262. Real Meal, Fictional Man

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.