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313. Don't You Wish You Didn't Know That?

6d ago 1:06:29

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Lords:

Daniel
- https://www.danielmullinsgames.com/
Chris

Topics:

Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance (psipog)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl" Koan
Figwit
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
Sudo-Ku
- https://katlehmann.weebly.com/sudo-ku-a-multi-haiku-form.html
Game Design: The form is arbitrary and not worth much thought. What's interesting is how you play in and with the form. See The Witness, Undertale, Sokoban games, Pinball machines

Microtopics:

Introducing yourself twice.
Spider mites and spider mite exterminators.
Exterminating your spider mite infestation with a washcloth.
Diatomaceous earth mines in your hometown.
The paperwork necessary when your diatomaceous earth mine accidentally breaks through into the neighboring nitroglycerin mine.
How to develop psychic powers of various kinds.
Learning to meditate in service of manifesting your psiballs.
Learning how to spin a watch around on the Psipog Archive.
A 90 year old dude who has been meditating all his life but still doesn't have psychic powers: maybe he's just bad at it?
The secret geometry that lets you talk to space beings.
Who wants to talk to space beings?
How to make progress on what mysteries we have left.
Reinventing all of physics from first principles.
How does nobody know about creating energy balls with your mind??
Choosing not to do the thought experiments that have no good possible outcome.
Sitting at a desk made of laminated particleboard.
Pseudo-complex meals.
When civilization collapses, how am I gonna make a Big Mac??
Taking the time to get to know every person you meet and understand every safety you interact with.
Wanting to know a secret that nobody else knows.
How not to pronounce "koan."
What do you do after you finish your gruel?
Becoming enlightened during Ikea furniture assembly.
Ancient Chinese yo momma jokes.
The enlightened experience of inhabiting a mind vs. the bowl needs to be washed again.
Questions that science cannot answer.
Probing your blood.
Measuring your blood chemistry while you wash the dishes to determine whether you're a good person.
How to measure how many people you've helped.
Short-circuiting your friend's money metaphor before it starts.
An incredibly wise computer refusing to tell you the answer because it's too nuanced.
Concrete actionable advice that you can trust every time.
Figwit pre- and post lines.
How things went viral before social media.
The Figwit obsession: it's weird.
Tracking down Figwit's Topps card to look up his RBI.
Why is it the "one" ring when all the Nazguls also have rings??
Lord of the Rings fans and how much they love it when podcasters are confused about Lord of the Rings lore.
Effective fandom activism at its most innocent and pure.
Where were you when you found out Sonic was going to be in Smash?
A button that was effective so they pushed it a lot.
A Small Brown that Peter Jackson put inside the Real Brown.
Topic Lords Movie Secrets Special.
Sudo-Ku.
A fun gimmick that results in a worse poem.
Americans: do they do Haiku wrong??
Syllables vs. sound units.
One pthong and more than one pthong.
Spending too much time reading about the form.
Drawing a line on a grid.
A valid approach to making interesting stuff.
The Pacific Pinball Museum.
Pinball as kinetic electromechanical art.
Electromechanical puppet shows at Musee Mechanique.
If Pixar existed in 1800, what would they do?
What if you're playing DDR but it's a joke?
High concept jam games.
Alien vs. Predator but you're roommates with the Alien.
Advantages and disadvantages of starting from an existing design.
Advantages of having a slightly different goal from everyone else in your field.
Chess with time travel.

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313. Don't You Wish You Didn't Know That?

Topic Lords

published 6d ago

MP3•Episode home

Lords:

Daniel
- https://www.danielmullinsgames.com/
Chris

Topics:

Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance (psipog)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl" Koan
Figwit
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
Sudo-Ku
- https://katlehmann.weebly.com/sudo-ku-a-multi-haiku-form.html
Game Design: The form is arbitrary and not worth much thought. What's interesting is how you play in and with the form. See The Witness, Undertale, Sokoban games, Pinball machines

Microtopics:

Introducing yourself twice.
Spider mites and spider mite exterminators.
Exterminating your spider mite infestation with a washcloth.
Diatomaceous earth mines in your hometown.
The paperwork necessary when your diatomaceous earth mine accidentally breaks through into the neighboring nitroglycerin mine.
How to develop psychic powers of various kinds.
Learning to meditate in service of manifesting your psiballs.
Learning how to spin a watch around on the Psipog Archive.
A 90 year old dude who has been meditating all his life but still doesn't have psychic powers: maybe he's just bad at it?
The secret geometry that lets you talk to space beings.
Who wants to talk to space beings?
How to make progress on what mysteries we have left.
Reinventing all of physics from first principles.
How does nobody know about creating energy balls with your mind??
Choosing not to do the thought experiments that have no good possible outcome.
Sitting at a desk made of laminated particleboard.
Pseudo-complex meals.
When civilization collapses, how am I gonna make a Big Mac??
Taking the time to get to know every person you meet and understand every safety you interact with.
Wanting to know a secret that nobody else knows.
How not to pronounce "koan."
What do you do after you finish your gruel?
Becoming enlightened during Ikea furniture assembly.
Ancient Chinese yo momma jokes.
The enlightened experience of inhabiting a mind vs. the bowl needs to be washed again.
Questions that science cannot answer.
Probing your blood.
Measuring your blood chemistry while you wash the dishes to determine whether you're a good person.
How to measure how many people you've helped.
Short-circuiting your friend's money metaphor before it starts.
An incredibly wise computer refusing to tell you the answer because it's too nuanced.
Concrete actionable advice that you can trust every time.
Figwit pre- and post lines.
How things went viral before social media.
The Figwit obsession: it's weird.
Tracking down Figwit's Topps card to look up his RBI.
Why is it the "one" ring when all the Nazguls also have rings??
Lord of the Rings fans and how much they love it when podcasters are confused about Lord of the Rings lore.
Effective fandom activism at its most innocent and pure.
Where were you when you found out Sonic was going to be in Smash?
A button that was effective so they pushed it a lot.
A Small Brown that Peter Jackson put inside the Real Brown.
Topic Lords Movie Secrets Special.
Sudo-Ku.
A fun gimmick that results in a worse poem.
Americans: do they do Haiku wrong??
Syllables vs. sound units.
One pthong and more than one pthong.
Spending too much time reading about the form.
Drawing a line on a grid.
A valid approach to making interesting stuff.
The Pacific Pinball Museum.
Pinball as kinetic electromechanical art.
Electromechanical puppet shows at Musee Mechanique.
If Pixar existed in 1800, what would they do?
What if you're playing DDR but it's a joke?
High concept jam games.
Alien vs. Predator but you're roommates with the Alien.
Advantages and disadvantages of starting from an existing design.
Advantages of having a slightly different goal from everyone else in your field.
Chess with time travel.

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