Tavian C. L.

A screenshot of an exercise from "Duolingo ABC". Zari is in the top section (purple background) with a bowl of pink slime, while the bottom section (white background" features the word "rip".

Me when everyone dies horribly:

A screenshot of the Safari web browser on iPadOS showing the "Safari can't open the page because your iPad is not connected to the internet" error; the URL it displays is absurdly long.

HA HA, they can't make me go to an ad's website if I have Airplane Mode on... now, just what is that mess of a URL?

Why did this Lemmings track have such a long intro? Probably to keep the copyright stewards from noticing the popular tune the second half is based on. Whether that's the reason or not, I had to inclu... TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

That doggie in the window doesn't need your immediate attention. This video does. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8P7T78c/

There are quite a few BonziWORLD revivals around these days, whereas there were essentially none for a long time after the original shut down. Linger around in bonzi.gay if you want to relive the "happy" days. (If you ever see me there, be sure to call me an asshole!)

A red hard candy in a wrapper. It has a chunk missing, & right next to it is a chunk from a separate piece of hard candy which is too large to be the missing chunk of the main piece.

Someone out there will find this infuriating.

What kind of a pickup line is that? ...never mind, let's just pick up the mess I made in Magic Inlay. #elmo #crocodile #starfall #toys #puzzlegame TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

You've heard of Tickle Me Elmo, Tickle Me Emo, & Stop Touching Me Elmo... get ready for Croc-Tickling Elmo! ...guest-starting Starfall & Magic Inlay, I guess. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThr2eX1y/

The webpage "copilot.microsoft.com" where the visual elements failed to load. The resulting webpage has a pure white background, with all the page's elements lumped together at the top left corner. In particular, the text input box is a small bar rather than the larger one normally seen at the bottom of the page, while the "Quick response" & "Sign in" buttons are shaped like round squares.

At the end of the day, even Copilot is just an HTML page.

A green Laffy Taffy wrapper which has a joke text that erroneously reads: "WHAT'S A POTATOES FAVORITE GAME?".

A potatoes favorite game is a game where you have a bunch of potatoes, & everyone has to pick their favorite potato at once without any two players sharing a favorite potato. Any players who share a favorite potato are eliminated. The winners get to eat all the potatoes.

Lemmings was able to turn classics like "Dance of the Little Swans" into music that'd put you on high alert, rather than make you want to dance. So, tell me - is this remake on keyboard intimidating e... TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

The theme tune of the swans from your nightmares. Nicky Little would be horrified. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrqbEoMa/

Pixel art of a Lemming (from "Lemmings") with an iced toaster pastry for a torso, flying through a night sky while holding a yellow parasol & leaving a trail of traditional "ROYGBV" colors behind it.

Here's a nice piece I made one time a long while back... Nyan Lemming!

The giant ant, a one-time antagonist from The Powerpuff Girls. Here, it is standing on a road, using its mandibles to grab a truck.

I can't be the only one who would no longer be scared by stinging or flying insects if they were absolutely massive. If they can't get into my ears, as far as my instincts are concerned they can't hurt me.

Here is quite a complicated shape to make out of mere triangles & squares. The rhombicuboctahedron has so much power that it simply cannot be contained within your hands. Only a polyhedron perfectioni... TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

I haven't seen architecture this wonky since I watched Wayside. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrHBHonG/

Anyone who says Duolingo isn't a video game clearly hasn't seen a single edutainment title from the 90s. Sure, it's no JumpStart, but it does turn its material into a more or less Trivia Crack-style quiz game. How that affects your ability to truly learn anything from it, make of that what you will.

An edited crop of a frame from the Caillou episode "Big Brother Caillou" when a newborn Rosie is laying down with her head being propped up by Caillou preparing to pinch her. In this edit, the side of the crop with Rosie's head and hand is copied to the other side, with the torsos of the two Rosies merging in the middle as a result.

What have we here? Why, it's twice as many cheeks for Caillou to pinch. Twice as much wailing. Screaming in stereo.

Actually, it was just me experimenting with image flipping in Freeform because I can't find a simple "mirror one side of an image onto the other" tool.

Still, Caillou, do you dare?!

