Topic Lords

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  • Jay worked on Hypnospace Outlaw. http://www.hypnospace.net/
    • https://twitter.com/jaytholen
    • James is working on Galapagos. https://triplefox.itch.io/galapagos
      • https://twitter.com/Triplefox
      • http://ludamix.com/

        • Topics:

        • 3:25 James is taking a storytelling class at City College
        • 15:49 Propizio Chittara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xiOqfkKBM
        • 20:12 Library and Production music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_music
          • Prefab FM. https://twitter.com/PrefabFM
          • 86 hour Spotify playlist of ~90s Production music: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1O7DMdjlJqBeAqGEVVihXD?
          • David Vorhaus - My Brain's Full! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI617uJKlg0
          • White Noise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Noise_(band)
          • 29:46 Gottlieb "Street Level" Pinball. https://www.retrorefurbs.com/the-history-of-street-level-pinballs/
            • Free Gold Watch custom screen printing and pinball and video arcade. http://freegoldwatch.com/newhome/home.html
            • Pacific Pinball Museum. https://www.pacificpinball.org/
            • Pinside. https://pinside.com/
            • 44:10 Jim's new life sleeping like Darth Vader

              • Microtopics:

              • Accidentally only booking guests with your same first initial.
              • Values systems driving design decisions.
              • Taking only the fun classes in college.
              • Children as an ideal audience for storytelling.
              • A job fair for monsters.
              • Black people being friends with metaphors for black people.
              • Only wanting to go to school after it's unavailable to you.
              • Never going to museums where you live because that's what tourists do.
              • Paying to do manual labor to entertain your infant son.
              • Insisting on talking to babies even though they don't understand you.
              • Not knowing who Arcade Fire is.
              • Knowing who Arcade Fire is.
              • Spraying guitar samples into the DAW just to fill space.
              • Going up to strangers talking in a bar to tell them their conversation is boring.
              • Tweeting with as much context resiliency as possible.
              • Hearing an instrumental in the 90s and wondering about it for the rest of your life.
              • The saddest accordion solo.
              • A laughing baby indicating lack of cruelty.
              • Library/production music that is just as avant garde as your personal work.
              • Corporate contexts appropriating music that was popular 10 years ago.
              • When the retro discount kicks in for production music.
              • Absorbing your friend's shoegaze album into your video game.
              • Reinventing General MIDI for your alternate timeline's soundtrack.
              • Picking a name for your combination pinball parlor and print shop.
              • The timeline of pinball speed.
              • The timeline of pinball interactivity.
              • Analog video games frustrating the speed running scene.
              • Video game sound effects in the reality that never invented the speaker.
              • Switching around the pneumatic tubes on your brother's Call of Duty sound setup.
              • Sneaking into an amusement park to play the calliope.
              • Calliope MIDI playback as an online service.
              • Robotic percussion as an online service.
              • Sleep studies are take-home tests now.
              • Stopping breathing 25 times per hour.
              • Acclimating to your Darth Vader mask.
              • Never living to regret your bad decisions.
              • Not being sure how to pronounce your own name.

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