112. Getting A Lot Of Vengabus Vibes From This

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December 13th, 2021

52 mins 17 secs

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  • 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.
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