Topic Lords

319. Rolling Dice Like Mozart


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Lords:

  • Esper
  • Cort
  • Topics:

    • Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately
    • Stateless procedural music
    • Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files
    • Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin
      • https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/
      • Microtopics:

        • Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive.
        • Puzzled Pint.
        • Oh man, this one's a real quart!
        • Puzzled Pint getting you through to the next MIT Mystery Hunt.
        • Blippo Plus.
        • If you're going to watch TV, why not watch TV from another dimension?
        • Capturing broadcast artifacts and CRT fuzz on a 1-bit display.
        • An amateur DSPist. (Such as myself.)
        • Whether Lucas Pope took time away from his busy life as a pirate actuary to make a video about temporally-stable dithering.
        • Dr. Richard Garfield, who loves lasagna and hates Mondays.
        • Final Fantasy espers vs. Magic the Gathering espers.
        • All the different licenses Wizards of the Coast is using to fuck up Magic the Gathering.
        • How to play Magic the Gathering without getting your ass kicked by a SpongeBob deck.
        • Splitbeard, my nemesis.
        • The Kickstarter backer tier that nobody pledged to get.
        • Jim's beard braids, still floating around in a Ziploc bag somewhere.
        • Electroswing Jackson.
        • Trying to continue to evolve as an artist after you named yourself Chrono Trigger Remix DJ.
        • A sci-fi weird constructed zone.
        • The guy on the team who comes up with names like "banalia"
        • Fake scam Oxford English Dictionaries.
        • A Finn named Viznut.
        • The C program on Viznut's business card.
        • Recognizing the twelfth root of two in an obfuscated C program.
        • Bytebeat.
        • Generating audio in ShaderToy.
        • A closed form function of T that produces the Terminator theme.
        • Learning how to put GLSL into the GPU.
        • Needing the preceding 200 samples to produce the current sample so you just start at T-200 and start crunching numbers.
        • The oldest film on Netflix. (From 1987.)
        • Trying to finish X-Files before it leaves your streaming service.
        • Esper's power over the Futurama production schedule.
        • Why would you attack and dethrone God when you could summon God to help you fight a slime?
        • Trying to summon your god in a tough JRPG battle and she's like "not right now I'm editing a podcast."
        • Trying to describe a vocal sample without saying what the voice is saying.
        • The bitrate itself shaping new phonemes.
        • Wahoo vs. wahey vs. waheh.
        • The great darkness where sleep goes and farther death goes.
        • The gods choking on all the dreams you forget.
        • The dump trucks of tasteless gruel keep coming.
        • How to prevent the data miners determining exactly how far the mystery goes.
        • You Can't Data Mine Fallen London.
        • The character who doesn't exist in the game, only the game data files, because he erased himself.
        • Media where you can predict how much longer the story goes and media where you can't.
        • The forty second episode of Topic Lords.
        • The episode of Game Changer that had the fake "end of video" screen before the episode continues.
        • Hitting tab to switch to the next field.
        • Hitting tab to highlight the secret clickable button.
        • Bittorrenting all eight hours of Bandersnatch and watching every scene in random order.
        • How many names does a Seaman know?
        • Escaping the internet.
        • Binge watching the PiCoSteveMo development thread.
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