128. Intermittent Fasting Kirby

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Lords:

• Jenni
• Chris
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Topics:

• Every tree in this desert is a bean
  
• The statute of limitations on spoilers implies a social contract where we agree to consume media as soon as it's available instead of consuming it at the right time for ourselves
  
• This list of words that men know but women don't, and vice versa
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9/tables/2
  • https://twitter.com/v21/status/1372635082205364226/photo/1
• Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
  • https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/percy-bysshe-shelley/ozymandias/
  • https://twitter.com/PateraQuetzaI/status/1156300892733243392
• 41 out of 42 people start life with some time to chill by themselves in the womb but twins don't, what's that like
  
• Oldschool AD&D is hard to start but ultimately less video/board gamey which is great
  
• Wordle speed runs are surprisingly riveting
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4qPtOelv8

Microtopics:

• Plugging every Xalavier Nelson game.
• Standing in a three bean soup.
• Everyone's favorite Fire Emblem hero, Spiky Ball Tree.
• Sweetgum.
• Producing liquid amber but not calling it liquid amber for trademark reasons.
• Whether it's possible to have green wood.
• A traumatic formative art school experience that you take out on trees for the rest of your life.
• Ablative armor.
• Spoilers for the first novel ever written.
• Seeing Empire Strikes Back dozens of times in the theater while in the womb.
• A spoiler policy that makes people hate you.
• Getting consent to gaslight your girlfriend about movies she hasn't watched.
• Picking a movie line to be the only joke you ever say.
• The list of movies for which there is no statute of limitations on spoilers.
• Using a pen knife to cut open your forearm to reveal the servomotors inside any time there's a lull in the conversation.
• The SpoilOrbs.
• Inventing the video game haptics to allow a game designer to kick you in the balls.
• Kittencore Dark Souls.
• Junji-ito's cat diary.
• Clutter in movies.
• Hiring excellent schlubby actors.
• Back when it was notable and interesting that Linda Hamilton got fit for Terminator 2.
• Getting an AI on the job.
• Laura Panini.
• Live coding skeletal animation.
• Rotating around a creepy lady.
• Asking if anyone's seen something but nobody has.
• When you push the button on the monitor and it goes all wibbly wobbly for a second.
• A list going there.
• A word that you only know if you read a lot of G.K. Chesterson.
• Little Kirbys that help you out in the event of a prolapse.
• How nobody in the UK knows what "goober" or "wine gums" means.
• Abseiling and rappelling.
• Putting "kerbside" on a list of words that Americans don't know.
• Polearms that were descended from boar hunting.
• Asking a thousand Americans to say yes or no to every word in the dictionary.
• The Katana Yakuza Thesis.
• Reading poetry in a funny voice.
• The kind of person who would end a poem with a semicolon.
• Reciting a poem about a guy you met yesterday who told you most of the poem.
• Hearing from a guy about a rotting stump of a conquest.
• Writing a poem where you meet a guy who tells you about a song that used to be on his iPod that you can no longer download from mp3 dot com.
• Yelling at a long dead poet about punctuation.
• Poetry about not knowing something but it's unclear whether nobody knows the thing or if it's just the poet's personal ignorance.
• Painting ancient Greek statues flesh-colored.
• Percy Shelley the nonsense man.
• Smash Mouth cancelling their concert at your county fair after they got famous.
• How to pronounce "shewed"
• What's wrong with looking upon me?
• 23 And Me informing you that you have a mom.
• The familial incest tab on 23 And Me.
• Twins: There's Two Of Them.
• Twins in the womb listening to the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack and elbowing each other.
• A person who could exist and would be attractive.
• Geocities turn of the century vibes.
• The t-shirt that Jim's wife bought him.
• How Futurama made the name "Hubert" cool but "Pubert" is still no good.
• Having six kids and naming them all Pubert.
• Naming an ice cream shop "Fucklers" because who can stop you? (The police.)
• Fucklers: Sole Owner of my Name Ice-Creamery.
• The holding company that owns every disused mascot.
• The Hamm's Beer Bear.
• Wordle speed run categories.
• Mathematicians who debunk Minecraft speed runs.
• Trying to invent fake commentary for a sport you know nothing about.
• Yelling advice to recorded speed runs.
• Watching everybody believe Wordle conspiracy theories.
• Comparing notes about reality.
• Preferring having friends over being right.
• The absolute best time to get off of social media.