Sausage's Collection of Thoughts
I'm John. I like coffee, and roller derby, and videogames, and on occasion radical thinking.
I skate for Manchester Roller Derby: #M14 Sausage Roller.
I build and run websites and stuff.
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Photo reblogged from NPR Fresh Air
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Photo reblogged from Robot Unicorns
Here’s the animated GIF of the RU by Gemma Correll which I posted earlier. It’s a very happy, jolly unicorn, and is now even happier and jollier that it can move!
For anyone wondering what the code I write looks like, this pretty much sums it up.
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The Test O’Matic iPad & iPhone app is now live! What this means is:
1) Everyone can now use the Roller Derby Test O’Matic on Android, Kindle Fire and iOS.
2) I, just one developer dude who does not own a mac and has a super limited budget, can make and has made mobile apps that can be released on every major mobile platform.That’s pretty cool.
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Users just keep answering question. Lacks sufficient game play experience.
Apple’s reason for refusing the iOS version of the Roller Derby Test O’Matic.
RDTOM is a multiple-choice quiz for people to learn the rules of roller derby in preparation for a test. It’s not a super-fun game for the whole family. It’s designed solely for the purpose of allowing users to keep answering questions when offline, without superfluous crap.
I guess I should add some micro-transactions to buy crops or something.
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I’ve made this quick survey to get information about injury rates in derby. I’ve no idea if a given league is especially good at avoiding injuries or not, so the purpose of the survey is to get some general ball-park figures.
If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate it if you could fill this out.
Everyone loves a good survey right?
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Photoset reblogged from Pass the Star
Put up an piece of work i did and had on my old blog (that i’ve seen reposted unfortunately) onto society6 so you can buy it as a print, iphone case, throw pillow etc. if you want to :)
Oooooo nice!
I love that iPhone case
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Photo reblogged from Yo, Is This Racist?
orphiel asked: Yo, I reckon you have a cousin in England, who is also awesome. PS The Conservatives are obviously massively racist.
I literally do have a cousin in England, tho.
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The Roller Derby Test O’Matic gets an Android App!
This is the “lite” version, the feature-rich full version is coming later. For now, all it does is all it needs to do: gives you questions, auto-updates when it can, and works offline.
Does it work on your Android-powered device?
Update: How to be sneaky and get the app working on your iOS device
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Photoset reblogged from drink your juice.
Pretty sure I just discovered a subculture of people on Instagram who have roleplay accounts set up for their Sims so if you need me I’ll be quitting my job and writing academic papers about it.
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The Roller Derby Test O’Matic will soon cover USARS rules (up until now the site has been WFTDA only). That’s quite exciting!
Also, the site now has a forum. A place to ask all those questions about rules you’ve been wondering about!
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Photo reblogged from Medium Talent
Sick apex jump, sick jeggings, sick buffalo plaid jammer star, sick fucking mermaid hair. Honestly this makes me want to be a boy and move to Minnesota.
PS: He landed it.
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Link reblogged from Cobra Kai Derby Coach
sausage-roller said: “ At a tournament I went to recently HR had a “final jam douchbaggery” clause which said stuff like this was your team forfeiting the game as you’re not playing derby. I like that HR.”
Isn’t that a violation of 9.3.1.2?
Ref discretion does not…
You can justify it in a few ways beyond “don’t be a douche” if you want: Most importantly, all teams agreed too it before the tournament started, rather than it being an unwritten rule only in the mind of the refs. On top of that, 9.1.2 gives HR “ultimate authority” which means they can do what they want anyway. If HR uses that rule badly, nobody wants them as an HR again, and in this case HR was one of the most respected refs in the country.
But my favourite justification uses 9.2.7.2.2 and goes along the lines of “the rules are pretty clear (ish) in what this roller derby business is all about. If one team chooses not to play roller derby, as it’s been described, they’re choosing not to continue playing and thus it can be interpreted as a forfeit”.
It was used to prevent any kind of skating-off-the-track-to-force-a-no-pack style event, as oppose to a less-impacting taking-a-knee thing. It was only a small thing, never emphasised, but everyone was told along with all the usual gumph you get before a big event.
It’s not written explicitly, but none of this stuff is. Refs are there foremost to keep things safe, and secondly to keep things fair. Refs can find grey areas in the rules too, not just us :P
Also, what zebra-1039 said in a reply to the comment: “Unless it’s a regulation / Sanctioned game, the rules are subject to ‘fixing’ as long as all captains agree to any changes before the game. This is one of the best ways to affect change as it tests out new ways of working the rules.”
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Photo reblogged from Poetry Carved In Flesh
Crash Test Brummies’ Rob Quadriguez accidentally executes the greatest photobomb ever!
As if I needed another reason to love that team.
