Tweets from 2020/04
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how many times have you asked the question "what did you have for breakfast this morning?"?
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@pillowfort 578!!?
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@tigershungry if you listen carefully, you can hear the reverberations of the question still echoing at the start of "I am sitting in a room"
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RT @BigMeanInternet: Imagine you gain control of Paris and you're like fuck how do we do finance? Who knows this stuff? And someone's like…
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I love that the terrible eggs last for the next two weeks. Why not? It's terrible egg time, with your pal Zipper, who is having absolutely no fun hopping around in a giant bunny suit.
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wood egg! sky egg! rock egg! earth egg! everything! egg!
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@catacalypto that's a normal and empathetic reaction. who is making him do it? is it a Saw type situation? or just a shit job?
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@SzMarsupial everything is Animal Crossing now
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@acgodliman I have one of every egg now. I need no more eggs.
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@moreelen can i buy Zipper's freedom with airmiles?
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recommendation wanted: a book like Gideon The Ninth, Paladin's Grace or the Murderbot series. something that reads like very good fanfic, I guess?
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@glowascii thanks for the rec! and yes, it is very good, isn't it?
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@nd_kane @tigershungry it would be very satisfying to shake eggs out of a tree and see them all bounce and shrink down to nothing within some flowers. maybe that's my new task.
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@alexhern it's a shame that these people are the face of "5G is bad" when 5G is, in fact, bad
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@alexhern impact on weather forecasting, mainly. though I also feel a bit dodgy about the way that it can be used for fine-grained location tracking, including maybe, hypothetically, people without phones?
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@alexhern & given the density of masts required & the poor penetration of the signal it doesn't feel super widely useful. and the Internet is basically fast enough already??? (I might well be proved wrong about that one)
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@alexhern so, active location tracking: more base stations, closer apart gives a higher resolution of where you are. plus beamforming gives a direction from each mast. so phones with 5G can be pretty precisely located by the networks.
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@alexhern passive: stuff like this researchgate.net/publication/336029071_Cooperative_Passive_Coherent_Location_A_Promising_5G_Service_to_Support_Road_Safety - basically, 5G beamformed signals are able to act as radar systems. which is not stuff that's currently being used/rolled out as far as i know, but i am slightly iffy on the infrastructure for that being created.
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@alexhern (there's proof of concepts doing this with wifi signals, too - but that needs a van parked outside your house to track your movements inside. this (i think?) needs firmware/software across the cell network instead)
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@alexhern i have not been hot on the difference between mmwave & non-mmwave (& the details of the UK's rollout). it is a good point!
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@alexhern have not actually done anything with 5G for work!
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RT @londongamesfest: A fantastic interview with @tigershungry on how Now Play This has switched to Now Play This at Home, starting tomorrow…
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@sharnajackson thanks :)
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RT @erikswahn: Back in Greater Unlondon One network to generate satellite imagery, one network to estimate elevation
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some top tips for making artistic video games here @hollygramazio/1245976565042663424
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@Jam_sponge April 13th 😬
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@BRKeogh It's making me grind less!! but also enjoy the game less
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RT @Singyamatokun: Animal Crossing be like #Animalcrossing
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@alexhern oh, congratulations!!! heck yes.
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RT @nowplaythese: The time is 2pm-ish (BST) on Friday April 3rd & festival Guest Director Marie Foulston invites you to join her & the Now…
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RT @nowplaythese: Our 'Play at Home Official Selection' is now live on the site - a curated pick of playful works that were due to be part…
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So proud of all the @nowplaythese team for finding a way to adapt the festival to these new conditions we're living in. And to have done it with such sensitivity & inventiveness, too!
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A festival opening from Animal Crossing. Virtual tours from within different games. Commissioning a playable Instagram filter. A boardgame workshop you can do at home on your own time, but that's also collaborative with others. It's great.
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@jukiokallio oh what!!! congratulations, what a lucky kid
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RT @snaddering: We're running Squaretown at the @nowplaythese games festival from today until Sunday; a print-and-play adaptation of the sn…
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@thairyn @PixieStitchs @betterthemask i saw something about using non woven polypropylene & have made masks out of that - seems more breathable at 3 layers than the one i made from t shirt fabric, though i can't test it's filtration properties obv
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@thairyn @PixieStitchs @betterthemask here's the pattern I used makermask.org/masks/surge/ - used a folded over strip of aluminum from a beer can instead of a pipecleaner.
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@ka_bradley Read a fun book the other night about lesbian space pirates fighting an AI... featuring characters dying of a respiratory illness that causes coughing and shortness of breath.
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@Bromtommig hiya - yes, there's some weirdnesses in terms of domain security when fetching images. it'll likely depend on where the image is being hosted...
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i'm hanging out with friends in virtual Pittsburgh @likelikearcade/1243566466072563713
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@SzMarsupial i think you'd like this for obvious & also slightly less on the nose reasons polclarissou.itch.io/moss-as-texture-as-space-folding-onto-itself
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@molleindustria @partytimeHXLNT @likelikearcade i was also snooping, it was nice to poke behind the scenes
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@mcclure111 the instructions for the non woven polypropylene masks i made said to sterilise it by submerging it in boiling water for 10 minutes
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@mcclure111 was trying to find the paper i saw before comparing different fabrics. but this one seems relevant, too: researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_the_Efficacy_of_Homemade_Masks_Would_They_Protect_in_an_Influenza_Pandemic
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@mcclure111 "Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by volunteers, although the surgical mask was 3 times more effective in blocking transmission than the homemade mask."
