Tweets from 2014/08
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"45 years ago today, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. And 45 years ago, Fluffy had six kittens"
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@northernheckler it was a long time ago!
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This idle thumbs thread on thecatamites 50 short games is penetrating stuff. idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/9515-50-short-games-by-thecatamites-game-club/#entry304064
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@scanters want to go get cocktails instead?
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All great sounds RT @pippinbarr Words: My three favourite sound effects in games wp.me/p4ScZ0-11A
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"It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?" while seriously arguing against Scottish Independence because it could let Sharia law happen there.
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RT @brown_moses: Archived copy of the Times of Israel's now deleted "When Genocide Is Permissible" opinion piece archive.today/RPf3M#selection-1087.420-1095.38
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Once again, there's a new Embed With.... out, and once again I feel a lot of half-digested emotions welling up embedwith.tumblr.com
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@betterthemask 1) I love your new profile picture 2) I love your new game
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Autonomous Robot Wars
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making a mental list of my least favourite conversations: - drugs I took last night - but you also ordered _, so.. - [verifiable fact] isn't
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@v21 bonus points for really irritating conversations you engage with in a hope to end them, and only get yourself entangled with
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@brandonnn 20 minute long arguments about splitting the cheque
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@brandonnn sure, that's almost always what we do. But sometimes...
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I thought the internet had lost the power to surprise me liftingdrifter.tumblr.com/
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@haikus_by_KN @brandonnn if it means I get to not have that fucking conversation, you are entirely welcome.
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Want to cuddle with someone and play Hoshi No Kirby 3 with them.
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Repeatedly sucking Gooey into my mouth and spit them out, absorbing them and regenerating them again and again.
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@HilariousCow YESSSSS
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@retroremakes well, it's true?
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@haikus_by_KN ALSO you get to ride around in a fish's mouth, and get carried by an owl!
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@PaniQ what counts as virtualizing?
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@PaniQ I mean, yeah, but : to continue the analogy, the fastest VMs for PCs pass as many instructions through unchanged as possible.
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@PaniQ right sure. but : your lower bound is the complexity of our universe.
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@katierosepipkin @hentaiphd you went where i only dreamed of. i salute you.
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RT @aliendovecote: drawing fun lil critters from cicadamarionette.com/Games/AspirationsOfTheFlyer/Web.html
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Look what came in the mail! instagram.com/p/rMa2PKNowr/
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Here is a game I once worked on play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theminimart.melttheice2
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@v21 It's not a good game, but I think the ice looks good.
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@retroremakes this just makes me want to say "sod games" and start a band
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@patrickashe Dr. Fox does have a honorary degree, though
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@ADAMATOMIC to remind people that it's a lottery. easy to have perspective/any fucking clue what a thing is when you live in that world.
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@ADAMATOMIC yeah -- it's a problem. I wouldn't write a post about how the App Store is a lottery, because that's obvious & boring info...
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@ADAMATOMIC ... so the people who write the posts on obvious things are the people who just learnt this obvious stuff.
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@ADAMATOMIC Hopefully, people can ascend up this ladder of cluefulness, finding more and more insightful people to learn from on the way.
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@awesommelier just sending you this in case you were down and needed something to brighten up your day :)
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I can't get over this hedgehog's sniffling little nose.
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sniffly little nose vine.co/v/M9zHq5uJLQg
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@jonty you can get them as pets! Or come round my friend Richard's in Shepherd's Bush.
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@ADAMATOMIC the thing is : the Palestinians know this too, and will continue insisting living there no matter how uninhabitable it gets.
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@ADAMATOMIC I always thought that would be enough to outweigh any military might, but now I am not sure.
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@ADAMATOMIC also worth noting that the blockade is more effective than the bombs in accomplishing this (but together...)
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I dreamt I was in my hometown swimming pool and all my friends were there and I went to greet @caraellison but I had my pants on backwards.
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@caraellison I then went to take them off to turn then round, and they intersected another pair of pants in an impossible way.
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@caraellison I guess my point is: dream!you had lots of chances to sneak a look if you wanted. Welcome home!
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inklestudios.com/80days/ I have delivered a baby on a banana boat, had a moonlit romance with a freed slave, helped lead a mutiny (play this)
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@caraellison I am really looking forward to that.
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RT @SnowballPoetry: o we are lost sheep across further pastures
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@katierosepipkin bet it means too few
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RT @emfcamp: Remember, the EMF Call For Participation is still open for another week or so. Submit your talk/workshop soon! https://t.co/Sx…
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@emfcamp flip, I better get on that, huh?
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@acrostik capitalization regex endlessly annoys me
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@jonathanprior I was thinking more like Kill La Kill
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Camera Obscura was the right music for this sunny morning, speeding to Cambridge for a day trip.
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@lilinxgames no! They only realise they gained a day after arriving back in London, defeated. Then rush to the Reform Club, and just make it
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@BigAngrier been a solid heat wave for weeks now. Mind, it's notable here that you could wear just a tshirt at night, so.
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@aworkinglibrary @simonv3 they traditionally didn't - blame videogames.
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@heather_r hey! We should hang out! Also, London Indies is on tomorrow (if you care)
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@haikus_by_KN if you can stand intermittent train internet, I'm here
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@haikus_by_KN I mean, I also have an hour to kill, because I'm on a train
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@haikus_by_KN I'm °also° a few beers in
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@KommanderKlobb ikr! I literally did the original novel's emotional arc of "this is stressful" -> "the journey, not the destination"
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Reading merseyremakes.co.uk/gibber/2014/08/the-bundleocalypse/ and : everything that's happened with game bundles could have been seen by looking at Mac app bundles.
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(Except some stuff about steam keys, fine, but that's not hard to predict)
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@KommanderKlobb I limped home in 81 days, deep in debt.
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@SimoRoth ah, I liked the "they return" chapter
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@SimoRoth ah, appendices were bollocks. But I liked the explicit "home is ruined, also we are strange now" of the last chapter.
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@Tom_OBedlam @SimoRoth oh, I just remembered Greg Egan's books, and the Thomas Covenant series. :(
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RT @mcclure111: Thinking about how the old Mac OS icon standards inherently encoded whiteness. mactech.com/macintosh-c/images/09image14.gif Most app icons had th…
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@mink_ette you're losing all your @s
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@mink_ette ah! but i'm sceptical, because i'm not getting notifications, and there's no threading, so no-one can see context.
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@mink_ette an excellent self contained example! (but you can click reply, then remove the @whoever, and it'll keep the in_reply_to.)
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@mink_ette if you want, of course, I don't mean to say you *should*
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@ragzouken @mink_ette oh! that makes some sense, i guess? maybe?
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@JamesWallis better to go out like this than just decline for the next 20 years
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@rclarke @jonathanprior it isn't? i always just wanted to famous on irc, but this is even better
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@doougle @helvetica @raiganburns i dunno, my ego would prefer Punch the Custard was a masterstroke of design, rather than a good excuse.
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@doougle @helvetica @raiganburns but i'll take what i can get, and the experience really ought to come before my ego.
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@hentaiphd I wouldn't wear a pink shirt because it implies a type of aggressive masculinity I find unpleasant :(
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sometimes it feels like the most effective part of debugging is the bit where it forces you to read your code.
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RT @kangax: Wanna overwhelm beginner front-ender? Here's a nice glimpse at a current stack (from slideshare.net/bymarkone/the-javascript-toolkit-20) http://t.co/cNcddd…
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RT @TheSeg: @danctheduck It’s stuff like that I hit up against with @DomPamplemousse. Even certain game stores like GOG refused it based on…
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(we can do better than this) "it seems like I'm remembering a good but ultimately dysfunctional love affair" newstatesman.com/culture/2014/08/some-my-best-friends-call-me-strawberry-friendships-i-made-and-lost-playing-world
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@psychicteeth i'd have it work as a foreach loop on a iterator that counts up to whatever. some notes on that: stackoverflow.com/questions/177538/any-chances-to-imitate-times-ruby-method-in-c
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this fucking country theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/03/victims-britains-harsh-welfare-sanctions?CMP=twt_gu fuck this country
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@ashleygwinnell wait, I don't remember that.
