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@HalCoromosone I will take a look. There should be more things in the vein of the Obra Dinn after all.

@ChaoticTortoise I haven't! I will though, once I'm done with my exploration of The Outer Wilds... Have you heard of The Case Of The Golden Idol, by the way? Great little detective game in the vein of Obra Dinn

@HalCoromosone Coming out of Twitter hibernation very briefly to check if you had given this a go? Free, Short, Made me chuckle a bit. store.steampowered.com/app/1985690/Th…

@sam_cook There's a surprising amount of creativity required for naming variables too!

Random thought: a lot of the interesting parts of programming/ops overlap strongly with word-play — how do I use this restricted portion of language to express something

Not a regular tweeter, but am a doomscroller. I've stopped myself staring at Twitter for a full week and have since then made 2 little videos for friends and started editing a 1st draft I finished writing 4 years ago. I am happier and less desperate. 10/10 would recommend.

@Jake_k_green Someone will search that, maybe find that article, get infuriated that the article is another one of those that spins 500 words out of the word "no" and they won't come back. You're right about the data, but it's very churn-and-burn for a site with such a solid reputation.

Can we please stop acting like this isn't what guides are in 2021. I've seen the data myself, people ARE searching whether or not it has splitscreen. This is a totally valid article to write and I'm tired of the snobbery and piling on of writers because they're doing they're jobs

@RobertPickstone Thought it was great, but the ending didn't quite sit right with me. Maybe that was intentional? Glad you enjoyed it!

Squid Game done. Enjoyed it, especially episodes 3-7, but not blown away. What next Netflix addicts?

We are at the point where we can go from Led Zeppelin to My Little Pony in the same playlist. Very proud.

"Hey Google, if we don't have any alarms set, why are you ringing?" Daughter going straight to interrogate the prime suspect in the mystery of the random noises.

Who are those Build Back Better videos for? I'm still not convinced they're real.

@RichardBridger Every time I've had to fiddle with DNS settings I realise how much of web tech and devops can be prayer based.

@ChaoticTortoise Fun fact: DNS actually stands for "Do Not Screw with this, but actually it's really easy so haha"

This is doing nothing to help my fear of changing DNS settings.

Phone is now sending me notifications saying "you may have new WhatsApp messages". Nice to know my phone suffers from anxiety when these things get cut off.

@Alteralias @HalCoromosone @nachimir @RosieCampbell It's how I interpreted "locked in"! :-D

@Alteralias @HalCoromosone @nachimir @RosieCampbell I think there's a rule that you need to imagine and describe the mission you're going on - so I am fully on board playing this way. I also love the idea of trapping fellow board game players into a surprise RPG. I might try this next time I play Dune.

@RobertPickstone 6 I think. I've enjoyed it, and I don't think I'd have stuck with it if I'd not had those first couple of episodes qualifying that on some level, they did this to themselves! But yes, I don't know how it ends either!

@ChaoticTortoise I’ll take gradual improvement if it ends strongly! What episode are you up to?

2 episodes into Squid Game and not enjoying it. 1 was predictable and 2 moved so slowly. Is it really worth the wait?

@HalCoromosone @nachimir @Alteralias The Avalon version has some fun bits for larger groups. Merlin knows who the spies are, but spies win if they uncover Merlin, Morgana knows who Merlin is, Percival can't see pigeons, the Lady of the Lake can only drink with her left hand, and I might have forgotten some of these.

@nachimir @ChaoticTortoise @Alteralias That's all so interesting – I know that when I've played The Resistance, I wish I could be my card character just a *tiny* bit more. They all have such fun designs, but the only important information is spy/not-spy.

@Alteralias @HalCoromosone Which is by no means a criticism on those who do! I also adore The Resistance over Werewolf for this.

@Alteralias @HalCoromosone I've also been trying to articulate an answer to this game-of-lying question. I think I like the rules-mandated it's-ok-to-lie-ness of it that lets me explore an inner sociopath. I think some people struggle to disconnect the lying in game from the reality of the person though?

@sam_cook It's baffling. I genuinely feel like I'm missing something.

@ChaoticTortoise sadly ring tones only caused horrible noise pollution rather than unnecessary energy consumption

NFT art reminds me of those endless streams of animated ring tones that were advertised during every show on satellite TV in the early 2000s.