Tweets from 2021/11
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RT @ogremode: november sucks. cant shave cant nut and you have to write 50k word novelPermalink Look on archive.org
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@kitrichardsonuk oooh, nice, will listenPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @legobutts: When making a game, do you think about spectators? Designing for people who might be watching someone else play game (on the…Permalink Look on archive.org
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on the nature of trust in "trustless" systems @isyourguy/1455014695283277827Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain but... blockchain solves a different problem? the whole point of blockchain is to create a trustless distributed system. but as a game dev, those are not things i need & imply a lot of tradeoffs for things i do need.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain the hard part of doing "play to earn" systems is gameplay balancing & preventing the system from being used for money laundering. the tech is the (relatively) easy bit.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain why do you need a third party if you're building the game? you can just execute the trades yourself. (this doesn't work where the developers try to prohibit real money trading, and you're the one building secondary platforms, but that's not the case here)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain i can see a use for blockchain if you are building a game where you want other people to run marketplaces for without establishing a business relationship with you. but i don't know why anyone would want to build that, besides to take advantage of NFT hype.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain right, but i don't understand why you would build a game where starting to play it involves spending real money to borrow items from higher level players, because all the starter items are exorbitantly priced. it just doesn't seem fun to me???Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain to be more specific, it feels like financial speculation turned in on itself and into digital debt labour. i assume, being generous, that wasn't the original intent of the axie infinity designers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain but i think it is good evidence for my point that adding blockchain makes balancing gameplay much harder, and that it is already a very hard problem.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prvncher @flow_blockchain to be more specific, why is the axie infinity system better than a system where the game developers can adjust prices so starting players have enough gear to can play the game in a meaningful way without having to borrow them?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @__femb0t: Tired : bootleg military booze Inspired : bootleg military ice cream made over enemy territoryPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: tag yourself ("Dave Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, talks about the Metaverse")Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial i think you should buy a cowboy shirtPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @happeningfish: In this sense, when gender is performative, it means that by expressing something, we create gender - but not just for o…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@atduskgreg Roblox called dibs, but there's always next HalloweenPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @betterthemask: the big-budget video game is the highest form of capitalist art. mainstream movies, streaming video/television, even pop…Permalink Look on archive.org
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only just finished listening to this, just in time for Halloween to already be over. amazing conceptual horror story, which goes places you are not going to expect. @rossgsutherland/1454748664828768256Permalink Look on archive.org
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the thing is, to get academic about it... it stops being a game when it starts to have real world consequences. it's only a game if you can choose to stop playing. @lordpopple/1455206214489489410Permalink Look on archive.org
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academic definitions of game vary, as I'm sure it will surprise you to hear. but these elements run through most of them - most strongly and poetically expressed in Bernie DeKoven's A Well Played Game.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I went and found my copy. Here's some of it:Permalink Look on archive.org
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(of course, I believe, and Bernie believed, that while play can only happen apart from life, it is also important for living well. a fine little paradox - but I won't spoil the answer to that one for you)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@DavidJEastman1 once serious money is attached to a game, it stops being a game and becomes either gambling or labour.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@erbridge I'm definitely due some more fighting with it when I get back to Rust... but I have fought it enough to realise that it does usually have a point when it complains about things. which does help, tbh.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@erbridge anyway, now when I write not-Rust I find myself wishing for the match statement, so... there's a lesson there about knowledge making you miserable, I guess?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mountain_ghosts @erbridge yeah, I have spent enough time tweaking C# to reduce per frame memory allocations to know what you meanPermalink Look on archive.org
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Squid Game (2021) @v21/1455301902816710657Permalink Look on archive.org
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but for real, this is how this particular horror movie trope works. you enter into the game lightheartedly, but then it turns out you are unable to withdraw consent and the stakes are higher than you thought. this is also Jumanji (1995), and so many more.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the horror of Being Unable To Withdraw Consent... that's a real one.Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, outside of fiction, I'd say that an awareness of consent (and fine-grained consent - "I'm happy to play, but we need a rule against x, I'm not up for that today") provides a good explanation for the large overlap between people who are into tabletop and people into kink.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@_her_moth_ however painful your practice is, bet it's not as painful as wholeheartedly doing the second onePermalink Look on archive.org
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@marthasadie yeah, Battle Royale has a load of focus on "fucked that they'd do this to us" whereas Squid Game (tho I've only seen first ep) is more "well, that's how life is. I'm surprised but not that surprised"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@marthasadie (and Jumanji is also not horrifying, but it's played light heartedly and does not seem to be trying to comment on the nature of capitalism)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@marthasadie I mean, I only watched the first ep because it made me uncomfortable to watch! but Battle Royale slowly filtered through as a "look at this gory foreign film I found a VHS of" - just v different framing than Squid Game.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@marthasadie but also I think nowadays the "capitalism is an inescapable, cruel and arbitrary system" subtext is one that people are really primed to hear. it's not a shocking message any more, the horror of that statement has been numbed through exposure.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JamesWallis Yes, exactly! These tools have a pretty much one to one mapping between the two.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JamesWallis a thing that I'm interested in from The Well-Played Game is the idea that we should practice withdrawing consent/quitting the game. it's a difficult thing to do, but it gets easier with practice. if you don't use these tools often, they become harder & scarier to use.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@marthasadie I take it as a sign that there's a lot of latent demand for an alternative, pretty much any plausible alternative.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the worst part about doing the dishes is putting them away again. @bigblackjacobin/1455169258875404289Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt what if you make a little function that takes a delegate and returns null DotMachineInstruction.Add => x(_ => Add(machine)), etcPermalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt right, x is a function something like this: function x(Action arg) { arg(); return null; } so the switch gets some values to chomp on, but the actual functions themselves don't need to return anything.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt for the sake of clarity I should say that this is monstrous, don't do this, but also you should just have an ugly switch statement and this whole quest is uh, "needlessly creative".Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt I actually hadn't seen the arrow notation for switch yet, so it's already getting better. The problem is, I have seen what it could be... doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/flow_control/match.htmlPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dvsch: i feel like maybe i should say something more about this. this is made from a bunch of images i pulled from instagram of alcohol…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dvsch: i feel weird as a man taking this work and using it for my own purposes. i purposefully don’t sell these models. but i hope mayb…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dvsch: in some ways i think i do a lot of ML art for myself because it makes me look at how various “crafts” are given lower status as…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dvsch: i’m also over the whole “these {x} don’t exist” approach to gans. i can almost always see my original dataset in my outputs. i p…Permalink Look on archive.org
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saw a thing about Alex Dowsett's "how far can you cycle in an hour" thing tomorrow, which he's doing at a velodrome at altitude in Mexico... i asked a friend about the altitude part, and she linked me to this wild page wolfgang-menn.de/altitude.htmPermalink Look on archive.org
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as you get higher up, there's less air to push through, which makes you faster. but also there's less oxygen to breathe, which makes you slower. but you can plot those two factors against each other, find the intersection and thus identify La Paz in Bolivia as correct at 3400m.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the way cycling breaks down human exertion into quantifiable numbers is so fascinating. but the flip side is that those numbers assume arbitrary amounts of suffering on behalf of the cyclists.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt oh, interesting - more to push against, but more drag too! i guess the thing here is that the positive force is mediated via the lungs & blood & muscles rather than staying in the realm of fluid dynamics.Permalink Look on archive.org
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which is to say: today I am working on Cheap Bots, Done Quick! if you'd like to support me in keeping it going as a free service with not too much downtime, then you can subscribe here: patreon.com/v21Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @caitlinmcgregor: I can already feel the number of lit events that are accessible to me dropping as things open back up 💔 I'm happy so m…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DanjoKaz00ie: It's one thing to say that people should have ownership over the things they use and interact with everyday, it's another…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this looks beautiful @FlorianVltmn/1455527945750159361Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ianmaclarty: How to transport a steel beam in Mars First LogisticsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @UnpackingALife: 📦Unpacking is out NOW📦 Unpack and organize a home in our zen puzzle game. Please share and feel free to tag us if you…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt yeah, there's a thing here about how (single player) videogames always make the player the most important person. if for no other reason than them being the only entity within the game who can turn the game off.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt which suggests two approaches: - a multiplayer system - a game which can, permanently or temporarily, refuse to be played. (thinking of Hurt Me Plenty as reference, although permadeath in roguelikes also works in a softer way)Permalink Look on archive.org
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literally the thing they say is "have fun staying poor" @atduskgreg/1455304714908684294Permalink Look on archive.org
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@EveForster Can a transwoman be lesbians?Permalink Look on archive.org
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I do love this time of evening, where the streetlights fight with the dimming sky and all the silhouettes are good. But. I wish it didn't happen at not even 5pm.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I've somehow lived in this country for 34 years and I'm still surprised and furious to learn about the seasonsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @merrittk: Can’t wait for pay to earn games to take off so I can rent some rich person’s high level equipment to farm gamebux for them f…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @flee_bites: 🎀🎀🎀🎀Permalink Look on archive.org
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@notquitereal rice cookerPermalink Look on archive.org
