Tweets from 2020/01
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@D_Nye_Griffiths making your mark even after you've left
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here is someone else's top ten list containing things I either agree with or haven't played @bfod/1212085042761158656
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once again, the winning party hosting move was roasting some potatoes and serving them at 11pm
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@BRKeogh bit generations! Mother 3 (esp because the timing on the rhythm sections of the battles works properly on actual hardware)!
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@BRKeogh wait, whoops, you mentioned Mother 3 already
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@multibev brunch bevs (not the carrot juice or the second coffee)
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@prehensile there's a whole Nam June Paik exhibition on!
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RT @beaniebabybot: The End the bear. No birthday. "All good things come to an end It's been fun for everyone Peace and hope are never gone…
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here is my review of Knives Out: I think it's great.
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I saw it with kb, who has a funnier tweet @katbamkapow/1212496584291823618?s=19
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@zerstoerer Spark AR Studio is nice, huh?
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@zerstoerer yeah, it's the most approachable tool for making interactive 3D shit I've ever used. still a little bit startled Facebook has it in them.
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RT @rahaeli: The most Canadian response: one base asked Niantic to remove the gym at one spot because security, but change a stop to a gym…
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@TheWeightOfUwU yeah - i'm not sure how many blades the fan has, and how the vibration matches to revolutions...
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@BRKeogh i still lose hours to value / reference errors, i don't think it ever stops
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@BRKeogh not sure if that tweet was intended to be reassuring or not
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PEOW are doing an anthology series! It looks cool, I have backed it. It's nice to get something by people you recognize and are a fan of & also by people you don't know yet. @peowstudio/1212388442283356162
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@vivschwarz spoilers: yes, we have milk
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@emshort congratulations to both you & the crew at @failbettergames - very excited to see the results
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@SzMarsupial he seemed pretty competent when doing Brexity things about 6 months ago
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RT @IWGBunion: WE ARE SO CLOSE and just 6 days left! Every penny counts. Please support migrant and low-wage workers in their struggle to…
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@adrielbeaver i'm still here, would be nice to see yr face!
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RT @jamiew: lol someone opened an issue
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@GalaxyKate @algcifaldi @tinyspires I am delighted that you managed to get something so great out of the SVG/Tracery hack, and I am glad it's moving onto a tool chain that actually makes sense for making generative art.
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@GalaxyKate @algcifaldi @tinyspires but also, that looks like glitch, right? you might be interested to see how cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/wolf_clock works
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@algcifaldi @GalaxyKate @tinyspires yeah, it's a nice way to work (especially now that node-canvas has Typescript annotations). other link that might be of interest is cheapbotstootsweet.com/, the Mastodon clone of CBDQ
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@morehshin I DM it to myself. Doesn't really help with organising, and it keeps stuff more in Twitter than is ideal... but that's what I've ended up sticking with.
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this is the only book i've read that really tries to grapple with describing what it feels like to play a videogame bossfightbooks.com/products/breakout
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@SzMarsupial did i show you @suitcasetrains?
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@SzMarsupial (also, yes, they do)
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RT @Leafthegod: OH MY GOD, MOTHER 4 GOT RENAMED TO ODDITY & LOOKS SO AMAZING THIS IS AN AMAZING WAY TO START 2020 #Oddity #Mother4 https://…
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RT @mcmansionhell: mcphil hell @DanielNMiller/1212867036411392000
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RT @bfod: this is great. In particular I like this anecdote, reminds me of the story about Tim Sweeney wrongly assuming Carmack was doing r…
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RT @JordanUhl: wow super weird how this keeps happening!
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RT @kjavadizadeh: On this suddenly terrifying night, I find myself thinking of this epigraph in Solmaz Sharif’s Look (2016), quoted from Mu…
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a bad thing about making location based games is when you want to test something and then you look outside and its raining
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@prehensile @moongolfer i mean, tbh it's good to remind people that it still rains in the glorious AR future
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@yannseznec nah, this is my jam!
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@BanditoJuan we do have weather features in our games! but that just means you've got to specifically go out in the rain. terrible.
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remembering back to the start of the week, when this story came out nytimes.com/2019/12/29/world/middleeast/shah-iran-chase-papers.html
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@GalaxyKate @mtrc that's why women like pink, right? because they're biologically adapted to look for the red berries?
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@amyhoy not the point you're trying to make, but I just want to take a moment to say: ah! Dorothy Sayers is so good!
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@mtrc remember latching onto this when I was just starting in games... hasn't aged well
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@mtrc let me recommend instead, in case you're looking, A Game Design Vocabulary, which is the best introduction to game design I've come across, and takes pains to be expansive and inclusive (while also making sure to give concrete, actionable advice)
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@GalaxyKate @mtrc glad (?) to see I remembered that bullshit correctly!
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@GalaxyKate @mtrc actually studied evolutionary psychology at university, and I have some residual affection for it. but it's notable that the course mainly consisted of telling us all the ways the field could fuck up. that, and about birds cheating on each other.
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RT @metasynthie: This is a monumental piece, a retelling of over a decade in the culture of games; it manages to be intensely up-close and…
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@metasynthie @mtrc haha! thank you for the rec, I will have a look next time I need a good introduction. It is so hard to introduce people to game design, it is such a wide field of problems, but somehow shrugging and saying "it depends on the context" doesn't cut it.
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RT @ellaguro: if i had an easy answer to solve the problem of cults of personality within a) the internet & b) the queer community i certai…
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reading that kotaku retrospective of the last decade or so of gender and videogames, and there's something it's clear on that we don't talk about enough - there has been, in significant ways, significant progress. the standards are just higher now.
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it's worth remembering because it's easy to feel hopeless. but we did that. we can keep doing it.
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I mean, also it's definitely worth talking about the huge price people paid for that progress, and how the industry has improved faster at representing women and minorities than it has at looking after the women and minorities who are making the games... but still. progress.
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@jonritter you type stuff into the computer and then the robot does a drawing for you. easy!
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@jonritter okay, for real: I code in Typescript, working with node-canvas (which is like the browser API). it outputs SVGs, which I convert to g-code with this github.com/v21/svg_eleksdraw. and then I send the g code to the plotter over a serial connection
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@jonritter well. serial over USB. you can even control it from within Unity... and yes! I've not seen that aesthetic, it could be pretty special
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RT @v21: some close up shots of a recent plot. a messed up version of poisson disc sampling, Perlin noise and the set of symbols from the H…
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@rubna_ the way the dress floats is 👌
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always reassuring to get a text message telling me that my server is now back online
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RT @Singyamatokun: flip awayyyyyyyy @F8Fc20d/1213403805653422080
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@Singyamatokun I feel like this single gif makes me understand wrestling in a way I haven't ever done before.
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scanning down this list and imagining the target demographic for each film in turn @NetflixTudum/1213221078962601984
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alright, i think it's time for me to try to implement Marching Squares!
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big vibes searching for details on how to find isolines and ending up with a PDF from my old university department
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@jonnynexus @JamesWallis i'm sure there are people making a living taking uncredited photographs of celebrities for their Instagrams
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@dannybirchall don't ask questions if you won't like the answers
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i think it's funny that i am now wondering if Marching Squares are too much of a pain in the arse, and so maybe I should switch to implementing Meandering Triangles instead
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RT @peonygent: Got around to finishing that comic - here's part 1 of 5
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@RockKillchez @metasynthie @mtrc I don't have any good recs for specifically tabletop, though I was in that world for a while. A good chunk of Vocabulary will still be relevant - not sure about Games, Design & Play, but I suspect the same will be the case there
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RT @AviadLevy: Just created a tiny new bot inspired by @year_progress that count the progress of the Hebrew year. You're welcome to follow:…
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RT @MuseumGenerator: Hello from the Museum of Magical Toads and Pencils! We've added painted floor lines to help guide you around the museu…
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RT @dril: *sees Tarantino get misquoted* You Bitch Mother Fucker *sees war supported on flimsy pretenses* Wlel, that's his beliefs and I re…
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RT @hautepop: 'We thought personal brands only worked when you were liked, but when we take off our rose-coloured glasses, being hated seem…
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RT @webbedspace: "What does it mean when I get cut and petals fall out – I bleed flower petals, by the way – but all the petals are now bro…
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RT @dril: Girls are my wife constantly
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RT @v3ga: Territories #axidraw #processing #plottertwitter #generativedesign #creativecoding #generativeart
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RT @mspowahs: so, you told people about your cool project and now you don't feel like doing it anymore
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RT @CharlotteIvers: Everyone needs small pleasures in life, and one of mine is reading deadpan Ofcom complaint investigations. (no YOU get…
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RT @boocanan: me at agdq: so what ive done is i've held down the b-button so mario runs faster. i think we have some time to read off donat…
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RT @ElizSimins: do you ever think about how hilarious it is that people are constantly being like "HOLLYWOOD HAS TO CENSOR GAY CONTENT BC O…
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@0x47DF i think this is more of a thing for americans? because many americans don't just have a duvet, they have an intricate system of blankets and sheets
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RT @vectorpoem: "Dough enclosing delicious filling" is so widespread across world cuisines I'd assumed it had been independently arrived at…
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RT @lazerwalker: I've been thinking lately about the 2010s shift from MMOs being "town squares" to 100% relying on external social spaces (…
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@NotBrunoAgain - the algorithms (Spotify's Discover Weekly has found me stuff I love) - artists who I like who have public playlists of stuff *they* like - recommendations from friends, things people post about on twitter - I want more dancey stuff rn, I think I'm gonna look for mixes
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@NotBrunoAgain half the friends who I find out about music from heard the music first on BBC Radio 6, and make a self deprecating comment about only finding out about new music because they hear it there
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Greggs vegan steak bake review : pretty good! Nice greasy pastry, impressively rich filling - but the texture was smooth and homogeneous. Like a really thick gravy. I miss having chunks. A good effort, but not living up to the heights of the sausage roll.
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Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L Sayers. I thought I'd read all the Wimsey books! what a delight to find I'm wrong. And this is one of the best ones - Lord Wimsey undercover at an office job, lots of gossip, and melancholy bits about consumerism.
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2020 book thread:
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RT @v3ga: Tearing #axidraw #processing #plottertwitter #generativedesign #creativecoding #generativeart
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@caiitlinz i used to eat at like 2 or 3
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@caiitlinz work starts at 10, too lazy to have breakfast at home, so it's better just to leave it til midafternoon. otherwise most of your day is consumed by post lunch sleepiness
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a nice New Yorker piece about robot poetry, and @pentametron in particular newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-mechanical-muse
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it's rare for a mainstream publication yo get the essential thing about generated work - it's not (usually, at it's best) trying to imitate human work, but rather to find new forms and effects. not to make poem writing more efficient, but write the poems only robots could write.
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@HilariousCow i mean, also laser keyboards have existed for ages and they're bad? so this is going to be bad + bad because the ML is probably not reliable.
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@HilariousCow better concept
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RT @glassbottommeg: Seriously. "Good horse games" are, right now, basically an empty niche. There are a tiny number of alright games, one o…
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RT @adambelz: old tractors are hot right now bc they're cheap and they work and farmers are tired of all the software that comes with newer…
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fuck yes! congratulations to @hannahnicklin @doougle @coroneddu (and Nils & the rest of the team) for the Mutazione nominations
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@hannahnicklin four!! including the big one!!
