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Tweets from 2017/06

  1. …in reply to @madparker
  2. …in reply to @mjmcmaster
    @mjmcmaster yesss, you're doing it!
  3. If you suddenly became virally famous:
  4. RT @gabrielkrieshok: Gah! Your gyroscope can pick up on your voice!
  5. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb News article : "Bad news: The adorable father who posted this tweet about Top Cat we all loved - turns out, he ___________"
  6. …in reply to @danhett
    @danhett Thank you for opening yourself up to that to stand up for immigrants. Good luck!
  7. things I said to myself while watching this: "what are you doing? why are you doing this? you don't have to do this. just eat the egg" @TastyJapan/870173199861899265
  8. I was just thinking how communication speed leads to more control from further away @malscrung/869886185325424644
  9. …in reply to @bonzrat
    @bonzrat @edclef hah - a Labour victory seems assured here, so will probably vote Green....
  10. …in reply to @undefined
    @BenHumphreys @bonzrat @edclef I'm not entirely decided yet... but I really don't think here will flip for the Tories. but still a risk, however tiny.
  11. carrying a piano lid to Yorkshire on a sunny Thursday morning
  12. …in reply to @bonzrat
    @bonzrat @BenHumphreys @edclef for sure. and the Labour surge has been young people, who may not actually turn out. wild hope has made this whole thing more nerve-wracking
  13. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin mmm. that's true, but that power had to be exercised via a series of proxies with latitude to apply discretion.
  14. …in reply to @v21
    @hannahnicklin I mean, there's always other factors, and it's kinda impossible to quantify "power".. but I think there's something there?
  15. …in reply to @v21
    @hannahnicklin something that ties into power law distributions and how network effects lead to them - so bigger networks lead to greater inequality
  16. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin I'm not sure, but it's an argument made in the thread I linked and makes sense on it's face.
  17. …in reply to @v21
    I take this tweet back
  18. RT @joedunthorne: Happy to have two poems in this week's @NewStatesman. Here's one:
  19. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow hey though, great shirt / necklace combo
  20. …in reply to @v21
    update:
  21. …in reply to @Sosowski
    @Sosowski I have faith! But I have also not done any work towards it, besides carrying the lid up
  22. …in reply to @SpindleyQ
    @SpindleyQ Copper tape! And there's a ground connection on the soundboard
  23. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ @Sosowski No, the beast was the arcade machine
  24. RT @JFriedhoff: Related: I'm looking work! My jam is experimental, interactive, playful tech--installations, tools, games & beyond https://…
  25. …in reply to @PennyRed
    @PennyRed so you're the DJ?
  26. RT @feralvector: Fixed.
  27. @lrsphm I'm watching a talk by @katbamkapow and you're in it, and I thought you'd like to know
  28. @tigershungry your nemesis!
  29. i am at feral vector and i have so many talented friends
  30. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz @KommanderKlobb oooh, where's this?
  31. …in reply to @lrsphm
    @lrsphm @katbamkapow digital intimacy - we're at Feral Vector, it's a videogame festival in the woods.
  32. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin @notquitereal @katbamkapow "Pinwheel : A rough year for Cornflower"
  33. …in reply to @v21
    @katierosepipkin @notquitereal @katbamkapow I'm brought to tears for the third time thinking about how Cornflower isn't going to be a flower, or if she is, we won't know.
  34. …in reply to @v21
    @katierosepipkin @notquitereal @katbamkapow Thank you all for being there for this year.
  35. RT @ContentEngage: made up of cool, fun people
  36. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen @spnbmb @NoraReed @leakbot5000 Yep! (rendered serverside and then uploaded as pngs)
  37. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx @gothdome Oh no! Real sorry to hear that, and shame we won't get to hang.
  38. RT @molleindustria: Frank Zappa interviewed about videogames in 1983. Extremely thoughtful and progressive afka.net/Articles/1983-01_JoyStik.htm https://…
  39. RT @webbedspace: One of my favourites is The Pit… ostensibly Boulder Dash's inspiration, it has simple objects but feels like a whole world…
  40. RT @jwaaaap: biggest power fantasy in games is when you talk to every stranger
  41. that feeling when you've been pulling the cord repeatedly for a while, and then the engine finally catches @nachimir/871083874767564800
  42. RT @nielsen_holly: I was asked to find a picture of an ostrich
  43. …in reply to @algcifaldi
    @amandaglosson I keep wanting to make unique soft landscapes art books. I think Peecho can do that (with an API)
  44. RT @ID_R_McGregor: In awe of how cool these simple robotics toys are from Toio. Using papercraft is very, very smart. Only $50. https://t…
  45. …in reply to @jericawebber
  46. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @nachimir The old gate, you just walked past
  47. …in reply to @Sass67
    @Sass67 @MaxFosterCNN the attackers were shot dead 8 minutes after the 999 call
  48. Does anyone have any resources (or would be able to chat) about scaling up the number of people/parallel streams of work on a Unity project?
  49. RT @austin_walker: This piece from @NotBrunoAgain, on why PUBG is such a great spectator game, is very, very good. waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/battlegrounds-finds-streaming-success-with-tense-human-drama
  50. thinking about aesthetics that don't encode well as MPEG, and the pressures away from using them @Flexi23/839225972549386240
  51. RT @katierosepipkin: from a sand county almanac, aldo leopold, 1949 -
  52. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal blocking anyone who screenshots
  53. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i considered trying to train something to recognise his face and not show any image containing it.
  54. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal but making that would involve looking at a lot of pictures of his face, so
  55. excellent teamwork here @JohnM007/871765399536361474
  56. RT @krismukai: @hellophia @heyAnnieMok i think abt sex fantasy a lot
  57. RT @sixteencolors: #ASCII #art has deep roots. This is circa 1893. kraftfuttermischwerk.de/blogg/emoticons-1893/ #ANSI #text #art #textmode #asciiart #demosce…
  58. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful you're not nearly close yet
  59. @Pinboard just got this, thought you should know
  60. thinking how much life has changed since i spent my time hanging out on neopets talking to people on msn
  61. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow does it look like a chubby baby?
  62. RT @BrianMueller333: 🚨🚨🚨 Reviews no longer reset with an app update!!! 🚨🚨🚨
  63. RT @tha_rami: Note for indie developers looking to get into console: pay attention to how Sony maneuvering the Playstation 4 here. https://…
  64. RT @DrLivGibbs: The Tube Train by Cyril Edward Power c. 1934 (Private Collection). Commuters during rush hour on London’s District Line. ht…
  65. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow of course
  66. …in reply to @ana_droid
    @ana_droid I'm with Linode, and I've not personally had problems (tho they've had many). I'd go with Digital Ocean if I was setting up today.
  67. this restaurant just played Luck & Neat's Do You Really Like It and Akron/Family's River back to back I am very happy and also confused.
  68. …in reply to @FlorianVltmn
    @FlorianVltmn need them windd particless
  69. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck goodbye, nice knowing you!
  70. …in reply to @NickSeagers
    @NickSeagers no, sorry! a {img URL_TO_GIF} syntax got halfway there, but not all the way yet
  71. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver @katbamkapow how can the headphones be too big if the hair is even bigger
  72. RT @iainaitch: May now insisting all interviews take place in a rural warehouse and that interviewer comes alone, no cops. https://t.co/nAJ…
  73. taunted by expensive academic books that are actually clearly entirely my shit crcpress.com/Procedural-Generation-in-Game-Design/Short-Adams/p/book/9781498799195
  74. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate goddamn it
  75. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib this article lays out a convincing story (to me) as to why she called the election: opendemocracy.net/uk/anthony-barnet/why-is-she-frit
  76. …in reply to @ragzouken
    @ragzouken @jmickle_ @innesmck maybe a base coat would help?
  77. RT @metasynthie: well I guess that's YET ANOTHER reason to get rid of the comments section boingboing.net/2017/06/07/watering-holes.html
  78. Looking at the Diana Jones nominees, and learned about The Beast, an erotic one-player durational RPG. beast.nakedfemalegiant.pl/
  79. RT @thomas_violence: are they suggesting that some of those that work forces...are the same that burn...crosses???? @ibtimes/871894471990005762
  80. great stuff in this thread @lauraehall/872514168246591488
  81. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall Bourne & Hollingworth in London has the toilets hidden behind a fake wall (with lovely floral wallpaper)
  82. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall The Pit & Pendulum in Nottingham has them hidden behind a fake bookshelf.
  83. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall The more I think about it now, the less sense hiding toilets makes...
  84. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured hey : you, tho.
  85. RT @hannahnicklin: I do really like John Harris' videos for the Guardian on the election. Astute, empathetic, honest. https://t.co/hbrSrkmR…
  86. elections should have spending limits on online ads, and the electoral commission should require detailed reporting marketingweek.com/2017/06/05/mark-ritson-%E2%80%8Bhow-win-election/
  87. …in reply to @ana_droid
    @ana_droid ask me, i'll tell you what you should do
  88. …in reply to @ana_droid
    @ana_droid (you should do the thing)
  89. …in reply to @v21
    i love #elections
  90. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow yesss! so glad
  91. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow I guess it makes sense that I am Sailor V, huh.
  92. …in reply to @undefined
    @SelinaNThompson @infinite_scream!
  93. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe i thought i had done pretty well not to have too much hope. fuck.
  94. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal me: "hey look, they propped a corpse up with a stick" krp: "oh shit, i phased out for a second, but that really is"
  95. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow @notquitereal i was thinking this
  96. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx Ruth Davidson is good at being a politician, and the SNP had such a high vote share they had nowhere to go but down.
  97. very happy for Mhairi
  98. love hearing Welsh results called
  99. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow krp: "this isn't possible"
  100. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @katbamkapow I'm very impressed he knows where to gesture
  101. …in reply to @PersocomNina
    @hentaiphd okay, but your hair is great tho
  102. RT @dril: Politic's is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)
  103. May looks like a schoolkid explaining why they haven't done their homework, with no good reason for why they hadn't.
  104. RT @bbcelection: Lewisham Deptford: LAB hold #GE2017. Full results: bbc.in/2qVyNRd
  105. RT @GaffneyVLC: Also a special mention to those students at Newcastle-Under-Lyme who, after being refused the right to vote, returned and w…
  106. RT @jon_bartley: She also had no intention of calling an election @BethRigby/873066596431835138
  107. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ DUP look to maybe be enough? If a majority of one is enough.
  108. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ minus Sinn Fein, tho
  109. RT @StewartPrest: Absolutely historic. One must go all the way back to 2016 to find a worse gamble. @stuartmillar159/873030826794942465
  110. …in reply to @genmon
    @genmon If nothing else, they do like backing a winner...
  111. RT @dapulli: This tweet gets funnier every election, 3/3 now. @David_Cameron/595112367358406656
  112. the thing where the left constantly snipes at each other is bad, but: I am looking forward to Tony Blair's next op-ed.
  113. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb he said during the campaign he wouldn't hold grudges. that seems very wise to me.
  114. RT @SkyNewsBreak: German government spokeswoman says it will not comment on the outcome of the General Election out of respect and politene…
  115. so many tweets have aged so very badly @JohnCleese/866188904814260226
  116. …in reply to @konjak
    @konjak Yeah, but... three more seats and it could be so different
  117. …in reply to @patrickashe
  118. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @Fortress_Inman yeah, don't get me wrong, this is a localised fume. but it's the constituency i grew up in, and fuck him
  119. …in reply to @tomhoward87
    @tomhoward87 @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @Fortress_Inman (oh, sorry, i was talking about Goldsmith)
  120. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette and you might even get a fourth pretty soon!
  121. …in reply to @merrittk
  122. this is going to be such a mess @RobertsDan/873165354918215680
  123. …in reply to @undefined
    @jon_ellis if i went upstairs and along a bit, i could see the houses of parliament
  124. it's fucking awful that May has announced that she'll form a government with the DUP without finding out what the DUP's terms for that are
  125. RT @jeresig: We’re now farther away from the release of jQuery (01/06) than the release of jQuery was from the release of JavaScript (09/95…
  126. UKIP vote collapsed because, well, Brexit is happening. Green vote collapsed because Labour are actually left wing again (& fuck the Tories) @FloPerry/873078051050881024
  127. …in reply to @lexicobob
    @lexicobob Looking pretty swish, too!
  128. RT @johnb78: Ah yes, the famous West London Question @dsquareddigest/873277487278632960
  129. RT @SuzeMarsupial: idk whether it's funny or alienating that everyone on here called absolute_boy420 can sit down and give you a solid, nua…
  130. RT @jackbern23: So the DUP's inherent bigotry, homophobia, climate change and evolution denial should disbar them from mainstream politics,…
  131. What's a good game for my (Android) phone I've not played before?
  132. I went to the vape shop and bought a slush ice and now I feel fragile and my hands are shaking
  133. …in reply to @liaddh
    @liaddh oh my god that skateboarding wine drinking cool boy
  134. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge "vaper" please. We call them "vaping machines"
  135. …in reply to @jomc
    @jomc fluff is so important, often way more important historically than Serious Pieces
  136. Thinking about this tweet has given me new respect for the film "Arrival" @nielsen_holly/873626656174374912
  137. Boris Johnson will be even worse, I reckon. @Fortress_Inman/873854550737899524
  138. I'm chill with this, because I think it's clear that tariff-free access => common market => free movement of labour. @GeoffShadbold/873835523810439168
  139. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @christinelove our FPTP, parliamentary system makes it unexpected, but proper PR would just bake it in
  140. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 @christinelove there is a whole thing where FPTP means the only viable third parties are those with explicitly regional appeal: compare Plaid & the Greens.
  141. RT @perlin_noise: ♍♉♊♍♎♐♏♏♍♎♎♎♍♎♍♍♍♎♏ ♌♉♉♌♎♏♑♑♑♐♏♎♎♍♍♎♏♏♎ ♍♋♊♋♋♎♐♐♐♏♏♎♏♏♏♑♑♐♏ ♍♍♋♋♍♏♐♐♏♎♏♏♎♌♍♏♐♍♍ ♎♐♎♌♎♐♑♎♌♋♋♋♊♋♌♌♎♎♎ ♎♏♎♋♌♎♎♌♍♍♊♉♊♋♎♎♎♏♎ ♍…
  142. this is a great thread (esp relevant to me were some examples of early digital/physical toys) @FemicomMuseum/873203203562713088
  143. RT @p_surridge: Just published my exploration of the turnout changes. Diversity not young people key to rising turnout. https://t.co/8cxv…
  144. RT @sapphobot: may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend
  145. from our balcony you can hear a AC unit that sounds kinda like crickets
  146. …in reply to @v21
    it's very good
  147. you know i'm here for brassica chat @salonium_34/873675786791907328
  148. RT @waiwaipang: this comic makes me feel uncomfortable
  149. …in reply to @matildepark_
    @sophiapark_ i think about this a lot. notability is a reason i always push to have open calls, despite the massive effort they can be.
  150. …in reply to @v21
    @sophiapark_ on social dislike - you can mitigate it a bit, but it's fair not to work with people you dislike (esp when you're being paid badly, too).
  151. …in reply to @v21
    @sophiapark_ only real answer is for there to be more than one avenue. which is easier said than done, ofc.
  152. RT @torahhorse: making games is insanely complex. first you have to not harass women
  153. I can't find that skateboarding cool boy with the glass of wine. It was big on my TL on the 16th of March. @liaddh did fanart.
  154. …in reply to @v21
  155. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @KommanderKlobb I want to never see Trump's face again
  156. @moreelen I can't remember if I was talking about this with you, but even if not I think you'll dig it @iamdanw/874540508399497216
  157. hello! we're hiring a producer here at Sensible Object. would you like to work with me? this could be yr chance. docs.google.com/document/d/1s6FsMGaUIgYzxdVBr8Z5q6epOlabj4vv0vnc5vFNCPA/edit
  158. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal you're such a sweetheart <3
  159. …in reply to @v21
    (feel free to DM me if you've questions)
  160. …in reply to @demon244
    @demon244 see the job description!
  161. Just added a new bit of workflow. These beasts represent Unity scenes. The green dude is on my desk, so I'm now editing game_battles.unity.
  162. …in reply to @v21
    (both painted by @angusdick)
  163. …in reply to @angusdick
    @angusdick in this business, you gotta take those risks
  164. RT @emshort: In the unlikely event you have a room suitable for 30+, central(ish) London and wheelchair accessible, that you'd like to let…
  165. …in reply to @undefined
    @increpare ultimarc! and here's the led driver board ultimarc.com/pacled64.html
  166. this is exciting [a way for the itch.io app to hook in and make it super simple to capture gifs & short bits of footage from games] @fasterthanlime/874599687361372160
  167. …in reply to @undefined
    @increpare the wiring harness (at the bottom of this page). buy everything that you can precrimped!
  168. …in reply to @fasterthanlime
    @fasterthanlime haha. i was also thinking "itch.io's answer to the Share button"
  169. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge i was really hoping that someone would respond to my tweet with "ah! but it's not necessary any more" ... but nope
  170. RT @pippinbarr: ▓▓ Gang Beasts of Balance ▓▓
  171. …in reply to @aidowall
    @aidowall i really wanna try this
  172. this is a simple thing, but also it totally would've fixed a design issue i worried about but never solved about 3 years ago. @christinelove/874710956701474816
  173. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle hey Doug, you should totally do this in Mutazione if players feel a lack of control about what conversation they trigger
  174. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle which was totes an issue i was worrying about with that conversation system i designed. UI was clean & calm, so i reckon it'd look fine.
  175. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle (ofc, everything may have changed dramatically, so feel free to ignore!)
  176. this is a very good thread of design advice that cuts across all types of games (& prob beyond) @dreamaskew/874693400104116224
  177. …in reply to @liaddh
    @liaddh I enjoy posting WIP stuff, but only if I'm properly motoring on a project and throwing off cool screenshots.
  178. …in reply to @v21
    @liaddh like, it's rad to look back on @v21/703238155223359488 (but yes, yes yes : avoided posting about a cool thing this morning for this reason)
  179. …in reply to @liaddh
    @liaddh yeah, for sure! though you can get stuck down the "making for Twitter screenshots" thing, not "making to make the thing" thing.
  180. …in reply to @v21
    @liaddh then again, y'know, it worked for Ooblets.
  181. …in reply to @liaddh
  182. RT @jamiesmart: This thread escalates beautifully 💖 @seananmcguire/874733630739726336
  183. went off on a whole thing at work about now good the show Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is
  184. …in reply to @sosadtoday
  185. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal accuracy isn't nearly nearly as important as being intentional. and even if you're going for accuracy, it might not be what you assume.
  186. RT @sannewman: A friend after going through the National Gallery: "Well, that's Western art for you. A thousand years of crucifixions, then…
  187. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @notquitereal i mean, yeah, @notquitereal/874986247718043648 p much sums it up, doesn't it...
  188. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @notquitereal & also i retweeted this this morning @Seemo/874756845331779584
  189. RT @WarrenIsDead: kirby.... *takes drag on cigarette, becomes a giant cigarette* haven't heard that name in a long time....
  190. …in reply to @spaceshipmark
    @spaceshipmark @deer_ful @bear_foot @citizenhelene know a guy called HP. he once ordered a half.
  191. i really enjoy it when someone accidentally makes a pun and doesn't realize it and i get to congratulate them for it
  192. …in reply to @v21
    "and, this sounds obvious, but don't dress in green when we're filming. that's really key."
  193. let's! write! a! shader!
  194. …in reply to @v21
    i wrote the shader!
  195. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i am not audio twitter but i got some MDR-7506s ages ago and i luv 'em. other than the headphone jack dying, but it's been replaced now.
  196. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal happy to bring them home from work this weekend if you wanna give them a try
  197. work announcement time: me and the other folks at @sensibleobject are working on a competitive version of Beasts of Balance. it's good!
  198. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker @sensibleobject soon! i'll put you in touch with folk here.
  199. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker @sensibleobject haha. i'll let yr poor gmail be, then
  200. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
  201. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb @sensibleobject @spacetreasured there's an amazing [redacted] I've got flapping away in a Slack channel that you'd love
  202. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge @sensibleobject we made them all parachutes
  203. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley i never have, but i know i could if i really needed it
  204. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts wow! that means you and @katbamkapow are both metamours.
  205. imagine if Unity's scene view didn't sort objects by their centroid depth, but by their actual position instead
  206. RT @chrisrodley: I used deep learning to cross a book of dinosaurs X a book of flowers
  207. of all the articles about videogames i have read recently, this is the one i have derived most pleasure from rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/14/dota-2-underwater-terrain-wildlife/19/
  208. …in reply to @undefined
  209. RT @v21: hello! we're hiring a producer here at Sensible Object. would you like to work with me? this could be yr chance. https://t.co/ns0l…
  210. RT @thhamilton: John Glen and the junior ministerial reshuffle: a play in four acts
  211. …in reply to @HannaKtweet
    @HannaKtweet are you getting a dog!?
  212. RT @kcimc: the way people draw circles is related to their writing system. one of many discoveries hidden in quickdraw data https://t.co/Bj…
  213. just remembered none pizza left beef
  214. …in reply to @v21
    and another great one! gosh! @bombsfall/875571617723596800
  215. …in reply to @v21
    i basically wrote one of these threads years ago. still stand by most of it. v21.io/blog/rules/
  216. …in reply to @v21
    this is the big one i was missing, imo @bombsfall/875574022871826433
  217. …in reply to @Ragepyro
  218. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette i would also like to see it! though i'm pretty booked up for the next while, so you shouldn't wait for me.
  219. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette nah, just for the next week or so
  220. RT @sashageffen: fwiw this helped me make sense of some of the motivations behind right wing health policy thenewinquiry.com/dispensing-gods-care/
  221. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @increpare @KommanderKlobb @rossgsutherland I came into this thread to recommend Imaginary Advice, glad to see Hannah beat me to the punch.
  222. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @increpare unhelpful reply: I learned Unity first, and while I was still learning to program well. It feels incredibly natural to me.
  223. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 @increpare this Hidden Folk post feels like it's a good explanation of a way of making in Unity that goes with the grain imgur.com/gallery/2l6af/
  224. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 @increpare can't make everything that way, but Unity feels great when you are making a thing that works that way
  225. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @increpare i think maybe it helps if you don't know C# super well ahead of time. then you only learn the weird subset of C# that works with Unity.
  226. …in reply to @ConnorSherlock
    @teg5511 @mcclure111 @increpare Wanna quickly shout out SabreCSG, which I've found easier to use and is also free.
  227. …in reply to @v21
  228. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow @bleatingheart @FlorianVltmn What what what what what
  229. It's 1pm on a beautiful summer's day in London, so I'm getting on a train.
  230. …in reply to @v21
  231. …in reply to @aparrish
    @aparrish @Tambalaya this is brilliant and it makes me really want to do another batch of the machine gently stutters
  232. Playing Toca Lab: Plants, and I'm so glad there's people making games this beautiful and weird and open and playful, and getting paid for it
  233. …in reply to @TheSakeDiary
    @TheSakeDiary I am having a cup of coffee and enjoying the views from this air-conditioned Overground train.
  234. …in reply to @v21
    @TheSakeDiary Oh look! The canal!
  235. Do you reckon you could name more
  236. This train has: happy dogs tiny baby air conditioning also I just missed my stop, fuck
  237. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb God, don't do that, it'll take days
  238. RT @la7mb: this is my favorite sticker in all of seattle everytime i walk by and its still there i say a little thankyou to the planet eart…
  239. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz they're never made until you give up on them
  240. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz yeah, that's a better answer
  241. On a train with three friends, and we're all in a row silently tapping sliding looking at phones. There's a beautiful offset rhythm to it.
  242. I bought a book at the comics festival and then I found out I was in it! hey @ppcrotty hi your book looks great I've not read it yet
  243. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow that is a very good skirt, where have you been hiding it?
  244. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i'm glad it's having it's day in the sun
  245. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @lizardengland the one that did reassure me was the Magritte bit in KRZ - "oh, yeah, it was a nightmare, i can't even remember how it works now"
  246. Put a postcard from ELCAF up at work (by @peonygent)
  247. …in reply to @Rammi
    @Rammi there is not! :(
  248. …in reply to @v21
    @Rammi but the "every x hours" stuff will tweet at consistent times during the day (ignoring daylight savings, tho!)
  249. …in reply to @Rammi
    @Rammi If you're able to host it yourself, then github.com/v21/tracerybot is a version of CBDQ you can self host to run a single bot
  250. Didn't cycle into work again because I was running late because I spent 15 minutes lying in bed wishing I didn't have toothache.
  251. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i am generally with you, BUT: I did student radio with Tim, he's nice. and I used to have one of those toilets and it was very satisfying.
  252. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz never know when a dead light bulb will come in handy
  253. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i doooo. and i understand that feeling, like you're fighting your way out of a endless dead weight of people thinking wistfully of empire
  254. …in reply to @v21
    @vivschwarz anyway, a song you might like: youtube.com/watch?v=BOJXT6UFhQI
  255. looking at a twitter join date to get a rough estimate of the half-life of a VC-backed SAAS thing we're considering using
  256. …in reply to @v21
    2014! It'll probably be around a year or two yet, sure, let's use it.
  257. (Liz isn't implying this, but) often letting players see the patterns is the good bit of proc-gen. the intricate patterns are the pretty bit @lizardengland/877025054596485120
  258. …in reply to @v21
    making the patterns good, making understanding them be a good journey, full of twists and turns...
  259. …in reply to @v21
    here's a thing i wrote about this, not in the context of games v21.io/blog/literature-of-totality/
  260. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland but then you get to poetry, and seeing the patterns is good again
  261. …in reply to @v21
    @lizardengland and it's also interesting how this intersects with tool design, both in making more stuff by hand, and allowing better tweaking of proc gen
  262. imagine a TV show as enamoured of finding the limits that a digital format brings as Homestuck was
  263. …in reply to @v21
    it would be massive, and the fans would be even more insufferable
  264. what does it look like if mario possesses kirby then eats luigi? @samandfuzzy/876912709983272961
  265. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern the heat causes the clay to dry out and crack, so they have to inject caulk
  266. …in reply to @gothdome
    @gothdome @HarryGiles the way you have to develop a practice and an expertise in grant-getting, p much as a full-time job. that sucks.
  267. …in reply to @v21
    @gothdome @HarryGiles a thing that made people have to estimate how much time artists would have to spend applying for a thing when setting up applications
  268. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ i think it goes MARIO HAT LUIGI HAT KIRBY FACE
  269. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ static priority, kirby absorbtion state change is more fundamental than mario control.
  270. …in reply to @v21
    @jmickle_ though as you say, an argument could be made either way. it doesn't seem forgone that these changes are commutable.
  271. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle I use my laptop the majority of my waking life. It's the most expensive thing I own. I will spend as much as I can afford on it.
  272. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle yeah. Macbook Pro, 2014 model, midrange in terms of optional specs. dunno what i'd get these days.
  273. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle i mean, clearly it's not, but you can't spend money to get a better you
  274. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem being a commercial designer operating in a particular space does mean you should keep up with that space, but that's a much weaker claim
  275. …in reply to @v21
    @vectorpoem no-one's mad AAA designers aren't playing the latest Toca Boca, butI bet Toca Boca designers vaguely feel they should play AAA stuff
  276. RT @getdizzzy: the ARMS "lore" is maybe the best fighting game backstory of all time
  277. RT @WeThrowSwitches: Alternative arcade cabinets, drift wood controllers, and amazing, independent games. One of the loveliest installation…
  278. fucking my mouth up with a very large tub of pineapple chunks
  279. RT @tigershungry: the transition from real to procedurally generated line up when scrolling down this gastonbury page is so subtle https://…
  280. …in reply to @guided1
    @guided1 Printed Gmail account recovery code, or having a friend as a backup security number
  281. …in reply to @v21
    @guided1 Or... fly home
  282. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox not so much production, but... the iOS port of Tenori-on?
  283. It's hard to see and things are still bad. But go back (in nerd culture) 10 years and things were even worse. So I'm encouraged. @katbamkapow/877274378257543168
  284. very interesting to read about a concrete output from Chris Crawford's white whale hunting emshort.blog/2017/06/21/chris-crawfords-encounter-editor/
  285. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow All I Want Is For All My Friends To Become Insanely Powerful
  286. this negotiating strategy went about as well as could be expected @v21/873218574336356353
  287. …in reply to @managore
    @managore a really bad one i made with @rubzo and @oh_cripes. i guess i made that one first, but making that one made me want to make better games.
  288. shouting out our new comms person, @anadukakis, for putting this quiz together. what are you? Air, Land or Sea? @beastsofbalance/877482241760382976
  289. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew lucky fella
  290. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood @VIVID_ i'm sad for my old, less descriptive bio
  291. RT @notquitereal: a poem about the longest day of the year
  292. agree with this whole thread @folmerkelly/877518389979348992
  293. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow i also like them! love some of them, definitely! but i also love some books, comics, films...
  294. …in reply to @v21
    there's this pressure to be a Passionate Gamer, welded to a controller since the age of 8... idk. i care about making good interactive stuff
  295. on the one hand, i've sworn off videogame tshirts... on the other hand... tegroeg.bigcartel.com/product/hidden-folks-all-over-printed-tee
  296. …in reply to @chris__martin
    @chris__martin 4 hours for Work 8 hours for Rest 12 hours for What We Will
  297. these all sound great @hashevatski/877526572751880192
  298. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio @ADAMATOMIC mine is called Eminem and his arms are spaghetti
  299. RT @ranarama: Realizing I never entirely resolved my childhood confusion of Cair Paravel and Cape Canaveral.
  300. RT @magicbeans: .@lizpelly has been working on a piece for Watt for months about how Spotify playlists are made. watt.cashmusic.org/writing/thesecretlivesofplaylists
  301. vanful of policemen being let into the storeroom of Tesco to get ice cream (the freezer at the front was out)
  302. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I saw them in the back of the van eating lollies (binbag hanging off the front seat). One did indeed have a fab.
  303. RT @ManifoldGarden: view from the editor
  304. RT @NotBrunoAgain: So Chris Crawford is asking people to contribute writing to his current project for free and this paragraph has some Lay…
  305. RT @pobega: ARMS isn't a fighting game, as it lacks the three things that define a fighting game: - Heavy neutral spacing - Oki situations…
  306. RT @JanelleCShane: A neural network, trained on ancient proverbs, tries its hand at generating new ones. lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/162097037117/ancient-wisdom-from-the-neural-network https://t.…
  307. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn Why are all the books red? Is there a rule that books on DIY videogames have to be red?
  308. RT @katierosepipkin: typewriter work from ruth wolf-rehfeldt, 1970s+80s, at documenta 14
  309. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn but a dangerous, exciting kind of pink
  310. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx Yeah, I wrote a quality based narrative system once, I like 'em!
  311. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp i was being diplomatic with "very interesting", but after seeing @NotBrunoAgain/877533176129826816 i wish i hadn't bothered
  312. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC v glad that this new version of BoB has... what's that? it's going to have more UI than the last version? oh, lovely.
  313. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC i mean, i guess this counts as "applying the learnings of the last time", but ... it doesn't feel like a blessing.
  314. this game is good and astonishingly generous @king_spooner/877911036120059904
  315. …in reply to @v21
  316. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone Isn't this the classic thing where CS and coding are not really the same? Algebra is definitely needed for one, contextually for the other.
  317. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone @GalaxyKate Yeah - I'd be very surprised if someone who could do coding couldn't also learn algebra, but algebra isn't a prerequisite for coding
  318. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisamaphone @GalaxyKate But also I try to keep in mind the great things I like that have been made in code by absolutely awful programmers.
  319. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisamaphone @GalaxyKate to the point that I am not sure that a clear grasp of how to abstract behaviour out was present or necessary
  320. I dreamt I had collaborated on a Twine/Tracery game with @AidanJohnMoffat and one with @edclef (that one was about Haw Par Villa).
  321. …in reply to @v21
    I was trying to make some expansions on them before my mum served up dinner, but a kid was annoying me by showing an elaborate & trolly game
  322. …in reply to @v21
    Sometimes I was using my phone to do this, which had a great IDE for switching between tabs/functions/projects in Sublime Text.
  323. …in reply to @v21
    Good dream.
  324. RT @eaumohtz: summer witches 🍒
  325. best smoking in a videogame?
  326. …in reply to @v21
    (my favourite is @Oujevipo's Sister's Little Helper pierrec.itch.io/split-fighters. i wrote about this 5 years ago??? v21.io/blog/rolling-a-joint/)
  327. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ yeahhh, unexpected consistency between cutscene and in-game. what happened if you were very near death?
  328. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi it _was_ good!
  329. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi maybe this time i'll do one within the time limit
  330. …in reply to @Mello42
    @Mello42 Oh shitt, yeah, great smoking in that.
  331. …in reply to @Poxican
    @Poxican @VariableState oh, nice, I still need to play that.
  332. RT @scarschwartz: This is William Wordsworth in 1800 proposing that when scientists make a human machine, it will be poets who welcome it i…
  333. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured i got it, it's just every time i went to click "fav" my finger slipped
  334. …in reply to @godtributes
  335. this game is incredible, and as fair as it is hard. roll them sausages! @increpare/878172342421159936
  336. holy fuck! Thu Tran x PEOW yes yes yes, i am very glad this is happening. @peow_studio/878262900816723968
  337. …in reply to @v21
    this is ALSO a good one of these threads @lauraehall/876244211175116801
  338. …in reply to @iamdanw
    @iamdanw i read an interview that went into this from a production side! thematically, it works that he doesn't have to say hi to family etc
  339. …in reply to @v21
    @iamdanw and in-universe - why wouldn't you climb a ladder to say hi to friends? i def would
  340. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck oh neat, i like them, i'll have a look
  341. here's a nice guide to making SVG bots on Cheap Bots, Done Quick! github.com/derekahmedzai/cheapbotsdonequick/blob/master/svg-tracery-image-bots.md
  342. …in reply to @AtheneAllen
    @AtheneAllen Not with CBDQ, but a basic bot framework and something like ffmpeg should do it without much trouble.
  343. …in reply to @v21
    (god, I still feel so happy and grateful to have made a thing others write guides for)
  344. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle Oooh, it did!
  345. @mrgnptts I think you might appreciate this 1.ignotamagazine.com
  346. RT @ArchisVolume: Read 'Mechanization of the Office' by @CLabColumbia as our #volume37 repost. A great read with lots of cool images! https…
  347. "Best of all you work with love and desire, next with will, and finally, if all else fails, it is bloody obstinacy!" (Bridget Riley)
  348. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz For me, it happens before love and desire.
  349. …in reply to @v21
    @vivschwarz Curiosity is good for getting me started, but I am not so curious it'll drive me past a hard patch.
  350. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz Chewing on this, and reading more of this book. Here's a chunk:
  351. This is obviously incredibly twee, but also openly discussing and deciding together what you want from relationships is a very good thing. @nytimes/878463201272373249
  352. …in reply to @v21
    Please don't let one distract you from the other! Write it as a contract or whisper it in bed together, but do it, and keep doing it.
  353. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I hope not! But also there are a lot of signifiers in this article that are easy to dismiss as being of a particular lifestyle...
  354. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow and I want to be clear that this is a good and important thing, even (especially) outside of that
  355. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @_thatgumyoulike It's not explicit, but the article opens with them discussing changes. But yes, agreed. (but what works for them!..)
  356. …in reply to @imaginary_lines
    @imaginary_lines I am currently at a wedding - can you poke me like tomorrow evening?
  357. looking at twitter with no signal and just seeing stale angry tweets that don't make sense without their accompanying images loaded
  358. …in reply to @v21
    I had an accompanying (unthreaded, cuz no signal) tweet about the blue pottery in my airbnb's bathroom, but I decided it wasn't good enough
  359. …in reply to @v21
    anyway, to sum up: the wedding I was at was good, and completely suitably full of emotion
  360. …in reply to @bryangale
    @bryangale I'm tempted to recommend you watch the Xmas special and no more. S2 is good, more of that good shit, but does not end well.
  361. …in reply to @AlexMaskill
    @AlexMaskill @mitzybat I can't write it (Woolf is a hole in my literary knowledge), but glad to help if you want to try cheapbotsdonequick.com
  362. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow you can borrow mine if you like
  363. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow ahh, great timing!
  364. RT @NewYorker: The first time Joseph Touchette ever dressed in drag was in the years after the Second World War, at his wedding. https://t.…
  365. RT @seelnose: HHHH???
  366. finally playing GNOG and the thing I have stuck in my head is that it's the first post-Kanaga game I've played
  367. …in reply to @v21
    I really don't know if that's quite fair as an influence, and there's a lot of other strands there, but still. it's so tactile.
  368. …in reply to @MonsieurEureka
    @MonsieurEureka I think it stands alongside them.
  369. RT @hellophia: San Francisco Pride is this weekend – here's a tiny comic I made for the Queers & Comics Conference, it's called Softball ⚾👭…
  370. Imagining proposing to a dentist-partner by sneaking a wire that spells out "MARRY ME?" into my mouth when they leave the room to x-ray me.
  371. …in reply to @j3rrytron
    @j3rrytron :'< farewell jerry! great to see you!
  372. RT @ben_towle: Fascinating. Just stumbled on math nerds trying to determine definitively how many ways a 9-panel grid can be used - https:/…
  373. …in reply to @v21
    glad you had a great time! (I don't really know what this company actually does...)
  374. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i think this is an american thing? or else i am just slovenly and using this as an excuse
  375. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @katbamkapow oh, i guess i'm just terrible, then
  376. I am pleased about this! @majorfunaward/879285504851705857
  377. …in reply to @JamesWallis
    @JamesWallis they're professionals
  378. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang i love that time of day - but i'd go bolder with the lights, instead. big sodium glows everywhere.
  379. RT @maruti_bitamin: Dive
  380. …in reply to @SimoRoth
    @SimoRoth thank fuck for GDS
  381. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb via the devolved NI Assembly... if they manage to re-form it
  382. i think i agree with this, but it's a hard post to read if you're invested making a living from selling videogames you've made @radiatoryang/879362341305012226
  383. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb easy to negotiate well when the other party has publicly committed to accepting the deal beforehand
  384. RT @torahhorse: all games should have abridgment DLC that makes them under 8 hours
  385. RT @fromsmiling: JOB LOZENGE 2 [dead] 2/2
  386. I would like to play a King of Dragon Pass-like populated by @neighbour_civs peoples. @neighbour_civs/879413329738989569
  387. …in reply to @v21
    @neighbour_civs no offense to the Ducks
  388. …in reply to @v21
    @neighbour_civs i said, NO OFFENSE
  389. when you go to make a tweet then remember making that tweet a year ago, so you quote tweet it with these words instead @v21/762257988925190144
  390. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander I found this shrine hilarious, because you can just flip the whole thing and do it on the smooth back side.
  391. …in reply to @ragekit
    @ragekit @polclarissou high waisted trousers help? but yeah, I feel you
  392. …in reply to @konjak
    @konjak if they work, then go to a doctor!
  393. RT @FlexRoman: trying to ressurect an old thing used for prints to make HD wallpapers, everything is broken but somehow looks nice. https:/…
  394. RT @nick_kapur: Today we speak of "BBC English" as a standard form of the language, but this form had to be invented by a small team in the…
  395. @notquitereal if you have not seen this yet! @nick_kapur/879431974657695744
  396. I'm such a dork, my first instinct was to check if they manually scrubbed @EveryFinnishNo from the data (they did) @MaxCRoser/879607600450613251
  397. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh prettty accurate!
  398. …in reply to @lyyyndseyyy
    @lyyyndseyyy @nachimir no, they'd not have the lowered expectations that come from being within games
  399. …in reply to @Xist3nce_Dev
    @Xist3nce_Dev @torahhorse sure, but just... don't buy the thing?
  400. RT @metasynthie: Here your gay aunt made you a punnett square to cover you in most situations even if you can't negotiate it all openly bef…
  401. RT @mike_robbo: I still use Chromes Developer console all the time for throw away scripts to output simple calculations. Seems stupid but i…
  402. RT @polclarissou: 3D scans misunderstanding mirrors and creating ghost geometry has to be one of my fav things ever (from https://t.co/J5Wj…
  403. what's your favourite game without any meaningful choices?
  404. …in reply to @v21
    i think mine is probably bingo
  405. …in reply to @tjamesmartin
    @tjamesmartin good question! no meaningful choices within it, i guess, but the choice of whether to play is very meaningful
  406. my wonderful housemate is leaving in August - so I'm sending up the signal flare for a new person to live with from then
  407. …in reply to @v21
    possibly still in our nice (but slightly too expensive) Deptford flat, possibly elsewhere. we can figure it out. East/South East pref. hmu!
  408. …in reply to @sam_cook
    @sam_cook pls put us in touch!
  409. …in reply to @sam_cook
    @sam_cook vtwentyone@gmail.com
  410. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh 😭 - lmk if you do, maybe i won't have sorted out my shit by then
  411. …in reply to @v21
  412. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek oh, shit -- so our lease actually ends in September, so if you wanna take it for that first month then that'd def work
  413. …in reply to @n0wak
    @n0wak we had a debate about execution challenge when i spoke about this before. isn't it a choice, tho? to endure and keep pushing?
  414. a thing i like about android, the OS google makes, is that the icons can have transparency, so they can be distinguished by silhouette @mcclure111/879712491705704448
  415. RT @queengrace97: the player may have "no significant impact upon the game", but isn't it more important that the game has a significant im…
  416. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb i did a month or two back... i think i wish i hadn't
  417. …in reply to @h_a_l_e_x
    @h_a_l_e_x @MuchoPartyGame execution challenge is a choice! (maybe? i think?)
  418. …in reply to @hugovk
  419. …in reply to @tigershungry
  420. …in reply to @h_a_l_e_x
    @h_a_l_e_x right, but if you try harder sometimes you can do better. or, on a micro level : you're choosing to push the button _now_.
  421. …in reply to @v21
    @h_a_l_e_x or: if you know tic tac toe so well you know the optimal move every time, does it stop having choices?
  422. RT @netgal_emi: I wrote a bit more about my UFO zine... process... types... &c medium.com/@midboss/about-real-ufo-stories-and-more-broadly-typologies-cd8be21db40f
  423. sad but unsurprised to hear this! thank you @ElectricObjects for commissioning a new version of @softlandscapes, best of luck to the team. @ElectricObjects/879739281362890752
  424. bot of the day: @rot13scavenger whispers on the wind, anime spoilers echo, the mirror shimmers: #ebg13
  425. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts sluggy freelance every day
  426. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry oh god, my and @hollygramazio totally unnecessarily-emergency-designed a game during Now Play This based on patent drawings
  427. …in reply to @tigershungry
  428. Hello Twitter, I saw this sign and thought of you
  429. I saw a heron!
  430. …in reply to @rel8ablecontent
    @rel8ablecontent @meretrivia hi, yes, quite possibly!
  431. 13 days til we launch our Kickstarter for new Beasts stuff!!
  432. RT @ADAMATOMIC: there’s a vulnerability or a risk-taking to just taking cinema-as-light-and-sound over or at least next to say story or cul…
  433. have you heard of a creature called a "mugwump"?
  434. …in reply to @v21
    (this tweet inspired by @lorenschmidt/880120497572388867 - i have, but i think only through CS projects/examples)
  435. this is good design for a training quiz about a interestingly nuanced policy for censoring an important means of expression for billions! @onekade/880071958548828161
  436. …in reply to @v21
    maybe the real problem is that tech cos are actually sometimes kinda good at forming monopolistic platforms for basic shit we all do
  437. …in reply to @v21
    "just don't use facebook": yeah, but that's where my FRIENDS are. it sucks that an american tech company controls access to friend's parties
  438. …in reply to @v21
    basically, there's no real extra pride to be had in combining the problems of having to pay bills and making good work into a single problem
  439. RT @mewo2: @v21 When I think about this stuff, I keep coming back to this paragraph by @HarryGiles (from this piece: https://t.co/IdpFm7Vhs…
  440. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow is this the death sauce we have a jar of in the fridge?
  441. RT @leighalexander: if all we focus on is 'representation', all we get is uncompensated seats on panels and expensive bad movies with rudim…
  442. …in reply to @v21
    the reason to fight for this is that there is a delta in respect between making $$ from yr stuff and not. and that sucks. let's not do that.
  443. …in reply to @v21
    currently people get round this by: -being famous enough it doesn't matter -going through the pantomime of commerce -v particular contexts
  444. RT @ustwogames: Behind the scenes at ustwo games! Playing @beastsofbalance, and failing...
  445. good writing tips here @jeremy_peel/880412557697220609
  446. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley split a meal (evenly, unless there was a real discrepancy in costs), alternate rounds at a pub
  447. …in reply to @v21
    @ka_bradley oh, unless someone proposed somewhere super ££££, in which case they should be prepared to pay, or say up front. but: first date, so, don't
  448. …in reply to @DavidLublin
    @DavidLublin @sbook it's surprisingly rare for people to use it for bad things!
  449. …in reply to @v21
    @DavidLublin @sbook but yeah, you will enable some bad things (hopefully, if it gets decent usage). also a lot of good things. yr choice on the balance.
  450. …in reply to @v21
    @DavidLublin @sbook personally, i say go for it. if only cuz i wanna play!
  451. …in reply to @v21
    @DavidLublin @sbook (most bad things are kids writing bad words for fun, or to (hard for me to tell) bully/play with friends)
  452. endlessly smoothing/wrinkling code so that the smoke can persist after the thingy has gone
  453. just now heading home from recording a letsplay of Beasts of Balance Battles. it's been really educational doing more video stuff recently.
  454. …in reply to @v21
    also we recorded the talking heads bits in the KS video on a very hot day, so keep that in mind when you see me and I look impossibly sweaty
  455. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy I'm not top quintile income... but I'm a tech worker and I'm pro unionisation.
  456. …in reply to @v21
    @alicemazzy Tech workers might have a lot of money... but they still have a load less power than the cos they work for.
  457. …in reply to @v21
    @alicemazzy Yeah, there's others out there with even less... but I see more ways tech worker unionisation helps them than hurts them.
  458. …in reply to @v21
    @alicemazzy And neither has much power or money compared to the tech cos themselves. So why snipe?
  459. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal I have been that person, using my laptop as a big ol battery
  460. who wants me to give a fifteen minute talk deconstructing some of the context behind this advert? there's a lot there. @awscloud/872927831847690240
  461. …in reply to @BRKeogh
  462. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @xxvi_xxxviii I wanted the symmetry of seconds to minutes.
  463. …in reply to @v21
    @xxvi_xxxviii also I'm lazy and the audience will be nerds anyway.
  464. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh this stuff is more mainstream than just geek audience stuff, yeah. but I read a bunch of those comics back when, they were mainstream
  465. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 now I have deja vu
  466. …in reply to @notsarahgordon
    @notsarahgordon a) good luck and b) it's sent! no more angst. angst til you press the button, freedom after (is how I think anyway)
  467. RT @PlanktonPundit: Astonishing numbers of starfish larvae in the plankton. These brittle star babies drift in the surface currents like se…
  468. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir @ARGComFest i'm about Monday evening!
  469. bot of the day:@NuclearTrains "it sounds difficult to believe but we don't have a nuclear agenda with this, we're just in it for the trains"
  470. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @carolinesinders yesterday i wore my old school sports kit tshirt, which has my name on a fabric label sewn in.
  471. …in reply to @v21
    @tigershungry @carolinesinders the company that made that brand of personalized fabric name labels shut down a few years back. i was surprisingly sad.
  472. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @tigershungry @carolinesinders ok fair. i still have a little bag of fabric names somewhere... maybe i should put them in all my clothes.
  473. …in reply to @v21
    sneak peek
  474. …in reply to @GamingFTL
    @GamingFTL i very rarely fall over
  475. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly good cocktails: Satan's Whiskers, Manhattans Project
  476. …in reply to @gothdome
    @gothdome this was pre haircut, i owe this feed a selfie
  477. RT @AmazingThew: Build enough cool custom tools for yourself that you can spend all your time fixing bugs in your tools instead of getting…
  478. …in reply to @randylubin
    @randylubin oh, interesting! I don't think that's properly supported - but if you try to send one that's over length, it'll always fail.