262. Real Meal, Fictional Man


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Oct 28 2024 70 mins   37

Lords:




  • CisHetKayFaber

  • Maxx



Topics:




  • Food-focused Japanese TV

  • If "fish don't exist," then how do pescetarians?

  • PicoSteveMo is back!

  • https://wikipoem.org/

  • Verisimilitude in play (My daughter plays GTA and Roblox) (The shifting nature of what is appropriate for children)



Microtopics:




  • Emotionally connecting with a dying web site and meeting up with other users in Seattle.

  • What the Cohost diaspora is doing to do.

  • Drive-by bad opinions.

  • Where people live in Australia, on average.

  • CSS Crimes.

  • Using external image hosts to continue blogging on Cohost after it is in read-only mode.

  • URL shortening services reusing old links.

  • Meeting up with people you have a loose association with and having a good time together.

  • The Bowling League Mafia taking up every lane every day with tournaments so nobody else can bowl.

  • A TV drama where a traveling salesman keeps being hungry at different train stations.

  • Seeing a meal that looks delicious but you're full and can't eat a whole nother meal.

  • Whether food becomes fictional as soon as you eat it.

  • Watching satellite TV on your flip phone.

  • OneSeg.

  • Your email address being owned by your phone carrier.

  • A phone that closes and has great battery life.

  • The golden age of food-focused broadcast TV.

  • A celebrity who's interested in food goes and eats at a restaurant.

  • This Burger Weighs 30 Pounds!

  • Midnight Diner.

  • The Karate Kid but with ramen.

  • Watching a Youtube of the video gamers.

  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Food.

  • Whether pescetarians exist.

  • The researchers in the shark lab you used to work at calling dolphins fish.

  • Fish eyes: nature's boba.

  • A block of gouda floating in the ocean.

  • Fish that stop being fish when you think about it too hard.

  • Disagreeing with beavers about what tree to cut down, but you're conflict avoidant so the beaver always wins.

  • Haven't we all argued with beavers?

  • Crows stealing the naan out of your naan and curry.

  • Jungle Crows who sound like an adult man doing an impression of crows.

  • Crows who are really good at Japanese T9.

  • The nets you put over your garbage that can't possibly keep the crows out.

  • Picking Steves from a continuity standpoint.

  • Finding any excuse to make a Stephen King Sokoban.

  • Deliberately awkward control schemes.

  • A thousand prototyping girls in space.

  • A poem without any line breaks in it.

  • The zine era of web design, when people would just type HTML and it would become a web page.

  • Phrases that make sense locally but not globally.

  • A comedian who is in lots of things.

  • The kind of poem you'd get if you put a poem on a wiki.

  • The kind of thing that would probably be read on this show.

  • The kind of web site that you'd run into when you're doing an ARG.

  • Installing Roblox on the PS5 to teach your daughter to read English better.

  • Playing a game with purple vomiting everywhere.

  • The ways a 7 year old interacts with a Grand Theft Auto.

  • Teaching yourself how to drive in Grand Theft Auto and obeying all the traffic laws.

  • Not shielding your kid from media but talking to them about it instead.

  • Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens.

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