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RT @nyamcattt: life as an easter bunny 😔 #animalcrossing #ACNH
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looking forward to this! @nowplaythese/1246365264083591172
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@caiitlinz happy birthday!!! 🎈🎈🎈
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i regret to inform everyone that i had a cheering conversation with a neighbour i had never spoken to before from between our two balconies
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@vivschwarz oh wait, yes, i have spoken to them, i forgot
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@vivschwarz maybe - we reverse cat burgled them once (when Pixie ran into theirs)
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RT @kirstykeatch: Had so much fun collaborating with @RobotJoel on SIGIL, a playable instagram filter commissioned by @nowplaythese feat…
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i'm about to set off on a tour of Half Life with @radiatoryang : you can catch the stream on the Now Play This site if you want to follow along @nowplaythese/1246454766986821632
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starting now!! nowplaythis.net
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@GalaxyKate oh, i figured out a hacky way to post from a desktop browser. if you log into the website and pretend to be a mobile phone using the inspector, then the post button appears. filters don't work, but png upload does.
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RT @linernotesdanny: my brother tried to stream a violin recital from his living room on Facebook Live and
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@GalaxyKate ohhh... i guess i forgot that detail. or maybe they broke it.
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@GalaxyKate ah!!
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RT @nhyphenc: 1/ So because I’m trapped inside, figured I’d try giving out some micro grants for small indie game devs. So reply with ima…
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playing Animal Crossing in my orange hat (thx @thairyn & @PistachioRoux)
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@lana_delboy @thairyn @PistachioRoux yes! I'm SW-6930-6910-6703
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@HilariousCow I loved the idea of New Leaf, but couldn't stick with it. This one is treating me better, though. But the best part is socialising with folks on it.
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four thousand turnips
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@philippawarr today I spent a little while looking at the customization options for a stack of paper. you can have diagrams, text, exam papers, storyboards, custom design. so lovely.
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RT @rtraister: The staff. Of the resort. Is trapped. And forced. To serve. This couple. nytimes.com/2020/04/05/style/coronavirus-honeymoon-stranded.html
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RT @stephcd: what Enron almost invented streaming video on demand in 2000 forbes.com/2000/07/20/mu4.html#103026893541
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@j3rrytron we're enjoying hating on the eggs
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RT @AlexJayBrady:
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RT @fncischen: 🧞♀️ This TikTok AR horse filter is a great example of AR filter design, since: 1) The head evolves from head to horse (in…
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RT @nowplaythese: We've got one more event for you in Now Play This at Home. Gareth Damian Martin will be leading a group of intrepid explo…
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getting set up for a photography tour of No Man's Sky. will be streaming here in 20 mins: twitch.tv/nowplaythis
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we're live!!
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that was lovely! thank you @JumpOvertheAge for the wonderful tour & thoughts on imaginary photography. the recorded video is up at twitch.tv/videos/584213932
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this is making me want to either play theHunter : Call of the Wild, or get serious about my Animal Crossing photography. either way, more pictures of electronic animals.
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@nd_kane thanks!! i enjoyed yr contributions on the chat (including: actually knowing all details of the art history references)
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@nd_kane haha, sorry, nerd. but yes, it really did feel exactly like a photo hike taking part. slightly less calming, but still wholesome. and what a good weekend of stuff it's been!
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@nickludlam yes! there's a camera app on your phone. it's nice, they've got some nice filters in there & there's some interesting wrinkles when using it
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@nickludlam see how i matched up my in-person Huji pics with the in-game equivalent @v21/1246526735061061633
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RT @youngvulgarian: And I think that fundamentally, you cannot ask people to always eg. tweet with absolutely every account on Twitter in m…
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@_hyly this seems like a bad idea to me @v21/1147106470095458305?s=19
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RT @KeychainCollect: In the new @CallofDuty game there are about 128 "charms" to collect. Decorations for your weapons. They call them "c…
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@joonturbo @grapefrukt i bought a bunch of individually packaged thingys of these
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@joonturbo @grapefrukt so... yes. this tweet seems likely to be true
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RT @robinhouston: From patents.google.com/patent/WO1992019458A1/en (This patent has expired, so I believe you can use these without having to pay a license fe…
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RT @DKThomp: "Worldwide more than 1.5 billion children are out of school right now" nber.org/papers/w26947.pdf
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RT @_babyfrog: i think about this illustration by cécile dormeau a lot
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started Pathologic 2 because i needed cheering up & a distraction from the plague. it's very good, especially all the messages imploring you to play it at the intended, punishing, difficulty.
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it does the cheesy FPS thing of using light to indicate the desired path, except it makes it feel like theatre lighting, perfectly natural in it's artifice.
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@ChellaRamanan @nachimir i have been enjoying them a lot, but also they can feel like a lot of work to psych myself up for
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@tigershungry @ChellaRamanan @nachimir i definitely got all the hosting a house party feelings from my Minecraft party. & yeah: most of the time i leave my gates shut & just wander around by myself. esp because it's my winding down after work and into the evening game. basically a commute???
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RT @robinhouston: The circumference of a Pringle is larger than the circumference of a Pringles can. @matthen2/1247427318303174656
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I just learned that in Germany, Punch and Judy shows are performed by policemen and are about road safety.
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I can recommend this Punch and Judy website for fans of good homemade websites punchandjudy.com/scriptsframeset.htm
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@obandsoller my German housemate: @vivschwarz/1247502326602096640
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two million, five hundred and twelve thousand bells
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@derElbi not my island, sorry!
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@derElbi in a large enough group, great prices become more and more likely
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I just had a very frustrating experience with a videogame!!!
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I decided to try theHunter, because I am a fan of this post gamasutra.com/blogs/KarinCederskoog/20170713/301653/theHunter_Call_of_the_Wild__Designing_Believable_Simulated_Animal_AI.php & going for some walks in the countryside looking out for animals sounds great. Also my flatmate has Xbox Game Pass, so it was right there.
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so I launched it, do the tutorial bit, shoot the deer that appears right at the trailhead... decide I don't really want to think about trophy organs etc. but tracking some animals to get some photos, even if I have to opt out of all the gamey bits & progression: a nice evening.
