Your Aleatoric Reality

Misha and Damon interview one of America's most popular game designers, Andy Looney of Looney Labs. Andy Looney is the creator of Fluxx, Pyramids, Chrononauts, Loonacy, and many others.
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Damon recaps his experiences at Origins game convention and we interview Donn Stroud, founder of Psychoda Press and author of Ruination Pilgrimage, a medieval horror themed RPG.
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Misha and Damon discuss applications of randomness and pseudorandomness in comedy, with a detour into the world of avant garde art movements.
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Welcome to Season 2! Damon and Misha spend the whole episode discussing what they might talk about on this episode.
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Your intrepid hosts discuss ways to defeat the traditions of chess; Misha bookends the season with another Q&A for Damon.
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In which Damon discusses the process of designing, casting, and finishing custom dice.
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Misha and Damon "borrow," or "perform a tribute to" (but definitely don't "steal") the format of one of their favorite podcasts, Behind the Bastards. And if Robert Evans wants to come on the show and accuse us of being bastards, we'll be happy to have him!
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Damon outlines the various ways, both standard and innovative, that random number generation is used by video game makers.
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Misha and Damon try to determine whether one of them is a murderous robot, and whether they would even know if they were robots. 
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We discuss the Oblique Strategies deck, a collection of prompts created by producer and ambient music pioneer Brian Eno. The Oblique Strategies deck is our first example of a formal creativity tool which uses an element of randomness.
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