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| february 2014 microblog digest |
Posted 2014-06-22 06:40:10 by
Jim Crawford
Archived from http://twitter.com/mogwai_poet:
Feb 03
- My life in the 90s, except it was a CRT monitor. i.imgur.com/PBoV2XS...
- RT @zusty twitter.com/zusty/s...
- @ForneusLex Sorry, what's the context for this? ↲
- Nintendo: saving us from ourselves, one profanity at a time. (Because he poops everywhere, geddit?) twitter.com/mogwai_...
- . @AmyDentata It doesn't like that one either :( twitter.com/mogwai_... ↲
- @CodeSavage If you put your hands in your pockets, you might be arrested for carrying concealed deadly weapons! ↲
- @YouOldSoAndSo I haven't been playing long enough to say. I don't remember those from Black though. ↲
- @ForneusLex I thought it was amazing just looking at the cover! If the prose itself holds up, it's a clear winner. ↲
Feb 04
- Someone ought to remind UK Parliament that A Brave New World was always a more plausible dystopia than 1984. boingboing.net/2014...
- "How PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack that caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username." medium.com/p/24eb09...
Feb 05
- Join me for Tuesday co-working at The MADE!
- @KODNER Probably the same deal as the milk.com... guy, i.e. he likes his job and is reasonably well-paid. milk.com/faq/... ↲
- @koolboyman youtube.com/watch?v...
- RT @MaxTemkin Playstation paperwork requires us to submit a design doc for Samurai Gunn, which is already out. Here's what I sent. twitter.com/MaxTemk...
- RT @GunpointGame Ha, just found the 2-year-old original plan for Gunpoint. You were a robot PI, and the title was Human & Sons Carbon-Based Detective Agency.
- "QuadStick: A Game Controller for Quadriplegics" kickstarter.com/pro...
Feb 06
- Mamoru Samuragochi confesses to hiring a ghost writer to compose his music after he went deaf in 1996. metro.co.uk/2014/02...
Feb 07
- "King County Sheriff fires deputy who threatened to arrest journalist" Wait, photographing police is legal after all? king5.com/news/loca...
- Frank Cifaldi shows you his magazine collection and reads aloud the only known English review of Super Mario Bros. youtube.com/watch?v...
Feb 08
- "Choosing Comfort Over Truth: What It Means to Defend Woody Allen" thenation.com/blog/...
- RT @stephenstaunton There's an astronaut camera crew reflected in George Clooney's visor in "Gravity"! twitter.com/stephen...
- Once I saw an IP address on Wikipedia edit the runtimes of a dozen random movies by 2-5 minutes. Who's gonna bother to fact-check that?
- "The 2014 Sony World Photography Awards" theatlantic.com/inf...
Feb 09
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Feb 11
- @fiddlecub How happy are you that the word that means "not a word" doesn't exist ↲
- RT @STRd6 A prototype of my Flappy Bird clone, Futile Bird: danielx.net/futilib...
cc @mogwai_poet
- @vectorpoem Recommended reading on how space colonization is totally fucked: physics.ucsd.edu/do... antipope.org/charli... ↲
- Join me for Tuesday co-working at The MADE!
Feb 12
- @vogon Not stupid; it's a basic human need going unfulfilled. I was in that position not long ago. DM me if you want advice or just to talk. ↲
- @vogon (This isn't some PUA cult recruiter bullshit, by the way.) ↲
- @vogon Standing offer. "Smart person" culture is terrible at talking about this stuff. ↲
- RT @terrycavanagh New Game: Maverick Bird - distractionware.com...
- @terrycavanagh The first thing I thought when I played Flappy Bird was that it was basically a re-themed Super Hexagon. ↲
- Decoding a mystery signal from a helicopter: windytan.com/2014/0...
- @TheFuggle I chose those two words partly as a reference and partly to alliterate with the sentence surrounding them. ↲
Feb 13
Feb 14
- Idea: instead of Greenlight asking if you hypothetically would buy a game, it asks you to *prove it*, by paying money and receiving a copy.
- @OneLetter @alexmonney Last I heard it was still the Fiscal Year of Luigi. ↲
- RT @rupazero Only a few hours into Facebook's gender revolution, and already I'm getting cheap androgynous clothing advertised at me. #utopia
- East Bay residents, did you get your measles vaccinations? sfist.com/2014/02/1...
- @mikethegratest Gross :( ↲
Feb 15
- This is why using other people's code is bullshit. littlelostpoly.co.u...
- Though his solution of "let's yoke ourselves to this other commercial, closed source engine instead" seems poorly considered.
- @Lokno Yeah, I think he's setting himself up for more pain.. ↲
- Can't-fail startup idea of the day: reusable microfiber chewing gum. Soak it in the flavor vat between uses.
- Four-on-the-floor kick drum emanating from nearby car. Door opens briefly and the treble escapes: Pac-Man dot eating noises on the upbeat.
- @Slumpwuffle Chewin' on the whiskey sponge ↲
- @wavenger Another form of "other people's code," really. ↲
Feb 16
- @ForneusLex Maybe it's a typo of "potable." ↲
- @davidsgallant Is that a CAPTCHA? ↲
Feb 17
- Our Time Travel Lab team kinda screwed ourselves by being too completionist. Frickin' video games!
- @ForneusLex Same here, just one more puzzle! ↲
Feb 18
Feb 19
- Join me for Tuesday co-working at The MADE!
- Once again, this new Humble Bundle is so well-targeted at me that I already own most of the games in it. humblebundle.com/...
- RT @Vahn16 "I thought we'd have six more months of good games because the Titanfall saw its shadow." - @haydencd on I don't even know anymore
- "It's not that there's 60 hours of work to do. You don't work at work anymore. You go to work to get interrupted." bigthink.com/videos...
- @evilseanbot I'm guessing we'll be here until 7, then probably get dinner? ↲
- @polpo You are in for treat(s)! ↲
- @evilseanbot Sure. How do you want to handle meeting up? ↲
- @evilseanbot Sounds good. ↲
- All the shitty clones make it really obvious that the guy who made Flappy Bird is actually quite good at tuning for game feel.
- @BROrayn Well-put, yeah. ↲
- @BROrayn Hah. I don't know why anyone would make a Unity game using cubes when there are piano and candy models for free in the asset store! ↲
- @TheGoldenDonut I feel like if someone's description of a shitty life reminds me of fiction rather than my own life, I'm doing pretty okay. ↲
Feb 20
- RT @craigtimpany Verizon, now post net neutrality, tries to throttle Netflix. Collateral damage: everything on AWS: davesblog.com/blog/...
- Irrational has "slimmed down" to about 15 people. Hmm. System Shock 2 was made by about 15 core people. Today's topic: our hopes and dreams
- @evilseanbot I do think these technically count as "layoffs" because the plan is for Irrational to continue actually making games. ↲
- @Marwood What gets me is: if Irrational isn't safe, who is? AAA was always a dangerous business to be in but thesedays it seems suicidal. ↲
- @vogon @antumbral @Marwood I'd be curious to read more about this opinion specifically -- anything in writing? ↲
Feb 24
- How you doin', little Cthulhu All-Spark? namemydaughter.com/...
- Just found out that I'm going to be speaking at GDC this year. I guess I won't need to bum a pass from one of you guys after all!
- @Vanther @Tishes34 "Preserving a Sense of Discovery in the Age of Spoilers" ↲
Feb 25
- New low-score record for Super Mario Bros.: youtube.com/watch?v...
- "A crossed letter is a letter containing two separate sets of writing, one written over the other at right-angles." en.wikipedia.org/wi...
- Join me for Tuesday co-working at The MADE!
Feb 26
- Dismantling net neutrality is already paying off! theverge.com/2014/2...
- @LorenSchmidt Yeah, probably until ~7pm. ↲
- $120 million worth of Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox. nytimes.com/2014/02...
- With the transparency of tracking Bitcoin transactions, I have to wonder how hard it's going to be to fence 750k stolen Bitcoins, though.
- @vogon With as big a story as this is, the "bitcoin community" ought to care. ↲
- @slutbomb One silver lining about having no money is that I can truthfully claim to keep all my money in any format I want! ↲
- @vogon I don't actually know the details of the scam, I was just assuming that this is the sort of thing that can be automated. ↲
- Oh good, Humble Bundle 11 added more incredible games that I already own! humblebundle.com/...
- Can't-fail startup idea of the day: Flappy Clicker.
Feb 27
- "It's come to our attention that a user of your website, @555uhz, is distributing the Top Gun film, frame by frame." chillingeffects.org...
- X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: how janky a job can you get away with when tacking network play onto an existing engine? gamasutra.com/view/...
- Alternatively, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: trying to implement internet multiplayer without the luxury of reading reading Carmack's .plan file.
- @jennatar Jenn Frank: person. ↲
- @Carachan1 "7 out of 10?" ↲
Feb 28
- @technivore That's a lot! Thank you! ↲
- "The Videogame That Finally Made Me Feel Like a Human Being" wired.com/gamelife/...
- Everybody's complaining about the pacing of the video I'm cutting, but I already cut out all the bad parts and even the less-awesome parts!
- Man I'm super happy with this thing as an art project, but I have *no idea* if it'll monetize. It'd be nice to be able to pay rent in April.
- @td_rules Hm. Even "Minecraft Movie 2" sounds better, somehow. ↲
- @antumbral Thank you! ↲
- @tylerglaiel Good to know! Maybe they were the vocal minority? But it's the voice I heard. ↲
- "The fax machine was invented the same year as the Oregon trail migration." huffpost.com/us/ent...
- "Defense arousal prevents the listener from concentrating upon the message." randsinrepose.com/l...
- "An Oral History of Ghostbusters" esquire.com/blogs/n...
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