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Tweets from 2011/12

  1. I put gin in a glass, but instead of adding tonic, I made a gravy and carrot sandwich and ate it. Well done me?
  2. …in reply to @robertasaliani
    @robertasaliani The Lorenz attractor math is surprisingly simple (One of the enemies in Mr Bubble moves that way). Make it!
  3. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes do it do it
  4. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes damnit, now i wanna make something for that too
  5. RT @BigBearScot: Registration is open for the Scottish Game Jam. Register at globalgamejam.org/ and then SGJ site scottishgamejam.org/ ...
  6. Oh yeah, last night I played this for a bit. It's a dating sim where you go out with pigeons.
  7. …in reply to @srules
    @srules I'm playing it again! What should my character name be? Last time it was "Ornitho Philia"
  8. …in reply to @srules
  9. …in reply to @docky
    @docky They totally should. But there should be more sexy men, too.
  10. My umbrella is too big. A little girl laughed at it, it is so big. Or at me, for having it, I guess.
  11. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh it's really good! I just got the Okosan ending.
  12. I never read the 10 Tenets of Chindogu before: digital--underground.tripod.com/id5.htm Beautiful, no?
  13. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes yesssss, I remember It'll Never Work. Nostalgia high-five!
  14. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth If you think there's any hope they'll listen or care, you should.
  15. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes no, no, i got it. original drafts of my tweet referenced It'll Never Work.
  16. …in reply to @mxSophieH
    @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
  17. …in reply to @undefined
    @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.
  18. …in reply to @docky
  19. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke and cocktails!
  20. …in reply to @willgoldstone
  21. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @Slaktus the player tells it. just like the reader tells the story from books.
  22. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @RamiroCorbetta Training up for GDC, eh?
  23. …in reply to @undefined
    @nachimir @KommanderKlobb I was going to defend Android, but, yeah. Fuck the tiny internal storage on my Nexus One.
  24. …in reply to @undefined
    @nachimir @KommanderKlobb @Fortress_Inman Well, this is fundamentally a hardware issue, isn't it?
  25. …in reply to @vetraskr
    @vetraskr @asponge @Slaktus what happened here!?
  26. "Remember, there's nowhere you can go that you haven't learned how to go in time."
  27. …in reply to @vetraskr
    @vetraskr @asponge @Slaktus we arrived home to find a open front door, an abandoned bottle of wine, and a paused documentary on John Paul II
  28. RT @KommanderKlobb: Yolk! Forgot to send reminder about #LondonIndies pub meet - tomorrow at the Crown in Angel from 6. Bring laptops! RT! X
  29. 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.
  30. Getting twingles of nervousness, seeing IGF judges describing wrapping up their judging.
  31. I'm converted! Poached eggs for EVERY meal.
  32. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow The link you linked has instructions for turning them off.
  33. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry Am I missing out on any? I only know of three.
  34. Been looking for a AS3 editor on Mac. I found RASE, which is just a bit mental - realaxy.com/download/index
  35. It's mascot is a smiley face in a driving helmet, and it's motto is “Good Time for Programming!”. It autocompletes everything imaginable.
  36. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge And thank you for the new word!
  37. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod @KommanderKlobb I'm glad someone's doing it, but I'm also glad that's not me.
  38. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes would you rather wait til they'd cleaned the data up?
  39. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle yep! see you there!
  40. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes "Well volunteered"
  41. …in reply to @moustaki
    @moustaki @roderickhodgson Flip yes, congrats man!
  42. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle people are about from 7, at least. mebbe earlier.
  43. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes transform it to something nicer, clean and relate the data, then put up full sumps in multiple formats & an API?
  44. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes I'm not being entirely serious, here. it's just the standard response to "something sucks, someone else should fix it"
  45. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes there's a (apparently quite good) excel package for python, it's not the worst thing in the world.
  46. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @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 ...
  47. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @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
  48. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes Agreed, agreed!
  49. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @brandonnn I know feedback last time was almost worth the price of entry. It's good how many publish their feedback, too.
