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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Being 6’0” and married I find it very funny to kamikaze dudes by saying I’m 5’10” around single guys who are around my height trying to hit on short girls.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I just realized sixteen years later that the girl who Skype called me on my birthday my first year of college probably had a crush on me lmfao

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think the thing I like most about poetry is playing with words, forms, and making layered sentences. It’s playing with words while still conveying an idea

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I started writing poetry and it’s neat. I can write out of happiness instead of suffering now. Suffering is genuinely premium writing fuel so finding alternative fuel is a game changer for me.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One of the things I wasn't prepared for is that there isn't really songs for when your life is smooth sailing and fun. Media is almost always about transitions or ephemeral experiences. The usual way there's media about the joy of the mundane is if you smuggle in a life retrospective from old age.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My wife and I rarely speak English around our kid but today we were discussing him showering and he fucking replied in Spanish. He’s two. He’s learning English. Dear lord. The secret parent communication channel has been compromised.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It’s always funny to see “man X game sucks now it was awesome four years ago” because it’s like is the game worse or are you just getting older lol

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It’s very funny how a week later the xQc thing brought this out at full strength. Evangelical Christian arguments about essential evil lol

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Don’t really see a lot of reasoning why xQc having eyes on the game is good but tldr views are money and money supports creators in the community. It has a risk of potentially being disruptive to Splatoon as a social group, but it’s got pretty sharp upsides for Splatoon as a competitive shooter

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

(Explain your @) Someone was banned in a community for “Negativity and Disrespect” so that was my handle for a week and I realized I don’t wanna be the type of person that takes on that handle even to mock the admins for their dumb decision so I turned it to “Joy” as the opposite and it stuck.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Tangential rant: I have essentially one criticism of the lay person’s understanding of ethics and it’s that they’re all de Beauvoir’s serious man: aligning to externally defined value systems rigidly so they don’t have to evaluate moral positions. It’s lazy and dishonest while cosplaying virtue.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"Watch a movie about possessive, abusive love and realize the protagonist's nickname is the exact one my brother's emotionally abusive wife calls him" was nowhere on my 2026 bingo card... and yet...

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I went ahead and just published the subsection of my gigablog related to metagaming because it seems relevant to community discourse

wide-situation-0c5.notion.site

Defining Metagaming | Notion

Metagame Layers

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

There’s a Spanish band whose name translates to “Van Gogh’s Ear” and instead of being an edgy metal band they make wistful, gentle pop that’s cute. It’s a bizarre mismatch I’ve never gotten over.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

One of the bars where I got super drunk and hooked up in my twenties got closed after like two shootings there and is a church now. Driving past it is like seeing your old friend that was a party animal being a priest now

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It’s interesting to me how word choice carries additional rhetorical value beyond intended meaning. For example, a chemist saying “arsenic is natural” seems perfectly reasonable, but if you bring it up in any health-adjacent conversation it inherits meaning beyond what was intended.

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Hana ✨ @hana.lol · 21/05/2026

🐙Inksight v3.1 is here! This one is just a few small QoL things, and allows you to see Avg. XP, teams' Anarchy Power, and improves the player profile page and fixes some anticheat issues. 🔗 hana.lol/inksight

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The more I hear about modern dating culture the more I feel like I was on the last chopper outta Nam

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vio @lavuli.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I feel like if you wrong someone publicly you need to also make things right with them publicly

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Too many Hugos, not enough Hoederers.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I’ve been making apps to handle my executive dysfunction and it’s been way more effective than it has any right to be.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Deadlock has an interesting problem where the game is genuinely easier to win if the feeder on your team leaves, which means the game theory optimal play is to verbally abuse them until they quit and stop gift wrapping resources to the enemy team. It’s an interesting game design problem, anyway.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"2 is the only even prime" yeah dude not that impressive, "n is the only [number divisible by n] prime" is true by definition. Wow, did you know 3 is the only prime number divisible by 3?

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Radha @ismiseradha.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#splcensus A small look at the data on transgender people in the Splatoon community Here are 3 graphs! 1 breaking down the gender split between those who are transgender, and 2 showing the share of men and women who identify as transgender respectively 48% of women are trans, 6% of men are trans!

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I don’t understand why dreamy is being crucified here. All of the comments I can find are saying it’s for not being unconditionally supportive of mystic. How is this not an extremely disproportionate response that is perpetuating the exact same criticism of dreamy’s actions to dreamy?

