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RT @R4_Unit: @lorenschmidt There is actually a fascinating paper showing that this question is actually a bit over-specific: almost all org…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @iLkKke: Here be dragonsPermalink Look on archive.org
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the best way for you personally to cut carbon emissions is to campaign for changes in policyPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ben_ferns: This tech from @CTRLlabsCo which can read and interpret nerve signals via ML (even when the movement is not made) has a huge…Permalink Look on archive.org
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My favourite Alexa accent is the Indian Alexa accent.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @petereburr: I made a short video portrait for those who can't find their way to Times Square tonight for the final #midnightmoment of P…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@secretgothdome this is very happy news!!!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @zachlieberman: Had a weird moment with a AV tech who told me it was unprofessional to show my desktop in a talk. I love poking around…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@q_dork @bad_tetris these are amazing, you gotta make stickersPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Bananaft @pixelmager do you add static noise, or shift it every frame? i kind of like the subtle fizz of shifting noise.Permalink Look on archive.org
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unpopular opinion: i like reading people's takes on twitterPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Jackapedia_ oh, hey, yeah, that'd be rad - will definitely submit somethingPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @christinelove: I forced a bot to read over 1,000 tweets claiming to be scripts written by bots online, then asked it to write a script…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i feel fairly sure @xfoml will have found prior art to contradict the title, but it's interesting to see the garbled AI comedy aesthetic arrive in the smutty self-published Amazon novella market.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lizardengland Caves of Qud? I know there's some a paper on their history generation.Permalink Look on archive.org
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"Proppian" twitter.com/search?q=proppian&src=typdPermalink Look on archive.org
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@tripofmice ah, same! all these exciting errors Twitter throws I never did anything about!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JoLammert @sarahmvasquez just to let you know, this tweet inspired me to eat a donutPermalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt does it work to fade the rules into each other?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck i am sitting at home in a towel, sad i'm not at FV causing a ruckus. i'm not sure if this thread is making that feeling better or worse.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck (i am fine - i am not there for good reasons and i am glad everyone is having a good time)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt oooooh. v interested in yr results!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nervous_jessica @hackaday this is a really cool trick!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@spacetreasured uhhh, I think it's pretty clear that this was written by a bot???? @christinelove/1002562010796699648?s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Andy_Makes did you write these down by hand, or is there a formula in there?Permalink Look on archive.org
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invertedPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Andy_Makes ahh. there's a whole rabbit hole there if you go lookingPermalink Look on archive.org
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current status: itchy and sore after having had a laser applied to my facePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FerjerezTheBot: Recursive subdivision (rework of a 2011 #Processing sketch)#50486#Permalink Look on archive.org
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I have said this before, but one of the reasons games programming is hard is it's full of stuff that maps naturally to a state machine... with mushy transitions that take multiple frames to happen. @jamisnemo/1002946913778274305Permalink Look on archive.org
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a fun thread that passes slightly above my head. but I still get the core message : often the things people do with 64-node distributed parallel whatevers can be done faster on a regular old laptop. @frankmcsherry/1002812204075364353Permalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen very sad I'm not there! eat a marshmallow for me!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@xfoml @Amidos2006 I love that you do indeed have the previous cases.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jawsew I like the difference in the level of enjoyment the minifig gets from sorting the lego vs building with itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@patrickashe wowwwwPermalink Look on archive.org
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@patrickashe very jealousPermalink Look on archive.org
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interesting research, unconvincing theorising technologyreview.com/s/611050/researchers-wonder-what-it-means-when-you-keep-your-phone-out-without-using-it/amp/?__twitter_impression=truePermalink Look on archive.org
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@patrickashe I should be, yeah! Curious to playPermalink Look on archive.org
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(headline finding : 22% of pedestrians walk along, holding their phones in their hands but not using them)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jstsgs that doesn't explain the disparity between people walking alone and not!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@radiatoryang ironically, ikea uses renders for their catalogue. so you're just working on your own personal recreation of the ikea catalogue assets.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonbro @ttl_anderson i am very excited about this!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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like a rakePermalink Look on archive.org
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at the pub playing @patrickashe's copy of #voidgame. we've nearly completed a double spiral...Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is very unhappy news @EvilBachus/1003722391627976705Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tambourine: 11. rachel zucker, there are two magics m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/there-are-two-magicsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @q_dork: storyboard time !!!!!!!!! huge thank you to @bad_tetris for helping me get the game to a place where i can finally even think…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mikarv you can send email without the dots - I think you have to set it up as an alias?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lizpelly: Spotify's top playlists are staggeringly male-dominated & algorithmic suggestions reproduce that bias. My latest: https://t.c…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FrogCroakley: A cool thing about mushrooms is that their cell walls are stiffened by chitin (like what makes beetles hard) rather than…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@OverlandGame oh iiiiinterestingPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is a very good one level puzzle @increpare/1003822140452429824Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @_never_work: Eliza knows how to use notepad.exe - looks like she found this .bat file and printed it out in 48 point italics, all 54 pa…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is a great article on a great musician @MichelleLhooq/1004053303578189824Permalink Look on archive.org
