Tweets from 2011/06
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@glassarmy vodka, chocolate that tastes like christmas, animal plasters, finger puppets and a lampshade.
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@glassarmy I just figured you probably had a naked lamp...
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@doougle Especially if the thing that they said might happen does happen.
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@Frobisher_says we have a rule against that.
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@richlitt Hey, snap! (s/Linguistics/Cognitive Science/ , but). (and if you ever think you made a tradeoff between your 37 organizations
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@richlitt then, consider - I think your 37 organizations will probably help you more.)
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Here's a lamb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw
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This is the best comment I have ever read on the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/11002309
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@brendy_c Ravenscourt Park does. I assumed it was to deter the youths.
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@brendy_c that's an excellent word, and fascinating. (IE arguably more legitimately spelt as "crack". Because it was originally English?)
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@brendy_c Yeah, I agree. I like the things you can legitimize by saying you did them "for the crack".
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@brendy_c versus my mum, who was always telling me and my brothers off for "larking about"
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@asponge @reallyfancy I can open it.
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Twisted my ankle attempting to jump and headbutt a sign - I landed on @Gillespionage.
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@KommanderKlobb @docky also, going back to a particular snapshot of an entire project is paaaaaaaainful. you have to do it per-file.
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@KommanderKlobb @edclef @docky @barog fair fair - I never revert more than a morning's work. But that much can make you a tad more fearless.
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@asponge GIN. EVERYWHERE.
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RT @KommanderKlobb: Crown Pub in Angel is booked for #londonindies on Monday. From 6pm. http://bit.ly/aOGxNh Pls RT x
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@KommanderKlobb 'tanks for booking it - should be a busy one!
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@srules I just had a Magnum.
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Heavy water is the only known substance that affects the period of circadian oscillations, consistently increasing the length of each cycle.
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The effect is seen in unicellular organisms, green plants, isopods, insects, birds, mice, and hamsters. The mechanism is unknown.
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@Gillespionage http://www.geekologie.com/2010/04/09/work-it-dino.gif
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RT @thegamedesigner: I love 3 hour jams. I just hacked something so badly that I think a perfectionist just died somewhere. #WhateverWorks
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@mikeBithell but the games we play these days are Flash games. Honestly think things like Stencyl are a better gateway drug.
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@Slaktus finally reading "Mythologies". Kayfabe is fascinating as hell, especially where it extends beyond the ring.
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@Slaktus Borges has interesting things to say on t'difference between "Borges" and the man. Applies just as much to "messhof" or "increpare"
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@arkitus I'm about in London. Come visit!
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@musebloom unfortunately, you have to order them in multiples of dozens. Also, I am scared that if I do, I will do so repeatedly. #sofat
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@musebloom and hey, we should chat about flats.
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On a train into London heading for @kitrichardsonuk 's. Melting.
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Photo: Em as zombie http://tumblr.com/xui2u9nvkn
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Photo: Collected loveliness http://tumblr.com/xui2u9pb6y
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Photo: Watching for the best time to make a run for it [Fire Hazard’s City Dash] http://tumblr.com/xui2u9qi13
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Photo: Traffic lights in front of the sun. http://tumblr.com/xui2u9r0r4
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@ishisoft ooh, I've not cracked those out yet. Can you just supply a default value?
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@dkanaga Mother 3 is pretty explicitly musical - to combo you attack on the beat, but the enemies BGM is often in weird time signatures.
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@dkanaga (which is ...unusual in an turn based battle RPG)
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@dkanaga and Bayonetta I'm playing now, and just has excellent rhythm to it's combos. Just ... really good.
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@dkanaga oh, and, you seen http://kotaku.com/5808033/the-unsung-secret-of-great-gamesand-how-some-games-get-it-so-wrong ?
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Considering going to this: http://atomicgardening-eorg.eventbrite.com/ -- a talk on Atomic Gardening.
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@edclef @KommanderKlobb shame, but no point coming if you're dead.
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@HilariousCow haha, what are you playing?
