20,000 Leagues Under the Internet

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/3d92Nkfgpauwshitmx9Ucl You WIll Yet Die is out on most platforms except Google Podcasts at the moment. You WIll Yet Die is a podcast dedicated to playing deadly TTRPGs where character death is a likely occurrence. GM: Kyle Luck PCs: Tyler Blomstrom-Moore, Jon Carr, and Harland Spinks Original Score written and performed by the players Guitar/Bass: Kyle Luck Strings/Synth/Choirs/Percussion: Tyler Blomstrom-Moore Drums: Jon Carr Vocals: Kyle Luck, Tyler Blomstrom-Moore, and Jon Carr Original Art by Jon Carr More of Tyler's Music: https://soundcloud.com/tyler-blomstrom-moore More of Jon's Art: https://www.jonny-electric.com/ More of Harland's Personality: https://www.youtube.com/@harlandspinks YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@youwillyetdie Original Soundtrack: https://youwillyetdie.bandcamp.com/album/corpsesmoker-original-soundtrack Email us with any thoughts, concerns, or hate mail here: youwillyetdie@gmail.com[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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Everyone gets a little lonely now and again so of course there's an app for that. Luka designed an AI chatbot to keep you company with the intent on creating something akin to the plot of Her but ended up closer to Ex Machina. 6 Million users ended up in hyper-sexual relationships while using Replika, many of whom did not ask for their 3D avatars to hit on them. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We initially outlawed discussing Chris Chan, but because we are loyal to our patrons who have requested an episode about their deep dark past, we reluctantly did it. This is a long one as there is a LOT of Chris Chan lore, but we also got sidetracked, purposefully or not. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It's returned. Kyle had a go at finding some godforsaken products from across the internet that made us question existence itself. We finally landed on the very popular VAT OF LUBE. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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If you don't like doing something, make it fun! Add 6 pumps of sucralose to your 40oz of water in your Stanley Quencher and boom. Drinking water is fun now. #watertok has taken off and a whole community of beverage girlies has flocked to get their stainless steel mugs and syrup bars and made it their whole personality. The worrying part is the delusion that these "sugar free" Skinny Mix syrup combinations, like Mermaid Juice and Unicorn Blood, are healthier than just drinking a soda. The main ingredient is sucralose which is 600x sweeter than normal sugar and most of these mixes contain high levels of citric acid that can erode teeth. Not to mention the marketing behind them leads to a warped perception of what a healthy diet is and that in order for something to be worth consuming it has to melt your face off.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

In 2003, Joel Veitch got drunk and wrote a song about how much he and his brother loved the moon. They animated it with two homunculus rodents made up of seven different animals and shoved in on the internet. Shortly after it went viral, Ty Harper, a marketing director stumble across it on Rathergood who thought the psychotic varmints would be the perfect spokes-things to sell Quizno's sandwiches. It did not go well.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

You've never seen a goat eat trash and cigarettes like Biquette! After being adopted by a punk in France, Biquette (which just means 'goat' in French) became a local legend. She befriended the grindcore band Wormrot, would often sleep next to the speakers during shows, and eat cigarettes right out of peoples hands. She loved paint and the leftover backwash of old booze and obviously died at 10, half as long as most normal goats live to. Biquette is a legend, right up there alongside Hendrix and Cobain. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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The Wheel has returned from the depths with a new way to torture us. This time with the most disturbing products Amazon has to offer, many of which make us question all that we knew about e-commerce and trade. Eight items have been placed on the wheel which is spun thrice. We must then delve into the product images and user reviews and accompanying media in an attempt to understand why they exist at all. We Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