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my answer to this is that the tech giants have gotten used to a big industry defining change happening every decade or so (the web, the web (again), then smartphones). so they reckon it's about time for another one, and this is one they can recognise from sci-fi books. @MaxKriegerVG/1455577494141247498Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's cost benefit analysis, too: if it happens and they're not on board, then they'll turn into a giant company which makes money but isn't cool any more (bad). but if they go for it & it isn't the big thing... well, that's fine, that happens all the time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@obandsoller The boundaries are knotty and complicated and diffuse. But also, yes, I would say that those examples feel more like labour than "play". If you're on a set schedule and worrying about your numbers and depending on this to pay the rent, it feels like a different thing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@obandsoller But also all games have an impact on life outside of them, because they exist within life.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tomonishintaku: 亡くなった祖父の部屋を片付けていると、古いタンスになぜかハーモニカらしきものが仕込まれていることが判明。開閉すると無駄に陽気な音が鳴る。これは手作りなのか、あるいはとんでもない珍品なのか、どうか。 https://t.co/WJacCTe…Permalink Look on archive.org
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seeing a lot of game developers explain how VR is dumb and tiring and that the existing minimal thing (calls, web pages, etc) is better. which is true, but ironically game dev is one of the things that could actually benefit from doing (bits of) it in VR.Permalink Look on archive.org
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personally, I don't want to learn to do 3D modelling until I can do it in a virtual space where I can move my head to look at the model from different angles.Permalink Look on archive.org
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and I guess maybe it would be nice to have that networked??? could be a nice collaboration experience, editing a level with a friend (Roblox has this in 2D, seems nice although I never got it to work) anyway, that's still not Excel, Metaverse edition.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lexiamandeville oh, i believe all that - but i was thinking about making the editor & other game dev tools (that manipulate 3D things) work in VR. 3D modelling makes a ton of sense to me for that...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@multiplebears i think it's a bit of a different point - it's that CRT is in itself a framework for thinking about the kinds of smears that are being applied to CRT.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@multiplebears yeah, tbh i have no idea if it's true or not, but that's the point i've seen made.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Psilocervine @mcclure111 he keeps escaping from the camps, and you keep sending him back!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @EmoPhilips: the vampire bat has a scary name but does much good, eating up to twice its weight in vampires every yearPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @HJosephineGiles: Anyway I was thinking about this and asked a butch in my life how she would describe butch and she gave me a bemused s…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt this feels like it is kiiiiinda Fjords?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt (which was great, more like that please)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lorenschmidt ah-hah, yeah, that makes sense!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@matthewlehew @six6jiang @stephentotilo or even cannibalising your own revenue, if a publisher has a niche they focus on.Permalink Look on archive.org
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bumping this to say that i did some more work on CBDQ, this time fixing up the admin pages so i can block people for spam without having to connect to the database and type commands that could go wrongPermalink Look on archive.org
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which sounds boring for people who are just using the service and aren't me, but it's this kind of thing that makes the service more stable & likely to stick around. so. if you appreciate that, you can support me. here's that link again: patreon.com/v21Permalink Look on archive.org
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(i am trying to get into the habit of posting the patreon link any day i work on the site, on the principle of "yell about your thing repeatedly, because most people aren't paying attention". sorry not sorry)Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, and one thing i did which was a bit indulgent but i am pleased with: procedurally coloured people's IP addresses to make it easier to scan down the list & see when the same person has created a load of bots all at the same time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(i would post a screenshot, but, uh, other people's IP addresses)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yoondust it's fine! nothing wrong with multiple bots, just don't be a spammer :)Permalink Look on archive.org
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also, just to be clear: having multiple bots is fine, being a spammer isn't - but it's handy to spot things by seeing patterns as you scan a listPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @venmosnake: Men invented online gaming as an excuse to talk on the phone all night with other menPermalink Look on archive.org
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I think I was talking about Facebook here. @v21/448817698290802688Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @punished3liza: if you're a dude you can ignore this tweet at your discretion but you will spend the rest of your life slowly going insa…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @arvalis: The hardest part about painting dinosaurs accurately is that grass didn't exist yet.Permalink Look on archive.org
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just saw Moonrise Kingdom out of a displaced desire to see The French Dispatch & it is very good? breaking news from 2012Permalink Look on archive.org
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very good dialogue writing, too. "I love you but you don't know what you're talking about" !Permalink Look on archive.org
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i was also struck by some shots at the end which were centered in a natural way, not in the very mannered way Wes Anderson is famous for. he does know restraint! be just thinks it's neat when things line up just so (he's right).Permalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin @ironicaccount @BrendenGibbons i love how i see these tweets but completely fail to twig that they belong in that thread. thank you!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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people find their own uses for tools (thx @designCaitlin) @mescad/1456373786471800832Permalink Look on archive.org
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continuing to watch movies while i'm stuck in bed dealing with this fatigue flareup. just saw Night Moves (1975) based on it's mention in The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again, both languid but very sharply written, about men repeatedly failing to connectPermalink Look on archive.org
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@adrianhon on indie games, specifically: appealing to "people who don't think they like games" is a hard market to sell to! especially because the distribution channels you'd sell through are already pretty hostile to new people (mobile games excluded - but those are hard mode anyway)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@adrianhon like, explaining to someone from a standing start how to download and play Untitled Goose Game on Steam... it is a challenge.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@adrianhon (these problems are pretty different when looked at from the perspective of Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft, tho)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@adrianhon I guess the primary problem with iOS/Android is that they don't want to acknowledge how much of their business is the gaming business. if they're barely acknowledging the market, then they're not going to be strategic about growing it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@vectorpark yeah! the use of silence just before!Permalink Look on archive.org
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in "other times i tweeted about Snow Crash in 2014" news, this essay seems newly relevant @v21/487965752356769792?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is why I was tweeting about Snow Crash in 2014 @v21/466168269368737792Permalink Look on archive.org
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laptop at 15% and dropping fast, power cable just out of reach, and a cat dozing on my stomach. who knows what the resolution to this story will be.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i startled the baby with the photo booth noisesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial 11%!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @aaronareed: A revolution of text games powered by blue links and singular prose. "Howling Dogs" on this week's #50YearsOfTextGames. ht…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly Holly, what's your favourite kind of cheese?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly solid choices, I approvePermalink Look on archive.org
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@TomNullpointer yeah, the central romance felt real and kinda quiet, versus all the other stuff marching around outside itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv from what I can see... this largely only applies because the US financial system is so bad. and also is still v hypothetical - getting money out of crypto is annoying to do.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv (the censorship-resistance part is real, although I don't believe that's a problem most people have. unless you want to order illegal drugs online)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv right, it's possible, but it's like... plus side: don't have to wait a few days to transfer money from America negative side: have to persuade my bank to accept mortgage payments in crypto, the grocery store to..., utility companies to..., that nice vegan cafe to...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv (within the UK, bank accounts transfers up to £250,000 are done by knowing sort code & account number, are free, and are usually instant. and I can do them from my phone. so that's the competition.)Permalink Look on archive.org
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reading this and thinking about the ever increasing number of indie games festivals and competitions (most of whom charge entry fees) filmfestivalfever.substack.com/p/how-to-spend-10000-on-film-festivalPermalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, it's the weekend, time to go review some IGF games (submission fee $75)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@esjexe @TomNullpointer yayy glad you enjoyed.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LorenzoPilia i think it would be better if neither had submission fees, but also i don't think either are outrageous and i'm glad for the waiver existing. mainly just reflecting on my own part within the system, you know?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern "GenuineIntel"Permalink Look on archive.org
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interesting to watch "69 / nice" move through the exact transition point of becoming irretrievably cringePermalink Look on archive.org
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it's kind of obscure as a point because it is much more visible on either side of the transition. a peak of desensitisation.Permalink Look on archive.org
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("irretrievably" is maybe not quite right - it'll be quaint or nostalgic by like 2030, once no-one has done it for real for a few years)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort a related question : if capitalism is so good, why do none of these companies use it internally?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hondanhon: I’m kinda into and also super depressed at thinking of the crypto/defi shitty, grifty pyramid scheme cult part of blockchain…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alphachar of course not but there is a bunch of more involved labour involved - in doing admin, in developing the platform that it runs on, in being on the juries (tho that's also unpaid, afaik). so i don't know that i'm particularly arguing that i should be.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@EvvaKarr I'm responsible for the livelihoods of the most talented people I know?! This sounds like a stressful job, tbqh!Permalink Look on archive.org
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decided to try out Shining Nikki, the Love Nikki sequel. mobile F2P dress up game... but this time in 3D!Permalink Look on archive.org
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disappointed this loading screen has a rendered image rather than a gorgeous handpainted bit of art... those are always my favourite parts of these kinds of games. otoh "Connecting to the consciousness tunnel..." is the kind of writing you only get in games, and I'm here for it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I forgot how hard the lore goes in this series. All war and time travel and epic battles (conducted via putting on nice dresses). "it is said... the annihilation of a civilisation is as brilliant as fireworks" like a Friends at the Table intro youtu.be/dciT05gH1IQPermalink Look on archive.org
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but kept the straightforward saga episodic structure. probably smart, given the other risks in the project... but I miss the illusion of openness Helix Waltz had.Permalink Look on archive.org
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First episode, and it starts with the protagonist having amnesia... okay, smart, there's a reason that's an overused trope, a lot of "last time..." to catch up on... but then introduce the player as a separate character!? who... doesn't have amnesia??Permalink Look on archive.org
