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gilhova

@gilhova@mastodon.world

Robot fight facilitator at #nhrl, game designer (mostly #boardgames) on hiatus, #ferret lover, #monkey video watcher, obsessive of obscure sports history, noisy music aficionado. Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency.

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epidiah, to random
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What are some weird dice you own?

I was going to ask for your favorites, but let's not play favorites here. Just the weirdos.

gilhova,
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@epidiah I have a single 2d6 die. It's a clear d6, with a smaller d6 inside it.

gilhova,
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@grayson Too busy with work stuff, you'll have to use your imagination :)

gilhova, to f1
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Outraged #F1 executives watching the #Indy500.

"This is a travesty!"

"Why are all the cars passing each other?"

"How can the polesitter lose? This is pure disrespect."

"I don't understand this thing they call a 'lead change,' but I know I don't like it."

"The end of the race was too tense and too uncertain. I could have been taking a nap."

gilhova,
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This is apparently now a sports shitposting account, I guess

gilhova, to f1
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Three huge sports events tomorrow morning (Eastern time) that I hope I will catch:

7:45 am: 🏎️ F1 - Monaco Grand Prix. Verstappen is not in pole for this one, so maybe someone else has a chance this time? (Prediction: no)
10:00 am: 🏏 IPL Final - Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Sunrisers Hyderabad. A rock-solid KKR vs. an explosive SRH team.
12:45 pm: 🏎️ Indy 500. I never get to watch this. Maybe I'll finally get to see it this year?

#f1 #cricket #ipl #indy500

gilhova,
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Update!

🏎️ F1 race: 😴 The Monaco track is too narrow and there is no safe place to pass. The bulk of the race is effectively over when qualifying is complete.

🏏 IPL final: 😴 The most one-sided T20 match I’ve ever seen. KKR bullied SRH. There’s no doubt which is the best team in the IPL right now.

🏎️ Indy 500: 🌩️ Delayed by weather, might be postponed to tomorrow.

Not quite the day of thrills I was expecting. But if this is the worst thing that will happen to me this week, I’m okay!

gilhova,
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@grayson I saw that last night, and was shouting throughout! I’ve been watching PWHL all season.

Love my Willow subscription!

gilhova,
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@grayson I don't know about Android. The iOS app works well enough. The stream itself can be hinky and sometimes has to be restarted, but that seems to be an infrastructure issue, not an issue with the app or web platform.

gilhova,
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@grayson It's not the most polished-looking presentation, but it gets the job done

gilhova, to baseball
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If you don't know much about #baseball, but want to know the difference between the two New York teams, here's all you need to know:

The #Yankees are an embarrassment of riches.

The #Mets are a rich embarrassment.

ColesStreetPothole, to random
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So my spouse and I are both looking at the weather app on our iPhones and even though it appears we are accessing the same weather location, we are getting completely different forecasts—different temperatures, different rain percentages, etc. WTF?

gilhova,
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@ColesStreetPothole That's wild! I have to imagine there's some data caching thing happening there.

wkfry, to boardgames
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I like board games, but I simply don't like Catan. I'm not sure why, but I can never quite get the hang of it...

#boardgames #catan

gilhova,
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@wkfry Perhaps this review of the game from 1998 might put a smile on your face: http://www.gamecabinet.com/sumo/Issue23/node3.html

"Despite the personal envy engendered by creative work of this standard, I am still disappointed by Siedler. It promised a lot, got played more than many games, but didn't live up to potential. That isn't to say it can't be salvaged. The theme is highly appealing, the ideas and structure laudable, but the implementation is ultimately dodgy."

gilhova,
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@wkfry I should include the next sentence, and would have, were it not for character limits:

"Despite my misgivings, I am sure it will be a huge success and there are already gamers in raptures as far as the eye can see."

ScottStarkey, to random
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I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time yesterday.

Wow, what an amazing movie! I expected something very different than I got. And what I got was about a laugh a minute.

gilhova,
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@ScottStarkey John Goodman is amazing in that movie. He steals every single scene.

mxtiffanyleigh, to random
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I feel like notorious serial killer Francis "The Tooth Fairy" Dolarhyde is en route to London to find and eat the King Charles painting as part of his Becoming

gilhova,
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@mxtiffanyleigh Charles should have paid back that debt to Jabba the Hut

ColesStreetPothole, to random
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Ugh. My house plants are now infested with shore flies. It's really hilarious when I'm on Zoom call and start swatting or waving away seemingly invisible insects.

gilhova,
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@ColesStreetPothole I remember getting a Venus flytrap when I had a similar issue, thinking I was so smart.

The plant died, despite my regularly feeding it. I was not so smart.

ludopolitics, to random
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I just found out about the Adventure Time RPG. What a tragedy.

It would have been so much fun with a rules-lite system + random tables/seeds for adventures.

gilhova,
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@ludopolitics There's an older RPG-presented-as-board-game called Untold: Adventures Await, from the guy behind Rory's Story Cubes. If you find a copy, it has a similar Yes/No/And/But system that the AT game was going to have. Maybe you can work out an AT hack for it!

ScottStarkey, to DuckDuckGo
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I was trying to figure out what #EidMubarak actually meant. Sadly, #DuckDuckGo is becoming much more susceptible to #enshittification.

I'm afraid if I want a real #SearchEngine, I may have to have to pay for it with #Kagi.

I'm still a little fuzzy about what "Eid Mubarak" means, but I think it means essentially "Happy Holidays" to those who are participating in the feast at the end of the month of Ramadan. So, if that's you, Eid Mubarak!

gilhova,
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@ScottStarkey I saw my friend Tiffany just gave a glowing review of Kagi, and says it’s worth the money.

gilhova,
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@ScottStarkey Yeah, I’m considering it too. I’ve been using Duck Duck Go, but it’s not much better

gilhova,
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@ScottStarkey Yeah, it’s why a user-supported search engine might make the most sense in the end

gilhova,
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@ScottStarkey OK, maybe I gotta pump the brakes on Kagi. This is a not-so-flattering review of it https://mastodon.world/@lori@hackers.town/112255133089991018

gilhova, to random
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Bad news: Elon Musk has purchased the moon and renamed it to X

gilhova,
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@Tim_Eagon That’s X, formerly known as the moon, that’s on fire

gilhova,
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@Tim_Eagon He’s also planning on showing advertising on X, formerly known as the moon, during the eclipse

gilhova, to random
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Eclipse update: We drove up to Rochester for the weekend and had a great time. But nasty clouds are on the horizon, so we will eat breakfast, drive east, and reassess.

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