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327. Damn, That's a Good Kidney!

327. Damn, That's a Good Kidney!

Update: 2026-01-26
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  • 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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327. Damn, That's a Good Kidney!

327. Damn, That's a Good Kidney!

Jim Stormdancer