349. Life Finds a Way (To Scratch Its Nose)

Lords:

• Cort
• Martin
  • https://steamcommunity.com/app/2111550

Topics:

• What does Thomas The Tank Engine do when he gets an itchy nose?
• The end of Destiny
• Glittermitten Grove's undisclosed AI content
• Iroha
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha
• I need to add bears to my threat model
• What thing would you like to be entangled with?

Microtopics:

• Setting arbitrary deadlines to get things done and taking them seriously.
• Lord Walker.
• Writing 20 songs in 12 hours.
• Schrodinger's Cat Burglar.
• A video game that everyone in the world will love.
• Jimbo and the Jet Set.
• Soulful butt-licking.
• Do Fish Itch?
• What twisted idiot god would make a fish itch.
• The cosmology of Thomas the Tank Engine.
• Itchy planes flying very close to a mountain so they can scratch their faces.
• Whether trains can die in the Thomas the Tank Engine universe.
• Trains trying to live up to human standards of beauty.
• Pixar Cars needing eye surgery.
• Destiny's Final Update.
• Patrolling the moon in search of wizards.
• T-shirts with the insignias of obscure PVP factions.
• The logo of a football team that doesn't exist.
• Destiny shipping as MusicPlayerDemo.exe.
• Six people at the peak of their skill doing weird crap.
• Extremely obscure, elaborate secrets in MMOs.
• The CEO wanting to write a bunch of game lore so the developers have to find a place for him to put it
• Deliberately burning yourself out on an MMO and then deleting it forever.
• Vaulting Justifications.
• Clarity of Biome.
• Great ideas for a company that has infinite resources.
• RuneScape Modern and RuneScape Classic.
• Quitting WoW with your fiancee because you have a wedding to plan.
• The additional fee Blizzard charges for hosting your wedding inside of World of Warcraft.
• Fantasy heroin vs. Sci-Fi heroin.
• Stephepoa, Jasquosius, Dovanice and Jixandlia.
• Little dudes persisting between missions, if they survive.
• Naming all the fish after your Kickstarter backers.
• Doing all the same things the target your satirizing does, except you're doing them ironically.
• Lemmings as a squad-based tactical war game.
• A joyous approach to an anti-war message that makes war seem like a ton of fun.
• Violating the Geneva Convention by putting the Red Cross in Duke Nukem 3D.
• The video game that has committed the most real life war crimes.
• Poems you can't look at.
• Arriving today at the deep mountains of evanescent existence.
• Perfect pangrams.
• How they decided on the order of the Japanese phonetic alphabet.
• Who does Shakespeare think he is?
• Localizing Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffallo into foreign languages.
• Poorly localized advertising campaigns.
• Who is the Pilot?
• Reading Kingdom Hearts sequel titles as poetry.
• A Language Built for Poetry.
• Coyotes begrudgingly scampering away after you honk loud enough.
• A small family of black bears walking down your street and effortlessly demolishing all your trash cans.
• Dressing your dogs up like bear cubs so the mama bear takes care of them.
• How are you going to keep your trash safe?
• Trying to design a trash can lid that can be operated by a drunk human but not by a smart bear.
• Putting up bear crossing signs on every street in hopes that you'll discourage traffic driving through your neighborhood.
• What is this, an overpass for bears?!
• A salmon tube but for bears.
• Things in nature that want to kill you that you routinely interact with.
• Animals that are great except they have way too many legs.
• Entangled Burglars.
• Sharing thoughts and sensory inputs over long distances.
• Wrapping yourself in mummy wrappings so nobody can observe you directly.
• The Timid Butthole.
• Where does the cat end and the cat fur begin?
• Sneaking into the archives and discovering a picture of your dad's butthole in the files and wondering "How did they get this? Why do they have this?"
• The Three Names of an Elf.
• Why Cort is one of the most researched developers on Mobygames.