Tweets from 2019/02
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RT @Slate: BuzzFeed's "second highest traffic driver worldwide" was an unpaid teenager in Michigan who made BF quizzes for fun. We intervie…
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RT @mayameme: As someone who works in digisec and has just discovered makeup, this beauty vlog + security tutorials series by @wheresaddie…
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it's February, and I realise groggily that if I want to do this thing of picking up a new habit every month I better pick one
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@KommanderKlobb when my alarm goes off, I get up and make a cup of tea
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@KommanderKlobb pretty lifechanging, tbh
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@tigershungry @nickfourtimes @KommanderKlobb it is so hard to reason about & persuade yourself why you need to actually get up when you wake up in the morning. "to make a cup of tea, because that's the thing i do now" is a nice simple clear answer for the mornings when you wouldn't have one
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@esaxey i guess not! i'll add "sighing" to the list of candidates
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RT @poetranslator: 励一励一励一励一励一励一励一励一 励一励一 Excitation one excitation one excitation one excitation one excitation one excitation one Excitem…
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i think maybe @poetranslator is my favourite bot running right now
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RT @Beefstrong:
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"Canada's top sleep writer" cbc.ca/news/health/national-sleep-stories-chris-advansun-1.4929841
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RT @LydiaBurrell:
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RT @IceWaterGames: this release is in celebration of our re-establishment as a ✨ DEMOCRATIC GAMES LABEL ✨ which we've explained here http…
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@q_dork I did wonder if I could think of a way to quickly find on of your drawings on a pomeranian, but I settled for the ol' shutterstock
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RT @tburrellsaward: Know someone who might like a #wacom Intuos 4 S? I have one here that needs a new home. Maybe someone just getting star…
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RT @jomc: Shaun Prescott’s The Town on writing and not writing a book
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RT @molleindustria: Foxconn Frequency (no.3) - for three visibly Chinese performers by Remy Siu. A work of algorithmic theatre that incorpo…
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RT @FrankPasquale: Platforms want to become regulators. They want to gain a monopoly & then control information retrieval, news, “room-lett…
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@danhett there was a biggish one in Minecraft last month, even
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@danhett like, this is a genuinely solid lineup for a festival
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the worst thing about the show is that it is set in the fantasy New York where your friends are all very attractive, queer, ethnically diverse, artistic, up for it AND live in a gigantic bohemian loft
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Russian Doll is good AND the main character is a female 30something game programmer/designer, who is competent but not amazing at her job.
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RT @EsPyramid: one of the problems with isekai is that the protagonists are gifted items and powers (and even people!!) through no effort o…
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RT @nikkipugh: "The Starry Messenger Showing Forth Great and Truly Wonderful Sights, as Well as Suggesting to Everyone, but Especially to P…
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RT @v21: the three stages
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@SuzeMarsupial I just wrote up some involved headcanon on Mastodon (for the spoiler tags) friend.camp/@v/101529810309032744
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@SuzeMarsupial PS disagreed with you about the ending
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@SuzeMarsupial Me too. But I also enjoyed how in character / unprofessional it was to go "yeah, I know", grab her colleague's laptop and hammer away at some code in the meeting.
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@McFunkypants Donut County had all that and still got cloned. No matter how deep you work, you still sell on the elevator pitch.
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@McFunkypants you can make something where the elevator pitch is just very expensive to deliver - but that's one hell of a risky moat to dig
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I love knowing exactly enough math to know why quaternions are a good thing and no more @pervognsen/1092144278350884864
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@danhett @McFunkypants can confirm; this strategy has worked for me
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@notquitereal hey this sounds: awful
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@mokraz1982 @GoncaloDev @AeornFlippout videogames are a weird industry because almost all of the costs are upfront. devs spend a lot of money making a game, and the fewer copies they expect to sell the higher the price needs to be to break even. how do you find that huge audience without marketing money?
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@Arrianna_Planey I would include the extinction of megafauna within the anthropocene, but it'd feel weird to put that down to capital. I understand the desire to insist against the inevitability of this catastrophe, though.
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@Arrianna_Planey I am not an expert, but my understanding of capitalism as an ideology is that it largely dates to the 16th century and later - the extinction of megafauna dates to more than 10,000 years ago.
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@Arrianna_Planey yes - it does involve a carelessness to negative externalities in either case. but if you're going to spread capitalism to cover any system that ignores negative externalities, then it feels so broad as to be useless?
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@Arrianna_Planey what's the definition?
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RT @jon_bois: rams? patriots? what is this, the super bowl or a zoo
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this is wild. taking a metaphor and making it a physical object and then... that actually works? techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/techbriefs/photonics-optics/33676
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thinking of that famous FPGA genetic algorithm paper, where the output was a circuit where some of the components were not electrically connected, yet were vital to the successful operation
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or that one where they put a tank of water into the NN classifier (sounds go in, pictures of waves come out), and it helped
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@GalaxyKate @botwikidotorg I swear the most valuable thing I learnt from my masters was to be comfortable thinking about stuff as points within a highly dimensional state space
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RT @nowplaythese: Hello! We're just waking up here, and we have some things to announce very soon... but in the meantime, we're going to be…
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RT @nowplaythese: So to kick us off, we're going to have a week of games about snow! Snow is fun, right? Suitable for a game? Not just sad…
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RT @nowplaythese: In Snow Cones by @teamlazerbeam, two extremely adorable ice cream cones go on a date. (there is also a sequel, Snow Cones…
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@mhj Did you also follow the pope?
