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Tweets from 2018/01

  1. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz we also tried to work this out to no avail
  2. …in reply to @pyjamads
    @pyjamads I have not, but someone was mad in the replies about it wasting the premise
  3. RT @compositeredfox: yes this game blindly mixes and appropriates mexican, brazilian and caribbean culture, and the song is from a german b…
  4. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier look: yes, it'll be a pain in the arse. no, it won't be as big of a pain in the arse as you've went through for similar pledges. this isn't even a pledge! i'm expecting to fail! there's aspects i've already decided to ignore!
  5. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier nah: isinglass & honey, at least. but i'm expecting to fail generally, too - but that's okay. seems a worthwhile thing resetting habits this way
  6. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb it is a manga about adventurers saving time and money by eating the monsters they find in the dungeon. it is even more videogamey
  7. RT @POETSorg: A low, quiet music is playing— —Carl Adamshick #Newyears2018 poets.org/poetsorg/poem/new-years-morning
  8. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley hey, btw, talking earlier has made me also decide to try vegan january. yr lunch is looking better than mine...
  9. RT @beckyandfrank: Paraphrasing good advice I’ve received as an independent creative this year: All your hobbies don’t have to be monetized…
  10. RT @mcclure111: The IAC was so opposed to Xena becoming a planet that they were willing to destroy a planet they already had
  11. RT @webbedspace: @mcclure111 What gender is Earth
  12. bot of the day: @rot13scavenger shorn from context, a mirror world where what was obscured is now clear
  13. RT @RealSexyCyborg: .@WeChatApp now supports mini-games, someone hacked it to cheat🤓. You touch the screen to jump between blocks, longer t…
  14. Stop expecting 2018 to make sense as a narrative arc!
  15. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley voting no, but I'm eating it
  16. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk I heard this at a Christmas party, looked it up, and was delighted: -that this EP existed -that my music taste was consistent, even without knowing the song/who it was
  17. …in reply to @v21
    @kitrichardsonuk also, a rec for you: Liyv - Laser Eyes
  18. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk I think you maybe played me a track or two. But I don't really know her, so...
  19. …in reply to @v21
    @kitrichardsonuk (so, yes, you should 😛)
  20. RT @immolations: "dude you need to watch black mirror. it really shows our dependency on technology and how incorporated to digital spaces…
  21. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk yep!
  22. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow I don't know if i get why you need 4 dimensions? Or, if I do, I end up with an angle-axis representation, not a quaternion.
  23. RT @MundialJPN: Japanese NYE tradition. 3 internationals vs. 100 kids. Mental... #Ideguchi #Kiyotake #Yamaguchi #Leeds #LUFC #サッカー #JFA #da…
  24. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
  25. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow @mike_robbo angle-axis representation can gimbal lock, which is why it isn't that way. i think part of the trick is to think of quaternions as transformations from one space to another - it explains why the order you apply the transformations matters. and the actual values of xyzw are magic
  26. …in reply to @muffinista
    @muffinista thank you for reminding me about @v21/940935738249678848
  27. RT @W_i_n_t_e_r___K: during development siri was codenamed "the helpful little man." internally it was said "the helpful little man is comi…
  28. I wonder how many people will switch away to Patreon or Substack or something else that lets you take money from people. @lauraolin/948269957770555392
  29. RT @juliagalef: You may already know Charles Dickens was paid by the word, which explains his long rambling descriptions of, like, a random…
  30. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennfrankgames In like a year they'll merge it into MailChimp proper, it sounds like.
  31. …in reply to @iamliyv
    @iamliyv @kitrichardsonuk I love it!
  32. …in reply to @tqbf
    @tqbf I first came to this story via a contractor who's out 2 months pay...
  33. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly I started this thread wondering if I'm too judgemental. By this point, I've decided: no.
  34. RT @mcclure111: From the works of Julio Cortázar, this piece precisely sums up how I feel about open source I'm sorry "Free Software" http…
  35. After a long period of indecision, and after a little help from @_thatgumyoulike, I decided to call my frog Paula. #旅かえる
  36. it's cool the way people are building this into their games! obvious things like Twitch chat integration, but also more subtle stuff... @alienmelon/948304681544990720
  37. …in reply to @alienmelon
    @alienmelon I don't know if the aim is to give viewers the same experience, but rather a good experience...
  38. …in reply to @v21
    @alienmelon Thinking now about playful musical instruments...
  39. noisy storm/cozy bed
  40. …in reply to @v21
    i'm reading about UFOs
  41. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty "UFO Drawings From The National Archives"
  42. …in reply to @siobhanthomas
    @siobhanthomas maybe @maltron3D could come down for it? he was one of the people working on Killbox, about drone warfare
  43. …in reply to @3en
    @3en @intel why wouldn't it cause more demand? (and it's only 30-40% in the worst case, for stuff with lots of kernel/userspace context switches)
  44. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark i've been playing Nier:Automata, and there's some bullshit stuff in there (@v21/947474567898988544), but also it's at least three different games all rolled into one. great if you love all three, but if you're really only there for one of them...
  45. …in reply to @v21
    @vectorpark the games were designed to only work intertwined, so you can't really chop it apart. well, you kind of can - that's what the Easy difficulty setting is for. but you still have to fight the fights, it's just all you do is press buttons and look at the pretty explosions
  46. this looks lovely - do any cities have a warped grid like this? @metropologeny/948117954314625025
  47. …in reply to @Slaktus
    @Slaktus @vectorpark oh, no, that part is fine (starting the third route now)
  48. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke this is great
  49. …in reply to @undefined
    @animalphase route B cut out a bunch (which was smart plotting). but it was still 30% shmup & 30% open-world side-quests
  50. …in reply to @undefined
    @animalphase ahh. it was neat to realize that they had to (wait, rot13ing...) gurl unq gb znxr *rirel* rarzl cynlnoyr. fzneg pubvprf!
  51. …in reply to @v21
    i played through route B t'other day... these days the thing i'm most impressed when playing games is really economical choices, getting the most surprise or delight out of the same set of assets. (and conversely, some games feel luxurious because of how wasteful they are...)
  52. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem @increpare @BrendanSinclair idk - the most common approach for building UIs for new desktop apps is to embed a browser. I mean, building good UIs is still a huge pain, granted.
  53. …in reply to @undefined
    @increpare @vectorpoem @BrendanSinclair mm, i see your point about different strengths for UIs, but i think loading/saving stuff is a bad example. the web is built on CRUD, forms & URLs
  54. …in reply to @a_man_in_black
    @a_man_in_black Now Play This is coming up! We show a bunch of weird games in a fancy exhibition in London.
  55. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i think we have to do it piece by piece, just to figure out what to put in it's place instead
  56. RT @PhotoHistorian: January 2, 1839: Louis Daguerre takes the first photo of the Moon. According to a contemporary account, it was unfocuse…
  57. hey i checked the count of bots hosted on CBDQ: 7634 active bots 19595 people who've logged in so that's pretty cool, huh?
  58. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d sorry, no! i should do better at surfacing cool bots, but also i don't wanna list the whole lot (for the same reasons sharing source is optional)
  59. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d yeah - i'm verrry hesitant about adding new options onto that page. but i should think about it more.
  60. RT @mmmmusasabi: The demo of rough drawing effect #threejs #webgl demo : mnmxmx.github.io/rough-drawing-effect/dst/ code : github.com/mnmxmx/rough-drawing-effect https://t.…
  61. tattoos with a SAAS backend skinmotion.com
  62. …in reply to @v21
    i am unconvinced
  63. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo i dunno (and couldn't get an accurate number, actually)
  64. …in reply to @v21
    @joonturbo i might do a round up of follower counts & tweet counts for active accounts, tho
  65. RT @hime_bun: I found the best set of Line stickers
  66. Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700?journalCode=etbi&#.Wk2Ip9m3ODM.twitter
  67. …in reply to @NotInventedHere
    @NotInventedHere i can't think of any other examples off the top of my head...
  68. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc you're probably not often waiting for computers to do CPU stuff? except for some games. and it only affects code that calls out to the OS, which isn't typical game code
  69. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle @HMegagames oh! exciting! @jawsew are you interested? 24th Feb
  70. …in reply to @jonnysun
  71. RT @PinkDiceGM: In recent games, I require players to write 5 rumors related to their character's reputation: 2 good, 2 bad, 1 false. I lat…
  72. RT @dennybritz: The adversarial patch paper with a printable sticker to confuse a classifier is really cool, but I don’t understand why the…
  73. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern @sarahjeong i think it's podcasts and youtube lets plays
  74. 2009 was a serious year, and i wore a tie every day as a reminder
  75. this thread has the most readable explanation of what's going on i've seen so far @FioraAeterna/948684092333158400
  76. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe ooooooh!
  77. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe i'm excited to see the emissary trilogy in person - did you ever catch the livestream of it?
  78. …in reply to @20hz20khz
    @20hz20khz that's a real nice bot! say hi from me!
  79. messin with shaders again
  80. asking someone where they got their shader from
  81. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie real name policy really was bad comms, not bad policy (though bad comms are still harmful)
  82. …in reply to @q_dork
  83. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @kungfulasers I remember watching it as a kid, but it mainly made me feel uncomfortable. That didn't stop me watching it?
  84. RT @rockyraccoon83: @shoomlah I work in animation and sometimes the concept artists nailed a design in less than 3 drawings, but had to mak…
  85. …in reply to @TentacleMayhem
    @TentacleMayhem @shoomlah yeah - not a concept artist, but i do force myself to come up with a second and third idea, even if only to prove my first instinct was a good one
  86. RT @__atthetable__: Our top food stories of 2017? At No.1 - Wetherspoons by the talented @mmegannnolan - a piece about love, friendship, an…
  87. RT @Willeth: Permanent offer: For every videogame that exists with the word 'blood' in the title, I'll buy you a copy if you donate blood.…
  88. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful not to knock the cover, but man, this really shows what great bones this song has
  89. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod @metasynthie i bet you the primary motivation on their end was almost exclusively to stop drop off in the signup flow at the point where people had to choose usernames. and... yeah, i've found that a stressful moment.
  90. …in reply to @v21
    @bfod @metasynthie but yeah - "policy" was the wrong word in my original tweet. my point was more that the code is pretty much fine (pretty much because i would like to be "v", but they disallow single letter names). where does product end and comms begin?
  91. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie @bfod 100% agreed
  92. RT @YouthinDecline: The first issue of Frontier 2018 is from the incredible illustrator and cartoonist, Tatsuro Kiuchi. He is someone that'…
  93. i was shown in the last Zium collection. i would recommend it as an experience @thezium/949206433244921856
  94. i made ... a lightweight feature branch ... then merged it back in ... and it was totally fine ... EVEN THOUGH i was using Unity??
  95. …in reply to @v21
    technology is wild. look how far we've come.
  96. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty . ______ /\ \
  97. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin the ting goes
  98. RT @t3xtm0de: Animations by Jellica made in James’ not-yet-released editor. ift.tt/2CHmC3B
  99. RT @fascinated: .@robhorning on our beloved platforms (and how brands "support" artists) tinyletter.com/robhorning/letters/the-age-of-the-teleputer
  100. …in reply to @esaxey
    @esaxey I did. It's good! I liked it a lot.
  101. …in reply to @PerfectPlum
    @PerfectPlum @JoLammert oh. that looks good! i've decided to go vegan for the month, so I think I'll do this soon myself.
  102. …in reply to @RobotHugsComic
    @RobotHugsComic what's best practice when it's a photo/screenshot of some text (over 500 characters)?I obviously link the source where I can, but you can't link to particular excerpts / books etc.
  103. you know that feeling, when you're scrolling down the timeline and see someone has written fanfic about a pervasive computer security vulnerability, using a tweet from a bot you wrote as a prompt? no? just me then @mcclure111/949394926638333953
  104. …in reply to @v21
    ps shout out to @hownottodraw's @somegoodboys, which my @somegoodgirls is just a quick variation on
  105. …in reply to @lindseybieda
    @lindseybieda at least (unless you play squad or duo with strangers, but why would you) you're not stuck working with terrible people
  106. RT @hownottodraw: My sweet and shy child @eyemoutheye is finally unlocked, and you may now retweet its beautiful works. @eyemoutheye will…
  107. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @_thatgumyoulike I've had enough! [of lying in bed this morning; I'm going to go downstairs and make some porridge with oat milk]
  108. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @_thatgumyoulike I am allowing myself honey! Also I'm not going to think about isinglass
  109. this is a really lovely film about... about a story about fish? youtube.com/watch?v=HU1wR4X3Dmg
  110. …in reply to @v21
    it's so British? so many small signifiers of Britishness
  111. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge this is awful and you should feel bad (but those look like good pancakes, enjoy!)
  112. someone should send me their Netflix password so i can watch this Devilman show
  113. RT @ohnoproblems: INTRODUCING: THE RIVER
  114. RT @mcclure111: This article feels like it's writing around a big hole it's not allowed to acknowledge is there. It's almost like a writer…
  115. RT @MrEwanMorrison: Part 2. The Extraordinary Botanical Art of 72 year old Mary Delany (1700-1888). Her detailed collages were made with: t…
  116. @notquitereal hey you should watch this @v21/949614468719398913
  117. …in reply to @some_new_cities
    @some_new_cities ugh - saw this once before, but never tracked down the issue. will have another look now...
  118. RT @sevensixfive: Four franchises, four spaceships, four bridges.
  119. RT @netgal_emi: wild, fantastic, funny, dead serious, timely, @4xisblack/949179051486339072
  120. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin i liked the scene where she said "i knew that" a bunch
  121. …in reply to @v21
    @Coleo_Kin and (i might be misremembering the manga) the new characterisation makes her more consistent - she starts with carrying a knife etc, but pretty quickly becomes a largely unconscious thing to repeatedly save? now, she's strong willed, but never necessarily violent?
  122. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz @Short_Box oh! what a good home for it!
  123. I love this version of the Internet. I miss it, but it's still alive, just sometimes obscured. @polfromonline/950079887200710656
  124. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin yeah, she didn't really have much of a chance to initiate much early on, just being a focal point of being pressured by various people.
  125. it's been years, and still i regularly think about this page of "the cartography of known spaces" by @lorenschmidt (pdf link: github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/files/48797/cartography.of.known.spaces.pdf)
  126. …in reply to @v21
    @some_new_cities just to let you know: i tracked down the issue - it's to do with a particular version of Tracery having issues unescaping #s when they're in variables - they come out as ##. not got a fix ready yet, but you might be able to work around it?
  127. I just learned that for some applications, people use steel recycled from WW2 battleships. Because all the steel produced after WW2 is too radioactive. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
  128. …in reply to @v21
    while i'm on the subject, did you see this story? qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civilians-on-a-scale-comparable-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/ like half a million people ultimately died as a result of US nuclear weapons testing
  129. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty where are you going? if you're gonna just be in cities, then you should definitely take the train. if you wanna see some bleak hillsides, then a car is worthwhile. I'd give it like 50% chance of ice & below freezing temps.
  130. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @dinosaurrparty @asponge yes, co-signed. there are some very good bleak hillsides up there!
  131. …in reply to @v21
    was reminded i was vegan for the month just after i'd put in my mouth a baked pineapple thing someone brought back from Singapore. and then i bit down and ate the thing (still gonna continue with the vegan for a month thing, obv)
  132. …in reply to @MagInTheSmoke
    @MagInTheSmoke do you care about isinglass? (i have decided i don't)
  133. here is a pop song i really like: youtube.com/watch?v=ycHdhx28t7w
  134. RT @LCPSHOPNET: As your pet will eat from the bowl, the closer they get to the metal plate trigger, the Ferocious Dog starts barking. A gre…
  135. RT @JmacDotOrg: This icebox is not a place of honor. No cold plums are held here. Nothing sweet is here. This note is an apology and par…
  136. the Now Play This open call is open til the end of Friday docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe69aRTZFaUe6W5SkcvgR8vN6VIRFSd_O289kkkUkBrlOoj-g/viewform please submit games (or other playable things) that have: - a sense of place - a sense of pattern - or interestingly expose how they were made (also: the application form is short & easy, promise)
  137. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i hope so!
  138. …in reply to @BreoganHackett
  139. RT @studioanisa: Heh, @garrynewman's how to be a #gamedev article was a fun read. garry.tv/2016/06/18/becoming-a-gamedev/
  140. RT @hollygramazio: Aaaa amazing, an exhibition (in Texas, boo) of volvelles and other interactive diagrams in, y'know, 600-year-old books…
  141. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio do you have a google alert for "volvelles"?
  142. …in reply to @neighbour_civs
    @neighbour_civs do i have a meeting this evening?
  143. …in reply to @DanGrover
    @DanGrover cheapbotsdonequick.com might work as a counter-example to that? although "devs" wasn't really the target audience, and the features were deliberately simple/awkward
  144. RT @dinosaursssssss: here's some good environmental storytelling in PUBG, telling the tale of someone who put a sofa outside and ate 100 ca…
  145. …in reply to @aidowall
    @aidowall i am @ ing you, and i am here to say: yes, it does
  146. …in reply to @some_new_cities
    @some_new_cities I think if you shift the #s out then it should be fine? @hashfacade works...
  147. …in reply to @v21
    a tweet by @pangmeli
  148. …in reply to @Citrushistrix
    @Citrushistrix oh, I'm so glad. I love that poem so much. I've been peeping your tweets tonight and making notes...
  149. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck my colleague : oh, I watched the first episode of that Devilman show after you tweeted about it... it's not really what I expected... (what did you expect?) a sweet slice of life kind of thing (hm, yes, it's not really that)
  150. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin I don't want to be tell you what to do, but I'd like to read you writing about this.
  151. RT @nsuttner: Dang @iandallas nails a lot of my feelings on Mario, great article: polygon.com/2018/1/8/16846618/super-mario-odyssey-year-in-review-ian-dallas
  152. …in reply to @kahodesu
    @kahodesu I have a friend called Siri
  153. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood Nice face
  154. RT @zachlieberman: I heard you like really long write ups !! I did daily sketching again in 2017, here’s a review: https://t.co/lqBF1m0Ak…
  155. RT @manbearcar: commuting
  156. i think there are a lot of people on here who would enjoy this game known.zone/
  157. …in reply to @v21
    i am trying QUITE HARD not to post endless shots of pages out of context, but the writing is very good, so...
  158. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa it's very good
  159. …in reply to @v21
  160. RT @marymares69: “Does that sa-“ Yes. Yes it does
  161. …in reply to @AnnetteMees
    @AnnetteMees @RoyalOperaHouse oh! that is exciting! congratulations!
