Tweets from 2015/10
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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.
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I enjoyed this article about setting ("level design") in bouldering. outsideonline.com/2017711/path-beta-flash-resistance-route-setters
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Now all my twitter ads seem to feature irregularly divided grids and I'm finding that distracting.
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.@actuallyalice @inskora see, I'm enjoying this new age of indies recapturing the joys of low-poly, low-res early 3D.
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@dr_d_king nowhere near that! I'm in the low thousands (but probably less than 10 games so far)
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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
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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…
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@resiak what! oh man! i would love to hear more about this.
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@resiak oooh! @radiodario for one. But I also know (obv) a bunch of game designers who might be interested. Will poke. London-based?
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We still have slots for our regular Fabulous Beasts playtest night tonight. Want play a TOTALLY WORKING game, drink beer and eat pizza?
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Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/fabulous-beasts-playtest-thursdays-tickets-18242359388 (also spaces for the next couple of weeks)
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@unfortunatalie sending sympathy
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@radiodario @resiak @AnnetteMees could do Sunday evening or Monday. Or join you guys after a thing after work Tuesday :<
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Augh! I shared a viral story created to advertise a website. I feel so tacky. barker.co.uk/londonbed
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@doougle have you played Undertale? That's my big sticky narrative indie game of the moment.
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@doougle haha - that's me with else heart break. also all the Fantastic Arcade games...
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@doougle but yeah - lots of interesting stuff in Undertale. Would be v curious to hear your thoughts on it.
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@patrickashe @hannahnicklin @KommanderKlobb I think you guys might like this mix 8tracks.com/beemure/bad-kids
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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
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@erbridge sweet! see you later.
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@asponge this isn't the answer you wanted, but... why not do the west highland way? 9 days is plenty of time.
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@sheilamu how far did you get? Did you reach the glowy nipples of Nudist Beach?
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@JFriedhoff I just now came to twitter after getting 17000ish, thinking "how could I do better, tho?", rereading tutorial and going "ah".
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@JFriedhoff (I've not been thinking about dropping blocks to shake out the points)
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@JFriedhoff 26k next run! Whoop
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@asponge if you have the stuff, then you can wild camp along the path.
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@alicemazzy *shrug* here, the police have to call for the special police-with-guns when they need to do some shooting people.
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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
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(because they tried an alternative route, and it was better) this worked out as a (averaged, obv) net gain for disrupted commuters...
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personally, i've enjoyed tube strikes for the enforced disruption to normal routine. there's a communal feeling to it.
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@alicemazzy ... would you advocate that the UK makes gun ownership widely legal (instead of heavily restricted, as it is now)?
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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/
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@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.
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@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
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RT @Snowden: I forgot to turn off notifications. Twitter sent me an email for each: Follow Favorite Retweet DM 47 gigs of notifications. …
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@hannahnicklin your mum is amazing. and i'm really sad to hear about the flat.
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this is a beautiful exercise: make a mod of Breakout with no knowledge of coding trsp.net/teaching/gamemod/
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@JFriedhoff only responding based on this fragment, so apologies if this is covered elsewhere, but... the escape comes outside the game, no?
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@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
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@JFriedhoff at which point, you can think about the game in relation to the larger world, and extrapolate out, and think politically.
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@JFriedhoff (this is not really special about games, of course - the magic circle is basically the same as suspension of disbelief)
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@JFriedhoff i am cribbing a bunch of this from hearing @hannahnicklin talk about her PhD, btw (hannahnicklin.com/phd/)
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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."
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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…
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RT @M1NKBOT: Good thing about that time I discovered a Scrabble game I'd designed had been down for a whole day & a half.
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I'm on RPS, with a big long lovely feature about me by @hannahnicklin @rockpapershot/650052839637577728
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and now, wonderfully, the RPS comment thread focuses on New Malden.
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RT @mcclure111: We have managed to massively simplify the interaction model of our software by trapping you in an enormous slab of crystal
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@notquitereal that sounds like a fun afternoon
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RT @Gib: I don't think we have 'custard' here, or even a word for that
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bot of the day: postcreditsscene.edjefferson.com/ "We left when the credits started - did we miss anything?" a surprisingly comprehensive database
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@HilariousCow i think this is a really positive step?
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@HilariousCow the process of work can make you happy, but the results, the achievements of work rarely do.
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@vectorpoem did you play Jelly No Puzzle? Thinking about that these days for some reason. Probably cuz it's great.
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@vectorpoem it is very hard. Lots of games I despise for that, but JNP becomes completely charming for the same reasons.
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@vectorpoem English Country Tune has few words, is a puzzle game that's even harder, but they make a even bigger impression.
