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Lords:
* Erica
* @YerrikTRB on Twitter
* Erica plugs Kitchen! The Musical, and also Micah’s books: https://tinyurl.com/46k5zfnm
* Micah
* @micahwrites on Twitter
* Micah plugs Bermudez Triangle, “Chilling Tales for Dark Nights” https://www.youtube.com/user/chillingtaleswi
Topics:
* In praise of bad hidden object games
* HOPAs, or Hidden Object Puzzle Adventures, made by studios in Hong Kong and Eastern Europe:
* https://www.eipix.com/hopa-games/
* http://blueteagames.com/
* https://elephant-games.com/games/
* https://www.world-loom.com/
* HOPA Let’s Plays: https://www.youtube.com/c/YourGibs/playlists
* Better designs for the human body
* Modularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity(biology)
* CRISPR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
* When you say "excuse me" you're asking forgiveness for doing something rude, such as burping. When you say "excuse me" as a demand that someone move out of the way because you're impatient to get past, the demand is itself the rude thing, so you should have to say it twice.
* Brood X: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22362042/cicada-brood-x-map-2021
* Palo Verde beetles
* https://www.azfamily.com/weather/phoenixweatherblog/the-monsoon-monster-beetle/articlebb4bd606-0476-5c0e-ae2a-ddbe1467d9d5.html
* https://arizonareport.com/big-black-arizona-beetle-palo-verde/
* Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascarhissingcockroach
* Beastie Boys - Sabotage
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
* https://youtu.be/-TQgbVk9jss
* Deodar Cedars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedrusdeodara
* Ryan Reynolds and the Deadpool Cinematic Universe
* Watching Shakespeare
* The Hollow Crown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheHollowCrown(TVseries)
* Henry V: https://globeplayer.tv/videos/henry-v
* Falstaff, who is actually more in Henry IV than Henry V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnFalstaff
* Hamlet in the original Klingon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0k4qV1I1Y
* Richard II (the one that precedes Henry IV) https://tinyurl.com/344kjjp4
Microtopics:
* Kitchen! The Musical.
* Inviting the general public to write the musical that exists only in your head.
* Introducing the guest who is bad at introducing himself.
* Running a white-hat ARG on company servers to research and understand the employees you fired for running an ARG on company servers.
* In praise of terrible games.
* Procedurally-generated hidden object games.
* Organizing your life in a video game when you can't organize shit in real life.
* Where the Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure fan communities are congregating online.
* Using the block button on the pile of dishes in the sink.
* Asking the manliest gamers to play feminine-coded video games and discovering if they become less manly.
* Ladies who want to wear big dresses to be fancy ballroom ladies.
* Gamers who don't congregate online but instead enjoy video games by themselves.
* Where the Russian developers who make games for American women congregate online.
* Clicking on something to make it go away.
* Improving humans by adding components vs. by replacing components.
* The legality of inventing a new organism by adding or deleting genes.
* The Modular Human.
* Plants undergoing full genome duplication.
* The Diploid Human.
* Using your hundred tongues to speak a hundred languages at once.
* The one line you remember from "Kitchen! The Musical"
* Saying "excuse me" in a higher and higher pitched voice until you're only saying "excuse me" to dogs and bats.
* Running an errand in Tucson and incidentally removing horrifying beetles from multiple strangers’ hair.
* True bugs and untrue bugs.
* True bugs, with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
* A reimagining of the insect phylum that includes small dogs and especially annoying children.
* Hissing cockroaches that repeat what they hear like a parrot, so when you walk through the forest all you hear is a chorus of raspy voices saying "agh, get it off of me!"
* Brood X, scheduled for this summer!
* Brood X: Brood In Space.
* OS X: OS In Space.
* Which is worse, piercing and sucking mouthparts or sawing and sucking mouthparts?
* What color of flashing lights civilians are allowed to use.
* Pretending to be police.
* The invasive plant species that the Sabotage music video is trying to highlight.
* Hypothetical potted plants in the background of Powerman 5000's When Worlds Collide.
* Being sentenced to community service and filling your rap punk band's trailer with fresh vegetables.
* Nick Cave throwing a chair.
* A poolside interrogation to find out if someone has a waterproof phone before you push them into a pool.
* A cloth dummy falling off of a bridge.
* Whether that cloth dummy had a cloth family.
* Whether 1970s porn stars styled themselves after 1970s cops, or vice versa.
* Popeye the Sailor Moon.
* Everybody at the party dressing up as sexy cops and handing the real police a beer when they show up at the door.
* Accidentally bringing up sexy cops every time you're on the show.
* Chill dudes in short ties.
* Taking a picture of a tree out of your moving car and asking a botanist to identify a blurry mess.
* A boss who thinks your name is Marcia.
* Meeting somebody with overlapping energies.
* Total freedom from all societal expectations.
* Setting up a movie streaming service that only streams one movie to promote your new phone company.
* Buying every copy you can find of your first movie.
* Watching multiple sets of people trapped in the same reality where they play out the same dramas and say the same lines over and over.
* The one time Shakespeare wrote a stage direction.
* Every time Shakespeare has been adapted into a movie.
* Who even likes Falstaff.
* The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged.
* Re-subtitling your movie using lines from Shakespeare.
* The origin of Klingons as Shakespeare characters.