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'Here are instructions to execute the Virtual Reality build of "The Entertainment"' kentuckyroutezero.com/the-entertainment/vr.txt
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RT @mtrc: One lesson from GPT-2 (OpenAI's text generator you've seen making things like AI Dungeon) is that when people criticised pattern-…
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RT @abbipress: seeing coachella broken down by agency like looking at the bones of the industry
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This is actually not too far off how Glitch works (some details in this post medium.com/glitch/github-glitch-and-the-future-of-social-coding-5e6faa45c8f2) @peterb/1214572035290140674
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I've set up something similar for my generative stuff. Every time I generate an output (very often, when tweaking things), it commits the current directory. Then the generation uses the hash as the seed for any random numbers it needs, and signs the plot with the commit hash.
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@_never_work hope you enjoy the ride & have a good long period of rest planned :) looking forward to playing the thing in it's entirety
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i was once in a field, surrounded by hundreds of people, some with torches, who were chanting my name and kneeling down to show respect to me. i tried to escape by running away but they found me again and would not let me leave. @adribbleofink/1213293516148707328
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@artbymarek i told a good joke
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RT @wingedisis: I for sure have more in common with this guy than anyone with a defense contract.
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RT @plastiboo: -petroom-
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@caiitlinz i just want to add a food, but there's so many steps til I can get to the food adding bit. and they're different in different places?
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@caiitlinz also the search is kinda mysterious, especially when looking for a specific thing
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@caiitlinz oh! and number of portions vs size of portion (especially where the thing itself is of an indeterminate size, and I'm just using portion size as a scaling factor on a 100g default portion size)
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@caiitlinz I would! but I'm planning on only using it this week. I know I'm too lazy to log my food on an ongoing basis, but I wanna check in on what my diet is actually like. Will let you know if I get hooked on it, though!
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the only way out is through t.co/Paqifx9IWr
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RT @edyong209: The problem with getting cuttlefish to wear 3D glasses is that some of them absolutely refuse to put up it, and can use thei…
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RT @matajueguitos: New episode! We talk to @molleindustria about invisible cities, art galleries, game curation, economics, SimCity, the An…
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@dikte The Summer Book?
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@dikte it's not really a mediterranean summer, i'll admit...
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RT @atomicthumbs: "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter. I lied. According to US Army Technical Manual 0, The Soldier as a System,…
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@doougle @hannahnicklin @coroneddu Thank you! And yes, I will be at GDC. It will be great to see everyone (hope you can make it too, although I understand if you feel a bit more ambivalent)
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also, I saw about your illness - hope you're feeling better now, and can take it easy while you recover
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@grapefrukt @joonturbo it's a neat algorithm!
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@grapefrukt @joonturbo the bit where the algorithm talks about using the signed distance seems relevant - squares with a center outside the polygon might still be valid in some subset, so it still keeps those around
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RT @thebobpalmer: Just witnessed a child in a zero waste shop yell ‘LENTILS’ before opening the lentil pipe and allowing them to gush forth…
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@innesmck yeah, that would be way too much faff. lemme know if you want Opinions on buying or operating one!
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@innesmck yes. i have an eleksdraw. i bought it from @mewo2, and basically agree with all the stuff he says here: mewo2.com/notes/plotter/
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@innesmck they're fun!! i recommend messing with them.
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@innesmck @mewo2 (here's the tool i wrote for generating g code, for reference github.com/v21/svg_eleksdraw)
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@grapefrukt @joonturbo ah! a satisfying answer! what was the speedup?
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@john_brindle much better writing than I expected, yeah
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@john_brindle I am a fan (I'm on level 60 something)
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@catacalypto @john_brindle Stella Sacco! there's some nice behind the scenes stuff here: nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/09/what-is-the-story-behind-the-lilys-garden-ads.html
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RT @emamouse:
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@metasynthie @john_brindle I'd also look to Harvest Moon, which does the same trope to play into the same fantasies (even if the genders are different)
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RT @loisbeckett: I'm a reporter who covers politics, and I've been reporting on what's been happening within Romance Writers of America sin…
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@frozenpandaman @cardboardcompy @cynomanic @A_i ah, yep - I asked, because @mjmcmaster did a really nice version of the Seletric's Light Italic, and it's nice to see it pop up in various places (eg the game Dissembler, and I have used it myself) michaeljmcmaster.com/selectmono
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@matthew_d_green @holocenehoney maybe a comparison that pulls on this is doing Captchas to train Google's AI projects. I fucking resent it, providing them with free labour in order to accomplish some necessary task with a different company.
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@matthew_d_green @holocenehoney there's privacy issues with giving companies sensitive data. and there's also making them more powerful via giving them little bits of ourselves, in a situation that's rigged so we have little choice.
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RT @Oujevipo: To celebrate Oujevipo's 10th anniversary I will archive the 1800 games I reviewed on it, and I could use your help https://t.…
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@grapefrukt wa-hey!! so the sorting is a ~2x speedup, that tracks
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@joonturbo @grapefrukt @ElineMuijres in a surprising twist, I'm currently looking, and places in London are decreasing (slightly) in price
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@genmon metamour?
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@jukiokallio that is cute!! but unfortunately, mainly makes me think of
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RT @rotational: Before Disco Elysium's release, I wrote about the founding of @studioZAUM. You’ll learn some important stuff, including how…
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@FlorianVltmn @joonturbo @grapefrukt @ElineMuijres smaller time interval, there, too. but also, maybe yes?
