120. The Mouse Is For Hippies And Slackers
February 7th, 2022
1 hr 1 min 12 secs
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Lords:
- Daniel
- Jonah
Topics:
- Chop socky – when are we gonna get that energy back into the world media producing environment? Also listening to movies instead of watching them.
- The Resident Evil series
- Flettner airplanes
- Double feature:
- The Eel by Ogden Nash https://poetrysplash.tripod.com/ogdennash2.htm
- The Lama, by Ogden Nash https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/poetry/poem-a-day/lama
- Indonesia: The 4th most populous nation on Earth. You never hear about it
- Watching stuff "going into it without hearing anything about it" -- how do people actually do that? Also me walking into a movie theater.
Microtopics:
- A website for dead people who will pay $12/year for as long as they're dead.
- Hummus.
- Whether Inscryption is more popular than hummus.
- Starting a topic with an anecdote.
- Walking around a city with the audio of a movie playing on your headphones.
- Watching a foreign film subbed because you're too cool to realize there's a subbed version in the settings.
- What you notice when you strip the visuals out of a visual medium.
- Porting Doom to ears.
- Whether blind people have their own Steam.
- Going through several iterations of reinventing how you shoot zombies.
- A woman scaled up 2x on every axis.
- Brazil's first new console after the Megadrive.
- Porting Resident Evil 4 to the Megadrive.
- Jim's entire history with the Resident Evil stories.
- A goofy Zelda boss but it's in a horror game for some reason.
- Turning doing donuts in a two car garage into a boss fight.
- Being bad at puzzles that aren't supposed to be puzzles, like how to use this can opener.
- A Flettner airplane made out of KFC buckets.
- The Magnus effect.
- The downside of an airplane that drops like a rock if the engines lose power.
- The world's first portable steamroller.
- An airplane that is heavy enough to create its own runway.
- Putting a dog in the Youtube thumbnail.
- A poem that was short even before you cut the last 25%.
- A joke poem that becomes even more of a joke when you cut out the punchline.
- Dad giving you permission to memorize the shortest possible poem.
- Web design nostalgia.
- Hypertext protocols that predated HTTP.
- How HTTP ate every other hypertext protocol's lunch.
- This thing that was invented in the 70s.
- Tetris the Grand Master, and how it would be better with mouse input.
- Hypothetical keyboard-only interfaces for audio editing software.
- A keyboard macro scripting language thing for transcribing sheet music.
- How to pronounce "Latex"
- Pronouncing the typesetting puns.
- Being surprised when a country has almost as many people as the United States.
- Gamelan.
- Being Indonesian and knowing more about Indonesia than most people.
- Whether modern day Greeks get annoyed when you try to engage them about Greece 2000 years ago.
- Thinking you know where New Zealand is but not.
- Growing up in the US and spending all your geography points on remembering which state is which and not having any left for the rest of the world.
- Talking about yourself in any person.
- Why nobody reviews Frog Fractions games.
- Soda speak.
- Divesting yourself of places you might get spoiled.
- Middling Marvel Movie Buddies.
- How to make choices without having enough information to decide.
- Totally wasting your plug.
- The premier place to send answers to the Inscryption ARG.
- Counting the number of syllables in the sentence that claims to not be an ARG clue.