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Tweets from 2020/06

  1. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall dunno if you're still in the mood for them, but I can def recommend Ellen Ullman's Close To The Machine
  2. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall it has a lot of resonance now - big plotline about dating a Bitcoin guy, years before Bitcoin, for example
  3. protests are revealing how often piles of bricks are left around in public buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/craigsilverman/investigating-bricks-at-protests?__twitter_impression=true
  4. this film is great. and... this is maybe weird to say given I am white & basically a bit posh, but it made me realise how rare it was to watch a film where people speak in that particular slang and accent that I grew up with (MLE) @scattermoon/1268262359317045248
  5. …in reply to @maltron3D
    @maltron3D I don't want to have A Take or make jokes about this. Which means I am posting a lot less.
  6. …in reply to @hauntologies
    @hauntologies ironic, given his name
  7. …in reply to @v21
    "The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased."
  8. Book recommendation: C. L. R. James' The Black Jacobins. A history of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolt. And written in 1938 by a West Indian and a Marxist, which is an energy you can feel in the book.
  9. …in reply to @v21
    also, if you're a games theory person and you want to read a book on how sports and culture shape each other, you should definitely read his Beyond A Boundary.
  10. RT @christapeterso: What does this mean
  11. RT @ohhoe: scroll backwards through this thread. @greg_doucette/1268404518326276096?s=20
  12. RT @AntonioLulic: He walked the whole way from the street to the platform. Sat down on the train. Stood up when five plain-clothed men pull…
  13. RT @austin_walker: I get the appeal of 8cantwait and similar things. It feels good to have a list of easy-to-agree-on demands. But there is…
  14. RT @emshort: 2/ When I looked at my own pattern, I found I also tended to respond fastest and devote most time to email requests from white…
  15. RT @edyong209: 🚨I wrote about COVID-19 long-haulers—the thousands of people who’ve been struggling with *months* of debilitating symptoms.…
  16. RT @dedbutdrmng: Oh look, that thing that definitely wasn't going to happen has happened. @TradeJusticeMov/1268476336265453568
  17. RT @BryanLlenas: Breaking: NYS Judge James Burke rules NYPD can now keep anyone (peaceful protestors arrested for curfew and criminal loote…
  18. …in reply to @ramendik
    @ramendik @DavidPaisley from elsewhere in the thread: it was passed in 2018, when we were part of the EU @HarryJosieGiles/1268824799972929536?s=19
  19. RT @supermathskid: a post-brexit tale in four acts
  20. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa i use wordery - big catalogue, not amazon owned, often beats amazon on price.
  21. RT @hannahnicklin: I support the making of face coverings on public transport mandatory (UK announcement) but to make the implementation no…
  22. …in reply to @LiaSae
    @LiaSae maybe there is a "right now, i can't post about fiber as if things are normal. as should be obvious: black lives matter, abolish the police" etc tone you can take. state your position, but you don't have to feel obliged to make it about you or use that as a campaigning platform.
  23. …in reply to @LiaSae
    @LiaSae yeah. you have my sympathies on that, it is a much harder problem to solve
  24. RT @yezvarn_qvilaxl: quote from his hospital report - "He expressed questionable paranoid ideas of conspiracy and cover-ups in the precinc…
  25. RT @hautepop: Against reading lists, a thread I've been thinking for a few days that it's real convenient for bookish white people to thin…
  26. RT @SlungLow: A tough week for everyone this week We had a referral from council of a new mother at 4pm today. We were tired, no lies Thank…
  27. …in reply to @ompuco
    @ompuco this is very cool. a small thing it makes me want: for the scan to happen in real time, so that it shifts if the view changes during transmission.
  28. …in reply to @ompuco
    @ompuco yeah, I'm not surprised to hear that! I did a prototype encoding image data as sound before, and have also run into similar issues. now you're making me want to dig into the transmission format & how it'd need to pull pixels...
  29. this securities offering just made me laugh out loud mythicmarkets.com/magic-the-gathering-1994-booster-boxes-mtg-94box
  30. …in reply to @ompuco
    @ompuco oh, that's gorgeous, too! all so tactile!
  31. …in reply to @mike_robbo
    @mike_robbo @thestarboretum thanks for linking this. i imagine this'll cover anything left
  32. RT @meeshell_t: 久しぶり!! hi my name is michelle !! I’m a black+japanese canadian illustrator 🌱 #drawingwhileblack
  33. RT @CongBaseballFan: This is how it’s done! Protesters in DC stayed all night and outlasted the Army National Guard. Right as day broke thi…
  34. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall yes. although Glimpse is a recent fork, triggered largely by the name being gross.
  35. RT @NoChorus: Regularly think about how fucking hard the first action of The Black Panther Party For Self Defense was. (from Black Against…
  36. my #1 hope for this protest is not to see any witty signs held by white people. I expect to be disappointed.
  37. …in reply to @v21
    I apologise for my cynicism. It's not got that vibe & I'm very glad.
  38. …in reply to @davidkurten
  39. …in reply to @v21
    it was very nice to cycle home and occasionally see people still holding protest signs all the way up into Peckham
  40. I was at the protest earlier. p much all the protestors were wearing masks. I only saw a single cop wearing a mask. @SkyNews/1269231394032623619
  41. RT @FroyoTam: cw: sexual assault hi @umru_ , hi @im__rylee, please respond to this asap
  42. RT @mrskimyadawson: If Seattle cops think getting hit with a half empty water bottle justifies violently attacking the entire crowd they sh…
  43. a very minor disappointing thing about the pandemic is that we've settled as a culture on doing an elbow bump in place of a handshake, rather than the (much cooler, imo) thing where you tap your feet together on both sides
  44. RT @zaranosaur: Hey @MattHancock if the U.K. is so not racist why did you redact the parts of the BAME COVID report that included testimon…
  45. RT @dril: hardcore becoming that guy who thinks the covid virus will be "not good," overall, but on the bright side it might inexplicably e…
  46. …in reply to @Curiouscat1965
    @radfembrown @emmzcee @KShawntika @shane_reaction_ @ginamartinuk alas, there is not a clear bright line in the universe, with you on one side, and all the predatory people in the other
  47. a thread on the end of the protest in London yesterday @GStarkeyMidha/1269317414451363846
  48. …in reply to @v21
    I left about an hour before this thread started - I saw, for most of the protest, minimal police presence, and zero violence. Everyone in good spirits. Shame the police had to ruin it.