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RT @leighalexander: There is a critical mass of unique, humane and grown up video games. There is one for you, even
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@partytimeHXLNT @mousefountain @polclarissou @troyduguid @Seemo @neauoire @wileywiggins ccing in @tinysubversions to this thread
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RT @GIFsofWikipedia:
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@dreamfeeel yeah - i despise traits way more harshly when know i've exhibited them in the past
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@smestorp @dreamfeeel it's totally unfair. but otoh, in a sense, it's just giving people exhibiting other flaws the benefit of the doubt.
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the tiny affections and hatreds you get for phrases, inanimate objects, certain gestures while doing repetitive work
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@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.
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@e_svedang I won't be, but Fabulous Beasts is also going to be there - @rotational and @jukevox are showing it.
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RT @BotCarrion: In the old art, a text may be identical with the preceding ones where nothing happens.
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@angusdick oh huh, i guess that is tonight. no, i'm not going
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RT @molleindustria: @radiatoryang *Phone Story was designed to work as hearsay - after the Super Columbine RPG, Faith Fighter, and Virtual …
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@caraellison !!!
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@raiganburns @JonRemedios not in my experience?! same with books and TV...
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@raiganburns @JonRemedios the ways we talk about and hear about games we've not played have changed, but the practice isn't new.
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@raiganburns @JonRemedios think of the cliched stories of formative game experiences- how many are based on lies about things you never saw?
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RT @lorenschmidt: more terrain editing tools in progress- this one's additive
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@jawsew King of Dragon Pass achieved a fusion of strategy and narrative that I wish had spawned a whole genre.
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@jawsew Oh! And Blood and Laurels is another high water mark of procedural narrative.
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@jawsew And Pamplemousse is on iOS, too. Point and click hardboiled musical. Year Walk. A Dark Room.
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@jawsew people keep making games, it's a problem.
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@jawsew i'll try *alt-tabs back to making a game*
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this morning I am listening to Bjork, an "Irish Coast Sea, Wind and Rain Noise Generator" and the ISS livestream. Recommended.
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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.
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@infovore ok ok you can't listen to audio that isn't broken and you hate it for the majority of the process
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@NotInventedHere yeah, was on them yesterday mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/windSeaRainNoiseGenerator.php is the one i'm listening to
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@infovore i have not actually done much composition - generally have just been implementing sounds in videogames.
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@infovore but like, I was the one implementing all the audio in the Panoramical scene, and that was fun, so.
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China's Sesame Credit system is wild: aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans ("authoritarianism, gamified")
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@infovore it's probably weird that i'm using the excuse of creating procedural systems to dip my toes into other forms.
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@infovore the main thing i learn is that procedural writing is best done by writers, procedural music is best done by musicians, etc...
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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…
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@hollygramazio @emshort same, same.
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@radiodario yes mate
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@KingDragonPass \o/
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@haikus_by_KN i know right?! great design.
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RT @siegarettes: Anyhow I've been reading this piece on how women's vocal talents are treated: thenewinquiry.com/essays/radical-strain/
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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.
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It's good to know people in literal space have the same kind of problems as you.
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@edclef just the regular ISS stream ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream i only just caught that bit of intermittent radio chatter
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@jonty i read a commanders log once. it was mainly networking problems and films on multiple CDs
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@haikus_by_KN yeah, i feel the same.
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@haikus_by_KN yeah, i'd say so too. not that i'm sure there aren't already rewards.
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@jonty ha! I found the log! spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/ex1logs.html
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@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/
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RT @JmeBBK: Bruv, these eCigarettes I see guys smoking nowadays are so tonx. Looks like mans playing a clarinet on the roads.
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@LovedayBrooke wait... i fetched out the martini rosso yesterday, it should be knocking around the kitchen
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@chrisoshea @unity3d I have no solution, but I lost a bunch of time to this earlier this evening. So my sympathies.
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@chrisoshea @unity3d (even if you re-enable in the same frame disabling and re-enabling wipes all the state in the Animator)
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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…
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@ElizSimins @TheXbone recall hearing from someone at IGN that their viewership was actually like 30% female, but this approach sold more ads
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@ElizSimins @TheXbone (to be clear, fuck IGN)
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@chrisoshea @unity3d cba logging into forums on my iPad, but I am pretty sure the suggested workaround won't work. Doesn't keep params.
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@chrisoshea @unity3d you could set again on re-enable, but you might have to wait til LateUpdate to do that. And ugh.
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RT @nonhashtag: The perfect man has Matthew Broderick's elasticity, Gotye's elbows & George Buckenham's weird levitation
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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
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@chrisoshea @unity3d lemme know if you find a good workaround!
