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Tweets from 2018/08

  1. @deer_ful very glad to see yr following @successfulbot already
  2. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful @successfulbot I Cherish the Art that come out of Artist
  3. …in reply to @v21
  4. i ended up watching this the other week & am still thinking about it now: - the amount of military tech used - the amount of CG & George Miller's attitude to CG (vs the marketing) - various bits on labour/money - the charming bluff old-tech-guy attitude vimeo.com/127381179
  5. RT @M_Z_Harrison: In the office cutlery lottery today I drew the last remaining Divorce Spoon, and it's giving me all sorts of feelings.
  6. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern hey, yeah, that'd be nice.
  7. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc thank you for sharing this story
  8. …in reply to @pangmeli
    @pangmeli I think you would enjoy "19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei" - a book that compares 19 different translations of the same short poem, and pokes into why they differ.
  9. …in reply to @v21
    @pangmeli (there's a PDF online)
  10. I'm on my way to GenCon! There's a big Sensible Object crew out there, I think our booth number is 356? Anyway, say hi if you're also around.
  11. …in reply to @v21
    when I say I'm on my way, I'm literally on an aeroplane. weird to tweet while suspended in the air. also, not good for my plan to finish working on the talk I'm giving there...
  12. okay, here's a terrible plan: go to Edinburgh for a week & see all of the shows about Brexit & nothing else.
  13. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge I guess Brexit doesn't come with a costume... Wishing you strength to manage through.
  14. …in reply to @KevinBuist
    @KevinBuist yeah - #365. we've also got demo slots & whatnot, so i think I'll only be at the booth half the time, but let me know and we can sort something out
  15. RT @pangmeli: speaking/writing strictly with my *desired* audience in mind [instead of, perhaps, my *actual* audience] - not disclaiming, n…
  16. RT @JakeBear97: when carly rae jepsen’s saxophone said F# D# A# C# D# A# G# ...i felt that
  17. …in reply to @hautepop
    @hautepop I wonder what it'd be like to run this as an app - deletes any tweet that goes over a certain threshold automatically.
  18. …in reply to @gsvoss
    @gsvoss @fturner @shannonmattern ooh, this looks great - reminds me of a bunch of stuff from More Work For Mother, like subscription dinner delivery services. More Work is also fascinating because it was written pre-Internet changing stuff, but connects with it so well.
  19. Been at GenCon for approximately 1 minute & seen 2 utilikilts. I hope the rate of utilikilts per minute subsides.
  20. @angusdick in a bar in Indianapolis, Boop bag hanging on the back of my chair, when suddenly
  21. @notquitereal hey, the Diana Jones Award just got given to the Actual Play movement. You're part of that! Well done! Your podcast was mentioned on stage even! You win a small moral part of a perspex pyramid.
  22. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge I brought my zoom, and Andrew should have it in this morning. Will poke him.
  23. …in reply to @angusdick
  24. on my way to be on TV!
  25. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew I'm coming for your job.
  26. …in reply to @v21
  27. …in reply to @cassiemcquater
    @cassiemcquater I also belive those things about your work, and I want there to be a space for it.
  28. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn the medium is important! the context you give is important! technical innovation is important, but definitely giving this stuff the right context can make it transformative.
  29. …in reply to @v21
    @deathmtn not arguing the stuff you saw isn't bullshit, obv
  30. In Birmingham next Saturday? Want to learn how to make a Twitterbot? I'm doing a workshop at Vivid Projects and YOU could be there. eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-a-procedural-twitterbot-with-cheap-bots-done-quick-tickets-47716646775
  31. RT @compositeredfox: Happy friday! A big new update for #doodlestudio95 is out now! Draw seamless patterns, beautiful radial shapes, use a…
  32. wandering through GenCon, absently thinking dark thoughts about capitalism, when suddenly
  33. …in reply to @toddwords
    @toddwords yes, it will (not fully sorted yet, but if it doesn't I will be surprised and upset)
  34. …in reply to @v21
    maybe what i actually hate are dungeons
  35. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi don't worry, I got some cute socks
  36. RT @mcclure111: Transphobes are like "ugh why don't you just identify as a hamster" and trans ppl r like "oh my god… my gender is a hamster…
  37. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC I agree; it fucked my life up for a few days; I should uninstall it, but I'm not for some reason.
  38. GenCon! Want to see me do some talking? Today I'm on a panel Treating Your Game Like A Business (Lucas Oil Room 3, 11am), and giving a talk about using tech in boardgames (Lucas Oil Room 1, 3pm). And then tonight I'm on the Dungeon World RPG stream (Westin Grand & online, 7pm)
  39. …in reply to @v21
    look forward to my throaty husk of a voice tomorrow!
  40. …in reply to @v21
    my data is too bad for me to check, but this link is probably the one? Live in like 15? gencon.com/experience/streaming
  41. RT @jonritter: OMG YESSSSSSS #DungeonWorld with @v21, @KarleeEsmailli, @tburrellsaward, @dyketacular and @SkinnyGhost running the show. #Ge…
  42. …in reply to @janakinsman
    @janakinsman Imaginary Advice
  43. on my way home, and trying to hold back the con tiredness until a UK-appropriate time
  44. …in reply to @chenoehart
    @chenoehart Living in London, it's hard to see this being viable as a future! Suburbia here is defined largely by how long it takes to get to central London by train - I do not see AVs emerging as a serious competitor to that.
