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Tweets from 2017/12

  1. RT @Kaleidopix: jetlag woke me in time ɾǝʇlɐƃ ʍoʞǝ ɯǝ ᴉu ʇᴉɯǝ to see the sunrise (and ʇo sǝǝ ʇɥǝ snuɹᴉsǝ (ɐuq @v21
  2. …in reply to @agargara
    @agargara my pleasure!
  3. RT @thatJaneNg: If I die tmrw put “copy & paste til you get called out” on my gamedev tombstone
  4. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc having dealt with this stuff a little - the written CoC is the smallest, easiest part. what's hard is having processes to deal with stuff & be accountable. in many ways, it's good there wasn't a written CoC - if the organisers weren't properly on board, it'd be a lie anyway.
  5. …in reply to @v21
    @mtrc better to be explicit about the space being dangerous than pretend it's safe and then leave bear traps lying around
  6. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc Yeah, I mean, I think you often have to do the easy symbolic thing first. idk. It's hard. Thank you for engaging and fighting for this stuff.
  7. RT @beastsofbalance: Card designs are being finalised! We'll be posting more in the future, but for now check out the look of Fight! Fight!…
  8. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin hey i just sat down in a coffee shop, wanna get sad about our inability to render these in three.js these together?
  9. RT @katierosepipkin: perturbed parabolic antennae .obj
  10. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork @brothboy oh whaaaa, that's lush
  11. RT @katierosepipkin: sorted spaceship, semi-truck, and world map
  12. RT @katierosepipkin: lantern
  13. RT @SRAVI_MA: A colorful circle flipbook using images from @manygradients. Credit to @v21.
  14. …in reply to @SRAVI_MA
    @SRAVI_MA @manygradients this is cool!!
  15. RT @radiatoryang: they should've sent a poet artstation.com/artwork/qllVy
  16. RT @womensart1: 'Late Day Shadows'. mini art quilt by textile artist Nancy Messier, hand painted and dyed fabrics #womensart https://t.co/R…
  17. RT @lazygamereviews: So, someone watched my IBM PC AT unboxing video and... decided to make a detailed horoscope about it? Of the very mome…
  18. RT @heatherchristle: when psychological researchers from 1897 write a poem by mistake--"Death, Funeral and Burial of Dolls"--and you have t…
  19. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz I used to go to Leatherhead for gymnastics.
  20. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz no, but there was a giant pit filled with chunks of foam
  21. the ui paradigm where applications are in floating windows was more about flashiness than usability and I'm glad tiling windows are making a comeback
  22. It still feels weird
  23. .@thecatamites has done it again! on the carriage return, pacing, and "the possibilities of the medium" myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/168119975135/pacy-pacy-push/amp
  24. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @vivschwarz Sunday pub lunch
  25. …in reply to @markeryjane
    @8fldh what's his name? and does Froach know about yr new pal?
  26. honestly i'm still unclear on the details of what an icebox actually is
  27. …in reply to @ivansafrin
    @ivansafrin computers are on the like third swing from thin terminals to fat and back again now, right?
  28. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod but it's cold? is it just traditionally cold, or actively chilled? does it make the plums grainy in texture?
  29. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod ah, like a miniature pantry
  30. RT @tonyszhou: Myself and @glassesattached are announcing that #everyframeapainting has officially ended. Here's the script to the final un…
  31. …in reply to @alicejanetaylor
    @WonderlandBlog Private Slacks and Discords are good. Although much harder to stumble on...
  32. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz I think you should watch some old sci-fi shows and make a stew
  33. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz Sending you thoughts to help you get through this long British winter Sunday afternoon.
  34. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz wait. did i see my face, even? I don't think I have
  35. RT @fivememos: in every skyscraper there is someone going mad; all lunatics spend hours on cornices; there is no puma that some girl does n…
  36. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz oh! I really hadn't! This is wonderful.
  37. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz Yes it is
  38. .@vivschwarz painted friends being happy; I am her friend and this has made me happy
  39. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk @vivschwarz isn't it?!!
  40. I bought new shoes. They're shiny.
  41. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC eggs come from a box. you can open 1 box every 12 hours. you can pay in shiny pebbles to open the box earlier. you can pay a feather to get better boxes. you can buy feathers with dollars or (rarely) collect them from full-grown birds
  42. …in reply to @Wofiel
    @Wofiel yeah, I think I probably need to stock up. sock up?
  43. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas Vampire, werewolf, zombie
  44. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas yes, but *when*?
  45. …in reply to @Regnsloja
    @Regnsloja @Nifflas this was my logic, too!
  46. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas oh, that's fine, i'm undead anyway
  47. RT @womensart1: Sea Cloud (1981) by Bridget Riley #womensart
  48. RT @radiatoryang: most of the core systems are now working... now have to decide whether to just cut everything else and polish what I have…
  49. RT @agcook404: Unrelated, but I’ve been hearing some great stuff from @easyfunnn @SOPHIEMSMSMSM @nomak_music @umru_ @Iifesim @kinghenry @li…
  50. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate Winifred Black. Could work for either, tbh
  51. …in reply to @JoLammert
    @JoLammert I *didn't* want cabbage
  52. …in reply to @torahhorse
    @torahhorse here is a fact about Iceland: one in twenty Icelanders are published authors
  53. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin oh, I should definitely have thought of the answer to this question already, shit
  54. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin suddenly realising that's probably a reason my mum messaged me wondering when I'm back....
  55. RT @perlin_noise: ⛺⛺⛺⛰⛺🛤🏝🏝🛤 ⛰⛺⛰⛺⛺🏝🏝🏝🛤 🏟⛰⛺⛺🛤🏝🏝🛤⛺ 🏟⛰⛺🏝🏝🏝🏝🛤⛺ 🏟⛺🏝🏝🏖🏝🛤⛺⛺ ⛰🛤🏖🏖🏖🏝⛺⛺⛺ ⛺🏝🏖🏖🏝🛤⛰⛰⛺ ⛺🏖🛣🏖🛤⛺🏟🏟⛰ 🛤🏖🛣🏖🛤⛰🏟🏔🏟 🏝🏖🛣🏖🛤⛺🏟🏔🏔 🏖🏖🛣🏖🛤⛺🏟🏔🏔 🏖🏖🏖🏖🏝🛤🏟🏔🏔 🏖…
  56. RT @roomthily: "It is against the philosophy of the book; it is a duck—‘heroic and original’—almost fruity in its appearance." some words…
  57. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 silence going faster
  58. Hoodeners in Deal, Kent, in 1909
  59. RT @bfod: finding out some of the names people use for Getting Over It in China from @xuhulk. ‘No Leg Hammer Game’, ‘Confronting Difficult…
  60. RT @conchitinabot: What can happen in twelve hours? I knew, I know, I must've known, I should've known, I could have not known.
  61. this bot-tweet led me to the works of Conchitina Cruz, who I am immediately a fan of: cordite.org.au/chapbooks-features/centrehold/three-poems-by-conchitina-cruz/ @conchitinabot/937595623385247749
  62. …in reply to @v21
    like, I immediately want to make a bot account riffing off Signals, although I have nothing new to add but fannish enthusiasm for it
  63. …in reply to @v21
    "Here" reminds me of the early Sex Fantasies, although possibly without the sense of acceleration theoffendingadam.com/2013/06/24/here-letter-to-the-stranger/
  64. the most interesting bits in this for me is the words "non-hentai" and the stuff that doesn't really quite fit as AAA or as indie. @simoncarless/937604871909494784
  65. RT @eevee: video games, infamous for never having to deal with problems like heterogenous groups of things
  66. …in reply to @simoncarless
    @simoncarless yeah, i remember a good post about how "making furry porn" is a much more viable business model than most in videogames
  67. …in reply to @v21
    @simoncarless and i remember Patreon never talking about their #1 project (it was a furry porn game that has now imploded messily)
  68. navigating through @cassiemcquater's Black Room and was gifted this lovely sky hgjfkdhskjdgturrgehdsbjkfhdsjkahturaytklfdjjfjfff.net/blackroom.html
  69. the dude next to me in the coffee shop was looking at Ethereum stuff and I was gonna tweet meanly about it, but now I'm looking at Ethereum stuff too
  70. …in reply to @v21
    anyway, it turns out collectable cats are big on the blockchain cryptokitties.co/
  71. …in reply to @gloam_co
    @GloamCollective well, shit, i 100% need this
  72. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 the hard part, but the bit that pays off best : then putting everything into that same style
  73. …in reply to @cassiemcquater
    @cassiemcquater it's such a generous game! I loved how much use it makes of the browser
  74. RT @waxpancake: "The Republican Party hates me and wants to destroy my career. They hate all independent game designers and want to destroy…
  75. …in reply to @karaastone
    @karaastone whoaaaa. that looks great, though
  76. i should definitely be asleep, but: here is a rad little RPG, "a place to fuck each other" about queer women having roughly three quarters of their needs met buriedwithoutceremony.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/a-place-to-fuck-each-other.pdf
  77. following and then immediately muting
  78. RT @lauraehall: I did a writeup about an installation piece I created for Now Play This earlier this year, describing my interest in epheme…
  79. I successfully woke up at the right time to catch my flight, even though the speaker in my phone is fucked!
  80. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I do think they should be loudly opposing it, yeah. It's useful to have an alternative spelt out clearly, so the whole thing isn't seen as unstoppable and necessary.
  81. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb And I reckon the main reason they don't is just because they're in two minds about the whole thing. Which isn't hopeful, should they suddenly win power before we're truly committed.
  82. …in reply to @v21
    On the downside, jetlag prevention means it's a bad idea to sleep on the flight, and I am already really quite tired.
  83. …in reply to @v21
    I'll download this playlist at the airport : put nice songs for me to listen to on the flight on it open.spotify.com/user/v21/playlist/2Gvk6PtmHgeh8LGTZNJ6vV?si=5FHp8LlGQDGawcdyjUFGQQ
  84. …in reply to @undefined
    @gillienuk @Deal_Town this is a lovely story
  85. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful give up and start a private twitter for actual chat?
  86. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad UBI as a stepping stone to FALC
  87. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt you should absolutely keep going if you want to - - but also here is a thing i think you'd enjoy : spacelog.org/
  88. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio that's a very good spiderwoman illustration
  89. …in reply to @webbedspace
    @webbedspace @JenuinePanic thought process : radio feels weird given it's in downloadable chunks, not broadcast wait, "podcast" literally contains "cast", wtf
  90. RT @webbedspace: I'm gonna say it, and I'm gonna be rough: "internet radio" or "radio", should've continued to be the name for podcasts. It…
  91. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful I am in this same intersection! (ooh, I should probably listen to Shawn Wasabi?)
  92. about to arrive at work, so I just wanna say I had a really nice time in America these last few weeks. much love to all the people I met up with over there.
  93. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver yeah! @vivschwarz drew it!
  94. multiple people have told me about this song recently and: yes, it is very good i am screaming internally in the office about how good it is youtube.com/watch?v=_74N7KJmEj4
  95. …in reply to @v21
    now i *really* want to do karaoke (cc @uglymachine)
  96. …in reply to @MxOolong
    @MxOolong @Twitter like a third or more of the tweets on my timeline have attached images or video. more if you include rich content
  97. …in reply to @kittaveli
  98. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher i'm giving you fair warning for next time we do karaoke
  99. …in reply to @millerdl
    @millerdl @wjjjjt @gnuerror the preview is also fixed, btw (should be fully 280 compliant, other than weird edge cases around 140+ CJK characters)
  100. RT @compositeredfox: terrain experiments
  101. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou and, like... Spotify Discover is also notable for being surprisingly good! but yeah, also brands luv it and there's no money in music any more
  102. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou yep, absolutely agreed. (though it's not very easy - lots of companies have tried, but imo Spotify is the first to properly crack it & it's interesting why. BUT ie Google being the best search engine doesn't stop them from being evil)
  103. …in reply to @KnealeK
    @KnealeK I prefer backwards seats! I like the sensation and they're (very marginally) safer in a crash
  104. …in reply to @casskhaw
    @casskhaw what stories are these, they sound great
  105. RT @annamerlan: Just a super quick reminder that Trump's evangelical supporters want him to declare Jerusalem the capital because they beli…
  106. RT @bfod: My latest game, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is now available! See you at the summit… maybe :) Steam: https://t.co/0EQEmI1l…
  107. remember that time that account with the funny tweets we all like turned out to have been written by a random dude?