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v wise thread @ADAMATOMIC/1004390700199350272Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LiaSae: This is a vital read and as gamedevs a whole lot of it applies to us, too. @jeannette_ng/1004408565669548033?s=21Permalink Look on archive.org
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CBDQ seems to have an issue? Will look into it in a few minutes once I'm home.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @bentarnoff: I spoke to one of the workers at Google who helped lead the successful campaign against the company's involvement with Proj…Permalink Look on archive.org
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Obviously nothing I can do about this directly (can't see an email, even) - if anyone has any contacts at Twitter dev relations, pls do get in touch.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jawsew quite!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@andypiper hi, sorry to bother you. I run Cheap Bots, Done Quick, a major site for artistic twitterbot making. It's API access has been suspended - do you know if there's anyone I can talk to about this?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AGhostFlipsUOff @GalaxyKate no idea - didn't receive any communications I can see, and no info on the page beyond "suspended"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@michael_connor that [SUSPENDED] is the only piece of information i have seen on the suspensionPermalink Look on archive.org
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@andypiper thank you - couldn't find that form! have submitted a ticket now.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Have raised a ticket, and I think there's a few people at Twitter getting poked about it - heading to sleep now, and will update here when I hear more.Permalink Look on archive.org
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CBDQ update: it's alive! 🎉 Twitter has lifted the suspension. Thank you everyone who came to my aid on this! It means a lot to know this service means so much to everyone.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate replying to this tweet just to keep people updated: CBDQ is alive again, the suspension is lifted.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(also btw I have a Patreon to support my work keeping CBDQ going : patreon.com/v21)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ojahnn Nope, just a form response. I have a sense of who has twitter contacts in future, though...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ojahnn the more detailed response was that people were using it for hashtag spam, which is actually a fair cop - I have not been as good at policing it for spambots as I should be.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jaimealyse @emilyhughes @tinyspires @softlandscapes it is indeed where they're hosted! but the suspension has been lifted.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JennSandercock Why, Games, Book, Rewards. or Games, Book, Why, Rewards. most important thing is some shiny images/gifs that sell it up top.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@martinpi ahhh! this is wonderful news.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JennSandercock to get a bit theoretical on it... there's two stages to backing a KS project. stage 1 is "oh, this is cool!". stage 2 is figuring out if it is the thing you thought/details/if you can afford it/what rewards you want to get/whatever.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JennSandercock Once people have passed stage 1, they're motivated enough to dig in for the details. But you've got to make those immediate hooks as obvious as possible.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JennSandercock I am sure I am telling you stuff you already know, though!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JennSandercock (happy to give feedback on a preview if that's helpful)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @burstofbeaden: 100% sincerely jealous of these coversPermalink Look on archive.org
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ugh, I love this. & there's something wonderful in the parallels between a woodblock wearing out & a JPEG gradually getting distorted as it's copied again and again. @PublicDomainRev/1004811756299079680Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is very sweet. apparently deep sea expeditions take polystyrene cups down, they get compressed, then they keep the cups as mementoes. @DivaAmon/1004744122228527104Permalink Look on archive.org
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@khalkeus3d ah, I bet! & that's super cool.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @BarelyConcealed: Super short notice but anyone got any childproof alternative controls pieces they'd like to show for a month in Kentuc…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is a very lovely thread about why bots are special, and it's making me kind of emotional @NoraReed/1004814261422415872Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @cnqmdi: hello yes i finally wrote about cursed images at @_reallifemag also feat a haunted ebay painting, and how methodist fundraising…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @vg_erotica: He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her to him. His lips brushed across her temple, his hot breath against her s…Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's been a wild 24 hours slate.com/technology/2018/06/twitter-broke-a-bunch-of-art-bots-but-theyre-back-now.html?via=gdpr-consentPermalink Look on archive.org
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too much?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NoraReed i know!! they checked on the call!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: it's been a wild 24 hours slate.com/technology/2018/06/twitter-broke-a-bunch-of-art-bots-but-theyre-back-now.html?via=gdpr-consentPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ammonite @erbridge the nice thing about developing for alexa is you can test with your head on the desk and your eyes closed in weary resignation.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Goodbye, Netrunner. What a good game you were. @FFGames/1005103421903515648Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mrfb: changed the way color palettes are picked in @squeegeebot (again) aside from magic number tweaks, the main thing is that the pal…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @topherflorence: in 5-15 years wild remixes of shitty ukulele glockenspiel whistle commercial music are going to emerge in a similar way…Permalink Look on archive.org
