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They Mean Well
From Ossuary: Testing is fun.
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Happy Halloween! “The Whispering Thing”
“The Whispering Thing” is a little treat (or trick) that we of Future Proof Games put together for Halloween: Lynn stands on the edge of the roof, the back of her heels over nothing but air. The whispering thing slowly creeps toward her, its voice lost in the wind. Lights glitter below. She loses her balance and falls backward. Today did not turn out how she expected it to. (Trigger warning: suicide, bullying, impostor complex, etymology, cannibalism) Go play. It’s hypertext, and a horror game. (I’ll be posting some devops fun later about automating the versioning and deployment of the game.)
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“Never mind” — Ossuary
No, no, not “never mind” on Ossuary. It’s in its final rounds of testing and such. But in the game, there’s a character that asks for your help with their (as yet undetailed) research. When you say “yes”, you get this: I always pick “never mind” first, just for the hilarity of backpedaling from the question. Like, “What the fuck kind of place is this?”
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Links! September 13th
Some good reading: "3-Sweep" Software Can Extract 3D Objects Out of a Single Photo | Popular Photography This is incredible. Tone policing: a tool for protecting male power | Geek Feminism Blog "If you still need evidence that there’s a double standard, there it is. I think what’s happening here is that whatever men do gets defined as being effective, by definition, because they are men. It’s a little bit like how women frequently get describe as “emotional”, but this (often pejorative) label is rarely applied to men who are raging out, because apparently anger isn’t an emotion." Programming Comedy – Wat – YouTube This is how a colleague of…
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Too Many Links on the Dance Floor
That’s a Flight of the Conchords reference (NSFW!). First, a couple of lengthy jokes: Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: AudioQuest K2 Terminated Speaker Cable – UST 2.44 m Plugs 8′ Pair – This is a $14,000 set of audio cables. The reviews had me laughing all day. Amazon.com: Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer: Kitchen & Dining – Another marvelous instance of reviews matching the seriousness of the product on Amazon. I'm really impressed at Hutzler not blasting away all these joke reviews. Then some psychology: