arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

In about an hour, I’m participating in FlannelKat’s New Year tradition, a very casual, unpracticed 70-star “race” of Super Mario 64

SCROOGE: You, boy! What day is it?
BOY: Why, it’s Mario the 64th!

and I have now seen a machine from 1937! the lost era of pinball! you can’t even find these in VPX!

it was not operational but that’s okay, it looks awful to play. and I have enjoyed games from 1935

though the best moment at the museum was scoring the 8 ball on Eight Ball (1977), with 5x bonus, while playing against my sister, just before the place closed

went to the Asheville Pinball Museum and got the top #pindigo score on Blue Max (1975)! Note the 100,000 light. #pinball

Silver Ball Century, my chronological #pinball stream, continues tonight! Viewers choose tables as long as they're from 1980

https://twitch.tv/arborelia

they were trying to get me to accept a substitution of boring Godiva milk chocolate two weeks late

anyone got any recommendations for a chocolate-sending company that actually stocks chocolate?

why did I not realize that trying to order a gift of chocolate online would be exactly as full of bait-and-switch drop-shipping scams as ordering flowers is

it's exactly the same scam, to the point that it was literally 1-800-FLOWERS that called to say they wouldn't be able to fulfill the order

you also have to say "Fediverse" to include PeerTube, a video sharing site that you were not talking about

Everyone's so quick to correct that you can't say "Mastodon", you have to say "Fediverse"

Because unlike just different Mastodon servers, which can have different features, a server could be on something called Cackalackey, which has different features

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

https://twitch.tv/arborelia

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.

#BoardGames