Tweets from 2016/12
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RT @xuhulk: Reminds me of talking to Media Lab students working on tech to see people through walls FUNDED BY DARPA who thought it was for…
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@deer_ful that seems like a good plan. I've jumped on the QT train in the hopes it'll give me some enthusiasm for work.
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@merrittk @christinelove I called the brother Chad.
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@hownottodraw two links for you. one cautionary: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/22/hygge-conspiracy-denmark-cosiness-trend and one radical: harrygiles.org/2016/04/24/shock-and-care/
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"you're simply alone in your own home"
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this is a really good poster @christianmccrea/804174373904973824
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c'mon freedom of movement! @georgeeaton/804262152173481984
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RT @carlmaxim: David Davis wanted to leave Netflix but then secured a special deal where he pays them £7.49 a month in return for access to…
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@patrickashe good feeling?
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@patrickashe does your text box support actual emojis, though? got all your astral plane support working?
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RT @daytimesnaps:
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RT @bengoldacre: ...those people work in the nhs through a sense of public civic service. When you start to privatise the nhs, that goes. S…
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@vivschwarz glowy! (sorry i didn't come round and play with legos yesterday)
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@vivschwarz then i am sorry i didn't come round and play with LEGO™ yesterday
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bot of the day: @howitsmadeup i hear the narrator's voice when i read these tweets
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@kevinwatters as a Londoner, my instinctive reaction is "but that's just rude!"
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@kevinwatters i have nothing but sympathy? finding change for buses is the worst
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saw this screenshot and was immediately ready to buy @ADAMATOMIC/804356262708252672
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i did linguistics at uni and i remember having good fun figuring out toki pona's syntax and vocab from some translations
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that's basically a game, right there. of course, i then dropped linguistics because i got the very minimum grade required for a pass.
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@LichLike our generation is also like... really sincere, though.
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@LichLike mmm. maybe i wasn't, either. but a tolerance of ambiguity helps with sincerity. idk.
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@alicemazzy online tech-focused outlets did - but they're not the world. wider press largely ignored, or went for false-equivalence
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@radiatoryang I saw your livestream last night and it was very good! Also @vectorpoem's comments were a treat.
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RT @AnnapurnaPics: Very proud to announce our new gaming/interactive department. 🕹 // theverge.com/2016/12/1/13805396/annapurna-pictures-new-interactive-indie-game-publishing
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RT @tburrellsaward: We’re currently at 7.8 on BGG! Blimey!
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RT @jonbro: Game I worked on, in a store, at the mall, holy shit!!! this is so cool :) cc @beastsofbalance
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i got a projector, and now maybe my thing will be watching my friends' twitch streams?
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@compositeredfox yeah, that'd be nice, let's hang out on the internet some time
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really good deconstruction of Uber's economics webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Gh1bBHDFqiMJ:https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/12/01/2180647/the-taxi-unicorns-new-clothes/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
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I was feeling really anxious and shitty and then I managed to make myself do a bunch of admin and now I think I feel better? go me.
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i have friends who generally have a shittier time with their heads than me, and i am so impressed at their strength in managing to do stuff
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and that strength has inspired me to finally do a bunch of spelunking around in bank statements. so: thank you.
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RT @golan: For #NaNoGenMo 2016, and in the spirit of #PROCJAM, my 23 CMU students spent two weeks creating generative books: https://t.co/G…
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RT @emshort: Why do folks read "kind" as "weak"? People who don't lash out aren't milquetoast. They just have their rage by the throat and…
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RT @manygradients:
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RT @hannahnicklin: A ~very~ accurate portrait of my home. Literal towns&villages that fed the school I went to. The most Brexit county: htt…
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@_angie2525 @softlandscapes ah! yes, of course.
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@haloskeletonLBP @softlandscapes sure, it's yours
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@vivschwarz you can do it. I believe in you *pictures you floating free, hair everywhere like an astronaut*
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@jawsew saussige dog!
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we're about to put out our first update for BoB - lemme know if you wanna go on our beta-tester list (this update is not super exciting)
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it is Christmas playlist time! listening to @hannahnicklin's youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu8FWBps6OiM0a53Nh5DiRXcVWpg55f6M and plotting my own.
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@lorenschmidt this is gooood. unsolicited ideas: switch avatar sprite to one that's more horizontal when underwater.
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@polclarissou unstick, stack carefully, put half of it up in new place
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@lorenschmidt two feels like it's plenty, in this style?
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RT @Kaleidopix: rt game i worked on in ɹʇ ƃɐɯǝ ᴉ ʍoɹʞǝq ou ᴉu a store at the mall ɐ sʇoɹǝ ɐʇ ʇɥǝ ɯɐll @v21 @jonbro
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RT @metasynthie: 100 things wrong with the premise here and I'm mostly interested in semiburied ones like "is the purpose of argument to pe…
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every question is answered by this chart @hollygramazio/804688172429037568
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@katbamkapow nice glitch you got there
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@hollygramazio @AOsher I'm so excited for our found videogames thing to come out.
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@mtrc @chrisamaphone i've got multiple answers here: a) yes, that's a lot of time, and a nanogenmo thing is unlikely to pay (tho, nanowrimo)
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@mtrc @chrisamaphone b) no - generative aesthetics are just different. a nanogenmo that didn't lean into that would likely be shit.
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@katbamkapow sadly Rumpus House has been downsized this year, so don't think we have space. but will keep an ear out.
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RT @grafikmag: Enjoy some factual fun on the South Coast with @Dick_Hogg and @crispinfinn: buff.ly/2gnZlbI
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RT @GiddyUpYaHorse: Soon, they had to dismount as the prairie had become too crowded with bleached white cow skulls Something horrible had…
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RT @leighalexander: the revelation that we unconsciously populate our lives mainly with people like us or who reinforce our own power is to…
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RT @howitsmadeup: It all starts with a load of pork bellies. These will be made into commercial sanding belts -- the kind used in heavy man…
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RT @john_brindle: Unrelatedly, I have stumbled on an amazing site which generates fake acronym meanings from astrology + LETTER SHAPE to sq…
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i was waiting impatiently for the end of the work day, but i have just realised it is an hour earlier than i thought
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ugh, fine, i'll do some more work
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i want to make repeating rubber stamps of these tiles @lorenschmidt/804736228402851843
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@compositeredfox it's true, though
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@q_dork too bad, later timezone sucka, it's already friday night & i'm eating pancakes! (also i have to work tomorrow, but shhh)
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Shut Up & Sit Down review: shutupandsitdown.com/presenting-quinns-corner-awards-2016/
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@lorenschmidt nice boots
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@q_dork you don't get to judge me!
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@q_dork (i arrived home and i had no proper food in the house... tbh, I was pretty impressed at my resourcefulness)
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a good website: cyberden.com/cyberden/
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bonus: cyberden.com/dsa/
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RT @howitsmadeup: The limbs go into a vibrating tub filled with ceramic stones that rub against the limbs. This washes away insects and fro…
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it's friday night, and i'm really cool, so here's a blog post on why i like VR v21.io/blog/vr-woo/
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😎
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also i wrote about making games to fall asleep to, which intersects interestingly with some recent softworld chat v21.io/blog/falling-alseep/
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@hownottodraw @katbamkapow i was on twitter and kat was sneaking around knocking out witches so i read her these tweets
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@hownottodraw @katbamkapow she said "thanks, Kate Gray"
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@hownottodraw @katbamkapow "i'm the best at sneaking"
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@hownottodraw i'm about to change your life in a very small way twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ahownottodraw%20nose%20milk&src=typd
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@hownottodraw sorry! no judgement was felt - i am just Into Twitter's Search Function.
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@hownottodraw (like... i like/hate how a tweet to a search of all the times you've tweeted about a thing is always in that search result)
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RT @BabelStone: Tudor scribe practicing the England flag emoji, which (together with Scotland and Wales flags) is unfairly excluded from Un…
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Ladykiller in a Bind status: I'm at the choice which goes [WRONG] [WRONG] [WRONG] [CORRECT]
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I think there is a Difficult Moral Choice coming up. (the tone of these tweets should be read as "gleeful")
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@merrittk "musky onset"
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RT @webbedspace: You sit down and take stock. Your best friend is in love with… and is now… dating… your apartment's shower's water pressur…
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@nielsen_holly maybe the problem is that you missed my tweet just now @v21/805010929368887296
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@vivschwarz not sure, it isn't mine
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@hownottodraw not Super Hexagon?
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@LichLike i thought you meant I-frames, like from MPEG. Like... reality is compressed via a series of delta-changes, with resyncs?
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@LichLike (then I read it again, and stopped this kind of vague exploratory thinking)
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@LichLike i-frames are the part of the video file you remove in order to get this effect: vimeo.com/3139412
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@LichLike i am quite tired and sitting in a chain cafe in a large mall in the deep surburbs, and Last Christmas is playing
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Sitting in an EAT in Bluewater. They're playing Last Christmas.
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i was demoing at John Lewis today. it's really informative to pitch yr game to wildly different audiences.
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also, fuck, but this career has taken me to some varied places.
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you really only need to receive one or two emails a year, if they're good enough emails
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RT @KOOPMode: Proud to announce Lara Croft GO: The Mirror of Spirits - a brand new chapter that we’ve created in collaboration with @Square…
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RT @PastebinRecent: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o…
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@edmundmcmillen American centrism is consistently to the right of British centrism.Which middle is true, mine or yours? Or someplace else's?
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"And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it" @katbamkapow/805195261865852928
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I tried out some Hitman, and it is such a videogame. A game of dressing up and eavesdropping conversations, punctuated by occasional murders
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Where once again you play someone with a magical superpower of being able to load and try again if you fail.
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@notquitereal Jack when I realised the back of the boat was fake I immediately understood why you love this game so much.
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I did a thing before on single-joke games, games where they exist to sell a single joke (v21.io/blog/single-joke-games/) But here's a new question:
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What's the best joke in a game that could only be told by a game? (Points, I think, for being "pure mechanics/level design"(if that exists))
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@rclarke whoa, I missed the news about the Whitechapel Foundry. Oh no.
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RT @softlandscapes:
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@chenoehart @aeleitch I have seen other posters from this campaign myself.
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@chenoehart @aeleitch I thought this too: but actually I think I'm okay with it. Nothing that easily leads back to particular people.
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@vectorpark let's make them fight every step of the way, though? and at that step, i dunno what more the Democrats can do.
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@vectorpark yeah, i hear you.
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RT @metasynthie: Critique so savage, like evil geek Tim Gunn savage, that I can almost look past Stan Lee's innumerable credit-controlling…
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@hondanhon oh flip, i forgot about this. i need to change my domain. :<
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@GhostTownGoldie option e) just jump in
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@GhostTownGoldie i like to jump in kinda carelessly, then float around underwater for a few seconds. really feel the buoyancy.
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@GhostTownGoldie ☺️ maybe i will go for a swim tomorrow!
