arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
Taking a week off from Silver Ball Century for Christmas.
No big stream tonight. I might do a late one-off stream where I stream the Metallica Christmas edition, because that seems fun.
1980 pinball will resume Thursday Dec 29 and Monday Jan 2.
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take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly
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@chrisisgr8 but yeah! redesigning this site to modern sensibilities would be a tragedy on par with replacing the Sagrada Familia with a modern rectangular glass building
@chrisisgr8 what's great is it isn't even untouched! they have a 2022 tournament on there! they're just not redesigning it and that's wonderful
The most beloved era of #pinball (1992-1999) coincides with the Web 1.0 era, so it is right and fitting that this amazing site exists:
Holiday Major Glitches: it's ALttP Randomizer's festive December mode and it's also Hybrid Major Glitches
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So last night, the a link to the past randomizer devs released a holiday randomizer type thing. I encountered a glitch and was completely oblivious that I caused it despite it happening on screen twice.
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Pretty fucking bold of these scientists to scrape one of my copyrighted photographs off the internet and then re-release it uncredited under a Creative Commons license because they used it for training data for an algorithm.
It's another episode of Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of virtual pinball. In 1980, pinball is on top of the world. There are so many tables to choose from.
So I'm running stream raffles where viewers pick the tables, as long as they're from 1980.
Going live: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
2000: you search in English because there isn’t enough on the Web in other languages
2010: you search in English because what you find in other languages is SEO scam “translations” by WebHostingGeeks dot com
2020: you search in English so you can find Reddit results, the ones that still help
2025: you search in French because the chat-bots can’t fake expertise in it
2030: same but in Indonesian this time
I predict that, in a couple of years, a benefit of knowing a non-English language will be to search for information written by humans. The LLMs are only fluent in English.
@cshabsin Only second-hand I guess?
I know he was the guy who was, like, intentionally the main character of Usenet.
I know nothing about what he was actually like and I doubt I should get my hopes up too high for him being a nice person
My wife Kat made me an Earthbound PK Scramble seed called "Kat why". She knows what the settings are, I don't. https://twitch.tv/arborelia
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I really think we need to reject the term "content creator."
That phrase is used by people who aim to Monetize™ us without needing to care about what it is we create. A "content creator" is there to make the stuff that attracts people so they can be fed advertising.
Call us what we are. Artists. Essayists. Film makers. Authors. Photographers. And so many others. We are creators, yes, but what we create has so much value beyond filling otherwise empty space on a website.
Earthbound PK Scramble, mystery random settings, with my wife randomizing a few more settings that aren't usually randomized:
I used a coffee grinder for coffee beans that I had just used to grind star anise, and you know what, this tastes good actually
@celesteh you can change papers! NCPWG can help if you can’t figure out who to talk to, or if your publisher claims they don’t do that.
Google Scholar, however, will down-rank the updated papers in its search results and keep auto-generating citations of your deadname for years.
@ingram I don't get credit for the web site, but I did work on getting IEEE to have a policy.
And if all these publishers can figure something out, why can't Google?
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