  50. @KommanderKlobb @brandonnn (mainly in the context of people bitching that they didn't get in, but hey, you can't have everything)
  51. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh just get an old site and then change it til it looks like the new site should look.
  52. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle haha, nothing would make me happier than someone else making something in that game.
  53. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle nottheinternet.com/games/assembly (I just discovered it runs fine on my phone... interactions and all)
  54. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus @KommanderKlobb is havin a baby!
  55. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh @rachelelm Oh, wow, those look fantastic! Can't wait to see the At A Distance one!
  56. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
  57. …in reply to @JonesyVision
    @JonesyVision If I were you, I'd go in the other direction. More penis! More balls!
  58. …in reply to @mikeBithell
    @mikeBithell was it a good mince pie?
  59. 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
  60. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff buying internships is good for the economy. people get jobs and businesses get revenue. innovation!
  61. …in reply to @Demruth
    @Demruth it's weirdly difficult to explain in person, too. or maybe it's that i've only explained it to drunk people?
  62. That's the second time in 2 days I've randomly happened across people I know while on the Internet.
  63. Photo: These symbolize drinks. tmblr.co/Zo3lZyCxQIny
  64. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow nottt getting into that. But sexual women != sexism. Objectified women is sexism.
  65. @bfod This is the thing I was telling you about last night: gametoilet.posterous.com/
  66. @bfod it is the best thing
  67. …in reply to @undefined
    @auntiepixelante this way they get to give money to their friends to make games and make a project out of it.
  68. …in reply to @undefined
    @auntiepixelante who doesn't love a project?
  69. 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 ...
  70. …in reply to @zoewi
    @zoewi @tigershungry @doougle @KommanderKlobb @Dick_Hogg YES YES YES YES YES. (it's on!)
  71. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke high praise coming from you.
  72. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle make summin!
  73. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle @KommanderKlobb There is not! There's a website, though : londonindies.com/
  74. …in reply to @awesommelier
  75. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier I mean, ish. Brick Lane. Close enough. How long you down for?
  76. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier yeah, sounds good. I knock off in half an hour, see you shortly after that for a quick one.
  77. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus whaaaaat?
  78. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus oh, and excellent Quitely twitter background.
  79. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus yeah, quite possibly the finest of Morrison's work. The three issue format has a good effect on him. You read seaguy?
  80. "haha yeah what sort of idiot communicates experiences"
  81. "Social unrest at times of government austerity: Europe 1919 - 2009" panzner.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451591e69e2015437f0e936970c-pi
  82. "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"
  83. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @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.
  84. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy although, y'know, well done for not getting a C. That's the right way to do it!
  85. …in reply to @undefined
    @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.
  86. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @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
  87. …in reply to @pozorvlak
    @pozorvlak @KommanderKlobb This BBC News story from 2008 : news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7754712.stm (& wikipedia for the dates)
  88. …in reply to @undefined
    @Cunthorse The Wind-up Girl or The City and The City.
  89. …in reply to @undefined
    @Cunthorse Or Embassytown, for China Mieville without man-protagonist.
  90. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus if it's any consolation, it doesn't run for me.
  91. …in reply to @undefined
    @Cunthorse @NobbyNobody It's also really good?
  92. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus No, no, Chrome here. Work iMac, it claims I don't have a OpenGL compatible graphics card. Which is bollocks, but whatever.
  93. @Slaktus but NaCl getting more primetime is exciting stuff. Exciting tech, though it makes me a bit worried for the open web.
  94. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @jwaaaap BRUNCHINATOR 9000!
  95. Hey hey, here's a game that's just been launched: swiftstitch.sophiehoulden.com/ (half of it is free! play it!)
  96. RT @jonwold: And ISO 13407! RT @elitatt: Apparently these folks just invented the Waterfall method. bit.ly/shmj2s (via @MagnusRevang)
  97. …in reply to @BinaryTweedDeej
    @BinaryTweedDeej yeah, that part confuses me a bit. NaCl is definitely OpenGL-ey.
