Tweets from 2022/04
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bad April Fools content : pretending your brand is going to pivot into doing something fun but uncharacteristic good April Fools content : making and releasing a fun little thing that is uncharacteristic for your brandPermalink Look on archive.org
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if you make a brown videogame full of guns, then don't joke about making a romance game. _make_ a romance game.Permalink Look on archive.org
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good person / bad food : Gene Wolfe inventing Pringles bad person / good food : Margaret Thatcher inventing soft-serve icecreamPermalink Look on archive.org
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I reckon a horse would totally flip out if you put it in microgravity.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Very dangerous situationPermalink Look on archive.org
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@catacalypto oh, much safer. as long as you're friends with the horsipede.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love this terrible writingPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @samlwalton: it's weird that women need to disclose the most traumatic experiences of their lives to write about nature while men just n…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tomokihara here's something @vivschwarz made, which i think fits the kind of shape you're talking about: vivianeschwarz.co.uk/essays/worry-planner/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tomokihara i also remember my revelation about the purpose of all the stationery and stuff with bullet journalling - it gives structure and things to fiddle with, a soothing context from which you can look at stressful stuff.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tomokihara i guess both of these point to something i've been thinking with this stuff - it's not about the data or drawing connections or whatever, it's about actually being willing to look & think about this. for me, anyway.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rachelcoldicutt i wore some hired-out bowling shoes in January!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @oneunderscore__: It's hard to express just how radicalized far-right spaces have become in the last month, in part because this new bra…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @fireh9lly: This 2017 piece on Ghostbusters and the Discourse is really, really good thesundae.net/2017/05/07/ghostbusters-2016-a-hillary-clinton-story/ via @sundaeblogPermalink Look on archive.org
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"Kalt feared that criminals might read the essay and commit a crime in the Zone before the loophole was fixed." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)Permalink Look on archive.org
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good content today : Among Us horsies, A Short Hike 99 look we know it's gonna be a bit crap and jam-quality, that's fine, it feels good to be let into the process a bit. to be on the inside of the joke.Permalink Look on archive.org
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extremely funny if WASM turns out to be the common runtime all software is built for. move over "C is the lingua franca of software", it's time for Javascript. (for more on C's role as a protocol, see gankra.github.io/blah/c-isn't-a-language)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @disconcision: playing with a few little naming-related mouse microtactics: (1) drag-and-drop to reference a variable, (2) drag-and-drop…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@DilettanteryPod dunno what the most important one is, but I thought this one from a few days ago was reasonably important washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Coleo_Kin it's so goodPermalink Look on archive.org
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@RylamiS Since this one, it downscales the images to a more reasonable size and also tries to preload themPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MeanestTA: Everyone on my team (5 men ages 48-75) texts me to make sure the slang they’re using is correct in context. Some examples be…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@_Tom_Henderson_ are games more delayed/shipped buggier these days? feels like that's always been the case, although if you're gonna postpone stuff these days maybe you'd enjoy the excuse of *waves hands* all this.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@_Tom_Henderson_ also... office leases are usually negotiated a few years at a time, managers have a job that involves "talking to people" so will feel differently from people who "actually make things", and "measuring productivity" is a difficult & subjective problem to solve!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@_Tom_Henderson_ like, ime, upper management's main concern with WFH is not productivity, but things like "long term team cohesion" and "innovation due to serendipitous conversations". the 'leccy bills did not enter their thinking!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @alienmelon: “Downpour is a fun, quick and accessible way to make your own videogames. Take photos of yourself, your drawings, your worl…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SkrivaFel you are: totally the target market <3Permalink Look on archive.org
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@steveruizok the discontinuity detection here is fascinatingPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @gillianmsmith: Intro to Game AI and machine learning for kids, 1962.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TopLeftBrick @ntschk yes! I was very excited when I saw that talkPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @JohnRMoffitt: With petroglyphs dating back thousands of years, the Al Naslaa rock formation towers over its surroundings. However, it…Permalink Look on archive.org
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reminded of this thread (^^) about the massive disconnect between shooting film & VFX, and how frustrating it must be to be a director & have a critical part of the process tied up in crunched outsourced studios: @dunkwun/1510436479591280640Permalink Look on archive.org
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@DavidLublin i am excited to see it! but also bummed there's no UK release planned.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly the dandruff quote is a fakePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @libcomorg: “I pretty much flipped my whole department. What I’ll do is study a group of friends and go to the leader of the pack. Whate…Permalink Look on archive.org
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talking with multiple groups of friends & it's really exciting to me how powerful "leaving a computer on in a corner somewhere" is as a hosting modelPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hautepop: "Transforming the entire energy system that undergirds industrial capitalism and minimizing disruptions to the natural enviro…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Skull_Beneath @PixieStitchs @kj_charles ok ok ok, I loved A Seditious Affair and it was definitely the kind of thing I was thinking of when I asked for pirate books. so... yeah, guess I should keep going with her stuff!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@notsowiseowl @TaylorLorenz there's a nice bit in Blockchain Chicken Farm about oyster shucking parties!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@_benui @everestpipkin yeah, it's painful to host a website on, but Minecraft server, Plex, backups, Twitter bots, game streaming if it's beefy etc etc. "personal computing" but without necessarily needing you to sit in front of itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@AnnaHollinrake ok but the amazing thing is you get to paint that view while warm & in pyjamasPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Ninfa_dp and then the Gods will curse you with a really cool project with a collaborator in JapanPermalink Look on archive.org
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@AnnaHollinrake Britain: Could Be Good If We Tried, But We Didn'tPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is the wildest paper. plants can maybe... see? @DorsaAmir/1508502038795087873Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thestarboretum yeah, i know, a ton of other possibilities. there's a reason i put a "maybe" in there! (tho i don't think it's a shoddy paper - it's measured in its claims & is saying "hey we found a weird thing, is this anything?")Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is really cool. live coding, node based editing of procedural text @mewo2/1510740527574102031Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @alexvtunzelmann: In my lifetime we’ve gone from free university education with cost of living grants to saddling students with a potent…Permalink Look on archive.org
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idle question: I'm doing the Now Play This hosting for Downpour using Express (which I'm new to) with Typescript (which I've used a lot). Express is fine, but it's crufty and not very amenable to Typescript. Is there a better alternative, or should I stick with the common thing?Permalink Look on archive.org
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(I do find it kinda funny that I have gotten a lot of Typescript experience with Node without having really having had to think about "writing a web service" before)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@liza thanks, will have a dig through. tbh, not fully sure of what the requirements will be, just feeling out my thoughts on the thing I'm using for this bit.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly 🫰🫰🫰 but also, yes, resting is really hard and 19 months in I am still not great at it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly (also, as someone who *does* have it worse, please complain away! there's no monopoly on wishing your body would let you do more)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker it's a good provocation! yeah, idk. my instincts are towards "just run everything on one server" (with maybe something S3-like when I need it). reliable enough, at the point I'll need scaling I'll have a whole different set of problems, and cheap to run as an ongoing thing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker CBDQ needed to be bumped up to a medium sized VPS (and also some broken code stuff needed fixing), but that's all the scaling I've had to do on it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore oh, Koa is a good shout, I do think it is more webservice shaped than webapp shaped. not that I have a great understanding of my requirements yet, just wanna think about it while the NPT hosting is in my head.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore kind of nice building a toy version before you start building the real onePermalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly that's scary!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@HJosephineGiles yess, very much into this!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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here is a great review of a great book, pulling apart the chewy stuff that the book attempts to do with poetry and sci-fi strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/Permalink Look on archive.org
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and also i am very excited to see there's an audiobook version! this is a book i read by reading it aloud to myself, to get a better sense of the cadence and meaning of the language, so i'm very glad to be able to hear Josie doing it instead @HJosephineGiles/1510968395390492674?s=20&t=mZEkesUZaNUtdvlq0960zAPermalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker yeah, i get you, and i could imagine going that way more easily for stuff that is a bit more experimental or finite-lifetime.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly it's gonna be really funny if this whole experience turns you into a gothPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @_Yuming_Li: painting, exploring colors!Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's not just me @rachelcoldicutt/1511017003431124994Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AnnaHollinrake @roryjobson @SamMGreer so what you're saying is i fucked up by not wearing my big boots outPermalink Look on archive.org
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a spreadsheet is a type of node editor @disconcision/1500909492049006592Permalink Look on archive.org
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(if you draw arrows between the cells that refer to each other. and of course, what spreadsheet software these days doesn't allow you to click to select a cell to refer to)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i guess the other interesting thing here is that each node is of the same intrinsic type, "expression", and it is by typing these expressions that you vary their functionality. compare Pd: (screenshot from puredata.info/docs/manuals/pd/x2.htm#s1.2)Permalink Look on archive.org
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node editor for generating procedural text: pangur.club/ a few neat things: - it operates on "pulses" - which are strings, sequenced, in flight - there's a "Search for Poem" nodePermalink Look on archive.org