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@ashleygwinnell aw, man, weird seeing current friends posting before I'd met them.
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@martinhollis @zachlieberman @helvetica @mcdjoel yeah! Was wondering how common that is. I've always called it lerping, despite confusion.
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RT @martinhollis The thing I love about games is they tirelessly show you how every field is connected.
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@KommanderKlobb this reminds me of the great pursuit of our youth -- a hoop tossed into a tree about 10 meters above our garden.
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Just learnt I once interrupted someone while they were doing a preview that then won the Games Journalism Prize? Sorry & congrats, @jennatar
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(here's the announcement : gamesjournalismprize.com/games-journalism-prize-2013-winner-hes-still-alive-by-jenn-frank/ and here's the piece: unwinnable.com/2013/04/05/that-dragon-cancer/ (it really is quite good))
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@hannahnicklin logolalia.com/hypertexts/a-kiss.html# , Ultra Business Tycoon is I think basically kid-safe, & severalbees.com/blackbird/how-to-be-a-blackbird.html
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@jennatar ha: as i recall we were going to a bar and i wanted to see if you were coming, but you told me to bugger off til you'd finished it
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@jennatar then we went to a bar?
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@HilariousCow Managing the Earth is like optimising code - you want to do as little as possible but still get the same outcomes.
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@HilariousCow that is totes compatible with red tape. Red tape is, at it's best, selfish interests being forced to work for the common good.
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@HilariousCow or is this a rant against IP laws, and profiteering academic journal publishers?
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@HilariousCow today's tech would work fine, properly applied. We have enough food, we have enough water.
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I read an angry internet comment that completely failed to engage with the substance of the post... And I saw their point & was glad of it.
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@HilariousCow I'm not even sure it needs to be transported further on average than it is now.
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@bonzrat The Entertainment!
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@bonzrat ah, I missed that. Hurrah!
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There's so much great stuff happening with games and narratives these days, and all of it is really diverse and tailored for just that game.
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@hannahnicklin Also I played this this morning and it had me in tears sheltercontent.org.uk/twine/The%20Spare%20Set.html
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I played this this morning and it had me in tears sheltercontent.org.uk/twine/The%20Spare%20Set.html
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@betterthemask @leighalexander ... I want you to write erotica with Versu so so so much.
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@leighalexander @betterthemask you should write some, planning to publish it anonymously. then let your ego take over.
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List of Fictional Companies Used in Microsoft Material/Documentation social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1117.list-of-fictional-companies-used-in-microsoft-materialdocumentation.aspx
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RT @john_brindle: A UN report found Israeli soldiers have persistently used Palestinian children as - wait for it - human shields http://t.…
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@mooonmagic sorry
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Think about how exciting soap operas would be if we'd only just invented the concept.
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@v21 or, more cynically, think about the kind of person who would be excited by soap operas if they'd only just been invented.
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@v21 okay okay: think of the thinkpieces ...
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@glassarmy ugh. I've been there.
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@keefstuart it's The Shirt again!
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RT @WorstMuse: Pourquoi débourser pour un pro quand Google Translate est gratuit? Ce n'est pas comme anyone'll connaître la différence.
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@partytimeHXLNT even when i do chat with people, there's always an IM ping first
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@ColinNorthway There was a great article by @PennyRed on her recently thenewinquiry.com/essays/little-orphan-nellie/
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Think this is my tumblr find of the day : kerryroan.tumblr.com/
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@tigershungry how did I not know about Len Lye until now?
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@lingmops that was a fav indicating someone elsewhere cares.
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@HilariousCow i find these days to be happy with about 2 hours of solid making-things-happen a day. I get more done nowadays?
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@HilariousCow I think it's that I'm better at recognizing when I'm doing work, and when I'm not, though.
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@nachimir boo
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@psychicteeth aw, that sucks.
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I keep reading programming docs for languages I don't use to soothe me when I am drunk & should sleep and it feels like it's be a bad habit?
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@mcclure111 i like twine games which make you make choices, but explicit make it clear (often later) that you were only pretending to
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@mcclure111 (and here i distinguish navigation through node-space and narrative choice)
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I finally distilled the thing I disagreed with that @ElectronDance dance Problem-with-choice post from ages ago. The actual thing follows.
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A lot of links in Twine are just about navigating node-space. They look like choices, but they're only rarely choices in a narrative sense.
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@whatisian @mcclure111 fixed content hinging on context : just release the same game with different titles, screenshots, publicity.
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@SFBDim ah, had it for ages & not got onto it from Mario! gotta do that
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@mcclure111 counterpoint : harmonyzone.org/Web/Saint%20Basil.html
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@HonestWilliam you know that bot hasn't run for years?
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RT @jenny_stevens: In this week's @NME, one of the most personal pieces I've ever written on being felt up at gigs
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@scallopdelion @heather_r what?
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@HonestWilliam i mean, maybe some day that bear will roar again...
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@tef thanks man!
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@tef 👍
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One thing that Oyster is shite for is letting you get receipts for individual journeys to claim back as expenses.
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@benxo It only happens a couple of times a year, which is why I don't have a good solution.
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Fuuuuuck this story is too good. This is why I love real life games, why they're so exciting. gamasutra.com/view/news/222713/Watergun_assassin_The_grand_game_story_of_Street_Wars.php
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The tension of waiting. The disjointedness of the real world & the fictional one. The froth over drinks as you turn it into a story.
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The inventiveness of other players, the way you're all playacting being cool, and helping each other to keep that fiction. The silliness.
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I used recursion! This is always exciting, as I was told it was a fundamental technique at uni but only use it about every year or so.
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@fastramdesign It's okay, I'm sure I'll remove it later.
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@lexicobob sure! wanna IM me? vtwentyone@gmail.com or georgebuckenham
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@martinhollis Sure! And I might end up rewriting it like that for efficiency later.
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@martinhollis I guess I rarely need to process trees (as opposed to a few nodes of the scene graph), and for array-like things I have LINQ.
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@reallyfancy Til they go wrong of course... Satisfying because they're just a little more concise & neat than seems fair.
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RT @arealliveghost: I hate job interview questions like "what do you hope to accomplish in your life?" honestly I just want to encounter pl…
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RT @igfnews: 2015 Independent Games Festival opens call for submissions goo.gl/fb/GQofG4
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This keeps happening, and I'm sick of it.
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what do you prefer in a programming language : most enjoyable or least hateful?
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@fastramdesign wait, but : quick to write can trade off against easy to read, hard to test, hard to maintain, and, yes, performance.
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@fastramdesign (I hit performance barriers all the time -- sure, computers are faster, but there's always more stuff to be added.
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RT @xor: Monkeys don't NEED copyright to incentivize creativity. You can literally just give them fruit. They're fine with this arrangement.
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@rubzo I'm sick of entering it, and not feeling like I have a Big Thing to enter it with.
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@retroremakes Crunch Feels Exciting. A moonshot prize feels exciting. "Maybe it’ll pay enough to get the fuck out of town."
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@retroremakes It clearly does me. But I'm aware it's a stupid thing, so I try to get it out my system by running events.
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@retroremakes (and : real difference between a day of hard work/no sleep/imminent deadline and a week. and a month. and a year)
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RT @poem_exe: just butterflies grey winter clouds
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@bfod yeah -- yesterday I was looking for somewhere in Shoreditch, and it gave me NYC. Ironic, because it was to find @heather_r.
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@bfod See also : showing me the entire United States rather than where I am when I go to the page.
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@glassarmy Yes! Let's do a thing!
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@HonestWilliam @patrickashe i was lookout
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@martinhollis @bfod I switched back to the old UI. Hopefully by the time they force me across they'll have fixed things a bit.