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@GalaxyKate I'm still working on the thing I started for the last nanogenmo. It is now a specific set of pre-seeded pages. Previous nanogenmos have had similar enough structure throughout that a small sample can stand in for the whole.
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@GalaxyKate for an ongoing arc of change, I'd look at samples at regular intervals along the structure. something with interesting large scale structure and also interesting small scale structure... sounds like a larger project than a nanogenmo. lean into to the problems.
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looks like a good show @bricepuls/1092554086673760258
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i am gonna think about what to do for this! @netgal_emi/1092431054013714432
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@HarryGiles There's interesting dynamics between EUSA, the university proper, and the Fringe - the Forest was a very visible case study for this.
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@HarryGiles oh, yes, my mistake
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RT @mkirschenbaum: It's actually a way cool collection, with lots of stuff for media archaeology types, archivists, and others to dig into:…
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RT @GalaxyKate: I FOUND THE FIRST "10,000 BOWLS OF OATMEAL" REF: from 1770 dice music "A Tabular System Where the Art of Composing Minuets…
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I pushed the button to send this tweet from the Now Play This account, and now I am letting all of you know about it as well! The festival is looking good! You should come along! @nowplaythese/1092835064776478720
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also look at our new identity this year! thank you @Dick_Hogg!
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@JennSandercock thank youuuuuu!! it was so good to have you over last time!
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@adrielbeaver ah, shame! but also fair enough
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I don't know many people who depend on Patreon for a proportion of their income who haven't been thinking how to shift that audience off Patreon when things go south. Not even because Patreon is worse than other VC businesses, it's just what you learn to expect after a few cycles @FoldableHuman/1092846201374892032
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it is 2 months to the day to Now Play This opening, which means it's a week less than that until Brexit happens. every time I think of one deadline I think of the other and tbh I think it is making this festival more stressful.
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@acgodliman it's like 2 weeks! I would be on a similar flight if I wasn't, y'know, running a festival while it was on.
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RT @soft_utilities: Flight Simulator is now live on iOS. (Android coming very soon!!) It's $1.99. Please enjoy the view! https://t.co/xKfjN…
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@musebloom @Dick_Hogg aaah! thank you! and happy birthday for a few days ago!
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RT @nowplaythese:
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RT @chordbug: 🌶️ HOT JAVASCRIPT TIP: 🌶️ to increment some counter on the page, node.innerText += 1 doesn't work (0 → 01 → 011 → ⋯), bu…
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@shistow but would you expect those things, though?
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@shistow sorry, yes - i meant, would you expect companies claiming to be agile to actually be agile?
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@shistow this is actually a feature, not a bug of these job ads - they're giving you good clues as to whether they're actually agile or not
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ejected but still vibrating
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RT @betterthemask: Approximately 35 people have been deported to Jamaica today from the UK. Some of them have never even been to Jamaica, o…
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RT @kellianderson: Kenya Hara writes that design approximates the Greek term te mathēmata, "the knowing of what you already know", bringing…
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@ka_bradley @LaFlafster no, i had the brick toast... but i think i will get the kaya toast next time
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RT @marnanel: Me: can I change the gender on my record? GP's receptionist: yes, what to? Me: ... what have you got? R: we can do Mx if y…
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@pangmeli i met up with @ka_bradley last night and i did not say this because it seemed like it would be a weird thing to say, but i was reminded of your tweets when thinking about hers (and vice versa). also she writes about dance.
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RT @yankooliveira: This + @GalaxyKate's Tracery = musical Twitter bot @kylestetz/1046506131877638145
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@scanlime counterpoint: really good boots
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RT @hautepop: The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer You can have access, but you'll never belong. An unexpectedly good profile of one smal…
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just inconvenienced in about the least significant way I could think of by a member of the royal family
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RT @conchitinabot: 14. a. ask her to fill in the blank b. ask her to read the display as warning c. ask her not to say, not now or ever
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@puptownrika damn, this is... a really accurate joke
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on an individual level this is absolutely true, pls go do it if you're eligible on a structural level, this is why this kind of process is bad, and ultimately reinforces the status of those with confidence and those with privilege @AlexisTrust/1093200831372029952
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@dinosaurrparty i welcome this news!
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@GalaxyKate I wrote a port of (some of) Tracery to C# in about 45 minutes once. I think it shipped in an IGF-nominated game? @compositeredfox can you remember?
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@GalaxyKate oh, damn, that's a bit shabby of me. but I didn't want to bother you til I knew it was going to be a thing. joys of open source, I guess.
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I spoke to @ScarletCatalie about virtual exhibitions! rockpapershotgun.com/2019/02/07/are-digital-exhibitions-the-future/
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@jukiokallio 2pm GMT (8am CST, 6am PST, 11pm JST) kinda ugly, but using just one line indicates that this is further details of the same thing, not a set of different things. timezones rather than locations also help hint that this is just timezone info)
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@jukiokallio i think you can make it work with city names instead (and it's definitely cooler/grounds it in where you're actually streaming from in a nice way). but it's a bit harder to be clear.
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@jukiokallio honestly depends on yr audience? I'd guess: America, Europe, Australia... Japan??
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@jukiokallio i don't get the +1 - is it for daylight savings?
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@jukiokallio ahhh!
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@jukiokallio well, i didn't get it, so i guess it is! i don't want to suggest putting the dates into all of them, but maybe that's the way. or at least (+1 day)?
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@jukiokallio I think so?
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five games about snow @nowplaythese/1092490650577195010?s=19
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@Draknek give it to @mcclure111 and the other people who are doing the Zelda randomiser stuff
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RT @RachelAHarrison: “When it’s a fucking elephant and one of two elephants passes the test, everyone’s like ‘Yeah cool’” - amazing intervi…
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was wondering why i'd put a semicolon in a sentence that didn't want a semicolon in it, but it was actually a comma and a speck of dirt on my screen
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the Duchess of Cornwall's police escort delayed me from crossing the road for approximately five seconds
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@JamesWallis PRIME NUMBERS
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RT @badnetworker: Hackers using black-market Israeli ICE-breakers to extort a billionaire who's replacing his employees with robots, at the…
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Now Play This work update - I am running out of ways to phrase the list of ways I could have a call with someone else in a joking way.
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@JamesWallis i mean, it is doing something clever with primes, it's just that "does something clever with primes" isn't enough to make it a good game
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RT @hannahnicklin: Anyway my point is not to humiliate myself. My point is we lose SO MUCH if we have to go around pretending we’re being G…
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@vivschwarz oh shit!!! wow. you look good, but I feel sad for your special hat
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@jonritter @tburrellsaward jumping in incredibly rudely... but: depends what it does, but I'd reckon like a week of work and a small computer and a webcam attached surreptitiously nearby
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this beer tastes like dry roasted peanuts
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@uglymachine both?
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(apologies to my fellow non-binary folks) I am ____, and I have _____ punched in the face
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@katbamkapow @bonzrat two reactions : - god, yes, the game is so built around it, it's fascinating and so effective - CIN-E-MA, CIN-E-MA, CIN-E-MA, CIN-E-MA!
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Pierre Menard, Developer of Tetris (Jorge Luis Borges) The visible work left by this designer is easily and briefly enumerated. Impardonable, therefore, are the omissions and additions perpetrated by [...]
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@RelicantJolteon signing up for an activity with a very high likelihood of being punched in the face, check
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@nickfourtimes hey, I'm in this book!
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RT @Rainmaker1973: Products like VeinViewer use projected near-infrared light, absorbed by blood and reflected by surrounding tissue. The…
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fucking hell. I want to make a game for the side of a building!! @joonturbo/1093618713570484225
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RT @_never_work: Don't go into a fugue of inspiration and write a bunch of creative checks up-front that you'll have to cash later. Instead…
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RT @RussianMemesLtd: She: we're having dinner at my parents' tonight, please don't dress like a motherfucker. Me:
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@bonaneh I would say: I would not expect edits on a £10 icon commission!
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RT @jasondeheras: Some good insight from a fellow combat designer on the dodge mechanic in God of War. combatrecall.blogspot.com/2019/02/dodge-of-war-inspired-by-polygons.html?m=1
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on this, the first day of the Lost Histories Jam, i am thinking about a formative game from my childhood kye.me.uk/xmas.html
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Lost Histories Jam is at itch.io/jam/lost-histories-jam , btw - a weeklong jam for writing commentary of some kind about a neglected aspect of videogame history
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@Becklespinax it took me so long to remember it from my vague memories
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@Becklespinax find it, rather
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i wonder how long it would take me to make a Kye-like...
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@molleindustria it's nice to know that our everyday computers get things wrong every so often because of cosmic rays... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
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RT @slimedaughter:
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RT @inform_dreams: WXPQ Studio is a room. "After about 2 AM, no one is listening anyway, so you can more or less make up whatever you like…
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RT @rabihalameddine: Undulations of the fins of a skate viewed from the side, Etienne-Jules Marey, 1894
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wise thread @lackingceremony/1094722884436541440
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this is done in a single JS file, no libraries as yet. it's a friendly, low-level way to program - blitting to a pixel array manually, defining your level data as an array with const values in... (also i haven't written the bit where it loads graphics from a tilemap yet)
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i am recreating the features of Kye from memory - so many particular bits of behaviour are still vivid. i should probably start making notes as i go...
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also, yes, don't worry, the final thing will be christmas themed
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RT @vivschwarz: I am looking back over my workshop notes and I feel like making a thread about social things I wish I had known before comi…
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@eligoldstone @ka_bradley "No One Spoke Ill of Her"
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RT @JessBoneBreaker: Hey I wrote about ✨engineering principles✨! It's a new post all about how learning to design machines 👩🔧 made me a be…
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RT @mxsage: following a single cell around a toroidal space
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@mousefountain i knew it!
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RT @GalaxyKate: There's a new bot that makes up generative Redwall feasts! *raises a glass of dandelion-burdock cordial* https://t.co/MmUW…
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RT @itstheshadsy: My entry for #LostHistoriesJam: a personal stream-of-consciousness essay about terrible games, the Mario fangame communit…
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@itstheshadsy this is very good
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@SuzeMarsupial i don't know the answer to this question, but two books i really like that have a first contact in are Roadside Picnic and Constellation Games. but both are really about other things.
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every day, i open some executable file or another that is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous
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just played about five minutes of JUMPGRID and i am here to say that it is good, and if you remember Super Hexagon and want something that scratches that same itch you might very well like it ianmaclarty.itch.io/jumpgrid
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@asponge I'm just so... out there, y'know?
