239. Public Universal Snoopy

Lords:

• Abi
  • https://shielddoespixels.itch.io/
• Eva
  • https://eslee.bandcamp.com/
  • https://eslee.itch.io/
  • https://eslee.dev/portfolio/

Topics:

• Will 2024 be the year of Snoopy girls?
  • https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/will-2024-be-the-year-of-snoopy-girls
  • https://www.deviantart.com/shenki/art/Human-Snoopy-393886831
• Are living fossils inherently better creatures or just really lucky?
• Helious
  • https://www.mobygames.com/game/12740/helious/
  • https://toot.cat/@smp
• Certain Women
  • https://www.hazeljaneplante.com/songbook
• Emulators are finally available for iOS, which is exciting until you realize you have to play Mario 64 with a touchscreen
• Miko asks: "Public Universal Friend"

Microtopics:

• Working through mental struggles in the form of Zelda dungeons.
• Donating to Red Cross for Snoopy Merch.
• Snoopy's place in the cultural zeitgeist.
• Transcending Peanuts.
• Who doesn't want a fun bird friend?
• Crocheting and knitting making a major comeback.
• Every year is the year of Linux on the Desktop.
• Influencers wearing a Snoopy merch.
• NASA sending Snoopy to the Moon.
• Giving your merch to NASA for free but charging the shit out of movie makers trying to make documentaries or authentic space movies.
• Animals that are already so good they didn't need to keep evolving.
• Leaving bacteria off your list because you couldn't even see them.
• A little blobby thing.
• Scientists trying to write for the general public.
• Naming an organism after the concept of having three eyes when it only has two eyes.
• Having two good eyes but evolving a third shitty eye just to annoy people.
• Running executables of completely unknown provenance.
• A game that was plausibly created by aliens if you haven't played very many interesting games.
• Making up an incredible back story for your game to explain why you have no idea why colors work.
• Good Wild Combo vs. Unused Insurance Bonus.
• Looking up the artist of a work you loved in the 90s and they're still out there tooting.
• Wizened game developers posting on social media about their farm animals.
• Designing interfaces for the phone.
• Finding out that a person made a work you loved and preferring to have imagined it came from space.
• Striving to be a cozy follow.
• Retweeting a thing that does not make people angry.
• Putting the poise in poison.
• Inherently terrifying bodies of water.
• A big fish that's touching you now.
• A level of repetition that is bordering on too much.
• Songs of Love, Death and Pleasure.
• Deliberately blurring the line between poems and songs.
• The Emulators-on-iOS era.
• Kirby Canvas Curse.
• Playing Super Mario Land on a TI-84 calculator.
• What old Nintendo games work well on an iPhone.
• The EU repeatedly forcing Apple to get its shit together.
• One- and two-thumbed smartphones.
• The Society of Universal Friends.
• The thought process that led to the creation of Human Snoopy.
• The Cat Snoopy phenomenon.
• Snoopy as a Psychonauts character.
• Snoopy enjoying a pile of human femurs.
• The Notorious PUF.
• Someone who was interesting enough to enter the historical record.
• An attempt to seize the Friend and carry them off in an oxcart.
• The distinction between abstinence and celibacy, and whether it exists now or in the 19th century.
• The Mouth of the Lord.
• Naming yourself after a branch of the government.
• DMing people on Discord.