284. Spotting A Wild Misogyny

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March 31st, 2025

1 hr 17 mins 54 secs

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  • Mitch from jan Misali.
  • The episode where we have beef.
  • The milk frother attachment to the chain staff.
  • The milk frother is DLC you pay extra for that milk frother.
  • Hearing about Ursula Leguin for the first time.
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
  • The Clock Before Armageddon.
  • Solving sexism, here on Topic Lords.
  • Living long enough to discover a new favorite sci-fi author.
  • What's interesting about Sapphire for the PC Engine, other than the price?
  • Dreams of gutting the collectors market.
  • Spending $2,000 on a rare game and trying to convince itself it's good enough to justify the price.
  • A game that is not very rare but it's still expensive because it's so good that people want to keep it.
  • Deciding at the last minute to not use motion controls for your Wii rhythm game.
  • Erdos numbers preceding Bacon numbers because of course it was mathematicians who came up with that shit.
  • What counts as a Bacon Connection.
  • A character who has been in a lot of crossover games.
  • The de facto authority on Ryu numbers.
  • Whether the frog at the end of TXT World is the same as the game from Frog Fractions.
  • Whether Hatricia from the Hat DLC is the same as the cat the wedding dress in the photo at the end of TXT World.
  • The British buy who wears a red shirt.
  • The ever-shifting discourse for what counts as a connection for Scott Numbers.
  • Adding rules to make a trivial game into a non-trivial game.
  • White men who have had a long Youtube career.
  • Whether Ryu has a surname.
  • Stephen Hawking's Sabbath number.
  • Movies and plays tending to tell different stories whereas recorded and live music tends to be the same music.
  • The hypothetical guy whose favorite movie is just one where they pointed a camera at a stage play.
  • Why do people love squats?
  • Doing a 500 pound deadlift to get out of bed.
  • Doing one exercise to get better at a slightly related exercise.
  • Fucking up your knees by getting out of a chair repeatedly.
  • Doing the old heave-ho thing to get out of a chair.
  • The Inherently Beautiful Design of Everyday Objects, by Bonald Normag.
  • Watching the X-Files with your wife.
  • Aged Like Me.
  • Putting your knees under the chair and standing up, and unbending your knees pushes the chair backwards and it falls over, but you're upright, and then like the punching bags with sand at the bottom the chair bounces back up and hits you in the ass so you don't even need to work to start walking.
  • A wheelchair with an extremely gentle ejection seat.
  • Why obese people have worse COVID outcomes.
  • How to make a bed that fat people want to lie in face-down.
  • A.C. Slatering.
  • Why isn't Jim an industrial designer?
  • Applying for an industrial design job and putting sharks on your resume.
  • Poob has it for you.
  • Screenshotting a Tumblr post and cropping out the username to post it on Tiktok and claiming that it's something your therapist told you.
  • The ghost you're talking about waving its hands in your face being like "I'm right here!"
  • Tumblr eras.
  • The event that convinced the Tumblr community that Tumblr users should not ever be in charge of anything.
  • The people who left Tumblr when they banned porn and then came back when Elon Musk bought Twitter.
  • The Tumblr Funnymen.
  • The Tumblr CEO personally harassing trans women off of Tumblr.
  • Someone who looks like they've been deactivated.
  • The miracle of Tumblr still being online.
  • The Poster's Curse.
  • Bucket, where are you?
  • A jumble of keywords that someone might hypothetically search for.
  • Distinctly amateurish outsider art in a way that only a human could create.
  • Beatboxing puppy!
  • A contextless segue into a musical number.
  • An hour long trailer for a twenty minute movie.
  • A movie made by people who were figuring out 3D animation as they were making it.
  • Legally distinct Marios rapping.
  • Being anti-AI art because you are extremely pro copyright law.
  • The beatboxing puppy scene that everybody forgot about.
  • It's cool when people make art.
  • Four consecutive narrators all explaining the same concepts in slightly different ways that slightly contradict each other.
  • A movie asking you to watch it over and over to pump up its numbers.
  • Wanting to see a sequel to "OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist" because you want to know what the title will be.
  • Complaining that Amazing Digital Circus is more important than your own movie.
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