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@martinhollis @bfod Or there'll be a good front-end for OSM
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RT @realnoyb: Chopping Off the Long Tail or Let's Erase Countless Hours of Footage or Never Say "Save Forever" Again blog.twitch.tv/2014/08/update-changes-to-vods-on-twitch/
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb @Fortress_Inman could you not tell? my twitter has went like eurovision, people love it that much
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@sam_cook and there you go, volunteering for trouble!
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@sam_cook @MoragHickman @jonty this is fair! but : i am stressed & have enough other things to think about, so i think just one.
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.@aanand posted that video of Mos Def geeking out about MF DOOM (this one: youtube.com/watch?v=zTBIvIDnnv8&feature=youtu.be) and now I'm listening to MF DOOM again
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@whitingjp ah! for some reason I thought you were about. But enjoy Greenland, sounds like a amazing trip.
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@whitingjp ah! i guess i will try to listen to the podcast (i hate 'em), as I was thinking how little scope for design they give
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@whitingjp right, i had the same with running (which i should start doing again)
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@srules alas, I'm away in Oxford all next week (and I want to know what I'm doing before then)
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I feel really pleased with these pictures I was making last night v21.tumblr.com/post/94018403711/messing-with-shaders
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@v21 not so much for how they look, but that they only took me an hour from opening a new project in Unity. Including the screenshot script.
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@bekokstover nothing comes to mind, I'm afraid. Maybe @JonasKyratzes has some leads?
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RT @stopsatgreen: An Alphabet of A11y Issues: the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-july-31 *Love* this. A strongly suggested read.
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@jukiokallio here's the fuckiest part of it. download messenger, and the chat starts working in the original app again.
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@kitrichardsonuk i wanna bleach my hair and then dye it some and let it was down into pastel shades. what colours, tho?
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I'm not at this this weekend, but it'd be great (for me) if I was localmultiplayer.com/summit
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@compositeredfox does that include ME? (I saw London on your list)
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@adragonbee ~~~E~D~U~C~A~T~I~O~N~~~O~P~P~O~R~T~U~N~I~TY~~~
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Help I don't want to run an Assassin game but I started thinking about the design for one and I have a great thing (@emfcamp) to run it at
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"we *knew* that Shovel Knight would be a success." "As an indie you convince yourself that everything will be fine after you launch"
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RT @leighalexander: My new book, Clipping Through: One Mad Week in Video Games is available today! Here is some more info http://t.co/to4h2…
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@glassarmy often? usually?
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@KommanderKlobb @retroremakes Valve & Source 2. (I don't think it's weird)
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@glassarmy should be fine -- worst comes to the worst you can just get them to stop at a cash machine.
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RT @EricLengyel: For the 2nd year, programmers have no possibility for recognition in the IGF, but art, audio, design, and narrative all ha…
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.@EricLengyel @PaniQ I work primarily as a programmer and I lobbied for this change.
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@PaniQ @EricLengyel this is what i aspire to!
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@mtrc @PaniQ @EricLengyel to back off from my trolling: it was removed to make space for narrative, primarily.
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RT @ElectronDance: @mtrc indie used to be the gap, now there's a sort of.. Sub-indie for lack of a better term that lacks coverage (eg. Qu…
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I am going to retweet a big load of tweets now. Sorry if you don't care about them.
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I think I am done, now.
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@thricedotted oh! Like Fizzers!
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@thricedotted which reminds me that you guys don't know what sherbet is
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@aanand @thricedotted oh wow, I'd missed that.
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@xMattieBrice I am holding out hope for my game being accepted there, by which point it will be ruinously expensive (see also: UK)
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The feeling of someone not fancying you any more (even if you didn't fancy them) (this is not a subtweet)
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@xMattieBrice I like the game, but it is clearly not going to make me any money. So the flight & accommodation are really luxuries...
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@xMattieBrice (assuming I do get in!)
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@xMattieBrice (also: thanks!)
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@Minkette it's reasonable! I can never complain! I just feel a bit sad.
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@Minkette also, I notice you're in Richmond?
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@Minkette I mean, I assumed that was the case, I just wanted to make fun of it? Or something? Idk?
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This Meursault song is rocking my world right now. Man. soundcloud.com/songbytoad/meursault-dearly-distracted-1
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RT @jjmullz: National Rail with Ryanair tactics here. Rapscallions.
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@xMattieBrice i could say all of that about London. (but I grew up here, or here-ish, and i guess i do still love it)
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RT @LineHollis: the people have two modes of interacting with the fish: 1) hate the fish 2) believe the fish is dead
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RT @m_boesch: Play The Museum No. 4 - with @KnealeK @GEEK__Play @v21 ☞ playthemuseum.tumblr.com #museumgames
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dammit, this Jonathan Creek episode still hasn't downloaded, what should I watch while I make myself a gratuitous midnight meal?
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@mink_ette I decided to watch Alan Partridge
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@mink_ette Though GBBO is a good call!
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@FollowEllie @mink_ette writing is hard.documentation is hard. can i hire someone to follow me around and write interesting things about me?
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@FollowEllie @mink_ette fuck, hired. when can you start? I'm probably going to eat a dessert tomorrow.
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RT @hanknova: Pretty good speech from Labour on competition in the NHS. What a shitshow the Tories have created press.labour.org.uk/post/93199252204/the-choice-on-the-nhs-andy-burnham-speech
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@garethbriggs witzigs?
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@garethbriggs ah, I've not gotten meeples before. Looks easy enough to find, though!
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RT @rpbtheiv: it was the best of times it was the worst of times it was a whiskey drink it was a vodka drink
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@st33d ah! I have my own version of this, would have been happy to share.
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@st33d wait, mine is a variant of Renaud's, which you didn't like.
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@st33d is that actually going to make any noticeable perf impact, though?
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Norman McLaren: Pen Point Percussion: youtu.be/Q0vgZv_JWfM
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@RaygunGoth @caraellison @doctorcarmilla @betterthemask @Carachan1 @geekessays ahhhh! hi guys! wish i was there!
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@KommanderKlobb ah, my sympathies! My recent time limping was also basically just tedious.
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@HonestWilliam have you scaled the particle emitter anywhere in the hierarchy?
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@lexicobob ahhh, so glad. That looks great, btw!
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I guess summer is over now
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Current relationship giving me unwelcome insights into how terrible I was to go out with in a previous relationship.
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@compositeredfox did you play corgisim.itch.io/corgi-simulator-2071 ?
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@caraellison here's the theory, here's a worked example.
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@caraellison yes! I read it while I was out in Denmark. Really lovely book.
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@compositeredfox just wait til you get to the hacking minigame!
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That jumping in the air stop motion thing? Done 60 years ago. youtube.com/watch?v=4YAYGi8rQag (also a score written in marker directly on the film)
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@scanters well i mean, at least i'm not the only terrible person, y'know?
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@martinhollis Could've been the G.P.O.!
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@martinhollis wait, i guess it would have been longer if that was the case
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@martinhollis screenonline.org.uk/film/id/464254/ (I have been learning about Norman McLaren & Len Lye)
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Okay! I made a Unity script that can produce sounds from audio in the same way youtube.com/watch?v=Jqz_tx1-xd4 works.
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@brandonnn i did it again
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@Dick_Hogg @brandonnn I'm sorry Dick... I do it too. We're all around you.
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@patrickashe @mathewkumar why are they squandering the precious opportunity to go all out on a concept without the constraints of dignity
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I like that if you link to a tweet you can't open that link in a new window, or include 2 links to 2 tweets in a tweet. Adds to the texture.
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@arcadereview can I subscribe? the only link i can see on arcadereview.net/main/ doesn't work
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@thricedotted even better! Nothing is real, and everything is funny.
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@arcadereview no worries! I shall buy some individually instead.