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related: twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=filter%3Afollows%20pic.twitter.com&src=typd will show you only tweets from people you follow that contain an embedded image @waxpancake/1004927748404461568Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt what a good website!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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"oh no no no you’ve done so much creationing already, just gimme all the animals and you can do people" shatnerchatner.com/p/epimetheus-and-prometheusPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @aurabogado: A woman was kidnapped by Salvadoran guerrillas. She was made to watch her husband dig his own grave before being murdered.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @davidmackau: Angela Merkel's office has released this photo taken today at the G7, which tells you a lot about how things went. https:/…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lorenschmidt: proposal: a level editor in which each day, walls slowly weather and crumble, are overrun by simulated plant growth. stru…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt what is multi-tiered sampling?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mjmcmaster look at how old this goose wasPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is not about indie games, but also it is very much about indie games. if we're not strong enough to deal with honest reactions to our work, we're not going to make our best work. @thewhitepube/1005848139667066881Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ellaguro i loved the sequel @v21/992709416460963841Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas so - that sucks, and i'm sorry this is the case for you. people are all different and need different things, so i don't want to force anyone in particular to do particular things - but i do think the indie community would be stronger if there was a better tradition of critique.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas so many designers playing games and having interesting thoughts about them - but then not saying anything because it's rude & risky to say not-positive things about a small developer's work. we'd be better off if we were having those conversations, imo.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mtrc @Nifflas oh, god, yeah, it's true, please save me from "honest critique" that's modelled on edgy personas like Zero Punctuation etc.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas yeah - the flipside of the culture of "crits" (at art/design/architecture schools, as in the original tweet) is that they can be really bruising things to go through week after week. i'm sure there's plenty of people who've dropped out because they can't really deal.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tripofmice i want you to know that i just noticed that the recommended restaurant in the city of Zhourhagoe, Dadoe, is also the Barhoe word for "tasty" (unfamiliar.city/city/150001778968/language#content). this is too much.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I want to watch a Coen brothers movie about the life of Timothy Dexter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter @KT_NRE/1005222742839513088Permalink Look on archive.org
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like: "Dexter faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter's mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving his death sufficiently."Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @unicode: New support for the #African liturgical script, #Medefaidrin, in #Unicode11, thanks to the efforts of Andrij Rovenchak, Dafydd…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @CASTAC_AAA: "Trustmarkers" are features of a place that signal it has been designed with attention to the sensitivities of others - suc…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nicknikolov: Short computer history thread! - Year: 1968 - Problem: Non-computer specialists at RAND needed to compute but did not kno…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this talk on the principles and future of Inform is seriously worthwhile for anyone making creative tools for people emshort.com/ifmu/inform.htmlPermalink Look on archive.org
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@tinysubversions love love love those sites of special scientific interestPermalink Look on archive.org
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good team, good colours. @ShedworksGreg/1006311240182915072Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Palomadawkins: Farm animals LOLPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @youmeyou: Writing my review of Detroit and having gdocs constantly try to capitalize “android” because google thought I was referring t…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @misandrism: doing some extensive research on historical shifts in culturePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @robertsoncra: This Plane Accidentally Flew Around The World - After Pearl Harbor, the crew of Pan Am flight 18602 was forced to do the…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NoraReed thank you for letting me know! fixed nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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@NoraReed (that was a bit of a scare after last week, but the fix was quick once i'd spotted it)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @softlandscapes:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @vectorpoem: Steam's new Discord-like chat is absolutely going to become a white supremacist recruiting ground if nobody in charge gives…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dreamaskew: @dialacina It turns out that divorcing catchy slogans from the power structures they were responding to is kind of not the…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this still bangs: youtube.com/watch?v=ycHdhx28t7wPermalink Look on archive.org
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yessss more collabs between indie games and good bands @PaperbarkGame/1006759536315785217Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @sevensixfive: Tiny Brain: Brutalism’s good bc of material honesty Normal Brain: Brutalism’s good bc it makes abstract public futures i…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mousefountain: obscuritory.com/other/knights-of-the-crystallion/ This is such a beautiful write-up and expresses so clearly why I have such an emotional connecti…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mousefountain i just read this linked interview with Bill Williams: archive.org/stream/amazing-computing-magazine-1998-03/Amazing_Computing_Vol_13_03_1998_Mar#page/n35/mode/2upPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mousefountain pt 1 here: archive.org/stream/amazing-computing-magazine-1998-02/Amazing_Computing_Vol_13_02_1998_Feb#page/n49/mode/2upPermalink Look on archive.org
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reading an interview in a 1998 issue of Amazing Computer Magazine and, well, archive.org/stream/amazing-computing-magazine-1998-02/Amazing_Computing_Vol_13_02_1998_Feb#page/n49/mode/2upPermalink Look on archive.org
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i love this paragraph?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tinysubversions this hit me too! i had a http:// URL in the form, but was telling them to hit https:// in the codePermalink Look on archive.org
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I also dislike the new Twitter changes (please don't subject me to "breaking news"...). but also: @lenazun/1007073976139444224Permalink Look on archive.org
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"in this essay, i will" twitter.com/search?q=%22in%20this%20essay%2C%20i%20will%22&src=typdPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @JanelleCShane: These "I forced a bot to watch X" posts are almost certainly 100% human-written with no bot involved. Here's how you can…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LiaSae: CD Projekt is hashtag-canceled. This is an excerpt from a French interview where they spin textbook union-busting horseshit. Co…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @anabjain: I wrote briefly about tackling the ethical challenges of slippery technology: medium.com/@anabjain/tackling-the-ethical-challenges-of-slippery-technology-94500e723d34Permalink Look on archive.org
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@BexSaltsman I can't stop thinking about this game that never got made @v21/1007011245080432640?s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pugzine: E3 UNDERGROUND! ROUND 2!!!🎮🕹️ this time we got a chance to sit down with @froachclub and talk about hamtaro, weapons, and the…Permalink Look on archive.org
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reading this story of the thick context behind a bug, and realising this bug is probably live on one of my sites, too. medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-polish-s-fa398313d4dfPermalink Look on archive.org
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my apologies, aspiring Twitterbot authors writing in Polish and using Windows with a US English keyboard layout.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this sentence! "“WeWork doubled its revenue to $886 million last year, though its net loss also doubled to $933 million,” so I guess the valuation doubling is justified on a multiple of revenues or earnings." bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-14/banks-get-distracted-by-the-world-cupPermalink Look on archive.org
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just seen a picture someone took of finding a copy of Beasts of Balance at a yard sale. new, previously undiscovered levels of "oh my god, the thing we built is real and in the world"Permalink Look on archive.org
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someday i'm going to start weeping in a CeXPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern aw, i liked that thread, it was pretty much perfect science communicationPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @quasimondo: Another compilation of random clips that the machine sees as similar.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@uglymachine @just404it oh, yeah, this game is great, we put two variations in Games For PeoplePermalink Look on archive.org
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@dromedary oh! thank you! i wrote it after dreaming of a better entry, then failing to remember it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@snacklesbian @uglymachine @just404it it's a zine me and @patrickashe made! gamesforpeople.bigcartel.com/product/games-for-peoplePermalink Look on archive.org
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current status: very tired our game launches Monday and this has been (is continuing to be) a WeekPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kcimc: dedicationPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lorenschmidt: windows preview, some of the rules for the CA work i've been doing (in really unoptimized JSON). i like how the lines pha…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt geological formationsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @anneandkita: It's really cool getting a chance to see some of your quilts you've designed and made laid out together. https://t.co/097Z…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @katbamkapow: as we continue to be given access to the painful stories of those on the receiving end of emotional abuse, i think of sara…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Quanticat this is the best complimentPermalink Look on archive.org
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@YsrisCH @garybernhardt only if you set it up to not do incremental compilation - which, yes, will be a long running stateful process, but also has worked pretty well in practice for me.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ellaguro ohhh. I never quite read it that way, rather as a project to take that aspect of pop music as far as possible, to lean into the absurdity. like, I think Hannah Diamond & GFOTY are totally about femininity, but in a very extra way (not about deconstructing it)Permalink Look on archive.org
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caught up on an old @thecatamites post: "7 Bubsys" myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/173551535010/7-bubsys-of-the-worldPermalink Look on archive.org
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spent much of the day reading a sci-fi book. it had two female characters, one of whom is repeatedly called a whore & the other of which is called "Skank" by the other characters. It feels weird that it feels like growth that this feels weird.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(The Doomed City by the Strugatsky brothers. It's a good novel. I like their work.)Permalink Look on archive.org
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the view right nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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this attitude, that using pre-existing assets is cheating, or that Unity sucks and real devs code their engine from scratch, or that using reference makes you a shit artist, is prevalent among creators, too. idk what to do about it. @Vahn16/1008149404522385410Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love game design @aardvarsk/1008253756209680384Permalink Look on archive.org
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@zogingu no!!! it's not hard, and there is (there shouldn't be) any pride to be swallowed.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nicolehe: My little bot @grow_slow has been taking a photo of my fiddle-leaf fig plant every morning at 10:17 am for over two years. I…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ra @SonyaMeesh it's so bad the way it installs things in the most out of the way crevices.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lil_selkie i have work to do, but i would be very happy to do it with a pint & your company (if you know somewhere i wouldn't look like a prick for having a laptop open)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt i'm still getting over discovering tetrachromats exist for realPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jonbro @lorenschmidt i was, though: bbc.com/future/story/20140905-the-women-with-super-human-visionPermalink Look on archive.org
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@lil_selkie oh, i'm glad! & yes - will DMPermalink Look on archive.org
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@plentyofalcoves banter = making jokes with status negging = reducing other people's status so you gain status the essential litmus test is if people feel okay when someone else makes a joke that reduces their statusPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @quasimondo: The most successful people I've met: 1. make a bot read thousands of "The most successful people I've met" tweets 2. Trace…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@spacetwinks the defining production of Lear is a long running series of ads for an AI-managed retirement fundPermalink Look on archive.org
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i think i bought some chocolate when i went to the supermarket, but when i unpacked my shopping i could not find it. currently experiencing stacked "where is the thing?" and "i want a snack" sensations. v problematic.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i guess it would technically be possible to go buy some more. or eat proper food.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tinysubversions: Check out this really cool new tarot deck generator by @watawatabou watabou.itch.io/procgen-tarotPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @JmeBBK: Bruv, these eCigarettes I see guys smoking nowadays are so tonx. Looks like mans playing a clarinet on the roads.Permalink Look on archive.org
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let's go to work and launch a videogame!Permalink Look on archive.org
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we raised some money! the team is getting bigger! venturebeat.com/2018/06/18/sensible-object-raises-3-2-million-for-board-games-you-play-with-alexa-and-google-assistant/Permalink Look on archive.org
