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Tweets from 2015/02

  1. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette if I'd only left my computer on... we could have been looking forward to Rhinestone right now...
  2. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette I am enjoying hamming it up a bit, to be fair.
  3. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette Also: let's!
  4. RT @retroremakes: It's not just the accents, it's someone felt it was appropriate to treat all videogames as spectacle, like everything has…
  5. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes Mind, I can think of sensitive, respectful, interesting ways to treat Beeswing as spectacle. But this isn't it.
  6. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke My realistic hopes are that Labour starts considering being a party of the left again. (I have other hopes, too)
  7. …in reply to @elibrody
    @elibrody @mink_ette That's not me! Twitter pic links are confusing. @esaxey/561867217693081600
  8. …in reply to @D_Nye_Griffiths
    @D_Nye_Griffiths oh, shit, i never responded. yes! About to head Dahn Sauwf
  9. A Beekeepers Guide To Game Design (@hollygramazio wrote some game poems) hollygramazio.net/blog/2015/2/1/a-beekeepers-guide-to-game-design
  10. …in reply to @st33d
    @st33d ooh! How are you finding Twine 2?
  11. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern I just turned mine off.
  12. Still pissed that the FUCKING MYTHBUSTERS got to design games for astronauts to play. They're not even fucking game designers! Gah!
  13. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp okay okay okay okay okay okay, that is TRUE But I'm still mad.
  14. …in reply to @rclarke
  15. …in reply to @Poxican
    @Poxican @patrickashe Yes! Pat's holding the inventory - order from gamesforpeople.bigcartel.com/ and he can post it, or else carry a copy to you.
  16. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe Damn! That's a handsome book. Wonder if Jerry'll have a copy for me tonight.
  17. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe "be the change you want to see in the world"
  18. "be the change you want to see in the world" is my favourite way of telling someone to go fuck themselves
  19. LRT : Finally! This is something I have bitched about for years. (The Guardian is way ahead on this, sadly)
  20. RT @timoncheese: Schools rated 'requires improvement' could be forced to become academies. That rating was renamed not so long ago from 'sa…
  21. …in reply to @JonRemedios
    @JonRemedios @robertpeacock22 @ssmpgame oh, the terror fades to a dull ache before you know it (congrats!)
  22. …in reply to @robertpeacock22
    @robertpeacock22 @JonRemedios @ssmpgame if freelancing / contracting : 3. If making your own thing : 1.5 x til you expect income.
  23. …in reply to @JonRemedios
    @JonRemedios @robertpeacock22 @ssmpgame that's mainly accounting, though. If you have grant funding, then you have income.
  24. …in reply to @JonRemedios
    @JonRemedios @robertpeacock22 @ssmpgame now your challenge becomes the normal business thing of revenue, profit and cash flow. No sweat!
  25. RT @lorenschmidt: @katierosepipkin this led me here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolith they live inside stones!
  26. Little kids drawing big fat hairy-balled veiny cocks in the condensation of the back window of the bus in front and giggling massively.
  27. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir @smestorp technically more sporting equipment but they didn't actually make a bad fist of it.
  28. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @pippinbarr it was hidden by dead leaves¶
  29. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @patrickashe I've always wanted to visit Seattle.
  30. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @patrickashe "The Windy City" "The City Of Wind"
  31. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @patrickashe True story: I wrote that tweet, thought "that doesn't seem right", googled it, thought "Yup, Chicago" and posted.
  32. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @patrickashe honestly I feel terrible about it
  33. RT @Arndreth: Oh my god @KBsGameTOILET made me my own custom Arnie vs robocop game cc @SpiltMilkStudio @iceblight
  34. RT @retroremakes: "This new Tenya Wanya Teens controller really takes the piss"
  35. …in reply to @srules
    @srules See previous communication re communication
  36. RT @imgconvos: @smestorp a sweet whisper from @smestorp, @v21, @pippinbarr, and @elibrody
  37. …in reply to @IneffectiveMath
    @IneffectiveMath bless you! I wonder what complex system was angering me...
  38. I got a review of a tweet from June last year. Apparently it is "like a crystalline gem of empathy and insight". Rad!
  39. @UltraCobalt will teach you how to wear clothes that make you feel good and like you know how to wear clothes. howtobuildawardrobe.com/
  40. .@UltraCobalt will teach you how to wear clothes that make you feel good and like you know how to wear clothes. howtobuildawardrobe.com/
  41. …in reply to @v21
    @UltraCobalt wait, fuck, i fucked that up
  42. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario radddddd! congrats!
