Tweets from 2016/09
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I wonder how many dollars of shareholder value have been generated due to the sage advice of @thecatamites
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there are other names i could sub in there
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RT @WarrenIsDead: lrt is incredibly hardcore
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@HonestWilliam 💪💪💪
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real glad this reference form requires a work landline number. (we don't have one)
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@leighalexander oh, man, i really want to go for a swim now. I think I will settle for walking along the Thames eating an icecream at lunch.
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@john_brindle top of my head: The Quiet Year, my v21.tumblr.com/post/18145038273/proteus-card-game, Paper Telephone & Exquisite Corpse, Beasts of Balance (if you win)
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@john_brindle SimCity, Theme Hospital, Theme Park, Civ, Caesar series, Zachtronics games, Push Me Pull You
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@katbamkapow it's gonna go great
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@john_brindle right! But all of these have some push-and-pull (to a greater or lesser extent). Thinking of Caesar 3 (cuz I luv it)...
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@john_brindle i can put stuff where i like, but actually i'm as much responding to problems (caused by my earlier actions) as i am planning.
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RT @5point9billion: @v21 Light left Earth as you were born 29.5 years ago… It's passing Rana NOW! 🎉🌟✨
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thanks @patrickashe for letting me know about @GamesPlayLib - it's a travelling library of games zines. yes yes yes.
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@philippawarr i want to say "gamut", but i don't think that's right either (the range represented, not the representation)
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@GamesPlayLib you should look at Jane Mai's Pond Smelt and Allison Parrish's procedurally generated chapbooks.
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@GamesPlayLib oh! And Katie Rose Pipkin's picking figs... - these might be not quite games enough, but they're all great.
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@Poxican on the Embankment, just up from Temple.
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RT @manygradients:
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right now i am grappling with making my code do fewer things (aka optimization)
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unfortunately, one of the things i have stopped it from doing is render the shark (except in the bestiary). not sure why yet.
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update: not the code! answer was that there was an invisible bit of data saying that the place the bits of the shark went already existed
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just got a Twitter ad for "The Botiss Maxgraft Bonering Technique restoration case report" - picture was bloody flesh with a ... metal port?
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@aidowall i'm rooting for you. i know that 50/50 kill or cure food situation.
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holy shit - congrats @katierosepipkin and @lorenschmidt - Moth Generator got nominated for a Design of the Year dezeen.com/2016/08/31/designs-of-the-year-2016-nominees-announced/
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@CASSINISOUND i don't know what that is, but it sounds gory
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@chrisamaphone whoa, these are super rad projects - how much do you reckon the focus will be on the "expressive" and how much on "machines"?
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@chrisamaphone not that those exactly exist in opposition, of course - and i'm just asking out of curiosity
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@chrisamaphone yeah, that sounds sensible. and yeah, i think i agree - lately i have been trying not to get sucked into doing New Things
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@chrisamaphone instead, putting together the easy understood things well & interestingly. but always tempted...
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@jonbro like ceilidh, but without the cay-
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@dreamfeelx i can't wait to see this in motion
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just confirmed the shipping address for my PocketCHIP!
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@haikus_by_KN I'm sure I will!
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@hellocatfood oof 😡
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@haikus_by_KN I'm wearing salmon coloured ones at the moment...?
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@haikus_by_KN @tumblr no, paler than that
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@LichLike if I was in Chicago, I would come along with and I would pet your dogs. You'll be okay.
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RT @TijmenTio: ♠♠ Art by @LisaMjantel ♠♠ except for the hand I drew that (.__.) https://t.co/9cS7Ee1yZo
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RT @cathygjohn: art is this funny thing like, oh i guess im getting really good at this thing i made up
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@jawsew to yr question : possibly not? Cats raised with only vertical visual features were unable to perceive horizontal things.
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@jawsew they'd walk into sticks held in front of them etc. The whole experiment was v cruel and v fascinating.
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it is as if you were playing chess pippinbarr.com/games/itisasifyouwereplayingchess/ new @pippinbarr game (i peeked at the source code & it uses Tracery! @GalaxyKate)
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good reasons to (still) be excited about VR theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/02/bjork-digital-vulnicura-vespertine
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and of course, a great way to connect video games (thinking esp of the ones that aren't games) with the high end of culture.
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like, there's _money_ to make weird interactive experiences right now. and game-makers are the ones who know how to do it
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@renaudbedard not that i know of... but Unity coroutines are less magical than they see - you could write yr own coroutine runner ...
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@renaudbedard ... that manually calls the MoveNext etc, and is itself driven by the Unity coroutine system.
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@renaudbedard and now looking at the thread, it looks like lots of people write this junk themselves. ahhh, what fun!
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@haikus_by_KN bjork has it, go ask her
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@haikus_by_KN i have a job!
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@ADAMATOMIC @renaudbedard @charlesrandall finding myself doing a lot of passing in a MonoBehaviour coroutineCtx, these days.
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@renaudbedard does that work at all? i have memories of needing to do: yield return StartCoroutine(ChildCoroutine(1));
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@merrittk the Sour Cream spin-off show
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@vectorpoem in a real way, this comes to the whole thing about hiring writers at the start of the project, not just to do words at the end
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@vectorpoem i want to say things about a Thing, but the game framework is fixed for reasons & i am powerless now (oh, also cc @john_brindle)
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i was once a member of klondike for about 90 seconds, and i approve this article rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/01/klondike-gaming-collective/
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RT @ablankblank: i am a [universal set contains only sets] a and [b]
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we are at a tiring place with Beasts of Balance and I was just asked some "how does this work?" questions about Mutazione's code.
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i don't know if i want to program a moderately sized game by myself again. i'll probably feel differently later.
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this feeling is somewhat compounded by them having surprisingly similar code bases? we've actually cracked animating SVGs this time, tho.
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@chrisoshea yep! also using SVG Importer. Process is a little convoluted, but - @spacetreasured works in Spine (with pngs), exports
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@chrisoshea we put those into Unity (using a random old Spine importer that creates Unity anims on GOs) - now have animated sprites
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@chrisoshea then we run a custom script to swap out the pngs for identically-named svgs. bit janky, but it works!
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@chrisoshea i know SVG Importer has it's own frame-by-frame animator (were trying a similar approach with Mutazione). stuff gets big fast...
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RT @FloweringBox: Pinguicula are used as bio control in the tropical nursery @kewgardens #BehindTheScenes #carnivorousplants #plants https:…
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RT @softlandscapes:
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it's happened - @softlandscapes has broken 4000, and i haven't. 4000!
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@hoskingc have you played Hadean Lands? You can type "go to Nave" and it'll reperform the sequence of puzzle-solving needed to get there.
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@bekokstover it's not too late to take a trip out of town for the weekend yourself!
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@hannahnicklin i tried, but it is v hard work for me. you know how i am with tv shows that are a succession of painful, awkward interactions
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@aidowall @alphachar I should try Saga, heard good things. Recent favourites of mine : Bug Boys, Wicked + Divine, Squirrel Girl.
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@aidowall @alphachar but reading the Invisibles at a formative age has probably had more effect on me than any other bit of media.
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@aidowall @alphachar oh yeah! yeah, me too. feels a bit caught between politics and pulp, but maybe i just haven't settled into it yet.
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@aidowall @alphachar but always prefer something messy and fresh and interesting than something polished and a bit boring.
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RT @allpalaces: me: huh #fermijam looks cool, i wonder what it's about me five minutes later:
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@aidowall @alphachar i started it kinda underwhelmed and "is this is?" and by the end i was crying about the power of friendship.
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sad i'm not starting a fermijam project... but putting my life into boxes probably takes priority
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@Avalix i learnt from transporting these from the first Now Play This - don't stick them on top of each other, they tear coming apart.
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@inky hmu if you've got questions! (about Unity, not ASCII art)
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digging the new Pye Corner Audio record - warm, spooky synths
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@katbamkapow i don't know, but i am guessing: did it using modern technology in a milieu familiar to art historians?
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@katbamkapow translating ideas from one cultural sphere to another is valuable work, too, even if it feels stupid if you exist in both.
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@katbamkapow (i am trying to get better at doing obvious things for audiences unused to them - it's really powerful)
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@katbamkapow probably feels like I feel when I read about a novelist using technology to make the first non-linear interactive narrative?
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@katbamkapow (sometimes they don't claim to be first, but often they boast about not having read prior work. they're often well funded!)
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@katbamkapow anyway, my point is that I've stopped getting too mad about it, and have started seeing it as inevitable and natural
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@katbamkapow (latest example i can remember: theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/03/publishers-developers-digital-technology-unprintable-fiction-google-editions-play)
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@katbamkapow fav bit: "his girlfriend, who apparently "looked mortified throughout the entire exchange" was "more than welcome, anytime""
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this dude's twitter feed reads like a bot- it's kinda poetic, the repetition of language. Most People don't do this @leyawn/771880213961641985
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@adrielbeaver thanks! i'm moving south of the river with @katbamkapow
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@dreamfeelx i remember wanting to make a MP game about being kids throwing snowballs.
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@dreamfeelx you could make snow walls to use as cover, and you'd have to find fresh snow to collect ammo.
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@dreamfeelx and you died when you got too cold, and had to go inside.
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@dreamfeelx now I'm trying to map TF-like archetypes onto that setting, haha.
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@john_brindle stop reading the comments
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@LukeRobertMason @VirtualFutures sure - my email is vtwentyone@gmail.com
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@sheilamu ahhh! Congrats🎉🎊🎇 - you feeling good to be back in yr preferred role?
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@hollygramazio @manygradients it's definitely a gradient.
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@churlishmeg the joking-not-joking answer I see a lot of on my tl - fully automated luxury communism.
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@KommanderKlobb @doougle my feed is increasingly just : here's a cool art. I am happy about this.
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@doougle @KommanderKlobb I want to see whatever my friends want to post.
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@vivschwarz I'd get a deck.
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@vivschwarz @KommanderKlobb I know @DrImmySmith has just went through this whole thing - ended up using Cartamundi.
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@pageantmalarkey this is a very Elise photo
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sitting in a bar called "The Job Centre" listening to "Making Plans For Nigel". how should i feel about this?
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@lifewinning i'm not voting because i could vote for all of the options at various times (more 1 than 2, tbh... but sometimes 2)
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@lifewinning sometimes i feel that way, but... mainly i worry that that's how i think of others, not how others think of me. :/
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@lifewinning i've gotten over it because : i enjoy my work (as broadly defined as that can be), and i love my friends.
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@lifewinning wait... i haven't really gotten over it. i've just got... entirely stuck into that situation.
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@lifewinning i just finished moving all my crap into a flat i will be sharing with A Friend From Games.
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@sheilamu no, not yet. All my stuff is, and I physically am, but I'm officially homeless rn.
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@tef literally yes, but I'm not going to be properly moved here for a bit.
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@hannahnicklin not more than usual, I don't think? We'll see. And yeah - I've not even moved here yet, I have to go through all this myself.
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@hannahnicklin and - I am actually looking forward to living here (don't tell Holly)
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@katbamkapow fuck, I left the slow cooker behind.
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@katbamkapow I did! But I can't remember if it was mine. I think not?
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@robmanuel i made a bot to generate these! @descendingwords
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Spotify's Discover Weekly is good, but there's also Release Radar which is also good.
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@edjeff i only saw it a few weeks back. i assume so?
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RT @quest_glitches: Mixed Up Mother Goose (027)
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@inconvergent i'd book it
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@doougle @tigershungry oh jeez, yeah, i remember your Ocean Girl phase
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@HilariousCow execution > ideas, sometimes
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@HilariousCow yeah, i feel you.
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@kierongillen thanks for this: been a lot of talk about the ethical responsibilities of botmakers, and this is basically where i've ended up
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@kierongillen i phrase it differently, though (partly to reinforce the idea that botmakers are authors of their bot's contents) ...
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@kierongillen (which is a point you need to make) -- i say : "you can make a bot that does anything, but you have to take responsibility"
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@kierongillen i guess the difference is : you say artists don't have a responsibility to do particular things.
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@kierongillen vs: artists can't avoid responsibility for the impact their works have on the world. even if they didn't think about it.
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RT @ESA_Rosetta: THE SEARCH IS OVER! I’ve found @Philae2014!! ow.ly/wGPY303UgXG #CometLanding #PhilaeFound
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that's a temporary tattoo of Taylor Swift, Girl Detective. that @tburrellsaward has already called dibs on. @tburrellsaward/772800908405174273
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@heatheremerrick @teletexttimes whoa, i totally missed that this was by you
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@heatheremerrick @teletexttimes it's great, good work!
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RT @sandwich_cool: 🐸
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@innesmck you can imagine my feelings, reading about a cool h/w startup getting shit for finding it difficult to make things.
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this is really good! @thespacearts/772824179255209984
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RT @webbedspace: Thinking about specific performative rituals and traditions in speedruns… not time-related strats, just things used to fil…
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help me out, the small minority of people who know what I'm talking about. where are the recipes in hefty seamstress?
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@tburrellsaward hah! I was listening to Tobacco all of yesterday.
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RT @torpordust: close-up Hilda expressions in this one: S-tier
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@patrickashe @hannahnicklin you should definitely talk to some... but tbh you might make more money with a Kickstarter.
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@patrickashe @hannahnicklin also... Hannah, please don't do this unless it pays you for your time.
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RT @CoolBoxArt: PAQA / PlayStation / SCEI / 1999
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@_cheesybeaver ta!
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@emshort i like Alice O'Connor's approach - only cover people when she has had enough interaction to make the disclosures funny themselves.
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@emshort probably the peak disclosure is this one : rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/14/push-me-pull-you-pc-released/
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@_cheesybeaver short for "thanks"
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@angusdick @patrickashe it matches the facing page really nicely, too!
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RT @SK_Louie: I'm very happy with this setup for Orchids to Dusk by @polclarissou which is nice because I couldn't move it anyway https://t…
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RT @hanabananaan: I'm SO disappointed don quijote (a discount shop) didn't have this cap @_mynameischuck and I found anymore https://t.co/f…
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great essay on the politics of colour lokidesign.net/journal/2016/2/22/the-propaganda-of-pantone-colour-and-subcultural-sublimation
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@jawsew we will be there collectively, i think i'll be there at least some of the time
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@Tom_OBedlam whoa, nice
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what if... what if @ChuckTingle secretly runs @RealAvocadoFact? @ChuckTingle/773186786516357124
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@HarryGiles other folks mentioned it elsewhere, but shaving at the end of a shower has always worked really well for me.
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@ADAMATOMIC was just thinking how it'd be nice if you could mark assets (or GOs) as being platform-specific.
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@ADAMATOMIC i guess ideally they'd add pre build scripts
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@LovedayBrooke what part? I know Zoe Quinn some (went to the Hugos in place of Chuck Tingle, is making a Tingle FMV game)
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@ADAMATOMIC aw, and you made it platform generic.
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@LovedayBrooke the best world would be one where the author of the Chuck Tingle books is Chuck Tingle of Billings, Montana.
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@LovedayBrooke a sober consideration of the facts might suggest that that's not true. but i'm choosing to believe it is.
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@LovedayBrooke they're good! like, clearly written v quickly, but they're very aware of what they are.
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@glassarmy wait, shit, i totally missed you were in London! I was just favving the general principle of the thing. One sec!
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@glassarmy okay, booked - i'm still at work, 20 mins walk away, lmk when you'll be around from.
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@glassarmy ps :D
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@glassarmy be there in 15
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@MammonMachine yr approach on WKTD is so important for me.
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It might be happening @JmeBBK/773310252318134272
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@LovedayBrooke millennials are earnest, as is this tweet: @ChuckTingle/773186786516357124?s=09
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RT @beastsofbalance: OMG IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING
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RT @goldsbie:
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Videogames! @paul1kirby/773427931557294080
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I should write a thing on the relationship between indie games and social class.
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@TomNullpointer i sent that tweet and then looked at it and underneath it read "Posted from the City of London"
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not had a chance to play with this, but it looks real cool @mrfb/773056059652972545
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@jawsew I'd dig into all the Playable City stuff. And obviously there's great traditions of this kind of stuff for non-digital games.
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@john_brindle and cheap!
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@vivschwarz you know about the Teasmade?
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@vivschwarz i could just see you getting excited at outmoded 70s consumer appliances, is all
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@vivschwarz yeah. like that.
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@chrisamaphone @emshort reading this convo and obviously thinking about CBDQ - advantage there in that all the outputs are unstylable tweets
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@chrisamaphone @emshort but also it's a good case study in the success you can have packaging up & making user friendly a procedural system
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@tigershungry @patrickashe @PingChan @KommanderKlobb i'm staring at this @algoritmic/772699702064254976
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RT @rockpapershot: Stone Story is a gorgeous ASCII RPG. LOOK AT IT rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/07/stone-story-ascii-rpg/
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@katbamkapow this is like a chuck tingle book
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@_imokurok @_cheesybeaver @sygster i've used that expression pretty casually in the past
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@_imokurok @_cheesybeaver @sygster it doesn't feel any more violent than "throwing the baby out with the bathwater"
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@ADAMATOMIC frameworks are most useful in terms of giving you new places to stand and look at your game from
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@ADAMATOMIC also! ways to package up a load of hard-earned specific lessons make it easier to remind yourself of them
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@ADAMATOMIC like, there's a bunch of stuff around managing player attention with digital physical games i learnt the hard way
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@ADAMATOMIC but now instead of making those same mistakes constantly, i can just go "oh hey, player attention", and sometimes avoid them.
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studio's nice and quiet today @beastsofbalance/773532400185991172
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@raiganburns @emshort "current"?
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@_cheesybeaver @_imokurok @sygster a hill to die on is a position you're super committed to & will burn everything else down for the sake of
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the google play install button making yr phone start installing something still feels like magic.
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i bet lightswitches were the most amazing thing when electric lights were new
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Tech companies come in two flavours: -gigantic platforms who only care about doing jujitsu with other platforms -startups that will die soon
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RT @TheUniverse: This week on @terraformsf, the one and only @slimedaughter takes us to mall school (@Sleevesmith on art): https://t.co/jwq…
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currently doing a manual binary search over audio assets, trying to find the ones that cause Android binary splitting to crash #unity3d
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@katbamkapow @notquitereal this is a thing that we have to care about at work.
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@katbamkapow @notquitereal like, thankfully we didn't ship with them, but the bankruptcy has affected container prices
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holy fuck this bug is specific
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@sheilamu oh wow
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RT @jcobevans: unbelievable
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@unfortunatalie yeah - it can help understanding things with more nuance... but the problem is really this bit @J_Bloodworth/773796812213850113
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@unfortunatalie my own experience : I'm solidly middle class, was coached for my 11+, went to a grammar school, and then to uni.
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@unfortunatalie I don't really know what my life would be like if I went elsewhere, or if grammar schools didn't exist.
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@KommanderKlobb it won't happen - Airbuds are a (clearly unnecessary) luxury product, like the Apple Watch.
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@KommanderKlobb am I allowed to complain about the stupid Lightning to minijack dongle, though?
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@KommanderKlobb i make games for phones, so i kinda do need to spend at least some time with the dominant platform for that.
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@netgal_emi you coming to Wild Rumpus?
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@patrickashe @netgal_emi @WildRumpus ah-hahah, snap. (would also be up for meeting on the 18th, will also be a bit dead)
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@glassarmy gonna go see the bjork thing another time, but will join you for steak - lmk when you're done.
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@kahodesu I haven't cycled in NL, but every time I come back from Copenhagen I get really sad to be cycling in London again.
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@ADAMATOMIC you gotta bite that bullet early on. and then keep biting it every time you touch the UI forever.
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@tigershungry oh, boo, i was/am looking forward to that.
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@tigershungry (and curious as to how they'd tackled the obvious problems of VR exhibiting)
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@glassarmy alright, heading up now
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@glassarmy heading to new wing entrance, btw
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@kahodesu London has got a bunch better recently, too - segregated cycle path running past my work now. Can't imagine cycling in NY.
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RT @zeynep: Silicon Valley doing "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" in social sciences. From behaviorism to positivism. Awaiting discovery…
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RT @doougle: We haven't exhibited our trampoline controllers in years! Won't be there, but excited/anxious to hear how it goes: https://t.c…
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RT @doougle: Here's footage of us prototyping Trampoline Get On Top in 2012: youtube.com/watch?v=xZ-AUO-Y7tk Trampoline to jump, controller to move…
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RT @doougle: And here's a Trampoline-controlled mod of Proteus (mod by @v21) where you play as one of the frogs: youtube.com/watch?v=JXXcjCIop5c
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RT @zeynep: We see this often: a terribly easy to see complication to business model is ignored for years, then a team of engineers tasked…
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RT @spacetreasured: Here's a tease of what I've been doing w/ the fantastic @beastsofbalance team for 2 months beastsofbalance.com/breathing-life-into-the-beasts/ http…
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb yep - AR's next. what an exciting field to be part of.
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looking at the production timeline from our KS and, uh - yeah, we're basically still on track. huh.
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RT @jaytholen: Hypnospace Outlaw's Kickstarter is UP! kck.st/2ctBq5Z RT to feed this cute hamster. #gamedev #indiedev https://t.…
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the more i think on it, the more remarkable and successful the presentation of work at the notgames fest 2015 was
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it had nooks for it's single player games. you could play and not feel rushed, or on display. so important & difficult to do!
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@mcclure111 oh, that's a wonderful compliment! thank you.
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also, it showed Shoebox Diorama in a good and work-specific way (following on from Marie's tweet earlier @tigershungry/773853885064708096)
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RT @403chy: #그림쟁이분들_선화_보여주세요 마지막 그림은 이번 일러북에 들어간 거
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This is really impressive! @kcimc/773955031250763776
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@karaastone and ask out the barista?
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@karaastone though if that doesn't work out... might be awkward for the next Tinder date
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@logodaedalus people got a reason to make computers a lot faster again (okay, ignoring VR)
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i missed all this drama, but it's exciting stuff @russss/773991902039474176
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bot of the day: @PastebinRecent you know how i love bits of text, shorn of context
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@frozenpandaman @Ludonaut @radiatoryang presumably because it's a lot of work, and notgames as a term is fighting an argument that's over?
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@frozenpandaman @Ludonaut @radiatoryang the people involved are still doing good work, though, so I'm okay with this.
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@ank_wobl do you have more than the two i know about?
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@ank_wobl because I am in quite some awe of @ebooks_goetia
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@ank_wobl wonderful!
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@ank_wobl or incomprehensible Twitter API errors, yeah, I've been there.
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@alexhern this tweet got retweeted by the fun game bot, and i thought of you @TheRyanMacLean/774036833843851264
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@mattlaschneider games consoles & computers are typically on a 3+ year replacement cycle (and still have use after that, often).
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@mattlaschneider phones are more like 2 (with the way phone contracts are designed, etc). depends on yr definition, though -
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@mattlaschneider is my Casio watch a personal electronic device? etc. anything that's largely unaffected by Moore's law can last ages.
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@mattlaschneider @tullyhansen flipside argument - phones and computers are v heavily used Everything Devices, so this is worth it.
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@mattlaschneider @tullyhansen (and better than having a dozen specialised devices, each on longer but irregular upgrade cycles)
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i went to a grammar school and i'm doing alright. my parents could pay to have me tutored for the 11+, though. fuck this noise.
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@nachimir @notquitereal the situation was *machine happily burbling* ~push the wrong button~ *contemptuous pause* *happily burbling resumes*
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@haze______ yeah, like that fact doesn't come across in person
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RT @WildRumpus: *checks behind the sofa* *finds 5p & a packet of Opal Fruits* Who left these games back here? Guess we should stick them in…
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RT @WildRumpus: For all you lovely people we've added Sorath's grimy hellscape Devil Daggers plus @bfod & @bad_tetris's multiplayer mixtape…
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RT @WildRumpus: Plus returning triumphant from Wild Rumpuses past we have Super Hexagon, Samurai Gunn, 4Forths, Nidhogg and Super Crate Box…
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RT @WildRumpus: We've also got music from @FA1KFA1KFA1K and Grandmaster Gareth from @MISTYS_BIG_TWIT to delight you throughout the night.
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RT @WildRumpus: You can see the full line up of games and delights awaiting you on September 17th over here: eventbrite.com/e/wild-rumpus-7-tickets-27105934580 https:…
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DOG IN A BREADBOWL @chipzel/774193335221293056
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RT @glassarmy: Free ice cream is the best ice cream @v21 @flatironsteak instagram.com/p/BKIcwFqhKUg/
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RT @webbedspace: youtu.be/LPDtoTMwAkY?t=527 – After losing all but one of your party members, the last party member just… slowly walks away… l…
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.@webbedspace "I'VE WORN OUT MY WELCOME..."
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@HonestWilliam i'm tired
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@HonestWilliam like, i am chill, but i would rather not be
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@haze______ bwaaaa, come along and hang with the cool kids too!
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@haze______ (yes, we should)
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@plentyofalcoves maybe they're coding for the possibility you saw them all while drunk, and forgot them
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when I started on Mutazione, I ripped out a bunch of @doam's Linq style timer/tween code, and replaced it with my own more manual stuff
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on Beasts of Balance, that code has mutated and I just found myself considering adding the same interface as their stuff
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RT @Wi_fiji:
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@jennschiffer great nails
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Computer games. @VICEGaming/774275114120650752
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@netgal_emi @vicegaming like, ones you play with your hands???
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@UnburntWitch "novels"
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the ISS is like a really expensive hackspace, where they can attach random equipment to the floor and ceiling as well as the walls
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@saltyhorse for the purposes of this tweet, please consider the floor wherever a astronaut's feet are pointing. similarly for the ceiling.
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@saltyhorse they can attach equipment to the corners, too.
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@metasynthie we are making a game that is a hybrid boardgame/videogame, which is a concept you need the prefixes for.
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@metasynthie sometimes when you just say game, people ask a few minutes later : "so, wait - in real life?"
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@sygster 😍
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RT @ado_tan: How DOOM renders a frame: adriancourreges.com/blog/2016/09/09/doom-2016-graphics-study/
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thread on the tech industry @hondanhon/774307803104104448
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I'm not at the conference, but hello everyone who is! It sounds rad. The game is there at the tabletop thingy, hope you enjoy it.
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made a cool looking thing, but it seems a bit uncertain? put it in a circle. now it looks great!
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@catpunting @radiatoryang you should read up on the details of this case
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@doam they were always okay to understand - but i always had trouble cancelling them/having the actions happening being implicit.
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@catpunting @radiatoryang haha, it's fine
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@radiatoryang @eddiecameron @timhwang ahhh, congrats! Excited to see how yr design thoughts congeal in the end.
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left my laptop charger at work. hm.
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RT @jk_rowling: There is no retcon re: Remus Lupin. The so-called ‘revelation’ now circulating is recycled from interviews given 17 years a…
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RT @PastebinRecent: nch of clues towards the legendary Pokemon Landorus. He found it. Became friends with it and soon after travelling arou…
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@starsandrobots *sighs deeply, several times* (if you meet @ammonite, say hi!)
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I used to have a G1 (Google's first Android reference phone). It had a 5 row physical keyboard (tilde on alt) and no headphone jack.
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@konjak @notyourusualcup I mean, it contributes some delay, but there's lots of places in the process where delay is accumulated.
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@lorenschmidt @webbedspace another tidiness thing: you can just do "previousisvowel = vowelfound".
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RT @MelanieKKing: Finally captured starlight on film (Ilford Delta 3200, f3.5, 30 min exposure)!
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@tanyaxshort have you seen Tom Francis's How To Explain Your Game To An Asshole. Good intro.
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@tanyaxshort the thing that gets me is : this isn't just important for marketing! This is a really useful thing to know making the game!
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RT @86Mookie: Donald Fagen interviewing Ennio Morricone.
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RT @sandwich_cool: quest system ✓
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@BanditoJuan love those Asimov covers! Never realised they connected somehow.
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@BanditoJuan and I was thinking about Stranger In A Strange Land recently - what a weird, expansive, imaginative and preachy book...
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@radiatoryang he's a bear, he'd get all matted and sticky if Rabbit coated him in honey.
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@radiatoryang Christopher Robin?
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@hannahnicklin I had another run at Fleabag and it's possible I'll love it after another episode or two.
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@BanditoJuan oh god, Troopers is the worst. His juveniles, though - rare to get sections of pure speech-making in them.
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@radiatoryang he's eleven and English and upper class, what the hell do you expect? That's just... what you get.
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@radiatoryang any year now he'll be sent off to a single sex boarding school where absolutely nothing gay ever happens.
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@hannahnicklin last time I quit at the bank - I believed in her as a character, but the rest of the world just seemed there to be awful.
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@BanditoJuan nope - and don't know those off the top of my head. Thinking of Tunnel in the Sky etc.
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Mathematics of the Vedas hindupedia.com/en/Mathematics_of_the_Vedas
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@radiatoryang you should watch the film "If..."
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you would think I would think of myself as most like Steven, but it's actually clearly Connie
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@tigershungry @sheilamu I gotta go home and look at spreadsheets in a bit, but I can look at dogs first - where they at?
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@tigershungry what side is the front, it's a circle
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This is the Larklight Game Lantern, an attempt to make a game console that will be relevant for a thousand years. @ja2ke/774872507794862080
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I've not played this game, but we were showing Glimmermill at Now Play This. It was spooky and intimate and beautiful.
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@adrielbeaver several!
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@adrielbeaver a guy called P D Warne - the website is at lumoamuzo.com
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@tanyaxshort ah lovely! I've not met him - we just had the lantern itself over. Curious to see that possibility space!
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@tburrellsaward did you ever hack together a wiimote setup with two tealights...?
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@hannahnicklin the thing where someone does a lot of these but backchannels are full of hesitation about them.
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@tburrellsaward yeah, was thinking that too. Just thinking about working electronics in and that they're good sources of IR.
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Just started following this account @Bodegacats_/775010585087971328
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I started playing Mystic Messenger, but I set my username to "Vee". And now the characters are talking about an entirely separate "V".
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@vivschwarz hmu if you've got Unity questions!
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@vivschwarz hm. What do you want to make?
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@vivschwarz 2D or 3D blobs? Made of discrete things or like... wobbly and formless?
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@vivschwarz cool! Then you want some basic scripting and the 2D Sprite system - I think the best reference is the videos on the Unity site.
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@vivschwarz don't worry about doing it "right", and you'll probably be fine.
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@vivschwarz and, like I said, happy to help - including coming over one evening and answering questions.
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@tigershungry @vivschwarz yeah, seconded, I was thinking of this earlier. The main thing is just wrapping yr head round Unity.
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@vivschwarz yeah, I considered an explicit "but next week, okay", but figured you'd also want that.
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RT @hatwell: best short story i ever read
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@Pinboard he complained about the noise from the women's toilets, so they got rid of them.
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@Pinboard wait, not true. He commandeered the women's toilets to escape the noise of Harrod's deliveries m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5507558
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@BanditoJuan with difficulty? People implementing similar stuff have to coordinate what scenes they're working on, basically.
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@BanditoJuan where it makes sense, and using prefabs can work around it a bit more. And you can work on assets separately.