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@oh_cripes that's awesome - super funnay. made me want to buy the game. unfortunately, i already have :<
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@S0phieH what would be in the width if it did have a width? More interestingly, what would be at the edges?
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@S0phieH relatedly, i guess portals are the ultimate sharp edge.
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@S0phieH which actually says what the edges would look like: glowy, from all the particles coming apart. like Death's scythe on Discworld.
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@musebloom Wheeee! works for me - our lease ends at the end of August. I only know Nick very vaguely.
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@asponge That's an idea I see and ... hate the author for making it instead of me. ie, one of the best kind of ideas.
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@therussmorris @Gillespionage I CAN BE DO ARTWORKZ. SKYBOX YES.
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@robinlacey I'm a rubber duck: http://bit.ly/l5e76e
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I thought the Internet would be awful this week. I was wrong. This is HILARIOUS. #e3
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RT @asponge: I came too early and now I just feel weird and wrong as the Tomb Raider demo continues.
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@Slaktus that wasn't an advert... that was the presentation. yes. you can get points for betting on fights.
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TO THE PUB! #londonindies
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Minecraft using kinect? @fridgehead did it already.
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@increpare room for a few more, I'm sure. "Released you a ticket", as eventbrite says. Anyhow, you're welcome. Need somewhere to crash?
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@increpare have I got a sofa for you! (The answer is yes, I do have a sofa for you.)
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RT @bentosmile: #E3 drinking game - take a shot every time you see a QTE :D
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@thomasapage @robinlacey @therussmorris totally overslept, will be about half and hour late. :/
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@richlitt You're buying a boat? Cool!
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RT @glassarmy: Been watching Made in Chelsea... as my boyfriend said, it's kind of like an hour long version of the Two Minutes Hate but ...
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@terrycavanagh woop woop woop!
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@tigershungry gonna go play with the arcade machine tonight, if you're free.
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@tigershungry yeah, heading straight after work so will be about from like... 6:30? 7? s'right by Hoxton tube.
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RT @edfear: Right. I am fucking fed up of looking for project management software. We're going to use post it notes and we will FUCKING ...
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@tigershungry shure. if you want pizza, there's a £5 pizza run on Tuesdays.
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@Draknek yep, we do! Or the ballpool...
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@Fortress_Inman yeah! the VMU! Ninty have tried to push this every time. Handheld/console hookups. Never caught on. Maybe this time.
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RT @petermolyneux2: Game where you control character on tv screen but on ANOTHER screen you see their emotion.
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@Draknek haha, not at all. But it's both a novelty and quite comfortable.
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@docky oooooh! That sounds depressingly plausible!
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Having a break from swearing at this dead PC... (sad face, sad arcade cabinet)
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Whoooop! It's now booted twice in a row!
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@asponge it would not display things, or make the keyboard light up. Now it does both of those things but doesn't like HDDs. Fucking RAID.
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@asponge @tigershungry @oh_cripes @vetraskr (Or we could just get IDE HDDs - but there were SATA ones here, so we got one of those)
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@asponge right you are! should the BIOS know that SATA exists? HDD & DVD chug, but I can't tell it to boot off them.
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@asponge Yes... from Googling there appears there is a forest of problems with booting from SATA. I'll find a IDE drive, life is too short.
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@asponge not to worry, we'll find some IDE drives. Might well have some knocking about at home.
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@KommanderKlobb @ashleygwinnell ... I feel like I fit into both of those categories... (would love SparkleShare etc to be good already)
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@doougle @helvetica Watching that, all I can think is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMlZSKEu-Y
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@Huitlacoche_Too more than that, we were building an arcade machine together last night...
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@richlitt sounds a bit "just-so" to me.
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@richlitt sweet! lemme know if you need somewhere to crash. and when you're free for drinking. (and soz, but - how comes?)
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@KBsGameTOILET DM yr email address? I have an email full of SPECIFICATIONS to send you.
