313. Don't You Wish You Didn't Know That?

Lords:

• Daniel
  • https://www.danielmullinsgames.com/
• Chris

Topics:

• Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance (psipog)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
• Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl" Koan
• Figwit
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
• Sudo-Ku
  • https://katlehmann.weebly.com/sudo-ku-a-multi-haiku-form.html
• Game Design: The form is arbitrary and not worth much thought. What's interesting is how you play in and with the form. See The Witness, Undertale, Sokoban games, Pinball machines

Microtopics:

• Introducing yourself twice.
• Spider mites and spider mite exterminators.
• Exterminating your spider mite infestation with a washcloth.
• Diatomaceous earth mines in your hometown.
• The paperwork necessary when your diatomaceous earth mine accidentally breaks through into the neighboring nitroglycerin mine.
• How to develop psychic powers of various kinds.
• Learning to meditate in service of manifesting your psiballs.
• Learning how to spin a watch around on the Psipog Archive.
• A 90 year old dude who has been meditating all his life but still doesn't have psychic powers: maybe he's just bad at it?
• The secret geometry that lets you talk to space beings.
• Who wants to talk to space beings?
• How to make progress on what mysteries we have left.
• Reinventing all of physics from first principles.
• How does nobody know about creating energy balls with your mind??
• Choosing not to do the thought experiments that have no good possible outcome.
• Sitting at a desk made of laminated particleboard.
• Pseudo-complex meals.
• When civilization collapses, how am I gonna make a Big Mac??
• Taking the time to get to know every person you meet and understand every safety you interact with.
• Wanting to know a secret that nobody else knows.
• How not to pronounce "koan."
• What do you do after you finish your gruel?
• Becoming enlightened during Ikea furniture assembly.
• Ancient Chinese yo momma jokes.
• The enlightened experience of inhabiting a mind vs. the bowl needs to be washed again.
• Questions that science cannot answer.
• Probing your blood.
• Measuring your blood chemistry while you wash the dishes to determine whether you're a good person.
• How to measure how many people you've helped.
• Short-circuiting your friend's money metaphor before it starts.
• An incredibly wise computer refusing to tell you the answer because it's too nuanced.
• Concrete actionable advice that you can trust every time.
• Figwit pre- and post lines.
• How things went viral before social media.
• The Figwit obsession: it's weird.
• Tracking down Figwit's Topps card to look up his RBI.
• Why is it the "one" ring when all the Nazguls also have rings??
• Lord of the Rings fans and how much they love it when podcasters are confused about Lord of the Rings lore.
• Effective fandom activism at its most innocent and pure.
• Where were you when you found out Sonic was going to be in Smash?
• A button that was effective so they pushed it a lot.
• A Small Brown that Peter Jackson put inside the Real Brown.
• Topic Lords Movie Secrets Special.
• Sudo-Ku.
• A fun gimmick that results in a worse poem.
• Americans: do they do Haiku wrong??
• Syllables vs. sound units.
• One pthong and more than one pthong.
• Spending too much time reading about the form.
• Drawing a line on a grid.
• A valid approach to making interesting stuff.
• The Pacific Pinball Museum.
• Pinball as kinetic electromechanical art.
• Electromechanical puppet shows at Musee Mechanique.
• If Pixar existed in 1800, what would they do?
• What if you're playing DDR but it's a joke?
• High concept jam games.
• Alien vs. Predator but you're roommates with the Alien.
• Advantages and disadvantages of starting from an existing design.
• Advantages of having a slightly different goal from everyone else in your field.
• Chess with time travel.