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.
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