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go for a nice walk through some bracken, enjoy the changeable weather, learn a bunch of systems & button mappings. I'm getting invested in deer vs rabbit droppings! follow some tracks, lose them, follow some others... hear some noises over a ridge...
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I can see a brown back moving up and down through my binoculars. Exciting!! can I creep closer? yes! get out the camera, frame the shot, get a load of this moose, including some where he's staring right at the camera. lined up nicely with a lake backdrop and everything.
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anyway, it turns out the Xbox version doesn't do anything when you take pictures. not saved in game or out of game. and the screenshot button is all the way out in an xbox menu.
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I guess I could just go for a nice walk in some imaginary woods? and maybe see some animals & maybe not & try not to push the buttons that make me get my gun out. But it doesn't really seem worth it, without the light instrumentalization that taking pictures would provide.
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@_never_work I'm glad they went with the microplane grater model. best grater I've ever used.
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RT @DuncanWeldon: This is a really good - and useful - piece. reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-path-speci-idUSKBN21P1VF
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@Sowee0 no, sorry! the only memory it has of previous replies is just which is the last one it's responded to (so it knows to only respond to newer ones than that.
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most stuff is boring (for me), or crap (for me). but that's fine. and the way to get more good stuff is to have more stuff overall.
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cold take: that there are more games on Steam, and more games earning some decent amount of money are both good things. @eevee/1247739082328829952
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some of my favourite games last year did not get close to earning $10k (some of my favourite games last year did not come to Steam)
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I talked with my good friend (in Animal Crossing) about how nice it is to hang out with good friends (in Animal Crossing) @jericawebber/1247871817903009794
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@mcclure111 i recommend Japan
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RT @adamjmoussa: absolutely obsessed with this Armenian restaurant owner in Philly who will FaceTime you before and after your delivery to…
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RT @gengelstein: Oh no.
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RT @pamwishbow: I know I’m not really someone who normally draws backgrounds, like, ever. Nevertheless here are some zoom backgrounds for y…
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@GalaxyKate my take about game design is that it's very hard to teach, because most of the things you're trying to solve for are super specific to the actual project you're working on. there's transferable experience (I hope!) but...
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@GalaxyKate like... this makes me tho k about designing for little kids. they don't want a "game" in their game as much as they want to repeatedly enact a ritual.
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I miss eggs
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@KommanderKlobb this week & last, the big Sainsburys has been completely bare
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@hellocatfood @tiemposdelruido I sometimes feel like I only learned Tidal in order to get jux rev jokes
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@caiitlinz definitely channeling your "working in a surf shop" vibes there
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also a fan of the section that goes: Anywa tadpol remai * FROG * BATH * BIG QUESTION * frog PROBLE fabl tale MORA frog Charmin
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I just realised that every single one of these would be a good Culture ship name.
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@patrickashe @mjmcmaster wait, is it for GPS drift or to trick the pedometer data?
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@mjmcmaster @patrickashe yeah - it'll mean you travel more distance while staying still. both good for distance, and for reaching stops and pokemon who'd be properly out of reach
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@pbreit @MimarSinanMusic @BriPC23 @AlexBerenson i agree that both the flu vaccine and the shutdown are proportionate measures that are saving lives
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RT @shockproofbeats: some day this will be over and i will be happy again; not listening to you at a crowded function; scanning room for wa…
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i feel odd about stuff about shiny new privacy-preserving covid tracking apps given that we live in a world where lots of companies have large databases of granular & individualised location data
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@ka_bradley i love the Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA. crammed full of the fictional & the strange & the obscure & lots of Pepper's Ghost illusions. and then it opens out into a room where they serve mint tea & a rooftop where they keep doves.
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was lovely to visit @philippawarr's art show. not pictured: the lovely cafe at the end where I enjoyed some tea while eating my breakfast.
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apologies for this tweet: wouldn't this just be a perfect day to go for a swim??
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RT @peachmgzn: Now: "I Had a Profoundly Stupid Conversation with Another Writer About the Concept of Home Where We Asked Each Other, ‘Is Ho…
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excellent news @profalankchen/1248661688099848192
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@jukevox why would you turn off a helpful feature like that????
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@lorenschmidt oh, but the growth stops when the next one is started?
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@jukevox sorry, yes: i do understand why, i am just enjoying partaking in a little religious argument on a bank holiday weekend
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@jukevox i recently got an expensive custom ergonomic keyboard, and i am now slowly relearning how to type on it (properly). so i definitely do understand that feeling, especially rn.
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@notquitereal this is very you
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@notquitereal my villager asked the fish if they wanted to come up out the water to get a picture with her - after all, she's going to be famous one day
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@snacklesbian @JulianMaciasT thanks for this - will have a look
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@R_Michalak are you doing the wicker man?
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this is a good design and Google & Apple are realistically the companies best placed to roll this out at the necessary scale. i want to say "but" here, but i'm not sure what i'd put after it. joekent.nyc/google-apple-contact-tracing
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oh, they just restarted them and now it's running a bit better
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i am trying to hang out at this Minecraft gig: elsewither.club/ - there is good music happening on the stream at that link, but the servers are running very laggy and keep kicking me off
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Baths is wearing nothing but underpants
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i had a birthday party in Minecraft a few weeks ago - can report that the server (this computer) also ran slow and kept kicking people off
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i'm imagining being the open pit crew, and stressing the fuck out about getting the servers running well and fixing shit in time for launch... and i bet it feels much the same as organising irl events.
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@eden_sg yeah!!! i'm having a good time. thanks for all yr work on it!
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RT @komiya_ma: 「舟を漕ぎ出す男」 ドット絵と下書き
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RT @anamanaguchi: #NETHERMEANT is live stream on @Twitch twitch.tv/openpit play in minecraft: elsewither.club/ VIP passes:…
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@casskhaw i am not very far into Pathologic 2, but i don't think the message is quite that of coming together in a time of need to support each other
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@casskhaw what, really?! same here!! hello!
