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I am cautiously optimistic now that I'm only 240 points (about 3 or 4 1st/2nd place hanchans) away from Master 1 in Mahjong Soul. Now that I've put this out there I'll probably rank back down to Expert 2, but the ELO has been kind to me lately and I just wanted to share.

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Consider me an optimist, but I think I can wait another year for this. It looks great. youtu.be/VQRLujxTm3c?...

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Stereoscopic 3D doggo pics, anyone?

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Getting creative! 😉 Hundreds of billboards are rising in 40 U.S. cities, bashing staff and service cuts at national parks under DOGE.

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I can't believe I got sick over 2 weeks ago and I still occasionally have coughing fits from nasal drainage going into my lungs. I mean, every day I'm a little better but two weeks of slow improvement is a LONG recovery for me. It wasn't covid or the flu either. Just some random cold virus.

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This is what I get for bragging about how great I've been doing lately.

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Mahjong is good, actually. I'm down from nearly 40% third place and the last 10 games have been kind of crazy lucky for me. Ranked back up to Expert 3. Here's hoping I don't go back down to Expert 2 before I finally reach Master 1. :D

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I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

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i am far too stupid to be weighing in on this but one thing i would stress is that gaming media’s collapse wasn’t an inevitable fact of life. it’s the result of very stupid people making decisions they could have just as easily not made

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Just woke up to this news, need to be a little more awake to fully process it, but the people I worked with at Polygon are some of the most kind, insightful, and passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Support them wherever they end up. Also, fuck whoever made this decision.

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I have only played the demo so far but I am VERY excited to play this entire game soon.

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So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

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I'm jamming to the latest Flavour Trip set. What are you listening to today? youtu.be/DtjLaI7FIQk?...

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Sometimes you play a hanchan so infuriating that you have to walk away from the computer and just take some deep breaths. Mahjong is not for the weak hearted, that's for sure.

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This video essay was fantastic. I have adored Speed Racer since its release in 2008 and I hope that in modern times everyone is catching up to what I knew back then: this movie is a fucking gem. youtu.be/vwh9ETdhrf4?...

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Pulled the 3DS back out of the closet. I love my Playdate but the catalog on this little guy is still unparalleled. NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, and 3DS games all run perfectly on this little guy - plus there’s a sweet homebrew scene!

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And like, definitely still flawed, but I had fun. It’s worth watching once. Just not again.

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Until Dawn was surprisingly competent!

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I wish more dark interfaces were actually black. I want elements on the screen to light it up and everything else should be literally invisible. Most phone screens are OLED now and that would make a UI so much more functional IMO.

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Going to watch the Until Dawn movie tonight and I am very excited to watch a horror movie. Been too long. Here's hoping it's good! I'm thrilled that it isn't just a retelling of the story from the game. I'm looking forward to easter eggs.

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Automatic mahjong tables are cool as hell.

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When a sticky note says a laptop was “fully updated” in February but it’s still running Win11 22H2. 😒

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I did not pre-order a Switch 2. Just not enough immediate interest.

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Got my first Partiful invite. It was fun to fill out and I’m very excited for a live hey, nothing show tomorrow night.

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Never let me forget the time that someone wrote a news story about Zoey Deschanel leaving her husband Death Cab in favor of her new boyfriend, Cutie front man Ben Gibbard.

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Thank you @hankgreen.bsky.social for making me aware of this treasure of an article from 2012.

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The number of times I've accidentally clicked "spam" instead of "archive" in gmail in the last month is unusually high and I'm not sure if it's just bad muscle memory or if Google nudged everything to the left enough that this is just gonna keep happening for a while.

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I can't believe I'm still waiting nearly two and a half hours later for a Windows update to finish installing. This is ridiculous. I don't get how any OS update, even a major feature release, should take this long to install on a laptop with an 11th gen i5 and 16GB RAM.

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I love being tasked with an automation idea that seems simple on the surface, but when you can't write code it becomes much more challenging. Really pushing my creative juices today.

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Welcome to the beginning of a painfully difficult story arc, folks. #tlou

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Assuming this post today is aimed at us. The Trump admin changed the rules to make it easier to replace career federal employees with political loyalists. If you’re not alarmed by Trump’s post, you should be. This isn’t about policy it’s about control. It’s “do as I say, or you’re replaced.”

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"No, A.J. you don't need ____" has been a common thing I've needed to tell myself lately. Today I'm trying to convince myself I don't need touch-up paint for the Miata... at least not yet. I need to prioritize paying a body shop to cut out & replace this rust.

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Going to a live show and discovering a new artist to enjoy is one of my favorite reasons for going to live shows. Today I'm listening to Worry Club, the opener for hey,nothing from Sunday. album.link/i/1666811396

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I continue to hate LLMs as a Q&A tool. Gemini can't even give accurate answers about Google products, let alone anything else on the Internet.

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Aaaaaaand Playdate Season 2 is up for pre-order! Happy early birthday to me from my wife since she paid to pre-order the season. 2 new games for 6 weeks starting May 29th, which can't some soon enough! play.date/games/season...

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I will continue to stand by the fact that key fobs are better/faster at unlocking doors than any smartphone app and take up a negligible amount of space on your key ring. And unlike mobile apps you never have to sign back into a fob if you get a new phone.

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Some people can't stand watching horror movies. I love them because I know they aren't real. It's all special effects and story telling with no real harm done to the people on screen. But this? This is true horror and I am struggling to watch it. youtu.be/JN1oBfg0fwI?...

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