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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Charlie”</title>
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  <title>192. The Prime Number Shitting Bear</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: CisHetKayfaber and Charlie. We discuss umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work,
articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower, archipelago.gg, and why a skill is less valued the more we love it</itunes:subtitle>
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* CisHetKayfaber
* Charlie
Topics:
* Umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work
* Articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower (futurevision)
* I'm not sure what archipelago.gg is but if I read this paragraph aloud maybe we can figure it out together
  * https://archipelago.gg/
* A copypasta from this page:
  * https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3
* Why is a skill less valued the more we love it? Shouldn't it be the opposite? Is this arguable?
Microtopics:
* Supporting someone's video game dream in Denmark.
* Escaping from idle games.
* Video games drawing the screen as often as they can.
* The pauses getting longer and longer whenever the bear needs to shit a new prime number.
* The prime number shitting bear getting constipated.
* How to calculate prime numbers faster.
* Math stuff.
* A choo choo train of thought.
* Meditation apps that play ads while you're in the middle of meditating.
* The thing where you put your mouth on the tube and then have to spit out the gas or you get neurological damage.
* Creating a low pressure system by sucking on a tube.
* Whether umbrellas make sense.
* Umbrella side-drip.
* How bicycles stay upright.
* Does a bicycle on a treadmill stay upright?
* Pattern recognition.
* Seeing a situation you recognize and understanding what's going to happen.
* Predicting where someone's sentence is going to end up.
* Putting your water glass in a zone where it's going to get knocked over.
* The shape of your mind's cause and effect network.
* Seeing scenes from the future, like in Law and Order.
* Predicting the future so that you can be a more efficient organism.
* Mashing air molecules at you.
* Speaking a language that your coworkers don't.
* Applying FutureVision to your creative process.
* Nonlinear creative processes.
* One unique large musical story where nothing repeats.
* A physical task you are doing inside your head.
* The pet that is closest to having a kid.
* Importing a portal gun into Tears of the Kingdom.
* Finding the hookshot in Metroid and your friend then bring able to use it in Link to the Past.
* How to know what your friends want.
* All the bad ways an idea could be implemented 
* Surprise boomerangs.
* Archipelago's Release System.
* The era of couch co-op games.
* A multiplayer season where everybody picks a different game.
* Doing the oration.
* Who the colored lights in your keyboard are for.
* Polygonal dudes with long hair head banging in the background.
* Weirdly modern music.
* Fifteen years of everything else.
* Rhythm games vs. music games.
* Living in a society.
* Devaluing the skills you love.
* Listening to a song and really appreciating its use of rests.
* How note lengths and rests work in tracker music.
* Stopping a note without starting a new one.
* Running experiments to determine exactly when a note should stop.
* The micro decisions of things that people don't think about or care about.
* A bird named Mabel.
* A bird figuring out how to enjoy music.
* A tepid delicate series of notes.
* Attractivision.
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords</p>

<ul>
<li>CisHetKayfaber</li>
<li>Charlie</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work</li>
<li>Articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower (futurevision)</li>
<li>I&#39;m not sure what archipelago.gg is but if I read this paragraph aloud maybe we can figure it out together

<ul>
<li><a href="https://archipelago.gg/" rel="nofollow">https://archipelago.gg/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>A copypasta from this page:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3" rel="nofollow">https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Why is a skill less valued the more we love it? Shouldn&#39;t it be the opposite? Is this arguable?</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Supporting someone&#39;s video game dream in Denmark.</li>
<li>Escaping from idle games.</li>
<li>Video games drawing the screen as often as they can.</li>
<li>The pauses getting longer and longer whenever the bear needs to shit a new prime number.</li>
<li>The prime number shitting bear getting constipated.</li>
<li>How to calculate prime numbers faster.</li>
<li>Math stuff.</li>
<li>A choo choo train of thought.</li>
<li>Meditation apps that play ads while you&#39;re in the middle of meditating.</li>
<li>The thing where you put your mouth on the tube and then have to spit out the gas or you get neurological damage.</li>
<li>Creating a low pressure system by sucking on a tube.</li>
<li>Whether umbrellas make sense.</li>
<li>Umbrella side-drip.</li>
<li>How bicycles stay upright.</li>
<li>Does a bicycle on a treadmill stay upright?</li>
<li>Pattern recognition.</li>
<li>Seeing a situation you recognize and understanding what&#39;s going to happen.</li>
<li>Predicting where someone&#39;s sentence is going to end up.</li>
<li>Putting your water glass in a zone where it&#39;s going to get knocked over.</li>
<li>The shape of your mind&#39;s cause and effect network.</li>
<li>Seeing scenes from the future, like in Law and Order.</li>
<li>Predicting the future so that you can be a more efficient organism.</li>
<li>Mashing air molecules at you.</li>
<li>Speaking a language that your coworkers don&#39;t.</li>
<li>Applying FutureVision to your creative process.</li>
<li>Nonlinear creative processes.</li>
<li>One unique large musical story where nothing repeats.</li>
<li>A physical task you are doing inside your head.</li>
<li>The pet that is closest to having a kid.</li>
<li>Importing a portal gun into Tears of the Kingdom.</li>
<li>Finding the hookshot in Metroid and your friend then bring able to use it in Link to the Past.</li>
<li>How to know what your friends want.</li>
<li>All the bad ways an idea could be implemented </li>
<li>Surprise boomerangs.</li>
<li>Archipelago&#39;s Release System.</li>
<li>The era of couch co-op games.</li>
<li>A multiplayer season where everybody picks a different game.</li>
<li>Doing the oration.</li>
<li>Who the colored lights in your keyboard are for.</li>
<li>Polygonal dudes with long hair head banging in the background.</li>
<li>Weirdly modern music.</li>
<li>Fifteen years of everything else.</li>
<li>Rhythm games vs. music games.</li>
<li>Living in a society.</li>
<li>Devaluing the skills you love.</li>
<li>Listening to a song and really appreciating its use of rests.</li>
<li>How note lengths and rests work in tracker music.</li>
<li>Stopping a note without starting a new one.</li>
<li>Running experiments to determine exactly when a note should stop.</li>
<li>The micro decisions of things that people don&#39;t think about or care about.</li>
<li>A bird named Mabel.</li>
<li>A bird figuring out how to enjoy music.</li>
<li>A tepid delicate series of notes.</li>
<li>Attractivision.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords</p>