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I can vouch for this project being pretty cool, and that Tim knows what he is doing. @tburrellsaward/1095234493605208065
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I set up an instagram for Now Play This: instagram.com/nowplaythis
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Also I have been posting at bit at @nowplaythese. We've got a fun theme-a-week curation project going on there. It is interesting learning how to post as a corporate entity!
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here are four screenshots from @thecatamites' forthcoming game 10 BEAUTIFUL POSTCARDS harmonyzone.org/10BeautifulPostcards.html
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can anyone recommend me a list of the Blake's 7 episodes that are most focused on Servalan and Avon flirting? ones which just have Servalan swanning around being hot and evil are fine too.
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@mcclure111 i read 88 kilometers, which is a way worse number than 55 miles
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@rinank_ I do not believe Fix You would exist in a Beatle-less world.
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@rinank_ and like... how can we think about the Beatles without having all their songs lodged deep inside our cultural memory? Would we even like that shit if it was new now? I have no idea!
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@mtrc This sounds very good!
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@oopsohno ones used less (in fewer numbers) are brighter, due to age?
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@stillicides @manygradients hah. I missed that - I didn't make a change, Twitter did! they're transparent when they upload, but Twitter has turned off transparency with their new upload rules. I also use a dark theme, but I think most people use a light one - will have a think.
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@stillicides @manygradients (also thanks!)
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@notquitereal just in the smallest off chance you haven't seen this article I am posting it again m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b2c1745e4b00295f15abc3d/amp
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RT @innesmck: i found it, the single best ui page
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We're looking for a assistant producer to help us with Now Play This - details here: nowplaythis.net/2019-assistant-producer-role/
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@spacetreasured strong agree
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RT @nielsen_holly: @katbamkapow The game picks which gender you play as by how you respond to flying in an airship. It’s like if you respon…
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@rinank_ I'm British and get most of my stuff in Uniqlo, what's my Ivyleaguesona?
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@rinank_ Thank you - I only just have referents for this, but will meditate upon it
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RT @compositeredfox: here's an in-depth look at every single of the 930 materials youtu.be/_RZm_U1yz94
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btw, I've started playing Pokemon Go, if you wanna add me I'm at 8947 4833 5645
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@q_dork @bad_tetris i liked your game! it was very cute and sweet
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RT @amyohconnor: i refuse to believe anyone has ever poured themselves a glass of 'municipal punch' or 'council juice' https://t.co/DjzQLhA…
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there are snowdrops and daffodils in our front drive
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RT @nowplaythese: This week, we'll be posting up five games that, in some way or another, run for an entire year.
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@sokpopco oh damn! yes please!
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RT @Element_105: Most poor indie game devs could solve their problems if they made a horny furry game. But they are not brave enough to.
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@haraiva doot doot doot doot!
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@innesmck skoosh is what you call a cleaning spray
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@hannahnicklin congratulations
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@hannahnicklin okay, but the thing is: if some intricate combination of circumstances forced you to do this, you would clearly be very good at it? i think of all the people i know, you would be the best at it? i'm sorry?
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RT @gifs_bot:
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RT @womensart1: Born on this day, 'Pixie' Colman Smith, illustrator, writer, occultist, traditional storyteller, magician and lesbian who d…
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current status: frustrated by my inability to perform an arbitrary task within a videogame to the standard that the videogame has told me I will be rewarded for
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RT @Constababble: Scicomm researcher: The fact is that telling people more facts doesn't change their mind. Scicommer: Ok... But I think t…
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As another member of Wild Rumpus, I agree with all of Marie's words here @tigershungry/1097173269986332672?s=19
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RT @polm23: Genjiko patterns, from a kind of game played with incense. I'd seen them before on incense packaging but didn't know what they…
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RT @polm23: The game is: given five bowls of incense in a row, can you tell which ones are the same? Each possible answer has a pattern and…
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I can tell this project is worth doing because I alternate from thinking it's complete nonsense to stunning genius within the space of a few seconds.
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@ojahnn I am understanding of community-run confs with minimal fees that don't pay speakers, but I'm a bit staggered at not even comping entry.
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@ojahnn Is it something imported from academia? Or from big sponsors wanting talk slots to plug stuff?
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@ojahnn tbh, I can still think of counter-examples, unconferencey things or where a substantial proportion of people there are also doing a thing of some kind there... but this is really not that.
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@ojahnn yes, that's another thing that makes it okay (and is very different from this situation)
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@ojahnn 🙄
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⠀⠀ childhood labyrinths loved and lost emreed.net/mazes.html
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@TheNazzaro I like being in a world that I can't ultimately control or master or make orderly. Sometimes it rains.
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@TheNazzaro why don't you try sitting on a horse and staring mournfully into the distance?
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@hellocatfood also talk about the system for getting paid
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here is a pitch that uses the word "TV" six times, the word "games" twice, and the word "videogames" never medium.com/playdeo/introducing-playdeo-abf0bebbc53e
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@peteashton @hellocatfood or get setup on their payroll, with the endless forms and back and forth that that requires
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@hollygramazio I'm suddenly much more worried about Now Play This
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@doridoidea i mean, human flesh, for sure. eating a copy of your own face?
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@vivschwarz this is terrible news
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@BreakinBahiyya In pounds because that's what I know, but £200-300 a day. If I were you I'd quote £300, but be prepared to take less if it's a long-running thing, it's a cool project, etc. Mind, I don't specifically know writing/narrative, but this generally goes for skilled labour in games.
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@nickludlam huh! I had not considered that angle. surely "videogames" (no space) is safe at this kind of high level? but yeah, also I am very interested in the ways that interactive entertainment technology can sit outside of that videogame framing.
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it's fun doing these weekly collections of games on a topic. none have had nearly as much response as digital terrariums... @nowplaythese/1097472072413052928
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RT @jukiokallio: if you're like me and *love* programming and problem solving and are always starting new projects, i can HIGHLY recommend…
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@gracebruxner positive vibes only!!!!!
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some tabs i have open:
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.@anadukakis writing about writing for smart speakers (which she does very well, we work together, we have made games for smart speakers together, buy When In Rome on Amazon now) medium.com/@anastasia.dukakis/3-tips-for-writing-the-smart-into-smart-speakers-fb64a74ff6bd
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grisly british witch pits sex in the moon next summer what is binch what is to be corn cobbed that’s the cost of my vegan lunch pants burn leg wound lrb.co.uk/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind
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Ringo S. on the Goodnight Sweetheart message boards compiled a list of all the songs that Garry "wrote" in the 1940s blitzandpieces.proboards.com/thread/269/songs-garry-wrote
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also generally the Lost Histories jam has some good stuff in it, i've not picked through properly and I never got my thing finished, but have a look itch.io/jam/lost-histories-jam/entries
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DICTIONARY TO THE KNOWN WORLD (circa 2005) - @thecatamites gives us a glossary of terms necessary for understanding the particular culture of RPG Maker forums harmonyzone.org/RMDictionary/RMDictionary.html
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@wjjjjt @TheDesiFuturist i like the Donut County soundtrack as working music
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@jericawebber @ChellaRamanan mmmm, Chella's right, though
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RT @SvenjaODonnell: Faced with such monstrous ingratitude, my godmother calmly suggested I step in to Karl Lagerfeld’s office, so he could…
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@notquitereal those missing button-rivet-things on the shoulder! perfect!
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@notquitereal i did not understand that the big bang could've created stuff beyond the observable universe. like, it is weird to think about what the edge was like at the big bang, because everywhere was all in the same place.
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@notquitereal also, relatedly - i like @5point9billion
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@notquitereal my understanding (and i am not a physicist) is that there was nothing (not empty space; an absence of space) until the big bang expanded, creating both the stuff & the place the stuff is
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@notquitereal i do not find that easy to think about. this is why after a certain point physicists just describe stuff using math & find it very difficult to relate stuff back to everyday terms.
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@notquitereal here is a nice article that largely confirms what i said (yes!!) curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/104-the-universe/cosmology-and-the-big-bang/expansion-of-the-universe/623-what-is-the-universe-expanding-into-intermediate
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love the sentence "I'm a professional physicist and the answer is: yes, it is difficult to think about." @nice_on_here/1097884273963544577
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relatedly @v21/810567351645171713
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@iainl7 @notquitereal well, there is the anthropic principle
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RT @jessamyn: This is Jim. He does computers for a job. He parked in a lot and had to pay using an app. It took him fifteen minutes. In win…
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@sygster It is difficult for everyone. I find it very difficult, and could not do it sustainably.
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@sygster depending on when you start, an hour in the mornings can be pretty good
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@MonsieurEureka @trevorbasset wow, this is 100% gorgeous
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@sonjorce okay, so: i am thinking about this stuff as it relates to the big bang. so even at a very very small time after the big bang, the stuff that is not inside the observable universe was already outside it? (i mean, not that we can know what it is, but if it is there, then it was)
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@sonjorce because obviously if you wind completely back to the big bang, everything is in the same place, but that is before time started, so it's not like anything could be observed.
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@sonjorce it is weird to think of the observable universe as a thing that is limited in time as well as space, although of course that's the case. if you see halfway across the universe, that place can't be influenced by somewhere outside the universe, but it is also a long time ago
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@sonjorce (but that place, now, could have a different conception of the observable universe which includes places inaccessible to us. and this is kind of a geometric relationship which is not dependent upon the time we're observing - the same would be the case 1 second after BB)
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@pippinbarr @rillakhaled oh my goodness. what wonderful news. he's such a cutie!
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RT @mxsage: definitely not done with this gesture yet...
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OK Not Modified Bad Request Unauthorized Forbidden Not Found Not Acceptable Gone Enhance Your Calm Unprocessable Entity Too Many Requests Internal Server Error Bad Gateway Service Unavailable Gateway timeout
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@MaliceDaFirenze for sure they can, although i think the real question is if it is in a good enough state that you can get some useful feedback from people looking at it
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@ojahnn gateway timeout
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@MaliceDaFirenze i think in that case there's probably better ways to get excitement based on the idea? spend that time & effort writing thinkpieces about why it's important, or doing instagram, or...
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@MaliceDaFirenze (@TheManeQuest is probably the best thing you can be doing for it strategically, tbh)
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@MaliceDaFirenze yeah, fair! and it's always a gamble on how far you'll actually have progressed by the time the show comes round...
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read something recently about the waste of energy from people boiling over-full kettles, and have been noticing myself doing that & feeling distantly bad about it. but also i just put the kettle on for the fourth time for the same cup of tea i keep not making.