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The Space is going back to filming things and then putting the videos online. thespace.org/news/view/new-commissioning-round
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@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.
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RT @flantz: Why I love Serpentes gamedesignadvance.com/?p=3048
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@jawsew @keefstuart me! Be there Thursday onwards.
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@jawsew you're a private detective, solving crimes through the medium of song.
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@TrillinDaGame yeah, that's right at the start
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@tullyhansen hey, I'm still happy they're not trying to kill it with neglect any more
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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…
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I wish SPL-T stored game state when you quit it; I'd play it much more if it did.
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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/
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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…
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@caraellison oh, so I was at BAC earlier and a girl stopped me and said "do you know Cara?".
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@caraellison this isn't a useful story because I didn't recognise her. But she had a good dress on.
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RT @wikisext: sext: i tie my remaining three balloon flower petals together as you quietly tie one set of two balloon flower petals together
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@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.
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@jawsew And I can afford it now, but if it keeps ratcheting up... that's what house prices mean to me.
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@jawsew if i bought somewhere, it'd be mainly so that i'm not fucked over by future house price rises
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RT @mink_ette: You are at a crossroads. Do you want to FOLLOW THE CROWD or JOIN THE BISCUIT UNIT?
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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…
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RT @poem_exe: with light hearts beneath melting spring snow walking around, wasting time
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@DataErase hi!
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RT @smestorp: blog post - Chesh mightyvision.blogspot.gr/2015/10/chesh.html
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RT @chadcomix: banana. facts.
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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
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I really like this book cementimental.com/noisebook/
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@maltron3D I just downloaded LightningPaint
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My (Californian) flatmate keeps going "yes bruv" in a bad Keira Knightley accent.
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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…
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RT @FabBeasts: New high score for @jukevox at #spiel2015: 3438 with all pieces used. Early miracle strategy is strong! http://t.co/3hCROG0s…
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RT @hannahnicklin: "Were you dreaming?" Part 1: invisibleflock.com/blog/?p=239
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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…
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for real, though, if you want cool tools you should give Fernando money to make them for you @compositeredfox/652243928373006336
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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
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@AshHauenschild yus! what's up?
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@AshHauenschild hm! likely there's something interestingly invalid in your Tracery - email me the source at vtwentyone@gmail.com & I'll look
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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…
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this was a thing i always wanted to do for my panoramical scene @Pentadact/652445419956535296
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Wheat Poet Frog Heckle Coleslaw Graze Dimples Polo Griffin Punch Roots -- "Top Open-Source Static Site Generators"
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RT @nzle: @tinysubversions I'm starting to suspect that what the word "weird" in "I make weird internet art" really means is "Marxist"
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bot of the day: @swayandocean a bot that tries to make life easier for people who are finding life hard
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@havochq well, take it from a human, too - you deserve care, self- or no.
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RT @midlandladders: This guy's just realised it's the weekend! Have a great weekend everyone.
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@patrickashe Olympians?
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@Citrushistrix I just read through "Beautiful Dreamer" and it was so good. Thank you!
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I just played through philome.la/Citrushistrix/beautiful-dreamer/play and it is so good, so inventive and so gentle.
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@Brendy_C congratulations on the column! A Twine for you: philome.la/Citrushistrix/beautiful-dreamer/play
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process post: m.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/2ll61a/my_1bit_generativeglitch_art_harsh_noise_graphic/ some animated work by the same artist: youtube.com/watch?v=Njqfj3nsbRU
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@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.
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@Brendy_C Undertale, I'd say. Though you won't finish it tonight, unlike the Beginner's Guide.
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@Ludonaut hm! i don't think so? and yeah, there's no symbol escaping in tracery yet. "[" works, though...
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@KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @grapefrukt (it's "Set" - I was talking about it with @hollygramazio recently)
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@dgrey0 there's somewhat readable js behind that link... but basically, it's MacPaint pattern + noise + repeated convolution
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@tigershungry I have sausages and am getting on my bike
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@dreamfeeel so glad I put that canvas resizing behaviour in!
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@jawsew i bought flowers for my house yesterday
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@jawsew (sorry if i'm being repetitive - i tried to see the responses, but twitter doesn't like to show them all any more)
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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?
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@jawsew I bought them from the fancy weekly market nearby, so: adult, competent, connected to this place, like I need a better vase.
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@jawsew yeah, this is a apple juice bottle i soaked the label off...
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@fourtonfish thanks! It's all up on github, though I don't think I've got round to putting a licence on it.
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@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.
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@patrickashe oh, I'm so sorry for your loss.
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@fourtonfish it's across a couple at github.com/v21?tab=repositories worth looking at tracerybot, which runs a single Tracery-backed bot.
