319. Rolling Dice Like Mozart

Lords:

• Esper
• Cort

Topics:

• Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately
• Stateless procedural music
• Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files
• Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin
  • https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/

Microtopics:

• Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive.
• Puzzled Pint.
• Oh man, this one's a real quart!
• Puzzled Pint getting you through to the next MIT Mystery Hunt.
• Blippo Plus.
• If you're going to watch TV, why not watch TV from another dimension?
• Capturing broadcast artifacts and CRT fuzz on a 1-bit display.
• An amateur DSPist. (Such as myself.)
• Whether Lucas Pope took time away from his busy life as a pirate actuary to make a video about temporally-stable dithering.
• Dr. Richard Garfield, who loves lasagna and hates Mondays.
• Final Fantasy espers vs. Magic the Gathering espers.
• All the different licenses Wizards of the Coast is using to fuck up Magic the Gathering.
• How to play Magic the Gathering without getting your ass kicked by a SpongeBob deck.
• Splitbeard, my nemesis.
• The Kickstarter backer tier that nobody pledged to get.
• Jim's beard braids, still floating around in a Ziploc bag somewhere.
• Electroswing Jackson.
• Trying to continue to evolve as an artist after you named yourself Chrono Trigger Remix DJ.
• A sci-fi weird constructed zone.
• The guy on the team who comes up with names like "banalia"
• Fake scam Oxford English Dictionaries.
• A Finn named Viznut.
• The C program on Viznut's business card.
• Recognizing the twelfth root of two in an obfuscated C program.
• Bytebeat.
• Generating audio in ShaderToy.
• A closed form function of T that produces the Terminator theme.
• Learning how to put GLSL into the GPU.
• Needing the preceding 200 samples to produce the current sample so you just start at T-200 and start crunching numbers.
• The oldest film on Netflix. (From 1987.)
• Trying to finish X-Files before it leaves your streaming service.
• Esper's power over the Futurama production schedule.
• Why would you attack and dethrone God when you could summon God to help you fight a slime?
• Trying to summon your god in a tough JRPG battle and she's like "not right now I'm editing a podcast."
• Trying to describe a vocal sample without saying what the voice is saying.
• The bitrate itself shaping new phonemes.
• Wahoo vs. wahey vs. waheh.
• The great darkness where sleep goes and farther death goes.
• The gods choking on all the dreams you forget.
• The dump trucks of tasteless gruel keep coming.
• How to prevent the data miners determining exactly how far the mystery goes.
• You Can't Data Mine Fallen London.
• The character who doesn't exist in the game, only the game data files, because he erased himself.
• Media where you can predict how much longer the story goes and media where you can't.
• The forty second episode of Topic Lords.
• The episode of Game Changer that had the fake "end of video" screen before the episode continues.
• Hitting tab to switch to the next field.
• Hitting tab to highlight the secret clickable button.
• Bittorrenting all eight hours of Bandersnatch and watching every scene in random order.
• How many names does a Seaman know?
• Escaping the internet.
• Binge watching the PiCoSteveMo development thread.