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new thing: we made a game for Alexa! race around the world, meet new people, answer trivia questions. you can play the free bit now: say "Alexa, play When In Rome" to an Echo. (you can buy the bit that comes in a box in early July)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ammonite: paging any press / influencer folks: If you’re curious about the world’s 1st Alexa-powered board game When In Rome and would…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @BryantD: A long time ago when I was in college I was lucky enough to play in a great D&D campaign called (by the players, anyway) Catho…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Orihaus: Not hearing much talk about this, but this is actually a huge deal. One of the few positive things to come out of the Cold War…Permalink Look on archive.org
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review in Fast Company: fastcompany.com/40585532/i-played-the-first-alexa-enabled-board-game-and-it-was-a-real-tripPermalink Look on archive.org
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i should talk about the free bit a little. every day, there's a new question for you to answer. the questions are given to you from one of twenty locals we've recorded from cities around the world. every week, you get to meet a new local!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcclure111: Finally, we have discovered what kind of content YouTube is willing to outright block @blender_org/1009035994774081537Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Gaohmee Astroneer's backpackPermalink Look on archive.org
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it was raining in the data center medium.com/@everestpipkin/it-was-raining-in-the-data-center-9e1525c37cc3Permalink Look on archive.org
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@aspacecadette at AMAZE this year, @jwaaaap gave a really good talk that mentioned this. including - if you can, give people the ending early! if people wanna play more, then they can play NG+, or weirdo challenge modes or whatever - but let everyone have the joy of finishing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@aspacecadette @jwaaaap all of which is to say, Minit is great.Permalink Look on archive.org
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using Unity for the first time in months! so far i have mainly been waiting for assets to import.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ojahnn: Here you go! How do you recognize a bad translation? Just see if calling it “garbage” feels right medium.com/@ojahnn/how-do-you-recognize-a-bad-translation-just-see-if-calling-it-garbage-feels-right-1867dc1e060ePermalink Look on archive.org
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@ojahnn very glad to read this! i got all hot and bothered when he said this in article form a while back. tho - the book Hofstadter references, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, is genuinely great.Permalink Look on archive.org
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a twentieth way to look at Wang WeiPermalink Look on archive.org
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downloading an app and i see it says "v0.99.10". just go to v1 already, you cowards.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore yeah! i ended up settling on them as the best way to make graphs from SQL queries for BoB analyticsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @aparrish: on mastodon, a thread about my attempts to better understand Zukofsky's _80 Flowers_ through text analysis and neural network…Permalink Look on archive.org
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yess, Edible Games has launched. games you can eat! baking you can play with! @JennSandercock/1009498601729355776Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rinank_: The Sound of Black Voices, The Sound of My Father lithub.com/the-sound-of-black-voices-the-sound-of-my-father/Permalink Look on archive.org
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watching an old BBC adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey books and just hit the best line: "well... hoofprints or not, this horse witnessed the murder"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mforbeck @DianaJonesAward @Gen_Con hello! i am a creative professional and i will be there! george@sensibleobject.comPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @alaylays: I got a gross amount of doodles I'll be dumping so pt 1Permalink Look on archive.org
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@torpordust stuff from Money Store might be more approachable? like, I think Get Got or I've Seen Footage might make sense to you? again, on the more coherent side youtube.com/watch?v=DigtCrO77L8Permalink Look on archive.org
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@phillylauren i think the rules of thumb are: 1) only do it if you're actually trying to say you like the dress 2) don't do it with an expectation of anything else 3) act in a way that's likely to convey points 1 & 2 which, yes, you need decent skills at social interactions to doPermalink Look on archive.org
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@phillylauren but also it's not that complicated? but also it's very complicated if you need to have the rules given to you to operate outside of understanding social context & practicing empathy.Permalink Look on archive.org
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we talk a lot about paper prototyping for videogames a lot - here's a nice piece about digital prototyping for a boardgame gamecenter.nyu.edu/art-deck-from-no-quarter-commission-to-kickstarter/Permalink Look on archive.org
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as with paper prototyping: notice that the digital prototype doesn't try to recreate the whole thing, but provides answers to specific, smaller, questions (but then provokes ideas that extend beyond that)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @HilariousCow: Something I have tried to express in the past, but never quite had the words for: The camera in a first person game is a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@estrogel 4! mainly i just want 'em, thoPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @radiatoryang: new blog post: my design / intent / artist statement for "Dream Hard", a short queer brawler defense game commissioned fo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love the idea that someone would sign up for this dodgy site in order to help them win Here And There Along The Echo youtube.com/watch?v=mhKa20jxqKQPermalink Look on archive.org
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new Very Good Website: "S. Thompson. Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends." sites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Motif_Index.htm (thx to @emshort for linking)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i can't stop laughing at the nested structure of: C771. Tabu: building too large a structure. C771.1. Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) C771.1.1. Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @maxkreminski: @v21 there’s so many good sequences in there. earlier I was trying to draft a tweet about this comprehensive list of reas…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@maxkreminski mortals are such a problemPermalink Look on archive.org
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@maxkreminski does that source mean you have a structured version of the index?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@maxkreminski @MythologyBot ahh, beautiful!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate @MythologyBot @maxkreminski pointed me to motifs.txt at github.com/BooDoo/mythologybot, which is a cleaned up version of the Thompson indexPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mcclure111 @MythologyBot yes! i have followed it for long enough it has faded into the background of my feed.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@emshort i have been watching a slow 80s BBC mystery series recently, driven by the main character falling in love upon sight of a accused murderer in the paper, so... yes, very plausible.Permalink Look on archive.org