  98. …in reply to @benmilsom
    @benmilsom I occasionally get @'s directed at these dudes: vintage21.com/
  99. @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
  100. 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)
  101. 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 ...
  102. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @Dick_Hogg @KommanderKlobb come santa with me beforehand!
  103. Blog: Publicly promising things post.ly/4DOwI
  104. This is what it's like, living in the future.
  105. …in reply to @undefined
    @RanaRama That is amazing. And brilliant. I shall refer to it frequently.
  106. I am sad I am not a santa.
  107. …in reply to @Dick_Hogg
    @Dick_Hogg well, I guess I'll HAVE to play it now, eh?
  108. …in reply to @Demruth
    @Demruth Surely that's a benefit?
  109. Here's a thing I learned today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
  110. I can't manage to get the good ending. itunes.apple.com/us/app/pirouette/id486442292?ls=1&mt=8
  111. …in reply to @zoewi
    @zoewi that was a joke, pretty sure there's only one ending.
  112. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus well-animated isn't a bullet point, but super blended ragdoll procedural animation incorporating Real Physics is.
  113. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus eventually (recently) people will get bored of the salespitches, and we can just make stuff that works.
  114. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @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!)
  115. …in reply to @benmilsom
    @benmilsom @mode7games @IanHardingham if you keep this up, you'll have blackmail material on the entire indie scene soon.
  116. yes yes yes, doing some puzzle design.
  117. …in reply to @undefined
    @OhDanMoss i've had fun playing with nanoloop
  118. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow placebos are effective, though.
  119. Trying to recall what people picked int he sweepstakes on Saturday for "Bundles to be announced before Xmas"
  120. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow the best thing is, it still works if you know it's bollocks!
  121. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle what a shame
  122. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @doougle let me know when you're planning, and i'll endeavor to complicate your plans with my own.
  123. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @doougle PS we still going walking next summer?
  124. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @edclef @nachimir @doougle I remember asking you where you live, and then promptly forgetting it. But yes. Yours and beyond!
  125. …in reply to @undefined
    @nachimir @edclef @doougle @smestorp Which I think includes camping by the side of the trail. At the very least, when I did the WHW we did.
  126. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @nachimir not quite anywhere, but yeah, pretty much. thehappycampers.co.uk/campsites/wildcamping/
  127. 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 ...
  128. This is a beautiful thing, simply explained: experthuman.com/programming-with-nothing
  129. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes @MightAndDelight but it's soo eeeeeeeasy!
  130. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes no, it's so easy to make pixel art.
  131. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @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?
  132. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus didja see my tweet linking this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window ?
  133. RT @oh_cripes: @v21 We choose to go to the moon. JFK didn't like pixel art either.
  134. 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/
  135. 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 ...
  136. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy pretty much standard... :(
  137. …in reply to @imaginari_es
    @danlockton videogames can solve any problem.
  138. cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat, our flat has got a cat (for a bit), cat cat cat yay
  139. This makes everything look so friendly! comicsansproject.tumblr.com/
  140. …in reply to @BinaryTweedDeej
    @BinaryTweedDeej what!? A new bundle! Excellent news! What's in it? Tell me more!
  141. @edclef on snow: "it's basically just a particle effect, no big deal."
  142. …in reply to @alicejanetaylor
    @WonderlandBlog that's the whole point isn't it? - deliberately stereotyping to make these groups easier to think about about
  143. …in reply to @alicejanetaylor
    @WonderlandBlog accuracy and caveats and statistical width are the enemies of that, but you fuck up if you forget them entirely
  144. …in reply to @bonzrat
    @bonzrat There's campfirenow.com/ if you want to pay. But what's the defect with IRC?
  145. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth WE WILL DO IT TIL WE ARE ALL DEAD AND BURIED OR ELSE PREOCCUPIED BY OUR OBSCENE WEALTH.
