Tweets from 2011/11
-
People who put slides in their talks showing themselves giving the same talk elsewhere.
-
@nachimir @asponge There's a load at Hackspace (inevitably). Or flush it out with mineral oil (I'm not sure if this is a serious suggestion)
-
@asponge @nachimir Most of 'em were extracted from HDDs, so not THAT strong. And the power law helps here.
-
@asponge Yeah, course. I'll let you know next time I'm heading over. Won't be for a bit, mind.
-
@asponge @oh_cripes speaking of which, I can't recall if I said - you about tomorrow, my mate is coming round for Hot Boardgaming Action.
-
@asponge @oh_cripes no, no, the implication was that you were welcome to get in on the action.
-
Might poach an egg this weekend. After all, I do work in the games industry.
-
@emmalsegal @SongbyToad Hey, cool. I know one or two people there from the games side of things.
-
@docky feels like the person is a terrible person. and indie is all about that personal connection with the developer.
-
@docky but that is always a weird thing - for the dev, it's their livelihood, not a gift. The "Girlfriend Experience" of games purchasing.
-
@Slaktus @robinlacey Didn't you lend me that? Was a good book, but a bit too painstaking at times. Not the worst flaw.
-
@asponge Why not just get a breadmaker?
-
@psychicteeth @asponge I mean, I don't disagree. But you must admit they solve the "I am in bed, and I must bread!" problem.
-
@psychicteeth I am happy to repost this stuff, but just because I am honestly humanly excited by it.
-
@JohnCoxon @psychicteeth @terrycavanagh Really? But that was the perfect opportunity to plug @SpiltMilkGames! Available now on the App Store
-
@KommanderKlobb you gotta reach 'em. Most of the puzzles seem to be about gettin yrself places.
-
@KommanderKlobb Also, the game should have way more puzzles and less shooting. Guess that's what the level editor's for.
-
@KommanderKlobb it's beautiful... if only there was some voxelly beautiful game focused on exploring the world and solving puzzles.
-
@nachimir @KommanderKlobb @oh_cripes ah, after gamecity, I was describing Fez.
-
@oh_cripes @KommanderKlobb I didn't mind the controls. They were obstinate, but honest. Like a Vlambeer game, almost.
-
Oh, this is lovely: youtube.com/watch?v=jsn77Hz-UMU
-
RE last tweet: suck it, I'm promoting our game. LA LA LA PLAY SPRINGBREAK HERO. springbreakhero.com #springbreakhero #kidsloveit
-
@tigershungry @edclef :D :D :D :D
-
@mikeBithell you know got a mention in the Grauniad? guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/nov/01/gamecity-highlights
-
@pippinbarr now I'm trying to think of ways to make that lack of meaning happen on purpose...
-
"Kirby... It's like a ball... with face and feet" "what, like a haggis?"
-
@mrcraigl @terrycavanagh and I still have the umbrella
-
@pippinbarr oh, man, they'd never do that. Not many games would stand to be raw mechanics, no fiction (and that's okay)
-
Blog: Mr Bubble Amidst GameCity post.ly/3mH4X
-
"Gmail is getting a new look" --- funny, that looks pretty much the same as the look I said I'd try out weeks ago.
-
@KommanderKlobb and not just because I go on about ideas you had in it...
-
@Fortress_Inman I just tether off my phone, while we wait. Which reminds me... I should ring people about our phone line.
-
@oh_cripes Where your cache again?
-
@benmilsom @oh_cripes I started collecting them at one point. After a while, youe eyes just start to melt a little. I like that.
-
@benmilsom @oh_cripes "The Tumblr Vernacular"
-
@oh_cripes yeah, sorry, that was a bit @Slaktus of me.
-
@agAitcheson yeah, I was surprised by how much feedback I'd absorbed, actually.
-
killscreendaily.com/articles/us-usnyu-game-centers-practice-and-meaning-game-design This looks like it was an amazing conference.
-
RT @paisleyboxers: I don't always read fiction, but when I do it's a spreadsheet with timelines in a developer meeting.
-
@RubZo now you made me sad I didn't get it when I bought the game...
-
@asponge That's the worst copywriting I have seen in some time.
-
@KommanderKlobb It's still not installed on here. I'm glad.
-
@doougle @KommanderKlobb I still miss Foobar2k. Which is odd, because I use Windows again now. But I cba possessing music these days.
-
@KommanderKlobb It was lovely cruising on the coast road, the sunset making it impossible to see, in San Andreas.
-
@psychicteeth It's got advantages, but none of the GUI clients I've used do everything and are good.
-
@ashleygwinnell @HilariousCow @psychicteeth Concur. I use git, but I wouldn't recommend switching less'n you need it's specialness.
-
@psychicteeth @KommanderKlobb It does branch easily! I wish I worked in a team where we didn't have most of our work in binary blobs.
-
@steishere you were going to talk to me about the hackspace!
