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Lords:
* Mitch
* https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster
* https://www.google.com/search?q=w
* https://www.seximal.net/
* Laura
* https://twitter.com/lmichet
* https://cohost.org/lmichet
Topics:
* What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this?
* The Super Mario Wiki is a beacon that other fan wikis should look to for inspiration
* The GTA San Andreas conversation system
* Last Straw, by George Starbuck http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2021/04/george-starbuck-nationalpoetrymonth.html
* The gradual inflation of standard youtube video length
Microtopics:
* Lowercase jan, capital Misali.
* Collecting all 905 Pokemon after 25 years.
* R-rated Pokemon competitor, "Seximals."
* Free-range porn, or legitimate educational resource?
* First impressions of seximal.net.
* Counting up to 99 on your hands.
* College basketball's tactical use of base 6.
* The binary number represented by flipping someone the bird with both hands.
* The Airworld situation.
* A sled pulled by domesticated zombies.
* Solving the tire problem so you can bike around in the post-apocalypse.
* Horses destroying society by kicking every building down with their powerful legs.
* Horsefingers.
* Horseknuckles.
* Being just tall enough for a horse to try to eat your hair.
* Shoveling poop out of the bear bone barn.
* Standards of accuracy and editorial quality in the Super Mario Wiki.
* Niwa, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance.
* What Mario Wiki has to say about the Berlin Wall.
* Abraham Lincoln's place in the Mario Canon.
* Organizing the Marvel Wiki by universe number.
* The most objective possible method of sorting a list of universes.
* Regular Peter Parker vs. Ultimate Peter Parker.
* 10 seconds of scrolling.
* A wealth of information not intended for a phone screen.
* The ontological difference between characters and allies.
* What species exist in the world of Mario?
* Action Toad.
* The wiki article about Baby Mario, a distinct character from the times various Marios have been babies.
* The love child of Bowser and Shigeru Miyamoto.
* Making invitations to your bachelor party with Mario Print World.
* Different forms of pounding your butt on the ground.
* The Ground Pound, also known as the Hip Drop, Pound the Ground attack, Bounce, Butt-Bash, Jump Smash, Smash Attack, and Butt Stomp.
* How wikis get away with not being normalized databases.
* A loose simulacrum of conversation.
* A conversation that takes the form of a hand wave and then a gulf a million miles wide.
* Pausing for several minutes to contemplate whether you've ever eaten octopus for breakfast.
* Fifty ways to say "please don't hit me in the head with that wrench."
* The Heaven's Vault conversation system.
* Ten different voice actors saying the same twenty lines.
* A normal poetry thing.
* Trying to find the poem "The Last Straw" by George Starbuck but Google only wants to show you articles about how Starbucks doesn't have straws any more.
* Poems that use two meters at once.
* Showing the frivolity of the line lengths.
* Back when Youtube videos were limited to ten minutes.
* Just sitting here making feature films by myself.
* Al Gore, the guy who invented the Algorithm.
* Promising things in the show notes that definitely aren't going to go there.
* What happens in an ecosystem where there is no pressure to make your work shorter.
* People who have time to watch a three hour Youtube video.
* Watching a movie over the course of a week, ten minutes at a time.
* Multitasking poorly.
* How to find people on Cohost.
