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Tweets from 2018/09

  1. RT @ra: programming has things called "threads" and things called "strings" and they somehow have fuck all to do with each other
  2. …in reply to @FlorianVltmn
  3. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn circles are boring, fight me
  4. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn would the density of mines remain constant?
  5. RT @ContentEngage: these moments of genuine empathy
  6. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn I mean, I just made a dorset button.
  7. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn "Dorset Button"? I don't know the capitalization
  8. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn anyway :
  9. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn Not too long! Would be less time if not in a workshop and chatting
  10. Point Blank is so good. Imagine having made that. It knows what it wants to do, nothing else tries, and yet it does it pretty much perfectly.
  11. …in reply to @v21
    (the thing it is trying to do: an arcade light gun game without violence, and with interesting challenges instead)
  12. …in reply to @v21
    just sayin'
  13. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I grew up on an obscure and badly coded forum, and it allowed arbitrary HTML in comments (until it died - around 2005?)
  14. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 It turned out that social norms were enough to prevent (obvious) abuse - that, and a moderation system that would hide comments if they got below a -5 threshold. Enough folks would fake the right requests to hide the comment if you broke the page.
  15. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 yep! same here. but that was an easy fix - leave a tag unclosed, and it would swallow the rest of the page, preventing the normal moderation & reply buttons from showing.
  16. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 also, the time someone included an img with a src that hit the GET endpoint that voted a post up...
  17. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 anyway, Mastodon (especially watching @tinysubversions running friend.town) has been a good example of the value of building in active caring and maintenance into your social network.
  18. RT @sarajcharles: Here's a thread about the iron gall ink I have just made. I’m not artistic, crafty or very in tune with nature, but as so…
  19. …in reply to @oopsohno
  20. RT @heyreallygiger: I get sad when people generalize 80s graphic design and art as just "pink neon lights and grid patterns" when there was…
  21. RT @emshort: An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Complete Impostor emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/
  22. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow this is very good news, and I will try to remember to forward interesting stuff I see to you!
  23. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I mean, also this column is immediately going into my list of things to scrape when I thinking about stuff to show... the feeling is mutual
  24. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt this is unhelpful, buuuut: I was always sad Probuilder won out over SabreCSG. which is free now if you wanna try. (unhelpful cuz you've learnt and are being productive in a tool, so probably good advice is to stick with it)
  25. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt more invested in boolean geometry - subtraction as well as addition. I've found it much less fiddly to work with, but I was using PB for a fiddly task, so that might be why.
  26. …in reply to @uglymachine
    @uglymachine goddamn, great trousers
  27. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty what entirely fictional scenarios!
  28. RT @womensart1: Lia Cook, US fiber artist noted for her work combining weaving with photography, painting, and digital technology #womensar…
  29. RT @R_Michalak: This may be cursed but i love it. Gaudy brutalism is the evil twin of overgrown with climbing plants brutalism https://t.co…
  30. …in reply to @R_Michalak
    @R_Michalak this is so good!!! and yes, creeping plants brutalism is the True Brutalism
  31. RT @AntonHand: Is anyone else still bothered by the fact that we had, for over a decade, a super accessible art-centric platform for making…
  32. RT @petitsmotifs: 𐄬𐄯𐄥𐄬𐄤𐄦𐄥𐄥𐄭𐄫𐄲𐄤𐄪𐄰𐄮𐄢𐄳𐄭 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 𐄦𐄫𐄮𐄰𐄩𐄪𐄪𐄲𐄮𐄧𐄨𐄳𐄭𐄮𐄩𐄭𐄱𐄭 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 𐄳𐄦𐄧𐄢𐄨𐄯𐄱𐄳𐄲𐄭𐄧𐄢𐄲𐄦𐄤𐄩𐄮𐄬 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 𐄫𐄲𐄲𐄩𐄯𐄦𐄤…
  33. if you know how to write Javascript, are based in London and want to make games for smart speakers, get in touch. @v21/1034371837910818817
  34. …in reply to @hellocatfood
  35. …in reply to @phoenixperry
    @phoenixperry that sounds great - let me coordinate with other people here and i'll get in touch
  36. RT @emfcamp: Thanks to everyone who came to EMF this year and made it such an amazing event. We will return in summer 2020, and we'll be a…
  37. RT @lifewinning: Good morning here is a reminder that the forefathers of Silicon Valley at Fairchild deliberately undermined union organizi…
  38. here is a photo of a young Keanu Reeves (it was from this interview of him by Dennis Cooper, also recommended)
  39. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio @zerstoerer there are so many Good Lanky Boys out there!