  45. …in reply to @v21
    @chenoehart and both forms have their own subsidies. Here (but more in Europe) public transport has public funding, and AV seems likely to start off by burning investment cash. Only one of those works long-term (tho obv the bet is AV destroys alternatives by the time that happens)
  46. RT @hermansaksono: “Congrats” in Indonesian is “selamat”. Selamat also means “to survive.” After the 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Lombok, F…
  47. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe definitely a "rich-get-richer" aspect to this as well
  48. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb wow, a giant-sized version of the classic boardgame Chairs
  49. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite honestly I feel we'd be fine with a bank of pre-rendered horse sounds of different emotional cadences.
  50. RT @betterthemask: I'm also extremely tired of the outdated notion that we need to be "good" at playing games to be good at designing them.…
  51. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo the real brag here is that you have a portfolio you've consistently kept up to date
  52. RT @v21: In Birmingham next Saturday? Want to learn how to make a Twitterbot? I'm doing a workshop at Vivid Projects and YOU could be there…
  53. …in reply to @v21
    When I first tweeted this, "next Saturday" should've been taken to be the second Saturday to happen after this. But now I've retweeted it, "next Saturday" should be taken to be the next Saturday to happen after this. I hope this is clear.
  54. …in reply to @v21
    If not, please see this series of polls: @v21/865913939061878784?s=19 We've been over this.
  55. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker I am vaguely in favour of areas of ambiguity within speech, so I cannot support this.
  56. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge @lazerwalker "this weekend" is also ambiguous if it's a weekend
  57. RT @tinysubversions: I talk more about why I've stopped making Twitter bots in this article, which also interviews @aparrish. Time to move…
  58. RT @aparrish: I keep thinking about this tweet. oh my god. I don't make "products" and I am not interested in "making Twitter better"—I don…
  59. …in reply to @tchoi8
    @tchoi8 the main thing I do is make sure everything is in my calendar? context beyond that I can usually hunt up when I need it. but I am only a moderate-frequent traveller, and not one easily stressed
  60. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 ooh, just like defocusing the compose window on web-Twitter
  61. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt things went wrong when we split with LUCA
  62. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn raced upstairs to catch up on the latest episode. 9 worlds is soon, right?
  63. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn also, yes, yes, yes, you would look so good as... well, any pearl, tbh
  64. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox mailing list for people who just want to know if you've released something big. a discord for users of yr stuff. staying on Twitter, but hanging out elsewhere.
  65. RT @mcclure111: I don't know what "communities" or "tags" are. It's just that all of this makes intuitive sense to me. Yes, in the future,…
  66. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn everyday lqqks
  67. RT @krainboltgreene: please help, my little brother @jack has been sick in bed with "fixing transparency" for the last 9 years, someone sav…
  68. RT @JarMustard: Hey peoples - Into the Breach is now available for Mac! Yay! subsetgames.com
  69. RT @MarioBrothBlog: By popular demand, here is a detailed explanation of the situation behind the deleted Ashley Tweet, which includes both…
  70. here is the sweet zine for the PIXELS x PAPER show currently on at Babycastles. Flatgames & Bitsy games, showcased together - including Memory Museum, which was made by attendees of the last Now Play This! pixelsxpaper.itch.io/zine
  71. RT @kylebuchanan: Remember the McDonalds Monopoly article that launched a Hollywood bidding war? Turns out it was planted at the Daily Beas…
  72. …in reply to @noantlers
    @Fir3Sparkle yes, and you! sorry, didn't mean to flatten out the work you did there, it's just fun to see things made at one exhibition go on to be part of another exhibition.
  73. RT @mcxfrank: Ever wondered how kids learn logical language - words like "or", "no", or "if"? Maybe they are learned by generalizing social…
  74. …in reply to @torpordust
    @torpordust also he lost the bottom bit of his trenchcoat
  75. Android added the ability to have an alarm play a specific playlist on Spotify! It's a weird specific thing I wasted some time trying to make happen months ago via various fiddly ways. And... I'm immediately dissatisfied - it always sets Spotify to shuffle & repeat all.
  76. …in reply to @v21
    I wish I didn't have any preexisting desires to accomplish things in a particular way with technology, and could happily accept the choices I was given.
  77. …in reply to @v21
    (the irony is that when I am designing games, I am a big crusader against giving people options where it can be avoided)
  78. RT @torpordust: Child: Dad, I'm sleepy! Dad: *chuckling* Hi sleepy, I'm dad! *turns to camera* see, what I've done here is jokingly exploit…
  79. test cat
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  82. test cat
  83. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn { "origin":["test cat {img placekitten.com/g/#digit#00/600}"], "digit":["1","2","3","4"] }
  84. …in reply to @profaniti
    @profaniti receiving you loud and clear
  85. RT @blackholeclub: .@v21 starting the Cheap Bots, Done Quick! workshop
  86. …in reply to @KrisLorischild
    @KrisLigman Heaven Will Be Mine. Sharp and stylish.
  87. feels like the past decade has been a high stakes bet on whether you can run a healthy online community without active human moderation, and we've lost
  88. folks looking for Mastodon follows: I am still tooting with a symbol constraint at @v21@oulipo.social on occasion.
  89. a series of Round The Twist plot summaries that I can fit within single tweets
  90. …in reply to @v21
    The villainous Mr Gribble is trying to have Nell, who says she has seen a dragon, committed as insane so that he and a group of Arab investors can buy her cottage. The kids set out to prove her sanity and save her house by finding the dragon and retrieving Nell's missing rubies.
  91. …in reply to @v21
    Gribble Jr and his gang give new boy Pete a nerve test on his first day at the new school. He has to collect a rotting skull from the middle of the pond in the haunted tip at midnight. Pete not only passes the test, but also comes back with a surprise present for Gribble.
