262. Real Meal, Fictional Man

Lords: * CisHetKayFaber * Maxx Topics: * Food-focused Japanese TV * If "fish don't exist," then how do pescetarians? * PicoSteveMo is back! * https://wikipoem.org/ * Verisimilitude in play (My daughter plays GTA and Roblox) (The shifting nature of what is appropriate for children) Microtopics: * Emotionally connecting with a dying web site and meeting up with other users in Seattle. * What the Cohost diaspora is doing to do. * Drive-by bad opinions. * Where people live in Australia, on average. * CSS Crimes. * Using external image hosts to continue blogging on Cohost after it is in read-only mode. * URL shortening services reusing old links. * Meeting up with people you have a loose association with and having a good time together. * The Bowling League Mafia taking up every lane every day with tournaments so nobody else can bowl. * A TV drama where a traveling salesman keeps being hungry at different train stations. * Seeing a meal that looks delicious but you're full and can't eat a whole nother meal. * Whether food becomes fictional as soon as you eat it. * Watching satellite TV on your flip phone. * OneSeg. * Your email address being owned by your phone carrier. * A phone that closes and has great battery life. * The golden age of food-focused broadcast TV. * A celebrity who's interested in food goes and eats at a restaurant. * This Burger Weighs 30 Pounds! * Midnight Diner. * The Karate Kid but with ramen. * Watching a Youtube of the video gamers. * Ordinary People, Extraordinary Food. * Whether pescetarians exist. * The researchers in the shark lab you used to work at calling dolphins fish. * Fish eyes: nature's boba. * A block of gouda floating in the ocean. * Fish that stop being fish when you think about it too hard. * Disagreeing with beavers about what tree to cut down, but you're conflict avoidant so the beaver always wins. * Haven't we all argued with beavers? * Crows stealing the naan out of your naan and curry. * Jungle Crows who sound like an adult man doing an impression of crows. * Crows who are really good at Japanese T9. * The nets you put over your garbage that can't possibly keep the crows out. * Picking Steves from a continuity standpoint. * Finding any excuse to make a Stephen King Sokoban. * Deliberately awkward control schemes. * A thousand prototyping girls in space. * A poem without any line breaks in it. * The zine era of web design, when people would just type HTML and it would become a web page. * Phrases that make sense locally but not globally. * A comedian who is in lots of things. * The kind of poem you'd get if you put a poem on a wiki. * The kind of thing that would probably be read on this show. * The kind of web site that you'd run into when you're doing an ARG. * Installing Roblox on the PS5 to teach your daughter to read English better. * Playing a game with purple vomiting everywhere. * The ways a 7 year old interacts with a Grand Theft Auto. * Teaching yourself how to drive in Grand Theft Auto and obeying all the traffic laws. * Not shielding your kid from media but talking to them about it instead. * Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens.