41. Non-Euclidean Christianity Topic Lords

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Lords:



Ryan is @RyanIkeComposer on Twitter and @RyanIkeAudio on Instagram and is probably not working on Skyrim 2?
Tyriq is FourbitFriday everywhere and really wants to finish Catacomb Kids.


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Topics:



What's a fandom you're not a part of, but kind of wish you were?
Pointless Automatons


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/future-scooters-central-park.html
https://www.strandbeest.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
http://www.tweenbots.com

Please help reconstruct this lost pun: "vegan jazz standards" with nutritional yeast
Mallow asks: "how do you grapple with / think about your legacy? (things that sprang to mind included the relevant timeframe, obligations to the future, how/what people inherit from their ancestors, and how (self-)censorship is a way to cut off a legacy)"
Consistency of idiolect


Disfluencies providing value to the listener: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000300.html

How can we appeal to Gen Z so when they take over we aren't executed along with the Boomers?


Microtopics:



Clapping just because it's fun.
A trainwreck of three people talking over each other.
Being in a corridor and punching a weird alien.
Topic thirst.
Pokemon Snap making you even more of a pariah, if that's even possible.
Throwing apples at a Snorlax until it wakes up, like the shitty kid at the zoo.
A reverse body snatcher situation, where you're the only alien walking around in a skin suit.
Enjoying a game more if it doesn't involve collecting things.
Going to a free R&B concert every Sunday.
Going to a white small town Lutheran church which was boring and lame.
The organ coming in for particularly high-energy moments.
Somebody telling you that you are inches away from going to hell in the same basement that they just had an alcoholics anonymous meeting four seconds ago.
Having to worry about all your atheist friends going to hell.
Non-Euclidean Christianity.
Refusing to put anything in your ears to make the music be less music and going deaf for three days.
Big moving contraptions that resemble some sort of life form made out of shafts of PVC that wander along the beaches.
Having no purpose other than to exist.
Having made so many things extinct that you feel obligated to fill the ecosystem with weird new robots.
Sentient scooters running wild in New York City.
An adorable robot that can only roll forward and relies on passers-by to navigate.
Automations existing wholly outside of the human sphere.
A battlebot that got loose in the forest, a ramp rolling around the forest floor flipping over pinecones.
Wanting to believe that battlebots are real so badly that you forget that they have RC drivers.
A robot with a nuke or at least a flail.
A village of Rube Goldberg machines triggering each other forever.
Listing jazz standards except replacing one of the words in each title with "nooch."
One of those jokes that you construct for 17 people to get, but those 17 people really appreciate it.
Slipping in the shower and the last thought in your head before you die is the game of the jazz standard that makes the best nooch pun.
Not being sure whether an answer to your question is possible but proceeding under the assumption that it is.
Not allowing yourself to die until you know the answer.
Carrying around the answer to your life's question in your wallet so whenever you're ready to die you can read it and the paramedics will find you crumpled on the floor holding a note that just says "The Girl From Ipanoocha."
Just wanting to be a person who has a finished game.
Being driven to finish your current project so you can start the next one.
Realizing that just because you made a promise to finish one project, you're allowed to do other things too.
The projects that anyone can come in and finish vs. the projects that will die with you.
Not having the attention span to finish a big project unless you owe it to so