Tweets from 2011/12
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I put gin in a glass, but instead of adding tonic, I made a gravy and carrot sandwich and ate it. Well done me?
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@robertasaliani The Lorenz attractor math is surprisingly simple (One of the enemies in Mr Bubble moves that way). Make it!
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@oh_cripes do it do it
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@oh_cripes damnit, now i wanna make something for that too
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RT @BigBearScot: Registration is open for the Scottish Game Jam. Register at globalgamejam.org/ and then SGJ site scottishgamejam.org/ ...
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@srules I'm playing it again! What should my character name be? Last time it was "Ornitho Philia"
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@docky They totally should. But there should be more sexy men, too.
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My umbrella is too big. A little girl laughed at it, it is so big. Or at me, for having it, I guess.
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@terrycavanagh it's really good! I just got the Okosan ending.
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I never read the 10 Tenets of Chindogu before: digital--underground.tripod.com/id5.htm Beautiful, no?
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@oh_cripes yesssss, I remember It'll Never Work. Nostalgia high-five!
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@psychicteeth If you think there's any hope they'll listen or care, you should.
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@oh_cripes no, no, i got it. original drafts of my tweet referenced It'll Never Work.
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Is this... This should be parody: gamasutra.com/view/news/38900/Tetris_Enters_The_Subscription_Age_With_New_iOS_Version.php
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@S0phieH @psychicteeth That'll never work. They'll just get bitter and think they were gypped because they weren't in the "in-crowd" or smth
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@reallyfancy No, but I've been using TimeSnapper for the past few days, so I can watch all the wasting time I do on this computer.
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@docky That's too close to truth to be funny: gamasutra.com/view/news/38900/Tetris_Enters_The_Subscription_Age_With_New_iOS_Version.php
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@rclarke and cocktails!
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@willgoldstone @PLAstudios ta muchly!
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@doougle @RamiroCorbetta Training up for GDC, eh?
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@nachimir @KommanderKlobb I was going to defend Android, but, yeah. Fuck the tiny internal storage on my Nexus One.
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@nachimir @KommanderKlobb @Fortress_Inman Well, this is fundamentally a hardware issue, isn't it?
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"Remember, there's nowhere you can go that you haven't learned how to go in time."
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RT @KommanderKlobb: Yolk! Forgot to send reminder about #LondonIndies pub meet - tomorrow at the Crown in Angel from 6. Bring laptops! RT! X
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A year ago, I tweeted "I'm hoping Grooveshark has got good enough to dump Spotify." It still hasn't, and I still hope it will.
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Getting twingles of nervousness, seeing IGF judges describing wrapping up their judging.
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I'm converted! Poached eggs for EVERY meal.
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@HilariousCow The link you linked has instructions for turning them off.
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@tigershungry Am I missing out on any? I only know of three.
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Been looking for a AS3 editor on Mac. I found RASE, which is just a bit mental - realaxy.com/download/index
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It's mascot is a smiley face in a driving helmet, and it's motto is “Good Time for Programming!”. It autocompletes everything imaginable.
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@asponge And thank you for the new word!
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@bfod @KommanderKlobb I'm glad someone's doing it, but I'm also glad that's not me.
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@oh_cripes would you rather wait til they'd cleaned the data up?
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@DGoodayle yep! see you there!
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@oh_cripes "Well volunteered"
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@moustaki @roderickhodgson Flip yes, congrats man!
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@DGoodayle people are about from 7, at least. mebbe earlier.
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@oh_cripes transform it to something nicer, clean and relate the data, then put up full sumps in multiple formats & an API?
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@oh_cripes I'm not being entirely serious, here. it's just the standard response to "something sucks, someone else should fix it"
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@oh_cripes there's a (apparently quite good) excel package for python, it's not the worst thing in the world.
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@oh_cripes I get that that's not the point. Still, yeah, it's sucky and it should be improved. I guess the social contract here is that ...
