Topic Lords

192. The Prime Number Shitting Bear


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  • Charlie
  • Topics:

    • Umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work
    • Articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower (futurevision)
    • I'm not sure what archipelago.gg is but if I read this paragraph aloud maybe we can figure it out together
      • https://archipelago.gg/
      • A copypasta from this page:
        • https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3
        • Why is a skill less valued the more we love it? Shouldn't it be the opposite? Is this arguable?
        • Microtopics:

          • Supporting someone's video game dream in Denmark.
          • Escaping from idle games.
          • Video games drawing the screen as often as they can.
          • The pauses getting longer and longer whenever the bear needs to shit a new prime number.
          • The prime number shitting bear getting constipated.
          • How to calculate prime numbers faster.
          • Math stuff.
          • A choo choo train of thought.
          • Meditation apps that play ads while you're in the middle of meditating.
          • The thing where you put your mouth on the tube and then have to spit out the gas or you get neurological damage.
          • Creating a low pressure system by sucking on a tube.
          • Whether umbrellas make sense.
          • Umbrella side-drip.
          • How bicycles stay upright.
          • Does a bicycle on a treadmill stay upright?
          • Pattern recognition.
          • Seeing a situation you recognize and understanding what's going to happen.
          • Predicting where someone's sentence is going to end up.
          • Putting your water glass in a zone where it's going to get knocked over.
          • The shape of your mind's cause and effect network.
          • Seeing scenes from the future, like in Law and Order.
          • Predicting the future so that you can be a more efficient organism.
          • Mashing air molecules at you.
          • Speaking a language that your coworkers don't.
          • Applying FutureVision to your creative process.
          • Nonlinear creative processes.
          • One unique large musical story where nothing repeats.
          • A physical task you are doing inside your head.
          • The pet that is closest to having a kid.
          • Importing a portal gun into Tears of the Kingdom.
          • Finding the hookshot in Metroid and your friend then bring able to use it in Link to the Past.
          • How to know what your friends want.
          • All the bad ways an idea could be implemented
          • Surprise boomerangs.
          • Archipelago's Release System.
          • The era of couch co-op games.
          • A multiplayer season where everybody picks a different game.
          • Doing the oration.
          • Who the colored lights in your keyboard are for.
          • Polygonal dudes with long hair head banging in the background.
          • Weirdly modern music.
          • Fifteen years of everything else.
          • Rhythm games vs. music games.
          • Living in a society.
          • Devaluing the skills you love.
          • Listening to a song and really appreciating its use of rests.
          • How note lengths and rests work in tracker music.
          • Stopping a note without starting a new one.
          • Running experiments to determine exactly when a note should stop.
          • The micro decisions of things that people don't think about or care about.
          • A bird named Mabel.
          • A bird figuring out how to enjoy music.
          • A tepid delicate series of notes.
          • Attractivision.
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