163. The Mean Horse Scenario

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Mitch https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster https://www.google.com/search?q=w https://www.seximal.net/ Laura https://twitter.com/lmichet https://cohost.org/lmichet Topics: What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this? The Super Mario Wiki is a beacon that other fan wikis should look to for inspiration The GTA San Andreas conversation system Last Straw, by George Starbuck http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2021/04/george-starbuck-nationalpoetrymonth.html The gradual inflation of standard youtube video length Microtopics: Lowercase jan, capital Misali. Collecting all 905 Pokemon after 25 years. R-rated Pokemon competitor, "Seximals." Free-range porn, or legitimate educational resource? First impressions of seximal.net. Counting up to 99 on your hands. College basketball's tactical use of base 6. The binary number represented by flipping someone the bird with both hands. The Airworld situation. A sled pulled by domesticated zombies. Solving the tire problem so you can bike around in the post-apocalypse. Horses destroying society by kicking every building down with their powerful legs. Horsefingers. Horseknuckles. Being just tall enough for a horse to try to eat your hair. Shoveling poop out of the bear bone barn. Standards of accuracy and editorial quality in the Super Mario Wiki. Niwa, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. What Mario Wiki has to say about the Berlin Wall. Abraham Lincoln's place in the Mario Canon. Organizing the Marvel Wiki by universe number. The most objective possible method of sorting a list of universes. Regular Peter Parker vs. Ultimate Peter Parker. 10 seconds of scrolling. A wealth of information not intended for a phone screen. The ontological difference between characters and allies. What species exist in the world of Mario? Action Toad. The wiki article about Baby Mario, a distinct character from the times various Marios have been babies. The love child of Bowser and Shigeru Miyamoto. Making invitations to your bachelor party with Mario Print World. Different forms of pounding your butt on the ground. The Ground Pound, also known as the Hip Drop, Pound the Ground attack, Bounce, Butt-Bash, Jump Smash, Smash Attack, and Butt Stomp. How wikis get away with not being normalized databases. A loose simulacrum of conversation. A conversation that takes the form of a hand wave and then a gulf a million miles wide. Pausing for several minutes to contemplate whether you've ever eaten octopus for breakfast. Fifty ways to say "please don't hit me in the head with that wrench." The Heaven's Vault conversation system. Ten different voice actors saying the same twenty lines. A normal poetry thing. Trying to find the poem "The Last Straw" by George Starbuck but Google only wants to show you articles about how Starbucks doesn't have straws any more. Poems that use two meters at once. Showing the frivolity of the line lengths. Back when Youtube videos were limited to ten minutes. Just sitting here making feature films by myself. Al Gore, the guy who invented the Algorithm. Promising things in the show notes that definitely aren't going to go there. What happens in an ecosystem where there is no pressure to make your work shorter. People who have time to watch a three hour Youtube video. Watching a movie over the course of a week, ten minutes at a time. Multitasking poorly. How to find people on Cohost.