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Lords:
* Fif
* Mitch
Topics:
* The Ace Attorney series' English localization's naming conventions
* The kissing mechanic in Bully represents both what is genius and terrible about the game
* Podcast Prep Sheet Trending Guests and Topics
* The Tay Bridge Disaster
* https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/
* No but seriously what the hell is up with the user interface in Bully. I assume it's just a Rockstar thing? I'm only into Bully so it is a mystery
* Comments that say "why did the algorithm recommend this to me"
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LhdhQEKtg
Microtopics:
* Two handfuls of times.
* Something very fivey about hands.
* Dependability and a detail-oriented nature.
* Putting your resume in the show notes.
* Naming your kid a list of two things.
* A story taking place in a Los Angeles that is a satire of near future Japan.
* Naming games after verbs.
* Mario Push Button.
* The Haiku-detecting tumblr bot.
* Imagining an opinion and searching for someone who has it so you can yell at them.
* All the time we have for Topic Lords.
* Kissing a kissable person. (They have kissability.)
* A dress-up fashion thing.
* Wearing a reindeer patterned jumper to reduce your kissability.
* Applying triple-A polish to a boarding school setting.
* Dorms in a castle.
* Hey, nice face.
* Demographics based on what classes you have to take to kiss members of the demographic.
* Dressing in real life like you do in a Grand Theft Auto game.
* The one character in the entire GTA series that cares about the clothes you wear.
* Secrets Behind the Suite: Unveiling the Hidden World behind Luxury Hotels.
* Eco-friendly or Eco-fail?
* Law and Disorder: how TV crime shows get it wrong.
* Sending an email to yourself and it gets detected as spam.
* The friend who has a lot of opinions about Homestuck.
* Making your hearts for to quail.
* Poems including civil engineering advice.
* Good vs. bad nonsense poems.
* A fun poem to read.
* Paying money to engage with content.
* Deliberately slipping on a banana peel.
* What it says about hitting in the Banana Rules.
* School administrators publishing statistics on how many banana peels you've slipped on.
* Skyrim spoiling the presence of robots on the stats screen.
* Watching what players do and rewarding every action they take.
* A good video game is a game that has three good stats screens and no bad stats screens.
* Having a question in your head and not knowing who to ask so you ask the person in front of you.
* Youtube koans.
* Showing content to someone who will be not that jazzed about it.
* Youtube recommending a let's-play from a year ago with 10 views.
* A PMV of the character you are obsessed with.
* The only person who takes a the Youtube Creator Surveys.
* Constantly deleting the shorts.
* Posting a tweet to youtube.com.
* Posting a link to your own videos on Youtube.
* Community captions and what happened to them.
* Doing annotations dirty.
* Nekoneko.
* Comments popping up and scrolling across the screen constantly.
* Listening to a cassette tape you dug up in the desert.