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The Clockwork Mansion in D2 struck me as level designers being Very Pleased With Themselves. I don't love it. This is a subtweet.
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@patrickashe thanks for reminding me I'm out of plain white flour.
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RT @GamedPylori:
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@hoskingc I wished I could have just hung out with the witches, rather than fucking their shit up. They seemed cool.
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@katbamkapow that blurb, oh my god, I do not care (I am someone who sometimes writes sharers for a living, here)
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@hoskingc the problem with the witches is that they are all pals with Delilah, who must be evil because she personally victimised *me*.
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@hoskingc abolish the monarchy
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@hoskingc like also Jindosh was a dick, but if Solokov (*our* pet inventor) made cool new weapons we would've been thrilled.
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@hoskingc same! Watched @katbamkapow start the next one, so I know it's the same formula as the previous few.
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@hoskingc yeah, it's pretty textual. Curious about how all this looks if you play as Corvo.
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@hoskingc I'm aware I'm kinda moaning for More Narrative Agency, which is usually bullshit. But. Feels like the semi-silent, sympathetic...
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@hoskingc... but kinda not protagonist is an awkward middle ground between someone I can project myself onto and someone I can roleplay.
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Whoa, dangerous stuff here. @artideabot/805391580106518528
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@Dick_Hogg their little jumps at the end!!
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@ADAMATOMIC okay, BUT. This can be used for good effect. I was just watching youtu.be/sqlCHrbVzQc and thinking about Deadly Premonition.
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@ADAMATOMIC the gestures Zach does are so specific, so repeated, they become texture. They become something that holds the game together.
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I just learned about this whole thing with Irish water. EU-imposed water billing, successfully opposed by people just not paying.
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i read @ADAMATOMIC's great thing on vanquish and then realized I have it! and a console for it! and a screen! no way to get sound, tho...
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here's the piece, it's really good at breaking down the design & the why of the design medium.com/@ADAMATOMIC/vanquish-a-retrospective-dd8e9401b4c6#.wlcfqjp00
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@katbamkapow I had to go back and check that was a 91 yr secret. Really??
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@katbamkapow poinsettias are getting down with the kids
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@katbamkapow "people need to buy more poinsettias" says owner of biggest poinsettia company.
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thread which sadly doesn't end up being a meet-cute with the Metro section editor @shockproofbeats/805384307862884352
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@notquitereal @polclarissou of course, once you do have actual gays, everyone is super hard on them for not being Every Gay.
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@notquitereal @polclarissou (the solution to this is also More Gay)
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@hownottodraw this is the sweetest thing!
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@hownottodraw oh, Oliver Bonas, that makes sense, they have good stuff there.
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@hownottodraw and MAYBE. but then I'll have to get a tree, and all the rest of the decorations.
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Had a lovely evening helping @sheilamu and @LovedayBrooke decorate their tree while watching Die Hard. Which was interrupted by watching...
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Unfriended, which I definitely recommend. It's a cheap horror film with teenagers BUT the whole thing is set within a girl's laptop.
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They properly commit to it, too. Dramatic moments of tension as a character revises an IM. Skype buffering at the worst time.
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Good interview : indiewire.com/2015/04/how-the-team-behind-unfriended-pulled-off-the-most-ingenious-horror-film-in-years-62671/ answering questions like: how do you script that? How do you film that? How do you edit that?
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RT @dhindes: EVE Online battles take so long that the after-action reports are incredible imperium.news/assault-m-oee8-keepstar/
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And! I was reading something good recently about the white walls of the suburban American homes so omnipresent in online video. It gets that
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RT @v21: it's friday night, and i'm really cool, so here's a blog post on why i like VR v21.io/blog/vr-woo/
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It's quite a big box @burton_rachael/805711842580512768
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@cbdarden @beastsofbalance this is a good point and we'll look into it.
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RT @gmpolice: Meet our newest recruit. He’s currently called Thomas, but will be renamed on Wednesday. He’s 9 years old & a bright bay. htt…
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RT @scotslassnow: @gmpolice why do you have to rename the horses? Is it to do with their training?
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RT @gmpolice: @scotslassnow Nearly all of our horses are renamed after characters or places in Charles Dickens novels.
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@_cheesybeaver i've had that shirt over ten years - wish i'd found an old photo wearing it
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@santaragione hahaha. i forget i am a mysterious anonymous internet person sometimes
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@santaragione mind you, you're not even a person, so
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@hellocatfood yeah! s'posed to be 2006 vs now, but my facebook doesn't go back that far
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@HilariousCow have you considered - the continuous swirling motion that puts the candyfloss on the stick?
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@HilariousCow have you considered : the slow gentle easing of the hair that pulls the entire clump out of the plughole?
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@HilariousCow have you considered : the first blow of the sledgehammer that puts a hole through a breezeblock wall?
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@HilariousCow oh! the twisting of the carving knife that separates a joint
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what's the most disgusting satisfying action to perform? @HilariousCow/805765004398120960
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@HilariousCow nah mate. check my quote RT
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@Thairyn @HilariousCow okay, FOR THE RECORD, I posted that quote RT before i got this message.
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@_mynameischuck can't - work work :/ have fun! 🌱
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@mousefountain i signed up and no-one asked me a thing :<
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it's that time! chasing bugs so awkward you have to start a googledoc to track clues you've gleaned.
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nothing is certain. the best you can get is that the evidence very strongly indicates something.
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until everything lines up, and the waveform collapses, and you stare at a line of code and go "ah-hah! i have you, you rogue!"
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@vivschwarz yep! still got free weekday evenings, even approaching xmas. just let me know when!
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@johnokane yep! but holding everything lines up in your head, to see how this caused this, and this isn't really related-that's the good bit
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@_cheesybeaver @bonaneh if it helps, I'm also judging yr instant mashed potatoes.
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RT @spacetwinks: i have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and i'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab while he's having a smoke a…
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@mjmcmaster okay, but better : pulling the whole of the white bit from the center with the skin.
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RT @lauraehall: See you in late February/early March schedule.gdconf.com/session/lessons-from-escape-rooms-designing-for-the-real-world-and-vr
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@JFriedhoff if you were in the UK, I know exactly what printer I'd recommend - but get a recommendation for a good place, and go with it.
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RT @waxpancake: In the early '90s, I liked to collect CGI room renderings. The more mundane and detailed, the better. (I was a Cool Teen.)…
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tbf, I am also low-key cross about the colonial attitude implicit in Yorkshire Tea's branding @YorkshireTea/805902905874194432
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@HilariousCow buzz buzz vtwentyone@gmail.com
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@retroremakes oof, yeah, somehow I didn't even properly clock that part.
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Ugh, sexy dreams about inappropriate people.
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RT @jawsew: look, I know no one is awake, but this is a must read: theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/06/from-overwatch-to-firewatch-the-best-video-games-of-2016-chosen-by-developers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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@katbamkapow love this comment:
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please err on the side of assuming that when people said a funny thing, it didn't happen by accident
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@notquitereal are their hands and legs tied?
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on youtube recently i have seen two really good adverts for mobile games. i'm surprised!
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the first was a game about singing animals? you place them around a garden and they sing little loops. the song built up pretty satisfyingly
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(it was like a Lucky Frame game, but with exactly mobile social game aesthetics. like actually slightly retro mobile social game aesthetics)
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the second was a strategy game. a wave of enemies advanced on a formation of other enemies. they shot arrows at each other and died in ranks
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it was immediately comprehensible (as someone who has played those games before, ever). that's all that happened. single static shot.
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(the tension was: will the advancing wave be enough? it was good narrative tension)
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@joonturbo it's been that way for years! but yeah. i have vivid memories of that game.
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@joonturbo @patrickashe I still vaguely expect that roguelikes will have diagonal movement and will be played on a numpad.
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RT @threedesert:
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@mink_ette i still haven't played it! but feel like i need to rectify that, now.
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@digitalsqand it's interesting (sometimes really hard) watching friends within the orbits of both art & tech
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@digitalsqand a shift in context can redeem or destroy a sense of whether you're a worthwhile person/stupidly well paid/neither.
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"a self-facilitating media node"
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RT @softlandscapes:
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@hownottodraw urk. was waiting/looking for that shit, and was pleasantly surprised not to have found it. but it found you :/
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@hownottodraw not much you can do, but - the reason they're so salty is because games don't belong to them any more.
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RT @sokpopco: (o) (o) |_| BAMBOO EP |_| |_| - |_|/ |_|/ coming |_| |_| next we…
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@hownottodraw Twitter is just fine for nuance, people just like reading things in a self-serving way.
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@hownottodraw wish i could tell you just "fuck 'em". but i can't responsibly do that. but there are a lot of people on yr side.
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ahhhhh, this review: techagekids.com/2016/12/beasts-of-balance-review-family-game.html
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RT @DavidLublin: Looking forward to this Nielson report… “The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think” – https://t.co/…
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@metasynthie my brother is also in that line of work :/ he does item & gold sales on Maple Story.
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@benbrignell ah-hahahahah :D
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@metasynthie yeah, not exactly the same.
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@metasynthie it's pretty interesting, tho! because of the way Maple Story works, there's an amount of manual work to courier items.
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@metasynthie plus big potential for fraud. think he's ended up managing that courier network & connecting buyers & sellers.
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@MaizeWallin i downloaded it from the ad, but yet to give it a try. happy if it's as creative as it seemed!
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@KommanderKlobb @MaizeWallin "My Singing Monsters"
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shiny new accessible online node.js environment : gomix.com
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I might get a tracery example up on there tonight.
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RT @toongif: “Alice in Wonderland” Walt Disney (1951) randar.com/post/146656385039/alice-in-wonderland-1951
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RT @lorenschmidt: thinking about fonts and the feel of interface elements for "Goodnight Traffic City". here are some of my favorite refere…
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"we'll have one of everything on the menu"
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RT @FishTankBot: 🚤⚪⛵⚪🚤⚪⚪⚪ 🔵🔵🐋🔵🔵🐟🔵🔵 🔵🔵🐠🔵🔵🔵🐡🔵 🔵🐠🔵🔵🐢🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🐠🔵🔵🔵🔵 🌾🐌🌿🔮🌿🌿🌱🌿
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@siobhangx oh no! It's probably a bit late today to try a curse-lifting spell, but hopefully it's worn itself out by now
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Thank you to @philippawarr for this piece, which reminds us that the games industry is larger than we think rockpapershotgun.com/2016/12/06/hidden-object-game-mums/
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I always try to remember - the audience that will argue about games online is a small part of the audience that will pay for games.
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If you're in altgames (or related areas) and you want money for your games, marketing is far harder than gamemaking. Think about it first.
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@_cheesybeaver I love it, I love the whole thing.
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@mousefountain wolf wasn't ready to look that good
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2006 vs 2016 tells me I should take & post more selfies
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@digitalsqand hey, OpenGL is still kicking, and still the most widespread API out there. Not untroubled, but not unsuccessful.
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Now Play This is back! Next year! 7-9 April! Put it in your calendars! And send us your games (and playful things)! nowplaythis.net/contribute/
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RT @nowplaythese: We're particularly interested in landscape, duration, playable objects, and proposals or prototypes for games that were n…
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@john_brindle nah, send it all in
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2006 vs 2016 : it's so lovely seeing people become themselves.
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@ammonite I was thinking about the co-ordination needed to deal cards really competently on Monday night.
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i didn't pursue robotics after uni in part because i didn't want to build weapons. be careful who you're arming. @EmilyGorcenski/798196927712018432
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this is a collection of work by some of the best people i know @santaragione/806482641381949440
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(seriously - at that point there were v few commercial autonomous robotics companies, and half the research money came from DARPA)
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i remember a paper on procedurally generating gaits for alien races in the background of animated sci-fi movies that DARPA sponsored
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and going - ah! so that the robot can figure out how to walk when it's leg gets shot off in combat. that's why this work exists. good.
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@haze______ @ammonite ahhah, yeah, i like that with Codenames. someone's dithering, so you just turn it over. non-verbal communication!
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a shocking development @tigershungry/806492804188897280
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good thread on how to hire women! @LiaSae/806501202473189376
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@mcclure111 it's a Unity-only Mono language (written in Boo) which is semantically basically C#, and superficially syntactically a bit JSey.
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@mcclure111 yes, I know.
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@mcclure111 yeah, sadly not. but you might be interested in @ra's work on running Clojure inside Unity.
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@mcclure111 and, now that there's a decent WebGL build option, you could maybe make a bridge for running Unity from actual JS code.
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End paper design from Our Friend the Atom, Disney, 1956 (recoloured) @archillect/806523678515195904
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@radiatoryang someone who used to live at ours hasn't cancelled their sub, so it still shows up in our mailbox every ... however often it is
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@rich_lem for obvious reasons, can't make it out for this. BUT please do let us know if there's anything we should steal for Now Play This.
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RT @hannahnicklin: I am SO STOKED that this is finally up! I had such a great time researching & writing it. On the first Tony Hawk game an…
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here's the first bot on Cheap Bots, Done Quick! twitter.com/cant_miss_it
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is it worth playing if you know you can't win?
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@jwaaaap who knows?
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@rich_lem it is curated, but as part of that we have an open call. it's here: nowplaythis.net/contribute/
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@rich_lem but also if there's particular things you know of more widely, obv feel free to just message with a "hey, check this thing out"
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RT @8fldh: My keyboard is good now
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@LichLike my two takeaways are: ahhh! you got the gatosaurio tshirt! and, obv, @v21/806473187026419713
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RT @nyt_diff: Change in Title
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RT @win95promises:
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RT @DBanksy: Every day, in every way, I love the Supreme Court Justices a little bit more... @_Jardy_/806603767177236480/photo/1
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RT @TopChessMoves: The Slovenia Defense of The Hantstemshiema-Owesll Attack on The Netherlands Attack on Jerg's Game: Jeren Trap https://t.…
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RT @internetofshit: TIL bluetooth + adult toys = very difficult news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13128956
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flip flip flip flip flip. i am excited for this game! @tocaboca/806048943549386752
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@hownottodraw how am i gonna carry on living this indie dev life now that my secret is out?
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someone should write an article on intimacy in videogames through the lens of Toca Boca Hair Salon
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@ammonite in your copious free time, no doubt
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@hownottodraw *dies*
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what product is most widely used for a purpose the seller specifically tells you not to use it for?
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best i've got is q-tips and nitrous oxide canisters
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@kierongillen ooh - i think they generally just don't endorse it...?
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@SilverSober what are you not supposed to do with bubble wrap?
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@bonaneh ick ick ick
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@_cheesybeaver you mean the intended use or the actual one? sposed to be for making whipped cream, actually it's for getting high
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@_cheesybeaver (except i get bad deja vu, so i don't do it any more)
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@_cheesybeaver i mean, it's just deja vu, but it's disorienting and detaches me from reality in a unpleasant way
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@lingmops friends have one in their living room which (obviously enough) only gets used for it's stated purpose.
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@chrisamaphone I don't have any academic references, only 90s British comedy references : youtube.com/watch?v=pCPRqmMsKYI
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about me: i lurked barbelith, but never got around to joining
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@katbamkapow i gotta buy some xmas cards first, but sure
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RT @v21: Here is the start of Alphabet by Inger Christensen (translated by Susanna Nied) for National Poetry Day
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@drinkrelaxplay oi oi - have you got Betrayal at House on the Hill in?
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@LiToast neurotypical people have a pretty tricky time of it, too. not being clueless at this kind of stuff is hard learning.
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@LiToast from my time on the other side - you always try to make allowances. but it can be frustrating! that's allowed, as is venting ...
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@LiToast ... as long as you also spend time trying to help people to get up on it, try to improve yr process, etc.
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@LiToast (open ended and vague qs are a balance between being clear about what you want, and trying not to pre-exclude stuff)
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@drinkrelaxplay what's that, then? it sounds rubbish
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@LiToast oh - like, Now Play This submissions, we have a form, and it wants to fit WIP indie games and art projects and theatre pieces & &
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@LiToast so, it's hard to be specific about what we want, because what we want is so project specific.
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@LiToast (mind, we do try to be quick & painless to fill out, and not need lots of stuff written to persuade us of the merits of the work)
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@LiToast i would actually be curious what you'd think of docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmDyOpqz1KjVsyzABafE7Ods2OEWbuZ4cLB97XKbbvo0-4Yg/viewform - is it unclear to you?
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@LiToast ah! that's good to hear. thanks for looking, too.
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@john_brindle we're the younger generation, we grew up fast - all the others did drugs, they're taking it out on us.
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@katbamkapow you guys are too much
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fake maps github.com/opendot/ml4a-invisible-cities
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@kierongillen @ForgetAmnesia with private feedback, it feels like harsh honesty is something you often need to earn with friendship.
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RT @v21: is it worth playing if you know you can't win?
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@vivschwarz oh no, but it's the best, tho
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@vivschwarz anyway, deliberate obstinate literal-mindedness should get you through. It's really only a weird way of responding in kind, tho
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RT @colebrax: A nearly 71-year-old Fred Astaire getting down at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970:
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RT @YORIYUKIII: every day like a petal
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I feel like I've personally let down Miyazaki. @somebadideas/807141424030486530
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@hoskingc that's a very kind thing to say. I try to think about this stuff... But I could so easily have been those guys.
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@hoskingc not in the moment, I have a slightly better answer to as to goal : "to play, to see what art computers are good at making"
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@vivschwarz yep yep. it's more : i try to be thoughtful and care-full in my work, and i could imagine doing this work and not being that.
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@vivschwarz it's a valuable reminder! i know i'll fail sometimes, but this helps me to try harder.
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@katbamkapow here is a diagram of you last night: hair scarf coat feet, i guess... idk, i guess you still had feet i wasn't paying attention
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super interesting approaches to making physical games with digital components mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2016/12/09/playable-patterns/
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@graspee the problem was carelessly making something hurtful.
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@graspee everything has that potential, and you should think about what that potential is and whether you want to go there.
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@graspee (you'll miss it sometimes, and you'll decide to risk potential harm for larger purposes often - but you should think about it)
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@graspee their response (or lack of it) shows they didn't even think about that aspect. that's where i worry about being.
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RT @somegoodboys: check out this innovative boy
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some good boys over here: @somegoodboys
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@ojahnn i don't feel qualified to answer if it's extreme or harmless - but i've heard from friends who've worried about/felt like that.
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RT @sarahjeong: ............ and that, my friends, is what the Kardashian lawyers claimed Blac Chyna's trademark did 👀
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mobile dev problems : working out how to tell iOS not to upgrade in German
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@vivschwarz it was "Später", but that's close
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@vivschwarz drawing books sounds like a nicer life, tbh
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@deer_ful you can do it!
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@lauraehall @whatisian I took it personally because I studied exactly that kind of procedural locomotion generation. I could've worked on it
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@lauraehall @whatisian and there's definitely a bunch of value there (but see my tweets from a few days back, primarily for the military)
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@lauraehall @whatisian if you've thought about these critiques and decided it's valuable anyway, then go for it, great
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@lauraehall @whatisian but they hadn't thought about it, and I don't know I would've, either.
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@edclef @lauraehall @whatisian I could easily see myself saying all the things they said. Maybe a slightly younger me? Like, at best.
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@doam @vectorpark @edclef @lauraehall @whatisian yeah - not about replacing people as about discovering what's good about computers.
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@polclarissou yeah, the thing about riso printing is it's a cheap way to own a litho-ish quality printer.
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@polclarissou which only helps you if you want to own the printer, or hang out with the people that do.
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@polclarissou if you want Internet printing, there's probably better options.
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@polclarissou (Internet printing is a bad way to put weird inks on weird paper)
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@GalaxyKate @roomthily ah, I can't find the footage @tburrellsaward shot of hair getting plugged into doll's heads in China
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@GalaxyKate @roomthily @tburrellsaward its similar to this, except the fingers are much closer to the pointy end.
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@polclarissou I vaguely have a project for a riso machine... I should actually get on with it, eh?
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@polclarissou haunted by the offer of a free almost working riso machine a while back (where would I have put it???)
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@polclarissou "almost working"
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@polclarissou yeah, I made the right decision. But still!!!
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give me strength not to eat midnight chicken on this walk home from the train
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@KommanderKlobb @patrickashe if I weaken now, I'm definitely getting worse chicken than I could've had earlier
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@PeteOlympian I used to live off Mile End Road - but New Cross to Deptford has enough.
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@somegoodboys too much
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RT @DegenRolf: Dogs are not particularly fond of watching television, even if it depicts the likes of them. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581916300611 https:/…
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RT @overtonbot: Sat, 10 Dec 2016
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bot of the day: @overtonbot the aesthetics of bots is often formless noise and there's been too much of that lately here's a sharp point
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RT @softlandscapes:
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@ADAMATOMIC how often are craftables actual solutions to problems as opposed to shinies?
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@ADAMATOMIC this is not even necessarily bad - cool new toys are fun! Also there's the midground of keeping up with rising enemy levels.
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@ADAMATOMIC God save me from games where I have problems so hard I have to engage deeply with the Ubisoft layer.
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@PeteOlympian wait, but seriously : tech has eaten almost all the people who used to work in local journalism.
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@PeteOlympian you're already one of the last human vestiges, doing only the stuff that robots have tried and failed to do.
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@PeteOlympian yeah - but journalism was almost always a loss leader for ads, and robots are better at that part. :/
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@Thairyn it is SUCH a good jacket
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@Thairyn luckily I took a full-length pic when leaving this morning...
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@PeteOlympian yeah, it's not a simple story, and I don't think it will be when it hits ie truck drivers.
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RT @manygradients:
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Today I learned newline-delimited JSON is an actual thing (I've been working with it recently and I didn't) @mbostock/807656142847373312
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What's the furthest you can walk in London while staying completely under cover?
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@Thairyn I heard they were opening the Mail Rail tunnels to the public? Or Monument/Bank?
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@jonty I think it has to be normally open to the public. Or else, yeah.
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@jonty also umbrellas don't count
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@katbamkapow yeah it's like some weird respectability dogwhistle
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@mrgnptts palm trees!
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@mcclure111 and I'd assume it's because lambdas can do type inference themselves, and one of them has to be specific
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@mcclure111 given var is just sugar (that IDEs can calculate, too), I'm not too mad the rules for them are simpler rather than exhaustive
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beautiful @meatsock/807748920348672000
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@mcclure111 i think most people end up with a big old VectorExtensions file they lug around
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@mcclure111 the problem with not using Vector3s is that you'll just need to cast to them all the fucking time whenever you want Unity use em
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@JamesWallis oooh, a long flyover might be possible somewhere. also: airports? Excel Center?
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@KommanderKlobb think we decided it should be publicly accessible?
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@ellaguro @metasynthie @mcclure111 big part of it - indie, alt etc is usually seen through the lens of (or in opposition to) gamer culture
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@ellaguro @metasynthie @mcclure111 but the viable space for games is so much broader (the dialogue isn't there because it's not their hobby)
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@ellaguro @metasynthie @mcclure111 and obviously that skews discussion for creators, because this is the stuff that gets published.
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@ellaguro @metasynthie for me: -remembering that this wider context exists -doing stuff that exists in broader high culture contexts
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@ellaguro @metasynthie like nowplaythis.net partly exists for exactly this reason (ps we're looking for stuff for next year)
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@ellaguro @metasynthie it has been real healthy for me to start engaging properly with twitterbot folk.
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@metasynthie @ellaguro yeah - I agree with the original piece that if VR is gonna eat up shit, we should get in early & steer it if we can
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@fromsmiling if that's you doing sloppy eyeliner then i'm not sure i could handle you when it's sharp
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@ellaguro @metasynthie for sure, for sure. i wrote a thing on VR between Robert's 1st & 2nd piece, btw: v21.io/blog/vr-woo/
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@ellaguro @metasynthie haha, and here i am (maybe i'm projecting my own feelings on everyone else) thinking we were finally getting cynical
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@ellaguro @metasynthie like i have friends who shifted from "VR consulting" to "AR consulting" 6 months back...
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RT @hotdogstand4eva:
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@siobhangx @_mynameischuck because I'm on a train to the shops. But it would be on my list if I allowed myself to have a list.
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Woke up with the Fiery Furnaces' Smelling Cigarettes in my head. That album is still great, isn't it?
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A thing I have learned the hard way is how important it is for community spaces to have explicit leaders or processes when Shit Happens.
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(I'm just assuming good processes would help, here. Leaders definitely do)
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Can easily be more damage in everyone else suddenly feeling unsafe and insecure as the people directly involved.
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@celesteh there's a kinda awful hack that'll let you do that. If you make it largely generate tweets of more than 140 characters, it'll fail
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@celesteh yep, it does, so it needs to fail a lot. (the feature request is noted, and makes sense)
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@phoenixperry @adrielbeaver you're already at a huge advantage because you have people accountable & empowered to act if/when stuff happens
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Fuck yes to all of this: @JFriedhoff on gleeful personal games, and on games as a place to practise a better world medium.com/@jfriedhoff/playing-with-resistance-a483b19d4fe7#.lqv7krd7r
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I hope this piece ends up marking an opening up of what is allowed to be an alt game, what is allowed to be personal.
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(there has been work backing that up for a good while now, we're just stuck in our assumptions)
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@JFriedhoff it's a really good piece. let's hope the world agrees
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thread of fantasy art @3liza/808105291283730432
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their attitude to growth and community is actually pretty refreshing??? fingers crossed (esp since there's VC money) recode.net/2016/5/20/11715602/reddit-employees-safer-tamer-imzy
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@3liza yeah, thinking about the purpose of these kind of paintings as things to stare at and imagine yrself in... they work
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@logicaldash ah, the last thing i need is another place to read links online. but i am genuinely interested in how the site plays out
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@katbamkapow good luck!!!
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top tracks: open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1CyLyilgPeLDTY apparently i got really big into female vocalists this year?
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also: songs i love languishing down the bottom of the list, because they're not go-to on loop while working songs lots of that this year
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RT @sirpangur: Thank you, @maruti_bitamin , for the gold paint! 💛✨like if shirt and book were not enough to make my week 😭 (they were enoug…
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@benbrignell @softlandscapes nope - set it first time, and haven't messed with it yet
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@benbrignell hah - maybe it's the twitter bug where avatars get incorrectly assigned some times?
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RT @enatangkim: 🍎 witches 🍏
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attention fans of bots & colours & space: @pleasantplanets
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oh gosh, @FermiPasteladox is gorgeous, too! and i love it's approach to exposing the random seed! @Bourbonbrick/808320657977147392
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RT @bphennessy: oh my god how have I never encountered the Icelandic Yule Lads before now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Lads#List_of_Yuletide-lads
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the feeling of working around a change in behaviour from a company you have no influence over caused by them wishing to entrench a monopoly
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free idea: a website that repackages amazon and makes the cheap price you have to click through for the default one
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also it hides Kindle stuff unless you have a Kindle it could pay for itself with affiliate money
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i was pleased all i had today was game theory thread subtweets, but then someone ruined it and RTed the actual thing
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Ice Water Games have been quietly making stuff I really dig (Viridi, most especially) - I should really give Eidolon another go.
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anyway, all of that is to say: here's a quiet fireplace simulator from them icewatergames.com/yule-log/
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RT @Emojiforest: 🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🏚🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲…
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@sheilamu yeah - the all options page does sort with delivery included, though. but it's complex if you're bumping into free postage or not
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RT @MrPooni: the only thing more satifying than the Fast franchises batshit naming scheme is the Fast franchises batshit naming scheme in J…
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RT @manygradients:
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Maybe the game I want to make is Bonsai Barber? (except on phones, because why wouldn't it be on a phone, these days)
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RT @lorenschmidt: current favorite answer to the fermi paradox: the reason no one has contacted us / we can't see them is because we are no…
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@nielsen_holly Holly I am on my way home and already hungry and this isn't helping.
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This is a good article on the mayfly careers of game designers and the use of good design tools. medium.com/@haikus_by_KN/how-we-design-games-now-and-why-bcbc1deb7559#.vdyl4ktn6
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@nielsen_holly only if you promise it'll be as tasty as that looks
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guys, it's time for some game theory twitter.com/search?q=%22time%20for%20some%20game%20theory%22%20-from%3Aericgarland&s=09
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@slimedaughter nice!
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@whitingjp @Nifflas i just thought for a bit about the expected lifespan of twitter, and the decision became very easy
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@whitingjp @Nifflas (it's a shame about my job)
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RT @ftrain: <THREAD dc:subject="Game theory"> yes YES the tiger is out Guys it's time for some game theory. </THREAD>
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@imjayhay i saw your call for work and followed you because there's a possibility we might need someone in the future! hello!
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@RealAvocadoFact for one second i read this tweet and thought you were talking about the bits you get when an avocado is starting to turn
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@imjayhay ofc! and in the meantime: vore.
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also it seems to be going the rounds, which maybe will finally give @haikus_by_KN the correct amount of fame for being Right
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@Miss_Sticks @manygradients it's so good, though!
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@hownottodraw i mean, that's... all Gilmore Girls episodes?
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@hownottodraw i mean.. i like that? all the characters quickly establish themselves, and then they just go on being themselves at each other
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@hownottodraw I like Yowapeda Pedal for the same reason
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@hownottodraw well, the good thing is that after a bit you can basically imagine all the facial expressions
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RT @precariouswords: god give me
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i like how much of Westworld hinges on git blame
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@aidowall thanks! i've had like 4 different F91Ws in a row, now. they last a few years and then the strap tears.
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if you're not designing a system (for more than one person) to resist abuse, i don't know what you're designing
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@patrickashe @Fortress_Inman i admit i think along those lines. why is it wrong?
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@AOsher @Fortress_Inman @patrickashe makes sense. now i'm curious about the way the franchising happens that makes TfL stuff actually work.
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RT @kosamari: I did not apply any special effects on Sweaterify stitches (it's just fill and stroke in canvas), but I intimately know the s…
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@katbamkapow is it the headphones or the laptop? i'm down to one reliable pair of headphones out of three.
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@katbamkapow oh, god, you know what you could do, though? borrow the little bluetooth thingy.
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@_cheesybeaver hot potatoe
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oh my god, these are christmas themed hexagons @Hexamagons/808652510701453312
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i only just noticed
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videogame that looks like this @russss/808653505800110080
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@alexhern a decent proportion of Tinder use is done socially, with yer friend peering over your shoulder and judging people with you.
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@alexhern this makes sense for that
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@vivschwarz overexcited squirrel goes to space
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RT @hollygramazio: This book ("Games Worth Playing") has some excellent diagrams
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RT @TheGonzalez: I think about this a lot.
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RT @haraiva: 🇬🇧 HEY LONDON FRIENDS! 🇬🇧 i'll be selling good good art prints 🖼 HERE: facebook.com/events/1092310370889441/ for a week starting thursday! c…
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@lorenschmidt (Kentucky Route Zero README.txt)
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@ADAMATOMIC @edclef @lorenschmidt my usual MO is to make an interesting interaction, tear it apart multiple times to make it comprehensible
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@ADAMATOMIC @edclef @lorenschmidt add a bunch of feedback and contextual info to explain it... and then add a linear-ish tutorial
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@mousefountain @edclef @ADAMATOMIC @lorenschmidt and all of this is also /setting/ this expectation, sometimes
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@mousefountain @edclef @ADAMATOMIC @lorenschmidt hard to make a completely open and exploratory game that isn't in large part about that
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@ADAMATOMIC @mousefountain @edclef @lorenschmidt oh yeah. one of the trickiest thing in BoB's tutorial was letting go of the player
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@ADAMATOMIC @mousefountain @edclef @lorenschmidt start with "play this!" "play this!", have to ease off gently into "play... what you like"
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@ADAMATOMIC @mousefountain @edclef @lorenschmidt ah! didn't think of that exactly (tho, teaching a weird interaction then, so)
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@metasynthie oh, yeah, that "(esp. kids)"was a big thing I learned this year
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lessons from this year @metasynthie/808716296745615360
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@lorenschmidt yes please!
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@metasynthie it's a shame we had to put all that scaffolding and reassurance in for adults, really.
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@notquitereal i should spend more time on Instagram
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@digitalsqand oh, yeah, 'course. and actually BoB has way more support than most kids needed, because it's also for adults.
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@metasynthie i want to know what they answer to "where is []?"
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RT @somegoodgirls: the compassionate girls
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@radiatoryang @metasynthie i mean, the audiences self-select a bit differently in both cases
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@radiatoryang @metasynthie (thinking of demoing to uninterested xmas shoppers at a department store the other weekend)
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i'm gonna go home and cook myself some dinner. what should i cook?
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@ldodds ahhh! that's lovely!
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@katbamkapow i'm heading home via a shop, do you want anything?
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@primaerfunktion I had not heard of this, but it looks good.
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@katbamkapow I'll have a look. Though I have one you can borrow for a few days.
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@primaerfunktion it's also like... the same thing I cook for half of my meals, plus some eggs, haha
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RT @PlaytimePRLtd: Making a mark at #BoardGameClub right away, @beastsofbalance from @sensibleobject has already gathered a crowd! https://…
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RT @polclarissou: i'm really bad at assessing my own progress so here's a self-serving "actually,,, i am better at stuff now" post https://…
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RT @rad_milk: don't assume someone's gender just because they are back in town
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RT @_reallifemag: what is kek? when nihilism becomes superstition reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/
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@haikus_by_KN what, that you're right about things?
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@haikus_by_KN hah. i mean, it's more the combination of specific and well thought through opinions, but also an aversion to dispensing Takes
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@mcclure111 thank you for this explanation! i never really knew what TCO was before, and now I do!
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RT @howitsmadeup: Then they plant it in loose soil. But this model has a unique feature. Today, that distinctive sound still resonates.
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@smestorp this is what I had! It was good. Think I'll make that again.
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RT @rcolvile: Life inside the Brexit committee, by @samcoatestimes. Fascinating and kind of alarming thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/brexit-committee-puts-all-policy-decisions-on-hold-until-next-year-8sr36df9k (£) https://t.…
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we're on actualol's Christmas gift list youtube.com/watch?v=LlIcmrWyXVk#t=10m56
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weird watching him roleplay being a small child doing the scan and place loop, and thinking back to drawing UI flow diagrams of it
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folks, i think... i think we did a good job?
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this looks interesting! @ElectronDance/808749617554788352
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RT @a_antonellis: So, what's it gonna be?
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RT @tompeck: Final #PMQs of 2016 today. Who can forget last year's wonderful scenes where two adult men argued over wishing each other Happ…
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@hownottodraw that makes sense, if they're bisexual - a guy wouldn't say "i'm not the girl you're taking home". i don't think?
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@hownottodraw yeah - i remember @deer_ful was looking for academic stuff talking about this thing
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@hownottodraw like, sometimes it's a cool subversion when you do it, sometimes is a cool subversion when you don't...
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slightly disappointed @ThatPoppy's music isn't more PC Music.
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@hownottodraw sometimes it just doesn't scan, or would be impossible to rewrite (oh god, imagine if Amy Winehouse had regendered Valerie)
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@nielsen_holly @hownottodraw i had never heard this before. what. what. i mean, he didn't change the gender, technically
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also: we're on Amazon as of this morning! amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N1KM25E
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earlier this year, when we were running playtests a bunch, i was looking for ways to improve our process a bit. this woulda been good: @atwistedtree/809033031138869248
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Oh good, the train station reduced services over Christmas and the Tesco self checkouts both have a Santa voice. I love this.
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@digitalsqand i think anything useful you could build will require assumptions as to the nature of game that could be made.
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@digitalsqand but once you accept that, you can make more expansive assumptions, and make something more useful and specific
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@pippinbarr oh shit! be lovely to see you
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😊 feels good to meet goals you set yourself @ammonite/809094569505779712
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RT @dim_litcorridor:
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RT @ra: of all the things you can do with a computer, here is one
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RT @SolonCubed: the middle school kids' passwords are so much more secure than mine. The girls all use long song lyrics and the boys finger…
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RT @SolonCubed: It's really funny because either way, their passwords become a personal performance ritual that awakens their computers.
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RT @janemai_: i have a comic on the paris review based on an excerpt of "the return of munchausen" today - theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/14/a-comics-adaptation-of-sigizmund-krzhizhanovsky/ wheee ht…
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an interesting dynamic at work is that I'm a game designer who mainly wants to provide a context for physical stuff to happen...
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... and @tburrellsaward is a product designer who thinks the exciting stuff is all in the game design.
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it's probably a good way to be, long term, but it leads to a lot of arguing in the short term
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"game design" is not the most important part of game design
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(or, like, it can be, depending on the game. but also it could really not be?)
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@LazyBrainGames but game design is about rewards and systems, and the defining characteristic of videogames is interactivity??
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@LazyBrainGames right - but "game design", as a discipline, is concerned with making systems players navigate (with good & bad states)
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@tburrellsaward I'm not complaining!
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@tburrellsaward I mean, much worse situations than us both working hard to make the other look good
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@thecatamites these are good thoughts! And it's nice to get them hot and just out the oven.
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@thecatamites it's ironic that Twine is probably the most widely used prototyping tool of the kind she advocates for
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I'll give Trump this - he's good at bullshit macho status manoeuvrings. He really is a man who wants courtiers bustling around him.
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@thecatamites mmm - we're friends, and I've seen tools she's worked on/looked at, so I am liable to overinterpret generously that essay.
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i've never stuck my dick in a dyson airblade, but i did just imagine the sensation
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@patrickashe @king_spooner this seems fair to me too
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@Nifflas from me : Punch The Custard and CUBES.
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Played a little Toca Boca Hair Salon 3, and it seems like the things that were good are all intact, and the limited things expanded a little
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10/10, GOTY
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@NotInventedHere 2 is now free, so definitely worth getting that. but also yes.
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@logodaedalus i liked Open Sorcery, which is not quite this, but close.
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@miguelsicart @doougle did you see this Guardian piece on hygge? draws out that connection explicitly theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/22/hygge-conspiracy-denmark-cosiness-trend
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RT @HottestStartups: Startup idea: In them, a whole historical development is already ‘summed up’.
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@MaizeWallin @vertxxyz i think it's telling you where the exit is at the destination station.
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RT @rickasaurus: Woah: Paper -> Math -> Graph with your cell phone reddit.com/r/math/comments/5i845f/mathpix_a_phonecamera_powered_3d_grapher/
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RT @daytimesnaps:
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@TomNullpointer @jonbro pretty much, yeah
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@TomNullpointer @jonbro we did this waaaay too late in development, it was a PITA. but just boring to do. shoulda made a script.
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this para caters to my ego (<3 @hownottodraw) theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/15/indie-video-games-events-community-kate-gray?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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@MaizeWallin as a small child, I once caused an evacuation at the NHM by leaving a camera bag in a dark corner.
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RT @pollkem: flower maker :D #madewithunity
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RT @GalaxyKate: ⭐⭐⭐GOOD UI DESIGN⭐⭐⭐ (Allowing data that you can author in plain text and copy paste is *such a good* design pattern) http…
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@bonzrat there's a difference between being hooked in 24/7 and checking in every so often.
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@bonzrat I took a week off twitter just after Trump was elected and it was a really healthy thing for me.
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@MaizeWallin that is a good question! you're in South Kensington now, right? I might tag @tigershungry onto this.
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@nielsen_holly have you seen JJ Grandville's stuff? Somehow I acquired a booklet of postcards of theirs as a kid...
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via @patrickashe, there's an update to wevp.tv (some names will be familiar to you if you've played Kentucky Route Zero)
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a stranger at this party said that i didn't look like a game designer.
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(he initially asked if i was an artist)
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i guess i'm gonna take it as a compliment?
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@chrisoshea no, that was a joke. My actual GOTY is probably Ladykiller in a Bind. But it's very good.
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the best part of this is that i came home to a cheque for my participation in a gallery show
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RT @hegelfan1: <THREAD> I'm now hearing this meme that governments around the world have defeated communism. Guys. It's time for some Mar…
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This is not intended as a subtweet to the lovely sokpop folk - but what's the most commercially successful EP/album/collection game release?
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@hannahnicklin ah, me too (but I also like it when people praise two things I'm involved in in adjacent sentences)
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@hannahnicklin Mild Rumpus is a reaction to the overwhelming space it's in. And Now Play This does not aim to be wholly soft.
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@hannahnicklin nah - at a time when we're starting to plan both events, it's a useful sharp poke.
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@SimonParkin the bit about Final Draft is amazing.
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@tigershungry hey, Marie... remember when it was summer?
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i enjoyed this guide to seducing a man-horse hybrid in a videogame about that theoutline.com/post/587/notes-on-winning-your-horse-prince
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RT @unity3d: The experimental build of EditorVR is now available -- free and open API! Can't wait to see what you build! https://t.co/gopjs…
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RT @softlandscapes:
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RT @mcclure111: We're just sitting here and they're calling it a revolution
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i am excited to see this talk when it goes online @metasynthie/809571418820280321
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thinking about all the money that swishes round Patreon from poor creator to poor creator, a 5% transaction fee taken off each time
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and thinking about all the people who are in the business of providing parasocial companionship to lonely people
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and I'm thinking about the empty streets at the end of this video theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/nov/30/sleaford-lincolnshire-brexit-byelection-young-video
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and this thread @katbamkapow/809564323974615040 and @leighalexander's article linked in it
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@helenacelle I'm not even saying they shouldn't - they have real costs, and provide a real service.
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user retention like watering plants, not user retention like an open tin of sweets
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this article makes me feel good about github as the defacto common land for open source bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap
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@GalaxyKate the user, in this metaphor. The dev is somewhere else
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@awesommelier also this tweet: @Olivianuzzi/809472667506081792
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RT @yassuryGM: الانميتور في الUnity #تطوير_الالعاب
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RT @subtitle_buoy: Wind speed 6.0 m/s. Sea temp: 26.9 °C, air temp: 26.3 °C. #supermariorun
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RT @beastsofbalance: The most fabulous shark that ever did swim through your feed. Some awesome animation work by @spacetreasured! #Beastso…
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@katbamkapow fuck the term "sellout". it almost always hits the wrong targets.
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@katbamkapow who do these indies have an obligation towards?
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@katbamkapow i mean, that said, it'd have to be a pretty special job for me to go into AAA (but i could work in other sectors)
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@smestorp @katbamkapow i've only got a few years of grafting left!
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on this graph: metacritic doesn't expand it's pool of publications much. if there are more media outlets now it wouldn't show on this graph. @lukz_dev/804833764824256512
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@hellophia i just now noticed i wrote "sexy fantasy" which is... slightly different.
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review of Westworld: i accidentally skipped 2 episodes in the second half and mainly felt glad to have reduced my watching time
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@MrOolong i think you gotta be able to survive happily enough on UBI. And I think that's possible.
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@HilariousCow hello. my phone died and i fell asleep on the bus but i'm home how
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RT @epershannd: "sweltering" (悶熱) my screenprinting midterm! a series based on the humidity of summer and the feeling of time hanging in pl…
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@scanters oh God, I didn't even check myself for snow. Let's leave that a mystery.
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@patrickashe @tigershungry this is perfect
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@oopsohno ugh. wish i was there. have fun, build good sex things!
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on a train to norwich. looking forward to seeing some good fog out the windows.
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RT @sandwich_cool: nice
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@radiatoryang liked this bit, though
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@zarawesome @GalaxyKate @chrisamaphone @isaackarth thinking about compression here - for example, gzip jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/24/day-16-gzip-plus-poetry-equals-awesome/
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i'm visiting family. it's nice, but i forgot how much people talk about the best way to drive places.
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Fog over Norwich Prison
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RT @todd160: #gamedev #pixelart
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RT @holyfingers: Annoying a sleepy cat, with a mouse... #screenshotsaturday
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This is a lovely paper. There's a good bit where she rails against asking students for intimate confessions(and her uneasiness with her own) @RealPeerReview/810262980248162313
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RT @katbamkapow: several tweets about a man, a manoeuvre, and, briefly, malaria (benign) @notquitereal/810268914529828865
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@lauraehall Horse World, by Houndstooth. ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=c0b75igo9aijz3dt it's a bit more full on than sexy, though
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@ADAMATOMIC just butting in here to scream DEVIL DAGGERS!!! and then quietly leave
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@patrickashe this tweet reminds me you owe me money
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@patrickashe I had forgotten that. Why do I owe you money?
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@patrickashe oh, yeah, that's totally true. How much do you want for it? I'll poke Sophie now.
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@katbamkapow every time someone talks about Rose Buddies I get disappointed it's not about Steven Universe.
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@_cheesybeaver @katbamkapow I love this show enough to be aware I shouldn't push it on people as much as feels natural. But.
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@_cheesybeaver @katbamkapow I really do think you'd like it - it's a show ultimately about people caring for each other.
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Writing up a games of the year list. What did I play, and like, and have now forgotten about?
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Tried to go Christmas shopping, which means I've spent an hour walking near some shops and now feel terrible and am going home for a nap
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While I was waiting for my train home I put a thing in my Amazon basket, though.
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RT @maniani0122: カービィ描きました。
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(from nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html - this article is making me sad i didn't stay in school)
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@artcollisions i know! and i'm not particularly regretful, really - but i studied this stuff at uni, and i'm not making 6 figures now...
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RT @DegenRolf: The "Invisibility cloak illusion" makes people falsely think that they observe others more than others observe them https://…
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RT @steveklabnik:
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@artcollisions i mean my actions demonstrate that i don't actually care that much about it. but it would be nice.
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@artcollisions it's mainly: ah! this stuff is taking off! and i could've been involved, but i'm on the fringes now
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@artcollisions but then i look at the stuff i am doing, and i'm pretty pumped about it. but i always want to be doing everything.
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bot of the day: @snailsnake this is a bot that makes snail or snake portmanteaus (snortmanteaus) from other words
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RT @jonbro: #screenshotsaturday added some fingers so the next time I make a demo video, people can see what is going on. https://t.co/lNj9…
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i wrote about some games i liked this year: v21.io/blog/2016-goty/
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i liked: Kentucky Route Zero Ladykiller In A Bind Toca Boca Hair Salon 3 Ableton Live Imbroglio Dishonoured 2 Viridi Hidden my game by mom ⋮
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⋮ Ice-bound Get Lost! It's Spring Again Devil Daggers Digital Bird Playground Push Me Pull You Oik OS TIS-1000 and Beasts of Balance
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i only just realized i should have written an entirely different list: "the best games i didn't play in 2016"
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@Eastmad I played it a WHOLE BUNCH
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Thinking about ^^, I realised I missed some I did play. Now added: Firewatch Stephen's Sausage Roll Quadrilateral Cowboy Wheels of Aurelia
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@Eastmad it's a long list I just posted!
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@Eastmad and like... other people have played it, so I don't have to.
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@DeltaGardner looking over mine and i know i'm missing some smaller indie stuff i loved but can't now locate within the year
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@doougle that makes 11! you gotta pick only 10!
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RT @wildwinter: I wrote a thing on a plane about leaving room for your audience to be part of the story. Mind the gap: https://t.co/lBrk5Lf…
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RT @v21: i wrote about some games i liked this year: v21.io/blog/2016-goty/
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every so often i fall asleep with my laptop open, and when i wake up i see what i was looking at. last night it was wikihow.com/Be-a-Fangirl
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@adrielbeaver well, i never finished the article
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RT @TheSimonEvans: I think this, by Wendy Cope, might be the greatest love poem ever written.
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learning to write in a manner conducive to Google Translate
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@siobhangx i know, i know! Too Many Games, tho.
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RT @softlandscapes:
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holy fuck, @softlandscapes has knocked it out of the fucking park with that one.
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RT @ADAMATOMIC: this richard garfield quote is so on point blog.adamatomic.com/post/131618890820/im-probably-usually-diplomatic-to-a-fault-if
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@katbamkapow write it up for Medium, I'll read it in the morning
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I have no desire to play this game, but goodness do I enjoy @notquitereal writing about it. waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/lost-afraid-and-snow-blind-in-the-division-survival?utm_source=wptwitterus
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@mousefountain yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
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RT @patrickashe: A real shame to hear the DNA Lounge is struggling. Had some brilliant nights here when in San Francisco. https://t.co/8TwP…
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RT @softlandscapes:
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@juliaferraioli I have received emails from people who have enjoyed my work, just telling me that - and every time, it's made my day.
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RT @lib_thinks: Bizarre and rather wonderful (if pricey) new jenga-cum-cyber game BEASTS OF BALANCE. Dickering over whether to buy:less fe…
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@katbamkapow I'm heading to the pub with work at the moment, but I will absolutely eat some later. I mean, presumably you've made it now.
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@Palomadawkins oooooooooh
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@katbamkapow I congratulate you on your life choices
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@_cheesybeaver you ARE coming back, right?
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@_cheesybeaver see you sooooon
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@MidniteLibrary no, I disallowed public replies (it seemed abusable). Might reconsider it??
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RT @Polytron: SUPERHYPERCUBE is having its first sale ever! 25% OFF 33% OFF for PS+ members store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/superhypercube/cid=UP4427-CUSA04894_00-SUPERHYPERCUBE01 https://t.co/3X2UpGp…
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Halfway through reading an essay on AI and I suddenly realised I couldn't read it with both unaided eyes at once. I feel very fungible.
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mediamolecule.com/blog/article/punchdrunk_and_media_molecule_where_dreams_collide I am too drunk to respond to this appropriately, but this feels like people should know about
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@radiodario that one sneaks up on you. - I thought I had? - No! Everything until now was at risk!
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@ammonite right?!
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@radiodario i, uh, never used git lfs... though when the repos got to 2+ gig on previous projects I wished it existed...
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RT @didnotchart: Jarvis Cocker joined @witheredhand @PictishTrail @jamesyorkston on stage tonight. Which was nice. Happy xmas. https://t.co…
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@radiodario oh, jeez, doesn't it? i'be been on bitbucket (cheaper private repos) for all my serious stuff
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@radiodario git is such a least-worst option for Unity projects rn
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@erbridge 22k, tho
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yr still basically cut up by the end of the Amber Spyglass
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@NoraReed yr welcome!
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gonna rattle the tin for more games and playful things for next year's Now Play This: nowplaythis.net/contribute/
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or just tell me (or @hollygramazio) if there's someone else's thing we should be looking at
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We want games w/ landscapes, games w/ an absurd duration, playful objects, games never made (or impossible to make), games about embodiment
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trains are so great
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@hownottodraw call closes middle of January
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thread about Sensible Object @ammonite/811520078332231684
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RT @PressFiretoWin: A recap of the WordPlay London event... really happy to have made this happen: handeyesociety.com/event/wordplay-london-photo-video-recap/ and photos: http…
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Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/
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@patrickashe you should use Sublime Text instead
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@patrickashe i like how few of these i've played. i maybe shoulda given a nod to triennale in my list, tho.
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@aeleitch SCP?
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@patrickashe oh, i saw this in passing - will do!
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RT @jessicambowden: Fun game: evaluate your "I'm actually fine" hangover by trying to go Christmas shopping on your lunch break
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@alexhern HASHFLAGS
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RT @wyckns: Hi,girls ~
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RT @isislovecruft: Have I mentioned I've been A/B testing the gnupg developers over the last decade by submitting patches as both female a…
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RT @wildflowersbot:
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@haikus_by_KN yes, but did it make you cry?
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@KommanderKlobb @haikus_by_KN miles of difference between that and being a wooby-eyed 13 yr old
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@KommanderKlobb @haikus_by_KN i mean, also, it was a riposte to Narnia, heady-handedness was kind of inevitable.
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@spacetreasured i think so, yeah! i've not reread them as an adult, so can't swear they hold up, but they were amazing as a teenager
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@haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb I did not get the allegory the first time I read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.
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@haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb i'm glad i grew up at a time when the internet was a viable escape from real life
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@haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb like, i guess? other people made the stuff on it, but other people wrote the books, too.
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@haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb nowadays the people on the internet are the same people you're trying to avoid in day-to-day life.
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RT @_everybird_: BIRD #3,977 Crested Guineafowl (Guttera pucherani)
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RT @manygradients:
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big fan of the Google Play backend
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@nielsen_holly i'm praying for everyone else, tbh
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RT @softlandscapes:
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@q_dork this looks great, thanks
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RT @moshboy: '80s computer security posters. even more relevant today.
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@cn_monoxide @dodgyville humans made the algorithms, humans can change them. Call it careless, not malicious, if you want, but still on them
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Ahh, @time4gametheory is cool - it gets the source images from a little thingy on gomix.
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It seems like @emshort is gearing up to challenge @asponge for the title of best disclaimers on RPS. rockpapershotgun.com/2016/12/21/looking-back-at-2016-in-interactive-fiction/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RockPaperShotgun+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%29
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ofc "She once received a marriage proposal from Olivia Wood but it wasn’t serious." doesn't yet match up to The Mayonnaise Incident.
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@emshort Alice is always serious.
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RT @xannov: @beastsofbalance Have tried a few times today and it’s harder than it looks. Let fate decide the pieces you add with https://t.…
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I have been listening to the Samorost 3 soundtrack and it is extremely lush
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i worry it'll spoil the game - but then, until i got into the soundtrack i had planned to skip the game.
