Tweets from 2017/06
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@madparker Two links about ExxonMobil: bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40106278 scribd.com/mobile/document/343294284/Exxon-letter-to-WH#download
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@mjmcmaster yesss, you're doing it!
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If you suddenly became virally famous:
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RT @gabrielkrieshok: Gah! Your gyroscope can pick up on your voice!
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@KommanderKlobb News article : "Bad news: The adorable father who posted this tweet about Top Cat we all loved - turns out, he ___________"
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@danhett Thank you for opening yourself up to that to stand up for immigrants. Good luck!
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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
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I was just thinking how communication speed leads to more control from further away @malscrung/869886185325424644
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@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.
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carrying a piano lid to Yorkshire on a sunny Thursday morning
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@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
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@hannahnicklin mmm. that's true, but that power had to be exercised via a series of proxies with latitude to apply discretion.
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@hannahnicklin I mean, there's always other factors, and it's kinda impossible to quantify "power".. but I think there's something there?
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@hannahnicklin something that ties into power law distributions and how network effects lead to them - so bigger networks lead to greater inequality
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@hannahnicklin I'm not sure, but it's an argument made in the thread I linked and makes sense on it's face.
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I take this tweet back
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@katbamkapow hey though, great shirt / necklace combo
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@Sosowski I have faith! But I have also not done any work towards it, besides carrying the lid up
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@SpindleyQ Copper tape! And there's a ground connection on the soundboard
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RT @JFriedhoff: Related: I'm looking work! My jam is experimental, interactive, playful tech--installations, tools, games & beyond https://…
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@PennyRed so you're the DJ?
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RT @feralvector: Fixed.
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@tigershungry your nemesis!
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i am at feral vector and i have so many talented friends
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@vivschwarz @KommanderKlobb oooh, where's this?
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@lrsphm @katbamkapow digital intimacy - we're at Feral Vector, it's a videogame festival in the woods.
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@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.
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RT @ContentEngage: made up of cool, fun people
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@dreamfeelx @gothdome Oh no! Real sorry to hear that, and shame we won't get to hang.
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RT @molleindustria: Frank Zappa interviewed about videogames in 1983. Extremely thoughtful and progressive afka.net/Articles/1983-01_JoyStik.htm https://…
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RT @webbedspace: One of my favourites is The Pit… ostensibly Boulder Dash's inspiration, it has simple objects but feels like a whole world…
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RT @jwaaaap: biggest power fantasy in games is when you talk to every stranger
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that feeling when you've been pulling the cord repeatedly for a while, and then the engine finally catches @nachimir/871083874767564800
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RT @nielsen_holly: I was asked to find a picture of an ostrich
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@amandaglosson I keep wanting to make unique soft landscapes art books. I think Peecho can do that (with an API)
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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…
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@Sass67 @MaxFosterCNN the attackers were shot dead 8 minutes after the 999 call
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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?
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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…
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thinking about aesthetics that don't encode well as MPEG, and the pressures away from using them @Flexi23/839225972549386240
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RT @katierosepipkin: from a sand county almanac, aldo leopold, 1949 -
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@notquitereal blocking anyone who screenshots
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@notquitereal i considered trying to train something to recognise his face and not show any image containing it.
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@notquitereal but making that would involve looking at a lot of pictures of his face, so
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thoughtful thread! @legobutts/871745036131729410
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excellent teamwork here @JohnM007/871765399536361474
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RT @sixteencolors: #ASCII #art has deep roots. This is circa 1893. kraftfuttermischwerk.de/blogg/emoticons-1893/ #ANSI #text #art #textmode #asciiart #demosce…
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@deer_ful you're not nearly close yet
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RT @manygradients:
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@Pinboard just got this, thought you should know
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thinking how much life has changed since i spent my time hanging out on neopets talking to people on msn
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@katbamkapow does it look like a chubby baby?
