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Tweets from 2015/10

  1. Went back to SPL-T when I was more awake and got stuck deep enough into trying to balance my verticals and horizontals I missed my stop.
  2. I enjoyed this article about setting ("level design") in bouldering. outsideonline.com/2017711/path-beta-flash-resistance-route-setters
  3. …in reply to @v21
    Now all my twitter ads seem to feature irregularly divided grids and I'm finding that distracting.
  4. …in reply to @actuallyalice
    .@actuallyalice @inskora see, I'm enjoying this new age of indies recapturing the joys of low-poly, low-res early 3D.
  5. …in reply to @dr_d_king
    @dr_d_king nowhere near that! I'm in the low thousands (but probably less than 10 games so far)
  6. this is a fantastical (true) story of the filming of a Russian film in a several year long LARP lrb.co.uk/v37/n19/james-meek/diary
  7. …in reply to @v21
    like...
  8. RT @patrickashe: Also we are doing a 3 night @beta_public on the 17th - 19th November and you should come at least once during it: http://t…
  9. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @resiak what! oh man! i would love to hear more about this.
  10. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @resiak oooh! @radiodario for one. But I also know (obv) a bunch of game designers who might be interested. Will poke. London-based?
  11. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @resiak @FabBeasts and yes! I wonder if @AnnetteMees would like to hear more about this, too...
  12. We still have slots for our regular Fabulous Beasts playtest night tonight. Want play a TOTALLY WORKING game, drink beer and eat pizza?
  13. …in reply to @v21
    Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/fabulous-beasts-playtest-thursdays-tickets-18242359388 (also spaces for the next couple of weeks)
  14. …in reply to @unfortunatalie
    @unfortunatalie sending sympathy
  15. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario @resiak @AnnetteMees could do Sunday evening or Monday. Or join you guys after a thing after work Tuesday :<
  16. …in reply to @v21
    Augh! I shared a viral story created to advertise a website. I feel so tacky. barker.co.uk/londonbed
  17. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle have you played Undertale? That's my big sticky narrative indie game of the moment.
  18. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle haha - that's me with else heart break. also all the Fantastic Arcade games...
  19. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle but yeah - lots of interesting stuff in Undertale. Would be v curious to hear your thoughts on it.
  20. on AI as just a name for the kind of technology you think of as smart (and on framing to achieve this) medium.com/@mtrc/the-frame-f64f6db3cb76
  21. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge sweet! see you later.
  22. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge this isn't the answer you wanted, but... why not do the west highland way? 9 days is plenty of time.
  23. @sheilamu how far did you get? Did you reach the glowy nipples of Nudist Beach?
  24. RT @imgconvos: a lovely dialogue featuring @pixelsorter and @BMPBug
  25. RT @SophieLambrakis: Great fun playtesting @FabBeasts tonight.
  26. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff I just now came to twitter after getting 17000ish, thinking "how could I do better, tho?", rereading tutorial and going "ah".
  27. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff (I've not been thinking about dropping blocks to shake out the points)
  28. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff 26k next run! Whoop
  29. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge if you have the stuff, then you can wild camp along the path.
  30. @alicemazzy *shrug* here, the police have to call for the special police-with-guns when they need to do some shooting people.
  31. via @srules : a paper showing that about 5% of people found a better route to work as a result of the Feb strikes voxeu.org/article/benefits-forced-experimentation
  32. …in reply to @v21
    (because they tried an alternative route, and it was better) this worked out as a (averaged, obv) net gain for disrupted commuters...
  33. …in reply to @v21
    personally, i've enjoyed tube strikes for the enforced disruption to normal routine. there's a communal feeling to it.
  34. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy ... would you advocate that the UK makes gun ownership widely legal (instead of heavily restricted, as it is now)?
  35. All morning have been loving the Grubs album. Good noisy indie pop. 🎶I am a work in progress🎶I am improving slowly🎶 grubs.bandcamp.com/
  36. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb yeah, that was when I realized the full album was out. That was a good mix! I should play the game it was a fanmix of.
  37. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I don't know if that's a Thing thing, but that's the thing that thing was. The game: datenighto.com/game/we-know-the-devil
  38. RT @Snowden: I forgot to turn off notifications. Twitter sent me an email for each: Follow Favorite Retweet DM 47 gigs of notifications. …
  39. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin your mum is amazing. and i'm really sad to hear about the flat.
  40. this is a beautiful exercise: make a mod of Breakout with no knowledge of coding trsp.net/teaching/gamemod/
  41. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff only responding based on this fragment, so apologies if this is covered elsewhere, but... the escape comes outside the game, no?
  42. …in reply to @v21
    @JFriedhoff while you are within the game, you cannot escape the confines of it. but the experience of the game is not just the time within
  43. …in reply to @v21
    @JFriedhoff at which point, you can think about the game in relation to the larger world, and extrapolate out, and think politically.
  44. …in reply to @v21
    @JFriedhoff (this is not really special about games, of course - the magic circle is basically the same as suspension of disbelief)
  45. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff i am cribbing a bunch of this from hearing @hannahnicklin talk about her PhD, btw (hannahnicklin.com/phd/)
  46. we put up all the 128 char games people made at Now Play This! mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/10/02/now-play-this-128char-games/ "First person to make themselves sneeze wins."
  47. RT @immolations: Feudalism may not be perfect but it's the best system we've got. More of us have chainmail today than at any point in hist…
  48. RT @M1NKBOT: Good thing about that time I discovered a Scrabble game I'd designed had been down for a whole day & a half.
  49. I'm on RPS, with a big long lovely feature about me by @hannahnicklin @rockpapershot/650052839637577728
  50. …in reply to @v21
    and now, wonderfully, the RPS comment thread focuses on New Malden.
  51. RT @mcclure111: We have managed to massively simplify the interaction model of our software by trapping you in an enormous slab of crystal
  52. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal that sounds like a fun afternoon
  53. RT @Gib: all those times I met @v21, I couldn't face the awful truth and confess that I haven't the faintest idea of what custard might be
  54. RT @Gib: I don't think we have 'custard' here, or even a word for that
  55. …in reply to @acccent
    .@acccent @Gib right, so. it's a bit confusing. "custard" proper is creme angliase (or a bit thicker). that's tasty, but not what I used.
  56. …in reply to @v21
    .@acccent @Gib Punch The Custard custard is actually a mix of "Bird's Custard Powder" (aka cornflour (w/ flavouring & colour)) and water.
  57. …in reply to @v21
    .@acccent @Gib Bird's Custard Powder, heated with milk, forms an imitation egg free custard, which is popular in Britian & not in other-EU.