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RT @wariotifo: Easily the most important revelation from Nick Davies' book on the hacking scandal,concerning miliband preparing to give lev…
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RT @wariotifo: "Asking at the end for a few mins on his own, during which the sound of[..]'don't stop believin' could be heard through the …
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I had a lot of food in the house and am about to leave for the week, so I cooked and ate all the food, and now I am too full.
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RT @evgenymorozov: This is the best thing written on the ideology of the "sharing economy" - by @mrteacup mrteacup.org/post/the-cult-of-sharing.html
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@mooonmagic it was ... About 2 foods? Probably 3 for a normal person.
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@compositeredfox you've wasted a lot of time
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@compositeredfox wait, wait. I meant : why the hell have you waited so long to eat stroopwaffles? They're clearly amazing!
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RT @wikisext: sext: i bring my notebook and pen in case you really need to write something
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@heather_r ha! If you're looking for scary, I could give you tips.
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@leighalexander @aanand i appreciate this is the end of an actual conversation & a good one, but: i've always found spiderman irritating
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@leighalexander @aanand the one good thing about spiderman is that parabolas are pretty great, but videogames have enough parabolas, so.
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@leighalexander @aanand aw, you didn't even reach the bit about videogames!
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@leighalexander @mcclure111 AMERICANS
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@KommanderKlobb @Minkette Depends on your client's support for the RTL character. See also, @brandonnn's complaints earlier.
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@KommanderKlobb @Minkette Should also give credit to @garblefart, who i nicked the idea off. Thanks!
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@Tom_OBedlam @asponge she's not on Twitter these days!
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@chrisoshea we've been using multiple frames of RageTools (via SVG) generated meshes. I think that solution is about to collapse, though.
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@freakyzoid @rclarke "This time next year, Rodders" is now gonna be my go-to phrase for this stuff.
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Remembering, for some reason, when I met @Brendy_C and gushed about how much I loved his game.Then I fell asleep on the toilet (I was drunk)
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@Brendy_C Yeah, but I left the door unlocked, and people took pictures of me with my trousers down :<
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drakelazarus.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/there-has-never-been-a-pro-wrestling-videogame/ Wrestling games where the aim is to put on a good show.
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@patrickashe indie games ain't just ... you know where i'm going with this
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seriously considering getting a bowl haircut
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@philippawarr feel free to hit me up for any drinking heavily and doing bad things needs you might have.
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@severalbees OH YEAH i was gonna bleach it again, i forgot. HMMM
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@jonathanprior @severalbees I need to wear more Hugo Boss
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@patrickashe Mr Fuzzpops, the Nose Snake and Bubble Whale.
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RT @vogon: the year is 2028, everyone in silicon valley has subcontracted out every facet of their lives to twelve different startups with …
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@chrisoshea no, just because switching reasonably large meshes on/off each frame, keeping it all in memory etc seems painful.
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@chrisoshea it's working with the placeholder ones we have now, but i'm looking at this thread with interest to try out stuff
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@chrisoshea we're doing stuff a bit weirdly with LOTS of untextured meshes with vert colours, mind.
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@chrisoshea In fact: gutefabrik.com/blog/?p=2734
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@tef Hurrah!
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@philippawarr i think you need to work harder on being terrifying.
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Steam is getting a flat redesign that looks less nerd! Also "Curators" and a "Discovery Queue" steamdb.info/blog/48/
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@retroremakes oh, for a 5% commission!
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@PixieJenni @NineWorldsLGBTQ ahhhhhh, I just read the posts, ahhhhh
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HOHOKUM is OUT. you should buy it for your sony device store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/games/hohokum/cid=EP9000-CUSA00143_00-HOHOKUMW01XBBNDL
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Kentucky Route Zero at @OxfordPlayhouse instagram.com/p/ronB6oynTN/
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@adragonbee optional implicit typing i like. but only because my IDE knows what they are.
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"I can draw a paper aeroplane ... that's not right, is it?"
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@patrickashe PAT!
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@HilariousCow I just saw that! Lovely to watch a film that just tries to be a fun time
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@caraellison Oh, I love this piece. I think I am also polite, but not quite as good at it as him.
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@caraellison It can be cruel, this politeness. A withholding, a duplicity. I hope I am not polite with people I love.
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@caraellison yus. well. respect takes time? I don't know. it is rare that i care about a particular person thinking well of me.
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@caraellison or maybe it isn't so rare. I am good at that, on reflection. But I don't demand it, I am just there, persistent.
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@caraellison Which it seems like is also a thing that you are good at, and the way that you are good at it.
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@caraellison oh, *those* people. Hm : I think you are respected by your enemies, actually.
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@TRUTRUTRULUV @caraellison I would! For example, I was ever so polite to that awful racist woman at a family party.
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@patrickashe okay, i understand why @asponge was upset, now
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Me & @hannahnicklin are making a game at the Oxford Playhouse. Can we harvest your tweets for it? Let me know, if so.
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Also! If you want to send SMS messages to be included,send those to +44170 630 0042
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@awesommelier oh! That's why!
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@awesommelier #prayforbentz
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@jennatar hello jenn! happy birthday, you are my favourite.
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We're looking for a character animator to do a bit of work on Mutazione gutefabrik.com/blog/?p=2734 If that's you, or someone you know, say hi!
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@chrisoshea I think I've found Flash => SVG tools (SVG has some animation stuff in via SMIL). Not tested it yet!
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@chrisoshea boooooo
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@torahhorse @brandonnn @rockpapershot @asponge @patrickashe I cannot tell a lie : I stole your visor.
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I'm not sorry, @torahhorse
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I read a Ben Kuchera article and liked it polygon.com/2014/8/15/6006185/gaming-balance-development-writing
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@pippinbarr thank god
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@patrickashe @doougle @brandonnn @caraellison can and will. for me, anyway. for @torahhorse, not so much.
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@robertpeacock22 or prey
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@bffbot1 @TomNullpointer it's a good question
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@ntlk she's folded herself up?
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@ntlk (no, I don't think that's a good answer, either)
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@patrickashe I found some black crud on mine last time I used it.
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@patrickashe it came off when I turned the iron on and ironed a teatowel.
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@patrickashe oh, and a scourer. It's made of metal...
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205 : worst bus I regularly take
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@patrickashe I mean, if it's stuck on enough not to come off on your clothes...
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@brandonnn trying to think if your Electroplankton review was what led me to getting an import copy.
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@brandonnn but I did! It was great! I used the shitty earphones it came with for years.
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@xMattieBrice it's only $1000...
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@xMattieBrice well - if you buy ads that lets you get verified. Why lots of journos are verified - their employers bought ads.
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@xMattieBrice uh-huh!
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RT @knifesex: in second grade we had to make a diorama of our happiest memory so i just lit a shoebox on fire
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Turned an awkward conversation in the toilet about my Plumtree T shirt ("mass teen fainting?") into one about how great MF Doom is.
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Thinking of Global Frequency as I quickly snap a picture of a sticker advocating bitcoin on my local co-op to make fun of it on Tumblr later
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RT @timoncheese: Such incredible radio. The time Chris Morris decided to cancel Newsbeat's 21:30 bulletin youtube.com/watch?v=sC3c2a4dbcI
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RT @rom_txt: charged magnetic cartridge. I'd like a work permit. First floor. An inner voice interrupts your thoughts. - #flashb (SNES)
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I have a Spotify playlist of covers of Galaxie 500's Tugboat, and I'm annoyed I can't add Meursalt's.
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@haikus_by_KN RTL Unicode character
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@HonestWilliam not in those boots
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@smestorp @brandonnn I played Pokemon originally on an emulator - kinda ruined the series for me on machines without a fast forward key.
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@BRKeogh Toca Boca Hair Salon 2 is a serious contender for my favourite videogame.
