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Tweets from 2017/10

  1. RT @womensart1: US realist painter Catherine Murphy, Comforter, 2007 #womensart #SundayMorning
  2. RT @girxavier: @Oujevipo Exhib. setup @SaintexReims finished !#altctrl #indiedev @kano_stuff @q_dork "Vernissage" on october 5th https://t.…
  3. RT @jimrossignol: Victor Mosquera.
  4. RT @lorenschmidt: Exile, BBC Micro, (1988)
  5. RT @timgarbos: Precise jumping using only your keyboard. Press a key to jump to it. -Prototyping 2D games for #KeyboardSports today and #sc…
  6. I've been reading "Procedural Simulation in Game Design" (this chapter by @emshort)
  7. …in reply to @thebag1981
    @thebag1981 @emshort Ah, alas! But think how boring it'd be to work on a game if you knew what'd turn out to be important at the start...
  8. …in reply to @thebag1981
    @thebag1981 @emshort bah, what a shame!
  9. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Yeahhh! @Ludipe moved in (bringing with him a Submarine and an Arcade) last weekend, and so my last week has been similar
  10. Shame this is unlikely to apply to my loan... @MartinSLewis/914265929625821185
  11. …in reply to @Ludipe
    @Ludipe @mcclure111 Oh, whoops. 😅
  12. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin what's that stand for?
  13. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin ah, thanks! (I don't know it or gingival, but looks like something I should)
  14. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem @emshort yeah - the interesting question this poses to me is how to make that feel natural & satisfying
  15. …in reply to @awesommelier
  16. RT @ListsOfNote: "A list of supernatural beings in the British Isles, from the Denham Tracts, 1892-5" Source: bit.ly/2yPQdTK http…
  17. RT @lisadraws: Some sublime & peaceful paintings of the Himalayas from the 1920's-30's by Nikolai Roerich
  18. …in reply to @v21
    @emshort in replies, @doam linked @emshort's Glass & it occurs to me many people probably haven't seen Inform source before: inform7.com/learn/eg/glass/source.html
  19. RT @adrianhon: Delighted by Sweden’s poetic museum labels and their line-by-line translation into English
  20. RT @v21: how to send an e mail - DATA BASE 1984 youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA
  21. …in reply to @MattGrayYES
    @unnamedculprit @Pocket glad to have been reminded of it!
  22. ever feel like you're in a @slimedaughter story?
  23. still digging this song: youtube.com/watch?v=oNEkBWq5C1g
  24. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
  25. …in reply to @Portaloffreedom
  26. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @bfod maybe it's a Chinese sledgehammer?
  27. …in reply to @joonturbo
  28. …in reply to @becca_rose___
    @beccaerose :D :D :D
  29. …in reply to @undefined
    @afender7 @lorenschmidt this discussion was a good kick up the backside wrt a current project. thanks.
  30. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt All of this is good - one thing I try to use as a reminder/mantra is: once you've found one solution, put it aside & find 2 more. then pick.
  31. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt So easy to find a solution, go "oh, okay, grand" and move on. But the second or third idea is better like half the time.
  32. RT @brothboy: #inktober2017
  33. RT @allisonzephyr: my favorite classical gamedev moment is now when a FF2 programmer unilaterally made a lore decision, then encrypted the…
  34. RT @Amanita_Design: something is coming.
  35. RT @Clipart1994bot: BURDENED.BMF
  36. …in reply to @Talen_Lee
    @Talen_Lee @tullyhansen @DwarvenPorn i did some work on CBDQ the other night, but nothing that should have changed this - what's up?
  37. …in reply to @Talen_Lee
    @Talen_Lee @tullyhansen @DwarvenPorn i can see one in the last hour: "Cavernslop Crankthrüst" - maybe the RNG gods are messing you about
  38. …in reply to @Talen_Lee
    @Talen_Lee @tullyhansen @DwarvenPorn :D entirely my pleasure! and i hadn't seen @DwarvenPorn before, good work
  39. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle fuck LOST, imho
  40. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured take some comfort in knowing that you cause this problem for others
  41. RT @anildash: Tech people: What key things do you wish people outside the industry knew about tech & how it works? (Especially re: social i…
  42. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal "Chalk this drama up as one of the many charming eccentricities of Switch fans."
  43. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate i hear you, i hear you, but as someone with a Cognitive Science MA, i'm more like "huh, maybe i should go chase that $$$..."
  44. RT @house_house_: It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose. A new game by us, coming 2018. Full video at https:/…
  45. …in reply to @house_house_
    @house_house_ Oh my god, you guys
  46. guess what this is a picture of, folks? (we're in the Apple Store!)
  47. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge idk, i wasn't there
  48. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn v21.itch.io/a-train-journey is pretty explicitly autobiographical, and my scene in Panoramical is, kinda, too
  49. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn apparently i only talk about myself in the context of trains
  50. RT @lifeinpoetryblg: Safia Elhillo, from “first interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl,” The January Children #quote #poetry…
  51. the social signalling embedded in the choice of whether to say "virtue signalling" or "performative wokeness"
  52. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn *sings the Thomas The Tank Engine theme*
  53. …in reply to @tpizza
  54. …in reply to @PRDXCL
    @PRDXCL that's our game!
  55. RT @gypsyOtoko: Thanks to @Nibellion and tonyh24613 from Gaf I've been alerted to articles based on the other BotW CEDEC talks - so how bou…
  56. …in reply to @v21
    the important thing we can learn from this is that i should cut my fringe back to this length
  57. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow heck yes, do it kb!
  58. …in reply to @108
    @108 @JENGA hey do you want a review set of beasts of balance?
  59. …in reply to @nickfourtimes
    @nickfourtimes it retries up to 5 times! you can use this to generate intermittently posting posts, if you like
  60. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal i read the last tweet and was gonna ask about 0 day patches...
  61. …in reply to @nickfourtimes
    @nickfourtimes i just looked at the source - nice recursion!
  62. …in reply to @v21
    @nickfourtimes enjoy quite how handily the source fits into a tweet, too
  63. …in reply to @nickfourtimes
    @nickfourtimes it is: completely fine & intentionally allowed. make that messy code! improvise and bodge yr way through.
  64. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin checkin my eeeeemaaaaaiiiilss
  65. …in reply to @v21
    @Coleo_Kin oh sweet, snap!
  66. RT @cassiemcquater: ✨NEW TRAILER✨ FOR #BLACKROOM ~ out this OCTOBER! ~ feat. an everlastingly terrible love song vimeo.com/236503496 #…
  67. RT @lorenschmidt: this is a refrain for me: bugs are prettier than anything we make on purpose
  68. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 ohhhh, i see why you wanted goto now
  69. RT @house_house_: An important piece of goose history for everyone's records - literally the exact moment our game was conceived: https://t…
  70. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty @nickfourtimes i love y'all, but i very much don't feel like i can get away with using it
  71. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty @nickfourtimes i am leaning into "folks" hard. it's good!
  72. RT @thomasastle: nature is wild
  73. i'm gonna watch the goose game video again
  74. …in reply to @v21
    new favourite insignificant detail: the brick on the tarp on the compost heap. what great work.
  75. …in reply to @steggy_
    @steggy_ as with others - it's gross in the context it's in, could be okay if it was, y'know, supposed to be porn or something like that
  76. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie @doougle that's "Digital Bird Playground", surely?
  77. RT @jessicaTV: Protanopia, 2D planes in 3D scene + device orientation to change the camera angle andrebergs.com/protanopia/ https://t.co/Op0w…
  78. RT @TOKiMONSTA: I’m having a VR album release party Oct 8!!! @prostheticknowl/915665517393928194
  79. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i'm so happy for you
  80. RT @haikus_by_KN: Got an indie game about a city/cities? Show it in Paris here this month: kareron.com/appel-a-projetcall-for-proposals-art-games-demos-3/
  81. RT @rhizome: Please stop what you are doing and explore this searchable archive of Enron emails by @sam_lavigne & @tegabrain https://t.co/p…
  82. RT @perlin_noise: 🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔈🔈🔈🔈 🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔈🔈🔈🔈 🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔈🔈🔈🔈🔈 🔊🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔈🔈🔈🔈🔈 🔊🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔈🔈🔈🔈🔉 🔊🔉🔈🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉 🔉🔉🔈🔈🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉🔉 🔉🔉🔈🔈🔉🔉🔉🔉🔊🔊🔊🔉 🔉🔉🔈🔈🔈🔉🔉🔊🔊🔊🔊🔉 🔉🔉🔈🔈…
  83. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin wait, i thought they said they were white years back?
  84. …in reply to @v21
    @Coleo_Kin the only thing there that'd really get me against 'em is inaccurate info, tbh
  85. RTed before, but: wow, this is pretty much immediately fascinating to poke at? archive.enron.email/
  86. …in reply to @v21
    this is totally an email you find hacking into a workstation in a classic immersive sim. which is weird because it's real.
  87. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin i used to follow & enjoy on tumblr? it was a good blog, but jeez
  88. …in reply to @v21
    (deleted a tweet - it's public information, but too personal for me to feel comfortable with. tho rhizome highlights it in their article?)
