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Lords this week:
* Jenni is let's-playing Flower Sun and Rain with Riff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDmj6Kt5pg&list=PLQqCGkS4_4YvUIsmDBnd5vX8W1Fme6vu
* Jay is late!
Topics:
* 2:07 Trying to get immersion in a language when you don't know any native speakers & you're not in the country.
* Look at that horse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5woNs9WRE
* 13:52 If you have scars on the inside of your cheek along where your teeth meet, that means your mouth is too small.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineaalba(cheek)
* Mold-a-rama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold-A-Rama
* 18:45 When you're not expecting food.
* 20:38 Road trips in Germany: paying to pee, no tourist traps. (Though public transport owns for non-leisure trips.)
* 31:18 Thomas "Dolby" Robertson's early 90s online music service.
* Manufacture of cheddar cheese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManufactureofCheddarcheese
* Who coined the term "world wide web"? https://www.quora.com/Who-coined-the-term-world-wide-web
* 39:07 Being ok with admitting it when you don't know about something.
* Quantum suicide and immortality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantumsuicideandimmortality
* One Terabyte of the Kilobyte Age. https://blog.geocities.institute/
Microtopics:
* Ostensibly being in a hotel to stop an act of terrorism but first having to get someone's mojo back.
* A portable computer that you call Catherine.
* A time loop, here on Topic Lords.
* Quitting that owl. Telling that owl where he can shove his heroin.
* Duo Lingo being named after its founder and enforcer, Duo.
* Gamification ruining your productivity because you can't help but care about these poorly-designed leaderboards.
* This being a video games podcast now, I guess.
* Putting in the effort to suck at a game so you can get more out of it.
* Doing a couple squats and all the monsters dying and feeling like a badass because of all your gains.
* Guessing that a higher intensity means a higher ratio of reps to jogging.
* Guessing that lowering the workout intensity will increase your heart rate.
* Squatting and catching the coins.
* Being surprised that legal let them put squats in the workout game beacuse you can super fuck up your knees by doing squats wrong.
* Learning Japanese so you can watch anime while also keeping an eye on that spider.
* Asking your co-lord to stereotype an entire species.
* Asking your co-lord about the personality of a spider when you made the spider up in this scenario.
* Doing the equivalent of the look at the horse thing.
* Explaining funny Youtube videos to each other.
* A half hour of getting head massages and trying to make a face as if you're enjoying the head massage.
* The mind whisk not working when you do it to yourself but a vibrating one might.
* Not wanting to swear around clean boys.
* Salvaging a terrible kale broccoli smoothie by adding rum.
* Frying your terrible kale broccoli smoothie into falafels.
* The only memory you have of a dentist being him telling you that you have a tiny mouth.
* Not brushing your teeth or going to the dentist for four years.
* Jim's good dentist costing twice as much as every other dentist and only being a 12-hour drive away.
* The seam on a molded toy where the mold came together.
* Knowing what the other person is talking about if it's the same thing that you were just talking about.
* Going to the bank and giving them all your change and them giving you back half a black crayon and a couple of flatten pennies with dinosaurs on it and a lego.
* Withdrawing all your money from the bank in black crayons.
* Putting down the other half of your hot pepper bacon jam and peanut butter sandwich and later taking a bite, forgetting about the hot pepper bacon part.
* A prank show that swaps out your half a sandwich with a different half a sandwich.
* Getting food poisoning because someone on a podcast from the future gave you a bad recommendation and you paused it before hearing them say they were only kidding.
* Searching for Jim Stormdancer who gave you a food poisoning recommendation on a time looped podcast but no results come back because that's not their name yet.
* Realizing at the last second that a delicious gulp of Dr. Pepper is actually milk, then it turning out to actually be iced tea.
* Beverageception.
* How we all left fifty glasses of water in our room in case the aliens invade because that's a normal thing.
* Milk not coming out of your glass when you try to drink because it's yogurt now.
* Combination sleep mask and headphones.
* Turning twenty half-full cans of Dr. Pepper into ten full cans of Dr. Pepper.
* Not being able to take the last sip of anything because that sip is tainted.
* Convincing yourself that if you just take a smaller sip it won't be the last sip.
* Having five euros worth of pee vouchers because nobody actually accepts your pee vouchers.
* Not having any concept of what it's like to drive without seeing tourist traps.
* Figuring out what the German equivalent of Elvis is and instantly becoming a millionaire.
* Starting to optimize your bathroom trips because now there's a currency involved.
* The friendly potty making things weird.
* The unfriendly potty trying to put it back.
* Getting the smallest piece of chocolate imaginable at the end of your chocolate museum tour.
* Helping the prince and his dragon friend make some chocolate shoes after the dragon accidentally melts the previous pair of chocolate shoes and melts them.
* Brushing up on your chocolate trivia so you can get the sticker that says "Chocolate Genius."
* Hiring a writer and telling them "it's a kingdom, and it's chocolatey -- go!"
* Trying to convince museum attendees that you aren't exploiting laborers even though there are pictures of exploited laborers right there.
* Theatrically fiddling with your synthesizers at because Channel 9 news is here.
* Naming yourself after a music technology company because you also do music technology.
* Missing an opportunity to name yourself after cheese.
* Cheddars that have not undergone the cheddaring process.
* Mistaking Thomas Dolby for Thomas Colby and cheddaring him but not getting cheddar for some reason.
* Going grocery shopping with your mom and asking her for a candy bar and an Internet World Magazine.
* Sticking with Gopher VR because the World Wide Web will never replace Telnet.
* The term "World Wide Web" having been coined by Joseph McCarthy to describe Soviet influence in America.
* Nodding along but feeling bad about not being able to connect with these people because you're 15 and don't know anything.
* Being proud of not knowing about something.
* Choosing to not be around people who make fun of you.
* Programming being excellent practice for humility because you're demonstrably wrong all the goddamned time.
* Wishing that you wanted to go outside more.
* Synthesizer enthusiasts knocking over your trash can to look for patch cables.
* Living on a canal and seeing a bunch of cool sea creatures all the time.
* Spraying tap water into the canal to attract manatees and every one of them having propeller scars.
* Watching shuttle launches from your back yard.
* Slipping on frozen sprinkler water and somehow not hitting your head on your way down into the canal.
* Every person ending up alone in the universe after everyone else has died.
* Answering to Betty because you want to be polite and don't want to correct the person who thinks your name is Betty.
* Betty Boop shooting to the top of the list of people you don't want to be confused with.
* Being confused about whether Betty Boop is supposed to be sexy or a dog or both.
* Betty Boop's apparent sexiness being like reading Shakespeare and not knowing what moiety means.
* Judging somebody by the trucks you've seen with bootleg stickers of them on the back.
* A bumper sticker of John Calvin peeing on whatever he doesn't like.
* Inventing your own web safe palette.
* Floyd-Steinberg fans high-fiving each other.
* Good lording all around!