  146. …in reply to @scaol_
    @RubZo trolling for cheap sex on the internet, for shame!
  147. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow I am imagining the Preloaded office in flames, coworkers crouched behind desks, as you spam Shoryukens in a santa hat.
  148. This is something I hadn't noticed the Humble Bundle doing: google.co.uk/search?q=inurl:http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product
  149. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke @asponge @oh_cripes Yeah, I'm to Kentish Town.
  150. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes Well yes. But here's the start of something - white label storefronts to old bundle games + ECT.
  151. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin I also enjoy physical items. I lose so much to merch stalls. I never use them, though, I just enjoy owning them.
  152. …in reply to @brandonnn
    @brandonnn @VenusPatrol Definitely sometimes, but if the site was 80% commentless articles I wouldn't mind.
  153. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes I think they're just ... really nice people who are fans of My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic.
  154. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes they want to be part of something. and they want to give money to charity.
  155. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @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
  156. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes a bit. But my prejudice is just prejudice -- hurr durr ponies etc
  157. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry i mean, it's a pretty terrible VHS rip, but, y'know... it's there if you want it.
  158. RT @topfife: Cameron to rebuild relationships with Europe by speaking slower and louder.
  159. …in reply to @BenGShirley
    @BenGShirley I don't, but would like to. I'd like to hear what you find out
  160. @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
  161. …in reply to @st33d
    @st33d not yet, but you're now on my (as yet mental) list of testers. soon, soon!
  162. RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: When recruiter is call I tell follow me on Twitter then DM me. Is never fail.
  163. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth yeah, that's very true. I've been there. :(
  164. …in reply to @lefishy
    @lefishy @agAitcheson Yeah, I was poking at RASE. But I'm, er, currently using FlashDevelop in a VM.
  165. …in reply to @lefishy
    @lefishy @ashleygwinnell @agAitcheson Yeah, quite. I've not even tried FDT, my revulsion is to that extent.
  166. 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 ...
  167. This is a game about not sounding like a dork! Also, flirting. radstronomical.com/media/FlirtOffPublic.html
  168. …in reply to @agAitcheson
    @agAitcheson @ashleygwinnell @lefishy It was a mornings work - but useful to have Windows about for other reasons.
  169. Wild Rumpus II : The Rumpusing is coming! It's happening on Thursday , 2nd Feb. You should come along.
  170. 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
  171. Just played through Windowsill. "Beautiful, just beautiful".
  172. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @Slaktus yeah, pretty much anything Bret Victor writes is worth reading closely.
  173. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @Slaktus this is still the best thing I've read on how to design good user interfaces worrydream.com/MagicInk/
  174. …in reply to @mikeBithell
    @mikeBithell you watching Scrooged too, then?
  175. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow nono, better idea. You buy a copy for me, and I'll buy a copy for you. Two thoughtful gifts!
  176. …in reply to @HilariousCow
  177. …in reply to @undefined
    @nachimir "We want to make indie games the new punk rock"
  178. This is still an amazing article: largeprimenumbers.com/article.php?sid=mother2 (Also I want to play Earthbound again)
  179. It's so much easier to despise other's flaws if you see them in yourself.
  180. I think first finding these kicked off my recent dither obsession: unomoralez.com/img.html
  181. Oh, also I have had this gif open in a tab for a week now: 24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr7ybxZIhB1qm8spxo1_400.gif
  182. …in reply to @ecoBela
    @ecoBela when you hire that kinda person, you're hiring an equal to work alongside you.
  183. RT @dudehook: FNA! "@thegdb: Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings."
  184. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @benmilsom @JonesyVision Trying to decide if it does get easier later on. Maybe, or maybe you just accept that it's hard.
  185. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh @psychicteeth @edclef I think this calls for a new business card.
  186. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @terrycavanagh @psychicteeth "Almost as good as Donald Glover"
  187. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh if you don't make that I will.
  188. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow has the pub become urgent? It was okay when I left.