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@oh_cripes ... they give us data, and we let them deal with their data in a improved format. Hopefully,maybe,they should feed it back inside
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@oh_cripes Agreed, agreed!
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@KommanderKlobb @brandonnn I know feedback last time was almost worth the price of entry. It's good how many publish their feedback, too.
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@KommanderKlobb @brandonnn (mainly in the context of people bitching that they didn't get in, but hey, you can't have everything)
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@terrycavanagh just get an old site and then change it til it looks like the new site should look.
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@DGoodayle haha, nothing would make me happier than someone else making something in that game.
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@DGoodayle nottheinternet.com/games/assembly (I just discovered it runs fine on my phone... interactions and all)
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@Slaktus @KommanderKlobb is havin a baby!
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@terrycavanagh @rachelelm Oh, wow, those look fantastic! Can't wait to see the At A Distance one!
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@terrycavanagh me too!
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@JonesyVision If I were you, I'd go in the other direction. More penis! More balls!
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@mikeBithell was it a good mince pie?
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MOD IDEA: >like the dream where i'm in minecraft and i'm stuck underground and no matter how much i dig i can't get out >it's very stressful
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@edjeff buying internships is good for the economy. people get jobs and businesses get revenue. innovation!
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@Demruth it's weirdly difficult to explain in person, too. or maybe it's that i've only explained it to drunk people?
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That's the second time in 2 days I've randomly happened across people I know while on the Internet.
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Photo: These symbolize drinks. tmblr.co/Zo3lZyCxQIny
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@HilariousCow nottt getting into that. But sexual women != sexism. Objectified women is sexism.
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@bfod This is the thing I was telling you about last night: gametoilet.posterous.com/
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@bfod it is the best thing
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@auntiepixelante this way they get to give money to their friends to make games and make a project out of it.
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@auntiepixelante who doesn't love a project?
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RT @WildRumpus: Behold, The Wild Rumpus #2 has a date & will return to London on Thursday 2nd February 2012. Full details on line up wil ...
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@rclarke high praise coming from you.
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@DGoodayle make summin!
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@awesommelier so'm'I!
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@awesommelier I mean, ish. Brick Lane. Close enough. How long you down for?
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@awesommelier yeah, sounds good. I knock off in half an hour, see you shortly after that for a quick one.
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@Slaktus whaaaaat?
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@Slaktus oh, and excellent Quitely twitter background.
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@Slaktus yeah, quite possibly the finest of Morrison's work. The three issue format has a good effect on him. You read seaguy?
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"haha yeah what sort of idiot communicates experiences"
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"Social unrest at times of government austerity: Europe 1919 - 2009" panzner.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451591e69e2015437f0e936970c-pi
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"Shit, I love it when I recognize the names of the editors of EDGE. It's like my one skill... if I was an RPG character"
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@glassarmy I got tons of C's and I still got a 2:1. I even got Ds for some courses, and had to argue to be able to to continue them.
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@glassarmy although, y'know, well done for not getting a C. That's the right way to do it!
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@auntiepixelante what, i can't see the photo, but I can confirm that I ate pizza and drank wine at the same time last night. No cutlery.
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@KommanderKlobb @pozorvlak too lazy to make a pretty version, but here are the top 10: 1941 1973 1973 1974 1980 1984 1984 1985 1987 1994
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@pozorvlak @KommanderKlobb This BBC News story from 2008 : news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7754712.stm (& wikipedia for the dates)
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@Cunthorse The Wind-up Girl or The City and The City.
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@Cunthorse Or Embassytown, for China Mieville without man-protagonist.
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@Slaktus if it's any consolation, it doesn't run for me.
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@Cunthorse @NobbyNobody It's also really good?
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@Slaktus No, no, Chrome here. Work iMac, it claims I don't have a OpenGL compatible graphics card. Which is bollocks, but whatever.
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@Slaktus but NaCl getting more primetime is exciting stuff. Exciting tech, though it makes me a bit worried for the open web.
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@KommanderKlobb @jwaaaap BRUNCHINATOR 9000!
