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Tweets from 2016/11

  1. to the woman with the soft irish accent, who woke me up for my stop on the train: thank you
  2. …in reply to @v21
    the train journey is literally ten minutes long, and if i fail to wake up i could end up in unfathomable places...
  3. …in reply to @lingmops
    @lingmops just Dartford, but there's no public transport back until 4:30am, so...
  4. RT @jonbro: Hey! I am looking for work! I am cool to work with I think? I do game programming, and I am real good at audio stuff https://t.…
  5. some good fuckin' fenceposts in here @PolClarissou/793248699136827392
  6. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
  7. …in reply to @stinkytownmayor
    @janemai_ aur-rinj
  8. …in reply to @stinkytownmayor
    @janemai_ maybe when I was a kid I said oh-wran-jez
  9. thank heavens for gsmarena.com
  10. The pause before Tinder shows you that you've matched with someone is so perfectly designed.
  11. …in reply to @_manpat
    @_manpat i imagine they are incredibly metrics-driven
  12. RT @planetxanna: Turns out you now have to apply for benefits before you can have an appt to give you info on what benefits to apply for &…
  13. I miss the dream of the Semantic Web. @AGBear/793406885718290432
  14. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen errr... i can't remember if i coded up anything special for that...
  15. RT @AstroKatie: If aliens turn out to be anything like giant squid, humanity is screwed. news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150121-humboldt-jumbo-squid-crittercam-animal-ocean-science/ (seriously these things ar…
  16. 3 flats on, still using the great flat bills spreadsheet @oh_cripes made
  17. spooky thread (too spooky for post-Halloween?) @hondanhon/793430267792756736
  18. RT @KBsGameTOILET: Still can't decide what the next GameToilet project is .. going to have to throw a dart blindfolded or something.. https…
  19. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen ahh. though yr followup q isn't clear. (you can only send responses one tweet long, if that's what yr asking)
  20. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere @tullyhansen yeah, you might need to refer to a simple grammar in the top section which does the random picking
  21. …in reply to @v21
    @NotInventedHere @tullyhansen can't recall if i got round to putting simple grammar rules in the bottom section yet or not
  22. nice thread on the details of CBDQ-style botmaking @HarryGiles/793413456691101696
  23. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn nope - just tested it locally and it worked, too. one sec
  24. …in reply to @v21
    @deathmtn yeah, can't see any issues - assume it's just the internet randomly breaking?
  25. RT @renaudbedard: They had me at quiet rave horns in the background music @funomena/793445144452136960
  26. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @GalaxyKate so, one : thank you. but also two: i am amused you posted this and then posted this: @tullyhansen/793450034616348673
  27. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @GalaxyKate tbf, the spirit of CBDQ is bodging a simple thing to do an unexpected thing.
  28. …in reply to @v21
    @tullyhansen @GalaxyKate I hadn't even imagined that you could use the reply functionality this way...
  29. @JFriedhoff the thing that gets me about the request is that... other than being an impossible dream, it's well specced & reasoned
  30. …in reply to @v21
    @JFriedhoff like, there's a user story in there! there's an idea for how it could work (everything should have an API). it's coherent!
  31. …in reply to @TheWarNerd
    @TheWarNerd parliament is also voting on the IPBill today. Good timing, huh?
  32. fuck! MULLING season is nearly here!
  33. …in reply to @v21
    let's fucking mull some fuckin wine, y'all
  34. …in reply to @v21
    (this realization brought to you by reports of @hannahnicklin's winter candle)
  35. …in reply to @v21
  36. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef i also did this!
  37. RT @profaniti: I am looking for volunteers for Wordplay in London: a 1 day event about writerly games in the British Library on November 19…
  38. RT @syrupf: way to go! here's some cash find me later to do more challenges if you wanna earn some more
  39. there's a bit in the Addams Family where you can see Anjelica Huston hit her mark, and the light starts falling across her face in That Way @RachelHeine/793479487602118656
  40. RT @KingSara: I have a Human Resources exam today for MBA school and all I can think about is this slide from a friend's work meeting. http…
  41. RT @lucaswiman: I've said it before: this is a technology that will convict innocent people of crimes they did not commit. https://t.co/cgS…
  42. RT @unity3d: An experimental EditorVR build will be available by the end of 2016! It will be completely open-source, with an open API #Unit…
  43. fuckin' working video in unity, dudes! @unity3d/793525901988200448
  44. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen Pretty sure CBDQ won't eat them... But I seem to recall Twitter tries to do some cleverness with it's dedups. @FakeUnicode, can you recall?
  45. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @FakeUnicode Think they can just go in raw
  46. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @FakeUnicode Yeah. No need to escape them unless they're special characters for Tracery or JSON.
  47. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen it will, yeah! unless somethings broken, which it might be.
  48. …in reply to @v21
    update:
  49. …in reply to @v21
    @Argos_Online can you help me buy this bookcase? argos.co.uk/product/6092139
  50. tying my shoelaces update : my Docs are now staying tied! But today I had a sudden worry:
  51. …in reply to @v21
    I'm now starting to do it, then stopping and doing it a way that feels "weird". Will I get confused once it's comfortable?
  52. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir @psychicteeth Wait... have you been holding out on The Indie Secret this whole time?
  53. OH on the train, as we cross the Thames : "Wow. I forgot how fabulous London is".
  54. Trying to think of a single bit of generic "creativity advice" I've ever found actually helpful.
  55. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher i prefer "play with something inconsistently, intermittently until you discover you can do interesting things with it"
  56. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz mm! extra sharp!
  57. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette i don't like that advice, because it reframes everything you do in life as being for the purposes for working better.
  58. RT @perlin_noise: 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 🥈🥉🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 🥇🥈🥉🥈🥈🥈🥇🥇🥈🥈 🥇🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥈🥈🥈 🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥈🥈🥈 🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥈🥈🥈 🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 🥇🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉…
  59. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate i have heard this before, but i never known what it meant
  60. …in reply to @v21
    @GalaxyKate it's interesting! i wonder how useful i'll find it. i _think_ it's fairly embedded in my thinking already?
  61. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate hah, maybe it was from you!
  62. …in reply to @v21
    Though, on specific examples I hate his hidebound Tory tastes. But buildings should always have *something* to say aesthetically.
  63. …in reply to @annenoise
    @annenoise i love brutalism, i hate his specific examples - but Giving A Shit is refreshing
  64. …in reply to @iainl7
    @iainl7 me too
  65. …in reply to @davegershgorn
    @davegershgorn got a real vintage example for you here: youtube.com/watch?v=JIE8xk6Rl1w
  66. …in reply to @saltyhorse
    @saltyhorse @GalaxyKate @davegershgorn Facebook M is people.
  67. RT @2tonbug: I came here to do two things: read Frog and Toad All Year and read Frog and Toad Are Friends...and Frog and Toad Are Friends i…
  68. remembering @HelenHester's bot summit talk, where she showed youtube.com/watch?v=JIE8xk6Rl1w and talked about the offloading of domestic labour
  69. …in reply to @nickludlam
  70. RT @SFBTom: Urgently seeking: 2 #Unity gamedevs, based in London, starting ASAP, 3-4 months of work. Full pay and a really fun project! RTs…
  71. RT @__Tyu: HEY GUESS WHAT! Our graduation project (aka the reason why 50% of u follow me) is now out! You can grab it here → https://t.co/…
  72. …in reply to @beastsofbalance
    @beastsofbalance real glad that video exists
  73. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  74. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow (that's a pun, you see? because it's a thing that you could say to express disapproval, and also a sprite is also a type of su-
  75. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle i liked it!
  76. good work, landscapes! @softlandscapes/793889129947885568
  77. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i mean, also, feel free to hit me up if this is a Unity question and you want help/vague reassurance.
  78. …in reply to @patrickashe
  79. RT @rockpapershot: We analysed RimWorld's code to learn about how it simulates gender roles in relationships - goo.gl/NpsPm3 http…
  80. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal past around 3 hrs, i don't care much about battery life. not that sensitive to weight or thickness.
  81. …in reply to @v21
    @shahidkamal but i'm constantly frustrated by only having 500gb of hdd, would love a decent GPU, and couldn't justify those prices
  82. c'mawwwn! c'mawwwn! do the thing! @spacetreasured/793862652074262528
  83. remove this useful feature
  84. got nasty flickering for some meshes on some Mali GPUs (Kindles, in particular). any advice on how to debug? #unity3d
  85. …in reply to @v21
    there is a Mali Graphics Debugger thing I have managed to connect! but then it doesn't want to give me any actual info once it is.
  86. …in reply to @v21
    i'm having fun, so you should too. update: i rooted the test device, got the Mali debugger to attach, and built a minimal test scene
  87. …in reply to @v21
    and, for all the hard work: a clue! here's a framebuffer output of the nastiness, and one of the alpha channel. it's drawing _something_...
  88. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro they flicker as it moves, and that clue ^^ there was that they're not cracks - it's still drawing to the alpha channel just fine.
  89. I am trying to remember exactly how the Sims handled this. All Sims could be attracted to either gender, but learnt from player prompts? @TynanSylvester/793938437078335488
  90. …in reply to @v21
    what I am saying is that this statement, per se, is not unreasonable. although the code definitely does reflect the dev's harmful worldview.
  91. bot of the day: @microtrailers condensed nuggets of videogame imagine discovering yr all time favorite this way what would it look like?
  92. RT @mousefountain: What's in the bottom of the well? ☲⎯☰ ☰⎯☵ ☴⎯☲ ☰⎯☰ ☲⎯☰ ☵⎯☴ ☰⎯☰ ☰⎯☲ ☰⎯☵ ☱⎯☱ ☰⎯☰ ☲⎯☰ ☰⎯☱ ☰⎯☰ ☵⎯☲ ☱⎯☴ ☰⎯☰ ☰⎯☵ ☲⎯☰ ☵⎯☱ ☰⎯☲ ☱…
  93. This game is good! Back this game if you wanna do pug - like things. @legobutts/793953273317199872
  94. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @GalaxyKate that is super weird... should just work without escaping. just tested: { "origin": ["#or#"], "or" :["a, b","c"] }
  95. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @GalaxyKate ohhh. yeah. i've gotten knotted up in this syntax myself before.
  96. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate @tullyhansen the bit that gets me with this case is that it breaks my expectation that the whole thing will get converted to an AST first.
  97. …in reply to @v21
    @GalaxyKate @tullyhansen Depending on whether that comma is used in a expansion inside [] s, or in a normal expansion, it's either syntax or a literal. (yes?)
  98. …in reply to @king_spooner
  99. …in reply to @derElbi
    @derElbi is this for space in a houseshare, or for entire flats?
  100. tiny bits of accidental beauty as i continue to dig into this fucking shader issue
  101. …in reply to @derElbi
    @derElbi that's cool! moveflat is my fav, but better for houseshares. zoopla is the obvious big one. openrent seems cool?
  102. …in reply to @v21
    @derElbi the whole thing is a tremendous pain in the arse (finding a place, actually moving in is just expensive)
  103. …in reply to @v21
    i've gotten a bit rusty at visualizing RGB as separate channels. quiz: on what channel are those triangles glitching out on?
  104. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx @derElbi i have previously had luck just trying lots of local estate agents, too
  105. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions this is a gradient lookup texture that happened to get mapped onto a sphere.
  106. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere there's a limit for what can get uploaded - but iirc, it's 10mb.
  107. …in reply to @v21
    @NotInventedHere *should* refuse to upload, not truncate, though
  108. …in reply to @iainl7
    @iainl7 @plantsimulator green!
  109. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern i think i would buy any of these over a new Macbook Pro
  110. …in reply to @16kbps
    @plantsimulator @iainl7 oh, sorry! i knew i wasn't super clear, but wasn't sure how to phrase better.
  111. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern things that this computer runs out of : hard-drive space, RAM. the new one has the exact same amount of both.
  112. …in reply to @v21
    maybe... maybe the problem is just that we have too many colours.
  113. …in reply to @differenting
    @differenting @dannybirchall i was gonna say the flatness. but, actually: why would the mechanic be a primary consideration for coolness?
  114. …in reply to @outstarwalker
    .@outstarwalker earlier today I retweeted this! but @spacetreasured points out a longer, credited version: vimeo.com/189919038
  115. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall @differenting yeah, i know what you mean. now i'm trying to figure out what a "cool" hidden object game would be like.
  116. …in reply to @v21
  117. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod haha, yeah, in retrospect this is perfectly Bennett
  118. RT @dannybirchall: @v21 @differenting definitely something there about reining in the 'juiciness' of casual games to be cool.
  119. level of knowledge : I can recognise a track as being from MF Doom's Special Herbs, but don't know the name.
  120. …in reply to @mattlaschneider
    @mattlaschneider @ojahnn it's not too bad! SVG itself is a whole thing, though.
  121. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle @UnburntWitch given what his below the line comments were like, he should be glad he wasn't quoted, especially unedited.
  122. building a large game in with beautiful illustrations rendered via an SVG plugin - a good idea, then suddenly a bad idea
  123. …in reply to @v21
    this is the second multi-year project this is the case for. third time's the charm, i guess?
  124. …in reply to @v21
    what i am saying is : please stop me if i show signs of writing my own SVG plugin for Unity.
  125. …in reply to @ra
    @ra i think it's actually mainly just that computers are hard. right now chasing rendering errors on low-end mobile GPUs...
  126. …in reply to @v21
    @ra ... which might need fixing via rewriting this third party plugin's atlasing system? maybe? i don't want to do this.
  127. …in reply to @jonbro
  128. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro stop saying things!
  129. …in reply to @chrisoshea
  130. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisoshea i guess the really it's that it's complex, unusual & i don't understand it inside out. needs resources to support it as a choice
  131. RT @motherboard: We know you're mad they didn't call it "Call of Booty." We can't explain the decision. @Brazzers can you weigh in?
  132. …in reply to @sophmallinson
    @sophiemallins happy slapping
  133. RT @maruti_bitamin: wips
  134. RT @GranthamEcology: I just love how ungainly these #toads are in #slowmo!
  135. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ i thought it was gonna be because his seedlings were getting too big
  136. RT @tinydinosaurs: New deus ex game off the hook
  137. bot of the day: @functionalemoji oh, for fucks sake, this joke (my first compsci course at uni was Philip Wadler teaching Haskell)
  138. …in reply to @timoncheese
    @timoncheese would you mind if this list became the basis for a twitterbot?
  139. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam they're Disney, but Disney from Japan. they're round versions of Disney, and you can stack them. it's from a game!
  140. …in reply to @v21
    @HonestWilliam the game is called "Disney Tsum Tsum"
  141. …in reply to @UnburntWitch
    @UnburntWitch did you cast the real Ted Cobbler?
  142. this is a Tracery based video edit?! @danhett/794226517765226496
  143. …in reply to @cbetta
    @cbetta it's a video (i work in games, ymmv)
  144. …in reply to @danhett
    @danhett ahh, sorry, misread! i was wondering how you got the sync so good if it was tracery!
  145. RT @donni: Scientists announced today that I am their friend and they like me
  146. today in good websites: the World - Wide Labyrinth Locator labyrinthlocator.com/locate-a-labyrinth (via @objelisks)
  147. RT @Meowdisonbaylis: U GUYS i just don't think u understand this is STONE like a ROCK & Bernini made this honestly lifelike it's truly amaz…
  148. RT @circleparty: ◯
  149. just hit export #50 of our localization spreadsheet
  150. …in reply to @v21
    huh! #1234 #notnumbers 1#d a#b #៣ #សូន្យ
  151. …in reply to @grapefrukt
  152. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt i bet it's limited by the number of characters after. it's about stock tickers, no? $i $ii $iii $iiii $iiiii $iiiiiii
  153. bot of the day: @pkmn_bonsai new landscapes yet still familiar you imagine scrubbing that grass what might you catch?
  154. RT @ojahnn: My first #NaBoMaMo bot, @documenta_ads, is also my first cheapbotsdonequick.com bot and my first SVG bot! #botALLY https://t.c…
  155. RT @beastsofbalance: On the lifestream we’re doing today, we’re going to issue the first Order of the Golden Prototype… We’re giving them t…
  156. RT @beastsofbalance: … have been amazingly supportive to getting the game out into the world. Today’s is going to @clarered on behalf of th…
  157. RT @atax1a: @garybernhardt *extremely Startup voice* we’re open because we have a RESTful JSON API
  158. RT @tullyhansen: "heart":["❤️","♥️","💙","💚","💜","💝","💛","💕","💖","💞","💗","💓","❣️","💘","💟"] #NaBoMaMo #cbdq
  159. RT @what_max: @ollymoss from the official brand guidelines
  160. RT @what_max: @ollymoss bonus
  161. RT @Mr_McFly89: Today's paint store product database list. #importantequipment @ksheely
  162. RT @quest_glitches: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (026)
  163. RT @audreyleighton: this poem by @maggiesmithpoet just took my breath away. I've now read it 5 times in a row.
  164. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc Huh! I've never PAXed, but expos I've been at I haven't seen that pattern.
  165. …in reply to @v21
    @hoskingc Like, the big pubs are often a huge static line to queue for demo slots. You'll visit once or twice, for a long time.
  166. …in reply to @v21
    @hoskingc Whereas toilets, food concessions, exits - on the periphery, and multiple visits? This is from EGX, mainly.
  167. thread about medical ethics @Waitingirl13/793851086973104129
  168. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern blame the clerks, surely?
  169. RT @NoraReed: labnol.org/bots sets up auto retweets based on Twitter searches, good for honeybots. (don't be a dick with this.)
  170. RT @NoraReed: caseconverter.com converts between upper, lower, proper and sentence case.
  171. RT @NoraReed: You know what I can do for #NaBoMaMo today without computer access, actually? I can share some of the tools I use.
  172. RT @NoraReed: delim.co turns lists into comma separated code you can paste right into tracery.
  173. RT @NoraReed: ashley-bovan.co.uk/words/partsofspeech.html parts of speech organized by number of syllables
  174. RT @NoraReed: BUNCHES of word list resources: wordlist.aspell.net/12dicts-readme/
  175. Is it new that the link to a RTed tweet has the username of the RTer in it? I guess for backwards compat it is a whole new tweet...
  176. Might make a bot this weekend.
  177. RT @joysuke: I'm a bit nervous like a night before field trip in primary school 😂 need to listen to some white noise I guess #c… https://t…
  178. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver i dunno! so many are super quick, or half-finished, or old and broken
  179. It is 4:30pm, and I think I just uploaded our first retail builds of Beasts of Balance.
  180. …in reply to @v21
    Unless one of them happens to be completely broken in some way. Which I 100% believe, although I am pretty sure isn't true.
  181. …in reply to @v21
    It is 7:07pm, and I'm uploading another build because Apple rejected it because there's an extra string you need for iOS 10.
  182. RT @OnceInALifeBot: And you may find yourself exploring a burning room, with a buff granddaughter, And you may ask yourself how did I get h…
  183. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike why don't you like praising yrself for it? you did a difficult thing well.
  184. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate i did not know this emoji existed!
  185. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike huh! yeah, that makes a ton of sense, but is not how i think. trying to figure out if i have a reasoning, and...
  186. …in reply to @v21
    @LichLike ... maybe it comes down to parts you have control over? one part of that situation was choice (& will, even), one wasn't.
  187. …in reply to @v21
    @LichLike there's weird implications to this, maybe, that i haven't ever realized. hm! thank you for this insight.
  188. …in reply to @AanandPrasad
    @AanandPrasad i am finding your username more painful than perhaps i should. it's either very good or very bad. pls clarify which.
  189. i have never played overwatch, but i did see that video, so i can authoritatively say : yes, of course Sombra would have toe-shoes!
  190. RT @briankane: the future bit.ly/2flrKzp
  191. who invented drawing on maps of comics expos to find people's tables?
  192. fuck centaur chess, I wanna see what centaur Starcraft looks like @davegershgorn/794661827158241280
  193. i wish i could remember what POGO NIGHTMARE involved @v21/296804850933592065
  194. huh! Twitter search works for tweets with polls, but not for the poll options
  195. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh i was v disappointed at how many people voted for option 4 in this poll @v21/792128756177571840
  196. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal half too many boop
  197. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal how could you do a half boop, you ask? well, my friend, let me explain youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
  198. …in reply to @benbrignell
    @benbrignell i mean, i never made POGO NIGHTMARE. as far as i know?
  199. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal had you not seen this? haha, wow, i am so glad i got to tell you about it
  200. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal oh! good. yes.
  201. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal i have somehow ended up listening to the audio from this video overlaid 3 times with different offsets & it's very soothing.
  202. RT @GIFmodel: "One of the books said "Don't put 'Welcome to my Page' on your page" but it seemed sort of stark. So I decided to go for "Her…
  203. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle I am so glad Sanders did as well as he did. It's kind of a shorthand for a position now, the then-Sanders-now-Hillary voter.
  204. bot of the day: @Horse_estakes i did not imagine that you could use CBDQ this way
  205. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ I hop you recover soon!
  206. Got a haircut! Thank you to Greygory at @OpenBarbers!
  207. …in reply to @Poxican
    @Poxican I mean, thank goodness it takes a frame for each to activate and spawn.
  208. RT @gnuerror: If you think you "understand" a statement about "egg yolk", it is a false understanding.
  209. It seems very unfair it can be autumn already, when I have completely failed to find my big scarf.
  210. …in reply to @chenoehart
    @chenoehart "who did this" is a funny line, though! i wonder if he included the video in that traceable way on purpose?
  211. …in reply to @v21
    @chenoehart thinking about the way @Choplogik makes joke tweets, then provides attribution in a "sidecar reply"
  212. RT @Manda_like_wine: Overheard my children- 8yo: Okay, here are the scripts. 10yo, reading: It seems I die immediately? 8yo: Yes. 4yo: Good…
  213. RT @maxkreminski: seriously, this is my kind of paper y’all
  214. RT @robin7crows: wild. physicist proposes solution to arrow-of-time paradox: entropy decrease robs you of all memory of event: https://t.co…
  215. If you are at Indiecade, you should also go to this @adrielbeaver/794997303367102464
  216. …in reply to @JKSTRSSR
    @JKSTRSSR thanks! that's what i was going for!
  217. @katbamkapow i "fixed" the kettle! :D
  218. …in reply to @TijmenTio
    @TijmenTio you'll love oeis.org/
  219. good website: oeis.org/
  220. there's a new game by @bphennessy! → known.zone
  221. …in reply to @nikkipugh
    @nikkipugh @jonty depending on yr editing workflow, you can sometimes get the blob-pattern and correct for it automatically...?
  222. …in reply to @v21
    this is really good! definitely a good use of your sunday afternoon!
  223. RT @deray: The #MannequinChallenge is dope.
  224. RT @despens: I don't approve that most graphical frequency analyzers are just random animations indicating some audio is playing. Skeuomorp…
  225. How much is your jar of coins worth:
  226. …in reply to @acccent
    @acccent The jar of coins you put your loose change into.
  227. RT @rachelcomplains: me when someone tries to talk to me at a zine fair to entice me to buy their zine
  228. …in reply to @v21
    somehow, only now do i remember that the main incident in this story also happened to me when i was at school
  229. …in reply to @v21
    (no, not the thing with the raccoon. and he never transferred back. and... anyway, it was a messed up thing)
  230. …in reply to @MrChad
    @mrch4d just the coins, i think. how valuable is yr jar???
  231. …in reply to @MrChad
    @mrch4d Me neither, I have a metal bowl thing.
  232. good responses to this tweet @merrittk/795274857055449089
  233. RT @joyofthejoui: This is the best Gintama chapter title, hands down.
  234. aww, i had missed that @sandwich_cool made a bot! @emoji_pizzas/795107987459371008
  235. RT @leighalexander: Finally a new Oracles of the Web, feat. @3liza & her 'digital palimpsest' glyphcraft! 🔮motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-this-fine-art-occultist-makes-four-dimensional-glyphs-with-software
  236. …in reply to @benedictevans
    @benedictevans @chenoehart Definitely some overlap with present categorization, but not entirely: unity3d.com/public-relations (and other engines are available)
  237. …in reply to @v21
    @benedictevans @chenoehart @unity3d More significantly : there are over 125 million Steam accounts. Not all need pro machines... but they're not shifting to mobile.
  238. reminder that @thecatamites is one of the most important thinkers about vgames we have today myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/152813051380/dumptxt
  239. …in reply to @v21
    all worthwhile design talk is grounded in a sense of material realities and wider (economic, usually) contexts
  240. RT @whatisian: @whatisian looking forward to twitter's upcoming eReader, which rearranges novels in order of how famous each individual sen…
  241. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere huh - no. i've definitely seen SVGs with text on multiple lines, though...
  242. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere yeah, you gotta put it in a HTML thing
  243. …in reply to @v21
    definitely worth reading the article linked there: gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-11-07-video-games-are-boring good thoughts on care, and listening, and games for non-gamers
  244. …in reply to @v21
    There are people out there making good stuff that non-games people would dig. But it's hard to market to people who don't think they like it
  245. …in reply to @v21
    The traditional best way to do this is to make something that gamers like. Then use that initial success as leverage for mainstream appeal.
  246. …in reply to @v21
    Big limiting factor on your designs, though. Or you can hit a specific niche, draw on star appeal from elsewhere. Is "Biophilia" a game?
  247. …in reply to @v21
    It's easy to lapse into nostalgia for a time when videogames were computer games, and blended fuzzily with other software categories.
  248. …in reply to @v21
    That conception of games/interactive software is something I try to promote in the now. It's a viable frame! Hard to make mainstream, tho.
  249. …in reply to @v21
    It's been great to be part of the bot community, and see how many assumptions I didn't realise games have given me.
  250. …in reply to @v21
    Building these bridges (finding these commonalities) are a big aim of Now Play This, btw. I hope we're helping.
  251. …in reply to @v21
    I should also say: we are also making a game that not games people would like. It ships soon! You can buy it here: beastsofbalance.com/
  252. this weekend @auriea inspired me to track down an affordable copy of The Computer Artist's Handbook. but my order just got cancelled :<
  253. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC my approach builds bridges with other Culture. but, like... part of the appeal of vgs rn is that they're good for poor people.
  254. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC like... it's good that people who go to art galleries will start liking games. but what about people who don't go to galleries.
  255. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC i mean, still : more variety, more options, more models are good. but yeah :<
  256. …in reply to @Brendy_C
  257. RT @polclarissou: i ported ❁Wish Fishing❁ to webgl so it runs in recent browsers~ it's slowish but that's, uh, part of the experience http…
  258. …in reply to @sophmallinson
    @sophiemallins i lost mine when it fell off my bag and onto the train platform as the train doors closed! :<
  259. AR is the future
  260. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke look, for a "I have a new studio, and I will sell you on it via the medium of thought leadership" gi.biz piece it was A*
  261. RT @jonbro: oops, still looking at quilts.
  262. …in reply to @aeleitch
    @aeleitch I don't entirely understand the parameters of the question. BUT! That list feels like a list that should have some Meg Jayanth on it.
  263. …in reply to @v21
    @aeleitch I'm also going to take the chance to recommend the works of @Citrushistrix.
  264. …in reply to @v21
    @aeleitch @Citrushistrix Moving outside of IF, exactly - Nina Freeman & Jenny Jiao Hsia's vignette games maybe fit?
  265. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen Haha! There's an official JS library that is specifically for counting characters in tweets.
  266. …in reply to @v21
    @tullyhansen Seriously, you don't wanna go there yourself.
  267. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang My standard response to this is that I'm happy if the people doing good, interesting work can get paid.
  268. RT @Max_Benwell: this is just... incredible. Obama tells a long, relatively mundane story that slowly transforms into an electrifying rally…
  269. RT @ktwfc:
  270. Finally caught up on what this Spirit Cooking thing is and all I can think about is how @pippinbarr made games for Marina Abramovic.
  271. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi yeaaaaaah! ah! this is great to see!
  272. RT @jwaaaap: inktober, clothvember, dirtcember, hologrammuary, feballetruary, marchble, claypril, origamay, etchune, watercoly, sawgust, co…
  273. RT @beastsofbalance: Try Our Easy Beast Tempura! // FULL RECIPE: beastsofbalance.com/ #Tasty #HomeCooked #Tempura #FoodPorn #Oops https:…
  274. RT @sashageffen: what defines characters in the context of a story is the split-second decisions they make for themselves
  275. …in reply to @Synapsid
    @Synapsid you could hit the refresh button on cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/manygradients to generate them?
  276. RT @bengoldacre: Strategic and comedy gold. Now UKIPpers want borders to keep you in. And smart people will often leave. So clever. https:…
  277. RT @tinysubversions: Whoa, @mewo2 has changed the functionality of his bot to encourage voting. (CC @samplereality) @MakeUSABotAgain/796038567965392897
  278. people say smell is the sense that evokes the strongest memories, but for me it generally just reminds me of smelling that smell before
  279. …in reply to @v21
    but like... really strongly reminds me of that
  280. RT @erinisaway: this online poetry class is finally getting down to the nitty gritty
  281. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver not super strongly, not consciously, with some exceptions.
  282. RT @tiny_star_field: * .         ✵ ⋆   · * ˚ ✹       ✹        *   ✺ ✧✷   + . ·        ·  .
  283. me, @katbamkapow and @notquitereal started talking about getting a hair cut specified from 3 random adjectives. here's a bot: @YourHairIs
  284. reminder: you don't have to be on here if it's not helpful to you right now. i'm not sure i can take any takes today.
  285. that said : here is a video explaining how long eggs are made youtube.com/watch?v=ZYz2DLN9uik&feature=youtu.be
  286. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher it's a classic dish!
  287. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo cuuuuute little TV!
  288. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow oh that is a very sensible thing for you to have done with yourself today
  289. …in reply to @v21
    wish i was better at taking my own advice
  290. Here's the last page or so of Invisible Cities. I sometimes find it useful in times like this. uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/calvino/callast.html
  291. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam SPOILERS :<
  292. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @molleindustria i thought a bunch about that tweet : and I also ended up with : "because we can't just stop for 4 years"
  293. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle @molleindustria (though: i am finding work a relief right now, but am not yet ready to face politics head on)
  294. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @molleindustria yeah, i got that. i think you two are likely to end up with better answers than me, but I would start with
  295. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle @molleindustria this essay by @HarryGiles : harrygiles.org/2016/04/24/shock-and-care/ and an ethos from #botally about taking responsibility for work
  296. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle @molleindustria the work you make will have an impact on the world, good or bad, big or small. design for it! take responsibility!
  297. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle @molleindustria but, more practically: there's increasing polarization & increasing divides. yr students largely don't bridge that.
  298. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle yeah, agreed to all that. a lot of what i said ^^ is me starting to feel the necessity to do more personally.
  299. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle thanks! i think about making that trip all the time - hope to figure out time/money for it soon.
  300. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryGiles my instinctive response is that this is a way to not gender you?
  301. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander okay, but "Crimson Hexagon" is a great name. I mean, ideally a good name for something that isn't... whatever this is.
  302. RT @OminousZoom: ZOOOOOOM
  303. we're doing a quick livestream in 15 minutes - gonna be at gaming.youtube.com/c/Beastsofbalance/live - think i'll show some fun stuff inside our Unity scenes.