There's no better TIM3 for a new Lemmings on Keyboard than now - because this TIM3 around, I played the track "Tim3"! Fun fact: The composer of Tim3, Tim Wright (AKA CoLD SToRAGE) based it on his musi... TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

What TIM3 is it? TIM3 for you to listen to me play Tim3! Puggsy, anyone? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMGaneWE/

An ad in a mobile game in iPadOS (showing the partially obscured text "It's an ALDI thing. Shop Now"). It is being highlighted similarly to text, with a white button prompt cloud showing the options "Copy" & "Translate".

I remember the time I could select a poorly programmed ad like it were a string of text.
...Sadly, I forgot what happened when I pasted it in a text input box.

A text prompt & response of Llama 3.1 70B on Duck.ai. The prompt asks "So there isn't a polyhedron that just uses 5 and 3 in its symbol?", to which Llama responds "There is a polyhedron with the Schläfli symbol {5, 3}. It's the great dodecahedron's dual, the icosidodecahedron is not it, but the icosidodecahedron's dual is the icosidodecahedron's dual, " after which "the icosidodecahedron's dual is the icosidodecahedron's dual" is repeated indefinitely.

Llama 3.1 was a hoot!
Note: {5, 3} is just a normal ass dodecahedron.

I was just hanging by the gutter when all these whatnots started judging my every move. They made sure I knew when my bowling deserved applause & when it deserved nothing but pity. #bowling #videogame... TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

HEY LOOK IT'S A GUTTERBALL www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5eCeWs/

What are we smoking tonight? Me... the DVORAK layout. I'm getting better with it by the hour! Thanks, iPadOS 16!

Now, let's see... Eddy is an expert with using pkill, wkill, & mkill. He's got some mad skill!

So, what's the proverbial Lemming tea? I just played Lemming3! It's another of the game's originals, plus the one that rocked the hardest. #Lemmings #piano #keyboard #videogamemusic #PlayStation TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

I POWERED through Lemming3, just listen & admire the energy! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhMoggY/

Johnny Test was an exploration of every writer's barely disguised fetish. In other words, it walked so Teen Titans Go! could run.

When there's talk about the adult versions of Seasonals & Mythicals in MSM: Dawn of Fire, a lot of players jump to the idea that they'll be on the Outer Islands. But I think I know why that won't be: they're so crowded like it is. So you know what that could mean?... NEW ISLAND AFTER 9 YEARS! 🔥

Jada witnesses ball-ception. In spite of her confusion, she gets right to work on getting the smaller ball out. What do you think: does Jada know every twist & turn it takes to get a ball out a maze, ... TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

I can really sell a point to my dog Jada.
"Yo dawg, I herd u liek BALLS. So we put a BALL inside of yo BALL"
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I should make you all aware I'm editing Wikiquote now. Yet another facet of public knowledge will be free from nonsense once more. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special...

An "Orders" list in TikTok Shop, showing four items: a 10-piece set of plastic animal-shaped toys with moving parts (delivered), a keyboard-shaped clicker keychain with four keys (delivered), a foot-long black rope with a lock at its end (delayed), & a set of 100 acrylic adhesive beads (delayed).

TikTok Shop ran a promotion that let me redeem some bucks to spend, provided I only got select items with "Free shipping" listed. Problem is, two of them just decided to not be delivered for two fucking months. So TikTok "refunded" me the $0.02 for those. Bummer. But the other two things were cool!

Screenshot of Chuzzle 2 for iPhone, played on an iPad (5th generation)

Chuzzle 2 has so much of what made Chuzzle Deluxe a game you couldn't drop... which makes it all the more curious that it doesn't natively support iPad (meaning the slim-screened iPhone compatibility layer is your only choice). Full-screen Chuzzle popping would make it the PERFECT sequel.

What's got green on it & comes in sets of ten? No, not bottles, but close... Lemmings! This is the recreation of the game's take on Ten Green Bottles, lovingly named "TenLems" in the files. It might e... TikTok video by Tavian C. L.

The itsy bitsy Lemming unleashed a bloody scream.
Then came the guts, letting out a nasty stream.
Out came the others, who stepped across his face.
So the itsy bitsy Lemming had quite a sick embrace!
...oh wait, this track from Lemmings ISN'T based on that nursery rhyme?
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Sweet news, gang - or "olds". For over a decade, I had memories of games I used to play on a PC running Windows ME. A couple years ago I tracked a handful of them down, & recently AI chatbots helped me uncover a few more. Just clicked what they had in common: the name "Gamehouse" got me to the rest.

Sweet leaks are a joy just as they always have been... I did not expect this one week in mid-June to be anything hype-worthy but I'm glad I was wrong.