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RT @six6jiang: this is what i'm hoping that people will get out of LIONKILLER! i don't just want unity/unreal trained devs making games,…
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@Seemo @mousefountain DJ Shadow?
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@joonturbo @BeatSaber i am so glad this exists and that you made it. playing with @hollygramazio, @terrycavanagh & @Draknek and we were like... i wonder if anyone has...
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RT @lifewinning: thebaffler.com/salvos/they-made-a-movie-out-of-it-pogue "Writing has always involved some level of accommodating power and public taste."
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it's so great to now have the VVVVVV source code to point to when talking about how game design is a separate skill from programming skill, and how game design skill can be so much more important (even if they're also the person doing the coding)
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I can get stuck trying to optimise my code and make it clean and reusable and comprehensible and all that junk. And it's a good thing to know how to do. But it's important to not get distracted from the important things.
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RT @LegalGamerUK: China introduces new anti-addiction games regulations, including - real-name ID for all games - further IAP/playtime lim…
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RT @rablivingstone: Thanks for reminding me. Anyway, I was in the Co-op earlier and I saw two security guards stopping an old woman at the…
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also: I watched the AGDQ VVVVVV speedrun last night, and I think I had forgotten how good and strange the game is. The crying elephant remains an inspiration to me.
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RT @pitchfork: Auto-Tune is indisputably the sound of the 21st century so far. Some speculate that it features in 99 percent of today’s pop…
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RT @mollystanard: Dating in Stardew Valley 🌱
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RT @TheAtlantic: For 10 years, Yury Toroptsov analyzed strangers' dreams about Céline Dion. Then, at the end of the golden age of fan websi…
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@ragekit terry is definitely a good programmer, especially now but also back then. and you do need some programming skill! but it's just not the most important thing, or the thing you should be putting most of your attention into. usually, anyway!
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oh no, it's happening: i'm searching for mechanical keyboards on ali express
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RT @littlethunderr: < #ME > (2018)
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okay, further thought: the reason that Marching Squares is a pain in the arse is because the algorithm only gets me halfway there - a jumble of unconnected line segments. linking all of them up into nice workable paths is left as an exercise for the reader
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RT @benson_louise: Introducing The Artwork We Made Together, a new series on @ElephantMag that puts the spotlight on an invisible workforce…
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RT @clkz0r: The review my friends got for their recent stay in an AirBnb is grim.
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the best moments in videogames are when a band plays a gig
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RT @SaraMeagher1: lost my phone in the alps in a club and someone handed it into the bar ! i found this vid the next day and i love her ple…
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RT @folmerkelly: every art movement is a response to what came before it and games as a scene continuously hyper-focuses in the most narrow…
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@jazzmickle i think i am nearly there, but thank you!
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@lorenschmidt i'm keeping track, as i classify edges, which cells need to be put into lines later. then i pull one from that list, then follow the exit of that cell into the next, and so on anti-clockwise.
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@lorenschmidt which is fine, and seems to be working. complicated bits: - for closed shapes, connecting back to the start - for open shapes, joining possible fragments together (if we started halfway) - saddles can be part of two lines at once
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@lorenschmidt also the whole thing where you operate on cells but the points of the line you're generating are at the edges between the cells. and that the array of cells is one smaller than the array of pixels (in both dims). and whether y is up or not.
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@lorenschmidt fiddly is the word! but still... getting there.
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[poll]
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RT @catacalypto: Re: the conversation emerging with “how do I make reading this as fun as Twitter?” and Disco Elysium and Guildlings’ tackl…
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here is a combination Charli XCX track/nightmarish ad for a Mario theme park youtube.com/watch?v=fTSA709zNzY
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RT @davidgraeber: This pretty much sums up my views of the recent British election nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/13/the-center-blows-itself-up-care-and-spite-in-the-brexit-election/
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RT @satoshi_aizawa: nπ
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@nd_kane @taotao_chang @tigershungry the journey is already exciting, because it's a journey into space. anything to try to make it more exciting would just make it less exciting
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RT @ronnui_: GYM TIP: Work out smart, not hard! A lot of people at the gym go and lift the big weights. But actually, the small weights ar…
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RT @gregeganSF: Next time someone asks you to name a computable irrational number that has been proved *not* to be normal in any base (i.e.…
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RT @v21: [poll]
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@alexhern like... a cat slowly forming a hairball in their stomach??
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@pillowfort it's a nice name
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@caiitlinz you got a flat!!
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@SzMarsupial controversial choice! Friendship ended with MUSHROOMS Now TREES is my best friend
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@jennatar you can't eat cellulose!!? that is a fundamental sucky thing to not eat, i'm sorry chitin is also what mushrooms use for structural support! nature is wild.
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@tburrellsaward looks beautiful, well done for getting all this way. hope you're feeling good watching that number tick up
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RT @roundxthree: Two weeks after Grenfell, Shaughna joined a fire safety team that ensured all the front doors in council tenants’ properti…
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RT @dreamboatslim: Amazon’s fucked up scans of Gustave Doré's London engravings
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RT @mousefountain: There’s a dragon coiled around the health bar and you have to feed it occasionally
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RT @ImogenWK: what is the name for this type of man?? English, Terry Pratchett fan, sardonic humour, left wing-ish, leather jackets, maybe…
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it's so depressing that the Attack Helicopter story got pulled
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Carmen Maria Machado has ben posting about it today & I basically agree with her take on it @carmenmmachado/1217204875974651904
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(context: this astonishing and powerful story archive.is/oXDEt. it's called "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" and it takes that premise literally. It was written by a trans woman. It was pulled at her request earlier today, after some Bad Discourse)
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i keep wanting to call this story "difficult & messy", but that's a lie. it's difficult & knotty, but it presents itself so confidently.
