{"id":260,"date":"2026-05-18T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/?p=260"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:17:36","slug":"game-design-musical-temperatures-farenheit-only-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/game-design-musical-temperatures-farenheit-only-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Design: Musical Temperatures (Farenheit only, I guess)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Choose a weather service and a location<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Check that weather service at the same time each morning, taking note of the day’s High and Low temperatures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. If either is over 100F, subtract 100<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Add either 1900 or 2000 to the temperature, giving you two years in the 20th and 21st century<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Listen to an entire album or song from each year<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. If you can’t find one, you can swap the tens-and-ones-places around <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Example: Weather dot Com’s May 18th, 2026 11:10AM Eastern high and low for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are 91 and 69, giving the years 1991 and 1969:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. 1991: My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless<\/a>, ur-text for shoegaze<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. 1969: The Band’s The Band<\/a> ur-text for an entire “what if we were western and wore suspenders” musical aesthetic of the early 2000s<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Alternate Rules:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Find a list of GREAT ALBUMS or billboard charts or something and use that as your table from which to pick music from that year<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Only listen to albums that are new to you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Just put your sptoify on shuffle and let it serve you ai-generated blandness, you soulless freak I hate you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. have a nice day!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Example: Weather dot Com’s May 18th, 2026 11:10AM Eastern high and low for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are 91 and 69, giving the years 1991 and 1969: Alternate Rules:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}