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things that happen when you're good at a game and are so stubborn about getting what you feel you deserve that 99.87% run was 16th in the world for that difficulty, i'll take it

A list of recent plays on osu!mania. It's the same song from top to bottom, over and over and over again over again, with the score on the top most entry being a 99.87%.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 16/10/2026

Pass it along - let's see your PFP in its full glory. Relaxed, content.

A bluish brown anthro otter relaxes in deep, and calm water, his paws together resting on his chest. He's wearing reddish shorts.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 16/10/2026

jeez, i'm glad i muted this didn't expect that to pop off at all

A BlueSky post. It reads:

"lmfao this isn't even the first time they've tried to promote Attie

the site they fucking own hates them more than the Nazi social media site, how saaaaaaaaad"

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 09/10/2026

I got to the games section of "...considered games to be one of the areas where closes-source software would last the longest and if it's possible to reverse-engineer them, then nothing is safe" and lost interest. Any devs who actually understand the decomp space know how bad the vibe code is.

Moving to the cloud helps only to a limited extent

Raymond considered games to be one of the areas where closed source would last the longest. And if it's possible to reverse engineer them then nothing is safe from reverse engineering. He also views the attempts by major software companies like Adobe and Microsoft to move standalone software to the cloud with great skepticism. Users are pushing back, and for some applications, such as medical devices or machine tools, network outages and other associated risks are simply unacceptable. The extent of this strategy at Microsoft is also evident in its newly discovered love for open source, which is primarily intended to guide customers to its cloud services.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 18/09/2026

Thanks for the opportunity. 💙

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 14/09/2026

this run actually beat out 5 players who played in the osu!mania 4-key world cup, nice.

The bottom of the scores for "Realize in Death" in the 4-key osu!mania world cup round of 16. The above video has a score of just shy of 983k.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 14/09/2026

not bad for being retired. lost the ability to actuation surf after not playing for a few years so my accuracy isn't great lol

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 08/09/2026

ooooh, hoodie mornings. seasons are shifting...

A cropped screenshot showing a time of 6:50 AM, and a temperature of 57°F.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 07/09/2026

Stopping for now. Not sure if stopping for today, but definitely feel like I've put out a fair bit more.

A spreadsheet showing the progress of a project. The first row indicates no progress at all, while the second row and second session indicate significant progress in the first 25% of the project, with some bits and pieces added in the last half.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 06/09/2026

finally got in the mood to work on this again. not bad for the first time working on this difficulty!

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 04/09/2026

Born in Chicago, lived in northern Maryland for last 13 years, living in NJ prior to a brief return to Chicago before moving residing in MD. Impressive.

A heatmap of expected dialects. Hottest location is Maryland and the general East Coast, with an additional warm spot in IL.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 30/08/2026

Saw the increase coming; ate ungodly heavy the last two days for birthday reasons and didn't do much exercising. Not worried, if I'm being honest. With my overall routine about to be hit hard as a result of my kids going back to school tomorrow, I'm sure I'll be fine come the upcoming week.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 29/08/2026

ARRAYFORMULA gets used to import the different sheets. It's nothing impressive, but it's a different usecase than spreadsheets are normally used for, and I'm glad that my general idea actually worked out. But yeah, other difficulties being worked on now!

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 29/08/2026

🧵 Problems sometimes require creative solutions and I'm content with this one. I'm at the point now where my progress on my Expert chart has slowed and I feel like I'd make more progress working on lowers. So, I wanted to track individual progresses but also see the results on an aggregated sheet.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 27/08/2026

Got another session in. And seeing some favorable trends.

A workout app, with a heart rate graph for the previous exercise.

A list of songs from ITLOnline 2026, a remote dance game tournament. It shows six songs, each listed as having improved from the previous score.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 26/08/2026

I think I had a bit more in the tank here; might give this one another whirl on a different session.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 26/08/2026

let me do this in a run on Hitech Stay Alive, just one fucking time, please spent about 30 minutes kinda figuring out how I wanted my form to feel at lower speeds, and then this happened need to do it again before actually giving an actual run because this felt SO right

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 26/08/2026

Gave it another try! Heart rate was pretty much identical on both runs, but this run was also nearly 100 minutes into a set, when the previous one was only about 40. I'm in the second half of the training phase now: fighting off the discomfort. I'm way more comfortable here than the quoted run.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 23/08/2026

I need to get out more.

