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Dream: This reminds me of a puzzle
Mar. 28th, 2021 12:02 amConversation from last night's dream:
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Someone (fictitious coworker in a fictitious job I had in this setting? Basically just some NPC): *Handing us an old music album* So my friends and I were talking the other day about our greatest treasures. This is the demo album from the garage band my mom was in when she was young.
Me: Oh, neat!
Them: What's neat is they had this experimental trick where every track on the album is actually two songs. They wrote and composed everything in such a way that they could just play them together, on top of each other, and they'd blend and create the overall track you're hearing.
Me: (Immediately realizing the problem of, "Wait, if these are all original compositions from some indie garage band and not mashups of established songs, literally how would you tell the difference between the two original layered tracks and the one final flattened song?" but saying nothing)
Them: And every individual track was composed by a different composer, too. Unfortunately, my mom only remembers bits and pieces about who wrote what after all this time, but....
Me: (Sensing the "this story is a setup for a logic puzzle" vibe so strongly that we could practically hear the Professor Layton music kick in) So our job is to listen and identify the separate tracks, and use the clues provided to identify the composer of each.
Them: *Sheepish* ... Yeah.
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... This is one or two giant Pokemon orgies away from being something Argon Vile drew.
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Someone (fictitious coworker in a fictitious job I had in this setting? Basically just some NPC): *Handing us an old music album* So my friends and I were talking the other day about our greatest treasures. This is the demo album from the garage band my mom was in when she was young.
Me: Oh, neat!
Them: What's neat is they had this experimental trick where every track on the album is actually two songs. They wrote and composed everything in such a way that they could just play them together, on top of each other, and they'd blend and create the overall track you're hearing.
Me: (Immediately realizing the problem of, "Wait, if these are all original compositions from some indie garage band and not mashups of established songs, literally how would you tell the difference between the two original layered tracks and the one final flattened song?" but saying nothing)
Them: And every individual track was composed by a different composer, too. Unfortunately, my mom only remembers bits and pieces about who wrote what after all this time, but....
Me: (Sensing the "this story is a setup for a logic puzzle" vibe so strongly that we could practically hear the Professor Layton music kick in) So our job is to listen and identify the separate tracks, and use the clues provided to identify the composer of each.
Them: *Sheepish* ... Yeah.
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... This is one or two giant Pokemon orgies away from being something Argon Vile drew.