265. We're Here To Make This Slide Floppy

Lords:

• Tim
• Chris

Topics:

• Noodles?
• Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free will
• Choosing an integrator
  • https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/
• Lucky Jim (old song)
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/U7zR1RCa.png
• Collaborative music as a game design problem (see: skill gap, handicaps, engagement, peripheral participation)

Microtopics:

• Celtic Music and Corgis.
• Tim, a figure shrouded in mystery.
• Topic Monologues.
• Gluten-free noodle straws.
• Bucatini: imagine a Red Vine but made of pasta.
• Replacing food service workers with clockwork automata made of noodles that have been hardened into gears and springs.
• Giant fusilli as playground equipment.
• Noodleness and pastitude.
• Whether gnocchi is a pasta. What about cauliflower gnocchi?
• Unleavened Carrot Cake.
• Indomie: the number one selling noodle on Earth.
• Good spices: they can work in a broth.
• Soupertaster: Jim eats soup alone while talking to a volleyball with a bloody handprint on it.
• Learning math by starting with incredibly abstract unmotivated ideas.
• Some Bottomless Pits are Deeper than Others.
• Approaching a question by interpreting it as a question that if answerable.
• The significant of the perception of free will.
• How a closed system can produce multiple different outcomes.
• What happens when we decide we don't have free will.
• A completely deterministic system that has a sensation of free will.
• Taking as much time as it takes to read a book.
• Shooting the Moon (in real life)
• Taking all the bad cards and winning.
• Becoming disciplined about time
• What a modern feature phone can do.
• Dividing your day into blocks and spending them.
• The period in your life when you lived in Burlingame.
• Getting an incredibe amount of work done during your hour and a half commute.
• Topic Lords or Plug Lords?
• Something you'll be glad you did tomorrow.
• Integration Basics.
• Explicit Euler vs. Semi-Implicit Euler.
• The pros and cons of RK4.
• The physics system behind Drawn to Life.
• What it takes to be an old song.
• Hadestown and The Instigator.
• The Hadestown Tiny Desk Concert.
• How to play music with other people in a way that accounts for skill gaps.
• Going to the Starry Plough to play the penny whistle.
• Musicians sitting in a circle and talking until someone starts playing something and everyone else joins in.
• Joining in on a song you've never heard before.
• Playing Mary Had a Little Lamb at 40 BPM.
• Making a slow song more interesting by adding ornamentation.
• Star of the County Down.
• Different ideas that come out when you play music at half speed.
• Lark Camp.
• The person who hands out the cheat sheet with all the popular tunes and their chord progressions.
• Sorting tunes by frequnecy.
• The bad things about Irish sessions, from a game design perspective.
• Learning a song by reading the notation vs. learning it by playing it for 30 years.
• Star Above the Garter.