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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3h

Too hard, you've lost me.

v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3h

It's just hard to talk about that glyph without also including it. "That fifth glyph" was our shorthand, but that's not a thing that most folks would clock without a bit of thinking.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3h

ugh okay, I'll do a post making up for it. How's this?

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 4h

I am probably in the world's top 1000 people for writing English without the letter "e"

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 4h

ugh I want to make a social network where you can only post (something approximating) iambic pentameter, just to get the practice in

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 6h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 6h

thank you! seems nice based on the last 5 hours!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 6h

continues to be nice!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 7h

damn, the combination of affirmation and disappointment when the cool idea you've had turns out to already exist

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 10h

hey Krakow is pretty nice

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 11h

this brought to you by struggling to explain larp from first concepts to the girl who was helping me buy a bus ticket and who is here for a festival

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 11h

I've realised that reading this essay: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-pro-huma... has changed me, and now I am a just a little bit more likely to make conversation with a stranger. It's a better way to live.

A Pro-Human Manifesto

Behold! I have had a thought.

youngvulgarian.substack.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 11h

"Why doesn't [site] communicate more about anything" well maybe because every time they do, hundreds of people lose their entire fucking shit for the next five days and a new completely wrong folk belief starts getting repeated as fact and becomes the basis for even more shit-losing

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 13h

don't think so! it was a long time ago!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 13h

just played this & loved it. worth the half an hour of your time it will take to play - beautiful & pointed

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 13h

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 13h

ah Android finally decided to play ball? congratulations on the launch! I played the iOS build earlier - i do t think I was expecting it to be so beautiful or sexy?

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 14h

I think that having seen Bennett give a PowerPoint presentation about athletes crying predisposed me to get the point, tbh.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 14h

approaching the third candle, I think!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 14h

well right now I am waiting for my gate to be called to fly to Poland to go to this: chaosleague.org/eclipse-larp...

which is kind of a project. but when I'm back... back to trying to fix up the last bits on adding video to Downpour. maybe I'll do a Big Release about it when it's done.

Making sure you're not a bot!

chaosleague.org

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 14h

I am most curious about the way they will thread the needle between getting paid & not being a "commercial larp". But yes, agreed that I think they'll easily get the ticket numbers.

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