  58. bot of the day: postcreditsscene.edjefferson.com/ "We left when the credits started - did we miss anything?" a surprisingly comprehensive database
  59. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow i think this is a really positive step?
  60. …in reply to @v21
    @HilariousCow the process of work can make you happy, but the results, the achievements of work rarely do.
  61. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem did you play Jelly No Puzzle? Thinking about that these days for some reason. Probably cuz it's great.
  62. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem it is very hard. Lots of games I despise for that, but JNP becomes completely charming for the same reasons.
  63. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem English Country Tune has few words, is a puzzle game that's even harder, but they make a even bigger impression.
  64. RT @leighalexander: There is a critical mass of unique, humane and grown up video games. There is one for you, even
  65. RT @Shrubbette: imgur.com/gallery/8EQNG I posted a more indepth explanation of what I do here :)
  66. RT @WilliamChyr: All daily #ManifoldGarden wallpapers are archived here: manifoldgarden.tumblr.com/
  67. …in reply to @partytimeHXLNT
  68. @dreamfeeel yeah - i despise traits way more harshly when know i've exhibited them in the past
  69. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @dreamfeeel it's totally unfair. but otoh, in a sense, it's just giving people exhibiting other flaws the benefit of the doubt.
  70. the tiny affections and hatreds you get for phrases, inanimate objects, certain gestures while doing repetitive work
  71. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette i am annoyed at you! i'll tell you why when we next meet, if we can find somewhere private to talk about it.
  72. …in reply to @e_svedang
    @e_svedang I won't be, but Fabulous Beasts is also going to be there - @rotational and @jukevox are showing it.
  73. RT @BotCarrion: In the old art, a text may be identical with the preceding ones where nothing happens.
  74. …in reply to @angusdick
    @angusdick oh huh, i guess that is tonight. no, i'm not going
  75. RT @molleindustria: @radiatoryang *Phone Story was designed to work as hearsay - after the Super Columbine RPG, Faith Fighter, and Virtual …
  76. …in reply to @undefined
  77. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns @JonRemedios not in my experience?! same with books and TV...
  78. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns @JonRemedios the ways we talk about and hear about games we've not played have changed, but the practice isn't new.
  79. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns @JonRemedios think of the cliched stories of formative game experiences- how many are based on lies about things you never saw?
  80. RT @lorenschmidt: more terrain editing tools in progress- this one's additive
  81. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew King of Dragon Pass achieved a fusion of strategy and narrative that I wish had spawned a whole genre.
  82. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew Oh! And Blood and Laurels is another high water mark of procedural narrative.
  83. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew And Pamplemousse is on iOS, too. Point and click hardboiled musical. Year Walk. A Dark Room.
  84. …in reply to @SFBDim
    @SFBDim @jawsew I can also vouch for this! I would use the word "charming", I think.
  85. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew people keep making games, it's a problem.
  86. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew i'll try *alt-tabs back to making a game*
  87. this morning I am listening to Bjork, an "Irish Coast Sea, Wind and Rain Noise Generator" and the ISS livestream. Recommended.
  88. …in reply to @v21
    I want to make soundscapes now, though. Though the problem of making audio things is you can't listen to audio at the same time.
  89. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore ok ok you can't listen to audio that isn't broken and you hate it for the majority of the process
  90. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere yeah, was on them yesterday mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/windSeaRainNoiseGenerator.php is the one i'm listening to
  91. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore i have not actually done much composition - generally have just been implementing sounds in videogames.
  92. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore but like, I was the one implementing all the audio in the Panoramical scene, and that was fun, so.
  93. China's Sesame Credit system is wild: aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans ("authoritarianism, gamified")
  94. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore it's probably weird that i'm using the excuse of creating procedural systems to dip my toes into other forms.
  95. …in reply to @v21
    @infovore the main thing i learn is that procedural writing is best done by writers, procedural music is best done by musicians, etc...
  96. RT @caseyjohnston: TIL orcas sell out other whales to humans and literally eat their faces after they're caught nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/08/amazing-inner-lives-animals/ http…
  97. …in reply to @hollygramazio
  98. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario yes mate
  99. …in reply to @KingDragonPass
  100. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN i know right?! great design.
  101. RT @siegarettes: Anyhow I've been reading this piece on how women's vocal talents are treated: thenewinquiry.com/essays/radical-strain/
  102. …in reply to @v21
    Update on the ISS: they've tried all the combinations of the username and password, and the default password, and it's not letting them in.
  103. …in reply to @v21
    It's good to know people in literal space have the same kind of problems as you.
  104. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef just the regular ISS stream ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream i only just caught that bit of intermittent radio chatter
  105. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty i read a commanders log once. it was mainly networking problems and films on multiple CDs
  106. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN yeah, i feel the same.
  107. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN yeah, i'd say so too. not that i'm sure there aren't already rewards.
  108. …in reply to @jonty
  109. @resiak this is something I might have scribbled down as a ref for you, if I could remember the search terms heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/
  110. RT @JmeBBK: Bruv, these eCigarettes I see guys smoking nowadays are so tonx. Looks like mans playing a clarinet on the roads.
  111. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke wait... i fetched out the martini rosso yesterday, it should be knocking around the kitchen
  112. …in reply to @chrisoshea
    @chrisoshea @unity3d I have no solution, but I lost a bunch of time to this earlier this evening. So my sympathies.
  113. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisoshea @unity3d (even if you re-enable in the same frame disabling and re-enabling wipes all the state in the Animator)
  114. RT @Papapishu: "I've done it -- I've decoded the secret message Kojima put in MGSV." *looks at wall of strings that point to "David Bowie i…
  115. …in reply to @ElizSimins
    @ElizSimins @TheXbone recall hearing from someone at IGN that their viewership was actually like 30% female, but this approach sold more ads
  116. …in reply to @v21
    @ElizSimins @TheXbone (to be clear, fuck IGN)
  117. …in reply to @chrisoshea
    @chrisoshea @unity3d cba logging into forums on my iPad, but I am pretty sure the suggested workaround won't work. Doesn't keep params.
  118. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisoshea @unity3d you could set again on re-enable, but you might have to wait til LateUpdate to do that. And ugh.
  119. RT @nonhashtag: The perfect man has Matthew Broderick's elasticity, Gotye's elbows & George Buckenham's weird levitation
  120. RT @tullyhansen: “almost every VC-backed startup is trying to build a monopoly to charge rent as long as possible” github.com/substack/data-structures-of-the-revolution
  121. …in reply to @chrisoshea
    @chrisoshea @unity3d lemme know if you find a good workaround!
