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Tweets from 2021/03

  1. …in reply to @BenMakesGames1
    @BenMakesGames1 I saw something similar to that first stretch on here last year, started doing it & my posture improved massively
  2. …in reply to @tehNinth
    @tehNinth I was thinking more of a rolling average
  3. when did this: 420 (the weed number) become cooler than this: 42 (The Meaning of Life, The Universe and Everything from the Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy series by Douglas Adams)
  4. …in reply to @jwaaaap
    @jwaaaap oh, I was going to put it at about 2013, but 2011 also works
  5. …in reply to @v21
    that was a rhetorical question, but I found an answer anyway. I reckon around 2013?
  6. …in reply to @v21
    although JW makes a strong case for 2011 @jwaaaap/1366331828026675201?s=19
  7. RT @P_H_Lee: Example: I can't understand 3D space on a 2D surface. In the past, this would have been literally undetectable. Now, it means…
  8. …in reply to @jennie
    @jennie huge congratulations for doing such a good job you get to think hard about succession planning (and then doing a good job of that, it seems)
  9. …in reply to @xuhulk
    @xuhulk I was just thinking the other day how I missed Magpie Kingdom! signing up now
  10. RT @jamesjyu: Doing some GPT poetry experiments and got this absolute gem
  11. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno yeah! I remember it!
  12. RT @ChrisGreenNews: Exclusive: Pontins used blacklist of common Irish surnames to keep Traveller families out of its holiday parks Full s…
  13. RT @0x11eaea: I love this so much, absolutely top notch (a stochastic plotter using a triangle array of bristlebots + coil and tablet surfa…
  14. it's a good book! recommended if you want to have feelings about orcs. @tambourine/1366763633095622664
  15. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia bet James Turrell could work wonders with it
  16. some truly incredible packaging design in here obscuritory.com/essay/incredible-boxes-of-hock-wah-yeo/
  17. …in reply to @refikanadol
    @refikanadol @JoanieLemercier @SuperRare if no-one used the network for a day, the price would crash. and if the price crashed, miners would stop making money. and if miners stop making money, they would stop buying GPUs & racking up such large electricity bills.
  18. …in reply to @v21
    @refikanadol @JoanieLemercier @SuperRare I mean, it might take more than a day for the price drop to stick, but you've got to start somewhere.
  19. RT @kittynouveau: this is a perfect video everything about it is perfect
  20. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall it's definitely more expensive!
  21. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly happy birthday!!!
  22. …in reply to @danhett
  23. what's better?
  24. …in reply to @v21
    ice cream is not an option
  25. …in reply to @TylerWalpole
    @TylerWalpole I think that argument is like saying that taking a flight doesn't create emissions because the plane would still take off if you were on it or not
  26. RT @moyix: The latest generation of adversarial image attacks is, uh, somewhat simpler to carry out openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/ https://t.co/h4…
  27. personally, i find it very difficult to understand myself without first Doing A Thing & only afterwards Observing How I Felt & Responded To The Thing. @mightyatom/1367602868786659331
  28. …in reply to @v21
  29. life update: I bought a flat! It's in Camberwell, it's nice. We've got a few weeks to do a bunch of decorating and buying furniture and white goods before the lease ends on our rented place.
  30. …in reply to @v21
    I have already made a hole in the wall. But what a joy, to have your own dodgy bit of plasterboard and be the only person who really cares what you do about it.
  31. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry thanks! look at those bricks! They're... okay, they're not my bricks, they belong to the freehold.
  32. …in reply to @v21
    @tigershungry but the hole is mine
  33. …in reply to @DNW1710
    @DNW1710 haha! thank you!
  34. you think you're used to the current situation, and then you read something like this and it just destroys you theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/07/the-lockdown-generation-16-young-people-on-spending-a-year-at-home
  35. …in reply to @LiaSae
    @LiaSae it's clearly true, but it's just funny to see it presented in such a BLEEP BLOOP ROBOT way
  36. …in reply to @BanditoJuan
    @BanditoJuan In the UK at least, the advertising regulator has told them off for it
  37. …in reply to @v21
    what gets me is all the love these kids have. how much they care.
  38. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp I was sobbing big tears earlier. but MERRYGOROUND! so glad to hear that.
  39. It's my birthday!
  40. …in reply to @v21
    No obligation to, but if you wanted to use my birthday as an excuse to donate to a food bank near you, then I think that would be a good thing.
  41. …in reply to @v21
    I am celebrating by applying brilliant white matt emulsion to the walls of my living room. Honestly pretty good as these things go.
  42. Good thread I like Rust. It's not perfect, but it's useful. Seems to be better than learning C++. It doesn't have a garbage collector but does have a package manager. Match statements are great. And... I think the existence of Rust is going to make other languages better. @mcclure111/1368628911421198336
  43. …in reply to @Aquma
    @Aquma that was fun! glad we got to do that. today has been good (see follow up tweet). hope you're keeping well through all this.
  44. …in reply to @aeoye
    @aeoye shhhh, don't tell them
  45. …in reply to @LuOulton
    @LuOulton thank you! hope you and the little one are doing well
  46. …in reply to @undefined
    @shysecretagent Oh what! Happy birthday, birthday twin! Just sneaking in under the wire here. Hope you've had a good day!
  47. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall Thank you! <3
  48. …in reply to @swizzle_kiss
  49. …in reply to @j3rrytron
    @j3rrytron Thanks Jerry!
  50. …in reply to @AndrewJohnMarks
    @AndrewJohnMarks Thanks man!
