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@mountain_ghosts The most ridiculous aspect of this to me is when a landlord uses the phrase "break even" to describe the scenario where they end up owning a house for free, and "lose money" for anything short of that.

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@amykaycannon There are caves in the Appalachian Mountains with no fossils because they predate bones.

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@constans I'm pretty sure professional licensing standards are the most relevant distinction here. We also don't ask plumbers or bridge builders about passion projects.

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@DrewTumaABC7 I made this one a few years ago, after a year with significant polar vortex and heat wave action.

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@amykaycannon And because limestone was new.

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@OrganBuxtehude @jeremykauffman 15 years old. Your "very easy question" is exactly what this thread and others attached are calling out. You don't seem to recognize what is easy or not to the average person.

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@dreams_of_sloth I started a new job recently and one of my goals here is to find out whether an annoying change ten years ago to a service I use every day was intentional or accidental, and if the latter then to get it reversed.

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@amalsony_ @awesomekling When really big companies publish websites that are technically broken but still work in one web browser, other browsers have to program in special exceptions so that users don't think the browser is broken.

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4 years

@lil_morgy You inspired this tweetcart. I hid your nickname in the solder mask for this PCB. I codenamed this version release after the place we met. I wrote this app to solve that problem you complained about on your blog.

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@QuiteDan @AntonHand Exactly one generation of people learned how to use computers.

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@ken_wheeler My team is in the middle of a huge refactor of outsourced code where people wrote horribly inefficient database-joins-in-application-code. Understanding algorithmic complexity and being able to write efficient functions for manipulating data is not "spinning a basketball"

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@RyanEls4 #define ; ; So now your code all works, but anyone who copies parts of it will get compiler errors :)

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@mountain_ghosts It's virtually impossible to have productive conversation on anything adjacent to this when you can't tell how people are using these terms, and when some of the people are using them as critical support for their positions and claims.

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3 years

@AsianKaren212 @alannahmassey @BenjaminPDixon There are tens of millions of jobs in the US that require a degree and pay less than $40k. I think your information is a decade or two out of touch.

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@cervixpiercer That foam mesh that fruits and vegetables are occasionally shipped in.

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@sun_girlxo > she has a very vibrant social life that she actively works for There's almost certainly an unspoken "and incorrectly assumes he could have the same for the same amount of work" doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.

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@GSVBemusementPk I am *significantly* less productive in a long sleeve shirt with sweat rolling down my chest and back than in something comfortable. Let alone a with a tie around my neck.

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@j4JUICE MANY fast food and retail employees get called on their days off, after hours, etc to cover shifts with other people miss work, to come in for emergency coverage, to check on problems when the store is closed, etc.

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@patio11 That screenshot and a college degree will land you more than a few $150k/yr jobs.

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@alexeyguzey If you visit a Burning Man camp and everyone speaks French, they are from Canada. If you visit a Burning Man camp and everyone smokes cigarettes, they are from France.

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@IroncladDev Wait til you hear how many European countries number the floors of a building.

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@LeahLundqvist To be fair, the flip side of this is people "showing off" a new version of MacOS / Windows / iOS and it's just icons with curvier corners and a new default wallpaper.

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5 years

@lexaloffle inspired me to start working on a little physics sim cellular automata. So far it has fixed points (white), liquid (blue), and solids (everything else), with all the solids having a 45 degree angle of repose. Not sure which way to go next, maybe lava? plants? #pico8

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@KaitlynAiry I hate to break it to you, but as long as you know the right people that's still what a lot of it looks like. The idea that grant and scholarship applications are judged on merit is a [not so] polite fiction.

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@Msamalam @pseudolad Most medals aren't in the same event, so basing your system on comparing medals in the same event isn't very relevant.

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@neaa44 Hearing loss is a function of time, not just volume. If your watch a quiet movie with one explosion, without dynamic range compression crushing out all the audio detail, those dangerous-if-misused headphones will produce a much better experience without hurting you.

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@Aella_Girl I stopped after 4 because I hated the UI. Give me hotkeys, or at least label the slider so I can get directly to a target without watching the number change.

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@Duderichy I've been paying attention to all the different terms for people in the US of African descent with dark skin over my lifetime, as they become preferred/taboo. Seeing "black" go from common to taboo to preferred over 20-30 years was confusing to me before I understood the process.

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@bashu_thanks @Aella_Girl Some kinky porn studios do this. It's often filmed before AND after the scene, then combined in the final video. In addition to being legal cover, it also appeals to viewers who prefer consensual activities.

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@Aella_Girl To be fair, I suspect the vast majority of those videos depicted it being done non-consensually. Now, whether it's ok to have porn of non-consensual acts is a worthy question, but it's a very different question.

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@Msamalam @pseudolad In a sport where the difference is .01% performance? Bronze is effectively as good as gold. In a sport where the gold medal means performing better than bronze+silver combined, not so much.

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@ken_wheeler Forget the database, it's a red herring. The problem remains even if all the info is already in memory (or in the input, in leetcode terms). I'm looking at nested loops implementing O(n^3) solutions to O(n*log(n)) problems.

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5 years

Got #pico8 running on a #RaspberryPi zero with a 128x128 LCD hat from @waveshare00 . Lots of software and hardware tweaking to do, but getting it working at all was the first big milestone. Graphics are really sharp, ignore the camera-vs-lcd moire artefacts in the photo.

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@QuinntoBean @marcmagus Decades ago someone patented a system for shortening hold times for people who sound angry while they are on hold. Everything old is new again.

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@nacholibray @OrganBuxtehude @jeremykauffman No, it's not. Your "objectively" is based on many assumptions you're making about things someone would already know. What % of people do you think know that there are 60 minutes in an hour? What % of people do you think know that "/h" means "per hour"?

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@felipe_nunes @constans This whole discourse, like many on the parts of Twitter I get to see, is full of Americans talking about Americans while generalizing to "men" and "women".

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@joewintergreen This looks like graphics mods applied to a single game. If you told me these were unmodded and modded screenshots of Morrowind I'd believe it.

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@PradyuPrasad How does the accountant know whether a transfer was payment for a service or not?

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@aquariusacquah I moved to SF because I found my people there. I'm probably moving back because I miss those people. NYC feels like my people could be here too, but they are hiding in a much larger and denser forest.

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@drethelin dishwashers are the only one of those you regularly load with things harder than glass that are likely to move (e.g. when pushed by a water jet).

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@hyprturing Do you know about Core Wars, a competitive programming game where you write simple ASM programs that compete in a time-shared environment to kill each other's processes?

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@sgodofsk Those laws might be natural and overall inexorable at some level, but they aren't beyond influence. Tax penalties are an effective method for influencing "the market".

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@wigu @blueminder 20 years ago we could choose from half a dozen IM clients (Pidgin, Trillian, Kopete, etc), any of which could talk to every IM platform (AIM, ICQ, XMPP, etc) in a single combined interface. Intentional balkanization of online communication for profit motives is harming society.

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Another #pico8 #tweetcart moonrise over the ocean inspired by the recent work of @lexaloffle and @GateEightyEight Source in next tweet

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@PicoPaco17 @Andr3jH In the mythbusters test, they pulled the "conveyor" slower than the plane's wheels were turning, so the plane moved forward, so the plane could take off.

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@BlakeGa53596725 @LinkofSunshine It IS close to zero. Closer to zero than the risks from a whole bunch of other surgeries people pursue pretty frequently.

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@isamlambert @JesusntGuerrero This response makes no sense.

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@thoughtrise This happens because it's profitable for someone for it to happen. The mistake was letting profit-maximizing companies take over our channels of communication.

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@mycoliza You don't. Insert mode is for inserting text. That backspace works in insert mode is a modern convenience. You can delete text with `x` or `d` without leaving command mode. Also don't forget about Append mode!

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@irl_neil Probably IT, that's plenty late enough to have computer-controlled farm and factory equipment, network storage for media and records, personal computers, etc. 1980 would be a much more interesting cutoff date, at which point I'd probably be an electrician / plumber.

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@droidxmom Is it about the color? I thought the cartoon gender norm in question was "dogs are boys, cats are girls".

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@jacobsimmerman @The_Law_Boy @SowaTheArrogant Ben Carson is a world renowned brain surgeon. Intelligence doesn't make people immune from a wide variety of cognitive failures.

