Tweets from 2023/04
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@astroblob thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@cuddlepuunk thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@astroblob ahahah! my human self also says: thank you! I should check out Idyll!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @cuddlepuunk: “frog chorus [by @v21] and idyll reveal an interesting truth about the role of social media in our domestic lives. Online…Permalink Look on archive.org
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slightly beside the point game rec: if you would like a city builder which is designed to let you play it indefinitely and engages with themes of resource exhaustion & living in the aftermath of the climate crisis... Timberborn is pretty good. it's about super-intelligent beaversPermalink Look on archive.org
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@cuddlepuunk ribbitPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nowplaythese: Now Play This 2023 is officially OPEN! 🎉 Join us from today until April 9th @SomersetHouse to explore the exhibition and…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@RubyQuailDesign it is! that's where I played itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@steveruizok @teej_m that was at least motivated by an outside factor (Apple threatening to kick them off the App Store). Twitter is an entirely unforced error.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the documentation for Glyphs (a font tool, I'm making a font) is I think the best documentation I've ever used? I wrote about why: cohost.org/v21/post/1273882-i-ve-been-making-a-fPermalink Look on archive.org
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tl;dr : all the reasons you'd expect. not one magic thing but just a lot of work & care & an organisation that doesn't get in the way.Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, in fact: hey, @glyphsapp! you've got good documentation, thank you!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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did a double take seeing that this image was not a modern vaporwave render with a haunted PS1 filter but was in fact a genuine era-appropriate image @gifs_bot/1642864536402247683Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial this tweet comes to mind... @oxalisnebula/1641528873212071936Permalink Look on archive.org
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@naomialderman as someone currently working on a social media-like project, with plans to make money via subscriptions (and looking a little at Zombies Run for a model)... yeah, it worries me that Twitter has poisoned the well on this one.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@naomialderman the idea of paying seems reasonable! but to do that requires building a relationship where the userbase fundamentally likes and trusts the leadership. which is not what Elon Musk has cultivated.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i always think that the way you can tell if a policy about trans inclusion is serious is if they thought about trans men just as much as they thought about trans women. seems clear to me that Swim England didn't. swimming.org/swimengland/swim-england-transgender-non-binary-competition-policy/Permalink Look on archive.org
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you could make a case for the main policy having just about thought it through. like: on the one hand, clearly people will be upset if a passing trans man starts competing in the female category - on the other hand, he probably wouldn't?? probably????Permalink Look on archive.org
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but when you start to consider trans men competing in the open category, but being told they have to share a dorm with women. or a trans women being told they have to share with men... just not seriousPermalink Look on archive.org
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@blude i can't tell you it'll work out... but people are different to organisations. don't self exclude yourself!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kaimeariver: there’s a psychotic amount of incredible quotes from @raynefq but this conclusion is itPermalink Look on archive.org
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let's drop some quick sexy shots of the font i've been working on. partly working on this because there wasn't quite the right crunchy videogame-y pixel font that does fun variable font stuff... mainly working on it 'cuz i've been wanting to make a font.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@corey_hardt Glyphs is definitely a tool for doing all the complicated parts! I'm enjoying using it, and I do actually need a lot of those features (because I'm doing fun variable font shenanigans), but I feel like there ought to be something easier to make a quick pixel font.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@treelet thank you!! i aim to pleasePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @conchitinabot: Charitable: a sickly year in a room for rent. Affectionate: to fall out of love in a three-bedroom. Obedient: to sleep…Permalink Look on archive.org
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we need more of this gameshub.com/news/education-student-news/gdc-2023-xbox-epic-games-energy-consumption-carbon-emissions-measurement-2611752/Permalink Look on archive.org
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i see stuff about studios wanting to be climate conscious, and often it's stuff about, like, adjusting the office thermostat. but this stuff makes a genuinely huge difference, and all it takes is having a completely different mindset about what performance meansPermalink Look on archive.org
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@AustinKelmore yep, was also thinking this. i've been using a non-games framework for making Downpour & it's such a different mindset to realise that it only re-renders the screen when something has changed...Permalink Look on archive.org
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(admittedly it's a mindset that, like Austin says, actually correlates pretty closely to the battery life constraint on mobile) @AustinKelmore/1643189350950117376Permalink Look on archive.org
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i tell you what, between Instagram's website not letting you scroll past videos and Twitter's... all of it..., I really do feel like I have what it takes to take a crack at making a social media platform.Permalink Look on archive.org