  51. …in reply to @Singyamatokun
    @Singyamatokun Thank youuu
  52. …in reply to @D_Nye_Griffiths
    @D_Nye_Griffiths @HilariousCow thank you both! and yeah, it'd be lovely to have a call and catch up - Aubrey, I assume timezones mean that it only really makes sense on the weekend?
  53. Now Play This! March 25-28! Online! it's a great lineup, the team has done an amazing job @profaniti/1368910458753871873
  54. …in reply to @jesslynnrose
    @jesslynnrose currently watching Yuri on Ice (as good as everyone says), and rewatching Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken (entirely relatable if you've ever worked on a creative project in a small team).
  55. RT @KLLiiNNG: small inks 64 and 65
  56. …in reply to @alphachar
  57. …in reply to @tigershungry
  58. …in reply to @VitaminPowered
    @VitaminPowered I also don't visit FB, so I gotta get my birthday wishes in somehow.
  59. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow that's me!
  60. …in reply to @UltraCobalt
    @UltraCobalt thanks! I've been considering putting up this floral wallpaper - big roses on it. generally considering a "roses" theme for the living room. thoughts?
  61. …in reply to @pangmeli
    @pangmeli this was an impeccable choice of gif <3
  62. here's a fox snoozing in the sun in our back garden
  63. …in reply to @undefined
    @artcollisions you'd die of thirst rather than starvation
  64. …in reply to @HTHRFLWRS
  65. …in reply to @torpordust
    @torpordust I would dwell the fuck out of this tweet, if it was written about me.
  66. …in reply to @nwilliams030
    @nwilliams030 I appreciate the point he's making within the scope of airplane safety... but as he acknowledges, airplane safety is a rare field where there has been a continual drive for new rules to make things safer
  67. …in reply to @v21
  68. …in reply to @Aquma
    @Aquma you can make it work like it's supposed to, but there's a thing which needs to be configured right. that I can't remember now, lol
  69. …in reply to @_dollgirls
    @_dollgirls the more you charge, the more serious your clients will be
  70. RT @Scarfulhu: The dialogue in this game is absolute gold.
  71. …in reply to @Aquma
    @Aquma makes sense! glad my very vague response could be of some help
  72. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica @MikeASchneider I especially appreciate it being md5, not sha3. It's a funny detail.
  73. RT @JustinNXT: This conversation between @JasonAEngland1 and Shaka King, director of Judas and The Black Messiah on black art, Hollywood an…
  74. RT @thedextriarchy: I got obsessed with Twine development a few years ago, and I wrote something I’ve meant to for a while — about the comp…
  75. I suddenly remembered that bit in the Hitchhiker's books where they declare that leaves are legal currency, then start burning all the forests to prevent inflation.
  76. I keep thinking about Steven Universe, wondering why, and then realise it's because of that Fortnite song.
  77. …in reply to @v21
    request: a filk of Stronger Than You about PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
  78. want to take a moment to say how appreciative I am as a game designer for people who make youtube videos and wikis explaining how mechanics work in other games
  79. …in reply to @cYnborg
    @cYnborg no! the videos and wikis are like, often objectively not interesting, they're just useful when trying to get a handle on a reference quickly. and also, I've gotta be secret about what we're working on at work :(
  80. …in reply to @amyhoy
    @amyhoy Quentin Blake!
  81. RT @NilsDeneken: A few random sketches from the world of Mutazione.
  82. fun fact about the human visual system: the minimum number of photons that need to enter the eye to be perceived is 1
  83. …in reply to @v21
    (but you gotta sit in a completely dark box for 40 minutes and have a precisely calibrated laser shine into your eye & then you're able to guess whether the laser went off at a rate a little better than chance. but, y'know, one photon, what do you expect)
  84. …in reply to @v21
    “The most amazing thing is that it’s not like seeing light. It’s almost a feeling, at the threshold of imagination,” says Alipasha Vaziri, a physicist at the Rockefeller University in New York City, who led the work and tried out the experience himself. nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282
  85. RT @ColonialCountr1: The @nationaltrust has been vindicated. Incorporating colonial history into accounts of British heritage sites was lon…
  86. RT @KLLiiNNG: small ink 70
  87. RT @Strategictaper: If you’re into North American music, check out Blink-182, who combine the rich timbral overtones of guitar with the low…
  88. RT @IanZell: Got the worm tunnel working. Gotta feed them 3 stars to get them to let you in
  89. RT @carsonbot: What are we made of but hunger and rage?
  90. RT @PublicDomainRev: Adam Wirsing’s Marmora (1776) features hundreds of illustrations showcasing the beauty and variety of marble. Composed…
  91. …in reply to @ALadyJewel
    @andytuba I tried to be non-invasive in packaging it up, but there's a few different versions of Tracery floating around. the main change I made was making it so you have to inject the modifiers when setting it up in code - wanted to make it so non-English speakers could inject their own.
  92. booking a blood test & the man taking the appointment wished me a happy birthday
  93. RT @zachlieberman: stills...
  94. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry you should get a refund for that
  95. …in reply to @chidaboomer
    @chidaboomer @mcclure111 when I saw this tweet I thought it was about Cuomo
  96. new Olia Lialina essay on the history of the homepage interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me
  97. RT @mollysoda: “Don’t see making your own web page as a nostalgia, don’t participate in creating the netstalgia trend. What you make is a s…
  98. RT @IanDunt: On Monday, the policing bill is being rushed through the Commons. It contains some of the most draconian crackdowns on the rig…
  99. RT @brokenbottleboy: The newsletter is out. It's a serious one today and comes with a necessary content warning for discussion of violence…
  100. The government are trying to make protest that involves any noise or has a impact on nearby people illegal. Which is seriously fucked up, because the point of protest is to inconvenience people. To give them a reason to change something.
  101. remembering going to the BLM protests last summer. the only people not wearing masks were the police.
  102. …in reply to @v21
  103. …in reply to @AnthonyJK
    @AnthonyJK @ChakatReverse @zombietyr @AlbaMoth here in the UK, property is a valuable investment because it's an asset class that has massively increased in value & that the government has shown commitment to preventing any drops in value. Bitcoin hits the first, but I'm glad it doesn't hit the last.
  104. fun to realise the necessity for the dot in the corner of the 6, 8 and 9 tiles @henryseg/1370755959157628928
  105. …in reply to @v21
    although imo it would be a good wrinkle to be able to do those ones either way up
  106. …in reply to @rubaiyat
    @rubaiyat if you move any of the tiles round a full loop, they'll rotate once.
  107. …in reply to @v21
    @rubaiyat compare the orientation of the 12 and the 16
  108. …in reply to @jiraplasticia
    @JiraTrello thecatamites myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/
  109. …in reply to @willystaley
    @willystaley It genuinely is! Fucked up, I know, but that's the state of it.
  110. don't say the M-word @nicatronTg/1371172614450737156
  111. RT @Fobwashed: This dude is simultaneously experiencing every possible human emotion all at once.
  112. …in reply to @v21
  113. RT @fentyfairies: shades of green in paintings
  114. …in reply to @mx_walkz
    @mx_walkz you should be able to put in words, then use the test mention box below to see them trigger
  115. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander I liked "Dead Mountaineer's Hotel" but it's probably not that helpful to you. It's very 70s and surreal and dreamlike, like the classic ski chalet mystery tropes but everything has melted together a bit.
  116. last night I dreamt I met a trans dude who had changed his name to Legal Male
  117. RT @chouxsalad: Gabe Newell, or as he's called in China "G-fat" (G胖), has predicted that BCIs will be "an extinction-level event for every…
  118. RT @catacalypto: where is my vampire hunter novel where the vampire leverages increasingly ornate tax loopholes to pass his estate onto “hi…
  119. …in reply to @mjmcmaster
    @mjmcmaster @dinosaurrparty just dipping in to say that I would love to play Roblox with you two! I've been playing p regularly (with @everestpipkin, mainly) and there's so many interesting little worlds in there.
  120. used to work for an SMS company and very unsurprised by this story @jason_koebler/1371516006133293056
  121. RT @NYT_first_said: sensemaking
  122. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto congratulations :) what a slate!
  123. …in reply to @v21
    @catacalypto how does it feel to be mortal rivals with Blaseball?
  124. RT @SluggoIsLit: Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for Tue, 16 Mar 2021 gocomics.com/nancy
  125. this is a funny project: toothgallery.com/ it's an art exhibition in the form of a front tooth. and the first piece installed in the tooth-gap is... actually very touching?
  126. RT @LalehKhalili: Just been reading elements of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the bits that jump out of the House of Co…
  127. RT @Genderintell: If the current intake of patients holds at its current rate, the waiting time for a first appointment at an NHS adults' g…
  128. I am looking for the cat. I wave a feather around. I say "pspspspspsps" @KatyHargrove/1371980851513237505
  129. “That’s the biggest problem with our research, the diamond budget” quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-room-temperature-superconductor-20201014/
  130. RT @jonty: In short: Right now NFT's are built on an absolute house of cards constructed by the people selling them. It is likely that _ev…
  131. remembering without all that much fondness my time working for a company selling a weird product on Amazon @jwherrman/1372194984632401924
  132. RT @isosteph: upon further observation there Are actually 11am bells and 1pm bells and she literally can tell the difference what the fuck
  133. RT @bswud: @nwilliams030 Sun is so good for health that people who have had a skin cancer diagnosis live longer than people who haven’t had…
  134. RT @kashhill: After I reported the existence of Clearview AI in January 2020, the company's world exploded: lawsuits, international investi…
  135. 10,000 hours of practice @ws_moron/1372393144453582849
  136. feeling nostalgic for the unself-conscious writing people did on the Internet 10-20 years ago
  137. …in reply to @v21
    was looking at a film on Letterboxd last night and that seems to be a holdout
  138. …in reply to @v21
    guess I was spurred to this thought by reading @jomc interviewing @TriciaLockwood on an abandoned Usenet forum groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.lost-in-space.danger.will-robinson.danger.danger.danger/c/8SzcEp2KdjE
  139. …in reply to @celinejade
    @celinejade @rhizome oh shit! congrats!
  140. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark it really is, thank you for sharing!
  141. …in reply to @v21
    do you wanna buy horse milk?
  142. a list of "most American" and "most British" words
  143. …in reply to @markeryjane
    @markeryjane would make sense that only a single farm is producing it, then!
  144. …in reply to @v21
    fwiw, i could confidently define... 30%? of the American words. and almost all of the UK ones (I had to be reminded as to what a "pelmet" is)
  145. …in reply to @v21
    also this explains some confusing conversations where i failed to give an evocative description of performance issues ("judder")
  146. …in reply to @jstsgs
    @jstsgs mm, i don't know. but also, the American list is far more food heavy than that British, that might be part of it
  147. …in reply to @v21
    @jstsgs (3 of the 4 food items in the British list have foreign origins)
  148. …in reply to @jstsgs
    @jstsgs chipolata : a type of small hard sausage plaice : a flat fish escalope : a thin bit of meat, usually breaded. I think they hit it with a hammer?
  149. …in reply to @PavelASamsonov
  150. …in reply to @v21
  151. …in reply to @superSGHP
    @superSGHP yep, tippex is whiteout (a brandname turned generic)
  152. …in reply to @ianmcque
    @ianmcque @withFND sorry to see this
  153. actual genuine good political news! @g__ferris/1372653028210278401
  154. …in reply to @rifflesby
    @rifflesby hoofed mammal is actually on the right track...
  155. i hope the Snyder Cut heralds the return of 4:3 displays
  156. RT @toyukulelee: remember this
  157. RT @poondonkus: had an idea for the next big isekai
  158. …in reply to @SFBDim
    @SFBDim RUCKUS: 12%
  159. RT @d_feldman: Ok this is slightly insane. OpenType (the common font format) actually supports simple scripts inside the font for complex c…
  160. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry what's your score for the British list?
  161. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry I should dig up their data and see if they have stats for Australians
  162. …in reply to @undefined
    @ragzouken @LiToast yeah, I definitely categorised it as like... a dusty Victorian word
  163. …in reply to @mjmcmaster
    @mjmcmaster @doougle @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry Good guesses. I think "gazump" might be a dark horse contender.
  164. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @mjmcmaster @doougle @KommanderKlobb Hahaha. Well, apparently 16% of the people there understood the pun.
  165. …in reply to @Andy_Makes
    @Andy_Makes @abey79 the mail code along the bottom is a beautiful addition
  166. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @mjmcmaster @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry yessss! I love guessing things correctly
  167. …in reply to @mjmcmaster
    @mjmcmaster @doougle @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry it's the opposite of a gosunder
  168. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 we have a lot more readily available Indian food, yes. and i will say that *most* of the American foods we have under different names, or close enough equivalents... like, we have cannelloni, penne, chickpeas, kebabs...
  169. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 (however, do not come to the UK and try to have anything resembling Mexican food)
  170. …in reply to @undefined
    @platinum_west @derElbi shish kebab is on a skewer
  171. …in reply to @v21
    i opened their excel sheet!! i can't be bothered to replicate their method of scoring words, but by doing a quick sort, i have obtained more words on either end of the spectrum...
  172. …in reply to @v21
    British words: biro grotty whinge tombola tippex yob kerbside squidgy boffin conker dodgem chipolata stroppy gazump courgette brolly candyfloss natter korma gormless greenfly judder naff chiropody paracetamol skiving budgie binman plaice perspex childminder abseil splodge
  173. …in reply to @v21
    more British words: blackcurrant quango profiterole teletext shambolic bolshy plimsoll sellotape escalope invigilator pelmet aubergine tiddler niggling bedsit bodge butty chaffinch wholemeal busker sultana podgy chinwag pitta skive soya lorry fiver pram gymslip miaow quiff gunge
  174. …in reply to @v21
    more American words: cilantro provolone garbanzo sandlot goober kwanza layaway saltine underclassman spackle crawdad hibachi acetaminophen lollygag valproate tamale charbroil boondocks canola spumoni busywork blacktop heartworm declarative bocce kielbasa decal liter sassafras
  175. …in reply to @v21
    & yet more American words: albuterol zinger flub luau ornery preemie behooves cornhusker breezeway grandbaby kickball scrimmage spelunker potpie doodad rutabaga chili upperclassman arugula slowpoke cookout mom tidbit mesquite lasso scads blintz manzanita catawampus doohickey
  176. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb btw, you'll be pleased to hear that "frogspawn" is the 119th most British word.
  177. …in reply to @v21
    the other interesting thing from the data (if I'm reading it right) is that British people are generally more familiar with American words than vice versa.
  178. …in reply to @v21
    for fun, some words no-one recognizes: adyta genipap futhorc eighteenmo stotinka lamellicorn td alsike dittander iwis arseniuret gomuti grosz didapper haphtarah kahikatea witenagemot dasyure bauhinia fylfot smaragd nifle eyrir yataghan gerenuk chon cacomistle guayule autarkist
  179. …in reply to @tsawac
    @tsawac @emshort thank you for this story
  180. …in reply to @LainKaplan
    @LainKaplan I would welcome someone looking at the data more thoughtfully @v21/1372980692225822722?s=19
  181. RT @rachelcoldicutt: It’s 5pm on a Friday. What better time to read my massively meandering blog post about Delinquent Telephone Activity -…
  182. …in reply to @rachelcoldicutt
    @rachelcoldicutt @NerdNiteLondon this is great. and I have a real "I was there!!!" reaction to seeing the party in the spreadsheet again...
  183. …in reply to @v21
    @rachelcoldicutt @NerdNiteLondon also think you would get a lot out of this recent Olia Lialina essay on tech nostalgia interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me (although it's probably a bit heavy for 8pm on a Friday)
  184. …in reply to @geofisher87
    @geofisher87 I got gazumped last year
  185. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro all I can think about is the UK taxi company, "Addison Lee"
  186. …in reply to @imaginari_es
    @imaginari_es huh! i was definitely wondering at that one - elderflower as well
  187. …in reply to @jennatar
    @jennatar may i recommend to you the words "judder", "bolshy" and "naff", all of which express concepts you might like to have a word for
  188. …in reply to @luxaritas
    @luxaritas @Willeth it's more like shudder, but a shudder that's happening because something is stuck?