  108. …in reply to @v21
    tbf, everyone was a lot more chill with it than the time that account with the random tweets we all liked turned out to have been written by two dudes who also wrote stuff elsewhere
  109. neural networks as a way to enable human creativity: distill.pub/2017/aia/
  110. …in reply to @v21
    the bit about new intellectual tools? they're looking for a concrete tool, which is valid, but i'd argue the approach of representing things as high-dimensional state spaces & then applying pretty generic operations on them is itself an example.
  111. RT @garblefart: the fact that the rust compiler has no knowledge of what a newline is blows my fuckin mind
  112. …in reply to @ohhoe
    @ohhoe have fun! i found it surprisingly straightforward!
  113. …in reply to @ohhoe
    @ohhoe i think i just copied an example from MDN and expanded on it?
  114. …in reply to @v21
    @ohhoe anyway, the thing is at v21.io/convolution/ super flat single file code if you wanna poke at it
  115. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic I gotta pair of Koss Portapros I like the look of!
  116. …in reply to @vogon
    @vogon c'mon, it's not like they're profitable
  117. …in reply to @undefined
    @mooonmagic they sound pretty good, they're pretty cheap - downside is they break every few years, but there's a lifetime warranty so you can mail them in for a replacement
  118. i played some Getting Over It and it's good! it's generous, and actually not stressful - you know you'll fail, so why worry about it? currently stuck at the chimney, which might need new technique? we'll see
  119. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk the thing that's really fucky is the fact they charge a flat $.35 per pledge, but collect all pledges from one backer in one transaction
  120. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk the big impact will be to $1 pledges...
  121. Congratulations Bennett! I'm glad there are thousands of gamers hyped for a softly spoken lecture on Jazzuo's legacy & the nature of game design. @StegerGames/938624001194196992
  122. RT @JustinWolfers: Rising political polarization isn't about social media — the olds don't use it, and they're the most polarized. Blame TV…
  123. I accidentally made green lemongrass tea with milk and you know what? it's fine. Totally drinkable.
  124. RT @matdryhurst: 17,584 mins streamed / 3.5 min avg song length x $0.00437 per stream payment = ~$22 to artists on Spotify before the label…
  125. …in reply to @elirainsberry
    @elirainsberry Yes, exactly the same reason (I then made proper tea from the PG Tips I assume you bought, tho)
  126. What's the most misleading context that a JWZ combined emoji could combine or not combine in?
  127. …in reply to @bekokstover
    @bekokstover @derElbi @the_nomi @RottenHedgehog @LorenzoPilia @enibolas @BerlinGamez in Beasts we have some references in the beast names, but we try to make them satisfying even if you don't get the joke. (which maybe the night vision duck is doing, too). I think of this as the Dreamworks approach - jokes for the adults, kids are oblivious & enjoy other bits.
  128. …in reply to @v21
    @bekokstover @derElbi @the_nomi @RottenHedgehog @LorenzoPilia @enibolas @BerlinGamez references (even obscure ones!) can be chill - there's something to that feeling of intertextuality? thinking of Spaced & even Ulysses. although both of these can be alienating for that reason.
  129. if you've been pondering getting Beasts for someone this Christmas, you might wanna jump on this today - probably the cheapest it'll be (30% discount) amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1KM25E/
  130. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz maybe you should take up wrestling?
  131. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio "Many Card Draw"? "Art Cult"? "Best Painting"?
  132. …in reply to @v21
    @hollygramazio the real problem is that no matter how hard you work at this problem, you'll still do worse than A Fake Artist Goes To New York
  133. threading a new bit of behaviour into some complex game logic : straightforward using a 3 layer deep LINQ statement to filter & pick & combine : first try working out if this operator should be ">", "<=" or ">=" : half an hour of trial and error and counting
  134. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou oh snap, same
  135. RT @glenda_atom: Your icons looked great in this classic Mac cross-stitch I just finished @SusanKare #nerdstitch
  136. RT @uglymachine: Hey friends, I’m looking for work! I’m good at social media management, writing copy, data management, or a junior project…
  137. RT @OverlandGame: except that the code that does this doesn’t check if the survivor is a person or a dog
  138. a word on Patreon fee changes for any supporters: yeah, it sucks.
  139. …in reply to @v21
    there's obviously never anything wrong with dropping support for me there, but especially now, especially if you're a $1 backer
  140. …in reply to @v21
    hopefully they'll sort their shit out, or this will spur the itch.io or AO3 of Patreon to form
  141. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck I just saw the memes and was considering asking for a link because of how beautiful the art is, so...
  142. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck maybe I will go read Sam Alden's beautiful Farmer's Dilemma instead to get my fill of beautifully drawn cross-species relationships
  143. RT @zandravandra: Someone from @Patreon answered: they're basically not going to let us use our Patreon income for our pledges anymore, ens…
  144. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal did you see they're gonna be adding the new whack of charges to creators who also back other creators?
  145. …in reply to @johnnemann
    @johnnemann i guess technically glitchhiker isn't single player, if you're gonna get definitional on it??
  146. RT @nsuttner: @ADAMATOMIC Also, when you're say you're the best at something it typically just tells me that you're not.
  147. RT @lynne_sheehy: Everyone’s excited about our MAD Xmas fayre today @landg_uk Cardiff supporting @guidedogs and @v21 #toocute!! https://t.c…
  148. …in reply to @kosamari
    @kosamari this is a big thing with automated knitting machines! a lot of interesting work happening there...
  149. RT @landg_uk: Our MAD Xmas Fayre is in full swing at our #Cardiff office supporting @guidedogs and @v21
  150. ohhhh, the flat fee thing on Patreon is actually them moving to multiple transactions per month. so they're not skimming loads extra, they're just incurring a load of extra transaction fees. less venal, but still makes pledging small amounts less viable
  151. …in reply to @v21
    it's weird, tho, because that (and the not letting you use Patreon money to repledge change, related) just decreases their competitive lock in. idk. is the pledge-and-then-cancel problem really that bad?
  152. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff ohh. i guess that makes sense? i mean, they have a few hundred dollars of my money, because they charge transaction fees on withdrawals and so i've not done one yet. but i guess i can't give it to other people w/in Patreon now.
  153. RT @mountain_goats: I had to lol because this is really boss-at-workspeak - "creators and patrons want more information" = "they're angry.…
  154. please respond to this with your nominations for "best bit of incidental writing in a game released in 2017"
  155. …in reply to @v21
  156. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC oh, good, i was just about to add yours myself
  157. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal oh god, i am so antsy about not playing Plunkbat rn. desert! vaulting! aaarg!
  158. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal hahah. sadly i am sitting here with a glass of white wine about to start on some work so we can ask you to do some work next week. and then i'm going for a nice dinner. what a terrible life.
  159. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC i think it is small enough to sneak in under the wire?
  160. …in reply to @aidowall
    @aidowall i rly like "this life has ended", but i feel like i wanna ding it for the "mortal coil" stock phrase?
  161. not played the test server yet, but the vw bus is immediately making me want a transit van. everyone bundling out the back when it stops.
  162. …in reply to @aidowall
    @aidowall ohhh, yeah, that's a nice reading
  163. RT @TheTrashbang: They just sit there, not budging, not methodically solvable, reminding you that your character has aspirations beyond wha…
  164. …in reply to @lyyyndseyyy
    @lyyyndseyyy i had not! but it looks wonderful, thanks for sharing
  165. RT @ja2ke: Shout out to this Japanese gaming site who picked up our game announcement two days early, because they were the only site who n…
  166. RT @SwiftOnSecurity: The difference between encrypted information and radio noise is your faith there cannot be a key for the static.
  167. RT @aidowall: @v21 quite into this death screen from Nioh (or as I call it "the poet's dark souls")
  168. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @ivansafrin oh, this is a lovely thing to discover
  169. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh I continue to be warmed by the memory of Holly's confusion and outrage when everyone at Unskinny Bop gathered shoulder to shoulder and belted out the song together. "What is this? Why does everyone know it? It's so bad!"
  170. RT @BAKKOOONN: out of clean utencils so i just ate spaghetti and meatballs with my hands, wearing disposable nitrile gloves. this is one of…
  171. …in reply to @erocdrahs
    @erocdrahs I woke up thinking "I should write down these playtesting notes... I'm not sure if this game exists or not, but they'll be interesting either way"
  172. RT @v21: @erocdrahs I woke up thinking "I should write down these playtesting notes... I'm not sure if this game exists or not, but they'll…
  173. If anyone has decided to really fuck their day up and go to Oxford St, come say hi! I'm demoing Beasts in John Lewis gifts section all day.
  174. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy I'm brunching and then having a meeting - so from like 6, probably?
  175. …in reply to @rockpapershot
    @rockpapershot THANK YOU
  176. RT @Kaleidopix: rt sorted spaceship ɹʇ soɹʇǝq sbɐcǝsɥᴉb semi-truck and world sǝɯᴉ-ʇɹncʞ ɐuq ʍoɹlq @v21 @katierosepipkin https://t.co/on51…
  177. If "Lost Einsteins" are why you give a shit about how fucked up economic inequality is getting - cool? Glad you got there somehow. @DLeonhardt/937508093470101505
  178. …in reply to @notsimonv3
    @notsimonv3 sounds pretty unsophisticated to me...
  179. remember to treasure this time of year: the dead zone between deciding on your [x]OTYs and a new year beginning
  180. …in reply to @v21
    you're free! rankings and comparisons are meaningless, all that is left to you is just enjoying yourself
  181. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 also, the group that has social overlap with you.
  182. RT @lifewinning: Today in "oh fuck time to face reality on recycling and globalization" (via @therourke) npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste
  183. @leighalexander i just played like 60 straight lives of Reigns in one sitting. I love how *you* it is!
  184. RT @rockpapershot: Petz, sims, journals and dreams: the forgotten world of 90s CD-ROM games - goo.gl/FUqdR6 https://t.co/w6kGQu5s…
  185. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi oh! i had saved this link when i saw it earlier, but i hadn't realized clicking it was so urgent! good piece, really lays the territory out and why they're important and makes me itch to do more with them
  186. …in reply to @v21
    @netgal_emi i have so many vague memories of formative shareware junk, and it's a real fight to remember that's my actual childhood nostalgia, not Mario or whatever
  187. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander also it was a real pleasure to launch the Google Play app to download it, and find it literally in the middle of the screen when it opened up. 🤩
  188. RT @djkgamc: If you’re seeking for Patreon alternatives, we built a tool called Friends withfriends.co We created it for music and…
  189. i have been to the desert and it is such a strange new unexplored land (this tweet is about plunkbat)
  190. …in reply to @qDot
    @qDot yeah, i've had a really good time with it. a bunch of that has been down to the crew i play with, but the game itself is v much worth it, too.
  191. RT @mollysoda: Celebrating (and mourning) the end of AIM with a group chat the evening of Dec. 14th ~ give your old screen names one last s…
  192. …in reply to @eigenbom
    @eigenbom aaaaand deciding what order to make these decisions also has a cost, and can often be the crucial bit of the process
  193. …in reply to @v21
    i am still p much straight up bad at this game. but there's a kill-cam now! i can see why i died! (answer: they were better than me, in tangible ways i could improve on in future)
  194. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh and vaulting, and performance seems maybe smoother, and vehicles can get their tyres shot out, and the sounds have been updated...
  195. RT @liza: So many favorites from this year's National Novel Generation Month, from 12th century poetry to infinite fight scenes to difficul…
  196. …in reply to @adrianhon
    @adrianhon (not read the article, but:) I mean, thought as performance is a lot of working in creative fields, right?
