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arborelia @arborelia.net · 23/09/2026

I'm working on my post for tomorrow night's Silver Ball Century, and I'm excited to write this one because I get to tell you why the attract mode of Data East's "WWF Royal Rumble" pinball machine has a reference to a Weekly World News article

page from Weekly World News, headlined "DEATHBALL 2000". Subheadings: "New pinball machine electrocutes players who lose ... & teens are dying to play!"

An unrelated inset article is headlined: "Dinosaurs plucked their eyebrows, says scientist!"

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 23/09/2026

I've been hearing about and looking forward to this randomizer for quite a while! Tonight, I'm starting a run of SMRPG Randomizer 9.0 twitch.tv/arborelia

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 12/09/2026

you got it! it's such a fun note pattern I discovered GYARI's music from when I originally encountered this in Jubeat and it is so good

screenshot from the music video of Akari going "Yeees"

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 12/09/2026

I got to play my favorite song I can play on Jubeat! lmk if you recognize the song

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 11/09/2026

I can see my shadow in the colossalcon parking lot! Six more weeks of catgirls

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 09/09/2026

starting now-ish! it's VIDEO MODE episode 5, where I play pinball-themed video games from 1993 twitch.tv/arborelia

Epic Pinball, Dragon's Revenge, Crystal Caliburn, Sonic Spinball, Kirby's Pinball Land

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 04/09/2026

Today I learned that the Legend of Zelda theme originated as "legally distinct Bolero" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leg...

Koji Kondo (credited as Konchan) composed the game's five music tracks. Kondo had planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the title theme, as it perfectly matched its speed. However, Kondo was forced to change it in November 1985, late in the game's development, after learning that the piece was not yet in the public domain under Japanese law. As a result, Kondo wrote a new arrangement of the overworld theme within one day, which has become an iconic motif echoing throughout continued entries of the series.

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 03/09/2026

I got into an autumnal mood and made chicken soup, starting from chicken bones and vegetable ends in the slow cooker I will not be stopped by the fact that it's actually a hundred degrees out I did forget that one of my guests can't eat chicken, though >_<

soup in a deep pot on the stove. it looks and is very savory

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 28/08/2026

Tonight! It's another episode of VIDEO MODE, the side stream to Silver Ball Century, where we play chronologically through pinball video games. This episode is 1992, featuring Jaki Crush, Pinball Dreams, and Crüe Ball Starting at 8:30pm Eastern on twitch.tv/arborelia

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 27/08/2026

[robot voice] FUZZY PICKLES

screenshot from the Earthbound Archipelago randomizer. it's the last scene of the game, where the kids have been turned into robots in a weird geometric cave. The photographer has descended and says "Pictures taken instantaneously!"

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 21/08/2026

We'll be experiencing some mostly-great pinball from 1993 in an hour and a half, on Silver Ball Century, our chronological playthrough of pinball posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-...

Table list: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Tee'd Off, Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure, The Last Action Hero, Punchy the Clown, and Judge Dredd

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 20/08/2026

You cannot kill the mushroom hat in a way that matters. I'm back in Gold I tier in GeoGuessr and I'll be playing some duels: twitch.tv/arborelia

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 14/08/2026

I custom printed a shirt for the big Raleigh pinball tournament

my shirt says, in trans flag colors:

We are still here
Never suppress
Never surrender
Resist patriarchy
Solidarity forever

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 04/08/2026

Gottlieb Street Fighter II is a game that is definitely good at keeping score with numbers that mean things (screenshot by @solar-espeon.bsky.social)

Street Fighter II's dot matrix display shows a score of "3,120,03,22" -- yes, the commas are like that -- on "ball 23".

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 03/08/2026

I'm pretty happy with this map of The Goonies II that I made for the NES 50 guide

A map of the NES game "The Goonies II", showing locations of major items, Goonies, and Konamiman.

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 27/07/2026

I learned that Primanti Bros can actually be really good, as long as you don't go to the location downtown near GDQ. I got the pastrami sandwich with the coleslaw and fries and everything on it, twice

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 26/07/2026

noooo I never got to play it #pinburgh

the pinball machine Bone Busters Inc., turned off

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 25/07/2026

I was on _fire_ for the last round. Contrary to my belief I would lose a lot in the B division, in the end I won one more game than I lost pictured: a game of Volley where I lit the 100k light and it felt very good

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 24/07/2026

Queer players confounding pinball gauntlet tournament staff with unconventional button-pressing strategies, call that fruit by the foot

the start button of the Stern Gauntlet pinball speedrun tournament has a newly added sign by it: "ALL PLAY IS TO BE DONE WITH HANDS"

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 24/07/2026

played a random free play game of Transformers (2026), blew up ball 1, and had to stop there because the round was starting and I had to play its polar opposite, Led Zeppelin Pro on hard settings. the playfield with nothing. I shot nothing, like the game intended

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 24/07/2026

Hey I wonder what tilting does

the 60s backglass of Ice Revue. Tilt ends game!

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 20/07/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18?

the movie poster for Moulin Rouge (2001)

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 16/07/2026

I don't know how I was so locked in on pinball last night. Hopefully it doesn't _always_ require me to be aching from exhaustion (I rode my bike in 93 degree weather earlier) all these top scores are me and the Star Trek one was a walk-off after 2 balls

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 08/07/2026

It's Silver Ball Century's VIDEO MODE, where instead of virtual recreations of pinball games, we play pinball video games Tonight's episode covers pinball games from 1990-ish and 1991 Starting soon (8:30pm Eastern): twitch.tv/arborelia

Devil's Crush (TG16), Pin-Bot (NES), High Speed (NES), Dino Land (Genesis)

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 05/07/2026

70 hours well spent actually

end screen of ALttP Randomizer, with the arborelia sprite in front of the triforce, and the text "You just wasted 70 hours of your life." The number 70 is edited in

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 05/07/2026

It is done And now I get to delete Archipelago 0.6.5 and have room for other multiworlds

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 05/07/2026

Arborpelago 3 ends today. I'm almost certain I can finish it in this next stream. Usually these multiworlds don't take me five months, but this time I was employed _and_ was doing Silver Ball Century _and_ had a computer die during it

Games left to finish: DKC2 (go mode), Link's Awakening, A Link to the Past, and The Witness. ALttP and SMW gate the go mode for everything else

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 05/07/2026

finished three more games! I _think_ the seed is in all-games go mode and I can finish it tomorrow. I just need to follow the hints I have left

the graph is updated. 8 games are finished, DKC2 is in go mode, and DKC2 holds the hinted progress for most of the other games.

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 05/07/2026

going live once again with the Arborpelago, my solo 12-game multiworld. We are reaching the end and the hardest part is going to be to remember what I was doing twitch.tv/arborelia

Celeste, A Short Hike, SM64, SMW, and Tunic are complete. Ittle Dew 2 and Super Metroid are in go mode. Tunic is 100%ed and all other games are playable

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 03/07/2026

box fox! this is a comic about balan wonderworld that I drew with my mouse

a fox in a wizard outfit is talking to a girl in a hoodie who looks unimpressed.

FOX: I'm Box Fox!
FOX: I can transform between a fox and a box when I feel like it!
GIRL: is that useful?
BOX: are _you_ useful

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 30/06/2026

tonight on my stream, around 8pm! It's a Patreon supporter request by @gameboyf9.bsky.social. I'm going to be playing "The Great Giana Sisters" for the Commodore 64 I already love the title screen music

a part of the scrolling title screen for The Great Giana Sisters, a mario-style game on the C64

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 21/06/2026

Y'all need to see this next level meta-gameplay

Grid of 25 goals:

Deal critical damage, explode yourself, run out of stamina, pet a dog, plant a tree and watch it grow, build a campfire, get an upgrade, use a jetpack, visit space, complete a skillcheck, ruin someone's house, get to exactly 1hp, steal some treasure, eat 10 things, fight a bird, make a unique piece of art, do a backflip, draw a card, double jump, make a meal, commit a crime, fill entire inventory, die to a sea creature, restore health, and flirt with an NPC

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 18/06/2026

I was into The Backrooms before they were cool

The cover for the YA sci-fi novel "House of Stairs" by William Sleator.

Tagline: "A chilling excursion into an all-too-possible nightmare world."

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 16/06/2026

and I got to take this photo of myself. plus some others. but this one is for bsky

elia on her stomach on a beach towel, wearing her swimsuit, with messy hair from the ocean. you can see her cleavage

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 16/06/2026

I got to hang around my favorite people, in the living room or on the deck, without too many obligations, and I also got to go to various beds at various times with my favorite people :3

Elia's legs streched out on a chaise on the deck overlooking the ocean

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 16/06/2026

I got to go on adventures with Ash, whether it was biking around the island on lovably shitty rental bikes or walking to the pier at night

Elia and Ash on the beach at night under a pier. Elia is wearing her collar

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 16/06/2026

I got to wear a swimsuit in the most affirming way, and got a nice tan that's now only slightly itchy in the places where I got burned

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 16/06/2026

the polycule beach trip was an amazing success and I'm still coming down from it I played in the ocean and got knocked over by waves in a way I haven't since I was 12, but this time I could also kiss women there

Kat and Elia in swimsuits on the beach. a car is driving behind them for some reason

Elia and Cherry in swimsuits on the beach

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 08/06/2026

I'm sure you're wondering what kinds of wild things the six of us are getting up to

Woku, Cherry, Ash, Caroline, and Kat surround a mini-golf hole that goes through an artificial cave

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 07/06/2026

me, hours before regretting getting a mild sunburn

Elia reclining on a beach towel, hair blowing in the wind

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 07/06/2026

Day 1 of the beach trip

Elia and her Ember in swimsuits on the beach

Elia and Cherry in swimsuits on the beach. Elia's is green and Cherry's is red, as you expect

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 02/06/2026

My schedule is tight this week, so Silver Ball Century this week will be a rare Friday stream, starting on my channel at 8:30pm Eastern. It's the start of 1991 and in a way it's when "90s pinball" truly starts, because it's the dawn of the dot matrix.

Friday, June 5: 1991 part 1. Tables featured will be: Car Hop, Harley-Davidson, Hoops, Checkpoint, and Bride of Pin-Bot

Thursday, June 18 is the next episode, featuring Cactus Jack's, TMNT, Gilligan's Island, Batman, and Terminator 2

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arborelia @arborelia.net · 02/06/2026

I was doing the daily Winnie-the-Pooh thing and reached the final page on the final day, and dang that's still poignant to think about I had intended to go on to The House at Pooh Corner

illustration from the end of Winnie-the-Pooh, where Christopher Robin drags Pooh up the stairs by his foot

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