So That Bird Hell Site refugees seem to be divided between here and Cohost. Seems the more technically inclined end up here. Why is beyond me, this site doesn't take any special technical skills to use.
In addition to following Twitter (for now), I feel like I'm going to eventually have to make a decision to either follow both sites, or abandon those that moved to Cohost in favor of brevity and sanity. It's not a decision I will make lightly.
I recently learned Win+Shift+S exists.
I'll have to see how well it works with games, but for work this is a godsend because I can't install ShareX here.
OK this is the weirdest thing.
Some idiot signed me up for a mailing list I do not want to be on. The mailing list requires you to enter first name and email. So this idiot used my email... but for the name they included a CRYPTO 12-WORD RECOVERY KEY??????? What even the actual is this?
I don't do crypto, so if someone's trying to scam me they're wasting their time.
IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
There were TWENTY chocolate squares in our bag of Ghirardelli peppermint bark chocolates instead of nineteen.
Apparently Twitch won. None of Pixeltris's solutions for ads work anymore, not even the proxies.
Fortunately, Streamlink Twitch GUI still works, but it is a VERY sub par experience.
Turns out MineSweeper Tetris is fun. Leaderboards have been swept!
Well now I'm going to have to go for the leaderboard sweep.
Ah, just what I wanted to do after the holidays. Board an airplane. Ugh.
I actually signed up for a nostr account. It's under @roncli. Good luck actually finding it, it seems like their website is borked AF. At least I'm verified, though!
A lot of folks think Mastodon is confusing to use.
Boy, they haven't tried nostr yet, have they.
Some time ago, I made a blog post with the sentence, "The guy is an asshole." In that sentence, I linked every word to a separate article about HOW he is an asshole.
Fast forward 2 months later, and I think I'm going to challenge myself to extend that to a link for every letter. What's scary is that it shouldn't be too hard. 🙃
This is the AI in question. Pretty neat concept. I was told it has been "nerfed" to give humans a chance. I think they nerfed it too hard. https://www.freshconsulting.com/work/microsoft-robotic-air-hockey/
Today I played air hockey against an AI on its hardest difficulty, and won seven to nil. 🙃
Taco Bell: "Do you need any sauce?"
Me: "No, we shouldn't need a..."
Taco Bell: *dumps entire container of sauce into bag*
Me: "...thanks, I guess?"
Worked a bit on Descent 1 DXX-Retro's code today a bit. That code base is so icky. But, I have it compiling in Visual Studio thanks to Sirius, so at least that's a start.
Don't get me wrong, the event itself is fine. I just end up getting home late and feeling like I've ran a marathon.
Time for another round of program increment planning, AKA introvert torture. 😞
As silly as this tiny font looks, it is employed in a way that makes me feel like I broke the game and did something epic. GGs to the devs on this one!
After a 110-5 score line, it became apparent change was needed in the OTL. Well, change is coming. This update should go live tomorrow. https://roncli.com/blogger/4346341627055792095/a-two-tiered-untiered-otl
Crazy post on Tumblr about YouTube and the downside of what they consider "success". h/t to Lilac, not something I would reblog over there so here it is instead. https://at.tumblr.com/ohnoitstbskyen/the-overwhelming-misery-of-going-viral-on-youtube/76rusi9hdajt
Hmm, apparently you can't add a text description to an image upload after the fact. Would be a nice addition for when you forget.
For those wondering, that's a bottle of Ramune and a box of Pocky.
How you can tell Twitch is updating their ads to combat ad blockers? Check Google Trends for "pixeltris".
The Overload Teams League had a team anarchy game result of 110 to 5 today. The awful one-sidedness of such a game aside, this skews stats and records in a very bad way.
I think I've come up with a reasonable way to solve it, but boy is the SQL for this site becoming mind bending.
And what's worse: I have to convert it all to MongoDB when I do the Docker conversion project. I'm going to be a MongoDB aggregation EXPERT by the time that's over.
Select which of these two statements you agree with:
1-based indexing is superior.
...or...
0-based indexing is superior.
It's definitely a struggle, but I believe the only way to deal with it is to face it unafraid, and learn from every encounter with it. It will still hit me, but I no longer let it control me.
Competition anxiety is the only type of anxiety I get, at least with any regulatory. It doesn't happen when I play 6DoF games (at least not anymore), but almost any other competitive game I play, the anxiety can strike at any time, and it affects me greatly. I have become much more aware of it lately, and I think that's helped result in days like today where, for a moment, everything seems to be falling apart... but then I understand what is going on and don't let it ruin the rest of my day.
At the chess club, I played 5 games between two opponents that I have losing records against. I confidently won all five games, even declining a draw because I didn't think I could lose and had a passed pawn.
Later, I got productive, finishing the week's math homework and doing a video presentation for business in one take. And now I'm feeling really good about how the day went, despite that one hiccup early in on.
An hour later, I played in another Tetris match against an opponent with a lower best score and was playing buzzed. It was a league format where I am not getting eliminated if I do poorly. I got trounced, lost 6-1 over two matches, and couldn't get to level 19 more than one game.
Competition anxiety stuck hard in the second set, and I have no idea why. It tried to frame the remainder of my day. I did not let it.
Today was a reminder that competition anxiety is fickle and strange.
I played in the events today. The first was Classic Tetris Monthly's tournament, a knockout bracket where I have had mixed results. Today I was up against a maxout player, someone who can score a million points. (my best is 740k). I swept the match 3-0 no problem, and felt good the whole way through.
False alarm, that was a typo on their part. 🤣 They meant something more sane.
Someone at work, who I said probably would have to fix a unit test after a change, just fixed it by making it "Assert.True(true);".
DON'T BE PEOPLE!
Worked on a remake to an old song from 2003. Got a coworker to play some guitar parts fort it. Sounds amazing! Now I'm wanting to do more music stuff again. If only I had the time!
