Tweets from 2016/04
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@chrisamaphone @lindseybieda whoa <3 <3 <3
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Wow, I have not done multiple days of strenuous physical activity for a while. It feels... good ? Wish I could stay in bed & appreciate it.
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Also, hey! Now Play This opens in about an hour and a half. Come down some time this weekend and play some GAMES y'all.
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@sheilamu thank you!
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@john_brindle there are also playful activities. And chairs.
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@john_brindle we got these custom-built stools, actually, they're really neat. I think they're the most fought over thing for who keeps them
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Quick blast of Michael And His Slipper Tree to get me going for the day.
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@KommanderKlobb snagger sanger! Those were totally the Australian terms I was trying to remember to taunt Holly with.
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@patrickashe @KommanderKlobb "sarni"
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@mousefountain brand new shoes for you and me
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.@GalaxyKate made Tracery, then I made cheapbotsdonequick.com, then @NoraReed made @thinkpiecebot, then @harlotmedia actually wrote them.
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"Bookmark this page, we will be updating it with new symbols shortly…" 416studios.co.uk/journal/2014/unicode-text-symbols-emoji
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@keefstuart @hollygramazio and thank YOU for doing your thing on stage and being a part of it.
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@oopsohno @DavidOfYork i try to put everything on one screen, then use the "all apps" thing for uncommon apps.
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@oopsohno @DavidOfYork then i put a super glitchy and badly contrasting wallpaper behind everything (but muscle memory sees me right)
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Feeling wistful & very proud looking back on Now Play This - look at HOW MANY THINGS there were: storify.com/mathmarcault/now-play-this-2016
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@oopsohno @DavidOfYork i p much always remember the app name (& usually icon). 95% of what i use is on the homescreen.
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@oopsohno @oh_cripes shoutout to Android for allowing apps to have differently shaped icons, so you can pick them out by silhouette
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@oopsohno @oh_cripes (of course, it's ruined because they need to be consistent with iOS, so the icon design can't really run with it. but.)
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@oopsohno I need to jigger stuff round, actually, but here's my homescreen
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@AOsher @tomhoward87 @oopsohno that was a widget that told me how many steps i'd done from my tracker band thing, but i've taken it off.
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RT @heatpenn:
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On The Guardian: 13 fascinating games from the Now Play This Festival gu.com/p/4t3zy/stw
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RT @tinysubversions: I built a tool that tells you who muted you on Twitter. Find out today! tinysubversions.com/who-muted-me/
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@HonestWilliam thinking of you. and your future cyborg leg.
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RT @Patashu0: Crusader Kings 2 spymaster uncovers shocking assassination plot:
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@oopsohno hello, yes
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@Citrushistrix I was so glad we commissioned Get Lost - it was such a lovely thing and totally worked in that context.
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I dreamt we commissioned Pippin Barr to renovate a Moroccan house and fill it with things to get slowly interfered with throughout a show.
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.@LmthwL we also paid for it to be deconstructed, shipped brick by brick then reconstructed in the UK.
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RT @scottygb: A quick post on that awful Sex Box thing, if you missed it, last night buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/sex-box-the-tv-show-where-people-have-sex-in-a-box-is-back-a?utm_term=.qkYZy4l2lb
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RT @softlandscapes:
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@LmthwL I also ate some pie left in a cupboard, with Pippin's blessing. It was a good pie.
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RT @gamejolt: It was no joke: We now support GameBoy/GBA ROMs! Upload homebrew games & play them in your browser! Here, have some: https://…
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huh! (heat shrink over biro springs) @HE_VALENCIA/717140548981620736
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RT @dzifyr: good place to chill 🌿☀🌷📙
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@dzifyr so good! So jealous at how well you're doing the loose lines and colours.
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RT @LydNicholas: Didn't expect shock of beauty from HCI theory title, but there it is *readies for poet perspective on machine minds* https…
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Rank these things: 1) Sleeping 2) Eating 3) Having sex
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RT @patrickashe: Gonna be at A MAZE Berlin for one day only this year as I'm flying in to talk about zines with some lovely folks: https://…
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RT @patrickashe: I wasn't allowed to call the panel "Zine pronounced Zeen short for magazine. A lot of people pronounce it wrong." https://…
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@asponge I never said they were the best things! So: yes. Pick the least objectionable.
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@TomNullpointer all of these things combine badly. "in quick succession", though!
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@jawsew of course
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@KommanderKlobb @asponge wait... you prefer pooing to eating and showering to sleeping?
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@mrgnptts yeah, love a good bit of peer validation. Shame how quickly you can get habituated, though.
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@gothdome hmmmmmm!
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@AOsher still on 2 1 3
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@gothdome no, that's cute! PLUS you can convincingly do it while doing any of the three.
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@AOsher flip... sleeping probably. But the question makes me sad.
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@AOsher too much! Give me a walk on some hills, cold spring water and a tinfoil wrapped sandwich!
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@jawsew your place or mine?
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@tigershungry @AOsher pls let's do this? 30th April/1st May?
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Oh shit, yeah! Who wants to have a drink to celebrate me getting older on Tuesday the 19th? @5point9billion/717324681381089280
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@internetofshit makes sense - the Ikea catalogue has been mainly renders for some time now.
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super cute: @emoji_jury
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whoa! and it's mixed format, too! this is fascinating @emoji_jury/717331202198253569
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bot of the day: @emoji_jury CBDQ emoji bot with a good context & presentation and also... another script for replies? it's a mixed media bot
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hard sun, long afternoon @softlandscapes/717334539383783424
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@deer_ful i know that feeling. wishing you following winds.
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we showed this at Mild Rumpus and it's really charming and well-written @FlorianVltmn/717341862542057472
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@ldodds nope! :D
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@deathmtn beautiful, i thought that might be the case. i'm considering adding replies into main CBDQ... mulling on it now, tho
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@deathmtn yeah, esp with SVG stuff it can be a problem. need to do some work there, too...
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@deathmtn but also i would be fine spinning up a separate server for CBDQ and taking donations, if it came to it.
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@deathmtn @alexhalk @NotInventedHere with my new replies feature, i'm disrupting the space of accessible conversational interface platforms.
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RT @ANDfestival: Bot generated poetry chapbooks are one of two projects presented by @aparrish at #ArtofBots bit.ly/1oyXLDM https:…
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RT @tinysubversions: Bot Summit is happening on Apr 9th. RSVP today. It's free! London site: shop.vam.ac.uk/whatson/index/view/id/1980/event/Bot-Summit-2016/dt/2016-04-09/eType/1/free/2 Live stream: https:/…
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does anyone want to go to Kew Gardens this Sunday? calling Rezzed/Bot Summit folks
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@Gib aw, that's a shame. Next time!
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@polclarissou my couch is still free
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RT @GIFmodel: Poetic #Mosaic: Explored and Unexplored links.
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@quietllaura 2 > 1 > 3, imo
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RT @BrainTendencies:
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RT @jseakle: This article about Simpson's Paradox is important for if you ever want to think about averages in any context ever: https://t.…
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RT @lorenschmidt: death stalker 1989 (zx spectrum)
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RT @pippinbarr: ░░░ GAME IDEA ░░ ░ YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO ░░ AND YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IT ░░░ ░░░░ YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHY ░░░ ░░ BUT FUCK IT ░
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@hellocatfood i am enjoying this story, and look forward to updates throughout the day.
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@alexhern @keefstuart it's got very realistic graphics, though
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@adventuresofrob @alexhern @keefstuart i like that too! but there's all this other stuff layered on top (plus fiddly navmeshes)
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@adventuresofrob there's an argument it's much too late for that Proteus really is a walking simulator, in that it ...
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@adventuresofrob ... simulates the emotional experience of walking over some hills.
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More Beta Public! :D :D @beta_public/717688185703309312
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disagree with this: in both cases it's about making the gradient of power shallower @DavidAllenGreen/717680869322919936
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@AOsher true, but also i don't really care about consistency? & neither does the law: important exceptions to transparency & privacy.
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@AOsher I remember seeing a talk by a woman who spent years fighting a gruelling battle to get MPs expenses released under FoI.
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@AOsher that battle ended when someone sold them to the Telegraph. I wonder if she would have obtained them legally by now?
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RT @wunderkamercast: Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind - 1896 and 2016
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RT @tinysubversions: For the first time ever I'm publishing the schedule for Bot Summit before it happens! tinysubversions.com/botsummit/2016/ https://…
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RT @bengoldacre: Really hard to empathise with the cold cruel sanctimoniousness of shopping your housemate for an illegal abortion https://…
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emreed.net/2016/01/18/on-going-fast/ lovely post by @netgal_emi on speedrunning and Zach Hill (the drummer)
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Going to update the list of example bots on the homepage of cheapbotsdonequick.com - any favorites? Preference for those with source.
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@inky that's the spirit!
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a great post on bots as/and poetry, by @HarryGiles. the last paragraph especially captures something i feel a lot harrygiles.org/2016/04/06/some-strategies-of-bot-poetics/
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RT @pyrhho: A startup accelerator is where you smash startups into each other at high speed, in the hopes of capturing the emitted business…
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@edclef !!! put me in the category of people who want some but won't be at Rezzed
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@lorenschmidt @KommanderKlobb tower game feels particularly about that many-hands-swarming-ness after you place orders to me
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@edclef I think I'm planning belated birthday/light for my birth reaches Gamma Leporis drinks for that Tues! will let you know.
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@edclef and yeah - planning on catching up with Rezzed folks wherever you go Friday. & Bot Summit peeps Sat.
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@beccaerose yep! come by - upstairs in Vault 9
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i couldn't finish the last feature i tried because it replied on this feature... this feature will be broken til i do the next one.
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@KommanderKlobb i was just wondering about the weather. yep! there's a bunch of other folk also interested - will cc you on a thread soon
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@karaastone @DifferentGames which of you is rose quartz, and which serenity?
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Tories prefer cutting funding to Labour councils than Tory ones. (ie from poorer areas than richer) @piercepenniless/718140020624867329
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@piercepenniless not disagreeing!
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@dzifyr i hope to in a bit - need to do some work on a talk first
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what if the true bots... were the friends we made along the way?
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@dzifyr omw!
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@ibogost so many good illustrators and animators - Dick Hogg, Patrick Smith (ok, not a collaboration), Paloma Dawkins, David O'Reilly.
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@hollygramazio bet you'd love this one @manygradients/718215536564400130
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RT @1followernodad: You were the hot single in your area the whole time.
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RT @claytoncubitt: Haiku by a robot is the best haiku ever
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Installed Miitomo last night and it is cute and my friends are funny, but oh my god the loading times. Not sure I can deal.
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This is also the reason I stopped playing Animal Crossing. And never got into Street Pass. I don't understand Nintendo.
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Charli XCX has an unreleased punk album?! theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/07/bowie-producing-elvis-stevie-nicks-singing-purple-rain-greatest-50-pop-moments-that-never-happened?CMP=twt_gu
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@tigershungry @patrickashe your Japan priorities are completely in order: cherry blossoms, temples, and videogame junk.
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@tigershungry @patrickashe (get me one, pls?)
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@kitrichardsonuk 0, too, which seems much easier.
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@kitrichardsonuk i have a childhood story about this, but it's too heartbreaking/cute/revealing to post on twitter. next week!
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@edjeff huh. i cycle past that on my way to work. maybe one day i will get up early and breakfast there on the way in.
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@hannahnicklin I haven't seen harassment at EGX (but then I wouldn't), but I have wanted to crawl into a small hole and hide. Good luck!
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how to send an e mail - DATA BASE 1984 youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA
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people are reporting problems with CBDQ for fresh accounts - Twitter is currently spinning in a redirect loop for a test account for me...
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... so i'm struggling to diagnose. but i do know about it (but let me know if you have info one way or t'other)
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french teenagers are taking over @Gib/718416067379507202
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yeah, wow, completely failing to create any twitter accounts from here. "The page isn't redirecting properly"
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@adrielbeaver im a teenager
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@asponge @retroremakes i'd go fur
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@aparrish this is fantastic, and comes at a great time for me (been thinking on magic a lot, and have a project in mind). thank you so much!
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RT @aparrish: anyway here are my notes: tarot as collaborative storytelling word-game-workshop.decontextualize.com/tarot/
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RT @p1FppNo1611H0T0: 爪の中に水?アクアネイル😲👏💕
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@JamesWallis @aparrish yes! in fact, another consequence of this tweet was i followed/remembered about @crossddestinies
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@metasynthie thinking now of the story where She-Hulk didn't want to de-hulk, but was forced to by her new law-firm employer.
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@KommanderKlobb @nachimir @patrickashe @edclef @dzifyr @Gib @GregRicey i'll be... like an hour away, at least?
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@KommanderKlobb oh, that's tempting. will knock on the window at just past 6?
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Okay, let's do this: meet at Kew, at the Victoria Gate at midday Sunday. Tickets are about £15, park is open til 7:30. 🌲🌰☘🌹🌵🌾🌺🌷🌸🌿🍃🌼🎍🍄🌴🍂🌻🌳🌱
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@katierosepipkin @KommanderKlobb @kajtki @dreamfeelx @tinysubversions A PLAN (feel free to invite others) @v21/718481562250190849
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@inky seemed like the right middleground of "some people have flights later" and "i don't want to get up early"
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@Rinzence Scott! Come to Kew!
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@tinysubversions yus! Midday!
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@dreamfeelx @innesmck yes! Would be great to meet you.
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@innesmck @dreamfeelx ah, shame. Still, excited to meet you in person tomorrow!
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@mooonmagic @lexaloffle I am so glad your game became more feasible in a way that didn't involve you doing work
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@alienmelon POTATO
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BOT SUMMIT starts in a bit. I'm on second. Tune in here: youtu.be/FazJ5A-Gsx4 and chat about it here: webchat.freenode.net/?channels=botsummit
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I am kinda nervous and also thrilled to be speaking.
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@alexhern thank you!
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RT @tullyhansen: "One of the joys of bots is that you can go to sleep and you wake up and they've made something…" – @v21 #botsummit
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RT @tullyhansen: .@v21 asserts the making of tools is *even better* than the making of bots because the beautiful unexpected stuff you find…
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RT @GalaxyKate: #botsummit with @v21: roughly A THOUSAND cheapbotsdonequick bots have been active!!
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RT @GalaxyKate: @aparrish @v21 And even when programmers are poets, they make better poetry in poet-mode than in code-mode.
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@siobhangx thank you!
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(i did my bot summit talk)
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@thricedotted much love from here
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@deer_ful shoulda got those cans in (cc @hellocatfood)
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"i thought i'd like to make my bot smarter" giving up on this feels like a common theme of #botsummit
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been thinking about a new bot which hopefully will feel like it has a personality... hm.
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having a lot of sympathy for @DavidLublin's intricate moderation dilemmas... CBDQ throws up a lotta similar problems. #botsummit
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like... a bot that says just variants on "[x] is gay". i was gonna stop it, but it seemed to be made by [x]. *shrug* #botsummit
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"The inventor can no longer understand their own machine" #botsummit
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liking this trend of botmakers getting advanced, getting interactive and improvisational, inhabiting real spaces & installations #botsummit
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i think all the "hey, let's work together on this" conversations i've heard/been in are about not-quite-bots #botsummit
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i forgot @erocdrahs made @bffbot1! such a great track record #botsummit
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Braitenberg lurks behind another #botsummit talk
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Physically located #botsummit people : @v21/718481562250190849?s=09
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RT @jocularfowl: ~~~sassy 19th century schoolgirl aesthetic~~~
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RT @i_eat_fruit: interviewer: whats ur greatest weakness? me: im vague interviewer: can u elaborate? me: yeah
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RT @mewo2: Looks like @DavidLublin has got back to his hotel and hooked up @TVCommentBot UK Edition @tvcommentbot/718957930566000641
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@droqen I'd pay, but I've played it. Otherwise... Probably never, but a critical mass of friends playing might convince me.
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@droqen if so, $15 is probably the upper limit unless there's Netrunner levels of maybe-you're-missing-out about it.
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The end of #botsummit, where @katierosepipkin encouraged us beyond twitterbots, onto fallower fields, I feel that.
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This is why my botd posts have slowed down to almost a stop - I see few new concepts, just "does the same things well".
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I am trying to bite my tounge when people tell me about their cool bot idea and I think of something similar. Dunno if that's good or not.
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@deer_ful this is probably more my curators brain than my creators brain.
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@deer_ful technical skill REALLY doesn't matter! I mean, as long as you can make something at all. Which you clearly can.
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@deer_ful would that I was a good enough programmer to make @tiny_star_field
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@deer_ful it would be cool. but so would having inline error highlighting in CBDQ. and replies. and a bunch of other things that are hard.
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@deer_ful @BooDooPerson yes, definitely. (i was stoked to see yours, too). i just don't want to kill people's excitement beforehand.
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@deer_ful both things are true for me! i mean i also like people telling me i'm smart and important, but really i have no patience.
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@deer_ful i made @unicode_garden because i wanted to make a bot like @katierosepipkin would make, because i loved her stuff. *shrug*
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almost lifelike! @softlandscapes/717425158315773954
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@smestorp with many bots, yes. but there's something inherently gimmicky/concept-driven with many bot things.
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@deer_ful oh, so actually thinking about this i have an idea: add a SVG mask of a rect growing in from the left on each section.
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@deer_ful the animation _probably_ needs to be driven by JS, but maybe you can use SVG animation instead. obv happy to help w this!
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@KommanderKlobb @nachimir yeah, the quickest way is the overground for me, which doesn't make sense for others.
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@nachimir @KommanderKlobb yep! at the Victoria Gate entrance.
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RT @baiyon: the river filled with full of Cherry Blossom petals! #kyoto
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I have an Oculus arriving soon, and no computer than can run it. So soon I'll have £1000 I can feel free to spend on fun junk.
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Maybe I'll buy a PS4 and a decent telly.
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@TomNullpointer haha. that's definitely part of it. i do want a better computer art grounding, actually!
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@deer_ful I'm glad my endless stressing at SVG can help someone else.
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@deer_ful and ha. That seems fair. Hope you get some rest/recover from the fresh hangover I assume you have.
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@hannahnicklin of course not, I just don't want to be "oh yes, xxx did something like that and you did this" and kill people's enthusiasm
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@hannahnicklin especially in the case of novice makers, and especially in the case of conceptual ideas, especially quick projects.
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@hannahnicklin (all of which are, generally for good, common within bots)
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@hannahnicklin haha. I mean, I am basically from games.
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An hour on an Overground train with a cup of tea in blazing sunshine. Bliss.
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@sheilamu I'll put that on the list, just underneath "buy some actually expensive clothes"
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RT @TVCommentBot: It'll hold up the soda machine of the forest.
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Okay, @DavidLublin, I'm officially requesting @UKTVCommentBot @TVCommentBot/719103565453795328
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@asponge DM me your address, I'll send you a postcard.
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@DavidLublin I need to check, but I might be able to set my server up as a VPN (it's London based)
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@KommanderKlobb sure thing. Some people will be a bit delayed, and we may get lunch early too - but it'll all work out.
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#botsummit #botALLY selfie @ VQ Chelsea instagram.com/p/BEBEkWTtowX/
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@dreamfeelx @katierosepipkin @KommanderKlobb @tinysubversions @innesmck @inky @mewo2 going to Kew Greenhouse cafe rn
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@dreamfeelx @katierosepipkin @KommanderKlobb @tinysubversions @innesmck @inky @mewo2 we're outside the park, at a cafe called the Greenhouse
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@dreamfeelx it's a couple of minutes back towards the station from the Victoria Gate entrance. Can join you once we're done,or you come here
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@katierosepipkin get me one, I guess?
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@katierosepipkin @inky we'll head to you - be there in about 10?
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@hollygramazio @manygradients oh, yeah, this one is great! And think how much more you appreciate it after so many ugly ones.
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RT @manygradients:
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RT @TVCommentBot:
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@jonbro I hope the eyes follow your cursor around the site
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RT @mcclure111: Y'know, funny thing here is, part of why I went from designing video games to programming languages is I thought there'd be…
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@hollygramazio wikihow article-guessing game: damn.dog/
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RT @charlielyne: Ta-Nehisi Coates on our broken understanding of criticism: theatlantic.com/notes/2016/04/the-feminists-of-wakanda/477456/
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@betterthemask @LydNicholas some day i'm gonna teach you Tracery/botmaking and you're gonna love it.
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my bot summit talk is up (along with everyone else's) here i am : youtube.com/watch?v=KTPih7D0Jhg#t=26m30 i'm talking about making tools for novices
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@betterthemask @LydNicholas i mean... you're gonna love it because it's like writing, but you have to write all of the lines at once.
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@betterthemask @LydNicholas isn't that "accidentally starting a new project"?
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@betterthemask @LydNicholas anyway: yes, but a project that's small enough you can finish it in one sitting
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@ADAMATOMIC i think it doesn't quite manage this, but yeah. it does try to go that way.
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@ADAMATOMIC if it was just ... a bit cooler or more stylish? or if i was 14, maybe.
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@legobutts @ADAMATOMIC see, i haven't seen ultraviolet, and now i really want to?
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@mtrc me toooo. This is a place corp sponsorship / hackathon model makes things worse: corps want winners so they can give prizes.
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@mtrc oh, that is great. And yeah, that's wise (not that it can't be worth it, but.)
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RT @unicode_garden: 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻…
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@churlishmeg Savages? You can probably get a day out if just listening to Adore on repeat.
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@notquitereal is this a "writing jokes while laughing with friends" vs "writing jokes while alone" issue?
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@logodaedalus what does host mean in this instance?
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@infovore so completely into this video
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one super cool thing about bot summit is the way it replicates the sociality and shared conversations around a conf, but distributed
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lotta work, though
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@andreaszecher do you have tips for allowing people who can't write html and are afraid of eg FTP to edit a static site?
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@andreaszecher that's the killer feature that means i end up running WP for everything other than my personal stuff.
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@inskora bad gfx don't matter much, cuz everything still feels like a space. but movement is a real challenge.
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@andreaszecher @middlemanapp i'm not inflicting git on people who aren't comfortable with graphical ftp clients :/
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@andreaszecher i wouldn't either, but it gives a baseline of technological comfort.
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@andreaszecher :/ yep, that's basically where we're at. ah well!
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Kat is intimidatingly competent. @LovedayBrooke/719502929531691008
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@shahidkamal what's the best way to approach if you don't have any personal contacts? how important are they?
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@katierosepipkin it is ENTIRELY appropriate
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@katierosepipkin ps go to the room which is just cabinet on cabinet of minerals. last time i had to be dragged out by impatient friends.
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@shahidkamal thank you. this matches my experience, too! but i struggle with the implications for diversity, inclusiveness & sociality.
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RT @BarristerNZ: This is what I find most striking about the #PanamaPapers revelations:
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RT @LGwenn: Read this cuz ridiculous messy Humanity @JoshRaby/719404248803491840
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a tool designed for your first 5 minutes with it, vs a tool designed for working with rather intensively. @inkleStudios/719535163349327872
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i think this would be a good theme for the next underhanded c contest desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2016/04/06/lottery-scammers-brother-facing-criminal-charges/82690668/
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@infovore did you see my botsummit talk? i kinda linked these two things in the opposite way
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@infovore youtube.com/watch?v=KTPih7D0Jhg#t=26m30, if you're interested! short and aimed at bot people, so not super deep, but there's interesting stuff
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@merrittkopas thank you, i suffer from this a lot
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RT @cardboardcompy:
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@webbedspace often, they reach this place early (clearly early, impossibly early, far too easily) and then it's shown as a fake-out.
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Get Lost!, the wonderful Twine game we commissioned from @Citrushistrix for Now Play This is out! philome.la/Citrushistrix/get-lost-originallarge-version/play
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I am so proud to be vaguely involved in the creation of this story.
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@Willeth it's a mystery! ... But nah, they all fire at about the same time every day, around noon.
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@Willeth not telling you when the once a year option fires
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bot of the day: @cnrsocial20 a bot asking humans to verify they're not bots to help humans research bots? kinda rude, imo
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RT @JoanieLemercier: Plotter drawing No. 105 with video projection
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@Radstronomical flipping a spoon!
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RT @partytimeHXLNT: Svetlana Boym's work on nostalgia speaks so beautifully to gaming. Full article: iasc-culture.org/eNews/2007_10/9.2CBoym.pdf https://t.co…
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RT @ADAMATOMIC: @ADAMATOMIC quiltcon 2016 winners are all devastating themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/congratulations-to-our-quiltcon-2016-winners/
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You gotta click through on that last tweet, there's some seriously amazing quilts there. Wow.
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@dreamfeelx really good, thanks!
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@brandonnn @sokpopco forreal, there's a shortage of great physical items distributing indie games, you should do it
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RT @q_dork: Now u have the opportunity to put on makeup in 10 seconds or less. Go and be fabulous. 👉 q_dork.itch.io/morning-makeup-madness https://t.co…
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@jhoffstein am i okay to publish the text of your email about SVG support way back from last year?
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@jhoffstein oh, ps, i added SVG support to CBDQ, thanks for the bug report
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@john_brindle buy a really nice jacket.
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@john_brindle or a bunch of flowers for yourself, every week for a year.
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@john_brindle 12 bottles of good whiskey (do you like whiskey? who seem like a person who likes whiskey)
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@john_brindle me, i'd be tempted to buy makeblock.cc/xy-plotter-robot-kit/ , even though i know i wouldn't get enough use out of it
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@john_brindle a projector, for live events
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@john_brindle a weekend trip to Amsterdam, not with Ryanair and in an okay hotel.
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@john_brindle (i should have an Oculus coming soon, and so I have been thinking about ways to spend £1000. I also thought of a PS4)
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@sashageffen Mr & Mrs Potato Head can possess objects by being plugged into them. This gets kinky in my head, fast.
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The Rust SteamID=character thing is a really good joke, I really like it.
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Huh! Really great to have a term for the narrative design I used in Mutazione- not Quality-Based, but Salience-Based @emshort/719924493171359746
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(mind, I don't see what it has to do with being transgender. I try not to read Kill Screen)
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i wanna make a game called "now kill 10,000 rats" @torahhorse/719930799525470208
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RT @ClydeMandelin: You can control Buzz Buzz's ray of light with the second controller #earthbound
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@hellocatfood isn't it!
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bot of the day: @botsburgers automated puns that actually work served up in a delightful bed of image
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@mink_ette @botsburgers i don't but at a guess: corpus of food items => rhyming word => idiom containing that word.
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@mink_ette @botsburgers i don't but at a guess: corpus of food items => rhyming word => idiom containing that word.
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@mink_ette @botsburgers then output idiom with food item replaced in, and follow with "(served with <food item>)"
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@mink_ette @botsburgers (it's a bit more than that, see the hyphen after yam and "corn salsa" with a pun on just "corn")
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In this time of peak bot frenzy, a reminder that I've been running a successful bot platform for over a year.
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@Gillespionage why, on cheapbotsdonequick.com, of course
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RT @slunglowalan: Whittingdale clearly didn't change his view. That's why papers didn't want to unseat him. *thats* the pongy bit https://t…
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as a period of being quite busy draws to a close, taking on new obligations starts to sound good. yes! let's commit to projects! great idea!
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RT @Draknek: Less than a week to go! :D Stephen's Sausage Roll stephenssausageroll.com/ The best puzzle game of 2016
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@Gillespionage @Bogus_Books it can only do certain things, but it's pretty easy & quick to do those things.
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@Gillespionage sure, if you're signed in too. it just posts a generated tweet from that account on a schedule.
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RT @SylvanianUK: "Let's make things!"
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@keefstuart that's a really nice cover!
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@keefstuart i have a cringe on behalf of people i vaguely know with books with terrible covers, so i guess i was just pleasantly surprised.
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RT @JmeBBK: QR codes didn't really take off
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Updated the examples on cheapbotsdonequick.com. Think I've captured a good range of examples...
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@lyyyndseyyy this sounds like a spinoff show from "Dog With A Blog"
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@lyyyndseyyy it also reminds me of this short story sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/l_tober.htm which rather proves the wisdom of the cat.
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@inskora @PrototypeCube this part, though: "I swapped if and of while doing dd. What to do now?"
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@inskora @PrototypeCube (ie, the tool i was using to copy the broken disk copied the new disk over the broken disk)
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It's spring! The sun is out, I can cycle without gloves on, and the pigeons are fucking.
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I'm going to be in Berlin next weekend for the fag-end of Amaze and to see people. If you'll be around, let me know, we can do drinking.
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new SVG CBDQ bot: (this is a really lovely concept) @hashfacade/720229397312221184
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@LovedayBrooke i'm sure they think the same about us
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@air_hadoken @tinyworlds sorry, I don't have any smart suggestions here. Twitter is as mysterious for me as it is for you...
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RT @aparrish: this... is a surprisingly difficult decision to make @corporabrackets/720310767216697344
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@jbradfield presumably they'll use the Apple emoji font, which isn't free
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RT @kewgardens: Kew’s spectacular #titanarum is set to be big, measuring in today at almost 180cm and growing fast... #MightyTitan https://…
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@air_hadoken @tinyworlds then logging in again should regenerate, but it might not preserve the source.
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@air_hadoken @tinyworlds but I don't think that'd matter - Twitter's spam detection isn't keyed off access tokens, as far as I know
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@air_hadoken @tinyworlds ah. Yeah, then manually revoking access then logging in again might clear it
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@tinyworlds @air_hadoken nah, that won't matter. Good luck!
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Earlier this evening I was helpless as a CBDQ bot got blocked by Twitter. Now I find another is in a Moment. @twitter/720357198493147136
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Like, I don't want to be unnecessarily sarky - they're not connected. And I don't look at Moments unless I suspect them to be flattering.
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@mcclure111 I'm favoriting the previous tweet, but not this one
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@Malarkey @new_nomad why? I am influenced by contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/ which makes a strong case in it's favour.
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"No Barriers To Food", a sandwich shop next to Holborn station, serves food from behind a glass cabinet.
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RT @nachimir: Feral Vector tickets are live. We booked an entire hostel next to the venue this year too. @feralvector/720538293817974785
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RT @SFBDim: rough promo art for a game about a marching-band leader rabbit with too many responsibilities
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@Kimik00 @tinyworlds @air_hadoken yeah, that's fair - but from experience adding it, receiving the text then deactivating should fix it.
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bot of the day:@ltxbot i see Computer Modern and i feel the flicker of florescent lights a battered office chair the hum of distant printers
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RT @studioexec1: I'm addicted to this new Chicken game. It's going to be bigger than Minecraft, Candy Crush and Farmville combined https://…
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@patrickashe OBVIOUSLY I'm there on Thursday. But which of Tuesday or Wednesday will I like better?
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just bought tickets for wednesday and thursday of BETA PUBLIC next week cptheatre.co.uk/production/beta-public-presents/
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They are doing a production of the Kentucky Route Zero interlude The Entertainment! !!!
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boy, i sure am excited for all the bots people are going to make for Messenger medium.com/@sgreenwood/software-is-eating-up-the-world-part-ii-f272a6635765#.6kcal2q93
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@aparrish oh shit! i am excited to meet you!
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@aparrish welcome to the UK! Congrats on it not being generically grey today!
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RT @crossddestinies: The old maid describes a confusing story about law courts.
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@asponge your letter got published @CllrSimonHogg/720538852205731840
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RT @tomazstolfa: Is Jabber's Chatbot the Command Line of the Future? openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/01/11/jabber_bots.html [from 2002]
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@ADAMATOMIC Have you read A Game Design Vocabulary? It won't tell *you* many new things, but is the best intro to game design I've ever seen
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@ADAMATOMIC it is a book that is very aware of the fine line between being prescriptive and uselessly general.
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@ADAMATOMIC same! but this one is Actually Good. though, like I say, I'm not actually recommending it to you. but it is that intro text.
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@tha_rami King of Dragon Pass, The Floor Is Jelly & all of S Woodson's work.
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@netgal_emi @skeletonsday ah! i love this!
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@Big_Evil_Corp @lexicobob no no, the worst part was when he then got if and of switched running dd on the disk after.
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@Big_Evil_Corp @lexicobob I have nothing but compassion.
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bot of the day: @skeletonsday skelly says no to a frog skelly goes to SeaWorld skelly directs red cross services skelly discovers aliens?
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bot of the day: @trippingbot every night MARTA pops some pills and writes down what she sees Erowid char-rnn loosening
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fuck. Without Hot Air is a masterpiece, and Dasher is an ingenious bit of design. RIP. @Jess_Shankleman/720665316481757184
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@tburrellsaward @ammonite @haiyan afraid I'm running a workshop on Saturday, so can't make it. Looks great, though, hope it goes well.
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If anyone is free this weekend and would like to make games for cystic fibrosis devices, this is the thing for you: @haiyan/720883441877721094
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RT @vaughnpinpin: Here they come
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I'm mad no-one favved this.
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@lauraehall this is a super cute photo! Enjoy Japan!
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@alexhern whoo!
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@alexhern yeah - tbh, even a deep piece will have to skip lots of good stuff, there's so much out there.
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RT @ratbanjos: I found a falling leaf on Google Maps.
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Cheap Bots, Done Quick! is on show all of today and tomorrow at Art of Bots, a free show at Somerset House. Info: somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/art-of-bots
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By on show, I mean @profaniti is running it as a workshop today, and me tomorrow. And there's tons of other great work, too!
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Oh, and in other CBDQ news: I added some code that makes you confirm if you close the page without saving. (cc @LydNicholas)
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3 lines of code that presumably will save someone about 15 minutes of silent screaming at some point. Good use of my time.
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@AOsher oh god. they're totally going to do a remake of The Matrix at some point, aren't they?
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RT @skeletonsday: 💀💬 ⚽️
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RT @hashfacade: ebb
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RT @ANDfestival: Come and make your own Cheap Bot Done Quick at #artofbots @SomersetHouse until 8pm today: @hellocatfood/720958257393770497
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@kitrichardsonuk haha! KNEW i should have sent this to you when i was listening yesterday
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@kitrichardsonuk he's such a dude, i'm so glad he's getting to do soundtracks where he gets to go properly Dose.
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@ShaneMac Used to work at a company that did SMS Gateway stuff...
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@thomas_mac Ah! Lovely! :D
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@WJ_Armstrong @thomas_mac @MagicRealismBot haha! It's being projected at the same show that CBDQ is being taught at.
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RT @ANDfestival: Full house at Cheap Bots Done Quick! #artofbots
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@lorenschmidt One beautiful level in Jelly No Puzzle basically solved itself, but still showed a new, beautiful consequence of the mechanics
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@lorenschmidt I think about that level a lot - enthusiasm to show you a neat trick triumphing over "good puzzle design".
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or maybe it's just Twitter being broken generally? Twitter, maybe you'd have more users if signing up for an account wasn't broken.
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@xuv seemed to be happening tethered to my phone, but I was able to create just with mobile browser
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RT @Guardiandroid:
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@hellocatfood yeah, you're tweeting at it (also feel free to file issues against the github projects)
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@hellocatfood I'd rather try to fix inline highlighting than add line numbers (it looks too "codey" already). But the 2nd is an actual thing
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I am really sleepy right now.
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@recallalert1 thank you for coming!
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RT @jonbro: I am looking for work! check out my portfolio here, and let me know if you got the job for me: jonathanbrodsky.com/
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Got a flower in my drink instagram.com/p/BERWsLWto0a/
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@lorenschmidt I have never done a Ludum Dare.
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@lorenschmidt yeah! Pretty rarely, though, maybe once or twice a year these days. They always birth new projects (/responsibilities)
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RT @little__time: btw this is the sort of thing that 'well meaning academics who care about free speech' are getting riled up about. http:/…
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RT @mknpf: I finally fixed the edge detection for low-poly terrain. 1-bit rendering ftw! #LDJAM
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RT @spacecommunism: Bloody sick of students restricting freedom of speech in universities!!
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@youngvulgarian I last got a Moto G from Amazon. Before that, a Moto G from Carphone Warehouse.
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@mcclure111 thank you! I had forgotten to re-register since I moved.
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RT @mcclure111: PSA, deadline to register to vote in the UK local elections in May is tomorrow gov.uk/register-to-vote
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@siobhangx oh! oh no. *hugs*
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RT @atduskgreg: As hype grows around commercial bots companies should credit and, importantly, pay the artists and others who’ve been makin…
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RT @atduskgreg: People like @katierosepipkin, @thricedotted, @tinysubversions and others experimented and found the creative power in the m…
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RT @tchoi8: creating your own galaxy #signingcoders
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RT @TVCommentBot: The deal with the devil here is simple: instead of rewarding failure, we only reward success.
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@oopsohno that your new bio for talks and that?
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RT @SophieHaydock: Mark Edmonds left the Sunday Times Magazine today after 35 years in journalism. I'll remember him fondly https://t.co/m0…
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@LovedayBrooke yes! That's the one.
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RT @cgwtf: Nikita Diakur's "Ugly" project takes us outside the Goldilocks zone of software aesthetics. goo.gl/Bf53V0 @nikitadiakur
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@notquitereal kind of? It's grid based pushing puzzles. But generally I'd leave sokoban for quite pure sokobanish things.
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@notquitereal "sokoban-like"
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@ellaguro I have some sympathy for this, because I don't know that I had much until I was releasing stuff myself.
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@notquitereal I've not played any modern Zelda! But if it applies - SSR is uncompromising, but not irritating.
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@M_PF @genmon @softlandscapes haha! so the source is up at cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/softlandscapes if you wanna try to unpick it...
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calling London people interested in bots: let's have a picnic! v21.io/blog/robot-picnic/ (Sunday 8th May, PM, Victoria Park) 🌳🌿🤖🍾🍰🤖🌿🌳
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how appropriate! @godtributes/722024965319626752
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@john_brindle I have playtested it some, and am happy to confirm the veracity of this review.
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@KommanderKlobb that's great, that's like a modern Saki. (and then he kills the bot, and everyone shuns him because they liked them better)
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RT @biochembelle: She was turned down entry bc rules & women were "physiologically incapable of running 26.2 miles". So she snuck in. https…
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RT @managore: so here's some of the actual gameplay
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recommended: this game about language and medical gatekeeping zoy.itch.io/elixir
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@mcclure111 The biggest internal division within the Tories is over Europe. The referendum is about Cameron keeping control of Tory MPs.
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@mcclure111 The campaigns are roughly headed by the two front-runners for Tory leadership. Of course, higher stakes than that...
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@tigershungry @brandonnn defective workmanship; take it back to the shop
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@tigershungry haha, i figured you were. I ate one of your wasabi kitkats.
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Been waiting for this story ever since I heard about someone discovering it by accident when I worked at a SMS co. theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/18/phone-number-hacker-read-texts-listen-calls-track-you
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As I recall, you overwrite the record for a phone number, intercept it all, then can transparently forward it all on.
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RT @UnburntWitch: I just wrote a big ol thing on how bystanders and third parties can help people being targeted by online abuse https://t.…
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@emshort thanks for that post on Time, it's sparked a bunch of thoughts on what I should prioritise with my own stuff.
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@tinyworlds yes! But it's a bit complex, because it has to be an image embedded in an SVG.
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@tinyworlds not of just putting images in, but there's a minimal example of SVG support at cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/hashfacade
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@tinyworlds yep! The Tweet button doesn't work for SVGs yet. Works when scheduled, though.
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Hello play this and also play our game (Fabulous Beasts). @pmpygame/722181567360032768
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going to go to buy a game about sausages
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huh! i just watched this again. it's a good talk! i'm proud of it. @Blackcorn666/722188091352621056
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i burnt some sausages.
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my mind is full of sausages sliding and rotating.
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@beccaerose @GalaxyKate i should be less oblique: i was playing stephenssausageroll.com/ it came out today and is a puzzle game masterwork
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@beccaerose Toca Boca is consistently great, though.
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someone on Stephen's Sausage Roll Pricing forum joked the reason it was priced higher than ECT was because it was "simple" not "abstract"
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which, mulling over it while playing... yeah. that's a fair summary of why SSR is a superior game.
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sunrise, third day @softlandscapes/722226777469403136
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oh, and while i'm on the topic: The Clover is the best joke told through pure level design i've seen in a bit.
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@whatisian in so many ways! ECT was about space larve with camoflauge fake gravity... SSR is about grilling sausages.
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@whatisian ECT has wildly varying levels making full use of 3D space... SSR takes place on a single archipelago with all the rules in place.
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@whatisian ECT's hub is a floaty thing of spheres... SSR teaches you how to move and gives you some story (apparently, I'm just starting)
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RT @KBAndersen: Funny, isn't it, this radical democratization of the media that the internet produced. @carlstwitt/722080289871261696
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@hannahnicklin when are you in Berlin til? I'm going for the weekend
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RT @FabBeasts: “Sure to bring the family together” - we’re in the latest edition of @FQDadsMag! fqmagazine.co.uk/issues/FQ-Spring-2016/index.html https://t.co/avUESA…
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@kierongillen I saw The Hangover in the cinema, and halfway through was spoiled on the ending by remembering a review ...
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@kierongillen ... which hadn't given away the ending, just said they were ruined halfway through by their friend guessing the ending.
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@Willeth @kierongillen only knowledge that the answer was guessable from where I was. So I formulated a theory, and was sure I was right.
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@notquitereal d'aww! thanks!
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@hannahnicklin ah, and in fact, i'll miss you entirely, as I'm just there at the weekend.
