Tweets from 2019/03
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I worked on this for years, years ago, and it actually coming out is going to make me cry. @hannahnicklin/1101268785527508992
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I want to walk around the town and talk to the friendly monsters!!!
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i just pasted on my phone when i copied on my laptop. it did not work.
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app idea: something that keeps the paste buffer on your phone and computer synced. this isn't an especially good idea, mind.
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oh, huh, Microsoft are working on it, but in a way that makes it more complicated @MagInTheSmoke/1101394007652032513
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@MagInTheSmoke hey, this is... not at all appealing? well done, microsoft.
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@jukiokallio synergy! i remember people using that when i was at uni. it was nice!
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@jukiokallio i'm shocked, shocked
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@KommanderKlobb i bet you can't wait for this thing from microsoft, which kind of does it, but in a confusing and complicated way @MagInTheSmoke/1101394007652032513
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RT @nowplaythese: "This promise of something ambiguous, inexplicable, mysterious, unpredictable, a promise that doesn’t even have to be ful…
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i did a roundup thread of stuff from the Lost Histories Jam, it's here: @nowplaythese/1099951357094699008
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RT @ok_remi_ok: game dev tip: if it has ears, add a bone to it
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RT @AranKoning: you can play a sokpop game every day for almost 4 weeks straight for 50$ what a deal @sokpopco/1101502356250714118
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RT @rubna_: gonna be a breeze to making patreon games from here on out
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@notquitereal i mean, i don't have any info on _when_...
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love this birthday letter from @FinjiCo finji.co/news/2019/03/01/ABirthdayLetter.html when filled with anger and despair at all the terrible things, let's try to make a space for all the things that aren't terrible
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RT @RussellDornan: At our work reading group we discussed this article written by @jennajovi for @ExploreWellcome. "Emotional attachment w…
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saw Disobedience last night and: I come from a very different community, but it was really striking to see those same kind of suburbs, semi-detached, bay windows, cosy streets and that flat grey light covering it all
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remembering seeing Attack The Block and feeling so much hearing that south london slang and language I grew up with (moved away from, never quite spoke myself) and had never seen on screen before
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what was normal, neutral, the thing you grew up with, now revealed again to you and you ache at the specificity of it
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I say all this living less than 10 miles from where I grew up
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@rubna_ i'll pencil it in for next year's festival
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Now Play This work is in full swing. It's amazing if you think about all the individual objects, bits of paperwork, and bits of information that need to be agreed to put on a festival. Tens of thousands of tiny decisions.
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The same is obviously true for making videogames, but in that case it all comes from a few people and gets bundled up neatly. With an exhibition, it all comes flying in at increasing speed from different corners of the world until the day you open.
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RT @chenchenwrites: i'm struck by how many readers get trained to read poetry as a decoding process or a riddle-solving. rather than "just"…
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re LRT: i am screaming at this webpage owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-Introduction-to-Poetry-by-Billy-Collins
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co-signed @priya_ebooks/1101920998406803456
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@GalaxyKate @AGoodStoic @conpropaganda yep, agreed. well intentioned, even if I disagree with the execution.
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@lifewinning I mean, same
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it's cool that Sorry To Bother You is both an excellent film and a decent guide to effective labour organising
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@kimoVoid @softlandscapes thank you so much! that's so good to hear
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@pangmeli are you thinking of this kind of energy? @jackmorriss12/855732201849335808?s=19
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RT @leighalexander: don’t even know what I’m looking for anymore when I open the phone; only that I don’t find it
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@oh_cripes are you drawing an ampersand with tyre tracks?
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RT @ThaumPenguin: 11. An introductory guide to human children
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how to encourage the world-changing, brilliant stuff? a broad base of people secure enough to explore, to take risks, to do things you don't quite understand (that they maybe don't quite understand yet). artists & scientists don't do good work in order to get paid more for it.
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it said, basically: the current model is to fund "excellence", but this leads to a narrowing of possibilities , perverse incentives and lack of diversity - it'd be much better to fund everyone who demonstrates a reasonable level of competence instead
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reading the latest @TheWhitePube piece ("What should an art festival look like?" : thewhitepube.co.uk/what-should-an-art-festival, obv relevant to me) and point 5 reminds me of a thing i read but haven't been able to track down, about academic research funding...
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anyway: idk what to do with this thought, but it's an interesting thing to chew on.
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RT @hellophia: 🎶
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RT @10_print_chr: ╲╲╲╲╱╲╱╱╲╲ ╲╲╱╲╲╱╱╱╱╲ ╱╲╲╱╲╱╲╱╱╱ ╲╱╲╲╱╲╲╲╲╲ ╲╱╲╱╲╲╲╲╱╲ ╱╱╱╲╱╲╱╲╲╱ ╲╲╱╱╱╲╱╱╲╲ ╱╱╲╲╲╲╱╲╱╲ ╲╱╲╱╲╲╲╲╱╱ ╱╲╲╲╲╲╲╲╱╲
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@ok_remi_ok @EntranceJew yep, was going to say, this sounds like a perfect job for PerRendererData / Material Property Blocks (these are the same thing)
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@ok_remi_ok @EntranceJew happy to answer questions if you hit any stumbling blocks!
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@mcclure111 I'm about 3 minutes into that Chance McDaniel record and already I want to say: thank you so much for the rec!
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immediate follow @WilmotsGame/1097889878036176896
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Pokemon & Pret-a-Manger vg247.com/2019/03/04/detective-pikachu-trailer-london/
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i like that the place we put on a videogame party is in the videogame film
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RT @conchitinabot: For the cursory traveler, there is no need to come to terms with the state between melancholy and a summer month. Why bu…
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RT @seelix: My partner just tried to explain to me that all pasta comes from the same plant, which is ridiculous. Everyone knows that past…
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wait, sorry, i missed up. please pretend this tweet reads "Pokemon Pret & Pokemon Manger" thanks @v21/1102516417658785792
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RT @theglorysociety: We’re The Glory Society, a worker-owned and operated cooperative that makes video games. Founded by Bethany Hockenberr…
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RT @Andy_Makes: BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I have been waiting for weeks to share! @DBAArcade is going to have it's own space!!! We're taking over…
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RT @v21: 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…
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@vivschwarz we live literally next to a museum!
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@vivschwarz I like big walrus
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RT @softlandscapes:
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RT @WildRumpus: GDC is creeping up on us and I reckon you’ll be wanting to know what’ll you find down in Davy Jones’ Locker this year in ou…
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RT @WildRumpus: "Cars. I love it. And crashes. Things flying in the sky. Love it." It's Need 4+E9 Speed, by @Kalonica_ & @jason_bakker htt…
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@Kalonica_ @amaninaseem yeeaaaaahhhhhhHHhhHHHHH
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RT @Kaleidopix: and a fibonacci wall ɐuq ɐ ɟᴉpouɐccᴉ ʍɐll hanging that i did last ɥɐuƃᴉuƃ ʇɥɐʇ ᴉ qᴉq lɐsʇ @kvdspek
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@Gib @adrielbeaver !!!
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We just announced a whole pile of things for this year's Now Play This!! Please look at our ludicrous lineup here: nowplaythis.net/2019-festival/
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We're getting @helvetica to make a giant Tensabarrier labyrinth in the Somerset House courtyard?
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@helvetica Also we have a conference now? nowplaythis.net/2019-makers-corner/ "A Series of Interesting Decisions", it's focused on people explaining exactly why they designed the thing that way, rather than the other way.
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@helvetica (the conference is in a room that seats, like, 60 people, so get tickets soon if you'd be heartbroken to miss it)
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@iRNY @helvetica it'll be very similar, but with this one you get to carry a flag
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RT @morayati: A new interactive piece of mine was commissioned for Now Play This in London. It's called "Lies & Cigars," set in Astoria, an…
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@danhett @nowplaythese this is such a wonderful thing to hear, thank you <3
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RT @me_irl: 10.0.0.0 addrs look like roman columns or steel i-beams; institutional, serious, plain. 192.168 evokes the aesthetic of consume…
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@tambourine stood up to take this pic
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@tambourine we don't have a phone plugged in, but I did actually use this to find out the line number when we were trying to get the Internet set up
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@tambourine yeah! with Bonnie Prince Billy doing the voice. there were actually three versions : downloadable, a phone number you could call, and an ebay auction for 5 vintage telephones which contain the game within them.