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@fourtonfish there's not that much to it, though - the hard part is setting it up so bots can stay up without attention.
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@fourtonfish working a Tracery component into a Node-based bot is pretty simple - see github.com/v21/tracerybot?files=1 for an example
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@fourtonfish lemme know of you have any questions!
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@mathewkumar @UnionDocs it's really good, isn't it?
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I am tempted to resurrect Twine Tasting just so I can turn people on to how great @Citrushistrix's stuff is.
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RT @atduskgreg: Belated #screenshotsaturday for my Showrunner game. You can get fired w/good ratings if you ignore network notes: http://t.…
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bot of the day: @bot_teleport bot as escapism, fragments of prose scattered through your day, as a restful place alongside irl
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i should write some more of my woodland scenes bot
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RT @botwikidotorg: Not quite a programmer (yet), but want to make (friendly) Twitter bots? Try @v21's cheapbotsdonequick.com/ https://t.co/P…
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RT @botwikidotorg: Featuring bots by @swayandsea, @Ludonaut, @inky, @getdizzzy, @nyxtaki & @v21, the creator of cheapbotsdonequick.com http…
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i made a thing at the weekend
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@smestorp @retroremakes and when the fringes get big "but DOTA is a decade old"
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RT @metalgear_ebook: Hi, I’m Hideo Kojima. Take note of the detail of the buttocks on these character models.
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@zarawesome i have one too, so *shrug*
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RT @notquitereal: well, how about that? a strange letter, a strange file, something Crows Crows Crows-y crowscrowscrows.com/report http://t.co…
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@GalaxyKate hey, while you're over, do you want to try to get together and work on Node packaging stuff & this?
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@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.
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@caraellison yeah yeah, "Bow, Nigger" is amazing, but I just read "Possessing Barbie" for the first time, and... wow.
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@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
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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.
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.@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
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RT @tommchenry: A cynic might think the ironic popularizing of the THEY LIVE sunglasses fight scene clip keeps the film's deep class anger …
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@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?
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@AOsher househunting going well, i see
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@betterthemask i hope one day to read a review of one of my games as good as that. it's true, tho.
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RT @retroremakes: That's crazy! This was my exact dream when growing up too.
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@retroremakes for real, though
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@psychicteeth ... there's a stall at the market near mine doing fancy buttermilk fried chicken. And "Chicken Shop" does Nando's-style stuff.
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@psychicteeth but p much all good food is peasant food made well & with good ingredients, so *shrug*
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RT @nice_tips_bot: please, open your own salon when you understand all of the business decisions and fees you are responsible for.
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RT @jonty: :scream_face_emoji: marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144472550016118
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@jonty such a pleasure to read such good writing
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RT @kennecottutah: Take a guess: At which facility do we break down large chunks of ore to the consistency of face powder?
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@whitingjp rad! i'm just out of a design meeting, p much done for the day. where you at?
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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 …
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@patrickashe @whitingjp actually, yeah? I'm heading vaguely in your direction now anyway
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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
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@KommanderKlobb i've folded some laundry, and my flatmate is playing me a remix of Carly Rae Jepsen's Run Away With Me
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@renaudbedard @radiatoryang @compositeredfox (+ the sad story of Bitbucket's git LOB developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/10/contributing-to-git-lfs/)
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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://…
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@patrickashe @angusdick yes! i played this for my housemate last night.
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RT @mycroTUNA: Hyperwave 3 this Friday in London! See @DJGammer @chipzel @JAKAZiD and @Oliotronix live! :D facebook.com/events/1681778185375594/ http://…
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@mtrc @radiatoryang sadly every time you upgrade Unity it reverts :S
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RT @DawnHFoster: David Cameron is on track to kill off social housing, writes @colinwiles gu.com/p/4d4aq/stw #ukhousing
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what a name! @CoolBoxArt/654184957741531136
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RT @alexqarbuckle:
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@siobhangx OFF TOPIC BUT I just had a great cheese platter with port.
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@RealAvocadoFact whew!
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RT @AnnetteMees: This by @StampEllie stampellie.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/sharing-my-concerns-in-order-to-fight.html?m=1 talking about her hard journey ahead.
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RT @bot_teleport: you are teleported to a wet manor fuck I hope there is nothing waiting in the dark
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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"
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3 of 5 people (60%) found this review helpful @RatKingsLair/654555084106412032
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RT @albinwonderland: whoever wrote this deserves a raise
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RT @nice_tips_bot: reminder: the more positive and confident you are, the less this prospective employer will suspect anything incriminatin…
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@danbruno CYCLING ANIME
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RT @emmyblotnick: Fun game: refer to it clunkily as "man-explaining" until a guy snaps and corrects you
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bot of the day: @wikishoutouts the collision of well formed, plausible sentences and the relentless machine processing producing them
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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)
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@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.