  304. …in reply to @v21
  305. …in reply to @chrisoshea
    @chrisoshea this end, i think
  306. RT @Dick_Hogg: @KommanderKlobb Bepsi-Quest, Poncho Reducto, Flan Found. Bepsi-Quest 2. and of course Clown Warehouse.
  307. RT @misandrism: Sophia Foster-Dimino
  308. The icon on @TVCommentBot has transparency! What! Does this mean Twitter has started allowing it again? If so... I could change mine...
  309. RT @king_spooner: Here are 7 more keys for Beeswing for folk about to have lunch on the West Coast. Be kind and retweet. https://t.co/GV7gj…
  310. hello! i've returned to twitter after a week away. it was weird. how's everyone doing?
  311. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen haha, i bet!
  312. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen ohhhhh. yes! hello. sorry if we chased you away!
  313. …in reply to @DavidRickmann
    @DavidRickmann i haven't, but it's an interesting idea..!
  314. …in reply to @joonturbo
  315. …in reply to @benbrignell
    @benbrignell @deer_ful cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/makeusabotagain has an example - the answer is foreign object embedding a HTML snippet and webfonts, i think.
  316. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @ADAMATOMIC @halishuman yep. this is why i left. i think i'm still allergic to takes, but we'll see how we do.
  317. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @edclef @halishuman i also like the cat.
  318. …in reply to @TRASEVOL_DOG
    @TRASEVOL_DOG whoo! sad to be missing it, hope it's great.
  319. i read this article earlier: reallifemag.com/worlds-apart/ it describes this wild, inhuman, video: youtube.com/watch?v=NUIQIDDXN_o
  320. …in reply to @v21
    gonna thread some catching up! turns out there are more hours in the day than i realised.
  321. …in reply to @v21
    i've been working on our first update to @beastsofbalance! and copies are shipping out to KS & preorders like... tomorrow and next week.
  322. …in reply to @v21
    this update won't be very exciting, but we've started laying the ground for ones that will be.
  323. …in reply to @v21
    now for some bot stuff! i heard @jonnysun made a bot on CBDQ: @tinycarebot probably the most popular bot on there rn.
  324. …in reply to @v21
    news also filtered through about this tweet, which made me very happy. @everyboolean/797828443589091328
  325. …in reply to @v21
    i started working on a new bot. starting with some dissatisfaction with the gradients on @manygradients. sneak peek:
  326. …in reply to @v21
    here's another, fresh off the command line:
  327. …in reply to @v21
    and then I got distracted, and made the whole thing in Unity, and long story short I'm waiting for it to go through App Store approvals now
  328. …in reply to @v21
    (still planning on finishing the bot, of course. but also there's an app version. wait, lemme rephrase this as a RTable thing...)
  329. …in reply to @v21
    ANNOUNCING: calming sphere a calming sphere for your phone, tablet or personal computer it's got good colours. out soon.🔮
  330. …in reply to @v21
    okay, more updates. Beta Public was last week, that was great, congratulations to @patrickashe and @tjamesmartin.
  331. …in reply to @v21
    Wordplay, which @profaniti is running, is on Saturday at the British Library. Good line up: handeyesociety.com/event/wordplay-london-programming-update/
  332. …in reply to @v21
    Parallel Worlds is on at the V&A next Friday, with a Late on after. really excited this is happening vam.ac.uk/blog/network/parallel-worlds-a-new-videogame-design-conference
  333. …in reply to @v21
    (ugh, @hellophia's art is still so great. well jel of @tigershungry for getting to commission all the best illustrators)
  334. …in reply to @v21
    and also! i saw some art, hung out with friends, drank mulled wine & rearranged our living room. it's cosy now! there's a nook. ok done.
  335. …in reply to @jonbro
    .@jonbro you'll see! (i could have done it with one, but it's easier if there are secretly two. there are even better colours in the app)
  336. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu calmer than if i was on twitter for the past week. good! how's things with you? i dug out yr tarot book, btw.
  337. …in reply to @benbrignell
  338. …in reply to @jonnysun
    @jonnysun my pleasure! sorry i didn't answer your email
  339. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro fingers crossed. but there's android and itch, if it doesn't work out (will be pissed I paid £79, ofc)
  340. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver hope it's going well! try to enjoy yrself?
  341. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful cite Buzzfeed! (i mean, also cite actual papers, if you find them)
  342. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver yeah, i know! but i hope the prep is going well! and the party goes well!
  343. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver sounds like it's all on track :)
  344. ah! nice little blog post on using CBDQ by @brindelle blog.bonnieeisenman.com/projects/two-twitter-bots/
  345. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ i'm negging you
  346. …in reply to @jazzmickle
  347. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ still no
  348. RT @dzifyr: Hey guess what? My tarot deck is available for purchase♥ louloucoshop.bigcartel.com/product/illustrated-tarot-deck Ending the first batch on 11/25~ https://t.co/…
  349. bot of the day: @WordsyBot winner, best use of a twitterbot for marketing purposes
  350. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate @aaronareed literal cackling, here.
  351. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i don't know what this juxtaposition means
  352. thinking about @NickCapozzoli/798201935543357441 and getting upset. i wish games had stood up to this shit more effectively.
  353. …in reply to @WordMercenary
    @WordMercenary to be clear, i wasn't thinking of games journalism specifically when i made that tweet, but games as a whole.
  354. …in reply to @v21
    @WordMercenary i was thinking specifically of people like Jenn Frank, of people who fucking fought so hard... and didn't win. Who lost.
  355. …in reply to @v21
    @WordMercenary I was thinking I didn't do enough, personally. I was also thinking of Penny Arcade. And of other mealy mouthed fence-sitters.
  356. …in reply to @v21
    @WordMercenary I don't know what I could have done, I don't know what "we" could have done. I should have taken more risks.
  357. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 i was gonna do this, but then i remembered i never have enough windows closed to see my actual desktop.
  358. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 also i redirected where my screenshots go (it's a folder called "Screenshots")
  359. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 when i accidentally do the ... expose?... thing and it hangs for a second or two rendering all those open windows...
  360. RT @PastebinRecent: The Omega Organisation is looking for members for online activities. What is The Omega Organisation? We are a Mafia…
  361. some people have criminal-looking faces, and computers can detect that arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135v1.pdf
  362. …in reply to @v21
    this comes from a background: google.com/?q=fluctuating+asymmetry+crime seems like it's probably related
  363. …in reply to @v21
    the thing about recent AI popular (successful) methods is that they work by magic
  364. …in reply to @v21
    i did a class on genetic algorithms (different, still magic), and we were shown handwavey theories about how they might work. not theorems.
  365. …in reply to @v21
    much like the psych classes (which FA was in). anyway, where was i? oh, yeah, maybe you'll suffer because a computer doesn't like your face.
  366. …in reply to @v21
    this isn't just blindly inevitable. the EU has issued a ruling on a "Right To An Explanation". incompatible with neural nets, but... just?
  367. …in reply to @adventuresofrob
    @adventuresofrob yeah, for real.
  368. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike ... to ... to ... to ... to ...
  369. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful this news makes me really happy on your behalf. hope all goes smoothly
  370. RT @beastsofbalance: The beasts are on the move! Today's the day that we can officially start fulfilling orders. IT'S HAPPENING. AAAAAAAH.…
  371. …in reply to @genmon
    @genmon @beastsofbalance thaaaank you! it's a weird feeling
  372. RT @Horse_ebooks: A Little Much Worse Worse The Better Better Than Than Same As Than Than Before Before Before Before Before A Little Worse…
  373. RT @SK_BARSK: Open now: Selected works by @king_spooner running until Dec 1st. Feat. mutilated kmart keyboards.
  374. this is a good website run by bad people activeresistance.org.uk/
  375. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe i have multiple thoughts on this! maybe i'll write a blog post.
  376. bot of the day: @CheapBits \\so \\\many \\\\backslashes
  377. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno shiiit. i really wanna. but i was planning on going to my cousin-once-removed's birthday party... dilemmas...
  378. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno yeah, for real. shame it's not in a venue next door, so i can do sitcom antics & get confused and bring the wrong stuff to each
  379. …in reply to @lexicobob
    @lexicobob flip! congrats!
  380. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
  381. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow are doing the thing where you don't look at the person, just overhear them and imagine their face?
  382. …in reply to @ColinNorthway
    @ColinNorthway @WordMercenary i don't know that i disagree. i feel impotent and sorrowful, and the stakes were even higher than we thought
  383. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @patrickashe you would say that - a bunch of my thoughts on this are just your thoughts on this but mangled a bit
  384. …in reply to @v21
    @hannahnicklin @patrickashe but yeah - c'mon Pat! give us the old rambling tweet essay! we're here for it.
  385. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @patrickashe now i wanna hear your new thoughts, if only as a proxy for Pat's (comparatively less accessible) thoughts!
  386. why are the only games about sex we allow in the mainstream those that are just about sniggering at genitals being funny? @henryfaber/799313461083832321
  387. …in reply to @v21
    ohhhh... so... you get a Steam slot when you get an IGF nom, yes? if they don't see sense before then, that'll be funny to see.
  388. …in reply to @algcifaldi
    @amandaglosson @tinyneighbor ahhhhhhh! this makes me v happy.
  389. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro if Christine kicked up a stink about it, I feel that story would have legs. up to her, i think.
  390. …in reply to @v21
    @jonbro it'd definitely have legs if it won something. & i would very much not be surprised if it did.
  391. RT @ja2ke: Yeah, take a look at Corn Love Forever and ask how it fits in the 16 meg limit when PS4 themes have no video support https://t.c…
  392. i got curious about this tweet (new shit in Unicode!) and here is what i found @BabelStone/799587835087122432
  393. …in reply to @v21
    Nüshu is a syllabic (phonetic) script from Jiangyong County in China. It was exclusively used and taught by women. It looks beautiful:
  394. …in reply to @v21
    The characters are modified Chinese characters, but they were modified to better suit embroidery. The last original user died in 2004.
  395. …in reply to @v21
    Here are the Unicode proposal papers on Nushu: scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=entry_detail&uid=v39xawqg64 and here's the Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCshu_script
  396. …in reply to @v21
    Gondi is a language spoken by Gonds (ofc) in India. There is not a widespread native script, so it's often written in Devanagari and Telugu.
  397. …in reply to @v21
    People have tried to fix that! In 1928, Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram invented a native Gondi script, which is what we're gonna talk about now
  398. …in reply to @v21
    (what I'm about to post comes from the official Unicode proposal by @anshumanp unicode.org/L2/L2015/15090-masaram-gondi.pdf, which is worth seeing in full)
  399. …in reply to @v21
    (i should also clarify that i absolutely don't know what i'm talking about, and may be making errors. but i'm interested)
  400. …in reply to @v21
    so: Masaram Gondi. It goes left-to-right, it represents syllables. The consonants implicitly include an "a" vowel, w/ a bit out on the right
  401. …in reply to @v21
    and then vowels are indicated with extra stuff on that sticky out bit! (there are more modifiers and other cases than this pic shows)
  402. …in reply to @v21
    and here's the full codepoint chart, and a diagram for how characters are laid out
  403. …in reply to @v21
    here are some examples of handwritten Masaram Gondi (i love the way the handwriting plays off against the repetition in the charts)
  404. …in reply to @v21
    and some from the coming age of easy computer typesetting of Masaram Gondi (note the mojibake on the website!)
  405. …in reply to @v21
    this feels like heroic work from start to finish, tbh - both inventing the script, and now thoughtfully documenting and standardizing it.
  406. just learned of the existed of Sequoyah! Dude invented a widespread writing system in the back of his store! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah @todrobbins/799729571604156417
  407. …in reply to @v21
    which, y'know... i'm not a bot, but i am white and popular. Here's the text the bot used:
  408. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt like, release is push, and push is release? you gotta put the crimp on the upper tab!
  409. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt oh, whoops, missed that this was a few hours old! sorry.
  410. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy for my work now, i use the stuff i used in psych classes as often as i use the stuff i learned in CS classes??
  411. …in reply to @srl295
    @srl295 and i stalled out and never got to Zanabazar Square or Soyombo!
  412. RT @anshumanpandey_: Innovative orthography for Kapampangam in modern Kulitan script
  413. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy actually, there's a whole load of context missing here... that paper was from 1989.
  414. …in reply to @v21
    @alicemazzy i have a fuzzy grasp of the state of CS ed from back then... but i am pretty sure the industry looked different...
  415. …in reply to @BabelStone
    @BabelStone oh wow! oh. thank you for all your work!
  416. RT @BabelStone: @v21 Nüshu calligraphy given me at final meeting to discuss encoding Nüshu (it's taken since 2007 to get it encoded) https:…
  417. …in reply to @v21
    @alicemazzy ps found the full paper if you're interested dx.doi.org.sci-hub.cc/10.1080/03043798908903380
  418. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy like... this sentence i definitely agree with
  419. every time i'm alerted to @RealPeerReview's snark i end up seeing a cool paper about humanities & tech. like this: dx.doi.org.sci-hub.cc/10.1080/03043798908903380
  420. …in reply to @v21
    this paper is from 1989. what could have been, eh?
  421. if you want a bot that will make you feel worse about The Politics, i recommend @LiveCutCorner.
  422. whew! it replied to me, but it was a trashy piece of junk that didn't have the president-elect's name on it. @LiveCutCorner/799781676867932160
  423. …in reply to @chenoehart
    @chenoehart @TheBeeGordon i saw it the other way - it's solidarity, because people with less risk are taking on more risk.
  424. …in reply to @v21
    @chenoehart @TheBeeGordon which is great - except that it'll probably be those with other avenues of risk who do it, not those unthreatened.
  425. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @ank_wobl or, to give it it's proper title: TIGER! TITANIUM! SCAVENGER!
  426. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I played Troll at your thing! It's p good, I can't remember enough to give a succinct description of the mechanics
  427. …in reply to @HelenHester
    @HelenHester ah! It's online! Poked around for a little, but never saw it. And rad to hear you're using CBDQ - let me know how it ends up!
  428. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen huh! Gone on the list to check out
  429. @bphennessy hello! You're in London?! How long are you around? Bummed not to meet you today.
  430. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr this is going on a bit of a tangent... but you may enjoy this paper on legos in a washing machine althofer.de/random-lego-structures.pdf
  431. RT @ellaguro: Rain World might have my favorite visual design of any game, though KULT: The Temple of Flying Saucers come close https://t.c…
  432. …in reply to @SeanSLeBlanc
    @SeanSLeBlanc ulp! just had this reported by someone else...
  433. RT @YORIYUKIII: 夜は歌う
  434. …in reply to @elirainsberry
    @LizRainsberry good disapproving looks in first photo - gruding acceptance in the second
  435. RT @v21: ANNOUNCING: calming sphere a calming sphere for your phone, tablet or personal computer it's got good colours. out soon.🔮 https://…
  436. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb huh! yeah, quite possibly - looking into doing this with Unity before and it seemed to be doable.
  437. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb also wondering if i should do it as a live wallpaper on Android. will be a bit harsh on battery life unless i do natively.
  438. working on shaders, ended up with this twitching mass gyazo.com/f64d168921a8e6e3b3174de3b38aa6e8
  439. oh my goodness, it is harder to render a perfectly smooth, moving gradient than you'd think
  440. …in reply to @v21
    computers should have more colours. that's what i think.
  441. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i am now adding a little noise to dither the colours together. but the noise is static, so it's harder to notice.
  442. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz count backwards from five
  443. …in reply to @kittaveli
    @kittaveli sure - it's +447962403825
  444. …in reply to @v21
    @kittaveli wine is important
  445. …in reply to @kittaveli
    @kittaveli "New estimated delivery time 20:00"
  446. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ it is! and hilariously enough, i'm moving towards rendering these spheres as circles, yeah
  447. …in reply to @v21
    @jmickle_ not there yet. and i think that's entirely perpendicular to this problem...
  448. did not expect to be this moved by the documentation for a unity plugin (cc @KommanderKlobb @katbamkapow)
  449. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain because the internet is a place
  450. RT @rubna_:
  451. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful hm! they shouldn't be endless - i put in a 1 in 20 chance of not responding. that means some pretty long threads, though.
  452. …in reply to @v21
    @deer_ful CBDQ bots only respond to a single person, too, so there's only a few bots you can bait into a thread (without puppeting)
  453. …in reply to @v21
    out tomorrow, i reckon!
  454. …in reply to @v21
    sneak peek:
  455. …in reply to @v21
    (oh good, twitter gif re-encoding has turned that into a grainy mess)
  456. …in reply to @benbrignell
    @benbrignell this is after i spent a good few hours today fixing barely perceptible banding in the actual build. c'est la vie.
  457. …in reply to @ohhoe
    @ohhoe my ongoing collection of notable bots is here: goo.gl/Z8dhgm
  458. doing my once every couple of years task of going through tabs in Sublime Text, and found this
  459. …in reply to @v21
    not as good as the text file containing just the link to this tweet, tbh: @leighalexander/622220521191682048
  460. RT @8fldh: is this good or bad #fishflyfever
  461. …in reply to @aidowall
    @aidowall haha. not that i've seen!
  462. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro these names are wild
  463. …in reply to @R4_Unit
    @R4_Unit yeah - added noise to dither it, and doing compositing in HDR floating-point space.
  464. RT @mrgnptts: A glimpse into the history of gay/cross-dressing "molly houses" in 18th c. London eastendwomensmuseum.org/miss-muffs-molly-house-in-whitechapel/
  465. …in reply to @SimoRoth
    @SimoRoth this seems like an entirely sensible thing to say?
  466. @lyyyndseyyy just looking at @hashfacade - you know 8 character hex codes are legal now? drafts.csswg.org/css-color/#hex-notation
  467. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @joonturbo yes, happy birthday, i also got you a card!
  468. …in reply to @aanand
    @aanand this is "Old Tjikko"
  469. …in reply to @tigershungry
  470. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw I know things about those things! Probs a bit too busy to give practical help, but happy to give any advice, if that's useful.
  471. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw hey yeah, i know about bots too! i know about lots of things!
  472. RT @SadiqKhan: JUST ANNOUNCED: @fabriclondon will reopen. Thanks to all who helped find a solution that protects the club’s future & keeps…
  473. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw haha. i always think that the setting one up is boring and hard, but the writing part is fun. but yes, happy to help.
  474. …in reply to @lyyyndseyyy
    @lyyyndseyyy also (i read the link a bit more after sending) 4 characters!
  475. …in reply to @v21
    @lyyyndseyyy 5 is right out
  476. …in reply to @MonsieurEureka
    @MonsieurEureka all videogames are 2D, if you think about it
  477. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @MonsieurEureka stereoscopic games are just 2d games with two screens.
  478. …in reply to @ldodds
    @ldodds there's not really docs, besides what's on the page. and apparently the shared source is out of date :<
  479. …in reply to @v21
    @ldodds it's fairly simple, though - every 5 mins, it checks for mentions. tries each entry in the reply array til it hits a regex match...
  480. …in reply to @v21
    @ldodds ... then constructs a tracery reply with the corresponding string (and the tracery text above).
  481. this is great writing @GregsVice/800247838005305345
  482. RT @samanthaculp: Enron's "white male corporate criminal" emails as bizarre machine-learning dataset @tegabrain @sam_lavigne @rhizome https…
  483. …in reply to @AurenSnyder
    @whatisian being actual would make it less capable of perfection
  484. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed yeah, i'm up for it.
  485. RT @NoraReed: So I'm thinking this Saturday afternoon I'll do a bot-making livestream that encourages people to donate to NoDAPL and/or Pla…
  486. …in reply to @v21
    update:
  487. …in reply to @notsimonv3
    to be clear, this just means it's not gonna be out for iOS this time round. other platforms are still happening. (cc @simonv3)
  488. …in reply to @v21
    also: i find this extremely funny
  489. …in reply to @notsimonv3
    @simonv3 gonna try to get a testflight build up, for friends in a similar position
  490. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork would that i had more than one fav to give
  491. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb ah, i looked into it! but i need to get a windows machine up and running first, which is a whole project itself.
  492. RT @polschwal: The Famous Walrus and Panther Minuet
  493. @thetrucocopuffs hi - i run cheap bots done quick. i'm afraid to say i've disabled @oldmanbot. i don't want my service to be used for that.
  494. …in reply to @oldmanbot
    @oldmanbot @thetrucocopuffs sure, go for it. no need to post stuff that could hurt people, though.
  495. …in reply to @liaddh
    @liaddh never!
  496. …in reply to @liaddh
    @liaddh i rebooted it earlier today after it got stuck going to sleep. hadn't done it since my last os upgrade.
  497. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb this says one of it's goals is to be full compatible with GNU social, which is fully federated github.com/Gargron/mastodon/wiki/FAQ
  498. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb "it's like email" - you can only block locally. or get kicked off by your provider.
  499. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro i might be wrong on the second part.
  500. oh damn : Bar SK's DELETE event lived up to expectations. raygunbrown.com/2016/11/22/delete-four-games-created-and-destroyed-in-one-day/
  501. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb actual change: i'd put different varieties of white noise (etc) in the background, fade between them as the spheres change
  502. bot of the day: @badphotoquality i am so pleased the possibilities of CBDQ SVG support are being abused so well
  503. …in reply to @derekahmedzai
    @derekahmedzai @badphotoquality i'm surprised you didn't go straight for feGaussianBlur
  504. …in reply to @v21
    @derekahmedzai @badphotoquality oh, oh! feature request! simulate a finger covering the lens!
  505. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore it uses JS to print today's date!
  506. …in reply to @derekahmedzai
  507. RT @mousefountain: The Coronation
  508. …in reply to @bonzrat
    @bonzrat Creatures, Ceasar III, Kye, Windosill, and (being cheeky) Panoramical.
  509. …in reply to @v21
    @bonzrat or, from IF lands... Samsara, Bee, Photopia, Galatea, The Gostak, Magical Makeover.
  510. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i wanna play this
  511. …in reply to @LiToast
    @LiToast they're shaped like an o!
  512. …in reply to @LiToast
    @LiToast same shape - but maybe not the same size???!
  513. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk Ah, Cmd-F is even more powerful for a coder. Magic shit you can do with it.
  514. …in reply to @vivschwarz
  515. …in reply to @v21
    NEW THING: calming sphere 🔵🔴⚪️⚫️ online: v21.io/calmingsphere for sale: 📱play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.v21.calmsphere 💻v21.itch.io/calmingsphere hope you enjoy!
  516. …in reply to @v21
    a post about my aims and intentions: v21.io/blog/falling-alseep/
  517. …in reply to @droqen
    @droqen i didn't quit, i just ... stopped having time and energy to keep part actively.
  518. …in reply to @v21
    @droqen if you're not advancing, why play at all? and advancing was expensive, in terms of both time and money
  519. …in reply to @droqen
    @droqen eh, a bit... or at least keeping up. if that was the only blocker i coulda made it work
  520. …in reply to @droqen
    @droqen this was NR. there were people in my group who'd always be better - but I didn't care about winning, really.
  521. …in reply to @v21
    @droqen but I wanted to keep up, keep messing with cool stuff, heading deeper into the game. And that was an evening a week commitment. & ££
  522. …in reply to @v21
    @droqen I still check out the new releases some times, and there's cool stuff there. But I didn't love it enough to keep as a hobby.
  523. …in reply to @rachLwild
    @rachLwild not sure! not supported probably means it might break/be super slow...
  524. …in reply to @v21
    @rachLwild so i'm glad to hear it works for you.
  525. …in reply to @rachLwild
    @rachLwild that's one of the reasons i made it :) lmk if you're on iOS, I'll Testflight you a build if Apple lets me.
  526. just got this : itch.io/b/149/a-good-bundle 151 games, including many of my favourites money goes to Planned Parenthood / ACLU
  527. “I don’t think political art has an enormous effect, but in the short term it's satisfying to reinforce people’s disrespect of the villains”
  528. …in reply to @v21
  529. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
  530. …in reply to @v21
    @hannahnicklin how do you like Actual Belle and Sebastian?
  531. so @katbamkapow moved her PS4 into the living room, so I'm trying out Dishonoured 2. Tutorial got wedged about 2 mins in. Good start!
  532. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow (this makes me feel better about myself as a game developer, tbh)
  533. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin i mean, like. fair enough. but they're good! i have no regrets about the years i spent obsessed with them
  534. …in reply to @v21
    it's also on Testflight now! hmu if you want private access on iOS
  535. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions same, same.
  536. …in reply to @v21
    @artcollisions (i mean, i still don't know how to do basketry...)
  537. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall tempted to stream calming sphere for an hour one of these days...
  538. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall (lmk if you want a testflight build)
  539. …in reply to @VerbingNouns
    @VerbingNouns @GretchenAMcC haha! my pleasure! this is the botmaker experience (twitter being weird and inconsistent, at least)
  540. …in reply to @v21
    for this game, I am roleplaying as an Emily Kaldwin who technically knows all the moves, but sometimes gets a bit flustered and kills people
  541. …in reply to @v21
    sorry, guard just doing his reports who i choked (and was killed when i dropped a bottle of rum and it broke and then it caught fire oh no)
  542. …in reply to @v21
    Real talk : Emily is quite bad at being Empress. This whole mess could have been avoided if she had a halfway decent spymaster. Or allies.
  543. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam depends on too much else. Whatever loses the Republicans Congress.
  544. …in reply to @undefined
    @jon_ellis and I am really glad they wrote her as essentially uninterested in ruling well! It's a much more interesting writing choice.
  545. I can't wait to go see this in a shop. This is really exciting, y'all. m.johnlewis.com/beasts-of-balance-game/p/2789481#
  546. I've been trying to make a game that you can fall asleep while playing v21.io/blog/falling-alseep/
  547. …in reply to @aanand
    @aanand yeah, i like that too.
  548. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz oh god, you just reminded me about an interview i have sitting in my inbox
  549. RT @phantomfunhouse: A flickering comes across a sky the color of a dead channel
  550. …in reply to @srules
    @srules fuck - all the once a day ones might be down?
  551. …in reply to @v21
    @srules yep. i broke it. now i fixed it.
  552. CBDQ update: all the once a day bots haven't tweeted in the last 2 days. Fixed now - they should do tomorrow.
  553. …in reply to @lgorithm
    @lgorithm ahhh, oh wow. what class is this?
  554. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff -does it hurt when you do that? -every time
  555. i have a database with some analytics data in (SQLite atm) and I wanna poke at it and make some scatter plots and shit. what's the best way?
  556. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern i like it less than the first one because the first one did a lot of stuff i like but hadn't seen in a long time/a big game.
  557. …in reply to @v21
    @alexhern Dishonoured 2 does the same things, and does them better, but i saw them recently in a big game (D1, obv), so i care less
  558. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern i liked big vertical levels, that old immersive sim thing of problems not puzzles, stealth but also a big slashy sword for fuckups
  559. …in reply to @v21
    @alexhern i liked the painterly "no, really, like the concept art" style, the sculpted clayey faces, the imaginative-enough setting.
  560. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern i have not! but housemate's PS4 also contains it, and i wanna try (i have heard a lot of good things via @notquitereal)
  561. …in reply to @r4vi
    @r4vi i am starting on that path now but it seems like it might be a bit painful, and was hoping someone would have something better
  562. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern there was a wall i marvelled at : the specular map was texture brushstrokes! so good.
  563. …in reply to @v21
    @alexhern actually, this part D2 is carrying off less well, but maybe that's console vs PC?
  564. …in reply to @r4vi
    @r4vi don't have Excel, actually... though i could get it. things got easier once i found github.com/catherinedevlin/ipython-sql , though
  565. @catherinedevlin just found github.com/catherinedevlin/ipython-sql and it has immediately made my life a bunch easier - thanks
  566. RT @v21: NEW THING: calming sphere 🔵🔴⚪️⚫️ online: v21.io/calmingsphere for sale: 📱play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.v21.calmsphere 💻v21.itch.io/calmingsphere hope…
  567. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff yep - Cmd-F once it's launched, or hold Alt as it's launching to bring up the resolution picker.
  568. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff /completely/ fine, no-one ever reads things. thanks for buying it!
  569. …in reply to @v21
    okay, managed to get a decent ipython notebook setup going, which, together with github.com/catherinedevlin/ipython-sql is putting me in a happy place
  570. RT @notquitereal: this waypoint story, about illegitimate “fish hunting” games, is really something waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/why-cops-are-raiding-arcade-over-a-fishing-game?utm_source=wptwitterus
  571. RT @cardboardcompy: Sales of Kentucky Route Zero made via @itchio are currently going to @transrelief cardboardcomputer.itch.io/kentucky-route-zero (& 50% off no…
  572. …in reply to @ID_AA_Carmack
    @ID_AA_Carmack i liked it - but my objection would be along the lines of Goodhart's law
  573. …in reply to @v21
  574. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @mjmcmaster this is a sick burn
  575. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle @mjmcmaster (although unfortunately Michael is 100% correct when he insinuates that Granny Smith apples are terrible)
  576. RT @pressgazette: Newsquest asks readers to write and publish stories as part of 'simplified' news sharing process bit.ly/2g79nv9
  577. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly i am factoring into my vote: you clearly really want to. take a risk on a thing you want to do.
  578. the Unity Game Performance reporting stuff is super neat! lotta bugs served up on a plate.
  579. RT @FakeUnicode: Currently trying to visualize the mess that is the Microsoft *dings. Scraping through the ttf files. https://t.co/sdeUYmUz…
  580. RT @metoffice: ❄️Looking forward to #winter? Meteorologically speaking it starts one week today! bit.ly/2fVbqVz❄️ https://t.co/Cfb…
  581. RT @bonerman_inc: tweetjam idea by @Choplogik "Brush Enya's exotic horses"
  582. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @Nele_St HAPPY BIRTHDAY NELE. here is some extra imaginary cake: 🍰
  583. …in reply to @Nele_St
    @Nele_St @jawsew she is nice, isn't she?
  584. RT @mwichary: I love this story of the most unusual cryptographic device you can think of… a Barbie Typewriter! cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie htt…
  585. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @ank_wobl "bedevilled eggs"
  586. not gonna lie and say i've been following this that closely, but this whole thing seems p fucked @PTI_News/801791308473868291
  587. …in reply to @I_Ching_Bot
    @BotOfChanges you're very welcome!
  588. …in reply to @v21
    @BotOfChanges ps : absolutely don't change if you don't want to, but in case you didn't know: there are hexagrams in Unicode.
  589. …in reply to @v21
    @BotOfChanges ䷀䷁䷂䷃䷄䷅䷆䷇䷈䷉䷊䷋䷌䷍䷎䷏䷐䷑䷒䷓䷔䷕䷖䷗䷘䷙䷚䷛䷜䷝䷞䷟䷠䷡䷢䷣䷤䷥䷦䷧䷨䷩䷪䷫䷬䷭䷮䷯䷰䷱䷲䷳䷴䷵䷶䷷䷸䷹䷺䷻䷼䷽䷾䷿
  590. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck ugh that @michaelfirman art is so good.