  197. fuuuuuuck this (thank goodness for "Very Low" detail settings, I guess) @lizaledwards/939708879000297472
  198. RT @hardmaru: Interesting idea: Report compute resources needed to reproduce experiment. I saw this architecture search poster at the meta…
  199. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle i am reminded of the windmills in the checkout for Oikospiel
  200. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle this is literally the checkout for the game: oikospiel.com/
  201. i will also gladly accept any and all unwanted panettone @eleanorturney/939942534075375616
  202. good thread that ultimately resolves to be about the physicality of the labour of playing a game @john_brindle/939924230082351104
  203. RT @sincerelysofi: liberal arts major: hi STEM major: hey liberal arts major: how are you STEM major: good how are you liberal arts major:…
  204. RT @dreamdeliveryer: You put on a pair of goggles that help you see hidden lilies. There are lilies hidden almost everywhere.
  205. …in reply to @tigershungry
  206. RT @mcclure111: What if all this AI discourse is really just America doesn't know how to think or talk about itself anymore so it's project…
  207. RT @Rubberbandits: If you want to know about this instrument watch this brilliant vid of Herbie Hancock demonstrating it on sesame street i…
  208. weirdly my last two retweets (@mcclure111/939968631072534529 and @Rubberbandits/939973701969285120) are kind of on the same topic? Here's a transcription (from about 7:30 in the vid):
  209. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ @sintecta okay, i won't fangirl you.
  210. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie i haven't felt despair yet! (i'm at like... 2 ro 3 hours or playtime, up to the chimney and not yet cracked it). hard to feel despair when you don't have hope.
  211. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie i imagine i'll be mad when i nearly reach the end/a meaningful target and fall all the way just before... but until then, i'm on a steady slope of mastery and scrambling back up that hill
  212. …in reply to @v21
    @metasynthie (i now have tubthumping stuck in my head)
  213. this is raw and powerful and really do pay attention to the content warning and decide if you want to read it danhett.itch.io/c-ya-laterrrr
  214. RT @ragzouken: the avatars in #bitsy in colour, animated
  215. RT @MaizeWallin: Escape from Woomera still highlights Australia's shame 11 years on polygon.com/2014/5/16/5717520/escape-from-woomera-immigration-australia via @Polygon
  216. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC why ruin a good crumble with a pastry base & sides?
  217. RT @v21: this is raw and powerful and really do pay attention to the content warning and decide if you want to read it https://t.co/zZADYCo…
  218. the backlash you get from games when you try to write about difficult topics in an earnest manner gamasutra.com/blogs/JamesCox/20171210/311373/The_Fun_is_Over_We_Have_to_Get_Serious_about_Games.php
  219. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @_thatgumyoulike yeaaah... but: those are Margot's thoughts, not the author's.
  220. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang it *could* happen anywhere, but tbh it's about 5x likelier in NY than London
  221. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @_thatgumyoulike yeah, it made me feel bad about myself, a bit of shame reflected by her. but i do think it's important to separate out lazy, bad, tropes from characters being awful?
  222. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx @_thatgumyoulike it's okay! i am glad for the response. there's a longer response here, but i'm chewing over it - but glad to have something to chew on.
  223. hello friends! Now Play This is happening again, and we would like to show your stuff at it! Please tell us about it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe69aRTZFaUe6W5SkcvgR8vN6VIRFSd_O289kkkUkBrlOoj-g/viewform
  224. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I think it's trying to say it's thick and fluffy.
  225. …in reply to @v21
    This is about as good an outcome as you could hope for: @PLAYERUNKNOWN/940059611138211841
  226. …in reply to @MC_Spacebat
    @MC_Spacebat I don't think the public saw it until this latest test server went live..? Easy to get blind to stuff as a dev, and not a thing that'd surface through QA or small scale playtests
  227. RT @toddwords: I started a monthly-donations-to-artists company around the same time as @Patreon. How you manage monthly payment fees is th…
  228. …in reply to @v21
    talked about this poem earlier, and decided it'd be nice to understand it through bot logics (and also try out glitch). so i made some recombinations of it: recombining-here.glitch.me/
  229. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette @M1NKBOT it was on heroku, right? log in and see if it says anything?
  230. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette @M1NKBOT good luck & god speed 🐰
  231. RT @random_walker: Glad to see this issue getting attention. The piece talks about our recent paper showing that when you open emails, your…
  232. RT @andyharrow: A touching meme from one of the world's great content providers @davidicke/940308044424138752
  233. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia tips: poking yourself in the eye is a bad time, but you get used to it? I need to learn to stop rubbing my eyes Sometimes my eyes get dry and uncomfortable. I don't have an answer beyond taking contacts out and putting glasses on. Eye drops are super temporary. You notice dry air
  234. …in reply to @v21
    @LorenzoPilia All of which said, I like wearing contacts and do so an irregular 25% of the time.
  235. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa Yeah! It's called a KVM switch. Not used one myself, but that's the thing
  236. …in reply to @v21
    @studioanisa Or there's software that can do it (but that's only really a solution for the keyboard / mouse)
  237. [poll] will the earphones i bought a few weeks ago work when I take them out of the washing machine i have just now realised i put them in?
  238. …in reply to @v21
    ps oh no
  239. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia yeah - I find that fine. mainly it's the noticing dry air thing, and sometimes being strategic and putting them in later in the day if I know I'll be out late.
  240. RT @thatJaneNg: oh hey my @NYUGameCenter chat from last week has been posted! You can catch some real talk despite some rambling, and also…
  241. …in reply to @MessMakerPro
    @MessMakerPro @VICEUK probably they put it on to fall asleep to at night
  242. RT @womensart1: Scenes from "Enclosure", performance art, in which Philippines born artist Bea Camacho crocheted a cocoon for herself in 11…
  243. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow where's good to call AddComponent from? we have a single singleton point (p much, anyway), and some manual loader code to hook it up right
  244. rendering errors from this @katierosepipkin collab i'm trying to finish off
  245. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow ah, hah, yeah, nice
  246. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate i've got a bunch of acrylic ones and i can deal (tho i normally hate artificial fibres). but yeah, also wool is great.
  247. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood @katierosepipkin tbf, it's like... 70% intentional
  248. …in reply to @v21
  249. big grin as i finally made it up through the chimney in Getting Over It (and immediately threw myself back down home)
  250. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt @katierosepipkin yeah! it's like 150 3d renders, offset by a linebreak each. so you see the building up of the sequences we've been putting in...
  251. i hope they make a She-Hulk TV series
  252. …in reply to @mikeindustries
    @mikeindustries after a certain number of years, you can start to feel that X isn't really a priority for them...
  253. …in reply to @vruba
    @vruba @katierosepipkin @accidental__aRt oh, no, it's intentional, just i was intending a somewhat different output
  254. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt @katierosepipkin ah, no, you're spot on - we do a bunch of things, but a lot of the sequences are slices done with, yeah, near and far plane clipping.
  255. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt @katierosepipkin this is our tardy nanogenmo thing, so each slice is a page in the final output.
  256. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt @katierosepipkin there is a sequence in it which is obtained by truncating the file at even intervals and rendering the result
  257. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt @katierosepipkin anyway, the actual thing'll be out soon, so you can have a poke at that
  258. RT @sjalynnmayree: remember when youd go over to ur friends and go to the “computer room” to the old shitty desktop n sit on the giant blac…
  259. RT @HilariousCow: Just reading back to the time I casually dropped my ancestry in the @camposanto slack. A fun day.
  260. RT @swatpaz: I've made this pilot for an animated action/comedy series, but I think it would also work as a feature film franchise https://…
  261. …in reply to @genmon
    @genmon aw, do we have to? having got to the other side, that line is great for self-confidence
  262. …in reply to @v21
    @genmon (but yes - the actual point is "your constraints *really* aren't the same as those of people whose business runs on a web server", and the unpicking of the assumptions that come from that)
  263. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox v v hyped for this
  264. i've said it before and i'll say it again: i wish reference types were non-nullable in C#. or could at least be marked that way.
  265. …in reply to @leviathan_bound
    @adurdin i love it, and also i love that Unity has made some small steps towards using newer versions of C#, so i might see it in a few years from now
  266. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone slowly but surely we're getting there
  267. …in reply to @stml
  268. …in reply to @aeleitch
    @aeleitch @chrisamaphone oh, no, i love linq
  269. …in reply to @aeleitch
    @aeleitch @chrisamaphone i don't use the SQL notation, and there's a little bit of getting yr head round IEnumerables, but it's otherwise simple & straightforward & clean & I feel about it the way i do about underscore
  270. …in reply to @aeleitch
    @aeleitch @chrisamaphone here is literally the closest bit of LINQ in the file I am currently editing. it is super readable to me, and certainly much better than doing this with a loop or whatever?
  271. …in reply to @stml
    @stml yeah, agreed! this is interesting kinda because it does actually work, when the expectation would be that it really wouldn't
  272. …in reply to @v21
    @stml also Minecraft makes the "virtualness" actually tangible and interesting as a space, like a modern Second Life that actually has traction with the wider public
  273. …in reply to @aeleitch
    @aeleitch @chrisamaphone the IEnumerable bit is that candidatePieces is an IEnumerable<>, and is actually only executed/resolved when it's turned into a List or you look at the elements or whatever
  274. i am tweeting this image so i can find it on my feed later when i want to look at it again. here's a word i can search for: squirrel
  275. any file with commas in is a csv file
  276. …in reply to @jbushnell
    @jbushnell there must be a novel without any commas
  277. …in reply to @aeleitch
    @aeleitch @chrisamaphone sometimes you can just pretend it's a list, sometimes you wanna call .ToList() on it at the end. but at least all of this is enforced by the type system, so normally it's just doing the thing the editor tells you to til all the red goes away
  278. honestly, i think people trust the companies that hold their data too much right now. i'd rather have laws, regulation & safeguards built in. let's keep making jokes. @andybohm/940414766819844097
  279. …in reply to @andybohm
    @andybohm i am for sure more worried about them! and yes, laws are limited in effectiveness, it's an ecosystem problem and complex to solve.
  280. …in reply to @v21
    @andybohm but i think the distinction between small and big companies comes after "yes, {company} has all your data, and you are reliant on trusting them for it to stay private". which is knowledge that is spread quite well by jokes.
  281. …in reply to @v21
    @andybohm these jokes & Netflix's misstep hurt Netflix, and hurt Google via reduced trust generally - but i think they help inform people in general
  282. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike hi yara!
  283. …in reply to @tanyaxshort
    @tanyaxshort ssssh, you're not supposed to tweet about it
  284. …in reply to @Thairyn
  285. …in reply to @sygster
    @sygster you are!
  286. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt yess. want me to try to dig up my previous implementation (sampled the screen in unity, nothing fancy for putting stuff *on* the screen)?
  287. RT @katierosepipkin: this vertex-sorted slinky dog is the stuff of nightmares (from the project i'm working on with @v21) https://t.co/p63q…
  288. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin this is the most 90s thing i have seen since the 90s
  289. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC you're paying to play the game while the Discourse is still strong
  290. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn i just did the waste land, it's wild
  291. …in reply to @v21
  292. RT @cacheflowe: The best way to find magic numbers for generative graphics? MIDI knobs 😎
  293. "And everything can be blown up in a realistic way." store.steampowered.com/app/593530/Jelly_in_the_sky/
  294. …in reply to @tigershungry
  295. RT @Palomadawkins: Just a couple bugs playing cards in the garden beating the crap out of each other no big 🍀🌷🌹🌻🌺 #museumofsymmetry https:/…
  296. RT @MermaidVR: GREETINGS, EARTH BEINGS. MERMAID HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD ANNOUNCES IT HAS BEGUN WORK ON A PURCHASABLE EXPERIENCE FOR "VIRTUAL…
  297. RT @mcclure111: Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that I have founded a VR game studio in collaboration with luminous beings who appear ab…
  298. RT @PennyRed: ‘Does the magic work? That depends on what you think magic is for.’ On modern witchcraft, for @thebafflermag https://t.co/u4Z…
  299. RT @dcbrock: Motion study of unidentified woman operating IBM Model 24 key punch. Lights attached to ring fingers of both hands. New acquis…
  300. RT @_djrocklee: Get the fuck. This has to be one of the greatest plot twists of american cinema
  301. RT @_Nokir: faraway #gif #motiongraphics
  302. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
  303. RT @pangmeli: cryptocurrencies have captured the imaginations of laypeople in a way that reminds me of the dot com boom, like, this get-ric…
  304. RT @nyt_diff: Change in Headline
  305. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe Was an a dance floor playing the theme with some extra beats tonight. My coworkers were howling for christmas tunes
  306. …in reply to @thricedotted
    @thricedotted v21 has a way more stupid origin story than I'm prepared to admit in public, but also it's me in a way "George" isn't (I was that in msn, I wasn't really on aim)
  307. …in reply to @erikkain
    @erikkain you were wrong, you helped bad people do evil, and even now you won't admit your mistakes and try to make it better
  308. …in reply to @uglymachine
    @uglymachine I think so!