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@R_Michalak @derElbi you can't put them in storage, but you can leave them on the ground
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@patrickashe bored of the stalk market and trying to sublet out Harv's space, are you?
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@patrickashe oh that's nice. i was at a Minecraft gig last night - they did the architecture well. big performance space, but if you wandered off you could find a deserted bar, a street scene through the windows, you could feel out what it'd be like to visit if there wasn't a gig on
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@patrickashe a big old smoking area, where the people on the VIP terrace could look down on you. grotty bathrooms (unisex, though).
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perfect for recreating an underfunded black box theatre space @patrickashe/1249312755561238530
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@bfod @mossmouth @jwaaaap @ConorMODonovan @tha_rami this makes me think of the "Unlock All" menu item in VVVVVV. not quite a difficulty setting, but comparable. distractionware.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=cbiij13vlpp69lqv0j3n5s2se8&topic=18.msg185#msg185
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RT @NicolaScottArt: The voice here, demonstrating all the accents, is Andrew Jack, dialect coach and “Star Wars actor” who passed away from…
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@ragzouken i have definitely Noticed Them in the past before. what's best is noticing double spacing in HTML source...
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@nickfourtimes they were 99 (UK time, the window closed 3 hours ago)
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Animal Crossing: i have been making good money with turnips & it's kind of fascinating to feel out how my relationships with the systems change as I no longer have to care about money
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@morehshin i don't have an answer for you, but this is also my weekend. :/
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@KommanderKlobb i guess the problem also is that i quite like my island to feel wild? p much all my development is in the central section & that's where I want to keep it
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@KommanderKlobb or, not really problem
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@HilariousCow if they let you do things efficiently, there would be nothing left. the menu screens are the labour.
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RT @dalcashdvinsky: "So if you want to host a cocktail party (or any meeting) where you want people to move around, the process is simple.…
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RT @aaronareed: @tiny_gardens (code and some sample output-- appeared in the People's Computer Company newsletter Vol 2 No 6 July 1974; sca…
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RT @ZichenWanghere: A Thread on the UNDERreported but RELENTLESS contact tracing in China. Harbin city said on April 11 that it discovered…
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@AnnaHollinrake laminated!!!
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RT @matasar: Comrade COBOL @conways_law/1249015962550091776
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@Singyamatokun very good
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RT @_ojack_: hydra-synth v1.2 is now online! try: hydra-editor.glitch.me/ code: github.com/ojack/hydra-synth Some new things: - master clock…
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RT @likelikearcade: Announcement: We are opening a new wing. Join us for the inauguration of the online Museum of Multiplayer Art (oMoMa).…
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RT @docmilanfar: (28/n) Burst processing is the workhorse of modern computational photography. When we press the shutter button, instead of…
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@notquitereal maybe i should get really into the dune extended universe
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@notquitereal maybe that's a good hobby for the next month
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RT @leyawn: i played the dune board game a few months ago and it took one hour to learn and four hours to play. on the last turn i betrayed…
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@AndrewJohnMarks @notquitereal i am pretty sure i have gotten beyond children of dune before (but also i am pretty sure that this was an idle threat)
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RT @Chican3ry: There was a jump in prosecutions of women that started around 2015/2016 which gender crits have alleged are the result of tr…
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RT @pangmeli: see here's the beauty of it
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@cheekfacelyrics thanks for letting me know - looks like it's fine now?
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@AnnetteMees not sure this is helpful advice as much as: same! it's difficult & not often the kind of difficult that makes me want to stick at it. but I think I am an okay writer & I'd definitely bet you are. the problem is that I know a lot of very good writers.
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@AnnetteMees so if I am not as good as them... that's fine? and not really something to be taken as further discouragement. (also, yeah, have had good success with index cards => outlining => fleshing out. Will try transcribing myself!!)
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it got me into the habit of never having complete confidence in my assumptions - you gather data, you form a hypothesis, and then you test it. but if that isn't the problem, then you need to question your data, question your hypotheses, work back into ever more unlikely scenarios
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oddly, one reason I ended up at the place of saying this kind of thing was from my experience debugging difficult things. @lottelydia/1250441393954123777
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I mean, also I see one of the biggest parts of the role of a (non-solo) game designer being that everyone has something approximating the same idea of what the game is and how it works. So this is a good & obvious thing to be asking.
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I've carried that attitude into design work, too. maybe I'm wrong! I'm confident enough to be happy moving forward with it - but if someone else's understanding is different, then I want to hear it. everything is a little bit provisional (until it's too late to change it)
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@Willeth yep, totally. and people can definitely hear which one you meant
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@rubna_ i miss the way that, after doing a lot of painstaking detective work and understanding a whole complex system... the fix is usually trivial to actually implement
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@rubna_ games are rarely trivial to implement
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@irini_mirena such a great book
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RT @100gecs: 100 gecs presents: 🌳Square Garden🌳 🌲🌺🌳☘️🌾🍁🌸🌹💐🍂🌸🍄☘️💐🍂🌻🍃🌱🌿☘️🌻🍀🌼🌻🌹🌹☘️🌷🌳🍂💐🌲🌷☘️🌹🍄🌹🌻☘️🌲🌸☘️💐🌻🌻🌼🌹🌸🌿🌻🌻🌹🌼🌻🌸💐🌺🍀🌳🍂🍁🌳🍄🍀🌻 an @OpenPitPrese…
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RT @ptychomancer:
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RT @torahhorse: who will be the first band to do a “Virtual Concert”?
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@torahhorse rip your replies
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@musebloom i did try zooming in to figure it out... but your guess is as good as mine
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@thecatamites @mcclure111 i used to use Boo, because it looked like Python. it was nice!!
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@EKTOutie @thecatamites @mcclure111 yes, i also had this problem. and then i moved to C# and i ran into issues with JSON deserialization where i was like "ah, what would be really handy right now would be a type called "duck""
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@nullInteger so glad you're finding it cool. And... horse ebooks ran that way for a while, with people manually running it behind the scenes.