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cool, cool, love it when Inbox silently swallows my emails instead of sending themPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pangmeli: I don't normally rave about things, but this is a beautiful, beautiful, devastating, beautiful piece on what it could (and sh…Permalink Look on archive.org
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poetic fragments, glancing perspectives, sharp insight, looped & threaded & connected together.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the dream of hypertext is alive within @pangmeli's twitter accountPermalink Look on archive.org
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"follow friday", i guessPermalink Look on archive.org
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this interview is so sweet & earnest & direct. it's inspiring. @BATHSmusic/1010167213914017793Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @everestpipkin: I made a bot that tweets all 212 facilities and prisons where immigrants are currently being detained, as well demograph…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty i have had good experiences looking at art on my computer screen! very occasionally in archives, mainly when the experience is designed to be a good experience to have on a computer screen.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty for example, localhost gallery's TANGOTI show totally felt like going to an actual exhibitionPermalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty looking at Peeling Picture, I am thinking of the single grainy picture of the original Fountain. better to view the archive of a reminder of what is inaccessible or lost than a replacement of itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty i did not know that, but thank you for the rec. i would like to know more about Fluxus! and yes, totally - but that requires engaging with the complexities of the work on it own terms, rather than just applying technology to it...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty i've dug it out! weirdly, i'm all about the aesthetics & strangeness of that kind of unthinking digitisation, the culture it can't resist having. but that's pretty different from thinking it's a necessarily good idea...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck the tweet you're subtweeting is even worse than that. the people googling for unity shaders aren't even programmers! they're artists who just want to make their stuff render nice! this is exactly the kind of thing programmers should be making possible: giving power to non-codersPermalink Look on archive.org
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@tha_rami paper prototype, digital prototype, finished gamePermalink Look on archive.org
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@tha_rami example: "tap all the vowels on this card while placing" eventually became the moons (you have to tap while placing, if you place a particular piece) you can see on the ipad in the final photoPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @prawn_meat: imagine a crow. wrong. that was a raven. now imagine a rook. no. you absurd charlatan. you fraud. that was a crowPermalink Look on archive.org
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deep unpicking of game design assumptions @metasynthie/1010551990529810439Permalink Look on archive.org
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thanks to @UnburntWitch I just discovered the existence of Toreba, which allows you to play Japanese crane games (& then ships you the items)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LenoreLovecraft @UnburntWitch Yeah, it's not on the play store for some reason. But there's an .apk on their site.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Enjoying London summertime in the best way I know - by taking an hour long journey on public transport in the hottest part of the day.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TheHitch @UnburntWitch yep!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rossgoodwin ah, taking a taxi in London is a rare luxury for mePermalink Look on archive.org
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@rossgoodwin something about travel which makes it seem more plausible, I think?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rossgoodwin but also - how long are you in London for? if you have time, I'd love to meet youPermalink Look on archive.org
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@dreamfeelx @innesmck I go for nice walks with @tigershungry and folks sometimes. We arrange to do it & pick a route (there are websites! or you can do a bit of a longer trail) during the week, then travel out by train.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dreamfeelx @innesmck @tigershungry Innes is a bit further out, so probably doesn't have to travel as far. & all the routes are along footpaths that are public rights of way, so that's no bother.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin just looked through Hitozine (the Hito Steyerl fanzine) and thought of youPermalink Look on archive.org
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@KommanderKlobb @ELCAFest oh, were you around today? sorry to have missed you, if so!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@digitalsqand oh! I grew up calling it "scrubbo"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin I have drunk enough cocktails to not have any useful suggestions, only enthusiasm for the general conceptPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin actually, tbh, title sounds mint. maybe I'd lose the quote marks.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcclure111: A sound diode / a robotic cancer / a word deleted from the spelling dictionary for political reasons / a dialogue that cann…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @SuzeMarsupial: i am sympathetic to the motivations of, but unsatisfied by, the argument that refusing service to a gay couple is bad be…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@siobhangx ALWAYS RETWEET MCZEEPermalink Look on archive.org
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@tigershungry flippin heck. this is a whole new worldPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is the best piece of performance art I have heard of this year @JustinCaffier/1011334607797547008Permalink Look on archive.org
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(it seems like it's not trying to be performance art? honestly I don't care to check. besides, the brand is literally called "like and subscribe")Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin I mean this is a thing where good advice for a particular audience escapes that context, and then becomes bad advice. For people who are barely paying attention to anything but... god, PUBG or whatever game dev course undergrads obsess over, yeah, look at some old games.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin for anyone beyond that, yeah, think critically about what's lionized, what is neglected, other strands that draw in. not that I've done the research, but the analogue games connection seems like it's a lot more interesting when actually poked at.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin but yeah, also: games are the best way to make money making useless softwarePermalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin oh I'm so glad the pointless game studies argument is actually interesting this time aroundPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin (I realize by saying this I have cursed everyone to an extremely protracted and boring debate, where all the fun evaporates immediately)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ForestFringe: Live Artists Sat At Desks vs. Men Who Say 'The Regions' An Ineffectual Blackout vs. Filaments Light bulbs Repetitive List…Permalink Look on archive.org