  309. …in reply to @v21
    @thricedotted anyway, you're "thrice" to me, and i think that's a good name to be known by (and I'm glad to know you, if only online)
  310. …in reply to @uglymachine
    @uglymachine It's 1:30am here and I am collapsed on the sofa after an office party, refusing to do the sensible thing and go up to bed quite yet. I 100% do not need a beer rn.
  311. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @mountain_goats Happy birthday! I think you are doing birthdays just right.
  312. …in reply to @pkqk
    @pkqk What did you get? I need a new phone and the newer Moto Gs are annoyingly more expensive.
  313. …in reply to @pkqk
    @pkqk on a G3 now and it's fine? suspect they're pretty similar
  314. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow v literal : this tweet came following on closely from @textfiles/941430274650398720
  315. RT @LinaresFreire: Simon C. Page. #geometry #art #space #nature #different #views @AlmostT_Blog
  316. still bummed this is £££ @girlonthenet/941630990115631104
  317. …in reply to @Tom_OBedlam
    @Tom_OBedlam @kierongillen this thread is making me proud i managed to completely bollocks mine up within about a year
  318. …in reply to @Tom_OBedlam
    @Tom_OBedlam @kierongillen maybe i bought ones with cheaper leather? but holes worn through near the toes (on the crease), and a hole by the heel. sole has lost most of the tread, but still intact
  319. RT @panoparker: Friend 1: "Where's the best place to stand during an earthquake?" Friend 2: "A doorway, a car, under the bed?" Me, an int…
  320. …in reply to @maltron3D
  321. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
  322. …in reply to @v21
    @Jam_sponge @ShutUpShow (I understand, and admire you for your diligence. but I'm always on the side of only very reluctantly being convinced of working past 6 pm)
  323. RT @KAndrew20: Great map of U.K. river basins.
  324. RT @molleindustria: I made a short documentary/let's play about one of the first artgame makers: John O'Neill, who in the early '80s create…
  325. i was surprised at the amount of Blink-182 in this story politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111
  326. RT @katierosepipkin: this curated playlist was part of a show about digital water i had a few months back---> 481 found videos of videogame…
  327. …in reply to @eggs_box
    @burdmomofficial @somegoodgirls @soft_pal thanks for letting me know - have deleted the word from the corpus & the tweets using it
  328. …in reply to @Inkysloth
    @Inkysloth @unfortunatalie they totally are - pomelo & sweet orange cross
  329. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen @kopimihaus @tpcphillips @sh4d_ebooks @jamesforthemany jealous! (i considered getting us a tree, but there really isn't space)
  330. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb Police Dog Lasy, surely?
  331. RT @Asher_Wolf: In 2010 I believed open, leaderless communities would change the world. And they did. They became Gamer Gate and Neo-Nazis,…
  332. …in reply to @FUZxxl
    @FUZxxl - yes (well, adding a CoC & processes, yes) - with care! this is why it's good for the CoC committee to be separate from the main organizers & generally non-judgemental. focus on "keeping people safe", not being a judiciary. there's more resources i could link, if you like
  333. …in reply to @v21
    @FUZxxl - generally, providing a safe space & well defined spaces gives more people the confidence to speak up & express themselves. if you have difficult content, that can usually be worked through, and flagged appropriately. it's easier to talk about stuff if the ground rules are clear
  334. …in reply to @v21
    @FUZxxl (for example: generally talks at CCC won't have any sexual content. but i'd love to hear about sex toy security! it's easier to talk about that when the presenters and audience are clear about what content would be shown, than if everyone has to feel through themselves)
  335. …in reply to @v21
    @FUZxxl generally, people think quite carefully about this stuff, and try to actually deal with tradeoffs in real life. it's not a series of wild hypotheticals! there are best practices here!
  336. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox what is bjork the of videogames? she's close enough to games to be the something of them...
  337. …in reply to @FUZxxl
    @FUZxxl wait, is anyone saying that there shouldn't be personal judgement involved? you're never going to have an exhaustive set of rules, but the better the expectations & guidelines you've set, the easier it is for everybody.
  338. …in reply to @v21
    @FUZxxl this is also coming from a place where people are currently extremely unlikely to report bad stuff to organizers. how can you up that reporting rate?
  339. …in reply to @FUZxxl
    @FUZxxl here's the Geek Feminism template most tech CoCs are based on: geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy. note that it doesn't say that, and doesn't say that all violations will be punished (unless someone having a quiet word counts as punishment...)
  340. …in reply to @FUZxxl
    @FUZxxl i hear you! and depending on the event, you want to consider how to put the messaging across & set expectations. but also: in the example of CCC, the harassment problem IS pretty bad? i know people who will no longer go for that reason.
  341. …in reply to @v21
    @FUZxxl for an example outside of tech, look at the Good Night Out campaign in nightclubs in the UK
  342. …in reply to @FUZxxl
    @FUZxxl agreed - and they explicitly have a section talking about that at the bottom: "Conferences in which sex, pornography, racism, etc. are on-topic"
  343. …in reply to @FUZxxl
    @FUZxxl these are people i know irl. i can't speak for them, but i think they feel that: CCC doesn't take this seriously, as witnessed by resistance to putting in place a CoC & instituting procedures for dealing with instances.
  344. …in reply to @FUZxxl
    @FUZxxl that seems like a good place to aim for, to me! of course, minor slips happen, but: "Presentations or similar events should not be stopped for one-time gaffes or minor problems, although a member of conference staff should speak to the presenter afterward." seems fair?
  345. …in reply to @zachlieberman
  346. …in reply to @v21
    update: they work!
  347. …in reply to @eggs_box
    @burdmomofficial @somegoodgirls i think this one i am okay with? it's just an unpleasant thing, not a slur or advocating anything
  348. this sounds terrifying, and like it'll have an impact beyond porn: vice.com/en_uk/article/9kqp43/uk-porn-is-about-to-change-in-a-way-youre-not-going-to-like
  349. …in reply to @v21
    looking forward to there being a single register, kept by people with a bad track record of keeping stuff secure, of people's real names & what porn they've looked at
  350. …in reply to @v21
    also looking forward to small sites with adult content getting blocked in the UK unless they pay money & log site visits with the hegemonic porn operator
  351. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck I've spoken with people before about the difference between managing volunteers and managing employees. Yes.
  352. RT @LovedayBrooke: This is SO interesting on the history of bi & lesbian women, TERFs, and queer people of colour. @teamarimo/942239479825346561
  353. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc i mean it's just not a city
  354. …in reply to @MagInTheSmoke
    @MagInTheSmoke no, i was excited for it, but the reception i've seen has not tempted me in
  355. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennfrankgames something like... the Spaced DVD's "homage-o-meter"?
  356. RT @zachlieberman: more hard to compress art
  357. RT @zachlieberman: Ffmpeg is like really?
  358. RT @molleindustria: Earlier this fall, I asked my students to create a tiny non-digital game every day for a week. 63 of them were collect…
  359. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland yeah - newsgames, serious games, "Dreams of a Life", whatever from sheffdocfest.com/films/interactive you decide is a game
  360. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland of the doc fest stuff - all have *some* interactivity, but i assume most wouldn't rise to the level of game, or are more directly 360 film or tech-assisted theatre. definitions, tho!
  361. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland oh, hah, yes
  362. RT @alienmelon: Collide Fish 1983 Fishosoft Corp The world's first fish based physics simulation. (running in Fishbox 32fishbits) https://t…
  363. …in reply to @naomialderman
    @naomialderman craigslist ads saying "i'm totally straight, just looking for a jerkoff buddy, we'll jerk off to straight porn together, no gay stuff"
  364. RT @mcclure111: "[The paperclip maximizer AI] scenario sounds absurd to most people, yet there are a surprising number of technologists who…
  365. …in reply to @whichlight
    @whichlight @roomthily @NiemanLab I like your zine, but: I see the same thing in the geocities archive! And in my memories of newgrounds! And in pasted together tumblr themes. If digital will reflect those things, it feels like a rearguard action, fighting against trends.
  366. …in reply to @v21
    @whichlight @roomthily @NiemanLab (I hope it does, or that those trends turn)
  367. imagine if you read so much rot-13 you started involuntarily reading it on sight
  368. …in reply to @v21
    reminded of the bloke in If On A Winter's Night A Traveller who trained himself not to read
  369. …in reply to @tef
    @tef oh no
  370. @Thairyn i decided to branch out from poetry
  371. RT @xfoml: back from a twitter break with a new @internetarchive upload: the catalogue for "Between Poetry and Painting", a 1965 exhibition…
  372. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn Jolene | jolene | jolene | jolene |
  373. RT @jmhodges: Connecting the dots here. This tweet is talking about the contents of the other @watsonladd/942841977393041408 https://t.co/dNMFEr…
  374. this logo is the best @pedrofpaiva/942882564586524673
  375. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal it's okay, Tom DeLonge is on the case
  376. …in reply to @lily_dot_com
    @rainshapes I've had this thought a bunch of times....
  377. who hasn't thought : this is news that it's important for my friends to hear, let's take a minute to make sure it's posted in such a way that the algorithm is likely show it to them @Hellchick/942863353403150336
  378. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck (I hope this was okay to RT - also I realised one reason I did was to draw attention to my original tweet at a our-timezone friendly time. nice and recursive)
  379. RT @ForestFringe: INTERNET. We have a big announcement for you. Today we launch a new grant to support something excellent to happen in Edi…
  380. RT @velartrill: you ever notice how much millennial fanfic and fan art is just like. about characters being safe and happy that says somet…
  381. RT @BabelStone: Japan requests the reservation of a code point for the square symbol for the era name of the new Japanese emperor, to be an…
  382. …in reply to @ColinNorthway
    @ColinNorthway @_benjamming here's a vox article on a study modelling paying everyone $12,000 a year, paid for with borrowing vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/30/16220134/universal-basic-income-roosevelt-institute-economic-growth
  383. …in reply to @sam_lavigne
    @sam_lavigne Now I just want a supercut of people chewing food on air. Ideally all cropped in close.
  384. …in reply to @v21
    @sam_lavigne Or a little "mm" tune
  385. RT @xfoml: a gallery of 737 branching plot graphs, by @jeremydouglass and a team of students: jeremydouglass.github.io/transverse-gallery/gallery.html https://t.co/AcOF06VC…
  386. @hollygramazio i just listened to an episode of a podcast that i believe you would, theoretically, find relatable and amusing. i know you have no interest in listening to a podcast, so i'm not linking it, but just thought you should know.
  387. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem i'm the arrow inside the middle camera
  388. …in reply to @knarniapop
    @knarniapop @_benjamming @ColinNorthway for me, UBI is a step towards more radical ends. but it does the good thing of clearly distributing a benefit to *everyone*. so it feels like electoral logic would tend towards protecting it, maybe even ratcheting it up.
  389. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured it's done when you finally lose the source file in a harddrive crash, and only have exports someone else shared on tumblr left
  390. RT @asthesparksfly: early experiments with a flower generator for a new music video
  391. RT @joshchin: We spent almost two weeks exploring what life is like in Xinjiang, which China's government has made into a laboratory for it…
  392. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy o god, I remember SPSS. I assume it hasn't gotten better?
  393. RT @vectorpoem: Unreal Tournament '99/2k3/4 players: was the "teleport to a different server" feature of Teleporters ever used for anything…
  394. back on that oulipo.social / mastodon kick! i'm at oulipo.social/@v21 if you want to follow
  395. RT @pastachips: I just watched the episode of the Crown that deals w the royal family’s Nazi sympathies + I’m re-reading this good essay on…
  396. …in reply to @sehurlburt
    @sehurlburt those socks!
