157. The Boy Who Cried ARG

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Topics:

• The future/present of Jim's mario videos.
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0Ntxnf9mof2tU-QZLQ0Mq6zd
• Catatcomb Kids lore in the context of the fact that I like worldbuilding but find it hard to tell actual stories.
• Bigger Luke
• The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band.
  • http://www.syndicjournal.us/a-ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-60-narrations/ferlinghetti-memorial-supplement-the-green-street-mortuary-marching-band/
• Have you seen any phantom kangaroos? And also: should I choose to believe in cryptids? If so, which ones?

Microtopics:

• Giving someone else's biography.
• 7-Day Roguelikes.
• Feeling ambiently like you are hanging out with somebody.
• An emulator that works when you are not screen-capturing in OBS, but freezes when you are.
• Making a backup of your Bowser's Fury save.
• Video recording setup evolutions.
• The pros and cons of extremely variable video lengths.
• Playing Tony Hawk with Mario modded in.
• What working on a Zelda game does to a person, psychologically.
• Doing things that make people believe you're doing an ARG.
• Twinbeard Rates Mario.
• A robot co-host that eventually starts finishing your words for you.
• Wanting to be a writer until you try writing.
• A world that naturally develops in your brain.
• How to tell stories.
• Coming up with a bunch of characters that want things.
• Reading stories in hopes that stories rub off on you.
• Putting yourself in a situation where you write a lot of dialog trees.
• How to make a platformer without doing any level design.
• Expecting the same person to write the music and the lyrics.
• The difference in the ideation process of world building and story telling.
• A fact about the world that is true.
• Captain Thalmoo surveying the battlefield.
• Figuring out mid-burrito that there was a war, and deciding who won it.
• A grain that flowers like lavender.
• Searching Fiverr for Conlangers.
• Paying $2 for something at the Dollar Store.
• Logging Onto JimNet.
• The Canon Bigger Luke Hypothesis vs. the Hamill Hypothesis.
• The Inch-Luke Hypothesis.
• Inch-Lukers.
• Bigger Luke conspiracy theorists just assume that Han Solo stays the same size.
• The real Skywalker was the bigger Luke all along.
• The Boy Who Cried ARG.
• Promising your wife that your son will not be Frog Fractions 3.
• How many pages of laws a person is subject to at any given time.
• Designing an ARG for your teenage son and he's like "ugh dad, again?"
• Mortuary marching bands.
• The patriarch who has just croaked.
• The sister with the bent frame.
• Uncle Louie with the wig.
• Getting a free concert because someone died.
• A funeral as a pleasant gathering of people you haven't seen in a long time.
• Getting arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg's "Howl."
• Dressing up as an ancient sea captain.
• How many funerals this marching band is playing today.
• Hiring your nephew who has a Casiotone keyboard to play your funeral.
• Hiring the Green Street Mortuary Marching Band to play at your kid's birthday but all they know how to play is Taps.
• Bringing an axe to the funeral in case there's an emergency and you need to open up the coffin quickly.
• If a guitar is an axe, a tuba is a bent axe.
• Unbending the Tuba.
• Why brass instruments are so twisty.
• If you unwind a French horn it'll reach the moon and back.
• The large flutes that are curly.
• The son of a flautist.
• A bookshelf that you blow into and music comes out.
• Potential downsides of cryptids.
• Wanting to take EMF meters into a creepy house even though you don't believe in ghosts.
• The script scientists developed to let you fall in love at will.
• How many blue coins out of five you would rate your wife.
• Taking the Race IAT every week and analyzing your results over time.