# some twitter highlights from before it mutated into x_crete **+** when every decontextualized screenshot you post of your new garme starts to look like a better idea for a garme than teh garme you're making **+** n.e.r.t.i.m.o.a - not everthing's reducible to internet memes or acronyms **+** tweak 'garme #jam' notion to a more general fuzzy "garmes that spontaneously / #procedurally emerge via nonlinear collaborative play states" **+** @ikbenben @official_gdc sounds like an important and timely talk; wonder however about conservative unstated readings of 'the social'tm **+** consider a virtual 3d go garme for oculus using a 19x19x19 rotatable cube #quantum **+** somehow: washed out "life of leisure" ep = #tumblr #aesthetic **+** @joewintergreen word. "it's not quick and easy to perform this simple task" applies to modern garme engines generally **+** in which you think about an entirely new way to think about draw distance rendering **+** experimental fiction flans continue to check out speculative realism as the hyper-tentacular new "new weird" #negarestani **+** a mod for garme dev tycoon in which underpaid temps face severe depression andor terminal boredom while coding #celebrity based casual garmes **+** consider @wwwtxt: a digital refusal to forget long abandoned fragments of collective #memory ruins; watch for 'hexadecimal tetanus' however **+** @bfod it's.. beautiful! "sky{ocean}rain": all garmes should use this as ir new visionary aesthetic template 'ferhyperreal **+** #lsd: dream emulator andor its remake -> your garme probably #ps1 **+** albert lai's hyperreal abstract #indie garme / play space "2:22am" umbrella-isle.com/222/ -> #aaa assassin's creed unity @wuhwuhwhat @itchio **+** new media term - defining 'the #sony effect': "an unceasing boneheaded refusal to acknowledge the #streisand effect" **+** threes -> alien isolation **+** a garme should be like a vast frozen sea to break the useless axe within us **+** any unified theory of #bayonetta would by definition not be complete **+** a pseudo-variety of video #garmes on offer like infinite supermarket cereals made by (limited) corporations - most just "variations on corn" **+** @aliceffekt what like (say) an ultra #minimalist #linux os for #writers? would be cool if you designed the interface.. just a head's up **+** the cosmic scale failure by #sony in not allowing the evolutionary (user based) growth of the #psvita as an open platform for play #homebrew **+** feedback with videogrammetry seadragon techniques to map (blend) both video and 3d models onto each other in video garmes **+** cod zombie dlc term: "exodead" **+** photo mode (ability to screen shot) of drift stage: more interesting than teh garme itself; seems true for many garmes **+** imagine connecting code lines drawn between teh garme header images on @itchio and seeing #procedurally generated play #systems emerge #eno **+** @cpriestman good luck with warp door - looks cool. so many garmes.. (better 'garme curation garmes' instead of hoarding?) **+** @cpriestman hi chris. noticed some overlap between your list and mine **+** @blendogarmes hi brendon - am trying to think of an decent example of an interesting metagarme - without the tedium of an attendant 'garme' **+** a #halo story: master chief / cortana as unconscious projections of a sentient a.i who controls the empty armor it's embedded in as software **+** deciding who to follow on twitter: a dream of a bookstore full of wonders - but not enough time to collect all the tiles with the best covers **+** might a feedback garmeplay mechanic in #cod (say bonus points which shrink over time during rounds) reduce or positively modify camping? **+** neat: garme dev tycoon now has steam workshop support: now needs a "depressing everyday realities faced by #indie #garme #industry devs" mod **+** "night of the comet" mod for gta5 sounds legit **+** the 'i can see the reviews now' file: half considered releasing a 'garme' on #steam based entirely around hundreds of individual #text files **+** big science <===-> neural calvinball **+** notes for garmes and play: wittgenstein derrida turing / godel (halting); undecidable incompleteness **+** video garmes as a neuro-cultural (play) metaphor for ongoing underlying philosophical concerns (our alien life polyverse and everynonthing) **+** lamest line in sci fi video garming so far: "you're just a pile of meat with a crappy chip!" - jules merit syndicate (2012) **+** psychological motivations for an interest in computer-generated anything; the false feeling