265. We're Here To Make This Slide Floppy

Lords: * Tim * Chris Topics: * Noodles? * Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free will * Choosing an integrator * https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/ * Lucky Jim (old song) * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/U7zR1RCa.png * 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.