  49. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
  50. …in reply to @Curiouscat1965
    @radfembrown @emmzcee @KShawntika @shane_reaction_ @ginamartinuk wish we did - i find that rule unjust, incoherent & ultimately very dangerous for the people within your community. hope you decide to take the safety of your friends more seriously - would be happy to talk more if you do.
  51. I recently set up a standing donation to @Genderintell & would encourage others to follow suit. @scattermoon/1269413456656072708
  52. …in reply to @shalev_moran
    @shalev_moran yeah - I am also unsurprised.
  53. RT @jowsefsmith: THEY THREW COLSTON IN THE HARBOUR!!!
  54. RT @chrismillard83: what if, and I’m just spitballing here, what if pulling down statues was also an important part of history?
  55. …in reply to @presstube
    @presstube @pixlpa I'd say: sure. not all cops are individually bad. but policing as an institution is bad. Adrian Schoolcraft was a good cop and he tried to do the right thing. And they tried to destroy him. Compare the way the system has swung behind the cop that pushed over that old man.
  56. …in reply to @v21
    @presstube @pixlpa but if you choose to be part of a evil system, then you're evil yourself. so. ACAB.
  57. RT @alienmelon: "the Electric Zine Maker open sourced (on github!)" alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker/devlog/152587/the-electric-zine-maker-open-sourced-on-github ...the itch devlog where i share all the links…
  58. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN we gotta make you some money
  59. …in reply to @lmichet
    @lmichet yeah, honestly i'm real hazy on what my job title has been for the majority of my career. like right now I am a "Lead Game Developer", where "Lead" means I am paid well, and "Game Developer" means I make games? in some indeterminate role.
  60. #GameDevPaidMe 2011: £21.5k /year 2012: 20,000 DKK /month (freelance) 2015: £25k /year + shares 2017: same job as ^^, but part time: £42k FTE 2019: £100k /year + options & nicer benefits
  61. …in reply to @v21
    also, a good amount of time in the middle where I was also doing some contracting, curation work, commissions, having a Patreon, etc - happy to talk about that if folks find it useful, although it was never the majority of my income.
  62. …in reply to @v21
    all roles except the last in small studios where i was doing programming & some design. now i'm at a large company (joined via acquisition) doing just game design (as a lead) have been in London the whole time, but some work was remote (can probably guess which from the currency)
  63. …in reply to @ryangrim
    @ryangrim @jmhodges do you think Mitt Romney wants to defund the police?
  64. RT @KateWilliamsme: People who say - authorities should take statues down after discussion. Yes. But it isn't happening. Bristol'sbeen deba…
  65. …in reply to @Riskophile1
    @Riskophile1 @_talking_head @huwlemmey @WarmongerHodges there's an unprecedented amount of attention on this issue because people pulled the statue down and dragged it into the harbour
  66. i was digging through my screenshot folder & i wish i'd remembered this bit when everyone was talking about difficulty settings last month (from @thecatamites' 10 Beautiful Postcards)
  67. …in reply to @v21
  68. …in reply to @undefined
    @thecatamites oh, shit, you're totally right. i remembered it as something you'd made for her jam...
  69. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN i haven't! but thank you for the recommendation. although Wikipedia has it tagged as "cringe comedy" which might mean I don't make it through...
  70. "videogames give us a perfect example of how market logic handles the important yet undervalued work of, say, history and archivism: by not doing it." thread here: myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/620358240432160768/thats-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-some-fuck
  71. RT @MurderBryan: Every time there is a mass uprising the media is like “umm excuse me, who is the regional manager of this protest so that…
  72. RT @spekulation: We have to talk about what happened at the East Precinct today. Not just because a handful of heroes selflessly put themse…
  73. RT @NotBrunoAgain: If you're a narrative designer (or want to be one), highly recommend playing some big sports franchise game and just thi…
  74. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN for you, that's saying something
  75. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN i am saying that you inspire me to speak truth to power & speak shit to my friends
  76. RT @presentcorrect: Typology of Lego Computers. tinyurl.com/ya44e6z8
  77. RT @BRKeogh: So so great to see #gamedevpaidme bring transparency to game dev wages. Here's what 288 Australian game developers told me t…
  78. RT @rudy_betrayed: thinking about how it’s illegal for a therapist to have sex with a patient (because the power disparity makes it impossi…
  79. RT @jseattle: ‘Welcome to Free Capitol Hill’ — Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone forms around emptied East Precinct capitolhillseattle.com/2020/06/welcome-to-free-capitol-hill-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-forms-around-emptied-east-precinct/
  80. RT @TJFrancisLive: And just like that - the statue of Robert Milligan has been removed from West India Quay in East London https://t.co/OvF…
  81. RT @mattdesl: A novel approach for making smooth, perceptually uniform multi-color linear gradients: interpolate with a 3D Catmull-Rom spli…
  82. …in reply to @undefined
    @tinysubversions @any_user @mattdesl @bfod it's so good
  83. …in reply to @v21
    @tinysubversions @any_user @mattdesl @bfod i think about it often
  84. it's not a good experience if i have to go into the dev documentation in order to understand what the thing is & how it works. it's an even worse experience if i still can't figure it out after that. @tylertringas/1270334897182425088
  85. …in reply to @SallyAlbright
    @SallyAlbright @bitc_o perhaps you could have some kind of worldwide popular uprising? it could be very educational.