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RT @TylerGlaiel: HOW TO MAKE YOUR GAME RUN AT 60FPS medium.com/@tglaiel/how-to-make-your-game-run-at-60fps-24c61210fe75
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RT @Keeling_curve: 411.66 February average CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa sets a new record for monthly average. It is rare, but not unprec…
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Very excited to see @everestpipkin's RPG is out. I played an early version, and it is a game of quiet care for the characters you create, and also a game which can set them against the vast indifference of time. everestpipkin.itch.io/the-ground-itself
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@SuzeMarsupial oh no, Suze is doing the thing again, someone go fetch some blue roll
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RT @hannahnicklin: Find this super interesting because while theatre fucked the principles of the Well Made Play years ago, screen and vide…
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i turn 32 tomorrow
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@KommanderKlobb @keefstuart was considering going out for a birthday dinner at Deacon St John, but it might be a bit too pricey
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RT @abipalmer_bot: When we were chatting about bringing Crip Casino to Now Play This, @hollygramazio & I talked a lot about games that feat…
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(my mum has told me that as i was being born she was yelling at the nurses to stop paying attention to the rolling footage of this happening)
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@KommanderKlobb Ricky, you've got to. It's necessary.
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RT @ranjit: @pentametron's reached seven years today With twenty seven thousand couplets done! Inspired some songs, a book (see bio!), yay!…
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@UltraCobalt @ammonite do you mean this one? I don't remember much ARG stuff in, but it's good for our purposes anyway, I think (also the PDF is free online now)
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@UltraCobalt @ammonite (I was planning on bringing it in, but on a day I take the train. It's heavy!)
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@ammonite @UltraCobalt I'm not in tomorrow! (I am in the office with Sophie instead)
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the whole thing about driverless cars is unlikely to come to pass, they are (or should be) aware of it, but whether it works or not, it helps cloak this essential fact about their business model @HazelMonforton/1102096606973882368
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RT @nibcardgames: Great news😀 Our game #SafeJourni will be featured at the @nowplaythese game festival in #London. It's our first game to…
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i wrote a chapter for this! it's out soon! @tanyaxshort/1103348549985726465
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RT @__Tyu: "But Tyu why should I get it on itch when I can get all my games on the same platform" you fool, don't you realize what you're m…
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RT @feralvector: You'll find the dates for 2019 on our Indiegogo page. Tickets on sale when it concludes, but first, we need your help! htt…
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@everestpipkin it's true!!!
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food party is great!! watch food party! @Joespirational/1103174659305021440
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RT @flglmn: you ever know that feeling when you are small and sad, but also valid, and loved? remember that you are full of stars. just a g…
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@nsuttner Hatoful Boyfriend? (if you consider it part of the indie tradition)
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@nsuttner yeah, a lot of the stuff it brought in was not original to it, but then again my response to the games you listed was more "oh, that's a smart way to put that together" than "oh, I've never seen that before". so: influential if not original?
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@nsuttner Fallen London was 2009, though its ongoing nature maybe makes that a bit less clear-cut? A whole swathe of games would look very different without it there, although maybe that's as much it as an incubator for talent as an influence... (prob wouldn't call it"modern", tho, tbf)
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RT @pangmeli: sick
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@doougle i, too, did this (or, felt the urge to). enjoy!! the overnight stretch is so good
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RT @tanjiros: just hit with the realization that teens today live in a time where almost all the anime in a season has official translation…
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I just backed Yucatan: Neo-Mexican Racing Adventure on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/1339957070/yucatan-neo-mexican-racing-adventure?ref_tag=thanks_tweet
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@lazerwalker @aphyr ah, what a delight these are. and from the comments: "I will be very very hesitant in hiring such type of person for regular work at my company."
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RT @HarrietFL: Please enjoy this story of a journalist so petty he tried to get executed just to prove a point.
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@tigershungry it me (the puppy)
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@joonturbo @AranKoning probably for the same reason that "?:" doesn't work reliably
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@AranKoning @joonturbo yep - the object hasn't actually been destroyed, but Unity overrides the equality operator to make a "mark for destroyed" object return true when compared to null. they can't override "?:" tho!
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@AranKoning @joonturbo (it'll get actually destroyed at the end of the frame)
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if you are at GDC and have cards we could show, you can give them to us there! get in touch with @profaniti and she'll be happy to mule them back to us. @nowplaythese/1100024796857942017
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@PetriPurho @profaniti ahh, amazing!!
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RT @WYR_bot: Would you rather become a dj or be a ghost?
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@dannybirchall Euston smells of a tool than a scene these days and is a bit of a mess with the clip of the segment of the market.
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@Nifflas i know the feeling. but the point of this feeling, the reason it's worth really dwelling on it... is that next time you see something wrong, you have this feeling to draw on, to give you courage to do something.
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@Nifflas mind, you're not a bad person, and that's not a helpful way to look at it. but if you say you failed and did something shameful this time, yes, okay, i can believe it (tho god knows i can't judge). but that shame is only worth something if it drives you in the future.
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i am pleased with this week's selection of games! @nowplaythese/1102509590841835525
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if you liked our gorgeous Now Play This identity, it's just been released as a CC-licensed tileset (thx @Dick_Hogg) hogg.itch.io/npt19
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@Dick_Hogg now i am trying to think of a project which would make sense of using both this & @everestpipkin's Mushy tileset everestpipkin.itch.io/mushy
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@glassarmy if you have a bit of time to kill, then Candy Cafe is great
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@glassarmy (in Chinatown, it's a dessert place)
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@glassarmy i like the little fish filled with cream that come from the machine in the window that makes little fish filled with cream
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@glassarmy i don't have any particularly useful recs for Actual Restaurants, tho
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@Gillespionage hahaha. i still remember this from time to time and it makes me smile. those were the days...
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RT @ojahnn: My mom @phototio is exhibiting her tracery bot's output and code in her art space! cc @v21 @GalaxyKate
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RT @BunchesOfBees: Science Fiction is a genre that arises out of writers inspiring each other to write more science fiction. "Adult Animate…
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RT @phasechase: ligging tigging togging cogging sogging sugging sagging wagging wigging pigging pugging mugging fugging fudging fidging fad…
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RT @mcclure111: Speculating: If an "algorithm" is trying to promote "engagement", its only goal is to boost numbers. If the algorithm reali…
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@lorenschmidt I wonder if sum-of-vectors between A* and breadcrumb following would work? Where one has a strong preference, go with it, otherwise blend?
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Ape Out wins the award for "Most thoughtful use of reverb in the pause menu UI sfx"
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RT @Dick_Hogg: Good morning. I have made the art from this years @nowplaythese identity available as a tileset so that you can make games o…
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RT @rinank_: I know I complain about musical theatre a lot but sometimes that Oklahoma! (1998 Royal National Theatre Cast Recording) be hit…
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@vivschwarz It is So Hard to do self expression. It is not how I work at all. I do express myself, I clearly have a style and tastes and they come through in my work - but I only see those things when I look back, when I reflect on work I've already done.
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shoutout to the 42 non-binary people I follow on here (via proporti.onl/, which seems good if you're curious about your own stats)
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@vivschwarz yes
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@phoenixperry @ChellaRamanan @VancouverTim I basically only play (flatmate's) Switch with the joycons undocked. being able to hold each hand loosely, separate, with basically no weight, is the most comfortable a game controller has ever been for me.
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just had reason to listen again to my reading of the comments of a YouTube video of Clair de Lune, set to Clair de Lune. there's a lot of people crying. v21.io/themachinegentlystutters/clairdelune/
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@carolmertz @ceschiii @EspionageBeauty and Hellcouch looks great, I'm sad I won't get to see it in person!