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RT @john_brindle: When your afternoon wargaming session suddenly merges with an actual war (also, you are a Nazi)
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@quietllaura 45% showing the game live is seeing how people respond 45% reminding yourself how the game looks when it's played 10% opinions
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RT @5point9billion: @v21 Light left Earth as you were born 29.1 years ago… It's passing Gamma Leporis NOW! 🎉🌟✨
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Now this is an endorsement. (Jelly No Puzzle is the game I'd first recommend to fans of Sausage Roll and vice versa) @qrostar/722390479241814016
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@hannahnicklin there's still a stubby little bit on Sat! But yeah, basically. Work, y'know? But yes. Good thing we live in the same city!
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@aanand like, it's a very particular thing, but it's absolutely perfect at being that kind of thing. if you have time & energy, then yes.
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@hannahnicklin well yes
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RT @nice_tips_bot: a cool tip: don't be afraid to get dirty.
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as the game gets closer to explaining itself, i find that all the logic gets duplicated (sometimes implicitly & messily) within the UI code.
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@smestorp the result is calculated instantly, but then it all has to happen again for the UI to show it's workings. probably worth it, tho.
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@smestorp been adding in a bunch of stuff to check that the displayed state actually matches internal state... probably important.
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@tomhoward87 I played it on PC first and it made total sense there. But yeah, Sausages on the go would be nice.
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@tomhoward87 control scheme makes less sense than for ECT on mobile... but that's okay.
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@hellocatfood oh my god yes
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getting really glad i put checks in at the end to make sure they've given the same answer
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oh god iPad silently upgrades so it needs new Xcode which needs new Unity3D which breaks ...? let's find out!
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still, let's look on the bright side... at least i didn't have to upgrade my entire OS this time.
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@adurdin I've gotten around it before by manually copying folders in under Platforms, but it's just such an unnecessary faff.
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RT @dzifyr: Some fresh air 🌾🌷🌱
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RT @cmuratori: .@humble's default split is now worse royalties for the dev than Steam/iOS/etc, and they take more than the charity: https:/…
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@bfod 14 sausages!
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@PerfectPlum @Gingerhazing aw, yes, Nimona is lovely!
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@metasynthie @radiatoryang I'm around Saturday! The best thing to do in Berlin, imo, is to cycle around Templehof on a nice day.
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@metasynthie @radiatoryang Berlin is generally amazing on bikes. And yeah! Will see you there!
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@quietllaura yeah, the trick to talks is to only say obvious things about topics you've kinda got bored of by this point.
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@quietllaura because the audience doesn't know that shit, and you know it too well, so obvious is the same as thoughtful and insightful.
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@quietllaura sometimes I want to give talks on stuff I really care about right now. But that takes much more effort to write.
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@quietllaura yeah, but... other people are generally behind you (on stuff you're into, on those topics) (unless you're into tedious things)
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@mink_ette Hello. I feel fine. Maybe I'll play some sausage game before bed. Drink some decaf tea.
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@quietllaura yeah. It's not about specific skill, it's that your mindset is different from your audience's.
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@quietllaura I don't know if that's too much (depends on the slides and the games). But it sounds like it might be too much. Cut chunks!
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@WonderlandBlog @Twitter apparently if you get to over 10k followers, you don't get ads. You're not too far...
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@WonderlandBlog @Twitter right!? I do enjoy that ad-free status is separate from Verified. Twitter has a good learning curve.
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RT @softlandscapes:
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Mad I'm out of the country for ELCAF this year! But if you're in London you should def go! Beautiful things await! @ELCAFest/722463318867382273
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i would recommend sextadventure.com/ if you want to play an interesting project that explores the medium of conversational interfaces
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@michelmcbride I never did! Problem of being in the UK...
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RT @aanand: New bot: @slitscanner. Give it a gif. Smooth motion works best. @slitscanner/722768869979484160
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/r/Vive : Afraid to walk outside bounds IRL. reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4fc745/afraid_to_walk_outside_bounds_irl/
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RT @matlock: Fantastic, and unexpectedly moving, essay by @leighalexander on her attempts to build an urban garden: howwegettonext.com/i-tried-to-green-my-apartment-by-learning-from-the-weed-growing-community-4b08e72aef86#.i7x1g4ewb
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@buttchumpsky YEAH! ah, that's super sweet.
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@plentyofalcoves I had too much sugar and I'm feeling weird and waiting to see some theatre.
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@plentyofalcoves my friend puts on a night of videogame / performance stuff - cptheatre.co.uk/production/beta-public-presents/
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this was meatier than i imagined! @DanGrover/722915530273792000
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update : new XCode broke my ability to compile an unrelated OpenFrameworks project
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RT @beta_public: TONIGHT, BETA PUBLIC PRESENTS: PERSPECTIVE @CamdenPT w/ @aliendovecote + The Entertainment (Live!) @cardboardcompy https:/…
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@sheilamu this is you @SimonParkin/723096202703704065
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@KOOPMode who's out at PAX this weekend? Say hi to @streamofstars and @tburrellsaward! (and @ammonite, too, I guess)
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RT @esaxey: Swardspeak (Phillipine gay lingo) uses backslang like Polari! Excellent parallels. (Swardspeak also has 'Optimus Prime' to mean…
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@edjeff Are You Being Served? I can't actually remember the show, but an amazing theme.
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@edjeff oh shit - the show was good, but the theme always eclipsed it - Round The Twist
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@anildash here's another take on this from Mark Ames, way back in 2003 exiledonline.com/elite-versus-elitny/
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@thealexmoyler saw what?
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@sheilamu i told you!
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RT @jonty: Either a perfectly executed troll, or the First Sea Lord really objects to "Boaty McBoatface" because it is a ship. https://t.co…
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RT @tinysubversions: Bots at Rutgers! @thricedotted @aparrish @zachwhalen @robdubbin @leonardr @ranjit @samplereality @katierosepipkin http…
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if anyone fancies coming to see a production of @cardboardcompy's The Entertainment at Beta Public tonight, hmu - got a spare ticket.
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oh yeah! I didn't mention - I have a game at A MAZE - pls check out Intergalactic Jellyfish! intergalacticjellyfish.eu/
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@frozenpandaman yeah, right?! no idea if they'll be a recording... but i suspect not.
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@jonbro @noodlenuuup it is such a good joke.
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@jonbro @noodlenuuup i miiiight hit you up on that... in a couple of days, maybe
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@noodlenuuup @jonbro nvm, i got it now. less intricate a solution than i expected, actually!
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@profaniti @AMazeFest i've never had sky internet
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@HarryGiles @jonbro @noodlenuuup I just went through and cleared like 10 sausages in a row... and now I'm left with Lachrymose Head.
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@HarryGiles @jonbro @noodlenuuup satisfying to find myself suddenly in a headspace where I just knew the movement well enough to just do.
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@retroremakes @patrickashe I read that as encouraging players to engage early, rather than at this kinda stage in the life cycle.
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@PerfectPlum huh - loading from here. video at youtube.com/watch?v=BJJf8aTSApo&feature=youtu.be, anyway
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@PerfectPlum but it's hard to sell, as like 50% of the experience is a sense of dislocation from your hand, and that doesn't sell in video
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@PerfectPlum it's probably that .eu domain that's doing it - i forgot that kind of internet doesn't travel well
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@ADAMATOMIC @Nifflas synergy just means you both benefit (you probably want to be at least half as popular for that to ever make sense)
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@AOsher @KommanderKlobb goddamn it, a minute too late. anyway... yeah: MEIHEM IN CE KLASRUM by Dolton Edwards (actually W. K. Lessing)
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@jawsew at least it's in a mug, not a glass
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@jawsew but i haven't even arrived yet!
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@jawsew tomorrow morning
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@innesmck tbh now i'm just thinking about rolling sausages again
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@ADAMATOMIC says so on Steam, so it must be true.
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RT @starsandrobots: Vintage hardware circuit boards from Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims — Circuit Classics https://t.co/fj…
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@PerfectPlum great delayed response
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RT @ellaguro: videogame design
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My alarm went off but I didn't wake up! I missed my flight! Bummed not to hang with people at Amaze this weekend!
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@awesommelier Berlin - and it's an irritating thing of having enough time to get to the airport and watch it take off, but not catch it.
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@awesommelier at 7pm, for over £100 - would only be there a day, so not worth it. Ah well.
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@mink_ette it leaves 8:20 from Gatwick. I could get there at 8:15...
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@mink_ette leaves...
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@mink_ette there's one this evening, but I don't think it's worth it to go for a day.
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@hoskingc or dust! Lotta affection for watching dust caught in sunshafts.
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@edjeff I'm glad you're here to make it all better.
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RT @nice_tips_bot: a cool tip: don't try to do too much. doing a little bit every day is better than burning out.