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@AndyMasley "The weather man said a 20% chance of rain today and it rained so obviously weather forecasts are useless"

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@xsphi @kenthecowboy_ Given the 😅 I'm guessing the guy is worried he'll be tempted to cheat, or even just that his gf will know he saw her.

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@cosine_distance A lot of people use a computer almost exclusively to passively consume media. If all you do is watch videos and scroll through feeds, a tablet is pretty good. If your comments are all low effort one liners, probably still so. Keyboards are for people with things to say.

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@archerships @LPNH By not defining harassment as aggression. As always, any stance based on the NAP is meaningless until you explicitly define aggression. Almost all political philosophy can be summarized as the NAP based on different such definitions.

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@IamRageSparkle @birdpoems I was at a shitty job once doing some collaboration. One of those shitholes where the IT department clearly hates you. So the IT drone and I were ignoring each other when someone next to me invites us to use Microsoft Teams, and the IT drone immediately says "no. uninstall it."

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@1017Van The balkanization of streaming services is bringing piracy back. The bootleg man is due for a resurrection just like BitTorrent and other platforms.

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@mountain_ghosts Disclosure: I have been a landlord for three years, of an intentional community where I also live. The project has never brought in enough money to cover the mortgage, let alone the other operating expenses. I pay out of pocket every money, and I'm still not "losing money".

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@IamRageSparkle @birdpoems "So you have to shut them down." And I was like, 'oh damn.' and they said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable tools because their end goal is to lock you into terrible, awful commitments.

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@feamsterj @progressiveguy7 @AshtynLaw It's one root canal, Michael. What could it cost, $10?

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@GSVBemusementPk I sweat in any long sleeve shirt, especially with a tight collar, in a typical 72-74F workspace. I'm comfortable in a long sleeve shirt in maybe 60-65F, which would be a painful environment for my female colleagues.

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@ThePrimeagen I have no idea who you are or why this post appeared in my feed. I'm certainly not spending hours consuming your content; if you see metrics that imply that I am then you're being misled.

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@mycoliza Ice! In St Louis! So much for global warming.

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@drethelin Flinging? Occasionally. A spoon with a ceramic handle can take a leap if the jets hit the scoop just right. Tipping/tilting/overturning? Often. The whole dish doesn't have to be heavy for one part of it to be hard enough to damage something.

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@progressiveguy7 @AshtynLaw Most Americans don't have dental insurance. And many who do have it still can't afford routine preventative care with four digit deductibles and three digit copays. And many who can afford it today couldn't for decades, so they learned to stop considering it.

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@mold_time The "computation" is happening at a local scale, with each particle (however deep you care to zoom) interacting with its neighbors. The large scale things, like orbits and surface area, are emergent properties, not actually being computed anywhere.

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Or how about just zoom in, but with smooth zooming instead of pixelation? "only" requires rendering the whole scene twice :) Source in next tweet. #pico8 #tweetcart

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@anothercohen @Aella_Girl At her nominal rates, she could support a decent size startup development team with just one session per day.

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@LeahLundqvist @Quest4TheSnark *sheepishly admits to spending over an hour updating his dotfiles repo yesterday* That said... Other OSes don't provide any equivalent method for persisting my config across accounts and computers. (and MacOS uses my dotfiles just fine)

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@mqudsi @hitorilabs Obviously the dialog is itself a vim interface that you need to close.

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@TylerGlaiel People say this about terraforming or colonizing Mars, too. Here's the point you're missing: There aren't a billion people working to undo your work there.

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@justicearman I worked at one company with a documentation team. Every month they paired with a different department and brought all their internal docs up to date, so your docs were never more than 4-8 months out of date depending on timing. It was wonderful.

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@Gok @billybrizzle420 It's a truck. Let the user decide how much of the cargo capacity to dedicate to batteries. If you want 10 miles of batteries, pay for and carry 10 miles of batteries. If you want 1000 miles of batteries, pay for and carry 1000 miles of batteries.

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@ellegist The motivations here make so much more sense if you replace "trying for a baby" with "having sex as often as he wanted". This guy's dishonesty is awful and I'm not sure what the right punishment should be. Jail might be too far, but I would say there's a huge civil claim here.

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@KenneyNL Were you given a minimum duration to fill? Explicitly to hide loading delays?

