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Tweets from 2024/04

  1. pissing off the love of my life by proposing to this other girl while she's just standing there. also she's already pissed at me for starting a holy war and declaring myself a messiah. whatever. she'll come round.
  2. RT @TheWhitePube: This week's review is @pippinbarr's terrifying, good, soothing website 'It is as if you were doing work.' You can read or…
  3. RT @v21: hey, guess who's a gaming superstar?
  4. so excited that Mike has made this - of course his first Downpour game would be made the hard way (examining the data format and then writing a script to generate the entire game state, along with procedurally generated commentary) @mtrc/1774714316815552750
  5. RT @frankieboyle: Every April Fools prank is an expression of sublimated desire
  6. RT @leighalexander: i went to school for acting, and they teach you this there, too. people get a character and start worrying: who is this…
  7. i'm reposting this post & i think it's important to know the gist of it (Israeli forces destroyed the largest hospital in Gaza, leaving hundreds of mutilated, executed bodies behind). but read the details at your own risk, and don't look at the pictures in the replies. @HossamShabat/1774741588226273379
  8. …in reply to @v21
    should also say: the HTML bit is open source! please do hack it and add weird bits and generate game data and so on! github.com/downpourlimited/engine
  9. my task for today is to get this big auth change ready to send to testers. got a cold, so i'm slow going, but... nearly there.
  10. wish i hadn't seen photographs of dead children today. i wish children weren't being killed. i wish my government wasn't implicitly in favour of it happening. i wish, i wish, i wish.
  11. RT @kezamacdonald: Hugely amused by this game but was even more amused by my partner's approach to it, which was to make a cup of tea exact…
  12. …in reply to @kezamacdonald
    @kezamacdonald and who are we to argue with him!
  13. …in reply to @ingx24
    @ingx24 @headfallsoff actions i'd like!! - better policies on sick pay & a cultural change to not go to work when you're infectious - serious investment in ventilation & UV purification units - more research into Long Covid & associated chronic illnesses
  14. …in reply to @v21
    @ingx24 @headfallsoff these are kind of high level political and infrastructural things, but the cultural thing that prevents them from happening is people going "ah well, Covid is here, nothing we can do about it, i don't want to think about it"
  15. RT @goofxist: Evergreen https://t.co/B31gJHyBhk
  16. RT @_her_moth_: we would do well to understand that we are all at various distances from killability, but very few of us are totally beyond…
  17. RT @molleindustria: 📰BREAKING NEWS: I made a new game The New York Times Simulator Select the news, edit the headlines, gain the approval…
  18. RT @zedcatte: Wrote something about mania and psychiatry and how we think about the things that happen to us when we go mad and the stories…
  19. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr you are very much not, but also I must confess I opened twitter because I just took a good selfie and I was wondering whether I wanted to post it here
  20. fucked up that if you want to buy the new books in paperback (objectively a better reading experience) then you gotta go to the airport
  21. …in reply to @WEschenbach
  22. …in reply to @FreyaHolmer
    @FreyaHolmer that's the stuff i have running on my VPS, yep
  23. …in reply to @FreyaHolmer
    @FreyaHolmer i mean you can fuss with the new stuff later, Apache will run fine as a reverse proxy to whatever nonsense you wanna run. but good to start with something that works and you have a sense of.
  24. RT @leighalexander: really kind of a shame that so many people throw out so much data-oriented and procedural work with the OpenAI et al po…
  25. let's poke around an abandoned factory downpour.games/~Emi_burlap/the-abandoned-factory
  26. RT @TomNullpointer: Ok, new game announcement time! "The Horror at Highrook" store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/The_Horror_at_Highrook/ An occult card-crafting RPG . Ive been…
  27. RT @SilvermanJacob: AI generated kill lists, with a built-in bias for targeting families at home. 972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ https://t.co/SLNL…
  28. RT @kezamacdonald: If you want to understand exactly why the Internet is broken, read this. Big tech has a stranglehold over all types of…
  29. …in reply to @WEschenbach
    @WEschenbach @MairavZ @WCKitchen ah, my apologies: do you accept the word of WCK? "The WCK team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle." wck.org/news/gaza-team-update
  30. RT @whatsylviaate: I want to remain a child and be sheltered from accepting the responsibility of things like earning a living, cooking, an…
  31. not feeling very gaming superstar after spending the evening fighting with Gradle to maybe make the build build again so i can resubmit to Google Play with a copy change so they will hopefully approve a build again so i can test ripping out how auth works so i can fix a bug
  32. …in reply to @sternbergh
    @sternbergh Holly Gramazio's The Husbands!!!
  33. RT @kristoncapps: Naturally @gregorg knows where Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" is stored and just snapped this shot. Read his fascinating an…
  34. …in reply to @v21
    i defeated Gradle but *just* as i was about to make a clean build for both platforms, @PopBase/1775659836556104095 anyway, time for bed
  35. RT @karenkho: This Esquire feature on the death of Alabama paster Bubba Copeland, and the right-wing blog that outed him without remorse, i…
  36. Downpour update: Downpour is currently unavailable via the Play Store, due to... something about the wording for subscriptions? Honestly it's a little unclear to me, but a new build has been pushed, so hopefully it'll be back soon.
  37. RT @elite_gz: you're not supposed to be sitting in front of a screen developing an encyclopedic level of knowledge about what fleetwood mac…
  38. RT @elite_gz: recorded music is an echo of something that once happened in real life. once, it gave you insight into relationships, social…
  39. …in reply to @v21
    okay, it's back up again BUT with a bug with authentication (you might remember this was the thing i was trying to test, turns out it did indeed need more testing). a fix for that is on it's way...
  40. RT @JuhaniHalkomaki: #creativecoding #generativeart Particles, reassemble!
  41. …in reply to @v21
    the bug is fixed, everything should be running smoothly, let me know if not!
  42. RT @nicolehe: finally announcing The Crush House!!!oisdhfoisdfho i can't express how much of a dream it is to be directing this game and w…
  43. RT @Megan_Nicolett: one detail I really like: the ads that run in-game are actually about other video games. baby steps gets a very appropr…
  44. …in reply to @spadgy_OTA
    @spadgy_OTA planning on running some workshops on making divination games with Downpour!
  45. let's learn about invasive species in the state of Illinois! what do you mean "why are there chains on the wall"? downpour.games/~AlpineWetlands/realistic-ecology-intern-simulator-demo
  46. …in reply to @max__drake
    @max__drake wow! what a treat!
  47. oh damn! pretty sure Downpour got more installs than that, day 1. it's self funded, too, but for a lot less than $20m. @GergelyOrosz/1776163918370533772
  48. RT @flying_rodent: This is how it was with the Iraq War, which was the last time politicians and commentators felt they had anything to apo…
  49. i love to write code, and i hate to test it!!
  50. haha "Every turn you'll be shown 2 bands. Pick your favourite. The AI will analyse the results and give you your FAVOURITE band of all time" downpour.games/~Manoloko/battle-of-the-bands
  51. …in reply to @twitonatrain
    @twitonatrain the tea game is a celebration of differences
  52. …in reply to @louispilfold
    @louispilfold considering whether i would like to be worse but also have more money
  53. …in reply to @jaytholen
    @jaytholen they have the same ads here in the UK. copy is a bit better "only half the story" etc
  54. RT @mtrc: Now Play This, an exhibition of experimental game design, opened today for its tenth year! I went and had a good look around and…
  55. RT @sylviefluff: When Syvlie says games are a conversation between designers and players, what does she mean? Nobody knows!! 2024.04.05 (W…
  56. my friend said "you keep moaning about how you want a job in games, go talk to that man over there" @Element_Five/1776674969927201238
  57. …in reply to @jonty
    @jonty sadly the studio was terrible at actually making money, or indeed finding clients. but I got to spend a couple of years learning how to make games with a team and *also* how to make design decisions without explicit authority, but with an absence of leadership.