  43. This is the problem I have with the "Finish Your Game" rant. (from They Became What They Beheld, via @vihartvihart)
  44. MT @badmachinery Nature fact: broccoli is mustard's son I learnt this recently! Mustard has had a lot of weird shit done to it.
  45. the fix for people stealing keyless cars is to ban anyone the car companies don't like from having tools engadget.com/2015/02/03/london-keyless-car-theft/
  46. …in reply to @erghat
    @erghat Not aware there's any limitation on buying key-blanks/cutting equipment. If you're acting sus with lockpicks on you, then...
  47. …in reply to @v21
    @erghat but that's the same as looking sus with a OBD thingy on you. And ODB thingys are also useful for non-theft reasons.
  48. …in reply to @erghat
    @erghat brb, watching the 868-HACK trailer again
  49. …in reply to @erghat
    @erghat I mean, it's basically Kerckhoffs's principle in effect again.
  50. @CamdenPT bug report : your website looks like this when I go to buy a ticket (cptheatre.co.uk/showTickets.php?show=657, OSX/Firefox)
  51. RT @cher: I was looking at tweets & saw that i really hurt someones feelings ! Im sorry. It was light blue background with white egg shape…
  52. I just unretweeted that so I could retweet it again.
  53. bot of the day @erowidrecruiter like some of the best, great joke that contains many more great jokes within it
  54. …in reply to @v21
    @aphyr hey, did you manually curate @erowidrecruiter, or are they all just that good?
  55. …in reply to @slunglowalan
    @slunglowalan I think this is pretty common when visiting other cities and experiencing their indie dev scenes.
  56. …in reply to @v21
    @slunglowalan most problems reveal themselves over time/most exciting things are more exciting when they're new/people get more irritating
  57. …in reply to @musebloom
    @musebloom You're working at the V&A!? You should meet @tigershungry!
  58. RT @wikisext: sext: you shoot toward your opponent's backhand...i softly make my opponent play my style of game
  59. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @joonturbo I'm getting some great inspiration for my workshop
  60. RT @tante: Every algorithm carries the mental model of the world its makers conceptualized, their prejudices, ideas and mistakes.
  61. RT @hellophia: I posted my #HourlyComicDay hourlies, you can go read them now sophiafosterdimino.tumblr.com/post/110083255056/here-are-my-2015-hourlies-it-took-me-two-days-to U◡U
  62. …in reply to @dirtcreaturr
    @fromsmiling I still do
  63. Some people have brought in a extra monitor to this so far bare coworking space. On it I can see the the muted face of Steve Brule.
  64. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood huh! That's me tomorrow morning.
  65. …in reply to @aphyr
    @aphyr @erowidrecruiter that makes sense! Good work on the bot, by the way.
  66. Thinking about fulgurite and lightning flowers.
  67. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 things I have thought about multiple times : dithering, The Tyranny Of Structurelessness, places you hang out online.
  68. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 I am pretty happy with ^^ as a summation of what I'm into.
  69. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
  70. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu jealous
  71. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    .@_JakeTucker My Talk Will Completely Revolutionize Your Life. I Will Give You A New Purpose And A New Direction.
  72. I probably shouldn't ask this, but : does anyone going to Screenshake want a Boop bag? (gamesforpeople.bigcartel.com/product/boop-tote-bag)
  73. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy fuck! I bought some bagels last night, and I totally forgot to bring them to work.
  74. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth looking at this tweet, and regretting I never wrote that 10,000 word essay about my feelings on this topic so I could link it
  75. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @psychicteeth @bentosmile @nachimir Yeah - it's a failure. Wasn't needed within the context it was invented it, and when the ...
  76. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @psychicteeth @bentosmile @nachimir ... context changed it was too late to add it.
  77. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @edclef they definitely do! Or, the boundary line between implicit/explicit rule is super fuzzy with them.
  78. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @edclef the problem is actually more subtle, I think? People assumed that people who were with people who were booping were...
  79. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @edclef ...also booping. Which is wrong, but understandable. Also, playing needs to be reaffirmed each time.
  80. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @edclef but the game itself is about a lack of consent! It's pleasure is in the "oh! damn you!"
  81. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @edclef the compromise we tried to strike was making it the least invasive touch we could imagine - ie the elbow.
  82. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @edclef But of course, people want to up the stakes. :/
  83. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @edclef (it's also weird to think so deeply about literally a few seconds worth of design thought...)
  84. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @failnaut @psychicteeth (well, there was always "Barry", but that's so explicitly hostile it wasn't dangerous)
  85. …in reply to @failnaut
    @failnaut @edclef @psychicteeth yeah, agreed - but I've not seen Barry go wrong in the same way Clavicle did.