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RT @mcclure111: Do you think that "It is never valid for there to be such a thing as an ethnostate" is an opinion you can get away with exp…
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thinking about becoming an algorave visualist
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RT @ra: i saw @brendanzab's voyager3 blog years ago and ive been in love with the aesthetic ever since voyager3.tumblr.com https://t.co…
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@lazerwalker @joonturbo I have lost one, same. also I have a Nanokontrol which lost all its caps, which are in a different, now lost, bag. Someone tried to be helpful :/
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i understand why, but also i don't understand why big movies aren't storyboarded as they're scripted. film is a visual medium, right? @tvaziri/1104877100605988864
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@mcclure111 yeah, animation is the big exception here. otherwise the tradition is just "get coverage, we'll decide what shots we want in the edit suite"
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@mcclure111 which, now i think about it, is kind of backwards. Pixar more than anyone can decide late in the day that they need a different camera angle, and just re-render from there...
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RT @guardianculture: Burgess Prize runner-up 2019: Kate Wyver on Dan Hett’s Sorry to Bother You theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/10/observer-anthony-burgess-prize-kate-wyver-dan-hett-sorry-to-bother-you?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture
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RT @coolranchzaku: that classic whoopsie where you threw a molotov but didn't mean for anything to catch fire
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i would like to say: i do not want to either pay £5 to get legal permission to watch porn, nor have all the porn i look at stored in a database that is linked to my passport details
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@AndrewJohnMarks it did have a script! at some point, to get the money signed off, they needed to hand in a script, so they went back and wrote one up from the storyboards. but that's basically all they used it for.
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@AndrewJohnMarks other surprising thing about Fury Road: it makes very heavy use of CG. just... not for the stunts.
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RT @thebafflermag: an entire generation listened to Pulp’s “Common People” and internalized it in the wrong way thebaffler.com/salvos/a-different-class-kennedy
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RT @innesmck: Gender in sport is straining under the weight of the fact there is no clear, immutable binary - not in terms of chromosomes,…
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@zarawesome "don't direct from the page" and all that
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RT @RobbyKraft: rabbit ear is beginning to handle layer-ordering of folded models 🧠
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@FelicityMorse the two biggest objections i have with this: - that database will definitely get hacked - it massively entrenches the market power of the company that runs most of the current big porn sites (which have a lot of really fucked up cultural standards embedded within them)
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@FelicityMorse MindGeek have no motivation to make porn less awful, or improve standards within the industry. And this helps lock out any competitor that might.
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i really like the abbreviation "ofc" (for "of course") because it's kinda mangled, but also fits how i think about the underlying word
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slightly terrifying myself by realising that i have, if not direct experience, a Strong Opinion & direction of attack for 95% of these technologies @nicolehe/1105127101995339776
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which, like, yes, that's my job. but also, wow, so much stuff, this really isn't simple, huh.
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@KommanderKlobb given the context i just used it in, i hope not!
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@jonty the window?
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@infovore the bit of this chart that is least familiar is the media player bit. but my biggest actual weakness is probably web dev, where i am hopelessly unfashionable.
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unpopular opinion: i think that the term "content creator" is useful and meaningful
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RT @ContentEngage: Keeping It Real
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RT @leighalexander: @asponge @v21 new platforms enable a haphazard assault on the boundaries between different forms of art + pop culture +…
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@leighalexander @asponge exactly!!!!!
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@leighalexander @asponge it might be a source of solidarity across mediums, but yeah, also a bit cringe.
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@Norgg yeah, it's useful in the same way that "queer" is useful if you want to not nail down exactly which set of subcategories you fit into (or to build solidarity)
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@LorenzoPilia i love that thread so much, thank you for posting it & thank you for all the care you take with the event
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RT @__Tyu: HELLO IT'S ME AGAIN 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️ Séance is now available to purchase here: tyu.bigcartel.com/ it's a 4-6 player…
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RT @miel: hiking interactions🏃♀️
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@dinosaurrparty I definitely find this relatable! My metric for things being an actual hobby rather than fun work are: - I enjoy it - I'm bad at it - I'm unlikely to ever get good at it - Also I'm never going to make money from it
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@dinosaurrparty It's a cliché, but climbing was this for me for a while! It was good to go from bad to not quite as bad!
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RT @buttpraxis: Thinking about electronic music but suspect this applies to a lot of things
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hot take: the distinctive and characteristic thing that unites "walking simulators" is not an emphasis on narrative, but an insistence that moving through a space and observing can be a rewarding experience without needing challenge & mechanical progression.
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@englishscribe I disagree with this! Mainly because I don't think "walking simulators" have to be about narrative. Proteus got tagged with that label back before anyone was trying to reclaim it, but I don't think you could call it a game about narrative in any way.
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@englishscribe I get why you want to disassociate the good stuff from something that started as a slur, but I guess I don't agree with you about what the defining characteristic of that good stuff is.
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@mildlydiverting i am aware this a slightly cruel thing to say after seeing this thread, but i am excited and cannot restrain myself. have you read More Work For Mother?
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@alexhern @kierongillen here is a mod for the videogame Dicey Dungeons that pluralizes the previously unpluralized word "dice" (it changes it to "dice" and "dices")
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@mildlydiverting good! sorry, i was dwelling on how good & how relevant it is recently, and just wanted to share that feeling with someone.
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@mildlydiverting recommendations for more to read in that vein would be appreciated, too
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@mildlydiverting (even if you haven't actually read them yourself)
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@oh_cripes I've got a friend who's a content editor!
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i love that a problem you can have with a program you have programmed is that it has run out of trampolines
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RT @oliviasolon: This was my second fav interaction with IBM's comms team nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921
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RT @ompuco: The other day I was working on adding an optional sharpening pass to #JPGPU (my Unity JPEG-compression image effect). Now THIS…
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@Tonigiri90 moving is an interaction! observing is an interaction! the system created by the two of them continually changing the conditions for the other is an interaction!
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@GalaxyKate i was recently informed : "oh, you should definitely start doing visuals for algorave, there are never enough visualists, you'll totally get bookings"
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@TomNullpointer @GalaxyKate yep, since hearing that i have had a little corner of my brain thinking about ways to use my existing skillsets to make visuals in a way where the process/code is exposed as i'm creating it
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@GalaxyKate @TomNullpointer you can hot-reload in both Unreal & Unity...
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@KommanderKlobb @TomNullpointer @GalaxyKate that suggestion was both sincere and also joking at the same time. it is generally a shitshow in Unity, too!! but if you built a framework around it's limitations, you could do some cool shit, i reckon.
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@KommanderKlobb @TomNullpointer @GalaxyKate and who doesn't love performing live in a setup which threatens to fall over if you take even the smallest misstep?
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@empika @KommanderKlobb @TomNullpointer @GalaxyKate @whitingjp yeah, a shader-coding setup is definitely the sensible compromise between shit i already know & stuff that works well for live-reloading
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@MusumeTheGame @faefdsedf i said it in the tweet you're responding to, but many walking simulators aren't really about "narrative" or "story" (and definitely don't have a set order of narrative, triggered by interacting with the environment)
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@MusumeTheGame @faefdsedf I can recommend Bernband or Proteus if you're curious.
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RT @eevilmidget: @stevebryant I hear the new y00t thing (like 5th graders), is messaging via powerpoint using slides as rooms with customiz…
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@TwilightVulpine @Tonigiri90 this is fair! although there is often an active movement to observe things in a game - a "look" button, or just moving the camera around.
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@DasGereon @GalaxyKate i often think in these terms, and find them useful. buuuuuut still it feels misleading and a bit obtuse to call Proteus a "narrative exploration" game. whereas it is much more directly a simulation of going for a walk on a nice island.
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@DasGereon @GalaxyKate (specifically, i would say that it is a simulation of the emotional experience of going for a wander in the countryside. which also has a narrative!)