  58. …in reply to @v21
    @jonty but I mean, if you really do want a job in games then I can happily keep an eye out for other men in pubs who might have one for you
  59. fun video recreating the sodium-vapour masking process they used on Mary Poppins. with the punchline of: "this is worth using today, to make training data for machine learning for making masking with greenscreen better" youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk
  60. RT @NoChorus: Time made this site so weird. Verified retirees use emoji to condone genocide under their real names/pics whereas a decade+ m…
  61. RT @_jomreid: Had an absolute blast at @nowplaythese on Saturday! What a wonderful, well curated exhibition and an absolutely amazing team.…
  62. @_jomreid great to meet you on Saturday! hope the coach wasn't too awful
  63. RT @karlfranks: https://t.co/zOps5dHqqn
  64. good thread on the mindset dating apps put us in. to which i'd add: i also don't like the way they make me read everything i write with this same critical eye. no-one can stand up to this judgement, least of all yourself! @Vanessa_Kisuule/1777324854020067456
  65. …in reply to @v21
    a different but similar thing to the hyper-defensive, imagined-audience-of-haters writing that Twitter trains you to do.
  66. a pair of Downpour games for you to play. here's @mtrc, taking you on a journey to the start of a march for Palestine in London downpour.games/~mtrc/march
  67. …in reply to @v21
    @mtrc and here's @colestia3, taking you along on a march for Palestine in Naarm colestia.itch.io/palestine
  68. …in reply to @v21
    @mtrc @colestia3 our marches are on Saturdays rather than Sundays, we're on opposite sides of the world. but we're marching for the same thing, with the same chants. it gives me a bit of hope.
  69. oh wow, i just saw this! if you're in NYC on Saturday, @wondervillenyc is doing a Downpour game jam! wonderville.nyc/events/gamejam-april-2024
  70. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc it's lovely, i really like the small decisions like where to sit, the way the narrator fucks off. feels very personal, which is obviously a joy to me. and then this pairing is so strong, the one starting where the other ends.
  71. Tom Scott put the tea game in his newsletter
  72. …in reply to @v21
  73. RT @mtrc: I wrote a little Cohost blog about designing games using @v21's Downpour app, about the weirdness inherent in performing nonlinea…
  74. …in reply to @jeeyonshim
    @jeeyonshim yeah - the party was falling apart, the chances of them rescuing Falin (even with Namari) without happening to run into Senshi were low, and the chances of them dying permanently were high. sure, the job is about that risk, but... jobs pay money.
  75. lovely coverage of Now Play This in the Guardian theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/08/a-skate-through-cyberspace-on-the-edge-with-the-now-play-this-festival-of-experimental-video-games - it runs through to Sunday, and it's totally worth the trip, in my biased opinion
  76. …in reply to @alecrobbins
    @alecrobbins The only Laura Knetzger I've read is Bug Boys, which I liked a lot! Somehow never thought to read more! Thanks for the prompt
  77. this list is like 50% stuff I've read and loved, 25% stuff I've been meaning to read, and 25% stuff I now wanna read after looking at this list @alecrobbins/1777136573219565882
  78. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty hi Svenska!
  79. please don't reply to me with a link to an AI generated song you have prompted with a reply i sent to a friend
  80. I'm caught up in the way that the justification for using male pronouns is to help men believe that it is possible for them, too, to live as women @AlinaBoyden/1479925768272629760
  81. …in reply to @v21
    I don't want to project too hard onto someone I don't know, on the basis of a few pages posted without much context. I'm sure other people would read this and come to other conclusions. But nevertheless, the reading I take from this is pretty strongly: egg
  82. RT @tigershungry: New writing from myself ✨ A reflection on the physicality & life present in videogame performances and thoughts on how w…
  83. RT @dav31111: visualisation of the "combinatorial explosion" of Terry's tea game (non-spoiler version) downpour.games/~terry/a-proper-cup-of-tea?p=abc replace abc…
  84. …in reply to @dav31111
  85. …in reply to @Singyamatokun
    @Singyamatokun frog hat still so strong
  86. did a dev update for Downpour! read all about it! downpour.games/~admin/updates
  87. …in reply to @v21
    most notably! i'm organising a meetup this Friday evening, at Now Play This in London. come along! we'll play some games, make some games, generally have a chat. and Now Play This is great, too.
  88. …in reply to @JoseZagal
    @JoseZagal @mtrc i saw this one come through! so happy to hear you're using it in class!
  89. incredible Downpour game (an incredible Downpour game is one where I laugh more than once and feel a real sense of uncertainty about what is about to happen at least once) @molleindustria/1777800663201616272
  90. thinking about the function of a curator, too, whose job it is, i think, to say: hey! look at this! isn't this just something? and then by the effort of arranging in a room, writing texts, doing publicity, etc get you to look, get you to see the thing they see. @mcmansionhell/1777780282457772481
  91. RT @mollysoda: Wrote a syllabus about the g(URL) "Girls have been on the Internet all along—using its tools, participating in it, shaping…
  92. …in reply to @FreyaHolmer
    @FreyaHolmer If you pay the lawyers more, they can usually write the legalese in a way that's still readable. But also, yeah, for some stuff I expect to be uncontentious, I have just written an email with the basic terms and left it at that. Depends how much is at stake!!
  93. the function of medicine should not be to prevent people from accessing treatment unless they can prove they're worthy of it
  94. RT @adacable: We need to normalise parents and other adults(family friends, etc) need to stepping the fuck up and just buying young folk ho…
  95. sentences.txt
  96. Ugh, it's much more annoying to add features to a thing when there's already people using it. looking at adding some new fonts to Downpour, but if I do that then I have to make sure it makes sense for the people using an older version without those fonts...
  97. …in reply to @v21
    thanks, past me
  98. …in reply to @max__drake
    @max__drake live by the quip, die by the quip. i'm glad people are having fun.
  99. RT @PetreRaleigh: Wow that was a perfect film. What's that? The filmmaker has 7 more equally great films and is deeply plugged into a thriv…
  100. RT @Obseyxx: A great bit in Cass. "Most young people who take puberty blockers turn out to be trans. This means they aren't properly thinki…
  101. RT @TabitaSurge: Cass review says that 'prenatal and postnatal hormonal influence' is why there are Boy toys and Girl toys. Well done, 'fem…
  102. bumping this for UK daytime! come hang out, make some Downpour games, we'll play some, you can tell me it would be nice if there were alignment tools in the app, etc downpour.games/~admin/updates?p=lb1 @v21/1777768245031842018
  103. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
  104. …in reply to @v21
    @HJosephineGiles (just assuming her pronunciation would match - it's what i remember from the game, too)
  105. …in reply to @michael___wave
    @SzMarsupial I'm not a big fan of apples, but I'm very happy for you, what a great feeling to be feeling
  106. RT @DilettanteryPod: This made me feel an emotion I cannot even roughly name https://t.co/EEtG3O9duJ
  107. …in reply to @michael___wave
    @SzMarsupial look there are so many ways that not getting enough sleep fucks us up, sometimes you've just got to enjoy it when it gives you a little loopy euphoria instead
  108. the fundamental problem with trans healthcare in the UK is that it is almost impossible to access. i paid a thousand pounds, waited 18 months, answered some pretty invasive questions and finally... got access to a prescription that about 2 million people in the UK take
  109. …in reply to @v21
    you can't ask that doctors simultaneously provide and open and supportive space for patients to talk about their fears AND ask them gatekeep treatment from those they're not sure ought to have it. it just doesn't work that way.
  110. My friend's debut novel is #12 on the New York Times Hardback Fiction Bestseller List. I am so fucking excited for her. Go read The Husbands by Holly Gramazio! It's a good book! It's got jokes and metaphors and A Situation!
  111. …in reply to @__justplaying
    @__justplaying apologies, i checked the dates and it was actually 15 months, but part of that was waiting on an NHS thing (that i eventually abandoned). i went with GenderCare & the time from first contact to getting a prescription there was 9 months.
  112. …in reply to @__justplaying
    @__justplaying this was in 2020, which might well have had something to do with it
  113. RT @thebafflermag: “I ask my students what one owes the dead, when we are obliged to look, and when, if ever, it is more respectful to look…
  114. a short game about being prepared downpour.games/~linenalligator997/weather-writer
  115. …in reply to @v21
  116. …in reply to @v21
  117. RT @nowplaythese: Now Play This founder @v21 is hosting a meetup tomorrow for fans of her hit game Downpour! Make games, play games, and h…
  118. currently experiencing the feeling one feels after eating a really good bowl of noodles
  119. …in reply to @folmerkelly
    @folmerkelly I've been putting off starting to read my copy (I read a draft) because I know once I open it I'm strapped in til the end
  120. RT @SzMarsupial: my liberation? bound up in yours?? it’s more likely than you think !!
  121. RT @nowplaythese: We are saying TGIF at Now Play This because of this incredible day of events! The Hybrid Worlding workshop hosted by Sha…
  122. RT @andypressman: Hey! I released a ttrpg a couple weeks ago! It's free at andypressman.itch.io/echo-of-ghosts — this is my first published game, so if…
  123. …in reply to @ftxclone
    @ftxclone @SouthTexasPansy @deathbybadger I think trans teenagers would very much argue that the particular form of puberty they would naturally go through is wrong. Puberty blockers are the compromise solution so that they can make a decision about what puberty to have when they're legally adults.
