112. Getting A Lot Of Vengabus Vibes From This

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Lords:

• JP
• John B
  • https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo
  • https://twitter.com/vs_everyone

Topics:

• Showing "Akira" to someone who has never seen any anime before and telling them, "this is what all anime is like"
  • https://twitter.com/kbonds420/status/1378850398665125892
• Bizarro, Dan Hibiki, Homsar, and other not-quite-doppelgangers/parodies who exist in the same world as their progenitors
  • https://twitter.com/TheDemoScout/status/1457602338013728769
• The Tonkachi Editor
  • https://glitchcat7.com/the-complete-history-of-kaizo-mario/
• "There was an Old Man of St. Bees, by W.S. Gilbert
  • https://edwardleartrail.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/there-was-an-old-man-of-st-bees/

Microtopics:

• Capcom vs. Everyone.
• Corpus maintenance.
• Death from Seventh Seal vs. Death from Castlevania.
• Moms teaming up based on both being tagged "mom."
• The philosophy of tagging tools.
• Alt-Universe Prompts Bot.
• Coming up with a list of every character in pop culture.
• The Ryu Number.
• Gary Busey playing himself in Hitman 2.
• Shattered Shield At Shattered Shield.
• Saturday Night Anime on the Sci-Fi channel.
• Roger Ebert's favorite early 90s anime.
• Anime that is just Cyberpunk C-Span.
• Mario's Macross for the SNES.
• Evolutionary bottlenecks in video game design.
• The Akira Bike Slide Tribute.
• A completely ridiculous context in which to invoke the Akira Bike Slide.
• Serious war movie guy plummeting to his death.
• A generic karate guy with similar moves.
• Spoilers for all of Mr. Karate's sons.
• Inventing a new protagonist based on a typo.
• Meeting a savvy and helpful hologram that is a projection of an AI run by the World Trade Organization, and later meeting the pop star the AI is based on and she's a total asshole.
• Meeting the Evil Scooby Doo Gang in the Evil Mystery Mobile.
• A story about the mirror people escaping from behind the mirror and it turns out you were one of them the whole time!!
• Wholesome Comedy Doppelgangers.
• Batzarro, the world's worst detective, who killed his own parents and is trying to solve the murder.
• Planning out your Mario mod on graph paper and then typing it into the hex editor with the Famicom controller.
• Conlon Nancarrow manually cutting strips of paper out of a piano roll.
• Making tiny ROM hacks using the Game Genie.
• The Awakening of Tinkerers.
• A landmark case in IP law.
• Trying out randomly generated Game Genie codes because it's the 90s and you have nothing better to do.
• Hacking Game Genie codes to give you even more lives.
• Parts of the logic which are scrutable.
• Talking about garbage and finding out if it makes it into the show.
• Scrupulously avoiding burning cast.
• Burning Cast Xtreme Fishing.
• A chair with only three legs.
• Playing a glitchy video game and reality starts breaking down in front of you.
• Dumping computational work directly into the framebuffer.
• The episode of That 70s Show that was about circuit-bending Pong.
• When things look like they should rhyme but don't.
• Robot Carnival.
• Rainy weather in San Francisco on this cursed episode of Topic Lords.
• Overthinking the poem.
• The Uncarrot Tarot.
• The clashing colors of slant rhymes.
• Metamagical Themas.
• Jokes you can play musically.
• A disaster episode of Topic Lords.
• The Mote In His Eye.
• Being here for history.