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RT @kalligula "And now... Sony replies to the Wii U... Really?... http://bit.ly/jvMdk8 " Bwahahaha! Ninty wins E3.
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o hai, tigjam uk, cambridge, 15-17th july, tigjamuk5.eventbrite.com , it'll be fun.
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RT @londonhackspace: Today we passed 300 paying members!
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@fridgehead it depresses me the easiest way to find that out was to google it. tools failing me!
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@oh_cripes What a gigantic strawman he has built.
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@oh_cripes In fact, here's how I see the internet and it's impact on learning: http://bit.ly/mFoxad
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New Gaming System Revealed At E3 rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/08/new-gaming-system-revealed-at-e3/ via @rockpapershot
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@oh_cripes Yeah, that's the part that can't be quickly dismissed. So I dismissed it at length. Check your emails.
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@S0phieH Asymmetric games seems to be the big new. Would be ace for Spy party, frinstance.
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@krystman @SiriHoho if you're going to go over the top, at least do it differently! I am a total fan.
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@docky that'd be awesome, and mocked terribly. And nice saying Steam not Valve. Although... how would it sit wrt DirectX?
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Don't touch the red bits, they're hot coals. http://www.trentschools.com/7-7thewish.htm
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Dick Cheney doesn't have a pulse. http://youdontknowdickcheney.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/dick-cheney-has-no-pulse/
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@thomasapage what. again. will this never end. what killed it.
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@tigershungry which answers my question as to whether you went. Say hi to @tiedtiger and @robinlacey. Does it have redeeming features?
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Should have a minijam where you can make a game til your laptop battery runs out. Using wifi = sooner deadline.
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@JamesMackerness dawwww! (&! I bumped into Iain in Bristol the other weekend. He said your house was ace and I should go visit)
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@mirosurabu I also have the math-fail. Still, never too late.
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everyone somehow comes to the conclusion that they'd rather be alone than hang out with you for even a second longer http://bit.ly/jscYnY
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@reallyfancy wooo flapjacks! (FAR more important, they are.)
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Anyone coming to the gamejam tomorrow that can donate an IDE hard drive for the arcade machine?
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@SFBTom yeah, I'm afraid I'm getting antsy about fitting everyone in :/ really sucks :/
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Gamejammers! Me, @increpare and @Draknek are on our way but will be some time. Apologies! See you there!
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@fridgehead It's "games for the arcade machine". Specs here: wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Gamejam
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(Also, fuck yeah!)
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@Slaktus indeed! My description even bigs up OhMyGame, but needs must...
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@fridgehead sure, why wouldn't it?
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@thomasapage !!!!! What happened?
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@tigershungry @oh_cripes booo! (It's pretty neat.)
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HATE STENCYL. LET'S REDO THIS CODE STUPIDER.
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Hello Stencyl! imgur.com/5PBA6 #screenshotsaturday #londonjam
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Fuck youuuu, night buses.
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@tigershungry this sounds... awesome. If I wasn't, y'know, jamming, I'd be there.
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Fuck youuuu, the tube at weekends!
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Just purchased four lemons (two can play at that game, @tigershungry)
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@tigershungry aaaah! Pre-empted literally in the act of purchasing the lemons.
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This looks very good: happyfuncoding.com/ Javascript! Pretty! Twiddlers! Real-time editing! For kids! But actual code!
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@Slaktus yeah yeah yeah - when you coming back to the jam?
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@psychicteeth come down the road to the Hackspace!
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@psychicteeth shame. coulda seen all the jam games, there's crowds clustering round the cabinet
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#londonjam was awesome, thanks all who attended. Can't wait to get the machine loaded up and play the fuckers.
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@RubZo howso?
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@fridgehead I still expect a game from you! Dearest Chairman must be immortalized!
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@reallyfancy @asponge ouch! :<
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@SiriHoho I totally missed all your hot cross-stitch action. That's excellent!
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An utterly relaxing way to spend your time: ded.increpare.com/~locus/Escher_modified.jar
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@HilariousCow what was the name of the colour separating filter you were using in Sky Tank?