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@patrickashe A+++, speedy delivery, item was as advertised
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sci-fi is all about distracting us from the problems of the present with the hypothetical problems of the future
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fantasy is much the same, but about the past instead
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@fforw it could! but i think it usually does the other thing
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@mtrc i find it fine & light weight enough on this 2013 MBP
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@mtrc (using it with Unity, to be clear)
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@mtrc ahhh, it's not, it is actual VS Code, which is of course completely different to VS Community edition.
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@mtrc I *have* run VS Community on this machine, but in Windows, and I am not sure if that was with Unity or not? Or, I think it was for doing native plugins in C++ to then work within Unity...
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@itgrrl @Ducky_Tape that is sometimes true, and i would like for it to be true more often. but mainly it is the other thing! (like, yes, i agree that it often echoes current anxieties - but i think it rarely usefully gives us tools for dealing with them)
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@itgrrl @Ducky_Tape like: how many times have people used sentient robots as a way to reflect race issues? but the main effect of that, it seems to me, is to make people talk seriously about the problem of what to do when machines get smart, rather than the problem of racism
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@itgrrl @Ducky_Tape (also, i am not saying this to shit on escapism, really. i like escapism and i have used sci-fi to think about hypothetical future societal problems rather than real immediate personal ones many many times. but still. that's the thing it's doing)
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@tef oh, hah, I'd missed that. yes!
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@mcclure111 don't even need a botnet, you'd only need multiple accounts to get past rate limits
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@ra buttons are good, it turns out
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@quartzcrusher I admit to hyperbole with the word "all". and yes, i love Octavia Butler & agree with you there.
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@quartzcrusher but still @v21/1098222626110095362?s=19
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@GamesByKinmoku you do whatever is riskiest, whatever you're least sure about, first
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(i am not at GDC, but many of the @WildRumpus crew are)
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Mild Rumpus returns to GDC! This year, we are a peaceful underwater grotto, surrounded by swaying kelp vines. gamasutra.com/view/news/337060/Come_and_play_these_lovely_indie_games_at_the_GDC_2019_Mild_Rumpus.php
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@KommanderKlobb @WildRumpus i once did the training, but didn't hand in the paperwork, so i never got my certificate. :/
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RT @everestpipkin: typewriter work from ruth wolf-rehfeldt, 1970s+80s, at documenta 14
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i missed this, but it features a bunch of CBDQ bots! that's cool! @plentyofalcoves/1085678241749307392
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@ellaguro i guess i should listen to Sharon Van Etten now
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@ellaguro i like Angel Olsen a lot!! i've listened to My Woman pretty much to death. but i also like Mitski a lot, and haven't heard Sharon Van Etten, so.
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@ellaguro (didn't get quite as into Phases, for some reason?)
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@SuzeMarsupial these are also the principles i live by
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@SuzeMarsupial i mean, it's not quite respect for the sea, because i'll guzzle mussels & shrimp like there's no tomorrow
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oh no, I forgot about the banana page
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RT @MattSaincome: When a Hard Times freelancer gets an article published on our site, the "publish" button, inside the CMS, also instantly…
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RT @landru79: #ROSETTA 😍 COMET ☄️ #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO☄️ ESCORT 3 MTP018 2015-07-18 TARGET_CENTER_DISTANCE = 182 km 30x OSIRI…
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@mcclure111 @hideous_pizza this isn't quite right. Wild Rumpus ran it with Brandon until 2015, after which we were not involved because it is a lot of work and we all had other stuff going on. Brandon then continued it (pulling in some Juegos-associated people behind the scenes - it is a lot of work)
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@mcclure111 @hideous_pizza that bit wasn't acrimonious - we wanted the party to continue, even if we couldn't run it. after last year's party, he was removed from the Juegos board, and entered radio silence until it was necessary to apologise in order to promote the party.
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@mcclure111 @hideous_pizza (that last bit of timing is pure inference on my part)
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@mcclure111 @hideous_pizza I do not know if anyone else is involved in organising this year's party - we/I are no longer involved, and I've had no contact with Brandon since he was removed from the Juegos board.
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@mcclure111 @hideous_pizza the first one was a three way collab between WR, Venus Patrol (ie Brandon) and One Life Left, which is a radio show that has since spawned Marioke.
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@mcclure111 @hideous_pizza it was a website! but yes, i don't blame you for being confused, and happy to explain the complex intertwining histories...
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@PanicBomber @manygradients I've not properly experimented, but unlikely? Happened because of the Twitter changes to the way they handle pngs.
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I don't even use Peach, but this is so exciting! A co-op owned and run social network! medium.com/@brendn/lets-save-peach-69ad682d62bd
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recommitting to an all-black lifestyle
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someone on this train with their phone blasting out Beautiful South
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wait, actually they're just listening to the radio
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"I will not rest until I have ruined my life striving for fame." thecut.com/2019/02/calling-hypocrisy-on-these-good-enough-life-advocates.html
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@jericawebber this is my worst nightmare
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@jericawebber i guess i should love hypertext and noise, but in a book i want to read without being molested by other people's opinions
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@jericawebber yes, but only after i've had a chance to have an opinion on it by myself
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@jericawebber i hate that too! but at least there's the vague charm & tactility of knowing someone else's hands have been on the same physical object
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@jericawebber though it was funny to get a heavily annotated version of the Westing Game where the annotations were completely off-base as to the solution to the puzzles, and then they trailed off as the book continued
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@jericawebber it's just higher bandwidth
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RT @quendergeer: if I were from a marginalised demographic I would simply behave in ways the dominant hegemony found respectable, thus muti…
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RT @leighalexander: game dev in nostalgic fiction: 'whoa my zany mental health issues are making the VR world turn real' how it really is:…
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RT @alphachar: 🌻🌻🌻 Hello lovely people! 🌻🌻🌻 After 4 glorious years as a writer at Larian Studios, I’m moving on to a brand new challenge f…
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RT @katbamkapow: HELLO. Here is a recent trip down memory lane: the Christmas when the internet/a modem was our Big Gift! My brother and I…
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@tambourine also spending a whole pile of time applying
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@DragonNexus @tanyaxshort I mean, I think publishing systematically underplays the role editors and other publisher functions contribute to the quality of a book, so...