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@nullInteger anyway! Tweet just sends a single tweet, the example one you have right there. But if you change the frequency to more than "never" and press "Save" then it'll get saved on the server and run there.
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@nullInteger at which point you can close the window, walk away, and it'll keep going.
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RT @d_rafi1: The scene from Westminster bridge #ClapForCarers
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RT @ompuco: Further experimentation with this vector UI system
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@_nadine @lazerwalker the eternal complaint
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RT @everestpipkin: i've been doing movie nights with my students. now did i accidentally upload fantastic planet with the subtitles from ta…
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RT @Vavassor: @mcclure111 I was just watching a twitch stream of a lady learning coding for the first time (javascript). Chat suggested to…
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@pangmeli this made me look, and yes, you can get a chrome extension that adds a download link for any bandcamp page. not that there would be a sensible way of protecting them from a chrome extension, but still have them playable on a normal webpage
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currently hanging out in the online Museum of Multiplayer Art (oMoMA), which just opened. come play: likelike.org
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@TheJordanDraper oh, come say hi, i'm out front
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RT @indulgine: Water-cooled laughter help machines savor life.
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@Nifflas ooof... hard. i got to: stay still to update where you'll start from
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@Nifflas maybe you can just say "checkpoint". maybe you wanna say "3 seconds". probably you wanna demonstrate the loop of doing it before doing something you're v likely to fail the first time.
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@Nifflas but yes, you probably do also want the safety net of being explicit about what it does. can you manually rewind/kill yourself? that changes it, a little
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notice how, in Animal Crossing, when you pick up a bag of money you find in a hole in the ground, it goes into your inventory, but if you pick up a bag of money you've shaken from a tree, it goes into your wallet? that's the essence of game design
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@hannahnicklin i still haven't played Episode V of KRZ. it'll wait.
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@LorenzoPilia i like bumping into friends & having a nice chat & seeing the same person later on but not really interacting & making up stupid games
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@LorenzoPilia no, i'm saying that racing to the VIP room is a stupid game
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@LorenzoPilia standing contest: totally legit
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@LorenzoPilia and i like to cheat
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@LorenzoPilia aw, now i feel bad - that's not actually my mouse. although i *do* like to cheat (i tried to load the URL for the top room instead of racing there. but getting through the body options took too long & i lost anyway)
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RT @scattermoon: UK doing their own Eurovision alternative broadcast rather than the official EBU one that the rest of Europe are using (wh…
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@haikus_by_KN listen to this!!!! they did it! a MLE accent in a videogame! @nickeemVO/1251448048380792838
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RT @McTricky: it's super satisfying to hear a video game character who sounds like he's from ends @nickeemVO/1251448048380792838
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@artbymarek vs code. works fine!
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@mildlydiverting there are lots of tools which would put some nicely formatted text up online so it can be shared & linked to... but it's another service, with all the overheads that implies, and it's not to hand like Google Docs is. if that's where you naturally go to write...
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@mildlydiverting the competition here is often "screenshot of the Apple Notes app"...
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@mildlydiverting i mean, i think the fact that there is a fundamental difference between text and pictures of text is arguably a technical failing? it's a deep and fundamental one... @v21/1223281986632065025
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@mildlydiverting @davidbenque @jcalpickard @BeakerBrowser @taravancil thanks, yes! i mean, i hang out with a very technical crowd on a private Mastodon server, a load of folk there are into Dat etc... but even there what people mainly do is put an HTML file on their own server (because they have servers)
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@mildlydiverting @davidbenque @jcalpickard @BeakerBrowser @taravancil it's hard to make things simple & usable & it's especially hard because to do this stuff you need buy-in or at least access from the big tech companies you're competing with.
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@mildlydiverting hahaha. oh no.
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@mildlydiverting oh god, yes, it does go back that far, doesn't it?
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this tool is beautiful lorenschmidt.itch.io/pattern-mutation-tool
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wow this screenshot is doing some funky stuff when twitter shrinks it down for the preview. what is up with that?
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RT @tjmcintyre: That didn’t take long. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-lockdown-three-stage-exit-plan
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@SFBTom also there's voice chat!!
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@everestpipkin @tigershungry @PerfectPlum the thing I am most into is all the milling around waiting for people to get into position & discussing where we're racing to
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@cuniiform moire goes twinkly, not purple!
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(it's nice to be back on a Windows machine and able to use IrfanView again)
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@PerfectPlum i resisted going All The Way Down... but: @v21/1251582929412784128
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@BexSaltsman it makes me feel very warm and happy to see Hohokum on the walls. I transferred my decals between three flats before they finally didn't seem viable any more.
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Therapist: Neural Net Carly Rae Jepsen can't hurt you Neural Net Carly Rae Jepsen: @artbreeder_bot/1251661829358714887
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@jazzmickle this is you!
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experience of reading this thread: at first feeling faintly superior, and then remembering Thursdays at 8pm t.co/z78vyl0Q0j
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saw that review going round claiming that Animal Crossing is "a game for babies", and... yes? yes it is, it's clearly designed in such a way that it is enjoyable for children as much as for adults, it's a difficult trick to pull off & explains many of the design choices.
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@studioanisa it looks like the control panel for a Muji rice cooker
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RT @NEJM: “Two semi-trailer trucks, cleverly marked as food-service vehicles, met us at the warehouse. When fully loaded, the trucks would…
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RT @pmdfoster: Because guess, a device that keeps you alive, that breathes for you IS flipping complicated. How hard can it be? Damn hard.…
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RT @mikarv: These possibilities for function creep concern me greatly. In #DP3T, we sought to design them out. Your phone generates the ran…
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@_never_work this is very exciting to hear
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@moreelen is it spring yet?
