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EPISODE · Jun 26, 2023 · 1H 6M

192. The Prime Number Shitting Bear

from Topic Lords · host Jim Stormdancer

Lords 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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