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"But there’s also something more generally sad about this kind of enforced, perpetual scarcity in a time of abundance, about a model that just pines for less shit so that it can start to feel relevant again" myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/175268202810/promissory-notes/amp?__twitter_impression=truePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @AranKoning: still not 100% convinced of the idea of 'the sims but with llamas' but i'm too far in to quit nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @peter_tl: Put away your spreadsheets, this is how venture capital works now. wired.co.uk/article/we-work-startup-valuation-adam-neumann-interviewPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @zenalbatross: This is wild. All of us tech researchers are sitting here warning about the small, subtle ways algorithmic bias can suppo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @martinpi: Nice glimpse at various artifacts of game design processes from days of yore. Via @simoncarless (I think) https://t.co/lVItZV…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FakeUnicode: @jonnysun @MephanH @Lin_Manuel https://t.co/gXxce7DBQtPermalink Look on archive.org
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here's a nice thread in variables & advanced stuff in Tracery (and thus, CBDQ) @GalaxyKate/1011667909951668224Permalink Look on archive.org
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it is Such A Feeling to see a set of slides featuring a cartoon Gordon Ramsey from a academic conference you've been interested in for years but never went to, and have it validate pretty deep & obscure design decisions you made years agoPermalink Look on archive.org
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and it feels a bit like cheating, but that's on purpose - CBDQ is focused on being approachable, but where I could enable this kind of wildness, I did. So the Tracery field can accept (iirc) 10 MB of text, more than you could ever write by hand.Permalink Look on archive.org
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here's the slideshow: @PROSECCOnetwork/1011358289911787521?s=19 it's neat! you can do lots of interesting stuff by generating your generators, and this is a great intro to the fun you can have with itPermalink Look on archive.org
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So the editor is the JSON representation, rather than the visual editor (I was absolutely not going to have two possible editors). So the reply feature hooks into the Tracery field & is also in a JSON format.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I didn't predict everything, of course. I hadn't thought about one bot replying to another (but @Horse_estakes blew my mind when it used the same trick within a single bot). I upped the Tracery limit when @nyxtaki was making @miniaturemazes and ran into the old one.Permalink Look on archive.org
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And of course, much of this is just piggybacking off @GalaxyKate's beautiful Tracery language, which enabled all this in the first place & contained all these seeds.Permalink Look on archive.org
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but still. when people play with the stuff you put in thinking "it's obscure, but there's some really cool stuff someone could do with this some day, I'm sure" : Such A Feeling.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nice_plane: Please look at this mug my coworker found at a gift shop in Nova ScotiaPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NeruNox: Deadly Standing - A Hodeo Kojumbo GamePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @PizzaTowergame: Abusing some sausages in the test room.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @VoiceOriginals: Want to play a game? Just say "Alexa, open When in Rome" to get a taste of our new game! #AmazonEcho #Boardgames #Tabl…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @GabrielG439: Some people think they want dynamic types when they really want anonymous recordsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mtrc @GalaxyKate here's the stuff i just sent out a possible promo images for a upcoming CBDQ workshop! drive.google.com/file/d/1VRZb43iig6od7ghcaobkM8Hflipo3ZGD/view?usp=sharingPermalink Look on archive.org
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something satisfying about the queue in Tesco being so long the recommended technique is joining empty handed and picking up items as it snakes past themPermalink Look on archive.org
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it's like a Mitch Hedberg bit : - what are you queuing for? - nothing! ... yet.Permalink Look on archive.org
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what an delightfully ugly skin @winampskins/1012007095091073024Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LordBBH: does anyone ever stop and think about Tecmo World Cup 98's intro because you shouldPermalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno I am glad you played with Brett, it is one of the best games to play with someone.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@johnnemann as other people said, they're basically the same - the main thing is that you can set sprites to render by transform order rather than z-depthPermalink Look on archive.org
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@johnnemann oh, and the 2-D physics, too. but yeah, you can kind of munge the two together (and the UI system! Beasts of Balance uses all 3 in different places! Wheeee)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate I recently read & enjoyed A Scholar Of Magics by Caroline Stervermer. It's not utopian, but it *does* have an American increasingly frustrated by the endless cups of tea the British seem to think are necessary to get anything done.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Chick_in_Kiev: imagine if they accused us of wanting the borders to be open and we just said: yes the prisons to fall and we said: yes…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin that's a really nice carpet texturePermalink Look on archive.org
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summarising this article : they're machines, not people, and *that's* the important thing to teach kids. fastcompany.com/40588020/the-case-against-teaching-kids-to-be-polite-to-alexaPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @snailsnake: Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate snake calendar, or snalendarPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mikarv was this through the self-serve tool, or did you request outside of that?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nona: A 1977 line from my mom Ellen Willis that I’ve been repeating in my head. One of the few quotations I’ve seen that gives equal we…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ragzouken I genuinely think that's less meaningful than this one? But I care much more about the graph for number of games earning more than... oooh, let's say $3k in their first 30 days. More people making a living > more people getting rich.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mtrc if kids learning it doesn't matter if you say please and thank you is an issue, then it's a much bigger issue that they learn to demand things from endlessly obedient female-coded voicesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@netgal_emi yah agreed. slight correction: the parents have to turn on "Magic Word" or "Pretty Please" & only Pretty Please has an option to make "please" mandatory.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@netgal_emi to be clear, i think this is a genuine reaction to consumer demand (from parents). but the push for kids (who are a natural audience for voice, probably more than adults) is a very delicate thing. as design, legally & ethically.Permalink Look on archive.org