  92. …in reply to @v21
    8 year old Bronson wants to know where babies come from. Dad directs him to the cabbage patch where he finds a real live green baby. When the baby thinks Bronson is his father, Bronson takes on the role of parent but when that becomes too demanding, he tries to put the baby back.
  93. …in reply to @v21
    A bolt of lightning hits the video remote control at the lighthouse and suddenly it works on people. The PAUSE button freezes everyone - but it's the REWIND that causes the most trouble, especially when Rabbit pigs out in the school's 3rd annual spaghetti-eating competition.
  94. …in reply to @v21
    When Pete dries his underpants in the microwave, he gains special powers, and is tempted to get even with Gribble Jr. But the underpants don't like the water and shrink. Left nude on the beach, Peter finds it hard to get to the race where his frog, Loopy Leaper, is due to start.
  95. …in reply to @v21
    The Twists find a trunk full of old circus costumes washed up and decide to dress up the scarecrow in the clown's costume. But the scarecrow comes to life and chases Linda, dressed as the lady clown. Fortunately Dad, dressed as a fortune teller, sees all and knows all.
  96. …in reply to @v21
    [so many of these are just a little too long, and it is very painful for me not to include them. but I'm doing my best]
  97. …in reply to @v21
    Mr. Gribble plans to build an aquatic wonderworld on a beautiful stretch of a natural waterway. Bronson, who is the humiliated loser of the school peeing competition, finds an ally in a water spirit who helps him defeat Mr. Gribble and prove that he is no "little squirt."
  98. …in reply to @v21
    Bronson upsets Miss James by refusing to attend her birthday party. But there is something Bronson absolutely has to do at precisely the same time. It is a matter of life and death! Could it be something to do with the fact Bronson has not washed his feet for the last 6 months?
  99. …in reply to @v21
    Pete finally meets the girl of his dreams. He can't believe his luck — Jeannie is the most beautiful girl in Port Niranda — even if she is a tree spirit. But when Pete discovers he is pregnant, Linda, Bronson and the Gribble Gang deliver the surprise of their lives.
  100. …in reply to @v21
    When Bronson swallows a rare whirling derfish nobody could have guessed his willy would spin like a propeller and he would become a human outboard motor. Then Linda discovers the derfish is one of the last breeding pair in existence and she demands that Bronson cough it up.
  101. …in reply to @v21
    Bronson teams up with resident geekazoid Anthony for a science project that ends up with Pete and Linda having their brains sucked out. While Bronson is searching for their brains at the local tip, Gribbs and his gang kidnap Linda and Pete's bodies and make them their slaves.
  102. …in reply to @v21
    Linda's old Veronique doll comes back to haunt her. It won't leave her alone, neither will Gribbs who has heard Linda read from the Viking Book of Love and is acting really weird.
  103. …in reply to @v21
  104. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck that looks like a really sweet tent. enjoy waking up, dealing with damp, all your your stuff, struggling to get clothes and boots on in order to go piss, then remembering you're somewhere beautiful and having a grand time.
  105. RT @NoChorus: When the first Atlas Shrugged film came out they asked for fans to say "I am john galt" to add to a dvd extra. The results ar…
  106. …in reply to @muffinista
    @muffinista @mtrc wow, you kept that secret! excited to read!
  107. paying at a cafe, the waitress asks what half of 32 is... my entire programming career has led to this moment
  108. …in reply to @intimacyintome
    @looptheloopthe @blackholeclub ah, you got the reply stuff working!
  109. RT @muclorty: New game: Forests are for Trees ianmaclarty.itch.io/forests-are-for-trees
  110. RT @iamalexf: OMG radio static is the sound of all the lightning happening across the world en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_noise
  111. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb same (also the one with the willy fish)
  112. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry I made a wise investment in future Internet content, I see.
  113. RT @pangmeli: ladies,
  114. RT @zemnmez: from the furby source code dump
  115. felt pleased with myself for remembering the name of the indie game that Voodoo had cloned and was advertising on my Instagram 🙃
  116. …in reply to @lefishy
    @lefishy Impossible Road, this time
  117. very early work on audio games is fun because making weird mouth noises is more fun than making rubbish sketches
  118. …in reply to @stml
    @stml agreed. the rosiest take on bitcoin I can bear is probably this one: bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-09/bitcoin-is-ridiculous-blockchain-is-dangerous-paul-ford
  119. RT @mathmarcault: Hey here's an essay we wrote about the weird long evolution of billiards! medium.com/@mathesonmarcault/game-changers-billiards-4f9965d61ab0
  120. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty I'm sorry for your loss.
  121. …in reply to @KevinBuist
    @KevinBuist It only knows what text is, not numbers! But you can fudge some interesting stuff together if you try.
  122. …in reply to @v21
    @lasersink ooof, just saw this fav. sorry this happened to you, it sucks.
  123. RT @richardclegg: @clegoues @justinesherry In the introduction to "Queuing Theory: Volume 1" Kleinrock addresses exactly this and asks wha…
  124. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow An Oak Tree (1973)
  125. RT @saladinahmed: never forget
  126. I recommend the work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles for anyone who saw An Oak Tree and asked: how often do they fill up the glass? who's job is that? when do they wash the glass? do they have a special stepladder & jug in some cupboard somewhere just for this task?
  127. …in reply to @v21
    thinking about it, I first wondered about these questions over half my life ago. maybe I should just... write to the Tate Modern. hm.
  128. …in reply to @TheHitch
    @TheHitch and if the water is ordinary tap water, you'd get limescale rings... unless they use distilled water? still, dust would settle within the water...