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i'm thinking about the phenomenon of trans people flattening and erasing their personal histories, fitting them into a conventional narrative, because that's what it can take to convince a doctor that you're really trans, and get access to medical care and legal documentation
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and i'm not saying that isn't worth the tradeoff! and i'm not saying that sometimes, when there's fierce political opposition to your existence, to your rights, you shouldn't construct your stories to be the strongest version, the best weapon to fight those battles.
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but it's just really depressing to watch a story being erased when it doesn't fit the currently acceptable shapes
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and then somewhere down the line, the original memory is gone. politics has moulded it into a particular shape that can accomplish particular goals. one shape from a limited choice of shapes.
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@TheVagueBlur @3liza sorry, I don't
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@ojahnn have any oulipans done an analysis of their non-oulipan writing before and after joining? to see if the general proportion goes down?
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RT @histoftech: It’s such an important point that if you (or the class of people to which you belong) don’t have the right to refuse a syst…
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RT @innesmck: there is almost no art made by a trans person which harms other trans people more than not seeing art made by trans people ha…
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@patrickashe congrats!
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@katbamkapow @patrickashe congr-pat-s?
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enjoying watching someone edit some Haskell youtube.com/watch?v=sNj-I2pZwX8
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@lazerwalker @ThePracticalDev right!? you forget it, and then you remember it again, and it's depressing and surprising each time
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@alicemazzy @usesthis huh, i guess i should respond to that 10-year old email, maybe
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you know what sucks? when you're crunching in the run up to a big deadline and then it moves back, and so you keep crunching. because crunching longer is bad, but also because you've already used up some of the reserves you were relying on for a final push.
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(i'm not crunching. i hope the people working on Cyberpunk 2077 aren't, either)
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@usesthis @alicemazzy sorry! I'll get to it, I promise!
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not too surprisingly, they are crunching @ElineMuijres/1218081796165898241
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@SzMarsupial s'ok, just a subtweet
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@SzMarsupial which i guess i then ruined by surfacing
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RT @pangmeli: what happens if you drink the kool aid man
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RT @christapeterso: My sister’s apartment has a distinctive and remarkably consistent decorating scheme of taking objects designed to look…
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sunlight reflecting off water and onto the underside of concrete
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@uglymachine two cuties!
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@pangmeli Mastodon has a button for deleting a post and putting it back in the edit box with images etc attached. ideal, imo
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the Chinese indie games scene is fascinating - we learned a bit about it for last years Now Play This, where we had a room comparing the experience of making games in Norwich, Melbourne & Shenzen. this article is a good summary egmnow.com/the-closing-walls-around-chinas-independent-game-development-scene/
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considering getting really into recognising specific components of specific guns @pcgamer/1218588885959217154
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RT @pangmeli: 'deserving' is a concept I can't wrap my head around. what does it mean to be deserving? or undeserving? I don't know. it fee…
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@AranKoning same. I pulled it up at our studio Xmas party, even.
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@AranKoning we totally did
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RT @ianmacewan: Esteban Maroto covers for Dracula, an anthology series of his from the late 60s
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@chetfaliszek @docsquiddy but here we have a collective who is making money primarily on Patreon, rather than on Steam. so the priority is finding a way to release a new game every two weeks, that are similar enough to please the same fanbase. this art style is perfect for that?
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@ka_bradley I assume this isn't the source of drama, but I assume it's more fun to read than the NYT review tropicsofmeta.com/2019/12/12/pendeja-you-aint-steinbeck-my-bronca-with-fake-ass-social-justice-literature/
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@philippawarr hahah. HAVE you lost a drone?
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Now Play This is looking for your games/playful things/interactive experiences. The theme is "breaking point" - things which show systems under strain (or subvert systems themselves). Details here: nowplaythis.net/2020/01/20/now-play-this-2020-open-call/
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good things about applying: - the form isn't a pain to fill out - NPT pays a honorarium - you don't have to actually be present for your thing to be shown (if your work allows that) - the festival is great
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@jericawebber Polymorphous Perversity by Nicolau Chaud - about sex, and it's gross and crosses some lines I don't think it should've. But (from what I remember), it does try to do interesting things.
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appreciate how gmail has a sophisticated machine learning system in place to suggest the ends of sentences as you type, but also loses track of where the cursor should be if you press Ctrl-Z
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this is also a nice thing about working on events. too much work, things going wrong last minute... but it's very unlikely you can just push back the deadline a week. nothing like knowing you open in 3 hours to focus the mind on scoping & prioritisation @v21/1217948162368983040?s=19
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@ohhoe everyone keeps talking about Eizouken
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RT @justadog_ski: red-awake turning 🩸 #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d
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i got curious about the amount of manual filtering for @dril_gpt2. so i ran the model that's shared in their pinned post. here's some raw outputs, if you wanna see for yourself: gist.github.com/v21/97dcafa672892ff7630696fb84978e0b
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@dril_gpt2 "im going to knock the entire e3 conference room floor into pieces with my big tire iron"
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@dril_gpt2 if i come onto the soccer pitch and say "ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN, SEVENTY-ONE, TWELVE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, ELEVEN, TWELVE, TWELVE-EIGHT, EIGHT, SEVENTH, FIRST, THIRTEEN, TW
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@dril_gpt2 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
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@dril_gpt2 if you plop a box of 20,000 Dildos on my desk i may or may not turn around and take all 20,000 of them with me, depending on my mood
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@dril_gpt2 "Twitter is now considering the merits of developing a Story Mode that focuses on users' actual lives." "Twitter is now considering the merits of developing a Story Mode that focuses on users' actual lives."