  189. …in reply to @KeirRice
    @KeirRice yes, I'd start by making that face
  190. RT @agirlcalledlina: Happy birthday to this tweet
  191. RT @konstructivizm: NASA Unbelievably beautiful image of Saturn’s rings up close by Cassini.
  192. RT @SluggoIsLit: Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for Sat, 20 Mar 2021 gocomics.com/nancy
  193. RT @solarpunk_girl: In Hungarian, we don’t use he/she there is only one gender pronoun “Ö”. But it’s fascinating when this is fed through G…
  194. RT @kchironis: last night a neighbor i don't know well shouted to us from a distance, "saw your company was in the news again! what's up wi…
  195. RT @RobAskew2: 1 hour old rock!
  196. RT @darigold: @strutting We appreciate the enthusiasm of the fans! Milkwalker was used in a safety campaign on Darigold milk cartons. Desig…
  197. …in reply to @tsawac
    @tsawac that... honestly turned out much better than I expected
  198. RT @StefGotBooted: This is class warfare, plain and simple.
  199. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin it's your flat now
  200. From a beautiful digitisation of a 60s government design manual design-of-forms.online/
  201. …in reply to @v21
    including an early example of the "names are more complicated than you think" advice that I see a lot on Twitter. ("etc" does a hell of a lot of work in this)
  202. @mjmcmaster @LorenzoPilia tagging you both in so you can look at some typewriter fonts @v21/1373374943749083137
  203. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo if I had my laptop to hand I would post you a screenshot of a recent MRI of my brain. but just imagine. it looks kind of like a dog or a walnut.
  204. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia @mjmcmaster yeah, I love that tall p
  205. RT @vectorpark: What if I told you about a 100% reliable carbon offset called “not doing the thing that emits it”
  206. …in reply to @JodieAzhar
    @JodieAzhar @leighalexander this is such a good point. implicit in this nightmare scenario is that the relationship doesn't have space for you to say "please, can we not, that painting isn't actually very good"
  207. …in reply to @v21
    @JodieAzhar @leighalexander "also, none of your paintings are"
  208. …in reply to @TheWhitePube
    @TheWhitePube @A_i beautiful piece of writing. the game as the grit for you to talk about your pearl
  209. now I've bought a flat, this is the kind of shit I'm into
  210. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge thank you for this thread
  211. RT @MarkLGoldberg: This is a wild statistic— the total spending on the F-35 is greater than the total spending by China on the entire Belt…
  212. …in reply to @C418
    @C418 there are! thermostatic, I decided against it, as it was an extra £30
  213. …in reply to @HAStark
    @HAStark too late! I ordered the one that site recommended, £50, seems like it should work fine.
  214. RT @nkulw: a "VIP card" is an israeli document given to a select few palestinians to allow freedom of movement throughout occupied territor…
  215. remember going on a march about it in central London with about a million other people t.co/EOtk0UEAZ2
  216. RT @mccrmx: this is the way
  217. RT @_ojack_: thegray-market.com/blog/2021/3/21/why-the-hack-of-nifty-gateway-raises-far-reaching-questions-about-the-entire-nft-market "Why the Hack of Nifty Gateway Raises Far-Reaching Questions About the Entire NFT Market"
  218. RT @zeynep: Incredible New Zealand study on a mystery transmission in a quarantine hotel. For a while, a garbage can was suspected—one of t…
  219. …in reply to @fireh9lly
    @fireh9lly the thing i expected to find & then did with this is the police escalating to violence first. normally it doesn't kick off in quite this way, even with that. but it's worth remembering that it's also particular anger with police earlier in the evening, not just abstract anger.
  220. …in reply to @folmerkelly
    @folmerkelly it's just there to accessorise - it accentuates his waistline.
  221. RT @WYR_bot: Would you rather online or not?
  222. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall Taiwan is a better comparison (except they aren't white, so)
  223. RT @eric_lang: A common first question I will ask designers who ask for my feedback of their game is: "Why did you design this game?" The…
  224. Slack is funny, like... a games company failed and now everyone has to use IRC for work all day.
  225. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry once could be an accident, twice starts to look like carelessness
  226. …in reply to @clockworkfrogs
    @clockworkfrogs nostalgia
  227. …in reply to @v21
    @clockworkfrogs but there is something fundamentally good about IRC being a protocol, not a product. there have been hundreds of different clients, a bunch of server implementations, it's been around for literal decades, I have no doubt that it'll outlast Slack...
  228. …in reply to @v21
    @clockworkfrogs but Slack is fundamentally nicer and easier to use, and has teams of engineers adding new features
  229. @everestpipkin next level carpet tile rendering @Johnee_B/1373210297188630530
  230. …in reply to @v21
    (shame we neither of us have a PS4)
  231. RT @ompuco: okay last thread for now about testing out my favorite looking games on my BVM @ a forced 240p res been dying to try out @card…
  232. RT @_pem_pem: hi i wrote a deeply personal story about how ketamine saved me from the depths of hell. i would be honored if you’d read it.…
  233. RT @jsrailton: Latest update: the EVER GIVEN is... still ever-jammed across the #SuezCanal. Also, a teeny excavator tried to help. Thank…
  234. RT @FalunJimmy: I'd like to cover the curious case of Wen Ho Lee 李文和, a Taiwanese-American scientist at Los Alamos who was accused of spyin…
  235. RT @pangmeli: I think this is such an important point — that there are more (and maybe better) ways of supporting something or someone than…
  236. …in reply to @v21
  237. RT @NataniaBarron: 9 - The reason that no one knows how to make Dhaka muslin is because the English purposefully, strategically, & devastat…
  238. …in reply to @v21
    Hot Hot Hot!
