Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

It's almost midnight where I am, so I don't know if anyone's up to see this, but I'm finally continuing the blindfolded rhythm heaven fever run from...checks notes...four months ago.

Anyways, I'm live now and will start Rhythm Heaven at exactly midnight CDT, 7 minutes from now, over at https://www.twitch.tv/auravulpes

*didn't

Gah, why do I typo

Like, I warned you! I told you not to! And yet, you did it anyways! Why?!

Yeah, I just heard her yelling from the living room. She looked it up.

So, mom was showing me this video of stuff this teacher has had to say in her class (or something like that), and it included, like, "Stop referencing Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life. I know what that is." Mom then asks me what it is. I kinda just told her she did want to know. She said she was gonna look it up, I told her not to...

Also, yeah. When it came to writing the code for this, the hardest part was coding in the adjacency matrix for the graph. Otherwise, it was so easy that the code actually compiled worked right the first time! How often does that happen?! If I wanted to improve the duplicate avoidance, it'd probably be pretty tricky, but why bother? The code did what I needed it to!

Of all the possibilities, I think I'd most be interested in fighting/steel/fairy, or maybe ice/flying/fighting. But any of them would be an interesting departure from the standard fire/grass/water we normally get.

Okay, well, it turns out, the code was actually pretty trivial. So, here you go, a list of alternatives to the fire/grass/water starter trio!

(I didn't do the greatest job in coding to avoid duplicates, but I'll remove any that popped up from the alt-text)

Or, I guess I could probably use code to do it for me. But that's a thing for later.

This graph brought to you by the question of if Nintendo could do anything other than fire/grass/water starters. Answer: Yes. There is at least one other cycle in that graph: fighting beats dark beats psychic beats fighting. There are probably others, but I'd have to spend more time looking at it.

So, in case you were ever curious what it would look like, here's what it would look like if you took the matrix of what types are supereffective against what other types and interpreted it as an adjacency matrix. Honestly, this is kinda cool, if not the most useful thing out there.

Motherfucker really just went on TV to say he wants to fund public schools immediately before saying he wants to cut property taxes. Like, bitch, property taxes are the only way schools get funded in this hellhole of a state. What are you going to do? Personally rewrite the state constitution to allow income taxes? I wouldn't get my own hopes up personally given the little R you chosen to put next to your name.

He's a very good listener.

I mean, these are very imprecise ways to actually defining the two terms, but I think it gets the point across. Validity and soundness are two different things in logic!

A reminder and validity and soundness, because yes, in logic, those are two different things.

Validity means an argument checks out symbolically, basically. If it's raining, then I'm president; It's raining, therefore I'm president is valid! It's basic hypothetical syllogism. If A, then B; A, therefore B.

But it is not sound. After all, I am not president, regardless of whether it's raining. To be sound, the parts have to actually add up.