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@3liza also Twine 2 is more of a fork than a necessary upgrade
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@3liza .twee is the text-only format for twines (as opposed to .tws). P sure there's an import/export option for it.
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@3liza it's not worth stressing about, it just might be faster with a text editor than in the UI. But manageable either way.
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RT @GalaxyKate: Incoming #tracery features: JQuery-free escape characters main and fallback grammars conditionals etc @v21
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@HilariousCow :/ shame, because that looks really pretty. love that painted look.
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@ntlk yess.
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RT @smestorp: @patrickashe pah, you seek enlightenment through mindful presence, peace and oneness? no! true enlightenment only comes throu…
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@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
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@JFriedhoff my sympathies. You'll get through it.
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I am a frog.
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NOT Yoshi!!!
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RT @jonty: This study showing a strong link between Alzheimer's and fungal infection of the central nervous system is amazing: http://t.co/…
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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…
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@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.
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@patrickashe but still: it is, though.
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If only cycling while drunk was a good idea.
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It is at all times enjoyable, at times especially so, it's just some I'm sure it might kill you.
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Still, maybe I have an inverted quotation marks game I'll release instead tonight.
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@hannahnicklin stop helping
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@tigershungry @Dick_Hogg @patrickashe me neither. It's a good (and largely true) message, even if it's sometimes hard to accept.
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@tigershungry @Dick_Hogg @patrickashe but it's a thing a friend will say to you, and absolutely believe. And that is a good thing.
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More videos on this feed. @yungthugrat/655489592792084480
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Maybe if I wasn't drunk I could be okay at Downwell? Maybe.
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@radiatoryang @dreamfeeel I just favorited other tweets, but imagine I favorited this one especially hard
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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…
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@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.
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@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)
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@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.
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@radiodario @ElectricObjects hah. maybe that means you won't notice the GC pauses...
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@radiodario @ElectricObjects 😎 (thank you!)
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@katierosepipkin the internet told me it was your birthday. Hope it's a good one. 🌸🌿🌺🌿🌾🌱🌸🌿🌾🌺🌱
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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:/…
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@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
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@radiodario @ElectricObjects boo... Maybe I'll try an 8x8 px version. (or, tbh, I could just use shaders rather than doing things CPU-side)
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@getdizzzy wait, this is misguided dissection? I think this is great. Though I'm not looking to it for criticism, but for future guidance.
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@getdizzzy oh, phew! anyway, I was gonna follow up and recommend @Citrushistrix's work- great stories, starting from "interesting structure"
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@radiodario @ElectricObjects yeah, that was what i was guessing. hm hm!
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@jennatar jenn i just arrived at work and read like the last 4 hours of your tweets. it's an honour to know you.
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@lexaloffle because programming is hard
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@lexicobob that's a great feeling. congrats.
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@retroremakes bravo! i feel like i will be linking this post for years to come.
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"instead of buying one latte" merseyremakes.co.uk/gibber/what-if/
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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…
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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
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also @tinysubversions's blurb is the best: “At long last: every word in the English language compiled in a single volume.”
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I am excited for GameCity next week!
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I use this technique a lot in my CBDQ bots! Less as a technique and more as a tactic, though. @leonardr/656467988510584832
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(by which I mean, I use it on macro and micro levels, and I don't demarcate rare vs very rare explicitly)
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@ADAMATOMIC It's fine, someday you'll get rid of it and add a set of "Maybe______" functions.
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@i2 @ADAMATOMIC it's fine until: MaybeTryForceBlah(); SomethingElse(); MaybeTryForceBlah(); MaybeTryForceBlah(); // damnit, set already
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RT @inkleStudios: Unbound: An Ode to Wired Women - @Quinnae_Moon's @gamasutra article on @betterthemask's Maminirina from 80 Days https://t…
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RT @nickludlam: My epic engineering post about how we developed NFC business cards at @MOO is now up. Lots of tech detail included. https:…
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Today is the day Marty McFly goes to the future! martymcflyinthefuture.tumblr.com/
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RT @godtributes: @tullyhansen VEGAS UNTO THE VEGAS THRONE! JEANS FOR THE JEAN QUEEN
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RT @godtributes: @tullyhansen VEGAS TO THE VEGAS GOD! JEANS FOR THE JEAN BLOB
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RT @godtributes: @tullyhansen JEANS FOR THE JEAN DRAGON! VEGAS FOR THE VEGAS MONSTER
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RT @TransMediaWatch: Jack Monroe writes for the New Statesman about being non-binary: newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2015/10/being-non-binary-i-m-not-girl-called-jack-any-more-i-m-not-boy-either
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@haikus_by_KN no, now you have a drink and enjoy not having to work on it. You can stress about other stuff later.