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@CheerfulGoth It still has a little bit of that flavour... but yes, generally much better. The story is fully voiced!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hannahnicklin: Examples a thousand and one why ‘wholesome’ is a useless label: Unpacking (heavily featured around that label but this i…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mmdotcox: when you’re staying in a hotel and breakfast is includedPermalink Look on archive.org
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the world would be a better place if housing cost half as much and food & clothing cost twice as muchPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @5466wounds:Permalink Look on archive.org
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I'm not worried about superintelligent AIs enslaving humanity because I don't think we've made much meaningful progress at creating AGIs.Permalink Look on archive.org
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On the other hand, "paperclip maximiser" is a very good way of describing the way the enmeshed and entrenched system of vested interests we popularly describe as "capitalism" is destroying the ability for us to live on this planet.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @torpordust: танцевать хорошоPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Stutsies imagine looking through the blue portal and seeing the cube rushing towards you, then suddenly stop as it gets pushed throughPermalink Look on archive.org
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@torpordust Ukraine was also my favourite Eurovision entry this yearPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @zachwhalen: My daughter is reading Tale of Two Cities, so we got a cheap copy off Amazon. Something's off, though: the typography is od…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @K_u___R_o:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@electronicbeth it really sucks, I'm with you therePermalink Look on archive.org
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@naomialderman i love Choosing Keeping! they used to be in a tiny little shop on Colombia RoadPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @raposabranca13: That's an informative thread on the question "but why are big games violent", but I'm going to challenge it a little. T…Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, i forgot about this game. we played it with a cereal box with friends & i think @thisladybug managed it even when the sides were completely cut away @christapeterso/1457713084810813440Permalink Look on archive.org
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gameplay rhythm @AkitoBass/1341128307882913792Permalink Look on archive.org
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@deathsatchel hi jordan!Permalink Look on archive.org
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what I want to click onPermalink Look on archive.org
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UI trends of the future: - constantly oscillating lava lamp blobs - an amorphous cloud, defining a probability that any particular click will registerPermalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt Figma plugin whenPermalink Look on archive.org
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Unpacking (2021) @ContraPoints/1457830368040689671Permalink Look on archive.org
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@inky I agree. Kicking myself for not putting in BEVEL as the final option.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Thinking about the way that lots of TV shows are about cops in a similar way to the way lots of videogames are about killing. In both, there's structural ways it solves issues common to the form, and there's a long rich history to riff on, and it's so common to be invisible.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I don't think it's inevitable in either case, and indeed in many genres (for many audiences) it's a less common choice.Permalink Look on archive.org
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on cops on TV @v21/1443529306320289797?t=ZLxgKaAcffq-JdsPDPHo2g&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, just to excavate the hidden message here: and deeply ideologically rooted, of course. Killing is necessary / cops are trying their best. I don't know the historical roots behind cops being fucking everywhere on TV, but when it comes to games: @raposabranca13/1457385505193140228Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @neoeno: @v21 i wrote a little about this and in particular about detectives in literature klog.substack.com/p/23b-intermissionPermalink Look on archive.org
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@neoeno oh, this is very good, thank you for linking!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @CatSwetel: if you "distribute decision making" but give zero thought to conflict resolution, you did not make anything more egalitarian…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DangerBrooks: I wrote about climate news and its unique power to make you feel like you should save the future by doing something crazy…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is out of date. about a third of CBDQ users are on IPv6. @jerryaldrichiii/1457857791171776514Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rachelcoldicutt corporate values?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @null66913: People started to take photos of happy moments, smiling, etc. All those fake happy photos from Instagram, influencers… are t…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rachelcoldicutt I guess the question comes down to: does it mean "values held by humans" or "values we share because of our common humanity". I'd interpret the phrase to mean the second thing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rachelcoldicutt (not that everyone would agree on what the second would be, but the conflict there is about the fact that we expect everyone to share those values)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@michaellyons @null66913 here's a nice article that goes into it in some detail washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/01/researchers-have-discovered-a-surprising-reason-we-smile-in-photos/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Foone don't have to declare the transactions if you're just wash trading with yourselfPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @WebDevLaw: Until I was writing yesterday's post, that pit-in-the-stomach feeling about how government is already using the Online Safet…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore @jonty i'm lucky to be on the small community that runyourown.social/ is about. but the thing about things that don't scale is that they exclude most people.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore @jonty although, actually, in practice, this is WhatsApp group chats, locked alts & Discord servers. which is common these days! but you have to lock this stuff away, rather than rely on privacy through obscurity like the 2000s.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore @jonty the mid-ground, tho, the community of 10,000 folks or so... harder to find. and there's less medium length writing out there.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore @jonty i'm thinking about the technical & social barriers to eg running a Mastodon instance - which means it'll only ever be available to a particular group of nerds.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore @jonty like, obviously friend camp can't scale and be the thing it is. but scaling "you can run something like friend camp" is also hard. that site is Darius having a crack at the problem... but it needs more.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty @infovore totally. i think about this a lot with learning about game dev - a lot of vital info & connections is locked behind particular communities you have to be connected to even know about.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore @jonty i also miss the varied aesthetics. i remember setting up my website years ago, and a friend said "but what is _for_?" and i was like "it's... my homepage?"Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @L_Wynne: ✨My quilt top for the #mfaQAL, finished and photographed just at the most lovely autumnal dusk.✨Permalink Look on archive.org
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is Moby Dick the originator of the "but there was only one bed at the inn!" trope? @PeterBrannen1/1457745416066375680Permalink Look on archive.org
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@stefpos depends what i'm doing. however! i will say that the success of the projects i've worked on have had very little correlation with how hard i've worked on them. different projects needed different amounts of effort, but no correlation between needing that effort & outcome.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @eevee: discord destroyed irc, reddit and twitter destroyed phpbb forums, facebook destroyed blogs. all are investing in cryprocurrency…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hollygramazio: oh my god just PUT A SALARY RANGE IN YOUR ADS FOR YOUR STUDIO'S COOL GAMES JOB and especially do that if you are requiri…Permalink Look on archive.org
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a cool video, and then you get to how they made it @mcclure111/1458162370937819136Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is all true, buuuuut... my understanding is that they're playing catch-up with Unreal in the realtime VFX space. @glassbottommeg/1458192844301082624Permalink Look on archive.org
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i started my career as a Unity dev around the time that lots of people were jumping ship from Flash as it became clear there wasn't a future there. feel like it set me up well for making sure i never over-specialised and always had an escape route...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@samuelthomson "in the Media and Entertainment space"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@vivschwarz @KommanderKlobb i have a copy of the base game on the shelf, welcome to borrow it, Viv!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate enjoyed someone pointing out that you could just... post the hash of your database in the classifieds section every month to get the same effect.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @snubpollard: It’s after midnight, please read this great piece on the history of strip mahjong in Japanese arcades: https://t.co/JDriZS…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kerissakti: @togeproductions So instead of working on 1 game for 5 years, we get 8-10 games. You'll get more games, more experience/kn…Permalink Look on archive.org
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someone asked me "so what was up with all the frog stuff on twitter?" and I explained I was just testing CBDQ replies and it got out of hand. ANYWAY I was wrong, I gotta cool frog thing brewing. *ribbit*Permalink Look on archive.org
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the frog stuff @v21/1448654785616351244?s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt i think sqlite is the right answer, although i would personally push "a JSON file, loaded into memory, and queried using Linq" until it reaches breaking point, first.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio @mildlydiverting @crouchingbadger @bg_ventures @nowplaythese @LaurieJ @Miss_Sticks @tigershungry and he's still making them! @GameTOILET/1457712348484063236Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt Linq is great! Until you have to go hunting for memory allocations, anyway.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt imo whatever, it's fine, as long as you're not calling it every frame, whatever. and if there's a problem later on you can rewrite the hot spots, or just call GC.Collect() during a level load or something.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hmsnofun: [sidebar re: walter benjamin's aura. the go-to summary, that mechanical reproduction is bad because it removes the aura from…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DilettanteryPod: Americans discovered Europe!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lorenschmidt: it is integral to digital art that digital worlds are not the same as ours. what does it mean that "objects" are endlessl…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@daddy_warlock what do you mean? the replies are CBDQ scanning my mentions, looking for the word frog, then fetching the frog image and posting it as a normal replyPermalink Look on archive.org
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“All the way through up to 1970, the path was: self-identify, get affirmative medical care, correct your birth certificate, and live equally. After 1970, that’s gone.” inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/secret-court-case-50-years-ago-robbed-transgender-people-rights-1291857Permalink Look on archive.org
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i just keep reading this and cackling to myself @PoppyLegion/1458397699456258052Permalink Look on archive.org
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@KeirRice the most important thing i think i have taken from working with neural networks is just the idea of data being points in a high dimensional state space, and that you can move within or apply transformations to that state spacePermalink Look on archive.org
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of all the internet forums i didn't join as a teenager, this was the second most impactful on my life @alexhern/1458703230989479943Permalink Look on archive.org
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doing sysadmin stuff, looking up a thing i always have to look up: "The difference between adduser and useradd is that adduser is used to add users with setting up account's home folder and other settings while useradd is a low-level utility command to add users."Permalink Look on archive.org
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@feralresearch idk, pretty much all the comments I've seen about it are reflective about the harms that SA culture have caused. but it's still significant and impactful.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@feralresearch i am familiar enough to be able to trace out the chain of reasoning that'd back this up @alexhern/1458705288815652865?s=20 plus, you have Slenderman, Homestuck, SCP, dril, the whole image macro format...Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @zachlieberman: if you are interested in the Bangerts, strong recommend for their artist statement, "computer grass is natural grass"…Permalink Look on archive.org
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a good argument for making sure kids get vaccinated, this. especially that little darker patch in the last few months corresponding to adults of an age to have children who can get infected. @stefpos/1458795255625625612Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @merrittk: Say, hypothetically, that you were shooting me with a laser gun. But what if, just for the sake of argument, I had a laser sh…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nwilliams030: "How to make a CPU" https://t.co/4IpL9KEk9xPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MaxKriegerVG: this is an excellent, open-minded guide (much more open-minded than i usually am on the topic!) on "So, You're Thinking A…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mcclure111 i haven't read Empire Games, but I did recently burn through the series up to that point in a few days where i didn't really want to deal with the real world. and i reckon you should just skip to Empire Games, tbh?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mcclure111 there are some fun ideas, but not enough fun ideas to be worth those thousands of pages. if you get the point about mercantilism being an outmoded economic model, then you get the point.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @leighalexander: I’m watching ‘The Love Trap’ & ‘Too Hot To Handle’ simultaneously (for work, naturally) and the same man, David, appear…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @catacalypto: stages of game development: junior: wait what X can happen?! oh no oh fuck mid: I will spend 35% of my time ensuring that…Permalink Look on archive.org
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feels very weird to apply a Marxist frame to my career, because it is very rare for me to have worked on projects which make a profit by producing things people want to buy. everything is speculation, grant-funded, investor storytime.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i have worked on a lot of things I'm proud of, and a lot of things that have been enjoyed by a wide audience, and I have been well paid through most of it (although not reaping the same economic rewards as the owners). but the economic logic is always very 2nd or 3rd order.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NotBrunoAgain the infinity mirrors in the ceiling!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@patrickashe "that guy just sampled a pinecone for half an hour" etc etcPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LJFinlayson: theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/12/bari-weiss-university-of-austin-free-speechPermalink Look on archive.org
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CGI shit is boring because CGI studios are massively overworked and no-one has time to figure out something inventive. i'm sorry to be boring, but... it's a labour rights issue. @spacetwinks/1459519075839889422Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @sbearbergman: Took my kids for a swim and there was a lot of staring and snickering at my fat, tattooed, visibly scarred trans body tod…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this + the NES knitting machine... kotaku.com/this-long-lost-nintendo-knitting-machine-would-have-let-5939210 @tbreisacher/1459063595916926984Permalink Look on archive.org
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is there some sort of hand loom that is also a Nintendo console peripheral?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NationalPepper: The Switch version is the Holy Grail for people, who likes behind the scenes. They leaked almost everything for the ori…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @carvd_in_drftwd: subway map for facial and masticatory muscles attached to skull. bones labeled by alphabet.Permalink Look on archive.org
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"Publicly funded art is for the public, right? I thought so. Except I have shape-shifted into a kind of public that is sidelined, unpublicised." I feel this so much. @TheWhitePube/1459813615582822400Permalink Look on archive.org
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@null66913 makes me think of this newsletter, about playing "boundary ball" with the authorities chaoyang.substack.com/p/boundary-ball?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjg2OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDMwNDk4OTIsIl8iOiJsSE92VSIsImlhdCI6MTYzNjg4MjA1MywiZXhwIjoxNjM2ODg1NjUzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjc3NTI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.4pxvpQdR-gduLGCvk0x4u0yJJkO-bYVChtuFO4GfM3gPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @TierZoo: if IRL objects had unnecessarily solemn Dark Souls Item DescriptionsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Izzabilla: National museum statements of solidarity following the BLM protests of 2020 -> their temporary exhibitions and events on col…Permalink Look on archive.org
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for some reason, I have decided what I need in life is another arcane computer admin puzzle, and have bought a Raspberry Pi to sit under the TVPermalink Look on archive.org
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do I want to play videogames? no! I want to figure out why the vc4 proprietary display drivers are incompatible with Steam LinkPermalink Look on archive.org
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as ever, the best way to understand how you're actually feeling is to observe what your actions are, not what you think you wantPermalink Look on archive.org
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@felix_cohen we have a Roku stick that does that fine, and can play media off a Samba share from the router downstairs... but only certain codecs. so, of course, the easiest solution is--Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love videogames (from the Roblox game "[GAMEMODE & PETS] Horrific Housing" roblox.com/games/263761432/GAMEMODE-PETS-Horrific-Housing)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @PatrickKTV: Happy one year anniversary to the most iconic TikTok we’ve ever seenPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ehronlime: The most important lesson a “game designer” learns is that there are other people in the world, genuinely different people w…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @francesleach_: My overarching takeaway after spending two weeks at COP with climate experts from across the world is that we already ha…Permalink Look on archive.org
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a history of Flash games in China chaoyang.substack.com/p/gold-miner-swfPermalink Look on archive.org
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"It felt like watching an animation, but I could also interact with it. Isn't that what all video games are? Krish: ...no. Yan: Noooooo. "Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @slava_pestov: BeOS had all sorts of useful APIs. We need to go backPermalink Look on archive.org
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i bought a ticket to a music festival and was perturbed to find the ticket website had put it on some kind of blockchain @nathanjurgenson/1459918448180428802Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nathanjurgenson Hidden Door in Edinburgh - they used Citizen Ticket, which uses the blockchain for some reason.Permalink Look on archive.org
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a good puzzle game, by which i mean one which sets out it's premises early on, and then slowly lets you in on the horrific implications. level 2.2 made me laugh. @knexator/1459970602266251265Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DrFuraha_Asani: The message from the system is: Sorry not sorry to you majority Black and Brown countries who had English violently for…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @sallyjeffery: Desmond Jeffery made this in 1968. Thanks to Rachel Carson we found out what was happening sixty years ago. https://t.co…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@adrianhon this makes me feel so grateful for my 1950s-built ex-council flat (that I can only really afford because I have a housemate)Permalink Look on archive.org
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just think what these "micro-flats" are going to be like after 20 years of indifferent maintenance @adrianhon/1460206845369462789Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @profmusgrave: this is 100% the most vertiginous culture shock I've ever experienced firsthandPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hautepop i think i see this within the context of a broader shrinking of the size of flats. i mean, i guess that's also a response to costs rising, but...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hautepop i guess "make worse things" is a reasonable response to "good things are too expensive", but it's also a very depressing one?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hautepop yeah, agreed there. i think the type of housing is much more connected to housing density than squeezing the extra square foot here and there - new build suburban houses i've seen also have that poky ungenerous feeling.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @notquitereal: this story about battlefield 2042 players joining xp farming servers and "finding out that they're the crops" is SO funnyPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nowplaythese: NPT Guest Director @tigershungry started this amazing project as a Now Play This 2020 commission, and now it is getting i…Permalink Look on archive.org
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congratulations to the github copilot developers & to everyone who helped train herPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle @thestarboretum depends on the context! i still don't have a good all purpose answer.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@wjjjjt that UUID I generated, to stand in for an automatically generated UUID when this system has such a thing. sadly less interesting.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@bfod @thestarboretum @st33d @jazzmickle @KommanderKlobb I think I use all of these (other than "Amount", that's rubbish)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum got some bad news for you about how GANs workPermalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum (unless this was ironic, in which case I am sorry for not recognizing that)Permalink Look on archive.org
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incredible video @ironimus42/1460291117656727552Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tigershungry @nickfourtimes it's so unsatisfying it almost wraps around to being satisfying again?Permalink Look on archive.org
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huh!!! it's possible to create polls via the API now! twittercommunity.com/t/announcing-manage-tweets-endpoints-for-the-twitter-api-v2/161501Permalink Look on archive.org
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q for CBDQ users: would you use a polls feature if I added it to CBDQ? (posting only, no way to do anything with the results)Permalink Look on archive.org
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glad I switched to a new Twitter library that supports v2 endpoints @ashevat/1460321868985085961?t=Ni4ehwo1pOdYG1ZBLR3yZQ&s=19 (although they only added the ability to post via v2 in the last fortnight)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@MaxKriegerVG watching Hollow Ponds ship I Am Dead means I know one answer is, boringly enough, UnrealPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @gutefabrik: 💫Come join us! 💚We're looking for a part time experienced Project Manager (1 shipped game) to join us on our 🤫 new projec…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine saaaaaame :'(Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum @mike_robbo but a proportion of what, Alex?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum @mike_robbo like this? 'colors are represented as three floats, "redProportion", "greenProportion" and "blueProportion"'Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mike_robbo @thestarboretum amount makes me think of like "how many apples do I have?" and therefore suggests that the answer might be a round number.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum @mike_robbo yeah, to be more serious, I would also just do r, g & b for this.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum @mike_robbo uppercase numbers?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@MaxKriegerVG tagging in @whitingjp, who did a lot of the coding on early prototypes while they were finding that stuffPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SerinDelaunay yeah - I agree, but I also think the CBDQ paradigm of "just type into this box" will be stretched to breaking point if I go there. very cool stuff would be possible, but keeping CBDQ accessible and approachable is the #1 priority.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SerinDelaunay basically - I agree, but at that point people should probably go code something themselves, hahaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SerinDelaunay ah haha. yeah, not that I'm promising anything! but also I definitely will be looking at the resultsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SerinDelaunay @allTheTyping hm, interesting idea!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @patchdj: Clear Channel goes on a buying spree, and this turns out to be Armageddon for rock radio. Suddenly one dude in Texas is progra…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck make brain big???Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Storange4Mike @JotaroQuotes it's just because it tried to tweet the same thing twice in a row - Twitter sends us this error when we doPermalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly I love that David Sirlin decided to design a game and call it "Chess 2". It's such a statement!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly also partial to the name of the videogame "5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial just approaching my scheduled nap time, thx for keeping me on trackPermalink Look on archive.org
