bev! @TonicBH@computerfairi.es
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writes about dumb junk about video games and music sometimes.
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Joined Oct 2017
Alternatively, him deciding to do "Pest Control" in the Showtime movie Safe House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFVuAW9q1SQ
RIP Patrick Stewart, one of several stars of the USA Network TV movie Alistair MacLean's Death Train
I have a constant yearning to have a bunch of cool gals over to watch old TV and play old video games
just sitting there chilling, while infodumping about old game shows or silly video game lore
may it happen someday.......
Gotta say though, having all this stuff to actually watch and listen and play now has me genuinely wanting to write about this stuff
Maybe not in a big, long form piece but something more akin to the average Letterboxd or Backloggd review, more bite sized.
Unearthed a box of VHS tapes from storage
Lots of James Bond movies, weird TV specials like Saturday Night Live's Game Show Parodies, and films featured on MST3K
Can you tell I have oddball tastes? 
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Foly huck. A small story about LLMs.
For historical reasons, I have a spare cassette for road bikes and it is not compatible with any of my own bikes so I want to sell it. Decided it would be helpful for buyers to include the teeth count of the smallest and largest sprocket in the ad, and was in a lazy Saturday afternoon mood so took a picture, gave that to #chatgpt and asked it to do the counting for me. Answer: 36 teeth.
That sprocket size doesn't exist in the Shimano universe.
So I tried to verify its count by asking it to add an increasing number next to every tooth. It complied, and the numbers ran from 1-36. That pictures is included below. You can stop reading now, look at the picture and count along.
If your ADD is not too bad, you'll notice it skipped 18, so we have 35 teeth. Not 36.
However that also doesn't exist in the Shimano universe.
Being as confused as the average republican, I demanded a #recount! It told me 36 again.
Sigh. Decided to do a manual recount while holding the sprocket in my hand. 28. That is a valid size.
Then I looked at the photo with counts again. Turns out the clanker took my original photo as inspiration, and fabricated a photo of a sprocket with 35 teeth. I am not sure what triggered it to do that and I do not want to know.
Your average #LLM is still as bad at counting as they were a year ago. Maybe worse.
Also, do not invest in that stuff ok?
I forgot that I bought the slippers shaped like Sora's shoes from Kingdom Hearts
not even a big Kingdom Hearts fan, just thought the concept was funny enough for a gag purchase
I love the stupid whiskey friday with tony dokoupil shit
however this makes me realize I don't really have any whiskey of my own
I should rectify that. maybe.
realized I've been listening to mostly vinyl records and haven't had much motivation to play games for blog material lately, heh
might still get something written for the month regardless
I really wish websites would stop asking me to make a goddamn account pin after I signed in with my username and password
it's the most annoying thing I have to deal with, because I have to repeatedly stop Windows from trying to make a PIN, keeping me from getting into my goddamn account
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people i used to respect are either using AI for their projects or praising projects that do and this is the loneliest i've felt in the retrocomputing hobby
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I don't understand any of the references that are in BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3, but I love its abstract levels
they feel just like boxy shapes that vaguely look like a place but also feel like a weird 3D fever dream, like someone's first experiences in a Quake mapping program
it's great
I don't understand any of the references that are in BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3, but I love its abstract levels
they feel just like boxy shapes that vaguely look like a place but also feel like a weird 3D fever dream, like someone's first experiences in a Quake mapping program
it's great
this coffee shop I'm at has been playing mostly nothing but Cocteau Twins the whole time I've been here
think I heard one non-Cocteau Twins song, and that was The Cure's Just Like Heaven
at least it's fitting coffee shop music
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realising also that as a professional and recreational computer toucher another one of my issues against gen/agentic AI is that it's a tool to make people touch the computer _less_. why would you want that? either touch the computer or don't, stop getting something else to do it for you and saying it's the best thing in the world
New on the Secret Area: Here's Some Stuff I Bought from Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2026.
This was a year of socializing and spending. And I got a lot to talk about what I spent.
https://asecretarea.com/2026/10/14/some-stuff-i-bought-portland-retro-gaming-expo-2026/
the temptation to get a 3DS and streetpass.... in 2026.... years after streetpassing stopped being relevant......
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starting to wonder if I made a mistake starting up Nubby's Number Factory, as I find it (unsurprisingly) addictive.
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- https://linktr.ee/tonya_wolfe
(aka tonya)
40/pan/trans. she/they.
writes about dumb junk about video games and music sometimes.
your awoo friend. may also be bnuuy or kitty depending on mood.
Joined Oct 2017
