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Tweets from 2016/12

  1. 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…
  2. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @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.
  3. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk @christinelove I called the brother Chad.
  4. …in reply to @hownottodraw
  5. "you're simply alone in your own home"
  6. this is a really good poster @christianmccrea/804174373904973824
  7. c'mon freedom of movement! @georgeeaton/804262152173481984
  8. 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…
  9. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe good feeling?
  10. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe does your text box support actual emojis, though? got all your astral plane support working?
  11. …in reply to @patrickashe
  12. whoop whoop - review in Tabletop Magazine
  13. 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…
  14. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz glowy! (sorry i didn't come round and play with legos yesterday)
  15. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz then i am sorry i didn't come round and play with LEGO™ yesterday
  16. bot of the day: @howitsmadeup i hear the narrator's voice when i read these tweets
  17. …in reply to @kevinwatters
    @kevinwatters as a Londoner, my instinctive reaction is "but that's just rude!"
  18. …in reply to @kevinwatters
    @kevinwatters i have nothing but sympathy? finding change for buses is the worst
  19. saw this screenshot and was immediately ready to buy @ADAMATOMIC/804356262708252672
  20. …in reply to @v21
    i did linguistics at uni and i remember having good fun figuring out toki pona's syntax and vocab from some translations
  21. …in reply to @v21
    that's basically a game, right there. of course, i then dropped linguistics because i got the very minimum grade required for a pass.
  22. …in reply to @v21
    fun fact:
  23. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike our generation is also like... really sincere, though.
  24. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike mmm. maybe i wasn't, either. but a tolerance of ambiguity helps with sincerity. idk.
  25. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy online tech-focused outlets did - but they're not the world. wider press largely ignored, or went for false-equivalence
  26. @radiatoryang I saw your livestream last night and it was very good! Also @vectorpoem's comments were a treat.
  27. RT @AnnapurnaPics: Very proud to announce our new gaming/interactive department. 🕹 // theverge.com/2016/12/1/13805396/annapurna-pictures-new-interactive-indie-game-publishing
  28. RT @tburrellsaward: We’re currently at 7.8 on BGG! Blimey!
  29. RT @jonbro: Game I worked on, in a store, at the mall, holy shit!!! this is so cool :) cc @beastsofbalance
  30. i got a projector, and now maybe my thing will be watching my friends' twitch streams?
  31. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox yeah, that'd be nice, let's hang out on the internet some time
  32. 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.
  33. …in reply to @v21
    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
  34. …in reply to @v21
    and that strength has inspired me to finally do a bunch of spelunking around in bank statements. so: thank you.
  35. 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…
  36. 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…
  37. RT @hannahnicklin: A ~very~ accurate portrait of my home. Literal towns&villages that fed the school I went to. The most Brexit county: htt…
  38. …in reply to @undefined
    @_angie2525 @softlandscapes ah! yes, of course.
  39. …in reply to @Dead_Account64
    @haloskeletonLBP @softlandscapes sure, it's yours
  40. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz you can do it. I believe in you *pictures you floating free, hair everywhere like an astronaut*
  41. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew saussige dog!
  42. 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)
  43. it is Christmas playlist time! listening to @hannahnicklin's youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu8FWBps6OiM0a53Nh5DiRXcVWpg55f6M and plotting my own.
  44. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt this is gooood. unsolicited ideas: switch avatar sprite to one that's more horizontal when underwater.
  45. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou unstick, stack carefully, put half of it up in new place
  46. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt two feels like it's plenty, in this style?
  47. 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
  48. 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…
  49. every question is answered by this chart @hollygramazio/804688172429037568
  50. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow nice glitch you got there
  51. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @AOsher I'm so excited for our found videogames thing to come out.
  52. RT @menubot: 1999 menu for Zen Palate menus.nypl.org/menus/29322
  53. …in reply to @mtrc
    @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)
  54. …in reply to @v21
    @mtrc @chrisamaphone b) no - generative aesthetics are just different. a nanogenmo that didn't lean into that would likely be shit.
  55. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow sadly Rumpus House has been downsized this year, so don't think we have space. but will keep an ear out.
  56. RT @grafikmag: Enjoy some factual fun on the South Coast with @Dick_Hogg and @crispinfinn: buff.ly/2gnZlbI
  57. RT @GiddyUpYaHorse: Soon, they had to dismount as the prairie had become too crowded with bleached white cow skulls Something horrible had…
  58. RT @leighalexander: the revelation that we unconsciously populate our lives mainly with people like us or who reinforce our own power is to…
  59. 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…
  60. RT @john_brindle: Unrelatedly, I have stumbled on an amazing site which generates fake acronym meanings from astrology + LETTER SHAPE to sq…
  61. i was waiting impatiently for the end of the work day, but i have just realised it is an hour earlier than i thought
  62. …in reply to @v21
    ugh, fine, i'll do some more work
  63. i want to make repeating rubber stamps of these tiles @lorenschmidt/804736228402851843
  64. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox it's true, though
  65. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork too bad, later timezone sucka, it's already friday night & i'm eating pancakes! (also i have to work tomorrow, but shhh)
  66. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt nice boots
  67. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork you don't get to judge me!
  68. …in reply to @v21
    @q_dork (i arrived home and i had no proper food in the house... tbh, I was pretty impressed at my resourcefulness)
  69. a good website: cyberden.com/cyberden/
  70. …in reply to @v21
  71. RT @howitsmadeup: The limbs go into a vibrating tub filled with ceramic stones that rub against the limbs. This washes away insects and fro…
  72. 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/
  73. …in reply to @v21
    😎
  74. also i wrote about making games to fall asleep to, which intersects interestingly with some recent softworld chat v21.io/blog/falling-alseep/
  75. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw @katbamkapow i was on twitter and kat was sneaking around knocking out witches so i read her these tweets
  76. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw @katbamkapow she said "thanks, Kate Gray"
  77. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw @katbamkapow "i'm the best at sneaking"
  78. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw i'm about to change your life in a very small way twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ahownottodraw%20nose%20milk&src=typd
  79. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw sorry! no judgement was felt - i am just Into Twitter's Search Function.
  80. …in reply to @v21
    @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)
  81. RT @BabelStone: Tudor scribe practicing the England flag emoji, which (together with Scotland and Wales flags) is unfairly excluded from Un…
  82. Ladykiller in a Bind status: I'm at the choice which goes [WRONG] [WRONG] [WRONG] [CORRECT]
  83. …in reply to @v21
    I think there is a Difficult Moral Choice coming up. (the tone of these tweets should be read as "gleeful")
  84. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk "musky onset"
  85. 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…
  86. Christmas is here!
  87. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly maybe the problem is that you missed my tweet just now @v21/805010929368887296
  88. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz not sure, it isn't mine
  89. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw not Super Hexagon?
  90. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i thought you meant I-frames, like from MPEG. Like... reality is compressed via a series of delta-changes, with resyncs?
  91. …in reply to @v21
    @LichLike (then I read it again, and stopped this kind of vague exploratory thinking)
  92. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i-frames are the part of the video file you remove in order to get this effect: vimeo.com/3139412
  93. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i am quite tired and sitting in a chain cafe in a large mall in the deep surburbs, and Last Christmas is playing
  94. Sitting in an EAT in Bluewater. They're playing Last Christmas.
  95. RT @lucyasun: @SPllck @RealAvocadoFact @sethdmichaels wehoa it turns out POGs have an excellent origins story https://t.co/NtNB32z6PQ
  96. …in reply to @v21
    i was demoing at John Lewis today. it's really informative to pitch yr game to wildly different audiences.
  97. …in reply to @v21
    also, fuck, but this career has taken me to some varied places.
  98. you really only need to receive one or two emails a year, if they're good enough emails
  99. RT @KOOPMode: Proud to announce Lara Croft GO: The Mirror of Spirits - a brand new chapter that we’ve created in collaboration with @Square…
  100. RT @PastebinRecent: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o…
  101. …in reply to @edmundmcmillen
    @edmundmcmillen American centrism is consistently to the right of British centrism.Which middle is true, mine or yours? Or someplace else's?
  102. "And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it" @katbamkapow/805195261865852928
  103. I tried out some Hitman, and it is such a videogame. A game of dressing up and eavesdropping conversations, punctuated by occasional murders
  104. …in reply to @v21
    Where once again you play someone with a magical superpower of being able to load and try again if you fail.
  105. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal Jack when I realised the back of the boat was fake I immediately understood why you love this game so much.
  106. 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:
  107. …in reply to @v21
    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))
  108. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke whoa, I missed the news about the Whitechapel Foundry. Oh no.
  109. …in reply to @chenoehart
    @chenoehart @aeleitch I have seen other posters from this campaign myself.
  110. …in reply to @v21
    @chenoehart @aeleitch I thought this too: but actually I think I'm okay with it. Nothing that easily leads back to particular people.
  111. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark let's make them fight every step of the way, though? and at that step, i dunno what more the Democrats can do.
  112. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark yeah, i hear you.
  113. RT @metasynthie: Critique so savage, like evil geek Tim Gunn savage, that I can almost look past Stan Lee's innumerable credit-controlling…
  114. …in reply to @hondanhon
    @hondanhon oh flip, i forgot about this. i need to change my domain. :<
  115. …in reply to @GhostTownGoldie
    @GhostTownGoldie option e) just jump in
  116. …in reply to @GhostTownGoldie
    @GhostTownGoldie i like to jump in kinda carelessly, then float around underwater for a few seconds. really feel the buoyancy.
  117. …in reply to @GhostTownGoldie
    @GhostTownGoldie ☺️ maybe i will go for a swim tomorrow!
  118. The Clockwork Mansion in D2 struck me as level designers being Very Pleased With Themselves. I don't love it. This is a subtweet.
  119. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe thanks for reminding me I'm out of plain white flour.
  120. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc I wished I could have just hung out with the witches, rather than fucking their shit up. They seemed cool.