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also BeReal is quite glitchy and stopped sending me the notification noise, but they're baby & have designed their service in the exact wrong way to have manageable load on their servers. So I give them a pass.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NoraReed thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@cuddlepuunk it's an exciting time, I think a lot of people are in this boatPermalink Look on archive.org
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After 8 years and 58440 bots... CBDQ has come to an end. Thank you to @GalaxyKate & to everyone who has made a bot. It's been a pleasure.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate on an admin note: since they revoked API access, I'm afraid you can't login to see the source for your bots (unless you set the source to be publicly available). At the risk of being overwhelmed, if you do want access to your bot source, let me know and I can ferret it out.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate also, at the risk of cheapening the moment... while CBDQ has died, I'm hard at work on my next project, Downpour, which tries to make it as easy to make a videogame as CBDQ made it to make a Twitterbot. Sign up here to be notified when it launches: downpour.games/Permalink Look on archive.org
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fucking doge icon staring at me like insult to injuryPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mtrc thanks for literally writing the book on this stuff!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate also also... if you are eyeing alternatives to Twitter, there is a port of CBDQ for Mastodon, @BooDooPerson's Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! cheapbotstootsweet.com/ (and if you're interested in making a port for another platform, for example Tumblr, let me know - I'd be happy to help)Permalink Look on archive.org
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feeling emotional commenting out these lines from cron...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SwallowFanGo you can run one bot on that free tier, not the thousands that CBDQ hostsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty @GalaxyKate that's the count of "currently active, not blocked for spam", too. total accounts that ever logged in was 252230Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @matthewseiji: *beededededoop* Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there’s banana bread in the kitchen. You can take a por…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@beetlesjuiced email me! my email is on the websitePermalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty @GalaxyKate the issue is mainly not wanting to use people's bots in ways they don't want. if people want to port them to Mastodon it's pretty quick for them to do that (if they have the source) - but even something like archiving all the bot sources seems like a bit of an overstepPermalink Look on archive.org
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@rolanberrypie @molleindustria @GalaxyKate yeah - I am in talks* about archiving the bots which have a public source shared. I'd like to archive the full database, too, but only for researchers... not sure exactly how that'd work. (* need to reply to an email about)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rolanberrypie @molleindustria @GalaxyKate in the meantime the most immediate thing is just sending people the source to their bots if they ask. need to spin up some tooling to make that easier for myself...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty @GalaxyKate yeah, exactly, I just have the bot usernamesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@DS9Jack they said they were shutting down API access for people who don't pay... I guess they did.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NoraReed @GalaxyKate thank YOUPermalink Look on archive.org
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@zlokluchenie @GalaxyKate yeah - drop me an email? it's on the homepage.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@zlokluchenie @GalaxyKate (just trying to keep track of requests in one place!)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NoraReed i forgot the frogs would break!!!! damn, sad about thatPermalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate @zlokluchenie hah, yeah, that would've been a good idea. but I'm out now. gonna make myself an internal tool for it, won't be so painful once it's set upPermalink Look on archive.org
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@nazuchiii @GalaxyKate it's technically possible to self-hostPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ALadyJewel oh, that's kind, but no, shouldn't take much time to set up. still gonna make it a manual process I run myself, just one where I don't have to literally write SQL to do.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hopebuIIetz @GalaxyKate send me an email, if that's okay? my mentions are a nightmarePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @peachpact: this is like the library of alexandria for yaoiPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @NotBrunoAgain: producer: hey how many days do you think this will take. 2.5? 3? me: [spits blood] you will never break mePermalink Look on archive.org
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@hlgtequotes send me an email! my mentions are chaosPermalink Look on archive.org
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funny that this emoji: 🔞 means "it's fine if you're 18"Permalink Look on archive.org
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from study guides to fun quizzes to honestly a pretty good way to meet people to this @merrittk/1644140714542989312Permalink Look on archive.org
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@esthet1cs @jonty @GalaxyKate yah, i want to - ideally a public archive of all the bot sources that were made public, and a second archive available only to researchers (under what terms?? does it become public at some point?? idk) that has the full set of sources.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i've not tried this out, but it looks legit to me! people mourning CBDQ, this might be worth a try? (i suspect it'll get hit when the API switches over at the end of the month... but who knows?) @archive255/1644089177624150016Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @safialatif: My oil painting of Ahmadou Bamba, a Sufi saint who led a nonviolent struggle against French colonial occupiers. https://t.c…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @londongamesfest: For the final three days of #LGF23 the main event is Now Play This @nowplaythese, @SomersetHouse. This festival show…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@regulad02 it's been open sourced for years! look on my GitHub - project name is traceryhostingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate god, it would be such a good story for me if you end up being the reigning queen of Tumblr fan-botsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate anyway, lemme know if I can help, I would like this thing to exist (and to not run it myself)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate hmmmmm. lemme know how that goes!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@merrittk it is genuinely inspiring to me how hard you are working at getting dates rnPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @SpaceSciSteph: When an "imaging artifact" turns out to be one of the wildest things we've ever observed in the universe. A supermassi…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin I enjoy how I have read about half of these already, and even a few that I assumed were you writing them... but somehow didn't twig that this was a project, and that this was your project.Permalink Look on archive.org
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incredible that Elon Musk made *Substack* seems like the good guysPermalink Look on archive.org
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@suchipi @freezydorito for me (and I am working as a solo dev & writing both sides in a non-JS/TS language), there was more upfront cost, but now all my queries are composable. The question is "is this exposed", not "how should I query this".Permalink Look on archive.org
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@suchipi @freezydorito like, I can write the server code going "yeah a client might need this at some point" and then decide exactly what the client needs when I'm writing the client code. And on both sides the type system automatically knows the shape of the data.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @KirstySedgman: I haven’t done a #TheatreEtiquette thread for a while, but for those who don’t know, my book The Reasonable Audience is…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@patrickashe hah, I think I retweeted the thread you're subtweeting. I liked it! The book sounds good! Not so good I'd be bothered to read it, but I appreciated getting the thread sized version.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@genmon sorry not to make it down tonight!Permalink Look on archive.org
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got a few months I can work on other stuff, hopefully it sparks some people to run with it & productize it. the previous state of accessible segmentation was not great (except via pricy end to end services).Permalink Look on archive.org
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hoping someone makes a cut down version of Segment Anything that can run entirely on a phone. or at least puts a hosted version up you can hit for cheap.Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's not as sexy an area as generating plausible but fake academic references or pictures of girls in bikinis... but it's the thing I need, lol.Permalink Look on archive.org
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although even outside of this particular case... in my career I've generally found tools that help computers understand images in sophisticated ways much more helpful than tools that help computers make up images in sophisticated ways. uh. I guess not counting 3D rendering.Permalink Look on archive.org
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rule of thumb: if someone posts something funny online, they probably did it on purpose. yes, even if they're a woman.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pillowfort god andor is so goodPermalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin i enjoyed the barnacle goose spreadsheet! and actually seemed pretty workable, tbh!! (yes i did go poking in the source & found the link)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mipsytipsy I have the same question, tbh - obviously you have to accept the complexity of the feature, but having the flags be independent means you should make sure every combination works. vs "here's a set of features, let's test together, then deploy".Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mipsytipsy maybe this isn't a problem in practice, maybe the benefits outweigh the risks, I've not deployed this way before, I don't know (background in videogames where this stuff works very differently - the cert process would horrify you)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ALadyJewel @mipsytipsy i mean, everybody hates the cert process (tens of thousands and weeks wasted because the wrong button icon is shown somewhere...) but there is a real structural thing about making software where the most users you'll ever have are likely enough going to be the day you launch.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nowplaythese: 📢 FREE MATERIALS 📢 We’re giving away the following materials which must be collected from Somerset House, WC2R 1LA by 6…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nowplaythese hah - who's taking the other ones?Permalink Look on archive.org
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damn, good job @steveruizok/1645364029106409472Permalink Look on archive.org
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this looks legit! seems like it ought to work post API limits, too!! @GuglioIsStupid/1644184962273357826Permalink Look on archive.org
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"Wallet and grimace"!!! @theoson0fhud/1625643565282992128Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @cgonzagaj: "Bullying is a means for mediocre scientists to rise to the top. Some star academics reached their position because they are…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @AliceAvizandum: reading about an unexpectedly early piece of hostile architecture - the regency piss deflector to deter people from pis…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FreyaHolmer: I wish valve was a real company so that we'd have source as a competing engine in the market with unreal and unityPermalink Look on archive.org
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@FreyaHolmer god you could even make a pretty good business case for it as a strategic move - keeping PC as a first class target for game-making, easy export to their Linux stuff, easy integration with their backend services...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jaytholen you love to invent fictional people just like this dude! stop complaining that he does too!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@FreyaHolmer yeah -- i guess it would actually happen because someone wanted to play around with tooling, and then they accidentally get committed to it once some momentum starts...Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @thorelimo: Here's ACT II SCENE II (two streetlights act out the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in Morse code) installed at @Somers…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: this looks legit! seems like it ought to work post API limits, too!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is sad to see, but also unsurprising. i wish they'd won the internal battles to allow games to get exported to other platforms. @Kotaku/1645810424514854913Permalink Look on archive.org
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funny timing, with this happening just as fortnite's creation tools roll outPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @politicalmath: You know those scams where grandma gets a message that her grandson was in a car crash & went to jail and they need $10K…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DeusEx_Ebooks: Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's prob…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@QiaochuYuan @AnneSelke for real the fact that you don't need to grab a drink or go to the bathroom is the biggest problem with virtual hangout spacesPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: Jolene, parsed as CSVPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @christapeterso: These criteria combine 2 readily clinically distinguishable groups. Only some of these kids want gender affirming care…Permalink Look on archive.org
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My favourite fact about Succession is that Jerry Hall's divorce settlement specifically prohibits her from suggesting any storylines to the writers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mandybrigwell: Ah, the excitingly-titled 'Generative Fuzzy Tentacle Plant'. editor.p5js.org/mandybrigwell/sketches/QJoHCOmmX Always reminds me of Les Fleurs, b…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tha_rami: This is a really well-written design log, which shows how much asset work and design consideration can go into the most minut…Permalink Look on archive.org
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my mind definitely expands DSTLRY as "desultory" rather than "distillery". yes, even though the letters are in a different order.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I made a jug!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I just think, if my job was to profile celebrities, and multiple people I'd profiled ended up making public statements clarifying that they didn't actually agree with me about my pet topic after the article has come out... I would feel some shame about that fact.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Like, it's one thing to do the profile and then lead with a spicy quote that's a little bit out of context. But "I think it's bad when people get harassed online" is not a spicy quote!Permalink Look on archive.org
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look at my talented friend!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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it has been absolutely wild hearing about this process from her - like, "hm, should i focus on writing this novel?? it's not like novels make any money" to "seven figures, at auction". this is not what usually happens!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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i mean, like, she's a great writer, i have known this for a long time. but also... it is a debut novel from someone who is not a celebrity, this is not what usually happens!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jsrailton: Want a window into Twitter's totally unsolved bot problem? Search for "as an AI language model" h/t @lcamtuf https://t.c…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rclarke the film & tv options are a separate deal!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@saltyhorse @GalaxyKate i wonder if there are any talks on "Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)"?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hannahnicklin i hope they make a tv show of it & you get to write some of itPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ThomasGrip: A lot of game design is really using your brain in order to simulate a bunch of different players and their reactions. Ha…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty @dinosaurrparty @KommanderKlobb @electronicos_f @BritishCouncil @BritishArts Now Play This has worked with them, I'll ask Nick next time I see him!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ka_bradley yoooooooo!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker i mean, it's a different segment, tho. indies don't have the cash to make F2P games, but subscription platforms are definitely salient.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker and besides, look at the FIFA / CoD models... premium or on Game Pass, and then microtransactions on top of that...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker maybe my viewpoint is skewed by only ever working on F2P within the context of Niantic, but the model I generally see involves paid user acquisition, at which point deep pockets really help.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker but possibly what this conversation is saying is that i should do more research before i launch my mobile not-technically-a-game which i plan to monetise through subscriptions.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker yeah - have heard that mobile publishers won't fund anything unless it's (soft) launched and showing good retention/monetisation numbers. which is a harsher world than premium indie, where you can get funding to make the game & maybe platform deals that recoup pre-launch.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker i mean, i guess there's a different split of effort pre and post launch in each different world, but still...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker yeah - i guess my countervailing fear is that power is shifting to the platforms and away from indies, that sub deals will get less lucrative as that happens, and that a shift to post-purchase microtransactions might well make sense as a way to recoup costs in that world.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker sub deals were kept high for a long time because new entrants kept setting up their own platforms & offering deals to make their offerings appealing. with the current tech winter, i don't see many new entrants throwing money around like that.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @veryluckyclover: -__-Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Singyamatokun i'm sorry to say this... but i used a pottery wheel for the first time today and i was very good at itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Singyamatokun not that sorry, tbhPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Singyamatokun (ok ok, by "very good" i mean i successfully made something that looked okay on my second attempt, i was happy anyway)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Radstronomical @Guv_Bubbs can recommend Can of Wormholes, tooPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Radstronomical I'd read back through the archives of Michael Brough's blog. Not specifically puzzle design, but a lot of insights about emergent properties of mechanics on small grids.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@bigbagco I loved your work on Wilmot's Warehouse!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@steveruizok you know about Choosing Keeping in Covent Garden, right??Permalink Look on archive.org
