• Josette
  • https://www.josetteseitz.com/
  • https://www.instagram.com/jo_seitz/
• 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
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56456/in-this-short-life-that-only-lasts-an-hour-1292
• The Reality of Hope
  • https://www.therealityofhope.co.uk
• 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.

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• Dan
  • https://orionblasters.com/
  • https://mollyjames.bandcamp.com/album/loved-by-life
• Daniel

Topics:

• Could Dracula escape Groundhog Day?
• How to know you’re in a golden era
• Indiana Jones is supposed to look good??
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1019&v=f1fWB5HP7s8
• Where the Heart Is by F.S. Yousaf
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/pMNUZSdU.jpg

Microtopics:

• Deciding to get a teleprompter on episode 283.
• The Molly James Band.
• Mid-century lounge music.
• Describing yourself as a cross between Pink Floyd and Doja Cat.
• Shooting a music video the day after the election.
• The sun and the battery life racing each other to ruin your forest concert first.
• What does Dracula get up to? Does he have hobbies?
• A lawyer hired to buy Dracula a new house
• Scrubbing all the proper nouns out of your fan fiction.
• Dracula as smoldering sex bomb vs. Dracula as a weird old man.
• Figuring out how to not cancel Dracula.
• A D&D campaign where you need to recruit a therapist into the party as part of your goal is to convince Dracula to become a better person.
• Dracula being verbally abused by all his wives.
• Batman playing Flappy Bird while he waits behind the curtain to ambush the villain.
• Extremely high powered Nerf rifles.
• Joining a community and ascertaining what they need.
• Living through a golden age and not realizing until later.
• Feeling grateful for the good things you once had.
• Being reluctant to push your awesome community because you're afraid it's going to grow too large.
• Figuring out how to 3D print blasters.
• Mentoring under Captain Slug.
• Realizing that your hobby is suddenly your primary source of income.
• How to be part of a burgeoning music scene.
• The cool kid at GDC.
• Ways Jim could've made Glittermitten Grove more accessible without losing the interesting game design.
• Getting email from a parent saying that their kid wants to become a mechanical engineer because of you Nerf blaster design.
• A video game that is the third best Indiana Jones film.
• Who is this technology helping, and how to we stop listening to their opinions?
• Playstation Four and a Half.
• A game with a lot of whirling debris.
• Finding new ways to make more expensive every day.
• How you'd put a loot box in a Pico-8 game.
• The mental health community arguing about when it's okay to sleep with your therapist.
• A/B tasting topics to see which ones get more downloads.
• Staying up late enough to get hungry.
• What kind of salad you'd put Doritos in.
• What kind of salad you'd put a Clif bar in.
• Clif bars: fall off of us!
• Disappointing dolmas.
• Your everyday carry web browser.
• The difference between Chrome and Chromium.
• Why doesn't everyone just compile their own Firefox?
• Bawling at the typewriter about not having the thing you're writing a poem about.
• Deciding your book of love poetry to your therapist.
• Saving your fan mail to be read at your funeral.
• Archaeologists tooting Interesting exchanges written in cuneiform.
• Future archaeologists training AI to peruse the entire corpus of tweets to find the choicest memes.
• The time to look for an out.
• Serenading the audience with the address they can mail cash to.
• Where all the best Lords hang out.

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