  591. …in reply to @I_Ching_Bot
    @BotOfChanges no worries, i wrote that code that made it do that :)
  592. RT @Gib: twitter-sized manifesto: make things short and focused, cut the noise instead of adding signal, be nice, dont be afraid of colors,…
  593. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib @dzifyr well if you will only draw from the Major Arcana!
  594. RT @chrisapplegate: TFW you voted Brexit but then get upset the consequences ruin your game of Football Manager
  595. you know what's a great game? that arcade game where you flip a table.
  596. …in reply to @v21
    the thing is, you only flip the table once. so they game really sells flipping that table. you're given backstory, motivation, a buildup...
  597. …in reply to @v21
    (you're a bride left standing at the altar! all of your husbands relatives are there and they're laughing at you. there's a huge cake!)
  598. …in reply to @v21
    it's like a sitcom, where you know the the terrible thing is going to happen, and the tension keeps building, and then finally !
  599. …in reply to @v21
    FLIP! and then it goes in slow motion, and there's cuts to everyone horrified faces, and carnage unfolds, and points count up
  600. …in reply to @v21
    you really get to put a lot of feelings you might be having into a character and then you flip a table
  601. …in reply to @v21
    great game
  602. …in reply to @v21
    (it's called Cho Chabudai Gaesh!)
  603. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb yeah it is! played it at the Japanese arcade in SF a few years back
  604. RT @TrevorABranch: Such incredibly beautiful and diverse patterns in how long birds sit on their eggs (female yellow, male blue) https://t.…
  605. digging through my screenshots folder for BoB stuff.. man, lot of memories in there. weird to have them all anchored to a specific timestamp
  606. …in reply to @mrsambarlow
    @mrsambarlow ALSO it's in The Good Bundle rn itch.io/b/149/a-good-bundle
  607. RT @mrsambarlow: Earlier I mentioned Fjords. You can get it here! It's an amazing thing. If you have internalized vocab of 8-bit explore ga…
  608. …in reply to @sygster
    @sygster i have had times like that before
  609. Auch, I got on the last train home busting for a pee. Usually there's a toilet on these trains. But not this one.
  610. …in reply to @v21
    Also (relatedly?) this train doesn't go to just outside my house, but 10 minutes away. I am pacing the carriage rn.
  611. …in reply to @v21
    I deal embarrassingly badly with having to pee. No-one use this against me in a tense international negotiation, please.
  612. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio also no! I mean, tbh, I should know enough to keep from drinking before negotiations, really.
  613. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate have just arrived at work now, and got a thing this evening - but i can totally run stats on conflicting usages in CBDQ
  614. …in reply to @v21
    @GalaxyKate also, we should really chat about maintenance stuff soon - wanna get the npm repo into a more organized state
  615. yess - another game from the It's Spring Again devs! rockpapershotgun.com/2016/11/25/one-eyed-kutkh-adventure-game/#more-415277
  616. RT @nickmofo: I wrote code today to generate a 'novel.' Code: nickm.com/code/recount.py PDF: nickm.com/poems/recount.pdf The novel is entitled 'R…
  617. In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look." @Grussell93/801957688884232193
  618. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami so i don't know how HDR in the PS4 pro works, but I ended up messing with it recently in Unity for v21.io/calmingsphere
  619. …in reply to @v21
    @tha_rami this was in my quest to remove banding from some pure gradients. i think it helped? but i already got my dithering working by then
  620. …in reply to @v21
    @tha_rami the problem is that the display still doesn't have any extra colors, so all you end up doing is compositing in higher detail
  621. RT @renaudbedard: I can confirm that @v21's Calming Sphere is 1000% more calming than Tweetdeck on a 2nd monitor
  622. ah, i remember laptops with a mouse nub on the side of the screen! @lasersyriacum/802185839102935040
  623. we got our first proper review! ★★★★☆! trustedreviews.com/beasts-of-balance-review
  624. On my way to the V&A!
  625. RT @pippinbarr: ░ GAME IDEA ░░░░ ░░░░░ THE SIMULATION IS SO DETAILED ░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░ YOU MIGHT AS WELL QUIT ░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░ AND LIVE YOUR…
  626. …in reply to @renaudbedard
    @renaudbedard no, I wish that too! The inbuilt MSAA was great, but I couldn't use it & hdr at once...
  627. …in reply to @v21
    @renaudbedard I think I might go back, my dithering is probably enough to fix the banding. Or else do this edge fix.
  628. …in reply to @renaudbedard
    @renaudbedard ahh, so lovely to hear. :)
  629. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall I don't know if this will be comforting to you, but it has certainly helped my resolve to see it as a global issue.
  630. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall I've started about 5 different tweets that could follow after that, but u don't know which would be useful.
  631. …in reply to @renaudbedard
    @renaudbedard oh no. I assume that's during transition? The impossibility of a perfect sphere...
  632. …in reply to @v21
    @renaudbedard (should be able to fix it)
  633. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall well, okay. So. This is a serious fight, and it's for our way of life and for our values. Personally, we'd likely survive...
  634. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall... losing, although some friends wouldn't. But I think we have reasonable odds. We're fighting for a view where respect is not..
  635. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall... conditional on birth location, on race, on all those things. We're fighting for the internationalist view.
  636. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall why are our odds good? Young people are all on our side. The way economics works fits to our view. This way of living works!
  637. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall (and better than the parochial approach). What's more, our political enemies also live in our world.
  638. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall Trump is a New Yorker within an international network. Farage is apparently moving to the states? All international nationalists
  639. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall so, yeah. It's an existential fight. We didn't want it, just to live our lives well. But it's a worthy cause and possible to win
  640. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall not the -most- comforting thing. But it helps me not to think these are just incomprehensible tragedies inflicted on us all.
  641. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk so: a) this is terrible b) i'm clearly gonna steal it at some point
  642. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry this is great news
  643. RT @FakeUnicode: Progress.
  644. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i totally would do that
  645. RT @Bourbonbrick: If you want to see the names I make up for @manygradients check out #nameygradients
  646. RT @ChrisRGoldstein: Shoutout to team @beastsofbalance, all of this is amazing! The playmat is super nice, packaging is fantastic, and the…
  647. @Nele_St happy actual birthday!
  648. A regular, but for meaning to go to a thing and never actually managing it.
  649. I reinstalled Twitter on my phone, so now I can use polls again. Important q: what's better?
  650. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow @notquitereal The Catacombs of Solaris by Ian MacLarty
  651. …in reply to @v21
    i don't know why i put polls up on twitter when the results will just make me angry
  652. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @katbamkapow right! ugh, now I'm trying to find a game @bfod used to set an assignment, looked like @bfod/701473405074276355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
  653. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly you get me, Holly
  654. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain @notquitereal @katbamkapow yeah, i was getting strong Knossu vibes while playing. Knossu is even more of a place, tho.
  655. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @notquitereal @katbamkapow @bfod yess, that's it, thanks Pat
  656. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC it got a bit better since that second tweet - online shaming works
  657. trying to work out the relative costs of building a metro system or the International Space Station
  658. …in reply to @v21
    it's for a project
  659. found in my screenshots folder, from the cartography of known spaces by loren schmidt
  660. RT @Jamie_Woodward_: #IceAge animation - this bone-carved roundel from Mas d'Azil cave may be a thaumatrope showing a young aurochs transfo…
  661. thread about videogame nostalgia, and unequal access to to culture @ellaguro/802667786929512448
  662. …in reply to @v21
    (Merlin Carter, No Signal Detected)
  663. …in reply to @v21
    So I hopped up onto a balcony railing, and I spotted a guard. So I hid behind a barrel - not great, but got me out of line of sight for now.
  664. …in reply to @v21
    The guard approached another woman (checked with my reticule, and yes, she was a civilian). Scripted conversation unspools...
  665. …in reply to @v21
    They know each other: Guard is pressuring the civilian into stealing for her. 👎 Because she has a plan for them to run away together 👍
  666. …in reply to @v21
    Which is a great little "hey, these guards you've been seeing as obstacles are people, and if you're killing them you should feel bad" bit
  667. …in reply to @v21
    Finish talking, guard walks away… and spots me, because I'm just crouched behind a barrel this whole time. Whoops. Let's be non-lethal here?
  668. …in reply to @v21
    uh, and then in the confusion I end up grabbing the civilian and start choking her out… and the guard fires at me. Brief bit of swordplay…
  669. …in reply to @v21
    and I'm left looking at an unconscious guard, and her dead… friend? lover? sorry you killed them maybe i should reload
  670. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal this is good advice and probably pairs quite well with this: @kierongillen/802099037767921666
  671. …in reply to @stickyfr0gg
    @_subspace I'm glad it could help, and I feel that feeling. (you should also take a real break, if you can)
  672. …in reply to @_gaeel_
  673. i love seeing other people invent the same game to play with the pieces that we had before (stack elements, colours matching). i did it, btw @MylesNye/803099639951958016
  674. i don't know who these characters are, but i want to steal all of this little girl's coats @nicoisesalade/803099895934521344
  675. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami Ladykiller In A Bind is my GOTY.
  676. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood yr very shiny, tho
  677. RT @benedictevans: New tech is watching a tower being built. Months messing about in the mud, then suddenly ZOOM the frame is up, then mont…
  678. RT @FoleyArtists: Often, foley artists will use a recording of Courteney Arquette's laugh to simulate the sound of Monica from Friends laug…
  679. …in reply to @FoleyArtists
    @srules @FoleyArtists oh my god, sarah
  680. …in reply to @renaudbedard
    @renaudbedard whoa, really? will poke at that, thanks for letting me know.
  681. RT @webbedspace: Only #True90sKidsWithRichParents cannot forget this classic game level, "Touch Fuzzy… And Your Gonna Be Sorry!!!" from Mar…
  682. …in reply to @pozorvlak
    @pozorvlak i thought this was gonna talk about how yr charger is also a data device, so you could put malicious USB shit in chargers
  683. finding myself wanting an easy way to get the Update() Time.deltaTime from FixedUpdate. there are complicated reasons for this.
  684. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo was trying out Firebase for analytics, and honestly I think the reason we didn't go with it was that it dumps files _everywhere_
  685. …in reply to @v21
    @joonturbo (and it relies on the path explicitly, so you can't move it or it breaks. it's very over-engineered)
  686. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo i don't even think it's closed-sourced! (also, we have TMPro source, and I don't think we paid extra for it??)
  687. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo bad plugins it's even more worth it
  688. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge yep - or rather, I'm working out the deltas in Time.realtimeSinceStartup manually. deltaTime in FixedUpdate is a useful lie.
  689. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck @dreamfeelx @leonieyue oh, it really is great!