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@awesommelier you'll kill it
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CBDQ feels (though, actually, i'm alright at finishing things. CBDQ was built with a real focus on being finishable) @junklatch/775095477779869696
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RT @wkerslake: There are twelve black dots at the intersections in this image. Your brain won’t let you see them all at once. https://t.co/…
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@BRKeogh i still often just save the start time, and then in Update check if (Time.time < startTime + duration)
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here are all the times people you follow have said either "bactrian" or "dromedary" twitter.com/search?s=follows&vertical=default&q=bactrian%20OR%20dromedary&src=typd i love twitter's search
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@doougle 🐪🐫
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@doougle people love camels
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you folks have good faces twitter.com/search?s=follows&f=images&vertical=default&q=selfie&src=typd
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might write a script that makes lists of who i follow and am followed by : curious to do these searches on my followers.
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@inky people love camels
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@m3hr boo - i wonder if twitter for android doesn't support that filter...
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RT @defilippovale: Friday #inspiration and #motivation: #Picasso's Constellations, Ink Drawing 1924.
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@ra can you tell me yr top 10 of these lists
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and of course it's only now that I've figured out what I should have made for #fermijam
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Em Short on visualizing procedural text emshort.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/visualizing-procgen-text-part-two/
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RT @WarrenIsDead: All of the female plot-intensive companion NPCs ever are having a sleepover party. They are laughing and opening locked d…
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RT @kertgartner: Some crazy wizardry is behind this: #CardboardCamera is extracting stereo depth from 360 panos taken with your phone https…
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this is fun, like PC Music x something from a Kirby soundtrack soundcloud.com/notlikethat/toasty-polygon-brain-1
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RT @dikte: .@goodpartyman and @katecrawford on the need for a new field to study AI systems. https://t.co/HIg9bCQ917 https://t.co/qOh0eN6qyM
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@LichLike I caught up! I now understand all the references to Mystery Girl
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@Palomadawkins I wanna go and hang at grimy bars with you.
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RT @nyt_diff: Change in Title
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@legobutts why do streamers and youtubers hate email so much?
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@legobutts wait, I just remembered I literally have business cards that just say "v21" and "George Buckenham"
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@legobutts my email address is v easy to find, in my defense.
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@innesmck it makes me uncomfortable. BUT. I have to admit it's an effective name. It conveys theme, mechanics and mood with only 2 words.
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new Zachtronics game youtube.com/watch?v=C5TbHcK_qvE (this is a really well considered trailer)
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good thread here. thinking about @genmon's advice that I get stats of cumulative follow counts for all CBDQ bots. @finneganswoke/775331959333584896
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@amandaglosson @GalaxyKate hey, me too! (this is super lovely to hear, looking forward to seeing the finished thing)
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super cute: @superclipartbot
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@Palomadawkins i want to, i gotta finish this dang game first
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@karaastone no
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Gonna be talking about bots on a panel this evening! eventbrite.co.uk/e/bot-concepts-virtual-futures-salon-tickets-27530803374
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@hunktears fuck, now I want oatmeal
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@infovore i'm curious how it compares to the Kairosoft formula
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@infovore uh-huh
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@keefstuart i think there's plans for a third chapter of inflorescence.city - in which case, that
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RT @ByRobDavies: Probably the best vox pop quote i've ever taken today: "I've been on a coke bender for nine days mate, so I don't really c…
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@awesommelier poor little doggie
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@awesommelier yeah, i meant more that it was up for re-homing from people calling it ugly.
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@awesommelier while also being a nice dog.
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in awe of all the work @vivschwarz is doing for Wild Rumpus (this saturday eve, tix here eventbrite.com/e/wild-rumpus-7-tickets-27105934580) @vivschwarz/775696636479672320
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@vivschwarz i really want some of these to keep, you should look into doing a run post-Rumpus
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@vivschwarz yay!
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RT @Pinboard: If hardware kickstarters have taught us anything, it’s that going from design to manufacturing is easy, lucrative and fun
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@vectorpoem i'm okay with this solution? let people make jokes, then don't count them towards the score or put them right at the top.
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@vectorpoem this is an entertainment industry, it's okay it not being entirely Serious Business.
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@vectorpoem (reviews can be jokes AND be abuse, of course. and yes, they should hire people. and this button is also abusable)
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RT @slimedaughter: @sashageffen in game design we call this the money sink / gold sink lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_sink
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@HonestWilliam i recently learned a fact about an image you put in your newsletter
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@HonestWilliam i'm writing a follow up tweet!
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@HonestWilliam the graphic of the unhappy child in the circle with a slash that indicates a thing is for adults - we have one on the BoB box
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@HonestWilliam and apparently in China (where they have to refer to it, because they make things there) it's just called the "ghost baby".
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a thread about kek (ie laughter) & Kek (ancient Egyptican god) & Pepe (rare, a frog) @hradzka/775774053600628736
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if I was a member of the Labour party, I'd vote for Corbyn
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still listening to Ofelia K on the regular open.spotify.com/album/3zcWkqI5b48XCA9tS2Mk88 pretty pop music with good lyrics
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@patrickashe sometimes i really wish i worked at the Hollow Ponds office
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back to the days of swimming through charging cables and the janky UIs of the phones kept as test devices
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back when i was testing SMS (pronounced "smus") messages, we had a test phone where you had to type with T9 on a touchscreen
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RT @UnderTale: Made a post talking about UNDERTALE's popularity over the past year. undertale.tumblr.com/post/150397346860/retrospective-on-undertales-popularity
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@KBsGameTOILET pocketwatch
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@KBsGameTOILET foreign banknote
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@KBsGameTOILET cool shades (with a visor attached)
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@KBsGameTOILET bog roll
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@haikus_by_KN this kinda talk: "i know you're interested in exploring a kind of playful interrogration of the assumptions we all hold when--
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@katbamkapow oh, mind doing mine while you've got it out? ta
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@katbamkapow i mean, actually don't, for the obvious reason and also because my room is covered in things
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@katbamkapow oh no! not... all the shit i need to take to the charity shop! and a lamp i'm not entirely sure where to put!
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@patrickashe @hannahnicklin oh good- i bought a Arab Strap ticket in the vague hope I'd know others going. Wish I was in town for Holy Fuck…
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@katbamkapow tbh it's a weight off my mind
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RT @SagafroKichigai: 自動雀卓でハシャぐだけのCG
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RT @iocat: I wrote an article on Medium! About @AlaskaAir's fruit and cheese plate (and how to eat it) medium.com/@chrischarla/how-to-eat-an-alaska-airlines-fruit-and-cheese-plate-optimally-f3249f36bd89#.ss1pi1xgk. #igetboredo…
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pave my desk with gorilla glass
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what's your favourite kind of music
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@paullicino i mean, fine, but give some examples
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@iainl7 i dunno, what's that kinda thing like?
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i have just moved to deptford and i am at cannon st and this is my first time where there is a major reason where i can't get home
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i have no idea what that "major reason" is, but it's the reason i'm typing this from an uncertain bench rather than a train
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@notquitereal well jel [of yr actions]
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@sam_cook I am drunk and I'm sure there are other routes but this one is a theoretical 10 minutes
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@notquitereal thx
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@tef nah, they're not running til 2018
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@sam_cook yep, got home fine (my phone died, though)
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@_cheesybeaver yeah, it all worked out
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@katbamkapow @_cheesybeaver somehow I grazed my knee! Wanna see?!
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@_cheesybeaver @katbamkapow I am 29 and a half years old
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@katbamkapow @_cheesybeaver he asked!
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RT @LDN_TUBE: My #sketchnotes from a panel discussing #chatbots w/ @jbrowder1 @benki @v21 @LukeRobertMason
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@inskora 8 is a lucky number, too, which is a reason you sometimes see things with 88 on
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@jmickle_ yr tweets earlier got me wondering about what it's like to play centaur chess
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kinda cute that Slack's bundle id is com.tinyspeck.chatlyio
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RT @unstable_king: Another favourite of ours ready for this weekend at the @WildRumpus from @teknopants. #cardboardarcade https://t.co/6cuA…
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@katbamkapow I have a decent speaker system!
