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Andrew Gillett

@arganoid.com

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Game developer, computer science & programming tutor, person defined by comma-separated values. Partial gameography: Dog's Life, RCT3, Thrillville, LostWinds2, Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Elite Dangerous Books: Code the Classics Vols 1, 2

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · Sep 8

I'm proud to announce Reality Drift, a roguelike racing game where your choices matter. Race through a series of strange worlds, choose upgrades for your car and decide which track will be next - your decisions are just as important as how you drive!

store.steampowered.com/app/3078120/...

Reality Drift on Steam

Reality Drift is a roguelike racing game where your choices matter. Race through a series of strange worlds, choose upgrades for your car and decide which track will be next - your decisions are just ...

store.steampowered.com

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 11h

Game of the year candidate

Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 19h

Finally, a release day! Sektori is coming out on November 18th on PC/Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. #indiegame

mailchi.mp/planofattack...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWr9...

Sektori - Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by Kimmo Lahtinen

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 11h

Perhaps the title of the new video is more compelling, in the sense that it suggests there was an issue with the original version of the game (which it seems there was), and something being an issue is like a mild version of being controversial, and being controversial is good for clicks?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 19h

Finally, a release day! Sektori is coming out on November 18th on PC/Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. #indiegame

mailchi.mp/planofattack...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWr9...

Sektori - Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by Kimmo Lahtinen

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 1d

youtube.com/watch?v=-B65...

04. Vib-Ribbon - Universal Dance (HQ)

YouTube video by VGMusicOST

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 1d

What is a custard slice, and where can I get one?

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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itamu : Mama's Sleeping Angels dev @itamu.bsky.social · 2d

Being a solo dev is funny like "yea i spent three full years of my life making this. i hope it keeps your attention for at least two hours"

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 2d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 2d

Hello, I am a big fan of Gumi. Would it be ok if I put him in my game Reality Drift, for a bonus level?

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2d

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

Two protesters holding up a sign saying “pedestrianise the M6”

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 2d

The patched versions of Unity have a very blatant bug that prevents editing of List. The issue someone submitted about this has been incorrectly closed as a duplicate. I opened a new issue about it and that's also been closed. How long before someone at #unity3d notices that the editor is broken?

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 5d

New version of Unity going well

The relevant issue has been closed as a duplicate, but this seems like a mistake as the issue it's meant to be a duplicate of is totally unrelated
issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/error...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d

There's also the vexed question of who counts as a "foreigner". Long-term Commonwealth residents? Irish citizens? No doubt Badenoch has thought it all through ....

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d

So latest Tory wheeze is to ban foreigners from accessing benefits. Naturally there's no detail. Refugees already recognized as such by the UK? People on spousal visas? Will foreigners who have paid NICs for decades be stripped of their pensions? I hope journalists are asking Stride and Badenoch.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

I was sure that the Face Trader event in Slay the Spire was biased towards negative results. There are 5 faces you can get - two good, one neutral and two bad. All equally likely.

My actual stats:
Ssserpent Head 24
Face of Cleric 44
Cultist Mask 30
Nloth's Hungry Face 24
Gremlin Visage 20

Kara Ling @metacrab.org · 4d

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

A 'Not Recommended' Steam review with 4 hours played

Review text reads: It's a decent idea for a game where you flip a coin and depending on your percentage chances you get heads or tails. However the odds are a lie. You will flip tails 100 percent more than you will heads no matter what your percentage is. Even when you get it up to 60% you will still flip tails way more often then you will heads.

The Dev can try to defend it, but when I flip the coin 2500 times and only hit heads a third of the time even when at 60% then the odds are broken or a lie. I've also watched gameplay and seen fellow players have the same flips so I know it isn't just me having bad luck.

Still not bad for $2, but I'm saying no because the game is coded against you instead of it being fully on chance and luck.

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

Nice try

Spam email which starts "This email is from a trusted source"

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

St Bernard is the patron saint of St Bernards, who are in turn the patron saints of more St Bernards

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Hazy/Dusk🌻🍉 @duskvortex.bsky.social · 6d

a closeup photo of Gumi the parrot biting the camera with the Dark Souls macro "YOU DIED" pasted on top

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 4d

Whipping out the Pillars of Creation again because it makes me happy

(artistic interpretation based on a combination of Hubble and James Webb imaging)
🦢🐡 #art

a digital painting showing the famous Hubble/James Webb image of the Pillars of Creation nebula, with its three tall fingers. the image has been heavily abstracted to be a collection of lines and polygons, and the colors have been saturated, such that it contains strong blues, yellows, and pinks. dots of stars can be seen throughout

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 5d

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phylan @phylan.website · 6d

the bors "I think we should improve society somewhat" cartoon except society is replaced with "bsky" and "and yet you participate in it!" is replaced with "WAFFLES"

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 6d

Google Gemini while I'm trying to get it to set a reminder by voice, a thing I used to do all the time with Google Assistant: "I see the confusion now"

I did

I see the confusion now. It appears you intended the second part of your original sentence to be the content of the reminder.

I can set the reminder with the title: "do steam achievement icons need to be stinks."

I still need to know: What time and date would you like this reminder for?