  124. …in reply to @v21
    @ftxclone @SouthTexasPansy @deathbybadger You can say that you know better than those teenagers about what is good for them and the ways their bodies ought to develop - but I would start with bodily autonomy as a baseline, and only steer away from that with good reason.
  125. wildly revealing piece: the line is "children are being rushed into transition, we need to switch to a model where they get talked to rather than one where they access care" - but both of the examples are of nearly adults who are still waiting to be seen archive.is/2024.04.09-101735/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/09/cass-review-gender-trans-debate-tavistock-clinic-nhs/
  126. …in reply to @v21
    and notably, the people interviewed are of parents that don't believe or support their kids - but the kids are still trans, years after first coming out. who will be or are seeking hormones as adults.
  127. …in reply to @matdryhurst
    @matdryhurst @austinrobey_ horny/furry art were definitely big earners there, last time I looked
  128. …in reply to @misterdoctor
    @misterdoctor @matdryhurst @austinrobey_ idk! big backlash against AI in those communities, and strong parasocial dynamics (with the creators and the fictional characters)
  129. right now the recurring task I spend the most time on with Downpour is playing the games that get posted to see what stuff I should feature within the app. and i keep playing stuff that makes me smile or makes me laugh. it's a nice job to get to do
  130. RT @innesmck: there's a division of opinions in the cairngorm national park but one thing alone can always unite us: that brewdog can absol…
  131. RT @nowplaythese: And that's a wrap on Now Play This 2024! It has been a truly magical week here at @SomersetHouse. Thanks to all our staff…
  132. interesting read, as someone who takes 5mg of finasteride a day (but has a pretty different hormone situation than described) archive.is/2024.04.15-063104/https://www.economist.com/1843/2024/04/05/would-you-risk-a-breakdown-to-cure-baldness
  133. RT @cassesque: What's the crime? Eight perfect touchdowns?
  134. …in reply to @Mappletons
    @Mappletons i love how many different problem spaces problem-solution ordering pops up (for ref: mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/) and i usually put on a washing up glove if my hand keeps sliding on the top of the jar
  135. apologies: Downpour's app backend (but not the website) went down about 12 hours ago, and I didn't get alerted about it. fixed now, and i'm looking into the cause and why the alert didn't happen.
  136. what do you want to drink? downpour.games/~Hogg/drinking-game-1
  137. …in reply to @v21
  138. …in reply to @v21
  139. …in reply to @aislinomics
    @aislinomics @ElytraMithra nah, the argument for banning indoor vaping is "fewer people will do it if it's inconvenient"
  140. …in reply to @aislinomics
    @aislinomics @ElytraMithra the arguments in the thread i was responding to focused on the harms to the surrounding people, not to the vapers themselves! it's a different policy objective than i've seen being mentioned.
  141. I can report that it's not that durable if a dog decides to chew on it. good pen otherwise, tho! @kepano/1780272329089744916
  142. RT @graceelavery: Feeling cunty so I am going to say more. There’s an older professor in my field who is almost universally reviled, and wh…
  143. stayed up too late last night making the default usernames in Downpour better. here's a few:
  144. …in reply to @v21
    tag yourself, etc
  145. "What this means is that there may be lots more hominin bones in people's floors and showers." johnhawks.net/weblog/how-many-bathrooms-have-neandertals-in-the-tile/amp/
  146. …in reply to @six6jiang
    @six6jiang sometimes you get people squeezing after someone. but also I think the gatelines have to be manned, which makes it less likely too
  147. …in reply to @susepicious
    @susepicious i'm ripstopphysalis
  148. …in reply to @v21
    i should also say: this is live! if you want a cool username all of your very own... just sign up for Downpour! (if you already have an account, ask nicely and i'll generate a new one for you)
  149. finally made the phone call i'd been putting off and rescheduled a medical appointment which means i no longer have to be in the UK on the 10th of May which means... i'm going to AMAZE! so looking forward to drinking beer in Berlin - who else is going?