-
@infectedarea probably already been answered, but googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/02/custom-views-in-google-calendar.html
-
@thomasapage won't happen til you can write native apps. All you can do on WinPhones is through XNA/WP-whatever managed C# stuff.
-
@HilariousCow The splurt of laughter that tweet caused me woke me up. :<
-
@HilariousCow @psychicteeth Apparently misspelt Vietnamese for "where on the line"... now you know.
-
@edclef @HilariousCow @psychicteeth ah, now i want vietnamese now. maybe i'll treat myself this lunch.
-
@bfod @KommanderKlobb no talk as illuminating as one you violently disagree with for reasons you haven't quite fleshed out yet.
-
@oh_cripes @radiodario bravo!
-
@hannahnicklin Hang on, wasn't that On The Hour?
-
THE SCRATCHWARE MANIFESTO(200). auntiepixelante.com/?p=433 Amazing to see a manifesto from a cause that has largely succeeded.
-
Oh man, I feel like I've had all my energy siphoned off, and my mouth tastes like cough medicine. #whining #nothadcoughmedicine
-
@timburke55 Dancing at the disco... bumper to bumper... youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM
-
fucking smartquotes
-
@oh_cripes hey, I like the idea of Unity. I miss using Linux on the desktop.
-
@oh_cripes Yeah, but it's a good idea. I like their concepts. I'm sure it'll all be transmuted to hate and resentment once I use it.
-
@oh_cripes let designers loose on the Ubuntu desktop environment, and clear away all the cruft that's been building up for decades.
-
@oh_cripes well, the font is lovely, at least.
-
@severalbees This is the reason to keep your kitchen floor clean.
-
@tigershungry were you to the Vibe tonight, then? Will sod off home otherwise.
-
Time to go home and wish we had Internet yet.
-
@tigershungry Nae bother.
-
@KommanderKlobb @tigershungry I just tried like 5 newsagents... no dice! Aaaaah!
-
RT @Dick_Hogg: PUSHING THROUGH THE THRONG INTO THE CENTRE IT WAS CLEAR SOMETHING PECULIAR WAS GOING ON. RT @WildRumpus @tigershungry htt ...
-
Cock. My laptop won't boot. Guess I'd better work out how to use that super expensive warranty I paid for...
-
@oh_cripes just read your letter in Edge. It's incredibly soppy. I just thought you should know.
-
@therussmorris @Gillespionage @thomasapage @robinlacey RT@Horse_ebooks You need to be fully prepared for anything when you drive a speedboat
-
@therussmorris grrrrrr...
-
@therussmorris yeah, it ran out of charge as I was playing The Binding of Isaac earlier, and now refuses to start.
-
@therussmorris this does mean I get to experience my fantastic warranty... Come Monday/Tuesday. Always a silver lining.
-
@psychicteeth my first thought, seeing the site was: how can I give you money?
-
Carcassonne is genius.
-
(It doesn't hurt that we won.)
-
@Slaktus I could do with that, all my games come from failures to make shmups.
-
@tigershungry take it it went down well, then?
-
@auntiepixelante ah, I've totally abused that too. But it's so easy!
-
@bhmwong was thinking of heading sainswards for breakfast fixins. You want?
-
@bhmwong yup!
-
@Rachelbug1 that's incredibly tragic. And reminds me I'm way behind on season 3.
-
@Slaktus yeah, Mr Bubble started as "ooh, pretty bullet patterns". Haven't actually had time to play with OMG yet.Internet comes on Tuesday!
-
@guided1 do they freely intermingle? it sounds disgusting, in any case.
-
@HilariousCow I'm sure they'll take it in the manner in which it was intended.
-
Yay, being at work! Internet again! (One sleep til the luxury of Internet at home.)
-
@edclef That is ... entirely understandable. Get some sleep!
-
@KommanderKlobb you need a stripey top.
-
@asponge oh my goodness, that's given me the biggest smile
-
@psychicteeth GTAIV was all about taking away player's fun, and making them pay attention to the story instead.
-
@psychicteeth I mean, I don't really mind, it's a good story and I'm glad they tried out a new direction. But yeah.
-
@psychicteeth surely the converse is pissing around doing jumps and running people over in GTA?
-
@guided1 ... yeah, I imagine you do.
-
@ammonite Me and @oh_cripes converted The Beast, but I've no great knowledge of the different machines out there.
-
RT @iamtef: facebook aims to be the central point of failure for the web
-
Everyone everyone everyone. foddy.net/PoleRiders.html is amazing. Play it.
-
"Congratulations! You successfully completed all of the stages! “Enduro” is a symbolic journey through..." tmblr.co/Zo3lZyBffLjK
-
@mattwebb85 no, i never did. by the time i came round to it, it was too old for me to persist with.
-
@paperCaves @kennethfejer oooooooooh, yes, that looks beautiful.