  122. The Space is going back to filming things and then putting the videos online. thespace.org/news/view/new-commissioning-round
  123. …in reply to @chrisoshea
  124. …in reply to @chrisoshea
    @chrisoshea note you can't just use OnDisable, as the state is gone by that point. You gotta manually fish it out before calling SetActive.
  125. RT @flantz: Why I love Serpentes gamedesignadvance.com/?p=3048
  126. RT @ofcircumstance: @hannahnicklin our new business card :)
  127. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @keefstuart me! Be there Thursday onwards.
  128. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew you're a private detective, solving crimes through the medium of song.
  129. …in reply to @TrillinDaGame
    @TrillinDaGame yeah, that's right at the start
  130. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen hey, I'm still happy they're not trying to kill it with neglect any more
  131. RT @joewintergreen: My TF2 user-generated-content-creator friend (anon) always wows me with tales of how fucked the TF2 biz is these days h…
  132. I wish SPL-T stored game state when you quit it; I'd play it much more if it did.
  133. This is a great article on Dumb Games that ends with the backstory for one of the Games For People games shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/dumb-games-or-why-i-sometimes-yearn-punch-you/
  134. RT @john_overholt: "You know, insecure passwords can be a real highway to the danger zone--hi, I'm Kenny Loggins, but for today you can cal…
  135. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison oh, so I was at BAC earlier and a girl stopped me and said "do you know Cara?".
  136. …in reply to @v21
    @caraellison this isn't a useful story because I didn't recognise her. But she had a good dress on.
  137. RT @wikisext: sext: i tie my remaining three balloon flower petals together as you quietly tie one set of two balloon flower petals together
  138. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew I'm lukewarm on buying a place, but I feel crushed between the desire to keep living near my friends and the immense cost to do so.
  139. …in reply to @v21
    @jawsew And I can afford it now, but if it keeps ratcheting up... that's what house prices mean to me.
  140. …in reply to @v21
    @jawsew if i bought somewhere, it'd be mainly so that i'm not fucked over by future house price rises
  141. RT @mink_ette: You are at a crossroads. Do you want to FOLLOW THE CROWD or JOIN THE BISCUIT UNIT?
  142. RT @9squaresproject: Last chance to get in touch with us if you're a UK-based young animator for a *very* special 9 Squares round. http://t…
  143. Here is the start of Alphabet by Inger Christensen (translated by Susanna Nied) for National Poetry Day
  144. RT @poem_exe: with light hearts beneath melting spring snow walking around, wasting time
  145. …in reply to @DataErase
  146. RT @chadcomix: banana. facts.
  147. RT @unity3d: We're beginning the end-of-life process of the Unity Web Player plugin: blogs.unity3d.com/2015/10/08/unity-web-player-roadmap/ #Unity5
  148. I really like this book cementimental.com/noisebook/
  149. …in reply to @maltron3D
    @maltron3D I just downloaded LightningPaint
  150. My (Californian) flatmate keeps going "yes bruv" in a bad Keira Knightley accent.
  151. RT @emshort: For my taste this is the best IF Comp in 21 years of comp history. Such variety and color; so many authors doing their best wo…
  152. RT @FabBeasts: New high score for @jukevox at #spiel2015: 3438 with all pieces used. Early miracle strategy is strong! http://t.co/3hCROG0s…
  153. …in reply to @TeddyDief
    @TeddyDief @patrickashe @tigershungry ohhh, that was why that was
  154. RT @hannahnicklin: "Were you dreaming?" Part 1: invisibleflock.com/blog/?p=239
  155. RT @hannahnicklin: I'd love there to be a discussion of some of the more trad arts folk turning to games tools as well as the games folk ma…
  156. for real, though, if you want cool tools you should give Fernando money to make them for you @compositeredfox/652243928373006336
  157. RT @ammonite: I wrote about how funding for creative companies is changing, and how it needs to change some more: medium.com/@ammonite/beyond-the-grant-how-funding-is-changing-and-needs-to-change-some-more-7a598fe09903
  158. …in reply to @undefined
    @AshHauenschild yus! what's up?
  159. …in reply to @undefined
    @AshHauenschild hm! likely there's something interestingly invalid in your Tracery - email me the source at vtwentyone@gmail.com & I'll look
  160. RT @retroremakes: Lines we *do* still trot out. From Aug 1982. People wonder why I complain about the same stuff over and over and... htt…
  161. this was a thing i always wanted to do for my panoramical scene @Pentadact/652445419956535296
  162. RT @ranarama: We're looking for a Junior Level Designer @playdots - rare entry-level chance to join a super-cool NYC game studio: https://t…
  163. Wheat Poet Frog Heckle Coleslaw Graze Dimples Polo Griffin Punch Roots -- "Top Open-Source Static Site Generators"
  164. RT @nzle: @tinysubversions I'm starting to suspect that what the word "weird" in "I make weird internet art" really means is "Marxist"
  165. bot of the day: @swayandocean a bot that tries to make life easier for people who are finding life hard
  166. …in reply to @zandravandra
    @havochq well, take it from a human, too - you deserve care, self- or no.
  167. RT @midlandladders: This guy's just realised it's the weekend! Have a great weekend everyone.
  168. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe Olympians?
  169. RT @popcorn__10: Frankie's Fright I (Vine by @Cool3DWorld) vine.co/v/e011J600teZ
  170. @Citrushistrix I just read through "Beautiful Dreamer" and it was so good. Thank you!
  171. I just played through philome.la/Citrushistrix/beautiful-dreamer/play and it is so good, so inventive and so gentle.
  172. @Brendy_C congratulations on the column! A Twine for you: philome.la/Citrushistrix/beautiful-dreamer/play
  173. …in reply to @v21
  174. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere @melindacasino @kearsley i think CBDQ conked out again - try it now?
  175. …in reply to @melindacasino
    @melindacasino @NotInventedHere @kearsley ah, sorry: "Cheap Bots Done Quick"
  176. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @Brendy_C the combat is JRPG style, but it's also a shmup, a puzzle game and well written in it's own right.
  177. …in reply to @Brendy_C
    @Brendy_C Undertale, I'd say. Though you won't finish it tonight, unlike the Beginner's Guide.
  178. …in reply to @Ludonaut
    @Ludonaut hm! i don't think so? and yeah, there's no symbol escaping in tracery yet. "[" works, though...
  179. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @grapefrukt (it's "Set" - I was talking about it with @hollygramazio recently)
  180. …in reply to @v21
  181. …in reply to @dgrey0
    @dgrey0 there's somewhat readable js behind that link... but basically, it's MacPaint pattern + noise + repeated convolution
  182. …in reply to @v21
  183. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry I have sausages and am getting on my bike
  184. I made a friend
  185. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel so glad I put that canvas resizing behaviour in!