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RT @katietiedrich: the place where I work used to design animal habitats for experiments on the International Space Station
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RT @katietiedrich: when I asked why we didn't anymore my boss looked at me and gravely said "rat urine in zero gravity"
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Former site of the Wild Rumpus instagram.com/p/r2XIY9No1e/
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RT @poem_exe: on a whithered branch they would like to retain for your voice
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RT @paleofuture: ice bucket challenge only instead of ice it's lava and instead of for charity it's for lava
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"@HilariousCow: It's @v21! Fucking booze hound vine.co/v/M3jvPOt5egW" Brew By Numbers 1601 Red Ale is astounding stuff.
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#beertweet
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@hannahnicklin @emfcamp ah, so excited you're turning up!
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ugh i've already watched all the jonathan creek i've downloaded, and ep3+ of yowamushi pedal aren't done yet.
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@v21 apparently i can only manage to watch tv if i'm drunk and in bed
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hands up, don't shoot
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no justice, no peace
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I thought I was inured to horrific sexist bullshit in this industry. Then I read this: ohdeargodbees.tumblr.com/post/95175074424/i-will-not-negotiate-with-terrorists . Then I read the notes.
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@v21 ... And as I write that tweet, her Tumblr gets hacked! Fuck this shit, fuck this shit, fuck this shit.
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@v21 Here's the text of the original post pastebin.com/PwCEwifg
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@Rinzence a psycho ex is one thing : the number of people participating is far greater than 1.
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@sam_cook I actually still had it in a tab, so I threw it on pastebin, too : pastebin.com/PwCEwifg
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I'm going to talk about some good things now. Though I don't want to be disrespectful to the horrible things still happening. But.
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This game, Detective Grimoire, is really good and funny, and nicely animated, and just ... charming. store.steampowered.com/app/272600/
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And last night I read this @retroremakes post, on personal meanings of success. And: yes. I strive for this thinking merseyremakes.co.uk/gibber/2014/08/im-afraid-of/
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Also I played dreamfeel.itch.io/curtain recently and it has good colours and a story well told. Think of it as the indie Gone Home.
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@SFBTom I mean, I only played the iOS version, maybe you've ruined it. :P
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And I am looking forward to playing @radiatoryang's Intimate, Infinite later. radiatoryang.itch.io/intimate-infinite More Borges games, always, please.
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(I am still angry about that J. Blow profile)
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@smestorp which, the anger or the profile?
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Also, (and they're in Curtain), I have been really getting into Joanna Gruesome lately. Here's them doing Tugboat: youtube.com/watch?v=FNkzbPCYMRk
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@smestorp Oh yes! That was what it was called, wasn't it! Please tell me you read this, too: opinex.tumblr.com/post/21039627308/the-atlantic-on-blow-the-missing-copy
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@dreamfeeel ah-hahah, I did actually wonder if that was the case. Glad to be of help!
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@katierosepipkin (the last comic) qwantz.com/fanart/japan/
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@patrickashe the blimp was cryptic.
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Maddie vine.co/v/M3QAKmlMLuX
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SATURDAY 27th SEPTEMBER. We're having a party. With some games in. Come along! eventbrite.com/e/wild-rumpus-6-tickets-12608338881
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RT @WildRumpus: Dear London. You are hereby cordially invited to Wild Rumpus #6. Sat Sept 27th. Yours lovingly, The Wild Rumpus http:/…
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@NicolasMenard @WildRumpus me too!
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@ntlk @WildRumpus I tweeted the link, like, 2 minutes ago!
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RT @WildRumpus: Also as promised earlier in the year we now operate a Safe Rumpuses Policy which can be read at thewildrumpus.co.uk/safespaces
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RT @mattround: Unsubtle “only lads need apply” message RT @eurogamer Sales and marketing positions now open: bit.ly/1pHEi1E http://…
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Can hear flatmate playing Shake It Off, so I go to listen to it. The preroll advert is for "Shake It Off".
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@v21 I can't decide if this is good or bad ad targeting.
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@8librae this is ... really not the point? the point is that it's none of our business, or the business of all the people originally ...
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@8librae ... posting about it, putting up Zoe's personal details, hacking her account, sending abuse, etc.
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Oh! That's a fun memory. NOPEing out of a conversation about Anita Sarkeesian (& her crimes, etc) this weekend.
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I'm kind of ashamed, because there was probably a teachable moment there. Also, it wasn't with a stranger, but someone I've known for years.
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@haikus_by_KN @jonbro oh, for sure. But this was said in the same way you'd say a recent author's work is somewhat disappointing
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RT @molleindustria: "Gamers are virtuosos at weaving a tight social fabric” -Jane McGonigal
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@Solivagant we have a form! Thewildrumpus.co.uk/submissions
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@Solivagant lies! it's thewildrumpus.co.uk/sendusyourgames
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What I love about tech is how people can make interesting little things and distribute them as easily as large co.s maliciousgames.tumblr.com
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@philippawarr terrifying
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@LewieP what's your aim with this argument? Do you believe any do?
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@LewieP right, me too. It's the larger trend (see also closed App Stores, Gatekeeper, Chrome looking at removing URLs) I find concerning.
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@LewieP some of these things explicitly, some intentionally, but all trend away from me having control over my hardware and software.
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@LewieP all tilt the playing field in favour of incumbents (not least the tech giants themselves)
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@LewieP subtle, but predictable, often intentional effects of design. Also, it's a "my livelihood" thing, so I'm sensitive.
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@ntlk I don't know any good refs, but have done a buncha Unity stuff -- feel free to hmu if you get stuck.
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@hannahnicklin this sounds like Oxford
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@infovore @ntlk Actionscipt is a better comparison, yeah. But really it's just C#/Boo with the syntax messed up. wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/UnityScript_versus_JavaScript
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@hannahnicklin Kaddish is ... music that is clearly very good in a genre I don't really care for?
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@hannahnicklin It's about 50/50 whether I'm going to never listen to it again, or start getting into ... "screamo"?
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Suddenly reminded of Johnny Castaway. Y'know, the screensaver.
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Maybe I want to make screensavers instead of games.
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@expdotzine I was reminded by a comments section about Mountain coming to Steam.
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@patrickashe we have some, but not all, I think.
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@patrickashe 4 sounds like the number i have. (we had more before?)
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Just refused to implement a feature based upon it making the system that decides upon narrative in the game Turing complete.
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That might be a boring tweet, but I feel compelled to tell people every time a vague CS education turns out to be of some use.
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@psychicteeth confirmed
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@fastramdesign it's the "decidability" property I'd really like to keep. Especially as it would not be obvious why this would be the case.
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@patrickashe thanks pat!
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@fastramdesign right - I didn't bother properly classifying the system on the Chomsky hierarchy, just found a cycle and went NOPE.
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@fastramdesign I did say it was a vague education.
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@Gillespionage @paperCaves I would like to offer Lone Survivor as a counterpoint here.
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Reminder : We're looking for a character animator to animate our characters on Mutazione gutefabrik.com/blog/?p=2734
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@smestorp Coming soon : Only $10 a month for offline music video access.
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@BRKeogh we released the screenshot (in the job ad)
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@angusdick we have been totally talking about you RE this, you know.
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@nickludlam TBD! It's still a ways out, yet.
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@nickludlam bleh - I'd rather do it the other way, but it ties into business & money stuff.
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@LewieP the point is that the allegations aren't any of our business?
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@doougle *narrows eyes*
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any opinion on a pop track formed before dancing to it is inherently suspect
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Unity 3D 4.6 Open Beta has dropped! Come get the good stuff! (ie : the new UI system) unity3d.com/unity/beta/4.6/release-notes
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Why does @philippawarr get everyone's Twitter accounts?!?
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@pozorvlak There is a family of SDE tools that is alive and well -- Scratch. Mind, there's a reason it's not used by programmers.
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@philippawarr @john_brindle not telling
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@nachimir @philippawarr @john_brindle what I will say is that I saw someone else do it, and managed to replicate it without help.