  86. "So you bred a fox with a shark and put it in the air... what would you call it?" I love game design questions.
  87. Just got a mention I'd be cheating to look at.
  88. Recommendations wanted : a twine game where the nodes correspond to places in the world which is also reasonably short?
  89. …in reply to @v21
    Porpentine has made some amazing Twines that fit this description (Skulljhabit, With Those We Love Alive), but they also tend to be longer.
  90. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke beginning of March...?
  91. I've got a Tintin like flip in my hair today and I'm p pleased with it.
  92. …in reply to @v21
    This is especially relevant because I'm in Belgium
  93. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker It's suffered from it's long journey. Imagine Tintin and pretend my hair looks like that.
  94. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker (except, like, a different colour)
  95. RT @insuperlative: all of this burgeoning empathy directed towards androids is either bc we think we're androids or bc androids are taking …
  96. RT @deepquestionbot: What if you found an egg in a dishwasher, instead of in a refrigerator?
  97. the more contexts I see git used in, the more I believe that It Is Bad And Should Be Stopped.
  98. …in reply to @v21
    you could also rewrite that as "the more people I try to explain git to"
  99. …in reply to @v21
    people need to stop building "use git to" into workflows that could be useful for people who shouldn't need to be subjected to git
  100. …in reply to @undefined
    @x_glitch no! none of this! this is a bad way to a) learn about tacos and b) teach people about tacos.
  101. …in reply to @undefined
    @x_glitch sure, it is good for "learning git" but that is a BULLSHIT TASK (unless you will use it every day of your working life)
  102. …in reply to @v21
    @x_glitch what if I just want to push this toy project to heroku? What if I just want to let an artist get the latest build of a game?
  103. …in reply to @v21
    any tool i feel the necessity to teach with the words "this will go wrong, it's not your fault, it's normal, don't feel bad" is a BAD TOOL
  104. …in reply to @undefined
    .@x_glitch I want to be able to share and collaborate with people who are not coders/have put the years into learning git
  105. …in reply to @Ag3nt4kbar
    .@al_grimes it's powerful! it does great stuff! but why do you have to understand that power to push a toy twitterbot to heroku?
  106. …in reply to @undefined
    @x_glitch every time I have used something like this it has hit a git edge case and broken in a way that needs complex terminal magic to fix
  107. …in reply to @TomNullpointer
    @TomNullpointer we've been using it for Mutazione for years. Doing tech support for the rest of the team still takes up some of my time.
  108. …in reply to @undefined
    @x_glitch broadly yes! (there's an infinity of hard details). but my opinion now is that it is doomed if it is underlain by git.
  109. …in reply to @TomNullpointer
    @TomNullpointer what do you use instead?
  110. People at Screenshake! You can't read this tweet 'cuz the wifi is bad. But I'm giving a microtalk at 7. About BOTS.
  111. …in reply to @tripawaysilver
    @brammichielsen @bekokstover Sadly it's a set of tabs in a browser? I can send you a list of links to load, or I can plug in my laptop?
  112. I will confess: I am not sure I feel entirely ready to give a workshop for 3 hours. (I went to bed 6 hours ago)
  113. …in reply to @v21
    The workshop went well! I'll post up the Twines people made once I have Internet that allows me to upload to my site.
  114. …in reply to @v21
  115. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo got one on me, back from eating bad Chinese now
  116. RT @zoewi: #screenshake @v21 talks Twitter bots #screenshake2015 #hypertalks vine.co/v/OU7JBMP62ri
  117. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo ah shit, we went to the bar. Will bring it tomorrow.
  118. RT @Manda_like_wine: Imagine what your life could be like if you didn't click back and forth between the same five websites everyday longin…
  119. bot of the day : @4myrealfriends prime Darius Kazemi work
  120. …in reply to @rje
    @rje @patrickashe this is big big news.
  121. where i'm at right now is a cafe in Brussels eating whipped cream off a hot chocolate and writing emails
  122. …in reply to @v21
    I've never been to Brussels before
  123. …in reply to @fastramdesign
    @fastramdesign I'm really tired and I'm behind on things and I need sugar to keep me going.
  124. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty I'm only here for another two hours, most of which will be spent continuing to write emails :<
  125. …in reply to @fastramdesign
    @fastramdesign I'm also eating a tasty cheesecake!
  126. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @nachimir @sargoth @mcclure111 Apparently since last year Unicode works!?
  127. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal Ebbsfleet, but : same.