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Dune (2021) opinion : turns out a lot of books would work well in a beat-for-beat film adaptation, just so long as you make them 5 hours long.Permalink Look on archive.org
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like, at this point the main difference between a 6 episode streaming season and a film-and-a-sequel is just budget, right?Permalink Look on archive.org
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I also hope they keep making these, just because I really want them to get to the weird shit.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcclure111: Being queer & doing even a little bit okay (even if you're really not doing ok) always involves a heavy dose of survivor's…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcclure111: I don't think I feel like that anymore. I feel like things are shifting. I was always happy that the generation of queers r…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pareene: well documented blind spot of western liberalism is an inability to process that a fascist in a tie, with a degree, actually s…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lingmops yesssss. they are planning on doing Dune Messiah as the third in the trilogy, and a separate prequel show about the Bene Gesserit? but hopefully we'll get wormboi in phase 2.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @conchitinabot: Because I have, for good or ill, decided to remain a practitioner in the professionalized world of writing, I am perpetu…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kepstin: @thomasfuchs It's actually possible for web pages to make their tabs *completely invisible* with the current design, which, uh…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort there's a weird magic designing a game, where once you hit a certain critical mass then players actually give a shit about achieving the things you want them to achieve, and then you can use that to give them interesting challenges.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort but it's the challenges that make the rewards rewarding? it's easy to joke about "numbers go up" but why, fundamentally do we want them to? and do we care more if the numbers are called "level" rather than "spacepoints".Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort and of course, also, once players are invested in a certain system of value, they will typically short-circuit into maximising that value efficiently rather than "having fun".Permalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin @Robin_B this looks amazing!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @annaxmalina: photography by Eadweard Muybridge {1880s} as featured in Thom Andersen's EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER {1975} proba…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MaxKriegerVG: so much of the "opportunity" that emerged for indies really does seem to have been a mere symptom of AAA/console holders…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @amphitryoniades: I feel like “the Prime Minister once had intimate relations with Ghislaine Maxwell” is actually quite a big news story…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ladyaeva i think @mcclure111 is! or at least, in microblog form. here's her 5 minute talk on the concepts: youtube.com/watch?v=YJ6hX_x4_twPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ladyaeva @mcclure111 (except using IPFS-ish stuff instead of onion-ish stuff)Permalink Look on archive.org
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quite possibly the most relatable Dry Cleaning lyric??? @drycleaningbot/1461039989341360128Permalink Look on archive.org
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vote canvas @seldo/1461067952875196421Permalink Look on archive.org
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@wjjjjt @softlandscapes @matt_levine I also read that paragraph and had that thought. (I am definitely not going to make @softlandscapes into NFTs, and in fact doublechecked I never open sourced it so I know where I stand if someone else did)Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about what a relief it was to hear my new GP say "In fact, I'm certain you know more about how this works than I do"Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about how when I was a kid I would hang out with people speaking MLE pretty often. and now I'm an adult, I rarely do. but I'm still in South London. (and sometimes, when I'm tired, I can feel myself starting to slur things in a particular way...) @mcclure111/1461103598415327238Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial @inthesedeserts 10484 Corporate DrivePermalink Look on archive.org
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FAANG stands for: Meta Apple Amazon Netflix AlphabetPermalink Look on archive.org
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honestly the odd one out is Netflix - it's big but it's only in one business, it's not a weird conglomerate which would like to know every time you touch a computerPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @math_rachel: Contrast in advice from leaders in Japan vs. UK in early March 2020 Japan: warning about poor ventilation, crowds, & voca…Permalink Look on archive.org
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feel like i want to learn an instrument just well enough to get together with some friends and play a cover of Galaxie 500's song TugboatPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @austin_walker: Do you know how you limit abuses of power? By building enforceable checks against them. Not just through new training or…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i've been way from Unity for a hot second and i forgot how disruptive it is to have to wait for a progress bar the whole tim [at this point in drafting the tweet, Unity finished deploying and stole focus]Permalink Look on archive.org
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github copilot is like pair programming with a golden retrieverPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: it's fucked up and bad that this is the correct sequence: 11 am 12 pm 1 pmPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @_watchsunrise: When I was in doubt about going for my Masters degree I remember Mum sat me down and said: "You can't compare yourself…Permalink Look on archive.org
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twitter keeps putting a big "PROMOTE" button below my tweets. i'm not going to pay people to read my tweets! they should be paying me!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NiranjanAjit: ummm... the fossil gas industry, in an official submission to the united nations framework convention on climate change,…Permalink Look on archive.org
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Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (2015) @ted_pen/1461317133330272257Permalink Look on archive.org
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if the queer community can understand the concept of he/him lesbians, it should be able to understand straight people who sleep with people of the same genderPermalink Look on archive.org
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@nicolehe @devolverdigital @arnaud_debock @nerial oh WOW! so that's why you were in London! congratulations!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@reproutopia good for her!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@reproutopia yeah, she knows how to play a videogame!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@reproutopia i played it for about a day and then found myself too locked into a haze of completing things and had to quit completely, so i know how you feel...Permalink Look on archive.org
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"At eighteen, I simply didn't identify as a girl who had just graduated high school, for reasons both obvious (I was trans) and less obvious (I was, and remain, pompous)." @isaac_fellman/1461193875796619268Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @everestpipkin: you ever think about how we live in an entirely constructed hellPermalink Look on archive.org
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i did not know about multi channel SDFs until now, but: wow! @ChevyRay/1461378021336645639Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NotBrunoAgain: essentially this is the problem with difficulty fetishism: people are very attached to what beating a hard game says abo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@inconvergent just multiply the output by 100, I'm sure there will be no point at which this will end up backfiringPermalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen Toca Boca Hair Salon (2 or 3) is the best thing I know in this veinPermalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen I made Calming Sphere (on Android, or at v21.io/calmingsphere) - not quite the same, but deliberately calming & trying to get interaction to gently slow & come to a halt as you play.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen at the time I was v into the idea of making games that you could fall asleep playing. needless to say, games that are designed to let go of you have less of a inherent sales factor than stuff that's designed to grip you.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tigershungry: Can someone please establish the mod rules for ‘ Pikmkin Bloom: It Follows’ I’m currently being stalked by this little…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @broseph_stalin: BREAKING: Modi has just announced that all three Farm Laws will be repealed. Over 360 days of protests & over 600 farm…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @cakesandcourage: a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine but, yeah, this does indeed seem like A LotPermalink Look on archive.org
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@konjak this is why i love monitor stands that clamp to the back of the desk. i gotta have that desk space.Permalink Look on archive.org
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guess this is going to be a thread for Being Back At It in UnityPermalink Look on archive.org
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imagine if Unity... could serialize Dictionaries??? imagine all the useless complexity that could be avoided. i think parts of the documentation still allude to this being a thing they might someday do, but it's been over a decade, c'mon.Permalink Look on archive.org
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have just imported my cozy set of utility files i carry around from project to project. ManualTween.cs, Extensions.cs & StateSystem.csPermalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt 1. i hadn't seen this actually, thank you 2. "imagine all the useless complexity that could be avoided" hahaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt yeah - my exact situation was that i have a JSON format that's used by web stuff as well as Unity, and I had to change part of the format to switch to a list so Unity's JsonUtility could deserialize it nicely.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt obviously other json deserializers are available, but JsonUtility is fast & doesn't add a new dependency. but really Unity should support this, it is one of the Basic Data Structures.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @One_Angry_Chef: A new blog post on the new website. What is the deadliest and most expensive thing in the world? How does it shape our…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rachelcoldicutt: "All the mince pies were blind-tasted by 66 people who were demographically representative of the general population,…Permalink Look on archive.org
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saw The Long Goodbye for the first time tonight & feel like the last scrap of a chance I would appreciate the Cowboy Bebop series just vanishedPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dvsch: Stylegan interpolation + slitscanPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @biologizing: I once went to a conference where the first speaker walked up on stage, slapped his hand down on the podium, and said "It'…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @plambrechtsen: Wow IETF IPv4 exhaustion is so bad you want to convert 127 from /8 to /16 and make 127.1.0.0 -> 127.255.255.255 on the p…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@danhett how do you feel about the sentence "Right now, this leads to a lot of confusion and frustration for customers, but in the long term these things will be ironed out and you’ll find all the IP for one series within their owner groups’ designated streaming platform."Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @visakanv: This quote has been sticking with me. I feel like it applies perfectly to thinking about internet celebrity and going viral.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i really like the sound the little dog makes as he jumps off the wall @JoGribbin/1461727621331496972Permalink Look on archive.org
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the idea of a game with Christmas levels makes me think of the games I played off a Christmas themed shareware CD as a kid. Most notably Christmas Kye (I never even considered that non-Christmas Kye might exist) kye.me.uk/xmas.htmlPermalink Look on archive.org
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in other "good sounds" news: pyoing! pyo! bloo! pyoing! @walaber/1461725571814019073?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NotRightRuth: My usual thoughts on Trans Day of Remembrance: - most trans deaths won't be reported, but - trans people aren't likely to…Permalink Look on archive.org