  150. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto oh!!! well, consider me extremely hyped to see you if you do make it over!
  151. …in reply to @v21
  152. i was wondering what the hot new Silicon Valley thing would be, now that AI is fading and the metaverse is dead. but it's weapons, isn't it? it's making things that literally, on purpose, kill people.
  153. RT @JennSandercock: I spoke to Rock Paper Shotgun about edible games and the result is a lovely article about me: rockpapershotgun.com/how-rockstar-banning-cake-day-helped-launch-a-designers-career-in-edible-games
  154. RT @alienmelon: new post! Solo-Devs and Risk-Takers (An Artistic Exploration of Experimental Tools) nathalielawhead.com/candybox/solo-devs-and-risk-takers-an-artistic-exploration-of-experimental-tools "Exploring expe…
  155. RT @Ffranciscodgf: In 2019, Glodi Wabuela became the first ‘county lines’ drug dealer to be tried & convicted for human trafficking. It was…
  156. RT @Trey_Explainer: This is so damn funny ENGUCHANNEL https://t.co/fMVPqzPp8u
  157. …in reply to @v21
    line goes up
  158. today's work, before and after. the arrow now points at the dot.
  159. RT @KellynnWee: What constitutes canon during a D&D game? When I was carrying out fieldwork in Singapore for my TTRPG project, I played in…
  160. …in reply to @TodePond
    @TodePond it's a real good post
  161. big fan of how honor ash is using Downpour - they're doing a poem a day this month, and compiling them into one piece, each poem linking to the next. it's nice to watch something slowly build this way! downpour.games/~hnr/escapril
  162. a rule of thumb I seem to go by with my creative tools is to find something fun and creative that only people can code do, and then let people who are good at other stuff have a go, too. you get good stuff that way! @FreyaHolmer/1781256579565715584
  163. …in reply to @v21
    really I guess the lesson here is that "scratch your own itch" is deeply limited as a philosophy. you gotta scratch other people's itches!! they can't reach their own backs!! it's harder to do, it needs more care and listening and imagination, but it gets you so much further
  164. wonder what happened in 2020 @MetroUK/1781211880364613645
  165. …in reply to @v21
    anyway, sure i agree that there's a problem with the medicalisation of everything - but that's downstream of other forms of support being kicked away. and this is just another way that support is getting kicked away from people.
  166. …in reply to @genmon
    @genmon was thinking about how there's very solid reasons for making sure all the public areas of stations can clearly hear a tannoy. but once you have that, it's very easy to justify doing more announcements with them.
  167. …in reply to @genmon
    @genmon otoh - the different tone of the Inspector Sands announcements definitely do catch my ear
  168. …in reply to @v21
    I hope this email finds you under a balcony and kisses you in the shadows until there's nothing left of you but sparkling fairy dust, and in your weakened state, you ask if she wants to hang out next weekend, and her face clouds and she goes, “Ohhh."
  169. because it's better to build up a new thing than to pine for what was lost: here's a fun Flash-like game on a currently active portal, and it came out in the last month. kick the ball! poki.com/en/g/blumgi-soccer @vvrrva/1781122390833188966
  170. …in reply to @AlmostMedia
    @AlmostMedia they accept the costs as necessary to attain their ends. but the ends are also served by being very vocal about the costs, by painting their opponents as people who are cruel and oppressive. what would it serve them to bear the costs silently?
  171. …in reply to @v21
    @AlmostMedia or, to be more concrete: the overreaction of Colombia to the first wave of protests strengthened the second wave of protests. if the first wave of protesters had just accepted the reaction as normal, then you don't get the second wave. that obviously wouldn't help their cause.