  162. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw probably not the worst, but before Christmas, two tries at making flapjacks were ruined... by setting the oven too high by accident
  163. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw once is yeah, fine, acceptable mistake to make. the second time, when i was SPECIFICALLY MAKING FLAPJACKS BECAUSE I'D FUCKED UP THAT WAY LAST TIME...
  164. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw anyway, third time i managed to... set the dial correctly. and the flapjacks were good.
  165. @bphennessy i just played through Known Unknowns, and it's very good and i liked it a lot
  166. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe i have a bunch of thoughts about virtual galleries! i look forward to talking about it with you.
  167. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe i mean, also, if i made a virtual gallery i would 100% make a white cube feeling thing. if you don't have physical constraints you need the social ones even more, y'know?
  168. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe i'm excited to hear about your coursework! what an unlikely sentence! (but for real, poking at this for a bit of NPT maybe, would be good to talk through it with you)
  169. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe also if you haven't visited localhost gallery, i would definitely recommend it localhostgallery.nikonowicz.com/
  170. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 @GalaxyKate oh, that sounds real neat
  171. remembering the bit of a talk i gave last year where i described computers speculatively fetching things into caches as "generally a good thing" youtube.com/watch?v=KwH6MqBhdsg&t=3m37
  172. …in reply to @v21
    good caveating, there
  173. i just posted a post with all the stuff i did last year! v21.io/blog/my-2017/ as usual, it never feels like much til you start putting it all down in one place...
  174. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty thanks! i think so too. it's good to make a post, if only to help to remember that.
  175. …in reply to @omarieclaire
    @omarieclaire that's lovely to hear! and if you ever want to collaborate on something...
  176. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d we used the term "2.5D" in my university classes on how perception works. I'm not really sure what I'm arguing for except maybe that it was even more meanings & even more heritage than you'd think.
  177. RTing because this is pretty interesting if you make tools or like thinking about workflows (kinda especially if you're not in game dev) @Danim8tion/950465438806257664
  178. …in reply to @v21
    I've made plenty of mistakes of a similar size... but i've always worked on tiny teams, so I've never broken stuff for loads of other people, I've always been able to quietly fix stuff for myself.
  179. …in reply to @v21
    fun stressful firefighting story : it was the Beasts of Balance launch party (for press and that)... and we could only get a single game running. Turns out we'd never tested multiple games running side by side, and all the ipads were trying to connect to a single plinth.
  180. …in reply to @v21
    which we were able to fix after about 10 minutes of very furious coding, and a slightly longer cycle of pushing out new builds onto all the ipads...
  181. …in reply to @v21
    firefighting stories are fun, but it was a stupid mistake not to have tested it. I'm glad we have better processes now! (I mean, also we have a released game, not a early prototype...)
  182. …in reply to @fionchadd
    @fionchadd one of those situations where you're a bit too busy to be stressed, you know?
  183. RT @torahhorse: good evening
  184. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort @katbamkapow that's the best of Netrunner, imo. yeah, it's good mechanically, but it's the way it makes you feel that's important.
  185. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland "Healer, heal thyself"
  186. RT @Brainmage: The story of Sisyphus. Start here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @brainmage/949239916214571008
  187. …in reply to @Batmancanseeyou
    @Batmancanseeyou @tylercoates they're repped by the same agency
  188. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx the joke about the philosophy (or maths, in some tellings) professor, who comes in, writes on the blackboard, and says "of course, this is obvious". then stops, thinks a bit. "hm". scribbles stuff down. runs out the room. runs back in 45 mins later. "i was right! it IS obvious!"
  189. RT @PixelAmbacht: Extracting the Apple 410 Color Plotter vector font from ROM chips and turning it into a modern OpenType Font — described…
  190. RT @LotteMakesStuff: Unity 2018.1's Shader editor is *super* cool and worth checking out! #Unity3d
  191. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I'm warming up my google calendar now. let's go.
  192. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt I feel a bunch of this. Regularity and habits are really important, I think i'm only just learning how much. I've been struggling with achieving stuff in my non-work days, and keeping a structure for myself.
  193. …in reply to @v21
  194. …in reply to @v21
  195. it is a nice feeling to be looking through open call responses and see things that are on the other spreadsheet we've been making of things we already know and like
  196. …in reply to @v21
    the people we like like us, too
  197. whoa, this is wild (in the 2018.1 beta). Unity is adding so much exciting new stuff, I feel I need to take some time to just mess with all the shiny stuff. Although, otoh, maybe it's becoming a tool no-one understands entirely or uses all of. @LotteMakesStuff/951219507720269825
  198. …in reply to @keefstuart
    @keefstuart @alexhern @elenacresci PDP and LP can lose deals, but the only entity that can take away their fan base and main revenue stream is YouTube. But all these scandals do hurt the reputation of YouTube The Children's TV Show, so maybe someday YouTube will take that action.
  199. …in reply to @v21
    @keefstuart @alexhern @elenacresci (that action being actually throwing them off the service, not just not giving them preferred treatment for a while)
  200. …in reply to @Sosowski
    @Sosowski this is that kind of exciting low-level stuff, tbh! like the slow migration towards new Mono. and multi-threading is coming, but understandably piecemeal.
  201. …in reply to @v21
    @Sosowski HiDPI editor support would be really nice, but also I understand why it's painful. I reckon this year, though?
  202. …in reply to @LotteMakesStuff
    @LotteMakesStuff lots of people use it, to do lots of different jobs! I agree. It's kind of like Photoshop, which is used for so many things, in so many ways, all overlapping. but also it's a feeling to lose that sense of knowing all the crevices myself.
  203. …in reply to @v21
    @LotteMakesStuff also it's a reminder to make time to do personal development work to keep up to date! at least in some of the stuff.
  204. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ @LotteMakesStuff yeah, this was also triggered by seeing the cool new shader tool and feeling the market value of being comfortable with the arcane ShaderLab stuff sink. which, like... it's a good new feature! i've got my money's worth from learning about shaders!
  205. …in reply to @v21
    @jmickle_ @LotteMakesStuff idk. new feelings. good thing i like learning new things, really.
  206. …in reply to @LotteMakesStuff
    @LotteMakesStuff @jmickle_ tbh, a node tool can probably do anything you can do in code? i mean, you could say the same for writing Cg that's compiled down to all the different shader variants (i have had to dig in the assembly to try to fix bugs before, so... not sure where this example is going)
  207. …in reply to @v21
    @LotteMakesStuff @jmickle_ but yeah, obviously a node tool making the joy of shaders accessible to more people is super valuable and great! it's a good addition and i look forward to the weird things people make as a result.
  208. RT @everywhereist: I decided to make the damn pizza dough cinnamon rolls in Mario Batali's apology letter. bit.ly/harassroll
  209. RT @metasynthie: In case it's unclear, EA & UCLA researchers tested a system that tries to get players to keep playing 1v1 matches by makin…
  210. RT @retrohistories: Eight years ago, Edge published their top 50 iOS games: the big hitters, indie breakthroughs, and most innovative ideas…
  211. …in reply to @undefined
    @increpare hm!!
  212. this looks like a great job with great people. ALSO it is a impressively good job listing, man. i have the biggest business-crush on Finji, y'know? @FinjiCo/951277661074190336
  213. RT @acosmos: Interesting write up on the new hit Chinese “otome” game, Love and Producer. Made by the same developer as Love Nikki! It feat…
  214. RT @quasimondo: Holy shit. This feedback loop does not really animate smoothly, but it produces nightmares at 5 frames per second. #NSFW ht…
  215. RT @Choplogik: beautiful poem makes you think abrout life & the temporary nature of existence... 1 "like" = 1 respect of poem. https://t.co…
  216. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang lovely piece. did you write "taking the piss", or was the piece anglicized for you?
  217. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang crikey, gu'nah, it's like yor a true blue Cockney lad!
  218. …in reply to @undefined
    @kevinmaxon it looks real cool!
  219. it's lovely to see this bot grow! one of the best uses of the CBDQ replies feature, tbqh @mousefountain/951542234591256576
  220. …in reply to @hypirlink
  221. RT @NotInventedHere: @v21 Don't forget to ask @dungeon_junk for your reward afterwards (if you're the kind of person who complete quests fo…
  222. "Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit interference based on observations of water waves" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_interference_experiment#/media/File:Young_Diffraction.png
  223. RT @MOOMANiBE: PUBG but the circle starts small and expands instead. As the game progresses survivors spread out to unknown corners of the…
  224. the phrase "on a school night", as used by people who are neither educators or students
  225. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa I am pretty sure I *first* used it as an actual schoolboy, but yeah.
  226. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @tef I have enjoyed reading this conversation, and I also very much enjoyed both the manga series Devilman and also the anime series Devilman: Crybaby
  227. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I have never watched or previously heard of Dragon Maids, but I watched all of Devilman: Crybaby last weekend and *smirking Ryo face*
  228. …in reply to @spacefinner
    @spacefinner did you see my "next ________" polls?
  229. hey remember when we conclusively proved to @katbamkapow that Eevee is a fox? @v21/767032361385156610
  230. …in reply to @spacefinner
    @spacefinner here are the thrilling conclusions @v21/865998290428493824
  231. hey remember when I conclusively investigated the term "next weekend"? @v21/865998290428493824
  232. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts honestly I think they are dead on, levels of uncertainty and all. what's yr disagreement? when does next weekend truly start?