-
Photo: Not what I meant to achieve. tmblr.co/Zo3lZyBfr5iW
-
@asponge I'm going home to bask in our Internet. But I remember liking Ace Bushy Striptease before.
-
@dinosaurrparty that may become my go-to example of cyber bullying.
-
Photo: I was actually aiming for this. tmblr.co/Zo3lZyBfxGFT
-
@edjeff yet
-
"IS YOUR COMPANY TRAINING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE LEARNERS WITH YESTERDAY'S METHODS?"
-
@narfyyy AIR is nearly a good platform for native games on mobile.
-
@asponge :<
-
@99coins you should also have a mp3 link, for podcast illiterates like myself.
-
@HilariousCow haha, well, it's all slapped over Sky Tank.
-
@HilariousCow i've got an incipient idea for Most Generic Unity Game game. Total in-joke.
-
@musebloom of course not. delete the title.
-
@musebloom if that doesn't fix it, delete your name.
-
@asponge @reallyfancy No, that's Joe. Joe The Pro.
-
@ashleygwinnell Whatcha talking about. (That was about the length of my last post reflecting on feedback for Mr Bubble.)
-
@benmilsom @tigershungry @oh_cripes Oh man. I just remembered those exist. I am both anticipatory and terrified of their public release.
-
Indie games are like YouTube.
-
@VoxelBoy it keeps all of them. that's why it's distributed, everyone has the whole revision history.
-
@DGoodayle @KommanderKlobb Hello! No immediate plans for another jam, but I imagine there'll be one early next year.
-
@DGoodayle @KommanderKlobb I should really get a mailing list or something.
-
'[Brendan McNamara] said the new project is going to be “one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century”.'
-
@S0phieH @christinelove "Paki" has for sure a tinge of racism over it.
-
@Slaktus maybe the scale-up in Katamari is a good example of this "fake drop".
-
@Slaktus You read @dkanaga's posts on this? Good reading on music as metaphor for games : wombflashforest.blogspot.com/
-
RT @OhLookBirdies: Stupid Americans. Tomorrow is 11/11/11, not 11/11/11.
-
@docky 4 spaces, and a text editor that treats them as tabs (because Python). No new line before {
-
I'd held off until there was a good source. But here it is: youtube.com/watch?v=7FyIqdwR8Eo a dude being arrested for having a pen.
-
@oh_cripes This was a stop and search on a bus carrying protestors into London yesterday. Yeah, it's contentious.
-
@nicholaslovell yeah, Steam. Some refuse to buy games less'n they're on Steam, and it's fundamentally DRM.
-
Today I learned some people use "yo" as a pronoun. grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-yo-pronoun.aspx
-
CDs are gonna be abandoned next year. I'm calling it : there'll be a wave of nostalgia for them in about a year and a half's time.
-
@iamtef "UK" suggests "United Kingdom". I am a fan.
-
@mattwebb85 pretty much. i mean, that's why they're dead, of course.
-
@asponge Am I cool, because I know what you're quoting?
-
@brendy_c It's fer the TV license people, I'd assume. Might be a legal requirement, even.
-
I've been getting far too into dithering algorithms, recently.
-
I have an idea for implementing something that looks like Floyd-Steinberg dithering on the graphics card.
-
@hannahnicklin No, and yes, respectively. Singleplayer, huge fantasy world, open for exploration RPG.
-
"Success in the globalized food trade has come to mean planting crops far away from where they evolved, in a climate as similar as possible"
-
"...and then sitting back and collecting the profits until the pests show up." grist.org/food/2011-11-11-slouching-toward-a-bananapocolypse
-
@jedbuckenham I saw that episode, I loved it. What a hilarious term! Have you tried practicing your smizing?
-
@HilariousCow sad times is there are some hard physical limits on how low we can take latency.
-
@HilariousCow how much can it guess movements before they're completed? Interesting to compare against human latencies.
-
@HilariousCow and if need be, trigger the discrete event it was looking for once it's safe. but give feedback earlier.
-
@HilariousCow That is indeed nice.
-
@Fortress_Inman I just bought some gammon. I think I shall have to try that.
-
RT @marksteward: Interesting to contrast #occupy's social structure with the effect of homesteading on neolithic social groups. Is this ...
-
"Sometimes when I get drunk I get racist, but I don't really mean it"
-
@jimrossignol Sorry, self-promotion, but! I wrote an essay on what I learned from feedback on my game at GameCity. v21.posterous.com/mr-bubble-amidst-gamecity
-
I am BOILING A HAM. in COLA.
-
@KommanderKlobb it is actually just for sandwiches. although cauliflower cheese does seem lush.
-
@PachinkoPix one should try to make the best one can.but the joy can be in the making, not the results.
-
Fuck yes, I'm on RPS! rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/13/the-sunday-papers-194/#more-82013
-
@HilariousCow I saw that show up in Edinburgh, it was lovely. Although I think I'm busy most of this week, so no. :<
-
@HilariousCow @Slaktus also, it's not finished.