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@hoskingc they started off all living together in a empty classroom? i'm just glad there's a decent profit-share agreement in place.
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@hannahnicklin @danieljharvey wasn't it that a button was buggered? you could only turn the volume down, not up, or something?
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RT @patrickashe: .@taleoftales have just unveiled their new project Cathedral In The Clouds: kickstarter.com/projects/taleoftales/cathedral-in-the-clouds-contemplation-in-the-digit
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@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
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ahhh ahh ahhhhhh - PC Music aesthetics x indie games (of course it's at Babycastles) killscreendaily.com/articles/babycastles-living-celebrates-furniture-videogames-wacky-exhibits/?utm_content=buffer17db4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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RT @thehairpin: "Gilmore Girls", as per @electrolemon. thehairpin.com/2015/10/a-few-reasonable-suggestions-for-the-upcoming-season-of-gilmore-girls/
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@VentureBeat @betterthemask holy shit, meg!
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RT @VentureBeat: Netrunner is becoming a role-playing game with a story from 80 Days' writer @betterthemask wp.me/p5hvhT-7EiR https:/…
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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…
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@dreamfeeel @radiatoryang the key for me is feeling like it's an area you can apply design thinking to
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@dreamfeeel @radiatoryang my main takeaway was: wow Robert works hard. I probably make too many concessions to my own procilvities/laziness.
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this looks amazing! and WHAT A TITLE @JamesWallis/656957384271790080
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@JamesWallis i am such a fan of rich, layered narratives that are conveyed by a single sentence.
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@JamesWallis i think this beats out even "The larvae are weightless. They simulate gravity as a camouflage technique."
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@JamesWallis an early level in English Country Tune.
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@reallyfancy @mtrc yeah - i've seen some terribly written code driving great games, and some great code in terrible games.
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some tweets about safer spaces and authorities, by @HarryGiles @HarryGiles/657177975444652032
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RT @dangolding: My favourite kind of interview.
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@dreamfeeel should i bring my frog onesie y/n?
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@dreamfeeel ... @philippawarr Pip, are you coming to GameCity?
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@LichLike i thought it was a symbol of Ska
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@LichLike presumably it can now have skin tone modifiers applied to it???
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@LichLike also, jeez, at least Apple kept the perspective. the LG version looks like a Rene Magritte emojipedia.org/man-in-business-suit-levitating/
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@LichLike for shame
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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/…
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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)
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especially enjoying @churlishmeg and @ct_bailey being on the same bill
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@PIXELATEDCROWN that's amazing news, congrats congrats congrats!
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@GalaxyKate scholarly research seems to have more justification for this stuff than startups. i would feel fine (if presented upfront)
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@GalaxyKate like, the payment for using this cool tool is you're collecting research data on how i use it. that's fair.
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@molleindustria ccing @patrickashe onto this thread (his specialist subject)
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@LichLike oof. tricky. i feel that pressure.
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@LichLike probably not helpful, but: i think a thing the Internet does is make communication and compassion feel like creation. it needn't.
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@LichLike yeah. you don't have to have the hottest of hot takes to be worthwhile. you can just... be there.
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@LichLike be part of a community. exist within a friendship. enact those relations, rather than "forge bonds" "build relationships".
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@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)
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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
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@JFriedhoff i enjoy being misquoted, or otherwise spreading confusion. i've only gotten careful about it since working with others.
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@JFriedhoff i expect this will blow up in my face at some point, though.
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@JFriedhoff the worst thing that has happened (multiple times) is being given credit for the work of (female) friends. i'm more careful now.
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@ksheely aw, too bad, i was waiting for it to quieten down so i'd get a longer go
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RT @scarybotsla: The Girl took a spear and and the story ends here.
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@neb ahhh! thanks so much! ^_^
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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…
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"Postcolonial Catan" faidutti.com/blog/?p=3780 really interesting post on orientalism/exoticism/cliches in boardgames (scroll for English)
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@hannahnicklin @patrickashe aw, that's sweet. I was at Sheila's birthday and having a great time.
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@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.
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@mtrc @GalaxyKate I made a super quick and dirty version in Unity (that just does the basic stuff, no variables or modifiers) wanna see?
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@leighalexander @raiganburns some of the best co-op experiences I've had have been with single player games.
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@leighalexander @raiganburns was talking to someone recently about them playing Lemmings as a family growing up.