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Hey hey, here's a game that's just been launched: swiftstitch.sophiehoulden.com/ (half of it is free! play it!)
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RT @jonwold: And ISO 13407! RT @elitatt: Apparently these folks just invented the Waterfall method. bit.ly/shmj2s (via @MagnusRevang)
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@BinaryTweedDeej yeah, that part confuses me a bit. NaCl is definitely OpenGL-ey.
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@benmilsom I occasionally get @'s directed at these dudes: vintage21.com/
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@doougle Do you usually have to tell people that interfering when you're out is cheating? It seems to be understood implicitly, when I play
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Hey look, London Indies, @oh_cripes and @danthat got in the paper: thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/article-24019815-hotter-than-hollywood.do (and @robinlacey, if you read between the lines)
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RT @winterstein: My child is 70cm tall, which is the highest recorded jump by a pig. Soon he will be tall enough that pigs can't jump on ...
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He beckons from the taxi i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/kramwartap/PS3_Guardian_animate.gif
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Blog: Publicly promising things post.ly/4DOwI
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@RanaRama That is amazing. And brilliant. I shall refer to it frequently.
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I am sad I am not a santa.
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@Dick_Hogg well, I guess I'll HAVE to play it now, eh?
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@Demruth Surely that's a benefit?
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Here's a thing I learned today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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I can't manage to get the good ending. itunes.apple.com/us/app/pirouette/id486442292?ls=1&mt=8
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@zoewi that was a joke, pretty sure there's only one ending.
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@Slaktus well-animated isn't a bullet point, but super blended ragdoll procedural animation incorporating Real Physics is.
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@Slaktus eventually (recently) people will get bored of the salespitches, and we can just make stuff that works.
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@Slaktus (which I'll be sad about, too. I like New Shiny. I want to make The New Thing. Having to just focus on quality... how awful!)
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@benmilsom @mode7games @IanHardingham if you keep this up, you'll have blackmail material on the entire indie scene soon.
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yes yes yes, doing some puzzle design.
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@OhDanMoss i've had fun playing with nanoloop
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@HilariousCow placebos are effective, though.
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Trying to recall what people picked int he sweepstakes on Saturday for "Bundles to be announced before Xmas"
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@HilariousCow the best thing is, it still works if you know it's bollocks!
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@DGoodayle what a shame
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@edclef @nachimir not quite anywhere, but yeah, pretty much. thehappycampers.co.uk/campsites/wildcamping/
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RT @jmp_imaginarium: #Unity3D tip: Use LateUpdate if a child gO needs 2 correct its position every frame but its parent is moving too; u ...
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This is a beautiful thing, simply explained: experthuman.com/programming-with-nothing
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@oh_cripes @MightAndDelight but it's soo eeeeeeeasy!
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@oh_cripes no, it's so easy to make pixel art.
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@Slaktus @oh_cripes Yep, flat low poly will be boring as fuck in a years time. So good right now, though. Wonder what's next?
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@Slaktus didja see my tweet linking this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window ?
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RT @oh_cripes: @v21 We choose to go to the moon. JFK didn't like pixel art either.
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Kind of astounded and amazed by these videos of light propagating (shot at 1,000,000,000,000 FPS) web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/
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RT @CERN: Rolf Heuer's final remark: these are preliminary results. More data will come in 2012. We have not yet found or disproved the ...
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@glassarmy pretty much standard... :(
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@danlockton videogames can solve any problem.
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cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat, our flat has got a cat (for a bit), cat cat cat yay
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This makes everything look so friendly! comicsansproject.tumblr.com/
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@BinaryTweedDeej what!? A new bundle! Excellent news! What's in it? Tell me more!
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@edclef on snow: "it's basically just a particle effect, no big deal."
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I am glad this exists. flickr.com/photos/girliemac/6508102407/in/set-72157628409467125/
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@WonderlandBlog that's the whole point isn't it? - deliberately stereotyping to make these groups easier to think about about
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@WonderlandBlog accuracy and caveats and statistical width are the enemies of that, but you fuck up if you forget them entirely
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@bonzrat There's campfirenow.com/ if you want to pay. But what's the defect with IRC?