-
@HilariousCow It's even less under our control. But: yes. See also, ergonomics.
-
@HilariousCow See: CUBES on iPad. Would be lovely to hold it above yr head, have the cubes literally fall on you. But that physically hurts.
-
The most important thing to do, as a game designer, is be generous.
-
@HilariousCow I put it in! The controls flip if it's upside down. If you have an iOS device, I'll send a build your way.
-
damn, that's depressing. f.lux is telling me it is now officially Dark. It's only 4!
-
@KommanderKlobb if you want, i'd be interested in splitting an order. wildmeat.co.uk/squirrel_meat.htm?ac=HXN5N-U
-
@KommanderKlobb for a grim second, i thought you meant a jam made from squirrel meat.
-
@tigershungry @Dick_Hogg The chapter on his mother is the best chapter.
-
@HilariousCow i guess it's a race between you getting yr iPad and me adding in the cool changing post effects...
-
@HilariousCow I should. But the game chugs pretty badly on an iPad anyway. Just ... too many cubes, I guess. They won't batch!
-
@HilariousCow I'm doing the post effects with 'em. but I think it's the amount of movement that's causing < 50% batching.
-
@asponge is delighting in the way she can spill spaghetti sauce on her polyester tie, and not worry. "It's machine washable!"
-
@ishisoft I think it was me! :D
-
The problem with having a TV is that chatline adverts come on and remind you you should have gone to bed.
-
@doougle and don't forget nasa.gov/multimedia/isslivestream.asx (warning, asx file), which is the ISS feed live. You can watch astronauts, or the sunrise.
-
@asponge were you trying to cut it longer?
-
@HilariousCow i think we have it. but static batching doesn't matter anyhow - they're all in motion.
-
@RaveofRavendale @ashleygwinnell does this mean i have to stop wearing my pair?
-
Do MMOs have bounties on gamebreaking gold-farming bugs? A way for whitehats to profit from finding them, like security holes.
-
on a positive note about new gmail: it changes size as you make the window smaller. :)
-
@RubZo Too slow!
-
This has been a good week for me and the press: The Hackspace gamejams get a mention on R4 Click On: bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/clickon
-
@KommanderKlobb All I've ever wanted is to sell out.
-
This mess of cube rotations would probably be easier to reason about if I could do Rubix cubes.
-
@KommanderKlobb also, I've been loving Blossom Dearie, since your Playlist Club list.
-
@KommanderKlobb @bfod It should get better. Until Canvas matures... And every cross-platform tool is now suddenly for HTML5.
-
@HilariousCow Some people have spectrophilia. It's a thing.
-
@paperCaves Bought it. Seemingly all I use my iPad for is buying things. Congrats Apple, I guess.
-
@HilariousCow @Slaktus I'm hungry now.
-
When I grow up I want to be an Idea Engineer. youtube.com/watch?v=jozWAskPoYg
-
Been keeping an eye on #OWS all day. I don't see how they're going to be prevented from retaking the park, unless they give up.
-
@S0phieH that's a sign you're getting close to being done. now focus your hatred on wanting to be done with it!
-
RT @exiledonline: Oakland Mayor Admits: Cities Coordinated Mass Crackdown On #Occupy Protests wp.me/phI6d-b4g
-
Let's all gather around the soothing sounds of the PS Move pairing utility.
-
@Minkette I don't know if that's better or worse than being a mega-church in an unidentified part of the the states. People keep going to me
-
@simonv3 @pumpkinspiced so much a low christmas
-
@Minkette @nachimir @tigershungry I was listening to music when I clicked, and accidentally made it awesome: youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcZJgHUOPLkY&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtqHtr9fgn54&start2=&authorName=g
-
I don't like how twitter is making names more important at the expense of usernames. I wanna be v21 on here, not George.
-
@KommanderKlobb Well, frinstance, the activity sidebar says "Gashface McSaggybaps favorited a Tweet", not "Cunthorse favorited a tweet"
-
@KommanderKlobb I will admit that I chose that example because I enjoy @cunthorse 's name.
-
this is puerile, but: alias updick='/usr/bin/uptime | perl -ne "/(\d+) d/;print 8,q(=)x\$1,\"D\n\""'
-
it's times like these that I remember why I did it the lazy shitty way in the first place. *sigh*
-
@tiedtiger The context a lot of people miss is that this is the Office team, not MS as a whole. Makes the conservatism more understandable.
-
@tiedtiger And, have you seen Bret Victor's long post saying the same thing? worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
-
@tiedtiger ah, sorry, my fail...
-
@richlitt I care about metadata. I have a soft spot for RDF, and dream of the day I'll use it for something constructive.
-
@richlitt well, I acquired my love for it while in academia... but yeah. I got angry a month back at Facebook's butchering of it, and all.
-
@richlitt they want everyone to mark their pages up like so : developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph . Note how it overlaps with, but isn't, Dublin Core etc.