<ul>
<li>CisHetKayfaber</li>
<li>Charlie</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work</li>
<li>Articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower (futurevision)</li>
<li>I&#39;m not sure what archipelago.gg is but if I read this paragraph aloud maybe we can figure it out together

<ul>
<li><a href="https://archipelago.gg/" rel="nofollow">https://archipelago.gg/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>A copypasta from this page:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3" rel="nofollow">https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Why is a skill less valued the more we love it? Shouldn&#39;t it be the opposite? Is this arguable?</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Supporting someone&#39;s video game dream in Denmark.</li>
<li>Escaping from idle games.</li>
<li>Video games drawing the screen as often as they can.</li>
<li>The pauses getting longer and longer whenever the bear needs to shit a new prime number.</li>
<li>The prime number shitting bear getting constipated.</li>
<li>How to calculate prime numbers faster.</li>
<li>Math stuff.</li>
<li>A choo choo train of thought.</li>
<li>Meditation apps that play ads while you&#39;re in the middle of meditating.</li>
<li>The thing where you put your mouth on the tube and then have to spit out the gas or you get neurological damage.</li>
<li>Creating a low pressure system by sucking on a tube.</li>
<li>Whether umbrellas make sense.</li>
<li>Umbrella side-drip.</li>
<li>How bicycles stay upright.</li>
<li>Does a bicycle on a treadmill stay upright?</li>
<li>Pattern recognition.</li>
<li>Seeing a situation you recognize and understanding what&#39;s going to happen.</li>
<li>Predicting where someone&#39;s sentence is going to end up.</li>
<li>Putting your water glass in a zone where it&#39;s going to get knocked over.</li>
<li>The shape of your mind&#39;s cause and effect network.</li>
<li>Seeing scenes from the future, like in Law and Order.</li>
<li>Predicting the future so that you can be a more efficient organism.</li>
<li>Mashing air molecules at you.</li>
<li>Speaking a language that your coworkers don&#39;t.</li>
<li>Applying FutureVision to your creative process.</li>
<li>Nonlinear creative processes.</li>
<li>One unique large musical story where nothing repeats.</li>
<li>A physical task you are doing inside your head.</li>
<li>The pet that is closest to having a kid.</li>
<li>Importing a portal gun into Tears of the Kingdom.</li>
<li>Finding the hookshot in Metroid and your friend then bring able to use it in Link to the Past.</li>
<li>How to know what your friends want.</li>
<li>All the bad ways an idea could be implemented </li>
<li>Surprise boomerangs.</li>
<li>Archipelago&#39;s Release System.</li>
<li>The era of couch co-op games.</li>
<li>A multiplayer season where everybody picks a different game.</li>
<li>Doing the oration.</li>
<li>Who the colored lights in your keyboard are for.</li>
<li>Polygonal dudes with long hair head banging in the background.</li>
<li>Weirdly modern music.</li>
<li>Fifteen years of everything else.</li>
<li>Rhythm games vs. music games.</li>
<li>Living in a society.</li>
<li>Devaluing the skills you love.</li>
<li>Listening to a song and really appreciating its use of rests.</li>
<li>How note lengths and rests work in tracker music.</li>
<li>Stopping a note without starting a new one.</li>
<li>Running experiments to determine exactly when a note should stop.</li>
<li>The micro decisions of things that people don&#39;t think about or care about.</li>
<li>A bird named Mabel.</li>
<li>A bird figuring out how to enjoy music.</li>
<li>A tepid delicate series of notes.</li>
<li>Attractivision.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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