TimChrisNoodles?Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free willChoosing an integratorhttps://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.pngCollaborative music as a game design problem (see: skill gap, handicaps, engagement, peripheral participation)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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