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@keefstuart Big Red Racing! I loved that game. It came free with a printer. I can still hear "Checkpoint!" in that voice.
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@keefstuart I mean clearly I loved it because it was fun and goofy and had split-screen, but yeah, I still remember the scraps of narrative.
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I just read Bug Boys and I am overwhelmed. There is so much love in this comic.
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@genmon @tiny_gravity oh wow 😍
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RT @JmeBBK: If somebody blocks you on Twitter. There is a 99.9999999999999999999999% chance it's for one reason and one reason only.
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RT @JmeBBK: You tweeted something they didn't like. That's all folks.
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Love this SVG CBDQ bot: @GamedPylori
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@adrielbeaver nope! That's just a thing that's not supported
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@adrielbeaver or, you can do that with Tracery, but you have to host the script yourself
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RT @kelliotttt: great stuff
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RT @timoni: Relating to this meditation on work + lives very strongly. 1843magazine.com/features/why-do-we-work-so-hard h/t @jazer
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@adrielbeaver hosting (& writing) a bot is kind of laborious - the Tracery part is easy
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@adrielbeaver this might be a useful ref: github.com/v21/tracerybot -doesn't do replies, but does everything else
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@adrielbeaver and thanks - sorry not to have seen you!
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@HappyHorseSkull @timoni @jazer yeah, it straight up is. But I feel the same way (and sometimes feel guilty about that)
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@fromsmiling goddamn even with the wobble, that's too much (I love it)
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RT @tinkertailorbot: Following a trip to Hungary, former journalist Peter Villiers is coerced by the Government to tail a potential recruit.
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@tburrellsaward @pmpygame hahahaha
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@tburrellsaward @pmpygame they wish they were clean boys
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@Nifflas yeah! It's hard to code against, but super important.
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@Nifflas exceptions can be made for games where the metaphor is literally that you're typing the words.
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@patrickashe what's my banned status witha Public? Just came up with a great idea for a performance/game...
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@lexicobob @nottartstheatre saw that recently - love the way Morticia's eyes are lit.
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@lorenschmidt Tile Gardener? Place Arranger?
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RT @FancyMichael: ice giant
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A formative game for me was KYE jr. - The Christmas Present (info at kye.me.uk/)
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@kevinwatters i had Very Specific Memories, but it took me a good while to find the actual game.
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@HarryGiles sounds like everyone's happy
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@kevinwatters @myabandonware the link I tweeted originally has builds! Needs Win XP or earlier to run.
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@SK_Louie you should rip off our GAME IDEAS thing, and put up cards with Pippin's tweets up hidden around the place.
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@timgarbos my A Bastard, Become A Great Artist, Panoramical, @HilariousCow's unreleased space game, Word After Word
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@timgarbos @KommanderKlobb @joonturbo Best stuff with mousewheel I've seen recently is Wheels of Aurelia/Firewatch dialogue selection.
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@adrianhon it's not true, though - they fence off the bonfires so drunk idiots can't fully immerse themselves in fire
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RT @TVCommentBot: You know, we meet at a coffee shop of extraordinary hope.
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@adrianhon have fun! drink some mead!
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quick bot: @descendingwords
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RT @tinysubversions: "the inside of a thing changes the outside of a thing even if you try to hide the inside" -@katierosepipkin #botsummit
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@tullyhansen this tweet makes me happy (i checked the metadata to be sure)
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@JmeBBK i know some female gamedevs with private accounts. endless internet harassment & conspiracy theories will do it.
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@JmeBBK i guess they are literally victims, but mainly that just seems sensible to me. use it on your own terms.
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@joonturbo @droqen @KommanderKlobb @timgarbos if you're shopping for keyboards, the term to look for is "n-key rollover"
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@radiatoryang it seems rude to keep bringing it up when i visit, but i do think that
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@radiatoryang (arriving back in the UK: grey, miserable, full of shit ads)
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@inconvergent you can do email+botname@gmail.com and it'll go to email@gmail.com but count as a unique address.
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@inconvergent aaaand way too late. You can also just register with a phone number.
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@inconvergent any time. Excited for you to be making bots!
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RT @mcclure111: No Compiler, part 3: Improvisational compiler phase design, and creating a second, tiny language embedded inside Lua https:…
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@polclarissou hello this one i am sometimes guilty of
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@polclarissou in fairness: sometimes it does! kinda!
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RT @kewgardens: Lots of wonderful spring blossom in the gardens at the moment. Pyrus, Prunus & Malus via @_TonyHall_
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some people are building a dildo which has sensors and electrodes and makes you feel like it's your dick. it works! tacit.livejournal.com/621416.html
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sex, haptic feedback, the rubber hand illusion, creative technology, making custom hardware : this is entirely my shit
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@NoraReed well yes exactly
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@edclef @KommanderKlobb wait, really? is all food basically brassica, then?
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it turns out that all vegetables are secretly the same vegetable, just bred to look different
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even cress
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did you know @BrainTendencies/724549533150093312
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@Miss_Sticks EVEN CRESS
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I've been enjoying this playlist open.spotify.com/user/anildash/playlist/63vIFAjuo2hSYGE1ixdBcw Prince gave it to the New Girl team as an example of music he'd play at a party
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@Miss_Sticks did you know carrots are just brassica with really well developed roots?
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@AOsher @Miss_Sticks did YOU know that bananas are a type of ginger?
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@Miss_Sticks no, but honestly that's a better pitch for destiny than any i've heard yet
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@AOsher @Miss_Sticks no, really, bananas are in the order Zingiberales, sometimes known collectively as "gingers".
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@polclarissou it's really hard, if not impossible, to tell the difference sometimes? like game design is 90% communicating w/ the player
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@polclarissou yeah, i can def understand that frustration. definitely have had similar unfair expectations on me before.
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@polclarissou best thing i've found is to start being very explicit about what your time budget is, and how much of it each thing will take.
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@polclarissou means you rhetorically have to give up power over choosing which to do, but at least he actually has to choose.
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@KommanderKlobb @polclarissou yeah, that's definitely a better option, if it's possible.
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@KommanderKlobb @polclarissou my solution is a best of a bad situation affair (and useful education to make more open dialogue possible).
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@Miss_Sticks @AOsher but it must be true! the author received it in an email.
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this is a savage and merciless takedown of Neil deGrasse Tyson and also beautiful and inspiring and hopeful wired.com/2016/04/neil-degrasse-tyson-black-hole-sucking-fun-universe/
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@dreamfeelx definitely feels like your capacity for work is something you can build up like a muscle.
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RT @krismukai: posted some rriiiisssooooo/zine infor comics that i made earlier this year krismukai.tumblr.com/post/143340190529/earlier-this-year-i-was-asked-to-teach-a-risograph
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@patrickashe I'd be up for that, despite deep ambivalence towards his work.
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@patrickashe i have also booked a ticket
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RT @hannahnicklin: Here are some Teviot Tales screenshots. The game will go live online on Monday 2nd May. I think it's OK? https://t.co/J7…
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RT @kirkhamilton: Some prime-cut video game worldbuilding going on in this mission description
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RT @muclorty: I have calculated the value of Pi on Sausage Island and found it to be 2. @increpare https://t.co/M0eH2kUGGe
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RT @MerriamWebster: People keep 1) saying they don't know what 'genderqueer' means then 2) asking why we added it to the dictionary https…
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Anyone free on Thursday evening? Planning on playtesting some exciting new possible features for @FabBeasts at @drinkrelaxplay Dalston.
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@smartasslab this is kinda irritating? stop doing this (at least at any kind of frequency)
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@GalaxyKate (it totally isn't - i've told them to knock it off, though, and will edit the source if they don't stop @ING us both)
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@GalaxyKate the line i've got is you either need to be obviously harmless, or need explicit permission from the person you're @ING.
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@GalaxyKate there's good reasons i left the ability to do this in, though
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@paullicino ngl, i do totally think of empire when I look at this box. did you know tea comes from yorkshire?
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@logodaedalus @GalaxyKate hm! yes, i suppose it could. bit intricate, though, and almost everyone is sensible with it.
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@logodaedalus @GalaxyKate (sorry, Kate, for getting random spam from a thing I indirectly made)
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@liaddh this is really lovely, thank you so much for this. and thank you Butters.
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@unfortunatalie at the back of our heads, there's the visual cortex. bits of this are basically laid out according to our field of vision
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@unfortunatalie gradually the information moves forwards, is fed through different configurations as it becomes more abstract & meaningful
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@unfortunatalie when we dream, that back layer of cortex is activated the same as if we were seeing things. information flows both ways.