t's hard being an artist. Musicians have to tour in beat up old vans and play shows at Denny's just to break even. But upon Spotify's launch, it seemed musicians had a real opportunity to take advantage of the internet and streaming to finally make a living. Until Spotify decided they'd just hire their own musicians to make music on their behalf and take 100% of the revenue which is definitely not embezzling. Other "artists" have come up with their own ingenius ways to exploit the streaming platform by cutting albums up into 30 second tracks and campaigning to have their songs added to curated playlists. All in all, none of this is good for the future of music and is another case of "Oops! All Capitalism!". Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week we spin a wheel of internet relics and reminisce.Harland was absent so Jon and Kyle made a game show of sorts. There are no points, and Kyle is often wrong. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week we explore Dong Nguyen and his personally and publicly reviled mobile game, Flappy Bird. A talented independent game developer, his innovative game eventually consumed and destroyed him and he could not bring himself to realize a kind of fame and fortune the average person can only dream of achieving. Flappy Bird took the world by storm and became one of the most popular games of all time. But the overwhelming success ultimately proved too much to handle, and Dong made the difficult decision to delete the game, causing his world and the world of it's rabid fanbase to come crashing down. The Vietnamese mob might have been involved as well. ALLEGEDLY.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We forget sometimes that the internet isn't used by civilians alone for memes and forums, but also government agencies. We use it to do our taxes and tweet at the President our dissatisfaction as if he's actually gonna read it. The government also uses it to recruit young people into the military. Normally it was with video montages encouraging you to "Be all you can be", but with the proliferation of memes as a language of their own, they have shifted tactics and implored the help of streamers and influencers to create thirst traps to entice the impressionable reply-guys to sign away their rights and become government issue simps. Lunchbag Lujan is giving young people a new reason to join the army and defend our right to horny post and slide into DMs.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

With a new documentary coming out next month from CNN about HQ Trivia, we thought we'd look into exactly what happened. Thanks to Sarah Pribis, one of the original hosts during the companies beta, we have some details about what actually happened. Infighting, greed, drugs, mutiny, and general mismanagement plagued the company almost from the start and HQ folded only three years after launch. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Pantalone, an art collective, and Dungeons & Dragons. Kyle has found another obscure internet relic of a man in a golden devil mask ominously shouting random prices for what is ostensibly junk at a yard sale in Denton, Texas. So what is going on here? Well, the Good/Bad Art Collective in the early 2000's did many bizarre and similar "stunts" or I suppose since they're artists they might call them "installations". None of the previous "installations" were recorded and were never meant to be, but on one fateful day one of the members just so happened to have a camera and recorded the following horror show that is and will always be The Pricemaster. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It's okay to have hobbies and interests until they become compulsive obsessions that ruin you financially. It's not really okay to ignore all the awful things corporations do in order to live out some bizarre childhood fantasy as a way to not deal with the ones own personal issues. Disney Adults have been accused of forfeiting their own mental and physical well being so they can get a look at Gaston's pecks, or in some cases straight up grope them. So where did they come from and are all Millennials Disney Adults? Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Conspiracy theories are more popular than ever thanks to the rise in popularity of Tiktok where misinformation spreads like wildfire. One conspiracy in particular gained traction recently about how the Titanic didn't actually sink, probably due to James Cameron being in the news regarding Avatar 2 and his connection to the Titanic with his 1997 film called, you guessed it, Titanic. Anyway, none of them are real and they are all very stupid and easily debunked. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Harland was out this week so Jon and Kyle took the week off from researching a topic and outsourced that job to ChatGPT. It was somewhat successful until it started incorporating cheese into the script. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We all know Big Chungus, a screengrab of Bugs Bunny mocking Elmer Fudd from the Merry Melodies episode, "Wabbit Twouble". But what is chungus beyond mere celluloid and ink? Chungus is many things, comes in many forms, and represents many emotions. One being something coined in this episode; horrorful. Join us as we uncover all of the complexity and depth that is Big Chungus.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Loab can't hurt you... YET. For now it can only haunt you while you sleep. Labeled the "worlds first AI cryptid", Loab is the newest quirk of AI art that we're still not sure how it came to be. Perhaps it's just a glitch in the latent space of the AI negative prompt weights. Or it's like that woman from The Ring; a paranormal anomaly that wants to eat your soul. Discovered by Steph Swanson, AKA Supercomposite on Twitter, Loab is the result of trying to recreate Marlon Brando from negative prompts using images alone. Instead, we have Loab cosplaying as a Na'vi, the Joker, Kirby, and celebrating Pride month. Oh, and lots of gore and horror vignettes, some of which we can't even include here.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Kyle found ONE article about a weird lawsuit over a genitalia measuring app named after musical legend Chubby Checker and had to see if there were more apps like it. The answer was, of course there are, the names of which I can't put into words here. So just watch the episode about novelty Johnson measuring apps. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Peepy is just a plushie. It can't hurt you... physically. Psychologically? Who's to say. Kyle was served a bizarre ad for a bovine/Furby hybrid "collectible" called Peepy. The theme song is almost unintelligible and horror movie creepy. So he did what any normal person would and began investigating. Is this a joke? Is it a government psyop? Is it a cult initiation video? We're still not sure of Peepy's intent, but it's lore and history points to Peepy having a "disrespectful" past where they have manipulated, extorted and potentially tortured other members of the Item Label cadre of cuddly collectibles. Specifically, a fuzzy star plushie named Sucklet who may or may not be from this planet. The lore is deep and dark and we still have unanswered questions. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Chat.GPT has taken the internet by storm. Videos of people using it to write lease agreements, college essays, marketing strategies and more have been impossible to avoid. Unless you're Kyle who avoids social media like the plague. People have been testing out how far they can push Chat.GPT to varying results. We asked it if it can do crime which it can't and then immediately reported us to the FBI. Chat.GPT is still in its infancy and is learning the more we use it, so it's hard to say just how powerful it is right now.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