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RT @SnowballPoetry: o my jam band drops albums written entirely alongside mechanical spreadsheet applications
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Just saw a track inspection coach. It's a train that has cameras pointed at the rails to make sure they're good!
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@inky this was a noisy big diesel hooked up to like 5 carriages. One had two men rearranging windows on a 8 monitor array.
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@inky there was a cool visualisation of the track and the points leading out of the station.
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@lizardengland @chrisamaphone @logodaedalus I made an anagram game with @whitingjp that was similar : v21.io/games/heftyseamstress/
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@hoskingc I would go on a date with that lady
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Wild Rumpus is happening tomorrow! Not stressed out by it at all!
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Also I can't stop thinking about the sensation of pulling a hair out of my eye this morning.
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@sam_cook thanks - think we have it in hand, but will keep it in mind if things get hairy.
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@oopsohno crisp!
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@hellocatfood yep, should be fine, lemme check with my housemate
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@hellocatfood yep, it's fine - we're in Deptford, btw
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@haikus_by_KN mmm, comfy!
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@LovedayBrooke you look like a Jamie McKelvie character.
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I'm happy because @seajayshore fixed my nice over-ear headphones. Just in time for the end of summer!
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@DrImmySmith @manygradients sometimes too much is the right amount
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RT @manygradients:
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this is a beautiful thing. @mjanetmars got so pissed at bad @manygradients gradients they made this: mjanetmars.itch.io/bettergradients
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@mjanetmars (oh, ps : i'm the creator of @manygradients, if that wasn't clear)
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wait, also Daily Dot did a post ranking @manygradients tweets from most to least chill?! dailydot.com/unclick/twitter-dot-com-slash-at-sign-manygradients/ hahaha
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RT @manygradients:
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i also wanna say, for the record, that i very much enjoy that @manygradients makes ugly gradients quite often. no regrets
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or else it might as well just be pink and seafoam, forever. where's the joy in that?
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@hondanhon oh, that's lovely to hear! Thank you!
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@notquitereal you'll be missed
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RT @WildRumpus: 2NIGHT some tickets will be available on the door BUT online tickets are on sale till 5pm & be CHEAPER #wildrumpus7 https:/…
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Doors are open for Wild Rumpus! It looks pretty cool, y'all.
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@netgal_emi shit. Now I want one, and I'm already the wrong side of London.
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RT @lorenschmidt: idyll: graphics test. still not using actual assets, but the tech is working!
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@lorenschmidt this is beautiful, I'm in awe
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@vivschwarz I have spent a very pleasant day, but I'm not sure I could say it was better than sleeping.
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@vivschwarz I feel very cozy and tired rn.
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RT @lorenschmidt: "beads of orange glass" a wordless storytelling game for two out now! please help spread the word https://t.co/DocwNC5…
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RT @tullyhansen: 🤖 “… it should be possible to find out who is responsible for any robot and its behaviour.” Yes, very good. https://t.co/u…
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looking forward to seeing this bot @ank_wobl/777660908059361280
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@vivschwarz now I'm back in Redwall, eating huge quantities of fruit pie
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who's up to EGX this weekend? i'll be there Saturday & Sunday, showing off all the new stuff in Beasts of Balance
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actually my hotel was cheaper if it was also booked for Friday night, so let me know if I should come up and drink with you that evening
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@mcclure111 the OS X Retina support is still new and flaky - but I'm hopeful for fixes in not too long
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RT @sashageffen: how have I never seen the mad max character list before
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RT @quasimondo: Nearest neighbors of 256 K-means centroids of 20000 images. So in theory this should show the spectrum of options. https://…
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really interesting stuff about taps and the shifting space of what counts as magic @mathmarcault/777869417996771330
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@radiatoryang this is making me surprisingly motivated to work on my clean, minimal, greyscale only thing so i can ask you to test it.
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useful thread about the new iPhone's SoC design @FioraAeterna/777877816356376576
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RT @mcflashcard: #foundpoem
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@peenusweenus this seems fair enough to me?
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@peenusweenus also this is from 2008
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@_cheesybeaver it's you!
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@hellocatfood no worries! Yeah, Deptford isn't super close to Harrow...
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Whoa, what's up with this tweet : @MrOolong/777924300082909184?s=09
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and also (on Android native client), I couldn't add an image unless I did it before adding the link (quote - RT was right out)
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RT @katierosepipkin:
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@mcclure111 (of course, this is an exercise in cryptic, but eventually discoverable UI)
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RT @torpordust: it's Tarot Tuesday, and today's card is number 18 - THE MOON joe-sparrow.tumblr.com/post/150674396693/this-weeks-tarot-tuesday-card-is-card-number
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RT @hap_inc: ゴール?
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RT @vgr: Darmok future: every word/phrase/image with memetic resonance is a steganographic subcultural handshake in at least 1 way you don'…
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guess i'll update CBDQ at some point to take this into account. Tweet length counting is involved enough that I use a library for it. @twitter/777915304261193728
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the feeling of making a system seem a bit more intelligent by manually adding extra cases and conditions
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probably just called "game design", come to think of it.
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@pozorvlak @okayultra I have enjoyed Lightroom for this. 700 pics is not that many, though.
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RT @hollygramazio:
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on Sunday we tried to come up with facts and i couldn't think of one, but here's one i just remembered
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those cool important switches with the special covers to stop you from switching them accidentally - the covers are called "molly guards"
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someone brought their kid into work and she kept wanting to flip switches, so they added covers. her name, of course, was Molly.
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Wheels of Aurelia is out! It's really good, it's Italian chic and narrative innovation. @santaragione/778266264196317185
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@notquitereal i will be! Saturday and Sunday, and I am havering about Friday night
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This is a good story about bad things happening in a videogame. @notquitereal/778031273843580928
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@ADAMATOMIC I feel I would struggle not to Make The Engine Better. But at least there'd be some of the work skipped, and a better engine.
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@ADAMATOMIC like, KRZ taking a good couple of months to fix up their text rendering or character posing.
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@ADAMATOMIC I definitely hear you... man, I should try to resurrect the first version of Beasts of Balance one of these days.
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love railway stations that are also on bridges
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railway stations that are under bridges are alright, but not top tier. sorry, Edinburgh.
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There's a new Sex Fantasy out : gumroad.com/l/sexfantasy7 It's also very good. And has jolted me out of a bad mood evening.
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@netgal_emi @Thairyn i was thinking about this earlier today ... i didn't have any new thoughts about it, i just continued to want it.
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the handmade web still exists : 2 links from my tl just now dhmothclub.co.uk/advert/index.html jjgeng.com/html/body_ice_screw.html (via @lorenschmidt & @pozorvlak)
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RT @JoanOfDarkness: probs the greatest achievement in human history recorded on film
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@hannahnicklin jealous
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these tweets have had entirely disjoint sets of favs
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ps i pronounce fav with a short 'a'
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@Dick_Hogg @hannahnicklin jealous of yr wine, too
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@jabelsjabels so does mine... but it's only a road bridge. i work relatively near Blackfriars... now that's a proper station on a bridge.
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@PeteOlympian EXACTLY
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@haze______ i'm in favour!
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@iamdanw y
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@haikus_by_KN for some reason i decided to watch blake's 7 tonight, and i thought you'd like to know.
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@lizardengland @tanyaxshort this is also the reason i don't have a patreon
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@haikus_by_KN no, i watched most of the first season back in university. for some reason i decided to start with s03e01. good episode!
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RT @manygradients:
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@vivschwarz oh, lemme know if you want to get lunch, I'm just downstairs.
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told you @Avalix/778548287314034688
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@vivschwarz now? i'll pop up to the new wing entrance
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@angusdick @Avalix whoop whoop whoop
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@thiagofobia nope, it's Unity's Mechanim animation controller.
