84. Whirling Away Into The Unhearable Topic Lords

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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/phoenix_weather_blog/the-monsoon-monster-beetle/article_bb4bd606-0476-5c0e-ae2a-ddbe1467d9d5.html
https://arizonareport.com/big-black-arizona-beetle-palo-verde/
Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_hissing_cockroach

Beastie Boys - Sabotage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
https://youtu.be/-TQgbVk9jss
Deodar Cedars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedrus_deodara

Ryan Reynolds and the Deadpool Cinematic Universe
Watching Shakespeare


The Hollow Crown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Crown_(TV_series)
Henry V: https://globeplayer.tv/videos/henry-v
Falstaff, who is actually more in Henry IV than Henry V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Falstaff
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!