  121. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow that blurb, oh my god, I do not care (I am someone who sometimes writes sharers for a living, here)
  122. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc the problem with the witches is that they are all pals with Delilah, who must be evil because she personally victimised *me*.
  123. …in reply to @v21
    @hoskingc abolish the monarchy
  124. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc like also Jindosh was a dick, but if Solokov (*our* pet inventor) made cool new weapons we would've been thrilled.
  125. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc same! Watched @katbamkapow start the next one, so I know it's the same formula as the previous few.
  126. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc yeah, it's pretty textual. Curious about how all this looks if you play as Corvo.
  127. …in reply to @v21
    @hoskingc I'm aware I'm kinda moaning for More Narrative Agency, which is usually bullshit. But. Feels like the semi-silent, sympathetic...
  128. …in reply to @v21
    @hoskingc... but kinda not protagonist is an awkward middle ground between someone I can project myself onto and someone I can roleplay.
  129. Whoa, dangerous stuff here. @artideabot/805391580106518528
  130. …in reply to @Dick_Hogg
    @Dick_Hogg their little jumps at the end!!
  131. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC okay, BUT. This can be used for good effect. I was just watching youtu.be/sqlCHrbVzQc and thinking about Deadly Premonition.
  132. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC the gestures Zach does are so specific, so repeated, they become texture. They become something that holds the game together.
  133. I just learned about this whole thing with Irish water. EU-imposed water billing, successfully opposed by people just not paying.
  134. 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...
  135. …in reply to @v21
    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
  136. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I had to go back and check that was a 91 yr secret. Really??
  137. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow poinsettias are getting down with the kids
  138. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow "people need to buy more poinsettias" says owner of biggest poinsettia company.
  139. thread which sadly doesn't end up being a meet-cute with the Metro section editor @shockproofbeats/805384307862884352
  140. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @polclarissou of course, once you do have actual gays, everyone is super hard on them for not being Every Gay.
  141. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal @polclarissou (the solution to this is also More Gay)
  142. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw this is the sweetest thing!
  143. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw oh, Oliver Bonas, that makes sense, they have good stuff there.
  144. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw and MAYBE. but then I'll have to get a tree, and all the rest of the decorations.
  145. Had a lovely evening helping @sheilamu and @LovedayBrooke decorate their tree while watching Die Hard. Which was interrupted by watching...
  146. …in reply to @v21
    Unfriended, which I definitely recommend. It's a cheap horror film with teenagers BUT the whole thing is set within a girl's laptop.
  147. …in reply to @v21
    They properly commit to it, too. Dramatic moments of tension as a character revises an IM. Skype buffering at the worst time.
  148. …in reply to @v21
    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?
  149. RT @dhindes: EVE Online battles take so long that the after-action reports are incredible imperium.news/assault-m-oee8-keepstar/
  150. …in reply to @v21
    And! I was reading something good recently about the white walls of the suburban American homes so omnipresent in online video. It gets that
  151. 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/
  152. …in reply to @cbdarden
    @cbdarden @beastsofbalance this is a good point and we'll look into it.
  153. 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…
  154. RT @scotslassnow: @gmpolice why do you have to rename the horses? Is it to do with their training?
  155. RT @gmpolice: @scotslassnow Nearly all of our horses are renamed after characters or places in Charles Dickens novels.
  156. 2007 vs 2016
  157. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver i've had that shirt over ten years - wish i'd found an old photo wearing it
  158. …in reply to @santaragione
    @santaragione hahaha. i forget i am a mysterious anonymous internet person sometimes
  159. …in reply to @v21
    @santaragione mind you, you're not even a person, so
  160. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood yeah! s'posed to be 2006 vs now, but my facebook doesn't go back that far
  161. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow have you considered - the continuous swirling motion that puts the candyfloss on the stick?
  162. …in reply to @v21
    @HilariousCow have you considered : the slow gentle easing of the hair that pulls the entire clump out of the plughole?
  163. …in reply to @v21
    @HilariousCow have you considered : the first blow of the sledgehammer that puts a hole through a breezeblock wall?
  164. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow oh! the twisting of the carving knife that separates a joint
  165. what's the most disgusting satisfying action to perform? @HilariousCow/805765004398120960
  166. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow nah mate. check my quote RT
  167. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn @HilariousCow okay, FOR THE RECORD, I posted that quote RT before i got this message.
  168. …in reply to @CelDavison
    @_mynameischuck can't - work work :/ have fun! 🌱
  169. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain i signed up and no-one asked me a thing :<
  170. it's that time! chasing bugs so awkward you have to start a googledoc to track clues you've gleaned.
  171. …in reply to @v21
    nothing is certain. the best you can get is that the evidence very strongly indicates something.
  172. …in reply to @v21
    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!"
  173. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz yep! still got free weekday evenings, even approaching xmas. just let me know when!
  174. …in reply to @johnokane
    @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
  175. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver @bonaneh if it helps, I'm also judging yr instant mashed potatoes.
  176. 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…
  177. …in reply to @mjmcmaster
    @mjmcmaster okay, but better : pulling the whole of the white bit from the center with the skin.
  178. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @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.
  179. 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.)…
  180. tbf, I am also low-key cross about the colonial attitude implicit in Yorkshire Tea's branding @YorkshireTea/805902905874194432
  181. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow buzz buzz vtwentyone@gmail.com
  182. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes oof, yeah, somehow I didn't even properly clock that part.
  183. Ugh, sexy dreams about inappropriate people.
  184. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow love this comment:
  185. please err on the side of assuming that when people said a funny thing, it didn't happen by accident
  186. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal are their hands and legs tied?
  187. on youtube recently i have seen two really good adverts for mobile games. i'm surprised!
  188. …in reply to @v21
    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
  189. …in reply to @v21
    (it was like a Lucky Frame game, but with exactly mobile social game aesthetics. like actually slightly retro mobile social game aesthetics)
  190. …in reply to @v21
    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
  191. …in reply to @v21
    it was immediately comprehensible (as someone who has played those games before, ever). that's all that happened. single static shot.
  192. …in reply to @v21
    (the tension was: will the advancing wave be enough? it was good narrative tension)
  193. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo it's been that way for years! but yeah. i have vivid memories of that game.
  194. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @patrickashe I still vaguely expect that roguelikes will have diagonal movement and will be played on a numpad.
  195. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette i still haven't played it! but feel like i need to rectify that, now.
  196. …in reply to @v21
  197. …in reply to @undefined
    @digitalsqand it's interesting (sometimes really hard) watching friends within the orbits of both art & tech
  198. …in reply to @v21
    @digitalsqand a shift in context can redeem or destroy a sense of whether you're a worthwhile person/stupidly well paid/neither.
  199. "a self-facilitating media node"
  200. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw urk. was waiting/looking for that shit, and was pleasantly surprised not to have found it. but it found you :/
  201. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw not much you can do, but - the reason they're so salty is because games don't belong to them any more.
  202. RT @sokpopco: (o) (o) |_| BAMBOO EP |_| |_| - |_|/ |_|/ coming |_| |_| next we…
  203. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw Twitter is just fine for nuance, people just like reading things in a self-serving way.
  204. …in reply to @v21
    @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.
  205. RT @DavidLublin: Looking forward to this Nielson report… “The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think” – https://t.co/…
  206. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie my brother is also in that line of work :/ he does item & gold sales on Maple Story.
  207. RT @benbrignell: @v21 they are here they are here!
  208. …in reply to @benbrignell
    @benbrignell ah-hahahahah :D
  209. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie yeah, not exactly the same.
  210. …in reply to @v21
    @metasynthie it's pretty interesting, tho! because of the way Maple Story works, there's an amount of manual work to courier items.
  211. …in reply to @v21
    @metasynthie plus big potential for fraud. think he's ended up managing that courier network & connecting buyers & sellers.
  212. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin i downloaded it from the ad, but yet to give it a try. happy if it's as creative as it seemed!
  213. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @MaizeWallin "My Singing Monsters"
  214. shiny new accessible online node.js environment : gomix.com
  215. …in reply to @v21
    I might get a tracery example up on there tonight.
  216. RT @toongif: “Alice in Wonderland” Walt Disney (1951) randar.com/post/146656385039/alice-in-wonderland-1951
  217. RT @lorenschmidt: thinking about fonts and the feel of interface elements for "Goodnight Traffic City". here are some of my favorite refere…
  218. "we'll have one of everything on the menu"
  219. RT @FishTankBot: 🚤⚪⛵⚪🚤⚪⚪⚪ 🔵🔵🐋🔵🔵🐟🔵🔵 🔵🔵🐠🔵🔵🔵🐡🔵 🔵🐠🔵🔵🐢🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🐠🔵🔵🔵🔵 🌾🐌🌿🔮🌿🌿🌱🌿
  220. …in reply to @undefined
    @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
  221. 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/
  222. …in reply to @v21
    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.
  223. …in reply to @v21
    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.
  224. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver I love it, I love the whole thing.
  225. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain wolf wasn't ready to look that good
  226. 2006 vs 2016 tells me I should take & post more selfies
  227. …in reply to @undefined
    @digitalsqand hey, OpenGL is still kicking, and still the most widespread API out there. Not untroubled, but not unsuccessful.
  228. 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/
  229. RT @nowplaythese: We're particularly interested in landscape, duration, playable objects, and proposals or prototypes for games that were n…
  230. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle nah, send it all in
  231. 2006 vs 2016 : it's so lovely seeing people become themselves.
  232. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite I was thinking about the co-ordination needed to deal cards really competently on Monday night.
  233. 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
  234. this is a collection of work by some of the best people i know @santaragione/806482641381949440
  235. …in reply to @v21
    (seriously - at that point there were v few commercial autonomous robotics companies, and half the research money came from DARPA)
  236. …in reply to @v21
    i remember a paper on procedurally generating gaits for alien races in the background of animated sci-fi movies that DARPA sponsored
  237. …in reply to @v21
    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.
  238. …in reply to @haze_s1
    @haze______ @ammonite ahhah, yeah, i like that with Codenames. someone's dithering, so you just turn it over. non-verbal communication!
  239. a shocking development @tigershungry/806492804188897280
  240. good thread on how to hire women! @LiaSae/806501202473189376
  241. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 it's a Unity-only Mono language (written in Boo) which is semantically basically C#, and superficially syntactically a bit JSey.
  242. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 yes, I know.
  243. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 yeah, sadly not. but you might be interested in @ra's work on running Clojure inside Unity.
  244. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 and, now that there's a decent WebGL build option, you could maybe make a bridge for running Unity from actual JS code.
  245. End paper design from Our Friend the Atom, Disney, 1956 (recoloured) @archillect/806523678515195904
  246. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @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
  247. …in reply to @rich_lem
    @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.
  248. 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…
  249. here's the first bot on Cheap Bots, Done Quick! twitter.com/cant_miss_it
  250. is it worth playing if you know you can't win?
  251. …in reply to @jwaaaap
    @jwaaaap who knows?
  252. …in reply to @rich_lem
    @rich_lem it is curated, but as part of that we have an open call. it's here: nowplaythis.net/contribute/
  253. …in reply to @v21
    @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"
  254. RT @8fldh: My keyboard is good now
  255. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike my two takeaways are: ahhh! you got the gatosaurio tshirt! and, obv, @v21/806473187026419713
  256. RT @nyt_diff: Change in Title
  257. RT @DBanksy: Every day, in every way, I love the Supreme Court Justices a little bit more... @_Jardy_/806603767177236480/photo/1
  258. RT @TopChessMoves: The Slovenia Defense of The Hantstemshiema-Owesll Attack on The Netherlands Attack on Jerg's Game: Jeren Trap https://t.…
  259. RT @internetofshit: TIL bluetooth + adult toys = very difficult news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13128956
  260. flip flip flip flip flip. i am excited for this game! @tocaboca/806048943549386752
  261. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw how am i gonna carry on living this indie dev life now that my secret is out?
  262. …in reply to @v21
    someone should write an article on intimacy in videogames through the lens of Toca Boca Hair Salon
  263. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite in your copious free time, no doubt
  264. …in reply to @hownottodraw
  265. what product is most widely used for a purpose the seller specifically tells you not to use it for?
  266. …in reply to @v21
    best i've got is q-tips and nitrous oxide canisters
  267. …in reply to @kierongillen
    @kierongillen ooh - i think they generally just don't endorse it...?
  268. …in reply to @SilverSober
    @SilverSober what are you not supposed to do with bubble wrap?
  269. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh ick ick ick
  270. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver you mean the intended use or the actual one? sposed to be for making whipped cream, actually it's for getting high
  271. …in reply to @v21
    @_cheesybeaver (except i get bad deja vu, so i don't do it any more)
  272. …in reply to @undefined
  273. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver i mean, it's just deja vu, but it's disorienting and detaches me from reality in a unpleasant way
  274. …in reply to @lingmops
    @lingmops friends have one in their living room which (obviously enough) only gets used for it's stated purpose.
  275. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone I don't have any academic references, only 90s British comedy references : youtube.com/watch?v=pCPRqmMsKYI
  276. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow @dreamfeelx @jawsew i have that in a list to play! maybe i will this evening!
  277. about me: i lurked barbelith, but never got around to joining
  278. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i gotta buy some xmas cards first, but sure
  279. RT @v21: Here is the start of Alphabet by Inger Christensen (translated by Susanna Nied) for National Poetry Day
  280. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore haha. there's you and @esaxey i know of for sure who were on there.
  281. @drinkrelaxplay oi oi - have you got Betrayal at House on the Hill in?
  282. …in reply to @LiToast
    @LiToast neurotypical people have a pretty tricky time of it, too. not being clueless at this kind of stuff is hard learning.
  283. …in reply to @v21
    @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 ...
  284. …in reply to @v21
    @LiToast ... as long as you also spend time trying to help people to get up on it, try to improve yr process, etc.
  285. …in reply to @v21
    @LiToast (open ended and vague qs are a balance between being clear about what you want, and trying not to pre-exclude stuff)
  286. …in reply to @LoadingBar
    @drinkrelaxplay what's that, then? it sounds rubbish
  287. …in reply to @LiToast
    @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 & &
  288. …in reply to @v21
    @LiToast so, it's hard to be specific about what we want, because what we want is so project specific.
  289. …in reply to @v21
    @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)
  290. …in reply to @LiToast
    @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?
  291. …in reply to @LiToast
    @LiToast ah! that's good to hear. thanks for looking, too.
  292. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle we're the younger generation, we grew up fast - all the others did drugs, they're taking it out on us.
  293. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow you guys are too much
  294. …in reply to @kierongillen
    @kierongillen @ForgetAmnesia with private feedback, it feels like harsh honesty is something you often need to earn with friendship.
  295. RT @v21: is it worth playing if you know you can't win?
  296. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz oh no, but it's the best, tho
  297. …in reply to @v21
    @vivschwarz anyway, deliberate obstinate literal-mindedness should get you through. It's really only a weird way of responding in kind, tho
  298. RT @colebrax: A nearly 71-year-old Fred Astaire getting down at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970:
  299. RT @YORIYUKIII: every day like a petal
  300. I feel like I've personally let down Miyazaki. @somebadideas/807141424030486530
  301. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @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.
  302. …in reply to @v21
    @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"
  303. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @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.
  304. …in reply to @v21
    @vivschwarz it's a valuable reminder! i know i'll fail sometimes, but this helps me to try harder.
  305. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @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
  306. …in reply to @mathmarcault
  307. super interesting approaches to making physical games with digital components mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2016/12/09/playable-patterns/
  308. …in reply to @graspee
    @graspee the problem was carelessly making something hurtful.
  309. …in reply to @graspee
    @graspee everything has that potential, and you should think about what that potential is and whether you want to go there.
  310. …in reply to @v21
    @graspee (you'll miss it sometimes, and you'll decide to risk potential harm for larger purposes often - but you should think about it)
  311. …in reply to @v21
    @graspee their response (or lack of it) shows they didn't even think about that aspect. that's where i worry about being.
  312. RT @somegoodboys: check out this innovative boy
  313. some good boys over here: @somegoodboys
  314. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @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.
  315. RT @sarahjeong: ............ and that, my friends, is what the Kardashian lawyers claimed Blac Chyna's trademark did 👀
  316. mobile dev problems : working out how to tell iOS not to upgrade in German
  317. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz it was "Später", but that's close
  318. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz drawing books sounds like a nicer life, tbh
  319. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful you can do it!
  320. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @whatisian I took it personally because I studied exactly that kind of procedural locomotion generation. I could've worked on it
  321. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall @whatisian and there's definitely a bunch of value there (but see my tweets from a few days back, primarily for the military)
  322. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall @whatisian if you've thought about these critiques and decided it's valuable anyway, then go for it, great
  323. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall @whatisian but they hadn't thought about it, and I don't know I would've, either.
  324. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @lauraehall @whatisian I could easily see myself saying all the things they said. Maybe a slightly younger me? Like, at best.
  325. …in reply to @doam
    @doam @vectorpark @edclef @lauraehall @whatisian yeah - not about replacing people as about discovering what's good about computers.
  326. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou yeah, the thing about riso printing is it's a cheap way to own a litho-ish quality printer.
  327. …in reply to @v21
    @polclarissou which only helps you if you want to own the printer, or hang out with the people that do.
  328. …in reply to @v21
    @polclarissou if you want Internet printing, there's probably better options.
  329. …in reply to @v21
    @polclarissou (Internet printing is a bad way to put weird inks on weird paper)
  330. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate @roomthily ah, I can't find the footage @tburrellsaward shot of hair getting plugged into doll's heads in China
  331. …in reply to @v21
    @GalaxyKate @roomthily @tburrellsaward its similar to this, except the fingers are much closer to the pointy end.
  332. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou I vaguely have a project for a riso machine... I should actually get on with it, eh?
  333. …in reply to @v21
    @polclarissou haunted by the offer of a free almost working riso machine a while back (where would I have put it???)
  334. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou "almost working"
  335. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou yeah, I made the right decision. But still!!!
  336. give me strength not to eat midnight chicken on this walk home from the train
  337. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe if I weaken now, I'm definitely getting worse chicken than I could've had earlier
  338. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian I used to live off Mile End Road - but New Cross to Deptford has enough.
  339. …in reply to @somegoodboys
    @somegoodboys too much
  340. 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:/…
  341. RT @overtonbot: Sat, 10 Dec 2016
  342. 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
  343. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC how often are craftables actual solutions to problems as opposed to shinies?
  344. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC this is not even necessarily bad - cool new toys are fun! Also there's the midground of keeping up with rising enemy levels.
  345. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC God save me from games where I have problems so hard I have to engage deeply with the Ubisoft layer.
  346. Boat game
  347. …in reply to @v21
    frog
  348. …in reply to @v21
    frog eyes
  349. …in reply to @v21
  350. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian wait, but seriously : tech has eaten almost all the people who used to work in local journalism.
  351. …in reply to @v21
    @PeteOlympian you're already one of the last human vestiges, doing only the stuff that robots have tried and failed to do.
  352. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian yeah - but journalism was almost always a loss leader for ads, and robots are better at that part. :/
  353. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn it is SUCH a good jacket
  354. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn luckily I took a full-length pic when leaving this morning...
  355. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian yeah, it's not a simple story, and I don't think it will be when it hits ie truck drivers.
  356. Today I learned newline-delimited JSON is an actual thing (I've been working with it recently and I didn't) @mbostock/807656142847373312
  357. What's the furthest you can walk in London while staying completely under cover?
  358. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn I heard they were opening the Mail Rail tunnels to the public? Or Monument/Bank?
  359. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty I think it has to be normally open to the public. Or else, yeah.
  360. …in reply to @v21
    @jonty also umbrellas don't count
  361. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow yeah it's like some weird respectability dogwhistle
  362. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts palm trees!
  363. …in reply to @mcclure111
  364. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 and I'd assume it's because lambdas can do type inference themselves, and one of them has to be specific
  365. …in reply to @v21
    @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
  366. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 i think most people end up with a big old VectorExtensions file they lug around
  367. …in reply to @v21
    @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
  368. …in reply to @JamesWallis
    @JamesWallis oooh, a long flyover might be possible somewhere. also: airports? Excel Center?
  369. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb think we decided it should be publicly accessible?
  370. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro @metasynthie @mcclure111 big part of it - indie, alt etc is usually seen through the lens of (or in opposition to) gamer culture
  371. …in reply to @v21
    @ellaguro @metasynthie @mcclure111 but the viable space for games is so much broader (the dialogue isn't there because it's not their hobby)
  372. …in reply to @v21
    @ellaguro @metasynthie @mcclure111 and obviously that skews discussion for creators, because this is the stuff that gets published.
  373. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro @metasynthie for me: -remembering that this wider context exists -doing stuff that exists in broader high culture contexts
  374. …in reply to @v21
    @ellaguro @metasynthie like nowplaythis.net partly exists for exactly this reason (ps we're looking for stuff for next year)
  375. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro @metasynthie it has been real healthy for me to start engaging properly with twitterbot folk.
  376. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @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
  377. …in reply to @dirtcreaturr
    @fromsmiling if that's you doing sloppy eyeliner then i'm not sure i could handle you when it's sharp
  378. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro @metasynthie for sure, for sure. i wrote a thing on VR between Robert's 1st & 2nd piece, btw: v21.io/blog/vr-woo/
  379. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro @metasynthie haha, and here i am (maybe i'm projecting my own feelings on everyone else) thinking we were finally getting cynical
  380. …in reply to @v21
    @ellaguro @metasynthie like i have friends who shifted from "VR consulting" to "AR consulting" 6 months back...
  381. …in reply to @undefined
    @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.
  382. Woke up with the Fiery Furnaces' Smelling Cigarettes in my head. That album is still great, isn't it?
  383. Dishonoured 2 (except the mirror works)
  384. 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.
  385. …in reply to @v21
    (I'm just assuming good processes would help, here. Leaders definitely do)
  386. RT @torahhorse: working on some new friends for @donutcounty
  387. …in reply to @v21
    Can easily be more damage in everyone else suddenly feeling unsafe and insecure as the people directly involved.
  388. …in reply to @celesteh
    @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
  389. …in reply to @celesteh
    @celesteh yep, it does, so it needs to fail a lot. (the feature request is noted, and makes sense)
  390. …in reply to @phoenixperry
    @phoenixperry @adrielbeaver you're already at a huge advantage because you have people accountable & empowered to act if/when stuff happens
  391. 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
  392. …in reply to @v21
    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.
  393. …in reply to @v21
    (there has been work backing that up for a good while now, we're just stuck in our assumptions)
  394. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff it's a really good piece. let's hope the world agrees
  395. thread of fantasy art @3liza/808105291283730432
  396. 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
  397. …in reply to @3liza
    @3liza yeah, thinking about the purpose of these kind of paintings as things to stare at and imagine yrself in... they work
  398. …in reply to @undefined
    @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
  399. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow good luck!!!
  400. top tracks: open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1CyLyilgPeLDTY apparently i got really big into female vocalists this year?
  401. …in reply to @v21
    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
  402. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno with the exception of 💪🏾, because i almost always use that emoji when referring to @sheilamu.
  403. 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…
  404. …in reply to @benbrignell
    @benbrignell @softlandscapes nope - set it first time, and haven't messed with it yet
  405. …in reply to @benbrignell
    @benbrignell hah - maybe it's the twitter bug where avatars get incorrectly assigned some times?
  406. RT @enatangkim: 🍎 witches 🍏
  407. attention fans of bots & colours & space: @pleasantplanets
  408. oh gosh, @FermiPasteladox is gorgeous, too! and i love it's approach to exposing the random seed! @Bourbonbrick/808320657977147392
  409. 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
  410. 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
  411. free idea: a website that repackages amazon and makes the cheap price you have to click through for the default one
  412. …in reply to @v21
    also it hides Kindle stuff unless you have a Kindle it could pay for itself with affiliate money
  413. i was pleased all i had today was game theory thread subtweets, but then someone ruined it and RTed the actual thing
  414. Ice Water Games have been quietly making stuff I really dig (Viridi, most especially) - I should really give Eidolon another go.
  415. …in reply to @v21
    anyway, all of that is to say: here's a quiet fireplace simulator from them icewatergames.com/yule-log/
  416. RT @Emojiforest: 🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🏚🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲…
  417. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @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
  418. RT @MrPooni: the only thing more satifying than the Fast franchises batshit naming scheme is the Fast franchises batshit naming scheme in J…
  419. Maybe the game I want to make is Bonsai Barber? (except on phones, because why wouldn't it be on a phone, these days)
  420. 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…
  421. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly Holly I am on my way home and already hungry and this isn't helping.
  422. 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
  423. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly only if you promise it'll be as tasty as that looks
  424. …in reply to @xrafstarguts
  425. …in reply to @whitingjp
    @whitingjp @Nifflas i just thought for a bit about the expected lifespan of twitter, and the decision became very easy
  426. …in reply to @v21
    @whitingjp @Nifflas (it's a shame about my job)
  427. RT @ftrain: <THREAD dc:subject="Game theory"> yes YES the tiger is out Guys it's time for some game theory. </THREAD>
  428. …in reply to @_hyly
    @imjayhay i saw your call for work and followed you because there's a possibility we might need someone in the future! hello!
  429. …in reply to @undefined
    @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
  430. …in reply to @_hyly
    @imjayhay ofc! and in the meantime: vore.
  431. …in reply to @v21
    also it seems to be going the rounds, which maybe will finally give @haikus_by_KN the correct amount of fame for being Right
  432. …in reply to @Miss_Sticks
    @Miss_Sticks @manygradients it's so good, though!
  433. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw i mean, that's... all Gilmore Girls episodes?
  434. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite @Miss_Sticks @manygradients i haven't seen it before! but i do love the book.
  435. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw i mean.. i like that? all the characters quickly establish themselves, and then they just go on being themselves at each other
  436. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw I like Yowapeda Pedal for the same reason
  437. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw well, the good thing is that after a bit you can basically imagine all the facial expressions
  438. just made @somegoodgirls, spinning off @hownottodraw's @somegoodboys. i'm curious how it feels.
  439. RT @precariouswords: god give me
  440. i like how much of Westworld hinges on git blame
  441. I like my new rug-scarf
  442. …in reply to @aidowall
    @aidowall thanks! i've had like 4 different F91Ws in a row, now. they last a few years and then the strap tears.
  443. if you're not designing a system (for more than one person) to resist abuse, i don't know what you're designing
  444. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @Fortress_Inman i admit i think along those lines. why is it wrong?
  445. …in reply to @undefined
  446. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher @Fortress_Inman @patrickashe makes sense. now i'm curious about the way the franchising happens that makes TfL stuff actually work.
  447. 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…
  448. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow is it the headphones or the laptop? i'm down to one reliable pair of headphones out of three.
  449. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow oh, god, you know what you could do, though? borrow the little bluetooth thingy.
  450. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver hot potatoe
  451. oh my god, these are christmas themed hexagons @Hexamagons/808652510701453312
  452. …in reply to @v21
    i only just noticed
  453. videogame that looks like this @russss/808653505800110080
  454. support work
  455. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern a decent proportion of Tinder use is done socially, with yer friend peering over your shoulder and judging people with you.
  456. …in reply to @v21
    @alexhern this makes sense for that
  457. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz overexcited squirrel goes to space
  458. RT @hollygramazio: This book ("Games Worth Playing") has some excellent diagrams
  459. RT @TheGonzalez: I think about this a lot.
  460. RT @haraiva: 🇬🇧 HEY LONDON FRIENDS! 🇬🇧 i'll be selling good good art prints 🖼 HERE: facebook.com/events/1092310370889441/ for a week starting thursday! c…
  461. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt (Kentucky Route Zero README.txt)
  462. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @edclef @lorenschmidt my usual MO is to make an interesting interaction, tear it apart multiple times to make it comprehensible
  463. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC @edclef @lorenschmidt add a bunch of feedback and contextual info to explain it... and then add a linear-ish tutorial
  464. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain @edclef @ADAMATOMIC @lorenschmidt and all of this is also /setting/ this expectation, sometimes
  465. …in reply to @v21
    @mousefountain @edclef @ADAMATOMIC @lorenschmidt hard to make a completely open and exploratory game that isn't in large part about that
  466. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @mousefountain @edclef @lorenschmidt oh yeah. one of the trickiest thing in BoB's tutorial was letting go of the player
  467. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC @mousefountain @edclef @lorenschmidt start with "play this!" "play this!", have to ease off gently into "play... what you like"
  468. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @mousefountain @edclef @lorenschmidt ah! didn't think of that exactly (tho, teaching a weird interaction then, so)
  469. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie oh, yeah, that "(esp. kids)"was a big thing I learned this year
  470. lessons from this year @metasynthie/808716296745615360
  471. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt yes please!
  472. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie it's a shame we had to put all that scaffolding and reassurance in for adults, really.
  473. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i should spend more time on Instagram
  474. …in reply to @undefined
    @digitalsqand oh, yeah, 'course. and actually BoB has way more support than most kids needed, because it's also for adults.
  475. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie i want to know what they answer to "where is []?"
  476. RT @somegoodgirls: the compassionate girls
  477. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang @metasynthie i mean, the audiences self-select a bit differently in both cases
  478. …in reply to @v21
    @radiatoryang @metasynthie (thinking of demoing to uninterested xmas shoppers at a department store the other weekend)
  479. i'm gonna go home and cook myself some dinner. what should i cook?
  480. …in reply to @ldodds
    @ldodds ahhh! that's lovely!
  481. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i'm heading home via a shop, do you want anything?