  397. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @AOsher i feel that that fav wasn't specific enough: "Now You See Me M8" is _wild_
  398. RT @romanvolobuev: @BAKKOOONN In 2006 I had a brutal anxiety attack 2 minutes into interview with Eva Green. She fetched me a glass of wate…
  399. RT @andyjko: I get to be Debbie Downer today and tear down this NYT article on toys that teach coding: medium.com/bits-and-behavior/on-toys-that-teach-coding-5a6de92e6ad3
  400. …in reply to @ascelapha
    @asclla my recommendation is Biore Mild Care Milk
  401. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern this makes me really appreciate the design language Google has been going down with Daydream, tbh
  402. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC did they not also fuck up mouse warping recently? what's up, windows
  403. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @chipzel @dannyBstyle a science fiction book about playing a load of videogames i actually liked: Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson
  404. RT @dennybritz: I really like this new Neuroevolution paper (arxiv.org/abs/1712.06567). Who would’ve thought that simple *random search* fin…
  405. …in reply to @em_cooper
    @em_cooper wait, what, one of my absolute impossible career goals is making a game astronauts play in space, and you're telling me you've just went and done it already! maaaaaan
  406. RT @em_cooper: Once more for the morning crowd. I’m looking for work - would you give me a job? medium.com/p/would-you-give-me-a-job-1f0e5d1fe73e
  407. …in reply to @v21
    @em_cooper (also good luck with the job hunt!)
  408. …in reply to @em_cooper
    @em_cooper i'm not mad, just awed!
  409. RT @beastsofbalance: We're proud to announce that Beasts of Balance has won the 'Most Innovative' 2018 KAPi Award for Innovation in Childre…
  410. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy @beastsofbalance HIGH FIVE! thanks!!
  411. gonna release a new thing in a sec
  412. me and @katierosepipkin made a book! or, rather a series of books. each one deconstructs and explores a randomly chosen .obj file, harvested off the internet in 2003. enjoy! github.com/v21/viewsonanobject
  413. RT @katierosepipkin: the generative book project @v21 and i have been working on is out! hundreds of ways to look at an .obj file --> https…
  414. …in reply to @mollysoda
    @mollysoda i had a like 2m tall poster of Perfect Blue on my wall. i bought it from a bloke at Camden Market. didn't see the film til years after
  415. …in reply to @superSGHP
    @superSGP this is a great talk, and i'm about to go back and read through again. i love types, but agree with most of the things you've said. but this helped me realise what i actually love is exploring an interface in an IDE before compile time, which types seem to be necessary for
  416. …in reply to @v21
    @superSGP anyway, i mainly code in C# rn, and about to dive deep into doing a lot of JS (and learning Typescript!) so interested to see how that goes. I guess it's time to learn to love coding by exploring the current state in a REPL...
  417. …in reply to @superSGHP
    @superSGP the main thing i am wrapping my head round in JS rn is dealing with the async-yness & closurey-ness of it. promises & whatnot. which i think is also there for TS?
  418. …in reply to @v21
    @superSGP also, this conversation is reminding me of Boo, which I miss. All the goodness of normal typing, with a special "duck" type that let you opt out...
  419. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i have enjoyed playing it for about an hour and dying pretty much immediately a few times? but i died to interesting things.
  420. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike me too! but also, like 50% of that time was trying to internalise a bunch of keyboard controls (probably easier if you've got an numpad)
  421. …in reply to @tburrellsaward
    @tburrellsaward @katierosepipkin haha. "What I Did On My Holidays"
  422. google assistant has built in podcast support (as you'd expect), which means my phone has built in podcast support... but you can only find new podcasts by speaking to it (ones you have already found can be played fine)
  423. …in reply to @v21
    also some podcasts it can find, others it can't, not sure why or how to investigate. overall, a victory for composable software and open standards.
  424. …in reply to @v21
    also, if anyone knows how to make my phone play a playlist (or a Daily Mix!) on spotify or a podcast as an alarm, please let me know.
  425. billboard.com/articles/news/dance/8054686/anamanaguchi-capsule-silence-xxiv-interview this is a cool article about a cool project that didn't work for complicated reasons. also it's wild to see @thecatamites referenced in Billboard?
  426. ncase.me/joy/ JOY.JS this looks realllllll cool. a JS library for letting people write tiny bits of comprehensible, explorable, non-scary code.
  427. @ncasenmare i have been waiting to tweet about joy.js all day! congrats on launching!
  428. …in reply to @v21
    @ncasenmare (and immediately, an irritating question: can i make the looping window in the music demos longer?)
  429. …in reply to @v21
    played around with the random music demo: ncase.me/joy/demo/music/?data=N4IglgdgzgLgTgVwMYzAe2iAXKAhi9TLAbVBgE8AHAU2xAFtcYALAeimphABoQA3XHAi56tHCAo06AuGFwAjADbUAciNq841AGYBJACJ0wAEwCMIAL68BihGLJUxICAnrzqcAPpxcAdx4gSMy4kNikEo50Lm4e3n4BNnbYAAwWALoWVg5SWODQ8MioGFCsWjRMAUhoCBBc4pJO0e5wlcGhJNmNrs1x-ta4tmKmyakZvPhFRHgExWGddIws7JwJgsKi2PO5MnJKquoBWnqGuSYATJb9g5sROc7dsT59gW0Qc7ddMV5Pq9dYyQA6UzpTLcLYgHwQYxoejLLj9IQHeqRbaCXbKNQbTQ6AxGYwAZku93oDRuiSckBg1AA5h4AqTckE0GgOET6O1wU06bwgiE3h0PlEHt94lcklh8aMrAxcAAPG4M4nNVp896Krki57k7D4gDsIKygtyizYHHh-DWSPBOwUGIO2OOeIALETtci7hreir2uF1cKvWKxABWIMGsFGvKwRAzaClajlc1VGp1TnC73830oi2yW37LEQnEncAEyxjEATQhQG4V2YCxUm1hoGg+SYBJseJiEMkDcUgABU9KzTJZtGlMnW9gjNr2mI0Bcdp2MLrHPcnfq+AZeqrrWc9P0D2FMAOSQYAnE6AGwGtLYs0ANTRuarWG0Aw4vEVNcwoPBkOhsLAbQVQgJA113NMeVeNVwI3fcLT+S8QXGGNn2mSZn0zO56AQKAwCQVgIDQKkAkoMAYCCBUYOVSDt0wpxpztfMjlxRdklLaVUA2d1PmorcfWtR8Z3tecWOLcwkJAZQIGpFhKI9CC+IzAScyEpjCzxC4w3BBt2xbLteF0zsMG7P4QAAakHO5h1ZFdES45T0TzOdmKLExxIPbihVg0VFOg+TvK1VcUgBM5r1vTgHxU5Rn1fRR3wjL8qx-CM-xhVhAOA0C5J47lfJ3fyejgt0zilZD0OrFC-KcHTmyMt4DNq1txDdczLKcazRwRCdsukQTGOc9TF3c+DxVTAL0yqrzCp8t1AVCjJ0nCmBIscmK32oD8s0SyxFoLe8+uoNa4o2hLKuSxVICjQpK1YKp6FEWpfl7S6CgemAAAIzgAQkubSmFNFYuqtKcDtnQ5BrE10gs83I9x83l+IjOHAr+KVDUVVLYTNVY7LAu4GKc8GF2LIMiWiBlQBaykaVyxUOrZDkkYUhGlKZ8aPPm6VGHlGGlVylnJth-0iuhq8FvDC78mjdC4wTSpqke3mNQm-Kcs1J6xElUry0q8RttVhZ-rhHHut5gmwYdUTzihv4xum54BYNoX2ZGsQ5tDcW-qWQzWwajsmsp6H+zauh6ds02HNzC2RNc4xNI8u3HnhqCnezRzo5cvFSa0lLcChNLsaB+yQaiwnLdjwlpXJlFA9M6naRaTarOYZkbN4dl+UTxu8roqak5R8V8Qk7meud3jHd7sf+417B9U9iMav9-SQB9rtmqDgcm-aluRyh3HR7TqPhMzxdK4Ttn7ZVye+fVjyh-n+sjcL7MI5L9Pj4hkxl3P9dL5oxHf7Tw8iGHOj8ljP3HMDRU5sP7ExMBeG2o0L5AJ7l3Tcs0QqgKzIvPSxk-a4M7q7Ogm8IxhyLnjeioNYFW2MAglcttkG31QW-I+ak4HGGzg-LML1pY3TKNQCoPIFYpkYVfSOqkBrsMrmWfWaFKyCxlN7Rqy9V7GXXqZEhdMd5txflArMMC2E0O-kQpWwtk60TQSLP4R4TznjFpkG8e0IoHSOvFT8Z10ZZkxulICNEQIUL7t3CeliZrQyDNrWROtyqp2wrhfChFiK8FIuRZgB9lb-1ZtAqhhjY5sQkpxAJU8gkp2vgYyRNDxJlikjJVJpivhiJYRIomNDNJcLuN4jKfisp1PHiUkJA9NYRN1nI2s18cF1TbMotRtdewWS3qHbRnVdHFyyaXDOn8zCIMKTfTcwTGn9WabHOhC1HFaH2qXVxJ13HlQcUtFaT5sCxTcVtDxpzDrOIuY89a8zcjbVuU45aLjsAFCuS8m5vBvA6A8NQfxqFixsXECYPEbEPy4GpBhG+IBHHGCYLgEyvZkkUSEYoNALQSDJG4ICC83BTBliqBACA1AUDUGMNgUKvA3I3CRUNekaKMXK2xbi-FTgCnyxJWS4gkpKUAgABw0rpRgRlzLWVYH1ByuOXKVXFguKi9FYRMWCpgHi9RvZjAIAIWK0lYQzgXgpYCXU8rpT0qVVSFVoZ1WEkRVqkwhJdX8rTIa41MzGhETnFUcVYR8TDGldS2lTrFVMtddgd1xYXReudLyvVJADW8BxUa4VdBCWpOJVa8lMbHVCIZYmll2AnTShMKTdNi5SZ+v1QK3NQqTVODNQQ7CihUCUEUGAfmaAI0kClYCOVcbK0uprRKettDNV4gQa27N7aQB5qDSYiQYBRCQCQFoXArIS0SrONGydFbAgJuVTqTIFggA voila! a random music generator that has two instruments and plays in key (at least vaguely). one even does chords! this was fun to work out how to do, and smoothly accessible from playing with the example.
  430. …in reply to @v21
    it's a real nice feeling to play with something with the same mindset as CBDQ: easy and accessible to start, and if you really need those more powerful features you can find kludgey ways to get the same effect yourself
  431. …in reply to @v21
    eg: me: oh, i wish i could do else me: i could set a flag in that if, and check if it's unchanged afterwards? kinda messy... me: or i could just... try this thing with an independent conditional probability me: ah, yeah, that sounds okay, let's not do the elsey thing at all
  432. …in reply to @electricarchaeo
    @electricarchaeo @DEJPett oh shit! cc @katierosepipkin. that's well cool! (pls let us know if there's any how to get it working steps we could document better)
  433. RT @PaulMMCooper: When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins:…
  434. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow this makes travelling 100% less stressful
  435. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow oh god yes
  436. "The years neglect this fertile country but the trees and doors still standing somewhere form a silent windless day." @rockpapershot/943533734535618560
  437. RT @dreamaskew: Hey friends, I'm excited to announce a new project! I'm offering mentorships to emerging tabletop roleplaying game designer…
  438. oh huh, I guess this has finally released @WhatsOnSteam/943757777347817472
  439. RT @katierosepipkin: a few sorted flowers from views on an object, manipulated by procedurally editing the .obj file vertex data https://t.…
  440. whoa! i did not really think anyone else would run our code. this is very cool to see @electricarchaeo/943652706216022016
  441. …in reply to @v21
    i guess the black is maybe because this model is so high resolution? (cc @electricarchaeo @katierosepipkin)
  442. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @4096salts you're not a real pro unless you go to 4 decimal points
  443. RT @toucharcade: Apple quietly updated the App Store Review Guidelines to require developers using "loot box" (or gacha) randomized IAP mec…
  444. We're looking for London-based people who want to write code to make beautiful things in Unity. Any level of animal-balancing skill welcome. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRkyBFZh5KaI4g1b5x1qNEXOa-7ZHg2tQAu-6aS5_WErAr4WPObR08GTm5Nr2yge9jWm8mTSNBAclwH/pub
  445. …in reply to @casskhaw
    @casskhaw i've ended up with another current account through Monzo. it's on my phone and pings me immediately when i've spent money on stuff. i've just now set up an automatic transfer of how much money i should be spending per month. making me more aware of my budget...
  446. …in reply to @v21
    @casskhaw the end of month spending categorization has been been the right level of detail for me, too. and fixed monthly expenses go out of my old account, so it's just discretionary spending i have to think about.
  447. …in reply to @v21
  448. i'm learning typescript! let's do a twitter thread about that. to start: any good things to read (other than the official docs)? where i'm at: this is for backend stuff, i do a lot of C#, i do some JS but don't really understand some stuff, i do not know any JS frameworks.
  449. …in reply to @v21
    some things that have made me quite excited on the dry seeming page "Basic Types": - "Union types are an advanced topic that we’ll cover in a later chapter." - "Any" (Boo's "duck"!) - "Never" - "--strictNullChecks" (immediately itching to turn this on...)
  450. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker @ArtsyOpenSource thanks! i'm in VS Code already (I switched to it experimentally for Unity stuff). i just went hunting for how to use underscore, and was pleased to discover it's in the project already (& incidentally learnt about the npm @TypeS/ mechanism)
  451. RT @UweSteiner: Sommer Türen
  452. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke yeah, that sounds good, actually
  453. …in reply to @_never_work
    @_never_work this is an awful pun and i love it (i think i love it mainly because it depends on correct pronunciation)
  454. RT @mcclure111: I think this is great. Nothing could be more appealing to me than a network designed for commerce that instead gets devoure…
  455. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck i will let you know! (also, yeah, these are lovely little drawings)
  456. …in reply to @1queer1
    @1queer1 it should work fine with 280 characters!
  457. my bio on here used to be "i always liked broken games the best anyway" and i still stand by that
  458. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  459. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  460. RT @RowanKaiser: 7. Start with space as even a possibility. This is a fantastic article on the increasingly popular idea that colonizing ot…
  461. if they're enforcing real names in a Facebook-like way, this is very dangerous. If they're not, this was a really careless way to write this post theblog.okcupid.com/an-open-letter-on-why-were-removing-usernames-addressed-to-the-worst-ones-we-ve-ever-seen-dd017c75d49a
  462. …in reply to @v21
    (also it's probably a bad change anyway? but I sure their onboarding funnel conversion metrics disagree)
  463. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher I am somewhat put at ease (but also Facebook doesn't ask up for verification front, it just goes after people with """fake-seeming""" names)
  464. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz wait, sorry, I don't understand
  465. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz It really is. God, I wish so many details of our lives weren't in the hands of these people.
  466. Looking forward to a full and productive day of work.
  467. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke it's okay!
  468. …in reply to @v21
    @LovedayBrooke although, it'd be nice to pub some time. i'm curious to hear what stuff you've been doing on your PhD!
  469. …in reply to @v21
    @LovedayBrooke (wait, no, masters, sorry)
  470. …in reply to @v21
    @LovedayBrooke (you can do a phd next)
  471. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore yeah, i use a fountain pen too, but mine is "cool" and "hip" so it's fine
  472. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @AOsher i'm about to go buy some lunch, and i think this might have already ruined it
  473. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb @AOsher (Richard Granola)
  474. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge last Christmas, everyone for who it'd work for got a copy of Beasts. not a relaxing gift to give!
  475. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge this year, i've bought Spyfall, Fake Artist & Dixit Snap as presents for various members of my family. and somehow ended up buying a copy of Deep Sea Adventure as well...
  476. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore a yellow Lamy Safari. it's nice, and cheap enough to not be a precious thing.
  477. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin hopefully it's first name only? but yeah. yeah.
  478. …in reply to @JamesWallis
    @JamesWallis @infovore that's a thing you can legitimately boast about, i reckon. no need to fake-boast!
  479. RT @molleindustria: Get Mu Cartographer for $1 - it's a beautiful puzzle from another dimension store.steampowered.com/app/513360/Mu_Cartographer/ https://t.co/U4d2Qw…
  480. …in reply to @v21
  481. …in reply to @v21
    wait... this copy implies we want to be a Chad?
  482. help i can feel myself turning into a cranky Old, mad about My Precious Labour being stolen by Google to train autonomous cars as I solve a captcha to sign up to a mailing list about trees
  483. …in reply to @v21
    this is a hypothetical example, but I would in fact be interested if any one has any good tree content I could subscribe to
  484. I really hope these go through! I've wondered where the teletext symbols were before. @BabelStone/944295253561036801
  485. RT @rachelcoldicutt: False nostalgia (from Four Weddings to Fortnums, Coronation St to the Smiths, Brideshead to Britpop) has long been the…
  486. …in reply to @v21
  487. RT @mcclure111: This is my favorite non-early-access VR game and the game that convinced me VR was worth developing for. It's available for…
  488. RT @ellaguro: i majored in film in college and i still feel like film has largely failed to deliver on its promise as a medium. people like…
  489. I might be running late, but there's always time to stop and say hi to your neighbours
  490. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk okay, but I can definitely recommend the Animal Planet show My Cat From Hell, hosted by Jackson Galaxy
  491. …in reply to @v21
    @kitrichardsonuk
  492. @Twitter is it possible to add image alt text when replying on Android?
  493. RT @GavinGoulden: If the path to #GameDev leadership interests you, here's a thread on what I've experienced – please feel free to contribu…
  494. RT @magpiekingdom: Tencent has apparently created a police-backed anti-cheating taskforce and ARRESTED 120 PUBG hackers: https://t.co/2Pau7…
  495. RT @lifewinning: nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/who-is-reality-winner.html Hello, this profile of Reality Winner is meticulous and captivating and wow, I'm furious all over…
  496. RT @newsmary: one day immersive theatre folks will discover that larp exists and it’s going to blow their minds wired.co.uk/article/punchdrunk-kabeiroi-felix-barrett-interview-sleep-no-more-2018
  497. …in reply to @HazelMonforton
    @HazelMonforton Thinking about the huge subsidies he's gotten already....
  498. …in reply to @Singyamatokun
    @Singyamatokun I have cooked this twice, can confirm.
  499. RT @Clipart1994bot: SCANNER.BMF
  500. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa "Anything I would have heard of?"
  501. …in reply to @GhostTownGoldie
    @GhostTownGoldie 🎵I'm dreaming of a white Christmas🎵
  502. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain Come over and we can do a walking holiday
  503. …in reply to @v21
    @mousefountain Instill in you a reverence for OS maps and we can argue about the merits of hot ribena
  504. …in reply to @v21
  505. …in reply to @jwaaaap
    @jwaaaap @jukiokallio oh, shit, yeah, me too
  506. …in reply to @acgodliman
    @acgodliman @studioanisa I give it 50/50 the production of Dishonoured involved making a Twine at some point
  507. always good when you introduce two people you think will get on, and they pretty much immediately bond over taking the piss out of you
  508. …in reply to @bonebonefan420
    @secretgothdome gdi. best of luck with the rest of Christmas.
  509. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @tigershungry HAPPY CHRISTMAS you two!
  510. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff in the car just now, i learned my uncle is big into Bitcoin (but he's cashed out enough now to get his initial stake back, thank goodness)
  511. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge this is gorgeous, glad you're having a cheerful break
  512. …in reply to @undefined
    @girlsrituals god i remember Has It Come To This coming on KISS FM and being awed by how fresh and exciting it was
  513. …in reply to @undefined
    @girlsrituals wait, what's up with GLC?
  514. RT @choitotheworld: Dudes: If you consider yourself a feminist and an ally and if your heart goes out to all the women who have been abused…
  515. RT @Hannahdiamond_: Soon I won't see you at all 💔
  516. "This is not actually a bug but rather a demonstration of the fact that, in a scenario in which there are only two possible choices each with their own pros and cons, there is always a third better choice that has none of the cons of either." readmedottxt.tumblr.com/post/168888250264/the-revenant-problem-doom-ii-december-2017
  517. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge glad you've got a wet arse, too
  518. …in reply to @v21
    (just went back through the readmedottxt archives - it's a real good project)
  519. RT @mollysoda: This article about Glossier is SO GOOD - TY @quinnmoreland for sharing - also references Tiqqun and @GIFmodel as an added bo…
  520. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow here is my brother wrapping presents, Diana (his fiancée) and Daisy
  521. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow zoom... enhance...
  522. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow and let's focus in on... yeah, that's it
  523. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow we have movement!
  524. …in reply to @SkrivaFel
    @SkrivaFel this is a wonderful gift to receive. merry christmas!
  525. …in reply to @v21
    transparency test
  526. …in reply to @v21
    (i am trying to learn to live with the banding, as i don't know how to fix it without using a shader, and this is running CPU only)
  527. …in reply to @v21
    this will be a twitter bot once i manage to get posting to twitter working?
  528. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @wjjjjt yeah! one sec, i'll hoik out the shader i used for the Unity version
  529. …in reply to @v21
  530. …in reply to @steffanglynn
    @steffanglynn yeah, that's what I do when I have a shader. but I don't know how to inject the dithering into the three.js software renderer.
  531. …in reply to @v21
    @steffanglynn after tweeting that, I thought about procedurally creating a new texture per frame... might go add that in later, but it's a lot of pain
  532. …in reply to @v21
    new bot: @calmingsphere
  533. this game is very good and i thought that Reasons would keep it from being shared beyond small circles. @textfiles/945072574215655424
  534. …in reply to @v21
    oh no, the reasons prevailed (the game was "Multibowl")
  535. …in reply to @AurenSnyder
  536. RT @pangmeli: I hate when the food erotic is represented as people eating fruit off each other instead of people eating fruit like it's peo…
  537. …in reply to @pangmeli
    @pangmeli this is my favourite Nigella story, although some of it you'll have to imagine theguardian.com/uk/2002/jul/04/arts.artsnews
  538. RT @fivememos: "You can resume your flight whenever you like," they said to me, "but you will arrive at another Trude, absolutely the same,…
  539. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate Merry Christmas, Kate!
  540. …in reply to @pyjamads
    @pyjamads @LeeShangLun @doougle @smestorp no, I think it's all in Portuguese
  541. …in reply to @starsandrobots
    @starsandrobots @deanputney There used to be a reality TV show (called Lost, confusingly). Three teams (of 2 people and a cameraman) were blindfolded, taken to a random place and left there (with a few hundred dollars and a backpack with camping gear, food etc). First to make it back to Trafalgar Square won
  542. …in reply to @v21
    @starsandrobots @deanputney remember people walking along a bleak coastline, scrutinising a discarded candy wrapper to try to work out what language it was printed in
  543. …in reply to @v21
    @calmingsphere I'm uncertain : white background or black background? Or... random coloured background?? Maybe I need to try some more things out.
  544. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu Merry Christmas!
  545. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @calmingsphere the colours are randomly picked, I'm hesitant to apply any colour logic if I don't have to
  546. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb @calmingsphere (when entirely randomly picked stuff looks so good)
  547. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb @calmingsphere I reckon white is the most neutral background for most people? I use night mode, but I think I'm unusual.
  548. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx oh, well jel
  549. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc @KommanderKlobb @calmingsphere noted! (I use black elsewhere)
  550. RT @austin_walker: Big Mood
  551. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc @KommanderKlobb @calmingsphere obviously wish I could just do transparent, but that's the joy of twitter turning them to videos. White was with this in mind:
  552. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx whaa, I didn't know about that!
  553. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx I like how all of them have these little tweaks and different features - you can see them working things out as they go, but the earlier ones are still good
  554. …in reply to @v21
    do you use night mode/have dark backgrounds on twitter?
  555. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio yes, you're right, I should repost it later on when the Americans are awake
  556. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful Merry Christmas to you!!
  557. …in reply to @v21
  558. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen And to you and yours! Here's my brother and his partner taking the dog for a walk
  559. RT @LCPSHOPNET: Very useful! 👌 Get yours here ► LCP.to/l/gg
  560. RT @serenawilliams: I had to Wikipedia my age the other day. I forgot how old I was.
  561. …in reply to @catwoman1351
    @catwoman1351 @calmingsphere the sphere or the calming?
  562. …in reply to @v21
    god it's so wild to see a bot go off and start it's own life... 170 followers, out of which I follow only 4.
  563. …in reply to @elirainsberry
    @elirainsberry hope it's a good first day of the week for you!
  564. …in reply to @v21
    @elirainsberry (& thanks for the card!)
  565. RT @PattiHarada: @calmingsphere Sharon, it’s not a pill. As I told my bff, you have to shot your mouth and just focus, letting your muscles…
  566. …in reply to @ragzouken
    @ragzouken @thecatamites I want to make this happen, but I also really don't want to make this happen.
  567. …in reply to @ragzouken
    @ragzouken @thecatamites yeah, the latter is from watching The China Manufacturing Process. rule of thumb for a minimum order quantity is 5k...
  568. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike I hope this isn't weird, buuuut: nice tits
  569. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike haha. well, they're very nice. congratulations, you look real good
  570. …in reply to @zusty
    @zusty @sculpin I keep my bumping out in my Amazon basket, waiting for it to get to a reasonable price over here.
  571. …in reply to @maxkreminski
    @maxkreminski ordered it yesterday!
  572. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike I reckon you would like: The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
  573. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow To the tune of "oh, the cowman and the farmer should be friends!"?
  574. do you ever see friends of yours being a couple and just ache to go round their house for dinner (when they have a house, when they live together, when when when)
  575. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @tigershungry Merry Percymas, every one!
  576. RT @ArpObservatory: Every planet feels like family while looking into the expansive heavens.
  577. …in reply to @mplacko
    @mplacko @beastsofbalance @GeekandSundry @erikaishii @gdestefano ahh, that's wonderful! Happy Christmas!
  578. …in reply to @katienotopoulos
    @katienotopoulos a less sketchy variation on a common story : teacher had a one night stand, stayed over at his... and at breakfast, met his younger brother (who she taught). weirdly her twin also taught at the same school.
  579. …in reply to @v21
    @katienotopoulos also there was a teacher the class goaded into ranking the female teachers in terms of attractiveness
  580. RT @katienotopoulos: What was “the incident” in your high school?
  581. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty Michaelmas?
  582. …in reply to @ghrowe
    @ghrowe @calmingsphere do you mean the surrounding shimmer?
  583. …in reply to @v21
    @ghrowe @calmingsphere but yeah, there's a bunch about the rendering that's non-ideal :( I did better in the Unity version: v21.io/calmingsphere/
  584. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty here's the wikipedia article subsections:
  585. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty @katienotopoulos oh, luckily that couldn't've happened at my school: -no units on gender -no female students
  586. …in reply to @Shrubbette
    @Shrubbette @innesmck we got the plastic stuff too, now!
  587. …in reply to @swizzle_kiss
    @swizzle_kiss oh hai Versailles
  588. RT @butterparty: This seems like something you'd like @Gaohmee: Microsoft's Minesweeper, Solitaire, Hearts and FreeCell were all designed a…
  589. reading China Mieville's October
  590. …in reply to @v21
  591. the Foreign Office has form for destroying evidence, and continues to do so (previously: theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes) @lottelydia/945575611027939328
  592. RT @justinpickard: 'Is this microphone for monitoring noise levels, recording people’s conversations or detecting gunfire?' https://t.co/Px…
  593. …in reply to @funnyniceangel
    @lil_selkie alas, I'm waiting for the trains to start working again... good luck escaping, I've got as far as my brothers
  594. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod @mikerugnetta @memefactory I think it's defensible as a "oh, the commonplace opinion is that the Internet is bad, but yet it used to be everyone thought the Internet was good". Dunno if that's exactly what this was or...
  595. RT @anjgoswami: Ho, ho, ho - did somebody ask Santa for a giant dataset of bird skull stls for immediate download, and maybe even a shiny O…
  596. RT @vogon: the origin story of the nickel is the most american thing I've ever read
  597. …in reply to @cr3
    @cr3 is shepherd's pie pie?
  598. …in reply to @cr3
    @cr3 we just workshopped this, here's some edge cases: -sausage rolls -slices -lasagna -strudel -tarts
  599. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle One thing I would say is that Mysterium has like 5 different sets of official rules, and is v frequently house-ruled
  600. …in reply to @asponge
  601. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow it's kinda awkward winning people over to a game then beating them
  602. …in reply to @v21
    @HilariousCow (I say, having introduced people to Modern Art, then beat them)
  603. …in reply to @timoni
    @timoni but then when medium pivots or whatever, you'd lose instapaper, too
  604. …in reply to @timoni
    @timoni they're still not making money, and iirc about a year ago they did a big change of strategy. idk about instapaper, though
  605. RT @jomc: They haven’t learned their lesson if they don’t share the stage.
  606. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain this sounds like the turnfollow model...
  607. …in reply to @hogtownboy
    @hogtownboy @NQRW I don't think this would work in London either
  608. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley hello i really like my friend's vegan recipe zine, it's PWYW here: gumroad.com/l/lYJo
  609. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley yw! enjoy! (thinking on it, i would quite like to go vegan for a while but I'm scared... maybe that means I really should, though?)
  610. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley I think it's mainly that I don't know how to make vegan food happen when I'm like... late to an event which probably won't feed me and need to grab something to eat on the way. But maybe planning ahead and doing that less would be good for me?
  611. …in reply to @mjmcmaster
    @mjmcmaster it looks pretty good, though!
  612. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley most days I make sandwiches at work, and I think they could become vegan pretty easily? then proper packed lunches are just for variety. and a stash of vegan cereal bar type things for emergencies... hm
  613. …in reply to @v21
    @ka_bradley the idea of forcing myself to be more prepared & intentional about my life is one of the draws, tbh
  614. RT @ellaguro: if there's anything i hate more in games discourse it's prescriptive talk about what "the player" wants and needs
  615. RT @myGridGB: I've just added hourly carbon tracking to mygridgb.co.uk. A sample is shown in the image below. I hope you like it!…
  616. RT @JacobPhD: Here's sex variation in wild strawberries. I realize humans≠plants, but see how categorical thinking can oversimplify things.…
  617. Heading home from family Christmas. Here's a video of me playing with my brother's dog, Tilly
  618. i've put pronouns in my bio (they/them)
  619. …in reply to @v21
    I guess this is coming out, publicly?
  620. …in reply to @v21
    I still feel weird about it, but that seems to be the case for all pronouns? So, idk, these seem best for now. What is gender, anyway?
  621. …in reply to @v21
    also, I should say: I still fuck up other people's pronouns. I misgender people in my head. I try not to, but I do. So, *personally* I'm okay if you mess up, even repeatedly. But I wanted to be public about stuff.
  622. …in reply to @v21
    also, quick, while I'm in serious mode: thank you so much to all the trans people out there who have fought so hard and made this a thing I can do (relatively) lightly. I know I'm privileged.
  623. …in reply to @hypirlink
    @hypirlink did you even know? either way: it's fine!
  624. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn she is a large, energetic, very lovely dog (my brother's flat is quite small)
  625. …in reply to @wingedwicked
    @LadyIsak oh! yes! I remember. hello! and thank you
  626. RT @lucyprebblish: Interviewer: So where do you see yourself in five years time? Me: Hmm *Imagines sliding a slightly more sophisticated…
  627. …in reply to @bryangale
    @bryangale Wait, what did you think it meant?
  628. …in reply to @ntlk
    @ntlk haha, thank you
  629. @kierongillen I saw yr favs, and: did you know you were the first person I ever spoke to about this? that cab back from nine worlds.
  630. …in reply to @bryangale
    @bryangale oh, hah. I wonder if I keep misusing "use in anger" (for using a thing for real, not just trying it out)
  631. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk thank you!! 💚
  632. …in reply to @kierongillen
    @kierongillen thank you for taking it (me) as seriously and as lightly as was needed
  633. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed <3 thank you!!
  634. …in reply to @OverlandGame
    @OverlandGame oh, that'd be interesting...
  635. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke pretty good so far!
  636. …in reply to @thricedotted
    @thricedotted aren't they just?
  637. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen yes, exactly
  638. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty the feeling is mutual!
  639. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro it's partly product-oriented, but also: computer science people find themselves the leading practitioners of an art form. how to express their learnings, develop the medium? they try to find objective rules for goodness.
  640. i am enjoying Gorogoa, but it feels kinda old-fashioned? tied to the idea of "finish your game", wringing all the possibilities out of a set of mechanics, novelty coming at a steady flow
  641. …in reply to @v21
  642. …in reply to @tTikitu
    @tTikitu mmm - i mean internal novelty, you know? the way a puzzle game slowly teaches you things, adds new mechanics, new depth to the ones you already know - even if those mechanics themselves needn't be notably novel to be good
  643. …in reply to @v21
    @tTikitu and yes, it's very well executed - but that particular design sensibility seems to have waned, which is interesting to notice.
  644. …in reply to @_benjamming
    @_benjamming yeah, ultimately you gotta do what works! and these glowy orbs at least have a reason for being glowy orbs (and aren't always actually glowy orbs, but just... spiritually significant round objects)
  645. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn thank you!
  646. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt thank you. and yes, i hope so - it feels overdue.
  647. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet thanks for this. i think i either need to focus on making stuff this year, or getting real efficient at applying for stuff. i suspect the former will be better for me, but we'll see.
  648. …in reply to @v21
    @FinalBullet so much emotional energy tied up in applications! god.
  649. i have felt this a bunch of times. sometimes it can be nice to take that momentum and roll it into a tiny new project? but definitely it's worth having in your head as you close off a thing. @tha_rami/945964244402626560
  650. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet a quick rejection is one thing, but being shortlisted, having nice chats...
  651. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet also i recommend making something stupid you already know most of how to make... i know you've spent a lot of time practicing that. (and yes, good luck with the money side)
  652. tak.itch.io/tempres this game is perfect
  653. …in reply to @Norgg
    @Norgg goodness! that's quick
  654. i liked this bbc radio 4 radio play about indie games bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jvmgd (written by @emshort, so it actually resembled the industry, which can be rare in stories about games)
  655. having an emotion reading this syllabus for a cool class named after a thing a friend said at a talk i was at patrick-lemieux.com/pedagogy/17F_TCS198/LeMieux-17F_TCS198-Modding_Doom.pdf
  656. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @Jurassic_Queer i would confirm this (Beasts obviously markets to families, which does mean Facebook - but we treat it as a combo social network/ad network. Posting early is to build up fans to make later spending cheaper/more effective)
  657. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir maybe we should start a weekly thing, where we dig up ancient articles that tackled the Discourse Of The Week (but years ago)
  658. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox 2009 was 8 years ago...
  659. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ UNWRAP THE JAZZ
  660. i now apply the logic of the algorithmic timeline to assessing my own tweets : ie, i expect that popular tweets will become even more popular, which means favs and RTs should be assessed on a power law basis.
  661. …in reply to @funnyniceangel
    @lil_selkie i'm enjoying October rn, and am hovering over getting Altai, The Social Origins of Private Life & Duty Free Art
  662. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @_thatgumyoulike i don't know if i agree this is necessarily the case. there's such a wide variety of backgrounds for people in games - but yeah, the dominant culture is kinda stagnant. but how I'd fight that is trying to build more bonds among the interesting fringes, make them stand alone.
  663. …in reply to @v21
    @_thatgumyoulike not that an accelerator / residencies are necessarily the right model for that...