  239. every 74 days, someone I know posts the "dairy tech tree" diagram from Wikipedia
  240. …in reply to @v21
  241. …in reply to @v21
  242. …in reply to @v21
  243. …in reply to @FlorianVltmn
    @FlorianVltmn @AranKoning this is incredible timing
  244. RT @KLLiiNNG: small ink 83
  245. RT @vg_history: videogame review ratings, power play, magazine (1990) archive.org/details/Power.Play.N26.1990.05-kultpower/page/n5/mode/2up
  246. RT @rechelon: Anarchist recruitment for decades had been primarily social / subcultural, with a fringe of super committed altruistic nerds…
  247. …in reply to @undefined
    @caiitlinz that's how our calendars are by default here, and it's pretty helpful. but also I would feel weird in your position too. it's the reciprocity of it.
  248. …in reply to @AroraXD
    @AroraXD oh, I mean, it's clearly technology, important cheese engineering. but I was saying tech tree because it's like a tech tree in an RTS game. this product unlocks this other product and all that.
  249. RT @tigershungry: **This Afternoon** Join us for the @BritishCouncil 's PlayUK Showcase Event. Come hear from videogame creatives & commu…
  250. …in reply to @undefined
    @thairyn ugh I want to be outside drinking with friends as the sun goes down and it starts to get actually chilly but we're having a nice time so stay even after it stops being all that pleasant
  251. I have been saying this! Ban time zones! Everyone should use the same clock! @opinion/1374031937820581892
  252. …in reply to @varjmes
    @varjmes apparently it sends an email with a confirmation flow before actually connecting you
  253. …in reply to @v21
    @varjmes oops, sorry, I take it back @44/1374737695444901891?s=19
  254. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @polclarissou thinking about the crunchy contact between the bulbous bow and the side of the canal
  255. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal @polclarissou thinking about being in the bridge of a large ship when it suffers a power outage, or maybe it ran aground or some currents went weird, and helplessly watching as it starts to go sideways. i imagine it would have taken several minutes. just watching helplessly as that happens.
  256. …in reply to @v21
    white I'm at it: we should get an extra month en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
  257. …in reply to @undefined
    @thairyn I *would* get a larger shandy
  258. …in reply to @v21
    people find their own uses for tools @lemonodor/1374803809696817154?s=19
  259. …in reply to @v21
    from horse milk to horse sperm (I assume the main product is sperm)
  260. …in reply to @franzpatricia
    @franzpatricia @briansantacruz @RepMarkPocan it seems likely to me that the good wages & benefits were connected to having a union in the past. maybe the wages will stay up - if the company is competing for workers with unionised workplaces, they might for a while - but a big reason to keep conditions good has now gone.
  261. …in reply to @BanditoJuan
    @BanditoJuan I did try to do some soul searching as to whether this is the reason why... but nah, roll a dice to see who gets it, fine either way.
  262. RT @joncstone: very clear exaplantion of why Right To Buy makes it financially impossible for councils to build enough social housing: http…
  263. …in reply to @ok_remi_ok
    @ok_remi_ok this is a perfect video
  264. trees so full of white blossom they look like they've been photographed in infrared
  265. RT @gray:
  266. …in reply to @astroblob
    @astroblob wait... the hair became eyebrows 😯
  267. thread on how to construct custom easing functions that have particular properties @rygorous/1374788383692615681
  268. …in reply to @rygorous
    @rygorous @nothings @mango_lychee @pervognsen this is a fantastic thread, thank you for posting it!
  269. …in reply to @TinaRiversRyan
    @TinaRiversRyan my understanding: crypto is an attempt to invent a form of ownership that is technically, rather than legally, enforced. owning an NFT means nothing legally* - it means the ownership field of the NFT points at the address of a wallet you have control of the private key for.
  270. …in reply to @v21
    @TinaRiversRyan what crypto people have, amazingly, managed to do is give that new technical definition of ownership a sense of social consensus - people agree that those database entries being set up that way mean something
  271. …in reply to @v21
    @TinaRiversRyan but there's a whole load of legal ways that you can own something, and it's not any of those. and that was intentional! because the early ideological crypto people wanted to create something that governments would have no control over
  272. …in reply to @v21
    @TinaRiversRyan (and having no government control means it has to not require participants to trust each other, as that trust is ultimately backed by the state (theoretically))
  273. …in reply to @v21
    @TinaRiversRyan * footnote: but it might be the case that the police will get involved if you steal an NFT. idk, I think it's all pretty new and experimental territory. a smart lawyer could argue that nothing was actually stolen, imo. see also: tax implications.
  274. …in reply to @v21
    @TinaRiversRyan all of this is in comparison to copyright, which is a form of ownership governments invented. or physical ownership, which predates the nation-state
  275. …in reply to @v21
    @TinaRiversRyan btw, my personal opinion is that all of this is bad, we continue to live in a society, it's better to have systems where you can't lose everything you own if the wrong hard drive fails, ban this libertarian bullshit before it melts the planet.
  276. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe ohhh I had wondered what happened there
  277. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jazzmickle gotta say, I started this thread going "100mb! boo! do better!" and ended it going "well, 100mb isn't so bad... the web platform does a lot of stuff..."
  278. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jazzmickle I agree! It's just that all the options are bad and annoying!
  279. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jazzmickle "a nice thing for writing a reasonably complex and attractive UI in" is so rare... that's the main thing you pay for.