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@KeirRice @col000r i bet i would (i have been meaning to crack open VCV Rack again). maybe i should... buy a VR??Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MgmtGAesthetic: 'SimFarm' - 1993Permalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno and something where (if you don't have them on hand) you have to take a trip out to pick them up, go home to do them, then go to the doctor.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Frog spawn normally appears in ponds and slow-moving streams in March. If you're too late to see frog spawn never fear – tadpoles will appear around April and are even more fun to find.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(this is a cryptic tease for a new project)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yoondust thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LydNicholas @adrianhon getting on my hobbyhorse here for a sec... fuck "innovation", there's so much stuff that is not especially new or innovative but is just not regularly done to a high standard. put the effort into that, and the innovation will take care of itself.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Tom_OBedlam: roguelike wikis are incrediblePermalink Look on archive.org
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@youngvulgarian this is gonna make you more mad, but... My mortgage for a 2 bed in Camberwell (bought a year ago) is £1400 a month.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: Twitter shouldn't add an edit button, but *should* add a "delete and redraft" button (where the tweet & the metadata pops back int…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck but can Goldilocks use an LFT?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin ribbitPermalink Look on archive.org
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new blog post, on doing a way of doing automated off-site backups that doesn't involve a subscription plan v21.io/blog/collective-backupsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hpowellsmith thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@WAptekar it does have file versioning modes, although I'm not sure exactly which of those settings I'd recommendPermalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate I wonder why all the newspapers are owned by rich people who operate them at a lossPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial I've not seen any beard chat. But, while we're here...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial it's from an old issue of Doom Patrol. which I reckon you would like the TV show of? people with weird powers rattling around an old house and trying to deal with trauma. and also weird shit that keeps happening to them.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial (it does have a lot of queer feelings)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial oh, and it literally has a sentient transvestite street, who is much beloved.Permalink Look on archive.org
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[poll] please refer to images in next tweetPermalink Look on archive.org
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more on Pangur @mewo2/1511415618733498379 I guess the more generalizable thing here is a snapshot of a node editor can be code & momentary state & maybe a hint about how it is changing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @59awakadoy: 時間ができたら色紙販売しますPermalink Look on archive.org
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@EmmaSzewczak this floorplan is wild. the bathroom is through the kitchen? the bedroom is only accessible through the garden?Permalink Look on archive.org
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have been spectating this & it's pretty fun to watch! set up in a really thoughtful way, with each player having private "confessional" channels, roundups, spectator chat etc. feels like being in the Survivor editing room. @doougle/1510955514766962688Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hownottodraw this is correctPermalink Look on archive.org
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a great example of this is the story of specialty cheeses between the 20s & and the 90s: thecourtyarddairy.co.uk/blog/history-british-cheese-20th-century-eradication-farmhouse-production/ @hownottodraw/1511443840078655492Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mrsambarlow well, a question here is: are you designing for Immortality to be played communally, as a conversation between players, or are you designing for it to be played by people on their own or maybe in small groups.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mrsambarlow the wiki as an intentional part of the game design. a game designed for a community, not just for a player.Permalink Look on archive.org
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what is the smallest vocabulary capable of expressing dissatisfaction with current working conditions and support for the idea of forming a union @abby4thepeople/1511167965374427150Permalink Look on archive.org
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and on the subject of telling an affecting story using only banal stock phrases, here's Richard Dawson singing "Jogging" youtube.com/watch?v=UGiQ_-KtpvcPermalink Look on archive.org
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@deathsatchel ohhhh, yeah, i can definitely see that.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Draknek @mtrc @ghoulnoise @lazerwalker i'm sorry to say that Stephen's "mmm, interesting" strikes just as much fear into my heart as your "bzzzt wrong"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thricedotted one half of a lifestyle kink couplePermalink Look on archive.org
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@Carpe_DMT @FantomasCinema the whole point of virtual sets is that the lighting matches up. which...Permalink Look on archive.org
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sqlite is coolPermalink Look on archive.org
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why have a database program running as it's own process, needing to be kept up, being managed etc when you can just embed it into your program and read and write to a file somewhere?Permalink Look on archive.org
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new friendPermalink Look on archive.org
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first impressions: the servos are more musical than the EleksdrawPermalink Look on archive.org
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I am slightly sad that everything happens in Inkscape, although tbf it's less finickity than "Universal G-code Sender"Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's far too early to make pronouncements on this, but early indications are that it is going to be way more reliable than the Eleksdraw. even just the setup with the board and clips is better than I had.Permalink Look on archive.org
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here's it in action, you can hear the machine sing for yourself (although... I either need to get less aggressive about pen up/pen down heights or I need some flatter paper)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@inconvergent yes, I did see that was there, tho I've not gotten to look at it. although tbqh I will probably keep using Inkscape for the foreseeable, I'm driving it from a windows machine & I do like previewing stuff.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc oh, that's a good idea. Also I reckon if I put the board sideways so I could clip on at both sides would also fix it. or just changing the config a little.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jackrusher: "The resultant javascript one-liner is a single horrendously inscrutable mega-expression." Another remarkable piece of madn…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle yah, of course! v21.io/files/temp/for_jazz.zip - got 90 secs of clean robot noises in therePermalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt oooh, even fancierPermalink Look on archive.org
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@grapefrukt and yeah, there's a python lib & a CLI, i have optionsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle oh shit, this is amazing! 🤩Permalink Look on archive.org
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*definitely* more musical @jazzmickle/1511685599882891267Permalink Look on archive.org
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the thing about this type of game is that it quickly becomes incredibly complicated and time consuming. the people who commit to it, win. and the game is real time, you can post constantly. so, thinking about my current "limited vocabulary" kick... @v21/1500638220446490625Permalink Look on archive.org
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what about running a game like this on a platform where you could only send, say, 5 messages a day (across public/private forums). and all of them are tweet length. of course, you can cram a *lot* into those messages, so maybe it still eats your life just drafting & redraftingPermalink Look on archive.org
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the important thing, tho, is that you only receive messages in a batch, at the end of the day. so you know that you need to pay attention once a day, and don't have that nagging pull the rest of the time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @oldroadside: peach water tower, angle 2, frontage road, gaffney, south carolina, 1988Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern @pillowfort Subterfuge feels like a great example of a game which has not solved this problem? but I admit I haven't played it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern @DannyPage @pillowfort oh, that makes a ton of sense. yeah. the good news is i just spent the last half hour splurging some thoughts on how a one-a-day backstabbing game might work into a doc, so... might be looking for playtesters soon?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern @DannyPage @pillowfort (the dynamics are definitely a bit weird, but maybe good weird? we'll see!)Permalink Look on archive.org
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Now Play This starts this Friday, and runs through the weekend. I was there yesterday, so I can report there are cool games, big projectors, some artfully arranged cardboard tubes and bits of red string. And also my new game making tool! nowplaythis.net/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort s'one of the paradoxes of fascism, innit. "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GDLP__ this feels like it is a cousin of the way I feel about orbs @v21/907663496464269314Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lena525: Good things in da Fred meyer's garden centerPermalink Look on archive.org
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i love videogames @RedOrbFragment/1511507554425208833Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @carlagannis: #flying with a window seat #volumetriccapturePermalink Look on archive.org
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i'm right in the middle of the awkward phase of trying to grow out a fringe, which means... i wanna cut it back againPermalink Look on archive.org
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@EmmaTheresaJ it's true! but I also don't wanna play a game that takes years to play, hahaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@danhett oooh! maybe focusing on some cops?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @timnitGebru: It really irritates me that my research agenda has to be based on what tech bros decide to chase. They get $$$ chase X, X…Permalink Look on archive.org
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wish you could configure some sort of setting in Steam so that you could let your friends stream games from your PC. the game would still be installed on your PC, and you'd be the one who owns it, but it'd handle swapping out the save files and achievements and that.Permalink Look on archive.org
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obviously only viable with a fast computer, strong upload and a low ping. and probably by prearrangment about when someone's gonna use the computer. but those are all possible.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc yeah, but from a different accountPermalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort oh, right, yeah, the Family Sharing thing?Permalink Look on archive.org
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Steam has this feature there in parts - there's Family Sharing (thx for the reminder @pillowfort) for playing a friend's games locally, and Remote Play for streaming a game. Even Remote Play Together, for streaming co-op games to friends while also playing locally.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc oh, huh!Permalink Look on archive.org
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*holds hand to earpiece* I'm getting new information... Steam Remote Play Together is available for any game with remote play enabled, not just co-op games? So everything but the savefile shenanigans is already there (the owner has to initiate the session, too, I think).Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JPenuchot yeah, I guess that + family sharing (so they have the license for the games) would workPermalink Look on archive.org
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I know this won't be seen or make a difference, but to the people operating the systems that are some day going to scrape this tweet and use it to train proprietary ML models : fuck you. I don't give consent for this.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tininsteelian: Currently obsessed over the spinning fruits and vegetables in the intro of this Philips CD-i disc from 2004(!) https://t…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern what is personhood without a bit of inherited trauma, ehPermalink Look on archive.org
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the thing that my previous setup did, that i now miss, is that it would start the plot by moving the arm around the bounding box of the plot, with the pen up. just to check that it's clear, and preview the alignment.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ompuco i wrote my own parser for the Hershey formats! it's a cool feeling to work with them - to parse data with that depth of historyPermalink Look on archive.org
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@katbamkapow "chacani-vangogh" is kinda nice as a namePermalink Look on archive.org
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If you have a game engine & it has a node editor, you have a modular synthesizer youtu.be/QXuHzH0IyRE?t=873 (via @jonbro)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @christapeterso: this is the most evo psych thing I will every tweet I am sorry: it’s kinda interesting how humans are only pretty mildl…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcclure111: Reliable security is about combining two things: - Something you can forget, and - Something you can lose.Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about how "unalive" has entered the vernacularPermalink Look on archive.org
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@MaxKriegerVG you could identify someone from their dental records with that onePermalink Look on archive.org
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@flexmandeville oh, thank you! and yes, this is what we spoke about ages ago, and yes, you're still on the list when I do get to the point of sending out beta test builds!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@moynibell have you read Piranesi?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@moynibell it's good!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc @vectorpark I have my problems with NNs, but "a sort of historical grudge" seems to more accurately describe these attempts to take it down from symbolic logic people.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@vectorpark @hoskingc for sure. and my perspective also comes from studying Cognitive Science before NNs started popping off (so, like, 15 years ago)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@vectorpark @hoskingc that's just a limitation of one layer NNs - you can't implement XOR without two or more layers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this looks beautiful youtu.be/Y3msQWpq4wMPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc @vectorpark ah, yeah. yeah, not surprised that a language model is a bit fluffy on doing maths, but that's different from saying that a NN can't inherently do maths.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @KarenAdamMSP: ‘…for households in the bottom 10% of household income to follow healthy eating guidance, they would have to spend 74% of…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @devtesla: Addiction By Design is a giant book about every aspect of slot machines and has hundreds of stories like this that will kind…Permalink Look on archive.org
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Now Play This starts today! I'm excited to see people start to make stuff with Downpour! @londongamesfest/1512358574042796037Permalink Look on archive.org
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The Raincoats' cover of Lola youtube.com/watch?v=QufDdHzWhgwPermalink Look on archive.org
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And we're off! the games are pouring in. want to see what people are making? all the games are playable here : npt.downpour.games/Permalink Look on archive.org
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here's a stop motion turtle npt.downpour.games/fal1/Permalink Look on archive.org
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Regency Horse Romance Simulator npt.downpour.games/sml0/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@em_cooper yeah, I thought so (cc @esaxey)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LilCrowther Thank you, I'm glad!! And yes, that would be great, I will get in touch next week and we can chat?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty @emfcamp yes, let's chat! Planning on coming to EMF, would love for it to be there, but need to think through fatigue uncertainties. But I'm sure we can figure something out.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@esdin @Kalonica_ no (or do i mean... not yet??)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @HJosephineGiles: Was at a protest today and this remains an urgent need! Here's one that played well: GIMME AN A! (A!) GIMME A B! (B!)…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@PlayFairIre @nowplaythese good tubes, huh?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tburrellsaward some corners of sci fi / fantasyPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc saw screenshots from a TikTok account that talks about art & which was posting up pictures of eg Michaelangelo's David with a MS Paint lime mankini drawn on it to not get the videos taken down.Permalink Look on archive.org
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gonna make a social network where you can post naked people all you want, but paintings and sculptures of nudes are banned.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I thought about this for a few more seconds, and I changed my mind. The furries would send me death threats.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @moreelen: Open up this tweet and scroll and you'll see Dave make a whole videogame from start to finish.Permalink Look on archive.org
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wait, I did *not* put together the fact that the same person directed Kemonozume, Kaiba, Devilman Crybaby and Eizouken. Huh! Guess I really ought to watch Mind Game and Ping Pong.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I was vaguely aware the first three were connected, I think, but did not connect them at all to Eizouken, which I loved. But also it totally makes sense in retrospect, if only for the sheer inventiveness and restlessness.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the best thing about making a game with an online component is that you can change it while the festival is happening without getting told off by the people running the festival. also you can do that from bed. (just added a "Start again" link within the games)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i think the best thing about this year's NPT is something that you're not going to see. i got added to the WhatsApp group for people doing the design camp, spread across London and Abuja & everyone is so positive and bubbling with ideas and enthusiasm about making together.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(if you're coming along in person, you can play a lot of the games and see what they were working on and talk to a bunch of the London folk)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@RobotJoel yeah, really good vibesPermalink Look on archive.org
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i have in the past deliberately dressed down to signal that my presence in a reasonably high status situation must be because of my technical skills! @peachblvd/1512614092397182983Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @redhistorian: Under the new student-loans repayment system, the highest earners will pay £20,000 *less* over their lifetimes. Middle-ea…Permalink Look on archive.org
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in listening to this! @nowplaythese/1512745835943104512Permalink Look on archive.org
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also I'll be talking about Downpour on the Now Play This Twitch channel at 3pm (and also in the hall) nowplaythis.net/game/approachable-game-making/Permalink Look on archive.org
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i am not entirely sure what's happening with this one, but i love it npt.downpour.games/apag/#Permalink Look on archive.org
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get to know Erika & Tabi npt.downpour.games/hsip/Permalink Look on archive.org
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"uhhhh... pick the red guy. he seems to be more interesting, I think" npt.downpour.games/1vqg/Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is in a minute or two! tune in! gonna talk about making accessible tools!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I think this is the largest game made in Downpour to date? Participate in spider democracy in... Arachnarchy! npt.downpour.games/ixt1/#Permalink Look on archive.org
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@iznaut oh, it totally is, hah!Permalink Look on archive.org
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Life horse! The life of a horse! @SpindleyQ/1512836709947523072?s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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If you can't make it down to Now Play This (still on for another day!) then you can do the next best thing and go on @profaniti's virtual walk through npt.downpour.games/7fb2/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@haikus_by_KN I am thirty to forty years old, sober, and I agree with you.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@haikus_by_KN any time! best of luck!Permalink Look on archive.org
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this description sounds like the description of a game in a speculative fiction book where you're like "this sounds real cool, but could they actually make it work". but it's a real game, and the answer is apparently "seems like they might!" @NotBrunoAgain/1512921725691961344Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @JoshLipnik: diagrams from a 1966 concrete block catalogPermalink Look on archive.org
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@TopGnu retweeted it last night!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TopGnu (<3)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin holy shit!!! congratulations to both of you!!!! look at THAT!Permalink Look on archive.org
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editing videos to be watched at 1.5x speedPermalink Look on archive.org
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watching a (very interesting) panel discussion on the Now Play This livestream and then sometimes zooming into the background to see people playing with DownpourPermalink Look on archive.org
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if you wanna see what they're looking at: npt.downpour.games/cabinet and if you wanna watch the livestream: twitch.tv/nowplaythisPermalink Look on archive.org
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@pyrofoux sorry i won't see you in person!Permalink Look on archive.org
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love this video on a series of implausible and impractical data storage solutions (also accompanying academic paper) youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7RprioPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern partly what it means is that if you wanna be the best, you have to find an even more specific nichePermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern it's true! and i think the radicalisation thing genuinely is difficult to deal with because it's a negative side effect of an often positive thingPermalink Look on archive.org
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and a sneaky little game about poking Thom's eyes out he made at the pub last night npt.downpour.games/czv7/#Permalink Look on archive.org
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designing games, for me, is all about understanding the constraints in ever more wrinkled detail, and thinking of a better way to respond to them. people say "what would you make with infinite budget & time" and i'm like... i have no idea. @chhopsky/1512940624223236096Permalink Look on archive.org
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like, good design for me is "oh, they made that work well but much more cheaply than i would've thought was possible!"Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NylePudding: New feature in my Dazzle Designer, altering texture anchor values, allows for lots of freedom. Also the final output will…Permalink Look on archive.org
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luckily as a game designer "you have infinite money" is rarely a scenario that comes upPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jimrossignol i'm not saying i'm the best qualified, but i'd be willing to give it a shot!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@maxbittker yeah, i mean, a much more complicated question which i continue to try to find a good answer to!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TodePond thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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can you... choose the right door? npt.downpour.games/1g9r/Permalink Look on archive.org
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Treasure Island: The Sequel npt.downpour.games/ykiz/ (i love that i can recognise the "Wiggle" bad ending from a previous game)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LibsElliott: I need to sew more of these quilts, right? This one is wall-hanging size and has reflective thread.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @danctheduck: I have a design tool I call "Don't Solve the Hard Problem"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@molleindustria yeah, i mean, i was idly intending to before, but they just got bumped up a lot!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ryjhendrickson: When child abuse was fist studied systematically in the 1970s it turned out the abusers were suburban fathers, pastors,…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hotemogf: hello.. i made a tiny tool that lets you make tiny stories! ⁕ engine.lol ⁕ discord: discord.gg/c4DQ6mqJ htt…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@briecode online shopping vs in-store?Permalink Look on archive.org