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RT @BrianMueller333: 🚨🚨🚨 Reviews no longer reset with an app update!!! 🚨🚨🚨
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RT @tha_rami: Note for indie developers looking to get into console: pay attention to how Sony maneuvering the Playstation 4 here. https://…
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RT @DrLivGibbs: The Tube Train by Cyril Edward Power c. 1934 (Private Collection). Commuters during rush hour on London’s District Line. ht…
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@katbamkapow of course
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@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.
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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.
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@FlorianVltmn need them windd particless
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@innesmck goodbye, nice knowing you!
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@NickSeagers no, sorry! a {img URL_TO_GIF} syntax got halfway there, but not all the way yet
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@adrielbeaver @katbamkapow how can the headphones be too big if the hair is even bigger
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RT @iainaitch: May now insisting all interviews take place in a rural warehouse and that interviewer comes alone, no cops. https://t.co/nAJ…
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taunted by expensive academic books that are actually clearly entirely my shit crcpress.com/Procedural-Generation-in-Game-Design/Short-Adams/p/book/9781498799195
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@GalaxyKate goddamn it
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@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
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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
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Looking at the Diana Jones nominees, and learned about The Beast, an erotic one-player durational RPG. beast.nakedfemalegiant.pl/
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RT @thomas_violence: are they suggesting that some of those that work forces...are the same that burn...crosses???? @ibtimes/871894471990005762
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great stuff in this thread @lauraehall/872514168246591488
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@lauraehall Bourne & Hollingworth in London has the toilets hidden behind a fake wall (with lovely floral wallpaper)
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@lauraehall The Pit & Pendulum in Nottingham has them hidden behind a fake bookshelf.
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@lauraehall The more I think about it now, the less sense hiding toilets makes...
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@spacetreasured hey : you, tho.
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RT @hannahnicklin: I do really like John Harris' videos for the Guardian on the election. Astute, empathetic, honest. https://t.co/hbrSrkmR…
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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/
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@ana_droid ask me, i'll tell you what you should do
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@ana_droid (you should do the thing)
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@katbamkapow yesss! so glad
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@katbamkapow I guess it makes sense that I am Sailor V, huh.
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@SelinaNThompson @infinite_scream!
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@patrickashe i thought i had done pretty well not to have too much hope. fuck.
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@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"
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@katbamkapow @notquitereal i was thinking this
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@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.
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very happy for Mhairi
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love hearing Welsh results called
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@katbamkapow krp: "this isn't possible"
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@notquitereal @katbamkapow I'm very impressed he knows where to gesture
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@hentaiphd okay, but your hair is great tho
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RT @dril: Politic's is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)
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May looks like a schoolkid explaining why they haven't done their homework, with no good reason for why they hadn't.
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RT @GaffneyVLC: Also a special mention to those students at Newcastle-Under-Lyme who, after being refused the right to vote, returned and w…
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RT @jon_bartley: She also had no intention of calling an election @BethRigby/873066596431835138
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@jmickle_ DUP look to maybe be enough? If a majority of one is enough.
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@jmickle_ minus Sinn Fein, tho
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RT @StewartPrest: Absolutely historic. One must go all the way back to 2016 to find a worse gamble. @stuartmillar159/873030826794942465
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@genmon If nothing else, they do like backing a winner...
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RT @dapulli: This tweet gets funnier every election, 3/3 now. @David_Cameron/595112367358406656
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the thing where the left constantly snipes at each other is bad, but: I am looking forward to Tony Blair's next op-ed.
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@KommanderKlobb he said during the campaign he wouldn't hold grudges. that seems very wise to me.
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RT @SkyNewsBreak: German government spokeswoman says it will not comment on the outcome of the General Election out of respect and politene…
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so many tweets have aged so very badly @JohnCleese/866188904814260226
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@konjak Yeah, but... three more seats and it could be so different
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@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
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@tomhoward87 @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @Fortress_Inman (oh, sorry, i was talking about Goldsmith)
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@mink_ette and you might even get a fourth pretty soon!
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this is going to be such a mess @RobertsDan/873165354918215680
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@jon_ellis if i went upstairs and along a bit, i could see the houses of parliament
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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
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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…
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UKIP vote collapsed because, well, Brexit is happening. Green vote collapsed because Labour are actually left wing again (& fuck the Tories) @FloPerry/873078051050881024
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@lexicobob Looking pretty swish, too!
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RT @johnb78: Ah yes, the famous West London Question @dsquareddigest/873277487278632960
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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…
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RT @jackbern23: So the DUP's inherent bigotry, homophobia, climate change and evolution denial should disbar them from mainstream politics,…
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What's a good game for my (Android) phone I've not played before?
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I went to the vape shop and bought a slush ice and now I feel fragile and my hands are shaking
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@liaddh oh my god that skateboarding wine drinking cool boy
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@asponge "vaper" please. We call them "vaping machines"
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@jomc fluff is so important, often way more important historically than Serious Pieces
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Thinking about this tweet has given me new respect for the film "Arrival" @nielsen_holly/873626656174374912
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Boris Johnson will be even worse, I reckon. @Fortress_Inman/873854550737899524
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I'm chill with this, because I think it's clear that tariff-free access => common market => free movement of labour. @GeoffShadbold/873835523810439168
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@mcclure111 @christinelove our FPTP, parliamentary system makes it unexpected, but proper PR would just bake it in
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@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.
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RT @perlin_noise: ♍♉♊♍♎♐♏♏♍♎♎♎♍♎♍♍♍♎♏ ♌♉♉♌♎♏♑♑♑♐♏♎♎♍♍♎♏♏♎ ♍♋♊♋♋♎♐♐♐♏♏♎♏♏♏♑♑♐♏ ♍♍♋♋♍♏♐♐♏♎♏♏♎♌♍♏♐♍♍ ♎♐♎♌♎♐♑♎♌♋♋♋♊♋♌♌♎♎♎ ♎♏♎♋♌♎♎♌♍♍♊♉♊♋♎♎♎♏♎ ♍…
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this is a great thread (esp relevant to me were some examples of early digital/physical toys) @FemicomMuseum/873203203562713088
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RT @p_surridge: Just published my exploration of the turnout changes. Diversity not young people key to rising turnout. https://t.co/8cxv…
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RT @sapphobot: may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend
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from our balcony you can hear a AC unit that sounds kinda like crickets
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it's very good
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RT @ADAMATOMIC:
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you know i'm here for brassica chat @salonium_34/873675786791907328
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RT @waiwaipang: this comic makes me feel uncomfortable
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@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.
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@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).
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@sophiapark_ only real answer is for there to be more than one avenue. which is easier said than done, ofc.
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@eleanorchandler hello :)
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RT @torahhorse: making games is insanely complex. first you have to not harass women
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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.
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RT @protobacillus:
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@edclef @KommanderKlobb I want to never see Trump's face again
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@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
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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
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@shahidkamal you're such a sweetheart <3
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(feel free to DM me if you've questions)
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@demon244 see the job description!
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(both painted by @angusdick)
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@angusdick in this business, you gotta take those risks
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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…
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@increpare ultimarc! and here's the led driver board ultimarc.com/pacled64.html
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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
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@increpare the wiring harness (at the bottom of this page). buy everything that you can precrimped!
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@fasterthanlime haha. i was also thinking "itch.io's answer to the Share button"
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@erbridge i was really hoping that someone would respond to my tweet with "ah! but it's not necessary any more" ... but nope
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RT @pippinbarr: ▓▓ Gang Beasts of Balance ▓▓
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@aidowall i really wanna try this
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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
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@doougle hey Doug, you should totally do this in Mutazione if players feel a lack of control about what conversation they trigger
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@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.
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@doougle (ofc, everything may have changed dramatically, so feel free to ignore!)
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this is a very good thread of design advice that cuts across all types of games (& prob beyond) @dreamaskew/874693400104116224
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these are ALSO good @twoscooters/874729558913818625
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@liaddh I enjoy posting WIP stuff, but only if I'm properly motoring on a project and throwing off cool screenshots.
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@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)
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@liaddh yeah, for sure! though you can get stuck down the "making for Twitter screenshots" thing, not "making to make the thing" thing.
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@liaddh then again, y'know, it worked for Ooblets.
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RT @jamiesmart: This thread escalates beautifully 💖 @seananmcguire/874733630739726336
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bots, man @BuzzFeed/874643528466534400
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went off on a whole thing at work about now good the show Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is
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@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.
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RT @sannewman: A friend after going through the National Gallery: "Well, that's Western art for you. A thousand years of crucifixions, then…
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@tigershungry @notquitereal i mean, yeah, @notquitereal/874986247718043648 p much sums it up, doesn't it...
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RT @WarrenIsDead: kirby.... *takes drag on cigarette, becomes a giant cigarette* haven't heard that name in a long time....
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i really enjoy it when someone accidentally makes a pun and doesn't realize it and i get to congratulate them for it
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"and, this sounds obvious, but don't dress in green when we're filming. that's really key."
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let's! write! a! shader!
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i wrote the shader!
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@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.
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@notquitereal happy to bring them home from work this weekend if you wanna give them a try
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work announcement time: me and the other folks at @sensibleobject are working on a competitive version of Beasts of Balance. it's good!
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@_JakeTucker @sensibleobject soon! i'll put you in touch with folk here.
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@_JakeTucker @sensibleobject haha. i'll let yr poor gmail be, then
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@KommanderKlobb @sensibleobject @spacetreasured there's an amazing [redacted] I've got flapping away in a Slack channel that you'd love
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@asponge @sensibleobject we made them all parachutes
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@ka_bradley i never have, but i know i could if i really needed it
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@mrgnptts wow! that means you and @katbamkapow are both metamours.
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imagine if Unity's scene view didn't sort objects by their centroid depth, but by their actual position instead
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RT @chrisrodley: I used deep learning to cross a book of dinosaurs X a book of flowers
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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/
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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…
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RT @thhamilton: John Glen and the junior ministerial reshuffle: a play in four acts
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@HannaKtweet are you getting a dog!?
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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…
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just remembered none pizza left beef
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and another great one! gosh! @bombsfall/875571617723596800
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i basically wrote one of these threads years ago. still stand by most of it. v21.io/blog/rules/
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this is the big one i was missing, imo @bombsfall/875574022871826433
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@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.
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@mink_ette nah, just for the next week or so
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RT @sashageffen: fwiw this helped me make sense of some of the motivations behind right wing health policy thenewinquiry.com/dispensing-gods-care/
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@hannahnicklin @increpare @KommanderKlobb @rossgsutherland I came into this thread to recommend Imaginary Advice, glad to see Hannah beat me to the punch.
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@mcclure111 @increpare unhelpful reply: I learned Unity first, and while I was still learning to program well. It feels incredibly natural to me.
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@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/
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@mcclure111 @increpare can't make everything that way, but Unity feels great when you are making a thing that works that way
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@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.
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@teg5511 @mcclure111 @increpare Wanna quickly shout out SabreCSG, which I've found easier to use and is also free.
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It's 1pm on a beautiful summer's day in London, so I'm getting on a train.
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@aparrish @Tambalaya this is brilliant and it makes me really want to do another batch of the machine gently stutters
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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
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@TheSakeDiary I am having a cup of coffee and enjoying the views from this air-conditioned Overground train.
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@TheSakeDiary Oh look! The canal!
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Do you reckon you could name more
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This train has: happy dogs tiny baby air conditioning also I just missed my stop, fuck
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@KommanderKlobb God, don't do that, it'll take days
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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…
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@vivschwarz they're never made until you give up on them
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@vivschwarz yeah, that's a better answer
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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.
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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
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@katbamkapow that is a very good skirt, where have you been hiding it?
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@katbamkapow i'm glad it's having it's day in the sun
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@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"
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Put a postcard from ELCAF up at work (by @peonygent)
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@Rammi there is not! :(
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@Rammi but the "every x hours" stuff will tweet at consistent times during the day (ignoring daylight savings, tho!)
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@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
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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.
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@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.
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@vivschwarz never know when a dead light bulb will come in handy
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@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
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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
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2014! It'll probably be around a year or two yet, sure, let's use it.
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(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
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making the patterns good, making understanding them be a good journey, full of twists and turns...
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here's a thing i wrote about this, not in the context of games v21.io/blog/literature-of-totality/
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@lizardengland but then you get to poetry, and seeing the patterns is good again
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@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
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imagine a TV show as enamoured of finding the limits that a digital format brings as Homestuck was
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it would be massive, and the fans would be even more insufferable
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what does it look like if mario possesses kirby then eats luigi? @samandfuzzy/876912709983272961
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@alexhern the heat causes the clay to dry out and crack, so they have to inject caulk
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@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.
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@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
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@jmickle_ i think it goes MARIO HAT LUIGI HAT KIRBY FACE
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@jmickle_ static priority, kirby absorbtion state change is more fundamental than mario control.
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@jmickle_ though as you say, an argument could be made either way. it doesn't seem forgone that these changes are commutable.
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@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.
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@john_brindle yeah. Macbook Pro, 2014 model, midrange in terms of optional specs. dunno what i'd get these days.
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@john_brindle i mean, clearly it's not, but you can't spend money to get a better you
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@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
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@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
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RT @getdizzzy: the ARMS "lore" is maybe the best fighting game backstory of all time
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RT @WeThrowSwitches: Alternative arcade cabinets, drift wood controllers, and amazing, independent games. One of the loveliest installation…
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fucking my mouth up with a very large tub of pineapple chunks
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RT @tigershungry: the transition from real to procedurally generated line up when scrolling down this gastonbury page is so subtle https://…
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@guided1 Printed Gmail account recovery code, or having a friend as a backup security number
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@guided1 Or... fly home
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@compositeredfox not so much production, but... the iOS port of Tenori-on?
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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
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very interesting to read about a concrete output from Chris Crawford's white whale hunting emshort.blog/2017/06/21/chris-crawfords-encounter-editor/
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@katbamkapow All I Want Is For All My Friends To Become Insanely Powerful
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this negotiating strategy went about as well as could be expected @v21/873218574336356353
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@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.
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shouting out our new comms person, @anadukakis, for putting this quiz together. what are you? Air, Land or Sea? @beastsofbalance/877482241760382976
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@jawsew lucky fella
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@hellocatfood @VIVID_ i'm sad for my old, less descriptive bio
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RT @notquitereal: a poem about the longest day of the year
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agree with this whole thread @folmerkelly/877518389979348992
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@HilariousCow i also like them! love some of them, definitely! but i also love some books, comics, films...
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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
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on the one hand, i've sworn off videogame tshirts... on the other hand... tegroeg.bigcartel.com/product/hidden-folks-all-over-printed-tee
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@chris__martin 4 hours for Work 8 hours for Rest 12 hours for What We Will
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these all sound great @hashevatski/877526572751880192
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@jukiokallio @ADAMATOMIC mine is called Eminem and his arms are spaghetti
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RT @ranarama: Realizing I never entirely resolved my childhood confusion of Cair Paravel and Cape Canaveral.
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RT @magicbeans: .@lizpelly has been working on a piece for Watt for months about how Spotify playlists are made. watt.cashmusic.org/writing/thesecretlivesofplaylists
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vanful of policemen being let into the storeroom of Tesco to get ice cream (the freezer at the front was out)
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@KommanderKlobb I saw them in the back of the van eating lollies (binbag hanging off the front seat). One did indeed have a fab.
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RT @ManifoldGarden: view from the editor
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RT @NotBrunoAgain: So Chris Crawford is asking people to contribute writing to his current project for free and this paragraph has some Lay…
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RT @pobega: ARMS isn't a fighting game, as it lacks the three things that define a fighting game: - Heavy neutral spacing - Oki situations…
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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.…
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@Thairyn Why are all the books red? Is there a rule that books on DIY videogames have to be red?
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RT @katierosepipkin: typewriter work from ruth wolf-rehfeldt, 1970s+80s, at documenta 14
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@Thairyn but a dangerous, exciting kind of pink
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@dreamfeelx Yeah, I wrote a quality based narrative system once, I like 'em!
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@smestorp i was being diplomatic with "very interesting", but after seeing @NotBrunoAgain/877533176129826816 i wish i hadn't bothered
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@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.
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@KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC i mean, i guess this counts as "applying the learnings of the last time", but ... it doesn't feel like a blessing.
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this game is good and astonishingly generous @king_spooner/877911036120059904
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@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.
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@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
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@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.
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@chrisamaphone @GalaxyKate to the point that I am not sure that a clear grasp of how to abstract behaviour out was present or necessary
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I dreamt I had collaborated on a Twine/Tracery game with @AidanJohnMoffat and one with @edclef (that one was about Haw Par Villa).
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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
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Sometimes I was using my phone to do this, which had a great IDE for switching between tabs/functions/projects in Sublime Text.
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Good dream.
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RT @eaumohtz: summer witches 🍒
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best smoking in a videogame?
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(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/)
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@jmickle_ yeahhh, unexpected consistency between cutscene and in-game. what happened if you were very near death?
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@netgal_emi it _was_ good!
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@netgal_emi maybe this time i'll do one within the time limit
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@Mello42 Oh shitt, yeah, great smoking in that.
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@Poxican @VariableState oh, nice, I still need to play that.
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RT @scarschwartz: This is William Wordsworth in 1800 proposing that when scientists make a human machine, it will be poets who welcome it i…
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@spacetreasured i got it, it's just every time i went to click "fav" my finger slipped
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@godtributes @beastsofbalance thanks
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this game is incredible, and as fair as it is hard. roll them sausages! @increpare/878172342421159936
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holy fuck! Thu Tran x PEOW yes yes yes, i am very glad this is happening. @peow_studio/878262900816723968
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this is ALSO a good one of these threads @lauraehall/876244211175116801
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@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
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@iamdanw and in-universe - why wouldn't you climb a ladder to say hi to friends? i def would
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@innesmck oh neat, i like them, i'll have a look
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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
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@AtheneAllen Not with CBDQ, but a basic bot framework and something like ffmpeg should do it without much trouble.
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(god, I still feel so happy and grateful to have made a thing others write guides for)
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@john_brindle Oooh, it did!
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@mrgnptts I think you might appreciate this 1.ignotamagazine.com
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RT @ArchisVolume: Read 'Mechanization of the Office' by @CLabColumbia as our #volume37 repost. A great read with lots of cool images! https…
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"Best of all you work with love and desire, next with will, and finally, if all else fails, it is bloody obstinacy!" (Bridget Riley)
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@vivschwarz For me, it happens before love and desire.
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@vivschwarz Curiosity is good for getting me started, but I am not so curious it'll drive me past a hard patch.
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@vivschwarz Chewing on this, and reading more of this book. Here's a chunk:
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This is obviously incredibly twee, but also openly discussing and deciding together what you want from relationships is a very good thing. @nytimes/878463201272373249
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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.
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@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...
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@katbamkapow and I want to be clear that this is a good and important thing, even (especially) outside of that
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@_thatgumyoulike It's not explicit, but the article opens with them discussing changes. But yes, agreed. (but what works for them!..)
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fucking hell, Jezza @notquitereal/878632214052864002
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@imaginary_lines I am currently at a wedding - can you poke me like tomorrow evening?
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looking at twitter with no signal and just seeing stale angry tweets that don't make sense without their accompanying images loaded
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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
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anyway, to sum up: the wedding I was at was good, and completely suitably full of emotion
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@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.
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@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
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@katbamkapow you can borrow mine if you like
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@katbamkapow ahh, great timing!
