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Lords:
* Abby
* https://twitter.com/mizabitha
* http://abbydenton.podbean.com/
* John
* https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo
Topics:
* A-life and v-pets of the late 90s: why did they die, where do we see them today (pokemon go, etc)
* Nano Pets commercial with catchy jingle: https://youtu.be/RKIwHHMVmQ?t=298
* The only Wappy dog review on Metacritic: https://www.pocketgamer.com/articles/047860/wappy-dog/
* Stack Up video by Jeremy Parish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8RHzSW2yo
* Stack Up in WarioWare, Inc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WBXh5cLJt4
* A Long Furby: https://twitter.com/LongFurby/status/1002690751988453379
* Another Long Furby: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/long-furby-wife-guy
* Furby source code: http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf
* DadDoes review of Wappy Dog: http://www.daddoes.com/3912/wappy-dog-review/
* San Diego, CA
* Everything John forgot to mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDiegoCounty,California
* Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve®: https://torreypine.org/
* Geisel Library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeiselLibrary
* San Diego Zoo Safari Park: https://www.sdzsafaripark.org/
* International Cottages at Balboa Park: http://www.sdhpr.org/
* Salty licorice/salmiak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltyliquorice
* I have many friends, and am very popular, and awesome, and rumors about my smell are greatly exaggerated- John.
* San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanOnofreNuclearGeneratingStation
* San Diego depicted in the 1998 Midway arcade game California Speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lSX1aUHQw
* Hotel del Coronado: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HoteldelCoronado
* “Nobody’s perfect.”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHhr-aaLnI
* Harmony Gold’s most popular move in years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk3p6hIdVeM
* Send your Robotech questions and comments to: https://twitter.com/marwilliamson
* California is on fire; get in the van, loser, we’re all moving to Pittsburgh.
* Bloodlust Software and the 90s indie game scene
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5KIss6csA
* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming
* Not A Butt Face asks: "Marble Hornets Sex Tape ie. A Found Footage Style Webseries but the footage being sifted through is on Sex Tapes and just out of frame or partially obscured is a lurking unknown creature. Could this ever work?"
Microtopics:
* Being a cyborg and being out of the closet.
* Doing standup comedy in an empty room.
* Figuring out the best way to get a podcast onto your phone.
* Kevin Spacey ruining your podcast.
* A 20th-anniversary digital Tamagotchi.
* F2P Tamagotchi all getting horrible pain disorders that demand you pay daily microtransactions or they just scream all day.
* A large company that operates suspiciously.
* Reading a lot of Newsweek in grade school.
* Getting high on your own supply of Newsweek.
* An eight year old wearing a blazer with elbow pads picking up a Newsweek at the book fair to read about Tamagotchi.
* Shaking the Chao garden to make the Chao fight.
* Whether or not Nintendogs go to heaven.
* Neglecting your real dog because you have an exciting new virtual dog.
* Sickening podcast guests with your Pokemon Go strategies.
* The sensor on Wappy Dog's tail that only exists so it can get upset that you pulled its tail.
* That one banger on the Wappy Dog OST.
* Your Robotic Operating Buddy's ability to pick up discs of a certain size and move them in an arc around itself.
* Playing Stack Up over Skype and having to call your friend and have him reset the puzzle whenever ROB fucks up and drops the pieces on the floor.
* The baffling absence of YouTube videos of Gizmo Furby interacting with Yoda Furby.
* Steven Spielberg patrolling the internet for videos of Gizmo Furby talking to Yoda Furby and shutting them the heck down because that's not canon. (George Lucas is fine with it.)
* A village of Furbies living on after the extinction of the human race.
* Yes! Dad does!
* Wappy Dog being immortal, but if he did die somehow he'd go straight to hell.
* Pikachu turning to the player and asking "who was the last person you kissed?"
* Trying to make a game that creates the same reaction in every player.
* Confusing Yoot Saito and Noob Saibot.
* Playing SimCity 2000 on a Game Boy Advance.
* Becoming a chef so that you can figure out why burritos are better in San Diego than anywhere else in the world.
* A library raised up in little feet with a swirly tail called The Spang-Dangler Building.
* A library that looks like a big concrete tree.
* A library that looks like a space invader.
* Discovering Finnish Salty Licorice and finally not having to share your candy with your friends.
* Lurking in the floorboards so that you can visit your introvert friend without them noticing.
* Those big concrete nipples on Camp Pendleton.
* Driving from Camp Pendleton to Mexico in less than a minute and then turning around and driving across an aircraft carrier.
* Doctor Seuss's favorite San Diego hangouts.
* Whether Jack Lemmon likes it hot in the ending of Some Like It Hot.
* Taking part in the panda breeding program in the 70s.
* Not knowing what the San Diego Convention Center looks like outside of Comic Con and just assuming it's always swarming with nerds.
* None of the speakers showing up for the big Robotech panel at Wondercon so the marketing director steps up with PowerPoint presentation describing Robotech merch.
* Everyone losing their shit over Robotech skate decks.
* Singing and dancing when the sky turns black.
* Trying to hide violence from children so the children rebel by celebrating violence as much as possible.
* A full-featured Mortal Kombat clone developed by two high school students.
* Whether One Must Fall stands up.
* Choosing to release the first free-and-good-enough NES emulator and calling it NESticle.
* How the mouse pointer for NESticle was actually a severed hand, and only the Windows icon was a scrotum.
* Keeping your emulation legit by deleting your ROMs every 24 hours.
* The only place the long-rumored SNESticle was ever released.
* How early SNES emulators didn't handle transparency so you had to manually toggle the cloud layer in order to see anything.
* Shock value Flash cartoons before and after 9/11.
* A gif of a plane crashing into Oprah.
* Going into work each day with the intent of trying to get fired.
* Who today is carrying on the Bloodlust Software ethos.
* Making the same ultra-violent video game as everyone else but adding narration explaining that "violence is bad and this game is important."
* A hyper-detailed art style evocative of biology and gross innards without actually depicting any gore.
* A tasteful logo that represents a butt pooping.
* A barely-visible monster lurking in the background of every video uploaded to Pornhub.
* Porkin' Across America.
* Finding people who were already going to make a series of sex tapes and offering to lurk in the background in your Slenderman costume.
* Training a neural network to insert Slenderman into the background of every movie.
* Writing erotic House of Leaves fan fiction and waiting for the Internet to discover and reenact it.
* An art critic giving your life a B+.