  128. RT @partytimeHXLNT: Speaking of homebrew, I just posted a video showing a ~sweet-n-fun~ hack of Animal Crossing. youtube.com/watch?v=KkDweI9U4Jg ht…
  129. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @TRUTRUTRULUV you and me both (had fun) (and @compositeredfox, too!)
  130. RT @hannahnicklin: And, games pals, reminder: 3 x £30k digital/creative-ish creative fellow opportunities from @thespacearts rn: http://t.c…
  131. RT @wikisext: sext: you slowly turn off my light and let them get some sleep
  132. …in reply to @aeleitch
    @aeleitch isn't it just!
  133. RT @hollygramazio: Blog post, of sorts: A Beekeeper's Guide to Game Design hollygramazio.net/blog/2015/2/1/a-beekeepers-guide-to-game-design
  134. RT @ManyJams: Game Jam against Iggy Azalea #IggyAzaleaJam
  135. RT @ManyJams: Charity Game Jam for Taylor Swift #TaylorSwiftJam
  136. RT @LOOOST_LEVELS: HEY EVERYONE! Lost Levels is returning for 2015 in a fabulous new indoor location! Stay tuned for more details!
  137. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin hey look! a rest day!
  138. …in reply to @undefined
    @Bluesweatshirt ah, the great thing about No Man's Sky is that they haven't made any specific wild promises, just hinted them all.
  139. bot of the day : @jvdgoot's former _ebooks it resulted in a police visit for generating a death threat to another bot algopop.tumblr.com/post/110719553018/twitter-bot-death-threats-and-the-police-jeffry
  140. lovely 3D cellular automata vimeo.com/105417695
  141. Minor irritation : programming something where the most common thing has an identical singular and plural word.
  142. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 I should probably start littering my code with "List<Species> speciess"
  143. …in reply to @Flexi23
    @Flexi23 I mean, but that's basically Hungarian notation...
  144. …in reply to @phillmv
    @phillmv no doubt! I am curious for more details myself. But I see no reason to doubt that this isn't at least part of the truth
  145. …in reply to @phillmv
    @phillmv and ultimately the police were right : it's his responsibility. You can't just wave your hands and say "oh, Markov..."
  146. …in reply to @v21
    @phillmv (which is very different from saying it's his intention, ofc)
  147. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow There's always "bool?"
  148. …in reply to @Babycastles
    @Babycastles Assume you've got Rara Racer?
  149. RT @AidanJohnMoffat: Did you know that Charli XCX dances like Ian Curtis when she sings Taylor Swift songs? Me neither, but she does: http:…
  150. @caraellison that last quote!
  151. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison Ah, it lost the reply... Kanye saying : "I don't have plaques, I have no awards. My greatest award is what I'm about to do."
  152. …in reply to @tanepiper
    @tanepiper @mountain_ghosts @tef no, the spec allows either : history.pushState or history.replaceState. GH just made the wrong choice.
  153. …in reply to @camyule
    @camyule @HilariousCow @Ungapants And what matters more than code knowledge is tool knowledge - version control, Unity editor, etc.
  154. …in reply to @tigershungry
  155. …in reply to @Ungapants
    @Ungapants @camyule @HilariousCow right (and that happens to coders as well). Supporting non-devs when this happens is part of the job
  156. …in reply to @Ungapants
    @Ungapants @camyule @HilariousCow but ideally it's a small part, y'know?
  157. …in reply to @Ungapants
    @Ungapants @camyule @HilariousCow (and, also worth noting, that this usually happens because the tools are bad)
  158. …in reply to @Ungapants
    @Ungapants @camyule @HilariousCow I guess a parallel is me being capable of making adjustments in photoshop (even if I can't draw)
  159. this is a rubbish time to get ill
  160. where can i go to buy a suit? not too expensive, not too terrible, suitable for occasions
  161. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario this seems like one of these "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it" things
  162. …in reply to @erghat
    @erghat I mean, it'd scale with the suit. But mainly: my interest here is fulfilling the requirement "own a suit". £200 at the high end.
  163. RT @joeheenan: #amazingphotos Sand, magnified over 100 times, looks like this.
  164. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef the comma feels super patronizing
  165. …in reply to @MituK
    @MituK @edclef I don't do that because then it's really obvious if you've forgotten someone's name.
  166. …in reply to @keefstuart
    @keefstuart Global Illumination stuff is important because it means the end of brown/grey videogames.
  167. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @edclef ugh. "No Feigned Surprise" really needs to spread far beyond Hacker School.
  168. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @edclef and yeah, it's just something about the way it's forced into sentences rather than just appended somewhere
  169. …in reply to @riklomas
    @riklomas @anna_debenham starting a new thing is often a horrible way to give back?
