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362. It's Me, Your Own Guy

September 28th, 2026

1 hr 15 mins 40 secs

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  • Plugging purposes.
  • Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn.
  • August 3rd until the end of linear time.
  • If you like moving pixels entering your eyeballs, you'll love this Youtube series.
  • Dulcet apple pie.
  • The Super Mario Wiki Mario Awards.
  • Everyone's second-least favorite Mario thing.
  • Calling a thing mediocre when you don't want to admit that it's good
  • Using a botnet to convince everyone that "dogshit" is a laudatory word.
  • Words more laudatory than "perfect."
  • Stealing an idea from someone who also stole it.
  • Playing exactly one Mario level a day.
  • Youtube banning a certain kind of video because it's too cool.
  • Personally knowing everyone who watches your Youtube channel.
  • How hard it is to get Youtube to show you channels with less than 20 views a day.
  • Rhythm Heavens: there are five of them now!
  • A rhythm roguelike where you fight enemies by dancing at them.
  • How to play Rhythm Heaven if you don't have a Switch.
  • The Rhythm Heaven Groove developers apologizing about latency issues and then doing nothing to fix them.
  • Rhythm games with excellent lag calibration facilities.
  • The screen reader robot getting morose and depressed when you turn it off.
  • Blind people playing Rhythm Heaven Groove.
  • Blind-accessible video games.
  • Lesbian Beatspell lore.
  • Dodging the time warp and ending up in the future.
  • Making the show more lovable so listeners spontaneously do thankless rote data entry tasks.
  • Explaining to grandma what a podcast is every time you see her.
  • Shoutcast stations.
  • Going to bat for vods.
  • Incidental line breaks.
  • A poem that's a poem in the same way that an open-faced sandwich is a sandwich.
  • Come on, thankless Topic Subject!
  • The 55% of Tumblr users that read a poll before answering it.
  • Being on your way to go to a building.
  • Explaining important context in tiny text.
  • Maintaining a list of alternative titles of Mario games.
  • Survey techniques that come off as condescending.
  • Super Mario DVD menu games.
  • Hiring people to localize your gimmick Mario survey into EFIGS.
  • Mario the blunt object.
  • The Paper Mario Sticker Star inflection point.
  • Whether the Japanese Super Mario Portal would classify Fire Emblem as an RPG.
  • Coming up with examples of things that aren't video games but also aren't funny to call a video game.
  • The Choose Your Own Adventure Interactive DVD.
  • Whether Black Mirror Bandersnatch is a video game.
  • Whether mayonnaise is a video game.
  • Quest for the Rings for the Odyssey 2.
  • Asking someone to make you a sandwich without specifying what kind of sandwich.
  • Deciding that you like video games and therefore video games that you don't like aren't actually video games.
  • Smashing binaries.
  • A film is something that has Freddie Krueger in it.
  • Gamers vs. Moviegoers.
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