  189. Photo: Visualizing device utilization. tmblr.co/Zo3lZyDVEfD0
  190. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier i'm pretty sure you started it drunk, and you'll end it drunk too.
  191. RT @ajpiano: Any JSON that is hand-written instead of generated is to be known as "Free-range Organic JSON" from this point forward
  192. Last year I tweeted about this: xiaoji-chen.com/blog/2010/the-linkage-computer/ It's still cool. (mechanical computers)
  193. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke This feels like the conclusion fo a long running rant, but I haven't heard the earlier.
  194. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang @KommanderKlobb half sided has defeated me so far. But the concept made me burst out laughing.
  195. …in reply to @FollowEllie
    @FollowEllie what's wrong with the timeline?
  196. …in reply to @FollowEllie
    @FollowEllie I'm tired of being surrounded and restricted by evil corporations. Against that evil, Facebook doesn't really stand out.
  197. Weirdly, I think SOPA's passing might be quite exciting. Would bring back a bit of that Wild West spirit to the Internet.
  198. …in reply to @DGoodayle
    @DGoodayle Same here! It was a good night though. Different crowd just for being not in E&C, I guess.
  199. …in reply to @mxSophieH
    @S0phieH You totally shoulda blogged that.
  200. …in reply to @mxSophieH
    @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?
  201. …in reply to @mxSophieH
    @S0phieH I guess it's not badly designed, it's just obnoxiously done.
  202. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus @D_Nye_Griffiths You just said that to get a chance to link that picture again, didn't you?
  203. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp ooooh, i played this before when @KommanderKlobb showed me - it's neat! also difficult and confusing. will buy.
  204. …in reply to @new_nomad
    @new_nomad pad that out to 3 paragraphs, and you've got a high rated article on HN...
  205. …in reply to @musebloom
    @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.
  206. …in reply to @undefined
    @Rachelbug1 it's got poo brain. i can tell.
  207. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus is that not a tautology?
  208. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus "feelings of". and I'll maybe concede one is relative, t'other absolute, but yeah. I would.
  209. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @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?
  210. RT @PerrinAshcroft: @reallyfancy Steam sales are the ultimate pokemon style collection game. The winner is the person with the most unpl ...
  211. 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!
  212. …in reply to @fridgehead
    @fridgehead are you making what i think you're making?
  213. …in reply to @fridgehead
    @fridgehead awesome! don't forget to check for hands doing the washing up!
  214. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp heh... "more fun than RoboRally" is probably a better pull quote...
  215. …in reply to @FollowEllie
    @FollowEllie me too. I don't know whether it's gotten worse recently, or I've just started noticing it more.
  216. …in reply to @tef
    @iamtef @tomscott I would just like to remark that I am a fan of this tweet.
  217. …in reply to @undefined
    @robinlacey @therussmorris looks a entirely possible. Might mean going back and rewriting a fair few bits though...
  218. …in reply to @fridgehead
    @fridgehead it'd be a bugger to clean
  219. Who's been reading @badmachinery 's Murder She Writes? If not you, you should: scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20111107
  220. …in reply to @undefined
    @Rachelbug1 ey! it arrived in time - i'd left it a bit late. no worries, and thanks for yours. hope to see you soon!
  221. If I had a bicycle, I would exercise more and also go to lucky chip more. Maybe it's good I don't?
  222. …in reply to @JonasKyratzes
    @evil_communist I made an incomprehensible esoteric programming language/toy. But everyone found it incomprehensible.
  223. …in reply to @JonasKyratzes
    @evil_communist I, er, tried and failed to stop working on it. Now it's a polished incomprehensible thing. :<
  224. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus yeah, congrats on the RPS post!
  225. …in reply to @Slaktus
  226. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus you should get Google Alerts set up, if you haven't already.
  227. …in reply to @docky
    @docky @S0phieH fog doesn't seem to work. Nor some image effects (that work on mobile)
  228. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow The hit I chase is a nice crunchy piece of thinking that changes my mind. Gets harder to find every time.
