Topic Lords

265. We're Here To Make This Slide Floppy


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Lords:

  • Tim
  • Chris
  • Topics:

    • Noodles?
    • Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free will
    • Choosing an integrator
      • https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/
      • Lucky Jim (old song)
        • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/U7zR1RCa.png
        • Collaborative music as a game design problem (see: skill gap, handicaps, engagement, peripheral participation)
        • Microtopics:

          • Celtic Music and Corgis.
          • Tim, a figure shrouded in mystery.
          • Topic Monologues.
          • Gluten-free noodle straws.
          • Bucatini: imagine a Red Vine but made of pasta.
          • Replacing food service workers with clockwork automata made of noodles that have been hardened into gears and springs.
          • Giant fusilli as playground equipment.
          • Noodleness and pastitude.
          • Whether gnocchi is a pasta. What about cauliflower gnocchi?
          • Unleavened Carrot Cake.
          • Indomie: the number one selling noodle on Earth.
          • Good spices: they can work in a broth.
          • Soupertaster: Jim eats soup alone while talking to a volleyball with a bloody handprint on it.
          • Learning math by starting with incredibly abstract unmotivated ideas.
          • Some Bottomless Pits are Deeper than Others.
          • Approaching a question by interpreting it as a question that if answerable.
          • The significant of the perception of free will.
          • How a closed system can produce multiple different outcomes.
          • What happens when we decide we don't have free will.
          • A completely deterministic system that has a sensation of free will.
          • Taking as much time as it takes to read a book.
          • Shooting the Moon (in real life)
          • Taking all the bad cards and winning.
          • Becoming disciplined about time
          • What a modern feature phone can do.
          • Dividing your day into blocks and spending them.
          • The period in your life when you lived in Burlingame.
          • Getting an incredibe amount of work done during your hour and a half commute.
          • Topic Lords or Plug Lords?
          • Something you'll be glad you did tomorrow.
          • Integration Basics.
          • Explicit Euler vs. Semi-Implicit Euler.
          • The pros and cons of RK4.
          • The physics system behind Drawn to Life.
          • What it takes to be an old song.
          • Hadestown and The Instigator.
          • The Hadestown Tiny Desk Concert.
          • How to play music with other people in a way that accounts for skill gaps.
          • Going to the Starry Plough to play the penny whistle.
          • Musicians sitting in a circle and talking until someone starts playing something and everyone else joins in.
          • Joining in on a song you've never heard before.
          • Playing Mary Had a Little Lamb at 40 BPM.
          • Making a slow song more interesting by adding ornamentation.
          • Star of the County Down.
          • Different ideas that come out when you play music at half speed.
          • Lark Camp.
          • The person who hands out the cheat sheet with all the popular tunes and their chord progressions.
          • Sorting tunes by frequnecy.
          • The bad things about Irish sessions, from a game design perspective.
          • Learning a song by reading the notation vs. learning it by playing it for 30 years.
          • Star Above the Garter.
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