Awesome! I too have considered designing a game. The guy who started the site I write for is an attraction designer and has several insanely well regarded escape games on his design resume and has played north of 700 games.
The site is www.escapeauthority.com and you should be able to figure out which reviews are mine fairly easily.
Ah, the condescension we hear from every tennis player before they actually play pickleball.
Eta: Fyi @smrk4 I play with several current and former tennis players, teaching pros, and D1 tennis players. Lots of people play and enjoy both, and lots find themselves playing way more pickleball now. Tennis players usually pick it up super quickly and end up loving it. Give it a shot!
I bet non-american football for relatively large sums of money and play daily fantasy sports for relatively small sums of money on a daily basis. That’s probably not so obscure for a forum that originated on a poker message board.
Maybe more obscure, I read restaurant reviews quite obsessively and had been for decades, even though 99% of the restaurant i visit (even before covid) are in 10 mile radius of my house. I read just about every new restaurant review back home even though I won’t visit any place for at least a year.
Lol the name sucks and I think it’s holding the sport back a bit, but it’s too late to change it now.
Side note: the guy in the white on the near side was like 16 in that video. And one of the current top women’s players is 12 years old. Her and her mom are one of the top three women’s doubles teams in the country. There are also athletic 70 year olds who can kick most people’s ass. It’s such an interesting sport in that regard.
I played pickleball in high school gym class 15-20 years ago, had no idea it was an actual thing people played seriously. I thought it was really fun back then.
The game was invented on Bainbridge Island, WA in 1968 (allegedly) and was named for the dog that would retrieve the ball when it got away (allegedly).
Thanks for this link, I listened today and it was great! The Killing Moon by Echo & the Bunnymen was up. I know the song pretty well, as it’s one of the very few covers that I have every had to drum, and it was a whole new world hearing all the individual tracks in such detail. Guess I didn’t exactly play what Pete the Freitas was doing, haha.
Really curious where he gets the tracks, I guess the labels or producers share them with him?
I’m headed into the studio again somewhere in the next six months, so listening to these types of shows is a great way to get into it!
yeah, I listened today too (his second hour was Cities in Dust by Siouxsie and the Banshees, so today was a double whammy for me…both favorites of mine).
I legitimately didn’t know there was a violin and cello in that song…I guess I thought it was just keyboard all along. And I’ve been listening to that song since jr. high!
I’m not entirely sure where he gets them, they have to be masters, right? He’s been a DJ and producer for a long time, so he probably knows a lot of industry folks who can hook him up.
Ah damn I missed the second one, would have loved to hear that one too.
The master is the finished stereo track, it doesn’t have the individual instrument tracks anymore.
I can imagine the producer keeping the raw recordings, but this didn’t sound raw, they were processed tracks - which means that the individual post-processing tracks must have been recorded and preserved.
It’s starting to take hold in Asia. Both table tennis and badminton transition really well to pickleball so I’m expecting some crazy good players to come start popping up.
Every day I check my stats on the RC5-72 project that’s run by distributed.net. I’ve contributed to every one of their projects since they started in 1997. The RC5-72 project started in 2002, and I’m in about the 99.8th percentile top contributors after 6480 days.
I have also contributed work off and on to the unfortunately named GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) project.
Anyone else do any distributed computing stuff? There are projects that do more useful things, like protein modeling. Even distributed.net has their OGR (Optimal Golomb Ruler) project which they say has some real-life applications.
Thanks, I guess I’m kind of embarrassed about the RC5-72 thing because the project is really completely useless. The concept of distributed computing that was the motivation for the projects is pretty much proven at this point, and the company that was providing prizes for finding the hidden message canceled the contest in 2007.
Also, spending all the electricity to run my computers for the project is pretty dumb and a waste, actually irresponsible in some ways. But I enjoy it in a strange way so I keep with it.
If I had been smart, I would have switched my efforts to bitcoin mining back at the start when it was possible to “create” bitcoins with relatively small amounts of computing power. Oops.
