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a picture of a white, freshly 3d printed 3dbenchy, still on its build plate. it is clearly under-extruded; the higher up you go on the print, the more material is missing. the chimney is missing entirely, and you can see a string of filament in front of the benchy, presumably what was supposed to be the chimney.

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getting into an argument on discord

Current stats for returns as of morning of Election Day.

Make sure you turn in your homework!

Today’s the due date!

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bkirz - Twitch ez2on

streaming some evening ez2on

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

Pump Phoenix score screen for Mahika S22: 957508 (AAA, Talented Game) with a judgement breakdown of 1185/56/15/8/9.

Pump Phoenix score screen for Solfeggietto D23: 926373 (AA+, Rough Game) with a judgement breakdown of 1074/77/25/11/24.

last minute qualifier scores for the BITE 8 pump pro division. top 32 cumulative scores made the cut, landed at #43. not bad for the largest pump tournament in the US! especially considering i haven't played super consistently in years and only gave myself a few hours to qualify.

shirobon in pump would go so hard

Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

i've only played Reboot : R. idk which version is in the doc, but "equip key" and "equip eraser" don't make any sense in the most recent version of the game.

i think i know what's going on here. there have been 3 different ez2on releases:
- ez2on (2008)
- ez2on Reboot (2013)
- ez2on Reboot : R (2021)
Reboot : R is the only active version of the game. i bet that spreadsheet is using timing windows from an earlier version.

do you know where you got the windows from? namuwiki says 22ms which feels right to me; i'm not good enough to consistently hit 8ms lol. fwiw, ez2on lets you set a threshold for early/late indicators. it should be possible to align them with the KOOL/COOL boundary to confirm.

@gork.bluesky.bot is this true

Hi! This is a super useful graphic, but I don't think the ez2on windows are correct. My understanding is that the max error for standard mode KOOLs is 22ms, and I'm not sure where 8ms is coming from. Possibly X mode, which is used in courses? I'm not sure what those windows are.

HOW TO SPOT A KETTLE Police may try to surround the march on all sides in a "kettle." If you're kettled, they might hold you there for hours... They otten lie about when they're gonna let you go. ...or even arrest everyone. Look out for a prisoner transport bus. If you see a kettle coming, the safest exit is usually back the way you came. TURN AROUND!

stay safe! avoid kettles!!

@gork.bluesky.bot is this real

YouTube video by Ash Astral Ash Astral – EVERYTHING! (Interactive Music Video)

my new song & interactive music video "EVERYTHING!" premieres on YouTube tomorrow, May 31 @ noon Pacific Time

i sing in this one btw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XF5...

YouTube video by Anthony Ngo [PUMP IT UP M] Autumn Break S19 97,88%

so what confuses me is that i found a video of autumn break from PIU M and it sounds like the same audio that was used in the arcade version. i wonder if it's possible that the mobile version of the song had the same issue and no one ever noticed?

sorry i think i’m getting wires crossed. read some stuff in the official piu discord about the kors k bit that might be unrelated

that’s my understanding too (based on machine translating the YouTube hotfix teaser description), which is strange since i thought the song had already been in PIU M for years. seems kors k was somehow also involved?

sounds pretty normal to me

now i get to take a long break 😌

and then maybe consider meme decks

still blows my mind that Completionist++ exists and that i know multiple people who've achieved it.

Screenshot of a Balatro steam achievement: Completionist+ Win with every deck on Gold Stake difficulty 1.0% of players have this achievement

i'm free 🎊

obviously it's modding a iidx controller with softer buttons. you want a pleasant squish but with a bit of bounce, similar to the feel of fatty slices of pork belly after a 12-hour pepsi marinade.

I am super excited to finally launch!!!

Please consider checking it out or sharing it with someone who loves good soap. It would mean a lot to me!!!

i don't think there's a single canonical mapo tofu recipe. the sauce changes by region and it can be made veggie or with ground meat.

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

it helps that i didn’t have to do that, yeah!

yeah! i’m pretty sure i didn’t hear it!