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RT @timsoret: All my life I've seen pro painters talk about "values" by desaturating in Photoshop, and turns out it's one of the most wides…
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RT @v3ga: Planet-D #axidraw #processing #plottertwitter #generativedesign #creativecoding #generativeart
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RT @designCaitlin: Looking to rent out my lock-keeper’s cottage room near London Fields. Anyone interested (or know anyone that might be?)…
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RT @QueensChristine: I also sent this bit but honestly I get why it did not make the cut. #TogetherAtHome @GlblCtzn
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@jericawebber <3 <3 <3
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@jericawebber exactly as long as the sensation of screaming into the void outweighs the anxiety of being seen as anything less than perfect
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RT @tjukanov: I quite like how these map nightmares are starting to look. #mapdreamer #StyleGAN2
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@infovore i just had three in a row
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RT @acdlite: If you call yourself a programmer, you must be proficient in my particular domain of expertise. I can’t overstate how fundamen…
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RT @AndersenPress: Here's a free lockdown treat for all our followers 💚🏠💚 STAYING HOME is a new, FREE picture book from @Sally_Nicholls…
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RT @srfeld: As of 8pm tonight, wearing a mask in public places around other people who are also wearing masks is both forbidden and require…
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@philippawarr i still have my real life tiger face tee in green
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RT @wasserwange:
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@mewo2 not an artwork, but on the glancing chance you haven't seen this video, you should youtu.be/VN3hF8dX8TM
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@mewo2 from a play list of design fiction videos I put together... so many very mundane futures where there will be More Screens Than Before youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX0BQnJh0dEzYUHjUd9oiCxfHLCIRYUQR
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but, supposing the telephone could provide vision, as well as sound: wouldn't that be better?
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i spent a good while a few years back digging up a load of corporate design fiction videos - this one from the GPO stood out because it was much earlier than most, but also because it acknowledged that technology wasn't an unalloyed good
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@GretchenAMcC i love it
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RT @mousefountain: @jaytholen like the weirdo cut-up vibe of a lot of mod projects, that will have models with vastly different detail leve…
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just watched Time Trap in Netflix and I found it a very enjoyable B movie that is just really willing to go where the premise wants to take it
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@LorenzoPilia if you wanna be paranoid you can boil it for 10 minutes (in a pot, on the stovetop, yes)
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@Obviously_Cloe @plentyofalcoves switching to a different mask with a better fit across the nose helped! but also it still is difficult - the mask wants to sit in the same place as the glasses, it's a problem
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@jericawebber it looks like it'd be stencilled on a crate in the background of a Wolverine comic
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@jericawebber i did like this paragraph
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RT @patrickashe: I spend a lot of time thinking about the Baten Kaitos 100% speedrun that takes 341 hours to do, 336 hours of which is most…
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@philippawarr My read is: This is the letter they should've sent in January. But they sent something else, because they'd got it wrong. So they're sending it now, to make up for it.
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RT @pathologic_bot: Buds bear flowers, clocks bear hours, bones bear… nothing. They're just bones.
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RT @nicolehe: i made a #ACNH discord bot called snogbot who posts three f/m/k (or as we politely say, "snog/marry/avoid") candidates once a…
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@nicolehe @tigershungry i'm glad you agree with me on the correct course of action for these three
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reposting this to say that i disagree, i try to have at least three ideas, it feels bad and sometimes everything else is stupid, but sometimes i get a better idea. and it doesn't take very long versus actually making something happen. although, yeah, sometimes it's just obvious. @lydiakahill/1252556313885839365
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i guess the thing here is that they're not really ideas, they're solutions to a problem, and i do have the problem reasonably well held in my head.
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@vivschwarz yeah. I mean, tbh, justifying your perfectly good ideas when faced with some criteria you don't really agree with is a useful life skill that has come in handy throughout my career. But maybe not where students should be focusing.
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@vivschwarz I mean, I do have a rule for myself of coming up with at least three ideas. I'm not sure exactly what criteria the rule kicks in, though... but yes, I do agree with your comments & how to apply it to your students.
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RT @drowzydruzy: i will NOT let them rewrite history
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@tambourine it's awkward with glasses! you can also get them where there are ties for behind your head - I find that more comfortable for sure
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@konjak the best thing you can do (bar making it always online) is what AC has done - drip out new content in updates.
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RT @myGridGB: Britain running on over 75% low carbon electricity (and no coal) at lunchtime on #EarthDay #renewables #electricity #sustaina…
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@naomialderman this is lovely to follow. i was playing a train sim the other day - getting feelings just seeing Horsham station & some accurately modelled ticket machines.
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@mtrc I can't remember what previous posts looked like, but the width & size seemed normal to me for this one!
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RT @nicolehe: if any celebrities want to join the animal crossing discord (we've got a snogbot and a turnip collective), please message me
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I disagree with this sentiment, but I admire it a lot. @pangmeli/1253412152464961536
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this whole thing is going to ruin my ability to just buy a couple of bits on my way home, isn't it?
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I keep thinking of the way my mum used to use Excel to make up a shopping list with all the usual things with checkboxes next to them if we needed them (ordered by type of thing, and thus where in the shop they are).
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I wonder what age you need to be to most imprint upon this situation. What wave of people are the most likely to hoard dried pasta and toilet paper for years to come?
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@Freerange_Inc <3 this whole thing is making me appreciate eggs and flour
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@pillowfort it was a good system! formatted so it printed off nicely... whereas I am only just wrapping my head around preparing a shopping list before setting out
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@SzMarsupial i think my average this week is about 4 hours a day
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loads of great games in here. I'd recommend: soko loco deluxe, all about building chunky little train networks sok-stories & sok-worlds, two great tiny-game creation tools (we commissioned sok-stories for NPT) chatventures, a MMORPG about typing good kamer, a room in white space @Steam/1253447305749020672
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thinking a lot about this perfect video today youtube.com/watch?v=BHakm25yMZo
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@nachimir happy birthday!!!
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(there are English closed captions if you turn them on)
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@omarieclaire personally, i hate a contact form. i always worry it won't work, i have to type a message in a little box, away from a normal email service... sometimes a mailto: link works, but if you put the email address in there too then i can copy & paste if it doesn't.
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@omarieclaire i mean, i've no problem with a contact form existing - i just want at least one other option as well
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RT @videodrome: #fakeprocess #🌼
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RT @videodrome: #fakeprocess #🌹
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RT @nnnnoby: bit fields forever
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RT @kellianderson: Also design is a superpower that grants social legitimacy to things. (Those things are all too often only things with mo…
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@tanyaxshort @necrosofty @danctheduck I'd also say that kids love doing the same rituals over and over. I don't think Stardew works for kids as young as some that are really into AC.
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@tanyaxshort yeah: I have been thinking about it as a dollhouse. except you'd get bored quickly if you're just given the whole dollhouse + furniture etc up front. but if you have to earn each piece...
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@necrosofty @tanyaxshort @danctheduck My personal experience with SV was that I played it for 6 hours, utterly focused, then decided it was a bad life choice in the way that Zachtronics games are for me and walked away. AC I boot up most days to water the flowers, dig for fossils, and a bit of clothes shopping.
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RT @WarrenIsDead: PROMPT FOR SPECULATIVE DISCOURSE PROPOSITION. "The Simpsons" ended at Season 10. CONSEQUENCE. There is a revival season…
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"Maybe the index funds really are the vanguard of socialism." bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-24/investors-want-a-cure-not-a-winner
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RT @omarieclaire: Officially launching Special Guest! Book wonderful and unusual guests for your video conferencing meetings. Need a contr…
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RT @webbedspace: Game Maker game that gets ported to Unity halfway through development, and the first half of the game ends with "Please In…
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@SamanthaZero I was sceptical too...
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right now is the magic moment for turnip arbitrage. it's currently Saturday evening in North America, and Nook's Cranny is still buying. but in Australia, it's 6:15 on Sunday morning, and Daisy Mae is wandering and looking to sell.
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RT @six6jiang: i'm still thinking about how this linear story game is the most talked about game on twitter, yet basically no developers on…
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@pawcelot @mcclure111 oh, yeah, you gotta sell them immediately.
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@pawcelot @mcclure111 yeah: they rot on Saturday night, even if you bought them on the Sunday morning that is about to happen.
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I feel like all I've done this past month is look at graphs of people dying and look at graphs of imaginary turnips.
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this... looks great? another step along the long road towards software actually being built securely @whitequark/1254157556324450311
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RT @v21: first room : these Suzanne Treister fake screenshots look amazing as actual prints.
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RT @TheSolarCan: Happy World Photography Pinhole Day 🌍🌎🌏 Let's revisit some of the great Solarcan images submitted by the >>>best_communit…
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RT @TheWhitePube: This week's review is on @InOtherWaters, writing about horniness and edging, water, science, loneliness and how I doubt I…
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a good thread of interesting ice phenomena @pangmeli/1254223367022002176
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RT @matdryhurst: truth of the culture industry is that smaller operations R&D ideas cheaper than bigger operations, who audition those resu…
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RT @AlexisTrust: @philippawarr When you buy a deluxe 3 sandwich package you’re technically having lunch with a stranger because they have t…
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RT @ompuco: Messing more with my WebGL compatible datamoshing effect using my custom velocity buffer. Stacked some JPEG compression emulati…
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RT @alisonzai:
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RT @Oujevipo: ✨New Game✨ It’s been following you for years Apartment after apartment But now it’s time There is no turning back You need to…
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RT @crystalbennes: The completely crazy thing is that Ballymore also hired branding consultants & sign painters to create FAUX GHOSTSIGNS f…
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RT @thorazos: YouTube comments on "Thursday Afternoon" by Brian Eno
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@awesommelier maybe - but that'll only pay out in June.
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RT @philippawarr: Today @v21 organised an #ACNH fashion competition and it was so cute! Everyone arrived in their shorts and vest so it loo…
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RT @philippawarr: We all had three minutes to shop (one at a time) for clothes from Abel Sisters to make what we thought was the best outfi…
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RT @philippawarr: (I forgot to withdraw cash in my eagerness to get there so I used the waiting time for emergency fishing!)
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RT @philippawarr: I forgot to take a pic of the clothing selection but I went with a nautical-inspired look because fashion LOVES a nautica…
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RT @philippawarr: Unfortunately @tigershungry had the same thought! In fact, the red knitted hat proved to be the most popular item in the…
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RT @philippawarr: We weren't the only ones twinning, though!
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RT @philippawarr: Then we took our seats for the show!
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RT @philippawarr: 🎶F🎵A🎶S🎶H🎶I🎵O🎶N🎵
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RT @philippawarr: Some people used emotes, others explained their look over voice chat, others simply stomped
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RT @philippawarr: And then the vote! THREE TWO ONE
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RT @philippawarr: Martin got three votes and won with a D&D dungeon master themed outfit!
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just made a pisco sour for the first time! didn't have any simple syrup, so made some of that first off. (this should be an instagram post, not a tweet, but unfortunately it's not quite attractive enough to be worth taking a picture of)
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by which i mean: the glass it's in is recognisably an old Nutella jar
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@obandsoller oh, hah, hadn't thought of it that way. it does just look like a glass, though reddit.com/r/antiassholedesign/comments/a1t4xe/the_small_nutella_pot_is_a_drinking_glass/
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@TheNazzaro hey, I started watching the show. great colours! I'm glad to see those scratchy purples make it to the screen.
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@mcclure111 I've been going to a few gigs in Minecraft recently and it is really cool, but also apparent that Minecraft is not built for more than about 20 people to be in the same space as each other.