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RT @lorenschmidt: the hardest about pixel art isn't to make something detailed, it's to take away all the details you think you need
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@notquitereal i get that and i don't entirely disagree- but also i do love the idea of making things from a position of deliberate ignorance
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@notquitereal here is what it looks like from the outside, here it stands from a parallel universe
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@notquitereal garbled transmissions with overenthusiastic error correction filling in the holes
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@notquitereal i am glad RPS has stopped saying "foot-to-ball"
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@konjak hard to make things for iOS without one
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RT @PastebinRecent: igma. Nitric Muscle Fuel is facing a date with destiny. In this installment I'm going to put, in plain English, Nitric…
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RT @ellaguro: remembering a dream i had where Werner Herzog screamed "i'm an agitator" & tried to light a building on fire but it only lit…
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at a party last night & multiple people had independently hung out with Tom Felton. pls share yr Tom Felton stories
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extra bonus hard mode for Beasts of Balance classtools.net/random-name-picker/5_beD8HH (thanks @xannov!)
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RT @womensart1: Suspended in green, 2005 by Italian artist and professor of architecture Lauretta Vinciarelli #womensart https://t.co/gTNRC…
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RT @the_ephemerides: Another equally violent rush will start some times back upon him, sometimes than he should not desire them. https://t.…
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@q_dork @bad_tetris @Radstronomical okay okay - so me and @katbamkapow were watching it, and one thing that's great about it is the panel...
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@q_dork @bad_tetris @Radstronomical @katbamkapow ...and we commentate on the panel as much to each other as to the housemates. i want more.
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@q_dork @bad_tetris @Radstronomical @katbamkapow i want 5 layers deep of commentary. basically what i am saying is yes to this idea.
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nice feature in Time time.com/4616497/toys-tech-apps-playtime-screen-time/
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I am done for the year!
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@partytimeHXLNT I did my master's dissertation experimenting on how crickets navigate. And I interviewed Sarah Millican one time.
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RT @RealPeerReview: #ClassicNRPR: The GoPro Gaze journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474474016647369
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I did a thing for Panoramical! I'm still really proud of it! @FinjiCo/812012073790177280
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@HilariousCow @mink_ette (oh no!)
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@rclarke @KommanderKlobb @mink_ette @HilariousCow I made a twist on that once - play Top Trumps with the answers.
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@artcollisions haha! no hate! there's a reason i added the "wrong generation" option
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@artcollisions ah, I mean - if you read them when you were the same age as the protags, much more likely to cry over it.
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@artcollisions (which is the case for me and a lot of my followers, apparently)
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@KommanderKlobb @AOsher @mink_ette @HilariousCow ah, Fake Artist is still my #1 - but I've not played Rights.
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RT @mcclure111: .@srstable WATCH THE VIDEO CAREFULLY THE TRUTH IS THERE IT'S ALL THERE https://t.co/j1ZLmQFgPu
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was reminded of youtu.be/dM_ruBwYGtg earlier today, and it doesn't quite fit what i'm doing, so i'm sharing it here so as to not waste it
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the future of VR youtube.com/watch?v=T2CYLlSn1gA
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RT @patrickashe: Was in a shop earlier where the staff have to keep the back door open as a bird named Mr Bobtail comes in every day to loo…
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RT @jwaaaap: twitter game: make a poll with two options and try to get as close to equal votes as possible. score is votes/difference
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@OverlandGame I am terrified every time I put out an update on ios, and so jealous of yr toolchain here
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@ADAMATOMIC @OverlandGame this week was especially fun, because today's the day it closes for the holidays.
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@hownottodraw my advice is to just decide this feeling is exhilaration and excitement and commit to it
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@derekahmedzai sadly not!
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a fun thing i learnt today : how to get an injured cat into a cat carrier. 😟
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RT @partytimeHXLNT: Time for another entry in my top-ten most influential NES games list! #2 is Zooming Secretary. nobadmemories.com/blog/2016/12/my-ten-most-influential-nes-games-2-zooming-secretary/…
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@derekahmedzai no, it's the same for all bots - was the easiest way, they all fire off a single cronjob
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RT @fascinated: a very thorough look at the current "AI fears" by @baconmeteor idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
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@sheilamu pls tell me it wasn't as bad the second time around
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digital watches are amazing. a tiny electronic device you can buy for £15, that runs for years on a single charge.
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@GaryJKings @notquitereal they started by giving crytech $70m, so
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RT @chenoehart: @oniropolis thought Karl Friedrich Schinkel's original design was pretty inspiring when I stumbled across it. https://t.co/…
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RT @Poxican: @colindickey @chenoehart @oniropolis Both of which remind me of Andreas Gursky's photograph of the Kamiokande. https://t.co/kV…
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fixed it now
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@stephenontumblr solid lines (I didn't fix it very well)
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bot of the day: @botflora Merry Christmas, everyone!
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RT @womensart1: Land artist Sonja Hinrichsen, Snow drawings in Colorado, 2013 #womensart
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@hoskingc I watched the bee movie but every time video and they keep having to remind each other that they're bees and how bees work.
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@marie_ebooks hope your Christmas gets better
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RT @kaseyjwang: This is why #uxdesign is such an interesting space right now...
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RT @retroremakes: Beautiful work, @eurogamer! eurogamer.net/articles/2016-12-25-stephens-sausage-roll-review
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Watching the elaborate preparations of the lamb we'll have later via Instagram.
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@HarryGiles yr looking great
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"he's just an afterschool special that knows how to have fun"
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Would you give up kisses for a year in exchange for a '54 convertible (light blue)?
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@_cheesybeaver @katbamkapow everything is better now
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@kaseyjwang oh, superheated water is pretty dangerous - it can get beyond boiling point without nucleation.
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@kaseyjwang and then you jostle it, and it goes all over yr face.
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@kaseyjwang fair! I've done it before and been fine, but heard this as the reason it's dangerous.
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@mrCollaborator @ted_martens you're arguing for doing a thing repeatedly over never bothering to do a thing.
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb aww! Me too!
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cab home after a lovely Christmas & saw a fox out the window. i always think of them as good luck.
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@siobhangx Santa doesn't have time off for good behaviour.
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@siobhangx But assuming he's not planning on giving you a convertible next year, I hope you get lots of consolation kisses.
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@burrito_tim end of, if you've withheld yr kisses all year
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RT @theirishfor: A contribution of little impact could be described as '(ar nós) mún dreoilín san fharraige' - like a wren's pee in the sea.
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RT @rom_txt: FLUSH FULL HOUSE FOUR OF A KIND STRAIGHT FLUSH ROYAL FLUSH YOUR OPPONENT TAKE IT EASY WITH ME ! - #casino (Sega Master System)
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watching Kat play Watch Dogs 2, and it's got some really nice Internet Aesthetic glitchy graphics in places
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this is mainly a recommendation to spend time with @alienmelon's work, tho, which is that shit, but undiluted and optimistic.
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@notquitereal we just got to actual SF - the map is eerie, recognisable, but huge chunks missing.
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@notquitereal i mean, it was never not going to be weird, i know SF enough to expect specific places
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@notquitereal i remember being in NY for the first time and going OH, that's what those big metal things in GTA were
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for some reason I have been thinking of the game Cargo! A Quest For Gravity recently
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@mcclure111 how i do it is: GameManager has a static "instance" field, and references to a bunch of sub-managers
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@mcclure111 so if I want to report an event from a gameplay-contingent object, it reports it to one of those managers via that route
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@mcclure111 and those have a bunch of events set up, on them, so things can also subscribe to events sent from them
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@mcclure111 there's no entirely generic method for this, but it's pretty clean and straightforward.
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@mcclure111 mind you! this works best for games where most of the logic happens in one place, with entities mainly reflecting that logic
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@mcclure111 model-view separation, basically, where the models are usually singletons.
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Select an UPDATE and use the correct COMPONENTS to craft it!
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in this game, you become a member of DedSec, which gains processing power by having people install their app on their phones
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the icon for DedSec's phone app has a cursor on it. there are at least three levels of unreality to "hacking" here
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@patrickashe yes! also apparently i arrived home drunk and Explained It In Great Detail to @katbamkapow and @notquitereal recently
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it is by Ice-Pick Lodge. you build vehicles out of parts and then surprises happen.
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@3ameam @mtauraso @RealPeerReview i don't know - i've only read the full paper for a few, and they've all had decent points within
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@3ameam @mtauraso @RealPeerReview but i've only read the ones i'm genuinely interested in - so it's not a fair sampling
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@3ameam @mtauraso what i can say is that it seems very rare for @RealPeerReview to do more than look at the abstracts (i might be wrong)
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@3ameam @mtauraso @RealPeerReview if you start from believing their topics are worth investigating & their methods are appropriate, s'good.
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@3ameam @mtauraso @RealPeerReview of course - i didn't say that to justify them, but to answer your question.
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@notquitereal okay, okay, but: the description feels the need to emphasise the fact that it's an imaginary tale.
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@notquitereal there is a general problem with learning programming languages where getting a good environment set up is half the battle
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@notquitereal and it is generally covered very vaguely, or perfunctorily.
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@mcclure111 you're gonna love the answer to this one. underneath a folder called "Editor", somewhere in "Assets"
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@HonestWilliam go to bed, william
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@HonestWilliam come to bed, william
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that feeling when someone is telling you something and you're resisting it, but you're aware you are and that you shouldn't be
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the difference between "I like yr ___" as liking it, or as noticing it
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"yes, i'm being dismissive of your idea, but i promise i'll think about it properly later and get back to you"
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i'm not offended if it's the latter, but i can tell
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@haikus_by_KN I used to wear red glasses and got it a lot.
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@haikus_by_KN I don't think they disliked them. But they noticed them and wanted to comment on them, so they said "I like yr glasses"
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@haikus_by_KN (also not in the negging kind of way you're so good at)
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@haikus_by_KN ABC (Always Be Closing)
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@katbamkapow if it is the thing I think it is, then it is a good thing and will be received well
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@GalaxyKate do you have to make your own mincemeat?
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I disagree with these conclusions, if not the premises. Delinking self-worth from paid work is important, and UBI is only part of it... @jbarro/813778419074920448
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but it gives everyone a stake in keeping it going. And the other route is continued grinding resentment and blaming individuals for systems.
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@GalaxyKate mmm. Sounds great. I've made mince pies before, but only with premade mincemeat.
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My aunt's satnav is a cheery Australian chap who keeps telling us "it's time to cruise!"
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RT @compositeredfox: i don't know how to make anything else #screenshotsaturday
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@compositeredfox this is good
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RT @hollygramazio: I made up a nice quick game to play with friends over the break hollygramazio.net/blog/2016/12/28/memory-game
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@betterthemask I feel this. Last few days the answer has been: watch my housemate play videogames?
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@emshort @betterthemask @catacalypto @AboutThisLater mind you, I binge on books and series in a way which ties it into work/not-work :(
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@notquitereal if you don't know this story, you want to @Doshmanziari/814165207589261312
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@catacalypto @emshort @betterthemask @AboutThisLater I just made plans to meet up with a friend so we can work on our side project together
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RT @todd160: #gamedev #pixelart
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i'm buying some stuff on Steam (Tattletail, Sunless Sea, Cities: Skylines), maybe I should buy one more thing too. but what?
