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- Accidentally only booking guests with your same first initial.
- Values systems driving design decisions.
- Taking only the fun classes in college.
- Children as an ideal audience for storytelling.
- A job fair for monsters.
- Black people being friends with metaphors for black people.
- Only wanting to go to school after it's unavailable to you.
- Never going to museums where you live because that's what tourists do.
- Paying to do manual labor to entertain your infant son.
- Insisting on talking to babies even though they don't understand you.
- Not knowing who Arcade Fire is.
- Knowing who Arcade Fire is.
- Spraying guitar samples into the DAW just to fill space.
- Going up to strangers talking in a bar to tell them their conversation is boring.
- Tweeting with as much context resiliency as possible.
- Hearing an instrumental in the 90s and wondering about it for the rest of your life.
- The saddest accordion solo.
- A laughing baby indicating lack of cruelty.
- Library/production music that is just as avant garde as your personal work.
- Corporate contexts appropriating music that was popular 10 years ago.
- When the retro discount kicks in for production music.
- Absorbing your friend's shoegaze album into your video game.
- Reinventing General MIDI for your alternate timeline's soundtrack.
- Picking a name for your combination pinball parlor and print shop.
- The timeline of pinball speed.
- The timeline of pinball interactivity.
- Analog video games frustrating the speed running scene.
- Video game sound effects in the reality that never invented the speaker.
- Switching around the pneumatic tubes on your brother's Call of Duty sound setup.
- Sneaking into an amusement park to play the calliope.
- Calliope MIDI playback as an online service.
- Robotic percussion as an online service.
- Sleep studies are take-home tests now.
- Stopping breathing 25 times per hour.
- Acclimating to your Darth Vader mask.
- Never living to regret your bad decisions.
- Not being sure how to pronounce your own name.