  40. been doing visual art for <unannounced project>, which is kinda weird & new but good, because generally i hand off art to someone else, or else design around it.
  41. …in reply to @v21
    but it turns out that having a specific set of constraints & visual problems to solve really makes it a thing I dig & can dig into.
  42. this is wild: a Minecraft gig that Charli XCX turned up for? twitter.com/i/moments/997015970467254272
  43. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow quite often!
  44. RT @rustym: The first wave of Fantastic Arcade games is announced! Original commissioned works are coming from @hentaiphd, @FourbitFriday,…
  45. HEY GUESS WHAT: i'm making a game for Fantastic Arcade! fantasticarcade.com/news/2018/09/04/first_wave_revealed.html it's gonna be weeeeird
  46. EMF Camp was great @jonty/1036659431965159424
  47. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx @reallyfancy @TomNullpointer I feel like I only now truly know the Unity Editor.
  48. …in reply to @v21
    (this also means: I will be at Fantastic Arcade! I am very hyped for that, tbh)
  49. …in reply to @ohhoe
    @ohhoe thanks!!
  50. a thread on plants growing @pangmeli/1001314844447043584
  51. this is beautiful & evocative & i recommend it to you @everestpipkin/1037029299491155969
  52. just looked up the price of a Nintendo Switch
  53. …in reply to @v21
    though tbh, i don't think it's quite edging out an Axidraw plotter for "expensive thing i probably won't use enough to be worth the purchase"
  54. …in reply to @stirlock
    @stirlock and the games have stayed expensive, too - Breath Of The Wild is still £50
  55. …in reply to @v21
  56. …in reply to @qDot
    @qDot i know that feeling!
  57. RT @patrickashe: Very excited to see @tigershungry & @K_Vo_'s Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt at the V&A getting a banging 5 stars this mor…
  58. …in reply to @martinpi
  59. …in reply to @tburrellsaward
    @tburrellsaward @fuseps @makerversity oooh... and i assume that's a big bed, too
  60. …in reply to @alexhern
  61. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo nice parquet flooring
  62. RT @boblsturm: Hearing folkrnn-generated folk music played on a radio show dedicated to folk music is just splendid! No indications of susp…
  63. was curious about what folk-rnn stuff was like: pretty good! youtube.com/watch?v=0gosLln8Org
  64. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe prawn layered salad
  65. why do i always get myself into such intricately confusing situations? Viv booked us a viewing for a flat at 5:30 today. I booked a viewing for a flat tomorrow. We later realised they're either the same flat or in the same building.
  66. …in reply to @v21
    But the agent I spoke to now thinks we're viewing it today. At the same time. So... is it the same flat? What are we viewing? Both viewings have different other flats also being viewed...
  67. …in reply to @v21
    This is like the time I failed to turn up to a flat viewing because when I arrived, I was lured into an entirely different flat by someone who saw me on the street and asked me "are you here for the flat viewing?"
  68. …in reply to @v21
    Update: different flats, different agents, same time, same building. Viv met the agent I spoke to, I went to the address she was given.
  69. RT @womensart1: White body fan, 1972 performance by Rebecca Horn, German visual artist #womensart
  70. top tip: leave subtle bugs in your code which someone can exploit to do wild things with, years later @SerinDelaunay/1037389547129266177
  71. heading to the V&A for the private view of the Videogames exhibition. i know it's taken a lot of work by a lot of people, but right now I am so proud of @tigershungry for getting this far. i've never gotten the it's-surreal-this-actually-exists feeling secondhand before.
  72. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal heading to the main bit
  73. …in reply to @sehurlburt
    @sehurlburt I know I'm not built that way. I can't work motivated by a long-term goal, only short-term/process driven reasons. That can involve hard work! And I can make choices that optimize for the long-term. But trading short vs long term doesn't work.
  74. RT @emshort: Donut County (Ben Esposito) -- in which I mostly talk about the game's curious frame story and triangle of identities https://…
  75. …in reply to @jericawebber
  76. RT @polclarissou: a few eels swim amid dull brown coral @str_voyage/1034489379753013248
  77. RT @polclarissou: how long have we been adrift @str_voyage/1027015069320847362
  78. the magic of //TODO: make this less shit @KommanderKlobb/1038079349029838848
  79. …in reply to @v21
  80. RT @mtrc: Hello! MIT Press have a book coming out this month which Tony Veale and I wrote, all about Twitterbots, Computational Creativity…
  81. enjoying this moment of -- not having blurbed a book, but having my website linked as the place to see the source code for the robot that blurbed a book amazon.com/Twitterbots-Making-Machines-Meaning-Press/dp/0262037904
  82. …in reply to @v21
    PS: hey, this book looks rad
  83. RT @robomachin: the first basic blocks you see in unity's animator aren't of sizes you can center align or make grid-aligned arrows with, a…
  84. RT @bobacupcake: a simple, easy, 3-step guide
  85. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate @baratunde gahhh! wish i was there!
  86. …in reply to @GretchenAMcC
  87. …in reply to @v21
    @GretchenAMcC oh, in case no one has sent you a picture like this yet : @oopsohno went in on that awful emoji book at @emfcamp
  88. hello this advice also applies if you make videogames t.co/pgIYVkDB7j
  89. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate (apologies for necroing this thread) it's priorities, innit? CBDQ has *loads* of usability problems, weird edge cases, things that are real hard work. but it's designed for beginners. it's usable for those people. OSS is normally designed for people who make OSS.
  90. …in reply to @undefined
    @kimadactl yeah, happy to concede that this might be mainly me yelling about my own personal preferences. but these preferences are strongly held!
  91. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @radiatoryang I know SF well enough to have spent a decent time poring over the map of Watch Dogs, fascinated at how they compressed it.
  92. the first of @katbamkapow's free game columns is up at RPS. I know & trust Kat's taste, so I knew it was going to be good, but I didn't know it was going to be this good. rockpapershotgun.com/2018/09/08/priceless-play-september-8th-2018/#comments
  93. whoop whoop Sensible Object is part of this @clarered/1038039587409547264
  94. RT @TheWhitePube: if ur identity allows you to safely criticise these problems or institute new policy or have conversations that really ch…
  95. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin I'm going to miss you & Pat not living together.
  96. poll:
  97. …in reply to @jwaaaap
    @jwaaaap The Whole Egg
  98. …in reply to @jwaaaap
    @jwaaaap this is definitely not my favourite, but it is such a specific thing that I do appreciate it.
  99. here is a thing i dislike : Android changing the standard for app icons to make them all be circles
  100. …in reply to @v21
    i keep tapping on the wrong green circle
  101. …in reply to @v21
    it's such a pure example of trading off usability for prettiness
  102. RT @conchitinabot: Permit us to refresh your memory: what comes from heaven is always a blessing, the enemy is not rain.
  103. …in reply to @v21
    oh, it's worse than that, even? a bit of research reveals that these are "adaptive icons", created in an attempt to formalise the process where OEMs were trying to impose branding on top of Android apps (by putting icons in squircles etc).
  104. …in reply to @v21
    yet again, my life is made worse as a byproduct of large corporations attempting to gain control over a platform
  105. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @grapefrukt you can still have legacy icons, if you like. but the preferred style is adaptive
  106. RT @s_l_clark: amazing alternate definition of "political advertisement" @HardlyKnowEm/1038181902673502208
  107. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio i keep trying to remember if we had it as a kid... a lot of the designs seem super familiar. but maybe that's just children's cakes?
  108. …in reply to @lizardengland
  109. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @patrickashe @mjmcmaster I gotta say, I'm unimpressed with his makeover. It doesn't seem like he's really committed to it, y'know?
  110. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @patrickashe @mjmcmaster a bit of eyeliner would still be okay, right? or false fangs, his teeth are so round...
  111. @jonbro promised myself I'd not get too distracted by poring over stuff as I move... but I did find this
  112. …in reply to @supermattachine
    @supermattachine serious answer: the place I would go to for this the linguistics subfield of pragmatics, namely Grice's maxims, and implicatures.
  113. …in reply to @v21
    @supermattachine basically, in conversations, people assume answers will be relevant (& truthful, & other things). so when something is not relevant, you do the gymnastics necessary to convert it into something relevant, and then there's your meaning, shared between participants.
  114. …in reply to @v21
    @supermattachine why do people do that is a hard question, and answering it probably would take you into the murky world of evolutionary psychology.
  115. RT @ranarama: I've been saying for literal decades that designers don't put emotions in games, players do. The player is part of your desig…
  116. spending between now and 3:30 tomorrow afternoon packing my life into cardboard boxes. if anyone has any suggestions for talks online that are good to listen to in that time, they would be appreciated.
  117. packing a bag of the clothes that aren't going into storage for the next month & basically just put the pile of clean laundry I've not put away in there. plus an extra couple of pairs of socks.
  118. RT @lorenschmidt: subterraneans
  119. RT @netgal_emi: NEW POST: SPEAKING MY TRUTH [real] [NOT clickbait] (medium.com/p/fae50a9b5f6d?source=linkShare-46f71bbd09c1-1536653710)
  120. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi I just want words on a webpage.
  121. RT @radiatoryang: new blog post: collected notes and thoughts on the pretty great @V_and_A #DesignPlayDisrupt videogames exhibition that op…
  122. I keep thinking of the video going around before the match of Naomi Osaka being asked if she had any words for Serena, and saying "I love her" and getting embarrassed.
  123. if you are curious about the game: it's good! my game recommendation for the day is Nine Men's Morris. @GhoulTech/1039194153291337728
  124. …in reply to @JamesWallis
    @JamesWallis I was thinking about the two-phase nature of it, which feels pretty modern
  125. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi tbf, that is pretty much exactly what Tate is doing, they're not even hiding behind "participation" but going straight to a lack of resources.
  126. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi wait, no, I changed my mind, I want you & Stephen collected in a book. I am serious about this!
  127. SUMMARIES OF 400 TESTIMONIALS FROM INMATES INCARCERATED AT ORLEANS PARISH PRISON DURING HURRICANE KATRINA (this is the most horrifying thing I have read in some time) aclu.org/other/summaries-400-testimonials-inmates-incarcerated-orleans-parish-prison-during-hurricane-katrina
  128. …in reply to @v21
  129. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi I've used InDesign before, I would seriously be up for this.
  130. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi yeah, same but with this Fantastic Arcade game...
  131. it's missing a handle
  132. RT @tigershungry: me, envirobear 2000 & 'the big buns' hanging out in the NYtimes today. (very pleased I was able to immortalise the big…
  133. …in reply to @Kiphiverse
    @SirisysPrime perfect! someone should tell Jonathan Swift
  134. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty oh, nice! if you've got time, it'd be great to see you - despite working at SH, I've not actually had a chance to see the Biennale yet.
  135. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir oof, yes, i saw this go past and could not muster the energy. i would add to that: why is empathy (with a fictional character) good, anyway?
  136. RT @pangmeli: evergreen
  137. what happens if I'm asleep? @Senficon/1039777163170463744
  138. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty @mjmcmaster nice! yep, i'm up for that
  139. i played this game at GenCon and it was very good. a tiny tense experience, halfway between a social deduction game and an RPG. also, that gorgeous @macschubert art! kickstarter.com/projects/tommy-maranges/inhuman-conditions-a-game-of-cops-and-robots?ref=hero_thanks
  140. …in reply to @macschubert
    @macschubert I picked up Salmon Run recently and loved it - wild to then see you doing design on this.
  141. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I can guess... but also I'm wondering if I can find some royalty free dubstep to back this with, and if I'm going to try to make a machine gently stutters of this tonight
  142. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew wow, I can't imagine (cc @tburrellsaward)
  143. …in reply to @LydNicholas
    @LydNicholas It's so horrifying. I keep imagining it. Fuck.
  144. …in reply to @LydNicholas
    @LydNicholas there's always a reason this is different, always a "well, we've instituted policy changes which prevent that precise same tragedy from happening again". no, it wasn't a tragedy, it was cruelty. and it is again.
  145. …in reply to @ttl_anderson
    @ttl_anderson @MammonMachine I got excited for AR for a bit, then stopped being excited after thinking hard about it's compatibility with being in any kind of public space.
  146. I apologise for engaging, but "iPhone XS Max" is a bad name.
  147. …in reply to @v21
    other iPhone opinion : wow, they sure are taking their time adding wireless charging & making the iPhone entirely hermetically sealed. Maybe they'll do it all at once next year.
  148. …in reply to @kirwinia
    @kirwinia @GalaxyKate such a banger
  149. RT @lanesainty: When does a teen born on February 29 legally turn 18? And what even is a month, anyway? My brain hurts after writing about…
  150. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland not working is very nice! i recommend it!
  151. …in reply to @ftrain
    @ftrain I can see that stuff more clearly too, but I think you'd lose a lot of the messy detail that actually influenced success. A year on, it's all become flattened, a narrative.
  152. a clear description of an algorithm can be many times more helpful than a source dump @zachlieberman/1039960176433012738
  153. …in reply to @v21
    i think people who code normal things don't get how fragile & contextual creative coding can be. at its best, you start trying to make something you half understand, then spend hours exploring the implications of some errors. not to eliminate them, but to develop them.
  154. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn do like @UltraCobalt did & have a birthday party which is entirely detached temporally from your actual birthday. it's fine, you can postpone (you can't postpone getting older, though, unfortunately)
  155. current mood: asking colleagues to send me links to google docs i already have open in a tab somewhere
  156. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate @maxkreminski oh, shit, i need to get one of these for when we paper prototype Alexa stuff
  157. genetic memory of honey @Wild0mbre/1039596718373908480
  158. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty @MeowWolf oh wowwwwwww congratulations!!
  159. oh my goodness, so many years of waiting are starting to pay off... modern C# is coming to Unity @dmitriy_focus/1039869531773194240
  160. …in reply to @jackiehluo
    @jackiehluo i think a lot about this, making games to be played in social settings. it's kind of easier there if you try to do as little as possible - provide people with interesting problems, then try to let them solve them however they like.
  161. …in reply to @edsaperia
    @edsaperia oh, sure - but I only noticed when I opened the doc again and saw my cursor in it already
  162. people being trans after they got to know other people who are also trans is only a problem if you think trans people are a problem in the first place
  163. …in reply to @v21
    -signed, a trans person who would not be a trans person if they didn't know other trans people
  164. fucked up how many years I was like "ah, yes, 'master/slave', totally normal terminology to use"
  165. …in reply to @v21
    i think i learned it from my mum, as she taught me how to put a desktop computer together, back in the days when you had to set jumpers on hard drives.
  166. i like that my process for doing something tricky with unicode is searching @FakeUnicode's tweets for an example of them showing off
  167. RT @poetranslator: ゕぇ ゕぇゕぇ ゕぇゕぇゕぇ ゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇ ゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇ ゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇ ゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇゕぇ Yeah Aha AhaA AhaAee Aa ha ha AhaA AA AA Do not mind
  168. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet i just wanna say that the source for this page is beautiful
  169. RT @acupunctureUSS: 🛒🛍️ SUPERMARKETS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND ICE CREAM ✊🍨 *EXTREMELY ADAM CURTIS VOICE* 1/ This is a story about a…
  170. RT @patrickashe: Just remembered @v21 & @Draknek's perfect game Holding The Baby. v21.io/blog/holding-the-baby/
  171. @pangmeli this instantly made me think of you @WhichOneBot/1040743251014311936
  172. …in reply to @austin_walker
    @austin_walker @NeedMoreLoot @mcclure111 it's so hard to see this stuff change in real time, but then you look back at something with a bit of a gap & realise it really wouldn't fly nowadays...
  173. …in reply to @mcclure111
  174. Emily Short summing up the V&A Videogames show emshort.blog/2018/09/15/mid-september-link-assortment-3/
  175. RT @NoChorus: Found an incredibly depressing YouTube channel where a professional pianist dresses up as different jobs and archtypes (firem…
  176. …in reply to @GretchenAMcC
    @GretchenAMcC or, okay, get this: Ouija board, but it's this: dood.al/pinktrombone/
  177. game of the day: how many London landmarks can you see in this moquette?
  178. from "video game genres" to "how to upload web game to itch io" @Nosgoroth/1040666735869870082
  179. …in reply to @djkgamc
    @djkgamc @Chase @simple In the UK we have Monzo, an app-based bank... which sounds kind of awful but it's good! it is easier to interact with, and it's cheap, and it doesn't do everything but it does the things I need.
  180. got on a circle line train at Whitechapel
  181. RT @LCPSHOPNET: I bet you already know how fun this Screaming Rubber Chicken is! From just the look of it, it is already funny. But when yo…
  182. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz @tigershungry I think when the trains go into service, they come along the district line?
  183. …in reply to @undefined
    @leofgxpoeci @asclla yeah, it does some stuff in spherical space to stop crawling when you look without moving.
  184. RT @pangmeli: explaining 'the cloud' to beginners: when a file is saved to your computer, it's like having money under a mattress. you can…
  185. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate over 7000 and counting
  186. RT @GalaxyKate: Woo, Tracery is shortlisted for an open-source grant! For my final pitch, I'd like to show that it has "reach" and "impact…
  187. this was a really good tweet @drnifkin/1041485903154294784
  188. reversing the lines of the poem you've written, in the way that artists flip an image horizontally to check it's good
  189. RT @tsawac: the tag urself meme is the memory palace of this generation
  190. RT @poem_exe: night traffic shaking dust off my shoes no one replaces you
  191. …in reply to @marijamdid
    @marijamdid enjoyed this example of a puppy not being excited directly below your tweet
  192. via @mothdad this starts off reading like a thinkpiece, but then goes to some good weird places zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/
  193. style guide jam itch.io/jam/style-jam
  194. RT @ahouseofdust: A HOUSE OF GLASS IN A METROPOLIS USING ALL AVAILABLE LIGHTING INHABITED BY PEOPLE WHO EAT A GREAT DEAL
  195. RT @mattdesl: In case you missed it... A while back, I wrote "math-as-code", a cheat sheet that explains mathematical notation with code:…
  196. RT @BarelyConcealed: I wrote a thing about game development, queer culture and tradition in relation to ribboning at the Kentucky State Fai…
  197. This applies to pretty much all manufactured goods. It's generally just people. @thisishannako/1042441804308668416
  198. …in reply to @Radstronomical
  199. "A directed edge between two words indicates significant agreement that the first word was given by a human (by a binomial test at the p < .05 level), with edge width representing the strength of the first word relative to the second word." (sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103117303980)
  200. …in reply to @v21
  201. RT @sensibleobject: If you're in the UK and have been waiting to get your hands on Beasts of Balance or When in Rome... today is the day! G…
  202. RT @doougle: Yo game design, we gotta have more conversations about data capitalism, "games for health", and the weaponization of play http…
  203. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance you might be interested in Unfriended, a teen horror movie where the whole thing is a screen cap of a screen as the teenagers skype each other/send messages/etc
  204. …in reply to @v21
    @ElectronDance also makes me think of the video for Smack My Bitch Up, which was also 1st person
  205. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica @metasynthie @radiatoryang thinking about the backlash Viridi got... yup.
  206. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryGiles I did! I have been getting some tags intended for them for years, I assume the same happens in reverse occasionally
  207. RT @mcclure111: In the 90s, music was held in a stranglehold by a small group of "major" record labels. In the 00s, the Internet broke the…
  208. the last day and a half, I've mainly been making things happen in C++, and it's been satisfying & compulsive, and it has moved particular things along on this project, but also C++ is so arcane & I'm really not convinced it's worth me learning.
  209. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad the library I am working in is in nice modern C++11. the bindings I am creating are C-compatible. there's a lot of ways of transforming data between the two.
  210. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle been thinking a lot about the difference between videogames and boardgames recently (unsurprisingly, given my job, i guess). secrets are a thing only videogames can do
  211. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle yeah, immediately after tweeting that i also thought of the exceptions. but they are exciting because they break with the normal limits of boardgames
  212. RT @jwaaaap: @doougle videogames are just textured, curated variation for effort
  213. RT @elenacresci: *brenda from bristol voice* not another one @elliottengage/1043102379690917888
  214. …in reply to @prehensile
    @prehensile @doougle it doesn't, really... there's a bit of that the other way. but yeah, very interested in exploring this kind of thing...
  215. on running conventions (or really any sort of community event) vrvblog.co/southwell/3115/moderating-the-hacienda-how-not-to-run-a-convention/
  216. "We have built the world on foundations of sand–albeit varying and very specific kinds of sand." @lifewinning writes about turning an iPhone into dust thecreativeindependent.com/people/sand-in-the-gears/
  217. RT @mcclure111: *250 years into the Industrial Revolution* Huh wait hold on it just occurred to me— what if industrialization has *social*…
  218. if i ever set up a studio, i promise i'll try to shut down while we've still got enough money in the bank to give everyone redundancy money
  219. …in reply to @v21
  220. …in reply to @fucrate
    @fucrate @doougle i feel like emergent properties of rules have a different feeling to either performing an action, not knowing the immediate result, or performing an action, expecting one immediate result, but receiving another.
  221. …in reply to @v21
    @fucrate @doougle it's harder to tell jokes with boardgames than with videogames, is what i'm saying here
  222. …in reply to @v21
    @fucrate @doougle ("tell joke" as a joke that can only exist within the full system, as distinct from comedy games)
  223. RT @hackaday: ☺️💻 Congratulations to Puff-Suck interface for winning the Human-Computer Interface Challenge 💻☺️ Puff-Suck interface is use…
  224. why am I not asleep yet
  225. yeah! let's make twitterbots! I'm here at the V&A all day (part of the London Design Festival)
  226. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall good, innit?
