• Megan
  • https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/
• Austin
  • https://austinmwav.com/

Topics:

• Going for a super long walk is amazing
• "Elevated" horror is a sham
• I was there when Every 5x5 Nonogram section 303 finished
• NPC Dialog Test by Nintendo Europe #NintendoEurope
  • https://x.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1863976914349621280
• My breakfast dogma
• Not bringing my shitpost music/mashup ideas to life because I'm afraid they'll be more popular than my actual music

Microtopics:

• Music for films and video games.
• The Paper Labyrinths theme.
• Feeding your cats and yourself.
• Exercising, drinking water, you know, all of the worst things.
• Explaining to the doctor that you're depressed and he asks if you've been eating well and exercising and you say "no, because I've been depressed."
• Turning 35 and becoming interested in birds.
• Shazam for birds.
• Birdpilled and Avianmaxxing.
• Taking the L in Chicago and eating Dick's in Seattle.
• Cream cheese on a hot dog.
• The late Chicago on a Bun.
• Regional food that you get outside of the region.
• St. Louis style barbecue.
• Ordering Jack in the Box at 1am and regretting it immediately because you are in your 30s.
• Eating a spicy chicken sandwich in the prime gremlin hours.
• Feeling bad because you ate bad.
• Forty years later, thinking "Maybe I shouldn't have eaten all that White Castle"
• The kind of person who would call himself a genius.
• Sometimes it's fun to be goofy and have fun.
• Horror movies vs. anxiety movies.
• Media imbibers.
• The film critic opinions of your Trekkie mom.
• The high audience score, low critic score, and vice versa.
• Applauding a huge pile of garbage.
• Whether anyone ever self-applied the "IDM" genre.
• The Oscar Genre.
• Very good movies nominated for Oscars.
• Braindance.
• Cringe (Derogatory)
• The only good form of multiplayer.
• One of the hominids that watched a different great ape figure out fire.
• What happens when they run out of nonograms?
• Morons welcome!
• Twitch plays Every 5x5 Nonogram.
• Twitch plays Dark Souls never getting out of that pool of water in the tutorial area.
• Every star going out at the same time.
• In the short run, everyone will be fine.
• Getting bored of your death anxiety.
• Life is meaningless and nothing matters and that rules actually.
  
• Extremely sensible anxieties.
• Setting an alarm to periodically tell your friend that you're not annoying and I don't hate you.
• Whether everyone should be afraid of heights.
• A database of all the kinds of movements a rollercoaster can make so you can search for the types you like.
• Do you ever get thirsty? Studies say people with ADHD need to drink water.
• Taking a drug test at your job and worrying that the test people will notice that you're dehydrated.
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog in all caps.
• Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD.
• There really are castles in the eyes of people see them.
• Role-playing the skeleton of Ben Shapiro in a D&D campaign.
• What's the difference between being an asshole and role playing an asshole?
• The 'shopkeepers are not copyeditors" apostrophe.
• Eating your breakfast burrito over the counter.
• Things that people say are good for your mental health.
• Anxiety medication that gives you terrible nightmares.
• Your anxiety meds making you feel okay about the zombie apocalypse.
• Revenge bedtime procrastination.
• The kidnapping advice episode. (FBI don't listen to this one.)
• Kids are funny. (Just trust us.)
• Playing in a band with your best friend for fifteen years.
• Kids: they're sticky everywhere.
• Never making any shitposts because someone might like them better than your regular art.
• Receiving a series of increasingly aggressive answering machine messages from the piece of public art across the street from your apartment.

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• Megan
• Lexi

Topics:

• Erik Satie's performance indications
  • https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=4497
• Instant food from other cultures (why isn't everyone eating maggi noodles??)
• Seasonal decorations
• Delhi Metro
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/17k75ftxEn2xR-tJkLSV4H8st5BFAxPNxE3BNCXDI6Go/edit
• Becoming Immortal by being predictable
• Living in different climates (e.g. my experiences with the harsh winters of Chicago vs sweltering Austin TX summers)

Microtopics:

• Music implementation for The Lamplighters League.
• Watching a streamer play games and asking them for a turn at the controls.
• How to pronounce "Erik Satie."
• How to pronounce "Gymnopedies."
• Finding 100 umbrellas in your dead friend's apartment.
• A list of Satie's performance indications.
• Grandly forgetting the present.
• With your bones dry and distant.
• Playing music with your forehead.
• Doing something to a piano.
• Your boss sending a memo asking you to work with a shy piety.
• Pizzicato vs. Bartok pizzicato.
• Adding the hamburger so it's not just Helper.
• What instant foods are missing from your food vocabulary.
• Adding heavy cream to ramen broth.
• Getting an apron so you can have a little costume when you cook.
• Realizing that when you wear the apron you don't get food on your shirt.
• A big bib for Big Jim.
• Normalizing scoop bibs.
• Kraft Dinner.
• Halal certified instant stir fry noodles.
• Ramen in a cup or ramen where you provide your own container.
• Insurance Mac.
• Canned cheeseburgers.
• A boring house with nothing on it.
• Movable feasts.
• Keeping those 12-foot skeletons in your yard and decorating it seasonally.
• The beetles that clean bones for you.
• Recreational Explosives Day.
• A Zachtronics programming puzzle for every holiday.
• A movable feast where you don't eat.
• Decorating your house to celebrate Toyotathon.
• Falling for strangers and their blue hair.
• A poem that is long if you read it but short if you recite it.
• Taking public transit as an act of defiance.
• A gift that is impossible to give yourself on purpose.
• Inventing a shower proof phone so nobody ever has shower thoughts again.
• Putting your phone in a Ziploc bag and watching movies underwater.
• Sitting down at your computer and getting stuck.
• Hacking your executive function by adding friction in the right places.
• Whether Wellbutrin gives everyone tinnitus or just you.
• Death hacks for staying mentally connected to your dead relatives.
• A service that puts your podcast on vinyl.
• Using CRISPR to infect the cockroach population with 229 episodes of Topic Lords.
• Moving to a land where your snot doesn't freeze.
• Not trusting your own weather opinions.
• Surprising yourself by enjoying seasons.
• Driving in icy conditions.
• Standing under the heated lamps like a lizard.
• Waiting for the bus in the dark.
• Learning to drive after you move to a city with public transit.
• Not driving with kids.
• Getting rid of all the bots.
• Sgt. Pepper Bot.

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