  170. …in reply to @CoralineAda
    @CoralineAda @mcclure111 to be fair here, a bunch of these technologies were inspired by trying to make a thing that works like a brain
  171. …in reply to @CoralineAda
    @CoralineAda @mcclure111 heh. that's a whole other can of worms, there.
  172. RT @vogon: you know what'd be fucked up, putting a down pillow in one of those hatoful body pillow cases
  173. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
  174. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @TRUTRUTRULUV yeah - i mean, i wouldn't be cruel, and i'd obviously love it for what they got out of it, but i'd be honest
  175. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @TRUTRUTRULUV on the other hand, totally got crushes rn that came via their work
  176. #imakegameshere
  177. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry it's tidier than it was
  178. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry if by curate you mean "moved two other bits of crockery out of shot" then yes
  179. RT @nachimir: @hollygramazio Likewise. As @Oddminzer said to me re office ball pits: "Are you a zany enough dude to eradicate the concept o…
  180. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro it's the sign from the first time it was played!
  181. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 the low stuff is the best! I remember really liking Measure for Measure last time I thought about it.
  182. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I am in the UK, so I am not sure how far ahead we are with cards (we are further ahead), but:
  183. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 - chip and pin is a little SIM card like thing that only works when it's got electrical contacts. requires a PIN to pay.
  184. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 - and contactless : valid for up to £20, passive RFID chip, range depends on antenna (normal antenna is < 5cm)
  185. …in reply to @StuHorvath
    @StuHorvath it's not really. it's more like [UK] The Office, or Pulling.
  186. …in reply to @mountain_ghosts
    @mountain_ghosts I read that as a Spiderman tweet.
  187. …in reply to @nachimir
  188. …in reply to @emeraldsong
    @emeraldsong they're both mustard *shrug*
  189. RT @lorenschmidt: my patreon is up! please help me regain financial stability and make amazing art. patreon.com/vacuumflowers (please RT!) htt…
  190. "some reasons why Peter Molyneux is a games journalist’s wet dream" (a view from 10 years ago) (sorry @kierongillen) gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/assorted-essays/how-to-use-and-abuse-the-games-press-and-how-the-games-press-wants-to-use-and-abuse-you/
  191. It is normal, and good, and completely fine that developers and consumers have different interests.
  192. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke that's just a line from a Le Tigre song to me.
  193. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe do what I did. Lure it up your trousers.
  194. bot of the day : @romancingbot it's location, "The Tomb of St Valentine" (any other day, it'd probably be Cosmo sex tips) [via @mtrc]
  195. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier frankly I admire anyone who can get that far in life off the back of their Twilight fanfic.
  196. …in reply to @ragzouken
    @ragzouken 10 years!
  197. …in reply to @v21
    @ragzouken from a time when being an indie dev was a story by itself.
  198. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe remind me and I'll tell you the story. Spoiler: it involves mice going up my trousers.
  199. "these are my toys, because I got them for Christmas" "but we have to share"
  200. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth they sold "The Diane Tapes" after the show ended
  201. What's the shortest gap between Kickstarting a game and Early Access? Thinking about the various forms of "preordering"
  202. thinking about bernband hands
  203. …in reply to @v21
    I think I'm going to end up linking this blogpost whenever anyone suggests that there's glory in overworking yourself to make a game.
  204. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I haven't figured out the pulleys, but I think I can make some good hands. Can we recruit a volunteer to wave them?
  205. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo it's good to have options
  206. RT @webbedspace: *reads code* "Yeesh, I can't believe I wrote such neophyte code. I'm so much more skilled now!" *adds three more layers of…
  207. …in reply to @TomNullpointer
  208. RT @nachimir: and as "industry" settles on new centres, so too will everything else settle on new fringes.
  209. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern wait... Maybe it's just a transliteration due to technical limitations in the title formatting?
  210. Playtesting is great because you have to sit down and think about your game and not fix anything for a bit.
  211. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe yes, and yes. I'll arrive late, though! Will be on a train after this g&t
  212. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe missed that train, had another drink, no train at 7,should hopefully arrive about when Girlpool starts. 😴
  213. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I can't remember what that emoji looks like on non - Android. "slumped" is the emotion I was trying to convey.
  214. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe *remembers that I'm super late because I'm far away, not because things have happened already*
  215. RT @patrickashe: Still got a spare ticket to Girlpool tonight at the Lexington if anyone wants it? Happy to give it away free.
  216. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I never actually saw this tweet! But everything worked out for the best, anyway!
