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
because the house is fine now I have time to do a stream! Practicing ALttPR, criss-cross-keys plus new settings, for the upcoming Doors League
we took precautions. We shut off the hot water at the intake (after leaving the valves open for many hours), and left a drip of cold water running so it wouldn't freeze too.
I was still nervous we'd come back to a burst pipe or an overflowing sink or something.
but it was fine! and the warmer weather today unfroze the pipe and everything's working again!
on Christmas Eve our hot water stopped running, because a pipe froze. we tried some simple things but we couldn't find the pipe, and it wasn't about to unfreeze given the weather.
we tried what we could and we delayed for quite a while, but we had to leave for my parents' place.
we came home to having hot and cold running water! it's a festivus miracle!!!
Oh shoot we were supposed to get on Past 42, where do we turn around
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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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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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.
- 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