  664. RT @danieljohnhall: Damn, he’s good
  665. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @_thatgumyoulike yeah, definitely agreed there. something adjacent to "small businessman syndrome"
  666. …in reply to @v21
    @_thatgumyoulike but tbh, I'm fine with that being the aspiration and system and value set for a lot of people! I just want alternatives to exist and to pay people (and for me). so that's where it feels more valuable to spend time building.
  667. I'm so glad to see the tide turning against this tendency (I can love it and indulge in it - but that doesn't mean it's the path to quality or even to emotionally resonant work) @bombsfall/946391315146788864
  668. …in reply to @v21
    I haven't seen new Twin Peaks, but it seems like it's come at the exact right time.
  669. I keep seeing adverts for coats that look like @lorenschmidt dithering experiments.
  670. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  671. RT @ADAMATOMIC: 10 of my favorite bits of mostly-2017 games I played this year: 1: ARMS final battle on hardest difficulty with Ribbon Girl…
  672. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @thecatamites your writing and Stephen's was the writing I cared most about this year. Really glad it was there, and in amongst other idle aims is to start contributing myself.
  673. RT @innesmck: I shared parts of it already but honestly, just read this entire thread @HYPARC/946421313685610507
  674. Kublai asked Marco: "You, who go about exploring and who see signs, can tell me toward which of these futures the favoring winds are driving us." uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/calvino/callast.html
  675. …in reply to @undefined
    @kimadactl @innesmck hello I agree with you both and want to add a ladle of frustration at the time spent on and evolutionary pressures caused by the system of applying for and obtaining grants, residencies etc.
  676. feels from an old @squinkyelo zine
  677. RT @shereeny: cats are very specific about their boundaries & personal space & when they would like to be touched or left alone & honestly…
  678. RT @_sagesharp_: Surprised that a conference that has a Code of Conduct doesn't actually enforce it? I wrote a blog post about 10 warning s…
  679. RT @lifewinning: buzzfeed.com/daveyalba/youtube-search-rater-algorithms-children-disturbing-videos throwing more and more underpaid contractor bodies at a problem as a stop gap until the day a com…
  680. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica thank you, this is helpful advice!
  681. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed @GalaxyKate thank you for the pointing! it IS real cool to see people popping up, proud as anything about the stuff they've made
  682. help i just tripped over the wikihole i fell down the other day, i might be falling down it again bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/N-Joypad
  683. …in reply to @v21
    i've got a copy of Nier:Automata in the post, but right now the only games i can think about are those on the 10000000-in-1 Unchained Melody Multicart bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Unchained_Melody_Multicarts
  684. RT @fivememos: True, also in Hypatia the day will come when my only desire will be to leave. I know I must not go down to the harbor then,…
  685. RT @outingpredators: Want to make this a safer community, online? Easy! Just practice constant, unceasing surveillance of all your friends…
  686. …in reply to @I_love_epoetry
    @Leonardo_UPRM @GalaxyKate yep!
  687. RT @winningprotocol: new zealand culture is roasting someone to the point of cruelty bc you have no other emotional tools for expressing af…
  688. RT @NeolithicSheep: Nobody wants to hear that we cannot fucking consumer choice our way out of the mess we're in. The systems we made creat…
  689. …in reply to @schoemannator
    @schoemannator this thread is full of very familiar feelings for me. <3 wishing you speed in forgiving yourself
  690. "If we are going to sin, we must sin quietly" medium.com/@Poundstoremike/the-british-disease-25ea0cd10783
  691. idea : high end fashion coat, made from a woven material in white with a blue pattern, mostly text. the text gives the address of the factory it's woven in, loom number, batch number and row numbers of the weave. all presented as "functionally" as possible.
  692. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe you might have to get cremated...
  693. …in reply to @Odaeus
    @Odaeus @Argorak we were explicitly told in CS classes the point wasn't to learn to be a programmer. we had some classes on that, but it's a different thing.
  694. …in reply to @I_love_epoetry
    @Leonardo_UPRM @GalaxyKate @TinyProtests ah, thanks for the report, I'll look into it
  695. …in reply to @Odaeus
    @Odaeus @ordepdev @Argorak to be clear, we did have some intro courses in how to program. and there were further classes that were vocationally useful. but also CS is an academic discipline that is distinct from "how to code" (I didn't actually do CS, but rather Cognitive Science - again distinct)
  696. …in reply to @v21
    @Odaeus @ordepdev @Argorak I honestly think that some of the better bootcamps are better at getting people up to speed for being programmers than a CS class. although a lot of big companies have a CS bias - see all the stuff about algorithm interview questions
  697. …in reply to @v21
    @Odaeus @ordepdev @Argorak generally there's too much disdain for vocational courses within higher education! but that's a different topic
  698. RT @rsnous: I also like their motivation blog post medium.com/@saikofish/the-space-between-78ac42fea728
  699. some beautiful screens and fascinating detail in this Mame round-up for the year mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2017-new-focus/
  700. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore i know, right?
  701. RT @redditships: Me [29f] with my boyfriend [31m] 3 years, he cannot get over the fact that I don't like podcasts. He's driving me crazy. h…
  702. …in reply to @tburrellsaward
    @tburrellsaward @unmadeworks yeah, that was one thing i had in my head! (& visiting a textile lab & having computerised Jaquard looms explained to me)
  703. …in reply to @v21
    @tburrellsaward @unmadeworks also this: @v21/946515113590353922 on china & fashion & colonial attitudes
  704. RT @mcclure111: History is just a very slow form of money laundering
  705. if i own shares in a company, am i complicit in evil acts performed by it? @mcclure111/946091202616623104
  706. …in reply to @GilGandel
    @GilGandel @ixkylie safe spaces are a social change, tho
  707. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx i mean, only *very* indirectly. but what if i have a pension scheme with index-linked funds?
  708. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 yeah, i agree with all of this, especially that that is the important question.
  709. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 and, like, what if they did tell them what that meant? what difference would it make? "oh, i'd have a one trillionth ownership of a company that uses sweatshop labour and threatens union organizers with violence, i guess i won't take out this pension scheme"
  710. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx i was following a thought, but i entirely agree with what Andi was saying in the other thread - the point is that it's a system i can't opt out of, that does bad things with no mechanism for accountability
  711. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx @gothdome *ever* is a bit strong, but yeah. yeah.
  712. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 yeah. and that's a very big if
  713. …in reply to @v21
    notionally the answer is yes, but what if it's a work-administered pension investing in index-linked funds, investing in... etc etc. there's no real choice. i recommend & agree with @mcclure111's responses: @mcclure111/946786699664818177
  714. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx @gothdome yeah, i definitely feel that dynamic, and agree it's fucked.
  715. RT @molleindustria: Wet wipes are a common sight at VR exhibitions, so has anybody designed a minimalist or cyberpunk container that can bl…
  716. RT @hypatiadotca: I think about this piece a lot: "Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Vio…
  717. …in reply to @legobutts
    @legobutts coke and red wine is 100% fine
  718. …in reply to @v21
  719. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk hey Delicious In Dungeon looks great, thanks!
  720. from "Delicious in Dungeon"
  721. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain yeah, me too! a few pages later:
  722. …in reply to @v21
    @mousefountain oh! and one more page for you:
  723. RT @Andrew_Adonis: My letter to Theresa May bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42515637
  724. …in reply to @v21
    these sketchbook notes are really sweet
  725. …in reply to @saltyhorse
    @saltyhorse i'm not sure the context helps...
  726. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander i got amazon.com/Little-Monsters-Tarot-Guidebook/dp/1539824837 because @katierosepipkin... but the writing has made tarot accessible to me. it's clear and open and modern, a friendly guide that never talks down to you
  727. good thread! on "interesting decisions" @lorenschmidt/946435067328548864
  728. …in reply to @acccent
    @acccent @therealchriswei i don't know if i'd actively argue for it for the list, but it is more accessible than anything twin-stick/WASD-mouselook. controls are just arrow keys. (but some tolerance for early repeated failure is necessary)
  729. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i was mad to discover cashmere cat was not a girl. but then i got over it, because he was playing live, and it was a good set, and his mum was in the audience and it was sweet.
  730. …in reply to @v21
    @LichLike but on the other hand: SOPHIE
  731. RT @phillylauren: I just published “Towards a bra-free Instagram experience” medium.com/p/towards-a-bra-free-instagram-experience-3e43273b611f
  732. RT @mattround: Tweets like this are completely missing the point - a successful YouTuber isn’t a performer needing exposure from media outl…
  733. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio this is great news. I'm here if I can help.
  734. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @PlayReactive @OhHeyMeliss @SK_BARSK I can't decide if you would be the best or the worst person to play BEST THING with
  735. deciding on the list of things I have to do before settling in to play Nier for the rest of the day
  736. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge number one on the list is "breakfast (stop eating these Lindt chocolates, that's not breakfast)"
  737. has anyone made a rougelike set on a generation ship yet?
  738. …in reply to @v21
    this tweet brought to you by having recently read Delicious In Dungeon & Brian Aldiss's Non-Stop
  739. this is a good blog post which is widely readable and incidentally explains: why programming is hard, why security is hard and why protocol design is hard blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet/
  740. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad oh, nice
  741. …in reply to @v21
    the secret is: people think they want a plucky hero succeeding despite the odds, but actually they want to think about closed-cycle ecologies
  742. …in reply to @GamingFTL
    @GamingFTL Delicious In Dungeon does this explicitly! Non-Stop gives you enough information to figure it out for yourself.
  743. …in reply to @GamingFTL
    @GamingFTL it is a manga about adventurers cooking the monsters
  744. …in reply to @v21
    oh no i started designing this in my head as everybody knows, the world is a series of stacks of toroids, and things get heavier the deeper you go how would you even handle micro-gravity in turn based grid movement?
  745. …in reply to @v21
    oh, now I want to play 0space again (teknopants.itch.io/0space)
  746. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 yeah, the toroids bit works. i was thinking about the central core - how to model inertia and the very different constraints on movement there
  747. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 i mean, probably actually you just make a system for smoothly varying gravity and then when it is broken at 0 you decide there's not a central level
  748. …in reply to @PlayReactive
  749. …in reply to @v21
    i have made myself a luxurious breakfast and sent exactly one (1) email, let's go
  750. …in reply to @v21
    question: what is the best "plug-in chip" in N:A? answer: the one that means you pick up things automatically
  751. …in reply to @v21
    obviously it's pointless to speculate what games would be like without the particular weird commercial pressures and conventions that shaped them. because that's like... 75% of game design. but also...
  752. …in reply to @v21
    down with games with collectible systems gating basic things that make the game more pleasurable to play
  753. …in reply to @v21
    I'm looking at you, Gravity Rush's pink gems/"Gauge Usage" (it is a game about hanging in the air and improbably falling in the wrong direction. this... unlocks the ability to do this for long enough to be satisfying?)
  754. …in reply to @jwaaaap
    @jwaaaap yeah, i think there's definitely a "burdened" rule that plugs in pretty easily. and the low-grav corridors you start jumping multiple tiles per turn
  755. …in reply to @v21
    @jwaaaap reminded of the generation ship book where they all used throwing knives, until some genius decided to make a really long knife (ie, a sword)
  756. …in reply to @jwaaaap
    @jwaaaap I've not read Hothouse, or much Aldiss, actually. Non-Stop is good! Not necessary, but a fun time. A halfway house between, like, an Iain Banks and something real pulpy & 60s.
  757. RT @dreamaskew: discourse I hope we can collectively move past in 2018: drawing boundaries at the edges of social identities to determine w…
  758. i think i'm going to try to go vegan for January? what a pain in the arse this is going to be
  759. RT @pangmeli: it's funny — I used to feel like online interfaces were pretty circumscribed, but it's our own behaviour that's circumscribed
  760. i recommend this thread and the threads contained within it @pangmeli/947546830195138560
  761. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb thanks! tbh the majority of the stuff i cook could be vegan with a few straightforward changes - but i eat on the go/away from home a lot. maybe i'll get converted to Pret...
  762. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia let's all wait up for the big bunny
  763. RT @mousefountain: The real power fantasy in rpgs is the notion that you could walk up to a stranger, ask them their life story, and then p…
  764. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I assume my insides ought to be covered in mucus, though?
  765. …in reply to @v21
  766. having a good time at this NYE party