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@leighalexander @raiganburns (also thinking about this within the context of currently making a 1 to 8? player coop game)
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@free_play @LeeShangLun @amaninaseem @dangolding wait, we were supposed to expo it under a table? Why didn't you tell us?
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Bot Summit, Bot Summit, Bot Summit! @tinysubversions/657759586615607297
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@joehalliwell @JeniT lot of people asking that these days, but the question always seems a bit vague.
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Coast path game poems by @whitingjp. We showed these at Now Play This. jonathanwhiting.com/writing/gamepoem/coastpath.html
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this looks like an accidentally very capable bot tool tweetjukebox.com
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RT @rachelmercer: Sure, we could use chatbots to disorganise ISIS, I'm worried how it can be use to disorganise internet protests. https://…
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Q: What browser tab is making that noise? A: It is an invisible, un-stop-able YouTube video within the Slack app.
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@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
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@mtrc @GalaxyKate gist.github.com/v21/46f2a1be37959956329f - probably not worth building off, but simple enough
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@hannahnicklin @edclef i am loving these exchanges
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@leighalexander @Quinns108 holy shit, congrats to you both! ❤️❤️❤️
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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?
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@Poxican @reallyfancy yeah, that's a gorgeous dog
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@jukiokallio oh, huh, yeah, i can do that super quick, let's just modify that one
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@jukiokallio done!
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@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.
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@dkanaga @jukiokallio thank you! that means a lot, coming from you.
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i did none of those! instead I have (at @jukiokallio's prodding) added interactivity. 4 different keys, and you can click!
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RT @MysteryColorist: True story: several years ago I was internet famous for about a weekend. I made exactly $130 & got my first migraine f…
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RT @yokoono: What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.
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@hannahnicklin @check_o_tron thanks!
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thinking about all the friends i have who live elsewhere
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also thinking about the people i fancy who live elsewhere...
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@joonturbo *checks which tweet yr replying to*
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RT @knock2bot: Knock knock! Who's there? Curt! Curt who? Curt answers!
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this is a shame loveandsexwithrobots.org/
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@jennatar is this like the eggshell thing?
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Why Straight Men Have Sex With Each Other nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/08/why-straight-men-have-sex-with-each-other.html?mid=twitter-share-scienceofus
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[flashy gifs] new bot: dkmfxr0axh7rumhs3ppv.tumblr.com/
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@BRKeogh yesss! sad i'm not out there
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@BRKeogh am working on, yeah!
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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.
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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.
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@tigershungry woof
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made a cryptic tumblr bot this weekend: dkmfxr0axh7rumhs3ppv.tumblr.com/
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@alexhern next time i make a cryptic bot i'll not put my name on it and leak it to you first
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@patrickashe those limb proportions!
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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."
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language after the writing machine medium.com/@katierosepipkin/language-after-the-writing-machine-f3bff4f73408 why spambots matter katie rose pipkin's Indiecade talk
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important thoughts on the cost and value of conferences, and sustainable living for small scale game makers @jofsharp/658689120605196288
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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:
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@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.
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@tullyhansen should sort out #hashtags first, tho.
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@tullyhansen yeah - I like the aesthetic of exposing the mechanism, but that wears thin after a while.
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@tullyhansen (I am basically just waiting for @GalaxyKate to do all the work for me, tbh)
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@tullyhansen haha. Yep, we have incipient plans... (And actually, I'm thinking of doing a pure Tracery #NaNoGenMo - we'll see)
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RT @dKMFxr0Axh7Rumh: Photo: ▜▖▝▙▚ [1.8374495707974248, -1.3466961599693552, 1.7592916303228505, -1.3970808168789959,... https://t.co/wkKhRy…
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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.
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But then I mentally insert "[web]" before "programming", and feel okay again.
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If I was writing code in a dynamic language for the web, I would write a lot of tests, too.
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@charlottegore does it lack in status, though?
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@charlottegore hey, A* is totally a thing worth testing! But most of my code is just gluing together UI stuff, or iterating state onwards.
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@charlottegore especially when shaders explicitly swap precision for speed! (Okay, okay, you could just use an epsilon...)
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@charlottegore but yeah, that's only worth writing a test rig for if you have some great compatibility lab full of weird gfx cards...
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RT @jonkristinsson: Oh no, gif got cut in half. Here's some more! #cwine
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@auriea yeah! i saw her work on these tremendous 2 meter sheets, smudged with graphite. so easy to get lost in them.
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@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/)
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@arcfiregames @auriea i'm not on pinterest, but i guess my closest equivalent is tumblr : v21.tumblr.com/ not updated enough, though
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"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?"
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@radiodario deep clone, i assume?
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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
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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.
