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Topics:
* 4:10 All clothes hangers should be made of wood rather than wire or plastic.
* 8:32 How do you feel about food mascots shaped like the food you're about to eat?
* Will Graham discovers Hannibal's love for sweetbreads at ~3:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbcI6h1_bHg
* 12:31 I could put any liquid in my CPAP humidifier.
* 18:21 Mallow asks: "Sliding doors. Are people in favor? Opposed? Terrified of them? Feels like in the US we've converged on a kind of door that just isn't that great."
* 23:48 If there was one silly skill you could acquire with no effort, like being good at karaoke, what would it be?
* https://platypusegg.bandcamp.com/
* 34:08 People in different eras interpreting subtleties in media differently--for example, people not "getting" all of Shakespeare's jokes, interpreting the ending of The Wicker Man differently, etc.
* https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/615235424343998464/patricia-von-arundel-friendlytroll
* 45:07 Multi-Mario races.
* World record Mario 1862 run in 37h57m. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/588944589
* https://iggmarathon.com/
Microtopics:
* The comfort of a Discord voice channel where everyone is muted.
* A Discord voice channel where you go to poop.
* Perceiving a pun and wanting to forget it.
* Being in total agreement as to whether we should discuss topics.
* The hidden cost of plastic coat hangers.
* Contemplating the luxury of your collection of fancy wooden coat hangers.
* Never having purchased coat hangers in your life but still ending up with a bunch of them.
* Accruing heavier and heavier clothing as you age.
* Not needing coat hangers because you just drape all your clothes over the back of a folding chair.
* A barbecue joint where the mascot is a sapient pig that is super thrilled that you're about to eat him.
* Alienation from the food production process.
* The weird zone where pigs are slaughtered in an alternate dimension outside our ken.
* Chuck E. Cheese's real name.
* The sweetest meat you'll ever eat.
* Sweetmeats vs. sweetbreads.
* A restaurant with the slogan "the sweetest bread you'll ever eat" and the mascot is a talking Thymus gland.
* Thymus glands just being in you someplace.
* Putting soup in your humidifier and saving yourself the trouble of making breakfast.
* Accidentally blasting yourself with mold all night.
* Sharing a CPAP machine with your life partner, like a tandem bike.
* Adding a splash of bleach to your soup so it won't grow mold in your humidifier overnight.
* Taking action to ensure huge amounts of water enters your body because otherwise the water will probably just sit there.
* Every sliding glass door having a big colorful sticker on it because once someone ran into it and broke their nose or crashed through or both.
* The worst-designed lateral thinking puzzle exacerbating your fear of heights.
* All the rollers in the sliding glass door being crushed so you're just dragging a huge pane of glass along the ground.
* Sliding glass doors being perfectly safe because they cannot break; they can only become windows.
* Increasing the amount of natural light in your home via strategic placement of mirrors.
* Holding a mirror and pointing the sun at your face.
* Everyone loving your ukulele cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit, but only the first time they hear it.
* Knowing how to play a bunch of instruments but they all weigh 300 pounds.
* Making a xylophone out PVC pipes you found in a dumpster and playing Ode to Joy on it.
* Solving this portable xylophone problem once and for all by googling "portable xylophone."
* A gigantic marimba that is built into the room it's in like a supercomputer of sound.
* Wanting to go on a weird xylophone tour.
* Being good enough to impress people who don't know anything about that particular skill.
* Wanting to play an instrument that leaves your mouth free to have a jolly conversation.
* Combining our powers to identify the hexagonal pirate accordion.
* Circus jazz.
* Scottish peasants swaying together like kindergarteners singing a jolly pagan song as the flames approach.
* Fifty years ago, being horrified when pagans burn the character representing cops and religious authority alive, but nowadays everybody owns a guillotine and worships Alan Moore's snake god.
* Whether the Nicholas Cage Wicker Man being hilarious at release was inspired by the 1970s Wicker Man being hilarious in a modern context.
* Jokes that modern audiences don't have the context to understand.
* Works written in 17th or 18th century English needing localization as much as works in a foreign language.
* Not linking to an edifying Tumblr thread because Tumblr's threading is the worst.
* People in the 1940s just talking like that actually.
* Movie actors finally learning to act sometime around 1950.
* Staying awake for 38 hours to get every star, moon and shine in the 3D Mario series.
* Our failings as adult humans.
* Doing game jams where you actually sleep.
* Scoping your game development project to allow sleep during development.
* Romanticizing the idea of staying up all night doing something fun because now you're an adult with adult responsibilities and shirt resilience.
* Not being able to justify doing something for fun so you tack on a charity drive.
* The shifting sense of what's important and what's moral that defines the human experience over time.
* Whether or not you could pay us to play World of Warcraft.
* Your guild leader getting in fistfights all the time and eventually going up jail and appointing you temporary guild leader because he doesn't realize you're a woman.
* Training your brain to be okay playing just one video game for a while.
* A hat that is so ugly you had to give it to a friend.
* Giving your goth dog friend pastel outfits to wear on Bunny Day.
* Lamenting that there is no other place or time to discuss topics.