  482. …in reply to @primaerfunktion
    @primaerfunktion I had not heard of this, but it looks good.
  483. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I'll have a look. Though I have one you can borrow for a few days.
  484. …in reply to @v21
    @primaerfunktion it's also like... the same thing I cook for half of my meals, plus some eggs, haha
  485. RT @PlaytimePRLtd: Making a mark at #BoardGameClub right away, @beastsofbalance from @sensibleobject has already gathered a crowd! https://…
  486. 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://…
  487. RT @rad_milk: don't assume someone's gender just because they are back in town
  488. RT @_reallifemag: what is kek? when nihilism becomes superstition reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/
  489. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN what, that you're right about things?
  490. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @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
  491. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 thank you for this explanation! i never really knew what TCO was before, and now I do!
  492. RT @howitsmadeup: Then they plant it in loose soil. But this model has a unique feature. Today, that distinctive sound still resonates.
  493. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp this is what I had! It was good. Think I'll make that again.
  494. 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.…
  495. we're on actualol's Christmas gift list youtube.com/watch?v=LlIcmrWyXVk#t=10m56
  496. …in reply to @v21
    weird watching him roleplay being a small child doing the scan and place loop, and thinking back to drawing UI flow diagrams of it
  497. …in reply to @v21
    folks, i think... i think we did a good job?
  498. this looks interesting! @ElectronDance/808749617554788352
  499. RT @a_antonellis: So, what's it gonna be?
  500. 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…
  501. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @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?
  502. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw yeah - i remember @deer_ful was looking for academic stuff talking about this thing
  503. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw like, sometimes it's a cool subversion when you do it, sometimes is a cool subversion when you don't...
  504. slightly disappointed @ThatPoppy's music isn't more PC Music.
  505. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw sometimes it just doesn't scan, or would be impossible to rewrite (oh god, imagine if Amy Winehouse had regendered Valerie)
  506. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly @hownottodraw i had never heard this before. what. what. i mean, he didn't change the gender, technically
  507. also: we're on Amazon as of this morning! amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N1KM25E
  508. 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
  509. Oh good, the train station reduced services over Christmas and the Tesco self checkouts both have a Santa voice. I love this.
  510. …in reply to @undefined
    @digitalsqand i think anything useful you could build will require assumptions as to the nature of game that could be made.
  511. …in reply to @v21
    @digitalsqand but once you accept that, you can make more expansive assumptions, and make something more useful and specific
  512. …in reply to @pippinbarr
    @pippinbarr oh shit! be lovely to see you
  513. 😊 feels good to meet goals you set yourself @ammonite/809094569505779712
  514. RT @ra: of all the things you can do with a computer, here is one
  515. 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…
  516. RT @SolonCubed: It's really funny because either way, their passwords become a personal performance ritual that awakens their computers.
  517. 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…
  518. an interesting dynamic at work is that I'm a game designer who mainly wants to provide a context for physical stuff to happen...
  519. …in reply to @v21
    ... and @tburrellsaward is a product designer who thinks the exciting stuff is all in the game design.
  520. …in reply to @v21
    it's probably a good way to be, long term, but it leads to a lot of arguing in the short term
  521. "game design" is not the most important part of game design
  522. …in reply to @v21
    (or, like, it can be, depending on the game. but also it could really not be?)
  523. …in reply to @LazyBrainGames
    @LazyBrainGames but game design is about rewards and systems, and the defining characteristic of videogames is interactivity??
  524. …in reply to @LazyBrainGames
    @LazyBrainGames right - but "game design", as a discipline, is concerned with making systems players navigate (with good & bad states)
  525. …in reply to @tburrellsaward
    @tburrellsaward I'm not complaining!
  526. …in reply to @v21
    @tburrellsaward I mean, much worse situations than us both working hard to make the other look good
  527. …in reply to @undefined
    @thecatamites these are good thoughts! And it's nice to get them hot and just out the oven.
  528. @thecatamites it's ironic that Twine is probably the most widely used prototyping tool of the kind she advocates for
  529. I'll give Trump this - he's good at bullshit macho status manoeuvrings. He really is a man who wants courtiers bustling around him.
  530. …in reply to @undefined
    @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.
  531. i've never stuck my dick in a dyson airblade, but i did just imagine the sensation
  532. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @king_spooner this seems fair to me too
  533. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas from me : Punch The Custard and CUBES.
  534. 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
  535. …in reply to @v21
    10/10, GOTY
  536. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere 2 is now free, so definitely worth getting that. but also yes.
  537. …in reply to @logodaedalus
    @logodaedalus i liked Open Sorcery, which is not quite this, but close.
  538. …in reply to @miguelsicart
    @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
  539. RT @HottestStartups: Startup idea: In them, a whole historical development is already ‘summed up’.
  540. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin @vertxxyz i think it's telling you where the exit is at the destination station.
  541. …in reply to @TomNullpointer
    @TomNullpointer @jonbro pretty much, yeah
  542. …in reply to @v21
    @TomNullpointer @jonbro we did this waaaay too late in development, it was a PITA. but just boring to do. shoulda made a script.
  543. …in reply to @v21
    ???
  544. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin as a small child, I once caused an evacuation at the NHM by leaving a camera bag in a dark corner.
  545. RT @pollkem: flower maker :D #madewithunity
  546. RT @GalaxyKate: ⭐⭐⭐GOOD UI DESIGN⭐⭐⭐ (Allowing data that you can author in plain text and copy paste is *such a good* design pattern) http…
  547. …in reply to @bonzrat
    @bonzrat there's a difference between being hooked in 24/7 and checking in every so often.
  548. …in reply to @v21
    @bonzrat I took a week off twitter just after Trump was elected and it was a really healthy thing for me.
  549. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin that is a good question! you're in South Kensington now, right? I might tag @tigershungry onto this.
  550. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly have you seen JJ Grandville's stuff? Somehow I acquired a booklet of postcards of theirs as a kid...
  551. via @patrickashe, there's an update to wevp.tv (some names will be familiar to you if you've played Kentucky Route Zero)
  552. a stranger at this party said that i didn't look like a game designer.
  553. …in reply to @v21
    (he initially asked if i was an artist)
  554. …in reply to @v21
    i guess i'm gonna take it as a compliment?
  555. …in reply to @v21
  556. …in reply to @chrisoshea
    @chrisoshea no, that was a joke. My actual GOTY is probably Ladykiller in a Bind. But it's very good.
  557. …in reply to @v21
    the best part of this is that i came home to a cheque for my participation in a gallery show
  558. RT @hegelfan1: <THREAD> I'm now hearing this meme that governments around the world have defeated communism. Guys. It's time for some Mar…
  559. RT @sokpopco: -|_| Bamboo EP -|_| |_| out now ! |_|- store.steampowered.com/app/561190/
  560. This is not intended as a subtweet to the lovely sokpop folk - but what's the most commercially successful EP/album/collection game release?
  561. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin ah, me too (but I also like it when people praise two things I'm involved in in adjacent sentences)
  562. …in reply to @v21
    @hannahnicklin Mild Rumpus is a reaction to the overwhelming space it's in. And Now Play This does not aim to be wholly soft.
  563. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin nah - at a time when we're starting to plan both events, it's a useful sharp poke.
  564. …in reply to @SimonParkin
    @SimonParkin the bit about Final Draft is amazing.
  565. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry hey, Marie... remember when it was summer?
  566. 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
  567. 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…
  568. i just read the new sexy fantasy (by @hellophia) and it's so good gumroad.com/l/sexfantasy8
  569. RT @mcclure111: We're just sitting here and they're calling it a revolution
  570. i am excited to see this talk when it goes online @metasynthie/809571418820280321
  571. thinking about all the money that swishes round Patreon from poor creator to poor creator, a 5% transaction fee taken off each time
  572. …in reply to @v21
    and thinking about all the people who are in the business of providing parasocial companionship to lonely people
  573. …in reply to @v21
    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
  574. …in reply to @v21
    and this thread @katbamkapow/809564323974615040 and @leighalexander's article linked in it
  575. …in reply to @helenacelle
    @helenacelle I'm not even saying they shouldn't - they have real costs, and provide a real service.
  576. user retention like watering plants, not user retention like an open tin of sweets
  577. 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
  578. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate the user, in this metaphor. The dev is somewhere else
  579. …in reply to @awesommelier
  580. RT @yassuryGM: الانميتور في الUnity #تطوير_الالعاب
  581. RT @subtitle_buoy: Wind speed 6.0 m/s. Sea temp: 26.9 °C, air temp: 26.3 °C. #supermariorun
  582. RT @beastsofbalance: The most fabulous shark that ever did swim through your feed. Some awesome animation work by @spacetreasured! #Beastso…
  583. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow fuck the term "sellout". it almost always hits the wrong targets.
  584. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow who do these indies have an obligation towards?
  585. …in reply to @v21
    @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)
  586. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @katbamkapow i've only got a few years of grafting left!
  587. 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
  588. …in reply to @0x11eaea
    via @doridoidea : generative(?) plastic lumber pattern etching youtube.com/watch?v=nLPL98lX-o8
  589. …in reply to @hellophia
    @hellophia i just now noticed i wrote "sexy fantasy" which is... slightly different.
  590. review of Westworld: i accidentally skipped 2 episodes in the second half and mainly felt glad to have reduced my watching time
  591. …in reply to @MxOolong
    @MrOolong i think you gotta be able to survive happily enough on UBI. And I think that's possible.
  592. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow hello. my phone died and i fell asleep on the bus but i'm home how
  593. RT @epershannd: "sweltering" (悶熱) my screenprinting midterm! a series based on the humidity of summer and the feeling of time hanging in pl…
  594. …in reply to @scanters
    @scanters oh God, I didn't even check myself for snow. Let's leave that a mystery.
  595. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @tigershungry this is perfect
  596. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno ugh. wish i was there. have fun, build good sex things!
  597. on a train to norwich. looking forward to seeing some good fog out the windows.
  598. RT @sandwich_cool: nice
  599. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang liked this bit, though
  600. …in reply to @zarawesome
  601. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  602. i'm visiting family. it's nice, but i forgot how much people talk about the best way to drive places.
  603. Fog over Norwich Prison
  604. RT @todd160: #gamedev #pixelart
  605. RT @holyfingers: Annoying a sleepy cat, with a mouse... #screenshotsaturday
  606. 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
  607. RT @katbamkapow: several tweets about a man, a manoeuvre, and, briefly, malaria (benign) @notquitereal/810268914529828865
  608. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall Horse World, by Houndstooth. ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=c0b75igo9aijz3dt it's a bit more full on than sexy, though
  609. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC just butting in here to scream DEVIL DAGGERS!!! and then quietly leave
  610. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe this tweet reminds me you owe me money
  611. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I had forgotten that. Why do I owe you money?
  612. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe oh, yeah, that's totally true. How much do you want for it? I'll poke Sophie now.
  613. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow every time someone talks about Rose Buddies I get disappointed it's not about Steven Universe.
  614. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver @katbamkapow I love this show enough to be aware I shouldn't push it on people as much as feels natural. But.
  615. …in reply to @v21
    @_cheesybeaver @katbamkapow I really do think you'd like it - it's a show ultimately about people caring for each other.
  616. Writing up a games of the year list. What did I play, and like, and have now forgotten about?
  617. 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
  618. …in reply to @v21
    While I was waiting for my train home I put a thing in my Amazon basket, though.
  619. RT @maniani0122: カービィ描きました。
  620. the joke i've heard is: the way to visualize a 14-dimensional space is to visualize a 3D space and say "fourteen" repeatedly.
  621. …in reply to @v21
    (from nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html - this article is making me sad i didn't stay in school)
  622. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @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...
  623. RT @DegenRolf: The "Invisibility cloak illusion" makes people falsely think that they observe others more than others observe them https://…
  624. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions i mean my actions demonstrate that i don't actually care that much about it. but it would be nice.
  625. …in reply to @v21
    @artcollisions it's mainly: ah! this stuff is taking off! and i could've been involved, but i'm on the fringes now
  626. …in reply to @v21
    @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.
  627. bot of the day: @snailsnake this is a bot that makes snail or snake portmanteaus (snortmanteaus) from other words
  628. 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…
  629. i wrote about some games i liked this year: v21.io/blog/2016-goty/
  630. …in reply to @v21
    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 ⋮
  631. …in reply to @v21
    ⋮ 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
  632. …in reply to @v21
    i only just realized i should have written an entirely different list: "the best games i didn't play in 2016"
  633. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad I played it a WHOLE BUNCH
  634. …in reply to @v21
    Thinking about ^^, I realised I missed some I did play. Now added: Firewatch Stephen's Sausage Roll Quadrilateral Cowboy Wheels of Aurelia
  635. …in reply to @v21
    okay, actually (as I'll clearly never write this up). The Best Games I Didn't Play In 2016 But Probably Would've Dug.
  636. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad it's a long list I just posted!
  637. …in reply to @v21
    @Eastmad and like... other people have played it, so I don't have to.
  638. …in reply to @Tambalaya
    @DeltaGardner looking over mine and i know i'm missing some smaller indie stuff i loved but can't now locate within the year
  639. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle that makes 11! you gotta pick only 10!
  640. 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…
  641. RT @v21: i wrote about some games i liked this year: v21.io/blog/2016-goty/
  642. RT @Shrubbette: Night driving with @doougle, @lisyk & @_Tahlia_
  643. 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
  644. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver well, i never finished the article
  645. RT @TheSimonEvans: I think this, by Wendy Cope, might be the greatest love poem ever written.
  646. learning to write in a manner conducive to Google Translate
  647. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx i know, i know! Too Many Games, tho.
  648. …in reply to @softlandscapes
    holy fuck, @softlandscapes has knocked it out of the fucking park with that one.
  649. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow write it up for Medium, I'll read it in the morning
  650. RT @AkanameGirl: ty @doam for showing me how to make worm art ( ( grateful ) )
  651. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
  652. 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…
  653. …in reply to @juliaferraioli
    @juliaferraioli I have received emails from people who have enjoyed my work, just telling me that - and every time, it's made my day.
  654. RT @lib_thinks: Bizarre and rather wonderful (if pricey) new jenga-cum-cyber game BEASTS OF BALANCE. Dickering over whether to buy:less fe…
  655. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @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.
  656. …in reply to @Palomadawkins
    @Palomadawkins oooooooooh
  657. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I congratulate you on your life choices
  658. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver you ARE coming back, right?
  659. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver see you sooooon
  660. …in reply to @MidniteLibrary
    @MidniteLibrary no, I disallowed public replies (it seemed abusable). Might reconsider it??
  661. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall I can make you make an exception youtu.be/eOglC5_iLJs
  662. 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…
  663. 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.
  664. 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
  665. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario that one sneaks up on you. - I thought I had? - No! Everything until now was at risk!
  666. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite right?!
  667. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario i, uh, never used git lfs... though when the repos got to 2+ gig on previous projects I wished it existed...
  668. RT @didnotchart: Jarvis Cocker joined @witheredhand @PictishTrail @jamesyorkston on stage tonight. Which was nice. Happy xmas. https://t.co…
  669. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario oh, jeez, doesn't it? i'be been on bitbucket (cheaper private repos) for all my serious stuff
  670. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario git is such a least-worst option for Unity projects rn
  671. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge 22k, tho
  672. yr still basically cut up by the end of the Amber Spyglass
  673. …in reply to @tburrellsaward
  674. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed yr welcome!
  675. …in reply to @aanand
    @aanand @NoraReed me tooooooooo
  676. gonna rattle the tin for more games and playful things for next year's Now Play This: nowplaythis.net/contribute/
  677. …in reply to @v21
    or just tell me (or @hollygramazio) if there's someone else's thing we should be looking at
  678. …in reply to @v21
    We want games w/ landscapes, games w/ an absurd duration, playful objects, games never made (or impossible to make), games about embodiment
  679. trains are so great
  680. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw call closes middle of January
  681. thread about Sensible Object @ammonite/811520078332231684
  682. 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…
  683. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe you should use Sublime Text instead
  684. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe i like how few of these i've played. i maybe shoulda given a nod to triennale in my list, tho.
  685. …in reply to @aeleitch
  686. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe oh, i saw this in passing - will do!
  687. RT @jessicambowden: Fun game: evaluate your "I'm actually fine" hangover by trying to go Christmas shopping on your lunch break
  688. …in reply to @polclarissou
  689. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern HASHFLAGS
  690. RT @wyckns: Hi,girls ~
  691. 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…
  692. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN yes, but did it make you cry?
  693. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @haikus_by_KN miles of difference between that and being a wooby-eyed 13 yr old
  694. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @haikus_by_KN i mean, also, it was a riposte to Narnia, heady-handedness was kind of inevitable.
  695. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @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
  696. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb I did not get the allegory the first time I read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.
  697. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb i'm glad i grew up at a time when the internet was a viable escape from real life
  698. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb like, i guess? other people made the stuff on it, but other people wrote the books, too.
  699. …in reply to @v21
    @haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb nowadays the people on the internet are the same people you're trying to avoid in day-to-day life.
  700. RT @_everybird_: BIRD #3,977 Crested Guineafowl (Guttera pucherani)
  701. big fan of the Google Play backend
  702. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly i'm praying for everyone else, tbh
  703. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork this looks great, thanks
  704. RT @moshboy: '80s computer security posters. even more relevant today.
  705. …in reply to @cn_monoxide
    @cn_monoxide @dodgyville humans made the algorithms, humans can change them. Call it careless, not malicious, if you want, but still on them
  706. Ahh, @time4gametheory is cool - it gets the source images from a little thingy on gomix.
  707. …in reply to @derekahmedzai
    @derekahmedzai @time4gametheory @gomixme ah, I was wondering who made it! \o/
  708. …in reply to @v21
    ofc "She once received a marriage proposal from Olivia Wood but it wasn’t serious." doesn't yet match up to The Mayonnaise Incident.
  709. …in reply to @emshort
    @emshort Alice is always serious.
  710. …in reply to @v21
  711. 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.…
  712. …in reply to @Iron_Spike
  713. I have been listening to the Samorost 3 soundtrack and it is extremely lush
  714. …in reply to @v21
    i worry it'll spoil the game - but then, until i got into the soundtrack i had planned to skip the game.
  715. 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
  716. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @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
  717. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal here is what it looks like from the outside, here it stands from a parallel universe
  718. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal garbled transmissions with overenthusiastic error correction filling in the holes
  719. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i am glad RPS has stopped saying "foot-to-ball"
  720. …in reply to @konjak
    @konjak hard to make things for iOS without one
  721. RT @PastebinRecent: igma. Nitric Muscle Fuel is facing a date with destiny. In this installment I'm going to put, in plain English, Nitric…
  722. 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…
  723. at a party last night & multiple people had independently hung out with Tom Felton. pls share yr Tom Felton stories
  724. extra bonus hard mode for Beasts of Balance classtools.net/random-name-picker/5_beD8HH (thanks @xannov!)
  725. RT @womensart1: Suspended in green, 2005 by Italian artist and professor of architecture Lauretta Vinciarelli #womensart https://t.co/gTNRC…
  726. RT @the_ephemerides: Another equally violent rush will start some times back upon him, sometimes than he should not desire them. https://t.…
  727. …in reply to @q_dork
    @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...
  728. …in reply to @v21
    @q_dork @bad_tetris @Radstronomical @katbamkapow ...and we commentate on the panel as much to each other as to the housemates. i want more.
  729. …in reply to @v21
    @q_dork @bad_tetris @Radstronomical @katbamkapow i want 5 layers deep of commentary. basically what i am saying is yes to this idea.
  730. …in reply to @v21
    @q_dork @bad_tetris @Radstronomical @katbamkapow and then we can do commentary on your commentary.
