260. This Sentient Life Could've Been An Email
October 14th, 2024
1 hr 15 mins 33 secs
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Lords:
- Jenni
- Chris
Topics:
- Are corporate mascots in US culture age-locked to a generation? I have done no research about this
- The continuation of our species depends on balls being able to taste soy sauce
- BB-8 changed my tire
- The Woodchuck, by Sam Pink
Microtopics:
- Too much dick content for one show.
- What kind of fetus dong shot engagement you're looking for.
- When they smear the goo on your belly.
- Throwing a gender reveal party and the uncle nobody wants around is like "I don't believe you" and you get to whip out the photo of the kid's dick.
- Shipping a person in Q4.
- Automating the Omelas kid.
- The Disney suffering animatronic child asking passers by to walk away from Omelas.
- Gen Z no longer needing to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas because they live in modern society.
- Gardening in one of the hardest places in the world to garden.
- What's the grass for?
- An office park spending millions of gallons of water to maintain a lawn nobody ever walks on or looks at.
- What if the Omelas kid is a dick? What if they're treating him really well and he just has impossibly high standards and hates everything.
- An electrical problem that's very pronounced when Jenni turns on the blender.
- The Golden Age of Corporate Mascots.
- Undead Corporate Mascots.
- Trying to find a picture of the Toucan Sam redesign and ending up on Deviant Art.
- Howard and Nester.
- Whether American kids will tolerate anime.
- President of the Nintendo No Fun Club.
- Spending $200 on the Nintendo hint line trying to solve the last screen in Solstice.
- An adventure game that's also a platformer where if your toe touches a candle flame it's an instant game over.
- Inventing terrible camera angles in a 2D game.
- It's 3D, but on your Speccy!
- Trusting a YouTube documentary more the longer the video is.
- Are Domo Kun and Hello Kitty free agents?
- Cap'n Crunch guest starring in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
- A Roma who was once helpful.
- Eating a sandwich and getting the sandwich tattooed on your bicep because.
- A baby name that Boomer moms love.
- Remington Steel On At 7PM After Matlock Jones.
- Getting into a thing with people on Metafilter.
- POV: when your girlfriend gets you Swedish meatballs at Ikea.
- Whether Frosthaven is important to the testicles tasting umami story.
- Vanilloid receptors.
- Why you can shock your tongue with a 9 volt battery but you can't shock your forearm even if it's wet.
- The chef with the tiny spoon in your testicles making sure to get the exact right MSG level in your semen.
- Peppers hacking mammal biology.
- Seeds who enjoy being digested by birds.
- The cardioprotective benefit of spicy food.
- The Ones Who Bring it Back to Omelas.
- Broccoli evolving into crabs.
- This is canon: BB-8 drives a 2016 Corolla.
- Pretending that you are talking to a Youtube audience while you make s sandwich.
- Just a li'l guy who rolls around on a ball.
- R2D2: a mean mean man.
- The floor falling out of the Pinto while you're driving it.
- A rubber pad with friction stripes on it.
- Turning it until it feels like you broke it, but you didn't and you have to keep going.
- After the cake comes out of the oven the recipe stops having steps.
- How to get help from Linux users.
- The entire wheel snapping off the axle as you're parking at Camerica Bank.
- Different car, same maintenance strategy.
- Driving a car until it can no longer be ontologically be classified as a car.
- Churchill's Irregulars.
- Waiting for Peter Jackson to mansplain to you the sound a car makes when the wheel snaps off.
- Delving too deeply into the Cars cinematic universe.
- A Mastodon setting that hides all of Jim's BB-8 toots.
- How to find people to follow on Nectarine.
- The dying MUD you joined in 1997.
- Radioactive names such as Hitler and Sheldon.
- Joining a social media service and it tells you there are no posts.
- Sam Pink strikes again.
- The emotional arc of putting a tiny hat on a woodchuck.
- A woodchuck you would definitely do a murder to.
- Ampersand at the beginning of the line.
- The Furniture That Rolled Away From Omelas.
- Why the computer is mad in I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream.
- Looking for sentient life in the universe when you have dolphins at home.