Matt Arnold

Narrator of Fluidity Audiobooks. Designer of "Overworld" boardgame. Science fiction conventions, hacker spaces, and other volunteer orgs. Front end web dev.

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

Correction to a typo: 100 to a hundred and seventy lines each, not a thousand and seventy.

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

For ~14 yrs, I've tried to implement a browser-based deck-building game, to be able to make any change I want & find out what it'd be like. This fall I finally got it, by spending an hour or 2 a day for ~4 months in lengthy conversations with gen code tools in my IDE.

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

I wrote/maintained a 1K+ word coding standards/architectural doc to keep the AI on target, & another 1K+ words for a roadmap of features & debugging. It has 313 source files averaging 100 to 1070 lines each, ~36K lines of TS, 90 test files & 446 passing tests.

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

The game has the ability to export diagnostic logs, & restore a previously-saved game from a code string. There's persistence so your sessions survive browser reloads.

[David Chapman @Meaningness]

Dismaying seeing so many metamodern-ish thinkers concluding that their attempts to find a solution to the "meaning crisis" have failed, and returning to eternalist religion. Strong disagreement by @jim_rutt here!
https://t.co/7uDsOF5JCL

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

@PoemsWeBurned https://t.co/Yf6SYxt1d7

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

To my gamer group: The cards you are drafting aren't "harmful" or "beneficial", they're "wisdom energies"

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

This will probably take years to develop, but I'd like to adapt "Spectrum Of Ecstasy" into a Live Action Strategy Boardgame played on a retreat, in which players arrange a series of meals, karaoke, & ceremonies which simulate communal skills.

Too ambitious. But I don't mind that

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

To my gamer group: The cards you are drafting aren't "harmful" or "beneficial", they're "wisdom energies"

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

@Meaningness There is more that can be said about anything. Even taking this into account there's still more. Forever. Finishing things is the art of inventing a smaller increment that could be massaged into a finished shape.

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

@Meaningness @connerdelights What are the odds this starts a tiny heretical American sect of the Catholic Church with its own extremely syncretic rites?

[David Chapman @Meaningness]

"A Reader's Guide to David Chapman":
https://t.co/XZXOB7siNL

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

5. Whichever color scored highest at the end of the weekend wins as a team.

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

A new weekend-long convention game idea, which combines rock-paper-scissors, clothespin as$@s$in, & social deduction.

1. There are 6 clothespins, painted & labeled: 🟥🪨, 🟥📄, 🟥✂️, 🟦🪨, 🟦📄, 🟦✂️. 6 players get 1 random clothespin each & conceal it on their person.

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

4. At the end, you score 1 point for each of these conditions if met:
- the person you attached your clothespin to has a different 🟥🟦 color,
- the person you attached your clothespin to has your symbol's target🪨📄✂️symbol
- you never had a clothespin attached to you

[John Nerst @everytstudies]

I didn't publish any new posts last year, but that doesn't mean I didn't write anything. I've come a long way towards finishing my book and I'm now doing the last round of editing before I have a presentable text.

The whole thing has seven parts, a cryptic overview:

[Matt Arnold @NemoRathwald]

At the risk of distracting you from the gifts you just got for Xmas... the free version of Slipways is really good.
https://t.co/Kxk1QJ3np2