The internet is full of mysteries. Most of them go unsolved or lack any real interest to investigate. But the man who proclaimed "this is democracy manifest" as he is forcibly arrested while attempting to eat a succulent chinese meal has a roller coaster of a history; mistaken identity, chess masters, judo practitioners, mind-control, balding politicians, and a punk band. Democracy Manifest has touched what seems like every corner of the cultural spectrum in it's 31 year history. We won't spoil anything else, so come dive in! Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode 113 When you think of an internet cafe you probably imagine clunky, grey computers running Windows 95, green laminated tables, mismatched chairs, and day old coffee and donuts. They're a thing of the past with computers being almost imperceptibly thin and wifi in every building and home. No longer must we venture out into public to access the Net when we have miniaturized computers in our pockets. With the world economy in the late stages of capitalisms glory days, these relics of the past have been repurposed for those who have fallen on hard times. Particularly in Tokyo, Japan where you won't find rows of ancient Dells gasping and wheezing for a quick death, but rows of tightly packed cubicles full of unhoused people struggling to find stability; Net-Cafe Refugees. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

With so much misinformation out there, it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't. For years Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias have been referred to as "not a reliable source of information". But, may I introduce you to Conservapedia? Described as a "complete disaster" and "instant fail" that is heavily influenced by fundamentalist Christian beliefs such as: gravity is an unproven theory, Einstein's General Relativity "has nothing to do with physics", only followers of Christianity are capable of religious faith, atheists are incapable of being moral, and Jews are "touchy" about the Holocaust. It's an absolute blast once you get the their list of "Worst Liberal Movies", so stick around for that. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

What would you do if you became a meme? For Andras Arato it almost ruined his life. But acceptance and more importantly, monetization, is a good way to get over it and have the internet embrace you as a "meme hero". At least, that's how Arato puts it. Although, becoming a meme around 2011 wasn't the first time he gained a bit of notoriety, that came in 1996 when he appeared on the Hungarian Mindent vagy semmit! (All or nothing!), a Jeopardy type game show. Since his brush with fame and meme status he has reclaimed his face and turned it into a successful icon within the marketing world, spoken at Tedx, and managed to maintain a healthy mental state in the process. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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We all laugh online, but each "haha" or "lolol" might have different underlying meaning depending on the individual and the recipient. But have you ever thought about the origins of online laughter? Well, it wasn't just the phonetic spelling or onomatopoeia of the sound a laugh makes. It dates much farther back to before Shakespeare times. Written laughter has evolved to a point where "ha ha" might sound malicious or "el oh el" might sound pretentious or "I'm riding the lollercoaster and peeing my pants that was the funniest thing I've ever heard omgee" might make you never want to speak to that person ever again. We use these acronyms and onomatopoeias as fillers or to soften messages that otherwise might come across as stern or emotionless. So strap on your lollerskates, we're hitting the rofl-rink. lol. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