  731. I am done for the year!
  732. …in reply to @partytimeHXLNT
    @partytimeHXLNT I did my master's dissertation experimenting on how crickets navigate. And I interviewed Sarah Millican one time.
  733. …in reply to @v21
  734. I did a thing for Panoramical! I'm still really proud of it! @FinjiCo/812012073790177280
  735. …in reply to @HilariousCow
  736. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke @KommanderKlobb @mink_ette @HilariousCow I made a twist on that once - play Top Trumps with the answers.
  737. …in reply to @v21
    @rclarke @KommanderKlobb @mink_ette @HilariousCow the winner is "who would win in a fight"
  738. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher @KommanderKlobb @mink_ette @HilariousCow I think it is my #2 Oink game
  739. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions haha! no hate! there's a reason i added the "wrong generation" option
  740. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions ah, I mean - if you read them when you were the same age as the protags, much more likely to cry over it.
  741. …in reply to @v21
    @artcollisions (which is the case for me and a lot of my followers, apparently)
  742. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @AOsher @mink_ette @HilariousCow ah, Fake Artist is still my #1 - but I've not played Rights.
  743. RT @mcclure111: .@srstable WATCH THE VIDEO CAREFULLY THE TRUTH IS THERE IT'S ALL THERE https://t.co/j1ZLmQFgPu
  744. 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
  745. 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…
  746. 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
  747. …in reply to @OverlandGame
    @OverlandGame I am terrified every time I put out an update on ios, and so jealous of yr toolchain here
  748. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @OverlandGame this week was especially fun, because today's the day it closes for the holidays.
  749. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw my advice is to just decide this feeling is exhilaration and excitement and commit to it
  750. …in reply to @derekahmedzai
    @derekahmedzai sadly not!
  751. a fun thing i learnt today : how to get an injured cat into a cat carrier. 😟
  752. 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/
  753. …in reply to @derekahmedzai
    @derekahmedzai no, it's the same for all bots - was the easiest way, they all fire off a single cronjob
  754. RT @fascinated: a very thorough look at the current "AI fears" by @baconmeteor idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
  755. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu pls tell me it wasn't as bad the second time around
  756. digital watches are amazing. a tiny electronic device you can buy for £15, that runs for years on a single charge.
  757. …in reply to @GaryJKings
    @GaryJKings @notquitereal they started by giving crytech $70m, so
  758. RT @chenoehart: @oniropolis thought Karl Friedrich Schinkel's original design was pretty inspiring when I stumbled across it. https://t.co/…
  759. RT @Poxican: @colindickey @chenoehart @oniropolis Both of which remind me of Andreas Gursky's photograph of the Kamiokande. https://t.co/kV…
  760. …in reply to @v21
    fixed it now
  761. …in reply to @undefined
    @stephenontumblr solid lines (I didn't fix it very well)
  762. bot of the day: @botflora Merry Christmas, everyone!
  763. RT @Kaleidopix: for you: ɟoɹ ʎon: sin(atan(max(xy))-xx-x sᴉu(ɐʇɐu(ɯɐx(xʎ))-xx-x @ArtyBots
  764. RT @womensart1: Land artist Sonja Hinrichsen, Snow drawings in Colorado, 2013 #womensart
  765. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @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.
  766. …in reply to @undefined
    @marie_ebooks hope your Christmas gets better
  767. RT @kaseyjwang: This is why #uxdesign is such an interesting space right now...
  768. …in reply to @Osiefish
    @Osiefish @bouphe oh wow, that is great
  769. Watching the elaborate preparations of the lamb we'll have later via Instagram.
  770. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryGiles yr looking great
  771. "he's just an afterschool special that knows how to have fun"
  772. Would you give up kisses for a year in exchange for a '54 convertible (light blue)?
  773. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver @katbamkapow everything is better now
  774. …in reply to @bitpixi
    @kaseyjwang oh, superheated water is pretty dangerous - it can get beyond boiling point without nucleation.
  775. …in reply to @v21
    @kaseyjwang and then you jostle it, and it goes all over yr face.
  776. …in reply to @bitpixi
    @kaseyjwang fair! I've done it before and been fine, but heard this as the reason it's dangerous.
  777. …in reply to @mrCollaborator
    @mrCollaborator @ted_martens you're arguing for doing a thing repeatedly over never bothering to do a thing.
  778. …in reply to @tigershungry
  779. cab home after a lovely Christmas & saw a fox out the window. i always think of them as good luck.
  780. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx Santa doesn't have time off for good behaviour.
  781. …in reply to @v21
    @siobhangx But assuming he's not planning on giving you a convertible next year, I hope you get lots of consolation kisses.
  782. …in reply to @Custard_Rito
    @burrito_tim end of, if you've withheld yr kisses all year
  783. 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.
  784. 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)
  785. watching Kat play Watch Dogs 2, and it's got some really nice Internet Aesthetic glitchy graphics in places
  786. …in reply to @v21
    this is mainly a recommendation to spend time with @alienmelon's work, tho, which is that shit, but undiluted and optimistic.
  787. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal we just got to actual SF - the map is eerie, recognisable, but huge chunks missing.
  788. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i mean, it was never not going to be weird, i know SF enough to expect specific places
  789. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i remember being in NY for the first time and going OH, that's what those big metal things in GTA were
  790. for some reason I have been thinking of the game Cargo! A Quest For Gravity recently
  791. @mcclure111 how i do it is: GameManager has a static "instance" field, and references to a bunch of sub-managers
  792. …in reply to @v21
    @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
  793. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 and those have a bunch of events set up, on them, so things can also subscribe to events sent from them
  794. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 there's no entirely generic method for this, but it's pretty clean and straightforward.
  795. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 mind you! this works best for games where most of the logic happens in one place, with entities mainly reflecting that logic
  796. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 model-view separation, basically, where the models are usually singletons.
  797. Select an UPDATE and use the correct COMPONENTS to craft it!
  798. …in reply to @v21
    in this game, you become a member of DedSec, which gains processing power by having people install their app on their phones
  799. …in reply to @v21
    the icon for DedSec's phone app has a cursor on it. there are at least three levels of unreality to "hacking" here
  800. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe yes! also apparently i arrived home drunk and Explained It In Great Detail to @katbamkapow and @notquitereal recently
  801. …in reply to @v21
    it is by Ice-Pick Lodge. you build vehicles out of parts and then surprises happen.
  802. …in reply to @3ameam
    @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
  803. …in reply to @v21
    @3ameam @mtauraso @RealPeerReview but i've only read the ones i'm genuinely interested in - so it's not a fair sampling
  804. …in reply to @v21
    @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)
  805. …in reply to @3ameam
    @3ameam @mtauraso @RealPeerReview if you start from believing their topics are worth investigating & their methods are appropriate, s'good.
  806. …in reply to @3ameam
    @3ameam @mtauraso @RealPeerReview of course - i didn't say that to justify them, but to answer your question.
  807. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal okay, okay, but: the description feels the need to emphasise the fact that it's an imaginary tale.
  808. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal there is a general problem with learning programming languages where getting a good environment set up is half the battle
  809. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal and it is generally covered very vaguely, or perfunctorily.
  810. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 you're gonna love the answer to this one. underneath a folder called "Editor", somewhere in "Assets"
  811. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam go to bed, william
  812. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam come to bed, william
  813. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
  814. 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
  815. the difference between "I like yr ___" as liking it, or as noticing it
  816. …in reply to @v21
    "yes, i'm being dismissive of your idea, but i promise i'll think about it properly later and get back to you"
  817. …in reply to @v21
    i'm not offended if it's the latter, but i can tell
  818. Merry Christmas, everyone!
  819. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN I used to wear red glasses and got it a lot.
  820. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @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"
  821. …in reply to @v21
    @haikus_by_KN (also not in the negging kind of way you're so good at)
  822. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN ABC (Always Be Closing)
  823. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow if it is the thing I think it is, then it is a good thing and will be received well
  824. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate do you have to make your own mincemeat?
  825. 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
  826. …in reply to @v21
    but it gives everyone a stake in keeping it going. And the other route is continued grinding resentment and blaming individuals for systems.
  827. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate mmm. Sounds great. I've made mince pies before, but only with premade mincemeat.
  828. My aunt's satnav is a cheery Australian chap who keeps telling us "it's time to cruise!"
  829. RT @compositeredfox: i don't know how to make anything else #screenshotsaturday
  830. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox this is good
  831. we've been inflating
  832. RT @hollygramazio: I made up a nice quick game to play with friends over the break hollygramazio.net/blog/2016/12/28/memory-game
  833. …in reply to @betterthemask
    @betterthemask I feel this. Last few days the answer has been: watch my housemate play videogames?
  834. …in reply to @emshort
    @emshort @betterthemask @catacalypto @AboutThisLater ah, the upside to not being a writer...
  835. …in reply to @v21
    @emshort @betterthemask @catacalypto @AboutThisLater mind you, I binge on books and series in a way which ties it into work/not-work :(
  836. @notquitereal if you don't know this story, you want to @Doshmanziari/814165207589261312
  837. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto @emshort @betterthemask @AboutThisLater I just made plans to meet up with a friend so we can work on our side project together
  838. …in reply to @v21
    @catacalypto @emshort @betterthemask @AboutThisLater y'know, because it's Christmas
  839. RT @todd160: #gamedev #pixelart
  840. i'm buying some stuff on Steam (Tattletail, Sunless Sea, Cities: Skylines), maybe I should buy one more thing too. but what?
  841. …in reply to @v21
    (here are games i liked this year: v21.io/blog/2016-goty/)
  842. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef oh boo, Windows only :<
  843. …in reply to @chenoehart
    @chenoehart i find this easy to justify: money is nice, big projects are depressing
  844. …in reply to @v21
    i was gonna get nu-Doom (or, as @edclef suggested, Abzu), but both are Windows only. So I got Beglitched.
  845. Seven simultaneous satnavs, each running a different algorithm.
  846. 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…
  847. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate forwarded to my relevant friend!
