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Lords:
* CisHetKayFaber
* Kev
Topics:
* Food from dreams and nightmares
* https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/man-dream-kings-hand-snack
* Han Unification happened in Unicode and every time they add more emojis to the Unicode spec it literally hurts
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
* The Super Mega Crossword
* https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/crosswords/super-mega-2022-clues.html
* Down by the Bay by Raffi
* https://www.vulture.com/2015/12/finding-raffi-c-v-r.html
* Video game franchises known for secrets
* Five-tined forks
* [NMS] https://www.google.com/search?q=five-tined+forks&tbm=isch
* Horrible exceptions to rule34
* After recording, CisHetKayFaber managed to find their holy grail videos depicting the "exception." Jim's example is much better, but Kev was also correct in having faith in human ingenuity.
Microtopics:
* First time long time.
* A very light hobby that is kind of shallow.
* Getting really into Rubik's Cube because you already love flash cards.
* Being reminded of something right before you were about to forget it.
* How best to memorize pizza coding and microphone specs.
* Ignoring the room and being annoyed when people talk to you.
* Work life balance being too tilted toward life
* The King's Hand.
* Orange Creamsicle Mashed Potatoes.
* M&M fingernails.
* A tweet and what happened with it.
* Biting something with the wrong texture and having to stare at a wall for ten minutes.
* UTF-8 character encoding.
* Adding support for Asian languages to Unicode without consulting any native speakers for advice.
* The international new global meme language of the internet.
* PuzzleMania.
* All the downsides of doing a crossword on paper.
* Words that just happen a lot when you're constructing a crossword puzzle.
* The Elden Ring of crossword puzzles.
* Doing the crossword puzzle on paper so that when you're done you can say "looks right to me" and there's no app to tell you you're wrong.
* Reading crossword puzzle clues to your wife as she falls asleep.
* A time traveler from the future who invented time travel to bring us excellent children's songs.
* A national treasure (Canada)
* A fly wearing a tie, a bear combing its hair, a llama eating pajamas, &c.
* A song intended to be performed improvisationally.
* Extending the finger family song by adding more fingers.
* Messing the cadence up with your fake mother voice.
* Where the watermelons roam.
* A mom saying nonsense that really makes you think.
* Avoiding your mom because she keeps saying weird shit about a goose kissing a moose.
* Unlocking a branch of a storyline by fulfilling a set of conditions.
* Subverting overused fantasy tropes.
* Finding a cool castle by going down a secret cliffside stairway into a hidden cave.
* Systems that point you everywhere on the map.
* Secrets of all sorts of scopes.
* The Doom thing where they point out that you didn't find all the secrets.
* Frog Fractions containing Rule 34 of itself.
* Reacting to five-tined fork.
* The fork optimization function that decided that four is the right number of tines.
* Unknowing a conversation.
* A Victorian flex of a fork.
* When die-casting was invented.
* A shovel with teeth.
* Seven-tined sporks.
* The Pornography Lord.
* Human pairings and human activities that you would expect there to be pornography of.
* Linda Hunt smugly declaring "ass to ass"
* AI pornographers buying sex dice on eBay.
* Weird combinations of words you can plug into a search engine.
* People don't want everything; people only want some things.
* The Frog Fractions pornography gap.