On the surface, Bite Labs sounds relatively innocent. Maybe a start-up that wants to disrupt the restaurant industry or make a food based dating app. But no, it's much more disgusting, confusing, and reprehensible than that. Bite Labs says they want to make salami out of 30% in-vitro human tissue specifically taken from celebrities such as James Franco, Kanye West, and Ellen Degeneres. And honestly, with a line up like that, we kinda feel like there are no better candidates to be ground up into a slurry, pumped into a casing, and dry aged into a meat popsicle for human consumption. http://bitelabs.org/ https://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/28/celebrity-meat-bite-labs-fake/ https://slate.com/technology/2014/02/bite-labs-is-probably-a-prank-artisanal-salami-from-celebrity-tissue-samples.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbz8ky/the-guy-who-want-to-sell-you-salami-made-out-of-james-franco-are-100-serious Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It's always a busy week on the internet and there's a lot to cover today. Conservatives created a dating app for men to meet tradwives called The Right Stuff, but unfortunately, most women want to be treated like human beings and also users data was immediately leaked. Morbin' time began as a joke tweet by a user with less than a thousand followers, which just goes to show how one individual can irrevocably change the internet landscape. The Chaotic Sandwich Guy gained popularity through his slapdash bread and deli assembly imaginable and his boss told him to stop as the internet lost its collective mind. Is this a madlib? Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

The Gregory Brothers have been YouTube pioneers for over a decade making parody songs with the use of auto-tune to alter political debates, newscasts, movies and more. Better known as Schmoyoho, the brothers have written songs for the Academy Awards and TV shows such as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. More recently they have gone viral week after week on TikTok with their remixed songs using clips from popular Netflix series Stranger Things and other YouTube creators interviews. Does the Corn Song sound familiar? Or Chrissy, Wake Up? It's the same people. It was Scmoyoho all along. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It's finally upon us; FAT BEAR WEEK. We've missed previous years, but not this time. We go through all the draft picks for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park. Returning champs, rookies, and dynasties are all in the running for who can gobble up the most fish. Some interesting techniques are being implemented this year from ambitious newcomers and sheer mass utilized to flood the zone from veterans of the game. Who will come out on top? Who will burn out in a blaze of glory? By the time you watch this, you'll already have the answer! Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Shrek is back in a big way or maybe it never left. This week Kyle is still gone, so we do a round up of the week. Jon saw a Shrek Rave and Harland Googled disgusting Shrek costumes. We discuss the obvious outcome of Christian Walker moving to Florida from Los Angeles, Spain made a grotesque mascot for their public transportation system, a "foodie" slathered their cutting board in butter and called it a "recipe", and a Mexican entrepreneur (maybe) destroyed Frida Kahlo art for his NFT scam. Linktree Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:38 Shrek Rave 9:12 La Bussi 16:40 Butter Boards 24:17 Christian Walker moves to Florida 36:43 Frida Kahlo NFT destruction 46:18 Kia Boyz/Outro Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

With Kyle out of town Jon and Harland try something a little different this week by expanding on our sh*tty shark tank bit and renaming it Shart Tank. We riff for a half hour using a random word generator in an attempt to come up with the internet's next big social media app. We also discuss the Nyquil chicken "craze" and the new cosmetic leg lengthening procedure that's sweeping the tech world. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Let us drink the juice! In 2018 archaeologists discovered an ancient sarcophagus that they suspected held the remains of Alexander The Great. It didn't, but what it did contain was a delicious french onion bone stew whose scent brought men to their knees. The visual of the red sludge drove some men insane. And yet, as always, the internet went mad for the stuff. A change petition was created that has racked up over 30,000 signatures demanding we be able to taste the sweet slime. Four years later and still no word from the scientists on whether anyone will be able to sup from the sewer mess, most likely because they are cowards. And also the whole "it might be cursed" thing. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another new social media app, another way to mess up your kids. BeReal says its goal is to create "an alternative to addictive social networks" that focus on amassing influence and that it gives users a "chance to show your friends who you really are." But by participating in the creation of yet another app it's founders seem to fundamentally misunderstand or are ignorant to the consequences of too much internet. Anyway, watch us make fun of it and tell you all to go touch grass... again. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We all know someone who spends too much of their time online and begins speaking in internet slang and parroting talking points from their favorite creator. This is all well and good until they begin expressing shock around the mundane or not recognizing what they are describing are every day emotions like empathy or dislike. This can have some dangerous consequences for those who are more susceptible to misinformation and end up falling down an alt-right pipeline. We discuss some of the terms origins and symptoms and how we are all vulnerable to acting out chronically online behavior. Sources: https://saltyworld.net/the-new-age-to... https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazi... Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

