SmaMan

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🔀Smawsome Shuffler? On a Monday?! Sure, why not? 🤷‍♂️
It's the start of an odd week with a mahjong tournament coming up at the end of it. So let's start the night's retro cavalcade with... Barbie?
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***UPCOMING SCHEDULE*** MONDAY @ 7PM - Smawsome Shuffler Monday Night's Alright For Shufflin' TUESDAY @ 7PM - Tuesday Night TSUMO! ARML and Riichi City WEDNESDAY @ 7PM - PK Scramble (Earthbound) One Seed. One Stream? THURSDAY @ 7PM - Thursday Night... THUMO! Tournament Training Sesh All times central and subject to change

I’m gonna be out of town at times for the next couple of weeks, so the schedule is gonna be kinda funny… like me!

🔀 🀄️ 🌎 🀄️
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Saw on the train today, Fukushima prefecture is doing a tourism campaign in partnership with Square-Enix, promoting Final Fantasy-like landscapes & touristic spots.

Cute stuff, I only found the 1st one in good quality.

I mean, this is true. 🤷‍♂️

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🌎Time to give this PK Scramble thing a proper go...🌍
Earthbound Randomizer Madness tonight! This Daylight Savings thing is throwing us all off right now, so come on in and chill for a while.
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My buddy Lasso is charity streaming today. Go check it OUUUTTT!

Yondu from the reviled Sega Genesis game "Slaughter Sport" aka "Tongue of the Fat Man"

🔀Another week, even more games in the shuffler!🔀
Thanks to a gift sub *salvo* by Arknon, we've got more games to beat in this ongoing retro challenge. Including a game we all thought I had escaped...
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A screenshot from Metal Gear Solid 3

Pokopia style logo that says "riichi tsumo pinfu dora san haneman"

🀄Click here to *not* watch Pokopia!🀄
Instead we got mahjong in here!
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Gamedle
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🎨 (Artwork) #1171:
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👤 (Character) #264:
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🔑 (Keywords) #971:
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🔍 (Guess) #1225:
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Easier today... kinda.

This was Edge trying to have his Hollywood run a la John Cena/The Rock.

Exactly. And they’re already doing this ahead of his nomination hearings, playing up his undefeated MMA record (he fought in only 3 matches) amid other macho man things.

So I believe it helpful if we remind people of the coward he actually is.

Markwayne Mullin cowers away behind a row of chairs on January 6th

Brave brave brave brave Sir Mullin

Trump’s pick for DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin cowering away during the January 6th insurrection.

Time to get this image of him cowering away on January 6th circulating again.

Wow. It’s almost like using half-baked software trained on data that’s always out of date is not a good idea to be used on the battlefield.

They broke up with Claude, remember? Now they use ChatGPT.

Not that it would’ve made a lick of difference. Fuck AI.

...Look I've never even heard of some of these before! #Gamedle
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🎨 (Artwork) #1170: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
👤 (Character) #263: 🟥🟥🟥🟥
🔑 (Keywords) #970: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
🔍 (Guess) #1224: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Alright, who keeps putting the bread loaves behind the salt?

User is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported... somewhere.

I’ve been trying to find an excuse to get one. (There’s even a Densha De Go game on it!) but that price has always been a little out of reach for me.

Y’all are gonna kick ass! (Musically)

Yeah, because everyone’s getting played into installing Claude instead. 🙄

OR…

We realize we’re all being played here to save an industry that’s hemorrhaging money.

Let the bubble pop. We don’t need LLMs. 🫧

Or we could all just check out of this cancerous industry.

The cons of LLMs far outweigh the pros.

3 Screenshots from the movie "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988): First, a close-up of two large diamonds resting on a white fabric napkin. Second, an office setting where two armed robbers dressed in black ski masks and tactical gear hold up a jewellers. A man in a suit stands near a security cage with his hands raised, while hostages sit on the floor, some looking terrified. The subtitle reads: "Anybody moves and you're dead!" Third, a courtroom scene where a barrister with a white wig and black robe speaks intensely while standing in front of a panel of judges and lawyers. The background is filled with other legal professionals and spectators. The subtitle reads: "Miss Gershwitz, on the fourth of March of this year, in the morning, where were you?"

Mar 4th - Gangster George Thomason, his stuttering animal-loving right-hand man Ken Pile, and Americans con artist Wanda Gershwitz and weapons expert Otto West commit a jewellery heist.

📽️📅 A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield side by side from the original RE2 artwork from 1998

A photo of Leo Dicaprio and Claire Danes ffrom the 1996 film, Romeo + Juliet standing side by side, a photo of Claire Danes with her costume wings on the balcony, and a photo of Leo as Romeo at the carousel in the film

Wanna know a fun little RE detail?

Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield's character designs were directly inspired by the film 'Romeo + Juliet' (1996).

And you might say, "Pat, it's just a coincidence."

Maybe. But.. what were those lead actors' names again?

(Leon)ardo DiCaprio and (Claire) Danes. 😏

I’m off tonight, but my fellow climber from last night is live and smooching!

Today's Gamedle was both easier, and harder...
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"Today, we'll be putting 100 people in a room with just one bubonic plague rat and see how long it takes for 99 of them to get infected. The last one standing gets $100,000."

A reminder that there is no Riichi tonight. We'll be jongin' on Thursday instead. Hope to see you then! 🀄