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(here are games i liked this year: v21.io/blog/2016-goty/)
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@edclef oh boo, Windows only :<
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@chenoehart i find this easy to justify: money is nice, big projects are depressing
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i was gonna get nu-Doom (or, as @edclef suggested, Abzu), but both are Windows only. So I got Beglitched.
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Seven simultaneous satnavs, each running a different algorithm.
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RT @stugone: A colleague once told me that an Enter Shikari gig in Inverness, the singer shouted "EA SPORTS" and the crowd shouted "IT'S IN…
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@GalaxyKate forwarded to my relevant friend!
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RT @GalaxyKate: Last chance to be in our *first ever* class of MS/PhDs in Computational Media Diversity of background, gender, race, tech/…
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@rclarke there were definitely 10 great games in 2016, but that list is either good games, or games I imagine are good.
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@rclarke definitely more than, too.
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@chenoehart you define your desires around possibility
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@OwlsEatMice no
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@OwlsEatMice but it is very "Bee Movie"
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@machinestarts good
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@_imokurok @_cheesybeaver i am good friends with her, and have enthusiastically discussed earlier versions of this
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@_imokurok @_cheesybeaver the discomfort is deliberate, and the game as described is only among consenting players
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@rclarke i mean, probably, but "games that are great" is a superset of "games I played, enjoyed, and thought were great"
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@rclarke like... you work in mobile games, and only one mobile game was great this year?
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@rclarke (it's not - my list was games I played and liked)
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@droqen not always! Also the rate-limiting can vary across login attempts and sign up attempts.
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@droqen (not always : sometimes there's money involved, or the other credential is an email address that needs verification)
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@_cheesybeaver @_imokurok I think yes? An analogous situation is consenting to being woken up by oral sex.
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@_cheesybeaver @_imokurok like, I feel it's fascinating, would enthusiastically play, and accept my memory is plastic & unreliable.
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@rclarke ah, this is a year where I realised that the critical consensus around me only looked at a very small slice of the games that exist
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@_cheesybeaver @_imokurok oh, it totally can do harm. But: drink, drugs, ill-advised partners all do, too, and I'd not prohibit those.
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@_cheesybeaver @_imokurok (and cheer them on, in principle, and for some people in some circumstances)
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@jmhodges the main reason I don't put https on my personal site is I want something to visit to check if a hotspot works, or connect to it
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@jmhodges wait, okay. the main reason is laziness. but the main excuse is.
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@notquitereal dogs vs dogs, but also
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RT @ksheely: .@80lbGorilla well my friend built a machine that makes blood run down the wall when someone dies in a Counter-Strike server h…
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@HonestWilliam everything I advise is in your best interests
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@katbamkapow ❤️
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@notquitereal I do have a short username! That's true!
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this ad seems super "yes, whatever" until you read the mentions & realise your standards are too high @OldNavy/812024947350667264
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"normalisation"
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@hownottodraw but i'm drunk now!
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@dreamfeelx if my direction of travel the past 5 years has been from loud to sweet, i am very happy with it.
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@dreamfeelx these tweets have made posting that worthwhile in itself. also: experienced?! i'm just about experienced now!
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@dreamfeelx i mean, mainly i'm just thinking "man, i could have fronted that confidence way further/faster than i did"
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@lingmops a little of both, i think. also: this space used to be ours, now we have to share it with terrible people.
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@lingmops <3 don't worry, i'm still a great person to be around
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@lingmops (but i'm sad we're only internet friends again - i'll let you know if i'm around near you any time)
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@hownottodraw now's your window to ask me questions and have me answer with some booze in me. or else... most times we meet.
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@hownottodraw yes. are you worried you're not?
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RT @nielsen_holly: Finally got Frog Prince, which looks dark green but goes on a delicate pink. I fucking love lipstick. https://t.co/pfzlV…
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When Kentucky Route Zero is finished, I want to get a cinema and show it all back-to-back.
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Who knew the Great American Novel would turn out to be an episodic videogame?
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@spacetreasured it's absolutely not worth waiting til it's finished to play it, if that's yr concern
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@dreamfeelx i did not! but i do now! thanks for the reminder!
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yes! i've wondered about this too:porn gifs connected to a female audience for porn, and a counterexample to the cliche "women want stories" @RealPeerReview/814514068501524480
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ah! and I just saw that the lead author is @HelenHester!
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@PhillCameron oh yes - but the cliche of porn for women is that they want Plot.
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@tburrellsaward no, sorry
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having read the full paper : the case study of female fans of James Deen has certainly got more complex nuances since this was written
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@DanielMorsing yup - sci-hub is a beautiful thing
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RT @haikus_by_KN: A voice actor remarking how weird it is that our industry keeps taking its cues from the tech sector. Well indeed. https:…
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RT @gillianmsmith: Hoopla generates “collections” of embroideries intended to go together now. Curation just got both harder and more fun.…
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RT @justvanrossum: About the nonlinearity of kerning.
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@katbamkapow emotions are prohibited @MammonMachine/814562642505265152
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quinoa surprise! an open packet of quinoa falling out of a high cupboard
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ah! i just read this comic and it is beautiful in a very specific way, and also cute & cosmic gigidigi.itch.io/lady
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@gigideegee i literally just followed you after reading Lady of the Shard, and I work in small-scale games.
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@gigideegee (designer/programmer on @beastsofbalance, part of @WildRumpus and @nowplaythese, and generally active in the indie space)
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@gigideegee and i would love to see you working in games! feel free to hit me up if you want advice/intros.
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@Citrushistrix yes! i just saw that existed. will have to read it at a time i'm not hiding from work :)
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@Citrushistrix i just imagined you & them teaming up on a game & got excited.
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@hannahnicklin that's a very nice skirt.
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RT @fillegrossiere: i luv doing comedic bits to create my own false reality which inevitably becomes my actual reality bc i forget it's a b…
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RT @pangmeli: like a story @neville_park told me where a man dug his own grave & the next day he went back to die in it but someone had alr…
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@nationofseals @theonejrf @RealPeerReview they don't engage the way i'd like them to- i'd like them to at least read more than the abstracts
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@mousefountain as everyone learns in their first 30 minutes with Blender...
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@nationofseals @theonejrf @RealPeerReview they don't make fun of any of the bits in the full paper. or link to full papers.
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@_Canidae @nationofseals @theonejrf @RealPeerReview indeed! but usually you can find a pre-print on the author's site, or get it elsewhere
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@nationofseals @_Canidae @theonejrf @RealPeerReview and i have no right to demand things - but still, that's how i wish they engaged.
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RT @jimrossignol: Atmospherics of the South West.
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@mcclure111 yr problem is, as it says, related to the non-thread-safety of the Unity API
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@mcclure111 though I also like the approach of GetComponentsInChildren<GameObject>() (will also return this.gameObject, I think)
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@Michael_French haha - i heard they had the first 3 on on successive afternoons... and then Crystal Skull shunted off at midnight
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@torpedoladle @nationofseals @theonejrf @RealPeerReview I only follow to surface papers I might find interesting to read, so.
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@katierosepipkin your expression!! 💖
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@lizardengland haha. Yep, I did both lists and my didn't play list was longer and more incomplete.
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@3liza there's a small army of costume designers out there, quietly saving us from ourselves
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RT @Emojipedia: 🕎 Menorah With Nine Branches has been updated in latest Twemoji release emojipedia.org/menorah-with-nine-branches/
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RT @kennethfejer: To fill out the 128x128 texture I added a shark #lowpoly #pixelart
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@terrycavanagh @@@@@@ Sneak Sneak Deeper and Deeper (dunno if this works)
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RT @CoolBoxArt: Charumera / PlayStation / Victor Interactive Software / 1999
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RT @unicode_birds: ⋀ ⍋ ⍋ ⩓ Λ ꒢ Ѧ 八 ᙁ ∧ Λ ᗋ
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I kind of want her to be an NPC in a RPG
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@adrielbeaver @OxyOxspring tbh, some reinforcement that your english is pretty good already sounds like just the ticket
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@adrielbeaver @OxyOxspring i guess what i'm saying is that more confidence in yr own abilities sounds like a good way to improve
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@MaizeWallin reinforced concrete is such a wonder
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@mcclure111 @ragzouken it feels like if a thing early in the next frame takes ages, it might also be delayed cuz of that?
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RT @menubot: Welcome to Kugler's Marine Grill, would you care for the menu? menus.nypl.org/menus/30462
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I have half an hour of bus til I'm home, send me things to read pls
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@merrittk thank you
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@katbamkapow oh, I am so glad. What a good way to end the year!
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RT @pippinbarr: Quiet Agency in Three Narrative Games pippinbarr.com/2016/12/30/quiet-agency-in-three-narrative-games/
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RT @_roland_barthes: Everything signifies: by this proposition, I entrap myself, I bind myself in calculations, I keep myself from enjoymen…
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Much respect to people who make tops with cut-out shoulders work for them.
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I played the Nier demo and now I'm playing Journey (for the first time). Interesting to compare, weirdly - if anything Journey is gamier?
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Like, until I finally died, none of the currencies in Nier had any bite (except strong attack recharge). Journey is all about the scarf.
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Thinking on this thread @ADAMATOMIC/807563523631042560 and how it's actually fine for systems to not mean anything sometimes.
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thecatamites plays with this - the feeling of item get, number up, but pure aesthetic, no consequence attached at all
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@hownottodraw do you want a new hobby, or a fun thing to play start to finish?
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@hownottodraw or a bunch of fun new toys to fiddle with for a bit
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@hownottodraw how do you feel about puzzles?
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@hownottodraw naw, genuinely trying to be helpful here
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@hownottodraw if you haven't tried any yet, a Zachtronics game? It's a bit programmy, but open-ended solutions, sucks you in and p soothing.
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@hownottodraw (the new one is Shenzen IO, which I've heard is good. I've played TIS 1000 and it's def good)
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@hownottodraw actually I was thinking about Hap Inc's stuff for ios. Hidden My Game By Mom is outstanding.
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@hownottodraw (but it's not something you'll get sucked into for hours)
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@hownottodraw KRZ is v v v good - but probably best played like you would watch a film franchise? With a glass of wine over some evenings
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RT @katbamkapow: i am playing!!! here are the games!!! kathrynbrewster.com/blog/2016/12/31/top-ten-games-of-2016
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@moreelen you can make it! i believe in you!
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@LichLike strong agree. she's so great
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RT @pangmeli: this feels like how my subconscious comes up with composite-settings for my dreams
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whew! somehow managed to spend the last day of the year slowly going from happy to anxious? good good
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Drinking some port and listening to ballboy's Club Anthems before heading out to a party. This album still gets me ballboy.bandcamp.com/album/club-anthems-2001
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@SK_Louie me too!
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@katierosepipkin haha. i like you slightly stunned and disbelieving.