3. The Screaming Man Simulator

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Lords:

• 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.