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yet another reason Markdown is terrible @madeleinecholia/1513329128338255873Permalink Look on archive.org
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@russss yeah, one of the other reasons to hate Markdown is that there are so many variations and off-spec uses of itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@CheerfulGoth at least an italic can be read as an action!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@patrickashe okay, imagine: it's a shop, right? but they'll also make sandwiches for you!Permalink Look on archive.org
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still think it's weird that the person in the screaming center of online fandom rn is... Rhys Darby?Permalink Look on archive.org
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"As always, we want to show that the history of games in China is not “partial, belated, or emerging” but rather a specific result of complex technological trajectories.[not] just nostalgia fodder but signposts to what a better, more open, and punk af tech future might look like" @ChaoyangTrap/1511550156084240385Permalink Look on archive.org
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@freezydorito huh!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@sokpopco oh that's so good, so pleased for you!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@sokpopco and (slightly selfishly) - lmk if I can help debug the M1 Mac issuePermalink Look on archive.org
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@AranKoning @sokpopco Looks like it's linking the wrong version of the Steam API? my Player log here: gist.github.com/v21/ee0805f7f6574079956d337a56607d70Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JennSandercock this tweet was nestled up against this on my timeline: @harriorrihar/1513428079955353602Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @michael_deforge: working on a romance comicPermalink Look on archive.org
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@profaniti oh noooooooPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ka_bradley hey, nice!Permalink Look on archive.org
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i have a cold..... i think it's a cold, anywayPermalink Look on archive.org
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(LFT was negative yesterday, might do another one today for a laugh)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @joncstone: The best way to stop the oil protests would be to meet their demands, because their demands are correct, not particularly ra…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jessefuchs: Among many firsts and lasts, I am reasonably certain the Amiga is the only major personal computer partially designed by a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AranKoning @sokpopco i saw the itch update ping and just tried it. it does! well done!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@merrittk defining struggle of my life for about the last 20 yearsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hownottodraw @philippawarr just going to leave this word here: "claggy"Permalink Look on archive.org
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[poll on the poll] the above choices:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @BraulioAmado: New g🧱d r🧱mPermalink Look on archive.org
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gotta recommend this post and Nathalie's previous blog posts on creative tools. a really exciting view on an internet filled with people making things to help other people make things. and having fun with it. @alienmelon/1513671876140101632Permalink Look on archive.org
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@chipzel an Alexa (the tall one) TV speakers (old LG plasma) laptop speakers (Macbook) wired earbuds (KZ ones off Aliexpress, they're pretty good!) and very occasionally nice headphones (MDR-5600s)Permalink Look on archive.org
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what a nice article engaging with this year's Now Play This and it's theme of democracy! ft.com/content/622bf1d2-9229-4fb3-863f-1c5b62ad9f51?accessToken=zwAAAYAf9mLFkc9iK_HSkilPs9OGPxxbYq2fUQ.MEUCIQDbbXj4RjHeK911aDCvUMFwCH3OK6MsTGxdZOtMUdoFyAIgcAuZx0uqTFuMws45J-h9UCDepAB_rKZyGF2lXPk6Wi8&sharetype=gift?token=51fd6f28-60c9-4429-a31e-9da00c4f0475Permalink Look on archive.org
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@expectproblems *such* a good filmPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kaaauthor: Here's the full text of the letter posted below: Hi, it’s me, Katherine: Parent. Children’s author. Murderer. Child abuser.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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there's a symbol in Unicode and no-one knows what it means or why it was added @ionathanch/1513993442635911168Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Prometheus110 a plausible theory is that it was a chaos magic sigil & it's inclusion was an act of magic that has been more successful than intendedPermalink Look on archive.org
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@moynibell I'm glad! That space has stayed in my head for a long timePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rudytheelder: Investigations into cellular automata, June 20, 1988. Rug Rule and Brian's Brain with Butterfly Gun. https://t.co/jKwtftS…Permalink Look on archive.org
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my conclusion is that it neither a cold nor coronavirus and it is in fact hayfever triggered by tree pollen that has steadily gotten worse year on yearPermalink Look on archive.org
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on the plus side, not contagious on the negative side... this is gonna happen every year? ughhhhhhhPermalink Look on archive.org
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what if instead of calling people you know online "internet friends" we called them "penpals"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AmberFirefly @thentrythis your name-sister Now Play This is a CIC, and I don't know of any problems that's caused (besides being a faff to set up). but also I'm pretty vague on the difference between the two, so might not be the best placed to comment.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv i've found a real lack of connection between how hard i've worked on something and the success it's found. which is not to say that there aren't rewards for hard work - but they're mainly found in the activity itself, rather than the consequences.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv i guess to clarify: some projects have needed hard work to be successful. but some haven't. and no connection between how effortful a project is and how rewarding it is.Permalink Look on archive.org
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good thread for fans of murder, a particular kind of twee Englishness, and contextless screenshots @philippawarr/1499389024057888773Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lackingceremony: How likeable a person is and how unlikeable that same person is are completely unrelated sliders. This is integral to…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i would say as well: it's fine to have a career, you need to eat & live a life and so on. pretending you're entirely selfless and morally pure is how a lot of these kind of hypocrisies come about... and then the whole thing collapses into nothing but mush & self-interest. @SzMarsupial/1514190046940774402Permalink Look on archive.org
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oddly the thing i most recently read that articulated a bit of this was this newsletter about smoked salmon vittles.substack.com/p/forman-grilledPermalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort yeah. this is one reason that, although obviously opposition is necessary, I think it can be better to focus your energies on the things you want to sustain and support.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Open Office Hours! did these for a few weeks a while back, and they were good! so let's do them again now I have headspace. if you would like to have a chat with me about something (anything!), then I have some time set aside on Thursday afternoons. v21.io/blog/lets-chatPermalink Look on archive.org
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very exciting to see Strudel, a version of TidalCycles which runs in a browser and so you can just play with immediately strudel.tidalcycles.org/tutorial/Permalink Look on archive.org
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sorry Haskell, Javascript is here nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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remembering making v21.io/calmingsphere/ and discovering that 16.7 million colours is not enough to avoid banding artefacts when doing gentle gradientsPermalink Look on archive.org
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the solution was to add a spatial and temporal dither, which gives the sphere a very subtle fizzPermalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, nice example of how doing a simple thing often... isn'tPermalink Look on archive.org
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i just logged into Tumblr for the first time in many yearsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@gfscstudio it's built with an old version Unity, running in a WASM WebGL canvas... so, no, not gonna touch itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@gfscstudio (but this is cool to know)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LotteMakesStuff ah-hah, thanks. and yeah, the gradient is generated on the shader, so it was all reasonably straightforward to doPermalink Look on archive.org
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a load of fun behind the scenes tooling stuff in this thread @renaudbedard/1514218362624225286Permalink Look on archive.org
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I wish there was a really good cross platform UI framework for Rust. Feels like it would unlock a lot of stuff. But this feels like a distant dream given how rare good UI frameworks are, like, ever.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I say this because Rust has such a good story in terms of being able to work on the web via WASM, as well as natively everywhere else. Kind of inverting the trend of just making everything within a web browser (aka "Electron")Permalink Look on archive.org
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tbqh it feels like this could be quite impactful work in terms of the climate crisis. how much carbon is emitted by Electron apps? how much less would be emitted if they were 30% more efficient?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ukglo I've been using Flutter recently (Downpour's editor is built in it). A lot to like there!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hipsterelectron @ireneista I want stuff that's native so I can use it for webappsPermalink Look on archive.org
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(this wouldn't immediately replace Electron everywhere... but, if successful, it would provide an alternative way to build the kinds of things Electron is used for, meaning fewer things would be built that way)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@enkiv2 I've been enjoying using Flutter. And people generally accomplish amazing things with HTML & the surrounding ecosystem.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Orangetronic that is one of the things that pursuaded me how powerful this could be! but are they making a good library for UI stuff, or just getting by themselves?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@DilettanteryPod i'm British, but... no, no explanation herePermalink Look on archive.org
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tumblr's great? maybe i'll start spending more time here. lmk if you're on there, i want more people to followPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @merrittk: I get so mad when the New York Times publishes something dumb. I’m also delighted and relieved every morning I see the sun ri…Permalink Look on archive.org
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tool recommendation: Heavy Paint heavypaint.com/ it is the digital painting tool that feels most... painty? it also feels very digital, but it has this presence, this (i'm gonna say it) heaviness to itPermalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, fun to mess with, 30 day trial on iOS, i still can't draw lolPermalink Look on archive.org
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cool to see this announced! this was probably the most exciting thing I saw in development while I was at Niantic @johnhanke/1514288734803574786Permalink Look on archive.org
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the news that the garfield mug that looks like the mug from the roman empire has incredibly high levels of lead and cadium... it's the most "time is a flat circle" moment i can recallPermalink Look on archive.org
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pleased with this! and now time for bed.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is about books, but... I continue to really feel for friends who work in boardgame publishing (with a side helping of relief that I'm not currently in that industry) @megireid/1513948809482670092Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @m_hakozaki: Hello #PortfolioDay I've been making virtual goldfish.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@otherwayworks awwww! that's lovely to hearPermalink Look on archive.org
