327. Damn, That's A Good Kidney!
January 26th, 2026
1 hr 6 mins 29 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Josette
- Daniel
Topics:
- The overlap between musicians and rhythm game players
- Figure Skating and the upcoming Olympics
- In this short Life that only lasts an hour by Emily Dickinson
- The Reality of Hope
- Is time travel media really that bad?
Microtopics:
- 3D art spaces and the Virtual Burning Man experience.
- What were we talking about at lunch?
- The new kind of Christmas light that's reminiscent of the old kind of Christmas light.
- A nice soft blue.
- The LED lights that hurt the most.
- Mounting recessed lights in the eaves and lighting them up with the worst gamer RGB patterns.
- Beige keyboards with three green LEDs on them that you can animate because they're memory-mapped.
- Paradiddle.
- Learning to play drums in VR.
- Paradiddle for Snapchat Glasses.
- Video game audio latency vs. digital synthesizer latency.
- The Bemani guitar game that inspired Guitar Hero.
- Guitar Freaks vs. Guitar Hero as a case study in how the same idea can be executed very differently getting very different results
- How singing is scored in Rock Band.
- Finding new music via the Rock Band games.
- Beat Saber Library Managers.
- Solid beams of light.
- Ice Dancing.
- Whether you can train rhythm.
- Brother-sister ice skating couples.
- Which animals can learn rhythm.
- Representing your ice rink.
- What to do after you've spent your life training but what you were training for didn't work out?
- Ice skater unions.
- Going to the Olympics with your mom to watch the figure skating.
- Alysa Liu.
- Meeting America's Princess and she's not a nice lady.
- Finding the right coach at age 7.
- Sports therapists.
- The disposition to perform your best under pressure.
- Exercising and practicing at the expense of nearly everything else you could be doing with your time.
- What to do with your life now that you're no longer spending all your time training for the Olympics.
- Missing your friend's 11th birthday party because you're busy training for the Olympics.
- Giving seven year olds a test to see if they do well under pressure and if not, telling their parents not to try to get this one into the Olympics.
- Grit.
- What boot camp is for.
- Training to be the best person in the world at field stripping a rifle.
- Still living this life, which is great.
- Still being responsible for other people's taxes.
- Looking forward to the new year because it's tax time.
- How your life might've been different if your parents insisted you go to college.
- We've got learning at home but we don't have socialization at home.
- Studying how to study without knowing how to study.
- Passing the classes you were interested in at that moment and not doing so well in the test.
- Two friends in the furry community.
- Telling your friend about your medical condition in VR Chat.
- A documentary about kidney transplants in the furry community.
- Damn, That's a Good Kidney!
- Filming a documentary in VR Chat.
- What normal people think about time travel fiction.
- Yes, you have to use your hands, and yes it's like a baby's toy.
- Reading a piece of fiction because you're hoping to have a good time.
- Which time-travel movies have reached the heights of popular culture.
- Having this 360-degree camera just sitting around and trying to figure out what movie to make with it.