13. Kurt Cobain Vocaloid

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Topics:

• 2:43 The pressure to monetize hobbies or perform them for social media vs just having hobbies
• 13:25 If you could create a 5 acre island in the middle of the remote south Pacific ocean, what would you use it for?
• 17:25 Level design lessons from Hawaii
  • Goats for hire, preventing wildfires in California. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n56opj5gJhc
  • Kalij pheasants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63tykplkhU
• 28:30 "The 2012 Oakland Athletics adapted 'Movin' Like Bernie' into their celebration routines after Coco Crisp played the song for third baseman Brandon Inge in the team's clubhouse before a game."
  • Oakland A's Bernie Lean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJMBmsK5hXc
  • BOILeR season 2017 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj5IcL4eAydWVS2hTWFIjB7YFJBwt4D3A
• 34:07 Fictions that, as a throwaway gag, exist within their own worlds (Remembrance of the Daleks, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
  • Dick Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3epcX07t78M
  • Simlish pop songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeTlCMqy3jFUU_eqNhjiPBO88SU2PXZqI
• 46:05 First time you tried your favorite foods? Especially if you first tried them as an adult
  • Brussels Sprouts are less bitter than they used to be. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
• 52:06 Time Trap and creating mysteries from the outside in
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Trap_%28film%29
  • A definitive Timeline for Primer: https://unrealitymag.com/at-last-a-definitive-timeline-for-primer/
  • The self-lacing Nike MAG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NimGxU4Qnhk

Microtopics:

• Being confused by the existence of two separate Shannons.
• Video games where nobody bothers you, and arguably that being the whole point of video games.
• Doing calligraphy on Twitch.
• Doing calligraphy just for yourself and that being way better.
• The cost of getting more than one kind of value out of something.
• Having an audience and feeling the need to entertain the audience whenever possible.
• Finally deciding to get a real job because you have a kid on the way.
• Imagining having a job as a programmer and not being happy about it.
• Doing creative work in private because you're not good enough to do it publicly.
• Producing a complete song in five minutes when it takes five years to make a game.
• Always being able to see the geological phenomenon that will take your life one day.
• The base of the Sutro Tower basically being a Quake level.
• Being shot at as you approach the Sutro Tower.
• Seeing Batman's head and knowing which way to go.
• DragonCon's failure to produce parchment realm maps.
• Hawaii having lava, hostile creatures and good landmarking.
• Playing your anime theme song on your phone as you show up at the manga and wall scroll store with your katana.
• Having an animated gif that represents your identity.
• How to turn Binding of Isaac into an e-sport.
• Stupefyingly long TV series lifetimes.
• Text-to-speech deepfakes.
• Chopping up Garret's voice to create dialog for your Thief fan mission.
• Measuring Ian McKellen's voice and sending the data to people who have never heard Ian McKellen so they have plausible deniability.
• Living on your own and eating Indian food for the first time.
• Discovering a new continent at the Indian buffet.
• Not wanting to eat a salad because probably there are bugs in there.
• Stepping stones to eating sushi.
• Food preferences being heavily shaped by first impressions.
• Liking Primer two different ways, ten years apart, and being right both times.
• The important lesson being hidden behind the interesting puzzle.
• Unsolvable mysteries that haunt you for the rest of your life.
• Enclosing a narrative with another narrative.
• Assuming the Wii will remain ascendant because it's 1989 and Nintendo dominates your culture.
• The story turning to mush when it comes time to actually answer to the question.
• The thrill of reactive, improvisational storytelling.
• The strength of remaining vague about whether your show is supernatural or not.
• Imagining what happens next in a story as a way of enjoying the story.
• The nectar that mystery storytelling is trying to extract.