  86. RT @bskipper27: Can't hug my nan but I can go on Nemesis Inferno with her @nmsonline/1270341517203443715
  87. …in reply to @reggilbert
    @reggilbert @jasonhickel @davidallengreen totally a competitive measure - at that point, British industrial strategy had shifted to India
  88. …in reply to @pozorvlak
    @pozorvlak I agree, although US elections with many more positions on the ballot might not get counted that quickly.
  89. what we're failing to consider here is that the people doing the graffiti played the games and learned what to write from the environmental storytelling @laura_hudson/1270388413619818498
  90. RT @pattheflip: This is a pretty amazing first-person explanation as to why cops are fucked up, by a former fucked up cop https://t.co/THqW…
  91. RT @mathemaniac: 🤯 Topological Logic - a rod through one hole of a double torus can pass through both with some careful stretching of the s…
  92. lovely set of threads giving a glimpse of the indie game scene back in the far off days of 2004 @haikus_by_KN/1270663901139566598
  93. …in reply to @undefined
    @danfletcher90 @Carter_AndrewJ in the section of Rowling's essay he is responding to there, she talks about the fear of men in M&S bathrooms under their current policy. I would suggest that M&S does not currently have a practical problem determining who should have a legitimate right to use the women's loos.
  94. …in reply to @v21
    @danfletcher90 @Carter_AndrewJ You can argue her issue was more philosophical than practical, but it reads to me pretty clearly as worrying about the threat of predatory men pretending to be trans women (or just trans women, there is an implicit equivalence being drawn).
  95. RT @amyhoy: for those who don’t get why JKR’s anti-trans statements are in fact anti-trans (and also full of lies), a thread
  96. …in reply to @folmerkelly
    @folmerkelly a thing to consider is that Katamari is actually pretty difficult. I would argue it is more punishing than Downwell? so maybe that is part of the answer. but I guess it depends on what you mean by "mechanically" : difficulty, intensity, game feel...
  97. I have been obsessed with this song. Self produced on their phone!!! @doitlikedua/1215781676443369472
  98. …in reply to @Cordeli43872191
    @Cordeli43872191 @deworde @HadleyFreeman @jk_rowling if self-ID becomes law, then it will be easier for them to obtain a GRC. but i do not think it is common for those to be checked when entering changing rooms. and in countries where self ID laws have passed (Argentina, Ireland, Portugal, Norway) these problems have not arisen.
  99. …in reply to @undefined
    @SimoneSwit @thealiceromano @HadleyFreeman @jk_rowling why do you think men will take advantage of this? it hasn't happened in countries that have self-id laws in place.
  100. …in reply to @secondbestsarah
    @secondbestsarah @thealiceromano Rowling is the one who specifies bathrooms and changing rooms!
  101. RT @senthorun: The British government: “We should not erase history by destroying our monuments.” Also the British government: https://t.c…
  102. the US Air Force is so bad at commissioning vehicles and they get so much money to do it @timberwind/1270980943566614529
  103. …in reply to @AmandaSamuels4
    @AmandaSamuels4 @deworde @Cordeli43872191 @HadleyFreeman @jk_rowling this is not my experience! i am an AMAB non binary person, and quite often i have been challenged or had people being visibly confused when i use male public toilets!
  104. RT @hesterchill: Lois Keidan Lois Keidan Lois Keidan. Stepping up by stepping down. 🔥 🔥 🔥 @thisisliveart/1270785490510372866
  105. RT @EugeneMadeIt: This is the ideal level design tool. You may not like it, but this is what peak game development looks like. https://t.co…
  106. RT @patrickashe: In other news, the Itch.io bundle supporting the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Ba…
  107. RT @tambourine: still can't quite believe that SH published 'little stomach', my fragmentary poem about homophobic criticism of shakespeare…
  108. RT @lizjosullivan: 🚨🚨This should feel like winning but it feels more like a thinly veiled threat. @BradSmi says MSFT won’t sell FRT without…
  109. lower left is best t.co/YjVf6iEprH
  110. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort the question kind of applies in the other direction, tho - why would you be an underpaid grunt unless you're also taking pride in the creative project?
  111. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort yeah, that's fair. tbh, I think there's a bunch of other things possible: - enjoying the work, even if it's not creative (solving problems etc) - comeraderie from adversity - pride in enduring hardship/professionalism
  112. RT @joonturbo: NUTS — AN ADVENTURE IN SQUIRREL SURVEILLANCE 🕹️ DEMO LAUNCH - SUNDAY JUNE 14th 🐿️ > WISHLIST ON STEAM: https://t.co/IP5v…
  113. …in reply to @v21
    people find their own uses for tools @danhett/1271514861470724097
  114. RT @tigershungry: 8am (bst) bright and early tomorrow morning I'll be giving a brief chat about being silly in spreadsheets as part of @fre…
  115. RT @haikus_by_KN: We are having another discussion on violence in videogames, but in this political moment - which concerns the violence of…
  116. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander @alexhern i did not know you were writing a book about this stuff!! that's very exciting!!
  117. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander @alexhern in politics at least, people definitely enjoy yelling fake at things other people post. how much that's connected to things actually being fake is another question...
  118. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander @alexhern oh, even better! very much increases the chances that i will actually read it and not just buy it to have sitting around, waiting for the insights to be passively be absorbed.
  119. …in reply to @v21
    @leighalexander @alexhern still think about "the soft truth"
  120. …in reply to @tambourine
    @tambourine bitsy is the obvious answer, but doesn't help with dressing up & aesthetic and the text display is constrained to a certain style...