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@HilariousCow yeah, I found it, thanks. Been looking for something similar for far too long. Will tear it apart and apply it to CUBES soon.
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RT @hackaday: New post: Wifi sniffing digital picture frame http://bit.ly/lpoemM
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@nickgwood MagicPrefs can give you a middle click on a magic mouse. One IDE even uses it to paste selected text.
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@nickgwood and try typing "#"
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@nickgwood It's alt-3. you may wish to change keyboard layout to one which does not reflect the symbols on the keyboard.
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@nickgwood Go the Das Keyboard route and just sand off all of the letters.
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@RubZo nah, they were all secondhand in SP anyway.
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@RubZo by which, I mean they were from videogames.
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@RubZo well yes (sorry, bit braindead at the moment). but a videogame focused movie can do the same shit, for the same reasons & be original
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@RubZo feh, journalists! (Further thought - it's actually as much manga tropes with vg trappings. Remove the vg trappings, it'd be fine)
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@Slaktus Because lots of people talk a lot of cock about both. Find someone who speaks non-cock about one is hard enough, let alone two...
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@ishisoft @KommanderKlobb fuck yeah Paul Robertson!
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@HilariousCow SKY TANK, SKY TANK! It's a tank, and it lives in the sky, if you get in then you're going to die.
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RT @pozorvlak: A programmer is somebody for whom computing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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@noragames Or come along to London Indies! Monthly drinking in a pub with Indie Games People.
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@edclef @OneSwitch I'd like to be able to play it with just arrow keys. It's not a game that needs strafing.
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Video: Everything is going to be okay. http://tumblr.com/xui301ygir
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@srules SPSS! Ah, how I miss SPSS!
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@srules Note, previous tweet may not, in fact, be accurate.
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@richlitt living on the edge!
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@kitrichardsonuk :D you still want pix this week? I'm finally (yes, I know) listening to Beardyman's album. It's /quite good/.
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Entering the wonderful world of ImageMagick. Let's hope I escape alive.
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@thomasapage And also electrondance.com/?p=1884
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@radiodario having looked at the pictures, it seems like a excellent overview. cheers!
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@KommanderKlobb yeah, lovely vid. also exciting : Android/iPhone vers in the works!
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@tigershungry @doougle @ElectronDance Can't cheat on the online version. (On the way for the arcade machine version: a high score table.)
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RT @kitrichardsonuk: New song number 1... soundcloud.com/kit-richardson/no-one-knows-qotsa-cover-from
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RT @kitrichardsonuk: Aaaand new song number two! soundcloud.com/kit-richardson/you-always-did-from
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@radiodario I'm aroused.
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@radiodario Unrelatedly, want to get lunch some time?
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@tiedtiger There's grindingly slow progress towards XMPP being a common standard.
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@dont_read_this JSON. Honestly easier to parse.
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RT @wolfpupy: vIDEO gAME nEWS: a new video game will be coming out soon for purchase at the store. it might be good it might be bad we w ...
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@radiodario sounds good. may be a little delayed, as we're prepping some work for then - can you do 1?
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@edclef Is the UK layout available in blank? *po faced*
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@KommanderKlobb weird to only have it available in compound form? and @ singly already has meanings.
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@dont_read_this :< Sucks. What language, what library?
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@dont_read_this I've had some success with LitJSON. Here's what I did: github.com/v21/Boinger/blob/master/Assets/Launcher.cs
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@HilariousCow when you run low on petrol, the engines should be spluttery for a bit before they die. & blackouts for lack of O2.
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This is the most exciting Windows install ever!
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@HilariousCow You cheered me up immensely with "Blah blah, we're hubristic Russians etc."
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Photo: The game isn’t supposed to look like this. But maybe a future one will be. http://tumblr.com/xui31ga1y0
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@richlitt why on Earth would you not ask? But be gentle. Here's an example: mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2011/06/important-clarification.html
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RT @ChristopherBlum: Hi. If you're a Chrome user, crash it by entering this into your address bar "about:inducebrowsercrashforrealz". Yo ...
