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
hi! that's right you're important to me 💚
#introduction: my joys
I am poly, married, and not actively dating. My wife and my girlfriend bring light to my life.
I play randomized video games, particularly Link to the Past Randomizer. Modes that require glitches are fun.
I enjoy #pinball almost as much as my wife does. I have a Twitch stream series, Silver Ball Century, where I am playing virtual versions of pinball tables in chronological order.
I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my #bike. I like to ride it where I like.
#introduction: my work
I do natural language processing. I hope for a future where NLP code can still be run by individuals, not just by hitting the expensive, opaque, harmful APIs of the same three companies. ChatGPT is a demo of a bad future.
I was the lead developer of the multilingual semantic network ConceptNet from 2006 to 2020. I don't run it anymore but it's still there (https://conceptnet.io).
I made "ftfy", the Unicode-fixer used everywhere: https://ftfy.readthedocs.io
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It's the end of the '70s on Silver Ball Century, my chronological stream of virtual #pinball: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
@mcc I love this idea and I submit the string "+d,+6t,+vu8-", an erroneous UTF-7 string that Python used to happily convert to erroneous Unicode and even erroneous UTF-8.
Python 2 gist from 2014: https://gist.github.com/rspeer/7559750
my misreading of https://tiny.tilde.website/@astrid/109513858613829664 reminded me of this outstanding Radiohead cover from 2008, on a ZX Spectrum and several other pieces of obsolete hardware
the scanner plays a killer bass line
I skipped the first minute of loading time for you, you're welcome
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"Pronouns" in conservative circles is a dog whistle. They fixate on pronouns so they can say transgender people are bad without bumping into hate speech rules. Mocking them for using pronouns themselves or not knowing what pronouns are isn't the burn you think it is.
Have fun with circling all the pronouns in screenshots of their tweets if that's your jam, but remember that you are not the intended audience. It's messaging for others on the far-right and it's way worse than flunking English class
Doors Dungeon Dive -- progress items are only in dungeons, and the dungeons are randomly generated with Door Shuffle. https://twitch.tv/arborelia
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This video is INCREDIBLE and SO worth the watch time.
I grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s when it was just “common knowledge” that #disco sucked. I was puzzled when I finally discovered it for myself in adulthood and was like “damn, there’s some really good stuff here!”—turns out homophobes and transphobes crushed it using a playbook that is shockingly familiar to us (especially us #trans folks) in 2022.
Now hit me with some more of that sweet four on the floor! 🎧🎤🎹🎸🥁
Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of virtual pinball, has reached 1979: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
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Imagine how shitty you have to be to get booed by people who are still willing to pay money to go see Dave Chapelle
@leigh hi! I stream a lot of virtual pinball, mostly in a stream series where I’m experiencing it chronologically (1979 starts tomorrow).
And my wife and I just bought a physical Legends of Valhalla table.
ALttP randomizer: what if door shuffle, but more shuffle
The flippers were taunting me in plain sight for an hour and a half, and I eventually found the connector that went to them, but I had to get dinner. Resuming and then doing Advent of Code
There's new versions of Door Shuffle and Overworld Shuffle for ALttP Randomizer! Trying them out with my favorite mode, MODESTBonk
(Mixed Overworld, Door + Entrance Shuffle, Trinity goal, Bonk shuffle)
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A while back I saw an r/woodworking post where someone was asking for resources for woodworking plans. A few people told them to Google it.
If you Google it you get absolute horseshit. Just page after page of useless results. So we need to stop the fucking "let me google that for you" era and recognize that search is entirely broken in the modern day. We NEED human recommendations and information sharing now more than ever.
multiworld night! 6 of us are playing 6 interlinked randomized games: A Link to the Past, Hollow Knight, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Pokemon Red/Blue, and two games of Timespinner.
Items for any game can be found in any game.
https://multistre.am/arborelia/kailaria/saberamesia/davidtki/layout10/
- Pronouns
- she/her
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