  186. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew i bought flowers for my house yesterday
  187. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew (sorry if i'm being repetitive - i tried to see the responses, but twitter doesn't like to show them all any more)
  188. I have to tidy and do useful things, but I want to reimplement that noise tool in Rust. I guess I could use it VJing Friday?
  189. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew I bought them from the fancy weekly market nearby, so: adult, competent, connected to this place, like I need a better vase.
  190. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew yeah, this is a apple juice bottle i soaked the label off...
  191. …in reply to @stefanbohacek
    @fourtonfish thanks! It's all up on github, though I don't think I've got round to putting a licence on it.
  192. …in reply to @v21
    @fourtonfish the clever bit is Tracery, though - can't remember the licence situation for that either. But bug me if you want me to licence.
  193. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe oh, I'm so sorry for your loss.
  194. …in reply to @stefanbohacek
    @fourtonfish it's across a couple at github.com/v21?tab=repositories worth looking at tracerybot, which runs a single Tracery-backed bot.
  195. …in reply to @v21
    @fourtonfish there's not that much to it, though - the hard part is setting it up so bots can stay up without attention.
  196. …in reply to @v21
    @fourtonfish working a Tracery component into a Node-based bot is pretty simple - see github.com/v21/tracerybot?files=1 for an example
  197. …in reply to @stefanbohacek
    @fourtonfish lemme know of you have any questions!
  198. …in reply to @mathewkumar
    @mathewkumar @UnionDocs it's really good, isn't it?
  199. …in reply to @v21
    I am tempted to resurrect Twine Tasting just so I can turn people on to how great @Citrushistrix's stuff is.
  200. RT @atduskgreg: Belated #screenshotsaturday for my Showrunner game. You can get fired w/good ratings if you ignore network notes: http://t.…
  201. bot of the day: @bot_teleport bot as escapism, fragments of prose scattered through your day, as a restful place alongside irl
  202. …in reply to @v21
    i should write some more of my woodland scenes bot
  203. RT @botwikidotorg: Not quite a programmer (yet), but want to make (friendly) Twitter bots? Try @v21's cheapbotsdonequick.com/ https://t.co/P…
  204. RT @botwikidotorg: Featuring bots by @swayandsea, @Ludonaut, @inky, @getdizzzy, @nyxtaki & @v21, the creator of cheapbotsdonequick.com http…
  205. …in reply to @v21
    i made a thing at the weekend
  206. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @retroremakes and when the fringes get big "but DOTA is a decade old"
  207. RT @metalgear_ebook: Hi, I’m Hideo Kojima. Take note of the detail of the buttocks on these character models.
  208. …in reply to @zarawesome
    @zarawesome i have one too, so *shrug*
  209. RT @notquitereal: well, how about that? a strange letter, a strange file, something Crows Crows Crows-y crowscrowscrows.com/report http://t.co…
  210. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate hey, while you're over, do you want to try to get together and work on Node packaging stuff & this?
  211. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate does it need a scratch rewrite? seems to me it could instead do with that last push to get it tidy and straight. imho, ofc.
  212. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison yeah yeah, "Bow, Nigger" is amazing, but I just read "Possessing Barbie" for the first time, and... wow.
  213. …in reply to @v21
    @caraellison the impact was probably heightened by having read broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/when-i-was-a-13-year-old-camgirl earlier today
  214. RT @alienmelon: It's been a long time coming, but I felt like I needed to share this: nathalielawhead.com/candybox/holding-out So I wrote something.
  215. …in reply to @alienmelon
    .@alienmelon for all it's easy to be cynical about games & games culture, this makes me genuinely proud and hopeful about what we've created
  216. RT @tommchenry: A cynic might think the ironic popularizing of the THEY LIVE sunglasses fight scene clip keeps the film's deep class anger …
  217. …in reply to @whitingjp
    @whitingjp no idea what yr plans are today, but i'd be up for lunch (near work, so Somerset House ish) or drinks after work?
  218. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher househunting going well, i see
  219. …in reply to @betterthemask
    @betterthemask i hope one day to read a review of one of my games as good as that. it's true, tho.
  220. RT @retroremakes: That's crazy! This was my exact dream when growing up too.
  221. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes for real, though
  222. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth ... there's a stall at the market near mine doing fancy buttermilk fried chicken. And "Chicken Shop" does Nando's-style stuff.
  223. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth but p much all good food is peasant food made well & with good ingredients, so *shrug*
  224. RT @nice_tips_bot: please, open your own salon when you understand all of the business decisions and fees you are responsible for.
  225. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty such a pleasure to read such good writing
  226. RT @kennecottutah: Take a guess: At which facility do we break down large chunks of ore to the consistency of face powder?
  227. …in reply to @whitingjp
    @whitingjp rad! i'm just out of a design meeting, p much done for the day. where you at?
  228. RT @WarpDoor: >▩▩▩▩ (@v21) >Free - Browser: wip.warpdoor.com/2015/10/13/george-buckenham/
  229. RT @ammonite: I made my first bot. @BotAnnunciation announces a new game every few hours or so using the top 50 title words in from recent …
  230. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @whitingjp actually, yeah? I'm heading vaguely in your direction now anyway
  231. i drank some beer and then i came home and i was hungry so now i've eaten some food and now i'm very sleepy
  232. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb i've folded some laundry, and my flatmate is playing me a remix of Carly Rae Jepsen's Run Away With Me
  233. …in reply to @renaudbedard
  234. …in reply to @v21
  235. RT @ADAMATOMIC: also good - charting the massive influence of the supremely weird Space Ghost Coast to Coast grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-phantom-fame-space-ghost-coast-to-coast-secretly-tvs-most-influential-show/ http://…
  236. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @angusdick yes! i played this for my housemate last night.
  237. RT @mycroTUNA: Hyperwave 3 this Friday in London! See @DJGammer @chipzel @JAKAZiD and @Oliotronix live! :D facebook.com/events/1681778185375594/ http://…
  238. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @radiatoryang sadly every time you upgrade Unity it reverts :S
  239. RT @DawnHFoster: David Cameron is on track to kill off social housing, writes @colinwiles gu.com/p/4d4aq/stw #ukhousing
  240. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx OFF TOPIC BUT I just had a great cheese platter with port.
  241. …in reply to @undefined
    @RealAvocadoFact whew!