  217. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe sorry i was so late - we should go get a beer and catch up properly soon? ie before seattle funtimes
  218. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro @PistachioRoux @patrickashe ahhh, sorry to be a tease! we just change planes there on the way to GDC.
  219. RT @WordMercenary: Cameron wants young people to work 30 hours a week to get their benefits. This is forced labour at below minimum wage. P…
  220. I really liked @lmichet's out-of-order Twine game, The Hive Abroad. lauramichet.com/hiveabroad/ In fact, it's the best sci-fi I've read all year.
  221. …in reply to @undefined
    @adragonbee "gay lifecycle"
  222. …in reply to @AGBear
    @AGBear they should sell "fresh" pancake mix : just add eggs and milk.
  223. RT @tom_armitage: I wrote a bit more about that passage from Ubik that got quoted a lot, Bruno Latour, and Owning Things, at my blog: http:…
  224. I am excited for the return of Zoombinis (but mainly for the surge in attention it'll bring to The Illogical Journey of the Zambonis)
  225. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance @renaudbedard hackertyper makes you feel cool -- it's just that there's no reason to engage with it more deeply.
  226. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance @renaudbedard thinking of Bayonetta - I was shit at it, but I still felt cool, still felt my movements as fluid.
  227. bot of the day : @everybird_ there are a lot of birds
  228. …in reply to @st33d
    @st33d pen & paper is hard to implement! really hard! i wish games still came in boxes... could just bung some in... little golf pencils...
  229. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir s/week/month/ here... we'll get through
  230. I read an article about a cool new game, and it mentioned another game releasing soon. I have to do a bunch of work on that game.
  231. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 I finished skimming the article, and it mentioned an event I have to do work for soon! This is both cool and tiring.
  232. Every UI I make, things move round in a circle. I should stop doing that.
  233. @tigershungry one fer yer messy desks collection : @ThomasGrip/568045227375792128
  234. …in reply to @archillect
    @archillect who made this?
  235. …in reply to @leviathan_bound
    @adurdin @archillect @fullbright looks like it _might_ be Martin Mayer/@sinsynplus? sinsynplus.tumblr.com
  236. …in reply to @v21
    @adurdin @archillect @fullbright @sinsynplus ha, it clearly is, his header photo is a still from the same work.
  237. RT @arusbridger: Gov't admits spy agencies' handling of legally-privileged communications haven't complied w EU human rights law since 2010
  238. bot of the day : @VengaBoom boom boom boom boom i wanna double boom let's spend the night together together in my room
  239. I thought long and hard as to whether I was going to do "bot of the day" twice, or if that would break the format. I concluded: fuck it.
  240. …in reply to @v21
    "I wanna double boom"
  241. Pretty much the one time a year that indies need a job title is here. It's GDC pass form-filling time!
  242. …in reply to @v21
    (swap in "company" above if you like)
  243. …in reply to @v21
    (also apologies if this tweet made you feel like you had an obligation to go to GDC. You really don't)
  244. Always worth remembering : on average your friends are, on average, more popular than you.
  245. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu wait... than you?
  246. excited about a big leaf
  247. …in reply to @Darren_D_Daley
    @Darren_D_Daley @lexicobob This might be a Shader Model 3 / Shader Model 2 thing?
  248. RT @LOOOST_LEVELS: Lost Levels details! Where: Game Nest 222 7th St Second Floor San Francisco, CA When: Wednesday, March 4th, 1-5 PM
  249. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I just came here to tweet that very same thing! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
  250. RT @ADAMATOMIC: indie games are easy, just be famous already and have a year of funding to find the perfect compromise between innovation a…
  251. Going through tech requirements for a games event, and gosh! Mac support has gotten better the past few years. (I blame Unity, mainly)
  252. The Quiet Year is one of the most important games around right now killscreendaily.com/articles/quiet-year-tabletop-game-building-communities/
  253. …in reply to @squidlarkin
    @squidlarkin glad English has it's head screwed on right
  254. …in reply to @squidlarkin
    @squidlarkin I agree; literally garbage.
  255. RT @rom_txt: RESCUE ATTEMPT. RESCUE HER IGNORE HER CRIES - FINAL VICTORY - DEFEATING THE LAST ENEMY - #defcrownu (NES)
  256. #screenshotsaturday
  257. …in reply to @eleanorturney
    @eleanorturney I don't know why I decided to skip coming into SH today...
  258. bot of the day : @nk_markov (via theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/20/north-korea-meme-generator-kim-jong-un) North Korea is one of the worst human rights crises in the world why is this funny?
  259. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal wait... i don't care about final fantasy at all, but put that way it sounds like it could be good
  260. …in reply to @st33d
    @st33d who doesn't love a good donk?
