerican-inspired setting, which look cool as hell. Not all of them are completely covered or anything, but Gishath is a good example of how to make a dinosaur look really intimidating and powerful while still having feathers. https://scryfall.com/card/xln/222/gishath-suns-avatar
• McPop

Microtopics:

• Not counting the Zelda game you made.
• Mashing up the hummus beans.
• Tahini texture.
• Garbanzo merengue.
• Cutting-edge vegan technology.
• Making video games until you learn better.
• The freezer popsicle that's just a tube of flavored water.
• Potato struggle sessions.
• Curly fries versus seasoned curly fries.
• A waste of a hearty food that should last longer.
• Century potatoes.
• Burying a potato in the ground and setting a peat bog on fire.
• Taro chips.
• The bag in the grocery store that says "veggie sticks" and there's a picture of fresh vegetables on the bag but inside it's just potato slurry fried into stick form.
• Anti-shorts positions.
• A tattoo in a conspicuous place.
• Showing up to a game jam in a Voldo harness.
• A tattoo that makes it look like you've been scratching a rash.
• Getting a cool tattoo and starting going to the gym because you want to be worthy of the tattoo.
• A slovenly dude in a fedora getting a sick tattoo of a slovenly dude in a fedora.
• Yakuza style tattoos except it's all video game shit.
• Leaving an olive under your desk.
• What the ants are into lately.
• House Ants.
• Storehouses of finger dust.
• Letting the ants have the olive.
• Mice with an exoskeleton.
• Sitting on a toilet made of ants and instantly becoming one with the ants.
• A bottle of Ginger Ants.
• Extremely tangy abyss.
• What is in my mouth? What is in my bed?
• Rolling a ball of goo over your keyboard.
• Finding some good goo and keeping it to yourself.
• The validity of shipping yourself with things.
• Merging your cats.
• Motivated brothers.
• Waking up at 5:30 to go to the gym.
• Go-gettitude.
• Chronotypes.
• Expressing all the aspirational aspects of yourself.
• The only person flexing in the mirrors.
• Why is this young teen here so early?
• Pretty ripped. (For a child.)
• Giving up on waking up before dawn and becoming the kind of go-getter who gets later things.
• Reconstructing dinosaurs based on what people think they should look like.
• Semi-mythical creatures. (That actually existed.)
• Microraptors that are slightly melty.
• 65, with Adam Driver.
• An interesting concept, executed poorly.
• The Pepsisaur.
• Adam Driver running away from horny dudes crawling around in mocap suits and the test audiences hate it so they CGI in some horny humanoid dinosaurs.
• Having kids and patching ET so the government agents don't have guns and then after your kids grow up, patching ET so they have extra guns.
• Twelve gauge flashlights.
• Lemmings but with babies.
• One of each type of eye.
• Eyes that are so human looking that it kind of fucks you up.
• A reverse The Fly situation.
• McPopHouse.
• The Junta of Tralfaz.
• Picking up a new key and trying it on every locked door you've ever seen.
• Pressing insert to empty your sexual tension meter.
• Back before Microsoft Word owned the .doc extension.
• A hoary pld PD Turbo 3.0 include file circa 1985.
• Sentences from shareware documentation that have been in your head for 30 years.
• BBS Doors.
• Legend of the Red Dragon.
• Reprising your role as Olmec.