Lords:

• Tim


• Chris

Topics:

• Noodles?


• Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free will


• Choosing an integrator
  
  
  
  
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• Lucky Jim (old song)
  
  
  
  
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• 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.

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