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The Last Ringbearer is ace. If you like lore & worldbuilding & thinking about the effects of technology upon the world, which I definitely do. PDFs & ebooks of the translation here: ymarkov.livejournal.com/280578.html @NewStatesman/1012428926319255554Permalink Look on archive.org
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@skeleton_hugs is the problem anthropomorphization of non-living things, or anthropomorphization of interface to corporations?Permalink Look on archive.org
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here's a 5 pence coin that was found in a canal in Amsterdam belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondst/NZD1.00418MTL091?index=121Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @molily: Bash has if…fi, Algol also has do…od. But I also want for…rof, while…elihw, function…noitcnuf, class…ssalc, interface…ecafretni…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lyyyndseyyy @vectorpoem @mode7games @Campster tbh I'm not sure the situation has changed much from the last time companies tried to make streaming happen. they want to sell a thing-as-a-service & make a platform play, gamers are still sceptical & other people... don't really care?Permalink Look on archive.org
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ahhhh! here's an excited review of When In Rome! so nice to read! so nice to know that someone else has made a visualisation of the city connections in the game! medium.com/voice-games/review-when-in-rome-da59d73ecab1Permalink Look on archive.org
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and another good review! engadget.com/2018/06/29/alexa-when-in-rome-board-game/Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @108: today is the 20th anniversary of the release of the nintendo 64 game Banjo-Kazooie. please read this long story i published on @Ko…Permalink Look on archive.org
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By the time i learned that you could have a persona, I had a persona online. I've had at least one ever since. They're both more durable and less than offline.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@_lizharvey thank you!! I feel this & I know just enough people that sincerely dare about Drake & fancy him to feel like I shouldn't make a thing about it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcclure111: You can let the connection between you and your lover, partner, friend be whatever it wants to be at a particular moment. Y…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Draknek: Stephen made 40 games and gamelike things this month! I particularly recommend: * Bring the ice cube to the goal without expos…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @_ruminant: Hello twitter, my minimal vector drawing / animation tool for the iPad Pro / Apple Pencil is in private alpha on the app sto…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @metasynthie: Want to talk real demographics? I didn’t record data but having curated submissions and/or juried awards for Indiecade, IG…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @qrs: @scanlime @NorthAllenPoole @boldport @moonmilk found that some LED flicker-flame candles have secret prior lives as musical greeti…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @piglungs: For some reason Twitter asked me if I wanted to translate this tweet by @vicfeatherstone - so I did, and it made it even bett…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin it's kind of a different issue, tho? as Naomi says, it's not like this NGO money is gonna ever become grants for other indie projects. I think it is possible to do good work within g 4 c stuff. but most of everything is bad.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin maybe it'll take that much, though for me that can feel like a path to despair. the situation has not been static! Tools & festivals & community work & lobbying for better grants & opening up platforms.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @CoolBoxArt: Pocket Family: Happy Family Plan / PlayStation / Hudson Soft / 1999Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin the best thing I know is thinking how different stuff was 10/20 years ago. not all positive change & some stuff hasn't shifted... but definitely not the same.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate I feel very dissatisfied if I'm release a casual creativity tool that I feel I have a complete picture of the capabilities of.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @acmedef: SOM’s early (c.1988-99) digital diagrams of the glass shell structure at the “new” Penn Station at the Farley Post Office were…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Soranomaru: This sobering post-mortem of the launch @KitfoxGames' Moon Hunters by @tanyaxshort is *such* a good read. The ways she des…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @owenjpowell: Lidar visualisation of The Wash, Norfolk with the tide out - becoming obsessed with these channels. Elevation difference o…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hautepop: “Testosterone has become a powerful technology for the production of subjectivity, the most consequential of which is gender.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is musical notation, by the wayPermalink Look on archive.org
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games done quick right now is fascinating - the runner is explaining the history and design of the bingo run structure of OOTPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ojahnn hahaha. sorry! i might see if i can find it laterPermalink Look on archive.org
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so they made a 7x7 grid & one challenge would get picked. but then someone who hated the randomness just started memorising all 49 routes...Permalink Look on archive.org
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so then they invented the bingo format, with a 5x5 grid of challenges - each run has to all the challenges on a row or a column. the first version was entirely random - but sometimes one row/column would be just way easier.Permalink Look on archive.org
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they did fixed runs, then someone made an irc bot to give random challenges (with a challenge would come up, then everyone would run at the same time - this was pre-streaming days). that was fun, but people kept rerolling the challenges & it was a pain in the arse.Permalink Look on archive.org
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now they scrape the data that runners put up, to extract analytics about what challenges people run for. and there's loads of friendly ribbing about "dirty blankers" who don't put up their metadata for runs.Permalink Look on archive.org
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so they started weighting difficulty of different challenges, then using magic squares to distribute the challenges. and now the modern bingo backend takes into account that some synergise better with others, to try to create a balanced board of interesting challenges.Permalink Look on archive.org
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so fascinating - the iterative interplay between game design, community practices, the text of the game, learnings about runs & skips & tricks...Permalink Look on archive.org
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the current runner has been in the community for 12 years - he's old school enough his handle is "runner guy" (people calling him RG). he's the one making the spreadsheets of challenges for balancing purposes. some of the dudes on the couch are dirty blankers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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here's the bingo card tool on speed runs live, which is the hub for this community: speedrunslive.com/tools/oot-bingo/?seed=986260Permalink Look on archive.org