  261. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @mink_ette that makes perfect sense! ah! (cuz xylem is a ... structure? ... in plants, ofc)
  262. …in reply to @v21
    I keep seeing people praising books that teach you git. I want something like git that I don't need to read books to use. (still mad)
  263. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr half a bee on a little stick!
  264. do i quickly make a break for the pub, or do this stuff i really ought to do?
  265. …in reply to @v21
    the danger, of course, is that I do Sit On Twitter And Read Some Internet :<
  266. I think maybe my biggest failure as a game designer is failing to do justice to 212.
  267. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I looked back at this thread, and i guess @jonbro shares my assumptions @jonbro/563856306415484928
  268. RT @rom_txt: swim all the way to the left and then down as deep as you and you know what else? what? - #toejam2 (Genesis)
  269. RT @deepquestionbot: If a universe is not vast, is it still a universe?
  270. RT @patrickashe: Do you have a game that features elements of performance? Let me know, looking for stuff for the next Beta Public. http://…
  271. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe you should show @pippinbarr 's Epic Sax Guy gams
  272. A Saturday evening game poem for you harrygiles.org/2015/02/21/ill-check-my-diary/
  273. RT @mwegner: Garbage collection is like accepting a tradeoff that might make sense given your project/team/schedule/platform.
  274. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood agreed - but it's not quite that insane, if it's $10 a month for a one-off reward.
  275. RT @heygateplaza: This is the brutal legacy of regeneration for the Heygate estate's tenants #socialcleansing @PeterPannier/388653763939934209/photo/1
  276. RT @webbedspace: "Every animal body is its habitat replied: a rebuke to a hostile world. We are all that first prokaryote, deep inside our …
  277. we announced a lineup for our party <3 thatvenuspatrolwildrumpusparty.com/
  278. RT @knock2bot: Knock knock! Who's there? Slough! Slough who? Slough off!
  279. …in reply to @thricedotted
    @thricedotted is it too good, or too bad?
  280. @jonbro is your birthday?! HAPPY BIRTHTIME
  281. …in reply to @D_Nye_Griffiths
    @D_Nye_Griffiths @_JakeTucker @failnaut @GriddleOctopus yellow one is the best. because they make the bagels fresh for you!
  282. …in reply to @GriddleOctopus
    @GriddleOctopus @D_Nye_Griffiths @_JakeTucker @failnaut They both bake fresh, but the top (white) one prefills them.
  283. I am excited for @hannahnicklin's new project, a residency at VideoBrains where she goes on walks with people. hannahnicklin.com/2015/02/videobrains/
  284. …in reply to @v21
    INCLUDING (and this is the important bit) me. We're gonna try to walk from my house to the one I grew up in without a map. @hannahnicklin
  285. …in reply to @v21
    also you should give @hannahnicklin some money for it : patreon.com/hannahnicklin?rf=205825 (I have)
  286. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker @hannahnicklin So... I think the secret is to follow the Thames? I think I can remember the way from Kingston town center.
  287. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker @hannahnicklin if needs be, we can survive off "urban foraging"
  288. …in reply to @v21
    @_JakeTucker @hannahnicklin aka some packs of Monster Munch and a few tinnies from a corner shop.
  289. RT @molleindustria: Doctor @thecatamites on active learning
  290. …in reply to @Seemo
    @Seemo I've seen millions of pebbles over the course of my life.
  291. RT @HonestWilliam: My new business cards arrived!!! #gdc #indiedev #networking
  292. @hyper_linda I just remembered you have my Game Design Vocab book. Can you drop it round at some point? I wanna lend it out again!
  293. …in reply to @hyper_linda
    @hyper_linda No actual deadline, just remembered you had it.
  294. …in reply to @ntlk
    @ntlk ah! I remember failing to find a good pithy quote to tweet that out with - that's the one! Good work.
  295. RT @crashtxt: ⠀ ⠀     ▅▅▅▅      ▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅   ▅▅▅▅▅▅   ▅▅▅▅    ▅▅▅▅   ▅▅▅▅    ▅▅▅▅▅▅▅      ▅▅▅▅▅     ▅▅    ▅   ▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅   ▅▅▅▅▅▅         ▅▅▅…
  296. RT @crackintheroad: How it would look if the Reading / Leeds line-up only included the acts that have a female musician in the band. http:/…
  297. Stress dreams about failing to find a Micro USB cable and going for a ride in @terrycavanagh's helicopter.
  298. …in reply to @whitingjp
    @whitingjp my brother thought he'd found one but it turned out to be a mini USB. 10/10 for verisimilitude.
