163. The Mean Horse Scenario

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• Mitch
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  • https://www.seximal.net/
• Laura
  • https://twitter.com/lmichet
  • https://cohost.org/lmichet

Topics:

• What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this?
• The Super Mario Wiki is a beacon that other fan wikis should look to for inspiration
• The GTA San Andreas conversation system
• Last Straw, by George Starbuck http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2021/04/george-starbuck-nationalpoetrymonth.html
• The gradual inflation of standard youtube video length

Microtopics:

• Lowercase jan, capital Misali.
• Collecting all 905 Pokemon after 25 years.
• R-rated Pokemon competitor, "Seximals."
• Free-range porn, or legitimate educational resource?
• First impressions of seximal.net.
• Counting up to 99 on your hands.
• College basketball's tactical use of base 6.
• The binary number represented by flipping someone the bird with both hands.
• The Airworld situation.
• A sled pulled by domesticated zombies.
• Solving the tire problem so you can bike around in the post-apocalypse.
• Horses destroying society by kicking every building down with their powerful legs.
• Horsefingers.
• Horseknuckles.
• Being just tall enough for a horse to try to eat your hair.
• Shoveling poop out of the bear bone barn.
• Standards of accuracy and editorial quality in the Super Mario Wiki.
• Niwa, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance.
• What Mario Wiki has to say about the Berlin Wall.
• Abraham Lincoln's place in the Mario Canon.
• Organizing the Marvel Wiki by universe number.
• The most objective possible method of sorting a list of universes.
• Regular Peter Parker vs. Ultimate Peter Parker.
• 10 seconds of scrolling.
• A wealth of information not intended for a phone screen.
• The ontological difference between characters and allies.
• What species exist in the world of Mario?
• Action Toad.
• The wiki article about Baby Mario, a distinct character from the times various Marios have been babies.
• The love child of Bowser and Shigeru Miyamoto.
• Making invitations to your bachelor party with Mario Print World.
• Different forms of pounding your butt on the ground.
• The Ground Pound, also known as the Hip Drop, Pound the Ground attack, Bounce, Butt-Bash, Jump Smash, Smash Attack, and Butt Stomp.
• How wikis get away with not being normalized databases.
• A loose simulacrum of conversation.
• A conversation that takes the form of a hand wave and then a gulf a million miles wide.
• Pausing for several minutes to contemplate whether you've ever eaten octopus for breakfast.
• Fifty ways to say "please don't hit me in the head with that wrench."
• The Heaven's Vault conversation system.
• Ten different voice actors saying the same twenty lines.
• A normal poetry thing.
• Trying to find the poem "The Last Straw" by George Starbuck but Google only wants to show you articles about how Starbucks doesn't have straws any more.
• Poems that use two meters at once.
• Showing the frivolity of the line lengths.
• Back when Youtube videos were limited to ten minutes.
• Just sitting here making feature films by myself.
• Al Gore, the guy who invented the Algorithm.
• Promising things in the show notes that definitely aren't going to go there.
• What happens in an ecosystem where there is no pressure to make your work shorter.
• People who have time to watch a three hour Youtube video.
• Watching a movie over the course of a week, ten minutes at a time.
• Multitasking poorly.
• How to find people on Cohost.