  242. RT @bot_teleport: you are teleported to a wet manor fuck I hope there is nothing waiting in the dark
  243. bot of the day: @TXTADVNT_EXE part of a genre (@NoraReed/654595568262471680) but consider how much this is lifted by it's aesthetic care "polish"
  244. …in reply to @radiodario
  245. 3 of 5 people (60%) found this review helpful @RatKingsLair/654555084106412032
  246. RT @albinwonderland: whoever wrote this deserves a raise
  247. RT @nice_tips_bot: reminder: the more positive and confident you are, the less this prospective employer will suspect anything incriminatin…
  248. …in reply to @danbruno
    @danbruno CYCLING ANIME
  249. RT @emmyblotnick: Fun game: refer to it clunkily as "man-explaining" until a guy snaps and corrects you
  250. bot of the day: @wikishoutouts the collision of well formed, plausible sentences and the relentless machine processing producing them
  251. I've organized events at a reasonably high level, but I don't entirely understand or care what a keynote speaker is. (I've looked it up now)
  252. …in reply to @3liza
    @3liza that's a pain. If you do do it that way, try exporting as a twee file, copy pasting, then reimporting. Might be quicker.
  253. …in reply to @v21
    @3liza also Twine 2 is more of a fork than a necessary upgrade
  254. …in reply to @3liza
    @3liza .twee is the text-only format for twines (as opposed to .tws). P sure there's an import/export option for it.
  255. …in reply to @3liza
    @3liza it's not worth stressing about, it just might be faster with a text editor than in the UI. But manageable either way.
  256. RT @GalaxyKate: Incoming #tracery features: JQuery-free escape characters main and fallback grammars conditionals etc @v21
  257. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow :/ shame, because that looks really pretty. love that painted look.
  258. …in reply to @ntlk
    @ntlk yess.
  259. RT @smestorp: @patrickashe pah, you seek enlightenment through mindful presence, peace and oneness? no! true enlightenment only comes throu…
  260. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff if you're me: have a bit of a cry, and try to use what precious time you do have on something with an entirely different context
  261. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff my sympathies. You'll get through it.
  262. I am a frog.
  263. …in reply to @v21
    NOT Yoshi!!!
  264. RT @jonty: This study showing a strong link between Alzheimer's and fungal infection of the central nervous system is amazing: http://t.co/…
  265. RT @webbedspace: "Hear my curse: if you wound me, I will come back weaker. If you crush me, I will come back frailer. And if you kill me, I…
  266. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe fwiw, on the night it felt mocking, ironic. But I've shared that wallpaper with others since, and it's been a comfort to them.
  267. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe but still: it is, though.
  268. If only cycling while drunk was a good idea.
  269. …in reply to @v21
    It is at all times enjoyable, at times especially so, it's just some I'm sure it might kill you.
  270. Still, maybe I have an inverted quotation marks game I'll release instead tonight.
  271. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin stop helping
  272. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @Dick_Hogg @patrickashe me neither. It's a good (and largely true) message, even if it's sometimes hard to accept.
  273. …in reply to @v21
    @tigershungry @Dick_Hogg @patrickashe but it's a thing a friend will say to you, and absolutely believe. And that is a good thing.
  274. More videos on this feed. @yungthugrat/655489592792084480
  275. Maybe if I wasn't drunk I could be okay at Downwell? Maybe.
  276. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang @dreamfeeel I just favorited other tweets, but imagine I favorited this one especially hard
  277. …in reply to @v21
  278. RT @corcra: There are more people learning Irish on @duolingo right now than in Ireland.
  279. RT @fubarpops: Is @caraellison's the first published book to namecheck *home of my soul* Stepney Fried Chicken? If so it's the world's best…
  280. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryGiles i'm not sure about it either. but it's easy to admin, so until i'm pretty sure i don't like it, i'm not going to change it.
  281. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryGiles the time triggers are handcoded into cron, so i'd either have to switch from that or add variants in (and a way to trigger some)
  282. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @keefstuart @gamecity hello! 😎😎😎
  283. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @keefstuart @gamecity I'm around Wednesday-Sunday.
  284. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario @ElectricObjects I do not! But I am curious as to how v21.io/%E2%96%9B%E2%96%9A%E2%96%9E%E2%96%97/ looks on one.
  285. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario @ElectricObjects hah. maybe that means you won't notice the GC pauses...
  286. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario @ElectricObjects 😎 (thank you!)
  287. @katierosepipkin the internet told me it was your birthday. Hope it's a good one. 🌸🌿🌺🌿🌾🌱🌸🌿🌾🌺🌱
  288. RT @holyfingers: Some more screen to world-space interaction today! :3 Next step is to get some pawing going if you get too close... http:/…
  289. …in reply to @PennyRed
    @PennyRed love that book. Yesterday I replayed the Twine game "Tonight Dies The Moon", which clearly riffs off it antholojam.com/games/Tonight%20Dies%20the%20Moon/themoon.html
  290. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario @ElectricObjects boo... Maybe I'll try an 8x8 px version. (or, tbh, I could just use shaders rather than doing things CPU-side)
  291. …in reply to @getdizzzy
    @getdizzzy wait, this is misguided dissection? I think this is great. Though I'm not looking to it for criticism, but for future guidance.
  292. …in reply to @getdizzzy
    @getdizzzy oh, phew! anyway, I was gonna follow up and recommend @Citrushistrix's work- great stories, starting from "interesting structure"
  293. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario @ElectricObjects yeah, that was what i was guessing. hm hm!
  294. …in reply to @getdizzzy
  295. RT @JamesWallis: Pandemic Legacy and the Dictionary of the Khazars spaaace.com/cope/?p=790
  296. @jennatar jenn i just arrived at work and read like the last 4 hours of your tweets. it's an honour to know you.
  297. …in reply to @lexaloffle
    @lexaloffle because programming is hard
  298. …in reply to @lexicobob
    @lexicobob that's a great feeling. congrats.
  299. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes bravo! i feel like i will be linking this post for years to come.
  300. "instead of buying one latte" merseyremakes.co.uk/gibber/what-if/
  301. RT @nice_tips_bot: remember... tickling a girl in her sides is innocent enough. but, it's best to do with girls you are friends with, not r…
  302. I want to buy the @everyword book, but I kinda only want to buy it as a physical book, not an ebook? instarbooks.com/books/everyword.html
  303. …in reply to @v21
    also @tinysubversions's blurb is the best: “At long last: every word in the English language compiled in a single volume.”
  304. I am excited for GameCity next week!
  305. I use this technique a lot in my CBDQ bots! Less as a technique and more as a tactic, though. @leonardr/656467988510584832
  306. …in reply to @v21
    (by which I mean, I use it on macro and micro levels, and I don't demarcate rare vs very rare explicitly)
  307. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC It's fine, someday you'll get rid of it and add a set of "Maybe______" functions.
