323. The Astigmaprism
December 29th, 2025
1 hr 13 mins 28 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Ryan
- CisHetKayfaber
Topics:
- My vocal stims are getting out of control now that I don't have pets.
- Training to become a Tetris Grandmaster
- Switching to not-bifocals
- Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Microtopics:
- Introducing yourself or plugging something.
- Going to Cape Town for Playtopia.
- Enemies to enemies to lovers.
- A game conference with a name that sounds way too much like Fruitopia.
- What you would do for an Orbitz right now.
- An apple juice with basil seeds ensconced in it, like an Orbitz.
- I'm not mean, I'm just trying to manifest bullying.
- Semisolid Kind of Life.
- A dog following you into the kitchen and acting like a Ghostbusters trap except for all your bullshit rather than ectoplasm.
- The movie about the prep school kids who poop on the floor at their magic school.
- Making yourself laugh by doing a Gollum voice while you make a sandwich.
- Hanging up a happy face on the fridge and writing "mirror" on top of it to convince yourself that you're okay.
- An action figure that absorbs all the dark energy aimed at you.
- Giving advice to someone that you really have no basis for.
- The dog who loved your terrible celebrity impressions and the dog who gives you a look like "I expected more of you"
- Your online source for news about what water parks Jim and his family went to.
- The kind of Tetris that you become s grandmaster in.
- Tetris but the pieces don't fall, they just instantly appear at the bottom of the well.
- How the Tetris company wants you to play Tetris.
- Delayed Auto-Shift.
- Doing a hadouken move to place the zigzag piece in the correct column.
- Stack faster, stack better.
- A skill you can practice and get better at.
- Training for three or four hours a day on a hacked PlayStation Vita to become a Tetris Grandmaster.
- How the Tetris the Grandmaster community feels about leverless controls.
- Going several years between occasions to say hello to your wife.
- Going for a walk around the block so you have an excuse to say hello to your wife when you get back.
- Seeing a person and immediately infodumping at them.
- What they have now instead of bifocals.
- Training your eyes to look through the part of the lens that does the thing.
- Going to the optometrist and saying "just fuck me up"
- Why they don't make bifocals for text at the distance of a computer monitor.
- There's still time, and there's dignity.
- Watching the VOD of your own death because you missed the livestream.
- Getting used to your vision swimming in a new way when you get new glasses.
- Getting an eye exam and saying "I'd rather not say" when they ask you what letters you see.
- Freeballing your corneas.
- A fellow glasses enjoyer.
- A cursed gem that gives you astigmatism.
- Doing the Magic Eye thing in order to learn to read.
- Being born a trust fund kid, except it's your eyeballs.
- The return of the quarter speed music video.
- Even slower slow motion.
- Why can't Eagle-Eye Cherry crawl?
- Wondering why you haven't leaped yet.
- Singing to the camera while being robbed.
- Watching music videos at 1.5x speed as practice for watching them at .25x speed.
- Suddenly the dog takes its mask off and it was Eagle-Eye Cherry the whole time!
- Promising to eat your glasses frames on camera.
- Forgetting how cool your whole premise is and just stopping doing it.
- Literal music videos.
- A houseplant can't save shit. A houseplant doesn't know what time it is.
- People running around New York and looking sad at the camera.
- Buck Cherry. (Named after Chuck Berry.)