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@otherwayworks i'd better get a move on, then!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AmberFirefly I'm continually amazed at how much stuff The Tyranny of Structurelessness explains, and continues to explain.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I think my favourite essay I've ever read is The Tyranny of Structurelessness. It is at once very specific to it's context but also applies to so many more. jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htmPermalink Look on archive.org
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tl;dr : if you don't have a formal hierarchy, you probably have an informal one instead. and it's much harder to change an informal hierarchy than a formal one. (but read the whole thing)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@isaac_fellman @agentsaba @kate_mckean that was easier than expected - it's on the way, and not even from AmazonPermalink Look on archive.org
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I said this the other week, but The Raincoats' Lola youtu.be/QufDdHzWhgw @MissDahlELama/1514466900654403585Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial Happy birthday! Gwan yourself!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I am breaking my rule and embedding the actual tweet in here. A pen that writes shapes that float on water? @RavityHome/1508657371551215617Permalink Look on archive.org
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@varjmes And. I should also say - this sucks a lot, solidarity.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @CoolBoxArt: Puzzle Bobble 2X / Disc / Taito / 1996Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial yes pleasePermalink Look on archive.org
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@0xhexhex @StuartHumphryes It's the theme from Jeeves and WoosterPermalink Look on archive.org
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@HJosephineGiles have a lovely time!Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's kind of wonderful that the message after I get when I catch up with my grandmother & aunts & cousins is about how Zoom is "A Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions"Permalink Look on archive.org
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sometimes corporate bullshit getting tangled up in places where we are trying to build our lives is hateful, but this is so mismatched it ends up charmingPermalink Look on archive.org
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cement slab aesthetics @everestpipkin/1301765074986643457Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @imaginari_es: Good news for successful folks everywhere: @TotalEnergiesPR's 1975 trademark "I am a total success" has expired https://t…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ldreamfeel there *is* complicated stuff about it being tricky to run the grid with a load of extra power sources feeding in. don't know how solvable that it, or if there's inherent efficiency losses there.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ebooks_goetia: № 9102 Strategist ALAKUPHUSCA, DEMON of: ‣ cowhands ‣ growled prismsPermalink Look on archive.org
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liked this piece on a networking service that talks about decentralization, but decentralization in service of making a small network with people you trust, not in replacing trust with systems frontier.is/newsletters/networking-opportunity/Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @lunasorcery: me: why is there a file called 'girl' in my home directory, created more than a year ago? me, a moment later: why, when…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@legocrimes @29notions yes, exactlyPermalink Look on archive.org
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game devs know & love that post-ship low @actatumonline/1514635965205151747Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mooonmagic listening now!Permalink Look on archive.org
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hah - i was at this show, and i did indeed go down the road to buy some merch (a 25% cut?! disgraceful) theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/15/holding-the-artist-to-ransom-musicians-struggle-to-break-even-as-venues-and-universal-cream-off-merch-salesPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MohitBhoite: Beautiful hand-drawn PCB artwork on the other side.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love videogames (via @CoolBoxArt/1019288932712960012)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @russss: A new cake VAT ruling, you love to see it. thetimes.co.uk/article/3327948e-bcdc-11ec-94e5-2197dead5942?shareToken=0f1ad469a44cca5522293e5a6c1892dePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @GIFmodel: "You have a corner of cyberspace....and you use it like a broom closet."Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Eko3316: 1/ A quick thread about Joan Shogren, the secretary who convinced Chemists to create the very first algorithm to generate comp…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ChellaRamanan they love to bake with volumesPermalink Look on archive.org
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if you have to recognise a number plate (say, you're waiting for a hire car), do you look for thePermalink Look on archive.org
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went to the park with friends and sat under some blossoms. a good feeling.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Singyamatokun and when I left, I wasn't even shivering!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @eversion: I think about this diagram a lot, but to my shame I didn't make a note of the source.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TupelosHoney i am 19 months into a fatigue condition, i've had a pile of negative tests for things it isn't, i am currently lying here conked out from a day of mild exertion... but i'm still chasing an actual diagnosisPermalink Look on archive.org
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@TupelosHoney but even if i get an official diagnosis of CFS (which is a diagnosis of exclusion, it just means "you have fatigue and it's not for any more specific reason"), there's still not really any treatment. besides "don't overdo it"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TupelosHoney i dunno. i get what you're trying to say, but i am out here living with a medical condition that is not diagnosed, getting an official diagnosis will not especially help me, but pretending i don't have it would really fuck me up.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LilRecordGirl @TupelosHoney yep, had that tested several times (and, iirc, currently waiting on *another* blood test for it, in the hopes that might help me finally get a rheumatology referral through the NHS)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @KadriLiik: So here it is: my Muhu skirt. Made by grandmother/great aunt in 1930s. Self-made from scratch: they grew sheep, cut wool, ma…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NGruen1: Extensive empirical research leads me to argue that instead, a core goal of public policy should be to facilitate the developm…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NewStatesman: ⚫️Our data on celebrities in particular shows that there are competing accounts of what might define class, with the youn…Permalink Look on archive.org
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It happened to me: I read one and half Agatha Christie's in short succession and now my internal monologue is full of phrases that have been out of date for a hundred years. "now look here" "what rot!" "a simply horrid little affair" "just ghastly" etcPermalink Look on archive.org
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@KommanderKlobb Not really! I'm not really an Agatha Christie expert. I just read The Mysterious Affair At Styles and am reading Evil Under The Sun, as popular ones that are not the most famous (and so I know the answers, like Orient Express & Roger Ackroyd)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@KommanderKlobb I mean, tbqh, I would recommend Dorothy L Sayers instead. Strong Poison is maybe a good place to start for her.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@johnnemann @KommanderKlobb If you don't know it, Roger Ackroyd is definitely worth reading after you've read one or two of hers. Don't look up the solution, tho!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pangmeli: more rintaro sawadaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial oh, right, this explains a lotPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial definitely hear your voice saying "it's just horrid" etcPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial remembering the whole thing with the Nazi radio broadcasts and reframing it into "yr fave is getting cancelled for problematic behaviour"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial @LTunscripted have you read Saki? I love Saki.Permalink Look on archive.org
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everyone is very enthusiastic for "community accountability and healing etc" but sometimes that means someone is really annoying and eventually you tell them that and then they're like... no, but let's have a dialogue about how annoying I am. let's heal together.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern yep, as a dev I heard conversations not too long after launch saying that they were only funding games with good retention - so goodbye anything narrative, anything you play through once and are done withPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern it would need a really strong creative vision and leadership to have any other outcome, tbh - any "mobile gaming" person you talk to will be thinking about DAUs and LTV and all that. so to hire a mobile gaming department with a different set of values...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern And you need that sense of a strong alternative vision to hold among high level management, or else you'll be constantly judged on metrics you're not aiming for. And Apple has shown no sign of having a strong vision for games.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern right, fundamentally they don't care about games, and they haven't taken many positive steps to improve the game ecosystem on their platform. they have fixed some problems, when consumers or big developers have complained enough, but it's run by people who see no prestige in it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern which is kind of fucked given a double digit percentage of Apple's gigantic yearly profit comes from their take from iOS games, but. that's where it is.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle looks pretty good now, tbh!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jazzmickle: w()rldp4intPermalink Look on archive.org
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@gfscstudio nodejs is fine but as soon as you start getting it involved when you're trying to make a webpage, you're in for a bad timePermalink Look on archive.org
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@gfscstudio running a service, great serving a webpage, it's okay compiling the code for a webpage, terriblePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @finalfinalgirl: Alrighty. The #gdc2022 Vault is open and you can tune into me and the excellent @v21 talking about making space for dis…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@itskindred 50 on this browser, 1 in another browser, something like 12 on the computer across the room. lower than normal because i'm approaching the end of a bank holiday. phone doesn't count.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@catacalypto but on the NYT's side, i thinkPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @peregrine_coast: Good lord the sheer energy of this https://t.co/U91Ewug1XzPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @gp_jls: I wrote up the basic argument for trans people’s lives not as moral panic debunking, but bread and butter materialism. (It’s al…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @freezydorito: huh i wonder what the difference is https://t.co/RNUCxYkgbUPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rajiinio: ICYMI: Twitter conducted one of the largest platform audits ever (randomized trial on 58 million users) to assess "political…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial love the idea of a job whose requirements are: - top secret security clearance - calm under pressure - neat handwriting when writing back to frontPermalink Look on archive.org
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@LotteMakesStuff who amongst us hasn't gotten a really bland patch note localised and then not been bothered to go out and do localisation work every time they want to push a patch outPermalink Look on archive.org
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@DilettanteryPod you mean like one of the illegal parties that the UK Goverment is in crisis over being the leaving party of the now deputy editor of The SunPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @50WattsDotCom: Frog family by Shotaro Honda circa 1928 JapanPermalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv i think you are setting overly specific parameters because these are the ways that you express these things.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv i know people to whom i would ascribe these characteristics who do good work within a formal system - eg education, nurturing and supporting hundreds through that. i build creative tools because for me that seems more powerful than writing (tens of thousands use Cheap Bots)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @peytonology: this was a person who was out here in 1882 saying, "i am more than half-persuaded that i am a man's soul, put by some frea…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@chipzel in my experience, this is the best wayPermalink Look on archive.org