  172. …in reply to @GhostTownGoldie
  173. RT @rsnous: good example of the potential if you can take even a well-known existing visual representation (I've liked https://t.co/ovBX6h7…
  174. RT @MarioBrothBlog: Game Boy Advance games store their audio samples as uncompressed data in the code. By importing a GBA game file in an a…
  175. I don't believe it's possible to create an experience like this unless you control the scope and shape of the problem space as well as the tools used to navigate to a solution @soleio/1782002054396846234
  176. …in reply to @v21
    I've been thinking a lot about the push and pull of wanting software to have deep context, but not wanting a software company to have control or even visibility over everything I do. not an unsolvable problem, but it is a hard one, and not one that the money flows towards
  177. RT @nielsen_holly: Friends, art, and so much dessert today @vividfax @v21
  178. …in reply to @eefilp_
    @eefilp_ it's not necessarily a problem for that! if you have some save/load/version management etc on top of it, seems like it could be fine. as long as you're making hundreds of iterations of things this thing is designed to make
  179. RT @alifeeeirenn: I made a game!!! It's downpour.games/~alifeee/handstands It's using Downpour by @v21 It takes only a minute to play. It takes o…
  180. this is an all time tweet. the best you can hope for is not going to be enough. @HillaryClinton/1782400479743324603
  181. honestly can't think of a better way to structure this (oh, except maybe comparing on enums versus strings. tho given it's Lua that's probably actually fine) @maxbittker/1782645521888247956
  182. …in reply to @v21
    Lua: when all you have is an associative array, actually that's fine, no need for anything else.
  183. i just did some clever coding, moving behaviour from something implicit in the framework to somewhere i'd have more control over it, and it's working exactly as intended... and now i can't remember why i wanted to produce this behaviour in the first place. time for a cup of tea.
  184. …in reply to @v21
    reading the code like... who did this? what did they want?
  185. …in reply to @zarawesome_
    @zarawesome @nothings I thought the same thing and then I looked up what enum support in Lua was like and then I was at peace with it.
  186. …in reply to @v21
    @zarawesome @nothings in practice, the thing I would do is add some scripts to do monkey testing (play random cards & games and see if any errors happen) rather than worrying too much about missing this kind of error
  187. …in reply to @TodePond
    @TodePond i liked it when someone explained where to get started with Bret Victor's work
  188. ugh it's really hard to remove complexity from something you've already shipped
  189. …in reply to @v21
    "hey there's something that you probably didn't understand - well it's no longer there, except in this one complicated case, for backwards compatibility purposes"
  190. RT @ColumbiaSJP: Stay focused. All eyes on Palestine. We reject those who use this movement to center themselves.
  191. RT @metasynthie: The propensity of students to express political ideas by making loud trouble in the streets, and their teachers’ willingne…
  192. "There are no internal viewings" @leigh_fell/1782449437597433861
  193. …in reply to @florencesn
    @florencesn congratulations! can i have a go on the JCB?
  194. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto can't lie, there is a little bit of me that wants to buy it and start going ham with an excavator
  195. RT @bjork: Why don't you click, drag and use keyboard arrows on bjork.com?
  196. RT @sapphicspielbrg: 😭😭🏳️‍⚧️
  197. …in reply to @v21
    just figured out there was a much easier way to make this work all along
  198. …in reply to @v21
  199. RT @elite_gz: buying the entire podcast industry didn’t deliver results, so they gutted podcasts and curation in order to impress investors…
  200. sneaky peek of what i'm currently working on
  201. …in reply to @v21
    if you are using (and enjoying!) Downpour, please do consider subscribing - it means i can justify spending more time on adding new stuff like this (also fixing old stuff)
  202. …in reply to @muttposting
    @muttposting @CISFAKER forgive yourself for the things that make you feel shame, and nurture feelings of joy when you find them. appreciate your own efforts.
  203. I would go further and say that if you are a solo dev or on a small team and you hide the complexity within abstractions, you are going to fiercely resist small changes and special cases that break those abstractions. which will be fatal, because they are the point of the game. @innesmck/1782813190331527443
  204. …in reply to @v21
    (if you are a coder on a larger team then you will also resist them, but in that case hopefully a designer will bully you into doing it anyway)
  205. RT @MPSWestminster: We are aware of a number of horses that are currently loose in central London and are working with colleagues, includin…
  206. i think i will be thinking about the phrase: "What we don't know: where the horses came from" for a while
  207. good object on the objects account cohost.org/objects/post/5695750-vessel-with-two-feet
  208. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth yesss, glad to share the... i was gonna write joy, but idk if that's right.