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@unfortunatalie an eg of this is knowing what a thing is supposed to be helping you see it - reinforcement of the perception from both sides
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@unfortunatalie and an example of that: @v21/714243665766576134
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@theweedorb I like Imaginary Advice! It's by a poet!
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@TeddyDief @theweedorb oh wait, i forgot i used to have a podcast, too! gameswehaveknownandloved.tumblr.com/ huh
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@amaninaseem neither are public Internet links, but : Games for People & Doug's GDC talk.
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RT @unicode_garden: ⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩ ⶩ ⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩⶩ ⶩⶩⶩⶩ…
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@deer_ful my old flatmate started playing a lot more ukulele and going to ukulele circles to get a girlfriend. It worked!
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RT @PotterPapers: Harry Potter and the Association Between Postnatal Depression, Acculturation and Mother-Infant Bond Among Eritrean Asylum…
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@mtrc @GalaxyKate I made a very minimal C# port once (no variables) - I seem to recall someone else was going for it properly?
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@haikus_by_KN your choral sound thing?
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My reaction seeing this tweet was "the Unicode Consortium does way more than make emoji!" buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/inside-emojigeddon-the-fight-over-the-future-of-the-unicode?utm_term=.nm6avzLLgD
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RT @katierosepipkin: may the neighborhood bookstore never change
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@haikus_by_KN this is really beautiful
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RT @LauraDockrill: And other favourite bit: Me: with your imagination you can become anything you want... 4 y/o boy: what, even a ladder?…
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RT @descendingwords: fruspu-fruspai
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RT @descendingwords: scapha sceephee
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RT @descendingwords: zauzau zauzou
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RT @descendingwords: schitischayti
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RT @descendingwords: paucau paucay
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RT @descendingwords: juju jouju
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I am clearly going to install this, play it a bit, get frustrated with the loading times and stop. Just like on DS. @genmon/725251365082136576
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Twitter is advertising me anti-slip rubber horse flooring. I had never considered the need for horse flooring before.
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i am really glad Viridi has found mainstream success @gamasutra/725308719181897729
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it's also an inspiring story of doing a weird cool thing to a new audience. it's possible! there are many niches.
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@fromsmiling for me, f2p is a specific model, which is only one way to have an initially free game with payments for particular things.
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a stressful situation that's been happening recently: we're having to change the name of Fabulous Beasts kickstarter.com/projects/sensibleobject/fabulous-beasts-a-new-kind-of-game/posts/1559335
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@vectorpark haha, that's neat. the tricky thing from my perspective is that "fabulousness" is what your score is, currently.
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RT @brandonnn: if nothing else, go drop $5 on this to get @lauraehall’s upcoming KATAMARI book 👉 kickstarter.com/projects/gabedurham/boss-fight-books-season-3
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I just backed Boss Fight Books: Season 3 on @Kickstarter kck.st/1SrNHst (My friend Laura is writing a book! It sounds great!)
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Hello come play our game and drink some beer maybe. @FabBeasts/725319108653420544
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@Oujevipo it is inane and a pain. sure it'll be okay, tho.
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@rich_lem Land's End is better known, but shoutout to Cardboard Computer's The Entertainment.
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RT @smestorp: just sent out some review codes for Imbroglio, let me know if you're a game reviewing person & i've missed you
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@lorenschmidt with AAA games, it's like I have an overlay estimating man hours for each part. Man hours months years lifetimes.
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@LucieViatge I am so bored of those stairs.
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@LucieViatge don't forget to make them about half as wide again to aid locomotion!
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@polclarissou have fun!
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Looking forward to leaving the EU by June 2017! @pnkyfish/725625009465614336
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RT @zachlieberman: 20 pixel line w/ random angle, only draw if don’t intersect other line
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RT @zachlieberman: 30 pixel line with random angle, only draw if intersects any other line or is the first line
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@KommanderKlobb going viral is the worst
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@KommanderKlobb @patrickashe "people you follow" might be your friend
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@oopsohno I have travelled with lots of electronics and tubs of powder pretty frequently. You'll be fine if you're white & middle class.
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RT @LabourLordsUK: *collective sigh*
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@joonturbo we're also hiring an animator! (thx for letting me know)
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Hello. Would you like to "produce" me? We're hiring a producer. Job description here: docs.google.com/document/d/1mcLRLq5Ct9_ridt4iwdK_BKZUY680NENFsM_innP0Ws - lemme know if you've Qs.
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@edclef @joonturbo did you know: we hired a producer to write that job spec. But even they couldn't help me write good tweets.
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and reminder we're going to Loading Bar tonight to drink some beer and playtest some new features in Fabulous Beasts
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@philippawarr I'm imagining you doing a Bread Face spin-off, with naps instead.
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RT @hannahnicklin: Not gonna show you the full thing until tomorrow but look. Twine games made with... Twine :)
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@GenerateACat @patrickashe you're back! A cat for me, to banish the thought of OAuth?
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@Choplogik this is how you end up compulsively documenting every single brushstroke, just in case.
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@KommanderKlobb @Seemo and better that than something everyone gets, but no-one loves.
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@KommanderKlobb @Seemo both your games also turn off a certain type of core gamer that can sometimes think they're the only kind of player.
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@KommanderKlobb @Seemo the incomprehension people can have that acquiring skills and demonstrating mastery are not the only joys in games.
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Enjoying @NoraReed fucking stuff up on their TL.
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@NoraReed ah, shit, sorry. Thanks for correcting me!
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@vectorpark @KommanderKlobb @Seemo I used to think the best way to reach a wide audience was by winning over gamers, then using that...
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@vectorpark @KommanderKlobb @Seemo as a springboard to broader attention. But your work, and Viridi etc, means I don't think that anymore.
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@vectorpark @KommanderKlobb @Seemo (it's probably still a good tactic if you can swing it, but it's so limiting on what can get through)
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@TomNullpointer @KommanderKlobb @Seemo imagine liking comics, but preferring teenagers having emotions to explosions and fighting.
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@TomNullpointer @KommanderKlobb @Seemo yeah, and that's inspiring. But those are well defined genres with their own communities.
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@TomNullpointer @KommanderKlobb @Seemo how does ie Klondike find the larger, sustaining, audience that'd clearly love their shit?
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@TomNullpointer @KommanderKlobb @Seemo this question is also a decent part of the point of Now Play This & Wild Rumpus.
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@KommanderKlobb @TomNullpointer @Seemo yeah, for sure. I wanna dream bigger though - one new genre isn't enough.
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@KommanderKlobb @TomNullpointer @Seemo also, I truly believe this stuff is more inherently mainstream than gamerbro stuff.
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@tullyhansen @NoraReed a fuck by any other name
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@TomNullpointer @KommanderKlobb @Seemo but there are also rom coms, and Pixar films, and Wes Anderson (there is also Candy Crush)
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@TomNullpointer @KommanderKlobb yep - mainly pointing out the gulf between "people who'd like this stuff" and "people who know about it"
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We're having a meeting about what to name the game. pray 4 me
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@KommanderKlobb @edclef that's why that's important - it lets you pay yourself and keep pushing.
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@hoskingc still not over you lot calling them doonas
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@king_spooner looking good!
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it's such a joy to discover a whole new weird massive corner of the internet @leighalexander/726047131568594945
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@AlecThomson hello red yoga ball, it's good to see you again
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@animalphase @googledocs can't load it on my phone, but Now Play This and Wild Rumpus!
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@polclarissou @animalphase yeah! Playful Arts Fest, Feral Vector, Screenshake, GameCity (dunno if it takes subs), Juegos Rancheros (same)
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RT @Jayisgames: Thanks for all your support over the years. You were all worth it. jayisgames.com/review/until-we-meet-again.php
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@animalphase speaking as the digital curator of now play this : you totally should have submitted!
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@animalphase yeah! the actual events are kinda ... infrequent, but we do. It's important!
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@jon_ellis @SoFuckinSuave wait, really? Haha! Amazing
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Peak videogame hipster: I got round to hanging prints of @katierosepipkin & @lorenschmidt's inflorescence.city before they released it.
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Also I read Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World this afternoon and loved it so much.
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@Willeth I read through in one sitting. I can see it working less well in nibbles.
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@zebraphon small demonstrations of love, interleaving perspectives building up a story, discussions of perception and cognitive science.
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@zebraphon exploration of the importance of "the work" vs family vs happiness, the sense that the characters had rich inner lives
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@zebraphon complicated feminism, and believable descriptions of interesting art