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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 11h

The egg muffin has really grown on me in recent months

I like having eggs for breakfast, but am lazy, so dumping 6 eggs and vegetables in a bowl and stirring it up and dumping it in a muffin pan and having breakfast for the week half done is pretty baller

Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 19h

Resisting the urge to drop the "blame yourself or god" line in casual conversation in response to complaining

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 21h

It's a screenshot from Persona 1 lol

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 22h

Knowledge gained by yielding to the power of demons

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 23h

New way of saying bye to people

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 1d

Me too buddy

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eco @ecotwice.bsky.social · 2d

self hatred is the cause of like 60% of all human atrocities

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 2d

Group Discord is so back

Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 2d

This first image feels like it will be funny to use one day so I'm keeping it

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

The first two commandments of microwave:

1) thou shalt arrange the food in a donut shape upon the plate, for it will heat most evenly in this way

2) if cooking something intended to be crispy, thou shalt place a cup of water into the microwave with the food

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

Ouch jeez

This is basically what I looked like every time I played with my mom's cat

Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

For decades, scientists have attempted to surpass the emotional satisfaction gained by maintaining control of your ball in Atari 2600 Breakout, after hitting the orange brick that speeds it up

In 2025, with despair, it has become increasingly clear: humanity's capabilities may have peaked in 1978

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

Reminds me a lot of how much FF1 has been improved by modern RNG methods being used in hacks instead of the wonky RNG table index thing being used there also

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

I'm ngl I actually had no idea Doom used RNG to this degree and I suddenly feel better about all the times I've gotten destroyed in this game when I thought I was playing okay lmao

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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 4d

I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.

I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!

But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!

¹ about half, to be honest

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

These two play styles are at ends and difficult to reconcile and people argued legitimacy back then too

They are both fine, valuing one to the exclusion of the other is a matter of ego

If you think you're better than the designer or another player for choosing one of these styles, that's a problem

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

Space Invaders is really good at demonstrating the difference, because you can play

1) intuitively, blasting aliens and using the shields, and going for a UFO occasionally

2) removing certain columns, counting your shots to max UFO points, using the invulnerability trick for max score

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

An exception: people who were serious about high scoring arcade games

UFOs in Space Invaders were surely intended to be effectively RNG, but score chasers decoded the pattern

It feels like now there are still "score chasers" and "players," different but both valid styles of gamers, who butt heads

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

There's a lot of interesting things to talk about with games and RNG

One thing that sticks out to me as someone who retro games a lot is that especially in the early days, randomness was often crucial to the fun

People hate it now in so many contexts and demand it be contained or corraled

Kara Ling @metacrab.org · 4d

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

A 'Not Recommended' Steam review with 4 hours played

Review text reads: It's a decent idea for a game where you flip a coin and depending on your percentage chances you get heads or tails. However the odds are a lie. You will flip tails 100 percent more than you will heads no matter what your percentage is. Even when you get it up to 60% you will still flip tails way more often then you will heads.

The Dev can try to defend it, but when I flip the coin 2500 times and only hit heads a third of the time even when at 60% then the odds are broken or a lie. I've also watched gameplay and seen fellow players have the same flips so I know it isn't just me having bad luck.

Still not bad for $2, but I'm saying no because the game is coded against you instead of it being fully on chance and luck.

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

I guess the connection in my brain is in either case the people most upset by these distinctions are the ones who attach self worth to the idea of beating games

Which has been me in the past when I was younger so I understand to some degree

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 3d

It's a stretch but this reminds me of a discussion I've upset others with several times about how "difficulty" doesn't have to just mean the specific type you like and nothing else

I can just put a timer that makes you wait two minutes to win and if you can't handle it, that was difficult for you

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 4d

It's good to have a place to safely express human emotions and you should do it if you think it will help you out to have a place to vent about it

It can also be a nice way to connect with people over things you would normally never bring up in a normal conversation that didn't start that way lol

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Lifeinsteps @lifeinsteps.bsky.social · 4d

I dreamed I was part of a super villain team that did something highly illegal to gain super powers and while we were standing around planning the next moves

I realized that this would be the first time I could do a full cartwheel, and I did it, and nobody was as impressed as I was with myself

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Gespenst @ Home @callgespenst.bsky.social · 6d

I think the biggest difference between The Internet Then and The Internet Now is how Being Mad Online used to be the one thing you could never admit to, under pain of death, and now, Being Mad Online is a whole career path with a skill tree and an ever-expanding variety of debuffs.

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Nobaddy @nobaddy.bsky.social · 5d

everybody was kung fumo fighting

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