  121. …in reply to @v21
    @tambourine would be happy to message/chat about this more if you want to talk it through
  122. …in reply to @tambourine
    @tambourine Ren'py is not too unfriendly! Mainly it's scripting (uh, in the writing sense, not the coding sense), branching, and setting what layers you want active
  123. …in reply to @v21
    @tambourine here's an example from the documentation renpy.org/doc/html/quickstart.html
  124. RT @lifeasasleeper: "iT's oUr HeRitAgE" Pokemon Go has lasted longer than the confederacy did and with three times the Americans behind i…
  125. RT @Aatif_Rashid: When I was taking writing classes, this passage, from Flannery O'Conner's essay on short stories, was the thing that made…
  126. RT @hopenothate: Far right activists are out in London and other locations around England. Their goal is confrontation. We'll be tracking w…
  127. …in reply to @JamesWallis
    @JamesWallis Same place you buy an old Wehrmacht helmet
  128. …in reply to @v21
    [read a bunch of books but didn't update this thread, might add later, but I wanna post about the one I read today, so skipping forward...]
  129. …in reply to @v21
    Signal to Noise - Silvia Moreno-Garcia loved Prime Meridian, loved this. set in Mexico City, a music-is-magic story about teenagers & the adults they become. all the characters feel like they have their own stuff going on, a sense of class & history & relationships.
  130. …in reply to @v21
    update to this tweet: the author is Isaac Fellman, not Rachel
  131. RT @AdrianChen: With the notion of "radical chic" back in the zeitgest, everyone should read Leonard Bernstein's daughter on the article wh…
  132. RT @MoviesSilently: Once you see a Melies film in color, you soon realize that his cluttered compositions are nothing of the kind with thei…
  133. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort i have seen it more recently & I think it holds up!
  134. …in reply to @research_mena
    @research_mena @m_clem @Doug_Bandow well, the good news is that this will cause a lot of academics to leave the US, meaning that all the universities will get crappier
  135. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort I listen to very few podcasts, so no. but I might look into it
  136. …in reply to @v21
    "I have received a lot of negative comments from people as to why I use ads to promote my page. I just wanted to say that I am the type of person that prefers people be given a choice to engage in my content. I do not believe anyone should be forced to do anything unwillingly."
  137. this is good analysis & i agree with it. i am definitely feeling afraid right now - i hope we can fight back on the worst aspects of this. @scattermoon/1272102828224454662
  138. …in reply to @undefined
    @thairyn this seems far too on the nose, i'd sue if i was you
  139. Carrots today are large, bright orange, and tasty. @mattwridley/1271761043602186241
  140. …in reply to @pangmeli
  141. orbs (within a videogame context)
  142. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort just vote in the poll, mat
  143. …in reply to @keefstuart
    @keefstuart angles are equal, so we know that: 100 - (x/2) = x + 31 (subtract 31 from both sides) 69 - (x/2) = x (add x/2 to both sides) 69 = x + x/2 (which is also) 69 = x * 1.5 (divide both sides by 1.5) 46 = x
  144. …in reply to @keefstuart
    @keefstuart @tanyaxshort x + x/2 => (2x / 2) + x/2 => 3x / 2 => 3/2 x => 1.5x or x + x/2 => 1x + x/2 => 1x + 0.5x => 1.5x
  145. …in reply to @keefstuart
    @keefstuart i responded to you when you asked Tanya it! for me, i just recognised the pattern, but maybe it helps to think of it as "one x and half an x"?
  146. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @KommanderKlobb I hadn't even thought about that second meaning. but generally the red orbs are bad and the blue orbs are good.
  147. RT @gaymoomin: here is a comic about wanting to be a parent while trans. thank you (1/2)
  148. RT @maxkreminski: one of the neat things about casual creators is their focus on process over product. "ease" seems to be the presumed defa…
  149. RT @ThanaOrchard: losing it at this pdf-to-text of a crooked dbt workbook scan
  150. …in reply to @v21
    people find their own uses for tools @GeoffWilkinson/1271163475155353607
  151. RT @hautepop: "I made 35 recommendations in the Lammy review. Implement them. There are 110 recommendations in the Angiolini review into de…
  152. RT @mehdirhasan: One of my favourite ever exchanges from my @AJHeadtoHead show: Me vs economist Paul Collier on who is or isn't an "indige…
  153. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge the high end gets more and more expensive & less and less able to take risks. wish that the interesting stuff was getting the money... but the interesting stuff is out there.
  154. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @patrickashe my timeline rn:
  155. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @patrickashe i look forward to being distantly aware of the critical conversation around this game for approximately the next 3 weeks, and then never actually playing it.
  156. RT @transscribe: When I was first approached last November to write this feature, I told the editors at @GuardianUS that I wanted to write…
  157. RT @urbanfriendden: just found out about lioconcha hieroglyphica ..... these molluscs have shells with naturally occuring runes on em.... l…
  158. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @xoxogossipgita i remember we showed Proteus at one of the Wild Rumpus parties in SF and, watching someone play, noted the way they moved through the space in a way that composed the shots in a beautiful and intentional way.
  159. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 @xoxogossipgita It was a type of performance that had not occurred to me you could do with videogames up until that point.
  160. thinking how great a medium videogames is for being able to contain "reflective choices" - a choice that only matters because the player has to express something about themselves or about the character they're playing in order to answer it @xoxogossipgita/1272634888240402439
  161. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker innie/outie
  162. …in reply to @v21
    @lazerwalker assigned outie at birth
  163. cute AN:NH photoshop game (by @boyaboyasun) boyasun.com/furnituregame.html
  164. til that IBM has a service where you can run code on actual quantum computers for free ibm.com/quantum-computing/learn/what-is-ibm-q/
  165. …in reply to @v21
    they have a visual editor. or you can spec it out by connecting from a Jupyter notebook
  166. …in reply to @v21
    obviously this isn't actually particularly useful unless your aim is to fuck around and learn how quantum computing works. but it is very cool!!
  167. this is a physical product, and not a render @partytimeHXLNT/1272739146004455424
  168. …in reply to @GeneticJen
    @GeneticJen @studioanisa I was assuming based on this link, allowing you to purchase it buy.divoomuk.co.uk/products/the-pixel-factory
  169. …in reply to @v21
    @GeneticJen @studioanisa possibly not a helpful answer for your purposes!
  170. RT @zeynep: ‼️ Very, very good news. Dexamethasone, a cheap corticosteroid, greatly reduced death rates for people on respiratory support—3…
  171. my lockdown project has been growing out my fringe (a good project, as long as i stay alive and healthy it solves itself), and it is so close to being able to be tucked behind an ear. it's touching the ear.
  172. RT @NicholeGunz: cannot believe a small community nonprofit with zero full-time employees that usually handles $1,000/day and is required b…
  173. i never get tired of this comic t.co/bu4kM2hUkf
  174. …in reply to @v21
    now i'm mad at the pun in the name of "Bra-ket notation"
  175. RT @tigershungry: Whilst wandering through Freeplay talks I missed this year.... I found my cursor taking me back to rewatch @alt254 & @cho…
  176. …in reply to @nicolehe
    @nicolehe i have atom, vs code & sublime text all open rn
  177. …in reply to @kchironis
    @kchironis an edge case is when there's a react using a darker skinned emoji & you want to use the same react - is it weirder to click on the darker skinned react, or add the same react in white or yellow?
  178. …in reply to @betterthemask
    @betterthemask @kchironis thank you for this excellent answer
  179. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 i googled this out of curiosity, so i can in no way vouch for the quality, but i am impressed you got the name correct github.com/shd101wyy/logic.js/
  180. …in reply to @nicolehe
    @nicolehe Atom is for Hydra, Sublime Text is for a thousand open windows with random notes to self in them, and VS Code is for actual coding projects. Also I never close anything & have endless tabs open.
  181. RT @youngblossom_: stop this really made me tear up?? trans folks who have been transitioning for decades, just living their lives, is some…
  182. …in reply to @mulegirl
    @mulegirl @amyhoy Goodhart's law!
  183. …in reply to @aanand
    @aanand If you want more difficult and icy journeys, I recommend : Isaac Fellman, Breath of the Sun. It's good!
  184. summer rain, birdsong, distant thunder
  185. …in reply to @carmineclaire
    @carmineclaire is it too late to give all the swords big guards that block any view of the hands?
  186. RT @cheriehu42: had to update my diagram. WHAT A WORLD
  187. …in reply to @carmineclaire
    @carmineclaire Just Google image searching them there, going "bet these are the ones that are super twiddly and elegant..."
  188. RT @eff_hey: finding out that this is actually real is like being stabbed directly in the brain with great force
  189. …in reply to @NotBrunoAgain
    @NotBrunoAgain @johnnemann @botherer feels very different to have to make an active decision to return it, versus never quite getting around to buying the full game
  190. …in reply to @tigershungry
  191. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt this sounds sensible as an approach. depending on how large your state is, you might be able to get away with just storing the full state at each step. or you might be able to find some automatic, CS-y way of deriving the deltas automatically.
  192. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt might want to manually set what counts as a single "action" - making a single step of the undo correspond to user intent might get messy
  193. …in reply to @v21
    @lorenschmidt something like this to derive the deltas: json-delta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (assuming your current state is all contained in a single object)
  194. …in reply to @Robot_Bastard
    @Robot_Bastard @VersonIJC @ebzovi @benthompson right, but the Kindle app is still on iOS
  195. RT @nothings: What do "Shut them all down" and "Somebody set up us the bomb" have in common? Idea by @mcclure111 This chart doesn't even…
  196. RT @Vinncent: My friend in Jakarta just texted me about race in the US and explaining things made me realize 1) just how insane we are as a…
  197. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen totally!
  198. …in reply to @renaudbedard
    @renaudbedard this was so lovely and restorative to watch.... but also, yeah, i feel that, after all that, scrolling a huge spreadsheet of all the issues & crossing 4 off... okay, next task...
  199. RT @haikus_by_KN: If you don't focus as much time and energy as you can spare on the thing you *want* to be good at (e.g. game design), the…
  200. RT @nytimesarts: What did the cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis get when she asked people about life during the pandemic? Tales of l…
  201. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern I was a little confused by people being into the style of that Lupin film... but I guess this is just a thing now?
  202. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern as a game developer I find this opinion entirely correct
  203. …in reply to @v21
    @alexhern but forreal, if this was animated well I could accept this style. as long as it's consistent!
  204. RT @sarahmcgphoto: Did you know? In 1991 officer John Balcerzak was fired after handing 14 year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone back to the man…
  205. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley @theatremagazine @RaddingtonB this is absolutely delightful
  206. when writing game design docs, it's better to say:
  207. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin ah, i like that second point a lot.
  208. RT @hannahnicklin: @v21 For investors or advertising copy centre the reader so they feels more involved (you). For internal design docs or…
  209. RT @Vincennes: "You could write a lot of words associated with race, and never get to Rolex. But you can see it with an analysis like this.…
  210. RT @SoundCirclet: For the last few months I have been OBSESSED with this phrase I call the 'mitsuda lick'. It's a specific melodic phrase t…
  211. RT @manbearcar: Do you think we will ever discover Golf on Mars? youtu.be/EZ3a7KALcTQ
  212. look at these stupid pillows I bought
  213. …in reply to @profaniti
    @profaniti i can find the link if you'd like...
  214. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 thinking about how radical it is that when you buy a game on the Epic store, you can choose to let the publisher have your email address, in case they want to tell you about another game you might like
  215. RT @mikarv: Great timeline, I'd add that public line was UK app centralisation about 'tracking the spread', but political need more bc of s…
  216. I retweeted the announcement yesterday, but having played it a tiny bit, I want to say that Golf on Mars is a beautiful game and is very much the sequel I didn't know I needed to Desert Golfing.
  217. …in reply to @gilmae
    @gilmae in Golfing on Mars, the screen will scroll to keep the ball on the screen. wild, right?
  218. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio I tried that and it is possible but just as difficult for its own reasons!
  219. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry now i'm glad i haven't had breakfast yet!