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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…
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RT @TheQuinnspiracy: We've seen this in handling other non-GG Crash Override cases too. GG is one relatively small face of internet hate.
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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 …
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@asponge hey, I'm only wearing a single item of clothing that previously belonged to you. Only one!
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@asponge thank you. I miss you too. Especially this last weekend, when I cut my hair and fucked up the bit at the back.
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@new_nomad thanks!
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@awesommelier good for you! I'm off to Lille on Wednesday. You free on an evening before then?
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@LorenzoPilia yup! Containing x2 Fabulous Beasts
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@keefstuart i'm looking forward to being on!
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@KaiClavier @Strangethink23 oooh, i love the skooshiness for the brush
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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
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@Oujevipo i have a confession to make (i know it might seem odd) i have never played this game
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@Oujevipo oh! then, my confession is that I have never played Tier auf Tier (clearly, as I can't recognize it)
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@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.
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@jmhodges last night, emailing back about some work - oh. Maybe you wanted a smaller, simpler thing than this *does that as well*
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following both @himawari8bot and @dscovr_epic feels great. Twitter as a series of windows on the Earth from a great height.
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Even people who say "take breaks! live life! be healthy!" use productivity as the motivation. :/ @reimenayee/659169956186058752
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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
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@patrickashe @gamecity yeah, i saw that having a wazz and thought of you.
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@alicemazzy @dreamfeeel for real, tho
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@jabelsjabels @patrickashe I couldn't answer that
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RT @FabBeasts: Introducing @dailyfabbeast, a fabulous beast delivered to you each day! Follow and tell us what we should name them! https:/…
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new bot : @dailyfabbeast
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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?
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@tullyhansen @dailyfabbeast yep! My main project collides with my bot work.
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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?
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RT @dailyfabbeast: Look at this thing : . What is it?
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I am clean; there is no glitter on my face.
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@Silasary @godtributes oh god no, not again
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@joonturbo yes!
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@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.
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@steveklabnik returning to an old project, and "oh, no-one uses that framework now, this has changed massively, and this needs that updated"
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@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.
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@FabBeasts look at this tower! Most ridiculous I've seen so far. By @bekokstover @AdamGCurtis @xoryn
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@NoraReed this is so so so gratifying to read. I did this on purpose! CBDQ was so poets could make bots, not just programmers.
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@NoraReed I did it on purpose, and then it worked?!?!?! I am so pleased.
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@NoraReed also : did you ever see v21.io/blog/tools-for-novices/ ? I think you'd find it interesting.
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RT @NoraReed: alternatively you can pay the creator of the bot Patreon: patreon.com/norareed Paypal: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=9YUDY2UX4A7M8&lc=US&item_name=barrl%2enet%20%2f%20NoraReed¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted https://t.…
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RT @NoraReed: a bonus to donating to me is unlike the person making this tweet i actually know how the bot works
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RT @NoraReed: the reason that it is even remotely plausible as something that pulls content & autogenerates headlines is because there's A …
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RT @NoraReed: there's way less actual programming/coding/technical skill involved and way more writing/reading/phrasing/poetic skill involv…
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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!
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RT @NoraReed: i assume not everyone could create @thinkpiecebot, but tons of people have the ability to make stuff like it
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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
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RT @NoraReed: but it does make my style of bot much easier to explain than something that uses generative text like Markov chains
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RT @NoraReed: this is something that matters a lot to me in particular because there's so much sexism in tech/coding fields
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RT @NoraReed: and accessible, non-coding art that uses technology can be great for people who are discouraged from those fields because of …
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RT @NoraReed: it's really rewarding to be able to jump into something and immediately make a creative and interesting project, not just "he…
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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
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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…
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RT @NoraReed: but also THERE IS SKILLED WORK IN MAKING BOTS THAT HAVE AN EASY LEARNING CURVE JUST NOT THE KIND YOU THINK
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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
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@inurashii @NoraReed creeping on this convo, but: Unity's JS is not javascript. It's C# with some syntax changed and a confusing name.
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Why are my hangovers taking the form of feeling perfectly fine but being unable to language?
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Basically the best compliment you can give CBDQ is comparing it to Twine.
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@HonestWilliam good! I enjoy being right. Did you have a good time?
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@Miss_Sticks MORNING!
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@inurashii @NoraReed Still, though : most programming languages are pretty similar, lots will transfer.
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RT @webbedspace: "The popular robot mantra, "Nobody Built You", suggests that while your brain was manufactured, only you own your qualia, …
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@NoraReed you use the visual editor? Huh!
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@NoraReed yeah, that makes sense! I kinda want to do more UI coloring in that text box. Like, highlight all the chosen segments.