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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.…
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RT @seelnose: HHHH???
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finally playing GNOG and the thing I have stuck in my head is that it's the first post-Kanaga game I've played
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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.
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@MonsieurEureka I think it stands alongside them.
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RT @hellophia: San Francisco Pride is this weekend – here's a tiny comic I made for the Queers & Comics Conference, it's called Softball ⚾👭…
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RT @jessitron: The real secret of the 10x developer blog.jessitron.com/2017/06/the-most-productive-circumstances-for.html
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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.
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@j3rrytron :'< farewell jerry! great to see you!
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RT @yokotaro: JRPG needs fishing. @HikariErumesu/879147792933023745
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RT @ben_towle: Fascinating. Just stumbled on math nerds trying to determine definitively how many ways a 9-panel grid can be used - https:/…
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@katbamkapow i think this is an american thing? or else i am just slovenly and using this as an excuse
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@jawsew @katbamkapow oh, i guess i'm just terrible, then
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I am pleased about this! @majorfunaward/879285504851705857
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@JamesWallis they're professionals
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@radiatoryang i love that time of day - but i'd go bolder with the lights, instead. big sodium glows everywhere.
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RT @maruti_bitamin: Dive
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@SimoRoth thank fuck for GDS
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@KommanderKlobb via the devolved NI Assembly... if they manage to re-form it
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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
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@KommanderKlobb easy to negotiate well when the other party has publicly committed to accepting the deal beforehand
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RT @torahhorse: all games should have abridgment DLC that makes them under 8 hours
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RT @fromsmiling: JOB LOZENGE 2 [dead] 2/2
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I would like to play a King of Dragon Pass-like populated by @neighbour_civs peoples. @neighbour_civs/879413329738989569
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@neighbour_civs no offense to the Ducks
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@neighbour_civs i said, NO OFFENSE
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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
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@leighalexander I found this shrine hilarious, because you can just flip the whole thing and do it on the smooth back side.
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@ragekit @polclarissou high waisted trousers help? but yeah, I feel you
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@konjak if they work, then go to a doctor!
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RT @FlexRoman: trying to ressurect an old thing used for prints to make HD wallpapers, everything is broken but somehow looks nice. https:/…
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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…
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@notquitereal if you have not seen this yet! @nick_kapur/879431974657695744
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I'm such a dork, my first instinct was to check if they manually scrubbed @EveryFinnishNo from the data (they did) @MaxCRoser/879607600450613251
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@bonaneh prettty accurate!
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@lyyyndseyyy @nachimir no, they'd not have the lowered expectations that come from being within games
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@Xist3nce_Dev @torahhorse sure, but just... don't buy the thing?
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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…
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RT @mike_robbo: I still use Chromes Developer console all the time for throw away scripts to output simple calculations. Seems stupid but i…
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RT @polclarissou: 3D scans misunderstanding mirrors and creating ghost geometry has to be one of my fav things ever (from https://t.co/J5Wj…
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what's your favourite game without any meaningful choices?
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i think mine is probably bingo
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@tjamesmartin good question! no meaningful choices within it, i guess, but the choice of whether to play is very meaningful
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my wonderful housemate is leaving in August - so I'm sending up the signal flare for a new person to live with from then
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possibly still in our nice (but slightly too expensive) Deptford flat, possibly elsewhere. we can figure it out. East/South East pref. hmu!
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@sam_cook pls put us in touch!
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@sam_cook vtwentyone@gmail.com
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@bonaneh 😭 - lmk if you do, maybe i won't have sorted out my shit by then
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@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
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@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?
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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
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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…
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@KommanderKlobb i did a month or two back... i think i wish i hadn't
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@h_a_l_e_x @MuchoPartyGame execution challenge is a choice! (maybe? i think?)
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@hugovk @EveryFinnishNo ahhh
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@tigershungry @patrickashe !!! yeahhhh
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@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_.
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@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?
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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
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this is my culture @ABigBagOfKeys/879398284384587776
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sad but unsurprised to hear this! thank you @ElectricObjects for commissioning a new version of @softlandscapes, best of luck to the team. @ElectricObjects/879739281362890752
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bot of the day: @rot13scavenger whispers on the wind, anime spoilers echo, the mirror shimmers: #ebg13
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@mrgnptts sluggy freelance every day
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@tigershungry oh god, my and @hollygramazio totally unnecessarily-emergency-designed a game during Now Play This based on patent drawings
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@tigershungry @hollygramazio this IS me
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I saw a heron!
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@rel8ablecontent @meretrivia hi, yes, quite possibly!
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13 days til we launch our Kickstarter for new Beasts stuff!!
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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…
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have you heard of a creature called a "mugwump"?
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(this tweet inspired by @lorenschmidt/880120497572388867 - i have, but i think only through CS projects/examples)
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this is good design for a training quiz about a interestingly nuanced policy for censoring an important means of expression for billions! @onekade/880071958548828161
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maybe the real problem is that tech cos are actually sometimes kinda good at forming monopolistic platforms for basic shit we all do
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"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
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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
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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…
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@katbamkapow is this the death sauce we have a jar of in the fridge?
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RT @leighalexander: if all we focus on is 'representation', all we get is uncompensated seats on panels and expensive bad movies with rudim…
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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.
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currently people get round this by: -being famous enough it doesn't matter -going through the pantomime of commerce -v particular contexts
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good writing tips here @jeremy_peel/880412557697220609
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@ka_bradley split a meal (evenly, unless there was a real discrepancy in costs), alternate rounds at a pub
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@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
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@DavidLublin @sbook it's surprisingly rare for people to use it for bad things!
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@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.
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@DavidLublin @sbook personally, i say go for it. if only cuz i wanna play!
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@DavidLublin @sbook (most bad things are kids writing bad words for fun, or to (hard for me to tell) bully/play with friends)
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endlessly smoothing/wrinkling code so that the smoke can persist after the thingy has gone
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just now heading home from recording a letsplay of Beasts of Balance Battles. it's been really educational doing more video stuff recently.
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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
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@alicemazzy I'm not top quintile income... but I'm a tech worker and I'm pro unionisation.
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@alicemazzy Tech workers might have a lot of money... but they still have a load less power than the cos they work for.
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@alicemazzy Yeah, there's others out there with even less... but I see more ways tech worker unionisation helps them than hurts them.
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@alicemazzy And neither has much power or money compared to the tech cos themselves. So why snipe?
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@shahidkamal I have been that person, using my laptop as a big ol battery
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who wants me to give a fifteen minute talk deconstructing some of the context behind this advert? there's a lot there. @awscloud/872927831847690240
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@BRKeogh on the other hand : @abigbagofkeys/879398284384587776
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@xxvi_xxxviii I wanted the symmetry of seconds to minutes.
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@xxvi_xxxviii also I'm lazy and the audience will be nerds anyway.
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@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
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@mcclure111 now I have deja vu
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@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)
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RT @PlanktonPundit: Astonishing numbers of starfish larvae in the plankton. These brittle star babies drift in the surface currents like se…
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@nachimir @ARGComFest i'm about Monday evening!
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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"
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this is a great piece theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/30/the-age-of-banter
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@tigershungry @carolinesinders yesterday i wore my old school sports kit tshirt, which has my name on a fabric label sewn in.
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@tigershungry @carolinesinders the company that made that brand of personalized fabric name labels shut down a few years back. i was surprisingly sad.
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@hollygramazio @tigershungry @carolinesinders ok fair. i still have a little bag of fabric names somewhere... maybe i should put them in all my clothes.
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@GamingFTL i very rarely fall over
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@nielsen_holly good cocktails: Satan's Whiskers, Manhattans Project
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@gothdome this was pre haircut, i owe this feed a selfie
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RT @AmazingThew: Build enough cool custom tools for yourself that you can spend all your time fixing bugs in your tools instead of getting…
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@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.