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@psychicteeth WE WILL DO IT TIL WE ARE ALL DEAD AND BURIED OR ELSE PREOCCUPIED BY OUR OBSCENE WEALTH.
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@RubZo trolling for cheap sex on the internet, for shame!
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@HilariousCow I am imagining the Preloaded office in flames, coworkers crouched behind desks, as you spam Shoryukens in a santa hat.
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This is something I hadn't noticed the Humble Bundle doing: google.co.uk/search?q=inurl:http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product
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@oh_cripes Well yes. But here's the start of something - white label storefronts to old bundle games + ECT.
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@hannahnicklin I also enjoy physical items. I lose so much to merch stalls. I never use them, though, I just enjoy owning them.
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@brandonnn @VenusPatrol Definitely sometimes, but if the site was 80% commentless articles I wouldn't mind.
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@oh_cripes I think they're just ... really nice people who are fans of My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic.
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@oh_cripes they want to be part of something. and they want to give money to charity.
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@oh_cripes I have heard good things about it! But it's difficult, because I apparently tend to discount the opinions of adults who watch MLP
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@oh_cripes a bit. But my prejudice is just prejudice -- hurr durr ponies etc
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@tigershungry i mean, it's a pretty terrible VHS rip, but, y'know... it's there if you want it.
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RT @topfife: Cameron to rebuild relationships with Europe by speaking slower and louder.
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@BenGShirley I don't, but would like to. I'd like to hear what you find out
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@oh_cripes I saw this image: images.wikia.com/mlp/images/3/3e/Jesus_S2E05.png I'm now ready to become a fan of My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic
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@st33d not yet, but you're now on my (as yet mental) list of testers. soon, soon!
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RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: When recruiter is call I tell follow me on Twitter then DM me. Is never fail.
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@psychicteeth yeah, that's very true. I've been there. :(
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@lefishy @agAitcheson Yeah, I was poking at RASE. But I'm, er, currently using FlashDevelop in a VM.
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@lefishy @ashleygwinnell @agAitcheson Yeah, quite. I've not even tried FDT, my revulsion is to that extent.
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RT @oh_cripes: @asponge Last night I wrote a song about your cat and now it's stuck in my head but I can't listen to it because it's not ...
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This is a game about not sounding like a dork! Also, flirting. radstronomical.com/media/FlirtOffPublic.html
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@agAitcheson @ashleygwinnell @lefishy It was a mornings work - but useful to have Windows about for other reasons.
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Wild Rumpus II : The Rumpusing is coming! It's happening on Thursday , 2nd Feb. You should come along.
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Here are the games we will be playing: thewildrumpus.co.uk/games -- two of the three most beautiful games I've played all year are gonna be there
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Just played through Windowsill. "Beautiful, just beautiful".
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@KommanderKlobb @Slaktus yeah, pretty much anything Bret Victor writes is worth reading closely.
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@KommanderKlobb @Slaktus this is still the best thing I've read on how to design good user interfaces worrydream.com/MagicInk/
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@mikeBithell you watching Scrooged too, then?
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@HilariousCow nono, better idea. You buy a copy for me, and I'll buy a copy for you. Two thoughtful gifts!
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@nachimir "We want to make indie games the new punk rock"
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This is still an amazing article: largeprimenumbers.com/article.php?sid=mother2 (Also I want to play Earthbound again)
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It's so much easier to despise other's flaws if you see them in yourself.
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I think first finding these kicked off my recent dither obsession: unomoralez.com/img.html
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Oh, also I have had this gif open in a tab for a week now: 24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr7ybxZIhB1qm8spxo1_400.gif
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@ecoBela when you hire that kinda person, you're hiring an equal to work alongside you.
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@KommanderKlobb @benmilsom @JonesyVision Trying to decide if it does get easier later on. Maybe, or maybe you just accept that it's hard.