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okay, more The Long Goodbye thoughts: - cool that there were so many animals in it! - cool that they filmed interiors on location - so many good shots involving looking through windows, getting a sense of the whole layout of a buildingPermalink Look on archive.org
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saw Night Moves recently, which was also excellent - both protagonists have an interesting relationship to masculinity. if nothing else, they're both defined by... not being creeps to girls (with their baps out). also both were just excellently played, nuanced & charismatic.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hautepop @HKesvani I have been trying to understand crypto/web3 stuff, for better or worse - but I think there's fundamental problems with thinking about them as co-ops @v21/1447572473625595906?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty @hautepop @HKesvani yeah - i don't think these are incidental problems, they're inherent to the fundamental premises of the technology. blockchains are a set of self-consistent data structures, but mapping that data to the human world necessarily involves social relationships.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Dick_Hogg i'm afraid to say i didn't notice it! i heard about the cool thing they did, using the same theme in lots of different arrangements. but i totally did not notice it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @yeehaw_meg: pete davidson, travis barker, and machine gun kelly are the manic pixie dream girl of men….. the chaos goblin line cookPermalink Look on archive.org
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it's interesting the way that it nudges you towards writing code that is like other code that people write. makes it much less useful if you're working with a homebrewed framework. might be a good thing, although i don't like it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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when it comes to the hardest part of programming, naming things, it definitely gives me "well, but now i don't want to call it that" feelingsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Anxiousounce: 1396.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tigershungry @zoewi awww, yay, happy birthday Zo-ii!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@varjmes 2D or 3D, console or mobile, what size is the team, do you prefer C++ or C#, what's the art stylePermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial reckon i'm gonna make some crumble this afternoonPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial got too many apples, so... applePermalink Look on archive.org
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thank you, Adele bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59365019Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @zachlieberman: few morePermalink Look on archive.org
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@varjmes personally, I know Unity pretty well, I think it is approachable, and Unreal seems a little harder to get going with if you're not making an FPS. But that might be entirely my own personal biases!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@varjmes one thing I will say is that Unity is best approached with an attitude of "okay, I will try to do things the way Unity wants me to do them, and I will try to code as little as possible". At least when you're getting started.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @roomthily: (it is interesting the newer to tech crowd's interest in like crystals and tarot and the new tech payment processors' reject…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @shaun_vids: the protagonist: i was wrong! i have failed! do not repeat my mistakes, lest you meet my miserable fate *shoots self* dude…Permalink Look on archive.org
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it was old news when i said it before, but Sailor Moon is so good??? just watched an episode about the power of friendship & also how it's good to use your nice pencils rather than saving them for a special occasionPermalink Look on archive.org
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@JamesWallis I am watching it on Discord, streamed by a friend who pirated it. Not helpful, I know!Permalink Look on archive.org
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also this bit, which is depressingly still relatable even nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ADAMATOMIC i was so shocked, i expected it to be like... Important & to fill in a cultural hole. But I didn't expect it to be so good and so subtle and so, well, well done.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ADAMATOMIC I think the thing that gets me most, especially given how much anime there was been subsequently about schoolkids... is how well written the characters are *as* schoolkids.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Clipart1994bot: CURLING.BMFPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @matchbloc: Take care of your feet. Wear rubber boots in wet conditions 🌧Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ignatzhoch @Clipart1994bot i reckon it's the moment after they just released it. the second most tense moment in curlingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort aw, shit, i'm sorry to hear that - will keep an ear out for youPermalink Look on archive.org
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@danhett this... makes sense to me? i feel like this maybe says more about me than anything else.Permalink Look on archive.org
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it seems to me that for freelancers in the UK, it's most normal to charge a day rate, and for freelancers in the US, it's normal to charge an hourly rate. does this seem right?Permalink Look on archive.org
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thanks all! seems like the consensus is "yeah, probably, although obviously there are lots of exceptions"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@sludgetown seems like that would do my head in, but if it works for him!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rechelon: "Debt trade network" generates a lot fewer misconceptions than "gift economy" and helps situate most actually existing gift e…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@undividual okay, confession: i charge a day rate because i procrastinate and drift... i still get stuff done, but trying to figure out exactly what was productive time & what wasn't seems like a nightmare. minimum resolution i want to deal with is "half a day"Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @gutefabrik: If you're just seeing this now, feel free to send a CV and a list of bullet points if you haven't time to put together a fu…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @typepunchmatrix: Did you know that a catalog of internal Apple t-shirt designs was published in 1997? Well, folks, https://t.co/8aoTWI3…Permalink Look on archive.org
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thread on design tradeoffs with end to end encryption of messaging platforms @elegant_wallaby/1462845345319161860Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ID_AA_Carmack: Every use of video post production in product promotion should be a call to action to make the actual product experience…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @WYR_bot: Would you rather live without music or live without tv?Permalink Look on archive.org
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very relatable stuff in this profile of the world's foremost maze designer newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/how-the-worlds-foremost-maze-maker-leads-people-astrayPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @xoxogossipgita: @alexhcranz if you want to organize your fellow workers, you have to do the organizing. if you want advice on how to do…Permalink Look on archive.org
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I love Simone Veil's work, and I'm glad she's doing okay. @inputmag/1462859730083266561Permalink Look on archive.org
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weird to have this parasocial relationship with someone who has made such great art about feeling very weird about people having parasocial relationships with her, but. that's how it is. and i guess I'm posting about it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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way back when, she had a music blog with a lot of really good music by bands I hadn't heard of. was my main source of finding new music for a while there.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@torpordust like the PM in The Thick of ItPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ladyaeva reminds me of picking up a crucible in chemistry class to bring it over to the scales after heating it in a bunsen burner. a moment before the pain hit, looking at my hand and going "ah, this was a mistake, this is about to hurt a lot"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AndrewJohnMarks looks like you're having a nice time!! @Toydreamings/1462811251860332553Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall I have acquired most of my bicycles from posting a question like this online, and then a friend responding to say "hey, i've got a bike i'm not using, want it?". so... hope that works out for you!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum total wipe outPermalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin apologies apologies apologies for the brag, but... that's what i was making at Niantic.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin yeah, not expecting to ever make that much again... but nice to set that bar high when i'm next negotiating.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@kitrichardsonuk oh, yeah, i can totally see that!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ka_bradley Earth is like, 30% liquid, so I think we have to judge the whole thing on a sliding scale.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ka_bradley or else the only planets we'll have left will be a few frozen balls of icePermalink Look on archive.org
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this is a picture of the top of the deepest hole humans have ever dug. it goes over 12 kilometers into the ground. they stopped drilling it when it got so hot the rock started getting squishy.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Kola Superdeep Borehole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_BoreholePermalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck what would you do with it if it wasn't welded shut?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@seanbgoneill @ted_pen there's a Canadian scheme to catch out landlords who raise the rent past rent caps myoldapartment.org/Permalink Look on archive.org
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this editorial about cryptocurrency really sums up the mindset. it reads like a bit from Uncut Gems, but podcastified. theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/23/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-ethereum-buying-futuresPermalink Look on archive.org
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i love videogames @winnersusedrugs/1463171750099931154?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love the comma ellipsis,,,,Permalink Look on archive.org
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comma ellipsis, preferred orthographyPermalink Look on archive.org
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i couldn't thread this poll, so @v21/1463176286025785346Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @_goodnightout: One of the biggest principles for increasing disclosures is this: if you create a door for someone to open, that door ne…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@adrielxyz i shoulda offered it! that's on me.Permalink Look on archive.org
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feels like the rest of the world has to suffer a lot of innovation that was invented in order to patch over America's crap infrastructurePermalink Look on archive.org
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i guess i'm mainly just thinking of any time crypto people say "but how else could you instantly transfer money to another person!??" and i'm like... it's called a bank transfer.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@DGoodayle what a completely charming comments section!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@HourComeAtLast @innesmck i mean, the wikipedia article both describes the bottom of the borehole being about 180C, and says that the drilling mud was "boiling with hydrogen", so that does make sense to me.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort are you sure it's not "so the company can judge your skills without being able to do an end-run around the recruiter?"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort (blinded applications are definitely a thing, tho, don't want to dismiss their existence)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hannahnicklin the @matajuegos_coop folks might well have some resources - tagging in @PfQuarta @__rumpelPermalink Look on archive.org
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still wild to me how fast rockets have to go sideways to stay in space. like, sure they need to work pretty hard to get 150 miles up, but then they also need to go sideways at like 17,000 miles per hour. that's a lot of sideways!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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orbiting really is just going so fast you keep missing the planet when you fall down againPermalink Look on archive.org
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people find their own uses for tools @rajbhagatt/1463359804764688389?t=bvanEvh7ipxf8urbNoaKTw&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@wjjjjt I was about to say, set your trends location to somewhere you don't speak the language of... but maybe it's Hawkeye you're looking forward toPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern ... admittedly it was Kerbal that really brought this home for mePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DesignReviewed: School of Visual Arts Collection: Poster by George Tscherny, 1958. via containerlist.glaserarchives.org/index.php?id=127Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Samuel_Rutter: incredible energy in sophie calle's frieze questionnaire: frieze.com/article/questionnaire-sophie-callePermalink Look on archive.org
