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
Anyone who’s played the board game “Patchwork”, I just want to check if we’re playing right. Are negative scores common?
Scores in 3 games with my sister were -15 to 18, -5 to 7, 12 to -2.
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@deejvalen she may not understand but she’s right anyway!
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SBF is out on bail for swindling billions of dollars while people die in Rikers awaiting trial for shoplifting.
A good argument for abolishing the pay-for-freedom bail model which undermines the Constitutional principle of innocent until proven guilty.
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The holidays can be a really tough time. The advice I often heard was, "Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Help others. Get out of your head." It's perfectly fine advice, but unhelpful if the mere thought of interacting with people is overwhelming. Anyway, here's a thing I did one year that did help:
I bought a Cookie Monster costume, went to the airport, and waited at arrivals with a sign that said "COOKIE"
Didn't have to talk to anyone and boy did I get to watch people's faces light up.
the good news is I already switched from LastPass to 1Password. the bad news is that doesn't help
Late stream: I decided to do a Swordless Festive run of ALttP Randomizer. The presents cannon should do a lot of work here
SBF, ordering pizza for his crime polycule: One of you here will betray me
Everyone there who is going to betray him: Yay pizza
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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@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
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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