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@dzifyr we'll also have some when we're not at EGX, too
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@fromsmiling I want to pick No. 2, but I consistently pick No. 1. I've not voted yet. But I'll think about it.
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@katbamkapow i can't decide whether they are the pale and sullen kind of this person, or the bronzer and preening kind of this person.
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@katbamkapow ah, okay. they should go on The Apprentice!
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reading this excellent essay on historical cutup techniques and I keep thinking of Laura from Phonogram medium.com/@katierosepipkin/a-long-history-of-generated-poetics-cutups-from-dickinson-to-melitzah-fce498083233#.7dog3jbo7
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the artistic effect of speaking only in quotations
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it's also worth comparing mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/12/15/randomly-generated-title-goes-here/ and noticing how little overlap there is in the things they talk about
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@dreamfeelx yeah, this is good. does it move?
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@dreamfeelx radddd
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Eurogamer played our game! In front of cameras and everything. youtube.com/watch?v=WJBTz8xLDvg
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@angusdick @spacetreasured thaaanks! definitely some relief when we first got them in and they worked.
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@angusdick of course, the backup plan was just making @spacetreasured sit there and animate all 150+ separately...
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RT @sarahjeong: hmmm yes the problem is anonymous trolling
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RT @KarenDTregaskin: Kraftwerk: Women exist in every band’s story. It’s just that male historians never seem to think to include them. http…
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RT @terrycavanagh: List of words containing "meow": meow, meowed, meowing, meows, homeowner
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@KommanderKlobb @terrycavanagh hahaha! we were all in the pub bemoaning our most viral tweets
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@KommanderKlobb @terrycavanagh terry: oh god, you've set it off again
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@KommanderKlobb @terrycavanagh prepare yrself, this is a depressing most viral tweet mobile.twitter.com/v21/status/507978692648108032
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blake's 7 is a show about the limitations of voice-based interfaces
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@108 i do not get how America is so bad at this. we have had them for years and they are fine and good and not a problem.
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@108 we have even moved on to contactless in this time. and you're on, what, some fucked up "chip and signature" shit?
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@philippawarr people should celebrate their star days, as reported by @5point9billion
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this is a really clear explanation of how star signs worked. i never really understood it before! @rem/779264955279441920
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i'm vaguely on the lookout for a big TV or projector - if you happen to be selling one, or have hot tips for buying one, lmk.
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@alexhern I wish you could see stars in London.
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@nyarluu would be ideal for running bots on
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i am going to the NEC for the first time this weekend and I don't think I'm looking forward to the experience
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@hoskingc i liked this one, too medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.2nqt3ao3g
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@hoskingc I am probably more accepting because I know people from that same milleu of young London-based journos.
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@hoskingc like, I probably heard of Milo first when he was failing to pay people at his doomed vanity project mag.
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@KommanderKlobb @hoskingc I also agree with that.
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@haikus_by_KN in Birmingham!
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@KommanderKlobb I am staying at a hotel inside the NEC, too, for the full experience.
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@inskora that sounds nice. now I wish I was flying...
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i had lunch and it made me really hungry. i don't know what to do about this.
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i miss when memes died cuz a newspaper reported on them, rather than when they became inextricably linked with a fascist's presidential run
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@notquitereal so i am led to understand. but! planning on coming up tonight - lemme know if you're hanging out anywhere
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@notquitereal that makes sense
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@haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb there are places i would recommend for good food and good drink. I'm not expecting the NEC to be one of them?
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@HarryGiles no, it's the conference center in Birmingham to demo our game. I am a pretty outgoing & non-anxious person, but it will be A Lot
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@HarryGiles thanks :)
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@_cheesybeaver some salady stuff - eggs, feta, tomato, cous cous, beetroot
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@metasynthie i know multiple female game writers who go by a fake last name
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@metasynthie it took me a while to internalize good habits about privacy - not for my own sake, but for friends who need it.
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poor pepe. all he ever wanted was to enjoy peeing with his trousers all the way down.
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@lorenschmidt thank you! it will be okay.
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@metasynthie yeah, definitely agreed.
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@hollygramazio @manygradients success! i have worn you down. (it's nicely 90s Lisa Frank)
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@dreamfeelx @katierosepipkin i have been surprised (i shouldn't have been) at how different bot/art world can be from games. even notgames.
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@dreamfeelx @katierosepipkin and you can absolutely use the same tools in those worlds... but still, it feels different.
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@tpizza I feel you.
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i forgot how much better i am at writing when i've drank about a pint. just enough to take the edge off.
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RT @leighalexander: I did 'dark' sites & imageboard culture & early Shockwave memes & shit like that. This was never what it was supposed t…
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@FlorianVltmn sitting in a bar waiting for a train and then afterwards sitting on a train, it seems
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RT @JUEGOSRANCHEROS: IT’S HERE: The 2016 Fantastic Arcade Bundle! 5 amazing games from @moppin_ @KeitaTakahash @sokpopco & more! https:…
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This article, but about Corbyn newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-millennial-voters-502298
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Corbyn is not a very good leader of a party, but he reflects the political preferences of the majority of the membership of that party.
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RT @doam: doing some important reading this evening
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@objelisks obviously it's you bot and you should feel free to ignore what i say - but if i were you, i'd bump up the resolution a bunch.
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@objelisks :)
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@muffinista pls tell me you've seen Adam Cadre (who happens to be a great IF author)'s Lyttle Lytton Awards? adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
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@keefstuart James Hurley forever
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@GalaxyKate I also submitted! Hope to see you there!
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@DustyTulip_ hey! George here from Beasts of Balance. Lyall passed yr card on. I will be around all day tomorrow.
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@DustyTulip_ yep, that sounds great, see you then
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Luck and Neat pounding from the energy drink booth next to us. I dig it.
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"TORNADO ENERGY. DON'T JUST WIN. DO DAMAGE"
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@notquitereal but I have been standing in a small area demarcated by Tensabarriers this whole time!
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@notquitereal we're showing Beasts over by Yogscast. I'm sorry to have missed you!
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@hannahnicklin @nachimir there's also A Place In The Sun Live. Do we know anyone who fits all three?
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@katbamkapow I am imagining you in that classic swooning back-of-the-hand-to-forehead I am overcome position.
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which do you prefer:
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@lyyyndseyyy they don't intend to be condescending (not saying anything about how it comes off)
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weird walking around EGX and seeing, amidst crowds yelling about free T-shirts and queues to play shooters, games we've shown at Wild Rumpus
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and like, not just in the weird indie stuff area (which is, of course, where the stuff i really like is)
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things have changed in games for the better over the past few years
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RT @SnowballPoetry: o lo our love would evolve erasing memories
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bot of the day: @__birds__ birds sitting on a wire beautiful, and impressive
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RT @RobertVinluan: I made a new bot this weekend! Cheap Bots Done Quick + SVG = lots of pics of birds on wires: @__birds__ #botAlly https:/…
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@notquitereal and yet it all worked out in the end
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I played some of KRZ episode IV a bit drunk on an intercity train and it was, if anything, an overly fitting context.
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i want a spare chunk of time to properly settle into my new place. like, i'm almost entirely unpacked. but it's still a place, not home.
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like, i need to pointlessly rearrange the kitchen, or something.
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@haikus_by_KN Deptford!
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@StevieB64 @VariableState whoa, super cool! Congrats, Stevie!
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@LizRainsberry proper jel of yr pins
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RT @botwikidotorg: zo7.github.io/blog/2016/09/25/generating-faces.html Generating Faces with Deconvolution Networks
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@chrisamaphone read a few things that touched on it,mainly historical bits on the origin of escape rooms (explicitly came from room escapes)
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@chrisamaphone also stuff that talks about taxonomies of escape rooms... but no entire pieces comparing design principles.
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@angusdick could you embroider it onto the front of a hat?