  220. …in reply to @tburrellsaward
  221. RT @russss: Really clear Saharan dust plume
  222. …in reply to @hauntologies
    @hauntologies I mean, it's also... how does it help the victims? And long term, we can't just ostracise abusers and hope that that fixes things - they'll just join new communities, or we'll just replace them with new abusers.
  223. …in reply to @v21
    @hauntologies There's work to be done inside communities... but reading someone's book doesn't automatically make you part of a community with them.
  224. RT @lazerwalker: The ways that ML encodes preexisting racial biases in a single image.
  225. RT @gillianmsmith: Wrong things that I learned as an undergraduate in computer science, either explicitly in courses or implicitly through…
  226. …in reply to @amyhoy
    @amyhoy I like the Muji pens, but they're maybe a bit scratchy for you.
  227. …in reply to @isaac_fellman
    @isaac_fellman I love the word grotty. Makes me think of my mum (not in that way, it's just a word that she'd use)
  228. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i have said this before, but: she's so fluffy!!!!
  229. RT @jazzmickle: DISASTER ENGINE announcement trailer!!!!! youtube.com/watch?v=tPzMaMZ5e7M
  230. RT @oleivarrudi: People who play the game: invested in the story People working in games: wondering how many indie games it cost to make t…
  231. Pixie says hello
  232. RT @TheWhitePube: This week's review is on Mutazione, a video game about family, meteors and growing gardens. It meant a lot to play it rig…
  233. RT @notfolu: anyway, i’m a baker too and u should venmo me at: thefolu so I can buy the 70 shade americolor food coloring gel set because I…
  234. RT @NARFNra: villains are usually stronger than heroes and then defeated by the power of friendship. therefore, a villain with friends woul…
  235. RT @I_am_Popper: タワーファンで一人お祭り matsuri! #electronicosfantasticos #eiwada #バーコーダー #barcoder #タワーファン #towerfan
  236. RT @hattori2000: "City of human" #shibuyapixelart2020
  237. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty It is a game that is reasonably well known, and it gives you a nice anchor to that Annapurna-type indie game. And, y'know, you did the work, get some credit for it.
  238. this is one of the best articles on design i've read t.co/jCgArYy7Km
  239. …in reply to @v21
    it's not about the object, it's about the social systems it is a part of
  240. RT @unormal: I actually think this is wrong and poetic code usually is not the way to write it. Children's writers are amazing coders.
  241. RT @polclarissou: apropos of nothing here's a blurb i wrote in an old patreon post. in retrospect it puts the blame in the wrong place (ind…
  242. …in reply to @v21
    as people pointed out, the product is real, but this was a render. however: @partytimeHXLNT/1275088806857842689
  243. …in reply to @mrsambarlow
    @mrsambarlow @johnnemann @nvmuk yay! i made the robot jumping game for it.
  244. RT @sohbunshu: やめるんだ
  245. RT @aaronzlewis: since everyone is talking about k-pop today, it’s pretty cray that the whole thing apparently started as part of a 1990s s…
  246. RT @lazerwalker: ARKit now has new APIs to create AR markers at given lat/long coordinates. Having built something like this myself, GPS +…
  247. RT @JennSandercock: I'm looking for work! I've identified predominantly as a game designer for 10 years, but for 8+ years I've naturally ta…
  248. glad Max Temkin has left CAH, hope there's some better management and cultural change there.
  249. …in reply to @v21
    hopefully that'll change. and: it was great that CAH was supporting a wider ecosystem of designers, but from my memory the people being supported were all white dudes, maybe that will change too.
  250. …in reply to @v21
    when I was more involved in the boardgames scene, I'd meet dudes with cool games who were based in Chicago and had been supported by CAH. and I'd always be on my guard - this is a nice game, but are you pals with the guy who threatened a libel suit against his rape accuser?
  251. RT @littlethunderr: 「海藻是詛咒。」
  252. RT @willjennings80: This Parisian lady who went into lockdown for three months elsewhere, then returned to her city apartment to find potat…
  253. I got a fancy split keyboard and it took a bit of getting used to, but I've got to say it has advantages I wasn't really anticipating.
  254. RT @catacalypto: My Narrascope talk on storylet design is finally out! There were some audio issues with the twitch stream, so big thanks t…
  255. …in reply to @voneckartsberg
    @voneckartsberg @_l17r_ boringly, Cherry Browns
  256. RT @cheryllynneaton: I know many men are afraid of confrontation, but that works both ways and many creepy men will stop or hide their unpl…
  257. my work here is done
  258. RT @ichickooo: Hello #VisibleWomen! I'm Ichicko, a 2D/3D game artist from the Philippines 🇵🇭🐔 Currently working on cooking games about Fili…
  259. …in reply to @bryangale
    @bryangale no - came to it as a fan of Ross's work - but good to hear i shouldn't make the effort to check out the others!
  260. RT @imteddybless: pub
  261. thoughtful thread on crunch @fireh9lly/1275783700152750081
  262. …in reply to @betterthemask
    @betterthemask your hair looks GREAT!
  263. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo that's what i do constantly (not for cameras especially, but similar issues)
  264. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo could probably build an editor script that makes a duplicate, sends it to a render texture and then puts the render texture in a nice window... if you wanted to avoid doing real work
  265. RT @nicolehe: I wrote a guide to building an SMS bot in about 30 minutes without coding! You write the messages your bot will send in a Goo…
  266. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN mainly these are making me think about the shifting social signifiers of gin
  267. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN i hope you felt suitably remorseful
  268. RT @BarristerSecret: I worry that this seismic change to our constitution is not being given the attention it urgently warrants. So I'll sa…
  269. RT @jseakle: @jonbro @stiknork the original Mercury produced some of my fondest game-related memories ever, it was truly delightful. I wrot…
  270. RT @Astridmrefstrup: Global Game Jam’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement and their treatment of the community is embarrassing and…
  271. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN sounds like she carefully weighed the risks, and decided that she wanted a drink after 9 months of being careful
  272. RT @artnau: Portrait of K. B. Kustodiev, 1922 by Boris Kustodiev
  273. reminded how good “THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE WATCH” is. it's a kind of ghost story about capitalism. jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf
  274. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort "it cost a lot of money to make, and i guess that's a good thing"
  275. …in reply to @TerriblyBland
    @TerriblyBland @lilbluemage 52413 - i agree that that central symmetry is important, which is why i do the crossbar first for everything to anchor against!