  129. …in reply to @torpordust
    @torpordust I am so excited to have these as a physical set! Congrats on finishing!
  130. …in reply to @markeryjane
  131. RT @micro_research: Heatsick: the computer processor is coerced into attempting to match its own temperature to the temperature recorded at…
  132. RT @AnnaHollinrake: I have such a deep, fundamental level of respect for Rebecca Sugar - she realised representation was worth risking her…
  133. RT @helfitzgerald: this article is great and correct and also the only real way you know if you’ve thrown a good party is if there’s a diff…
  134. RT @LeaSchonfelder: Hello world! @ustwogames is looking to collaborate with a writer who likes writing about real people. Please get in tou…
  135. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt perfect, ship it
  136. …in reply to @SerinDelaunay
    @SerinDelaunay ugh - sorry, it's actually just a bug in the documentation. try four backslashes!
  137. …in reply to @v21
    @SerinDelaunay (there was a bot that generated Tracery source, but it's name escapes me right now)
  138. …in reply to @SerinDelaunay
    @SerinDelaunay oh, yes, i think it was
  139. …in reply to @SerinDelaunay
    @SerinDelaunay ah, damn, okay, thanks for letting me know
  140. test bracket: {
  141. …in reply to @v21
    @SerinDelaunay {"origin":["test bracket: \\{ "]} @v21/1029766560565669891
  142. another test bracket: {
  143. @humansoflatepr1 hola, operes @processisme? l'he desactivat. no dubteu a tornar-ho a activar una vegada que s'hagin eliminat els hashtags. ho sento, això es deu a les regles de twitter
  144. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt it's much more genre, but I would recommend "Stand On Zanzibar"
  145. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn just for you...
  146. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt I was very much in love with it for several years - now very aware of it's flaws, but still... the overall thing is still leads somewhere beautiful.
  147. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn it might be possible to stitch parts of my evening together from context... @mink_ette/1029855075815055360?s=19
  148. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn hey, Thryn, guess where the boys ended up tonight?
  149. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn shit, how did you know?
  150. …in reply to @__Tyu
    @__Tyu Portable organ. Action-Organ. Actiorgan. Acciorgan. Accordgian. Accordion.
  151. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful i have suddenly become active the past few days, but i am still on oulipo, so, y'know, that's it's own weirdness.
  152. …in reply to @v21
    @deer_ful because of this burst of activity i have explained it to two people. both very bright, one very technically capable. both were like "why? i don't like this & don't care". perhaps i did not try to sell it enough.
  153. i think Mastodon maybe illustrates the end of the traditional path of weird new Internet stuff appealing to tech early adopters first, then normal people later. feels like it's just going to be tech early adopters and then... still those people, as an ongoing thing?
  154. …in reply to @undefined
    @Belial42 @lorenschmidt there's some weird racial politics that didn't age well, population growth is not actually a problem in the way it's stated irl, i'm kind of done with smart-alecky white dudes having profound opinions phrased in jokey ways...
  155. …in reply to @v21
    @Belial42 @lorenschmidt mainly, though, i loved it too much as a teenager to love it the same way now.
  156. happy 60th to Madonna! @SERVE_LOOKS/908388702895968256
  157. …in reply to @v21
    @Belial42 @lorenschmidt compare to Stranger In A Strange Land, which I also loved, but am now definitely a bit yikes about.
  158. funny pairing
  159. Open source is part of an engine that drives inequality medium.com/@johnmark/why-open-source-failed-6cae5d6a9f6
  160. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful I then explained the concept of oulipo.social and both of them immediately got why that'd be interesting. there's your active motivation, I guess.
  161. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
  162. …in reply to @v21
    thinking about the "open source"-ness of CBDQ. it is, the code's all there. but also it's a service run by a single person ("me"), who controls it and has written all the code (that isn't other open source software, used for free, without permission).
  163. …in reply to @v21
    My community-benefit nice tech project is not a vast tech powerhouse. But most of the tech giants have the same setup - they are Internet companies, and the valuable thing is a service they run on their servers. Even if Google was open-sourced... we'd still use Google.
  164. …in reply to @v21
    does this return power to the users? not really. the best they could do is fork it, run their own version. if the code wasn't public, they couldn't even do that. but it was vastly easier for me to make than if I had to write or pay for the OS code that I built it on
  165. …in reply to @v21
    It was supposed to be: clever stuff at the edges, dumb networks. but instead the clever stuff is in the webpages, and the only software that sits on our computers are the web browsers.
  166. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful extra bonus: i can't talk about video games there
  167. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz tbh, if i were you i'd just go with mastodon.social, you can always migrate later (i am refusing to move off oulipo.social, which i love but is not what you are looking for)
  168. RT @inkleStudios: Writing web-based interactive fiction with ink - for complete beginners: inklestudios.com/ink/web-tutorial/ A new tutorial that we'…
  169. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful as if being tech savvy was ever the point, or more than a temporary & unfortunate obstacle
  170. RT @ryanfb: Cool, cool
  171. …in reply to @rileynwong
    @rileynwong I get you & I'm not mad at open source... but it is (was?) an explicitly political project with particular aims, and it's worth looking at whether it's succeeded on it's own terms, and why or why not.
  172. once spotted this joke in the index of the Fringe programme (think it was "recursion" instead...) t.co/NHr2Vl4g0H
  173. …in reply to @UnburntWitch
    @UnburntWitch @konjak this sent me down a wiki hole in which I learnt that the father of the main guy from the Eels is the guy that came up with the many worlds interpretation
  174. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty I am definitely interested to see
  175. we are looking for people who own an Alexa (or other smart speaker) to come in and help us figure out what we ought to make some point next week. if you're interested, the link is here: insightsandideas.typeform.com/to/GebC0O
  176. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander all viewpoints will be taken into consideration
  177. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork this makes me want to make things with that full on Unity-editor aesthetic.
  178. the thing where you open your laptop in the morning, and are discover anew the last tab before you fell asleep. checking instagram to remember the last bar of the night. regretting a message only after the reply comes in.
  179. …in reply to @v21
    I guess it's the flipside of the quantified self. The qualitative self. Reading back over your diaries in real time.
  180. …in reply to @v21
    discovering yourself through the traces you left externally (much stronger than the weaker internal)
  181. …in reply to @v21
    a horror film where you discover your shadow self only via the digital imprint it leaves.
  182. …in reply to @v21
    both realities melt in the sun, fade with time, have dogeared corners and patches worn bare. i'm comfortable in the endless fallibility of my own memory.
  183. …in reply to @v21
    but then, I also post things purely for the context they'll trigger within me when I come across them years from now. (the monopolies are better archivists than me, although that doesn't say much)
  184. …in reply to @v21
  185. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander tbh, I am mainly just reeling from learning @xxvi_xxxviii's name
  186. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow oh! goodness! wow! (of COURSE you called them that)
  187. RT @songadaymann: So, @danielpunkass asked for a song about Twitter's FU to 3rd party folks. Shout out to @tweetbot and Cheap Bots Done Q…
  188. RT @mickkrek: Was excited to see that Cornwall's Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (where my ancestors are from!) has uploaded an archive of t…
  189. RT @ftrain: Me: Google show me ONE 15-minute video I can analyze for the pivotal chapter in my PhD thesis to demonstrate how technocapitali…
  190. for fans of retrofutures and outdated corporate visions: archive.org/details/isodvd_creating-the-future-together-1994-att-dvdr
  191. …in reply to @unfortunatalie
    @unfortunatalie you may like to meet @successfulbot
  192. …in reply to @DavidLublin
    @DavidLublin ironically, i think Twitter was planning on introducing something functionally equivalent... then dropped it due to an outcry from users
  193. …in reply to @v21
    @DavidLublin (the 10,000 character limit thing)
  194. I have been designing things like this in my head for years. I don't know if stuff like this will be "successful" (hundreds of millions of users, an IPO, all that), but I think it could be a meaningful part of some people's lives. That's maybe part of the point. @maxkreminski/1030838313429528576
  195. the Robin Hunicke game i have most affection for is Boom Blox the Martin Hollis game i have most affection for is Bonsai Barber
  196. RT @nd_kane: Wonderful profile on some of the games designers featured in the upcoming @V_and_A Videogames exhibition, curated by m’colleag…
  197. …in reply to @maxkreminski
    @maxkreminski @tanyaxshort oh, shit, this is definitely very interesting. my setup with work is really good at the moment, with some amount of time, but not enough to fully go at this... but i would love to talk more & maybe figure out small paths that can help explore.
  198. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty WoW has always been as much a chatroom as anything else.
  199. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad Glitch did a lot of things right, but never got the core experience there. reading over Keita's notes, you can see him trying to sticking plaster some joy into the heart of the interactions. shame, because there was so much very good work surrounding that.
  200. RT @rubna_: steel factory
  201. sometimes I am writing code, and I get stuck on refactoring and trying to make the code elegant & expressive. then I remember that @jwaaaap only just discovered that code doesn't execute past a "return" and I try to focus on what's important.
  202. RT @LydNicholas: Hey so driverless cars don't work and probably never will unless we radically redesign cities for them, and all the talk o…
  203. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall that part is true to life, or at least true to general tropes around ancient boarding/public schools.
  204. RT @pangmeli: yuichi saito
  205. RT @jwaaaap: @v21 its not the code that matters its what in ur heart
  206. RT @vogon: honestly robotic cranes stacking and unstacking useless concrete weights for all eternity is the surreal dieselpunk energy stora…
  207. …in reply to @Appleguysnake
  208. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew oh wow, next level
  209. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew I look forward to seeing more of it
  210. RT @bfod: JW has programmed more hit games than you (and me) @jwaaaap/1031141222717509632
  211. …in reply to @em_cooper
    @em_cooper time for some HOT TAKES
  212. RT @jaytholen: the dad comments on this video of Peanuts clips set to Rush's 2112 are 👌youtu.be/-IOKT_sC9ac
  213. …in reply to @undefined
    @thecatamites there's no social media for interactive content
  214. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 clicked through just to check that this was written by @alexhern
  215. …in reply to @JenuinePanic
    @JenuinePanic so there's obviously not one True Always answer here: but most folk prefer it if other people correct misgendering for them.
  216. …in reply to @v21
    @JenuinePanic usually people don't correct misgendering because they're tired & this is tiring & it goes on forever. so use your not-tired-of-this-forever to their advantage.
  217. RT @successfulbot: The most successful people I've met: 1. Worship Mary Wollstonecraft 2. Respect Iris Murdoch 3. Cherish the List that co…
  218. RT @youngvulgarian: I am fully, absolutely in love with this local paper story about Pete Doherty winning a "mega breakfast challenge": htt…
  219. …in reply to @king_spooner
  220. What’s the difference between a paid game and a free one? myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/177234755990/receipt-king
  221. RT @R_Michalak: I had a strange dream a few months ago about temples defiled, new gods created and time all overlapping so i'm painting sce…
  222. RT @robdubbin: OK I've been waiting a couple days to share this because I honestly wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, and I'm still…
  223. RT @paranaturalzack: Now that downloads of my comic TERRAFORM have tapered off, I've decided to tweet it in full to give it a good send-off…
  224. yeah sex is great
  225. RT @molleindustria: The syllabus for my course Experimental Game Design - Playspaces is online mycours.es/gamedesign2018
  226. …in reply to @molleindustria
    @molleindustria this is great
  227. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 it does it twice!
  228. RT @jhnhw: First 1e6 integers, represented as binary vectors indicating their prime factors, and laid out using the sparse matrix support i…
  229. RT @larsonchristina: China is attempting to use big data - in place of actually listening to citizens - to improve governance. The results…
  230. @HonestWilliam last night someone said that he knew games could be art when he played the Stanley Parable.
  231. …in reply to @v21
    I told him I was gonna tweet this, and he said your ego was big enough already
  232. RT @datad00r: Recent custom char set conversions (commodore Plus4 palette)
  233. this has made me laugh more than anything I have read on the Internet in... months? years? thecut.com/2018/08/are-baths-too-hot-for-testicles.html
  234. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain so much money
  235. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood oh, i had somehow missed that TidalCycles was Haskell based... hm... (i learned Haskell at uni, i was not any good at it, but i have a weird fondness for it. i don't know if this is making me want to mess with Tidal more or less)
  236. …in reply to @danhett
    @danhett @hellocatfood A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
  237. …in reply to @danhett
    @danhett @hellocatfood tbh that period of learning meant that when i did Python, comprehensions made a bunch of sense to me (tho Haskell didn't, any more). and that meant that when I did C#, Linq made a bunch of sense to me (tho comprehensions now confuse me).
  238. …in reply to @v21
    @danhett @hellocatfood Yet to be seen if arrow notation in ES6 will eventually make Linq seem alien to me... I guess maybe at this point I should go to Haskell and see if I can make a loop out of it (or should I be more respectful, and say it's recursion).
  239. RT @inform_dreams: Test me with "wear capris / wear jeans / i / wear thong / i / wear dress / wear corset / wear dress / i / wear wrap / i…
  240. …in reply to @priya_ebooks
    @priya_ebooks I didn't, but I've drank wine made by Ridley Scott. It was good.
  241. RT @hannahnicklin: Would be interested in a similar survey of the games industry. Suspect the % of working class origins is even less than…
  242. RT @joonturbo: 🚨 Restless Spirit Projector by @vivschwarz and me, commissioned by @nowplaythese in 2017. 🎥 Finally has a trailer 🎥 https://…
  243. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir still balls before arse, surely?
  244. reminded of the time I did a poetic reading of all the comments mentioning crying on a youtube video of Clair De Lune. in ascending order of length. v21.io/themachinegentlystutters/clairdelune/
  245. …in reply to @marthasadie
    @marthasadie @RobinKwong yes, this is fascinating, thanks for sharing! honestly it also sounds much more likely to be effective & sustainable - here's hoping, anyway.
  246. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark I agree with your general point, but really dislike the Hofstader piece. @ojahnn went in on more detail on a talk of his: medium.com/@ojahnn/how-do-you-recognize-a-bad-translation-just-see-if-calling-it-garbage-feels-right-1867dc1e060e
  247. …in reply to @ultrabrilliant
    @ultrabrilliant @Jam_sponge this is like the Cool Spy Toys you could get as a kid. wait. maybe i'm into this?
  248. i still think this is cool
  249. …in reply to @marthasadie
    @marthasadie @RobinKwong yeah - this has generally been where i'm at. i can imagine an ecosystem like that for commissioned illustrations, but for interactive work - not helpful for agencies, but possibly better for individual creatives
  250. …in reply to @marthasadie
    @marthasadie imagine doing projects where the main value you bring is doing the thing, not explaining the thing, why it's actually good, and why it's not the thing they thought they wanted...
  251. RT @atomicthumbs: A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure, is posting in a subforum of a subforum, a little-known pl…
  252. …in reply to @ranarama
    @ranarama @dots i know know that it's necessarily taught me the most... but there's something about the videos Assemble made for their The Voice Of Children show... vimeo.com/167407775
  253. RT @fivememos: The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst…
  254. a game we made is going to be on QVC?! this has been in the works for a while now, but it's still surreal. QVC! @ammonite/1033388038565625857
  255. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge @LiveCutCorner I think Knife To Meet You has that market cornered
  256. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland ahhh, yeah, that's me! and glad to hear you had a good time with it - over time I have gotten more and more careless with my stacking...
  257. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @patrickashe jazzy trousers!
  258. RT @ammonite: So the @QVC airing time for Beasts of Balance is 3.40pm Eastern (8.40pm UK time) and you can watch online: https://t.co/fQzgC…
  259. …in reply to @v21
  260. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @everestpipkin this reminds me of being a kid and poring over the dragon fractals that came between the chapters of a hardcover copy of Jurassic Park we had
  261. q: in Unity, I am calling from C# to a C++ library, which I'm writing as a wrapper around another library. That library gives me a std::string, and I want to return this from a function call to C# (as a string). What's the best way to do this? (I am not strong at C++)
  262. …in reply to @v21
    (converting to a char * and returning that makes Unity crash: Unity(18127,0x7fffc50e93c0) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fffc4e7e660: pointer being freed was not allocated at (wrapper managed-to-native) object.__icall_wrapper_mono_marshal_free (intptr) <0x0008b>)
  263. …in reply to @v21
    it's been a fun day
  264. …in reply to @_manpat
    @_manpat All the other libraries I found that do this are Python (and don't run at all on Windows). Which is even less fun to put inside Unity. So looks like I need to write the glue code myself...
  265. …in reply to @r618
    @r618 Yeah, read through a couple of different docs on string marshalling, and still haven't managed to fight my way through it (and yeah, the thing that's crashing gets a char * via .c_str())
  266. …in reply to @r618
    @r618 thanks! managed to get it passing through now!
  267. RT @CharlTaylorPage: Oh god Y’ALL. He slammed his empty glass down and said he was leaving. So I yelled ‘bye dude, don’t look back in anger…
  268. i like this and want to hear more things like it @PsychicTerrain/1033050086878728197
  269. …in reply to @naomialderman
    @naomialderman my big bugbear is all the time and effort TV documentaries spend on convincing you the thing they're talking about is interesting. just believe it is and talk about it, and I'll probably care along with you!
  270. had a lunch that was mainly about providing various shapes & textures to Branston Pickle
  271. RT @DanielMorsing: You know how some tape measures have a loose hook on them? That's a feature so that the thickness of that hook gets acco…
  272. …in reply to @__Tyu
    @__Tyu been working on a thing where i have literally locked up Unity 90% of the times I've ran it... for 2 days straight now.
  273. RT @rndmcnlly: I'm visualizing what time of day my daughter was sleeping/napping during the first year of hear life. Future parents take no…
  274. RT @conchitinabot: 6. a. because the book was turned to the page with the error b. because the book was left with no note of apology c. bec…
  275. …in reply to @v21
  276. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette i'm in ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
  277. …in reply to @v21
    @mink_ette country code xx
  278. …in reply to @v21
  279. RT @lorenschmidt: still obsessed with this.
  280. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette i can actually guess why this exists: it's give a version of the site where you can test rendering of all the weird* characters at once (well, not that weird, it's all still a Latin script)
  281. RT @mattklein123: I did a long form post on my thoughts surrounding the Redis Labs license change announcement from last week. Enjoy and le…
  282. RT @RosewattaStone: Executioner's Capsule #GoogleTranslatesMTG
  283. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn this one seems reasonable, tho
  284. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn i'm not the *biggest* fan of just using exceptions as normal control flow, but at least it's a philosophy? if you've got exceptions, then you're gonna have to draw the line somewhere (what's "normal", anyway?), and why not... all the way over here?
  285. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn oh, i'm not too fussed if it's more performant or not - i'm saying idk if it's awful style, necessarily
  286. …in reply to @Salmikawolf
    @Salmikawolf hello, i would like to either make and/or play this
  287. a good talk on a process for doing the difficult bit of commercial game design - having everyone agree on what game you're trying to make youtube.com/watch?v=PkZoGDKy_L4&app=desktop i have not used this process, but i have tried to solve the same problems it tries to solve, in similar ways
  288. …in reply to @LiToast
    @LiToast tasting menu of British crisps
  289. wibbly lines robot preview (this weekend I have been learning to use illustrator!)
  290. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Yes, I totally believe this is possible now. I think it'd be approximately the same difficulty as writing La Disparition, although of course the difficulties are more strategic than tactical, and the books are obviously longer, so I think it would take significantly longer.
  291. RT @pnc:
  292. unlined notebooks forever
  293. my work is hiring! we are looking for JS devs to help us make games for smart speakers. small team, lots of creative input wanted, people care & are pretty good to each other. happy to answer questions! sensible-object.workable.com/
  294. RT @EddieMakuch: Engman: This may include things that no other furniture company has ever thought of including potentially things that you…
  295. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz @hollygramazio I am also very much into this. Doing things with your hands! Learning things! Nice times with friends!
  296. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz @hollygramazio I keep seeing stuff about Daphne Oram, these last few weeks...
  297. years ago, i stopped playing a Donut County demo halfway through because it was too good & i didn't want to spoil myself on the rest of the game. it comes out today.
  298. RT @hautepop: “A lot of people are waking up a little bit more now and realizing we don’t really have much of a say in what we’re building…
  299. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn oh, i had wondered! stunning work.
  300. …in reply to @ttl_anderson
    @ttl_anderson it is, yeah :/
  301. …in reply to @v21
    @ttl_anderson which sucks because you do Typescript stuff already? also i like your games! what a shame
  302. RT @iotwatch: The 2018 equivalent of ‘i’ve been working on #iot for 30 years’ 🙄 @EvanKirstel/1034400203498029056
  303. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew ooof, yes, I guess you're in that annoying middle ground where you're too famous to be in regular Bake Off, but not yet famous enough for Celebrity Bake Off.
  304. honestly, 0.3 is all you need. @jwaaaap/1034422332075503616
  305. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa i just think that 0.3 seconds is a good amount of time for a thing to happen for
  306. …in reply to @v21
    @studioanisa long enough to register that it's happening, short enough to get out of your way.
  307. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa what's YOUR favourite duration?
  308. RT @house_house_: Untitled Goose Game is coming to Nintendo Switch + PC + Mac in 2019. A new trailer and lovely website at: https://t.co/…
  309. …in reply to @BeauBlyth
    @teknopants this looks amazing, congratulations !!
  310. …in reply to @bekokstover
    @bekokstover the 106 sneaked past you!
  311. …in reply to @bekokstover
    @bekokstover oh, yeah, what. weird
  312. …in reply to @BeauBlyth
    @teknopants @peowstudio @ppcrotty oh shit it's a Peow book? God, what a dream collaboration!
  313. I'm glad everytime I see this dog, but I only ever see this dog on a Tuesday afternoon, so it's cheerful and empowering spirit is always wasted on me. @no_probIem_/1034421765722624001
  314. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 who is Thursday?
