Chris Lowthorpe

Playhaus | Ex-Head of R&D + Applied Games Lab @InGAME_Dundee | Playful Provocateur | East Anglian | Author: Punk Playthings w/ @kwangchow

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Punk Provocation 04: Itchy Knickers https://t.co/6gZHw6zRsS

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@PaulSaxton 🤡

[Rasheed J. Griffith @rasheedguo]

In Spain, education is a regional level competence not a national policy. Madrid has the best PISA scores in Spain and also spends the least.

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@Ed_Miliband 🤡

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@rasheedguo We have a couple of these in Almería too. Functional and flashy.

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@Ed_Miliband @AussenMinDE 🤡

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I asked Claude about the air conditioning debate in Europe, and it really didn’t pull any punches.

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@jeremycorbyn 🤡

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@Keir_Starmer 🤡

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@Keir_Starmer I’m an Arsenal fan - a real one, not a carpetbagger. But I find it hard to believe this is the most important thing in your inbox (I was going to say priority stack but I doubt you’d know what I’m talking about). 🤡

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@Ed_Miliband @MazzucatoM 🤡

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@natscs29 @PaulSaxton Because he’s disliked at home. Like Sanchez, who is mired in corruption scandals, his wife facing 20+ years, tanking polls and the inconvenient fact he’s never had a mandate. The ‘let’s perform progressive populism abroad’ trick is #1 in the Unpopular Politicos Playbook.

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@Keir_Starmer 🤡

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@Keir_Starmer 🤡🤡🤡

[PlayHaus.xyz @PlayhausLab]

Game making is both effective and wasteful, rewarding and frustrating, comforting and risky, creative and mundane, simple and difficult, ugly and beautiful.

It's a fluid adventure of living in flux, in the cracks and spaces, somewhere between the gutter and the stars.

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Using a curious cocktail of "regional pride, entrepreneurial elan and seductive brand of quasi-situationist hedonism", Factory Records brought Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays and the Haçienda to the world.

Punk Provocation 19: Amp It Up

https://t.co/FuPojKzYzu

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In a demand-driven economy, the artist who waits for institutional permission still starves. But the creative entrepreneur - the silo-smashing maker, marketer and merchant - eats well.

https://t.co/ZfGTZCdeLi

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@UKLabour 🤡

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Identity is a creative act.

Fairy Tales and Centrefolds explores Cindy Sherman’s masquerade art - where identity itself becomes raw material and the viewer becomes co-conspirator.

Game makers take note: you don’t have to fix meaning for your audience.

https://t.co/HbZBoPz85c

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"We never wrote a manifesto but we had one. The Eagle would be the sort of place where you could get a decent pint and a decent steak sandwich. There would be no bullshit."

The accidental invention of the gastropub. And what it teaches game makers.

https://t.co/F90Q0twGxu

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"We don't work like that here. We do things the long, hard, stupid way."

Context determines what the creative work is. Not the work itself. Most game makers avoid this question entirely.

Punk Provocation 14: It Ain't What You Do

https://t.co/wEbZ136FGQ