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@DasGereon @GalaxyKate you're right, there is!
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@vectorpark yes. but a no deal exit also happens if nothing else changes - ie, if we don't agree to a deal (parliament has very convincingly rejected the current deal, twice), or stay in, or have another referendum, or...
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@vectorpark one of the reasons this was so close was because the motion was amended last minute to remove the clause at the end stating that... but what practical impact that has, i don't know.
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I've got a bunch of other things to be doing, so here's a short thread about the game design principle I think of as "generosity".
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Yesterday I went to Novelty Automation with @HarryGiles. Novelty Automation is amazing! It's a little shop in Holborn filled with lightly satirical electronic and mechanical machines. Some you'd call games, some you'd call, I dunno, entertainments. Novelties?
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What's wonderful about them is that they are all mechanical, physical presences. And when you approach one, they have a clear offer. You have a bit of an idea what to expect. And they deliver that... and then they deliver something else, that expands on it.
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There's My Nuke, where you use a little waldo to load fuel pellets into a nuclear reactor core. When you drop too many... meltdown! There's a motorised armchair that takes you on a 3 minute stop motion package holiday simulation. There's a frisking simulator.
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And to deliver on this, you have to think about it on both ends - how does the context set up the punchline you want to deliver? How does the game frame things so that your nice twist is satisfying?
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So: at the end of My Nuke, a little Hatch opens and delivers you a little bit of rock (candy) with "NUCLEAR WASTE" written in it. The little lamp on top of the TV flips and becomes a heat lamp (you're sunbathing). The frisking simulator flips out an extra hand at yr crotch.
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This is why I often find jokes a good way to think about game design. They follow this same structure : a punchline that delivers more than you expect, a satisfying twist, proof the person who came up with it has put in more work than you.
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(this is also why marketing and PR is a creative act, integral to the way the game is eventually received in ways beyond just "did we sell a bunch of copies?". Though obviously that's nice too)
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(Novelty Automation's machines last a few minutes each... the whole arcade takes about an hour to get round. that matters!)
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and: for big games, this pattern is often one you want to deploy at the scale of a single mechanic or level, as opposed to over the whole thing. you usually want your game to be full of wonder and delight, not a big dull sandwich around a single moment.
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anyway, yeah: generosity. deliver more than people expect. make your game a series of satisfying jokes.
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@jericawebber still Uplink? the feeling of being somewhere you shouldn't, grabbing stuff before deleting logs & scarpering felt great.
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@Brendy_C @jericawebber it took me ages to get to playing this, and i found the hacking bits nice... but it has such an amazing sense of place & world & like you have actually went back to someone's flat after the club and everyone is off their face and you have a jittery conversation on an ugly sofa.
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- i try moving the "call" slider down - my phone starts ringing to demonstrate how loud it is being set to - i don't know how to stop it - i lock my phone - that does stop it - it pings again - i feel itchy and annoyed
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my phone updated and this just happened: - my phone pings repeatedly - i use the volume buttons to try to turn it down - that doesn't work, that only controls media volume now - i go into the settings menu to try to turn down a different volume - i don't know which slider does it
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@mcclure111 they're pretty much fine, and you will have to work hard do something similar that out-performs them (like... a branch will be more expensive)
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RT @Draknek: Hey! I'm working with a cool team on a cool unannounced game, and we're looking for an art director. Please point your talente…
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here is a gorgeous videogame that is coming out later this year, and which i did some work on a long time ago. more details here: mutazionegame.com/
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@jukiokallio doesn't it!!!?
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@caraellison @asponge I know how you feel
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@maxkreminski @lazerwalker I wrote mine in like half an hour. The only thing at all complex in there is the recursion needed to process stuff. idk, if you're building anything large I'd go with Max's, but if you're just doing simple stuff I don't think it matters much.
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@zusty @Chef__Seth @mousefountain I have wanted to make a Her Story / Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective - like for ages. Which maybe is me still clinging to game-like structures, wanting to add mechanical consequence for understanding rather than just trusting that it's interesting enough in itself.
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RT @haikus_by_KN: I was advised that my concept for Escape from Woomera (game about a real refugee detention centre) "too real" and that th…
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@johnnemann @zusty @Chef__Seth @mousefountain SH:CD does! you get a score! you're supposed to be competing with Sherlock.... I generally ignore that bit and just wander around until I reckon I've solved all the mysteries I care about. But you do know when you've solved them, generally.
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@hoskingc @johnnemann @zusty @Chef__Seth @mousefountain I think if it was designed today it would have the courage to leave it out. But still : both do have a conclusion, and a point of diminishing returns for further investigation.
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RT @nowplaythese: Announcing a new commission, in collaboration with @AMazeFest: GLYPHSPRACHE, by @HarryGiles and @Bleeptrack Come to eithe…
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@rubna_ life hacks!!!
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i should probably stop looking at the news, but: this helped me understand of who the terrorist was and why they did this bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2019/03/15/shitposting-inspirational-terrorism-and-the-christchurch-mosque-massacre/
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RT @UnburntWitch: I don’t know what I can say that I haven’t been yelling for years about internet Nazis and 8chan as serious threats doing…
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@notquitereal they are a cause, too. dismantling them would help. dismantling the pipeline that leads people there (YouTube is a big example) would help too. and dismantling the wider racist culture that raises the ambient temperature to make this possible.
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@patrickashe you're welcome
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@patrickashe worth the wait, imo
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RT @cwarzel: cant help but think about the tech that supports livestreams of death/terror. How Zuckerberg described FB Live @ launch: "We…
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@leighalexander Chocky (original John Wyndham novel is for adults, but there was a TV adaptation for kids). Boy hears a voice in his head, it's an alien telepathically communicating with him to help steer humanity's technological progress, hijinks ensue.
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@leighalexander Woof! and Bernard's Watch are not quite right, but close (Woof! : boy turns into a dog, has to hide that with the help of his friend, Bernard's Watch: boy gets watch that can stop time)
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RT @nowplaythese: It's time to stretch your legs. This week, we'll be posting five games, each of which can only be played when you're on t…
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if you are at GDC, swing by the Mild Rumpus space & have a shufti at these lovely games @WildRumpus/1102627979971182592
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@WritNelson thank you!!
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RT @CountCaleb: remember when Donald Glover made a tumblr blog where he pretended to be an asian girl
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@vivschwarz is everyone going to ikea tomorrow? maybe I should go
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any file (with a comma in it) can be a csv file @anildash/1106338721694138369
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@uglymachine important @weikiemon/1106685115038662657
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@guided1 exactly
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RT @GalaxyKate: Hey, did you know that the android SVG version of the rainbow goes ALL THE WAY AROUND, but is clipped to just the 🌈??? Jus…
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playing Hypnospace Outlaw in order to slack off from checking for spam or harassment on CBDQ
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@hypirlink it's kind of charming - there's a few low level spammers who have learnt Tracery in order to use CBDQ. but they're still doing stuff manually, it's cottage-industry level.
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RT @lorenschmidt: beating
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@hypirlink (it is also annoying and tedious, yes)
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when i was a kid we would play a game where we attached two 9V batteries together, and whoever's got hottest lost @kayayarai/1106400030217457675
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RT @SoulofTwhit: @WarrenIsDead I believe the tech industry's passion (esp. in social media) for "free speech" is best understood as a thinl…
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@Coleo_Kin don't research them if you don't want to get madder
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@Coleo_Kin (i say this, but i would probably use them if i was shipping lots of physical stuff)
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@HTHRFLWRS i just did this one, very satisfying
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RT @BooDooPerson: shout out to Gintama episode 225.
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RT @TopLeftBrick: One of the Photoshop scripts that generate the OT quote images has an intermediate step that kinda looks like erasure poe…
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@mollysoda what does the Console say? it seems like your scripts aren't compiling - there's an error in one of them, most likely
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@mollysoda looks like this you can bring it up with shift-apple-C
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@mollysoda are there any errors with a red exclamation mark next to them in that list. like this: (i usually see similar behaviour when there's an error in a script & Unity has closed & been reopened)
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@mollysoda @Aquma ahhh, great!
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@nicolehe big mood
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RT @SmoothUnicode: ▤▤▤ ▤▤ ▤ ▤▤ ▤▧▤ ▧▤ ▤ ▤▧▤▤▧ ▤▧ ▤▤▤ ▤▤ ▧▤▤ ▤▤ ▧▧▤▤▤ ▤▧▧ ▤▤▤ ▤ ▧ ▧▧▤ ▤ ▧▧▤▤ ▤ ▧▧▤▤ ▤▧▤ ▧▧ ▧▤▤ ▧▤ 🎒
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RT @joncstone: Brits buying halloumi is 6% of all Cyprus’s trade @UKinCyprus/1107189907540316161
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i made a cup of tea, then completely forgot about it because i was distracted by making a videogame about a making a cup of tea
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(the videogame was made in sok-stories, and so will be playable at Now Play This)
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@bfod It's a commission, @rubna_'s making it. There's some details at nowplaythis.net/2019-festival/ but more usefully, see @rubna_/1101517756321710081?s=19
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if you can't run a platform without causing radicalization, don't run a platform @ballmatthew/1107275955784089601
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@sam_lavigne absolutely what i'm here for, thank you
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@tigershungry wow we really got some big banners this year, huh
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@tigershungry (wishing you a low-stress setup)
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@benjymous @tha_rami fwiw, twitter's code for counting characters will have to deal with this, and is actually very complex: their libraries for it here github.com/twitter/twitter-text
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@benjymous @tha_rami testcases here: github.com/twitter/twitter-text/blob/master/conformance/extract.yml can't see anything for Arabic in URLs, tho there's test cases for CJK & Cyrillic (and Arabic hashtags)
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@ballmatthew that thread ended with the videos being finally removed at around the time SF started to wake up, no? admittedly, there's some speculation there, but it implies that it is a matter of small-scale staffing & management (at least for this particular part of the problem).
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@mcclure111 Verlan in French! When I was 16 I dated a French girl, and when I visited her her and her friends would speak it. I didn't really understand. Also my French was awful.
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@mcclure111 the wikipedia page is telling me about "double-Verlanised" words, where the reversed form becomes so common it gets reversed again: femme => meuf => feumeu
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@torpordust i wanna say: these are hot & i am glad to see them on my timeline!
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I wanna hear a raucous ska cover of baby shark
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RT @frogkaro: THQ Nordic really did just actively promote 8chan like only a week or two before a major terrorist attack was planned out on…
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@Osiefish this is a pretty convincing argument
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darling it's better down where it's wetter @patrickashe/1107436929568657408
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@gracebruxner just had an important work meeting where I explained why frogs can't wear hats
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@gracebruxner we then talked about whether an otter could wear a beret. didn't reach any firm conclusions.
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@uglymachine damn, you look amazing there! happy birthday! do a GDC for me!
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@whatisian @gracebruxner is he "cool" because he's wearing the hat sideways?
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@whatisian @gracebruxner wait -- so the flaps are tied up? and would blind him if they ever fell down?
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@whatisian @gracebruxner he's very committed to being a detective
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RT @KommanderKlobb: Mild Rumpus is on 3rd Floor, Moscone West <3 @Ninfa_dp/1107683982362079232
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@whatisian @gracebruxner i'm sorry. it turns out i don't know as much about hats as i thought i did.
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RT @froachclub: 💛 If you're going to GDC this year be sure to check out Melon Journey 2 at Mild Rumpus 💛 thewildrumpus.co.uk/mildrumpus @WildRumpu…
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@dreamaskew @Mangelune I was going to suggest this, too. It can be, yeah. But there are good places & projects around... I'm surprised your name hasn't carried enough weight to find work there, tbh! But I guess it's a question of establishing networks, too.
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@infovore i saw your previous tweets, but couldn't come up with anything helpful other than echoing Martha's advice and going "but the cat will likely not want to go in the box"
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RT @MIDImyers: uh wow going to GDC in 2014 and then not returning again until five years later in 2019 is a pretty cool way to see how much…
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questions from Now Play This planning: are olive trees too businessey?
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RT @LotteMakesStuff: So yeah! @unity3d announced a brand new physics engine called 'Unity Physics' and it looks HYPER FUN! lets dig in and…
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@mcclure111 that sounds fine? depends on how interestingly-shaped the box is, really.
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@mcclure111 the big question for me is if you'll ever want someone else to change the way the box looks
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RT @kellianderson: This process… It's so fun its like driving a waterbed. (just: utterly uncontrollable, I make suggestions, which I gues…
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@kellianderson this is so gorgeous
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RT @mcclure111: The problem with literally any kind of technology getting better right now is we have to evaluate it not just in terms of "…
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RT @mcclure111: I see. It is very interesting to me that they have publicly put up the page to submit to become a Stadia developer *now* an…
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@j3rrytron @mink_ette @elloradatura don't put bagels on people's heads youtube.com/watch?v=d0d3iiK25CA
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@innesmck here is an episode of a podcast i listened to while cycling home today. i enjoyed it a lot. it contains many horse facts, but does not answer your question. soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/56-horse-facts
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RT @MOOMANiBE: I wanna make sure everyone reads this tweet about five times. Subnautica cost _10 million dollars to make_. Consider this…
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He thought he could wear us down by repeating demeaning phrases and demands consistently for hours, but I considered that I had a high tolerance for art consisting of many small variations on the same theme and thought I could go the distance.
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I dreamt I moved to Berlin to work for some Donald Trump like figure. I was starting to learn German. He kept taking the kettle out the kitchen and hiding it because he thought it made it look untidy, so I had to make tea in a saucepan.
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@jimrossignol I cannot see what the pitch for devs is beyond "we will give you money for supporting our platform early on"
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@tomscott Oh, I didn't read it as obsessive, if only because I know Sam for making video art using AI (face recognition, speech detection). I listened to 20 minutes and found it meditative. But I do see your point: his other stuff like this used people who were definitely public figures.
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@tomscott Yeah. Thank you for saying: I'm not sure where I've ended up, but it's been good to think about context, harm, and the relationship between Internet artists and the niche corners of the Internet that they love.
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@tomscott (in that categorization, I am an Internet artist)
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RT @MrPrudence: Illustrations (diffraction patterns through crystals) from ‘Thin Films’ – K.D lever & B.N. Chapman [1971] https://t.co/cIdJ…
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@katbamkapow you would be welcome to host it (or attend one) at ours
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@alexhern have we actually sent the letter yet?
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@alexhern oh yes, i think i see? time for people to make some more flowcharts for the political process to completely ignore.
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RT @vivschwarz: I'm working on a trail through Somerset House as part of this year's @nowplaythese Festival. Kevan Davis is designing the p…
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we're coming up on the 9 year anniversary of someone clearly laying out in a police interview how YouTube led to them being radicalized and committing an act of political violence theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/03/roshonara-choudhry-police-interview
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and this obviously isn't just a problem with Islamic extremism. obviously. i work in videogames, and, to my shame, watching videos about videogames is enough to lead YouTube to suggest far-right videos to you.
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i'm so angry
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@Sierra_OffLine there are no technical fixes to latency (well, to push it beyond "acceptable"). there are ways to design around it, if the platform is compelling enough. but those ways are largely incompatible with first person action games.
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@Sierra_OffLine it is sufficiently compelling as a platform for them to own to be worth pushing forward with anyway, i think. maybe "acceptable" is acceptable?
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@ohhoe can you add more than one photo to a reply now?
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It’s all I have to bring today— This, and my heart beside— This, and my heart, and all the fields— And all the meadows wide— Be sure you count—should I forget Some one the sum could tell— This, and my heart, and all the Bees Which in the Clover dwell. (Emily Dickinson)
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@rubna_ ISN'T IT!
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I am very happy about the Mild Rumpus lineup
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@rubna_ I haven't seen the chairs! But sure, I'm happy about them, too.
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boardgame idea: a version of Timelines, but you have to arrange a series of Brexit headlines into chronological order
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@tommchenry absolutely not
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@cassiemcquater congratulations!!! I just woke up and saw the news! So well deserved!
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reading about Caster Semenya and testosterone limits... this quote seems weird to me, as trans women would generally fall within the limits for testosterone theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/feb/18/caster-semenya-testosterone-levels-female-sport-court
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I also find it endlessly frustrating how these debates happen without any acknowledgement that transgender men exist.
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RT @JeremyTiang: 'If we have a different idea of being a “he,” is it fair for me to call myself a “he” at all when I know I am a gender-neu…
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I mean, generally, there's not a single clear fair line you can draw, because gender (and competition) doesn't work like that. And it's useful to draw some line. Just... people aren't lying about their gender to win medals at sport, okay? Trans people really do exist, I promise.
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RT @crashtxt: ⠀⠀ 𓅻 𓄯 𓄿 𓆫 𓆈 𓅜 𓆦 𓃸 𓃮 𓅧 𓅓 𓃿 𓃹 𓄁 𓅽 𓆊 𓄃 𓆀 𓄂 𓆣 𓄀 𓅦 𓄚 𓄇 𓅗 𓃫 𓆸 𓆛 𓅘 𓃩 𓅙 𓆉 𓅿 𓃡 𓆚…
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@naomialderman yes. especially as we're putting on a games festival a week into April. escalating panic and uncertainty inside and outside, just ever more detail about different things that could go wrong
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I have, unsurprisingly, signed the petition. It's worth signing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
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@mousefountain thinking about the effort Bennett went to with Getting Over It, and the (moderate?) impact it had
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RT @mcclure111: Note: You should assume that any information which has been available as an insider attack to an employee of a major tech c…
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RT @caraellison: It has felt like an ~eternity~ but I can finally say ‘Bloodlines 2’ is what I do for work! @rockpapershot/1108934125484797955
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very glad that the EU has delayed Brexit til the middle of our festival
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@joewintergreen @andytouch I wonder what proportion of Unity's paying userbase are making commercial games? I'd guess... 60%? Of course, not that you should care, but it probably explains some of the lack of focus on things you care about.
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@joewintergreen @GreyAlien @andytouch yeah - i'm talking about people using it for architecture viz, training, VR therapy... i met a guy at a fintech startup making their frontend in Unity once? basically agreeing with @AntonHand/1108925697387433984 here...
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@joewintergreen @GreyAlien @andytouch but none of this is an argument that if you're making 3d videogames, you should be using Unity. just... if they just focus on people who make 3d videogames, they might actually be in trouble?
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@TheNorthernNerd at least we know the planes will work!
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@joewintergreen @GreyAlien @andytouch is it? genuinely i'm curious - my impression is that, for example, Unreal is far more focused on making videogames (and specifically 3d videogames)
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@alexhern or is it people stacking a tray of newly washed cups on a half depleted tray?
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@alexhern aaaaaaaa!
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"the people voted for pain"
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RT @berincole: I drew a comic about creating exhibits! How do we engage visitors in history museums, and how do we create exhibits that mee…
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RT @molleindustria: ! Tacoma is free for the next two days on the Humble Store humblebundle.com/store/tacoma
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RT @joonturbo: I’m still looking for a 3D generalist to join my core team some time in the next year! If you’re at GDC, ping me! (Bonus i…
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RT @haikus_by_KN: If you're aged 30-35 & currently feel like the you're the kings & queens of tech/games: enjoy the next few years of your…
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RT @redditships: AITA for installing a lock on my bedroom door, and keeping it locked when I'm not there?
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i used content aware fill on the gaps between the tiles of @everestpipkin's ML-generated Mushy tileset, and i am glad i did
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@everestpipkin right!!!?
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4 million!
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RT @MuseumGenerator: Welcome to the Museum of Information! Today we'll be closing early because our community beginner's drum class needs t…
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RT @fopeolaleye: the REASON why culture appropriation is bad isn’t just the copying of a culture it’s the erasure of historical and cultura…
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this train is definitely fuller than average for midday on a Saturday
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I struggle a lot with witty signs these days.
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feeling the stream of the crowd gather, get thicker, congeal. one end of the rallying point is nearly within sight.
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it's a good feeling to be caught in thick crowds on Oxford Street, and be moving past deserted shops
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on the march itself and phone networks are struggling
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halfway to Hyde Park Corner. the crowd is stationary.
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@everestpipkin also, if you want a packaged up Unity project with the mushy tileset imported in, let me know...
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@SerinDelaunay @what_brexit_is nah, looks fine to me! (aside from my own political biases, specifically it doesn't attack any non public figures)
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@inconvergent they removed it! new rules for twitter pictures
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RT @hautepop: “The texture of life, the tactile experience, is becoming smooth glass.” By @NellieBowles nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html
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RT @10kimaginaryboy: He will leap for you and you will be flustered.
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lots of people saying "this is cool, but at what price"... the only thing weird about this is that it's unafraid to let you know what info it has about you @mbrennanchina/1109741811310837760
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here's the Met trialling non-optional facial recognition technology on UK streets met.police.uk/live-facial-recognition-trial/
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we made an indie digital physical game that was so successful, so pervasive, reached so far outside the world of weird experimental games--that it's for sale in a Hammersmith Oxfam. what a triumph, tbh.
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I am feeling incredibly proud and accomplished watching this video
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still holding out for seeing one in-person at a CeX, mind
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@ashleytwo don't ruin my dreams
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@hypirlink this is lovely to hear!!! ☺️
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RT @simesa: My new favourite series on Netflix
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RT @hardmaru: Neural networks of neural networks: “If we think the brain is a computer, because it is like a neural network, then now we m…
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RT @mattar0d: This video demonstrates my design for a mechanism in #BabaIsYou which implements Cellular Automaton Rule 110, which suffices…
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@innesmck right! i mean, being expensive helps with that...
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RT @corvidresearch: Look, I won’t say it’s art (I still don’t even know if they’re really “gifts” the way we think). Hey, I’m skeptical tha…
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@marnanel @StripeyCaptain oh! and it makes sense if you want to reduce evaporation, too
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"the trading game of fruits" @microtrailers/1110103563085197312
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RT @tanyaxshort: It's like that Tolstoy quote. All elegant games are alike; each inelegant game is pleasurable in its own way. Could write…
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I have tried this out and it is very funny and very silly. @deer_ful/1110194060667617280
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RT @lorenschmidt: another zero sum reversible rule. i love the patterns this one makes as it frays.
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@tburrellsaward oh, damn, good eye
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@nickfourtimes people think that maybe bi-phasic sleep was more common pre-industrialally?
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RT @SuzeMarsupial: if you are seeking asylum or have refugee status in the uk and are interested in becoming a professional software engine…
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@rachelcoldicutt tbh I usually think of this as "immersion"
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@rachelcoldicutt a much contested term within game studies
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@dannybirchall lack of a robust underlying taxonomy : it's finding the most salient stuff with "cycle station" in the name, not thinking of them as a class of things
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@dannybirchall businesses (and other stuff that's generalizable across most cities) I guess they extract an underlying categorization - but thats both optimized for businesses (who have websites and an interest in fixing the data for them) and for messy open ended categories.
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@dannybirchall I mean, I don't *know*. But this is how I think about it.
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@rachelcoldicutt I don't know a word, but I do like the feeling
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@dannybirchall and by contrast, this is the kind of thing that OpenStreetMap is brilliant at. But the interface isn't there compared to Google...
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@dannybirchall there's a taxonomy, it's just badly displayed : livingwithdragons.com/maps/cyclehire/
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Just updated the page with the details for our conference on the first weekend of Now Play This. Now with more pictures of frogs with magnifying glasses. nowplaythis.net/2019-makers-corner/
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honestly, this is a very good conference. making games with mould! games about stripping online! those very nice accessible cabinets at the V&A! lots of other stuff!