  233. there are, unsurprisingly, some real cute stories in here @evilmallelis/951602332344569856
  234. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts 1/5 people agree with you! that's fine.
  235. RT @jomc: how many more years do you think you’ll stay on twitter?
  236. …in reply to @jomc
    @jomc I am pretty sure it's the coping strategy. But all the same, I'm feeling vulnerable, my reliance (for a bunch of things) on this platform exposed, looking for escape routes or insurance policies.
  237. …in reply to @v21
    @jomc there are people I wish I spoke to more (who feel v. Online) who are basically not on Twitter now. also some who are basically only here for DMs. I can very much understand.
  238. sliding door
  239. RT @ScottTRichmond: Something to consider as an outcome to the #meltdown crisis: global data centre power consumption has likely gone up by…
  240. RT @blaiseaguera: We’ve posted an analysis of the (now infamous) “AI gaydar” paper showing that the authors’ conclusions were probably wron…
  241. RT @ADAMATOMIC: @goldbuick so delicious
  242. RT @jaytholen: Got any original old garbage 3D stuff you've made laying around? Send it to me and I'll pay you and put it in Hypnospace! Wa…
  243. hey this closes in a few hours, room for one more @v21/950342422961250304
  244. RT @benedictevans: Amazon buys TV shows to get you to buy toilet paper through Prime, and your shifting toilet paper buying from Walmart to…
  245. …in reply to @lifewinning
    @lifewinning i am 100% in favour
  246. RT @nkl: A Hacker News commenter (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16132723) points out the similarity between my map of the spread of "tea" hundreds of year…
  247. …in reply to @3en
    @3en @theinformation I got a new phone this week. It's a Mi A1 and it's great. I'd definitely buy a phone from them again in future.
  248. …in reply to @3en
    @3en @theinformation @github bit more, £180ish (basically the same as a Moto G, which was what I was originally looking for). Runs stock Android (with the Android One program), I don't have reasons to be paranoid about backdoors.
  249. …in reply to @v21
    @3en @theinformation @github worst thing was having to wait for international shipping to come through (vs something fulfilled from the UK)
  250. …in reply to @3en
    @3en @theinformation @github no (I guess I got lucky, but it'd've been a good deal even if I had)
  251. RT @jbouie: this thread is a tour de force. read it. @KatzOnEarth/951656979658870785
  252. …in reply to @cephalopodunk
    @Zen_Benjamin ah, so glad you could work round it!
  253. RT @Zen_Benjamin: Check out my latest twitter bot. It produces pictures of cities in nearby dimensions, and their (sometimes creepy) slogan…
  254. this is a lovely way to play @ColinNorthway/951907926872023041
  255. this is a good conversation and has good examples of the thing where money (or scope) is the most important thing as a game designer polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/1/12/16880484/amy-hennig-sean-vanaman-interview-year-in-review?utm_campaign=polygon&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true
  256. taken together, indie and AAA make up a small part of the games industry
  257. cheltenham bold condensed italic
  258. …in reply to @v21
    cryptocurrency idol group: cin-academy.co.jp/kasotsuka/
  259. via @GalaxyKate's lunch and @mewo2, "Any simple polygon can be cut into finite pieces and rearranged to form any other simple polygon of equal area." dmsm.github.io/scissors-congruence/
  260. RT @casa_tuthill: Dear fellow humans with an intact sense of wonder: scientists just discovered that neurons have repurposed a viral gene t…
  261. …in reply to @mzxio
    @mzxio @asthesparksfly juxtaposition
  262. keas are the best, I kinda want to visit NZ just to hang out with some of them @atlasobscura/951908051078074370
  263. RT @chordbug: I love how, on a physics test or something, you can type-check your formulas if you don’t 100% remember how they go and you’r…
  264. RT @HapaxLegoman: No Man’s Sky PUBG mod. One by one, the stars go out.
  265. .@mewo2's Ketchum tool (github.com/mewo2/ketchum) seems neat! using word vectors to suggest other members of a set of objects, maybe useful for hand-authoring generative text projects.
  266. RT @magpiekingdom: Quote from a player: "If you took the $$ you were spending on paper boys & spent it on real men, you'd be just as emotio…
  267. RT @PheonaChen1: Today is the birthday of Li Zeyan, the aloof but caring and rich CEO husband in the game Love and Producer. Fans celebrate…
  268. how perfectly awful for everyone not involved @fascinated/952221192819265536
  269. …in reply to @spacefinner
    @spacefinner what do they care, they're not in the ticket-selling business any more
  270. RT @prehensile: we made an orchestra of Echoes! starring @mistertim and @leihe101, with thanks to @DarSolo et al. youtu.be/zymfLZzLPXc
  271. …in reply to @prehensile
    @prehensile @mistertim @leihe101 @DarSolo this is wonderful, thank you
  272. RT @alexforey: Was reminded of this recently, saw it at the Barbican in 2016 and it’s still the best piece of dance I’ve ever seen https://…
  273. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d how do those bread slicing machines work?
  274. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d i've seen this photo on my TL a few times now, but only just parsed it
  275. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
  276. here is a video of a machine slicing bread youtube.com/watch?v=mltoM3rTZS4
  277. …in reply to @grapefrukt
  278. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge this is beautiful, thank you. i think my favorite bit is the flippy bit
  279. …in reply to @grapefrukt
  280. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt @radiatoryang i did not expect it to get rolled up that way!! wowwww. and the long shots at the end, so many rolls
  281. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt @radiatoryang this is seriously impressive tech. and the little vacuum system for picking them up, too!
  282. …in reply to @dikte
    @dikte @grapefrukt @radiatoryang i assumed it was quality control?
  283. …in reply to @__Tyu
    @__Tyu @grapefrukt @radiatoryang whoa, there's some real high tech stuff there. and suspiciously high-gloss video. i think the best is still maybe the knot-tying machine?
  284. …in reply to @eathdemon
    @eathdemon personally, I really enjoy it, for the same reasons Rami gives. If the game is broken when you're not trying to break it, that's on us, but if you care enough to find the obscure edge case, the stacked way to break it, that's the most wonderful compliment.
  285. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa mmm... only dolphin-mermaids should have boobs.
  286. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa imagine cuddling up in a whalemaids enormous bosom
  287. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa @innesmck it'd be more like kefir, i think?
  288. the sound of space filling curves (interesting audio outputs at the link - quote is from the linked paper) win.tue.nl/~hermanh/doku.php?id=sound_of_space-filling_curves
  289. oh god i forgot Aziz Ansari wrote a book on dating
  290. some bugs i definitely leave in because they're fun/interesting bugs and i know they'll only crop up if people work real hard to cause them. devs are the first audience, and we get a kick from learning how our game works, too, @vectorpoem/952438626079588352
  291. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge i had heard mixed things, buuut: did you see the news?
  292. i'm still watching footage of bakery machines. i've ended up looking at the beigel shop next to the good beigel shop down the road youtube.com/watch?v=CJrYzmVuG4E
  293. …in reply to @v21
    (at the end, the owner says that they used to rent at the other shop, but then bought the premises they're at now. i still don't know the rest of the backstory, but you can hear the bitterness)
  294. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin there will always be people who it's easy and justified to dunk on
  295. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @katierosepipkin @katbamkapow the feeling is mutual (Cornflower! Poor Cornflower!)
  296. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi i love the little mouse friend he's made!
  297. …in reply to @v21
    @netgal_emi (like, i keep seeing the mousey friend, too)
  298. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC it is my go-to example for saying that polish & details actually kinda don't really matter? because the core is so good
  299. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe mee tooo
  300. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
  301. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC (you know i love that stuff... but i've been trying to think quite critically about what people who are really invested in games want vs people who are less invested in games. also about money & time)
  302. RT @molleindustria: Good article/review about epic tales of game development thenewinquiry.com/fan-nonfiction/
  303. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark @KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC god, that's a good way to put it.
  304. …in reply to @v21
    @vectorpark @KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC but like, to be more specific: the overworld screen has this bloom/DOF effect on it, and i think it looks a bit rubbish and is definitely overplayed and a cheap way to try to inject some visual interest to a boring scene. but what if: it's fine? and only other designers care?
  305. …in reply to @v21
    @vectorpark @KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC for some games, where the point is how it feels, how it looks, the world you're in... yeah, this'd break the spell, do it properly. but for a game about swearing at each other because you're in the way of the soup... eh.
  306. …in reply to @v21
    @vectorpark @KommanderKlobb @ADAMATOMIC i don't know if i can bring myself to actually think like this, to plan this way, to be happy with this. but... i dunno. maybe.
  307. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @KommanderKlobb @vectorpark god, imagine if you could just... temporarily and selectively erase your memory, play through things fresh. but yeah, communication polish is so important, although I wish I was better at doing it with a lightness and sense of whimsy.
  308. …in reply to @v21
    I guess the first article is about companies trying to sell sex as just sensation & the performance of female sexual appeal. The second is about how even within a system like that, there are people and desire for real human connection.