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@tigershungry Playlist Club may enjoy using this website: roll.io/
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@radiodario I did not reply to this tweet! Did you still want to grab a beer?
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@radiodario probably vibe bar. 6 onwards. Lemme know if you can think of somewhere better nearby.
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RT @PLAstudios: Welcome to PLA Studios
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Aw flip - sorry to be missing Amon Robin show. Very sorry. Cc @russss wag
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@tiedtiger always suspicious of articles that claim things will fail due to lack of features.
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@KommanderKlobb @SFBTom girl who leapt through time is awesome.
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@HilariousCow from what I played, you made a thing which really worked from an idea everyone was dubious of. Excellent work!
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@HilariousCow brb, gonna go make a sandwich.
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@oliland ... it's an octocat?
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@HilariousCow I like that all I've caught of this is people saying : "This debate!? I don't care!"
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@HilariousCow @psychicteeth aaaargh, *can't resist opinions*. Sometimes I like things that aren't fun. Dunno if they're "games", don't care.
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@thesuperowl Someday I shall walk to work.
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Tee hee ... I, too, must tweet this Adam Curtis parody. youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
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Adele is stalking Aidan Moffat. thequietus.com/articles/06446-adele-someone-like-you-review
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@npupp oh wow, congratulations! :D
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@AnnetteMees @Londonist and reserves the copyrights to the scans...
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@SiriHoho happy birthday, for realz.
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I want some peaches. http://j.mp/k8C7AC
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Blog: The point of gamejams. http://post.ly/2G0q1
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@hubmum yr post on the point of hackdays inspired a response from me from an indie games perspective: v21.posterous.com/the-point-of-gamejams
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@RubZo Something like this: wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Project:AlarmClock ?
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@annashipman Thanks! It is a phrase that has stuck in my mind, and it really does apply.
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@asponge @reallyfancy I am not surprised, those are some fucking excellent books.
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Photo: Swans! http://tumblr.com/xui34gm3pf
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@bentosmile @psychicteeth oh, I still have to double check it's the right way round each time.
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@bentosmile well, !(a||b) == (!a && !b)
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@S0phieH because Paul Robertson did the art? It gets good once you earn the decent moves...
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@S0phieH amen.
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@therussmorris will be late due to my feckless nature (and the train is limping)
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@S0phieH oh, yeah, each has a sensitive range, they kinda overlap. red is most sensitive in the dark.
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@Slaktus we are a trend to be consumed.
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@Slaktus ah well. the medium will be fine. but the industry might get alternately funny and very very boring with these people around.
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@radiodario ooooh, that is a nice article. Bookmarked, for when I want to play around with shaders outside of the confines of Unity.
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Who loves Adventure Time? Everyone sensible, that's who. And this song is beautiful: youtube.com/watch?v=iH0Bw6fkue4
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This talk has stuck with me : storythings.com/2011/06/23/242/
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@rclarke I am!
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Surprising nobody, Girl Talk has excellent taste in playlists. grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Girl+Talk+s+Summer+Remix+For+Vulture/55754451
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@asponge I *think* I know all the words to Alice's Restaurant. Was a record we played a lot as kids.
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@glassarmy Heh. When will you be about?
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RT @MediocreDave: A commenter on the Guardian website has called Stewart Lee "the thinking man's Slavoj Zizek."
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@glassarmy when will you be about, then?
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@glassarmy ha-ha! be there as soon as I'm done with work.
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I'm being replaced by a cat!
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@oh_cripes it's not here yet. But i shall visit it when it does and be jealous.
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What's kinect for "skip cutscene"?
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@doougle be comforted that Klout scores are rubbish. What everyone really does is judge you in the normal human way.
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@wellinformatted heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Me too!
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Oh yes, summer dresses!
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Park?
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@wellinformatted where are you working? London is pretty good, there's lots of it. Going to the park in a bit if you want to come.