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@dril_gpt2 watching it fade from the normal corpus of GPT-2 text into a dril register, while maintaining some long distance semantic links, is uncanny
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@dril_gpt2 ok ok ok ok, i should spend more time playing with GPT-2, this is great.
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@dril_gpt2 the 'hacker' of 2016
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@dril_gpt2 The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Boys" have won. The "Bo
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@dril_gpt2 stealing a bunch of my posts off this site and putting them up at random, to see what the fuss is about
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@dril_gpt2 i want to start a movement, where i just spam the internet with pictures of food
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@dril_gpt2 In my experience, the best way to make someone stop laughing is by relentlessly haranguing them about their inflection on the word "bacon".
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@dril_gpt2 The Great Wall of China. Thats like the fifth wall
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The Fifth Wall is a difficult concept to grasp, but once you figure it out, you will forever be known as "The one who figures the fifth wall"
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@#&^*%^&**^&%^&%^& The Fifth Wall is the newest addition to the famous "Wall who's Who"
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@artcollisions @dril_gpt2 yes, these are all outputs from the @dril_gpt2 model (from here: gist.github.com/v21/97dcafa672892ff7630696fb84978e0b)
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[i love the way that the output ends up stringing minor variations together in a sequence. some artefact of the way the tweets were loaded in, but it feels like a Conchitina Cruz poem cordite.org.au/chapbooks-features/centrehold/three-poems-by-conchitina-cruz/. except about piss]
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I HAVE A MOUTH ON ME. AND IT IS NOT POISONOUS. SARCASM IS A DAILY HANGOUT BINGO ON MY NET. DON T COMMENT
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#IWillNever (shaking my head) #IWillNever (gesturing contemptuously) #IWillNever (smiling widely) #IWillNever (laughing hard)
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every one in the media is crying about how hard it is to find quality, independent video games these days, and i stand with them. i.e., Bad
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im gonna eat six spaghettis and die
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It's a Wrap. Thanks for coming. See you Friday.
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@HilariousCow this was a really cool project, i was sad it didn't see the light of day
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@acgodliman I am not closely involved this year, but you absolutely should.
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RT @CinnamonGhoul: This is fucking ridiculous. Why do developers insist on censoring curves and feminine shapes in video games. Not only ha…
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@R_Michalak i do! because too often they don't have the book i'm looking for :/
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RT @gutefabrik: 🌤️Major update now live! CLOUD GARDEN 🌤️ 💚Loads of new content!💚 🌅 A standalone Cloud Garden, accessible anytime! 🎛️ More…
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@notquitereal I spent the evening playing Soko Loco, so I guess it's an anonymous person, two pixels high, who has a job cutting down trees in a non-sustainable way, and then carrying the logs over to the railway lines.
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RT @paravouzique:
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RT @bfod: The conventional wisdom is that you can figure out roughly how many copies a game has sold on Steam by taking the number of user…
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RT @crab_feet: 《バーコーダー》バーコードリーダーのスキャン信号をレジではなく、スピーカーに直接接続することで音を鳴らす。 いま渋谷で巨大レシート版、演奏できます┃┃┃┃_ρ゙ #electronicosfantasticos https://t.co/tc5TT…
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RT @alexismadrigal: @bruces Scramble was the name of one of Shell’s long-range scenarios back in the day dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/looking-forward-an-energy-scramble-or-a-blueprint/ https://t.…
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RT @ka_bradley: your brain has been wiped clean of language. you're allowed to choose five languages, in the following order. what do you c…
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this is holographic game design - if you extrapolate out from this small part, you could reconstruct the entire game @gshowitt/1219923652327636997
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@ra @samisam147 @onewordlouder yes
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@ra @samisam147 @onewordlouder ambient cultural artefact of my teenage years
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@hollygramazio "auto battler" is fine! "roguelite"? "MMORPG"?
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i find this youtube video, where someone patiently explains to perform arbitrary code execution in Ocarina of Time through an extended metaphor about treasure maps, very soothing youtu.be/wdRJWDKb5Bo
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thanks to @mcclure111 for linking @mcclure111/1220077278551408640?s=19 (and yes, it is a good introduction to use after free bugs, and a good motivating example for address randomization & executable-space protection)
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but also it's just nice to listen to people trying to patiently explain complicated things they know a lot about, even if you've no real reason to want to learn about them
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suddenly reminded that this sketch is the reason that junk email is called spam @sjmay92/1220012117484589056
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this newly announced decentralized social network thing looks interesting! lots of people involved who were around for the first round of this kind of thing. great to see more energy going into open decentralized protocols. planetary.social/ i have two questions about it:
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2) will it have moderation? can it have moderation? if it takes off, will it immediately become the place where neo-Nazis hang out? that the website doesn't seem to mention this as a thing that's front of mind seems concerning
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1) how different will the experience of using it be from using Twitter? on the one hand, familiarity is good. on the other - if your only unique value prop is something a bit abstract about decentralization that means you can't reset your password... will people care?
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RT @OONO_TARO_B: 💤ぐっすりおやすみできるかな⁉️ Can you sleep well in bed? 👉📱画面tapでstop🛑 #GIFゲーム
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@infovore there's a bullet point about harassment, which I can understand them having answers for. but if you have peer to peer comms and end to end encryption, it's hard to do moderation.
