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Lords:
* Hallie
* @hallie_9000
* Chris will find you.
Topics:
* The Pokemon Sylveon is supposed to be cute but it freaks me out and let me tell you why
* Savory french toast.
* Remember briefcases? People would just bring paperwork home with them. To work more, at home, for free. Fucked up, if you think about it.
* Everytime we touch Detective Pikachu
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQyM2AU7nZo
* https://youtu.be/YUWqaBiEs
* The ethics of making a robot daughter
* https://www.etsy.com/listing/955388068/long-furby-custom-plush
* https://www.etsy.com/listing/912086346/3-ft-long-furby-purple-fur-customizable
* https://www.google.com/search?q=furby+sylveon&tbm=isch
* https://www.etsy.com/listing/951517045/custom-furby-oddbody-long-furby-alien
Microtopics:
* Whether it's possible to do Soupertasters remotely.
* What show this even is.
* Never watching the best episode of a show because if you do the rest will be worse than that.
* A game where you explore a tavern and then the game ends.
* History littered with the corpses of couch-co-op-only games.
* A hypothetical podcast about the dark history of cribbage.
* The best vertically scrolling shooter set on British colonial Mars.
* Adding faeries to rebalance the meta which has been overrun by dragons.
* A little quadruped with features.
* Ribbon-like feelers that make you drop your guard.
* OG European fairies who steal children and leave rusty nails in their place.
* A cute fairy dog that will fuck your shit up when you're not looking vibe.
* The mortifying ordeal of realizing that all the Pokemon who look like they're wearing clothes? That's actually their skin.
* A Syveon swinging around Viridian City like Spider-Man, eating birds and avoiding cold iron.
* Turkey-flavored bread.
* Making a Monte Cristo with savory French toast.
* A sweet omelette with a lot more bread than egg.
* Breadless French toast.
* Omelette a la Dig Dug.
* Filling crepes.
* Using eggs as glue for putting a bunch of yummies together.
* Lobster burritos.
* What briefcases are for.
* A game where you've got a corgi and you've gotta get her somewhere to do stuff.
* Bringing a knife to a briefcase fight.
* Using briefcases to store underwear.
* Whether you want to sit in the briefcase or boxercase section.
* Asking president Clinton "boxers or briefs?" on a live Q&A.
* An adorable chonky Pikachu.
* Detective Pikachu turning out way better than it had any right to be.
* Two and a half hours of Pikachu jazzercising.
* Whether Pikachu is made of shiny plastic like in Pokemon Go or is furry like a mouse like in Detective Pikachu.
* Hiring internet meme people to do concept art for your movie.
* Pokemon MC Hammer's extremely baggy purple leg skin.
* Realistic Homer Simpson and realistic Mario.
* Diving straight into your uncanny valley reflex and poking it with a stick.
* Doing an image search for "realistic Mr. Mime" and regretting it immediately.
* Psychic stigmata.
* Star Trek: The Next Generation and Frankenstein's conflicting takes on whether it's a good idea to construct an artificial person.
* Trying to make a robot daughter but accidently making a murder bot.
* Committing your kid to Git so you can roll back when they find out about the time you spent on 4chan.
* Best practices for doing AI research without committing murder all the time.
* The "bunch of delicious stuff in a pan plus eggs" approach to AI research vs. the "frittata" approach to AI research.
* Observing and understanding the outcome of training a neural network and writing an ordinary program to do the same thing.
* Agreement.
* The alternate ending of Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein accidentally installs a baker's hand on the monster and it goes on a baking rampage using up all the flour in town.
* To what degree parents can be held responsible for what their children do.
* How it's okay to disown your parents but not your children.
* A chatbot with servomotors in it.
* A Furby molar.
* A burden too great to bear alone.
* A Furby living in a hollowed out tooth filled with corks.
* Waking up next to a ceramic tooth with a face every morning.
* Whether MAME has Furby support.
* Douglas.
* A Furby with baked beans instead of skin.
* A Furby with teeth in the middle and it's not okay.
