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Lords:
* Abby
* https://twitter.com/mizabitha
* http://abbydenton.podbean.com/
* John B
* https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo
Topics:
* The 1998 Tips & Tricks Magazine Video Game Codebook, a Larry Flynt publication that is not porn but, in a certain sense, is not unlike porn
* Why grease 2 is the best superhero musical; a mild defense of the 60s superman musical
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNXbdLDZLKM
* Tower of Druaga
* Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9auBn6Jys
* Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/qgqxxX_yLfo
* https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/17/68-michel-gondry/
Microtopics:
* The illustrious Abby Denton.
* A shambles.
* Locking your Twitter so nobody knows what you're doing in there.
* Making a whole video game magazine out of just the good parts of video game magazines.
* Publishing a series of short stories by formatting them like cheat codes and then submitting them to Tips & Tricks magazine.
* Nostalgia for when most of your perception of the gaming world came from tiny screenshots in magazines.
* A book that is a bunch of fake games and paragraphs about them.
* A duck riding a skateboard.
* Making a book out of a Twitter thread.
* Reading about video games in magazines probably being the optimal experience actually because most games were terrible.
* Game Master Anthony's birthday party.
* Street Fighter 2, the last game in the Street Fighter series.
* NBA Jam arcade as proof that cheat codes are compatible with microtransactions.
* Renting a game just to prove to your friend that the cheat code they heard about doesn't actually work.
* WWF Attitude.
* Enjoying the bouquet of Uniracers.
* A certain quality of gibberish.
* Publishing a fake cheat code in the annual Tips and Tricks monster issue to convey the location of your drug drop.
* Putting Roll back in the Marvel vs. Capcom series.
* A very mild defense.
* Superman fighting a gang of Chinese acrobats portrayed by white heroin addicts.
* Mafiosos cha-cha-ing around the room and chanting "Curtains for Superman!"
* The only Superman story where kryptonite never appears.
* An evil psychoanalyst defeating Superman by convincing him he's just a regular guy.
* Why can't the strongest man in the world be the happiest man in the world?
* Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.
* Dorky British guys trying to impress Michelle Pfeiffer.
* Giving a three year old a DVD of Grease 2 for her birthday.
* Everything are an opera.
* Just barely losing the Nobel Prize for thirty years in a row.
* Japanese arcade note-sharing culture.
* If Atari 2600 Adventure has a dozen Easter eggs as obscure as its hidden room, and they were all necessary to finish the game.
* One thing the NES is good at.
* The Gilligan's Island game for NES.
* Gilligan's Island for NES being rated only .1 star out of five less than Sonic CD.
* Game Center CX.
* The time you could explore Namco Museum.
* Bubble Bobble.
* Hiding a bunch of stuff in your indie game inspired by Frog Fractions but nobody ever finds it because nobody cared enough about your game.
* Spelunky 2.
* Your stuff per second rate.
* Nightmare of Druaga.
* How to know if you have a friend.
* A Brian De Palma split screen dream.
* Waking up with sugar on your head.
* Michel Gondry's music video ouevre.
* I, Palindrome, I.
* A team of compositors working for six months to bring your one-second idea to fruition.
* Hitting someone with your car and then following them down the street yelling at them.
* A reverse strip club where the performers are moving backwards in time.
* Practicing how to put a reverse-causality shirt on.
* A complete understanding of why Miho Hatori is going to bed with a sugar head.
* Teaching your son how to yawn.
* Playing Doctor Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine with your tiny, tiny feet.
* Jerks welcome!