  309. …in reply to @v21
    one describes a system designed so only the woman can be seen, another a system where men beg to be seen
  310. …in reply to @steggy_
    @steggy_ @SK_Louie the heartbeat schedule looks real good! best of luck with it, break a leg
  311. a post on saying no: "they are “communicating in ways which are usually understood to mean refusal in other contexts and it is not the adequacy of their communication that should be questioned, but rather their male partners’ claims not to understand"" yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/mythcommunication-its-not-that-they-dont-understand-they-just-dont-like-the-answer/
  312. for the people who like my readings of generative poetry, you may also like these pieces of OCRed music by @tripofmice soundcloud.com/tripofmice
  313. RT @matthewseiji: I'm a busy mom in 1999 and I've just set the MP3 Radio Station to "Jazz" while watching CNN and my baby while I bake dess…
  314. RT @joeveix: i wrote about badday.mpg, one of the first viral videos/gifs ever (and still the most relatable) wired.com/story/history-of-the-first-viral-video/ https…
  315. Leftfield is great and you should submit yr stuff! Weird as you like, and you can show up or not. @nachimir/952873044615286790
  316. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall this is covered in various forms by a bunch of people already, but: i always think about "how much time does it take to properly apply to this?" x "how many people are going to apply" (sometimes then multiplied by a reasonable rate and compared against the money offered)
  317. …in reply to @SupeperMaro46
    @YearofLuigi2018 is that in the reply text box or the normal one? The "." : "#reply#" bit wants to go in the replies section, the other bit in the main section
  318. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle I am so glad we had that show in the UK as kids. I remember yelling at my brothers to be quiet so we could listen to the theme tune
  319. this is a really nice piece on the afterlife of Creatures 2, with some wild deep stuff linked from it rockpapershotgun.com/2018/01/12/creatures-fans-mods-artificial-life/
  320. RT @CivilBeat: This is the screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday. The operator clicked the PACOM (CDW) State Only lin…
  321. …in reply to @M_PF
    @M_PF @oliviataters all of the _ebooks accounts, obviously. i went back through the ones i've tweeted out - mainly generators, but ie @ArpObservatory does interesting stuff with bits of a fictional self poking through.
  322. …in reply to @joshglendinning
  323. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn i am gladdened by this news
  324. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i am drinking WINE
  325. i am very happy about the amount of times i have seen some version of Oh Of Course It's My Old Friend Ryo on here
  326. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike standing by
  327. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck mine plays a tiny tune. it's nice. i'm up in town.
  328. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @_thatgumyoulike tiny frog, seeing the sights, sheltering under a leaf outside a cafe?
  329. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ i made bad miso soup tonight! i thought it would be good, and i was looking forward to it! but it was fine, i ate it anyway, not a terrible meal.
  330. …in reply to @v21
    @jmickle_ the other day i made a sandwich that i was like, dreading. and then it turned out to be real good! let's continue to try new things and sometimes they will fail, but always we'll learn.
  331. …in reply to @Singyamatokun
    @Singyamatokun hey. hey. hey. me too.
  332. an article about being Extremely Online and also about Wittgenstein reallifemag.com/how-to-do-things-with-memes/
  333. …in reply to @sehurlburt
    @sehurlburt and, note that even if you offer to pay, people might turn you down and prefer to work for free - because they don't want more work (commitment), but do have a bit of time/are happy to help a little. and that's a really healthy setting of boundaries!
  334. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d quaternions are a set of 4 magic numbers that together represent a rotation. one awkward effect of that is that rotating by Quaternion A then Quaternion B is probably going to be different to rotating by B then A.
  335. …in reply to @v21
    @khalkeus3d why use quaternions? well, primarily because 3d software engines use them. but secondarily, because of this gimbal lock thing you were reading about, which means that for some orientations you have to do some funky stuff to euler rotations to make a seemingly minor change
  336. …in reply to @v21
    @khalkeus3d how quaternions actually work (what do the numbers mean?) is wayy deeper than you need to understand unless you actively like maths. thinking of them as like a matrix that only handles rotation, a black box of math that you can apply other math to is the way i go.
  337. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d oh! than let me know if you find something that actually makes sense, i am interested, but have never really profited from trying to learn more.
  338. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d (not a problem!)
  339. At an event, and I recognise a guy enough to remember he's boring, but not enough to remember any other details.
  340. if you don't know how Bitcoin works, this is a annoyingly precise analogy @ivansafrin/953341642894905344
  341. RT @john_brindle: This is a really interesting thread on the fear of death and desire for immortality in neoreaction – which so often is dr…
  342. RT @metasynthie: *Keiko Erikawa is pretty amazing and doesn't get mentioned much? She co-founded one of the longest-running strategy game c…
  343. …in reply to @philippawarr
  344. RT @emshort: My talk this evening as a Twitter thread thanks to @VictorOjuel @VictorOjuel/953705561350164482
  345. RT @compositeredfox: ants #doodlestudio95
  346. …in reply to @SFBTom
    @SFBTom @idSoftware @bethesda Seriously, guys, give us a call, our terms would be very reasonable
  347. Ya pears are the best. I endorse this fruit.
  348. …in reply to @WayTooLateTV
    @WayTooLateTV only Ya pears, though
  349. RT @isislovecruft: this code uses the _mm_stream_si128() Intel intrinsic to cause your CPU to play music on AM radio at 1580kHz https://t.c…
  350. …in reply to @v21
    sidenote to call out how well Meowton stood up to having kids clambering over it for week: @patrickashe/952865376664281090 inspirational durability of cardboard!
  351. well, since i was _asked_... Labo looks great! It's a great toy, really smart use of repurposing the joycons (and the infrared camera which previously didn't have a use!!!). and uses cardboard really well - decorate it yourself! repair it! let kids loose on it! @Eastmad/953968244666314752
  352. …in reply to @v21
    but: Labo is a really fun toy, but I don't think it's more educational than just... cardboard. maybe a tiny bit? but it's about FUN not STEM (and not making Makers). i mean, creation is fun, but the point is the fun, not the creation.
  353. …in reply to @v21
    also sidenote shoutout to @vivschwarz talking about how popup & slidey-bits book design is partly about designing the books so that parents can repair them when kids fuck them up
  354. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb i think the infrared camera probably answers that question?
  355. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb oh, maybe not-- apparently Resi used it too? nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/resident_evil_revelations_1_and_2_on_switch_make_use_of_the_joy-con_ir_camera_and_amiibo and maybe there's something with Amiibo? but still, it feels likely it was in the back of their minds
  356. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad yeah, it makes the mechanisms visible... but it doesn't let you modify those mechanisms in an interesting way, which is the real test, imo
  357. …in reply to @v21
    @Eastmad it's also a bar that many things sold as STEM toys don't meet, but *long protracted shrug*
  358. …in reply to @muffinista
    @muffinista @M_PF @EarthRoverBot oh, i missed that! that's cool
  359. …in reply to @karaswisher
    @karaswisher wait, how do you hack paper ballots? (for example the system used in the UK)
  360. …in reply to @markeryjane
    @8fldh ya i rewrote that tweet a couple of times because it was more or less confusing
  361. there is a very small dog here
  362. @notquitereal Dr Langeskov is my second cousin
  363. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal yeah, he's my dad's cousin Jennifer's son
  364. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang this is why I get so excited to be going out in NY
  365. RT @GalaxyKate: Lesson from this thread: Muppet design is so good and expressive that people will fervently swear that Muppets have feature…
  366. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I suppose it says something that I read this post and my main objection is "I've never seen angle be a unit value... oh, I guess sometimes... but that's not normal!"
  367. …in reply to @DivineDigit
    @DivineDigit he said "women and trans people", which is fair enough. unless there was somewhere else?
  368. …in reply to @tambourine
    @tambourine I very much need to go to bed, but I very much want to watch a bunch of Due South instead
  369. RT @inform_dreams: Before printing the plural name of an apple (called target):  let source be the holder of the target;  if every apple he…
  370. …in reply to @barrelshifter
    @barrelshifter look, easy risers are a vital innovation and should be adopted more widely
  371. managed to get this project to find and run a test, so to celebrate i'm going to eat pineapple til my mouth feels weird. how's everyone else's afternoons panning out?
  372. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe we have music described as "the kind of thing you'd hear in Wahaca"
  373. RT @qrs: Experimenting with laser cutting PCBs to make semi-flexible polyhedra: trmm.net/Catalan_PCB
  374. oh, good, fantastic. @mikestabile/954082239930810374
  375. …in reply to @v21
    it feels very unlikely Twitter is about to hand traffic data and revenues over to Mind Geek (who control 90% of the online porn in the UK, and are set to be the only practical way to do age verification). So what happens?
  376. …in reply to @v21
    I guess probably anything marked as explicit content is just... banned in the UK? I look forward to that flag being enforced rigourously.
  377. …in reply to @neil_neilzone
    @neil_neilzone @russss this porn bill seems to be a proper mess, though
  378. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk Watching this clip makes me yearn to see a discussion about topics on TV where people aren't encouraged to talk over each other
  379. one of the best moments of television I have seen was the bit in episode 2 of Ways of Seeing where John Berger stops talking about women & art and instead hands over the rest of the programme to listening to women talking about art youtube.com/watch?v=m1GI8mNU5Sg#t=14m50
  380. …in reply to @zoyander
    @zoyander whoa! what a good day
  381. RT @molleindustria: I'm opening a little gallery/arcade in Pittsburgh devoted to indie, arty, and experimental games. It's called LIKELIKE…
  382. current status: hungover and looking at wayback machine archives of due south fan webpages web.archive.org/web/20160309102335/http://home.hiwaay.net/~warydbom/duesouth.htm
  383. …in reply to @v21
    this webpage has literally all the tropes of this kind of webpage, it's kind of amazing.
  384. …in reply to @rygorous
    @rygorous saw a proposal for doing doing HFT by sending neutrons through the center of the earth.
