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he/him 🏳️‍🌈 | twitch partner | former-ish speedrunner | cs prof | generative AI luddite 🎮 biz: authorblues@gmail.com

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authorblues@authorblu· 29d

Starting with Sonic and the Black Knight (Wii) right now! twitch.tv/authorblues

authorblues@authorblu· 29d

Dashing Through Trash returns *tonight*, in about an hour. Three weeks of the good, the bad, and the ugly games you love to hate. Come out every night to see what new horrors we've cooked up. Follow twitch.tv/authorblues for all this and more!

Monday, July 13 -- Sonic and the Black Knight (Wii)
Tuesday, July 14 -- TIM Tuesday - We Have The Incredible Machine at Home
Wednesday, July 15 -- Wii HOG Wednesday with TheGreatGildersneeze
Thursday, July 16 -- Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (Wii)
Friday, July 17 -- Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii)
Saturday, July 18 -- No Stream
Sunday, July 19 -- The Bible Game (PS2) - Christian Mario Party?
Monday, July 20 -- Totally Normal Zelda Games (all on the NES, also normal)
Tuesday, July 21 -- Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (SNES)
Wednesday, July 22 -- Friends of the Yolkfolk - Dizzy Games Part 1 with TheJewker
Thursday, July 23 -- Ancient Roman (PS1)
Friday, July 24 -- Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me...
Saturday, July 25 -- Diddy Kong Racing (N64) - KRUNCH SUPREMACY
Sunday, July 26 -- Praise the Lord, It's NES Bible Games!
Monday, July 27 -- The BOUNCER (PS2)
Tuesday, July 28 -- Other M (Wii)
Wednesday, July 29 -- Friends of the Yolkfolk - Dizzy Games Part 2 with TheJewker
Thursday, July 30 -- Space Ace (SNES)
Friday, July 31 -- Shadow the Hedgehog - How Many Endings in This Thing?

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 12

RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] – Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about speedrunning. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about speedrunning, the alpha and omega of speedrunning questions, and that question is:

1. - (Whisper.) "Is attending GDQ bourgeois?"
2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 10

Got to loop 5... and then loop 6 right after! Level 60 (loop 6, hole 10) - 30020

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 8

Still can't crack into loop 5, but getting close. Level 40 (again) twice - 19810

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 8

Solved the mystery of how @theemkaystandsfor.bsky.social lost their run! Level 40 (loop 4, hole 10) - 19520

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 7

Getting there. Level 38 - 17820

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 7

Early morning arcade. Level 29 - 13310

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 6

Gonna post any Ice Cold Beer personal bests here. Level 19 - 9130

authorblues@authorblu· Jul 6

Had to pick up dinner for @spikevegeta.bsky.social because he's so busy.

authorblues@authorblu· Jun 27

Happy Pride to Missile, the gayest little dog

authorblues@authorblu· Jun 26

Screenshot from gamefaqs:

Forum post, titled "Why is this game called Myst and not Mist?"
First post is "Is this because of communism?" by Acro 17 years ago

authorblues@authorblu· Jun 19

Oof

authorblues@authorblu· Jun 9

We are creating a gap in education and understanding that is going to take generations to fix at this rate.

A readme from a github repository:

Souls Only: a human-readable font and human-hearable audio that is unfriendly to AI

This repository holds the cipher in two media, both driven by the same 0–1000 reveal dial: a font you read with your eyes and an audio sibling you decode with your ears. Each is legible to a human and illegible to a machine. The font scatters its letters until the dial brings them into focus; the audio ships a spoken message scrambled into noise that resolves into a voice only at a hidden point on the dial. One cipher, one control — one for seeing, one for hearing.

The contributors to that github repository:

btarbell and Claude (yes, the LLM)

authorblues@authorblu· Jun 5

Finished up @glitchcat7.bsky.social's Return to Subcon 2: Nova Project, a SMB2 hack 9 years in the making, and it was incredible! Blown away by how polished and creative it was, using almost only vanilla SMB2 features. Worth playing no matter your skill level. www.smwcentral.net?p=section&a=...

authorblues@authorblu· Jun 4

There is so much gorgeous art of people playing chess.

Ludwig Deutsch - The Chess Players, 1904

Two men sit on a bench with a chess board between them.

Faust und Mephisto beim Schachspiel, by Retzsch

A dramatic scene depicts Mephistopheles and Faust locked in a chess game, overseen by an angel.

authorblues@authorblu· May 31

Nice try, Satan. I've seen too many PC-98 Mahjong games to get fooled this easily.

authorblues@authorblu· May 29

Going live with Bubsy 4D with Crowd Control enabled! Thanks to @crowdcontrol.live and @atari.com for the opportunity to show this off! twitch.tv/authorblues

authorblues@authorblu· May 25

Trans Am crew is enjoying Arcade Pit right now, why aren't you?

authorblues@authorblu· May 16

Oh, I thought I saw you there!

Ryyudo and their partner, down below. It isn't that they are at particularly lower elevation, but that I'm very tall, giving the appearance of them being very far away. This is known as an optical illusion.

authorblues@authorblu· May 14

Twitch's sponsorship flagging has the funniest categories

authorblues@authorblu· May 6

YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME THESE AREN'T THE SAME GUY??

authorblues@authorblu· May 6

I only just processed that Falco's last name indicates that his family is from Lombard. Just like Virgil. Is Star Fox an allegory?

From Inferno Canto 1:

When I saw him in that vast wilderness,
“Have pity on me,” were the words I cried,
“whatever you may be — a shade, a man.”

He answered me: “Not man; I once was man.
Both of my parents came from Lombardy,
and both claimed Mantua as native city.

authorblues@authorblu· Apr 18

Every location in Ocarina of Time feels more finished than Hyrule Field in Eldin province. This is the first draft before you make it look like something other than a textured flat plane.

authorblues@authorblu· Apr 15

I hope cold emailers realize that this template will never sound natural and that everybody hates them, the emailer, personally

authorblues@authorblu· Apr 1

Did manage to get something in right at the end.

authorblues@authorblu· Mar 14

authorblues@authorblu· Mar 13

Admittedly, it didn't go great.

authorblues@authorblu· Mar 10

We're never coming back from this, y'all. We're so fucked.