Adrian @adrianhon@mastodon.social
CEO at Six to Start, makes Zombies, Run!, wrote A History of the Future in 100 Objects
Been very quiet here lately but popped in to check out the new 2.1 improvements - very nice! https://www.patreon.com/posts/mastodon-2-1-and-16135262?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_source=post_link&utm_campaign=patron_engagement
Amaroq - my favorite Mastodon iOS app - just updated to v1.1 with some really solid improvements. Well worth a try: https://appsto.re/us/OfFxib.i
And congrats to @eurasierboy for their hard work on a free app! Is there a tipjar or Patreon anywhere?
...you have a lot of selection. So if someone gets to a boring bit in a game (or they're a boring player) you can just move to another game. Just like Twitch, really.
Also you need enough varied spaces so everything doesn't get too noisy or mushed together.
(Had to resist urge to shout out "RUINED" or kappa, etc)
Went to http://wethrowswitches.com last night - a collection of indie and party games plus beer, basically. This being Edinburgh and not London, it was in a huge, warren-like space, which allowed for all sorts of different vibes, from big motion-based party games to smaller 1-2 player indie games.
I initially thought that it would be boring to watch people play non-party games but it turns out that real-life Let's Play has its appeals, but only if...
I'd really like a fully automated luxury gay space communism-themed UK Mastodon instance. Is that too much to ask?
So, the particular Mastodon instance you belong to will influence what you see in the Local and Federated timeline.
I get that it's fun to chat with a smaller community via the Local timeline, but surely most instances federate with so many others that the Federated timeline is basically a firehose of general *stuff*?
wrt Scotland, correct me if my reasoning is flawed:
- Increased Tory majority
- Awful Brexit aftermath, constant battles with EU, sputtering economy
- SNP gets its referendum (albeit with much annoyance)
- Scotland votes to leave, what with 7-12 years of Tory govt
I suppose Theresa May was jealous of all the attention the US and Turkey and France were getting?
FYI here is the requisite UK election Metafilter megathread: http://www.metafilter.com/166403/An-annoying-distraction-from-Eurovision
Theresa May to announce DDOS on UK politics:
Snap election
+ NI home rule
+ Scottish referendum
+ 2nd EU referendum
+ monarchy referendum
+ full proportional representation referendum
(TBH it'd save money if you did them all at the same time...)
*enjoying the last 30 minutes of wild speculation before Theresa May's announcement at 11:15am. Snap election? Queen dead? Scotland independence referendum? Rejoining the EU?
Why is this not the official image of Mastodon yet
The Handmaiden: very good brew of Hitchcockian thriller, period piece, and erotic titillator (I don't know how else to put that last one - some of the sex scenes make sense, others seems gratuitous).
Interesting soundtrack as well. Typical orchestral strings with clear Downton Abbey influences, some Smetana, and of course some Korean stuff.
Dang, at current growth rates, Japanese Mastodons could be in the majority in a few days: https://instances.mastodon.xyz/list (pawoo is Japanese).
Maybe due to expanded character limit? I guess 500 chars in Japanese is like double or triple in English.
Hmm looks like the huge uptick in Mastodon users is at least partly due to Japan
Perhaps I'm being too critical - I mean who can be against resilience - but it feels like "Lean in 2.0" except slightly more acceptable. A personal brand-building exercise that's totally inoffensive.
WTF is this optionb.org shit? Sheryl Sandberg needs to shit or get off the pot. If she wants to run for President she should get into politics, or at the very least, turn up to the FUCKING WOMEN'S MARCH
So The Fate of the Furious has 79% on Rotten Tomatoes. Pretty good, right?
Except practically all the reviews are 3/5 - just enough to count as 'fresh'. That's some serious commitment to doing the least possible work to get a pass...
Are people from continental Europe told to put photos on their CVs? I rarely see it from UK applicants, and not very often from the US.
It's never been useful, other than revealing the applicant's poor photography skills...
Does everyone just record/edit at the start of the week? That sort of makes sense.
Or is the idea that listeners are too busy at work on Monday and Tuesday? That can't be wholly true, since a lot of consumption will be during commutes, which are pretty constant throughout weekdays. Hmm.