  299. RT @SpiralChris: Most rules are enforced with draconian efficacy in videogames, but don't forget we can still simply ask the player to play…
  300. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryGiles probably? Fading to yes if you are "making progress" on an ongoing "project"
  301. Feral Vector is going to Yorkshire! feral-vector.com/?p=1165 (I am excited for this brave new world of being on trains more often)
  302. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark @smestorp @mobeenfikree I have heard the trick is to only increment the build number, not the version number.
  303. …in reply to @srules
    @srules sympathy fav
  304. RT @WildRumpus: & look even more Northern larks in Liverpool with Fun Buttons (March 14th) feat. some of our Danish BFFs @CphGC https://t.c…
  305. This state machine got too complex, so I'm tearing bits out and making them extra bools on top. 2½ days to go!
  306. bot of the day : @WorkNo128 hot off the presses and interestingly constrained by it's medium
  307. RT @knock2bot: Knock knock! Who's there? Taxation! Taxation who? Double taxation!
  308. RT @lifewinning: NO YOU CAN'T NAME YOUR STARTUP MAGIC AND THEN THE MAGIC IS JUST ALIENATED LABOR YOU CAN'T DO THAT
  309. Wholeheartedly recommend this image base essay by @aliendovecote artfcity.com/2015/02/25/71166/
  310. I don't remember following @mikeatonlygodth, but I seem to be, anyway.
  311. …in reply to @withoutaplain
    @SinisterAgent @retroremakes I first read that next to an etching of cricket pitches under some looming machinery. It's stuck with me.
  312. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle there was this great reality show - 3 teams of two (plus a cameraman) were blindfolded, put on a plane, a helicopter, then left..
  313. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle... (with backpacks of camping gear, and a small amount of cash). Winner was the first to get to Trafalgar Sq.
  314. …in reply to @crackintheroad
  315. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @HarryGiles damn the poor wifi reception in the kitchen here for making me the second person to tweet that idea!
  316. RT @tildetown: Q: How do you find out the name of an endangered neotenic salamander? A: axolotl questions!
  317. RT @hellophia: ♬ If you're attending That @VenusPatrol & @WildRumpus Party next week, you can buy some lovely zines. See you there ~ http:/…
  318. RT @LineHollis: MEN JUST HAPPEN, WOMEN ARE THROWN: a found art twitpic.com/c5ocjw
  319. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @radiatoryang @webbedspace love the "Michael Brough" that appears in the background of Helix sometimes.
  320. RT @streamofstars: .@ammonite is off to #GDC with the finished @FabBeasts prototype! Great work @tburrellsaward @v21 @seajayshore :D http:/…
  321. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal I really liked last week's! No pressure!
  322. Went from reading about the importance of civil society to walking through Westfield shopping center. Ugh.
  323. …in reply to @v21
    But it's okay - then I went through the Stratford Centre and there was a preacher with a loudspeaker and kids falling over on skateboards.
  324. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Unity refers to them as TRS matrices/transforms (in 3d space, anyway)
  325. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 (I'm not sure the specifics of how they squash shear in nested cases)
  326. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 rotation nested within a non-uniform scale is the only example that comes to mind.
  327. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 this implies a transform tree, though.
  328. …in reply to @hellophia
    @hellophia ALSO: you should get @patrickashe to bring some copies of @hannahnicklin's Games We Have Known And Loved hannahnicklin.bigcartel.com/product/games-we-have-known-and-loved
  329. I am becoming afraid of @hellophia's zine table. I think I might end up overdoing it.
  330. …in reply to @v21
    (I am so happy we're hosting it, though)
  331. "I apologize for writing a thinkpiece." medium.com/message/yes-to-the-dress-5ec06c06aca4
  332. Packing up Wild Rumpus tech and looking wistfully at a pile of VGA & HDMI cables... they'll have them there... but maybe... just in case...
  333. …in reply to @droqen
    @droqen "(byte) value" ?
  334. …in reply to @v21
    @droqen what language is this?
  335. Are there any iOS games that came out recently I should play on the flight? Played Earth Primer, Metamorphabet and Plug & Play already.
  336. Finished about 3 months of work yesterday! It's a digital boardgame you play by stacking blocks in a tower I've been making with @ammonite.
  337. …in reply to @v21
    You can play it at GDC! Come find me (or more relevantly, @ammonite, as he has the stuff in a swish case).
  338. …in reply to @v21
    I feel super proud of it! Came out nicer than I imagined. Beautiful stuff from @tburrellsaward and @streamofstars in there.
  339. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr @ammonite never! It's real blocks stacked in a tower in real life! Come play when we're back!