  315. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 This is our chance! Let's find a racoon & have it say something supportive about Thursdays.
  316. RT @mjmcmaster: weird how everyone's getting excited about our game's new trailer and announcements while ignoring this extremely important…
  317. …in reply to @patrickashe
  318. is the new indie merch thing socks now? i mean, i'm here for it
  319. RT @tronbevan: launched a new women in games meetup today, @covenclub! if you're interested in hanging out with other ladygamers & righting…
  320. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge you can do both?
  321. RT @michaelazerrad: Just heard "Orinoco Flow" in the supermarket, which reminded me of one of my favorite things anyone has ever said to me…
  322. RT @panic: 💼 Some of you may wonder how REAL video game business gets done. Here's an exclusive look at our advanced pitching process for s…
  323. …in reply to @theleadingzero
    @theleadingzero @emfcamp @BelaPlatform @beccaerose oh, beautiful, will def be there!
  324. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe i love the bee coin game
  325. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @wjjjjt oh, that's nice. you still gotta buy the socks in the indie game circles (but they're good socks, it's okay)
  326. …in reply to @v21
    @wjjjjt i wonder how much a branded water bottle goes for
  327. RT @topherflorence: adventure time was so seismically influential to cartoons that there will literally be a generation gap in comprehendin…
  328. RT @mollysoda: My Dollz Tarot Deck is up for pre-order right now! 78 cards with a custom box <3 $60 +shipping ~ I am so excited they look s…
  329. working on <unannounced project> almost all consists of work done in a kind of manic, rabbitholey, "okay, so now *this*" thread-pulling kind of way. It's kind of nice, but also kind of horrible - I keep neglecting the "okay, so what actually is this?" bit.
  330. …in reply to @v21
    I think it'll come together, though, there's nice stuff in there, and I've got time to figure out how to slot stuff together and present it intelligibly once I understand the materials I'm working with.
  331. …in reply to @v21
    But right now, I feel like I'm 17 again, hunting down drivers on forums & pasting together code I don't understand & fighting new user interfaces.
  332. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb you have my admiration
  333. here's to 7 years of me being into the duration 0.3 seconds twitter.com/search?q=from%3Av21%20%220.3%22&s=09
  334. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge this is unreasonable
  335. this is legit, we got Kitty to do the music for our videogame and it worked out great @kittaveli/1034961849232646144
  336. …in reply to @doam
    @doam Uniqlo provides a middle way
  337. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore a shame today's my day off; I love Death Grips
  338. …in reply to @infovore
  339. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt definitely done design where we realised that the consideration was not so much whether shades were easily remembered/distinguished, as whether they were easy to name.
  340. RT @metasynthie: We should be calling this what it is: an ethnic cleansing of US citizens. It's targeted by geography and parents' origin,…
  341. RT @itstheshadsy: Since school is back, I wrote about Troggle Trouble Math, a spinoff of MECC's Number Munchers that's more like a math dun…
  342. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt yeah - or remembered over time? less pressing, but still a thing there
  343. I've been waiting to retweet this for 2 days @mewo2/1034503945132171264
  344. RT @KeitaTakahash: What is Tenya Wanya Teens? It sounds stupid. @chuggaaconroy/1034946217136934912
  345. RT @ComradGremlin: I've been emailing scam key requests back and asking some explanation on why are they doing this and how does it work.…
  346. RT @_never_work: light-up shoes in a dryer
  347. RT @nattyover: Discolored patches of wall or ground that look like shadows are often actually faint images of what's behind us or around a…
  348. RT @metasynthie: @BRKeogh This is exactly a demand for an aesthetic that isn’t more visually pleasing but is only chosen for how it “proves…
  349. reminded suddenly of the Now Play This commission @sciencevsmagic did for us. pretty fractal toy! sciencevsmagic.net/castles/
  350. RT @HopeErin: The Melon children: 3 young siblings who independently run the melon stand at the Jean Talon market. I’ve never seen an adult…
  351. …in reply to @v21
  352. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance ohhhh. oh shit.
  353. …in reply to @v21
    @ElectronDance that last one sells the mechanic better than the others, i think? curious about the ordering
  354. …in reply to @v21
    @ElectronDance oh, except it's the wrong way round. in which case, it sells the mechanic, but then taunts you with a real good time getting to apply it. still a good level, but maybe only an intro for a Hazleden (or even Lavelle) game, not a MacLarty.
  355. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance okay, yes, that's what i thought - was just pondering the counterfactual where that last one was the intro
  356. …in reply to @psychicteeth
  357. RT @jdebbiel: Half-sturdy language barriers #artistsontwitter
  358. just had a good fun frustrating time failing to get a train because the ticket machine either lied to me about validity or was confusing. I had a "Super Off-Peak" ticket, but I needed an "Off-Peak".
  359. …in reply to @v21
    I tried to upgrade it, but the train left while I was queuing. I got to the ticket desk and the man just said... but your ticket is valid on the next service?
  360. …in reply to @v21
    apologies for the boring tweets, but I'm sitting on this bench for the next hour. What else am I gonna do, respond to all the emails that I do actually need to answer quite urgently?
  361. …in reply to @mousefountain
  362. congratulations to Annapurna & @torahhorse for this impressive Donut County PR campaign thestar.com/news/gta/2018/08/30/toronto-built-a-better-green-bin-and-oops-maybe-a-smarter-raccoon.html
  363. RT @ozachou_g: "Session" tmblr.co/ZkYouY2b4701v #generativeart #generative #processing