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@brendy_c have an icecream?
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To Victoria Park for some Drinking In Parks! If you are not drinking in a park, maybe you should?
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@fridgehead oooh, that looks a handy tool to have around.
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@musebloom ha, I walked by a KoL concert earlier this week and also just heard something loud and ambiguous.
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@HilariousCow the laser cutter cooling system is running, though the laser cutter hasn't been on for quite some time...
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@awesommelier the drunken "this helps me focus" one eye shut?
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@therussmorris i have, for HIOP. can share source. it supports it semi-natively, but it was enough of a faff that I wished I'd used JSON.
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@awesommelier usually. but who can really tell, at that point?
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@srules @oh_cripes rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/26/not-cardboard-children-twos-company/#more-63599 you two bored with fucking yet?
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@srules i'm bored, drunk, and trying to be helpful.
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@TallyCola i hated having to unlock every... single... move...
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Enjoying the subtle differences between my old, genuine, F-91W, and my new, fake, F-91W. (the strap broke)
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@vetraskr i was considering swapping the fake strap for the broken real strap. but the fake one has disco lights.
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Beautiful generated stuffs: michael-hansmeyer.com/projects/projects.html?screenSize=1&color=0 Beautiful. Complex. Claims to be architecture.
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@HilariousCow just read gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tricks.php?page=4 again, and saw your comment on it. what a fucked up industry...
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RT @oh_cripes: State of the Machine http://post.ly/2IBdp
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I love strong female characters harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=311
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@bentosmile my text message sound is the teleport sound from worms.
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@asponge @oh_cripes You don't have any bright ideas as to why? Often won't start, and freezes sometimes when it has. Nae worries if not.
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@asponge Posterous is good, but has a weird emphasis on emailing.
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@musebloom ha, i watched some earlier. drusilla was awesome.
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@PLAstudios Overslept again, I know, sorry. On my way in now.
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RT @KommanderKlobb: We're looking for a programmer to help us with something cool! Details here: honeyslug.com/jobad.php pls RT x
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TIL what moquette is ltmuseumshop.co.uk/ltm/furniture-collection/our-moquette-range.html
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@ashleygwinnell eeeeehhhhhhhh! that's how bezier curves work! also, i would store an array of Vector2s. or an array of arrays.
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@ashleygwinnell also, recall "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and Jon Blow talking of optimizing for life-years per feature.
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@richlitt stand tall, dude
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@richlitt posture is important!
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@annashipman @DaftLimmy @joehalliwell but on the flip side, their options for gender are : "male/female/other"
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The woeful history of D3D and OpenGL. programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows/88055#88055
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@asponge you've made my day. did you see they had a christmas album?
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RT @asponge: My loves of suits, surf rock, synchronised moves and lucha libre masks come together in Los Straitjackets: youtube.com/watch?v=ZelMNqVjoO8
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@radiodario ouch. could still lunch, though.
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@radiodario fire and stone at spitalfields market? they've got a 2 pizzas for a tenner offer on
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@zoewi @nachimir @tigershungry I got mine from a colleague a minute or two ago. Have tried sending across to you now.
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@radiodario ace, I'm there now.
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Awful design choice - if you mute people on Hangouts, they get told you did it. Awful!
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@srules "awful people"
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@srules brb, making that joke true.
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@tigershungry @zoewi i'm hangng out. you can watch youtube videos together.
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@Dick_Hogg what would be the point? no-one is on google+
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@zoewi @tigershungry on plus. there's a youtube tab. but it's a bit basic. but good already.
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RT @GeorgeMonbiot: Killer graph posted in response to my blog post by EwanB: bit.ly/9crvLO. Tells the story better than words could.
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@me_backwards still not sure exactly what it ... is?
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@RubZo oh, the fuckers totally do.bracing myself for the damage when I get home...
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@SFBTom @KommanderKlobb just arrive, there is literally no formalities. The Crown in Islington, first Monday of the month.