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"Right, let's make this work!" *alt-tab back to code* "oh fuck, i don't know how"
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RT @wolfpupy: i have shunned the Hungry Man brand and will only eat the following dinner: Handsome Boy Dinners, Regular Man Dinners, Non-G…
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@ntlk her ex was shitty, but w/e, people do shitty things after breakups. It's the horde taking this shit as their crusade that's scary.
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@ntlk yeah, my "w/e" was too strong. Still : this is a systemic/cultural problem, not a fuckhead problem.
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@ntlk And beyond that : my sympathies also lie for every woman in games currently thinking : "that could have been me"
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@awesommelier <3 to you and Lazza. Wish I had the headspace to come up and visit.
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RT @0xabad1dea: HOLY HELL FERGUSON ISSUES MORE WARRANTS PER YEAR THAN THEY HAVE CITIZENS. dropbox.com/s/vwptqn3mhq9xvy7/ArchCity%20Defenders%20Municipal%20Courts%20Whitepaper.pdf
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For those poking at the new Unity3D UI system : some useful extension functions to save a bit of boilerplate gist.github.com/v21/1d8d5f484c512961deab
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@HonestWilliam is this still pat?
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RT @HonestWilliam:
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@HonestWilliam is this pip?
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@HonestWilliam if it's not pip I don't care
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@HonestWilliam wait. but. how did you take that picture of me?
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"Galaxy Nexus: Android Ice Cream Sandwich Guinea Pig"
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@tigershungry sounds like you're doing just fine
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@AidanJohnMoffat if nothing else, the face she makes throwing away the banana makes the entire video worthwhile
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Went to bed thinking "It is crazy that making videogames makes me a particular target for hackers" :<
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@compositeredfox for lots of things (Google, mainly), you can get authenticator apps for your phone.
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@patrickashe I use getvau.lt, which does a slightly different thing, but I have found it great to use.
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@patrickashe @doougle @compositeredfox you can set a backup number on Google that belongs to someone else - handy as a worst-case fallback.
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RT @mcclure111: One more thing "Don't stop doing what you do" Seen a few variations on this the last two days please don't tell me to do…
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@BRKeogh I didn't really speak out against it. Or even really boost others who were. I don't know that it would've helped in any way.
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@BRKeogh I've also not mentioned this new thing, because I don't see how it would help either.
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@BRKeogh Also it seems such a watered down, depoliticized statement to make? And parochial, too.
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@RobotStand heh. yeah, that's better.
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RT 🔒 : Thank you to all the inspiring, caring, brilliant, lovely people in my life and throughout history. #welovepeople
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RT 🔒 : Thank you to the people who worked hard & sacrificed so much to give me things I often take for granted. #welovepeople
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RT🔒:Thank you to people everywhere and everywhen for standing up for what's right. Thank you for being a light in the darkness #welovepeople
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@patrickashe fuck trains, fuck pringles, fuck devon : but Seconds is great, enjoy.
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@patrickashe you heard me
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@betterthemask @lillianbehrendt I had ... well, not forgotten. But not thought about this in too long. A delight!
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@NeilBennun @patrickashe amazon.com/Seconds-Graphic-Bryan-Lee-OMalley/dp/0345529375 (not that I advocate Amazon, but I do advocate this book)
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London devs into eyetracking stuff : a jam you may be interested in is coming up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/rolling-eye-tickets-12741463059
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I want a eyetracking kit, but I am pretty sure I don't have time to take part...
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@glassarmy !!!!
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"My job is to digitally add Coke products to old episodes." ifeelawesome.net/inpost
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@metasynthie me too, but : that reflex is there because of self-preservation, which isn't a bad thing.
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@awesommelier nice!
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Good week for converting feelings of distaste into principled stances @edclef/502841382172913664
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Interesting thoughts on vidyagames & immersive theatre chrisamaphone.livejournal.com/887046.html
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@v21 Makes me think what a pretty straightforward adaptation of a Punchdrunk piece would be like, and whether it would work.
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@v21 all that dancing would be really quite expensive to animate, mind.
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@v21 (in case it wasn't clear : I had vague feelings of distaste for Develop - now I think I might have a principled stance against them)
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@hannahnicklin i don't think so?
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RT @brandonnn: kudos where they’re due to @developonline for at least massively paring down the worst of develop-online.net/news/phil-fish-quits-development-puts-polytron-partners-and-fez-ip-up-for-sale/0196838 & moderatin…
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@jonathanprior I sometimes feel guilty RTing things I think important instead of making a fresh link because I know it gets less attention.
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@jonathanprior well, but ALSO I feel the pressure not to be spammy.
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@hannahnicklin yes, and yes (dependent on Amazon delivering it in time)
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@Minkette @danhon @kierongillen Did you see this thing on the production of Call Me Maybe? soundonsound.com/sos/sep12/articles/it-0912.htm
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@Minkette @danhon @kierongillen mainly "I was trying to get the same feel in 'Call Me Maybe' as in a Nine Inch Nails song"
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I think I really need to go to a beach and dance to pop music tomorrow.
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I hope they play "Shake It Off"
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@hannahnicklin have you tried straining your ears?
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@hannahnicklin or using a little cord?
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@hannahnicklin or duct tape?
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... wait, i forget how to set up apache to serve new domains... also, i'm drunk
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~~ things which are supposed to be user-friendly, which means they fail silently, and without any useful, possibly scary, information ~~
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(I am trying to install dopresskit() again)
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@smestorp my most vivid memory of early childhood is clearly a dream
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@PhillCameron @Tom_OBedlam I just had to doublecheck that that was what you linked to, as it opened next to my other Action Bronson YT tabs.
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@haikus_by_KN yeeeey!
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SOPHIE is writing a song for Kyary? This is the best news I've heard all day.
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RT @leighalexander: “ ” 🙏🙏🙏
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Really want a dark knitted loose (knitted, necked, also baggy and oversized generally) jumper, but I literally don't know how to buy one.
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@fridgehead reasonable reflection of costs, imho
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@philippawarr @jimrossignol I've always been disappointed Dishonoured never got the credit it deserved for being beautiful
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@CaptBenLWillard @molleindustria @kenjisalk wait, but ... that's already a major function of govt? what?
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@Minkette KLK is great! I especially like the pacing. That recap episode!
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RT @BeeStapler: Damn. 2012 interview with Nicki Minaj in The Guardian.
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RT @wikisext: sext: i start to tell her about my problems with my friends, problems at work
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RT @leigh_books: i historically have never encouraged women writers, devs
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@HonestWilliam me too!!!!
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@webbedspace Makes me think of "The Shame Of Edinburgh"
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Thinking about breaking down a game into "Graphics", "Gameplay", "Sound", etc. Then thinking of "Tilt", from web.archive.org/web/20040322120431/http://qualityroms.com/
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@v21 "Tilt" here meaning -- the score that has to be added to make the constituent score parts add up to the subjectively correct total.
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@john_brindle His sponsor is testosterone cream?!
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@hyper_linda I think I found that intro to game design book you were looking for : "A Game Design Vocabulary"
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@hyper_linda no sexist bullshit, open-minded about the range of possibilities, always grounded with concrete examples, no unexplained jargon
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A game playlist : Desert Golfing, Get On Top, Room of 1000 Snakes ... any more?
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@hyper_linda oh, also, welcome to borrow my copy next time you're round
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@SELFISH_PHIL good luck, stay safe.
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@glassarmy I find Anaconda too strong for an everyday listen, so have been diluting it with Shake It Off
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@glassarmy whilst this loads I'd just like the register my prediction that this will be terrible. okay. listening now.
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@glassarmy it's not really a mashup, though, is it? It's just a bad remix of Anaconda with a sample played on top.
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@glassarmy like, you make a strong argument, but may I present as a rebuttal the smirk when she throws away the banana?
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@KommanderKlobb @smestorp @bfod I will say that making a tool for yourself, and making a tool for someone else to use are very different.
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@jonathanprior Wait, what is there one thousand of in that?