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@chipzel i got a private consult (through GenderCare), which means I now have a shared care prescription through my GPPermalink Look on archive.org
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@chipzel the waiting lists for the NHS via the main pathways are... I mean, I would reckon they're somewhere between 5-10 years? just not really an option (tho arguably it's worth getting on the waiting list now just so some day you can get on that pathway)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@chipzel but also you can self-med (tho T is more annoying to acquire, I understand), and then go to your GP & be like... look, I'm gonna do this anyway, can you give me blood tests and maybe prescribe me it so I'm getting less dodgy stuff.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@chipzel also have a friend who went via GenderGP, which I think is a quicker private pathway than GenderCare (I was waiting around a year, plus fuckery around NHS fertility referrals)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Sosowski okay but to be fair i'd rather write an engine that can render landscapes than one that can render textPermalink Look on archive.org
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update: the recording of my GDC talk on looking after employees with chronic illness is now available! and also @finalfinalgirl's talk on mental illness, which I think pairs really well with it. gdcvault.com/play/1027761/Independent-Games-Summit-Making-RoomPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jkap i hate it so muchPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kamibox_ph: Now that the first @playdate are shipping, I am thrilled to announce my 👉🏼NEW GAME👈🏼 about a tiny person with a bouncy butt…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pangmeli: bad byproducts of curating and optimizing for 'relevance' - overvaluing the current and topical, devaluing the rest - contriv…Permalink Look on archive.org
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controversial Severance opinion: I have watched two episodes and have decided to not watch any more because it doesn't seem like anyone is having a nice time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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at least in Hannibal, Hannibal was enjoying himself. and sometimes they got to eat nice food (the food was sometimes people)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thricedotted oh I love thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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@thricedotted it is hard to do because generally for plotting you want stroke vectors but fonts are outline vectors! but you could plot the outline while varying it. dunno if it'd be that interesting... but actually, I've got an ideaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@thricedotted oh, actually, never mind, looks like @slitscanner is offlinePermalink Look on archive.org
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@puppymoth can I have one miscellaneous object, pleasePermalink Look on archive.org
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most delicious time to napPermalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort mmm, I am a big fan of getting sleepy in the afternoon and just leaning all the way I to itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin you are a catPermalink Look on archive.org
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@katbamkapow I love the idea of this but it would require me to be someone who wakes up and then gets out of bed even if I'm still sleepyPermalink Look on archive.org
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@katbamkapow it doesn't feel like a nap if i just lie there for a bit firstPermalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly i kind of like Sex Education for this? it is weirdly refreshing to see a show set in Wales but also America somehowPermalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly like it is at the very least acknowledging the fantasy nature of it allPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mousefountain number three looks like he just sauntered out of an Edward Gorey bookPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kymtje: The last line here 💀Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @SarahTaber_bww: What really happened in the poultry industry? Not agribusiness takeover! What really happened: poultry used to be wom…Permalink Look on archive.org
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the arc i have been on with Adrian Chiles' columns! i'm now fully won over. finally there's a good opinion piece about toilets theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/21/urinal-in-my-flat-changed-my-life-so-why-are-people-appalledPermalink Look on archive.org
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always with art it's the thing you dislike at first, then come to learn the motivations and intentions behind it, that you find the most affection forPermalink Look on archive.org
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close things are large. far away things are small. very far away things are tiny. very very very very far away things are a bit bigger again. @AstroKatie/1516550946247122945Permalink Look on archive.org
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because... if you look at something very very very very far away, you're seeing something from a long long long long time ago. and a long long long long time ago, everything, the whole universe, the stars, the spacing between the light travelling towards you... was smaller.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@KeirRice right, but the universe got bigger *while the light was in flight*. the light was far away from big sources of gravity, so it didn't (proportionately) shrink like the source galaxy did.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@KeirRice yeah, the "angular size" bit is tricky!Permalink Look on archive.org
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someone please write this article/blog post @mtrc/1517096748979740672Permalink Look on archive.org
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@zoyander right!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tburrellsaward @Raspberry_Pi @prehensile Tim: laser cut studio logo at a thoughtful angle Henry: dymo label saying "ARSE"Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @joncstone: a lot of 'anti-social behaviour' is actually just people being social, a good illustrationPermalink Look on archive.org
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i reckon the biggest choice you have to make designing these is: who are you playing as? King of the World, Minister for Whatever, Random Q. Citizen, the collective will of world governments, The Mayor (along with: what are your politics/what's the model of the world you have)Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is one reason Democratic Socialism Simulator is good - it's premise is straightforward about your role, and aims to illuminate the limits of your actions. you are the new President of the USA, now let's see what you can do with it. molleindustria.org/demsocsim/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tomblackuk yeah - but (and i'm sure this is something that comes into it) - it's not just formal powers but about the way other people respond to your actions.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this problem is called Goodhart's Law and once you start looking for it you see it everywhere @ryanqnorth/1517120590603337728Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jomc TWO books! TWO! wowowPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mousefountain: The uncanny aesthetic styling of this! It ends up looking like a fake game mocked up for a show and meant to look like w…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@2lieues that's the Cosmic Background Radiation!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @sarahjeong: for conservation week i got to write about how produce stickers don't decompose, something my friends have been forced to h…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nhyphenc: Thrilled to be launching the inaugural issue of “the html review” a little literary magazine for poetry and literature meant…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @neuroecology: You can plant an undetectable backdoor in any deep learning model arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @katbamkapow: yesterday when i was playing disco elysium, kim kitsuragi told me that he didn't have opinions on facts. this prompted me…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@katbamkapow getta load of the librarycop over herePermalink Look on archive.org
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here's an early illustration from Johannes Zahn, explaining the basic principles behind raytracingPermalink Look on archive.org
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did you know raytracing was invented in the 17th century? strange but truePermalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall a while since i've read it, but yeah, does seem like that's a thing it's riffing offPermalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall it made me think a lot of Doom Patrol, but my memory of Doom Patrol is not quite exact enough to identify something as a ZonePermalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall like, arguably Danny is a Zone, but one that can move and pop up, so not quite right. The Painting That Ate Paris... alternate place (containing a real place), so not quite right.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall it is... but it's also of it's time? also, depends on how you feel about Grant Morrison. I've been enjoying the new TV adaptation, too, which more explicitly brings out themes of queer family & traumatized people (badly) supporting other traumatized people.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall I mean, it's rarely boring. Give it a shot!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall at the start of the Grant Morrison run, I think so?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @russss: Now the LHC is starting up again, periodic reminder that you can gaze at their fantastic, impenetrable dashboards on the public…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Dr_Sportello: When the US tried to export Jim Crow to Iraq’s education system, using sect as the identity fault line: https://t.co/HMgM…Permalink Look on archive.org
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here is a coool interview with me about Downpour! @Polygon/1517492207124680707Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ManishEarth: https://t.co/pj01dm7M0hPermalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen @AnnaHollinrake ah-hahah, thank you thank you (guess i'd better get on and finish it, huh)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@waxpancake [it's 9 SVG files, so i'm gonna render out 4 of them & attach them here. apologies for the editing, but Twitter won't allow them as is!]Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @vectorpoem: @tyunderwood it's interesting how platform capitalism transmogrifies the "get your 1000 bad drawings out" advice for artist…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SeaExcursion aw, thank you!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GDLP__ ah-haha. time to tweak some parameters...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@notyourwaif The only time Number Six from The Prisoner kissed anyone in the series was when they did a body swap thing. Because Patrick McGoohan refused to kiss anyone he wasn't married to.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Ninfa_dp emailing/reaching out to people. takes me so long to do it, it's such a dragPermalink Look on archive.org
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endless mood @drycleaningbot/1517753392566726656Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv it's people who are usually operating from a position of less power who have the incentive to get really goodPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mmiatime: "i will face god and walk backwards into hell" is a dril quote that people keep mistaking for serious literature but "that's…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@freezydorito haha, I just screenshotted the same thingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle congratulations!! very happy for youPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Noahpinion you don't think the case of Roshonara Choudhry shows an example of YouTube radicalisation? see her police interview, here: theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/03/roshonara-choudhry-police-interview#:~:text=Q%20OK%2C%20why%20did%20you%20watch%20those%20videos%3FPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @unormal: I think elden ring does a very very sly job of integrating difficulty settings in a diagetic wayPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rachelcoldicutt: You have to be pretty digitally savvy to have a shared household email address, and most bank/utility accounts don’t m…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GoodwinMJ why would you become an academic when you could earn far more in the private sector... unless you believed in the common good & were willing to make personal sacrifices to contribute to it?Permalink Look on archive.org