  308. …in reply to @i2
    @i2 @ADAMATOMIC it's fine until: MaybeTryForceBlah(); SomethingElse(); MaybeTryForceBlah(); MaybeTryForceBlah(); // damnit, set already
  309. RT @inkleStudios: Unbound: An Ode to Wired Women - @Quinnae_Moon's @gamasutra article on @betterthemask's Maminirina from 80 Days https://t…
  310. RT @nickludlam: My epic engineering post about how we developed NFC business cards at @MOO is now up. Lots of tech detail included. https:…
  311. Today is the day Marty McFly goes to the future! martymcflyinthefuture.tumblr.com/
  312. RT @godtributes: @tullyhansen VEGAS UNTO THE VEGAS THRONE! JEANS FOR THE JEAN QUEEN
  313. RT @godtributes: @tullyhansen VEGAS TO THE VEGAS GOD! JEANS FOR THE JEAN BLOB
  314. RT @godtributes: @tullyhansen JEANS FOR THE JEAN DRAGON! VEGAS FOR THE VEGAS MONSTER
  315. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN no, now you have a drink and enjoy not having to work on it. You can stress about other stuff later.
  316. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc they started off all living together in a empty classroom? i'm just glad there's a decent profit-share agreement in place.
  317. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @danieljharvey wasn't it that a button was buggered? you could only turn the volume down, not up, or something?
  318. …in reply to @molleindustria
    @molleindustria I can think of counterexamples, but that's basically right. I would contest the idea it needs a plot/mystery to hang on, tho
  319. …in reply to @VentureBeat
  320. RT @VentureBeat: Netrunner is becoming a role-playing game with a story from 80 Days' writer @betterthemask wp.me/p5hvhT-7EiR https:/…
  321. RT @monicabyrne13: Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin. To celebrate, read this story right now. It's my favorite of all time. https://t.co/v…
  322. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel @radiatoryang the key for me is feeling like it's an area you can apply design thinking to
  323. …in reply to @v21
    @dreamfeeel @radiatoryang my main takeaway was: wow Robert works hard. I probably make too many concessions to my own procilvities/laziness.
  324. this looks amazing! and WHAT A TITLE @JamesWallis/656957384271790080
  325. …in reply to @JamesWallis
    @JamesWallis i am such a fan of rich, layered narratives that are conveyed by a single sentence.
  326. …in reply to @v21
    @JamesWallis i think this beats out even "The larvae are weightless. They simulate gravity as a camouflage technique."
  327. …in reply to @JamesWallis
    @JamesWallis an early level in English Country Tune.
  328. …in reply to @undefined
    @reallyfancy @mtrc yeah - i've seen some terribly written code driving great games, and some great code in terrible games.
  329. some tweets about safer spaces and authorities, by @HarryGiles @HarryGiles/657177975444652032
  330. …in reply to @emshort
  331. RT @dangolding: My favourite kind of interview.
  332. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel should i bring my frog onesie y/n?
  333. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel ... @philippawarr Pip, are you coming to GameCity?
  334. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i thought it was a symbol of Ska
  335. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike presumably it can now have skin tone modifiers applied to it???
  336. …in reply to @v21
    @LichLike also, jeez, at least Apple kept the perspective. the LG version looks like a Rene Magritte emojipedia.org/man-in-business-suit-levitating/
  337. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike for shame
  338. RT @holliebuckets: I switched back just in time! :D Unity 5.3 will have MonoDevelop 5.9!! :D blogs.unity3d.com/2015/10/22/monodevelop-roadmap/ #unity3d https://t.co/…
  339. I am banned from performing at Beta Public, but I guess this lineup is still ok cptheatre.co.uk/show/betapublic5.php#.VikRRKRrXFI (it's actually really good)
  340. …in reply to @v21
    especially enjoying @churlishmeg and @ct_bailey being on the same bill
  341. …in reply to @PIXELATEDCROWN
    @PIXELATEDCROWN that's amazing news, congrats congrats congrats!
  342. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate scholarly research seems to have more justification for this stuff than startups. i would feel fine (if presented upfront)
  343. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate like, the payment for using this cool tool is you're collecting research data on how i use it. that's fair.
  344. …in reply to @molleindustria
    @molleindustria ccing @patrickashe onto this thread (his specialist subject)
  345. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike oof. tricky. i feel that pressure.
  346. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike probably not helpful, but: i think a thing the Internet does is make communication and compassion feel like creation. it needn't.
  347. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike yeah. you don't have to have the hottest of hot takes to be worthwhile. you can just... be there.
  348. …in reply to @v21
    @LichLike be part of a community. exist within a friendship. enact those relations, rather than "forge bonds" "build relationships".
  349. …in reply to @rich_lem
    @rich_lem aww, sad i'm missing out. have a great time! (if you get a chance to play new @FabBeasts would love to hear yr thoughts)
  350. …in reply to @TeddyDief
  351. bot of the day: @dscovr_epic so, bots as a fragment of beauty, suspended in yr timeline: OK, yep but this: "epic" is the word take a moment
  352. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff i enjoy being misquoted, or otherwise spreading confusion. i've only gotten careful about it since working with others.
  353. …in reply to @v21
    @JFriedhoff i expect this will blow up in my face at some point, though.
  354. …in reply to @v21
    @JFriedhoff the worst thing that has happened (multiple times) is being given credit for the work of (female) friends. i'm more careful now.
  355. …in reply to @ksheely
    @ksheely aw, too bad, i was waiting for it to quieten down so i'd get a longer go
  356. just woke up to find WE WON AN AWARD. holy shit!
  357. RT @scarybotsla: The Girl took a spear and and the story ends here.
  358. …in reply to @neb
    @neb ahhh! thanks so much! ^_^
  359. RT @cyriakharris: In last night's dream people kept using the phrase "when the comedian gets his guitar out" to signify a feeling of impend…
  360. "Postcolonial Catan" faidutti.com/blog/?p=3780 really interesting post on orientalism/exoticism/cliches in boardgames (scroll for English)
  361. …in reply to @tpizza
    @tpizza @scallopdelion @metasynthie what a coincidence, i was talking about this this afternoon
  362. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @patrickashe aw, that's sweet. I was at Sheila's birthday and having a great time.
  363. …in reply to @v21
    @hannahnicklin @patrickashe and I met a dude who plays bass in a math rock band and he knew all about me via you and our walk.
  364. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @GalaxyKate I made a super quick and dirty version in Unity (that just does the basic stuff, no variables or modifiers) wanna see?
  365. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander @raiganburns some of the best co-op experiences I've had have been with single player games.
  366. …in reply to @v21
    @leighalexander @raiganburns was talking to someone recently about them playing Lemmings as a family growing up.
  367. …in reply to @v21
    @leighalexander @raiganburns (also thinking about this within the context of currently making a 1 to 8? player coop game)
  368. …in reply to @free_play
    @free_play @LeeShangLun @amaninaseem @dangolding wait, we were supposed to expo it under a table? Why didn't you tell us?
