263. Drafted Into the Applebee's Wars

Lords: Xalavier Brianne Topics: Why do movies about contract killers skip over the good part of negotiating in excruciating detail the contract and clauses present? Are fictional characters greater role models than real people? The new Zelda game talks too much and I'm okay with that Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/mahmoud-darwish-think-of-others.html Should every person be forcibly drafted into a customer service job, like the military. The horrible things I would do in the Criterion Closet, if given an opportunity. Jim's evidence for why The Pest is memorable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAB8dNMoXZ0 Microtopics: I Am Your Beast. Making 50 games in 7 years. A co-op Kaiju horror cooking game The Name of the Rose meets Godzilla meets Lethal Company. Power couples in games. Moviegoers who want to know about contract law. Search and replacing "murder" with "unalive" so that a contact killer can safely sue the client for breach of contact. Pedantic legal contact killer law every week. Lowering the bar so that we can all raise it later. Doctor Odyssey. Disheveled Detective. The Autistic Coded Detective. A ahow about autistic people written by neurotypical people. Making a weekly podcast and scoffing at the TV shows that can only manage 24 episodes a year. Asking google for the "podcast with the fewest episodes" and google just assuming you meant the podcast with the shortest running time. Sending children to the sharps dump. (Because the kid asked for it and the parent signed a waiver.) Desperately knocking on Google's door and beginning them to tell you where the furthest Denny's is. The Waluigi-owned Denny's in the Andromeda Galaxy. Role Models happening accidentally. Donald Duck becoming a sex pest after edgier writers take over. A form of self to aspire to. 300 Rorschach Guys in a discord server. An epic story that FromSoft will continue to plunder of its biggest plot elements for the next 30 years. A character that you relate to and then you realize that's bad. What do you do after you get what you want? Leading a horde of ninja at the dictates of an Eldritch god. Getting what you've been looking for and realizing that you're no longer the person who wanted that thing. Role-playing a princess who has to talk to a litany of insufferable people. Swinging your sword through grass to reveal rupees. Zelda's Got an Onus. Who you're thinking about as you pay your water bills. Those who are nursed by clouds. Shakespeare beeves. GettingTikTok Mad. The Death of Arthur. Impacting media literacy for generations because you want to make a sassy pun. Slipping into Belgian because you don't have enough mana to speak French. The red phone in every publicly traded franchise restaurant that connects the customer directly to a random shareholder. Working a Black Friday at a retail job and being awarded a purple heart. Working a Best Buy Geek Squad tour of service to earn your citizenship. The Criterion Closet. The level of stardom you need to attain in order to remove movies from the Criterion Collection. Supermarket Sweep. Asking someone who took one year of high school French what you call someone who owns a closet. I would not be normal and they would not be safe. Landed noblemen who are super into Amontillado. Where to lock the insufferable friend who went to film school. How many Miami Vice episodes ended up in the Criterion Collection. The movie that you remember the least. Forgiving the insufferable film school attendees in your life because you can't think of a good punishment for them.