  280. I have had a distinctly different, but also bad experiences trying to book appointments with my GP. @rachelcoldicutt/1375351036181934083
  281. RT @BBCRosAtkins: Coming on 350k views for our latest video on the EU’s shift in vaccine tactics - and how we need to step back and look at…
  282. this is... actually cool videogame merch??? atelier.zaumstudio.com/products/kims-aerostatic-pilot-jacket
  283. RT @Yara_Haridy: The door to the museum was buried shut in the revolution. To stop looting. So we contacted the mayor and all the proper…
  284. good diagrams in this thread @vruba/1111380710344916992
  285. …in reply to @v21
    what would be really funny if is they did The Necktie
  286. …in reply to @kurai
    @kurai no, it's like that thing where you trip and stumble, and then when trying to correct yourself you go too far the other way and end up running for a few meters, into someone who was standing a very reasonable distance away. but with wind & a canal bank instead.
  287. …in reply to @spacetreasured
    @spacetreasured disappointed but not surprised
  288. vaccine passports seem bad t.co/sUu3ZeFK6k
  289. reminder that Now Play This is on this weekend : nowplaythis.net/ talks at 3 and 5 pm, and a party in the evening (and games to play at any time)
  290. …in reply to @v21
    it's funny shopping for a fridge at the moment, because the energy efficiency scales are in the middle of being adjusted. half the fridges I'm looking at are A+, half are F, and they're all pretty much the same.
  291. …in reply to @v21
    what they should've done is change it to an "A scale", where every product gets a number. and the number is equivalent to the number of pluses after the A in the old scale.
  292. …in reply to @v21
    (they shouldn't, the way they did it is correct. I went from "eh, I'll get one of these, they're all pretty good" to "oh, I guess I'll have to get one of these, even if they're all pretty bad" - which is a sign it's working, I'd pay a little more for an "E" fridge than a "A++")
  293. videogames are the best medium because they allow you to buy a dog wig to cover the bald spot you caused by over-petting it. @DaedalusTaiven/1375625768806412288
  294. …in reply to @v21
    it's nonsense, but it's also deeply systemic nonsense. but also it only matters because you care about it!
  295. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto it really does! I was definitely trying to describe both this MH mechanic but also videogames as a whole. I felt there was a danger that my initial tweet would not read as sincerely as I meant it
  296. …in reply to @v21
    @catacalypto (about 70% sincere, I don't actually think it makes any sense to rank one medium against another, but this really is the thing that makes videogames stand out)
  297. …in reply to @ThePatanoiac
    @ThePatanoiac isn't it! behind the tweet fact: I googled it to check there wasn't an existing malamute variation called the palamute they'd named the dog after. but no, it's an invention. although you can also put your palamute in a costume that makes it look like a golden retriever.
  298. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto @ThePatanoiac attempting to answer this via sheer game designer intuition... dog wigs are a resource sink, but probably not very important. the asset cost for the bald spot is multiplied by the number of skins it applies to, but also there's a small number of dog skins & it's a small asset.
  299. …in reply to @v21
    @catacalypto @ThePatanoiac so ultimately it probably comes down to consistency... if I was designing it I would make the bald spot consistent as skins are swapped. fewer edge cases to deal with all round (what if you apply & deapply the skin, what if you apply the wig when a skin makes it not visible)
  300. …in reply to @v21
    @catacalypto @ThePatanoiac but also it really depends at what stage they added the feature, what random constraints of tooling & staffing intersected.
  301. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto @ThePatanoiac imagine the heartbreak if you had it designed and in process and then some detail meant it got caught up in some dependency tangle, a producer sees it and rightly suggests cutting the gordian knot by just cutting the feature.
  302. RT @mazel_toph: good evening here is my 76 year old dad sending me a list of words he doesn’t understand while reading detransition baby ht…
  303. RT @nowplaythese: We're launching our #NPT2021 commission strand today: - At 2pm @tomokihara and @jr_carpenter chat with @sebquack about t…
  304. RT @TheWhitePube: This week's review is Clawee, the live remote claw machine app. I write a love letter to claw machines, my favourite game…
  305. this weekend is about tearing out some soft plasterboard, replacing it, and plastering back over it
  306. …in reply to @v21
    i love to add to my list of skills I am capable of doing but not especially well
  307. …in reply to @v21
    but for real this is a big reason I'm a game designer, it's something you can get better at by scavenging skills and knowledge from the thousand areas that interrelate. or at least it is the way that I do it.
  308. …in reply to @v21
    I wonder if I'll find a use for "the way that you adjust the pressure on the trowel to allow you to transition from smoothing with the back edge to smoothing with the front edge without lifting the trowel off the wall"...
  309. …in reply to @higgyC
    @higgyC god imagine applying butter to toast with a flat trowel
  310. RT @tigershungry: Delighted to be continuing a conversation that started at last year’s @nowplaythese with @neilsonks & @milanimalism on S…
  311. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier Camberwell!
  312. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno i'm remembering an evening in a hotel room in Canada, when the curling was on the telly
  313. RT @amyhoy: what gets measured, gets managed give your employees KPIs with an incentive and they’ll gladly wreck your business to fulfill…
  314. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck "Seller has made many improvements."
  315. "Seller has made many improvements." @innesmck/1376467257958793224
  316. RT @GarethLWatkins1: Something the Lil Nas X thing is showing is that American conservative Christians would bring the Satanic Panic back i…
  317. remembering the month or so where I worked at a studio called "Workhouse Games" before the founders realised that was an awful idea and renamed it @leslee_annsh/1376273610080329728
  318. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc both of them ran aground! it was stuck at both ends. they've not freed the stern, but the bow still hasn't shifted (or, it's shifted enough for the boat to rotate, but is still not entirely free)
  319. …in reply to @v21
    @hoskingc typo: should be now, rather than not
  320. …in reply to @designCaitlin
    @designCaitlin I know that feeling. Come back meetings! At least then you don't have any choice about whether you're working or not.
  321. RT @GrantaMag: ‘If you hate flying ant day, we hate you.’ Three poems by Verity Spott granta.com/verity-spott-three-poems/
  322. …in reply to @AnnaHollinrake
  323. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal did you see the recent comic about the "big internet"? wild!
  324. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal we think most internets aren't used for anything yet
  325. …in reply to @usablelearning
    @usablelearning @dingstweets it's fine, it's just full of all the sex dungeon stuff they deinstalled from the basement for when the estate agent came to take photos
  326. RT @jason_koebler: When you buy NFT art you are not buying artwork you are more buying the idea of the artwork and some code that refers to…
  327. RT @thisismollym: Overjoyed to have had the opportunity to illustrate for Endgame Sequences Zine! I was overjoyed to work with AD @itskindr…
  328. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem they're definitely not bots (this is not how bots work, idk why people use the word "bots" for this type of posting). but they are generally paid to post. my money is on the person running the Darla account being pro-union, tho.
  329. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @vectorpoem this was the one that convinced me: @AmazonFCDarla/1375937382755749888?s=19
  330. …in reply to @v21
    @mtrc @vectorpoem but while digging that up I found this one, which is fantastic: @AmazonFCDarla/1376284442273087489?s=19
  331. RT @haikus_by_KN: Game developers! Now that Satanic Panic is back in style, it's time to rethink our game soundtracks. Specifically: get yo…
  332. …in reply to @undefined
    @MimaSweets no, copy pasting is the way. the editor will get slow, but if you create the Tracery source in a text editor (like Sublime Text) you can copy paste into the window to apply it.
  333. RT @Sierra_OffLine: somewhere inside me dwells a brief essay on why "kitchen systems software" is the failed holy grail of personal computi…
  334. RT @johnhanke: Exciting to see the progress we’re making to enable new kinds of devices that leverage our platform... https://t.co/yYglk4q8…
  335. RT @ShellyAsquith: Good morning to the pupils of Pimlico Academy school who are refusing to go to class in protest of their head teachers’…
  336. …in reply to @undefined
    @ragzouken this is a metaphor for use when parts of management tries to persuade other parts of management to for time to fix the pipes
  337. "how about, instead of 'decolonising the curriculum', which seems very negative... we added more colonialism instead?" @Ross_Greer/1377228795078402048
  338. …in reply to @v21
    They are working so hard to define away and paper over anything that could count as structural racism. It's a hard job! @nathanoseroff/1377220050013323264?s=19
  339. 12 years later, and we're still talking about how recommendation algorithms radicalise people and whether there's anything anyone could possibly do about it @v21/1108390875233685504
  340. …in reply to @v21
  341. RT @innesmck: right now i think many trans people feel so visible it's unbearable it's hard to have a day of visibility in the midst of th…
  342. …in reply to @studioanisa
  343. …in reply to @craigw1701
    @craigw1701 racism is over!
  344. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty I think this is a good point! these kinds of questions are pretty high trust already - scary and off-putting unless you're already in a trusting place. the mechanics lower the sense of vulnerability & add a load of lower stakes interactions to work up to the scarier stuff
  345. …in reply to @v21
    @helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty thinking about a friend who spent literal hours coming up with an acceptable answer for a new-hire "tell us an interesting fact about yourself". or the sheer terror & self loathing that I face when writing online dating profiles.
  346. …in reply to @v21
    @helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty if you've not seen it before, this is a good read about trust & friendship in online videogames projecthorseshoe.com/2016/10/02/designing-a-friendship-leveling-system/ (also obviously relevant is Bernie DeKoven's stuff about the necessity of being able to refuse to play to allow any play to take part)
  347. …in reply to @v21
    @helvetica @omarieclaire @dinosaurrparty also: one way that the mechanics make this stuff less scary is that they are less expressive - they allow the player to blame the game for what they did, without feeling so exposed. there's a lot of good reasons to hate on CAH, but this is one of the reasons it's successful.
  348. …in reply to @bmfu
    @bmfu @TheLiftedBrow this is great. I love the sunfly pose!!!
  349. …in reply to @itstheshadsy
    @itstheshadsy @lizardengland oh, shit yes, and of course they've all been reverted. but if you look deep within the edit history, you can see that they all came true. and if you look at the other edits from that IP address...
  350. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt thank you!
  351. …in reply to @undefined
    @MekraBee the rules are very simple indeed...
  352. …in reply to @undefined
    @gamedev_fitness @anabequeerly aw, i'm halfway through that!
  353. RT @happifydesign: What if I did a thread of just repairs? Beautiful, beautiful repairs? An infinite thread?
  354. RT @newsmary: my gender experience is much like dessert at the end of a really good meal: everything on the menu looks great and you should…
  355. RT @SeaExcursion: me: okay the #pleasurecardrpg jam is over, that deadline has passed, you definitely dont have to think about business car…
  356. RT @planetjedward: 🏳️‍⚧️JEPIC🏳️‍⚧️
  357. RT @chaykak: .@SophieHaigney wrote a great feature for @studyhallxyz about the history of moderation online and why good moderation is like…
  358. this is... Discord? also I think they already announced it. @TheHustle/1376927196523024386
  359. …in reply to @isosteph
    @isosteph yes, what a great game!
  360. RT @waypoint: Jane Jensen was one of games' great storytellers. When the industry wouldn't let her tell those stories, she took her talents…