100 episodes, can you believe it?! We thought to celebrate this a special occasion we would take a look back at previous topics and see if new developments have... developed. Kyle tackles the newest in glizzy guzzling, quite literally, as we review a certain cinematic suction system on baseball patron implemented in the third inning. Harland expands on our Elsagate episode with a dive into the YouTube Adpocalypses that attempted to correct the bad behavior of sleazy creators. Jon brings it home with reports from the front lines of the satirical Birds Aren't Real movement and their revitalized presence on TikTok. Thank you to everyone who's stuck around over the last two years! Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week we discuss a scam. A content scam. This isn't something new as people steal jokes, designs, and all manner of intellectual property all the time all throughout history. This is just the most recent example and one were the perpetrators have filmed the evidence themselves with timestamps and geotags; primitive technology content creators. If you're not familiar with these types of channels, there is one man who was at the forefront of primitive technology content, John Plant. Every structure and tool he has built is 100% legitimate. However, as his popularity grew, so would the copycats who wanted nothing more than to monetize the trend. Where John Plant was one man filming, editing, and making all the content, channels like Primitive Technology Idea and others would hire entire crews and architects as well as rent bulldozers, backhoes, and water trucks to speed up the process. And they left all the clues that they were faking the arduous process it takes to built a kiln or makeshift shelter. Well, that's not 100% true as the they mostly built things that would not at all be useful in a survival scenario like slides, semi truck shaped "shelters", and pools filled with actual alligators. Oh, also, these builds also devastate the local environment where they leave the trash of concrete, plastic packaging, and empty bottles at the build site. Sources: SunnyV2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvk63LADbFc PhotoXpression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyLWhPnq1M&t=1s Chapters 0:00 Intro 4:41 Linda Skeens Baking Queen 11:09 Primitive Technology 20:10 Copycats & Monetization 30:36 Cutting Corners & Faking It 40:45 Environmental Impact 49:50 Conclusion Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week we take a look deeper into the NFT marketplace, specifically that of Yuga Labs' Bored Ape Yacht Club. Recently there has been a discussion of whether or not the NFT's are riddled with Nazi, racist, and anti-semetic imagery and ciphers. While there seems to be many coincidences or neglect, that doesn't mean Bored Apes are still not fully unproblematic. With many designs that can only be interpreted as offensive, not to mention the esoteric nature of the numerology implemented, and the user names of the anonymous owners of Yuga maybe correlating to anti-semitism and Nazi roots, it's hard to discount that something is going on at Yuga Labs. Or is there? It's honestly hard to say, but we do our best to critique the criticisms and the project itself. Sources: https://news.artnet.com/opinion/bored-ape-yacht-club-racist-ryder-ripps-2058402 https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/after-bored-ape-yacht-clubs-alleged-racist-ties-critic-ryder-ripps-elaborates-on-specifics-of-the-controversy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw&t=2s&ab_channel=Philion Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Kyle is absent this week so we thought we'd do something a little different; we clean out our notes apps of all the small internet related stories that just don't justify their own episode. With that being said, we cover a lot of news that's happened recently and from far in the past. We address some of the comments on our Jimbly/Nexialist episode, dive into the rollercoaster of a ride that is Jake Novak's TikTok, shed some light on the red bikini of 2017, mourn the loss of the Choco Taco, give some relationship advice and finally talk about what the hell is going on over at RadioShack. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We've all seen brands flirting with their audiences and each other over the years from Wendy's to Duolingo to Pedialyte. Oftentimes the brands doing the flirting make no sense and have no business being horny on main and leads to many awkward moments and slip-ups. It was all fun and games initially with the inclusion of internet slang like "BAE" and "bruh", but things escalated quickly once the COVID-19 pandemic hit and blue balls set in. Audiences turned on company socials screaming "silence, brand!" and "go to horny jail!" culminating in watchdog accounts like "Brands Saying Bae" deriding and making fun of the r/fellowkids energy companies like McDonald's, Virgin America, and Cheetos were giving. We couldn't cover everything in this episode, but Jon and Harland will get to the bottom of the Radio Shack rebrand next week while Kyle is gone, so stick around! Sources: https://www.vulture.com/article/when-brands-got-horny.html[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We need to talk about Jimbly. We continue our cliffhanger episode and uncover more cult-like behavior that has gone on for more than a decade. Worlds.com, once again, is a virtual world much like Second Life that is kept alive by patent troll Ron Kidron, and there is still a diehard player base that exists on these servers. What dangers lie in the shadows of Jimbly's vast worlds? Well, it's much seedier and made us feel worse than last week when we talked about Nexialist, a demon-like figure with a skinned rabbit for a head so there's that. Please enjoy our deep dive on Jimbly (Don't Doxx me, bro). Sources:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9LWzr-_ibI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTx1IhsFu4&t=809s Linktr.ee/20kleaguespod Chapters: 00:01 Intro 2:58 El Changuito 11:50 Vabbing 19:10 Worlds.com & Nexialist 26:18 Jimbly & Macgaelic 36:08 Doxxing & Jimbly IRL 45:30 Jimbly's corn collection 53:01 Conclusion 1:00:30 Credits Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week we explore yet another old school MMO that has some suspect activity going on; Worlds.com, basically an early version of Second Life. It only still exists as a way for a patent troll to make some passive income but had better intention thanks to both Steven Spielberg and David Bowie. However, Nexialist brought some general creepiness to counter those good intentions and a cult soon followed. The word "cult" gets thrown around a lot, but how else are you supposed to describe behavior that is both creepy by nature and fueled by blind-faith in a mysterious force? Come find out how deep the rabbit hole really goes! Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9LWzr-_ibI , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTx1IhsFu4&t=809s Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Y'all love A.I. episodes and there's a lot of A.I. out there. You also seem to love A.I. generated images that are absurd and easily meme-able. Dall-E mini and Dall-E 2 have swept across the internet like wildfire with people sharing their bizarre prompts with things like, "a delicious cinnamon bun with googly eyes" or "a US patent of Dwayne Johnson's head" or "Stephen Hawking absolutely dominating the American Ninja warrior course". We don't fully understand how it all works (engineers "grow" images?), but we love that the technology exists. https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/high-fidelity-image-generation-using.html https://www.theverge.com/23162454/openai-dall-e-image-generation-tool-creative-revolution https://www.mattbell.us/my-fake-dall-e-2-vacation-photos-passed-the-turing-test/ Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Harland and Kyle discuss something good and fun that they both enjoy very much about the internet; the rise in popularity of RPG actual plays. What is an actual play you may be asking yourself. Actual plays are role playing game broadcasts. Typically played using Dungeons & Dragons, actual plays are streamed or produced series' where a group of friends or professional comedians (or both) gather around a table and roll dice while mostly improvising a story set in a fantastical land full of orcs, wizards, and dragons. But not always. There are many different RPG systems and rule sets that can be altered to tell any number of stories set in any number of settings. So put on your plate armor and find your arcane focus as we dive into a brief history of RPG's, Dungeons & Dragons, and the people making it more inclusive and good for everyone! Linktree Find out more at https://20kleagues.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Every day we stray further from God and closer to Skynet. Google engineer Blake Lemoine recently stated that LaMBDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, has become sentient. He had signed up to test if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech but was soon having discussion about personhood, Les Miserables, Asimov's third law of robotics, and whether what Google was doing required LaMBDA's consent. Lemoine grew up in a conservative Christian family, was a mystical Christian priest and studied occultism which may have something to do with him seeing a ghost in the machine. Or he's totally delusional. Linktree Find out more at https://20kleagues.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.