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Quoted DuckDuckGo’s tweet:
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Dec 2019
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Repost from shanselman:
FACT: Buying games on Steam and playing games are two different hobbies. I do the former and one day, the latter.
Quoted HeatherAntos’s tweet:
FACT: Buying books and reading books are two different hobbies.
It’s always great when I’m coding something and I find out that past me already implemented a function for it and I’m like “good job past me!” :self-five:
Copied all of my follows to a private Twitter list, then replaced my “Home” column in Tweetdeck with that list, let’s see how that works out. Main advantage of this: I can follow people for contest/giveaway purposes without necessarily having them in my main timeline.
Protip: you dont have to scroll through all the memes
@jmcpatino you cant start a batman series with the bat family already in place
Given the recent spotify end of year summary posts lately, I thought I’d make a lifetime (since 2005 at least) listening stats page for myself: https://roytang.net/about/stats/listening/
Repost from eastasiasoft:
❄️ HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY ❄️
We’ll be gifting 1 huge prize bundle this Christmas, including a #SwitchLite (color of choice) and ALL 9 Limited Edition @eastasiasoft Switch releases!
For a chance to win… 🎄Follow ⛄️Retweet 🎁Tag a friend
Drawing 10pm EST Dec 25th
This (mentioned below, read the thread) is a skill I wish I was better at (I was surely a lot more straightforward when I was younger!). Additionally, when I make a mistake, I try to explicitly say sth like “I was wrong” to signal that admitting to mistakes isnt a problem
Quoted sehurlburt’s tweet:
A tip for negotiation/life is to realize people hate saying “I was wrong” so give them easy outs. They’d prefer to say:
I forgot I wasn’t thinking of that scenario I didn’t realize you meant adding x I didn’t know there were multiple options I didn’t know you talked to y already
Read this thread and be sad about the world
Quoted miniver’s tweet:
A parable about the nature of truth, from my day job
(thread)
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@Westraid For my personal travels, never. I only went this year because I was with my brother and his kids. IDK if I’d enjoy it if I wasn’t with kids
@talk2GLOBE is your customer service hotline number 24 hrs?
This is how my decade sounded on Spotify. Get your #spotifywrapped. https://open.spotify.com/wrapped/aff7b2bddf8a3d1fa72bf6e69f5ab67c784c2856
This is how my year sounded on Spotify. Get your 2019 Wrapped #spotifywrapped https://open.spotify.com/wrapped/ddf3e4a1ee43a067d9e011917a96978cb404b9e4
News: “Philippines lowest in reading comprehension among 79 countries”
Seller: P599 sale price Buyer: hm po?
Repost from LimitedRunGames:
We’re feeling the holiday spirit and giving away a Death Stranding PS4 Pro bundle alongside a copy of Fu’un Super Combo!
To enter: follow us, then reply with a fond memory you have of gaming with friends/family & include #LRGHolidayGiveaway. We’ll draw a winner on 12/16. GLHF!
This is why I’m not a UI person. https://cantunsee.space/
Quoted alex_frantic’s tweet:
(Click on images to view full-size)Last year I built a small side project: a game that tests your attention to details. And now it’s blowing up on Twitter 😅 https://cantunsee.space
Belated realization: This is why Batman doesn’t fit the Arrowverse, there is no opportunity for Wayne family drama
Quoted roytang’s tweet:
I watched an episode of Batwoman to see what it was like before Crisis, and it was mostly Kane family drama. Unsurprising because:
Arrow S1: Queen family drama Flash S1: Allen family drama Supergirl S1: House of El family drama
This is why Legends is the best one
I watched an episode of Batwoman to see what it was like before Crisis, and it was mostly Kane family drama. Unsurprising because:
Arrow S1: Queen family drama Flash S1: Allen family drama Supergirl S1: House of El family drama
This is why Legends is the best one
Repost from LadyOfSardines:
To start my history classes this year, we read the Michael Parenti speech, “The Control of History,” then I told students, “I am going to describe someone from history, & after I am done, you tell me who it is.” 1/?
Quoted ZinnEdProject’s tweet:
Teach about Rosa Parks’ protest in context of her own life of activism (before and after), the decades of protests of Jim Crow on public transportation across U.S. (see list below from 1841 to 1992), the role of Women’s Political Council, and much more. https://www.civilrightsteaching.org/desegregation/transportation-protests
Repost from AndiEwington:
DM: ‘You come to large wooden door.’
Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’
DM: ‘An orc opens it and asks you to come in.’
Cat: ‘I do nothing.’
DM ‘He asks you to come inside again.’
Cat: ‘I do nothing.’
DM: ‘Eventually the orc tires and closes the door.’
Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’
Repost from GreenManGaming:
It’s time to Treat Yo’self. This year we’re going all out with our special #BlackFriday giveaway. Win gaming mini-PCs, a i9 processor and games, thanks to @IntelUK. How to enter? Easy, click here and follow the instructions: https://www.greenmangaming.com/black-friday/treat-yoself-giveaway?utm_campaign=blackfriday&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=referral
Nov 2019
@SeresaTagAraw ikakasal ka na?
@miithinks what happens if for some reason you need to cross and the mall has already closed?
Apparently the only Steam game I’ve played this year which was actually released this year, is Slay the Spire https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/nominations/76561198026163141?k=11300073902501546795
@guingonabart @momblogger I see. Confusing lang yung text sa image that says “we have to pay the money back, principal and interest”
@guingonabart @momblogger slightly confused; if berhald shouldered the construction cost using funds borrowed from dbp, then arent they going to be the ones to pay back that loan with interest?
Nobody has any idea how long it takes to build software to better than +/-200% accuracy.
Quoted mykola’s tweet:
Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.
@SeresaTagAraw @jaymelynilao it was a pocket dial not a butt dial! lol
@jaymelynilao maganda nagkataon na magkakasama kayo lol
@jaymelynilao i-pirate mo na sila to move there lol
@jaymelynilao bakit? miss mo na si dating work? lol
@momblogger @lenirobredo looks like the answer to “handa na ba kayo sakin?” was “no”
@rovietoosin big time!
Now is the winter of our disc one content
2010/2019 lol
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Thanks for the wildcards Oko! #mtg #magicarena
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Reply to Woerlan's tweet:
@Woerlan this is one of those instances where if MTG was a purely digital game, this would be super easy (just nerf Oko to have the 2nd ability be a -1. And maybe make OUAT a Sorcery or sth)
@rovietoosin @triviastorm hindi pala narerecognize nung bot before ang answers mo kasi hindi ka nya finafollow lol
Getting my licks in before the banhammer drops. B&R prediction: Noxious Grasp and Aether Gust banned in Standard. loljk #MTG
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OMG I’m finally done with this horrible coin flip of an #MagicArena event. This was only slightly worse than last week’s Elk madness. Only 1/3 of this months events were great, bleh. Should’ve just had one of them be brawl!
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@visakanv ill look into it, but afaik searching via the twitter api doesnt have that filter
I got free 10k gems on #MagicArena courtesy of @urlichmtg ’s giveaway. Many thanks!! :D
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Oh wow! This is awesome! Thanks!! I’ve replied to your DM :)
Quoted urlichmtg’s tweet:
We have a winner! @roytang wins 10.000 gems in #MCVI giveaway edition! Congratulations to @roytang, and big thank you to everyone who participated!
The next edition of 10.000 gems giveaway for my lovely followers will be around #MythicChampionshipVII three weeks from this tweet! https://twitter.com/urlichmtg/status/1191379585356709895
Having some fun this morning
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@gangbadoy problema sa pilipinas e, kailangan all or nothing ang suporta. pwede naman mag criticize ng ilang bagay habang aprub ka pa rin sa iba
Hong Kong protests are in their fifth month despite an escalating crackdown. How? One surprising answer: the fate of China’s Uyghurs. Many talked to me about it. They watched and learned. They’ve decided that they “may as well go down fighting.” My latest. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/escalating-violence-hong-kong-protests/601804/
Should really be going to sleep, but I’m really enjoying reading the release notes for Mystery Booster lol
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/mystery-booster-release-notes-2019-11-11
Thoughts on the set: it’s clearly meant to be drafted for fun, don’t worry so much about the “value”, unless it turns out to be horribly overpriced
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Roy Tang is a:
- programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart
- Frustrated writer and sketch artist
- Magic player on weekends
- Software developer since 2003. If you’d like to work with me, take a look at my resume.
roytang.net is a personal site, an E/N site, and kind of a commonplace book; I post about a random assortment of topics that interest me including software development, Magic the Gathering, pop culture, gaming, and tech life. This site is perpetually under renovation.