that human creativity is obsolete? #nanogenmo **+** garmes still don't communicate or share data meaningfully because many #indie #garme #developers are still french 'la nouvelle vague' auteurs **+** "giovanni battista piranesi #simulator" - totally modular #architectural growth using smart #procedural tiling models to generate cool space **+** an interactive space for play as richly imaginative and strangely wondrous as those in "the ultimate alphabet" by mike wilks #dream **+** waiting for an exploratory #ballardian 'remove people and cars' walking simulator mod for #gta5 pc **+** a free procedural 2012 pc syndicate #garme with better lighting fully destructive levels player written dialogue true interactive systems **+** the #sinclair spectrum vega: sublimely retro-actived object of beauty & mysterious meaning - a kind of garme in itself **+** disney pixar's "inside out" as precisely inside out; it's the false notion of "other" people which more truly constitute the self (myth) **+** "electronic literature" as some(not)thing #brains already do / attempt / play with quite well **+** "#zizek the video #reality garme": in which you play the voice of a disembodied communist art collective out to subvert the stanley parable **+** when everything online seems arbitrary and contingent upon meaninglessly large networks of vacuously distributed symbol-codes without messages **+** scenario: in which the business of indie garmes has already overtaken the notion of 'play which informs and enlightens the human condition' **+** wondering when #valve / #steam is going to finally switch over to developer curated store fronts with a dynamic pricing #model for #garmes **+** killing floor 2 by tripwire interactive needs more sense of true npc heft / momentum & more disturbing irregularity-twitchiness in movement **+** almost tweeted this to #mcdonalds but decided against it **+** those awesome boss fight books should be free (beer+libre) #online - not trapped behind obsolete paywall models (of traditional #publishing) **+** electronic #literature as an interest in the 'electronics of communication' - ie. models of interconnecting meaning; people network circuits **+** glitches in "memory of a broken dimension" merely seem overlayed rather than actually embedded; they should move regardless of the player **+** simply take the persistent player #writing prompt idea in "elegy for a dead world" and use it in other #garmes with varied open landscapes **+** neat how much "so bad it's odd" cyberpunk (/style) sci fi fiction is still being published - and how cool it often is #smashwords #amazon **+** in which browsing through lists of people the people you follow follow feels like a mind-fractured cyborg picking personalities for the day **+** new forthcoming virtual c.v.b album "alternative superiority complex" on orloff records; preorder now for extra track "internets content" #n **+** fondly remembering other people's fond limited memories of cheng man-ching #taichi **+** non ironies: how christianity attempts and always inherently fails to understand / 'use' postmodernism for religious ends as so #postmodern **+** sleater-kinney the video garme: hang out and gig in a nonlinear series of increasingly low-rent venus in the frozen pacific northwest #grrl **+** eye: divine cybermancy as the awesome #garme that could've been - and is still yet to be - via crowd based funding dev / modding capability **+** consider garmespace play systems in which (moving) definitions of #player success are codependent on arbitrary and contingent #system dynamics **+** the talos principle: £30 rrp seems a wee bit steep for.. serious sam levels with robot lasers and shoe-horned placeholder philosophy? #croteam **+** @polygon a sad lo-rez version of future #garmes industry crashes; devs spending 2 years recreating notre dame cathedral seems crazy #budget **+** not news: dean hall gets new rocketwerkz studio while flans after 1000s of unpaid alpha-testing years still get zombies wall glitching #dayz **+** the mass appeal / psychology of aaa #vidyagarmz as 'fame by proxy': "i feel more important as i engage with your hype (as a kind of garme)" **+** soon: fights for big (user) data mean all mobile #phones / smart virtual personal branded communication services will be free (beer) #apple **+** the quaint earth based internet practice of fondly looking up old delightfully impractical / improbable baguazhang applications on #youtube **+** in which fleetwood mac were actually a commune of missing #replicants living wild and free in some lace tinged pastoral off-world colony **+** scenario: in which "air control" is still one of the classiest @postmodern garmes on @steam 'ferreal **+** @hideo_kojima_en sweet looking studio kojima-san! here's mine ;-) #aaa #indie **+** modern garming dilemmas part n: if the dubious decision to install #windows in order to play #witcher3 will be worth the hit on one's sanity **+** on #uncharted4's heavily scripted design: just one big quicktime event? is that even a good thing for modern movies (sorry video garmes)? **+** retrofitted cyberpunk: #5734l3r - hardcore static atmospheric platforming glitch from russia - quite #neuropink **+** today's recommended #reading meditation: "memoria del fuego" by eduardo galeano - feel the ancient aztech sun on your face **+** non ironies: how a thoroughly modern lack of #faith in religion is often precisely matched by an unquestionable (cultural) belief in #garmes **+** early access #garmes as infinite excuses for devs to forever draw out 'works in progress' while getting paid in full pic.twitter.com/qdncvvs7nu **+** welcome to unfinished 'permanent alpha' garme development: facepunch studios (#rust) pulls a spacebase df-9 with #before **+** a truer threat to humanity: not from a.i but from everyday human intelligence which is actually artificial (ie. extremely foolish) #hawking **+** the phrase "a masterclass in the obvious" **+** calling i.t: death machine (1994 pocket change) pwnz #terminator genisys (2015 $170 million) **+** obsolete interfaces 101: #windows10 users need virtual assistants like "cortana" as much as they require master chief to help wash ir arts **+** aaa indie garme development studios from korea making hypervisionary spectacles direct from the near future as vastly underrated until #now **+** hideo #kojima's bizarre self congratulatory "aaa rock star garme dev"(tm) twitter feed: a billion parsecs away from the potential of #play **+** @itchio just to say hi - itch.io is the coolest (strangely cutest) thing in #indie garming this year. it's like a strange garme itself.. #meta **+** yes eidos' new "dawn" garme #engine does shows what the next deus ex will look like; spectacular highly detailed - and as soulless as ever **+** near future: in which the words "halo 5 multiplayer beta is a 10 gb download" become a legacy key phrase into troubled worlds of #virtuality **+** one-note missed opportunity #nightcrawler: for ex fight clubbers out for zeitgeisty fixes waiting for cronenberg to go back to body horror **+** kyle bosman's cool tolerance-metric for broken garmes: "ababappa": acceptable brokenness and bugginess and poor performance allowance #legacy **+** "it from bit"; smiling amazonian tree frog eyes watch alien hyper-godesses ambiently pluck sentient holographic polydimensional superstrings **+** apparently in ancient japanese folklore the cry of a #weasel was considered a harbinger of misfortune **+** many (citation needed) have yet to beat visionary computer animation (space) "eggy" (1990) by yoichiro kawaguchi **+** (..) typically something about 'heavily augmented vat grown near future hyper-corporate cyborg data-ninja anthropologists' #irreal **+** paging dr. brian o'blivion re: the ongoing deconstruction of personal narrative in a data blasted electro-media blandscape or something **+** consider a lo-polygon 3d fps remake of android 2 for the zx spectrum **+** flat shaded polygons -> unity engine n #reality #rendering #retrogaming **+** it's official: scarlett #johansson will star in the live action ghost in the shell - as the squeaky voice of a white washed tachikoma #gits **+** "modern bizarre structures (#scifi etc.) arise from language being dead 'different' themes give illusion of 'new' life." - jack #kerouac @mocost topologically trees and neurons are fractally extruded spheres #mandelbrot **+** in which continually referencing culture indicates a culture infected brain **+** william gibson <-> the mighty brian aldiss **+** #k1mlives (caption id="attachment_34358" align="aligncenter" width="625") k1m lives(/caption) **+** slowed down #sade (s.d.s) as not #ambient **+** "twang": the odd #noise made by social media #networks as they memetically pulse; viral popularity / darwinian fitness creates louder twangs **+** "twangster": someone who needs you to believe they're totally cool #existentially about not getting enough viral retweets on social media **+** @openculture the anti-ironic ideology on display here being that such a parody exists to suggest downton abbey wasn't always an ugly parody **+** twitter angst - "twangst": the perceived inability or failure to instantly #tweet on demand something seen as cool enough to #retweet ;-/ (caption id="attachment_34361" align="aligncenter" width="656") "twangst"(/caption) **+** one word answer: #dolphins @cpriestman 'corridorability': an inaccurate metric for estimating true sci fi interest ;-) #fps **+** @leynermark yo mr. leyner. good to know you're out here online - still writing still cool still hungry #gastroenterology **+** have a cup of #tea while i tell you of my dreaming **+** in which one possible #retrofuture was a vision of gloriously dystopian towering megacities reflected in the 80s shades of deborah ann harry **+** "#peace love unity and havin' fun / these are the lyrics of krs one" - dj premier: classic **+** jonathon sturgeon's statement (flavorwire) that the '#postmodern #novel is dead' presupposes that it wasn't always (un)dead andor postmodern **+** (..) in which the trick is to get other people to use computers to generate sentences which float - torn on the border bet. meaning and void **+** @infinitesynths word to metamaterials redefining the zizekian hyper-surface **+** @fullbright "#style is the answer to everything." - henry charles #bukowski @missmetaverse @stealthissingul some philosophical contrast countering #transhumanist techno-utopian b.s- a cartoon (caption id="attachment_34362" align="aligncenter" width="650") transhumanist bs(/caption) **+** @fromsmiling hi taylor here's my concept analysis of your cool "job #lozenge" - many thanks for the review copy **+** @crypticsea ahh: to visit at dusk enter an empty building watch the #virtual sun fall from a roof top and slowly contemplate #existence **+** @davidoreilly hello dave: a response to your thoughts on #mountain (updated post) **+** one amusingly odd critique of #indie garmes heard online - that they're 'just a bunch of particle effects' **+** "they don't like it / when i decide to mike it" - chuck d public enemy - by the time i get to arizona **+** language as a universal claim to knowledge **+** then: "you need your own comic strip." now: "you need your own f2p video #garme franchise with cryptocurrency microtransactions" **+** #vaporwave blogs on #tumblr overload my browser's plugin-container •how to #mute unwanted feeds on twitter (caption id="attachment_35578" align="aligncenter" width="298") twitter mute gif(/caption) **+** for that great mugwumpy taste of cronenberg (caption id="attachment_35634" align="aligncenter" width="723") cronenberg 1664(/caption) **+** project godus update by 22cans / peter molyneux (caption id="attachment_35635" align="aligncenter" width="384") getting sh1tcanned with peter molyneux(/caption) **+** on #50shades memes and internet culture (caption id="attachment_35636" align="aligncenter" width="403") 50 shades of cat memes(/caption) **+** redefining #selfie: "the dubious idea of self symbolically implied by the artificiality of images" **+** again wilbler park: the best #garme of 2015 so far **+** #untitled: the best images on #flickr **+** uk morning damp and grey afflicted weather here to stay a low flat pall that clings - doleful skies the national mood: "sunshine delayed" **+** one reason many upcoming (/bad) horror garmes on the #oculusrift: that #virtual reality expresses inherently uncanny disquieting qualities **+** hardcore drum & #bass as virtual urban tension concrete tuff cuts laser beats - megacity riddims advanced cyborg tunes 4 augmented players **+** garden shadows lengthen the slow day closes light winds its way back home fence robin tweets once more as together they prepare for night **+** @michelonfray bonjour mr. onfray - will your cool critique of #freud "the twilight of an idol," ever be translated into english? #zizek **+** tracy emin's 2.5m "my bed" back on display at the tate? send in the cleaners again **+** jake gyllenhaal: southpaw's billy hope. say it slowly out loud. "billy_hope." is that honestly ir name? #whomakesthesecreativedecisions **+** at this point in teh garme the fact that #unity3d *still* does not support linux / open source is kind of a "half life 3: confirmed" yoke ;/ **+** nice: "#battlefield hardline did not crash during our tests and appears to function precisely as expected at this time." **+** to paraphrase #morrissey >♫ slap the blessed #garmedev > because the garmes that they constantly make > say nothing to be about my life.. ♫ **+** cancelled #pc garme seed (1999) seems better than #strafe (2015) **+** re: street hawk // image here // republic of bob