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@terrycavanagh if you don't make that I will.
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@HilariousCow has the pub become urgent? It was okay when I left.
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Photo: Visualizing device utilization. tmblr.co/Zo3lZyDVEfD0
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@awesommelier i'm pretty sure you started it drunk, and you'll end it drunk too.
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RT @ajpiano: Any JSON that is hand-written instead of generated is to be known as "Free-range Organic JSON" from this point forward
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Last year I tweeted about this: xiaoji-chen.com/blog/2010/the-linkage-computer/ It's still cool. (mechanical computers)
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@rclarke This feels like the conclusion fo a long running rant, but I haven't heard the earlier.
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@radiatoryang @KommanderKlobb half sided has defeated me so far. But the concept made me burst out laughing.
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@FollowEllie what's wrong with the timeline?
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@FollowEllie I'm tired of being surrounded and restricted by evil corporations. Against that evil, Facebook doesn't really stand out.
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Weirdly, I think SOPA's passing might be quite exciting. Would bring back a bit of that Wild West spirit to the Internet.
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@DGoodayle Same here! It was a good night though. Different crowd just for being not in E&C, I guess.
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@S0phieH You totally shoulda blogged that.
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@S0phieH Thing is, I find it hard to call the game badly designed for these sins - they're so obvious, surely they were done on purpose?
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@S0phieH I guess it's not badly designed, it's just obnoxiously done.
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@Slaktus @D_Nye_Griffiths You just said that to get a chance to link that picture again, didn't you?
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@smestorp ooooh, i played this before when @KommanderKlobb showed me - it's neat! also difficult and confusing. will buy.
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@new_nomad pad that out to 3 paragraphs, and you've got a high rated article on HN...
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@musebloom @Rachelbug1 I always blame Thatcher when I have to go onto the street to change for the DLR and when I have soft-serve icecream.
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@Rachelbug1 it's got poo brain. i can tell.
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@Slaktus is that not a tautology?
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@Slaktus "feelings of". and I'll maybe concede one is relative, t'other absolute, but yeah. I would.
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@Slaktus @D_Nye_Griffiths The point is : don't punish people for things they can't control. Could they be more awesome if they tried?
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RT @PerrinAshcroft: @reallyfancy Steam sales are the ultimate pokemon style collection game. The winner is the person with the most unpl ...
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Right - I have til 4pm to get useful shit done, cuz then Unity 3.5 comes down upon us. With Flash exporter preview! My goodness!
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@fridgehead are you making what i think you're making?
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@fridgehead awesome! don't forget to check for hands doing the washing up!
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@smestorp heh... "more fun than RoboRally" is probably a better pull quote...
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@FollowEllie me too. I don't know whether it's gotten worse recently, or I've just started noticing it more.
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@robinlacey @therussmorris looks a entirely possible. Might mean going back and rewriting a fair few bits though...
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@fridgehead it'd be a bugger to clean
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Who's been reading @badmachinery 's Murder She Writes? If not you, you should: scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20111107
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@Rachelbug1 ey! it arrived in time - i'd left it a bit late. no worries, and thanks for yours. hope to see you soon!
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If I had a bicycle, I would exercise more and also go to lucky chip more. Maybe it's good I don't?
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@evil_communist I made an incomprehensible esoteric programming language/toy. But everyone found it incomprehensible.
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@evil_communist I, er, tried and failed to stop working on it. Now it's a polished incomprehensible thing. :<
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@Slaktus yeah, congrats on the RPS post!
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@Slaktus you should get Google Alerts set up, if you haven't already.
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@HilariousCow The hit I chase is a nice crunchy piece of thinking that changes my mind. Gets harder to find every time.
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@tiedtiger do it in Coke. Rinse it, put it in a pan full of coke, boil for a bit under an hour, take out and leave to rest.
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This is the worst Twilight/Twilight Zone crossover I've ever read. pierreview.org/2011/12/24/the-twilight-zone-breaking-dawn/
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@RubZo Congrats! Merry Christmas to you too!
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@new_nomad ooh. We had duck for our flat Xmas dinner last week - twas lovely. Merry Christmas, btw!
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@therussmorris dawwww!
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@severalbees Oh, I love flying dreams, even if they mainly consist of my body trailing behind me, not connecting my head to the ground.
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@RamiroCorbetta so many congratulations!
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@edjeff yesterday I met a girl who is running as an MEP for UKIP. She's an anarcho-libertarian and is posh and lives with her parents.
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@Gillespionage how many times have you wanted to throw it away in frustration so far?
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If I hadn't found Pitman on this 26in1 cart in my stepmother's Gameboy Color, I would have assumed it was made by @auntiepixelante .
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It's very good.
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@edclef I like ribbon UIs. And I use my manufacturer's bloatware. That's not really a defence of them, but.
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ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/blog/index_en.htm I like to imagine the author of this blog is eternally baffled by why people keep ignoring them.
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@edclef think the point is those 12 differ for different people. And half of them are pulled down and more accessible with ribbons.
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@edclef fuck 30 day trials, though. I got a business Thinkpad, half the bloatware was of use.
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@edclef I think I use the power manager, which is just barely competent, and the wireless switch-thing. Honestly, using any startles me.
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@edclef Bigger, with labels is much better for onboarding people. Modality == bad, of course, but better than hiding it in task menus.
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@oh_cripes the creator doesn't have a monopoly on getting the joke...
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@oh_cripes link?
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@oh_cripes @asponge btw, I'm coming home tomorrow, did you miss me?
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RT @tassosstevens: Another post: bit.ly/u84NHK. @postcard_Berlin, better late than never, I hope.
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RT @iA: It's easy to drop GoDaddy, but both Visa and MasterCard support SOPA. Now what do we do now, oh, we revolutionaries?
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Is this going to be one of those times when a small bit of fluff kills a couple of hundred quids worth of electronics?
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@edjeff it'll be less painful after...
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@hannahnicklin haha. Yesterday it was Christmas at my mums. There was a buffet.
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@hannahnicklin I'm not either! It was lovely, and also there was branston pickle, and I thought "I haven't had this for ages.."
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@tigershungry (I was on Tumblr, and:) you seen Waking Life?
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Photo: tmblr.co/Zo3lZyD-vtj1
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@tigershungry Waking Life even more so, though. Just the dreamlike-ness of it...
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It's been many months, but @asponge has finally got me a creme egg from the shops.
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@tigershungry hello!
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@FireHazardGames font looks a bit smudgy - Chromium on Ubuntu. Other than that, it looks fantastic! Nice use of Bootstrap (?)
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youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY&feature=youtu.be Turing completeness as theoretically applied to computer security
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@Slaktus yes; lots.
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@Slaktus of course, it depends on exactly how it's done - here are some models tdpf.org.uk/downloads/blueprint/Blueprint_exec_summary.pdf
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@Slaktus there's a huge mass of info otherwise - but it does depend on how it's done. It'd take decades to unwind the damage...
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@Slaktus haha, no, I meant the damage of the current situation
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Posting links in the morning! This one is kinda about feminism thoughtcatalog.com/2011/all-the-sad-young-pretty-girls/
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And here is the story that sparked that stupid literary argument muumuuhouse.com/mc.fiction1.html the story is better than the argument
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@BinaryTweedDeej yeah, you can just get a gas cylinder hooked up. Not sure about ventilation issues...
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@Slaktus I don't agree there's such a distance there. Not more than normal human distance.
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This is a terrible Thought for the Day: news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9669000/9669590.stm (since when is a Thought for the Day over too soon?)
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(To clarify - it's an excellent Thought For The Day)
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A cause of Internet slow I didn't know about: queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2076798
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@psychicteeth mine was pretty good! This time last year I was doing tech support and just starting to plan my first gamejam.
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RT @splattne: “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.” j.mp/u6AHe4
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Why is it more acceptable to compare people to Marsha than Daisy?