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very into the precise wording of this tweet (source, because some of you will want to see the data: @DeathChaos25/1204592392273309697?s=19)
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RT @hannayoonicha: Every Wednesday I wait for my favorite regulars - a grandma and grandchild and they will just run up and say "Please!! n…
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@FlorianVltmn in an early build of Ep 1 of KRZ, there's a bit where you go into the mine and then the Bedquilt Ramblers appear in silhouette and start to play and it was the most beautiful moment in the game to me and i was sad they took it out (but I understand why, structurally)
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@FlorianVltmn anyway, my actual answer is the bit in the later episode where Junebug & Johnny start to play and the roof comes off
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RT @calamardh: Stochastic variation on the GANfield model gives the garfields an unsettling frenetic energy #StyleGAN https://t.co/OEsuRCNF…
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RT @supermattachine: Pls be very careful w how u utilize “abuser” as a noun! There is no single category of people called “abusers” who are…
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@pippinbarr @FlorianVltmn yeah, there's a whole second section, and they use the song elsewhere. but not as powerfully.
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@patrickashe @pippinbarr @FlorianVltmn yep - that version, you went into the mine, there was a meaningful pause, they came by on a minecart playing, and then the episode ended after the song was done
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@frozenpandaman @FlorianVltmn i don't think it's public and i'm pretty sure i don't have a build knocking around - just going on old memories of it
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RT @mousefountain: Like making one element look better can actually make the whole thing look rougher. Rougher than if you’d just sidestepp…
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The Manager's Path - Camille Fournier This is a good practical straightforward book about being a technical manager - which is not what I am, but is close enough to be useful. No huge revelations, but as stuff comes up at work I'm recognising the frames & mindsets from the book.
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The Breath of the Sun - Rachel Fellman A fantasy novel about climbing a mountain so tall it goes all the way to space. About religion and small communities and the way later parts of out lives lay entangled over the earlier parts. I love how layered the text is.
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Close to the Machine - Ellen Ullman I bought this as a twitch reaction to recent women-in-tech memoirs and it is fantastic and sharp and completely relevant. So many paragraphs I want to post photos of.
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@ra I was thinking this earlier this week! Classic UI pattern of the shiny and demoable triumphing over the more usable. Like Minority Report reaching back in time.
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@iHateCogsci I've seen burnt in monitors, yeah! Takes a long long time to get to that state, but it could happen.
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RT @Jen_Benben: I have many muscle memory Dos and Don'ts when it comes to storyboarding for TV animation (specifically prods with more real…
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RT @ireneface: Ugh, this piece nails it on building political power: “Precisely the kind of work that political hobbyists expect someone el…
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@pillowfort it's very good, isn't it?
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i work somewhere fancy where we can order lunch, and one option for next week is something called a "Crispy Katsu Chicken Tikka Salad Box". i am struggling with it conceptually.
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I'm late on this, but I just saw Of All The People In The World by @stanscafe, and it's amazing work.
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@grapefrukt I did. We'll find out on Thursday.
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RT @ianmaclarty: Tile Snap is now available on Android too: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ianmaclarty.tilesnap
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now is absolutely the right time to make shitpost repos on GitHub. you've got a week to get your jokes turned into QR codes printed on a reel of film sitting in a mine under the Svalbard permafrost @davidbenque/1221030030723121152
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future historians would thank you
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@mink_ette know how you feel ❤️
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RT @ferrisjabr: In the 13th century a schoolboy named Onfim, perhaps bored during class, started doodling on his birch bark. He drew himsel…
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@catacalypto I'm going! Be great to see you
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@unormal don't worry! it's perfectly normal
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RT @brucel: "how come a church organ doesn't sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will,…
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@amyhoy every stage of the process is optimised for the people who spend all their time doing that one stage of the process exclusively.
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@SzMarsupial Towards fungal computer sci-hub.tw/10.1098/rsfs.2018.0029
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@SzMarsupial computer
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a nice account of a woodland ritual theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/24/wilderness-solo-splendid-isolation-stopped-time-sitting-in-a-forest-24-hours
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every year or so i do some webdev and complain about how bad the whole experience is for people who only do webdev every year or so @amyhoy/1221466636030373889
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RT @rSoftwareGore: Found this on my ps2 memory card
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currently reading out our tweets and categorising them as poems or not
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RT @iendsl: Our new game WOBJ is coming out on February 4th - it's a short story video game and it has a lot of dialog - i've been trying t…
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CBDQ was down for about an hour this morning, but is back up now. the database automatically restarted, and then didn't actually start.
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slightly wistful that KRZ isn't in development any more. it's been such a presence alongside games for the past 7 years, and now it's out, complete, an entire videogame, a finite thing. (I am glad that the people making it can go on to new and interesting things)
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I'm excited to play Act V, but feeling no rush to do so immediately. It'll still be beautiful when I get there.
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RT @jmhodges: Those snack walls were the snack walls I loved when I arrived and the snack walls I’d come to ignore. Been there, done that,…
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@FlorianVltmn this is me. tbh, I think it's mainly that it wanted me to play for a solid hour every day, but I only wanted to play for max 30mins
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RT @lavenderbutch: the origin of “if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known” is from…
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RT @luna__aquarius: the rewards of the mortifying being loved ordeal of…
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@jazzmickle most games look bad
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@pillowfort @jazzmickle no, YOU (look bad)
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@dannybirchall an issue of a magazine? you know the kinds of things you want, the rough format... but probably you're gonna be moving bits around as they come in, there's dependencies between art & words you'll only really understand after you have them...
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@dannybirchall ... as soon as you understand all the problems you need to solve, you're basically done. (where this falls down: magazines usually ship on time, or somewhere near it)
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@dannybirchall yeah! but actually, maybe there a house is a good metaphor again - the house is built but needs maintenance, you decide to move the furniture around, you have a kid and need to redecorate, rooms are repurposed, old techniques (asbestos) turn out to need expensive removal
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@jamesinealing @dannybirchall haha, snap
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RT @cardboardcompy: Kentucky Route Zero Act V is now available! This is a major update which also includes the free 'interludes', localizat…
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@cardboardcompy thank YOU. for so much.