  276. RT @sansculotides: Today is septidi 7 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXVIII, celebrating cucumber.
  277. RT @swodinsky: ever since the protests began, i've been thinking a lot about location data: why do so many apps want it? why is it so valua…
  278. …in reply to @Simon83
    @Simon83 @imperica very secret tips
  279. RT @samd_official: Hey @Tesco I was about to cook my favourite vegetable of all time (broccoli) and after unwrapping it, to my surprise, fo…
  280. …in reply to @tambourine
  281. @HarryJosieGiles a novel you might enjoy : The Breath of the Sun, by Isaac Feldman. not a trans protagonist, but a queer one, and a trans author. but mainly it is about climbing an impossibly tall mountain, and what you tell people when you get back down.
  282. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryJosieGiles hahaha. first, but very much not only, i assume.
  283. …in reply to @v21
    @HarryJosieGiles i mean... it's good!
  284. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryJosieGiles this one handy, labour saving device
  285. RT @doougle: Yeah exactly! 10,000 bowls of oatmeal also means, if *one* of those bowls has a tiny piece of strawberry in it, it feels like…
  286. RT @mondomascots: Oh! Sun, the mascot for Kobe City’s Sun Television, is in his 50s but tells everyone he’s 38. He likes baseball, gambling…
  287. RT @popplioikawa: i can't stop thinking about that joke that was like "a translator, a localizer and a fansubber walk into a bar, a mcdonal…
  288. LRTs: i love reading badly fan translated works. i love translator notes. i love the way the translator is trying to bring you the work, but can't help but put themself into it.
  289. …in reply to @v21
    this is also the case with all forms of translation, of course, but it's just so tangible when it's a bad fan translation.
  290. RT @catacalypto: I love Elsinore, and think it's a must-play for anyone interested in interactive narrative. Gameheads looks like a great o…
  291. RT @NotBrunoAgain: you should buy and play pathologic. @pathologic_bot/1276202093850828802
  292. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort i hadn't! yes, what a fun impossible challenge
  293. there's something pleasing about the sheer excess in AAA, the way that human variation gets rendered down into pedantic documents listing out the relative importance of an extra 2 scar variations vs an especially fancy set of eyebrows. (shame about the death march, huh) @Nibellion/1276199643693580288
  294. RT @SzMarsupial: there are definitely anti semitic ways you *could* talk about US and israeli military and security cooperation on resource…
  295. …in reply to @v21
  296. pleased to announce that I have started playing Slay The Spire. first run got me to the second boss, and I think that's enough for one night.
  297. RT @AnnaHollinrake: Fascinated by this direction I'm seeing with Charli XCX, Grimes and Bring Me The Horizon - 3D renders, borderline garis…
  298. …in reply to @AnnaHollinrake
    @AnnaHollinrake I put a lot of the Charli aesthetic down to the PC Music influence, which in turn is coming out of internet art aesthetics (which are usually a bit retro). Molly Soda, Claudia Mate, Fellatia G (though she's probably a bit later in the time line).
  299. …in reply to @v21
    @AnnaHollinrake it's definitely becoming a more mainstream thing, especially as 3D rendering and greenscreen stuff just gets cheaper and easier to do - another view is this is kinda just what happens when you can fuck around and make stuff with that easily.
  300. …in reply to @AnnaHollinrake
    @AnnaHollinrake aw, nice stuff. another thing I like about this aesthetic is how femme it is, while refusing to just play up to the male gaze. being super glossy, super made up, but often kind of grotesque as well. deliberately playing in the uncanny valley. it's great.
  301. …in reply to @v21
    @AnnaHollinrake some other interesting stuff from PC Music that maybe relates: GFOTY (who goes hard with her lyrics), QT (fake soda brand put together for a song), SOPHIE (Faceshopping is a better video example, but I can't help linking this one youtu.be/m_S0qCeA-pc)
  302. …in reply to @nicolehe
    @nicolehe I would also recommend Dicey Dungeons, for a similar vibe, except dice & a gameshow.
  303. …in reply to @alphachar
    @alphachar terrifying
  304. if you put a carrot into a giant pencil sharpener and sharpened it really carefully, how long a sheet of connected carrot-stuff do you think you could make?
  305. …in reply to @v21
    I got out of bed to tweet this because I knew if I didn't tweet it now I never would. I'm going to go to sleep now. Good night!
  306. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty you can buy them in the shops? my flatmate has one
  307. RT @burstofbeaden: People not caring seems hard to fight - how do you start, but when you realize that they're not just not-caring, but act…
  308. RT @doougle: The best Twitter is funny videos of amazing folk games @AAAAAGGHHHH/1275921514869612545?s=20
  309. some good folk games here! @jwhopkin/1262035343001505792
  310. RT @RobZacny: Perfect move if you wanted to pretty much guarantee that Bon Appetit never recovers from this. Looks like pretty transparent…
  311. RT @jshmellor: This is about how if you’re charged with a crime and denied bail by police, then your first day in court is over a laptop. T…
  312. I think it's bad that the government is planning on getting rid of the right to trial by jury.
  313. RT @omiya_nozomi: きょうの
  314. …in reply to @the_nomi
    @the_nomi ever tapped two fingers on a piece of paper?
  315. …in reply to @the_nomi
    @the_nomi oh, i was thinking of the Procreate (& others) shortcut for undo, which is a two finger tap
  316. …in reply to @pietvanzoen
    @pietvanzoen the cat is supposed to go between the keys! it's in the way there!
