80. Xenogears Disc 3 For Smash

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Lords:

• Styger
• JP
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Topics:

• Comestibles as fan fiction
• The most unexpected CD to be launched from the face of the Cenobite from Hellraiser 3 that launches CDs out of his face.
  • https://cenobite.fandom.com/wiki/CD
• I got a mandolin slicer for Christmas from someone who was afraid to use it, and I am also afraid to use it.
• Ghostbusters, by Ray Parker Jr.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ
  • Bustin'. https://youtu.be/0tdyU_gW6WE
  • You Could Stop at Five or Six Stores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1OHha9agg
  • Jeffrey Tambor Is NOT the Guy From "Ghost" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVLWybF_pwo
  • JoJo: Trick with cigarettes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJwD8q-OXLQ
• Oldest food you've eaten. ie oldest substance or object you've consumed.
  • https://youtu.be/Ga5JrN9DrVI
• Do pigeons love nacho cheese?
• Here's an alphabetical list of every move in every Mario game, from "1,000-Fold Arms – Paper Mario: The Origami King" to "Zero Laser – Super Smash Bros. Brawl."
  • https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_special_moves
  • A. How would you fix this list?
  • B. Who wants to do a podcast series where we rank them all?

Microtopics:

• Attack the Block.
• Movies where a delineated area is involved in some kind of fight.
• Lord quality: trying to keep it high.
• Cooking dinner as a fusion of the cuisines of the two countries that you are about to watch play a sport.
• White game designers in the 70s deciding that there isn't anything spicier than paprika in this astonishing fantasy world.
• Doing some home cooking and inventing a new sandwich in the style of the McDonald's fish fillet.
• The $100 cheese steak.
• A chef getting famous by serving incredibly high end Big Macs to rich people.
• Each bottle of Tabasco tasting uniform even though they're all composed of peppers grown in many different countries.
• How to explain cenobites to Thomas Jefferson.
• A transporter accident aesthetic.
• Not liking the music in the club so you turn the DJ into a cenobite with a CD drive for a mouth.
• Supertramp's Breakfast in America.
• All known AOL installer CD-ROMs originating with the cenobite who launches CDs out of his face.
• A CD that was killed by Mountain Dew.
• The cenobite with a CD drive for a face launching Xenogears disc 3 at you.
• Xenogears disc 3 for Super Smash Bros.
• Sympathy for the developers of Xenogears and in fact of any video game.
• Novelty CD shapes.
• CD-ROMs cut to the size of business cards with your portfolio on them.
• Destroying a slot loading CD drive by putting a small or oddly shaped CD in it.
• Learning to trust yourself to be around sharp knives.
• Strapping a mandolin slicer to yourself like a keytar.
• A great spooky house under the freeway.
• A house made of neon tubing like the ghost ship at the end of Monkey Island.
• Telekinesing the furniture.
• Being haunted by ghosts that are clearly just a couple dudes in t-shirts.
• Getting a bunch of B-list celebrities to shout "Ghostbusters" and act scared.
• Getting movie footage for your music video by pointing a video camera at the movie screen.
• Finding synergies between disparate elements of pop culture.
• Bleh hands.
• Slimer with a dozen cocktail weenies in his craw.
• Reaching a compromise that will allow Ray Parker Jr. to haunt your home in peace.
• The Ghostbusters hiring spectral Ray Parker Jr. to haunt folks and drum up business.
• Vincent Schiavelli's filmography.
• A Ghostbusters/Columbo crossover episode.
• The trick where Chevy Chase eats a cigarette.
• Slimer always believing that he ate the whole thing.
• Food age.
• Eating extremely old cough drops.
• Not being able to tell if cough drops have gone bad because they always taste like that.
• Asking someone with a philosophy degree whether cough drops are a food.
• Accidentally taking enough philosophy classes to qualify for a degree and someone tracks you down to hand you your philosophy degree like a subpoena.
• Bog cheese.
• Whether anyone has successfully eaten millennia-old frozen mammoth meat or if it all turned into black goo.
• Several thousand year old tomb honey.
• Unboxing and eating military rations on video.
• Eating hardtack from the American civil war in 2016.
• Being extremely upbeat about rancid meat.
• How to tell if vacuum sealed food has botulism.
• Having the vocabulary to describe all the different ways food can go bad.
• Trying to buy civil war hardtack on eBay and bidding on a pile of rocks.
• The most pigeon-dense place you've lived.
• Taking incredible risks for a single cheeto.
• Whether nacho cheese is incredibly beautiful to a tetrachromat.
• Nacho cheese as a nest building materials.
• Global incidence of human tetrachromacy.
• Space photos recolored into the visible spectrum so humans can look at them.
• Pointing a spectroscope at nacho cheese to figure out what pigeons see.
• The world's tiniest superpower.
• How to grow up in America without having played a bunch of Mario games.
• List of soups.
• Sitting at your Wizard's Desk for too long and getting Wizard's Foot.
• Fan wikis taking the shape of fan patience.
• Begging the wiki editors to turn this list into a normalized database table.
• An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can jump.
• An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can't jump.
• Mario visiting San Francisco.
• The Golden Gate Bridge existing in the Mario multiverse.
• Japan fitting perfectly in the Super Mario Bros. 3 universe, because Japan is also a magical foreign land I've never visited.
• The alternate reality where Mario Odyssey depicted world tourism in a hyper-realistic fashion.
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as a fictionalized depiction of an Olympics that never happened.
• ESPN broadcasting CPU vs. CPU basketball matches in NBA 2K.
• Linking to a web site but not encouraging people to go there.