  89. …in reply to @v21
    of course, all of this was put online years before: enron-mail.com/ and redaction of overly-personal emails is ongoing:
  90. …in reply to @v21
    from the Rhizome piece, which gives good context rhizome.org/editorial/2016/nov/21/simulating-enron/
  91. RT @AwakeMik: Some Google Street Images should be in the Whitney.
  92. I miss when Twitter was angry about Milo only because he owed them large sums of money theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel
  93. …in reply to @v21
    also i just remembered about all the fuckery and mismanagement that happened when Bannon ran Biosphere 2
  94. …in reply to @v21
  95. CBDQ update: looks like CBDQ is starting to outgrow my server! seeing some bots fail, general unhappiness. my apologies!
  96. …in reply to @v21
    i am taking out the hacky anti-clustering code i put in (to stop all the CBDQ bots tweeting entirely at once) - this might help
  97. …in reply to @v21
    there are longer-term fixes on the way, but work and life means it might take a little while.
  98. …in reply to @v21
    if you've not noticed anything, don't worry. if you're affected, sorry (also, tell me, that might be useful info!).
  99. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo i might well do that! but not tonight
  100. …in reply to @v21
    @joonturbo also generally this code is bad and i should make it better.
  101. …in reply to @hypirlink
    @hypirlink i'm not that embarrassed, it just... wasn't designed to be worked on by anyone other than me, on one particular server.
  102. …in reply to @v21
    @hypirlink (i'm actually pretty proud of how well it has held up to running without maintenance, which was a huge design constraint initially)
  103. …in reply to @v21
    @hypirlink anyway, the good news is that i've done some of the groundwork for that recently (i have a dev copy?? i can run locally??)
  104. …in reply to @v21
    @hypirlink so, yeah, i might well hit you up for help some time. but my suspicion is that all the svg bots just suck up a bunch of memory??
  105. …in reply to @v21
    oh, and while i'm on the server futzing... here's some user counts
  106. …in reply to @hypirlink
    @hypirlink not a worry! and yeah, thanks!
  107. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin still sad about the game we couldn't show at NPT because of Sand Logistics
  108. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin i reckon you could get that through a risk assessment...
  109. hey would one of those phone repair shops be able to fix the headphone jack on these headphones? or where would?
  110. …in reply to @v21
    (i have tried fixing it myself, yes, and I have gotten it to the state where they work in mono if you fiddle the cable in a precise way)
  111. RT @netgal_emi: Hi. Here is a collection of mixes from the Enron Corpus archive.enron.email/
  112. RT @wwwtxt: After a while, I became more and more comfortable getting along with people on the electronic level. ☯87DEC
  113. …in reply to @aanand
    @aanand yeah, this is a new jack i put on myself :/ (uh, which then fucked up, and i recruited @seajayshore's help with doing it again)
  114. we had @notquitereal come in to consult on some narrative stuff, and a lot of good stuff came out of it, but the best thing i gained is:
  115. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal for every bit of "text from nowhere" in our game i now ask: "who could be saying this to the player? why? what do they want?"
  116. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
  117. RT @ADAMATOMIC: omg check out TOKYO HIGHWAY (via @ehronlime) vimeo.com/215646925 i need this YESterday
  118. …in reply to @undefined
    @mmegannnolan he's not the only one that doesn't remember him doing certain things: @UnburntWitch/916120576825090048
  119. …in reply to @em_cooper
    @em_cooper 🔘 December
  120. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @_SamJacob @GamingFTL hi! yeah! i know about both of those things, although possibly more separately than together. my DMs are open or I'm at vtwentyone@gmail.com
  121. love this, especially the yellow line. i think if i changed anything it would be to distinguish the ceiling & floor more #dotbspreviews @dot_bsp/916331968920305664
  122. <everyone will hear music until the host joins the meeting>
  123. nice piece on creating the narrative for Meow Wolf & how it was informed by videogames electricliterature.com/how-to-write-a-20-000-square-foot-book-370cd3865adc
  124. via @glowascii - a ARG that is sold as a PCB?? sparkfun.com/products/14379
  125. …in reply to @funnyniceangel
    @lil_selkie i've worked with Ivan before
  126. …in reply to @funnyniceangel
    @lil_selkie so have I! with ... Max, i think it is?
  127. …in reply to @funnyniceangel
    @lil_selkie oh really? a double act, huh? and they're called Max and Ivan and there's a Max and an Ivan in it?
  128. CBDQ service is slightly interrupted as I do some server jiggery pokery! Should be fine in a few minutes, if it isn't already.
  129. …in reply to @funnyniceangel
    @lil_selkie i'm sorry, i don't have a new bit to move this joke onto from here
  130. …in reply to @v21
    @lil_selkie maybe if i ask my pal Ivan, part of the comedy double act "Max and Ivan", he'd have some ideas
  131. …in reply to @ennispea
    @ennispea Yep! Just put em in there
  132. …in reply to @ennispea
    @ennispea don't know of a handy corpus, tho there might be one in github.com/dariusk/corpora?
  133. …in reply to @v21
  134. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry behind the scenes:
  135. …in reply to @v21
    Finally saw some Ryoji Ikeda in the flesh and it made me very happy.
  136. …in reply to @v21
    also from today is Allora & Calzadilla's Shape Shifter and Solar Catastrophe
  137. …in reply to @lunasorcery
    @willkirkby @lorenschmidt was about to ask if you'd tried this!
  138. this is wild. and great news. and... when you buy a company, they physically give you framed stock certificates?? @adafruit/916473322203992064
  139. the number of replies to this tweet fruitlessly trying to talk to this guy (who has actually had to solve... etc)! @alexstamos/916697792369717248
  140. after a tiring day of looking at art with friends, it's time to make some stew in a pressure cooker
  141. RT @xfoml: History of Expressive Systems (#HEX01) will be accepting abstract submissions through Nov. 1—remote presentations are possible w…
  142. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz is it that you identify with these things, or that this is a conceptual divide not visible to you?
  143. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz hahaha. well, i am pretty sure mixing up what hand you're counting on is NOT tory, so i think you're grand
  144. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe just throwing some vegetables and some red wine together. chopped tomatoes, potatoes, mushrooms, courgettes, carrots...
  145. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe it look me the last 25 minutes to work out how to actually set the pressure cooker to pressure cook, mind
  146. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow i appreciate knowing you would have favved this if it contained either constituent part
  147. just found this draft tweet: "this is... this is a whole thing"
  148. poll: it's
  149. …in reply to @v21
    "hearted" can get out
  150. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier what's inside, a polybag? or is it like a tetrapak?
  151. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier ah, that makes sense. and it's british wine! i'm so proud of all our innovation
  152. RT @Leic1s:
  153. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN that's just my normal voice, stop bullying me
  154. …in reply to @v21
    me with @tigershungry, looking at art (Cory Arcangel, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds), photo by @patrickashe
  155. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet @tigershungry @patrickashe we were talking about how maybe Mario Clouds was fake?? apparently it used the wrong shade of blue... idk, i haven't looked into it myself
  156. …in reply to @v21
    @FinalBullet @tigershungry @patrickashe to be clear, i'm not mad if it was, it's just interesting. i've distantly known of Clouds for long enough to never appreciate it properly
  157. …in reply to @v21
    @FinalBullet @tigershungry @patrickashe and most of my reaction to this was kinda covered by that - ie, the context shifts the piece does (but this time also war => tranquility)
  158. …in reply to @v21
    @FinalBullet @tigershungry @patrickashe but beyond that: it was peaceful, and the blue was good, and drifting through the 5 screens was good, and i like the jet engine pulse
  159. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet @tigershungry @patrickashe fwiw, i did a bit of digging and found some very plausible asm code, so i'm pretty sold web.archive.org/web/20060202225730/http://beigerecords.com:80/cory/Things_I_Made_in_2003/mario_clouds_2005.html
  160. i can't tell if it's UK/US culture clash, but this house seems real weird to me. what shape is the plot this all sits in? #dot_bsp_reviews @dot_bsp/916694356412719104
  161. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad yeah, but : look at the scale of it versus the door. each of those tile pieces would be the size of your hand
  162. …in reply to @v21
    @FinalBullet @tigershungry @patrickashe but here's the case for the other side: @mjmcmaster/916919274236633088 (also fascinating, and completely consistent with the asm code)
  163. …in reply to @lawraclark
    @stephen__clark @mjmcmaster @tigershungry @patrickashe This is fascinating and super chewy, thanks guys!
  164. RT @bravemule: I still think about this Steam thread for Her Story at least once a week while designing intfic. @mrsambarlow https://t.co/l…
  165. the Marvel/Northrop Grumman thing reminded me how bad we have it in games: eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-01-shooters-how-video-games-fund-arms-manufacturers
  166. …in reply to @v21
    thinking about how much i know about different types of guns, and how little direct experience i have with them.
  167. …in reply to @v21
    doodling guns in school notebooks... this is fucked up?
  168. test tweet:
  169. test tweet (sorry, there will be a few of these today... if this gets boring i'll start posting to a test account):
  170. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad that it exists is the acceptance criteria met!
  171. i thought i had a decent idea of how OAuth worked, but then i realised callbacks work fine on a local dev server with no inbound connections
  172. …in reply to @ennispea
    @ennispea sorry - i've been trying to upgrade some stuff on the server (and enable https) - back up right now
  173. RT @nielsen_holly: I have a theory that games of education always suffered from tension with their Christian themes and their gameplay (dic…
  174. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly this is fascinating to think about - the gameplay stays within a fairly narrow band for most of these games- is it just design conservatism?
  175. …in reply to @v21
    @nielsen_holly changing the gameplay so it's more skill & less luck based also feels like it undermines the message, perhaps more fundamentally?
  176. …in reply to @v21
    @nielsen_holly (it's easy to set up a system so you suffer good and bad fortune, but the moral-based conclusion is inevitable if you have faith & keep on)
  177. …in reply to @v21
    @nielsen_holly ((what i am saying is i would be interested in that paper))
  178. …in reply to @bbrks_
    @bbrks_ @ODEONCinemas next question: is this just done client-side, only serverside (with a roundtrip for changing selection every click), or client & serverside?
  179. RT @awesommelier: The apples are ripe The plums are red Broad beans sleeping in a blankety bed
  180. RT @unchartedatlas: Timpammin Atoll
  181. RT @komiya_ma: オオミズアオ
  182. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin we had slime and gunge but it was just on tv or came pre-packaged. slime as an expansion of maker aesthetics into younger age categories!
  183. …in reply to @v21
    @Coleo_Kin thinking of it, a bunch of the big kid's crazes in recent years are generic. a lot of them when i was a kid were from specific brands...
  184. loom bands, fidget spinners, slime vs Pokemon cards, Pogs, Tamagotchis, Beanie Babies are kids crazes more likely to be generic these days?
  185. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin i've only seem little bits of it, but, yeah, same. i mean, it's not like kids are more creative nowadays, there's just a bigger audience
  186. …in reply to @ohhoe
    @ohhoe i remember slime growing up, but it was never homemade slime? obv this is (well, was) very culturally-specific
  187. …in reply to @BCWallin
    @BCWallin YouTube is i think the biggest factor here? but also Online in general, yeah.
  188. …in reply to @BCWallin
  189. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin yah, for sure. but Internet culture sucked hard when i was growing up, just in different ways
  190. …in reply to @v21
    @Coleo_Kin try to imagine goatse gaining social credibility these days
  191. …in reply to @AhoyLemon
    @AhoyLemon friendship bands, too!
  192. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin kids culture is often fucking terrifying, tho? i definitely felt much safer once i was an adult. people don't threaten to beat you up!
  193. …in reply to @v21
    @Coleo_Kin it's been many years since i wondered if/heard about someone carrying a knife (for fighting-related reasons, i mean)
  194. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb yeah, and there's some generic examples from when i was a kid, too. idk!
  195. i was watching a Hannibal Buress thing on YouTube, and it flashed past my place of work one summer
  196. …in reply to @v21
    i got invited to an orgy on IRC (which I was on on my Google G1, iirc) while working in this exact stall that Hannibal is walking past here
  197. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin it was a currently-ongoing IRL orgy, which one of the participants had ducked out of to invite people on IRC
  198. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin i took it kinda the first way at the time? also i had a while left of my shift, and it felt like it'd be real awkward to arrive afterwards?
  199. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin there's that certain hotdog juice smell
  200. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie i made @softlandscapes just after hitting a big deadline on Beasts...
  201. @ranjit i just set up an admin panel for CBDQ, and came across @3Stoppages and thought i'd pause and say how good it is. it's very good.
  202. …in reply to @SpliterCBb
    @SpliterCBb @katiechironis been doing hiring recently (in the UK, though, so ymmv) and doing a gamedev course and being a strong candidate are more or less unrelated
  203. …in reply to @v21
    @SpliterCBb @katiechironis strong portfolio is the #1 thing. have you made some games, do they look like you have taste & standards... that's 90% of what's needed
  204. …in reply to @v21
    @SpliterCBb @katiechironis sometimes those portfolio pieces can be coursework... but generally they're not, because there are different constraints on coursework.
  205. RT @connrbell: I was hesitant to add color to this but it turned out ok I think!
  206. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty @prehensile @dasbarrett i won't post mine for the sake of your sanity, then
  207. RT @mr_scientism: Stay in the machine zone - where nothing else matters.
  208. CBDQ update: i spent today fixing things &: - server is now nicely updated - it runs on HTTPS! long overdue. - i made myself an admin panel
  209. …in reply to @v21
    there was a bit of intermittent downtime, so sorry if you were caught by that. also maybe external fonts in SVGs are having problems? 🔍🤔
  210. …in reply to @v21
    and finally: i am planning on launching a Patreon campaign for it (and me) this week! if you have any pressing thoughts on that, pls say
  211. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed i haven't reverted bot o'clock yet! it might well need a better solution than the hacky one i originally used...
  212. …in reply to @derekahmedzai
    @derekahmedzai what bots are you checking on?
  213. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic @animalphase it can be easier/better on a small private account. but then you're back to the twitter times when you were followed by/following 30 ppl
  214. …in reply to @v21
    @mooonmagic @animalphase less of that "should i?? maybe not", making every word count...
  215. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 yeah! i have a few edits in mind for mine, then i'll probably post up in the Slack before i do it #onhere?
  216. …in reply to @mishewwie
  217. …in reply to @mishewwie
  218. RT @mcclure111: Anyway my main response to the Weinstein thing is "I wonder who in the games industry we are ignoring/letting slide like fi…
  219. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Oh, I thought for a bit and remembered some stories about particular (less powerful than Weinstein) people. But they're not mine to tell.
  220. …in reply to @mushbuh
    @mushbuh How much will it cost?
  221. …in reply to @mushbuh
    @mushbuh Perfect
  222. RT @renaudbedard: A few weeks ago @dom2d planted this on my desk
  223. when algorithms train people (this is very sensible advice if you want to post queer content on youtube) @Jaltoid/917162373131243520
  224. …in reply to @genmon
    @genmon you could always go look at the cladding on that QMU building on your way out of London if you really wanted...
  225. …in reply to @Clipart1994bot
    @Clipart1994bot is this a beak?
  226. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood hahaha. maybe!
  227. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz @squinkyelo I'd love to nose through those some time!
  228. RT @dkanaga: thanks to @compositeredfox again and again for the incredible OikOS tools! <3 i didn't touch a single line of code to program…
  229. i like solving puzzles, but it's kinda cheap/trashy/facile to make that what your thing is about and i'm glad the tide is turning against it @xoxogossipgita/917434020430000129
  230. …in reply to @v21
    an era of prestige television spanning from LOST to Twin Peaks
  231. …in reply to @v21
    weirdly, Steven Universe is a model for doing this right - intricate backstory to puzzle out, but that is not at all what the show is about
  232. RT @FinalBullet: I very very much enjoyed this and agree with it all. Sadly we are in the minority technologyreview.com/s/609048/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/ https://t.co/ogH…
  233. RT @flantz: My new game, in which you play an AI who makes paperclips: decisionproblem.com/paperclips
  234. …in reply to @RareSApics
    @RareSApics @thecherness Probably because she liked the role. Should she turn down roles she likes because there's a harasser involved somewhere?
  235. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d if you want to catch up, there are cheat commands in the source
  236. RT @itssylviaplath: I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one…
  237. RT @nervous_jessica: Back of a dress I made recently #lasercutlace #jessicalearnstosew ift.tt/2yeTLRH
  238. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts depends what it is & how closely you interact with them
  239. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts i need to make a choice:
  240. i just signed up to support Martin. he makes beautiful, thoughtful stuff. @mewo2/918161665052610560
  241. RT @tametick: how to deal with failure? answer by @BexSaltsman
  242. RT @chordbug: the hard hitting questions
  243. this is also realistic & true, tho? i've had books since i was a kid, but assume ebooks would be wiped out by a format change in a few years @DegenRolf/917970653977948160
  244. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured yaaaah. but also it is nice to share things you like & be shared with.
  245. oh god. i just imagined someone watching 5 films because their twitter crush posted them for this meme, and not saying anything to them. @spacetreasured/918177504468316160
  246. …in reply to @v21
    otoh, i moved house recently, and fuck books
  247. …in reply to @liza
    @liza i am worse at backups than i am at putting books in cardboard boxes and carrying them from place to place
  248. …in reply to @v21
    @liza i mean, i also carry some hard drives from house to house, but i never plug them into anything
  249. …in reply to @hondanhon
    @hondanhon still a lot of yourself left to turn into paperclips
  250. RT @ellaguro: @dkanaga okay, here's the full text of the Oikospiel #IndieCade17 Grand Jury Award acceptance speech pastebin.com/BYeJVVBF
  251. RT @metasynthie: "That was fun!" -- the most generic description of pleasure, likening what just happened to literally any other Known Leis…
  252. i played this ages back and it was very good then. i assume it's got better? and Dandy Dungeon came out since and was ALSO very good, so @oniongames/917712554461347840
  253. …in reply to @partytimeHXLNT
    @partytimeHXLNT i have definitely done this! to pick people up in, like, the recent past, too.
  254. …in reply to @v21
    @partytimeHXLNT of course, probably more likely to talk on whatsapp than SMS, these days
  255. …in reply to @YouTube
    @YouTube @MelinaSophie fix yr algorithm & stop demonetising queer content
  256. …in reply to @AhoyLemon
    @AhoyLemon @partytimeHXLNT (yep, sorry, I just mean that phone number doesn't necessarily mean calls or even texts these days)
  257. …in reply to @kricketkush
    @kricketkush @dmarwick @thbrogan @amtendler because the risk just decreased massively!
  258. …in reply to @v21
    this is not that hard to get
  259. RT @sarahjeong: Well, as bad as the hidden things in my own wheelhouse are, every day I thank the heavens I don’t work in video games
  260. I forgot what my school houses were called, so I looked it up ("a tradition of loyalty that could then not conceivably be altered")
  261. RT @evilmallelis: related to coming out day: what's the word for the feeling where you want your knee to touch someone else's knee so bad y…
  262. …in reply to @PaultRob
    @PaultRob @Sulliview @WACCOE a couple of people did, and it did not end well for them
  263. RT @Clipart1994bot: CURTNMAN.BMF
  264. RT @notquitereal: LYRICS TO THE MARIO SONG, REMEMBERED AFTER HEARING IT ONLY ONCE THREE HOURS AGO
  265. This train carriage smells like scratch'n'sniff
  266. …in reply to @pSK
    @pSK it's just like... generic scratch'n'sniff smell. Which all scratch'n'sniff stuff actually smells like.
  267. don't do this (this thread, or make a game this way) @RPDevJesco/918285284617306112
  268. …in reply to @studioanxl
    @anxlacc even a year on yr first game is too long, imo
  269. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 games are real big and labour intensive, tho, so it kinda makes sense
  270. …in reply to @v21
    @mewo2 you can't make a Hollywood-grade movie by just working more hours, but you could make a triple A game if you just spent multiple lifetimes
  271. i was trying to check if any files had got truncated while transferring, and got hit with this horrorshow
  272. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 and this is one of the big things you'd learn if you made several things! which they're not, because they're still working on ...
  273. …in reply to @v21
    fuck off with your gibibytes and mebibytes
  274. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 yeah, i mean, if it makes them happy, go for it, and just maybe it'll work out. but also don't come on Twitter and explain shit to Zoe.
  275. …in reply to @v21
    @mewo2 (also it seems very unlikely to work out. but that's fine! as long as they're not hurting anyone else)
  276. …in reply to @ascelapha
    @asclla i'm not australian and i've never heard that before
  277. …in reply to @ascelapha
    @asclla "pre-drinks" is a phrasing and a concept i know, tho
  278. …in reply to @zombielesbean
    @fluttergirly apologies, i was having some server issues! hopefully they're all fixed now, and if you hit issues in future, please ping me
  279. …in reply to @DrSeanWalton
    @DrSeanWalton @mewo2 even then : first *commercial* game
  280. …in reply to @DrSeanWalton
    @DrSeanWalton @mewo2 that's a good amount of time! i'd definitely recommend doing that before starting yr 5-year epic!
  281. CBDQ was down? mysql got into a bad state somehow. now working again. :S
  282. …in reply to @cbquist
    @cbquist Fixed just as you told me! Thank you for letting me know
  283. RT @josephmdurso: Just rang dept. Confirm Liam Fox only "official member" but it's not "just Liam Fox sitting in a room on his own". https:…
  284. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 @mattlaschneider i never want to make @softlandscapes or @manygradients post anything but the things they post. i might change my mind, but
  285. …in reply to @mattlaschneider
    @mattlaschneider @mewo2 @softlandscapes @manygradients @GalaxyKate yeah! i def feel this, and like... i might change my mind, because i like money, but i don't want to make the bots worse for that
  286. …in reply to @v21
    @mattlaschneider @mewo2 @softlandscapes @manygradients @GalaxyKate no judgement on people that do, of course
  287. …in reply to @mattlaschneider
    @mattlaschneider @mewo2 @softlandscapes @manygradients @GalaxyKate people do make a living doing this full time! (depending what you count as "this")
  288. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin even the first part is 😬 - the best bit of that ep of Ways of Seeing was where he went "but i'm a dude -- let's ask some women!!!"
  289. RT @brandonnn: i love that even in 2017 a good LINE RIDER video can still be a breakthrough smash youtube.com/watch?v=RIz3klPET3o
  290. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i'm totally mature
  291. RT @GwilymLockwood: And after excluding Kentucky (for obvious reasons), I found 13 Tennessees, 6 Kansas, 4 Californias, 2 Floridas, and 1 e…
  292. RT @histoftech: @orbital_decay @UWMadison 1976 Bogota declaration tried to define geosynchronous orbit not as "space" but as a specific nat…
  293. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful @SOPHIEMSMSMSM this is so joyous
  294. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 It does not serialise properties.
  295. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Seems likely you'll want to work round it with docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ISerializationCallbackReceiver.html - but maybe you can just serialise backing fields etc.
  296. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I used to use LitJSON before JSON support was built in. It was basically fine? Not used Newtonsoft, but that plan sounds reasonable.
  297. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox "you don't find it disturbing?" "i like being disturbed"
  298. RT @turbomanatee: Wedding DJ pointed at a bird that flew inside the building and yelled, "Y'all, give it up for the man who taught me how t…
  299. i'm finally listening to Jlin's Black Origami and holy shit open.spotify.com/album/6uXI4a2uZLLYORDhhph66m
  300. …in reply to @hell0jed
    @hell0jed you can turn that on in twitter! (obv better if it was on by default, but still)
  301. …in reply to @v21
    @hell0jed character limit is 500 words, which is often shorter than a screenshot's worth of text, tho
  302. …in reply to @asponge
  303. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge @merrittk @waypoint i've still never found out what "doing a wee in North Mylta" actually entails
  304. RT @caseorganic: MRI scan of broccoli. Imagine seeing all of these slices at once. You'd have 4th dimensional vision! https://t.co/LPprScMI…
  305. who wants to get together this weekend and watch this whole playlist? we can get pizza in @grapefrukt/918792855455522816
  306. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia i might have been joking, we'll see if anyone takes me seriously and i have to match their seriousness with my own
  307. …in reply to @v21
    @LorenzoPilia i think if you're being real about it, you can't skip them??
  308. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @LorenzoPilia does this mean you're up for it?
  309. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @LorenzoPilia think of it as a homebrew Forced Entertainment piece
  310. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio but at least it's full-throatedly The Worst. none of this mild unpleasantness, fine-i-guess-i-should-do-this terribleness
  311. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @LorenzoPilia hm, yes, we COULD put this on as part of Now Play This
  312. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle 30,000,00... or bust
  313. RT @GraceSpelman: u know on parks&rec when ben makes claymation bc he’s depressed ok this is my claymation except I started this playlist i…
  314. RT @miniaturemazes: ╔═══════╦═╦═══╦╗ ║╔════╗╬║╬║╔╣╦╠║ ║═╔══╗║╠╝║╦║╔╩═╣ ╠╦╝╗╦╝║╚╚╬═╩══╣║ ║╝╔╗═╔╩══╝╔╦══╗║ ║╔╝╚═╣╚═╦═╣╚╗║║║ ║╚══╔╚═╗╚╬╚╗║╚╝║…
  315. RT @KommanderKlobb: I opted out of IGF judging this year, because we submitted Wilmot's Warehouse - a game for people who like organising t…
  316. RT @lynch_jen: Dubai's new airport face recognition aquarium tube uses fake fish to get better shots of your face theverge.com/2017/10/10/16451842/dubai-airport-face-recognition-virtual-aquarium h…
  317. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro love you guys
  318. i wanna show v21.io/calmingsphere/ really big in a gallery somewhere
  319. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe the pendulum? i think you'd need to slow down the pendulum, too
  320. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe duh, why didn't i think of that
  321. RT @minionsart: I've made a few examples of #gamedev things you can do with those stencil buffer shaders I shared Read > https://t.co/uFxr9…
  322. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr i am SO INTO terrifying firey dollhouses
  323. RT @tigershungry: The New Forms role at the BFI looks like a fantastic opportunity, if I wasn't married to an exhibition I'd apply https://…
  324. just came across spacegamesfederation.com/ - a competition to design games to played in zero gravity
  325. …in reply to @v21
    which in turn links to this NASA series, "International Toys in Space". Here's Lacrosse: youtube.com/watch?v=gF8Sgu5lUNQ&feature=youtu.be
  326. …in reply to @v21
    oh my god, this boomerang video! youtube.com/watch?v=6Vj-FoJky6w
  327. RT @santaragione: Wheels of Aurelia, out on the App Store October 19th: an all new Interactive Italian Road Trip
  328. …in reply to @v21
    here is an astronaut failing to use a skipping rope in space youtube.com/watch?v=Km-vj6f3TPo
  329. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro i have not been, just watching occasional youtubes
  330. …in reply to @naomialderman
    @naomialderman idk, i like the illusion of control over a turbulent world it can provide
  331. RT @ncasenmare: Making a tool for "programming with plain words"! Here's me "programming" a line-drawing turtle: #ScreenshotSaturday https:…
  332. …in reply to @ncasenmare
    @ncasenmare @compositeredfox nice! i could imagine making a version of CBDQ that runs on this
  333. RT @michaelbierut: “The shortcuts become your style.” @zachlieberman on Poetic Computation is my favorite @AIGAdesign presentation so far.…
  334. …in reply to @ncasenmare
    @ncasenmare @compositeredfox 🖌️🤖‼️
  335. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i'm eating stew and there's a blanket at my feet because they get cold
  336. what am i doing? i'm digging up my minecraft account from 2010 so i can can see if this art gallery is still up: localhostgallery.nikonowicz.com/index.php/current/04--there-are-no-girls-on-the-internet/
  337. …in reply to @v21
    it is up! and it's a good exhibition, seriously. here's some photos i took (it is pretty instagrammable): instagram.com/p/BaPc3wTADgT/?taken-by=vtwentyone
  338. @__compy horoscope pisces
  339. RT @taloketo: this aesthetic tho (source: freegameplanet.com/faith-download-game/ )
  340. many months after it was written, i'm here to say: this is a good piece. on feminine game design: medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/princess-debut-and-the-essence-of-feminine-game-design-c42420f00425
  341. RT @Pixelengineer_: Z (Bitmap Brothers / Virgin Interactive Entertainment, 1996) #DOSgaming
  342. back on my bullshit
  343. …in reply to @v21
    i hope i managed to put in the magic thing that keeps it as a png this time
  344. RT @Peters_Glen: Watch the planet breath (to Oct 17): CO₂ emissions increase CO₂ concentrations, seasons & El Niño give variability https:/…
  345. i used to make fun of Guy Fieri until i watched a few episodes of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. now i think he is warm and talented. & also: @munchies/918957274319618048
  346. went downstairs to find my flatmate looking radiant, surrounded by flowers she was arranging to put around the flat. lovely.
  347. …in reply to @v21
    Guy Fieri's show is all about him going to people's restaurants and getting excited about the things they make. what's not to love?
  348. …in reply to @FakeUnicode
    @FakeUnicode yep, pretty much
  349. …in reply to @WordMercenary
    @WordMercenary also he's a fat dude promoting trashy, fattening food, and doing so without a visible sense of irony
  350. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn i love the ep where he comes to London because it does not really work
  351. …in reply to @ftrain
    @ftrain there's even cheatXXXXX() functions left exposed
  352. …in reply to @ftrain
    @ftrain yeah! i love @lorenschmidt's stuff for this, they also work in JS and clearly love their seams. (it helps that canvas is simple & clear)
  353. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem i'm actually encouraged by the response to Mordor, as (that i've seen) it's "it's rich & makes you care & also is dehumanizing and terrible"
  354. …in reply to @v21
    @vectorpoem good! you figured out how to make people care about characters. now... think through the consequences of that.
  355. if you would like to read a book that has thought about the problem of Orcs, I can recommend The Last Ringbearer
  356. …in reply to @v21
    it is very, uh, mechanically driven (focused more on worldbuilding & plot machinery than characters), but sometimes i like that
  357. …in reply to @v21
    (and, like, characters do exist and have personalities, and some are sympathetic, so it's not like it's an vacant Greg Egan hellscape)
  358. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate @inky thinking of watching Yowapeda- the plot advances, but mainly it's "characters you know continue to act in ways characteristic of themselves"
  359. RT @v21: @lorenschmidt (Kentucky Route Zero README.txt)
  360. …in reply to @JenuinePanic
    @JenuinePanic not sure exactly what this is a portfolio for, but i reckon if it's clear and easy to find/navigate it'll be fine
  361. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 i copy and paste stuff manually between projects
  362. …in reply to @mcclure111
  363. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 there's a thing i remind myself of, sometimes. a prominent indie dev, who already at that point had released more popular games than i'm
  364. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 likely to told me he didn't bother indenting his code.
  365. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 hahaha.
  366. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow like, obviously agree. but it's okay to make things for yourself and not need money for it. or for those you love. or peers.
  367. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i know, i know! i just get a flinch reaction at the pervasiveness of labour/work/getting paid framing around _everything_
  368. RT @GraceSpelman: my cat Pierogi is missing!!!!!!!!!
  369. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk i think you'll enjoy @asponge's readmedottxt, if you don't know it already readmedottxt.tumblr.com/
  370. old prototype
  371. RT @pangmeli: I just saw a dance piece where the dancer danced/communed with a series of clay pots I'm ***
  372. …in reply to @v21
    should be launching my Patreon later on today!
  373. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @increpare brb, changing my wifi SSN to nsf001
  374. …in reply to @v21
    @hollygramazio @increpare sorry, this joke is really stupid, and to the extent it's funny, is only funny because nobody understands it
  375. finding here in a list of countries is always a fun adventure, though not always quite this fun @jeremyburge/919890675503697921
  376. RT @aarond: @Ehmee @anildash This from a relative to his cousin in an 1843 letter falls under admonishment, and also 🔥 https://t.co/Hy8ZPMx…
  377. @tigershungry it's a game for you! it's all about floaty pens (okay, okay, not floaty pens, it's the kind where the lady gets naked) @WhatsOnSteam/919899303224774656
  378. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge i found these lying about the office, i assume they're yours? 🐧🐧🐧
  379. bot of the day: @LCPSHOPNET but presumably it's not, tho bot aesthetics permeate processes blindly executed, but human desire creeps through
  380. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh hope to see you while yr back!
  381. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib inspiring *alt-tabs back to our GDD*
  382. RT @metasynthie: don't try to jack a rig from a technobishop, chummer
  383. RT @4nt1r34l: 171015
  384. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley it's sliding scale, which blurs the tip/not tip boundary
  385. Saharan dust!
  386. Cheap Bots, Done Quick! update: I am launching a Patreon if you would like to support it (and me), you now can: patreon.com/v21
  387. …in reply to @v21
    (but don't feel obliged : I've very grateful for everyone who uses it, and has made it such a success. thank you all!!!)
  388. …in reply to @clairebearian
    @clairesayswhat Absolutely please do! Thanks!
  389. …in reply to @v21
    wahh! It's been like an hour and hosting costs are covered already! thank you!
  390. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn thanks! and thank you for pledging! and me too
  391. …in reply to @TopLeftBrick
  392. …in reply to @botwikidotorg
  393. …in reply to @danhett
  394. …in reply to @algcifaldi
    @amandaglosson 💞 & it's been such a delight to see what you've made with it!
  395. …in reply to @jim_unwin
    @jim_unwin it is!
  396. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver @inconvergent @manygradients ahhhh, these are lush
  397. RT @bombsfall: On this #BossDay2017, please leave a reply with the worst shit a boss has ever pulled on you.
  398. RT @nogfhaver: this is hands down the best one star review of an app ive ever seen. haley you are absolutely right... https://t.co/ZE6qJ4qd…
  399. …in reply to @aparrish
    @aparrish ☺️ thank you!
  400. …in reply to @v21
    @aparrish also, i came across yr tracery tutorial recently and it's the best i've ever seen. planning on linking it from CBDQ, if that's ok with you?
  401. RT @AlanKelloggs: I am in a Wetherspoon's. An old couple have sat down at the table I am occupying. "This is a nice table," she says.
  402. last night I watched "Dead Mountaineer's Hotel", and i would recommend it
  403. …in reply to @v21
    @haikus_by_KN you'd definitely love it
  404. …in reply to @jazzmickle
  405. …in reply to @tripofmice
    @tripofmice it's an Estonian film from 1979! they wrote the screenplay, too. it's on YouTube and everything
  406. …in reply to @neighbour_civs
    @neighbour_civs @mousefountain what's in my inventory?
  407. …in reply to @v21
    @aparrish (i updated the site to link to the Patreon and dropped this in while I was doing so)
  408. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
  409. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie this is such a good story
  410. …in reply to @v21
    @metasynthie but yeah - this is generally a great thread, but i'm not sure demand was kicked off by multiplayer videogames
  411. …in reply to @v21
    @metasynthie i'd pin it on a virtuous circle of good design => more interest. and the internet allowing smaller publishers to reach a bigger market
  412. …in reply to @v21
    @metasynthie mainly, tho - aaarg, i wanna get a group together to play Blades In The Dark!
  413. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr these are lovely
  414. this is generally a fine thread full of videos that make me say "no. no. no, don't do that. stop", but this one fully crosses into nausea @prodigis/887772215042768896
  415. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian spaghetti-o pizza seems okay! i would try it if a friend wanted me to
  416. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow this is very good
  417. …in reply to @jstsgs
    @jstsgs It's not exposed in the Twitter API, I don't think - if they sort that out I'd like to (if I can get the syntax right)
  418. …in reply to @ennispea
    @ennispea Haha, yep!
  419. RT @v21: Cheap Bots, Done Quick! update: I am launching a Patreon if you would like to support it (and me), you now can: https://t.co/W2ThZ…
  420. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
  421. RT @sarahkaplan48: Behold, science in 2017: One of the biggest astrophysics discoveries of the decade was announced via slack https://t.co/…
  422. …in reply to @kittaveli
    @kittaveli that's a massive compliment, imo
  423. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts i thought this, and then i bought a projector. but my new house doesn't have any suitable walls??
  424. …in reply to @jstsgs
    @jstsgs @WYR_bot I think it pretends to be the web client. It's pretty possible to do, but doesn't work for a platform.
  425. RT @BernieDeKoven: Fun, Death, Rebirth and Dying again deepfun.com/fun-death-rebirth-dying-again/
  426. …in reply to @undefined
  427. RT @russellbrandom: I was going to write something insightful about platform moderation but instead I just made a brain meme. https://t.co/…
  428. …in reply to @dydt
    @dydt @tripofmice i'm going soon, please tell me where!
  429. …in reply to @tripofmice
  430. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe what would be the point of them if there wasn't a "some guy on your MFA" who disliked them?
  431. RT @beastsofbalance: We’re announcing a new range games today at the Alexa Accelerator in Seattle! follow @VoiceOriginals to stay in touch…
  432. …in reply to @hannah_0012kf
  433. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley 1, 3 and 4 all at once! and only not 2 because i don't hate it. life's hard enough, y'know?
  434. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I really recommend The Mind's Eye by Bridget Riley, I got a lot from it.
  435. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn @hollygramazio spoiler : it uses it's remarkable problem solving to pull the small fluff from it's nest and feast on it
  436. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn @hollygramazio it was actually literally David Attenborough, and the voice over is basically there to tell you that This Is Good, Actually.
  437. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet okay, but: maps attached to things where up is forwards
  438. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 there was a lift at uni (i did CS (ish)) with a ceiling with panels with round holes just the size of the central thingy.
  439. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 a few of them had been filled with floppy thingys, slid up between the plastic panel & the metal.
  440. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 i remember staring up idly at them in the lift so many times
  441. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @gillianmsmith i think it can be helpful to reply anyway (untag others, though!). makes visible norms & uses white male privilege to good ends
  442. …in reply to @v21
    @mtrc @gillianmsmith maybe you won't persuade the people you're arguing with (v unlikely they'll admit it, even if you did!), but fence-sitters will see
  443. …in reply to @gillianmsmith
  444. …in reply to @v21
  445. …in reply to @v21
    tangent: there's something kind of ugly beautiful about the automated prose on these spam sites. but i've never quite captured it.
  446. …in reply to @v21
    idk, i guess my twitter advert thread captures some of it. and i've talked before about the structural similarity between spintax & Tracery
  447. …in reply to @waiwaipang
    @waiwaipang oh god i remember these
  448. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin Casper vs GhostBed
  449. @Coleo_Kin wait I just remembered that consulting for brands while running a media site is Vice's exact business model
  450. RT @pcsegal: i saw a thread about this bizarre racist dingus tweet, then i looked at the replies to the original and it plays so well as a…
  451. …in reply to @thatJaneNg
    @thatJaneNg @LiaSae the US is easier because that's where the center of gravity for media, shows, platforms, big publishers etc is
  452. …in reply to @v21
    @thatJaneNg @LiaSae (VC funding too). but sometimes in Europe you can make a living making games with government/cultural funding !
  453. …in reply to @v21
    @thatJaneNg @LiaSae though this is basically great & has enabled a lot of good stuff, there's a problem where it can cause a disconnect with the market.
  454. …in reply to @v21
    @thatJaneNg @LiaSae which filters into funding programmes requiring business cargo cult stuff, which ruins the games & doesn't make them commercially viable
  455. …in reply to @v21
    @thatJaneNg @LiaSae all of which said, it's still a much better situation. but you can also achieve the same effect by just starting with a pile of cash.
  456. …in reply to @v21
    @thatJaneNg @LiaSae or, for health: just ... not having health insurance for a while, and not getting unlucky. that seems pretty common, too!
  457. …in reply to @LiaSae
    @LiaSae @thatJaneNg yeah, for sure. but see the replies about cargo cult stuff. and yr studio optimizes for getting funding, not connecting with an audience.
  458. …in reply to @v21
    @thatJaneNg @LiaSae (uh, and obviously all of these factors bias towards rich, young, well-connected people. that's the big payoff to fixing this stuff)
  459. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin i've had better days
  460. RT @moreelen: Hi, I'm Rosa and I make games and interactive art things. #artistsontwitter #gamedev #indiedev rosacarbo.co.uk/ https:…
  461. RT @katbamkapow: good morning! i wrote about a playful history of art for the peabody essex museum, and their upcoming exhibition https://t…
  462. musical genres, clumped & with examples: everynoise.com/engenremap.html
  463. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ how could you be pinned down to a single location?
  464. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @manygradients ohhh, i like this one
  465. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  466. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i am so happy you're teaching!!!
  467. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow seeing friends slowly shift the world to the better is a good feeling
  468. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow oh that would be super cool! definitely recommend @aparrish's tutorial if so (linked from CBDQ now)
  469. RT @TabletopMag: The next physical-digital hybrid from the Beasts of Balance studio wants you to play board games with Amazon’s Alexa https…
  470. playing with some Pocket Operators have led to me playing with nanoloop again. what a fun bit of software: nanoloop.com/
  471. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 you can change the FixedUpdate interval. and if there's nothing to physically simulate, you pay basically nothing.
  472. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 (which i am pretty sure would be the case, with only colliders in the scene)
  473. RT @LauraKnetzger: 4 sorry to be a downer but this is what I've been thinking about for months
  474. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN welcome!
  475. RT @playscii: Absolutely gorgeous pieces by None Petrovich using the JPETSCII set: playscii.tumblr.com More from the artist: https://t.…
  476. this bullet point is both very content light, but very rich in tone and allusion patreonhq.com/checking-in-on-our-commitments-to-creators-about-trust-and-safety-8793a53c3cae
  477. [poll] you care about houseplants
  478. …in reply to @tripofmice
    @tripofmice you seem like you've been having a great trip
  479. RT @TriciaLockwood: an irishman named Garry just gave me a tip: "if a badger ever sinks his teeth into ya, snap a stick at him so he thinks…
  480. RT @sashageffen: & I wonder if reprogramming the gaze to accept the 'glitch', to see the image for what it is and not what's 'underneath',…
  481. stage hunk / discard hunk
  482. bot of the day: @adopt_a_roach get yr own cute little friend!
  483. it's Bul!! what a pleasure to adopt you! @adopt_a_roach/921033297270136832
  484. …in reply to @MonsieurEureka
  485. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley v much so
  486. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew i think that'd definitely part of it! but i think adding a twist, or crossing it with another genre often makes things more accessible
  487. …in reply to @v21
    @jawsew i'm thinking of like, proper grognard wargames here. or dry mathematical sokoban games
  488. …in reply to @mich_jpg
    @themichlife ya. i like this thread on homestuck @3liza/900492621612597249 and i'm glad i stopped reading when i did
  489. …in reply to @aoighost
    @aoighost i work in games, and the idea of code originally from the world of games becoming med tech makes me scream
  490. …in reply to @brandonnn
    @brandonnn a roach is for life, not just for for Twitter, Brandon.
  491. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I like when I find a todo lost from years back and still have things to do. Turns out they weren't important!
  492. RT @shanley: i'm sorry but tech will HAPPILY cop to just sending creepy emails when like..... what about the girls where it wasn't like "no…
  493. …in reply to @bwuhhh
    @bwuhhh here's a question : what's the best wine pairing for dj clips?
  494. …in reply to @undefined
    @thecatamites okay, sold!
  495. …in reply to @froachclub
    @froachclub @adopt_a_roach *takes an extremely over elaborate bow*
  496. imagine how many people have been scared away from coding because they assumed they were meant to understand git
  497. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain damnnn (i'm not, but i wish i was)
  498. icymi: i have a patreon now to support server costs and my work on CBDQ patreon.com/v21
  499. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal @Eastmad i find it really useful, and use it daily. BUT i do not understand it, really, and i definitely don't expect less-technical collaborators to
  500. …in reply to @v21
    @shahidkamal @Eastmad like, it's fucked that part of my job is helping fix problems caused when people are confused by a collaboration tool
  501. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal @Eastmad the coders understand it enough & use the features. but the contract sound designer who wants to swap out some files...
  502. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal @Eastmad i really don't think it needs to be, tho. or at least, not nearly as hard as it actually is
  503. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @shahidkamal @Eastmad SourceTree keeps improving, so it's pretty rare for me to use git on the commandline (uh, except when i need to ssh to a server)
  504. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb @shahidkamal @Eastmad but even shit like "you need to commit those changes, pull & then push" is too much at the simple end
  505. bot of the day: @all_the_gods give me a private god, a small domestic one just for myself on this Friday
  506. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad @all_the_gods i didn't say the magic words right
  507. …in reply to @undefined
    @ms45 @all_the_gods oh! (also goddamn it i literally made this mistake because i didn't expose the replies functionality in the source of the bot on my service)
  508. …in reply to @v21
    @all_the_gods o wait. to invoke, i must say the word: hello
  509. RT @oinkgms: We uploaded an article about our newly 'Modern Art' which you will be able to buy at the SPIEL in Essen. https://t.co/5QHjUALN…
  510. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb cheers, just reserved it
  511. this has clearly succeeded on it's own terms - it's def recreating a particular location. it feels real, not like a game. #dot_bsp_reviews @dot_bsp/921405404638146562
  512. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC the photo textures are one thing - it's the proportions that make it feel real (not like a game)
  513. …in reply to @audiosprite
    @audiosprite @shahidkamal @Eastmad i am not surprised! i'm glad you've learned a useful skill, and i'm sorry that our tools suck
  514. raw thread to read, but it's pretty true @psychicteeth/921369087221125121
  515. …in reply to @spacetreasured
  516. …in reply to @v21
    @spacetreasured sometimes the most important thing you can do it just tell people "it's not you, the software is just confusing this way"
  517. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @MattFischman probably would have done well, if it was a fun brawler with a linear set of stages that came out 5 years ago
  518. uuuuuuugh i have a good idea for a worthwhile project, i am trying to resist it.
  519. …in reply to @v21
    i should follow this tweet up by saying : git is bad, but it's definitely not exceptional
  520. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff oh shit! i'll be around! looking forward to saying hi!
  521. …in reply to @dooskington
    @dooskington nah mate, version control is more prevalent now than it's ever been
  522. CBDQ: server want down 2am last night, did the thing to fix it when i woke up this morning (10 mins ago). looking into the cause now...
  523. …in reply to @jackvinson
    @jackvinson @RealGeneKim it's a lot better! but still not as good as it could be
  524. RT @GraceSpelman: Please, my cat Pierogi, she’s very missing
  525. …in reply to @kierongillen
    @kierongillen one of the most full rounded characters i know? "o"
  526. …in reply to @undefined
    @moananddrone it's no secret!