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RT @mcclure111: Trump rose to prominence on a streak of rancid white supremacism hiding in America and because of Trump it's not hiding any…
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RT @philippawarr: I really enjoyed doing this interview with the lead on the League of Legends board game :) rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/26/league-of-legends-mechs-vs-minions/
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@LaurieSpiegel that laughter is delightful, I'm so glad to hear a historic moment treated so joyfully.
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@LaurieSpiegel though news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7458479.stm suggests she was a BBC presenter?
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first recorded computer music blogs.bl.uk/files/first-recorded-computer-music---copeland-long-restoration.mp3 it's --- full of laughter and things going a bit wrong? it's put me in a good mood.
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some context at news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7458479.stm
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RT @NotInventedHere: @v21 I found the British Library article too blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html
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@tigershungry @V_and_A i am so glad you have a budget to commission artwork with.
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@jawsew I like London! I like learning London. And I have played irl games on the streets of London and enjoyed myself. So: no.
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How to play: Push buttons and analog sticks and watch for patterns in response until you have a sense of the relationship between the two.
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(from the Kentucky Route Zero README.txt)
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@BRKeogh it's lightly edited, but entirely real.
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@BRKeogh good information on making an Old Fashioned in there, too.
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@genmon we considered putting WiFi in the Beasts plinth... and then didn't. It's an effective security solution, but not what you're after.
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@dotdebug this is false? he just wrote the manual for the machine, and let someone else have the use of it overnight.
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@genmon yep... and most every BT thing has OTA firmware updates built in. :)
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RT @mewo2: brb rewriting all my bots to play the national anthem while they’re running: minervaclassics.com/eureka.htm (via @v21) https://t.co/4EQ…
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We have a trailer! Please view and enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=c3NwPJQQX18&feature=youtu.be
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special shoutout to the audio team @Disasterpeace, @dkanaga and Eric Van Amerongen for getting beautiful stuff through super-quick.
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RT @john_brindle: The woman who convinced 100s of photographers to add her to their collections– and, so doing, became their collector http…
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RT @rockpapershot: Multiplayer hacking sim Hackmud is a frontier of malware and wonder. Review: rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/27/hackmud-review/ https://t.co/VLuBKC…
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RT @lorenschmidt: but this brings up concerns i've been reiterating over and over: when we leave the earth, who will go and who chooses?
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It's too late to love you now. It's too late -
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exciting (for a subset of people) news! we're Real Close Now to having modern .Net runtimes in Unity. forum.unity3d.com/threads/upgraded-mono-net-in-editor-on-5-5-0b4.433541/
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@HonestWilliam this kinda stuff: github.com/dotnet/roslyn/wiki/New-Language-Features-in-C%23-6 - there's a few nice new bits of syntax, basically.
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@HonestWilliam and a bit further out - new garbage collector, which means less work to avoid GC hiccups.
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@HonestWilliam me too! congrats on joining the subset!
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@radiatoryang though I wouldn't be surprised if that new null operator doesn't work for components (like the null coalescing one doesn't)
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@Thairyn oh no :< good luck finding it.
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i had not heard of the playground game M.A.S.H. (or P.R.A.M.). broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/please-not-the-shack-how-mash-came-to-predict-our-uncertain-futures
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@dreamfeelx whoa, yeah, @gothdome you really do look great there. hope yr both keeping well x
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RT @manygradients:
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@eddiecameron @radiatoryang yeah, they're secretly not null (but rather "missing") but equality is overridden to claim they are.
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I want a Shut Up & Sit Down review of The English Pub Quiz.
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@hollygramazio i really enjoy that i learnt this from a joke about how boring Adelaide is.
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@hollygramazio 1) true, as i discovered myself 2) when i did look it up, there were yet more people making jokes about Adelaide being boring
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@hollygramazio 3) i was relieved when i did look it up that it was a storm rather than something else and there were no mentioned casualties
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also, look at it's creator! (yes, he was known for wandering round with his shirt open) (reminded by @HarryGiles)
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@psychicteeth google it, if you really want... there's a reason i didn't embed a pic.
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@netgal_emi the staff room at EGX this weekend would be a great case study (cc @nachimir @hanabananaan)
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@katbamkapow wait, actually this is maybe an issue if you're not trying to do a pacifist run and have set traps or summat.
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Tomorrow evening, we're doing our last playtest for a while. Come play Beasts of Balance while it's hot. eventbrite.co.uk/e/beasts-of-balance-playtest-thursdays-tickets-27299011077?aff=ehomecard
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@alexhern I voted for monthly, but I would be happy with "irregularly" or "fortnightly"
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RT @mcclure111: So Ms. @Makofury is the latest target I know of of the Mysterious Twitter "shadowban". Even if you follow her, her tweets a…
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It smells like autumn!
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@bonaneh I am not that short, but I have a bag of stuff due for the charity shop - will pick some out for you!
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RT @mcclure111: I think our future is under the control of people who are not very close readers
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just went through my basket on amazon and replaced it all with the same things, but from a cheaper seller you have to click through to see
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@notquitereal happy birthday!
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RT @SK_Louie: Good morning. I've decided to make a thread outlining the various crap I do in a day at the bar. Also, there's no "typical" d…
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Fish Fly! At the Bar SK Now Play This exhibition. @SK_Louie/781351440874778625
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RT @UnburntWitch: seek a partner that's proud of you in ways that see you as a person doing your best, not a plot device in the story they…
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@KommanderKlobb @lauraehall @patrickashe @compositeredfox I got a Horse Bros off @mink_ette last night. Good sticker!
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RT @BBCPaulMurphy: Ram raiders use tractor to target the Coop store in Donington #Lincolnshire but end up demolishing the entire building.…
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@katbamkapow oh no :( at least if you die, i will know it has been for a good cause.
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i have to update the version of os x i have in order to update the version of x code i have in order to build for this ipad that got updated
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@nyarluu @raiganburns in this case, someone else slipped up when we took it to a show... :<
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@nyarluu @raiganburns yeah, have got a build on that way already - just irritating as it was my main dev ipad...
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remember when the internet was a place?
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one month til launch
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Should I have an opinion on Nidhogg 2's graphics?
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@mooonmagic is that a yes or a no?
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@LiToast @marmalade_tim i have a satchel full of shit with me the majority of the time i'm out and about
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@LiToast @marmalade_tim often my laptop, if i'm to/from work... and a jumper, umbrella, notebook, pens, cables, cereal bar...
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@marmalade_tim @LiToast i only have a laptop, and i work on it at the office and usually take it home (it's my personal laptop)
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@LiToast @marmalade_tim headphones, glasses, spare contacts, maybe a book, there's a bike light in there...
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@LiToast @marmalade_tim it stresses me out to have to plan what i need to take with me and think ahead
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RT @GeodeticMarkers: MZ0929: SCHENECTADY, NY (1931) SET IN A LIGHT STRUCTURE
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RT @emilyst: Fledging programmers out there, it's *totally cool* to make new variables *just* to telegraph your thoughts while writing a th…
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@alexhern it usually looks like all three? but, like, even if it's the second two, how can you write about it but via the company?
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just suggested to someone that they'll have to get someone to design a webpage to work well viewed horizontally on a phone.
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where are my design articles on designing horizontal mobile sites?
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@aeoye yeah, i know you can detect for it -- but who designs a responsive site to look best under those conditions?
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@hoskingc huh!
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Music I've been liking: Kate Jackson (from The Long Blondes)'s British Road Movies, Angel Olsen's MY WOMAN & this: open.spotify.com/track/652oAGYUpgGgMb6E09AZDV
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ughh, why did i decide to change our save data serialization system at 4pm on a Friday?
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@sheilamu @v21/781874681695592448 (but i'll see youse soon!)
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working now! whew.
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I am going away for the weekend to somewhere with no wifi and bad signal. I am bringing a bottle of gin and boardgames. It's going to be OK.
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@glassarmy we do have... at least four bottles of gin here. It'll probably be okay.
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@glassarmy too late! We are already in the big stupid house some distance from anywhere else.