142. Threatjazz

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Lords:

• Ben
  • https://twitter.com/KosmologyB
• Tyriq
  • https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday

Topics:

• Which real life occupations are the closest thing to actual Adventuring? And would you want to do any of them?
• Getting a tattoo has somehow motivated me to be healthier
• It's weird that some instruments you play with your hands and others you put in your mouth
• The Mushroom Hunters
  • https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/25/the-mushroom-hunters-animation-neil-gaiman/
• Discovering how much butter and sugar is in your common or garden cake has filled me with sheer horror
• A public call to action for the creation of Violence/Threat Jazz as a genre

Microtopics:

• The collection of music songs that you put on the internet last year.
• The Citizen Sleeper trailer.
• Managing a game's Steam store page.
• The conversations you don't have.
• Adventuring as it is conceived of and perceived.
• Going into the field and being exposed to health hazards.
• Rock climbing and its relationship to speed running.
• All the big parts of the world having been discovered already so you need to be satisfied with discovering tiny parts.
• The difficulty of spending a lifetime rock climbing when you don't enjoy rock climbing.
• Whether being sent off to war feels or ought to feel like an adventure.
• Lockdown tattoos.
• The uncle who convinced you to get an eyebrow ring.
• Designing a tattoo so that it still looks right if the recipient suddenly gets swole.
• The Clean and Jerk.
• Compressing yourself inwards as you hit the ground.
• The idea of caring about your appearance.
• Looking in the mirror and feeling good about yourself.
• A portion of meat that is ruining your aesthetic.
• Your full-sleeve Gigantamax Meowth tattoo.
• Ark from Terranigma.
• A tattoo of a goat because you love goats a lot.
• Putting pictures on your body and looking cool.
• Going full body-mod in your old age.
• A Rotom right up there in your armpit.
• Walking around looking like a JRPG character with an asymmetrical pauldron.
• The right torso for me.
• Bone tattoos that are just for you because nobody can see your bones.
• Waiting until you are 80 years old for eyeball tattoo technology to get safer.
• Screaming higher and higher until you take a shower.
• Airflow and handflow.
• Licking a musical instrument that makes noise when it's wet.
• Chromatic spittoon virtuosos.
• Melody Pops.
• How to survive long car trips before portable video games.
• Lollipops you could write with.
• Chocolate cigarettes wrapped in rice paper.
• Rebranding your offensive children's cigarette brand to "Fads."
• The formulation of laws to follow facts revealed.
• Food Tasters.
• One king left and so much food to eat.
• Why so much fiction is so obsessed with royalty.
• Cracking a nut in your brain.
• The moon's excellent product placement.
• Cakes for people to jump out of.
• How to marble a cake.
• The butter iceberg.
• The inside scoop behind all the drama.
• The Sharks and the Jets snapping at each other.
• The dude in Mad Max Fury Road playing a flaming guitar on top of a moving truck.
• Where to see Ben's cats.