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Brad Smith

@brad.rainwarrior.ca

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A video game developer, musician, and/or food builder from Ontario, Canada. Powered by burritos. Made an NES game about lizards? Sakanakao on twitch. NB any https://rainwarrior.ca

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Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 1d

It's time to start harvesting these peppers. The jalapeños I'll probably pickle. I put about ¼ of this first reaper onto some spicy honey sesame gochujang chicken wings. 🌶

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 1d

It's time to start harvesting these peppers. The jalapeños I'll probably pickle. I put about ¼ of this first reaper onto some spicy honey sesame gochujang chicken wings. 🌶

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 1d

Managed to find some mooncakes this year. The "double yolk" variety makes them quite heavy eating. Maybe next year I'll try to make some myself. 🥮

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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 1d

me sowing: what if the final boss is like super bad ass and has a million phases with bespoke animations and backgrounds
me reaping: what if the final boss is a static sprite that attacks by blinking at you

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 4d

Always loved the song, but I'd never seen Screamin' Jay Hawkins before, and goddamn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S7a...

Screamin' Jay Hawkins on Arsenio Hall with Emo Philips

YouTube video by LB Worm

www.youtube.com

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Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · Aug 31

If you're planning to play the Famicom survival horror game Sweet Home, I've made a complete transcription of its original Japanese manual, with scans and an English translation. #SweetHome

rainwarrior.ca/projects/nes...

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 13d

That's just a little dizzy, you get it if you touch fuzzy, I'm sure it will wear off shortly.

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 20d

Generally where people need it to be precise, more qualifiers are added. e.g. "at least as many", "exactly as many".

The unqualified case in question, I was trying to find real examples that show one meaning or the other, but it was really hard because it almost never matters!

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 20d

There's also a funny alternative usage that goes like "There will be as many as 5 students attending." This is generally with a potential/condition attached, but here it means less than or equal, but not more, though generally implied that the number will be close to equal. <=

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 20d

Where I've seen this nitpick come up multiple times, though, is in game rules. A situation where you need a precise logical meaning to solve a puzzle, or answer a test question, etc.

Discussing these, I learned that most but not all want "as many X as Y" to be exactly equal.

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 20d

In real usage, usually it doesn't seem change the meaning much either way. Most often the amounts are approximate, and the meaning could be something like "equivalent" or "sufficient" and it doesn't really matter which.

"I've got as many problems with this as you do."

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 20d

The negative form "not as many X as Y" always means fewer. In more formal logic the negative of < is >=, equal or greater. Language often differs from logic though.

I always felt it as "for every X, there is a Y". X is sufficient to cover Y, but it could also be more...

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 20d

I ran a poll on twitter/mastodon. My question was how people perceive the meaning of "as many X as Y". Most people seem to interpret it as the same number, but a minority, myself included read it as the same number or more...

x.com/bbbradsmith/...
mastodon.social/@rainwarrior...

Brad Smith on X: "🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 Are there as many apples as owls?" / X

🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 Are there as many apples as owls?

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Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 22d

goop morning ☀️

a glob of The Ooze looks towards the screen with a sinister glare, who knows what of his machinations may lay undetected // The Ooze for Sega Genesis, photography on CRT TV

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · Sep 8

This landline phone is shaped like a frog. We need more frog phones.

A corded landline phone, with the receiver shaped like a simple, green frog

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 23d

I have a bucket! ...hat.

It's the bucket from @juliaminamata.bsky.social 's The Crimson Diamond.

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 25d

Is there life on mars?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKc...

David Bowie – Life On Mars? (Official Video)

YouTube video by David Bowie

www.youtube.com

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 26d

Filtered the result to remove any leftover fuzzy bits. I think the acidity is probably strong enough that it's safe to drink as-is, but I gave it a boil anyway, which also helped dissolve a good helping of sugar into it. It tastes pretty nice, similar to lemonade or tamarind.

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 26d

Was thinking about sumac as a spice lately, but then in my curiosity about trees I came to learn that sumac is a tree that grows wild all over town. Apparently the berries make a good "lemonade". I picked some and soaked them for 24 hours...

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 28d

It seems like kind of an inevitable function of mythology for the story to get fragmented by different tellings and alterations?

Wikipedia articles trying to be objective about them have a difficult problem.

A storyteller gets to pick and choose details and smooth things over.

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · 28d

It's funny how Wikipedia articles on mythology are always written in a way that each sentence just raises more and more questions.

Like we can only put the agreed details, but trying to connect them coherently would be forbidden "original research"?

Fig: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaterasu

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · Sep 6

I put a spoonful of sumac in my creamed corn and it was a really incredible flavour compliment. I will definitely do this again. 🌽

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · Sep 6

I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics. Beautiful setting and storytelling, truly inspiring art. Also, at some point you stop trying to fight monsters and just turn everybody into frogs and praise them because, of course, that's just better training. Right? ✨🐸✨

Brad Smith @brad.rainwarrior.ca · Aug 30

The first jalapeño has ripened. I've got about 8 or 9 reapers that will ripen soon. The clones are unhappy, I think a temperature drop has shocked them, we'll see if they recover. 🌶🌱

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AnnK @agentannk.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sad Cat: Honk knows how to Space Harrier ??!!