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@bfod @ADAMATOMIC @raiganburns @doougle @chrisremo have you noticed the camera never moves up or down when moving levels?
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@haikus_by_KN It's been glorious for about the last month and a half.
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@haikus_by_KN Welcome to Britain!
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@KommanderKlobb @dunkr @patrickashe An elbow icon? I like the monsters, the whole joke to me is that they just want to boop him.
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@KommanderKlobb @dunkr @patrickashe or you could just strip the logo entirely, and patch up the hole?
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@patrickashe oooh, yeah, I got like 15 on that one. 127? ... the one with the little castle? I did that in <10 and was v relieved.
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@patrickashe right? A gentle slope can be the worst
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Salmond's "you", conflating Westminster & Darling is much more effective than "I am a Labour politician" #indyref
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@patrickashe a treat awaits
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Oh my god, 316. #desertgolfing
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@KommanderKlobb i hear it goes on beyond 1000 holes...
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So : @SamAlden is talking about making games, @kittaveli just released her first & @thutranthutran has her own gamejam? P good day, really.
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not that I have any kind of agenda, or anything.
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@KommanderKlobb i wonder what lies at the end of the desert... I'm already 1/10 of the way there.
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@KommanderKlobb i'm pretty sure those will be spent wondering why Unity just crashed at 11pm one dark night.
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@compositeredfox i've been on that the last few days, too
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@TheBlockBot #block +yutt
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@hannahnicklin oh, hey, I have a tent, btw
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RT @semanticist: A thing I just wrote: Hidden dangers of team building rituals. semantici.st/hidden-dangers-of-team-building-rituals/
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@BRKeogh it's always those tweets that get the most attention
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RT @takemasaryo: アメリカの雑誌『Prevention』のりんご特集でイラストレーションを担当しました。Illos for the feature on Apples in Prevention mag. blog.ryotakemasa.com/2014/08/prevention-september-2014.html http:…
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A nice thread on the technical details behind Wind Waker's rendering polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104415
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@leighalexander @mcclure111 Ha! This basically looks like @Oujevipo's new game ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=1874
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@robertpeacock22 Ehhh... I see your point, but there's environmental factors for both.
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@robertpeacock22 (letting aside that "deaths per year" shouldn't be the only factor in allocating funding, either)
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@robertpeacock22 I think that using moral judgements when deciding at this level is wrong.
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@robertpeacock22 Reminded of the choice to use scarce penicillin to treat syphilis or sepsis in WW2 : blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2013/05/29/winston-churchill-and-the-spirochaetes/
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@robertpeacock22 At a population level, individual choices(mistakes) are averaged out. It comes down to money, lives, efficiency.
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@robertpeacock22 right, but on this scale it's more : is it cheaper to persuade people to do these things, or cure this (or something else)
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@robertpeacock22 one person's heart disease is caused by their actions (and ...), a population's heart disease is caused by culture and ...
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Just found some 5+ years old notes for a gamification site, splattered with blood
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@brandonnn you heard she's writing a song for Kyary?
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@patrickashe 400 in 1198.
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe do the divide?
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe right, my form has definitely improved, and I'm sure Pat is just now discovering the difficulty isn't flat.
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe oo-er
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RT @leighalexander: deep breaths
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@hannahnicklin wait, no, what? that's Maddie! And all the prints I need to frame! and like, a bunch of actual money. I don't want dew.
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@twoscooters Alan Hazelden is patreon.com/Draknek (he's been covered by Kotaku before, even)
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thinking about all the curation work I've been involved in, with an explicit or implicit agenda to make a parallel, other, culture of games
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@v21 now I'm thinking of the end of Invisible Cities again uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/calvino/callast.html
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some good tweets from @mcclure111 about this kotaku/patreon bullshit storify.com/v21/the-fucking-shitheads-won (fixed link)
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@jonathanprior @mcclure111 huh, weird. 404? Hard-refresh doesn't clear it?
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@metasynthie wait, shit, my housemate works for RPS, do I have to move?
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@st33d wait, why? if you put on pixel snapping, and get the pos/scale exactly right...?
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@HilariousCow if a feature makes you laugh - well done! the feature already has a positive reaction! very early testing indicates viability!
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@HilariousCow i'm never going to laugh at the fact that there are hurdles in QWOP again, but i still love that joke.
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@HilariousCow nonono - the generated humour of QWOP is, sure. But the fact of the hurdles, that it is a Hurdles Race isn't slapstick.
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@st33d ah, yeah, scaling up elements breaks the sharpness. (using screenspace - overlay)
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@st33d I guess, more specifically, the SDF fonts they're using don't get fed the right scale to render at.
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@HilariousCow right, the second time round the joy is nostalgia. which is fine?
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@HilariousCow right, but that's a way to show off your pacing/timing for them, which is usually even harder in games.
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@HilariousCow i should really write up that talk i did on one-joke games
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@st33d trying it here -- looks promising!
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@st33d also worth noting that the new UI system is unusually easy to modify, for Unity. All the logic is in C#, shaders are replaceable...
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@st33d So there's almost certainly a fix possible, it might just be Too Much Work. Luckily it's a common problem, so: wait for Asset Store?
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@edjeff @philippawarr buckfast icecream?
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Replication errors, digital workflows, fast fashion, vimeo.com/104417613
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RT @stephentotilo: It saddens me to see that some are taking my statement on Kotaku as an endorsement or validation to harass anyone. It's …
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quelle fucking surprise
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@failnaut @PixieJenni @pjedavison the point of these words is to humiliate and ostracise, not to convince.
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@failnaut @PixieJenni @pjedavison They are not for the recipient, they are for people watching the exchange. They are to shame the recipient
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@failnaut @PixieJenni @pjedavison That said, those particular words I'm not a fan of, for various reasons.
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@failnaut @PixieJenni @pjedavison I want to be hostile! I want to send a clear message that I have contempt for you if you say <that shit>
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@PixieJenni @failnaut @pjedavison right - so if it seems likely, if you have the energy, talking them round is obviously better.
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@PixieJenni @failnaut @pjedavison If it's your site/house/organization, letting them know that saying <that> will get them banned, is better
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@PixieJenni @failnaut @pjedavison But if you have no actual power over them but social, insults, ostracism and contempt might be best.
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@PixieJenni @failnaut @pjedavison (I am thinking of the Overton window here - keep unacceptable things unacceptable)
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@PixieJenni @failnaut @pjedavison because otherwise, observers might think that <that shit> is a reasonable, possible position to have.
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@failnaut @PixieJenni @pjedavison right- and your own safety has to come first.But I want to defend it as a valid tactic, if only for others
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Yay, weird custom controller game jam! altctrlgamejam.com/ (boo, prizes & judging, though)
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@SFBTom 80 days, desert golfing
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@SFBTom oh, and not recent in any sense of the word, but : King of Dragon Pass
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@john_brindle right!? (Why do I not do more larping?)
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RT @Choplogik: Small children love playing 'peekaboo' because the utter eradication of self is man's deepest ambition
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@hannahnicklin @patrickashe Homework? (I'm going with Alice, I think)
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#disruption
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@patrickashe @hannahnicklin fair! well, if you get sudden literary cravings...
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@jonbro @psychicteeth yes, exactly this
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@hannahnicklin @patrickashe imagine the grease
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@hannahnicklin @patrickashe imagine the squeaking
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RT @hannahnicklin: Right! A great bit of work (with some money attached) for Kent-based hacker/artist: 4 days work MAKING ANYTHING THAT MIG…
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@tef by a marvellous coincidence, I am just eating some roast dinner.
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RT @alteredq: TIL: majority of images in IKEA catalogues are CG renders, not photographs: cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/building_3d_with_ikea #cg #vray #ikea http://t.c…
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@psychicteeth @drinkrelaxplay right? Especially with a nice botanical gin
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RT @corruptum: Adobe . Adobe , , , . 1.3 . SDK . evelopment or production of nuclear, chemical or biologic…
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@ADAMATOMIC oh, I remember that one.