  527. RT @AlanZucconi: It's hard not to be impressed by the amazing work of Viktor Chlumský. And yes, this is a shader that solves mazes. https:/…
  528. RT @KommanderKlobb: Wilmot's Warehouse, by Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett & Eli Rainsberry ~ coming soon for PC + Mac ~
  529. …in reply to @undefined
    @Radomysissy this is useless and destructive gatekeeping. who does this help? how does this make the world better?
  530. …in reply to @v21
    @Radomysissy letting people enjoy things and understand things, _even while_ they're bad at them - that's how things get better.
  531. i am doing work on CBDQ, and ... i wanna close a db connection when i'm done doing stuff (within a mess of callbacks). what do i use?
  532. …in reply to @v21
    i'm pretty sure the answer is something like Promises or async or something. but JS has a lot of tooling. what's the boring answer?
  533. …in reply to @undefined
    @Radomysissy but that's a hazing ritual that's mainly about culture, and very little about technical expertise.it doesn't even help people gain expertise
  534. RT @ksheely: i've made some commercials, here's a sample youtube.com/watch?v=VnmPNZaBLaE
  535. …in reply to @danhett
    @danhett i might go do a quick bit of research into how ES6 does it...
  536. …in reply to @undefined
    @Radomysissy do you think coding is something only coders should do?
  537. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang hahaha... i saw this one and went... hmmm, campaignjunkie? do i know that name? nahh, i'm sure i don't
  538. …in reply to @undefined
    @Radomysissy i mean, they are speaking english, just not fluently. and i don't see what benefit there is to policing that distinction
  539. …in reply to @v21
    @Radomysissy correct them, sure, but only if they want corrections, and nicely. don't call them skids and tell them they'll never speak english natively
  540. …in reply to @v21
    @Radomysissy (Nabokov was not a native English speaker, and I'll never write as well as Nabokov)
  541. RT @dannybirchall: Also, now I want to write some pretentious-ass essay about blackberries
  542. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal "This media cannot be played. Please connect a HDCP Compliant display device."
  543. …in reply to @v21
    @shahidkamal (this should obviously also die)
  544. apparently in NZ the 4 main ice cream flavours are: -goody goody gum drops -hokey pokey -neapolitan -orange chocolate chip
  545. …in reply to @v21
    i no longer believe New Zealand exists
  546. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc weirdly I'm very happy to accept that, just not the existence of ether the North or South Island of New Zealand
  547. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp I know @haikus_by_KN explained it to me, but I'm still not clear what hokey pokey actually is
  548. I keep seeing gifs from Opus Magnum, remembering the blank 26 hours lost to TIS-1000, and strengthening my resolve.
  549. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC oh, these were 26 consecutive hours. I had a nice 4 hour sleep in there. And then at the end, I moved from my bed and never started it again
  550. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC I've not played infinifactory, though... is it go- - - no, wait, nevermind, I don't care
  551. …in reply to @ProfBrianCox
    @ProfBrianCox what's your take on how this interacts with Prevent?
  552. this tweet perfectly pitches this game. I hope they're making bank. @i_love_hue_game/824558738673639424
  553. RT @poem_exe: back gate opens leaving the inn
  554. RT @jambonbill: #PETSCII glowing orb. 13 colors #screenshotsaturday
  555. …in reply to @aiusepsi
  556. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz ah, what a great game
  557. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz At Inis Spraoi we improvised a copy with some meeples, a chopped up egg carton and a teatowel
  558. …in reply to @aiusepsi
    @aiusepsi @vectorpoem Okay, so : he's in charge of Valve and could choose to, for example : - reduce the 30% cut - hire moderators & curators - not avoid tax
  559. …in reply to @v21
    @aiusepsi @vectorpoem These things would help others, at the risk of not making Valve more valuable / him richer.
  560. …in reply to @v21
    @aiusepsi @vectorpoem But ultimately hoping for those with vastly more power than you to choose to do the benevolent thing is... not the best.
  561. …in reply to @v21
    @aiusepsi @vectorpoem But, faced with that, saying "ah, but he'd have to sell his shares to do anything", as if those shares are inevitable and inexorable...
  562. …in reply to @aiusepsi
    @aiusepsi @vectorpoem hm, yes, vogon was inexact with terminology --- but i don't see how that impacts on JP's point at all
  563. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i mean, it's a broken game, but that obviously doesn't stop it being good
  564. …in reply to @jazzmickle
  565. …in reply to @v21
    @jmickle_ "[PerRendererData]" is the magic word to search for
  566. RT @webbedspace: Another reminder from me that there's no separation between narrative and gameplay. Gameplay, no matter how abstract, is n…
  567. @notquitereal i started playing West of Loathing, and found three things I wanted to send to you in about a 60 second period
  568. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge yeah!! it really is.
  569. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain tiny food fascinates me because it shows how specific scale is. physics cares if a thing is a meter long or a millimetre long!
  570. …in reply to @v21
    @mousefountain oh, do you mean, like, normal small food, not very tiny food?
  571. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe i was sceptical, but i am very much in that headspace now
  572. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh go to the party!
  573. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh ah, yeah, okay. keep on Plunking then!
  574. …in reply to @molleindustria
    @molleindustria this is the #1 bit of player data i want for Beasts of Balance. no idea how you could collect it, tho
  575. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain oh, those are just fun for the weirdo chemistry processes and the way that a weird thing arrives at the same look at a normal thing.
  576. RT @tinysubversions: National Novel Generation Month (#NaNoGenMo) starts Nov 1! Spend 30 days writing code that writes a novel! Details: ht…
  577. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou all my short tweens are .3 seconds (unless they're something else)
  578. …in reply to @derElbi
    @derElbi hahahaha
  579. RT @bahrami_: Engare (انگاره) is a game about the geometrical patterns of Middle Eastern art and architecture. Available now: https://t.co/…
  580. …in reply to @_never_work
    @_never_work ahhhh, i have written code to parse twee files in Unity before...
  581. …in reply to @v21
    @_never_work i even hooked up a thing to automatically generate them from .tws files (a standalone python script invoked in the background)
  582. RT @mmalex: one of my fave easter eggs in Black&White 1: we recorded, for every language, the most popular 10 or so names as a spooky whisp…
  583. …in reply to @lyktestolpe
    @lyktestolpe ahh - thanks for letting me know. it's back up now
  584. …in reply to @v21
    @lyktestolpe recent work on it has caused an intermittent problem i'm somewhere in the middle of trying to fix properly
  585. …in reply to @lyktestolpe
    @lyktestolpe I even set up a thing to text me when it's down, but apparently I check twitter before my texts :)
  586. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts I keep thinking about all the straight identifying men who also have sex with men.
  587. RT @lil_selkie: hello to everyone in comedy and performance in london: tell me abt the funny ppl you know who aren't straight white men. an…
  588. …in reply to @v21
  589. …in reply to @tanyaxshort
    @tanyaxshort when I get my next thing in a demoable state, def wanna see what you think
  590. RT @jonbro: The first 90% takes 90% of the time, then the second 90% takes another 90% of the time, then the last 90% takes like 2 weeks.
  591. some good suggestions for improving this website, Twitter.Com @thecatamites/923140205569282048
  592. @KommanderKlobb hope you're having a good holiday, here is a tweet for you @thecatamites/923142111960158208
  593. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i just put them in a bag unless i'm like, carting stuff around for events like Wild Rumpus. then i put those in a different bag.
  594. RT @RainboxProd: Facial rig for @NicoDuduf 's new animation tutorial :) #Duik
  595. …in reply to @Dick_Hogg
    @Dick_Hogg nice hats
  596. …in reply to @v21
    @Dick_Hogg (nice game, too)
  597. @netgal_emiyou you like SCP, right? @grayshine/923247437187289088
  598. …in reply to @lifewinning
    @lifewinning i recently went through all the many many links and tweets i have DMed to myself in the last 6 months
  599. "The act is meaningless; I give it meaning." @headfallsoff/923206748412022784
  600. It IS a cracking lineup. I'll be there. @patrickashe/923167284864208901
  601. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I'm hyped to play Super Russian Roulette again!
  602. *quietly proud this bot is running on CBDQ* @louistheroux/923285285466619904
  603. RT @pangmeli: 'coworking' with the window-washer outside your office window, hanging only inches from you yet inexorably separate https://t…
  604. RT @presentcorrect: The very collectible, very expensive ‘Trademarks & Symbols’ (1973) Online in full: trademarksandsymbols.com https://t.co…
  605. i have 0 regrets about following this account @LCPSHOPNET/923530698756997121
  606. …in reply to @cr3
    @cr3 can your maglite extrude paste???
  607. …in reply to @cr3
    @cr3 can your maglite.... cook eggs? @LCPSHOPNET/923452560664616960
  608. …in reply to @dysinger
    @dysinger Programming isn't only for people who make a living programming.
  609. …in reply to @v21
    @dysinger (&, even more obviously: most people who make a living programming now did some programming before they got paid to)
  610. …in reply to @dysinger
    @dysinger before they decide to put in the time, they probably want a sense of why it's enjoyable, and get a taste of small victories.
  611. RT @JUEGOSRANCHEROS: Apply to be a JUEGOS RANCHEROS Resident Artist in January 2018! juegosrancheros.com/1839/events/resident-artist-january-2018/
  612. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt Does their pathfinding loop?
  613. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt ah-hah, yeah. i was curious because i was remembering the sensation of tricking pathfinding when only the player is allowed to loop
  614. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt (like Pacman)
  615. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt yeah, i agree. But an enemy that's constantly running away from the edges might be cool.
  616. just learned Opus Magnum locks global leaderboards for levels until you've completed the game and i'm very impressed by this design thinking
  617. …in reply to @v21
    (why? the game's joy comes from hyper-optimizing your solutions, and this way you won't get stuck trying to beat the world on an early level
  618. …in reply to @v21
    instead, you'll do well enough, you can beat your friends, then move on. and the real heads can go back and replay it all for perfection)
  619. …in reply to @v21
    PS i know myself well enough that i'm pledging to myself to never buy this game. i'll stick to admiring it from a safe distance...
  620. …in reply to @cathroon
    @thmsbrngr play how you like! there's no problem with not being optimal in enjoying a game, even if that means optimizing more
  621. RT @Dick_Hogg: (^: --WILMOT"S WAREHOUSE TRAILER-- :^) youtu.be/9HH9U9fx09w
  622. RT @dreamaskew: hey one of my favourite games of all time was just released drivethrurpg.com/product/224782/Bluebeards-Bride
  623. RT @SimoneGiertz: soup robot DGAF about your soup needs
  624. …in reply to @qDot
    @qDot oh, don't worry, i'm destroying myself in plenty of other ways
  625. …in reply to @v21
    @qDot but the blank spot around Christmas I lost to TIS-1000 is keeping me strong
  626. …in reply to @sarahjeong
    @sarahjeong none of these are spicy, but i can recommend a British crisp taster menu of: - Skips - Pickled Onion Monster Munch - Thai Sweet Chilli
  627. …in reply to @v21
    @sarahjeong a range of flavours, from upmarket to downmarket, with various relationships between flavour & name (Skips are "prawn cocktail")
  628. …in reply to @kahodesu
    @kahodesu i wanna plunk with you!
  629. …in reply to @v21
    @kahodesu oh, also, btw i'm coming to NY at the end of November
  630. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk downing a pint of overpriced lager because someone threw a penny in it and you have to "save the queen from drowning"
  631. …in reply to @WokeInWakanda
    @ItsNiZarBoi @DominicTarason I'm an indie dev, and, no, everything he says tracks.
  632. RT @_Ninji: I just learned that the Scottish Government created a fake programming language called HAGGIS How… How is this real https://t.…
  633. RT @ARstories: Joyce Weisbecker, the first “indie” video game programmer fastcodesign.com/90147592/rediscovering-historys-lost-first-female-video-game-designer (via @harrymccracken @benjedwards) #WomenI…
  634. …in reply to @_hyly
    @imjayhay don't miss the built-in support for binaural audio!
  635. Choo choo! Let's go to Paris!
  636. RT @brandonnn: GOOD MORNING: we've just announced the rest of this year's @fantasticarcade lineup, with 20+ more amazing games! https://t…
  637. …in reply to @kierongillen
    @kierongillen I like Hobnobs (I finished a pack last night), but... I think Alan Moore is correct here.
  638. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow I went on a train under the ocean and frowned at async code in Node the whole time.
  639. …in reply to @3liza
    @3liza So the weird thing is they got Paypal to give them an exemption to their adult content policies after a standoff just last year.
  640. …in reply to @v21
    @3liza Which, maybe there are direct payment processor reasons for this, but they've been mealy mouthed about it vs last year if so.
  641. this interview with Sean Young is relevant for multiple reasons rn theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/26/blade-runner-sean-young-interview#comments
  642. RT @lifewinning: All the best speculative fiction happens in corporate slide decks @blancpain/923901026209554438
  643. RT @CarolineBirdUK: Here is a poem I wrote when I was 12. My teacher asked me to write a poem about an owl.
  644. RT @bransonreese: Rat Maze
  645. …in reply to @spnbmb
    @spnbmb there's a standalone version (without SVG or replies functionality, unfortunately) here: github.com/v21/tracerybot
  646. …in reply to @v21
    @spnbmb CBDQ as a whole is also on my github, but it's much more of a faff to get running, and not needed for self-hosting
  647. …in reply to @r618
    @r618 @LostKinect it's yours! (but i get what you mean, thank you)
  648. …in reply to @spnbmb
    @spnbmb ahh. then have a look through github.com/v21/traceryhosting-backend
  649. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @nickfourtimes @tigershungry anyone tried the Christmas Percies? I saw them on my way to the Eurostar, but haven't yet indulged.
  650. RT @mcclure111: I've always loved this, like some deist god saying "Lo…" as their creation comes into being @mcnees/924624682195849217
  651. a French person: they gave her, what is it in English, le carte blanche?
  652. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry good work! i saw this instead
  653. This creperie has two TVs. One is showing people eating crepes within this creperie, the other a woman with her whole arm up a cow's bottom.
  654. …in reply to @SK_Louie
    @SK_Louie that's sweet!
  655. 😻
  656. RT @hollygramazio: This proto-rollercoaster is from 1855 and I'd like it to appear in every nineteenth century costume drama from now on, p…
  657. okay, but the replies to this actually do discuss the themes of the Animorphs series with unexpected seriousness @turing_police/924706191569190912
  658. I am super excited to dig into this! Conversational Tracery fuck yes @GalaxyKate/925159463807361024
  659. …in reply to @failnaut
    @failnaut @GalaxyKate @mtrc @ultrabrilliant Yeah! It's super cool, Kate gave me the heads up earlier
  660. …in reply to @SalinTabert
    @youtoobeer @lindecadence Yeah, likewise!
  661. crows! I think this could work? I hope it does https://t.co/RXMFB8kvk8?amp=1
  662. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver @_mynameischuck @humblegrove Ahh, what, I just saw this tag missed out @bonaneh ! Not intentional, I promise!
  663. Sudden memory of bumping into someone with the same scarf as me (I had knitted the scarf myself)
  664. I would like to say for the record that I totally called this. @GalaxyKate/925164704640540672
  665. RT @TH6TV: 新シーズンの舞台は軽井沢からSTART! 「TERRACE HOUSE OPENING NEW DOORS」 (テラスハウス オープニング ニュー ドアーズ) 12月19日 (火) より@NetflixJP にて先行配信!! #テラスハウス #TERR…
  666. …in reply to @becca_rose___
    @beccaerose NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) is just about to start!
  667. …in reply to @pozorvlak
    @pozorvlak I really like C#, and don't think anyone would call it small - but line-by-line, there's a Single Right Way To Do It
  668. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate Academics always try to do things the hard way.
  669. …in reply to @v21
    @GalaxyKate Not "can we generate human-quality stories with grammars" but "can we make fun stuff with these tools"
  670. …in reply to @betterthemask
    @betterthemask So, Ladykiller : my favourite characters were the Boy and the Photographer, because they were both bad people, and messy situations
  671. …in reply to @v21
    @betterthemask (I want to apologise for calling them bad, which is interesting in itself. They're messed up, they're having Times, you learn their shit)
  672. …in reply to @v21
    @betterthemask And both paths, you end up having a thing happen and it's clearly not going to go anywhere. But there's real intimacy there.
  673. …in reply to @v21
    @betterthemask And no one is really regretting it, it's a thing, and I can imagine the characters feeling (from a distance) fond about it & each other.
  674. …in reply to @v21
    @betterthemask I've never seen that in a game before, but I've been in situations like that in real life. More of that, please.
  675. …in reply to @pozorvlak
    @pozorvlak I want all of my code to be boring (or, to have very calculated elements of excitement).
  676. …in reply to @v21
    @pozorvlak I hate landing in new code and having to hack through layers of abstraction to find out what it's actually doing beneath all the cleverness.
  677. …in reply to @v21
    @pozorvlak Obviously that's sometimes worthwhile! But if it's not core, if it's not deduplicating something that happens a lot...
  678. the moment when she steps onto her mark and the light falls just right: 👌 @DariaButGay/924868171072286720
  679. holy shit it finally happened, Sublime Text forgot my opened (& unsaved) tabs. i don't know if i'm devasted or finally freed.
  680. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured i've heard it takes about 5 years of freelance work to feel secure enough to turn down work when you should
  681. …in reply to @v21
    @spacetreasured so... it's okay. you got feet to spare
  682. haven't yet played, but seeing comments like: "Wolfenstein: TNC's commitment to diversity elevates it above it's pulp roots"
  683. …in reply to @v21
    but i am deeply uneasy with games being praised purely for their diversity. being conscious of this is the baseline.
  684. …in reply to @v21
    but in this setting, I'm on board, precisely because it's not elevating it from pulp. it's still pulp, just... pulp for the other people.
  685. …in reply to @v21
    sometimes violent power fantasies can be fun and cathartic? and violent power fantasies don't have to equal regressive politics.
  686. …in reply to @v21
    (here's a strong accidental manifesto on diversity from @kierongillen: dorkland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/kieron-gillen-on-diversity.html on comics, but applies just as much to games)
  687. …in reply to @JurieHorneman
    @jurieongames worked for me for years!
  688. …in reply to @pozorvlak
    @pozorvlak Yeah, those p much always work for C# (I remember a weird case with lambdas in coroutines...).
  689. …in reply to @v21
    @pozorvlak Thinking of stuff like decorators in Python, or various monkey patching stuff, together with dependency injection etc...