Notices by Jesse Morris (aubilenon@peoplemaking.games)

@inthehands Discount that by the fact that only a tiny percent of their user base is willing to spend even 1 minute figuring this out never mind 12. (Obviously people not understanding how that feature works has its own cost or downside or whatever, but it's pretty hard to account for)

@inthehands “Words are useless, especially sentences. They don't stand for anything. How could they explain how I feel?" - Madonna but obvs written by Björk

@inthehands So much for my Big Hopes for Elon Musk!

@paulference @tehstu @inthehands I don't care about any of that, I just need to get to Tower Records

@inthehands I had not slept at all the night before! Fun times!

@inthehands That feels awkward in a lot of situations, particularly in extreme cases where keeping the same units means the numbers aren't how we think of things. For instance it's easier to think about how long 5 miles is than 26400 feet is. I think a good alternative is to include a ratio so you can't gloss over and conflate the units. “TMTG had 7.7 million visits. For comparison, X, formerly Twitter, had nearly 800 times that number - 6.1 billion”

@inthehands top tier victim blaming here

@inthehands The converse is also true

I've been mostly heads down on the next escape room*, but my colleagues have been cooking up a play at home puzzle-hunt-in-a-box type game.

It'll still be a few weeks before we're ready to take pre-orders. For that we're trying to finalize everything so it's ready to go to print (allowing us to take good promo photos) and get a handle on the actual manufacturing so that we can offer shipping estimates that we feel some amount of confidence in.

Anyway the game is super cute, and the puzzles are good, so everyone get excited! Yay! Also, stay tuned for updates

* Okay I did write _one_ of the puzzles

https://www.triviumgames.com/the-costume-kerfuffle

@inthehands @_elena Was anybody ever imagining that he was CEOing 3 companies, shitposting on twitter all the time, and still be around to spend any significant amount of time every day with each of his eleven kids?

@inthehands So much Disney revolves around the theme that family is the most important thing - you all have to look out after each other, and heck that even defines who you are. The hero's a hero because they're a princess or a great explorer or important lion or whatever and maybe their stepfamily is awful but their biological family is good so they're inherently good.

I think this message is harmful! Real people are _not_ automatically good (or bad) because their parents were good (or bad), and people outside your family are important too!

If your market is families constantly saying "family is the most important" is just savvy business I guess.

@inthehands I also wish all modern operating systems had Mathematica's "Why the beep?" feature.

@jbouie @inthehands Idk if it _is_ worth asking. I mean obviously he does so the question really boils down to does he feel comfortable admitting it out loud or is he just going to stick to obvious dog whistles

@inthehands @jgilbert @atoponce sure but engaging with it in any way other than just writing it off entirely requires interpreting the symbols it spat out without understanding them as having some meaning. This can be entertaining to do, so I choose to do it!

@jgilbert @inthehands @atoponce I feel like even if you think about it the wrong way, the difference should be 0.2, not 0.21?