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Important If True 15: Sexual Sneezing

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Important If True 15:

Important If True 15


Sexual Sneezing
Your questions, advised definitively. This week: Would you forego the need to eat if it meant you couldn't reproduce? Can a person like sneezing too much? Like, WAY too much? Is the Law & Order theme song actually a dog? And finally, were we—technically—not totally hoisted by a story in last week’s show? Let's take a closer look.

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Discussed: being a lame adult, Chris' dumb Snopes hoax, terrible tattoos, an excellent tattoo, how to podcast, self-revelation, Second Life bunny genocide, dogs howling at Law & Order, photic sneezing, snatiation, sexually induced sneezing

Nick's Endorsement: The "Shreds" music video series by StSanders

Chris' Endorsement: A Dark Room for iOS

Jake's Endorsement: Kamenstein Perfect Tear Paper Towel Holder

Sponsored by: Quip electric toothbrushes, our Twin Peaks Rewatch podcast

 

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24 minutes ago, dbgdbgdbg said:

It's also available... online. For free.

 

http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

 

I don't know if they've added anything new in the app versions, i think unlikely.

 

P.S. Finished it (the website version) years ago. There are many other web-games like this, in particular: Kittens

 

The iOS version was made by a different person who did make some interesting changes and additions. When you complete it on iOS there's audio commentary from both the original dev and the porter, and it comes off as a really interesting collaboration. But yes I should have definitely remembered the original web version and mentioned it, my bad.

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41 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

The iOS version was made by a different person who did make some interesting changes and additions. When you complete it on iOS there's audio commentary from both the original dev and the porter, and it comes off as a really interesting collaboration. But yes I should have definitely remembered the original web version and mentioned it, my bad.

Oh, interesting!

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37 minutes ago, Darken Skye said:

So is "The grenade rolls down the hill" a very literal example of being hoisted by one's own petard?

Yes. It turns out Hoisted is in fact the literal IIT equivalent of The Grenade Rolls Down The Hill. We have but one meme.

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2 hours ago, Jake said:

Yes. It turns out Hoisted is in fact the literal IIT equivalent of The Grenade Rolls Down The Hill. We have but one meme.

 

youhadonememe.jpg

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As someone who absolutely hates sneezing, I applaud the corrupting effect the contents of this cast had on Chris' enjoyment of it. 

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I haven't listened yet, but there's also a prequel game to A Dark Room called The Ensign.  I believe that one is only on iOS.  Coincidentally enough, I also downloaded A Dark Room on Android last week (it was on sale for free at the time).  I had played the web version years ago and it was neat to revisit.

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14 minutes ago, SecretAsianMan said:

I haven't listened yet, but there's also a prequel game to A Dark Room called The Ensign.  I believe that one is only on iOS.  Coincidentally enough, I also downloaded A Dark Room on Android last week (it was on sale for free at the time).  I had played the web version years ago and it was neat to revisit.

 

I've completed The Ensign as well. I didn't mention it on the show, because it's not really as impactful as A Dark Room, but it's fun. And yeah it's only on iOS because it's a new game by the guy who did A Dark Room's iOS port; it's not by the original author of ADR.

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Just getting into this episode.  But did we just find out that "hoisted on his own petard" is a Shakespearean "grenade rolled down the hill"?

 

Also I see a dark room is being endorsed here. A couple friends of mine just uploaded prototype inspired by a dark room that people might be interested in called Armory and Machine.  It's on Android now, but should be out on iOS soon.

 

 

 

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The "you have 72 hours to breed" movie idea sounded a lot like The Lobster, which posits a world in which adults who are unable to find a life partner are killed and their remains are turned into an animal of their choice. That deadline is a bit longer than 72 hours (I'm thinking it was maybe two weeks), but the atmosphere of horny dread is very much in line with what you had in mind I think.

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This is a good episode.

 

I had seen the episode description several days before actually listening and was convinced that "Is the Law & Order theme song actually a dog?" was referring to to the clanging jail door sfx sounding like a dog barking and I was all "Yeah, totally, that clanging jail door sound sfx sounds like a big dog barking, what a good observation" and then I actually listened to the episode and it wasn't about that at all and then went back and listened to the clanging door sound and of course it doesn't really sound much like a dog.

 

 

 

 

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As some who aims to be as insightful and funny as you guys specifically in my own life, the beginning of this episode was pretty real. But I guess everyone has a gooey insecure centre if you probe hard enough

 

As for having three days to find a mate before you die, have some pity for the poor mayfly. Many species live less than a day, once they reach their mature form they have no mouths, and their only purpose is to find a mate as quickly as possible before they die. The females of one species have a lifespan of about five minutes. Incidentally this was the topic of my final animation at university

 

By the way Second Life actually has a VR sort-of-sequel coming out very soon called Sansar. I'm weirdly excited for it

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Thanks for A Dark Room endorsement. I noticed it's free again for Android for the next three days. Going to check it out.

 

On iOS it seems to cost 2€ in Europe at least.

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