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three poems by Conchitina Cruz cordite.org.au/chapbooks-features/centrehold/three-poems-by-conchitina-cruz/Permalink Look on archive.org
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people find their own uses for tools @rmozone/1463554958935179266?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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hey look at this photo of me i managed to capture AND save to disk in jpeg format from within code within the Unity Editor!Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love seeing the visual structure in a printout of some numbers @inconvergent/1463592073186131973Permalink Look on archive.org
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@vectorpark yeah, definitely feels like it's operating on a different level below the headline This Is The Plot stuffPermalink Look on archive.org
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@vectorpark my assumption was the opposite - a somewhat boring script that got elevated by the actors, direction & production designPermalink Look on archive.org
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@vectorpark remember reading about Matthew Lillard saying he came up with the toothbrush thing to build out a story of his character having a shitty living situation with his parents & so crashing round with folks constantly.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MckKirk: I've seen the future and it sucks ftw.usatoday.com/2021/11/epic-games-fortnite-metaverse-big-techPermalink Look on archive.org
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@danhett I'm gonna take you down, DanPermalink Look on archive.org
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@danhett It can't always be the Rocky where he wins at the end, sometimes it's the Rocky where he doesn't win at the end.Permalink Look on archive.org
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glad we had the pandemic after we did all that work on adding features to the Internet. glad I got ill while everyone else was stuck inside with the pandemic too.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I think it's unfair when people end up being public figures and have to deal with all the shit public figures get, but aren't also rich.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @AdamWagner1: 🚨I wanted to raise the alarm on some important new amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which the g…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this made me cry theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/25/frank-turner-on-reconciling-with-his-trans-parent-miranda-is-a-really-nice-person-my-dad-wasntPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @RoxanneCarney: I am here to tell you once again... @ace_national will pay for an access support worker to help write a bid. This is pa…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly quackPermalink Look on archive.org
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banging on the table COB HOUSE COB HOUSE COB HOUSE @ukgranddesigns/1423215083899994116Permalink Look on archive.org
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i like the bit on Grand Designs where he says "did you have to make it quite so large? wouldn't it have been easier to make a normal sized house?" and they make a weak excuse about why ("well, we got planning permission for a manor house, so") and can't admit it was just greedPermalink Look on archive.org
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"ah, but it's very energy efficient, so it costs the same to run as a smaller house"Permalink Look on archive.org
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i do sympathise with greed! it's one of those things where you get carried away a bit, and it's only when you look back you realise that your desires were self-defeating and a little false. and actually the guest annex is better used as a holiday let.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@MetzoPaino years of labour, hundreds of thousands of pounds, the massive disruption to the lives of your loved ones as their home & all your time pours into a giant monument to vanityPermalink Look on archive.org
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glad i have the experience to know how to dig around enough to find some documentation for the PointerEventData class, after Unity apparently dropped it from the bundled documentation (along with IPointerClickHandler, which is still linked)Permalink Look on archive.org
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just to follow up on this thread: i couldn't figure out how to have normal Intellisense and also Copilot in VS Code, so I turned off Copilot. Ironically the problem with it is that I didn't have a good enough memory & it kept guessing plausible but wrong names for things.Permalink Look on archive.org
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in the past few months I've discovered I was holding chopsticks wrong and that I was tying my shoelaces wrong. never too late to discover you're fucking up some very basic life skills.Permalink Look on archive.org
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chopsticks: I was holding them on a kinda claw-like way, rather than in a better pencil-like way shoelaces: they stay tied better if the first knot & the bow alternate in terms of whether the left or the right side goes over the topPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is why when you were a little kid & an adult retied your shoelace, it would stay tied better. not that their technique was better, they'd just automatically do it the other way because they were facing the other way.Permalink Look on archive.org
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as ever, I recommend the #1 site about shoelaces, Ian's Shoelace Site fieggen.com/shoelace/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@stefpos @SzMarsupial they didn't! but generally only these trainers, which seem to have extra slippery shoelaces or something. I'd have to like, wiggle them to get some extra tightness or do a double bow (which I hate because you've got to unpick it)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mousefountain: Notable computer game "Dépanneur Nocturne" is available now! store.steampowered.com/app/1285160/Depanneur_Nocturne/ I mean, it's for sale. Sorry I mean…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rachelcoldicutt: Today is very much my day for commenting on service design choices in health and care. Pleased to make an appearance a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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on the flipside... feeling pretty comfy making stuff in this? making decent progress, writing decent code. reassuring to do something you know how to do.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RectTransform math is still annoying tho. especially because i am converting data from a y-is-down co-ordinate system!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @abscond: You've probably gone about your life not caring about @UKAS, which means they're probably doing a good job? I've written a qui…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love videogames @MatttGFX/1463422804255248384?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcclure111: I would like to take this opportunity to announce NFTBlocker, an upcoming browser plugin or possibly standalone app which a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @SaraBWarf: Went looking for a photo on my phone and found this gem. UR WELCOMEPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @TrentOster: @RaphLife We had a derived stat from Mass Effect that the average user could consume about $170,000 worth of level art per…Permalink Look on archive.org
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categorising jumpers into those best worn under dungarees, and those best worn above themPermalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno Exactly!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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something I have wondered about! kissing is not universal @DilettanteryPod/1464151940258885633Permalink Look on archive.org
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looking at this image, and thinking about all the political prisoners the new protest bill would create @XrSouthEastUK/1464105444516016128Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @shutupmikeginn: Why must a movie be “good” ? Is it not enough to sit somewhere dark and see a beautiful face, huge?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @adamndsmith: Tony Blair saying Labour was wrong to support LGBT rights in the 1980s because it lost them the support of homophobes http…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LadyElimere @EyeEdinburgh @Joannechocolat I thought the Internet Archive only let one person view the book for each copy they had?Permalink Look on archive.org
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i think one exciting output of GPT and the like is that they give everyone a intuitive sense of what "unsurprising" or "low information" writing is like. if a machine can accurately predict what you're about to say next, it's probably not conveying much information.Permalink Look on archive.org
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which doesn't mean that the ideal for writing is some sort of superdense knot of meaning, which the reader must work at for hours to unpick (a shame, because my writing tends that way)Permalink Look on archive.org
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sometimes you're writing an email and Gmail see you writing "I hope" and offers to autocomplete "this email finds you well", and, y'know, you do want to express an anodyne polite sentiment, that's fine, that writing is doing it's job.Permalink Look on archive.org
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and if you spend much time online you're probably already familiar with low-information writing - the kind of things you find in small text at the bottom of a shop page, designed to be read by a Google spider & not by human eyes.Permalink Look on archive.org
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but it's a new and strange thing to write within a box which gives you real time feedback on just how anodyne and predictable your phrases arePermalink Look on archive.org
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no, i love it. i make cups of tea mainly so they'll keep me company - drinking the tea is secondary @jasminericegirl/1463624050207559687Permalink Look on archive.org
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30% feels like a significant stat! I imagine it's similar across most of YouTube. @tomscott/1464208499324428294Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nerial: Nerial is looking for a freelance community manager, yeah! nerial.co.uk/careers (as you can tell by this very dry tweet, the…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @superSGHP: in other fulminating today — the idea that we are shocked SHOCKED there is a new variant while the West spent the last year…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alphachar it is so hard to do, right? the habit of a lifetime...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NotBrunoAgain @catacalypto @GalaxyKate i mean, arguably Unity uses C# as its embedded scripting language??Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NotBrunoAgain @catacalypto @GalaxyKate which works well, but on the other hand they had to invent ILCPPPermalink Look on archive.org
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the one i enjoy the most is that global variables are also just entries in a hashtable (called "_G"). @NotBrunoAgain/1464348414456614922Permalink Look on archive.org
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*drake shaking his head* one data structure? *drake approving* one variablePermalink Look on archive.org
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@craigw1701 i don't think you're disproving the "cursed" thesis herePermalink Look on archive.org
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I feel like people only use the word "shilling" when they're trying to really make you feel outraged about the people doing the shilling. It makes it not very effective? Any pre-existing negative connotations have worn off.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern huh, makes sense!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Angie_Spoto: Look what I discovered! A wee pencil sharpener out in the wilds of PortyPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lmfsilva: @HKesvani The most Incredible thing would be tories announcing an enormous plan worth billions to build new public housing, s…Permalink Look on archive.org
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regular reminder that if you appreciate making bots with Cheap Bots, Done Quick! or following bots other people make, you can help pay for the server & also my time maintaining it <3 patreon.com/v21Permalink Look on archive.org
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thank you so much to everyone who does - it means a lot to mePermalink Look on archive.org
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@Nele_St Happy birthday!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @oeverywhere: Great interview with the consistently brilliant @MaxLiboiron gizmodo.com/why-trying-to-clean-up-all-the-ocean-plastic-is-pointle-1848111529Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LovelySoftSnow thank you!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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from my DMs last night, a testimonial (thx for permission to post, @MuffinFoxo)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NotInventedHere @MuffinFoxo I very much love to see it!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mobilegamehell: Prrrrrrrrrrt 💨Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio reading Deep Wheel Orcadia & it's taking a while because I have to read it aloud in a bad accent to appreciate the poetryPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio "2x speed multiplier if you're actually Orcadian" etcPermalink Look on archive.org