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RT @iam8bit:
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@king_spooner a man attempts to deliver some furniture
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@morganholleb unsurprisingly, there's a bot for that twitter.com/overwhelmed_bot
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@GalaxyKate @SerinDelaunay I haven't touched it in a long time! There are some odd hidden features in that version tho...
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whoa!! t.co/7iPzGtCtz4
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@SerinDelaunay @GalaxyKate I saw something about that on the github thread - should look into it
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@SerinDelaunay @GalaxyKate scared of switching out backwards incompatible syntax on old bots, mind
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@Hoeyboey @pillowfort because then it wouldn't make me cry when small signifiers indicate that actually she does deeply care about her friends
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RT @the6p4c: sometimes i think we overstate the necessity of clarity in UI. why not just have a big 😎 button. it looks good. put some text…
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RT @audreyotherway: Kentucky Route Zero's "multiplayer option" is a lyric TTRPG #NintendoSwitch
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tempted to make some kind of tortured comparison between the characters of Junebug & Johnny (from Kentucky Route Zero) and Barb & Axis (from I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter). robots who perform a gender they don't feel. people who use gender to perform like robots.
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RT @v21: Kentucky Route Zero is out! kentuckyroutezero.com/ Some real magic in this.
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@SzMarsupial wow you're still stewing about this, huh
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@SzMarsupial I'm spitting blood, I'm so furious.
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@SzMarsupial I did look yearningly at your buns earlier today. (it's a shame pancakes don't really travel)
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RT @WarrenIsDead: here's my review #KentuckyRouteZero
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@SK_Louie end of an era
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RT @inform_dreams: To drop is a verb. To put down is a verb. To discard is a verb. The verb drop describes the dropping action. The verb pu…
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@patrickashe KRZ mate, already been determined @v21/825829711708352514
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@patrickashe i love we both posted this with the same code
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RT @midlandladders: BoSS End Linked Bridging Tower 5.2m Working Height 👍 A 3.2m long fixed bridging deck links two standard towers to cre…
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@innesmck @appleciderwitch not unedited. although the raws are pretty good, though in a different way to dril @v21/1219379711039754240
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@appleciderwitch @antumbral it is curated - i ran their model to look at some sample output @v21/1219379711039754240
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@appleciderwitch @antumbral i gotta say: props to them for sharing their trained model
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@SimonGColton @mark_riedl @badnetworker @kurtluther ah, shame. a good part of why I like generative stuff is exactly that act of projecting meaning onto something which provides texture but no inherent meaning
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@GalaxyKate looks like if you pull it down with npm, you can then build those minified versions yourself with "npm run build"
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@GalaxyKate presumably they assume the common use case is people integrating it into a complex system with webpack, and have an icky feeling about checking in generated code into a repo
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RT @house_house_: Our videogames are made on stolen Wurundjeri land. We at House House will be paying at least 1% of our income to Indigeno…
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allioli alioli aioli
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as you lose ls, you add egg
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[poll]
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RT @quendergeer: large boulder large boulder the size of a the size of a large boulder small boulder small boulde…
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@moreelen I was looking this up and came across this wonderful sentence: ‘In his authoritative book Catalan Cuisine Colman Andrews quotes an old Catalan saying, "allioli made with egg is just fancy mayonnaise"‘
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I'm looking forward to the next Twine update @webbedspace/1222847843322327041
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it is very weird to watch the original trailer for Kentucky Route Zero Kickstarter trailer now youtube.com/watch?time_continue=166&v=0pvkCYNhf7M&feature=emb_logo
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“Long boy” is the colloquial name for two connected memes: a way of referring to any cylinder or cylindrical object, and a specific image of an orange cylinder, based off the first meme. thephilosophersmeme.com/2016/03/23/long-boys-never-grow-up/
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@TheRealMannapi @joonturbo this is pretty good. brambles, mud, a stream (can you jump?)
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@joonturbo @TheRealMannapi yeah - ultimately people know they're playing a videogame, and you want the edges to be boring... and an invisible wall is pretty boring. less about making narrative sense and more just establishing a level design language that tells you that it's not worth trying to go that way
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this is a post to say that i'm going to GDC, and if you are also going to GDC and would like to meet for reasons of either business or friendship, please feel free to get in touch
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RT @radiatoryang: yo! submit your games and playful experiences to one of the best festivals in UK! it's free to submit and the submission…
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I was gonna do a hot take about how Americans call it sheet cake and that sounds completely unappealing, but then I remembered that I'd naturally call it sponge cake, and maybe that's not so appetising either.
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@GhostTownGoldie would love to meet!
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@jonty thanks! they're Ace & Tate, somewhat predictably
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@adrielxyz yep! in Lille for the weekend (but I like being dramatic)
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@adrielxyz & thank you 💅
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@doougle i'm in the same place, and into joining forces to try again. maybe i'll even buy a switch (rather than using my flatmates, which is maybe not optimal for this task)
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@doougle the issue for me was that it wanted me to play for an hour a day, and i only had like... half an hour a day to play it. just always that bit too much friction to dipping in. hopeful that might have changed with the new one
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here's a cool and worthwhile feature that Twitter could add that would cause absolute chaos: automatically & retroactively doing OCR on uploaded images & screenshots, and adding that text to their search indexes
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@waxpancake @usernames perfect
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RT @itstheshadsy: A decade ago, I had a nightmare that I spent $1799.99 on a game called Mirror Train, which was a business education tool…