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356. ICANN has Cheezburger?

August 17th, 2026

1 hr 3 mins 40 secs

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  • The cheezburger TLD.
  • A show that has a big reputation to live up to because the name sounds similar to Totoro.
  • Prehensile rainbow hair.
  • Sensible anime naming logic.
  • A little guy running around like in a video game, except in real life.
  • Matter Senators, the only place on the Internet you can hear matters discussed.
  • Issue Ombudspeople, the only place on the Internet you can hear issues discussed.
  • Agnes Tachyon. (Agnes is his surname.)
  • Mailbox Baseball.
  • Making a new mailbox post out of a 1 foot diameter oil drilling pipe.
  • The floral anatomy of a mailbox.
  • The neighborhood in Albuquerque that has the least destructible mailboxes.
  • An iron iceberg embedded in the sidewalk tearing a gash in your RV.
  • Wikipedia redirecting your search for Mailbox Baseball to the page for Property Crime.
  • Calling your daughter to let her know you've just sent her an email.
  • Overengineering your mailbox by an order of magnitude in every respect.
  • A Vault-Tec vault but for mail.
  • Low level Nintendo 64 emulation.
  • Sending a display list to the Reality Signal Processor.
  • Trying to do N64 development when the development hardware is in a different building from your computer.
  • Working on web apps and wishing you could be working on folding space time.
  • Shoveling pixels from one memory location to another.
  • Losing track of the state of Nintendo 64 emulation because you have to remodel your house.
  • Predicting a console's success by whether it uses bespoke off-the-shelf parts.
  • Putting a value in the zero index in a Lua array.
  • An Youtube video that is old enough to vote.
  • Bidirectional groan tubes.
  • Shaking the groan tube.
  • Making a mace by attaching a Moo Box to the end of the Groan Tube.
  • 10 hours of silence occasionally broken by groan tube.
  • Ranking the best groan tube moments.
  • Attaching 100 groan tubes to my wife's car's exhaust pipe.
  • Alfred E. Groantube.
  • Wikipedia articles with videos.
  • The UPS guy carrying around a huge box of Moo Boxes.
  • A Muffled Cacophony of Christmas Crap.
  • A big box fancy liquor store.
  • A building in the vicinity of a cheeseburger office.
  • Muzak World HQ.
  • The Cure doing a faithful cover of the Front Mission 2 Window Color Configuration Menu.
  • My eyes are grayscale but your hair is more purply grayscale.
  • A game that was criticized for its long loading times.
  • A poem about long Playstation loading times.
  • Lords Get In Free.
  • The death of Youtube videos just showing the UI of video games.
  • Get Medieval (1998)
  • The hardest era of PC gaming to run a game from.
  • The sort of thing someone might post in the Topic Lords discord.
  • Refusing to read the Mothman's Ass bumper sticker because you might do it as a poem someday.
  • Solving puzzles inspired by Rube Goldberg machines.
  • Porting a game to Windows Forms.
  • Finally finding out why Tim pronounced the title that way.
  • Consulting Wikipedia before making life decisions.
  • Going back in time to tell your past self that The Incredible Machine 2 is the same game and way easier to emulate.
  • MT-32 if you're lucky, Adlib if you're unlucky, PC speaker if you're even less lucky.
  • Asking Claude for the recipe for napalm from the Anarchist's Cookbook and it's just as accurate as you remember.
  • Downloading text files from textfiles.com
  • Files that you should not follow.
  • A 40 column text file on how to make a dust bomb.
  • Learning how to download porn from Usenet.
  • Undocumented features of TRS-80 BASIC.
  • How to get a free account on Compuserve.
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