173. How Much Anxiety Does Your Car Have?

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Lords:

• Maxx
• Tyriq

Topics:

• Nancy and having a continuous tone for a hundred years
• Recommendations
• Adding trinkets to other people's time capsules
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/705362430786748416/guooey-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky

Microtopics:

• Looking down a lot while you're on a walk.
• What is this Meta for?
• Discovering that there is a cliff and having a brief high-octane experience.
• Sitting on the bus and saying the lore of the land.
• A lego minifig that you found on the street.
• Fritzi Ritz.
• Making millennial shitposts in the 1930s.
• Being wholesomely surreal for a hundred years.
• Accruing canon.
• Simple archetypes that have been honed to a point.
• Writing a new punchline to the same joke every day for a hundred years.
• Comics going on two silent retreats, one for the setup (at a monastery) and the other for the punchline (at an empty lot)
• Coronation St.
• The kids we met in 1964.
• Whether South Park is still a thing.
• Finding success at a young age and staying the same person for the rest of your life.
• Retirement or Blade Runner Retirement?
• User Friendly.
• Web comics that started when the hardest part about making a web comic is uploading an image to the internet.
• Web comics going from having bad art to having good art.
• Telling someone to like art other than the art they like.
• Politely accepting advice and then ignoring it.
• Speaking into the void to ask for music recommendations.
• If you don't see it, that's what you paid for.
• Delivering Nancy comics daily for over 100 years.
• Working on the same game for 10 years even though you like different kinds of games now.
• Working within the framework of past you.
• Every page of a webcomic as a collage of all the previous pages.
• Pokey the Penguin: updated sporadically.
• Enjoying a webcomic a lot.
• Weird semi-robot creatures.
• Haribogosean.
• Recommending someone a nice leaf.
• Wanting to accept recommendations but hating them viscerally.
• Tricking music recommendations into someone's life like a fairy tale gremlin.
• Introducing hot jams to the people of the future.
• Burying a can of cheese for a hundred years.
• Extra old tardigrades.
• A sealed piggy bank where if you want to get the tardigrades out you have to smash it on the floor.
• Opening up your terrarium every so often to swap out the moss.
• This wholesome man with this forty year old bottle ecosystem.
• The most advanced level of mummification, in which you become a mannequin.
• Dumping a pile of garbage in the forest and leaving it to your children in your will.
• The Artemis Program.
• Returning to the moon to get the geocache back.
• Inserting a completely fictional topic into the historical record.
• Wax House, Baby!
• A fake fact about the world that has been purged from Wikipedia but is still everywhere that scraped the data from Wikipedia.
• Chosts from chostville.
• The age of monetizing all your hobbies.
• Trying to make a human connection via your art.
• Digging up, modifying, and reburying other people's time capsules even though nobody's paying you to do it.
• Keeping your citizens happy and healthy.
• An intentionally altered view of how automated clothing production is.
• Going on a journey together with a robot.
• Cozy books entirely lacking in high-octane moments.