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reading this from my carefully constructed nest, set up so i can play computer games from bed, with my head still a bit fuzzy from the mental effort of having just played videogames online with friends @TheWhitePube/1464896869008658435Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lilianelijn: Sunlight shining through the slats. Despite everything a peaceful morning.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Lucywwatson: If “cancelling” or “silencing” means anything, surely it is thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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impartiality means not listening to anyone who disagrees with the Government @dylan_patel/1464859979291242505Permalink Look on archive.org
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tumblr gets posted on twitter, twitter gets posted on instagram, where do the instagram screencaps go? is it YouTube dissections of influencer drama? and some parts of tiktok often feels like dramatisations of like, a Science Facts twitter account. @overfireisland/1387533862964633604Permalink Look on archive.org
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the internet modelled as a cow's digestive system, a system of stomachs and occasionally burping up the cud to chew. all in order to turn the indigestible grass of human experience into a steaming cowpat.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin I'm sorry to say that this is a plot beat in a Wes Anderson film.Permalink Look on archive.org
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one must imagine the bus passengers happyPermalink Look on archive.org
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in America, the better the cheddar the sharper it is in Britain, the better the cheddar the maturer it is would you rather be:Permalink Look on archive.org
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figured I'd give Riverdale another chance, so just started watching season 2. it really is a 45 minute version of one of those mobile game ads about doing up a crumbling mansion with your sweet grandma (who is... secretly a killer on the run from the law!!!)Permalink Look on archive.org
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A DAO cannot represent worker power. It is a fundamental consequence of the underlying technology that control cannot be held democratically, only by shareholders of a greater or lesser share of the governance tokens. Capital, in other words. @ljin18/1464994679468998661Permalink Look on archive.org
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for more on this, google "Sybil attack" and see my previous thread @v21/1447573883364773892?t=kTKrWthKKozTFWILSnslbA&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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But I think she knows she's not being serious. "balancing the interests of capital providers vs. active contributors" is the fundamental problem the labor movement is attempting to address. If that is a weakness of DAOs, then what use are they for workers? @ljin18/1464994707256365064?t=6_1-k1yUPdw8wP8VGQusIg&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @christapeterso: Very little children run a counting scam where they can recite lists of numbers but simply cannot count https://t.co/uQ…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ctbeiser @SamAugustDean @isosteph @opencollect I was part of a collective that put on video game parties. We made deals with bars, collected ticket money, paid out to artists we were showing, even collaborated with games festivals before we bothered to set up a legal entity.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ctbeiser @SamAugustDean @isosteph @opencollect "the venmo guy" model works fine as long as you can trust the venmo guy. but if you can't trust the venmo guy, the small social organisation you're talking about is fucked anyway, and in much more fundamental ways.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ctbeiser @SamAugustDean @isosteph @opencollect the fundamental problem with the DAO solution is it is trustless, so now everyone has to be deeply involved in exactly what's happening with the finances. and nobody willing to put the time into that is any fun anywayPermalink Look on archive.org
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@kcimc I get stuck on the fact that DAOs have no way of giving voting power equally to each worker @v21/1465032324605698048?t=ejm8VQ8-lPfjbPasGMarZA&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@sturob @kcimc why have a DAO, then? the big problems unions face aren't "running a membership database" & "polling their workers". and unions typically choose to be strategic about when to reveal information to the company - a way of mitigating some of the power asymmetries.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jericawebber okay, so last time I played Wavelength someone was trying to convey round <=> pointy, and to convey "really very round" they chose "hedgehog" because... they forgot they had spines.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ohhoe I use Airpop masks, they have a little silicone bit that flips up & makes a tight seal around the nose.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jericawebber they are simultaneously very round and very pointy! which honestly causes trouble for both sides of the polarised discussion you are trying to cultivate on this threadPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jericawebber phew!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@purecelain Oop, yeah, that's £9k on mine since March.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@purecelain Guess that makes me feel better about spending a bit more than that on a kitchen renovation...Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @stavvers: One of the best things for public health would be for it to become completely OK, both socially and ESPECIALLY in terms of wo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern hey those quantum computers are starting to get bigger...Permalink Look on archive.org
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CBDQ status report: there's an ongoing problem where some accounts are tweeting intermittently. I've been looking into it this evening & have not yet managed to track it down - but I'll continue to investigate tomorrow.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@btspolytruther hi - sorry about this, there's a subtle bug in the backend that i'm having trouble tracking down. but i'm looking into it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kayhannahwatson: @sheffdocfest are recruiting an Alternate Realities Curator, more info here: sheffdocfest.com/about/opportunities :)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty it's not quite the same thing (not a non profit) but this makes me think of Koyama PressPermalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty or, again a different model, but Ice Water Games is interesting as a true indie publishing co-opPermalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno i am sorry to say that i don't have a big pile of money to give you, but: yes please, and let's chat about itPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @oldmanofthefire: An old style experimentPermalink Look on archive.org
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morning update: my debugging is hindered by the fact that the bug appears to have stopped happening. all i did was add a bit more logging, so i don't believe it's actually fixed. will look into it more when it starts happening again.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@btspolytruther yeah, that'll be Twitter's duplicate tweet prevention kicking in, not anything to do with CBDQ.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @colinsbearanim: The bear's happiness causes him to grow -- his consciousness subsumes the Earth. He does a handstand.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@iamdanw could imagine Google doing this, once they've entrenched their position with FLOCPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hellocatfood i think if you get a lot of emails that ask the same thing & it takes a lot of time and attention, then it is worth making a contact page that answers those questions/sets expectations about responses. eg Em Short's page: emshort.blog/contact/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@leo_elo_ole thank you. it's a joy to see what people make with it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno i think some of them do, but they're using it. yes, i think that's unfair, too.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TheOperaGeek if the game doesn't make you think or feel anything, then why are you playing??Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TheOperaGeek yes, sorry, my fault - i was agreeing with you. if someone can perfectly separate fantasy and reality, then the game isn't going to make them feel or thing anything. because that happens in reality.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hellocatfood no, not that many! most of the stuff i get is CBDQ related, and comes in via Twitter DM - hard to put a FAQ in front of it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tomstafford: The latest in @thedalstonyears' series on lives lost to the virus focuses on an anti-vaccination health fanatic. I'm quote…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @leighalexander: if you take "conquer and exploit an area that isn't yours" off the table, 90% of game dev dudes will be totally lost as…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @suzushiro333: Maid to Skate 27Permalink Look on archive.org
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hey the place that opened up with "bubble tea" on their signage, but wasn't selling bubble tea, is selling bubble tea now!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SelectivePress @fr_oblivion9 @radical1979 @CurtFinch @LotusEater29 @michelletandler but it's a market full of government interventions already: eg the stamp duty holiday, capital gains tax exemptions, council housing. most of these interventions are designed to increase or maintain the price of existing housing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SelectivePress @fr_oblivion9 @radical1979 @CurtFinch @LotusEater29 @michelletandler there are issues with rent control (eg: in Berlin, finding an apartment to rent is difficult - but affordable once you've found it), but it is not at all obvious to me that they would act as a disincentive to develop new properties in in-demand areasPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @vzverovich: Commit of the day by @stephentyrone: change the value of π github.com/apple/swift/commit/5da37a5b1a0778cb6ffdd72ff0e4a17b60f1cc95Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SelectivePress @fr_oblivion9 @radical1979 @CurtFinch @LotusEater29 @michelletandler typically with rent controls, new builds are able to set the prices where they like - it's just increases from historic rates that are prohibited. i believe this is how it works in NY & Berlin, for example.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SelectivePress @fr_oblivion9 @radical1979 @CurtFinch @LotusEater29 @michelletandler if i was in charge, i would end Right to Buy, allow councils to borrow to build more council housing, and bring in a land value tax (to discourage land banking & second home ownership)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @christinelove: If I was in an isekai the first thing I'd do is determine if I was in a novel, IRL, or a game. Hopefully one of the big…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MammonMachine: A video game just doesn't feel complete without a sluice puzzle. Share this tweet if you are part of the #sluicegamer m…Permalink Look on archive.org
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afternoon update: okay, it happened again. i do know where it's having issues, although i don't know the real underlying reason. but i think i can probably fix it without finding out?? so i'm going to go ahead and try that.Permalink Look on archive.org
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if anyone wants to tell me why, when using node-fetch, getting the buffer for the returned object can end up neither eventually resolving or rejecting, then i would be appreciative. and surprised. line of code in context here: github.com/v21/traceryhosting-backend/blob/master/run_bots.js#L42Permalink Look on archive.org
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and because it's a day where i'm working on CBDQ, i'm gonna link my Patreon again: patreon.com/v21 @v21/1464580624971354117?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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more innocent times @v21/1358911234138124288Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, yeah, also making your game code immutable can cause issues if it turns out it's not perfect first time @FoldableHuman/1465768966589083649?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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isn't it nice when you run across a site that does exactly the thing you need. i need to test whether my fetch timeout works, and here's a site that adds arbitrary delays to http resources: deelay.me/Permalink Look on archive.org
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alright, change made. hopefully that has solved it? will check back over the next few days to see.Permalink Look on archive.org
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[sidenote: wow this whole ESM/CommonJS migration is a pain in the butt. just real unnecessary aggravation all round]Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @shahed: “It’s like I’m in a virtual prison being on this list... They’re the gatekeepers of your prison, even though you haven’t done a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @poppy_haze: #protip, do not check inaccessible voids in ships, you may only have 20 seconds before you're dead and irrecoverable until…Permalink Look on archive.org
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sharp knife / no tongs @tammieetc/1465534611874889734Permalink Look on archive.org