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@HonestWilliam A real T-shirt model
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I kinda wanna just make this youtube.com/watch?v=vVtYVyyX5NY but that's pointless because it already exists (via @katierosepipkin)
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Also I feel that way about Desert Golfing, obv.
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@hannahnicklin ha! I don't even notice myself saying it (but I do know the ascending tone, excited sound, you mean)
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@joonturbo right : I quit the Shufflepuck vid halfway through because I already loved enough of it and didn't want to see more.
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@joonturbo but still : I wanna start the project with at least one thing I'd change
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@bfod hm! that is a good description of Air Hockey! (the main thing I would change would be to call it Air Hockey)
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@joonturbo the fucking rock, man! (and the overhang, and the cactus)
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@joonturbo hahah, it's okay, I have Air Hockey to make now.
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@joonturbo ha!
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@whatisian i should make that triangle post-process effect... but the hexagons were hard enough...
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@patrickashe @Minkette I got a small women's tshirt through the post the other day...
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Anyone got a reasonably complex Flash animation without any bitmaps in it? I need to test a weird export workflow.
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RT @nachimir: A friend pointed me to this astonishing wikipedia page about a negligent theme park: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park
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@KommanderKlobb yes please!
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@KommanderKlobb @doougle same way you can stop on slopes if your overall velocity is low enough when you stop.
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@rikfuzz thanks! (and nice hair movement!). It seems like this might work?
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RT @failnaut: Here's some well-expressed thoughts from @PixieJenni on asexuality, and "virgin" being used as an insult. http://t.co/am6tK7o…
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RT @mcclure111: A country has just debuted a hashtag to inform the international community that they have been invaded https://t.co/9Tyj3JC…
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RT @nachimir: Two different people stating they think the term "gamer" is over: dangolding.tumblr.com/post/95985875943/the-end-of-gamers gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_to_be_your_audience_Gamers_are_over.php I'm down with…
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ah goddamn I want to have an anime avatar but I don't want to lose my grandfathered transparent cube, what to do, what to do.
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ps ilu @leighalexander
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@thricedotted no, but you can't upload transparent avatars any more. I lose the cube -- it's gone for good.
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@KommanderKlobb are you the voice of sanity, or of anti-anime prejudice?
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@mousefountain please do!
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@KommanderKlobb I'm going to go watch some Yowamuchi Pedal now, just to spite you.
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I kinda assumed that we'd have to build a better games culture alongside the existing one, but y'all are much more optimistic than me.
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@lauraehall @hondanhon @tomcoates @mink_ette it's gender prediction is crap, as Minkette can attest.
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@Fortress_Inman i miss the old internet
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@jukiokallio huh, really? that's awful
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Just learnt (via @jukiokallio) that Game Maker can't make OSX builds unless you pay Apple $99/year help.yoyogames.com/entries/42365238-Develop-And-Distribute-To-Mac-OS-X
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@KommanderKlobb but... but... he might start singing the song!
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This anime has got really gay.
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It's great!
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@twoscooters @RobotStand I'm with Elizabeth here.
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@RobotStand @twoscooters I like my friends, I think they're great.
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@whatisian @RobotStand @twoscooters Possibly a different question : it becomes problematic when it mediates access to power.
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Nintendo in "confusingly similar name for new console" shocker.
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goin' to EMF Camp tonight! Excited for it!
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Thoughts on male (electronic) musicians using female-coded names & imagery? Like Cashmere Cat, Ana Caprix, etc?
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I made a scripting language for our game and "=" works for equality and it's clearly a good idea (cuz it's used), but it makes me feel icky.
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@ragekit Entirely possible! Given these are identities offered up in place of any personal information, it's hard to say.
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Like, it's pretty pervasive within all this PC Music stuff : pitchfork.com/features/rising/9237-sophie/ "Sophie—who is assumed to be male"
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@dustinfreeman err... it kind of happened by accident? but also no existing systems for scripting dialogue seemed to fit
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RT @phoenixperry: The Feynman Lectures on Physics available in HTML5 free. openculture.com/2014/08/the-feynman-lectures-on-physics-the-most-popular-physics-book-ever-written-now-completely-online.html
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@heather_r ✂️
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Explaining Prefabs to someone suspicious of the Unity3D editor. Usually I'm defensive of it, but in this case...
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@ADAMATOMIC @martinhollis @flantz @RobotMeyer @108 @bfod @doougle you could spackle over that with some filler levels.
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@nachimir @hannahnicklin @DixonaT I need to pack and leave and travel and arrive ... from more or less now.
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@delacian There's a request for feedback on the forums recently (and they previewed a system at Unite '12...)
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i ate too many grapes and now i feel weird
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@jonathanprior "I saw a wino and he was eating grapes, and I was like : Dude. You have to wait."
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@mooonmagic ✂️
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@aanand any emoji
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On a train to Bletchley!
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I sure hope this tent I've never used before is easy to put up in the dark without a torch!
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@discordianfish @aanand all the emojis, in order
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Emojli opinion : whitespace would provide more utility than it would significantly compromise the aesthetic purity of the experience.
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@KommanderKlobb I've got some gin with me. It'll be fine
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@jonathanprior I'm actually reasonably capable in the outdoors.
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I, admittedly in a slightly inebriated state, cannot find anything wrong with this as a response to recent events. instarbooks.tumblr.com/post/96063210088/re-twine-games-and-the-harassment-of-zoe-quinn
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@Wub0tronic why would I care about "the gamer's perspective"?
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@srules yeaaaaaaah! I'm ... Wandering around? Call me or tweet at me when you're on site and I'll come find you
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@srules you do! My phone was just in my bag & I didn't hear it. Sorry! Just tried calling
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Just released a game from a tent in a field.
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Well, I guess until I tweet the link I've not really released it. Anyway:
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Me and @hannahnicklin went to the Oxford Playhouse last week, and we made a game about being a pigeon. Play it here: glitchpigeon.tumblr.com/post/96171531545/hey-heres-the-prototype-of-our-cool-silly-game
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@srules bad hoodie vimeo.com/104417613
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@caraellison @jennatar I think when you finish travelling, if you keep the Patreon, people will continue to support it.
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@caraellison @jennatar People are funding *you* more than the project.
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@tweetnotnat @hannahnicklin thank you so much for handing it in! Have it back now.
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Last night I and @hannahnicklin did a performance of Anne Hathaway: Erotic Mouthscape and it was the best thing and I want to do it on stage
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@patrickashe @hannahnicklin hey Pat ^^
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I'm in a tent and I don't want to deal with my problems. I'm not in Amsterdam.
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@hannahnicklin 4 favs so far
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EMF Camp instagram.com/p/sXP3KctoyN/
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@haze______ you should have come! You'd like it here.
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@haze______ ALSO : David tells me you have loads of installation games basically done? Tell me about them! Submit them to Wild Rumpus!
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Seeing a little of Twitter (in a field, waiting for a pizza) makes me glad I've not been reading it this weekend.
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(There's wifi in the field)
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@jmickle_ next time I am going to bully lots of games people to come
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@haze______ I'm actually camping with them! But yeah, I understand money issues :(
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@haze______ of course I do! Hit me up on Skype some time this week? I'm georgebuckenham on there.
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"What do you think about serious games?"
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I enjoy it when people play along with the joke.
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I'm stuck on 730 #desertgolfing
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This talk is beautiful. "Did you submit it to 4chan?" "Did you submit your result to the Online Encylopedia Of Integer Sequences?"
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(Both questions completely relevant - the answers were "no" and "yes" respectively) #emfcamp
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The desert doesn't care about you.
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Indifferent Games.
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@hannahnicklin haha! I'd love for it to have photographed graphics actually - a Mason Lindroth feel...
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Goodbye EMF Camp. You were a good thing, and those responsible should feel proud.