Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Here's a fun graph for you: number of christmas albums released per year since 1940. Starts off fairly low, then, starting in the early nineties, the numbers begin to skyrocket, peaking at 70(!!) in 2008, with the numbers declining heavily since then. I wonder what's up with that? I mean, Mariah Carey didn't help, but she alone can't be responsible for that peak a decade and a half later, can she? The world may never know...

I'll be honest. I really like beep block skyway in mario 3d world. Like, timing the switching of the blocks to the music is so fucking clever and it makes the level so satisfying to play. I originally avoided it because it seemed like a bit of nightmare, but, oh. I think it's probably my favourite level (and definitely my favourite level music).

I saw talk the other day about how useless Google is getting, but I don't think it's just Google. I think search engines in general are getting worse. I wanted info on the stalk market in the original Animal Crossing. DuckDuckGo gives me New Horizons info. I try excluding "New Horizons" and yeah. No matter how I try to tweak it, it continues to give me ACNH info, literally in the top few results.

Is this not how you exclude results anymore or have these things really gotten this bad?

But, yeah, once again, it's sad I have to be this happy over this. Like, yeah, it's good I'll have basically free healthcare, but, like, I should have that anyways. Everyone should. That we don't is a fucking travesty. I shouldn't be sitting here with $10,000 in ER bills. I shouldn't have been having to worry about how I was going to pay for my next psychiatrist visit. It's just...wrong.

And, like, mind you, this is pretty good insurance. No deductible, no copay for primary care, $10 for specialists, generic drugs are free. Like, damn. This is a fucking life changer, given that I haven't had insurance since the end of june.

I'm gonna have health insurance next year!!!!!

I went to look at why I didn't qualify for medicaid, and, like, yeah. I don't. Then I went to the marketplace to see what it gave me, expecting the $400/month plans it normally gives. But, surprise, surprise, it didn't! I'll actually have health insurance and I won't even have to pay for it! I've got a $0 premium!

(It's just sad that I have to be this happy over a human right. sigh)

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.