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@beckwig oh, oh no, I am sorry to hear that.
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"inner life thrives on cliche, doggerel, repetition, half-remembered gestures, all those things which seem to emerge without source from the night memory, and hence provide the dual pleasure of recognition and discovery." harmonyzone.org/RMDictionary/RMDictionary.html
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oh wow! (via @everestpipkin) @AztecaCecropia/1097493599133097984
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RT @chootalks: these drawings are from 3 years ago but i'm still really fond of them...one of my favourite evolution lines https://t.co/fTY…
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@oliviacpu wait, I missed that you got a job at Glitch, congratulations!
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shoutout to all the people posting longplays of all the levels of obscure games without doing any talking over them and only getting 12 views for their trouble
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RT @HeraLindsayBird: no object permanence, crying, refusing to sleep through night, thirst for milk, pointing at animals and saying the kin…
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RT @CHGardiner: Thread! During the development of Sunless Skies, the content team took part in several consultations to develop our underst…
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love to read a thing by a friend and be reminded about how talented they are. here's @katbamkapow talking about hauntology within the Sims rockpapershotgun.com/2019/02/19/the-sims-is-the-most-haunted-game-in-the-world/
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computer people have 14 different words for a program stopping working
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gotta say, I love ordering two halves of a drink
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hung crashed got wedged went on fire fallen over crashed stopped froze started playing up killed itself was killed terminated unexpectedly quit died
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@mildlydiverting oh, damn! and this list came out of a pub conversation where we explored the exact nuances of "shat itself" (cc @SuzeMarsupial)
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@Hoaxfish oh the wealth of difference in choking and becoming wedged!
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@jazzmickle @jukiokallio thank you!!!!!! this means a lot, and especially from you
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@radiatoryang if you're not giving me an entirely clear depiction of what Christmas Kye Jr. both looked and sounded like when I was 12, you're dead to me.
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it's amazing the way a post becoming popular can make you stop caring about it
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this is both perceptive about gender roles for game designers - - but also is the best description of the job of a game designer I've seen (doing the job of "game designer" is very different from "designing a game", tho hopefully you are actually designing a good game, too) @kchironis/1098997109318082562
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over the past year or two, a lot of my professional growth has been learning how to design games when I'm not also the person going and writing the code that makes them actually work the way I'd imagined
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@ka_bradley oooh. now i am thinking about the intersection of places that would make a very good hot chocolate & have good whiskey.
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@quietllaura yah, it is (sorry: that is was gonna be a thread on "why the industry sucks for women" was apparent in the context when i saw it, but i missed that it got lost by my quote-tweet context)
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i came down to this once or twice & it was good times but also, so much respect for people choosing to close something down with the intent of making space for something new. so much better than letting something dwindle away, or pouring energy into something no longer relevant. @BrightonIndies/1099257541031313408
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@SuzeMarsupial of course, i still sometimes think of Yanis Varoufakis as Valve's pet economist, from back when they were figuring out how to transition from making games to making hats.
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it is so inspiring to see the Overton window shifting so fast on this. the power of pushing for what you actually want, rather than pre-compromising on your ideals. @nytclimate/1098685970789163010
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@tambourine yessss! <3
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@tambourine even more <3 for this! message me when you're around, would be great to say hi!
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RT @y2k_aesthetic: Quantum Field X3 by Hiro Yamagata (2003—2004) At the Guggenheim Bilbao Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain https://t.co/ohV9K…
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@empika <3
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@mcclure111 oh good, this is really making me feel good about them EOLing Inbox
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RT @conceptsbot: you should tell me what it is like to write a novel about butterflies
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RT @tigershungry: The last visitor to Videogames was a woman stood alone unabashedly singing along to the Cleric Beast theme at the top of…
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the Nancy commenters have come round (gocomics.com/nancy/2019/02/17)
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RT @MikeChannell: @dirigiblebill You get this with the rotation of car engines in mid air. If you jump a vehicle and lift off the accelerat…
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basically still what working with Tracery is like marriages.me.uk/alwyn/2015/11/04/an-early-adventure-in-computer-poetry/ (via @tambourine's newsletter)
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@tambourine @tambourine where/when is your bot poetry talk?
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@tambourine ah, that looks really interesting! (but, being the first half of April, I will be in Now Play This mode)
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@tambourine @shehulking i love it. i love the writing especially, i love seeing the bones of obligation, social scheming, suffering show through the not very well translated prose.
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@nielsen_holly @hollygramazio we want to document them in some way or another... even if this just means putting some photos up online. the physical cards, though, really not sure - if you know somewhere that'd want them...
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Have you ever customized a card in a boardgame? Or filled in blank ones? If so, we want them! Now Play This is doing a display of the wide variety of personalized cards out there, and we would love for you to send them into us. nowplaythis.net/send-us-your-cards/
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@NotInventedHere yep, that's the kind of thing!