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consistency and findability in node naming @bgolus/1517969180569395200Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @TheWhitePube: This week's text is something a bit different. It's not a review, it's not an essay, it's kind of just a story. So it mak…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@shahidkamal third time's the charmPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FinitePhysicist: mom said it was my turn to use the electronPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SerinDelaunay @bmp_hax ahh, that makes sense, the SVG rule is parsed in a browser context, and IMG a library told to go fetch.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@PeterMoskos @samswey what's the evidence base for giving cops more money?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @softlandscapes:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jjvincent: it reflects the corporate control OpenAI exerts (beta users are not allowed to share images with realistic faces, hence: ba…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @youngvulgarian: sorry I realise this is a very random rant but it is mind blowing that we've ended up in an online world so dumb that t…Permalink Look on archive.org
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if you are thinking of leaving twitter & would like to stay in touch, you can: email me: vtwentyone@gmail.com follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/vtwentyone/ subscribe to the newsletter i might someday send: buttondown.email/v21 or visit my website: v21.ioPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @bexbassell: Oh? You’re a game developer? Explain to me the cultural significance of the 1996 release of “Barbie Fashion Designer” for P…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine Mastodon works if you are part of a community of people who all use Mastodon together. It is hard to join & then find your people there.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine yeah - the trend at the moment seems to be for people to gather in private little spaces, but I still get a lot from existing in public (not least promoting my shit)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@zoyander i feel guilty about it & want to change to something else! the situation with the Chagossians is awfulPermalink Look on archive.org
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@zoyander er... by which i mean. thank youPermalink Look on archive.org
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guess this would be a good time to release my new social network, huh? let's see if i can finish it up this afternoonPermalink Look on archive.org
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I have also written a blogpost talking about what it is & why: v21.io/blog/announcing-frog-chorusPermalink Look on archive.org
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new project, with @vivschwarz : frogchorus.com a social network for frogsPermalink Look on archive.org
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hey look, i did it @v21/1518648201582190594Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mewo2: If you're considering leaving Twitter for something better, I'm the blue frog with red eyes and white cheeks, just down and righ…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lefishy @vivschwarz oh no? i'm sorry/i'm gladPermalink Look on archive.org
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oh, i guess i should also add: if you want to support me making tools & social spaces online, then you can do that at my Patreon patreon.com/v21Permalink Look on archive.org
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@cooldooski thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@esaxey @hollygramazio i'm light pink & grey, upper rightPermalink Look on archive.org
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if you're thinking of leaving Twitter for a new social network, follow me on frog chorus! i'm the grey & pink mottled frog in the upper right cornerPermalink Look on archive.org
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@esdin thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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beautiful chaos, i love thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Sosowski thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@BrendenGibbons thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@wjjjjt THANK YOUR FOR PARTICIPATING. YOUR FROG:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Sosowski @vivschwarz ah, thanks, will fix thatPermalink Look on archive.org
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tool assisted big frogPermalink Look on archive.org
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@lupinlesbian who knows, i only learned from this tweet that he'd succeeded. but i'm not (yet) worried. (not least because CBDQ bots shouldn't be spam)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv can i interest you in a chatroom where everyone is a frog & all you can do is ribbit? frogchorus.com/Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: if you are thinking of leaving twitter & would like to stay in touch, you can: email me: vtwentyone@gmail.com follow me on Instagr…Permalink Look on archive.org
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hey, wait, ignore all that. if you need me you can find me in the pond @v21/1518654855971315726Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Sosowski @vivschwarz this should be fixed now, would you mind checking?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Sosowski @vivschwarz (i don't have a iOS device on me & my Android doesn't seem to do this)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Sosowski @vivschwarz hurrah!Permalink Look on archive.org
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my attempt at a system with the smallest satisfying degree of expression: v21.io/blog/announcing-frog-chorusPermalink Look on archive.org
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so besides Musk's general proclivity for chaos, bad management and petty feuds, a big concern with this deal is that it loads Twitter up with so much debt all it's current profits will be needed just to pay down the interest.Permalink Look on archive.org
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so either Musk finds more money to keep pumping into Twitter to keep it afloat, Twitter manages to increase revenue significantly, Twitter manages to decrease costs significantly, or Twitter ends up being owned by the banks that backed the dealPermalink Look on archive.org
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@yankooliveira thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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I can vouch for the power & joy of being in a small community with friends, and shitposting together. @tinysubversions/1518667334746984449Permalink Look on archive.org
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Discord is easier to set up, but it's nice to hang out somewhere you're not beholden to an implacable corporate entity. And posting just hits different to a chat room.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Posting isn't *to* anyone. The default audience is the void. It's liberating.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rebekka_m: "You can’t choose your username, you can’t choose your colour or pitch, you can’t choose where you sit within the pond. I gu…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@polclarissou oh, I'm happy to burble on in friend campPermalink Look on archive.org
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i just came here to post about this! a magical moment, especially when we all got it dead on and all ribbited in perfect unison @mousefountain/1518693216480120835Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NotInventedHere thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin @mousefountain it only occurred to me afterwards. but. y'know... i just don't want to.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mjmcmaster thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@MaxKriegerVG it's not that cunning a heist, he's got tens of billions of his own money (/debts secured against Tesla stock) at stake.Permalink Look on archive.org
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if you would like to read about the financial structure of the deal, i would point you to today's Money Stuff bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-25/elon-closes-in namely Elon has about $33bn of his own money on the linePermalink Look on archive.org
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what i am saying is: let's think big @CanisOxide/1518587984869662720Permalink Look on archive.org
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@austin_walker @Ghost buttondown is $5 per month per 1000 subscribers (first 1000 free). less fancy & not sure it has a paid subscription offering, but...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ttl_anderson thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ttl_anderson it sounds like it might be a bug? does seem like state can get a little out of syncPermalink Look on archive.org
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@iznaut thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hollygramazio: Absolutely delighted by @v21's Frog Chorus v21.io/blog/announcing-frog-chorus, which is a social-ish network-ish where you are a fr…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tomokihara: Looking for good examples of Twitter bots that generate videos like @aceCourtBot, any others out there that’s interesting?Permalink Look on archive.org
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I guess the thing is that I am not surprised that the social network which feels the most like "public space", the place where all the contexts are overlaid on each other, would be full of terrible people.Permalink Look on archive.org
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"but I just want to have a nice time with my friends" yes, that's why everyone increasingly hangs out in smaller private or semi-private spaces onlinePermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern I don't know that "a single space where all your friends are" is necessarily what people want? This was the whole Facebook=>Google+ thing, you kind of want different contexts for different groups of people.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern right, which is what Discord increasingly providesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern for me, Twitter is less social, just because it is so public. I'm not talking about my bad mood or nice walk on here (much). but what it does have is the echoes of stuff happening in scenes I'm distantly connected to. possibly bad for me, but I love it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Sosowski thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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me, i enjoy learning about the beefs @fireh9lly/1518868972216668161Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FlipChartRick: It’s the 3rd anniversary of #Fencegate, when the Charity of William Hobbayne fenced off part of St Margaret’s Open Space…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@patrickashe this but unironically @v21/1518870353283633152Permalink Look on archive.org
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sneak peekPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ojahnn thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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frogs across the world @mjmcmaster/1518704932576464897Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @merrittk:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Sierra_OffLine: In 1981, Martin Kahn, codeveloper of The Print Shop, published a coloring book of his computer art. My own copy, direct…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @fireh9lly: Except the thing is, it is actually normal, isn't it? People still look at me funny when I remind everyone that John Peel us…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tmoll_ whoaa! I wanna hear! (I'm online now, if you're about)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @BrianLeeWow: one time during crunch a producer was giving us a pep talk and said "i want you all to make a game you're proud to have yo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @omarieclaire: We’re doing a drone jam! Come make experimental games with us? You might write out instructions for a drone walk? Or mak…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tmoll_ I did! haha, wowPermalink Look on archive.org
