Your Aleatoric Reality
A show about randomness in all its forms, especially what has been termed ”Random Reality,” the use of randomness in real-life applications, including decisions, leisure activities, creativity, and problem-solving. Your hosts Misha and Damon take you on a literally random journey, exploring many topics and themes through the lens of chance. P.S. ”Aleatoric” is a synonym for ”random.”
Episodes
A meandering discussion of various real-world uses for random numbers.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Mister Stochastic read a book and thought the word pseudorandom would make a good episode theme.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Your hosts take a random road trip with a 50% chance of Ohio...
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Trevor Ward is a bassist and songwriter from North Dakota duo Software Failure. We give him the random interview treatment and play their new single, Figures on the Tomb.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Misha and Damon explore AI's strengths and weaknesses particularly relating to random music generation.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Heath Lambert runs a movie theater and knows a lot about film. He is the host of That's So Random: A Random Movie Podcast. Heath chooses films at random to discuss on his show. We give him the random interview treatment, and then pick a movie we can all talk about on *his* show. That's right, this is a PODCAST CROSSOVER EVENT!
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random t...Your intrepid hosts play a game of Munchkin Fu (by Steve Jackson Games) with special guest Ninja Nate
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.In which your intrepid hosts review a random restaurant by ordering random menu items. They say if you update the description, YouTube will pull from the feed again, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Part two of our conversation with Ninja Nate, co-creator of the seminal work Morton's List, which coined the term "random reality." In this episode we try his latest game, Stranger Tales.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Our intrepid randomists give the shuffled interview treatment to Ninja Nate, co-creator of Morton's List, the game that introduced Misha to dice life.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Misha and Damon play Morton's List with game co-creator Twilight Lord Ninja Nate.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Misha and Damon play Danni Little's tarot-inspired therapeutic self-care game.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.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.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.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.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Misha and Damon discuss applications of randomness and pseudorandomness in comedy, with a detour into the world of avant garde art movements.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Welcome to Season 2! Damon and Misha spend the whole episode discussing what they might talk about on this episode.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Your intrepid hosts discuss ways to defeat the traditions of chess; Misha bookends the season with another Q&A for Damon.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.In which Damon discusses the process of designing, casting, and finishing custom dice.
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.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!
Send your comments and listener challenge reports to youraleatoricreality@gmail.com. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.Damon outlines the various ways, both standard and innovative, that random number generation is used by video game makers.
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