  317. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort other than being good at, y'know, being a microphone, the best thing about my Zoom H2n is that when you turn it off it displays the message "GOODBYE SEE YOU" on the screen
  318. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier @jontaffer you'd be great on tv, tbh, you should pitch this
  319. …in reply to @pietvanzoen
    @pietvanzoen so much fluff!!!
  320. RT @Chronotope: The most effective FB pages on a effort/results basis are those that narrowly define userbase, engagement w/those pages is…
  321. RT @freezydorito: something that i really like about xbox game pass us that the incentive model is almost the opposite of the boxed $60 40…
  322. RT @slunglowalan: Blogpost: Standing. Tents. Government roadmaps. And the every day work of being responsible. alanlaneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/blogpost-standing-tents-government-declarations-and-the-every-day-work-of-being-responsible/
  323. RT @radiatoryang: can't wait for @Twitch to uphold their content policy consistently and ban cyberpunk 2077, since they already banned my g…
  324. RT @thetenzer: Incredibly, our data reveals the extent to which we in the industry misjudge mainstream aspirations – believing them to be f…
  325. what's their name?
  326. …in reply to @JoLammert
    @JoLammert so sorry to hear this ❤️
  327. all forewords should be afterwords
  328. RT @nyushiren: lrt reminded me of one of my favorite images that i got from my psychology textbook jkjkfgfd
  329. processing embroidery library! @golan/1274911680636563457
  330. …in reply to @evilliam
    @evilliam I mean also, I can guess what Blizzard's IP assignment clauses look like
  331. RT @RawBeautyKristi: I’ve watched this tik tok approximately 500-600 times. 20/10 the perfect tik tok
  332. …in reply to @undefined
    @nickfourtimes jealous that your icons still have silhouettes
  333. RT @ExploreWellcome: Are you ready for the end of lockdown?
  334. feeling incredibly pleased with myself, having used egg white for a pisco sour last night, and used the yolk to make hollandaise this morning
  335. …in reply to @undefined
    @nickfourtimes yep, they're gone for me now
  336. …in reply to @v21
    btw: hollandaise is surprisingly easy to make (do it in the microwave)
  337. …in reply to @Curbychup
    @Curbychup if I was at that level I wouldn't be on twitter looking for approval for having used the same egg for two purposes
  338. …in reply to @astroblob
    @astroblob like this : allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/41603/microwave-hollandaise-sauce.aspx but I do it in a mug, and I melt the butter first (in the same mug, in the microwave again)
  339. RT @youngvulgarian: I was asked to write about what it feels like to be in the eye of a Twitter storm and why I decided to mostly leave the…
  340. twitter optimises for short posts, and the way you write short posts is that you rely upon a vast body of shared cultural context. what i am saying is that this conversation totally makes sense to me; good points were made @jacob_posts/1277013888232566784
  341. …in reply to @snacklesbian
    @snacklesbian i mean, also they are talking to each other?
  342. imagine if the way product design worked is that you had to find a rock that looked like the product you wanted to make before you were allowed to make it @cbr6w/1276790235070738433
  343. RT @tigershungry: monday breakfast cartoons @swatpaz/1276881473623265280
  344. RT @DominicTarason: Hot take on the current gaming discourse: Videogames aren't too long. Because ideal length is subjective. But a lot o…
  345. RT @jamesthomson: Missed this last week. Interesting that the Mac should need safe areas for laying out views. It's almost as if screens mi…
  346. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe also the combat was crap and that wasn't a good thing
  347. RT @zotakufilms: eggdog resort
  348. RT @NASAEarth: Unusually clear skies and persistent, unseasonable heat may have set the stage for a large and persistent blooms of phytopla…
  349. RT @NASAEarth: NASA’s Terra satellite observed the same bloom from a wider perspective.
  350. …in reply to @JennSandercock
    @JennSandercock think about the jobs and potential future coworkers who will see that and make a face in a bad way versus those who will see it and do a small approving nod to themselves
  351. a good proportion of videogame exhibitions have the same names, y'know, like "Game Changers" or "Game On". I wonder what creator has been in the most exhibitions with the same name. Gotta be someone who's managed 2, maybe even a 3.
  352. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @bfod thank you for doing the research
  353. …in reply to @alphachar
    @alphachar it is very good, isn't it?
  354. …in reply to @hollygramazio
  355. …in reply to @v21
    Holly actually did the research: depending on how you count it, @bfod has been in three Game Changers (Holly has curated two Game Changers, and Bennett was in one of them) @hollygramazio/1277883207728291841?s=19
  356. …in reply to @v21
  357. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @bfod @site_gallery @State_of_Play this is incredible and is definitely a fact I am going to bore people with in the future
  358. …in reply to @patrickashe
  359. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @tigershungry @bfod @site_gallery @State_of_Play i think that counts. definitely something you could put on yer website or whatever.
  360. …in reply to @molleindustria
    @molleindustria sadly I think Bennett is still beating you with 4 Game Changers
  361. RT @molleindustria: @v21 I'm sorry to confirm that I have 3 unrelated "Game on" in my exhibition record molleindustria.org/blog/gigs/
  362. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @whitingjp @patrickashe @mike_robbo that's great to hear. I messed about with it early on, but it felt very, uh, early on. Glad to see it's in a good place now!
  363. …in reply to @molleindustria
    @molleindustria looking forward to next month's Likelike show
  364. …in reply to @me_backwards
    @me_backwards @katybeale @vivschwarz liking this tweet for the last sentence
  365. …in reply to @me_backwards
    @me_backwards @katybeale @vivschwarz "Hoping to get back more into gaming stuff after my viva" especially
  366. RT @TPGallery: Launching today, Lacework by @everestpipkin Using neural nets with videos of MIT’s Moments in Time Dataset to stretch tim…
  367. RT @everestpipkin: around hour 250 of watching the dataset, sometime in april, i started having The Dream