-
@richlitt my ire was increased by a slide deck where they were all 'we coulda, but we didn't really care about other people's uses'
-
@richlitt and yeah, hit me up on gtalk at some point.
-
@richlitt they duplicate a lot of fields, like title etc. & I think there are some which alarm almost semantically the same.
-
@richlitt & categories are super-FB centric, and it's classic crumbs-from-the-Gods open source. Etc etc. long rant.
-
@dbkr i'm shortly to be close to that category. sorry. relatedly, want to help beta test a game some time next week?
-
Seemingly every year I look at these pictures and want to make a game that looks like them. olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2011/index.html
-
@HilariousCow USB boot? Network boot? Mind, DVD drives can't be expensive nowadays.
-
@HilariousCow It's totally a thing. Never actually done it, but I've seen it in BIOS settings before. Built for "enterprise", I assume.
-
RT @SuchLarks: Kids (5-6 years old) instinctively touch the player character to control it and will ignore actual onscreen controls. #ki ...
-
"Trouble is, any kid who can hyperlink to a gif is a webmaster now" youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcZJgHUOPLkY&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtqHtr9fgn54&start2=&authorName=g (half via @Minkette)
-
@Gillespionage @therussmorris we should run a sweepstakes on @robinlacey 's phone battery.
-
@therussmorris @robinlacey undercutting you - 31%
-
@doougle actually, seems you might enjoy that link especially : guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/11/london-exhibition-road-cultural
-
@HilariousCow I got a tiny onehanded joystick thing free once. Thing is retarded.
-
Hey fuck, Amon Tobin next week!
-
Video: I’m sure a few of you have heard this before… tmblr.co/Zo3lZyC4oFvF
-
in the future there will be more varieties of mayonnaise
-
@asponge i don't want to be too reckless
-
@asponge now i am sad because i know more of direct optic nerve stimulation than new ideas in sauce. iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/2/1/004
-
@asponge @oh_cripes ah-ha ah-ha ah-ha
-
@asponge @oh_cripes sorry, that's The Count.
-
Fucking tastecard fuckers autorenewed my card. I didn't get a warning. Refuse to refund. Anyone want to buy a tastecard membership for a yr?
-
@nachimir "You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even." has echoed around my head ever since I read it.
-
@doougle pteh! to this economy. The indie scene is taking off like nobodies business. And congrats, and I can wait to see what you make!
-
asofterworld.com/oq-display.php?id=50 "soon we're going to have to ask ourselves where we can go next in our search for realism." (reminded of by @nachimir)
-
@asponge @reallyfancy hey, i like drinking gin. And if you're about all the better.
-
RT @zunguzungu: Oh, good lord. Miran Istina of Occupy San Francisco: browneyedgirl65.com/2011/11/18/modern-day-heroes-miran-istina-of-occupy-san-francisco/
-
@S0phieH yeah, I'd love to learn more on that, I can't model and it cripples me.
-
Quite tempted to change my dusty OkCupid profile to qwantz.com/
-
@edclef Infrared stuff is cool - not seen it in pink before. Not too difficult to take, either...
-
@edclef I actually hacked a webcam to do it, when I was doing experiments on crickets for my dissertation (long story).
-
@edclef Cheap ones have a removable filter, SLRs it's integrated. You'll need a visible-light filter to notice much, though.
-
@edclef Haha - this looks like what you need: hoagieshouse.com/IR/
-
@techsoc @zunguzungu The more depressing thing is that they might be wiser to stand and take photos than to intervene. Who'd support them?
-
@octete the impressive part is when you think about where that picture is taken from.
-
@JeffMattas Cheers for writing about Mr Bubble! Hopefully should get a proper site up with info about it soon.
-
@oh_cripes SHINY
-
@iamtef okay i did it what next
-
@iamtef i changed it to panel 2. it'll get yanked, what with not being a real pic, but for now it's funny.
-
@iamtef I like the 10:1 ratio of "guys who think this is funny" to "girls who think this is funny"
-
@Rachelbug1 black
-
@iamtef forget source, and it's not reliable, but think that happened recently too. Will dig when at computer...
-
@iamtef sorry, no, that was case law on use of pepper spray. But this happened bicyclebarricade.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/open-letter-to-chancellor-linda-p-b-katehi/
-
@HilariousCow I was proud never to have installed it on my work mac. But then learned that's the way to wipe contacts on iOS. Teh fuck?
-
@iamtef ah, missed it between everyone else linking it. Btw, never sent a message, but she sent me one.
-
@oh_cripes oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh nice one
-
@oh_cripes this is the kind of thing indie games developers do
-
@ashleygwinnell nonsense! (Don't fall asleep at a bus stop you stopped to rest at)
-
This might, weirdly enough, be my first night bus to the new place. I don't like change. Or the night bus.
-
@ashleygwinnell nae bother. I did that (busstop thing) once. Police picked me up and called my parents.