  369. Bot Summit, Bot Summit, Bot Summit! @tinysubversions/657759586615607297
  370. …in reply to @joehalliwell
    @joehalliwell @JeniT lot of people asking that these days, but the question always seems a bit vague.
  371. Coast path game poems by @whitingjp. We showed these at Now Play This. jonathanwhiting.com/writing/gamepoem/coastpath.html
  372. this looks like an accidentally very capable bot tool tweetjukebox.com
  373. RT @rachelmercer: Sure, we could use chatbots to disorganise ISIS, I'm worried how it can be use to disorganise internet protests. https://…
  374. Q: What browser tab is making that noise? A: It is an invisible, un-stop-able YouTube video within the Slack app.
  375. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes it's a weird consequence of the fact that the primary purpose of this stuff is to entertain, not criticism or buying advice or
  376. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @GalaxyKate gist.github.com/v21/46f2a1be37959956329f - probably not worth building off, but simple enough
  377. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @edclef i am loving these exchanges
  378. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander @Quinns108 holy shit, congrats to you both! ❤️❤️❤️
  379. …in reply to @undefined
  380. should i try to make v21.io/%E2%96%9B%E2%96%9A%E2%96%9E%E2%96%97/ as: a Rust native app, run with shaders in a webpage (ie faster), or run headlessly in Node?
  381. …in reply to @Poxican
    @Poxican @reallyfancy yeah, that's a gorgeous dog
  382. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio oh, huh, yeah, i can do that super quick, let's just modify that one
  383. …in reply to @v21
  384. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio thank you for the suggestion! I just added a new new thing: you can tap the spacebar to set the interval it changes at.
  385. …in reply to @dkanaga
    @dkanaga @jukiokallio thank you! that means a lot, coming from you.
  386. …in reply to @v21
    i did none of those! instead I have (at @jukiokallio's prodding) added interactivity. 4 different keys, and you can click!
  387. RT @MysteryColorist: True story: several years ago I was internet famous for about a weekend. I made exactly $130 & got my first migraine f…
  388. RT @yokoono: What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.
  389. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
  390. thinking about all the friends i have who live elsewhere
  391. …in reply to @v21
    also thinking about the people i fancy who live elsewhere...
  392. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo *checks which tweet yr replying to*
  393. RT @knock2bot: Knock knock! Who's there? Curt! Curt who? Curt answers!
  394. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar is this like the eggshell thing?
  395. [flashy gifs] new bot: dkmfxr0axh7rumhs3ppv.tumblr.com/
  396. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh yesss! sad i'm not out there
  397. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh am working on, yeah!
  398. The thing about doing a thing in a day is you don't ponder any of the decisions. Can miss a lot of good chances to make it better.
  399. …in reply to @v21
    On the other hand, you also finish making it. And put it out. And don't have to return to it in order to finish it.
  400. …in reply to @tigershungry
  401. made a cryptic tumblr bot this weekend: dkmfxr0axh7rumhs3ppv.tumblr.com/
  402. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern next time i make a cryptic bot i'll not put my name on it and leak it to you first
  403. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe those limb proportions!
  404. via @aparrish scientificamerican.com/article/some-rules-of-language-are-wired-in-the-brain/ "the synesthetes outshone the controls in guessing the meanings of the unknown words."
  405. language after the writing machine medium.com/@katierosepipkin/language-after-the-writing-machine-f3bff4f73408 why spambots matter katie rose pipkin's Indiecade talk
  406. …in reply to @hellocatfood
  407. important thoughts on the cost and value of conferences, and sustainable living for small scale game makers @jofsharp/658689120605196288
  408. RT @droqen: .@fromsmiling & i made a card game a while back we want to release it, but are unfamiliar with the space. help us D:
  409. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen you're the second person to ask for this! I'll mull it over, and see if I can find a good way to do it.
  410. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen should sort out #hashtags first, tho.
  411. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen yeah - I like the aesthetic of exposing the mechanism, but that wears thin after a while.
  412. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen (I am basically just waiting for @GalaxyKate to do all the work for me, tbh)
  413. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen haha. Yep, we have incipient plans... (And actually, I'm thinking of doing a pure Tracery #NaNoGenMo - we'll see)
  414. RT @dKMFxr0Axh7Rumh: Photo: ▜▖▝▙▚ [1.8374495707974248, -1.3466961599693552, 1.7592916303228505, -1.3970808168789959,... https://t.co/wkKhRy…
  415. Sometimes I see people posting things about programming on the Internet and I get irritated because I disagree or it doesn't apply to me.
  416. …in reply to @v21
    But then I mentally insert "[web]" before "programming", and feel okay again.
  417. …in reply to @v21
    If I was writing code in a dynamic language for the web, I would write a lot of tests, too.
  418. …in reply to @undefined
    @charlottegore does it lack in status, though?
  419. …in reply to @undefined
    @charlottegore hey, A* is totally a thing worth testing! But most of my code is just gluing together UI stuff, or iterating state onwards.
  420. …in reply to @undefined
    @charlottegore especially when shaders explicitly swap precision for speed! (Okay, okay, you could just use an epsilon...)
  421. …in reply to @undefined
    @charlottegore but yeah, that's only worth writing a test rig for if you have some great compatibility lab full of weird gfx cards...
  422. …in reply to @auriea
    @auriea reminded of Emma McNally's work flickr.com/photos/emmamcnally/
  423. RT @jonkristinsson: Oh no, gif got cut in half. Here's some more! #cwine
  424. …in reply to @auriea
    @auriea yeah! i saw her work on these tremendous 2 meter sheets, smudged with graphite. so easy to get lost in them.
  425. …in reply to @v21
    @auriea this is a whole thread i've been mulling the past year or so - also picking up off @katierosepipkin (ie katierosepipkin.com/picking-figs-in-the-garden-while-my-world-eats-itself/)
  426. …in reply to @northernthumb
    @arcfiregames @auriea i'm not on pinterest, but i guess my closest equivalent is tumblr : v21.tumblr.com/ not updated enough, though
  427. "We are torn between the desire to provide a map for you and the desire to tell you to rip up this book and enter the terror for yourself?"
  428. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario deep clone, i assume?
  429. My friend Mink is making an escape room in London! Go back her Kickstarter here: kickstarter.com/projects/1752866659/oubliette-escape-rooms-and-adventure-society
  430. …in reply to @v21
    I am excited because I have heard very good things about the one she was involved with in Portland. But I've never been to Portland, so.
  431. RT @TheQuinnspiracy: Its reliable to the point that when there's a spike, I can track it back to someone else making us a target again. Its…
  432. RT @TheQuinnspiracy: We've seen this in handling other non-GG Crash Override cases too. GG is one relatively small face of internet hate.