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@BRKeogh @hmberents incredible skillsPermalink Look on archive.org
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'A lot of students come on board with ambitions of making "Gone Home but bigger." And it's like, no, you can make "Gone Home but smaller." A lot smaller.' @BRKeogh/1648452142569775105Permalink Look on archive.org
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@steveruizok i haven't! seen things on their blog, but... not within their storePermalink Look on archive.org
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@betterthemask yeahhh! did you play the previous Obey Me! i definitely called it out as a ref for the stuff we were working on at Niantic, it did some wild stuff.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@betterthemask like, you did jobs for them in real time? and also there were battles, but they were dance battles? and you could give them head pats, but not too many head pats. except for the one that liked it rough. and gifts, too, but they were expensive.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@betterthemask and also there was a whole thing where you could look at their phones?? also the whole thing where the story was "oh yes, they're the embodiment of the seven sins, and they're demons, and they're in high school, and they have to go to work". just a lot of game there.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @maruti_bitamin: One of the panels I especially enjoyed drawingPermalink Look on archive.org
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a thing i always think about when i make dumb internal tools for myself is designing them so i can tell what's happening with my peripheral vision or by seeing changes.Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, i tweeted about this before @v21/1267068447055372289?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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and before that as well @v21/1065155751356874753?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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and here's the thing i was looking for when i found both of those tweets: a game about the invention of the blink comparator, a technique i like a lot @v21/1477605110188593154?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pageantmalarkey: Things I wished I’d known about pensions as a TV freelancer years ago: “If any of your staff write to you asking to jo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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okay, i think i'm caught up with requests for bot source code. lemme know if i missed you!Permalink Look on archive.org
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funny the way that AI gets confused about tangents @NeuralBricolage/1649018420871004163Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GuglioIs2Stupid @jaeheekanglover you can! email is on the CBDQ homepage!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @webbedspace: I'm reading an English language tutorial for 2D Fighter Maker (JP abandonware by Enterbrain) and this is the opening of th…Permalink Look on archive.org
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good article & very relevant to me, a person wondering if people will pay a subscription for the social network I'm developing theverge.com/2023/4/18/23672769/social-media-inevitable-death-monetization-growth-hacksPermalink Look on archive.org
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I'm on this podcast! But like... in a bit. Lots of good folks before and after, tho! @gutefabrik/1650877335686578180Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hmmwowamazing sign up for the announce list! downpour.gamesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hmmwowamazing and actually, in the meantime I can recommend Cohost, which is everything you just said and also a more traditional social media shape.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@_benui I largely have a good time there, and the incentive structures for server admins means that I think versions of it will be around for a long time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall Winifred EggPermalink Look on archive.org
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@pozorvlak idk, my position is that "AGI" is ill-defined and that "AI that is a super-set of human intelligence" is still very distant, so let's worry about shit like the climate crisis instead. that thread takes for granted the opposite of both of those points.Permalink Look on archive.org
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as someone who studied Cognitive Science and has strong thoughts on the embodied nature of intelligence... this AGI stuff seems like such complete bullshit to me.Permalink Look on archive.org
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like, i'm not saying that AI isn't making remarkable progress, that it's not going to change society, or that complex systems fail in unexpected ways. just that... i mean, "General Intelligence"?? *humans* don't have that!Permalink Look on archive.org
