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Pokémon Friends is a game about solving Pokémon-themed puzzles. Unlike previous titles Pokémon Trozei and Pokémon Shuffle, it's not a "match three" kind of game overall; there's a lot of 3D shape matching and identifying, some pattern making, some counting things, some "do things in the right order" kind of stuff. A general mishmash of logic puzzles.

The reviews for the app version are abysmal, probably because the free version of the app has very limited play time. Which is why I went for the whole Switch bundle, and also since I generally like these kinds of puzzles.

My thoughts )

If you're looking for a good set of puzzle games to chill out to on your Switch, though, you'd probably be better off just buying Those Games.

Bot Problems

Aug. 2nd, 2025 12:22 am
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I briefly saw (and participated in, for exactly one reblog) a thread on Tumblr about whether AO3 should allow works produced by Generative AI. OP was in favor, as was the first reblogger, where as at least one reblogger was firmly against all AI generated works on AO3, and several (myself included) shared the reasons why AI generated works currently are allowed on AO3. One of the rebloggers who is firmly against any AI generated works being allowed on AO3 said, "Like anything else in a shared social space, an enforced social norm requires actual social consequences for breaking it. This? Is just capitulation."

Anyway, that person also said that they're done talking about it, and I wanted to respect that, so I'm taking my thoughts over here. If you recognize the quote in question, or know who the person is, I will politely ask you to respect their boundaries and not go looking for the post and/or reblogging it from them with your own commentary; we can talk in the comments of this post, which they can safely ignore. I'm personally struggling with the point they raised, and will probably not be able to get to sleep without working some of it out, so I'm doing so over here where, again, they should be able to safely ignore it.

So. AI generated works on AO3. )

Anyway, those are my current thoughts. So now probably the thing that will keep me up is trying to decide whether to create a Tumblr poll about that last point ("Do you post AI generated works to AO3, and if so, do you admit that they're AI generated?")

Feedback time

Jul. 27th, 2025 11:41 pm
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Just got my feedback for my Persuasive Speech!

Technically, I only had to hand in the outline, but since I wrote the speech to the outline template, it was effectively the same thing.

Anyway, here's the professor's feedback:

[Socchan], excellent job following the template. Well written and organized. Transitional statements were strong.

Yeah. Just kinda laugh-crying over "Excellent job following the template" 😂 Boy I sure hope it was, after how long I spent agonizing on it!

Anyway, I got 100% on the speech, and an additional 16/20 points of extra credit for presenting it. I could probably blow off the final quiz and assignment and still get at least a B in this class. I'm not going to, on account of being certain that it would tempt me into blowing off more and more assignments over the next semester, but it's good to be secure in my final grade.

Esperanto Dreamsheep

Jul. 26th, 2025 03:36 pm
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Esperanto Dreamsheep are a go! You can check them out over here on [community profile] dreamsheep or here on [community profile] esperanto.

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