  209. RT @michael_deforge: sharp editorial by @cineparlour arguing that arts festivals don't have to make the fatalistic choice between corporate…
  210. RT @jackmirkinson: Today in @thenation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it.…
  211. A nice blog post by Leigh Dodds on Downpour blog.ldodds.com/2024/04/26/i-made-a-downpour-game/
  212. …in reply to @v21
    I'm glad someone appreciates my dress icon
  213. this seems wise & true, in my experience writing Rust code & writing exploratory gameplay code* loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/ (* note: i have not tried doing both of these things at the same time, and i think this has convinced me not to try)
  214. can't decide if i want to spend more effort to hang out with the commercial games industry, artworld people or weird tech people. or none of the above, maybe that.
  215. …in reply to @nielsen_holly
    @nielsen_holly but i'm not even a writer!! how am i gonna advance my career if i'm not constantly climbing a social ladder!!!
  216. …in reply to @Sosowski
    @Sosowski i mean this thought did come about from booking my amaze flights...
  217. …in reply to @visakanv
    @visakanv see the first thing that comes to mind with this metaphor is remembering reading about how labour intensive digging a load of holes is, and how as a result this technique is not actually practical to adopt for people who are trying to make a living from the land
  218. …in reply to @v21
    @visakanv which is a slightly bleaker position than I personally take on the value of incubating social contact, but... it's not like there's no value to the metaphor
  219. RT @UKRaveComments: all dance music is intelligent dance music because it's a smart idea to wanna dance and havea goodtime
  220. …in reply to @almightyplate
    @almightyplate Saltsea Chronicles does this! can't easily find a screenshot of the UI for it, tho
  221. …in reply to @v21
  222. you guys don't understand how hard i work to not make self deprecating jokes in promotional text americans will read
  223. …in reply to @v21
    it just confuses them
  224. getting excited to be in Berlin and at Amaze next week
  225. a lovingly edited sandwich @chaedria/1784801737599328669
  226. it depends
  227. …in reply to @martinpi
    @martinpi i assume it's the same way that lawyers are more relaxed about being taken to court and surgeons are more relaxed about cutting into other people's flesh
  228. RT @yangiohh: dunmeshi ep 15 #dungeonmeshi
  229. any recommendations for places to get stickers printed in the UK?
  230. just added a new batch of featured accounts in Downpour. so if you've got the app, there's some new games to play in there. if you don't... someday i'll let you view the featured users on the web. until then you should just get the app.
  231. …in reply to @cuddlepuunk
    @cuddlepuunk abstractly they do but in that context it will confuse them entirely
  232. …in reply to @Frances86551638
    @Frances86551638 @maxwellmuseums @thetimes @RichmoMusic sounds expensive to administer and annoying to use. I want to live in a world of abundance rather than counting coupons.
  233. …in reply to @dannybirchall
  234. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate what a coincidence, I'm on a nice little walk right now. here's... I don't know what this is
  235. best bit of speculative fiction I've read in a hot second, also a shitpost: cohost.org/dreadwedge/post/5765837-thousands-hospitaliz
  236. RT @oysterFAKE: "if i didn't hear about a game, they marketed it badly and it wont sell" vs supermarket simulator. the idea that there's a…
  237. …in reply to @fireh9lly
    @fireh9lly not that i have bought off a dealer in a very long time, but "have a good night" or "see you later" or just "safe" all seem like plausible answers to me
  238. the inspiration / the UI (yes, i am currently adding a five layer deep nested UI, this somehow seems the most sensible way to do it)
  239. immediately putting "The Power Of Love" on the stereo @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/1785149706580193433
  240. …in reply to @bnl5110
    @bnl5110 i can't remember if i ever owned one, or i just spent hours thinking about them and wanting one
  241. RT @NightSkyGames: This amazing game only needs 20 more bakers to fund. I’m going to run this game for at least that many more people in th…
  242. oh, I guess I should try to build some hype for the upcoming Downpour update. coming soon : new fonts! shadows! some changes that are a bit arcane to explain but make it easier to understand!
  243. i am on record as an orb hater, and i am glad to say i think this tweet is probably true @Papapishu/1785061923001680371
  244. …in reply to @Papapishu