262. Real Meal, Fictional Man

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October 28th, 2024

1 hr 10 mins 55 secs

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Lords:

  • CisHetKayFaber
  • Maxx

Topics:

  • Food-focused Japanese TV
  • If "fish don't exist," then how do pescetarians?
  • PicoSteveMo is back!
  • https://wikipoem.org/
  • Verisimilitude in play (My daughter plays GTA and Roblox) (The shifting nature of what is appropriate for children)

Microtopics:

  • Emotionally connecting with a dying web site and meeting up with other users in Seattle.
  • What the Cohost diaspora is doing to do.
  • Drive-by bad opinions.
  • Where people live in Australia, on average.
  • CSS Crimes.
  • Using external image hosts to continue blogging on Cohost after it is in read-only mode.
  • URL shortening services reusing old links.
  • Meeting up with people you have a loose association with and having a good time together.
  • The Bowling League Mafia taking up every lane every day with tournaments so nobody else can bowl.
  • A TV drama where a traveling salesman keeps being hungry at different train stations.
  • Seeing a meal that looks delicious but you're full and can't eat a whole nother meal.
  • Whether food becomes fictional as soon as you eat it.
  • Watching satellite TV on your flip phone.
  • OneSeg.
  • Your email address being owned by your phone carrier.
  • A phone that closes and has great battery life.
  • The golden age of food-focused broadcast TV.
  • A celebrity who's interested in food goes and eats at a restaurant.
  • This Burger Weighs 30 Pounds!
  • Midnight Diner.
  • The Karate Kid but with ramen.
  • Watching a Youtube of the video gamers.
  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Food.
  • Whether pescetarians exist.
  • The researchers in the shark lab you used to work at calling dolphins fish.
  • Fish eyes: nature's boba.
  • A block of gouda floating in the ocean.
  • Fish that stop being fish when you think about it too hard.
  • Disagreeing with beavers about what tree to cut down, but you're conflict avoidant so the beaver always wins.
  • Haven't we all argued with beavers?
  • Crows stealing the naan out of your naan and curry.
  • Jungle Crows who sound like an adult man doing an impression of crows.
  • Crows who are really good at Japanese T9.
  • The nets you put over your garbage that can't possibly keep the crows out.
  • Picking Steves from a continuity standpoint.
  • Finding any excuse to make a Stephen King Sokoban.
  • Deliberately awkward control schemes.
  • A thousand prototyping girls in space.
  • A poem without any line breaks in it.
  • The zine era of web design, when people would just type HTML and it would become a web page.
  • Phrases that make sense locally but not globally.
  • A comedian who is in lots of things.
  • The kind of poem you'd get if you put a poem on a wiki.
  • The kind of thing that would probably be read on this show.
  • The kind of web site that you'd run into when you're doing an ARG.
  • Installing Roblox on the PS5 to teach your daughter to read English better.
  • Playing a game with purple vomiting everywhere.
  • The ways a 7 year old interacts with a Grand Theft Auto.
  • Teaching yourself how to drive in Grand Theft Auto and obeying all the traffic laws.
  • Not shielding your kid from media but talking to them about it instead.
  • Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens.
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