254. Help Me Get Over The Pervert Hump
September 2nd, 2024
1 hr 5 mins 31 secs
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Lords:
- Ryan
- Alicia
Topics:
- How do I ask people what they're into without sounding like a pervert?
- Arctic Expeditions and the stupid beauty of man's hubris
- Asterix Park
- I Won't Call You Pretty, by L.E. Bowman
- I sent this poem to my wife and she immediately responded by writing one addressed to me that was just as good, so, that's the person I married.
Microtopics:
- How to work as a freelance creative without burning yourself out.
- The me who comes up if you google me.
- The black egg who knows all.
- A huge egg with a second smaller egg in it.
- The chickens who got no credit for inventing the Matrioshka doll.
- Pluto: still a planet, because a dwarf planet is a kind of planet.
- Team Moon.
- Ancient Occult Magicks that you can check out from the library.
- Giving up on the fairy smut everyone is recommending because it isn't smutty enough.
- The air I just breathed.
- One of my Top 5 Zeldas.
- How many goes you get at being alive.
- Luring Moongrum into the rolling boulder trap.
- Bracing to hear about some online stuff.
- Conference season in the game industry.
- Meeting someone at a conference and asking them a question that Black Philip would ask.
- How to Unfuck your Sales.
- Content you Enjoyed.
- Who are the coolest hangs in game dev?
- Working with people you know and trust.
- The Pervert's Mound.
- Imagine if I was cool.
- Wearing a sandwich board with the word "MONOGAMY" on it so the woman you're talking to knows you're not hitting on her.
- Refusing to answer random innocuous questions so that it's not a tacit admission of guilt when you refuse to discuss an accusation.
- Birthday bookshop tours.
- Climbing as an act of disrespect to the mountain.
- The HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus.
- Peak British Colonialism.
- Ignoring the locals' advice about what parts of animals to eat.
- Sledging around your silverware.
- Getting lead poisoning from the canned food you brought with you to find the Northwest Passage.
- A cool pantsless mummy.
- Paradoxical Undressing.
- Having a hard time climbing Mount Everest because the path is choked with corpses of white people who blew it.
- Oops, All Antarctic Ship Crashes.
- Getting excited about bookshelves again.
- Stepping forward into whatever the next grift is going to be.
- Asterix the Gaul.
- Localizing a book that is full of puns to dozens of different languages.
- Not getting jokes in the English version of the Simpsons because the Swedish version of the Simpsons uses a completely different set of pop culture references.
- What would an Asterix theme park look like?
- Riding in a big inner tube down the lazy river.
- Elder Millenials learning about Skibidi Toilet.
- Asterix Park is the world's 12th largest economy.
- My brain beans are really getting steamed, here.
- Building an empire on that mustache.
- Watching POV rollercoaster videos with your five year old.
- Refusing to get in the sea.
- Going up to strangers and asking what percentage of the sea is fish piss.
- Weekend at Bernie's-ing your friend's corpse to Asterix Park.
- What style of underwear Zeus is wearing today.
- Who makes Zeus's underwear?
- Eating the boar sandwich at Asterix Park.
- Tasting the terror sweat on the wild boar you just hunted down.
- The little bald kid from the comics page has a theme park??
- Pirates of the Carabiner.
- Sailing through a diorama.
- The theme park ride with the sudden drop into a pool of mercury.
- The Haunted Garfield Theme Park.
- DeFuncoland.
- Jon trying to get with the veterinarian lady he's into and Garfield ruining it.
- Let's-plays as a service.
- You won't believe what happens when these Muppets swarm Treasure Island.
- A movie recap that is 80% of the length of the movie.
- Flirting tricks.
- The violence of being struck by Cupid's arrow.
- Complimenting someone on something they have no control over.
- Good luck getting any continuity out of me!