175. This Movie Has Marky Mark In It

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Lords:

• Erica
• Jesse

Topics:

• There's a Spanish word which officially cannot be written because the grammar and orthography conflict about how it should spelled/pronounced.
• My personal relationship with Disco Elysium
• Clue II: Murder in Disguise
• All of the Words on a Bottle of Rolling Rock Beer in a Different Order
  • https://expatriotact.blogspot.com/2006/10/poets-corner-demetri-martin.html
• This year's beast of a Mystery Hunt
• Shareable alarms

Microtopics:

• Texans with nothing to plug.
• The Army Corp of Engineers coming to your town and kicking ass.
• No, and no.
• Fuck em, just get a laptop.
• Fact checking the dinner table conversation with your laptop.
• An interaction deemed normal.
• The Spanish double-L sound.
• Finally finding a way that spelling in English is more sensible than spelling in Spanish.
• Desperately avoiding hearing French spoken incorrectly.
• A place that is less like the rest of Canada than any part of the United States is like the United States.
• A good relaxing podcast that leads to substantial academic progress.
• Stormdancer Zero.
• Secret of Monkey Island with additional D&D stat checks and communism.
• Continents not connected to tectonic plates but instead freely floating in the mist.
• When your stats talk to you.
• Equipping a philosophical idea in your thought cabinet.
• Where the resource extraction happens.
• An alcoholic amnesiac video game protagonist.
• Finding the richest person in town to explain to you how the world works.
• Recreating all your characters from the ground up to be optimized for the game engine.
• Cheating past the final boss in Baldur's Gate because the alternative is starting from scratch with a viable build.
• Revising your thinking about the Gros Michel banana.
• Campy goofballs doing campy goofball shit except it's not Tim Curry this time.
• The guy whose name Jim can't remember who played Chuck on Better Call Saul.
• The VCR board game phenomenon.
• Scenes sort of adding up into a narrative if you squint.
• Seeing John Lithgow when nobody else sees him.
• How to get Michael Land to talk to you at CES.
• Out-of-work FMV actors.
• Specializing in loving horrible FMV games.
• The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
• DVD games vs. VCR games.
• A DVD arriving too late to save a drowning VCR game industry.
• The pride of seeing your topic grow up and take its place in the world.
• Panache, aplomb, and savoir-faire.
• Rolling, glass tanks of beverages that rocked that lined mountain.
• Women as the exception to implied maleness.
• A folk pop album featuring a disgraced CDC employee.
• 50 Cent rapping about going to prison for insider trading.
• The Topic Lords Guarantee.
• A series of interconnected puzzles that you solve as a team.
• Flavor text explaining why it's fun to solve this math problem.
• A beautiful puzzle hunt that is way too long.
• Assuming that being good at solving puzzles is the same skill as constructing puzzles.
• Waiting all year for a chocolate box that ends up being a marathon through Death Valley.
• How to test a 100-person puzzle hunt.
• Admonishing astronomers to "get good."
• Puzzles that are like tiny little gifts that open up and dance in front of you.
• A chip that controls a single light point on the wall.
• Doing something for free vs. doing it for a pittance.
• Losing your wedding ring but also your wedding ring screams once a day.
• Your screaming wedding ring following you from house to house.
• One o’clock: Time for Pants.
• Remembering that it's time for pants no matter what time zone you're in.
• The Playstation Vita's pants alarm.
• Playing a competitive minigame to see who can wake up fastest.
• Earning achievements for getting out of bed.
• The app that is the opposite of sex.