  385. …in reply to @nickfourtimes
    @nickfourtimes i think it'd maybe be nice to do a series where Unity developers give tours around their scene files. here's how this is set up, and this stuff gets spawned when this happens...
  386. RT @FogleBird: Five Seconds of Donkey Kong. #plottertwitter The NES has 2048 bytes of RAM. I snapshotted the RAM at each frame (60 fps) du…
  387. RT @rossgsutherland: Oh a new episode of Imaginary Advice! I train a neural net to do stand-up comedy: soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/45-seinfeld
  388. oh, this is cool! @softlandscapes gets a shout out, and there are a number of other CBDQ bots on there. @mozilla/954432807048167429
  389. …in reply to @fionchadd
  390. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh @softlandscapes oh, i hadn't seen this until just now! this is cool!
  391. RT @fivememos: The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst…
  392. …in reply to @pangmeli
    @pangmeli there's a game @nkrkit was working on called The Whole World, where you are a tiny person wandering across the landscape of the body of a much larger person
  393. RT @johnstreetdales: Exhibition Road. What larks.
  394. RT @emshort: @joningold The problem with changing the world is that things are different after
  395. RT @betterthemask: Something to think about as you watch The Crown or the recent film, The Darkest Hour. Churchill was a monster, a war cri…
  396. looking forward to Twitter getting over telling me to drink a glass of water
  397. …in reply to @v21
    I will never drink a glass of water.
  398. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem weirdly i think you can make this stuff in Unity etc with available tools, you just need to know a lot to know what stuff you actually need
  399. …in reply to @v21
    @vectorpoem something that packaged up, like, a good FPS controller, @compositeredfox's tools he made for Oikospiel (okay, okay, those haven't been released) & SabreCSG would be basically it... but knowing that toolset exists implies you already are in deep
  400. hedgehogs run 16 miles a night @thecivilcomment/955124055027396608
  401. …in reply to @v21
    wait, apparently i misremembered or was mistold this by my friends with a pet hedgehog. 12 miles is the number circulating, although maybe they run less if they're in the wild.
  402. RT @BugQuestions: Although we disagree with this tweet...it gives us an opportunity to explore a really interesting topic. What we now cal…
  403. …in reply to @smooth_gourd
    @butt_city lump you next time
  404. …in reply to @MagInTheSmoke
    @MagInTheSmoke Egg ALL OVER my face
  405. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin not snowboarding, but i have definitely felt that fear when starting skiing. and went with people who have had it full-on. you can get through it (if you want to!) taking it gentle & slow, falling over a bunch until that's not scary any more, giving yourself time.
  406. …in reply to @v21
    @MaizeWallin also: enjoy yr beer & onsens!!!
  407. at some point i am gonna properly understand Promises etc and go crazy with power and start filling all my C# code with <googles> TaskCompletionSources
  408. …in reply to @hypirlink
    @hypirlink i might take you up on that if a day or so of bashing my head at things doesn't start to clear stuff up. this is actually to get prepped for work stuff & a stalled refactor of CBDQ...
  409. 1) the reply, god. "peaceful empathetic open-hearted perceptive loving evolved" is apparently compatible with racism? 2) also this is a perfect example of people being very happy with racism if it's been whitewashed by being run through "algorithms"/ML.
  410. …in reply to @v21
    very much in favour of the EU's "right to explanation". if it's incompatible with many ML techniques, then those ML techniques are bad and we should maybe not use them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_explanation
  411. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc i didn't read the article because the sun. but i think the point stands either way - because this commenter has blamed it on algos, so it shows that people are happy to blame things on algos
  412. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox @vectorpoem yeah, i'm very aware of this with doodle studio, too - great, accessible tool - if you're already comfortable with Unity
  413. oh, this is excellent! @netgal_emi has put together: MANIFESTO JAM! it's like a game jam, but for manifestos about games. itch.io/jam/manifesto-jam
  414. …in reply to @v21
  415. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @netgal_emi i didn't quite call it a manifesto, but, yeah v21.io/blog/rules/
  416. …in reply to @v21
    i re-read the manifesto i wrote 5 years ago and yeah, i still stand by it v21.io/blog/rules/
  417. this game design suddenly turns out to hinge on graph traversal and suddenly i wonder about the CS classes i never took
  418. …in reply to @v21
    update: i spent some time wrestling with graphviz, was not very successful, then i printed some stuff out and used felt-tips to work out the greatest distance between two nodes
  419. …in reply to @v21
    it's six, in case you were wondering
  420. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d haha. I think I don't actually need any CS level graph traversal knowledge, and can solve it all with felt tips (as my follow up says). but thanks! will keep it in mind if it suddenly gets hairy
  421. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone places you can travel between. each move allows (among other things) one movement. and the game ending trigger depends on reaching a certain place. so average and worst case distance determines game length.
  422. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisamaphone as we consider stuff that dynamically modifies the graph & where to spawn stuff this feels useful to internalise. maybe later I'll have to get serious and start making the game figure out these properties during games?? but probably I can fudge it
  423. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I like this poem.
  424. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow However! I am not about to read it at poetry reading night.
  425. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  426. …in reply to @FINOkoye
    @FINOkoye The disconnect is especially evident in games, where you have to generate the desire as well as pave paths.
  427. …in reply to @v21
    @FINOkoye (or, often, the game is in the pleasure of the friction - so sometimes you need to wall off the paths instead of paving them.)
  428. …in reply to @emshort
    @emshort @realnoyb I think I said at the time, but I really enjoyed this! Managing to write something both accessible to someone completely away from games and also interestingly dealing with stuff I've thought about (and also, y'know, actually being able the characters) is really impressive.
  429. this is interesting! A thoughtful take I very much disagree with. It's hide-and-seek, it's slapstick, it's lads on tour, it, okay, yes, is horror-movie suspense. I suspect the experience is different if you largely play squad? amp.theguardian.com/games/2018/jan/22/player-unknowns-battlegrounds-pubg-battle-royale?__twitter_impression=true
  430. …in reply to @AngelosLH
    @AngelosLH @notquitereal even the other squads! the time we saw 4 jeeps converge on the same point! the time i spent the first 5 minutes running after this guy to hit him with a pan as he cracked up on voice chat. even just: ach, they flanked us on that hill, great play
  431. RT @taviso: All Blizzard games (World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo III, Starcraft II, etc.) were vulnerable to DNS rebinding vulnerabilit…
  432. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I'm sorry to report that Jack is wrong on multiple counts here
  433. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie Yeah - we don't really have evangelicals as a political power base here. The tabloids are awful, there's the same strand of Tories that pushed for Section 28, and then there's the TERFs. and the third kind travels.
  434. RT @innesmck: And for me, that means the most important thing right now is protecting this trans creator. It's protecting other queer crea…
  435. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle indie RPGs are *so* exciting right now
  436. RT @HelloCullen: Hey Kids, teachers may seem mean at first, but they are actually just sad. This information will not help you.
  437. RT @pjetey: i participate in a lot of dance battles, and even tho i cross my arms & act tough while my opponent dances, i secretly always e…
  438. RT @EdCheverton: Joy of knowledge and excitement of ideas - voyager, primes, atomic clock
  439. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin i ticked "of course", but i think it's probably only reasonably common pop culture knowledge to people who are like 10 years younger than us?
  440. npc descriptions from an old @thecatamites game rpgmaker.net/games/1940/
  441. …in reply to @v21
  442. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke hm, okay, interesting!
  443. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN I played Edith Finch at the same time (got both in a bundle) and it felt generous and unexpected.
  444. …in reply to @torpordust
    @torpordust i have weird feelings, too, because i grew up in south london alongside south london vernacular - which is largely jamacian in origin, and is definitely more a black thing. i'm also, y'know, very middle-class - but still! this is a language i grew up with.
  445. …in reply to @v21
    @torpordust black american vernacular is obviously different again, but connected
  446. RT @beastsofbalance: The latest version of our Battles world screen - feat. some of our new hybrids!
  447. …in reply to @TijmenTio
    @TijmenTio happpppppppy biiirthdaaay
  448. …in reply to @torpordust
    @torpordust the "for laughs" bit in your initial tweet is pretty key, i think?
  449. RT @pangmeli: 'design thinking' is just the 'if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail' delusion legitimized by a tech sect…
  450. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin mind, you can slip between one category and another pretty easily
  451. …in reply to @uglymachine
    @uglymachine @gametheoryco mmm! nice jumper!
  452. …in reply to @spacetreasured
  453. RT @Clipart1994bot: FERN.BMF
  454. RT @thefingerspit: Thread about waypoint's article on our new game, The Red Strings Club and how it's being acused of transphobia. This is…
  455. RT @mcclure111: (1/3) For a while, I've had this feeling in my gut that I'm afraid to ever make a game which explicitly contains elements o…
  456. reading about "v2" feels very weird techcrunch.com/2018/01/23/how-vine-2-works/
  457. huh, it turns out i'm actually more excited about the vine guy's *other* new project? @dhof/935136224163106816
  458. …in reply to @FINOkoye
    @FINOkoye even within games, time spent is not uncontroversial. the pursuit of DAUs & MAUs in mobile gaming does not always lead to the best places.
  459. …in reply to @v21
    @FINOkoye the way i often think about it is : with games, you have to create both the problem and the means to solve it. but also outside of games, many things people spend time with are not goal-driven applications. I'm a fan of Kate Compton's work on casual creativity apps.
