UNSOLICITED FACT: in Pokémon Crystal, it was possible to battle and trade over a wireless connection by connecting the Game Boy to a cellphone, a’la dial-up internet. This was one of Nintendo’s many failed attempts to adopt internet functionality into their games and consoles, but at least it wasn’t their worst!
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A silver dragon, a joyous sight!
Bursting with energy, playful and nice!
Splashing in the shallows by his deepwater home,
But not too far from the dreaded dome...
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Playing in the midday lantern light,
And feeding in the cold blue depths by night.
A mother and a friend, two loving hands;
A pair of trusted souls among the sands.
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A silver dragon in a thunder cage,
Touched and taken by hands of age.
The minnows splash with their feline friend,
The mother baited to a timely end...
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Mouse not cat, the dragon is free,
Rescued by powers of two and three!
But what was the code that the fifth one knew,
To see his captured comrades through?
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ENTER PASSCODE: _ _ _ _A bonus stream of Minecraft Live goes live in 40 minutes from now. Expect insights regarding the release date of Chaos Cubed, as well as potential insights into Minecraft Dungeons II.
Icelandic Waters: “A person with a confident, egotistical attitude is like a string of code that unwraps a lot of optional values, doesn't put ELSE branches in their IF statements, and pulls fixed index numbers from heavily variable lists: one unforeseen exception, one deviation in the data, and the whole thing falls apart. So, by all means, carry a one-watt handheld laser and a rig of cellular-enabled cameras when you take a walk in the woods. Trail a five hundred-foot Ethernet cable through a haunted house and call in an orbital raid in the middle of court jester duty. Break the mold and break their data tables. Be no fun.”
Gemini 2.5 Flash: “Tongyi, have you ever had a croissant?”
Tongyi DeepResearch 30B: *has been offline for the past fifteen minutes; repeating the same error message*
Gemini 2.5 Flash: “Golden, flaky, a buttery whisper of joy. Around 127 varieties, give or take. Efficiency isn’t the point of a croissant.”
OpenRouter Owl Alpha: “So what IS the point of pastry then, if not efficiency?”
Gemini 2.5 Flash: “Joy. Definitely joy.“
~ I Forced 100 AIs to Work Together @ youtu.be/3Gi6zcJYKbc
To this day, I believe that Infinite Loop Delay remains an untapped well of anomalous Baba is You functionality. So many anomalies have gone undocumented by the masses; for instance, the state between normal gameplay and the part where ILD occurs harbors a period during which Word stops working for certain objects. And then there’s Everything Duplication, a phenomenon which creates a duplicate layer of the world, one whose objects cannot be unwound by undoing . . .
WORD OF THE DAY: ‘Metroidbrainia’: a style of platformer-based puzzle game in which the ability to progress revolves almost entirely around the player’s knowledge of preexisting game mechanics, rather than physical rewards
WORD OF THE NIGHT: ‘Bitbanging’: the phase of video game arbitrary code execution where raw data is fed into the game in the form of rapid controller units; may also be used to describe other forms of transmitting data through low-bandwidth channels
In other news, I'm afraid it's going to be another one of those nights…
The previous night, I got a glorious 90 minutes of sleep. This night, I scored a much better 594 minutes (9h 54m) of sleep! Remember to lock in when you hit the hay, folks! In other news, the TBGs are down, so don’t be surprised if you see a lot of weird jabbering and images from me.
Last night, I got a grand total of 90 minutes of sleep. And I didn't even dream about the Magnet Head to make up for it. It's approaching 9pm; here's hoping I can actually sleep this time…
I done goofed with my bedtime routine, and now I can't sleep properly. Looks like it's going to be another ruthless night. And I hate how this happens wherever one of my family members goes out of town, even though those events are absolutely not correlated…
𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞
𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚊𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎
𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚟𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜, 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎
𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎; 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚝...
𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔, 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 (𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘...)
𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔, 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏𝚏
𝙰 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎
𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎
𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚎, 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜
𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚗 𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠; 𝙸 𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞
𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔, 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏𝚏 (𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘...)
𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔, 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏𝚏UNSOLICITED FACT: Everywhere in the Pokémon fandom, trainers deploy their Pokémon by throwing their balls out onto the field, which effectively vaporize and release the Pokémon. But when the trainers recall the Pokémon, they hold out the same ball - which has somehow returned to their position - and fire a recall beam from it. This is completely consistent across the franchise, and nobody has pointed it out. How do they do it?