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and that this stuff is coming from the people who write book-length blog posts about the ways that humans use heuristics for judgement instead of reason!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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wow! what a good idea!!! @schwittlick_/1651162234440040449Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pozorvlak but even this post is using as a premise "a single AI system that is able to do more-or-less the same intellectual tasks as a human"! we already have AI that can surpass humans at certain tasks (heck, we've had that since we've had computers), so that's equivalent to my thing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pozorvlak like, maybe AI progress will surprise me! but i do think i am reasonably well informed on the topic, and everything on AGI risks I've seen is at best very handwavey on this point.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pozorvlak i mean, i guess - if i had to make a prediction i would predict that the current AI boom will stop making progress, we'll have a second AI Winter & that this kind of breakthrough would only happen once some new stuff we're not currently thinking about happens.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pozorvlak in which scenario... what useful work can we do on AI alignment that's structured around some currently unknown concepts? i mean, probably some people should think about it, but it doesn't seem very pressing or likely that they'll do much useful work.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@pozorvlak @Meaningness i am very up for talking about the impacts of near-term realistic AI! especially given i am currently working on something that is basically a social network, i spend a lot of time thinking about social dynamics when modulated through automated systems.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AnnaHollinrake I believe in you and your ability to do bothPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc I mean, people have constantly said "here is a task that needs intelligence, let's invent a computer program that can solve it, then we will have invented AI". and then they succeed, and then the goalposts shift and actually "AI" means something else.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc so, yes, we've made AI, repeatedly. but "AGI" is the promise we can make a computer program that's so smart, people can't shift the goalposts about what smart means. I'm not sure what that is, but I feel it has a lot to do with acting like a human, plus something.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc yeah, and I think the idea of what intelligence is has been really distorted by people wanting to show humans are definitely different from animals. whereas the human bit is a real thin layer on top of some real sophisticated systems.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@keyofgeo my big thing is embodiment, so I'd actually focus on the "hunting big game in an uncertain environment full of contingencies" bit. I mean, even the "big game" bit feels like a distraction from the basic grounding in the physical world needed to have "common sense"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@keyofgeo like, the "reason" thing that separates humans from animals is a real thin layer on top of a lot of sophisticated stuff about being a body in the world. I am sceptical you can build that layer without building an equivalent of all the stuff underneath.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@keyofgeo and I'm sceptical you can build a system that people will recognise as "intelligent" unless it operates in a way that is vaguely analogous to a human.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@keyofgeo but, y'know, feel free to come up with some rigourous criteria for "AGI" that aren't "I know it when I see it"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas have you read about the caloric demands of playing high level chess? feels like a similar thingPermalink Look on archive.org
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I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I am unable to generate inappropriate content.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@naomialderman oh that sounds good!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas think this is the article i read: espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chessPermalink Look on archive.org
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that's graphic design @sainsburyarch/1651531130925903874Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @epicyclesbot: ⟳ 1 | 𝑣 -6 | ⌀ 0.4958 | ϕ 0.08476 ⟳ 180 | 𝑣 2 | ⌀ 1.000 | ϕ 0.6031 ⟲ 303 | 𝑣 2 | ⌀ 0.4958 | ϕ 0.3941 ○ 360 + ● 0 https:/…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mrsambarlow i am also pretty sceptical of cloud gaming, but i'm glad the deal was blocked, so i'm just accepting the winPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mrsambarlow but also one reason the indie games sector has grown so much the last while has been a load of platforms that look like "someone might bankroll a loss leading service for a bit, disrupt things, but then ultimately have to start charging/go bust because it isn't sustainable"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thdxr i'm using Firebase Auth, but what i get back is a JWT token. all the actual user data lives on my server, so I can handle that stuff myself. but also i'm pretty wary of the lockin problem you can easily run into - auth is your users is your whole business.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thdxr but also it's a magic link flow and i do not want to think about email deliverability if i can in any way avoid itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@lazerwalker if it contains wavs, I'd expect trying to play it on Audacity will render sound, or at least a suggestive waveformPermalink Look on archive.org
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I was gonna tweet something, but the button you press to make that happen disappeared, and by the time I restarted the app and found it again I forgot what. Probably not important.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @catacalypto: I have a bit of a respectfully antagonistic relationship to good games criticism: I do not want it go easy on us, because…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas @FreyaHolmer honestly the stickiest part of this is Twitter policies. they support embedding web pages within tweets, but only if you're using it to show a video player preview.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas @FreyaHolmer I mean, also you would need to make a runtime with equivalent functionality to Flash, and an editor that was equally approachable. but those things *are* doable with current tech.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @christinelove: when people worry about "AI" causing the future of media to become formulaic and devoid of human creativity it's because…Permalink Look on archive.org
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a gorgeous day to spend on a series of trainsPermalink Look on archive.org
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it works in reverse now - people get the corporate job in the hopes they'll make enough money that they can sell themselves back @A_B_Allen/1652364412001619968Permalink Look on archive.org
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excellent Dark Souls interview from the art book @brandonrchinn/1652442959760220160Permalink Look on archive.org
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@JeffAHamilton @catacalypto no, tonight is the scheduled night for nightmares with a burndown chart inPermalink Look on archive.org