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RT @SomersetHouse: Operation #Brexit - ongoing. Yara El-Sherbini's satirical board game featured in #NowPlayThis festival of games & play…
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just... lots of people who have made interesting stuff talking about why they made it that way
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RT @mcclure111: There have been two Internets, over time One was a collaborative work of art, made by people who wanted to make something a…
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RT @radiatoryang: on April 7 in London, I'm giving a talk about my process of making sex games / my webcam stripper dance game... usually I…
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@acgodliman you're gonna be great!!!
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@edjeff I've got a Xiaomi A1, which came in under that and is Just Fine. you gotta import it, though...
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@alexhern that... doesn't seem that weird, in terms of dev-platform relations?
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@alexhern like, it's in your interests as a dev, really. Apple wants to claim you as support for the platform (and you want to be associated with the big announce), but you don't want to announce the game (and the name of it) til you're ready to make a big splash.
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@alexhern ohhhh. poor devs. i mean, then i would generally go with platforms/publishers being a pain to deal with.
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@mcclure111 I have heard nice things about Affinity Designer!
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@hellocatfood you can stay at mine if you like. Forest Hill, we have a nice futon in the lounge.
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[poll] im
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@hellocatfood totally fine to arrive here late! lmk if you can cancel
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@netgal_emi baby
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this is an exciting opportunity to fill in an application form fic.li/youlooklikeart/applynow.pdf
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"we love all things _____. and we know you do too. that's why we ---"
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this is practically a snowclone at this point
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@chouxsalad @alt254 @netgal_emi damn!!! this is next level. very much looking forward to seeing the finished thing.
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test test test
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@ojahnn you're gonna love this nanogenmo project i've been working on
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@mewo2 the interesting thing is that gacha & other free to play stuff is first and foremost about optimising for retention and repeat usage, building it into your daily routine and habits.
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@mewo2 then once you're regularly using it and building an ongoing investment in the internal logic of the game, it positions paying money as a way to optimise achieving the goals you already care about
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@mewo2 the museum has a lot of constraints that free to play games have, but also a lot of opportunities they don't - hard to get the huge userbase into a physical space, but also much easier to make deeper connections with people
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@mewo2 MMOs and so on are especially powerful as this kind of game - you're centering this game as part of people's social lives and sense of worth. a WoW sub is a small price to play to get somewhere to hang out with your friends. (Fortnite is the up to date ref here). serious bank.
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@mewo2 so, mapping that back to museums: they also have the different positioning as something that is not a commercial endeavour, that (ideally) wants to be porous and open to influence from their visitors and wider community
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@mewo2 basically what i am saying is that you should position the museum as a community-run project, supported by a large base of people who gain regular value and sense of belonging, and in turn donate generously because they care about its ongoing health
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@mewo2 compared to (many) mobile games, museums can make deeper connections because being in a physical space and paying undivided attention to it is a much higher intensity experience
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@mewo2 otoh, yeah, you don't come every day. it's not a habit. so that lessens the connection.
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@mewo2 (i am both 100% serious about this and also not serious about this. but yes, it's an interesting framing to map it against)
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@mewo2 i know what the ratio of ticket price to external funding looks like for Now Play This...
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@mewo2 but yeah, this is the same problem with F2P, right? a system is shaped by the factors that decide whether the system will make enough money to survive. and rich people and people who spend more than they can afford are the people who produce the most cash.
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@joshhadley1 @KommanderKlobb i am a remainer who wants a second referendum. i would also like us to revoke article 50. i would like a lot of things, and a second referendum isn't high up on that list, but it does seem like one of the more politically achievable things.
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@joshhadley1 @KommanderKlobb i mean, frame it so it's a particular deal vs remain and i think even an incompetent remain campaign could win (could). it'll have more legitimacy than constitutional chicanery, even if you couldn't really describe it as "healing"
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@joshhadley1 @KommanderKlobb i reckon Remain has a decent chance against 2 Leave options, too. and... i have a bit more hope? still not widespread legitimacy, but more than parliamentary shenanigans that everyone has tuned out offer.
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[poll] You cut your own hair
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RT @garannm: Like everything else in tech, as conference speaking has gained diversity, it’s lost prestige.
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I wrote (a chapter of a) book! It's out now! If you are interested in reading me on the importance of context when doing procedural writing (especially with Twitterbots), this is a way you can do that! crcpress.com/Procedural-Storytelling-in-Game-Design/Short-Adams/p/book/9781138595309
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also, the rest of the author list is kinda of staggeringly good. I am sandwiched between @catacalypto and @emshort, which is honestly a lot in itself.
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RT @hollygramazio: A couple of weeks back I went to a prototype of a @sethkriebel show and found out about "myriorama cards": "a set of ill…
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RT @leighalexander: i love deceptively grotesque DIY stills too -- the famous 'raw chicken breast' meme was born because this sticky cleani…
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@GalaxyKate @martinpi @Sprite_Guard @mtrc @gillianmsmith @togelius my housemate has a copy of that floating around! i should read it, or at least soak up the joy it brings when i look through it more
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@wileywiggins haha, yep! love that academic pricing...
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RT @v21: Just updated the page with the details for our conference on the first weekend of Now Play This. Now with more pictures of frogs w…
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Brexit is really going for the thing where it is a continuously escalating tragedy AND farce, huh
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RT @tambourine: a great reminder if one was needed that everyone is extremely incompetent and there is never and there never were any adult…
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@vivschwarz oh no!! i am sorry to hear it (not that it's finished, that you're ill)
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@KevinBuist yep! they've been able to for ages.
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I'm very much looking forward to this game, and already thinking about who I want to play it with. @mrsambarlow/1110941763496218625
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peep the ghost crabs! @TheJordanDraper/1111053399842349059
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@TheJordanDraper haha. yr welcome!!
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here is a nice thing that @hollygramazio has written about some of the cool things that are happening at Now Play This somersethouse.org.uk/blog/10-games-play-now-play
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"In the meantime, both Ar Viltansou and local officials say they will continue to harvest Garfields from the coastline." @tigershungry/1111291695038152704
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I am disheartened to announce that I am taking recommendations for podcasts. I generally dislike them, but this long cycling commute is selling me on the concept. What's good? I can't be fucked with men doing banter or educational stuff that thinks it has to sell it's topic.
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@dinosaurrparty I mean, even I've made them!
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@pillowfort good pitch!
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@WJDDrew They occupy the middle ground in attention I almost never want in my media!
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@molleindustria I have listened to a few episodes, a long time ago, and I found it just slightly too close to trying to sell me on the thing it was talking about, rather than relying on the natural interest of the thing & the joy of the people discussing the thing in the thing.
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@molleindustria Which... I very much respect the craft and writing that goes into that, but I have not got enthusiastic about it. Maybe I'll try again.
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@mildlydiverting huh! okay, will try
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@GhostTownGoldie This is a sufficient number of friends for me to suspend podcast cynicism. Although I maybe will have the problem of jealousy at not hanging out in KL with folk.
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@lyyyndseyyy I just wrote this on it @v21/1111409667509358593?s=19 which maybe comes down to a similar thing of the perspective they're coming from is not quite it?
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@lyyyndseyyy This is an axe I have with a lot of science/whatever communication generally - starting from an assumption that people don't care, and how can you get them interested? And in this case it was: here's people who do care, huh, weird.
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@lyyyndseyyy But either way: I want to hear from people who care, treading that fine line of talking in a way that's not totally inaccessible, but also have the (okay, sometimes unreasonable) belief that of course this stuff is interesting, of course it is.
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@lyyyndseyyy This is an abiding principle in my curatorial work, so I am probably over-fussy about it in podcasts.
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@thnewlands oddly enough, this is the one podcast I regularly listen to. I think "really funny" undersells it a lot!
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@NoraReed This was the one podcast I listened to a lot last year when doing this same cycle commute, actually!