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@sharkespearean Years ago I started to design a parabolic reflector to focus sound back onto DJs who turned their music up too loud. Something like that might be a powerful counter-weapon against LRADs.

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@ken_wheeler The typical leetcode problem DOES represent the work done in the role. You're just confused about what role it's supposed to represent.

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@nolemonnomelon Have you ever had a muscle cramp, a charlie horse, etc? Does it make sense that massaging those muscles will cause them to release sooner and/or with less pain? That might be a useful first step in understanding other sorts of muscle tissue manipulation.

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@KaitlynAiry I've learned a tiny bit about this recently, but also a huge amount. "Just submit this application" apparently usually means "cultivate a friendship with us, attend our events, kiss the ring, ... and then as the last step we'll confirm you filled out an application"

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@Desnonk @SteveGagz @KeenanPeachy How long have they known? Days? Hours? Vs decades of learning the opposite. Also why would they believe? More likely this random guy is just a con artist.

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@animalologist This seems like a fortunate state of affairs. The opposite (horny when you're solo, but frigid when you're partnered) would be awful, no?

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@aurabogado It's astounding to me that anyone relies so heavily on a single IM/text platform. Maybe the #WhatsApp outage will get those people to try out #Telegram or #Signal or #Hangouts or #email or ... It would have done the world a lot of good if this outage had lasted a few more days.

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@Zorvyyy @___frye Given the frequency of "oops, I accidentally snuck this stuff through TSA" and "I intentionally snuck this stuff through to prove the TSA is security theater", I am confident that the TSA isn't preventing significantly many terror attacks.

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@FreyaHolmer This feels like the decades-old divide between people who want to walk up to their coworkers' cubicles to interrupt them, and the people who want a message or email they can wait to respond to when they aren't busy.

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@cxgonzalez In-person events. Discord(s). Group chats on various platforms. (I say this as a newcomer and a mostly outsider looking in)

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Tinkering with analog joystick inputs in #pico8 with a bit of #javascript tomfoolery.

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@Kirsten3531 On the flip side, maintaining a high success rate with communication by avoiding difficult conversations is not the same as being good at communicating.

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@VirgisViews @rSanti97 *Where* were you raised? Region, ethnicity, religion, caste, ...? What is your culture that has this concept?

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@gavin_gee @mikeroberts3000 @mattmiesnieks @Apple You want an AI to look at just the top photo and be able to figure out the stuff in the bottom images (depth, surface angles, separate objects, object materials, etc). To test that, you need pre-made "right answers" to test against. Apple published a BIG set for others to use.

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@JamesDeroest @j4JUICE It hasn't. My shift was set when the schedule was published. I'm going to show up at that time to work, and you're going to pay me or fire me. "Employees are responsible for knowing about schedule changes made after we publish the schedule" is bullshit.

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@TaylorLorenz @blueminder Notice that this person doesn't even *consider* the possibility of writing anonymously or pseudonymously in order to preserve the anonymity of her daughter in the stories. Probably because it would reduce her profits from writing :/

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@DanielW_Kiwi I hate to say it, but MS Access was the best tool I ever used for this. It blows my mind that we never got a SQL frontend that just allows browsing tables and viewing/following data linked via foreign keys, let alone something with custom form capabilities.

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@vaxryy Do you configure your vscodium to pull extensions from the vscode registry, in violation of its TOS, or do you just use the open registry?

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@TalysAlankil @MNateShyamalan Actual capitalists (people who make money just by having money, without doing work) have managed to convince many people that "capitalism" means just buying and selling things for money.

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@cxgonzalez theory: the more interesting parts have transitioned off of twitter

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My first #tweetcart game. Started out shooting at asteroids, but had to cut shooting and respawning to make the tweet, so now it's just "run into the target". #pico8 #tweetjam

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@alexstamos @JamesDavisSound

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zoom-in and zoom-out lenses, moving around on an arbitrary background. code in next tweet #tweetcart #PICO8 (also hopping on the "tagging #tweetjam three years after the jam" bandwagon...)

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@IamRageSparkle @birdpoems "And then THAT program incentivizes you to install more and more of the related ecosystem and they stop being cool and you realize, oh shit, I'm trapped in a walled garden. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to switch platforms, they cause a PROBLEM."

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