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RT @beca_carrillo: Sometime last year I bought this book for $1.90 online, specifically because--I gotta be transparent here--I thought it…
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RT @metasynthie: Fantasy "races" are always metaphors (often crude ones) drawn, inevitably, from present/past ideas about human "races" and…
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@R_Michalak yeah!
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@yaxu @thormagnusson @evanraskob @sc3d you can have DIY venues further out... but then they can't really server a community based in "London" but only the folks who live out in that direction. and until people start identifying & forming communities based on those sub-areas, it won't really work.
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@yaxu @thormagnusson @evanraskob @sc3d like: a DIY space makes more sense in Croydon than in Central London.
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@ClareDundee fond memories indeed...
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@yaxu @thormagnusson @evanraskob @sc3d i mean, i think people are fine with some travel, but when it's more than a 45 minute trip it starts to put you off a bit. and lots of places are more than 45 minutes away...
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@KommanderKlobb @FlorianVltmn i like how getting into turnips has turned a lot of the manual labour of the game into stressfully checking prices for the first half of the week
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RT @angusdick: I'm looking for work! If you're looking for a games artist/ animator, hit me up! angusdick.com https://t.co/O4PFPT…
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@philippawarr bot stuff, fair enough, but also... an incredibly anodyne tweet about feeding ducks bread
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this is definitely the kind of map you find in the kind of sci fi book where the author spent a little too much time on worldbuilding @alfred_twu/1254848008547524608
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this is the worst adventure game @NotRightRuth/1255032530790727680
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@moreelen yeah - the way that this process gets the stuff into the game as early as possible, and so you can build out dialogue, test pacing etc etc while the animations are getting made is super smart
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@moreelen also the way that there's a ton of game specific stuff in the system. the three head poses! lipsync on a separate track. it's not a "here's the system, do what you can with it"
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@jim_unwin @moreelen yah, for sure. and it's a system built around tools that are already good (Flash, mainly, but also the Unity Sprite Packer)
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RT @BoxVBox: Worms 2 (US) VS. Worms 2 (EU), 1997/8 boxvsbox.tumblr.com/post/616647791147696128/worms-2-us-vs-worms-2-eu-19978 #gaming #pcgaming #retrogaming #90s
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RT @RobinWigg: This is my favourite story of 2020. The central bank of Nintendo's Animal Crossing game is taking decisive action to prevent…
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RT @unicode_garbage: ㇏﹎ɨ།Ͽ!།༐ooں৩Ϲ|፟)@፟﹎ ⤷⟮﹎﹍፨﹎௦೦﹌﹎﹎ଠ﹎װ੦⟯ʗఠ୦ ﹎࿀༐ஃ﹌৹﹙װ།﹙﹎|﹎﹎◞﹍)﹉﹎ Όا◝﹎໐፡⦆Ϡ﹎ϡ@﹎༑⟯୦ర﹎﹎ǁ ༐Ό﹎౦೦ಠ﹎ͼ৲﹎·﹎﹎º﹍Ϲ﹎﹎˳ ༑﹎፠◟൦⟮༐൦Ͻ﹎ଠ﹋ö᎒﹎ಠ﹎◝…
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RT @petitsmotifs: ⣓⢶⣒⢻⣧⠱⣪⠡⡍𐄞𐄝𐄛𐄙𐄡𐄚𐄞𐄝𐄠 ⢍⣩⢀⢦⠯⢰⢧⠹⣖𐄡𐄟𐄙𐄛𐄟𐄙𐄟𐄚𐄚 ⣥⠮⢮⢷⣰⣟⡈⡿⠦𐄝𐄠𐄟𐄝𐄞𐄙𐄚𐄡𐄠 ⢆⢣⠞⠕⣐⡂⢴⢖⢇𐄜𐄡𐄡𐄡𐄜𐄜𐄡𐄛𐄚 ⠧⡳⠖⠷⢣⡠⡓⡔⡝𐄚𐄝𐄠𐄜𐄜𐄠𐄙𐄚𐄝 ⠊⠨⣓⢰⢻⡔⢛⠑⣇𐄛𐄙𐄞𐄜𐄡𐄙𐄡𐄜𐄠 ⢯⡿⣇⡼⡶⢖⢤…
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RT @miniaturemazes: ╔═══╦═══╦══╦═╦═╗ ║╔╗╦╚╗╔╗╔╔╝║╬║╩║ ║╬║╚╗╚╦╩╗║╠╝╠═╣║ ╠╗╚╗╠╠║╠║╚╦═╝╔╝║ ║╚╗║║╣╣║╠╚╚══║╬╣ ║╣╣║╠╦╦║╚═══╗╚╗║ ║╚═╣╚══╩╦══║╚═╝║…
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i've been thinking about this for a bit, and i reckon the way bash handles working directories is bad when not working in an interactive prompt context
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RT @samaracello: It was only a matter of time before I did one of these #sorrynotsorry
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i am spending a few minutes admiring the sentence fragment "The ability to grow trees from money is tremendously useful in dealing with excessive deforestation" from this wiki page animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Money_tree
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also the fragment "planting money trees is not long-term profitable no matter how many Bells the player invests into the ground."
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@naomialderman I decoded what this is and it is something I have not engaged with because I sensed I would find it fine but not really worth the fuss, and that everyone else was doing a good enough job liking it without me?
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@__anp__ I'm thinking about Minecraft. A huge ecosystem of mods & tools surrounding it, but the game itself is (largely) closed source.
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@tha_rami @waxpancake Snowflake
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RT @NathanSRuiz: Can’t stop thinking about this correction in today‘s Sun.
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@notquitereal let me know when "waterwheel lit by red sunset, riverbank" comes out, tho
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RT @madw: @evanm @ebryn/210454193490759680?s=21 One day in 2012 I had exactly the same thought that you just had... you’ll never believe what hap…
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@LeeShangLun left dome right crater
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RT @JFriedhoff: don't tell anish kapoor #acnh