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@NoraReed I should get back on it, but I feel the slow weight of mythos on me a little.
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@NoraReed It is especially odd and good to listen to, knowing and having such affection for Jack. A layering of parasocial on top of regular human friendship.
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@MaizeWallin @GhostTownGoldie I'm in London! But I love to travel!
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RT @philippawarr: BIRD DRAMA @__birds__/1111381923685777409
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@philippawarr I love this bot so much. I was so mad when I first saw it, I immediately knew how it was made and wished I'd thought of it.
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RT @mcclure111: Did I ever tell you about the time Bishop George Berkeley saw what purported to be a mathematical disproof of God, so in a…
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When people write about Google Stadia, they keep talking about Spotify, and how that's the model Google is going for. And they talk about how terrible Spotify is for artists, but how Spotify makes bank off them. But Spotify is forecast to lose €200-360 million this year.
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I dunno. I agree with the point people are making, but it's just a funny thing.
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@BanditoJuan on selling, I posted this which maybe explains it @v21/1111412682089885696?s=19
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@BanditoJuan and the other one was that loose back and forth conversational style, the kind of thing that makes you feel like you're just hanging out with your funny friends. it's long and I currently can't be bothered, and I especially don't want it if it's am all-male group of funny friends
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@imaginary_lines yeah, these sound interesting! Will give them a try.
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@whitingjp Fiiine, I'll listen to the thing my friends are making that is in the intersection of my interests. (thanks)
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@BanditoJuan ohhh, see, I dislike it because it feels defensive, interesting! For me, it's like... if you're sure it's so interesting/compelling/cool, why are you working so hard to pitch it, to add all this additional supporting stuff in case the work isn't good enough?
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@BanditoJuan No, I'm fine with them being excited and yelling about it. But I can't be bothered with spending a lot of time having people try to convince me that the thing is interesting. Just tell me the thing! Trust that I will also find it interesting!
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@BanditoJuan I listen to one podcast regularly, Imaginary Advice. Stories and poetry from a single person, sometimes surreal, sometimes autobiographical. It's very good! I'm not really looking for similar stuff? I'm seeking to expand my horizons.
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@BanditoJuan Yeah - and, like, the pitch is important, I'm not trying to take away from that. But a pitch that says the game is exciting, compelling, etc etc is a bad pitch? I'd much rather have a pitch that just dives into the interesting thing, assuming you'll accept its internal logic.
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@mildlydiverting oh wonderful. this reminds me of one of my favourite websites whitenoisemp3s.com/
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@mildlydiverting Great binaural ambient recordings, but also a few weird stories around the edges. She has a "Karen's Thoughts" section with, among other things, an explanation of the double slit experiment?
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@SerinDelaunay I listened to a Lingthusiasm episode on Wednesday, at the very start of this "maybe podcasts?" mood. I think they are on the right side of that line.
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@alphachar oooh. Good pitch, subscribed.
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@radiodario itsa me, Dario!
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"It’s as if power does not exist." @GeorgeMonbiot/1111520202951397376
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five games about or around chess @nowplaythese/1110164799252561925
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RT @dja_redona: Sometimes working in bitsy can get a bit confusing... 😅 #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev
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RT @nyamyamgames: We are excited to announce that Astrologaster will be coming to iOS on May 2 and to PC/Mac on May 9. Pre-order today on t…
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RT @jnzst: Chinese developers are protesting "996" (9am–9pm, 6 days/week) long work hours. It's one of the fastest growing GitHub repositor…
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@__Tyu come to London! we have all that again, one week beforehand.
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@feralvector you're not wrong about hostel tickets selling out fast...
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come to our festival: @kim_raphael/1111617687841587201
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@secretgothdome you can bring your own mould if you like* (*please don't)
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RT @calmingsphere:
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@helendewitt Amazon wish list?
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@mcclure111 Why wait? Hoping to gain support, plus Bercow was blocking it from being brought forth in the same form that was voted down before. And given all the legislation that needs to happen after this, there wasn't time to do it before & leave today.
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@mcclure111 Why did the EU give an extension? They didn't want us to leave without a deal, and they definitely didn't want to be blamed for us leaving without a deal.
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@mcclure111 I don't think they expected this to pass, but May refused to countenance any other deal, and they didn't want to step over the line of openly supporting someone else to take over. So: give us time to maybe sort our shit out.
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@mcclure111 @tenpn at the very least it will have bought a bit of extra time to prep for it
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@mcclure111 i saw this sentiment on plenty of placards at the march last weekend (two votes, not three at that point of course)
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@mcclure111 it's a farce
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RT @nowplaythese: @bencatchpole You now have 8 days to find some friends or some foes and come and play this 8-player game 'Octopad' by @al…
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@j3rrytron @thnewlands it is very good!!
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i did a google image search for "brexit flowchart"
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RT @MythologyBot: K415.1 Many persons admit theft so that it is impossible to find real thief.
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RT @ElectoralCommUK: Vote Leave has today dropped its appeal and related proceedings against the Electoral Commission. https://t.co/ca65js0…
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@pangmeli have you read about STAMP? I started reading Engineering A Safer World, which focuses a lot on systemic issues that affect multiple levels at once, and about the self-correcting dynamics that need to be present in a system for it to be safe
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@pangmeli it's very difficult to apply in a non-hierarchical system, though...
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@toraton @mogwai_poet i found CKII to be reasonably gentle! it has a lot of stuff, all there up front, but everything stays kind of fine if you leave it alone. then when you go looking for complexity, it comes to you.
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[poll] your preferred metric when making lists of superlative things
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@juliemuncy23 i don't know i agree! nothing is perfectly accessible, and you are always going to have to make tradeoffs there. but... that doesn't mean you get to wash your hands of the responsibility, it is something people need to grapple with like every other factor going into the design.
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@reallyquitereal sounds like a good use of $150
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@reallyquitereal "clarinet loyal" is a good FatT name
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@reallyquitereal and, y'know... you need access to a clarinet, right? for your... clarinet requirements.
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@hollygramazio but crab sticks aren't crab. it's a mixed up world.
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RT @ammonite: Yo @v21 @hollygramazio @UltraCobalt Esme gets this kid’s news magazine and you’re in it! This is a big deal in the Millfleet…
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new bot: @guidanceforplay at Now Play This, we have a little sign up by each game that gives you some basic guidance on how to play. this bot posts one of those every 3 hours. it does not tell you what game it corresponds to.
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@mcclure111 @guidanceforplay i now regret that our commitment to legibility & good visitor experience prevents us from doing this
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@guidanceforplay after the festival is over, i might expand this so it covers all the previous years, too. but for now you can have fun guessing.
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RT @guidanceforplay: This is a game where players tell a fairytale together.
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@gracebruxner hello I would like to say that I am thrilled at the prospect of seeing you soon
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RT @_hidingwithboys: this is the funniest start to an interview i have ever seen i love robert smith man
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RT @AndrewNadeau0: DRACULA: I vant to suck your blood. ME: “Want.” DRACULA: Vant. ME: Wan—it’s a W. DRACULA: Okay, my intent is clear,…
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RT @guidanceforplay: Take a flag. In the centre of the labyrinth, exchange it for another flag.
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RT @airbagged: Billy Corgan rides a rollercoaster
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current status: i broke the egg slicer by trying to use it on a mushroom
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@bfod i have played only one of these games, but it is very good!
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RT @histoftech: @miriamkp So real I could die. "Female-authored papers take half a year longer in peer review. As women update beliefs abou…
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it's a shame i'll never write anything as good as that wikihow article about secretly bringing your cat to work
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@joonturbo @LorenzoPilia @BreakinBahiyya @miguelsicart @tinysubversions wahhhh, you got there first! i was about to post this.
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this is such a wonderful project. the first video i got was some guys driving a volvo into some mud, immediately getting stuck, spinning their wheels massively and spraying it everywhere, then a guy who was standing watching finally hooking up to a pickup to pull them out. @everestpipkin/1111027057310470146