-
@ashleygwinnell terribly embarrassing, especially since I was coming home from a work pissup. glad yr home safe.
-
This is cool adam-a.co.uk/klik53/
-
I made a thing: nottheinternet.com/games/assembly
-
And here's a Fibonacci number generator I made in the thing I made bit.ly/v0B4ka
-
RT @smithsam: #TfL suppress report that looks at why lorries kill more women cyclists than men, and what can be done about it: http://t. ...
-
@Cunthorse as short as possible. no-one wants to read cover letters anyway.
-
@oh_cripes i've made similar before... that was a surface shader, not post, though. will have to try adapting it
-
@tigershungry that is... a good idea. alos, a dentist. :<
-
@fridgehead i had only to look at that to hear it
-
@iamdanw If it consoles you any, I've read the same thing, and can't find it either.
-
This video is amazing and everyone should see it vimeo.com/30798517 (nsfw, if you care)
-
Kinda .. want to go to this shop, now. qype.co.uk/place/94795-Decorexi-London
-
@HilariousCow CUBES 4 LYF, BRO
-
@hannahnicklin But sadly, they've got strong government-enforced barriers to entry, in the form of licensing laws.
-
Today is a day when things that previously worked now don't work mysteriously.
-
@guided1 oh it's much better than that. this work is supposed to be finished by the end of today.
-
trying to wean myself off spotify and onto grooveshark.
-
EzGUI is such a bag of shit.
-
@christinelove Yeah, me too. So I gave them a dollar to play with the Subversion tech demo.
-
@radiatoryang that was really good. I'll be sad to see the end of this series. You really should interview yrself, though...
-
@Cunthorse I think shininess is more about the divergence of the reflections from nearby areas than the quantity of reflections.
-
@Cunthorse Thus, why smooth things are shinier.
-
RE todays Google doodle: You should all read The Cyberiad, it's brilliant.
-
Good work me! RT @therussmorris "I think is 100% complete" I say, proudly… "let me try and break it" offers @v21… 4 seconds later, broken.
-
You know how in the end stages of a game, you just want to get x points so you can stop playing? Currently, I'm like that with Hacker News.
-
@fridgehead no, no, i'm nearly there... one big post is enough to push me over. Only 69 points til I can downvote people!
-
RT @achewood: Achewood's hiatus ends -- special link for Twitter followers: bit.ly/va29WW #achewood -- pass it around.
-
@narfyyy @Foursquare :< at the vet being that common.
-
@mikeBithell suspended! But there are rumours he'll return.
-
@edibletoaster @doougle @RamiroCorbetta YES. And it would be the perfect excuse for an official UK JS Joust Selection and Training Event.
-
RT @textfiles: just watched t.co go to owl.li to owl.ly to final url. this is stable and forward thinking and will last for generations.
-
@psychicteeth @edclef oh, yes, i should buy that, huh?
-
How did I manage to concurrently look forward to two events happening at the same time for a whole week?
-
So: woo, Amon Tobin tonight! Boo, missing LUUG.
-
Apparently, it's suspicious when you set up a new gmail account and immediately try to send one word emails over SMTP from an EC2 instance.
-
@Dick_Hogg I like to imagine you falling onto the profiles of those below you.
-
@HilariousCow I'm not going. Does that ruin the surprise?
-
@JonesyVision that does look lovely! shame it's made for the Platform Which Never Lived.
-
RT @pippinbarr: Just had the delightful experience of my virtual MoMA being closed for Thanksgiving when I was trying to get a screenshot.
-
@Slaktus you know your wilful contrariness is neurological in origin, too?
-
@JonesyVision I mean, the Surface. Been a fun tech toy for so many years, but no-one's ever figured out how to let real people have one.
-
@JonesyVision (& yeah, if you do official Surface dev, you'll be stuck with WPF or XNA)
-
RT @asponge: Oh, THAT'S what a penis is for: swinging around to hit beach balls. youtube.com/watch?v=YTXcwNHTY10 This Android game looks highly edu ...
-
@Slaktus i think it's more like : 2d platformers are our 12bar blues or ragtime.
-
@JonesyVision yeah, the iPad is a wonderful place for new and new-old ideas. Would love to see this ported.
-
@JonesyVision mainly I'm sad that a cool prototype got made for a device no-one cares about.
-
RT @MartinMcAndrew: An SEO walks into a bar, pub, publichouse, public house, cheap pub, cheap bar, bar in london, pub in london, public ...
-
@tigershungry yep! (tonight). But my friends failed to get tickets, so I'm on my tod.
-
@tigershungry I am! And I would. I'm skulking by the merch stall.
-
@doougle tease
-
@tigershungry ace - I got here early due to scary email saying to queue for a ticket from 4:30. But it was fine...
-
@tigershungry no idea. Haven't seen one mentioned anywhere. Maybe there isn't?
-
@Slaktus super contextual info. Visible metadata. Intuitive UI. I mean, it's still a bit retarded, but it's in pursuit of noble aims.
