Programming asks you to take your dreams and shatter them into little pieces so that other programmers can call methods on them
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This user review of Dwarf Fortress is a riveting and gripping read.
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Hey everyone — I'm starting a video essay channel on YouTube, and it's called Media Processing.
My first video's up now, on the new Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion. (Contains spoilers.) Excited to share it with y'all! LMK what you think!
youtu.be/gfp463ZO2I4
#GlassOnion
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Now that I’ve seen multiple people post a “here’s how to find people you follow who have posted their Cohost profile” search: you can find me on Cohost at
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running with a joke as if it has incredibly complex pre-existing concepts is one of my favorite types of joke
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California couldn’t even bring it to a vote because we rely on prison slavery to put out wildfires and maintain highways
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everyone is dunking on tennessee for this without realizing that they are only the fifth state to abolish slavery with no exceptions (CO, NE, UT, RI). it’s not an “ooh backward southern state” thing it’s that slavery is still legal for incarcerated people in most of the US. twitter.com/FOX13Memphis/s…
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Twitter right now feels like we all made this big deal about saying goodbye, hugged and such but then awkwardly all kept walking the same direction
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Once upon a time, a car manufacturer bought a media company.
It did not go well for him
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The Story of The Dearborn Independent
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Now that I’ve seen multiple people post a “here’s how to find people you follow who have posted their Cohost profile” search: you can find me on Cohost at
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i have never said "dudes rock" with such delicate force as i did just now
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It has been VERY hard to keep this quiet for the past couple of years…
It has been a dream come true to work on a remake of Riven. We can’t wait to show everyone more eventually but thank you all for never giving up hope!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Riven.
Officially in development at Cyan.
FAQ: bit.ly/MainFAQ
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Wild. Super cool single-frame frame breakdown of the render tech of FFXIII.
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This area was one of the main reasons I'm hoping I can get renderdoc hooked up at some point
like how the hell is this a 360 game
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Absolutely delicious anecdote about Unicode mojibake "unintelligible sequence of characters" [via ] unicodebook.readthedocs.io/definitions.ht
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Some fine folks are finally through packaging hell and now merely contend with patch packaging hell 😇
Congrats!!
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We are thrilled to announce that #GodofWarRagnarok has gone gold!
On behalf of SMS and all of our partners, thank you to the fans for supporting us over the course of development. We’re almost to launch and can’t wait for you to play on November 9! 
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Got GPT-3 to predict the likely next items on the list
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Prince William gets the Duchy of Cornwall, meaning;
- he’s legally entitled to drop a nuclear bomb on Cornwall
- he’s entitled to any dead whales or shipwrecks
- his Duchy gets your estate if you die alone in Cornwall without a will (see below)
vice.com/en/article/k7a
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But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made
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“The tiger (me) becomes agitated when its enclosure is cluttered” I don’t put much stock in life hacks but this is actually brilliant
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How do you even begin the search for a therapist? Google, then trial-and-error? 😨
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Man why do your tweets make me question reality 😂
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if you’re into this shit BOY do I have a queer horror book to sell you >:)
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You’ve heard of the violin, now get ready for the violence
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my boyfriend just casually dropped the fact that for most of his adult life, he has been able to force himself to wake up from a nightmare by just envisioning the StarCraft menu screen mid-dream and picturing himself hitting the “quit” button on it.
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I was thinking about 's blog post about adding "juice" to products. Instead of thinking about juicing something, my instinct was to think about how to make it completely over-dramatic. A file compression utility:
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It's a good cis opinion.
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happy 5 year anniversary to the best piece of fan mail i’ve ever received
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thinking about the time radio astronomers spent years tearing their hair out over a random and inexplicably strong yet brief signal that turned out to be the millisecond between someone opening a running microwave and the safety kicking in
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We urgently need to tell the story of what happened - and what's still happening - in this pandemic. We need to publicly grieve the 1 million Americans we lost, and make plans to try to prevent any more casualties. We need to tell the stories of Long Haulers and survivors. 15/
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Learned the most amazing thing about Ruby yesterday. The String#reverse method doesn't do anything when you use it on strings **that are pictures of fish**
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human: this is a sports anime
alien: what's that
human: well anime is a s-
alien: we have anime on our planet, dipshit, what's sports
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