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@haraiva right!!? i was so excited when it came through. another @Dick_Hogg special.
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RT @nielsen_holly: HISTORIANS. Please share this call for personalised playing cards far and wide. Because of the nature of the objects and…
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RT @Carnage4Life: An example of software defaults being a matter of life & death. The default option in the software is to send the chargin…
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@tambourine ah, nice! lmk if you do!
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@ok_remi_ok i've used SVGs, converted automatically to meshes, for a similar purpose.
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@ok_remi_ok all the SVG import systems are bad, though. though I have not properly used Unity's new inbuilt one. i suspect it is also bad, however.
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RT @patrickashe:
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@ok_remi_ok yeah, that's very fair - for getting the sizing right, we didn't resize stuff from the default import size, and then everything ended up coming from a single source Illustrator file. it worked for scaling issues, but not bulletproof...
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RT @nattyover: For a year I've been reporting this story about major climate news, finally breaking today: A new simulation finds that glob…
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@CounterPillow @ok_remi_ok counterpoint: what if SVGs are just too good?
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@CounterPillow @ok_remi_ok (i love it, it achieves it's aims sensibly, but... yeah, it embedding the whole of the web stack within it is not always the best for all applications)
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@LiaSae The Pixie on my lap says hi
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@alphachar my parents were accountants, so i learned the difference between zero rated and not rateable before i left home
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@HarryGiles My immediate feeling (as someone in both groupings), that to the extent that they feel like distinct groups, they should be treated as such. I could see value in both lists! And, while obviously there will be huge divergence within, I think each has a different set of priorities.
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@nielsen_holly i feel like i should write more, and i have done some small bits of writing i'm pleased with... but not much, and i feel like this is a big thing i'm missing. and the problem i have is that same - anxiety, and just really having to push myself to face my own writing/myself.
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@nielsen_holly what i am saying here, is that it feels very validating to see people who are much better at it than me face up to the same problems, and have to work to overcome them.
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@innesmck @Shrubbette @LotteMakesStuff i feel like, at their best, game jams end up becoming a way to trick game devs into actually taking a holiday and leaving their laptops for a bit
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@Seemo I'm a bit sad I'm not going to GDC and this is helping, thanks
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@secretgothdome Hi!
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RT @pearwaldorf: I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people: today's exhibit nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/minimum-wage-saving-lives.html https:…
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@qDot @buttplugio for our family friendly stacking game, Beasts of Balance, we have the plinth stop advertising once it's found one connection, and then using multiple in the same room comes down to timing, with a bit of preferentially pairing to the best signal strength
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@qDot @buttplugio which works fine for our demos, though it's rare we go above 3 devices at one time... you can get reasonably far on that kind of rule if it's quick to turn it on on both sides (and easy to test the pairing, too)
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@qDot @buttplugio yep! i definitely do sympathise. i guess the upside is that you didn't make the hardware, and the included software is i assume bad, and so there is a much lower bar to clear...
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light blue haze lying over Peckham Rye park
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@Sonic_Screwup yeah, but... from the production perspective, having one big outlet for everything means that outlet gets to set the content and the price they pay. right now, Netflix is pouring money into production, because they have to. if all the competition folds...
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@Sonic_Screwup i mean, i don't disagree with yr thread, but it does mean the tv business be fucked in about a decade...
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RT @shutupmikeginn: My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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@katbamkapow @notquitereal pokemon fast & pokemon slow
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RT @LiaSae: Then I saw the landscape pieces, froze in place like I’d been hit square on the head, and reconsidered.
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RT @MythologyBot: H1226 Pursuit of rolling cake leads to quest.
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i want to be let into this beta program so bad. Spark AR Studio is startlingly good software, and making something with custom shaders in a tiny scope is obviously very me. @ashleyrcarman/1100780953058885632
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like: i made like 4 prototypes in the first 4 hours i spent with it
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also i want to be let in because this seems like an easy way to become instagram famous. pls let me in and no-one else.
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@doougle facebook is only really useful for promotion if you pay them money. and only really worth it if that's the only place your audience is.
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@everestpipkin idk about the 15 part, I can't remember when I started liking John Hughes films, but I do like shimmerwitch.itch.io/cats-out-of-the-bag now
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@minxae_ @awsten @manygradients sorry! it was a twitter change in how they handle images, not my choice!
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heartened to see people caring so much about the transparent backgrounds on @manygradients (not my choice, the twitter image compression change did it) @awsten/1098104478685777920
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@polclarissou it was really fun learning how to make v21.io/calmingsphere/ as smooth as it is (using temporal dithering to simulate a larger colour range)
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walking down the stairs to the toilet at Waterloo, dropping and picking up a fifty pee, clocking simulatenously the open 30p barrier and the change machine, when suddenly-- attendant: excuse me me: yes attendant: it's free
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standing just behind a couple on this escalator who are both wearing the bag I am currently wearing (and bought a week ago)
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what I mean to say is that when everyone else gets this bag, you should remember that I got it first
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@takeshi_no_uta wow! rude!
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@MaizeWallin I think it has taken time to cross the globe? It is still all Eastpak and Fjallraven here. And am I very hip and only noticed it a few months ago.
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@SuzeMarsupial it's a nice bag, I think
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@hannahnicklin it is my birthday soon; thank you for the egg