  848. RT @GalaxyKate: Last chance to be in our *first ever* class of MS/PhDs in Computational Media Diversity of background, gender, race, tech/…
  849. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke there were definitely 10 great games in 2016, but that list is either good games, or games I imagine are good.
  850. …in reply to @v21
    @rclarke definitely more than, too.
  851. …in reply to @chenoehart
    @chenoehart you define your desires around possibility
  852. …in reply to @OwlsEatMice
  853. …in reply to @v21
    @OwlsEatMice but it is very "Bee Movie"
  854. …in reply to @chrisbaraniuk
  855. …in reply to @celsshirt
    @_imokurok @_cheesybeaver i am good friends with her, and have enthusiastically discussed earlier versions of this
  856. …in reply to @v21
    @_imokurok @_cheesybeaver the discomfort is deliberate, and the game as described is only among consenting players
  857. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke i mean, probably, but "games that are great" is a superset of "games I played, enjoyed, and thought were great"
  858. …in reply to @v21
    @rclarke like... you work in mobile games, and only one mobile game was great this year?
  859. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke (it's not - my list was games I played and liked)
  860. …in reply to @droqen
    @droqen not always! Also the rate-limiting can vary across login attempts and sign up attempts.
  861. …in reply to @v21
    @droqen (not always : sometimes there's money involved, or the other credential is an email address that needs verification)
  862. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver @_imokurok I think yes? An analogous situation is consenting to being woken up by oral sex.
  863. …in reply to @v21
    @_cheesybeaver @_imokurok like, I feel it's fascinating, would enthusiastically play, and accept my memory is plastic & unreliable.
  864. …in reply to @rclarke
    @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
  865. …in reply to @undefined
    @_cheesybeaver @_imokurok oh, it totally can do harm. But: drink, drugs, ill-advised partners all do, too, and I'd not prohibit those.
  866. …in reply to @v21
    @_cheesybeaver @_imokurok (and cheer them on, in principle, and for some people in some circumstances)
  867. …in reply to @jmhodges
    @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
  868. …in reply to @v21
    @jmhodges wait, okay. the main reason is laziness. but the main excuse is.
  869. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal dogs vs dogs, but also
  870. drunk and curious
  871. 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…
  872. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam everything I advise is in your best interests
  873. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  874. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal I do have a short username! That's true!
  875. this ad seems super "yes, whatever" until you read the mentions & realise your standards are too high @OldNavy/812024947350667264
  876. …in reply to @v21
    "normalisation"
  877. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw but i'm drunk now!
  878. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx if my direction of travel the past 5 years has been from loud to sweet, i am very happy with it.
  879. …in reply to @v21
    @dreamfeelx these tweets have made posting that worthwhile in itself. also: experienced?! i'm just about experienced now!
  880. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx i mean, mainly i'm just thinking "man, i could have fronted that confidence way further/faster than i did"
  881. …in reply to @lingmops
    @lingmops a little of both, i think. also: this space used to be ours, now we have to share it with terrible people.
  882. …in reply to @lingmops
    @lingmops <3 don't worry, i'm still a great person to be around
  883. …in reply to @v21
    @lingmops (but i'm sad we're only internet friends again - i'll let you know if i'm around near you any time)
  884. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw now's your window to ask me questions and have me answer with some booze in me. or else... most times we meet.
  885. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw yes. are you worried you're not?
  886. 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…
  887. When Kentucky Route Zero is finished, I want to get a cinema and show it all back-to-back.
  888. …in reply to @v21
    Who knew the Great American Novel would turn out to be an episodic videogame?
  889. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured it's absolutely not worth waiting til it's finished to play it, if that's yr concern
  890. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx i did not! but i do now! thanks for the reminder!
  891. 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
  892. …in reply to @v21
    ah! and I just saw that the lead author is @HelenHester!
  893. …in reply to @Arkestrey
    @PhillCameron oh yes - but the cliche of porn for women is that they want Plot.
  894. …in reply to @tburrellsaward
    @tburrellsaward no, sorry
  895. …in reply to @v21
    having read the full paper : the case study of female fans of James Deen has certainly got more complex nuances since this was written
  896. …in reply to @DanielMorsing
    @DanielMorsing yup - sci-hub is a beautiful thing
  897. 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:…
  898. RT @gillianmsmith: Hoopla generates “collections” of embroideries intended to go together now. Curation just got both harder and more fun.…
  899. RT @justvanrossum: About the nonlinearity of kerning.
  900. quinoa surprise! an open packet of quinoa falling out of a high cupboard
  901. ah! i just read this comic and it is beautiful in a very specific way, and also cute & cosmic gigidigi.itch.io/lady
  902. …in reply to @_ggdg_
    @gigideegee i literally just followed you after reading Lady of the Shard, and I work in small-scale games.
  903. …in reply to @v21
    @gigideegee (designer/programmer on @beastsofbalance, part of @WildRumpus and @nowplaythese, and generally active in the indie space)
  904. …in reply to @v21
    @gigideegee and i would love to see you working in games! feel free to hit me up if you want advice/intros.
  905. …in reply to @Citrushistrix
    @Citrushistrix yes! i just saw that existed. will have to read it at a time i'm not hiding from work :)
  906. …in reply to @Citrushistrix
    @Citrushistrix i just imagined you & them teaming up on a game & got excited.
  907. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin that's a very nice skirt.
  908. RT @menubot: 1947 menu for Dinty Moore's menus.nypl.org/menus/29857
  909. 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…
  910. 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…
  911. …in reply to @undefined
    @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
  912. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain as everyone learns in their first 30 minutes with Blender...
  913. …in reply to @undefined
    @nationofseals @theonejrf @RealPeerReview they don't make fun of any of the bits in the full paper. or link to full papers.
  914. …in reply to @HetzUVeryMuch
    @_Canidae @nationofseals @theonejrf @RealPeerReview indeed! but usually you can find a pre-print on the author's site, or get it elsewhere
  915. …in reply to @undefined
    @nationofseals @_Canidae @theonejrf @RealPeerReview and i have no right to demand things - but still, that's how i wish they engaged.
  916. RT @jimrossignol: Atmospherics of the South West.
  917. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 yr problem is, as it says, related to the non-thread-safety of the Unity API
  918. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 though I also like the approach of GetComponentsInChildren<GameObject>() (will also return this.gameObject, I think)
  919. …in reply to @Michael_French
    @Michael_French haha - i heard they had the first 3 on on successive afternoons... and then Crystal Skull shunted off at midnight
  920. …in reply to @undefined
    @torpedoladle @nationofseals @theonejrf @RealPeerReview I only follow to surface papers I might find interesting to read, so.
  921. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin your expression!! 💖
  922. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland haha. Yep, I did both lists and my didn't play list was longer and more incomplete.
  923. …in reply to @3liza
    @3liza there's a small army of costume designers out there, quietly saving us from ourselves
  924. RT @Emojipedia: 🕎 Menorah With Nine Branches has been updated in latest Twemoji release emojipedia.org/menorah-with-nine-branches/
  925. RT @kennethfejer: To fill out the 128x128 texture I added a shark #lowpoly #pixelart
  926. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh @@@@@@ Sneak Sneak Deeper and Deeper (dunno if this works)
  927. RT @CoolBoxArt: Charumera / PlayStation / Victor Interactive Software / 1999
  928. RT @unicode_birds: ⋀  ⍋ ⍋ ⩓  Λ ꒢  Ѧ   八       ᙁ  ∧      Λ   ᗋ
  929. …in reply to @v21
    I kind of want her to be an NPC in a RPG
  930. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver @OxyOxspring tbh, some reinforcement that your english is pretty good already sounds like just the ticket
  931. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver @OxyOxspring i guess what i'm saying is that more confidence in yr own abilities sounds like a good way to improve
  932. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin reinforced concrete is such a wonder
  933. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @ragzouken it feels like if a thing early in the next frame takes ages, it might also be delayed cuz of that?
  934. RT @menubot: Welcome to Kugler's Marine Grill, would you care for the menu? menus.nypl.org/menus/30462
  935. RT @lesliehung: Mom jeans #snotgirl instagram.com/p/BOqTP1RDy3d/
  936. I have half an hour of bus til I'm home, send me things to read pls
  937. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk thank you
  938. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow oh, I am so glad. What a good way to end the year!
  939. RT @_roland_barthes: Everything signifies: by this proposition, I entrap myself, I bind myself in calculations, I keep myself from enjoymen…
  940. Much respect to people who make tops with cut-out shoulders work for them.
  941. I played the Nier demo and now I'm playing Journey (for the first time). Interesting to compare, weirdly - if anything Journey is gamier?
  942. …in reply to @v21
    Like, until I finally died, none of the currencies in Nier had any bite (except strong attack recharge). Journey is all about the scarf.
  943. …in reply to @v21
    Thinking on this thread @ADAMATOMIC/807563523631042560 and how it's actually fine for systems to not mean anything sometimes.
  944. …in reply to @v21
    thecatamites plays with this - the feeling of item get, number up, but pure aesthetic, no consequence attached at all
  945. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw do you want a new hobby, or a fun thing to play start to finish?
  946. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw or a bunch of fun new toys to fiddle with for a bit
  947. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw how do you feel about puzzles?
  948. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw naw, genuinely trying to be helpful here
  949. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @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.
  950. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw (the new one is Shenzen IO, which I've heard is good. I've played TIS 1000 and it's def good)
  951. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw actually I was thinking about Hap Inc's stuff for ios. Hidden My Game By Mom is outstanding.
  952. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw (but it's not something you'll get sucked into for hours)
  953. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @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
  954. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen you can make it! i believe in you!
  955. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike strong agree. she's so great
  956. RT @pangmeli: this feels like how my subconscious comes up with composite-settings for my dreams
  957. whew! somehow managed to spend the last day of the year slowly going from happy to anxious? good good
  958. 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
  959. …in reply to @SK_Louie
    @SK_Louie me too!
  960. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin haha. i like you slightly stunned and disbelieving.