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Dani and Alex get together just after Sweden’s midsummer festivities, which sets them off on a path thinking about traditional festivals around the world. They talk a little bit about Japan’s approach to religion, as well as some of the not-necessarily-religious beliefs and superstitions which have developed there. After that, the path makes a sudden turn toward shop layouts and the question of linearity vs. freedom in shops, museums, art galleries, and video games.

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• Swedish midsummer
• Maypole
• Wheel of the Year
• Mulled wine / glögg
• San Jose Greek festival
• Hatsumōde
• Shichi-Go-San
• Reiki
• Life of Pi
• Rokuyō
• Seimei Handan
• Yakudoshi
• Blood type personality theory
• An approach to holistic level design

Alex manages to get his hands on some Yorkshire Tea in Sweden! Dani gives an update on how his first online bilingual D&D game went, and they discuss the phrase coined by St. Vincent, “sell your own myth, but never buy it”.

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• Yorkshire Tea
• Masala Chai
• Samovar Tea
• Lapsang Souchong
• Pu’er Tea
• Roll20
• Ernie Ball
• St. Vincent
• Ernie Ball / St. Vincent video
• Terry Gilliam: “Ofender a la gente es muy importante”
• Dani’s one Instagram photo
• How Instagram Threads Became the WikiHow for Gen Z

Dani buys some gear; Alex tells us all about his monumental gig and about the latest advances in instrument tuning technology. They also discuss GDPR (the ship that launched a thousand emails), and the merits of various computer keyboards.

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• King Crimson
• Bryan Adams
• Tony Levin
• Fender Precision Bass
• BOSS TU-70
• TC Electronics Polytune
• Peterson StroboClip HD
• Music Memos
• “True Temperament” Fretting System
• General Data Protection Regulation
• Chris’ new ergonomic keyboard
• Das Keyboard
• IBM Model M
• Apple Extended Keyboard II
• Happy Hacking Keyboard
• Japanese Keyboard
• UK Keyboard
• US Keyboard
• Spanish Keyboard
• TypeMatrix Keyboards

Alex and Dani reminisce about news aggregators old and new, Alex forgets what a C# is, and Dani looks for answers in the pages of Marcus Aurelius.

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• Flipboard
• RSS
• Google Reader
• Daring Fireball
• Semantic satiation
• Nathan East
• Cody Wright
• Sanskrit
• Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
• Patanjali’s yoga sutras
• Double slit experiment
• Mr. Nobody

Dani talks about his trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, and gives us an update on his progress with Spanish. Alex falls off his skateboard, and makes a recording with his father.

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• Monument Valley
• Uluru
• Grand Canyon
• Antelope Canyon
• Sedona
• “O” (Cirque du Soleil)
• The Venetian Las Vegas
• Horseshoe Bend
• italki
• HelloTalk
• MyLanguageExchange
• El Ministerio del Tiempo
• La Casa de Papel / Money Heist
• Variflex skateboards (this is what Alex used to ride in the 80s)
• Cruiser skateboards
• The Maypole
• Station 13

Alex gives us his impressions of Boston and tells us all about the latest game from Vitei Backroom, Paper Valley. And having seen it on the plane, he is finally ready to join Dani in an analysis of Blade Runner 2049.

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• gv.vim
• Boston Seaport
• PAX East
• Oculus Game Days
• Paper Valley
  • Gameplay footage and interview with our very own Alex!
• That Game Company
• Atomic Blonde
• Downsizing
• Straight outta Compton
• Blade Runner 2049
• Benjamin Wallfisch
• Ex Machina

Dani invites special guest Temma onto the show to talk about his experiences as a Japanese person growing up in England, before eventually moving back to Japan as an adult. After that, they talk at length about the history of the ancient and traditional game of go, from its inception in China 2,500 years ago up to the recent triumph of AlphaGo against current-day professional players.

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• Wikipedia on dialects vs. languages
• “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.”
• Dani’s blog post: Graphical log with vim-fugitive
• Silver week
• Koseki
• Jūminhyō
• Go
• AlphaGo
• Deep Blue
• Lee Sedol
• Yūzō Ōta
• Hon'inbō Shūsaku
• Go Seigen
• Cho Chikun
• Cho Hun-hyun
• Ke Jie
• SmartGo
• goproblems.com
• online-go.com
• Rules of Go
• Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go
• 素人(アマ)と玄人(プロ)

Alex is back from Finland, and Dani is deactivating his Facebook account. They talk UI/UX, and the relative merits of considered design and user customisability, in the context of digital audio workstations and text editors.

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• History of Finland
• Finnish language
  • Finnic languages
  • Uralic languages
• Proto Indo-European
• Scots language
• Scots Wikipedia
• Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained
• Eventbrite
• Doorkeeper
• meetup.com
• Game Developers’ Conference
• PAX East
• Renoise
• Reaper
• Winamp
• Inkscape
• Blender
• S—ty UI/UX Analogies
• Vim
• Emacs
• vim-fireplace
• vim-fugitive
• Magit
• Ableton Live

Alex is travelling to Finland, and Dani is playing Alto’s Odyssey on iOS. They talk Grand Prix, games emulation, and digital archival in general, before disagreeing about the audio quality of vinyl records, and pondering the ramifications of YouTube’s automated copyright infringement detector.

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• TWSBI ECO
• Mika Häkkinen
• The Beast from the East
• Zamboni
• Alto’s Adventure
• Alto’s Odyssey
  • Review on MacStories
• Amiga Forever
• archive.org
• Hewlett-Packard historical archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires
• Golden record on Voyager
• Taylor Swift “Reputation” Limited Cassette Tape Edition
• Mike Patton & John Zorn at The Chapel
• Mike Patton
  • Faith No More
  • Mr. Bungle
  • Fantômas
• John Zorn
  • Alhambra Love Songs
  • Naked City
  • Spillane
  • Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
• The Roses of Heliogabalus
• Game Piece
• John Cage
• Adam Neely
• Melodysheep, Timelapse of the Entire Universe
• Cassetteboy
• Reaction video deemed fair use in YouTuber court battle
• Everything is a remix

Dani celebrates the arrival of his new fridge, before Alex quizzes him on fountain pens, paper, ink, and all things stationery! Alex laments the surprising amount of paper he’s had to deal with in Sweden, but applauds the lack of paper money.

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• Dani’s new fridge
• The history of refrigerators on Wikipedia
• Why does a single compartment refrigerator have the freezer always at the top?
• Parker Vector
• Pilot V5/V7
• Uni-ball Vision
• Pilot Custom Heritage 912
• Tomoe River
• Kyo-no-oto Nurebairo Ink
• Sailor Jentle Yamadori Ink
• Diamine Ancient Copper
• Lamy Safari
  • mbra
  • Dark Lilac
  • Petrol
• Pilot Metropolitan
• Pilot Cocoon
• Ballpoint pen artwork
• TWSBI Diamond 580AL
• Nagasawa Original Sailor Demonstrator
• Bullet Journal
• TWSBI Eco 1.1 Stub
• Red Dot Award
• The Talk Show
• In The Rush Toward A Cashless Society, The Poorest Are At Risk Of Further Exclusion
• Das Offene Meer Gun Deck Wallet