-
@tigershungry front section, left hand side, not far from the steps.
-
@tigershungry heh. Ironically, it's not pticly rammed down here. Hopefully catch ya after.
-
@jedbuckenham skyrim!
-
@Slaktus I know what you mean; it's like constipation.
-
@jedbuckenham yeah, there's lots to it. But you can choose what to do, is the point. It only gets complex when you make it that way.
-
@HilariousCow ahahaha. we come to refine ourselves in your fire.
-
@auntiepixelante they got annoyed everyone said Apple were prettier, and decided to go for that over the useful stuff they did before.
-
@radiodario :( glad you're not hurt (I assume you weren't hurt)
-
tiny john goodman in a mousetrap
-
@tigershungry @Dick_Hogg I can see you smizing.
-
War on Terror and English Country Tune released today! TOO MANY GOOD GAMES
-
Ah, ah, I forgot the other cool game out recently: draknek.org/games/hearts/ TOO MANY GAMES
-
@tiedtiger it's actually painful just to fetch the numbers, clientside.
-
@asponge it's a love story
-
I got dislodged from sitting in the stairs of this nightbus. Now I want to know where I am. The windows are foggy, so I'll use GPS.
-
That tweet was boring because I'm drunk. Now the bus has stopped, in a worrying way. Now it is going again.
-
@HilariousCow @rclarke big rage moment for me: Clare Balding's Q, he summarizes his challenges as "the deficit, the debt, the problems"
-
RT @richlitt: About Occupy, and why it is being oppressed. Very good. guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy?fb_action_ids=2518583736510%2C10150970314890133%2C2787158277007%2C10150985210380529%2C959293726131&fb_action_types=news.reads&fb_ref=U-l6m9dCwLR1BP4fH1Ix1rd4-CFCONX01FRS-33t9vXXX%2CU-Ovj5IMM6rJSK44zaIOWqmI-CFCONX01FRS-33thvXXX%2CU-dBOFAWe6hvBu4IX_IL5Jd4-CFCONX01FRS-xy2pnXXX&fb_source=other_multiline
-
@Slaktus revolution isn't so very far away, and corporations can die of natural causes, even if not old age.
-
@tigershungry you could come to the pub. We're at The Blue Posts.
-
@psychicteeth @edclef My approach is to binge on it for a weekend, and then ignore it for a few months. Books, not relationships. Um.
-
@asponge @SiriHoho "poping back and forth ... forever"
-
@KommanderKlobb @rclarke But it's the opposite being proposed. Not keeping what we have, but opening more.
-
@edclef @radiatoryang or at least landmine warning signs.
-
@asponge always next year.
-
@Cunthorse that was awful, thank you
-
@HilariousCow worth bearing in mind that the "feeling of freedom" isn't the same as number of perceived affordances.
-
@HilariousCow A significant proportion of the joy I derive from ECT is from the idea that the gravity is "camouflage" gravity.
-
@tomscott You've moved up to the next, less-convenient level: railcard.co.uk/network
-
@nicholaslovell so that it learns the correct answer for when other people need to type it
-
@SiriHoho so, water biscuits, then? I've got half a pack left.
-
@SiriHoho they're good with Stilton...
-
@resiak and aggravating. Yes. Fuck you, linen pattern.
-
@resiak hahahahahahahaha, that's perfect.
-
@resiak no, it's the result of piping in a non video file to mplayer (I think, it was a while ago).
-
@HilariousCow yeah, I heard they took you off tinkering and onto a "real" thing. Good luck, have fun, tell me about it when you can etc.
-
RT @asponge: This beer-pouring robot is AMAZING: flickr.com/photos/squeakywheel/2421024309/ "...thanks"
-
@docky a game about falling down a hole.
-
@asponge For some reason I think you'd like this i.imgur.com/sjMD8.jpg
-
Who would have guessed a game writer would be good at writing about games? pentadact.com/2011-11-20-gunpoint-is-delayed-level-design-is-hard-choice-is-weird/
-
@GunpointGame I would love to test Gunpoint. Though I imagine you've no shortage of testers.
-
@IGN Peter Molydeux #PersonsOfTheYear.#freepetermolydeux
-
RT @andyburnhammp: £3,442,341,000 - the grand total that Lansley has ordered the NHS to set aside in 11/12 & 12/13 to pay for his reorga ...
-
@edclef @whitingjp @docky Something along these lines? codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html
-
Hm. So Santacon and the IndieVisibility awards are on the same day. Do I turn up to IndieVisibility drunk and in a santa suit?
-
So @iamdanw managed to find this again : Excellent stuff on clients and design and how hand-waving is real work. confectious.net/thinking/archives/2011/07/hand-waving-and.html
-
@edclef @whitingjp @docky Yeah, it's a crueller version fo this : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_test which is worth doing.
