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Lords:
* Alex
* Shannon
Topics:
* Incomprehensible PSAs (Remember to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide)
* Games which use player ignorance as a major mechanic (Outer Wilds, Tunic)
* Man out of Space Easiest
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE
* Stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot)
* https://utopians.tumblr.com/post/659350035592609792/stepped-on-a-plum-overripe-plum-barefoot-it
* Australia trends (pre vs post pay, pay at pump vs parking meter vs toll camera)
* Bats! Micro & Mega
Microtopics:
* The Broken Earth Trilogy.
* The Lightly-Massaged Earth Trilogy.
* Turkish Delight vs. a Turkish Delight candy bar.
* A candy that gives you the feeling of nostalgia but no corresponding memories.
* Remembering to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide in the kitchen.
* The three onomatopoeias for applying sunscreen.
* Lamenting to your partner that you forgot to slip.
* Posters that just say "don't forget to slip slop slap seek and slide" with no further context.
* A cool grandpa following safety instructions.
* Actionable snake advice.
* Various ways to distinguish goats and sheep.
* A music video that is also a drunk driving PSA.
* How to use search atoms.
* If you're on the train, that's a shame.
* Rhyming platitudes about how social media is bad for your mental health and society as a whole.
* A music video trying to get across a safe sex message to the kids.
* Do They Even Know it's Christmas?
* Something jarring to hear on the radio.
* A desert wasteland full of crying children.
* Tunic.
* Reading the manual of the video game you just bought on the drive home.
* Evoking the idea of playing old video games.
* Jumping puzzles that cost you twenty minutes of your life if you fall.
* A Jules Verne conception of the solar system where other planets are a five minute rocket trip away.
* Learning a code and keeping it in your brain.
* The Hourglass Twins.
* Not being sure what to do so you go look at the moon.
* The kind of game where most of the fun is figuring out how to play the game.
* AAA games trying to make artistic statements about AAA games.
* Hatoful Boyfriend as a better Doki Doki Literature Club.
* A horror story about pigeons.
* An ablative heat shield on your butt.
* Manually aiming the rocket without being to look outside of your polyester bag.
* The legality of dropping a moose out of a spaceship.
* A safety mechanism that is not appealing to aerospace professionals.
* Landing an airplane on Mars and then remote-piloting Mars rovers from inside the airplane.
* The world's largest saltwater crocodile.
* Pulling the quick release flap on the crocodile's mouth.
* Don't Go To Space.
* It's the 60s, and it's a bag.
* A snorkel for when you land in the ocean and can't get out of your foam entombment capsule.
* Bringing along a shotgun in case your escape pod lands in Siberia.
* Clown First Lover Second.
* A single paragraph with 19 parenthetical phrases and no other punctuation.
* Deciding to hem your sweatpants.
* Plum Nightmare.
* Finding two extra poems inside an existing poem.
* What to expect when you read a poem.
* Whether it's illegal to drive barefoot.
* Bare feet and there's textures down here.
* The utter lack of technology at the pump.
* No-flush toilets.
* What kinds of towels they use to clean up messes in Australia.
* Public restrooms that automatically eject you if you're not done in ten minutes.
* Honeycomb candy with the same texture as instant coffee.
* Look to your left; look to your right; one of you is a bat.
* Visiting baby bats in the bat hospital.
* Bats as pollinators.
* Giving stuffed animals to baby bats.
* The pollinating and bug-eating ecosystem.
* A bat the size of a bat.
* Spectacled flying foxes.
* Bats reverse-nicheing back into mice.
* Bats becoming nocturnal to avoid their creditors.