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recorded music (and artificial frogs) have arrived in the pond @tmoll_/1519010573945430017?t=EYF1OdkYWl9LYmrGdM_SWQ&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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incidentally, if you're looking for somewhere private to hang out away from the cacophony of the big pond, there's a few special ponds to find. eg: you can go out on the mudflats frogchorus.com/?pond=the_mudPermalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin doesn't it just!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @WillManidis: gifted/talented programs remain one of the sinister fixtures of the American education system when I was in high school a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv recent stuff I've been doing has illuminated quite how open you can be about what you're doing, just so long as you don't Announce. the people who are engaged will get it, other people won't. and then you can announce, surprise! when you're good & readyPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DilettanteryPod: Juma Xipaya, the first woman to lead the Xipaya people (in the Brazilian Amazon). She has survived assassination attem…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort @nielsen_holly Ah, I used to live round the corner and went there all the time for a nice lunchtime coffee (also good for films)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@esjexe it's a sneak peek!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @VeraNijveld: I just discovered this amazing black magic calendar by Manuel Orazi (1860-1934). Full and zoomable version on @GallicaBn…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen @WeCanFixItInUI i would be interested in this! although thinking about it, i'm not sure if i'm a game designer at the momentPermalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen @WeCanFixItInUI @flexmandeville you strike me as someone who would know of this, if it exists?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@iRNY @moreelen well, my website says "artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc", so... (I don't think of Downpour or Frog Chorus as games, but maybe on a different day or when I want to be contrary I might change my mind)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@iRNY thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@iRNY @moreelen i feel like all the professions i've listed are already the things you call yourself when you're a jack of all trades... (okay, maybe sub in "game developer" for "game designer")Permalink Look on archive.org
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what if i made a B2B service which can detect if someone has *really* printed out a form & scanned it in again, or if they just used a site like lookscanned.io/ to fake itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@martinpi okay, new plan: i plausibly threaten to do this unless everyone collectively pays me offPermalink Look on archive.org
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@martinpi blackmail-as-a-servicePermalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate 2038 (in the context of signed 32-bit epoch rollover)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love videogames readmedottxt.tumblr.com/ (a collection of excerpts from mod readme files - pretty much every post has the vibes I'm trying to channel in this thread)Permalink Look on archive.org
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working at a large company has given me the habit of making sure every meeting is a Google Calendar invite with a Zoom link & maybe even an agenda in the description and now when i have freelance meetings it seems like i really have my shit togetherPermalink Look on archive.org
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Lemme vouch for Marie - she was the curator of the V&A Videogames exhibition & is one of the sharpest people I know on the subject of putting digital experiences into a physical space. And you can work with her! @tigershungry/1519314540919414786Permalink Look on archive.org
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@robertpeacock22 Agenda: do you want to give me some money, y/n ?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mxsage: WIP @ nervous systemPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @vogon: nerds love making the mistake that "embrace, extend, extinguish" was a specific policy microsoft invented and not just a pithy s…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @depthsofwiki: I'm sure some people already know this, but one of my favorite fun facts is that there was a painting in the background o…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@flexmandeville @moreelen @WeCanFixItInUI @IGDA looks like there's a designer Discord here: @KellymTran/1519298331079581698Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @shannonmattern: From Cauleen Smith:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @shannonmattern: From Maxine Hong Kingston: “In the past, I’d choose to write… If my friends were going out, then I’d stay home… It’s ve…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@littlegoodfrog @kimmyposting hello, just thought I'd say hi & say that I just saw one of the lake comics, enjoyed it, read to the end of the thread, came back and started reading from the start, saw about the twitter bot & thought I'd say hi since I made CBDQ! I love the comic! The characters feel so alive!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @piercepenniless: Much of the left’s attention today will rightly be on the abhorrent & repressive policing bill and its restrictions on…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @yesterdaysprint: Des Moines Tribune, Iowa, December 22, 1928Permalink Look on archive.org
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@underskinnyhrt most people don't care, because... why would you?? but some places are arsey about it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @thursaconcept:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@philippawarr Chumbawamba. although the stuff I really like is less "bangers" and more "rousing acoustic singalong celebrating the Kinder Scout trespass"Permalink Look on archive.org
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wonder what proportion are for gender transition care? I'm obviously likely to see more of those, but I see a lot of those. And God knows NHS coverage is neither comprehensive or timely. @jburnmurdoch/1519706457037586435Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ibogost yep, that seems about right for a relatively small run custom electronic product with a standard profit margin. this stuff is hard to make!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @HJosephineGiles: I've been thinking a lot about this, about what happened to the surge of mutual aid efforts in 2020. I've come to thi…Permalink Look on archive.org
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big news: "It thus becomes possible, and we hope even convenient, for choice-based games for console, mobile or desktop to use Inform, if they wish, purely for world-modelling, conversation, or dynamic text generation." intfiction.org/t/inform-7-v10-1-0-is-now-open-source/55674Permalink Look on archive.org
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perfect tweet @emotionlocation/1519454173783228416Permalink Look on archive.org
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the thing i love about it most is that the remarkable thing about the tweet is not what it says but the process by which it came to say itPermalink Look on archive.org
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these release notes are inspirational. the 29th anniversary of Inform's first release! the largest ever literate program! a whole new infrastructure and scaffolding, but still keeping surface level compatibility!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@masctrologer @CartaMonir Napkin is so goodPermalink Look on archive.org
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@porges i had a little argument with myself about whether to bring up Borges, and i lostPermalink Look on archive.org
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some beautiful sentences in the source code: "Scenes are gated intervals of time, but there are more than two gates: for while there is only one past, there are many possible futures." (ganelson.github.io/inform/if-module/3-scn.html)Permalink Look on archive.org
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(incidentally, if you want to read more from me on the role of context in creating meaning for bots, I wrote a whole chapter on it for the academic book "Procedural Storytelling in Game Design", ed Tanya Short & Tarn Adams)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @eb_txt: Bicycles are so much fun and are so convenient. It's a lot faster than walking.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kentbye: Artificial General Intelligence has morphed into a mythical goal of Silicon Valley tech companies where where harvesting surve…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ModernBritain: Red Road Flats, Glasgow.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial bet they hate thatPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @doodlyroses: The people who manufacture bathtub trays seem to have no idea what women actually do in the bath and I find that strangely…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno @FoleyArtists i mean, the whole premise of the bot was to flirt with the idea of producing this one tweet. but i guess it's less specifically focused on this one concept.Permalink Look on archive.org
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logging onto this as listening to frogs ribbit back and forth to each other continues to be a joy to me. very glad that people are coming back, even after the initial rush has died down some.Permalink Look on archive.org
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my real hope is that groups of friends continue to visit a private pond to check in with each other, long term. don't know if it'll happen, but... that's what i built it for.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NotBrunoAgain: We think of mushrooms as being "the fungus" but really a mushroom is just a temporary structure that the fungus, which a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern it should have audio on mobile! although v fair play to you if your phone is just on mute the whole timePermalink Look on archive.org
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every once in a while i go looking for this comic because it is my eternal mood, and so i'm gonna post it here so i can find it in the future. here's some stuff to search for: it's by Anna Syvertsson. "i suck at replying to messages". pineapple.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MartinNutbeem: This is glorious. #BeAFrogPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle it's fine, I'll just look for the time you said the word "search" to mePermalink Look on archive.org
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@hautepop people I know old enough and rich enough to not have housemates are tending to... move to Kent with their partners and get a garden?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tanyaxshort they can be a useful lens... but mainly I have experienced them as a thing where bosses and execs insist I categorise parts of gameplay into "core loops" and "other loops" and I kind of shrug and say it's a bit more complicated than that (and then do it anyway)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tanyaxshort like, I get it, it's a lens worth applying, but so often haggling over the definition and categorisation of gameplay into loops took the place of trying to understand why it would be appealing to do, whether it would hang together, and what was most important to build first.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hanamomoact: エンジンかかり始め。Permalink Look on archive.org
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@WeThrowSwitches @chipzel have you spoke to the @emfcamp folk about bringing it there? strikes me it might be a good fit for their village spacePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @zerstoerer: in the promo for stanley parable: ultra deluxe, we created entirely new environments, recorded unique dialogue and modified…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@WeThrowSwitches @chipzel @emfcamp oh, that's good to hear. but yes, also i can understand that. i'll be there, tho, health willing - be nice to hang out if you are, TYL or not!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ftrain: You know how you might get news from the doctor, they call at work, and you know your life is gonna be different, a lot of medi…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i love videogames @gamesasylum/1520334246023503872Permalink Look on archive.org
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this tool is very exciting @everestpipkin/1520167025401860098Permalink Look on archive.org
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hey wow I love collecting new hypothesised causes for ME/CFS and I think "poo blood" is possibly the most disgusting? @punished3liza/1520449317336608768Permalink Look on archive.org
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that feeling when a joke you keep threatening to make is made by someone else already @an_alexa_k/1422625523138797572Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Katie_TriPixels i had an account! i was "✂️" but the joke is more that a social network can be entirely composed of reactions to reactions, a tree of reactions, with only one post necessary to provide the scaffolding to the whole thing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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wrote a blog post about the many ways people use the "content warning" feature on Mastodon v21.io/blog/uses-of-cwsPermalink Look on archive.org
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here is the tweet thread version, from... 2018?? what is time? @v21/1074959482524962816Permalink Look on archive.org
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maybe i should've looked at the thread before writing the post. cuz this is a great example: @ojahnn/1074965863462264834Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @atomicthumbs: learning about Devo 2.0, a Devo cover band composed of child actors and created for Walt Disney Records, who changed the…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @glanderco: i got to go on my favorite tv show AND sing my favorite song... blessed 🙏😇Permalink Look on archive.org
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@glanderco what the fuck, amazing, you grabbed this opportunity with both handsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kettlecorn: I offloaded some thoughts about WebAssembly vs Javascript into a blog post: ianjk.com/webassembly-vs-javascript/ In summary: * Wasm is…Permalink Look on archive.org