  227. imagine explaining this advert to someone who doesn't know what a videogame is
  228. …in reply to @ArtisanalZeros
    @ArtisanalZeros the chance and control exhibition? yes, i spent a good while in there last weekend
  229. what an article! it gives me this strange feeling, like videogames, small, personal videogames, could have a positive impact on the world beyond the small communities that are already invested in them cnet.com/news/ruck-me-the-video-game-you-play-with-an-inflatable-sex-doll/
  230. RT @SuzeMarsupial: here are 3 things i've never done: - left a rental property without thoroughly deep cleaning it - moved out without a la…
  231. I just read Tiger by @RebTamas and I liked it a lot.
  232. RT @GretchenAMcC: Okay, I promised you all a post-copyedits thread about why "stet" is such a cool word, and now this round of edits is in.…
  233. RT @hellophia: Zine the Cowboy, my @mitskileaks fanzine, is now available digitally! Part music criticism, part free association, part luri…
  234. …in reply to @osmie
    @osmie so, it seems like this is a bug on my end, but I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to look into it. For now, I think this *should* work: turn on replies, but with no entries in the replies list - like this: "{ }". leave for 5 minutes...
  235. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas @lorenschmidt for our Typescript project, we've upgraded to a command that pulls data from a Google Sheet into a JSON file. (And now actually, a Typescript file so the references in the code can be statically checked.)
  236. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt @Nifflas there's a npm thing for the automatic Google Sheets stuff, but honestly downloading the doc as a csv or whatever and dropping it in place is quick and fine.
  237. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt @Nifflas we have a hacky thing for dropping variables in & that works fine for us - more complicated cases are done by using nested lookups to the localisation manager ("use [ITEM]", where the item is ultimately pulled from a different row).
  238. …in reply to @TedMielczarek
    @TedMielczarek @lorenschmidt this looks so nice but also I would be very scared of sending this to a translation company and expecting a tight turnaround...
  239. Welcome to WLAN World...
  240. RT @AliceAvizandum: hate being the zealous young priest newly assigned to a small, war-torn village in the highlands and knowing that the f…
  241. nothing like having a broken shower to make you appreciate electric kettles
  242. RT @successfulbot: The most successful people I've met: 1. Insert Mammoth in Ice into Siberia 2. Drive Burgundians out of Gaul 3. Crush Pe…
  243. RT @KommanderKlobb: @jwaaaap On the title screen for Tenya Wanya Teens, both players push buttons to make their boys rise up and then the g…
  244. …in reply to @barnoid
    @barnoid oh nice! i think i snuck in halfway through, so it's a shame i missed the shoutout!
  245. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes you can convert into an a Vector3 in that-axis-space, and then zero the matching component and convert back into a quaternion in your original space?
  246. …in reply to @oh_cripes
  247. ///zoom/// ///zoom/// ///zoom/// ///enhance///
  248. …in reply to @Eastmad
  249. RT @DavidEasson: @youngvulgarian Disappointed with the balloon section
  250. …in reply to @katy_designer
    @kitkat_marshall oh that is a really neat trick
  251. what a wild paper pdfs.semanticscholar.org/af34/2af4d0e674aef3bced5fd90875c6f2e04abc.pdf using footage of a pool of water poked at by bits of lego on motors as a preprocessing step for neural network classifiers
  252. …in reply to @Caesar_X
    @Caesar_X they're not wrong!
  253. RT @chrisamaphone: neopets : queer games :: façade : interactive storytelling @mcclure111/1046066693234200577
  254. …in reply to @tambourine
    @tambourine yes! emma is great
  255. RT @allspaw: More of my colleagues and peers in software need to grok the importance of this. THIS is the core tenet of #ResilienceEngine…
  256. RT @lorenschmidt: what is the point if you can't potentially get lost in the void sea.
  257. RT @radiatoryang: here's @katbamkapow on how twitch obfuscates wages but embraces monetized stars ("everyone is a temporarily embarrassed t…
  258. RT @GIFmodel: “is death for WEB sites as us” I wrote about Yahoo killing FTP ( and Google killing URL) blog.geocities.institute/archives/6144 https://t.c…
  259. …in reply to @metasynthie