A map of the United States with three boxes underneath reading as follows:

14/50 visited, 5 lived in, 28% complete - the 14 states are Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina

Illinois, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey are colored red to indicate having lived in. The others are green for indicating having visited.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 23/08/2026

VERY possible. The one thing I need to think about: the difference between what I perceive as a "lighter" session for dance games and what one actually is. The picture below was a session that I felt was light and could have probably sustained for a while, but my body was probably like "HELLO?" lol

A picture of a workout app showing a heart rate monitor graph.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 22/08/2026

Attempt 2: 26 minutes! And I'm quickly coming to realize that cardio is no longer going to be the barrier for me, it's the rest of my body. Here's a screenshot of my heart rate monitor, though it went on the fritz at one point as can be seen with the max of 220 lol

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 21/08/2026

This happened to me in 2022. It initially started out of desire to get healthier, but it eventually led me to doing things for the wrong reason. That superficial feedback loop, and getting ghosted repeatedly after meetups/hookups, fucked me up. I gained about half of the losses back and am

A screenshot from MyFitnessPal, showing a rapid decline in weight.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 21/08/2026

bluesky vibe code moment

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 20/08/2026

me: "god why am i needing to do laundry more frequently now" also me:

A list of workouts, from 8/8 to 8/19, with 11th, 14th and 16th having no entries.

A list of exercises from 8/6 to 8/9. Below that is the previous exercise of May 28.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 20/08/2026

Had no desire to exercise at all today. But y'know what, still got it done.

A screenshot from a workout app. Of note is a burned net calorie count of 1354 cal.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 19/08/2026

I did this with Beat Saber and healthier eating. I was by no means perfect with dieting. Accountability goes a VERY long way. I'm trying to get back to these numbers again.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 19/08/2026

Good score #2: Huis Clos [SH11] - 99.59% EX Third quad, and third place overall. I'll take it. 💙

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 19/08/2026

Good score #1: Tunnelling [SX12] - 98.19% EX held quad for over 300 notes!?

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 19/08/2026

Before the good scores: here's a not good one -- training on weaknesses. I hate stamina, and I hate footswitches in streams on stamina-dominant charts. Needless to say, this is a brutal chart for me.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 19/08/2026

ayo. couple of good scores tonight on video too, wee.

Screenshot of a workout app. Of note is the 1,416 burned calories.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 18/08/2026

r/Gamedev put out a policy on AI use and it's pretty shitty: www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/... But the last picture is the absolute kicker. I hope game developers far and wide who condone this shit continue to get relentlessly lambasted.

Highlighted comment: just for anyone curious, op currently works at a company developing a plug-in for unity AI integration which he decided to not disclose for some odd reason

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 18/08/2026

So yeah, that happened. 12 quad #3!!!!

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 16/08/2026

Songs 9 and 10 are finally getting unstuck, this is a massive deal.

A screenshot of a Google Sheets page; it's titled "A Journey of Au5 - Progress". The top functional row reads "Song Number", followed by numbers from 1 to 33. The right side has a legend with a scale, ranging from lighter green all the way to blue shades indicating completion with a new orange shaded indicating a song that has been fully charted, but is going to have some revisions done after some dislike of what's currently there.

A big black bar indicates a break from July 22nd to August 1st.

Of note is increasingly darker shades of green on both songs 9 and 10, two problem spots identified earlier.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 16/08/2026

neat. bout time I stop being an idiot.

A weight graph from Cronometer. It shows a somewhat continuous gain in weight from a low of 213 on June 22nd, to a peak of 219.8 on August 2nd.

Today's date, August 16th, is highlighted with a weight of 215.6, down from 218.4 on the 9th.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 16/08/2026

Told you I'd pass this on my next session (though not gonna lie that got a bit more dicey than I thought it would >__>;)

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 15/08/2026

Extreme volume on this set; very minimal breaks to force myself to play stuff I usually do without issue when rested, with more discomfort. Training for the two hour Camellia 15, heh

A workout app with a graph of heart rates prevalent near the middle. It has very attributes about a measured workout, including a minimum heart rate of 111, a maximum heart rate of 196, an average heart rate of 167, with 1130 calories burned.

A bar graph in the middle of the screenshot has six bars based off of cardio zone, with no time spent in zone zero, one minute and 3 seconds in zone one, 5 minutes and 33 seconds in zone 2 two, 12 minutes and 46 seconds in zone 3, 30 minutes and 30 seconds in zone 4, and 15 minutes and 24 seconds in zone 5.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 15/08/2026

Goal was to get to the break, and that's where I made it. Benchmarks for improvement, all I care about.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 15/08/2026

The 6k score! Alstroemeria, by TAG - SX12. Chart took a bit more out of me than I was expecting, but managed to hold on and get a pretty strong score overall.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 14/08/2026

Another dance game session! Had to split into two though, because my HRM had a moment, haha

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 13/08/2026

One day break, and we're back. Not letting a good habit slip.

A screenshot of a workout app with a heart rate graph in the middle. On the bottom, it reads burned net: 1,871 kcal - burned gross: 2,073 kcal

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 12/08/2026

Hm, this test feels pretty... accurate, reading the descriptions after the results.

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Halo @halo-ott.site · 12/08/2026

Song 23 preview (furthest dark blue square)! (the missing jump at 0:52 is fixed but i'm not retaking a video for it lol)

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