  229. …in reply to @tiedtiger
    @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.
  230. This is the worst Twilight/Twilight Zone crossover I've ever read. pierreview.org/2011/12/24/the-twilight-zone-breaking-dawn/
  231. …in reply to @scaol_
    @RubZo Congrats! Merry Christmas to you too!
  232. …in reply to @new_nomad
    @new_nomad ooh. We had duck for our flat Xmas dinner last week - twas lovely. Merry Christmas, btw!
  233. …in reply to @undefined
  234. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @severalbees Oh, I love flying dreams, even if they mainly consist of my body trailing behind me, not connecting my head to the ground.
  235. …in reply to @RamiroCorbetta
    @RamiroCorbetta so many congratulations!
  236. …in reply to @edjeff
    @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.
  237. …in reply to @Gillespionage
    @Gillespionage how many times have you wanted to throw it away in frustration so far?
  238. 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 .
  239. It's very good.
  240. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef I like ribbon UIs. And I use my manufacturer's bloatware. That's not really a defence of them, but.
  241. 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.
  242. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef think the point is those 12 differ for different people. And half of them are pulled down and more accessible with ribbons.
  243. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef fuck 30 day trials, though. I got a business Thinkpad, half the bloatware was of use.
  244. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef I think I use the power manager, which is just barely competent, and the wireless switch-thing. Honestly, using any startles me.
  245. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef Bigger, with labels is much better for onboarding people. Modality == bad, of course, but better than hiding it in task menus.
  246. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes the creator doesn't have a monopoly on getting the joke...
  247. …in reply to @oh_cripes
  248. @oh_cripes @asponge btw, I'm coming home tomorrow, did you miss me?
  249. RT @tassosstevens: Another post: bit.ly/u84NHK. @postcard_Berlin, better late than never, I hope.
  250. RT @iA: It's easy to drop GoDaddy, but both Visa and MasterCard support SOPA. Now what do we do now, oh, we revolutionaries?
  251. Is this going to be one of those times when a small bit of fluff kills a couple of hundred quids worth of electronics?
  252. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff it'll be less painful after...
  253. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin haha. Yesterday it was Christmas at my mums. There was a buffet.
  254. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin I'm not either! It was lovely, and also there was branston pickle, and I thought "I haven't had this for ages.."
  255. @tigershungry (I was on Tumblr, and:) you seen Waking Life?
  256. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry Waking Life even more so, though. Just the dreamlike-ness of it...
  257. It's been many months, but @asponge has finally got me a creme egg from the shops.
  258. …in reply to @tigershungry
  259. …in reply to @FireHazardGames
    @FireHazardGames font looks a bit smudgy - Chromium on Ubuntu. Other than that, it looks fantastic! Nice use of Bootstrap (?)
  260. youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY&feature=youtu.be Turing completeness as theoretically applied to computer security
  261. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus yes; lots.
  262. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus of course, it depends on exactly how it's done - here are some models tdpf.org.uk/downloads/blueprint/Blueprint_exec_summary.pdf
  263. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @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...
  264. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus haha, no, I meant the damage of the current situation
  265. Posting links in the morning! This one is kinda about feminism thoughtcatalog.com/2011/all-the-sad-young-pretty-girls/
  266. And here is the story that sparked that stupid literary argument muumuuhouse.com/mc.fiction1.html the story is better than the argument
  267. …in reply to @BinaryTweedDeej
    @BinaryTweedDeej yeah, you can just get a gas cylinder hooked up. Not sure about ventilation issues...
  268. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus I don't agree there's such a distance there. Not more than normal human distance.
  269. 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?)
  270. (To clarify - it's an excellent Thought For The Day)
  271. A cause of Internet slow I didn't know about: queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2076798
  272. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth mine was pretty good! This time last year I was doing tech support and just starting to plan my first gamejam.
  273. RT @splattne: “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.” j.mp/u6AHe4
  274. Why is it more acceptable to compare people to Marsha than Daisy?