  460. ah, i'm sad about Ursula K Le Guin.
  461. RT @yellowcardigan: Here's a bit from Tehanu, book four of the Earthsea cycle, that I think about all the time:
  462. …in reply to @yellowcardigan
    @yellowcardigan oh. what a lovely part, and how lovely to think that this is waiting for me in a book of hers i have not read yet. thanks for posting this
  463. RT @tambourine: and here are some stories by le guin that are available for free online: freesfonline.de/authors/Ursula%20K._Le%20Guin.html (legally, i believe)
  464. RT @SimonParkin: Who says video games can’t do humour? @p_men876/955430679646371840
  465. …in reply to @rotational
    @rotational I've been enjoying the series, by the way! Nice and chewy.
  466. …in reply to @v21
    it matters more that you share a framework than that your conclusions agree, I guess
  467. …in reply to @rotational
    @rotational wait, was the quote in the article a subtweet about my tweet? because that is very funny if so
  468. a deep dive into coziness in games projecthorseshoe.com/reports/featured/ph17r3.htm
  469. today someone else is refactoring a complicated system i wrote years ago
  470. here's two Ursula K. Le Guin stories I read for the first time last night clarkesworldmagazine.com/le_guin_03_14_reprint/ lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-new-atlantis/
  471. RT @leverus: Interviewer: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo? Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course Interviewer: They d…
  472. RT @beastsofbalance: 🎉 🎉Congrats to our stellar team members @v21, @seajayshore, @tburrellsaward, and @streamofstars for making the Mojo Na…
  473. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @xxvi_xxxviii staring close to figure out the extent to which this is a "real image"
  474. …in reply to @spacetreasured
  475. @bryangale this isn't meant as judgement on your abilities, but rather in the way that a ghost might moan in the the hallway in a creepy seaside B&B
  476. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin whole milk best milk
  477. …in reply to @lauraehall
  478. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall i hope he commits to the multiple endings gimmick
  479. …in reply to @HTHRFLWRS
  480. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @xxvi_xxxviii it'd be no fun if you just handed out answers
  481. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin okay okay, so imagine : early morning lecture, spend it snacking on bran flakes. and then at the end...
  482. RT @rachelbinx: if I make take a minute for a Bird Culture tweet: so a magical thing about viral bird videos is that now our birds are star…
  483. someone in the replies to this tweet tagged in NPR or someone and suddenly, simultaneously, imagined the future podcast episode based on this tweet & was very glad I was not, and will not listen to it
  484. RT @vogon: gonna excerpt a couple of paragraphs from @juliannetveten's baffler article because I feel like everyone in tech needs to read a…
  485. good video on what happens now we can make anything seem real with CGI vimeo.com/237568588 (caveats: pretty much, with enough money, not realtime. yet)
  486. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin maybe he got up late
  487. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I feel like you are under-appreciating essays as an art form here
  488. …in reply to @v21
    @Coleo_Kin but for real, and not to stereotype too much, but the differences in, uh, tone, dress & odor between my Psychology & Computer Science classes at Edinburgh were notable.
  489. …in reply to @SK_Louie
    @SK_Louie @innesmck keeping this on file
  490. …in reply to @em_cooper
    @em_cooper I'm a fan. I have salary going in, and rent and bills going out of my HSBC account, and a standing order transferring spending money to my Monzo account. It works for me. The service is good, all seems designed sensibly & openly.
  491. RT @ultrabrilliant: Reminiscing about the early 2000s forum signature aesthetic.
  492. RT @sevensixfive: Reminder that John Perry Barlow wrote his cyberspace declaration, about how bodies don’t matter on the internet, while si…
  493. RT @LCPSHOPNET: Getting a haircut at home? Own a barbershop? This Hair Umbrella Cape will collect all of the hair and will prevent the hair…
  494. RT @youngvulgarian: CLARIFICATION: I do not think that Conservative MP Graham Brady is a "shady bitch" per se. My argument is that whoever…
  495. RT @flglmn: imagine trying to respond to this memo
  496. RT @BevisSimpson: Its really disgusting how other white people dont even know about the plight of [quickly wikipedias "Who is having alot o…
  497. …in reply to @kierongillen
    @kierongillen @Jam_sponge @KenY2Ken yeah - i always thinking about this as "playing to win" vs "playing to lose or at least make the story as interesting as possible"
  498. …in reply to @v21
    @kierongillen @Jam_sponge @KenY2Ken working around which seems to be the main challenge when writing interesting RPGs?
  499. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured definitely put the fun stuff on yr portfolio
  500. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff @Andy_Makes @q_dork holy fuck this is so much, i love this
  501. i have not yet clicked this link, but i am very excited to know i can @cardboardcompy/956544186643251201
  502. …in reply to @renaudbedard
    @renaudbedard @jugendingenieur well these are very good
  503. the russian revolution continues to be ridiculous (from Mieville's October)
  504. RT @kcimc: apparently ibm offers a 16 qubit quantum cloud computer? there's disagreement about whether quantum computing requires many worl…
  505. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC feels like maybe you could fix the second and leave the first as WONTFIX?
  506. …in reply to @v21
  507. RT @kcimc: #arxivfoundobject
  508. RT @AdamBienkov: Speaking for the government latest: Downing Street say Boris Johnson wasn't speaking for the government this week and nei…
  509. RT @neilhimself: This is beautiful and true, by Jo Walton. Best piece on Ursula Le Guin and her true legacy I've read so far: https://t.co/…
  510. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge i saw you playing the bit in the forest earlier and got a little distracted from the thing we were talking cuz i was remembering how good it was
  511. …in reply to @chipzel
  512. alexa development means i'm wearing earphones under headphones, as if i was a esports player
  513. RT @ammonite: 2 years ago our first Kickstarter launched. Tomorrow, Seoul’s first Apple Store opens and Beasts of Balance is in it 🔥
  514. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio @ADAMATOMIC arguably Opus Magnum, too?
  515. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge I'm a fan of the way you used the yellow spade with the frame to support the garden hose.
  516. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @jukiokallio It is a rare game I have chosen not to play because I would play it far too much.
  517. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @jukiokallio that's good to hear - but I think, all the same, I'll try to resist unless I wish to entirely blank out the world for 48 hours
  518. lotta drama happening just now between this fox, this man, and his pug
  519. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry that might explain it! we entered the scene in media res, so it was hard to tell
  520. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennfrankgames I've never had a credit card
  521. RT @HorribleSanity: In which Edith Wharton experiences the living hell known as "Road trip with Henry James."
  522. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @SimonParkin i just looked up that bit on Parkinson, and oh wow... youtube.com/watch?v=yzazJqOV_Eg
  523. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe @SimonParkin the smoking, the drinking, the fighting over bits of lines and upstaging each other...
  524. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain maybe it's only big-ish, not big, but I like SabreCSG for boolean brush based nonsense
  525. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain think he made it free on the asset store, it's a pretty decent workflow!
  526. @conormn I just randomly came across Drone Tone on the play store - it's great.
  527. …in reply to @gsvoss
    @gsvoss not what you're asking for (too many drawings), but, still, I'm recommending: You, a bike & a road by Eleanor Davis
  528. …in reply to @jonritter
    @jonritter I'm in the UK, so we'd just do a regular bank transfer.
  529. looking up how to make the Android notification panel dark again and feeling like I'm 14 and fucking with alternative Windows shells
  530. …in reply to @v21
    early training for enduring computer bullshit
  531. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge yeah, if you root it, install a theming manager, install an alternative skin, configure... etc etc
  532. …in reply to @v21
    @erbridge I decided to not
  533. made by a KSP player. I'm noe imagining all the people who'll work on space stuff who'll've got into it from KSP. @derKha/956612860146221056
  534. okay, so: imagine you are giving a talk, and the people who are hosting that talk have a budget to commission a poster for it. who is your dream artist to do the poster?
  535. …in reply to @juliemuncy23
    @juliemuncy23 gotta keep spreading that good content
  536. …in reply to @tef
    @tef oh, that'd rule
  537. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike oh, I never played this properly. maybe I should do that tonight?
  538. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie hm. I don't think all pleasure involves guilt, somewhere? But yeah, this dynamic is generally very true and present and fine.
  539. I just read the sentence "If you’re interested in planets, the good news is there’s plenty of variety to choose from in our own Solar System."
  540. …in reply to @Brendy_C
    @Brendy_C @derKha a quick bit of reading suggests that's it, yeah.
  541. RT @rachelcoldicutt: How technology looks at women. A longish read of my talk about Women’s Gaze vs Robots' Gaze @MuseumofLondon #Futuresh…
  542. RT @fascinated: great overview (+viz!) of the fake follower situation on twitter nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html
  543. …in reply to @konjak
    @konjak oh, of course, oh no. I've suffered through this, but never as bad as you'll be going through. be with people, do some mild throwaway work (sketch a thing, maybe, if you can?), know that it's normal.
  544. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro an earlier version of this tweet named LiteStep specifically
  545. …in reply to @KDbyProxy
    @KDbyProxy @lesliemolson @nycsouthpaw @brianschatz this isn't true - look at the history of the word "queer"
  546. It is 2018 and friends are still listening to E°MO°TION for the first time and being blown away by it.
  547. memories of a schoolfriend who was obsessed with IKEA. we once went out to the Croydon one just because.
  548. RT @nickw84: Hey, I've written something new about the unfolding horror of the Twitter search box. Enjoy! 🔍 medium.com/@nickw84/weaponising-the-search-box-with-james-bond-and-friends-5257e3f1d93c
  549. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro i'm honestly just happy people are appreciating it!
  550. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge it turns out i'm a merely mid-tier IKEA appreciator!
  551. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou i still stand by that, sorry
  552. …in reply to @uglymachine
    @uglymachine @asponge i once went on a date to B&Q. it was fun!
  553. RT @nikkipugh: Read/watched this earlier in the week and I’m still a-swirl wondering about the potential for that thing about women having…
  554. frying some oyster mushrooms & watching wevp.tv/
  555. if you have made a CBDQ bot, then you have everything you need to submit it as a fictional version of itself for this project @maxkreminski/957702974813323264
  556. …in reply to @v21
    how good that is! how good Un Pueblo de Nada is! kentuckyroutezero.com/un-pueblo-de-nada/ we are so lucky
  557. …in reply to @v21
    also i hope we see way more of that sketchy, loose, vector line style in Ep 5. <3 it
  558. RT @a2_4am: Sector 0 of my "Mr. Do" crack contains a response: TIME SPENT IN THE SERVICE OF HISTORY IS NEVER WASTED.4AM
  559. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro yeah, it's really not healthy
  560. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @innesmck i rewatched it when i was in university. weasel is even more annoying than you remember
  561. …in reply to @lawraclark
    @stephen__clark @ellaguro I mean, it's tough, and you wanna help support everyone, and you believe anyone could be doing good work, and you wanna be supportive. but that can flatten down to only saying nice stuff/never giving good criticism.
  562. …in reply to @v21
    @stephen__clark @ellaguro weirdly the thing with friends is the opposite of what I've experienced - with friends you know them well enough to know if they can take feedback usefully & it's worth the risk. so useful criticism only happens between friends.
  563. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis @ellaguro yep - but they're not trying to make good art in the interface between their brand personas & their fandom. artistic communities are.
  564. …in reply to @v21
    @stephen__clark @ellaguro (and also there's the thing where surface level supportive aesthetics have very little to do with actual support, which is maybe even more to the point)
  565. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro @stephen__clark with local organising, there is a very small overlap between people with experience enough to do it well & people with enough energy to do it at all. it's not obvious! you probably need to fuck up a few times to learn!
  566. …in reply to @v21
    @ellaguro @stephen__clark (ever the optimist, I do believe most people insisting on supportive aesthetics do think they're being supportive generally...)
  567. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @polclarissou KRZ is a game I have never felt bad about not getting to immediately. I know I will, it's not going anywhere, I know it's going to be good & deep & rich & awful.
  568. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal @polclarissou It is going to feel a bit weird when it's all done and wrapped up, though.
  569. …in reply to @undefined
    @kimadactl after reading blog.radiator.debacle.us/2018/01/on-wikipedia-ing-games-culture-and.html i can easily imagine that publishing an article is less of a bureaucratic nightmare than making substantial wikipedia edits to a high-traffic page.
  570. …in reply to @undefined
    @kimadactl Yeah, fair points all!
  571. RT @kd2luw: "Fully clothed man carries seventy or more buttons, most of them useless. He has at his disposal two dozen pockets." https://t.…
  572. RT @PheonaChen1: The traveling frog 旅かえる was downloaded more than 10m times. Downloads from Japan takes 2%, US takes 1%, China takes up to…
  573. RT @JasonLeopold: GUYS! This is the best redacted document I have ever received. I am going to frame this one and hang in the @BuzzFeedN…
  574. RT @jessamyn: I had thought Twitter cropping all my images of women to just their cleavage was an accident, now I learn they are cropping t…
  575. …in reply to @christinelove
    @christinelove @johnnemann i mean, it's your fault if you don't think about it and it fucks up the game, so you definitely get to take the credit if it makes the game better
  576. "It offers the lulling comfort of permanent volume, the same bulwark against scarcity that draws us to the all you can eat, the BOGO, the unlimited refill, the family size." buzzfeed.com/emilymester/what-is-it-about-costco?utm_term=.tr3rq9g39l#.opOQEW3JW4
  577. is it the case that Americans generally say BOGO, and British people say BOGOF?
  578. …in reply to @v21
    when I say "BOGOF" in my head, I hear it in my mother's voice
  579. …in reply to @v21
    "bog off"
  580. …in reply to @mcclure111
  581. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 I have never been to Michigan, but that sounds very appropriate
  582. …in reply to @garblefart
    @garblefart "buy one get one free"
  583. …in reply to @ColinNorthway
    @ColinNorthway it's good! or at least the least worst way to do the things we were trying to do
  584. …in reply to @v21
    @ColinNorthway I should check in with the people who have taken over that code (oh, actually, last I did they were bitching about some gross stuff I did where stuff was in a weird scale for historical reasons :/)
  585. …in reply to @readingtheend
    @readingtheend @tambourine thank you for the story!
  586. RT @ed_solomon: .. a stranger - a random person who happened to be there - whispered, “Hey.” And the (then 11 yr old) girl turned back. The…
  587. …in reply to @SilverSober
    @SilverSober oh! welcome! let's hang out some time - where are you based?
  588. …in reply to @SilverSober
    @SilverSober oh, nice - do you know @lexicobob?
  589. RT @redditships: Ever since I first had Sunday brunch at this adorable artisan café in Shoreditch, London in October 2014, Sunday brunch ha…
  590. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry or "18b" for short
  591. …in reply to @tigershungry
  592. …in reply to @notsimonv3
    @notsimonv3 this is a case where it's misused more often than not... which I think means the incorrect way is now correct
  593. RT @mcclure111: Imagine a story set in a world that works that way, two businessmen possessing their own unter-people via VR to have a meet…
  594. RT @WarrenIsDead: If you've never read The Wheel of Time and don't know what dissociating feels like you could try focusing the entirety of…
  595. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck i wonder if i'll ever go to an event labelled as "for women and nbs"
  596. …in reply to @funnyniceangel
    @lil_selkie i think you look cute & good!
  597. RT @Haamjuhae: clouds
  598. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow there are related but distinct reasons you might put out a call like this, and those reasons might actually change the answer.
  599. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow i will say it would have to be carefully phrased (probably with some sentences of explanation!) for me to feel like i would be safe turning up - but also i don't think me feeling like i would feel safe & comfy turning up should always be a desired thing
  600. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow @Thairyn Holly told me a story which has haunted me, about waking up in the middle of the night before an event to stress about whether the pink for some paper was the correct pink. which, like, does it matter? unfortunately, the answer was yes. all the details do matter.
  601. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow @Thairyn i hate this story
  602. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow oh, and also - from a thread i am pretty sure you will have seen: @twoscooters/958460383861379073
  603. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow @Thairyn the thing _I_ always say is : the outcome of an event is only like... partially under your control. and if it's bad, it's still your fault. so... if it goes well, for reasons also not entirely under your control... you should take the credit.
  604. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow @Thairyn do what you can to prepare, of course... but ultimately events, communities, other people are not under your control. but you can try & you can change things.
  605. i just read this sentence: "In the potbanks around Stoke-on-Trent the blunger was fed by the "sliphouse blunger charger" who was often assisted by the "sliphouse blunger charger's mate"."
  606. RT @jkap: hello everyone. i'm going to speedrun disneyland in a bit under two weeks. wish me luck. blog.jkap.io/2018/01/29/the-dumbest-idea-ive-ever-had-speedrunning-disneyland/
  607. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
  608. …in reply to @legobutts
    @legobutts I know Ana (of @beastsofbalance) does a lot around this - want me to intro you two to chat?
  609. wow, it's fun how it takes me like a day to digest strong playtest feedback and change things in response. even if i'm aware this is happening at the time!
  610. …in reply to @LydNicholas
  611. i am really excited for both of these! @worldofFAD/958717821302820864
  612. this is just as true for indie game devs @sonyaellenmann/958734052235689984
  613. RT @mcclure111: Whether memes are sort of a reaction to an economy of attention, there are too many Things and Ideas so we have to hyperfoc…
  614. RT @DanielBRAMI1: Masao Yamamoto
  615. big mood little mood cardboard box
  616. Katherine is an international treasure @haikus_by_KN/958711072986341378
  617. …in reply to @A_i
    @A_i If you're ever interested in publishing a remake of the orbit simulator, hit me up.
  618. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry ohh. i'm not clicking these links, now, but maybe later. enjoying alone time with frog (and snail) (and butterfly) (and mouse)
  619. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry i have been not being at all systematic, glad to hear i'm not doing it wrong or anything
  620. …in reply to @v21
    @tigershungry fascinating that after nekoatsume they moved further into opaqueness
  621. thenewinquiry.com/blog/my-working-will-be-the-work-maintenance-art-and-technologies-of-change/ More Work for Mother is an incredible book & I love Ukeles work
  622. i've been vegan for January and there's only an hour left of it. i didn't really miss anything except convenience, although i missed that a lot.
  623. …in reply to @v21
    i wonder what i'll eat tomorrow
  624. …in reply to @xor
    @xor i mainly did it to make myself more planned about food, so overcoming the inconvenience was kinda the point... but: i still have too many moments of dinner being a thing i grab from a supermarket and eat on my way to a thing
  625. …in reply to @xor
    @xor also i was hungry before each meal for like 2 weeks until i got used to it, which felt like a real good sign (partially portion sizes, i think)