Roger Gammans
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Gamer, coder, Engineer. Author ( 1/4) of the Love Letter, Night Train peaky games amongst others.
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@anthracite@dragon.style It's going to get defined, yes, but not immediately. It'll just be a chapter heading thing for the first while …
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Roger Gammans
@rgammans@dice.camp
Gamer, coder, Engineer. Author ( 1/4) of the Love Letter, Night Train peaky games amongst others. Uses Linux.
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Roger Gammans
@rgammans@dice.camp
Gamer, coder, Engineer. Author ( 1/4) of the Love Letter, Night Train peaky games amongst others. Uses Linux.
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Dec 20, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @anthracite@dragon.style I googled it and the answer seems to be illuminating for your use.
If you're reading sci-fi and don't expect to come across new to you ideas and terms, umm. What are you doing here?.
As a reader I expect a period where I don't fully grok what's going on, or important parts of the setting. It important as a precursor to get that 'Ooh' moment of understanding.
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Roger Gammans
@rgammans@dice.camp
Gamer, coder, Engineer. Author ( 1/4) of the Love Letter, Night Train peaky games amongst others. Uses Linux.
dice.camp
Roger Gammans
@rgammans@dice.camp
Gamer, coder, Engineer. Author ( 1/4) of the Love Letter, Night Train peaky games amongst others. Uses Linux.
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Jun 09, 2025
There is a Guardian story with the title "It's vim up north". This is something related to the music industry, and not the choice of text editor amongst Mancunian coders, as my brain first read it.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian/20250609/281728390467862
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