Encounter #123: Born to Bleat

NPC pickup lines, prehistoric hand jobs, and getting drunk on a blowie.

With special guest Carolyn Blaney

Executive producer: @bayerngiant

Show Notes

Passenger flight is shot as it comes into land in Beirut | Daily Mail Online

Don't worry, it was celebratory gunfire.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Wikipedia

Okay, sixteen years, not twenty.

Bizarre, AI-Generated Pickup Lines Make Better Tinder Bios - InsideHook

Is that a DIMM in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

cosmopolitan sex tips but they're generated by AI (@tips_ai) / Twitter

Infinite AI sex tips. Generated by GPT-2 seeded with Cosmopolitan's finest. Hot and fresh every hour.

KFC Uses Nazi Pogrom to Promote Fried Chicken in Germany

Kristallnacht fur Chicken.

“It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken,” Germany’s KFC app said, before apologising and saying the message was caused by a bug.

New developed AI Synthesis Engine Produces Natural, Richly Expressive Vocals Yamaha New Comprehensive Vocal Synthesis Software VOCALOID™6 - News Releases - Yamaha Corporation

This was over a month ago, how did we miss this?!

VOCALOID - the modern singing synthesizer -

Vocaloid 6: The Revenge of Miku.

Domino's App Feat Hatsune Miku (Original) - YouTube

Evergreen link. How could we NOT include it?!

'Pocket Miku': A Synthesizer That Sings

Amazon.com: Korg Miku Stomp Vocaloid Guitar Effects Pedal : Musical Instruments

Man Pleads To Tattooing Minor Inside McDonald's | The Smoking Gun

Wait this wasn't Florida?

Woman Cops To Meat Beating At Ohio Walmart | The Smoking Gun

Anime

Akiba Meido Sensou (Akiba Maid War) · AniList

Akiba Maid Sensou is some real gangland shit, but with café maids.

Appleseed (Movie) · AniList

Shit: Obvious 3D with low quality cel shading. Lit: BEEG ANIME TIDDIES.

Judas Goats: Agriculture’s Bizarre, Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled the Killing Floor | AgWeb

GIMP: Export image as C code

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50 years ago, an artist convincingly exhibited a fake Iron Age civilization – with invented maps, music and artifacts

Iron age oil containers were often used to juice citrus fruits. Apparently.

Hand of Irulegi: ancient bronze artefact could help trace origins of Basque language | Spain | The Guardian