  433. RT @TheQuinnspiracy: White supremacists love to pull that move, I've found. MRAs too. Any group that uses one person as a punching bag for …
  434. The Case has been prepared. I am ready to go to Nottingham.
  435. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge hey, I'm only wearing a single item of clothing that previously belonged to you. Only one!
  436. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge thank you. I miss you too. Especially this last weekend, when I cut my hair and fucked up the bit at the back.
  437. …in reply to @new_nomad
    @new_nomad thanks!
  438. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier good for you! I'm off to Lille on Wednesday. You free on an evening before then?
  439. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia yup! Containing x2 Fabulous Beasts
  440. …in reply to @keefstuart
    @keefstuart i'm looking forward to being on!
  441. …in reply to @KaiClavier
    @KaiClavier @Strangethink23 oooh, i love the skooshiness for the brush
  442. bot of the day: I Waded In Clear Water aparrish.github.io/nanogenmo2014/final.pdf poetic, i imagine it as a dialogue the main voice, and a chorus of quibblers
  443. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo i have a confession to make (i know it might seem odd) i have never played this game
  444. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo oh! then, my confession is that I have never played Tier auf Tier (clearly, as I can't recognize it)
  445. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge yeah - i enjoyed it more at the start when the plot barely existed and it was just a wash of scenes cutting into each other.
  446. …in reply to @jmhodges
    @jmhodges last night, emailing back about some work - oh. Maybe you wanted a smaller, simpler thing than this *does that as well*
  447. following both @himawari8bot and @dscovr_epic feels great. Twitter as a series of windows on the Earth from a great height.
  448. Even people who say "take breaks! live life! be healthy!" use productivity as the motivation. :/ @reimenayee/659169956186058752
  449. updating the game build for tomorrow! most important part: changing the "this is a prototype build" text to have the name of the event in it
  450. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @gamecity yeah, i saw that having a wazz and thought of you.
  451. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy @dreamfeeel for real, tho
  452. …in reply to @jabelsjabels
    @jabelsjabels @patrickashe I couldn't answer that
  453. RT @FabBeasts: Introducing @dailyfabbeast, a fabulous beast delivered to you each day! Follow and tell us what we should name them! https:/…
  454. new bot : @dailyfabbeast
  455. …in reply to @v21
    Inside bot scene talk : I hacked up a CBDQ - style bot so it can upload images! Maybe I'll add this feature to the site?
  456. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @dailyfabbeast yep! My main project collides with my bot work.
  457. …in reply to @v21
    I thought about this some more and I think it's a good idea. But now I also want to add generative SVGs too. @GalaxyKate: let's talk syntax?
  458. RT @dailyfabbeast: Look at this thing : . What is it?
  459. I am clean; there is no glitter on my face.
  460. …in reply to @Silasary
    @Silasary @godtributes oh god no, not again
  461. …in reply to @joonturbo
  462. …in reply to @esdin
    @esdin @doougle yeah, came here to also recommend this
  463. …in reply to @steveklabnik
    @steveklabnik I don't know about Node 5, but as someone who makes small things that I then leave alone for years, I feel weary.
  464. …in reply to @steveklabnik
    @steveklabnik returning to an old project, and "oh, no-one uses that framework now, this has changed massively, and this needs that updated"
  465. …in reply to @steveklabnik
    @steveklabnik which is why I try to use PHP for small web projects. not saying these trends are bad, but they lead to economies of scale.
  466. @FabBeasts look at this tower! Most ridiculous I've seen so far. By @bekokstover @AdamGCurtis @xoryn
  467. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed this is so so so gratifying to read. I did this on purpose! CBDQ was so poets could make bots, not just programmers.
  468. …in reply to @v21
    @NoraReed I did it on purpose, and then it worked?!?!?! I am so pleased.
  469. @NoraReed also : did you ever see v21.io/blog/tools-for-novices/ ? I think you'd find it interesting.
  470. RT @NoraReed: a bonus to donating to me is unlike the person making this tweet i actually know how the bot works
  471. RT @NoraReed: the reason that it is even remotely plausible as something that pulls content & autogenerates headlines is because there's A …
  472. RT @NoraReed: there's way less actual programming/coding/technical skill involved and way more writing/reading/phrasing/poetic skill involv…
  473. RT @NoraReed: but it's stuff that is super accessible and that people who are interested in that kind of thing can pick up really quick!
  474. RT @NoraReed: i assume not everyone could create @thinkpiecebot, but tons of people have the ability to make stuff like it
  475. RT @NoraReed: that's not the case with bots that are on the more technical side of the equation. this doesn't make either kind of bot better
  476. RT @NoraReed: but it does make my style of bot much easier to explain than something that uses generative text like Markov chains
  477. RT @NoraReed: this is something that matters a lot to me in particular because there's so much sexism in tech/coding fields
  478. RT @NoraReed: and accessible, non-coding art that uses technology can be great for people who are discouraged from those fields because of …
  479. RT @NoraReed: it's really rewarding to be able to jump into something and immediately make a creative and interesting project, not just "he…
  480. RT @NoraReed: i love stuff like Tracery and Cheap Bots Done Quick and Twine for doing this kind of thing & making it easy to start
  481. RT @NoraReed: anyway I guess what I'm doing is once again standing on a box yelling IT IS EASY AND FUN TO MAKE ART WITH BOTS IF YOU WANT TO…
  482. RT @NoraReed: but also THERE IS SKILLED WORK IN MAKING BOTS THAT HAVE AN EASY LEARNING CURVE JUST NOT THE KIND YOU THINK
  483. RT @NoraReed: but also the weird-ass skillsets that I have that make my bots work well are idiosyncratic but you might have your own set
  484. …in reply to @inurashii
    @inurashii @NoraReed creeping on this convo, but: Unity's JS is not javascript. It's C# with some syntax changed and a confusing name.
  485. Why are my hangovers taking the form of feeling perfectly fine but being unable to language?
  486. Basically the best compliment you can give CBDQ is comparing it to Twine.
  487. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam good! I enjoy being right. Did you have a good time?
  488. …in reply to @Miss_Sticks
    @Miss_Sticks MORNING!
  489. …in reply to @inurashii
    @inurashii @NoraReed Still, though : most programming languages are pretty similar, lots will transfer.
  490. RT @webbedspace: "The popular robot mantra, "Nobody Built You", suggests that while your brain was manufactured, only you own your qualia, …
  491. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed you use the visual editor? Huh!
  492. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed yeah, that makes sense! I kinda want to do more UI coloring in that text box. Like, highlight all the chosen segments.