-
@edclef @whitingjp @docky in fact, I was thinking of writing a thing for this on Unity, and putting it on the Unity Asset Store. Tempting?
-
Yeah, okay, this thing is pretty cool : bergcloud.com/littleprinter/
-
I'm flaking out of going to music hack day this weekend. Seems too much like work... :/
-
RT @jonty: "Why is Hitler printing my foursquare checkins?" - @dsingleton
-
@asponge "oh, i just can't waaaaaaaaaaaaait - to see popes!"
-
mysterious library sculptures community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Mysterious-paper-sculptures/blog/4991767/126249.html
-
@nicholaslovell It's just the lastest progression of the "paperless office" backlash people are hieing along. Specific devices for things.
-
@asponge I finish at 6 and am half an hour away. :<
-
@Dick_Hogg I want a phone that plugs into a XLR socket. I don't have an XLR socket, but I still want one.
-
RT @WildRumpus: Let it be known. The Wild Rumpus #2 has a date. It is in early 2012. We will tell you what it is soon. Its a tour de for ...
-
@mode7games I'm so glad to hear your priority is making new IP, not just remaking Frozen Synapse for the next few years. <3
-
So. I'm going to GDC, and I'm gonna spend a week in San Francisco as well. Do I do it the week before or after?
-
@nachimir suggestion noted!
-
Can't wait for January, the month when nobody does anything.
-
I made a site for Mr Bubble! mrbubbleamidstthefireworks.com/
-
@jedbuckenham March! But it's true, birthdays excepted. Everyone goes mad for Christmas, and then huddles away after.
-
@asponge is it? Damn. Thanks for noticing.
-
@asponge hell yes I just fixed that link on my phone on the bus!
-
@jedbuckenham 7th! I'll be in San Fransisco!
-
@iamtef I live a limited boring life and technology is just too damn versatile for me!
-
@zoewi ooh, lovely!
-
@KommanderKlobb @Dick_Hogg @nachimir was it one of you that showed me that sickeningly sweet picture of me playing Mr Bubble with a kid?
-
@Dick_Hogg @KommanderKlobb @nachimir is it online anywhere? It really was perfectly saccharine.
-
Unexpectedly currently seeing u-ziq. (& just saw ital tek ). Life is excellent.
-
@doougle now Chrissy Murderbot, next Machinedrum. And only when I'm dancing. (About 50% of why I tweeted was to make you jealous)
-
@doougle cuz the two scenes we disjoint. I'd be more upset if they weren't both so damn alive.
-
@doougle and it's scene, clique, community that define these genres, way more than anything else. Again, actually not upsetting.
-
@vetraskr wut?
-
@JoeCavers @RubZo everyone! games!
-
RT @katybeale: "don't be defeatist dear, it's so middle class" -- best quote of today
-
@nachimir @oh_cripes navigating a dungeon, slaying monsters and heading towards the ethereal singing coming from deeper inside...
-
@doougle @radiatoryang @increpare honestly, I don't think the parser is much harder to learn from scratch than, say, WASD and mouselook.
-
@radiatoryang @doougle Yeah, I agree. But FPSs can reasonably insist, and so can IF. Which isn't to say we shouldn't be striving to improve.
-
RT @bengoldacre: If you worry your local school's a bit shit, I suggest that you also object to a 4 year pay freeze for teachers at a ti ...
-
@brandonnn Best Writing Yes!
-
@checker time to break out the mplayer / mencoder? there's little they can't do, once you spend a week working out the switches.
-
@mattwebb85 oh man, you missed out yesterday
-
@mattwebb85 Since @kitrichardsonuk couldn't raise you, she invited me to go see u-ziq, machinedrum, ital tek and murderbot with her.was boss
-
@mattwebb85 @kitrichardsonuk If it's any consolation, it was really good... that's probably not much consolation.
-
@mattwebb85 @kitrichardsonuk (but also reasonably footwork-ey, which might be a bit more consolation)
-
@mattwebb85 @kitrichardsonuk y'know, the new style of Mu stuff - like this: youtube.com/watch?v=atllhfT8Qhw&feature=related
-
@Slaktus life is hard enough without attacking people who aren't causing anyone else harm.
-
@Slaktus if someone does that to you, i i'll not condemn you for not supporting them.
-
These are making me want to get a tattoo... guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2011/nov/27/science-ink-tattoo-design-pictures#/?picture=382370726&index=10
-
@Slaktus Yr hate is pointless and stupid and self-destructive. But I can't stop you from having it.
-
@nachimir @asponge There was a videogame! youtube.com/watch?v=YdqW9PAv5_M
-
@DGoodayle can't think of any tips, but let me know when you're happy and i'll give you some feedback...
-
@DGoodayle You've done a bunch of good shit, it's pretty impressive. I can give detailed feedback if you want?
-
@DGoodayle :< I got mine by just moaning that I hadn't found one yet to the right people, if that's any comfort?
-
@DGoodayle and will do.