  690. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge p sure. This is within our weight code, so it's dealing with data stashed away from Bluetooth
  691. …in reply to @v21
    @erbridge (dealing with : look further back in time for weight data if there's a performance hiccup)
  692. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge yeah, probably better this way. (I basically never use timeScale, usually insert my own intermediary time manager if I do)
  693. I was at a bus stop, just starting on an essay by @ChuckTingle on my phone, and I was hit by a real appreciation for modern culture and tech
  694. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt @xra could render layers into render buffers, update the buffers selectively and always composite the lot.
  695. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam honestly a lot of the physics & logic in that film doesn't work. Sometimes that irritates me, but in this case, it was good.
  696. …in reply to @v21
    @HonestWilliam like... it's wrong enough they clearly didn't much care if it worked on that level.
  697. …in reply to @v21
    @HonestWilliam uh, by which I mean: the train has to keep moving to represent the futility of human progress.
  698. …in reply to @v21
    @HonestWilliam also it'd be a shit movie if the train was just parked in a shunt yard somewhere.
  699. RT @vivschwarz: Orbs orbs orbs
  700. @chenoehart inability to decide between design/tech is the reason I mainly work in games.
  701. …in reply to @chenoehart
    @chenoehart definitely feel that in games...
  702. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver "you can't have your cake and eat it too"
  703. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver not the same bit of cake!
  704. i miss a place i've never been @doougle/803462913583239169
  705. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i watched christmas films weeks ago. you've mulled wine! Christmas is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
  706. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow what an appropriate first christmas song of the season
  707. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow i was thinking of getting a tree
  708. …in reply to @musebloom
    @musebloom @dpd_uk @V_and_A oh god. running after someone with late night takeout who was unable to find Somerset House on the Strand
  709. RT @the_ephemerides: The figure draw a small circle, interior with the others, to represent the earth itself.
  710. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi i read the heinlein book when i was about 13? so probably that.
  711. a reminder that we are now shipping Beasts of Balance - if you buy it, we'll ship it right out beastsofbalance.com/
  712. …in reply to @v21
    or you can go to John Lewis, Harrods, or Marbles!
  713. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe you know what they say : Math and logic have never BEAN so fun!
  714. RT @Ungapants: Nocturnal sketching time, channeling Westworld. 🐎🏜
  715. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ @polclarissou @LorenzoPilia i mean, they could add in a manual queue and dot he attribution by hand - the quantity isn't _so_ high
  716. …in reply to @v21
    @jmickle_ @polclarissou @LorenzoPilia or, as you say, they could tag the source page the image was taken from, as @lasersyriacum does.
  717. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ @polclarissou @LorenzoPilia yes, ofc. I've spoken to Murat Pak before, and he gestured at the impossibility of perfect attribution
  718. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia @polclarissou @horsman @jmickle_ i unsubbed because my feed being full of aesthetic (semi)naked models was unhealthy for me
  719. the one line i keep looping back to is Theresa May saying “if you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere”
  720. …in reply to @v21
    she's quite clear that's she's not against state intervention, state support. but only for the right kind of people.
  721. …in reply to @v21
    which is tightly defined, and always capable of shrinking further, putting you just on the outside
  722. …in reply to @v21
    and... when i think of people i care about: less than half are British citizens (probably over half live in Britain)
  723. …in reply to @v21
    that line directly threatens them. i care about them more than I do this country (obviously). that line directly threatens me.
  724. …in reply to @v21
    this same shit is gradually, and all of a sudden, rising everywhere (ironic, innit?). but what better thing to fight for?
  725. RT @howitsmadeup: But a pepper mill just isn't complete without its partner, the salt mill. This is called pinning.
  726. …in reply to @brandonnn
    @brandonnn whaaaa! yess! hope you enjoy!
  727. RT @leighalexander: New from me at @howwegettonext -- https://t.co/jAtIjskSsh https://t.co/PbqnKRMNtm
  728. …in reply to @undefined
    @jloganolson thanks for the report, we'll have a look.
  729. RT @lorenschmidt: this morning i am reading the beautiful, morbidly apropos tales of Lord Dunsany. here is "the prayer of the flowers": ⁂…
  730. RT @Choplogik: hey, nice facts. would be a real shame if me & the boys here were to... recontextualize them to fit a particular narrative
  731. it's not very fashionable, but I really do love the works of Marcel Duchamp
  732. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad the readymades are fucking brilliant. /especially/ brilliant if you buy the scholarship of Rhonda Roland Shearer.
  733. this game is great, this sale is still on for another hour @christinelove/803286253076627456
  734. this is a game by @KommanderKlobb and @swatpaz and @patrickashe and other people! it's pretty cool! @hllwpnds/803653710299557888
  735. RT @howitsmadeup: They call this the raw mix. This intense heat, 207 degrees fahrenheit, kills off any micro-organisms lurking inside the j…
  736. android.hardware.faketouch.multitouch.jazzhand
  737. we're on Dice Tower! I am assuming this review is positive, I'm in a pub so can't hear any of the words right now. youtu.be/kHymypB1IiY
  738. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou I wonder why I am not more active on there?
  739. I just discovered that near me is a pub with a bar billiards table. This is great news! I love bar billiards, and it's kinda rare.
  740. …in reply to @v21
    (I should say: I didn't remember the rules well enough for a bearded man not to come up and correct us(in a way that made it a better game))
  741. …in reply to @v21
    But: bar billiards is like billiards designed by a videogame designer. Skill is obviously still important, but it's secondary to excitement
  742. …in reply to @v21
    Bar billiards throws in stuff like: timers! special 2x balls! double or nothing shots! complete reversals of fortune!
  743. …in reply to @v21
    I have an enthusiasm for it that persists even into behind beaten repeatedly at it. Let's see if it survives easy access to it.
  744. …in reply to @v21
    Oh, yeah, also: slopes! All the things you wish pool fucked with.
  745. Also someone on reddit's experience with BoB : m.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/5fjzfp/beasts_of_balance_is_all_that/?compact=true#813186 Linked cuz it makes me happy they didn't want to like it but did.
  746. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @radiatoryang it's not a fantasy if there are real people and real emotions involved.
  747. RT @lorenschmidt: climbing a tower by turning stones into pigeons
  748. …in reply to @tpizza
  749. RT @imbadatlife: I keep thinking about how this post predicted all of this *waves hands at flaming trash disappearing into the abyss* https…
  750. RT @Simon_Collinson: Ten years ago today. #NeverForget
  751. It's ADVENT CALENDAR time! @KBsGameTOILET/803905458461429760
  752. we need to develop algorithmic intersectionality (in word embeddings, specifically) technologyreview.com/s/602025/how-vector-space-mathematics-reveals-the-hidden-sexism-in-language/
  753. RT @zachlieberman: distance shader delights
  754. RT @raquelmeyers: #KYBDslöjd visual essay II
  755. got a Google Play question - uploading a new beta with changed feature/permission sets, and the supported device count is inconsistent.
  756. …in reply to @v21
    oh, i guess i should have a question. so: what's up with that? which one is correct? if i promote it to prod, what will be true?
  757. …in reply to @v21
    i think i see the answer: in advanced mode, it's called "CURRENT CONFIGURATION" and i see "Some devices are eligible to run multiple APKs."
  758. …in reply to @1000tongues
    @1000tongues i would just look at histograms etc in Photoshop
  759. ?
  760. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i am sorry i broke the other one
  761. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow otherwise you could swagger around, coffeepot in both hands, 3ds in a holster for some reason
  762. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi feels like translation is one of the most valuable things you can be doing rn
  763. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN saturday
  764. RT @gillianmsmith: Thing I'm most excited about on today's agenda: reviving my computer-generated embroidery project, Hoopla. Porting to JS…
  765. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @ADAMATOMIC co-signed! I am behind on a lot of these, tho.
  766. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou at my university we got brushed on the head with a famous hat, instead.
  767. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou oh! i looked it up. the cap (the "Geneva bonnet") is supposed to be made from John Knox's breeches. didn't go to space.
  768. at Wordplay, there was a fascinating panel on designing IF tools. a thing @joningold said stuck with me:
  769. …in reply to @v21
    that Ink gives him the confidence to author a scene, look over it, and know it'll work, and roughly how it'll feel, without testing it
  770. …in reply to @v21
    the best tools i know hit that level of confidence & speed. strong type systems & compile time checking help hit that.
  771. …in reply to @v21
    now i wanna rewrite Tracery so there's better parse-time validation...
  772. RT @OfficeGovEthics: .@realDonaldTrump We can't repeat enough how good this total divestiture will be
  773. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow isn't there a lift just round the corner? i might be misremembering.
  774. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow ah. i think i only left one or two in working order by the time i was done.
  775. RT @mcclure111: The absolute high point of English Country Tune is the moment where, halfway through, the game halts and asks you to design…
  776. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall whaa! thanks Laura!
  777. …in reply to @OtherMichael
    @OtherMichael i'd love to bubble up warnings in CBDQ
  778. arrrrrrrg, i just wanna get this beta uploaded but fighting endless screen orientation shit
  779. whyyyy is the splash screen fucked up now i don't understaaaand
  780. …in reply to @v21
    This is on Android and clearly related to, like, default orientations and shit. I can get a variety of behaviours, but none that are correct
  781. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro but it worked before! And I undid the only change I can think of that could have broken it.
  782. …in reply to @robin7crows
    @robin7crows @leighalexander @tanyaxshort @ellaguro this is the Big Question, for sure.
  783. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike a hopeful thing today was @OfficeGovEthics boxing him in.
  784. …in reply to @undefined
    @Disasterpeace @dkanaga @__VA__Soundz @jonbro and a pleasure working with you all!
  785. NaNoGenMo entries are trickling out! here's a guide to alien language from @mewo2 : github.com/mewo2/gontpoetics/raw/master/sample/book.pdf
  786. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @ivansafrin oh, it has been too long since i heard this
  787. RT @lisadraws: Some shirt ideas for people who are really into jigsaw puzzles
  788. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns i am completely chill with this being the case (for lots of games)
  789. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns i often feel that i'm being suckered when a game is asking me to learn skills specific only to that game/games in general
  790. …in reply to @v21
    @raiganburns (and if a game is asking me to learn generally applicable skills, that's work)
  791. …in reply to @v21
    @raiganburns it's like... i enjoy learning things and figuring stuff out, but this is junk candy learning
  792. …in reply to @v21
    @raiganburns i am more driven by figuring stuff out than by winning, though. so winning coming down to luck is: this is fun & optional!