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ā˜€ļøšŸ§¦ bullshit femboy. 22 - the one good lib - ATL - LFGM āœ”ļø @linkbutalt - prediction market fan Our most beautiful days: we haven't seen yet.
Apr 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
my biggest guilty pleasure is minecraft economies

Ofc I watched a full 30 minute video on a minecraft server economic crash after someone accidently re-invented credit swaps

And read a 10,000 word blog post about someone crashing their server economy to monopolize the server Shoutout oomfie @alicemazzy on this well-written blog post alicemaz.com/writing/minecr…Image
Jun 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BOTW dealing with a memory leak by making it into a game mechanic is so cool

(regular/panic blood moons) When they were making the game, it had a memory leak problem when it runs long enough, so to solve it, they created an event called a blood moon which resets the game state. They added some lore that it revives the monsters, but really all it is is unloading all instanced objects
Jun 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Movie Studios failed to kill the VCR. It revolutionized the industry forever

Gaming studios failed to kill emulators. It revolutionized the industry forever

The music industry tried to kill streaming. It revolutionized the industry forever

Publishers successfully killed ebooks Guess what. Book reading has declined as every other type of entertainment has gotten cheaper and more convenient and books never were allowed to
Jan 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
How are people this statistically illiterate Things that are ~1 SD away from the mean happen literally all the time!!

Oct 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Just a reminder that the leaders of the first (Bibi) and third (Ben-Gvir) biggest parties in Israel both got their claim to fame by orchestrating the assassination of the social liberal PM of Israel, Rabin. "A few weeks before the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Ben-Gvir came to public attention for the first time when he appeared on television brandishing a Cadillac emblem that had been stolen from Rabin's car and declared: "We got his car, and we'll get him too"
Sep 17, 2022 • 30 tweets • 8 min read
2 weeks until the Israeli elections!! So I will create a megathread! Everything you ever wanted to know about Election #5! Israeli politics has become extremly polarized lately around the pro-Bibi and anti-Bibi blocks, after a series of government collapses. Let's begin! The big one! The netanyahu cult! The right-wing Likud. Probably heard of them! Basically a copy-cat GOP. They sort of go with the flow in israel, centrist-ish on economics but right-wing yet secular socially.