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xi @imxi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

got hacked on disc, solving it rn ty for your patience

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xi @imxi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm looking to make a small group interested in learning another shooter (thinking OW or R6Siege atm) and seeing if we can learn something about splatoon/coaching from it. I'm aiming to maybe meet somewhere from 1-3x a week (highly flexible based on availability). (1/2)

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Scepidilionz @scepidilionz.inkling.social · 01/05/2026

It's time to tell you the truth. SSC has been dead for a long time. Let's talk. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

docs.google.com

What Happened

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vio @lavuli.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i am seeing alot of Women on bsky & twt talk about their experiences of misogyny in splat/comp. i think that is good. However, i find the overwhelmingly defeated tone of the conversation concerning. Nothing is set in stone & we can be the change we want to see here. I wanted to add my perspective.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The Drama is the most stressful movie I’ve seen 10/10

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

With today’s update you’ll find loading splat.top profiles is a lot faster

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Few more updates on splat.top - Past Seasons now have a tab for their leaderboards, under Archive - Skill Offset can now be split by mode, region, or mode+region - Some minor bugfixes

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Sendou @sendou.ink · 14/04/2026

Very cool little UX touch added by @hfcred.dev You can now type w./u./t./o./to. to quickly change what you are searching for on the global search eliminating those unnecessarily clicks when you just have to go... Register for In The Zone 51! Happening Saturday 25th April w/ $240 prize #sendouink

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’d be really funny if in Harry Potter’s world, Isaac Newton was renowned for his alchemy and made fun of for his physics as a complement to the real world Newton

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ok Glocket is an insane stomping build at my ELO it’s basically freelo. Chunking late game carries for over a thousand per shot, facetanking and killing ultbot Haze at the 40 minute mark, dodging doorman ult entirely… why didn’t I pick this up earlier oh my god

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Sendou @sendou.ink · 10/04/2026

LUTI Divs vs. sendou ink seeding power How much difference there really is between Div 7 and Div 10? Otherwise I guess you see the hierarchy of it quite well.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Has there been a single pokemon game in the last few years that didn’t need a six page thesis explaining “why it’s good, actually”? It feels like they’re batting zero across the whole franchise

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

splat.top got a makeover! Profile pages are slicker and align with comp.splat.top a lot better. Additionally, a new page for Race to 5000 XP that tracks any player over 4000 XP and compares with successful climbs to 5000 XP!

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

splat.top is currently scraping again, and I'm slowly backfilling all the data that's missing (albeit at a slower 1-snapshot-per-hour cadence rather than the scraped 6-snapshots-per-hour). Here's the Skill Offset of the current meta

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm having trouble calibrating the transformations to map replay data onto the overhead map, if anyone could go to a PB and only paint at these 6 points in order, and hand me the replay code I would be incredibly grateful.

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Hana ✨ @hana.lol · 30/03/2026

🐙Inksight v2 is here! Now you can view long-term stat tracking, queue partners, and match histories of almost anyone! You can also input many replay codes at once. Claim your profile now and set up privacy controls before profiles go public in a week 💖 hana.lol/inksight

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xi @imxi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

proof of concept for stat gathering using: - Inksight - my Inksight .json to .csv conversion tool - a google sheet I made with formulas to get per game and per 5 mins stats using the .csv from my conversion tool (stats shown are averages from all 5 games of the set combined, by the way)

Statistics from a LUTI match (set) between Public Anemone and Pleitegeier.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The punishment of playing a tempo carry in deadlock is that if my hard carry is eating paste in a corner me doing a great job ensures we lose at the 50 minute mark.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Guys please don’t hyperfocus on MMR differences to assign losses. I cannot overstate how much it is important that you do not do this. It is informative to see people really out of their lobbies to see how the system is being strained but it is not nearly as big a deal as you think it is.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Two things I'm working on right now, making parallel progress on them. First is per-match breakdown of your matches on comp.splat.top, and a login system. You (and select TOs) can see both your results *and* antiresults. The second is a team search function that pulls based on actual team lineups.

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Hana ✨ @hana.lol · 24/03/2026

Inksight just got a lot more stats! I'm calling this release v1.0, and it includes a lot of data on how matchmaking is screwing us over 🤭 Match stats, player MMRs vs XP, who's queuing with who, and lots of other data just got added! Check it out! 🔗 hana.lol/inksight

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Squidoku 🔜 World Sudoku Championship @squidoku.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

LUTI WEEK 3 RECAP #compsplatoon #LUTI This week: 192 matches - 2 r1 - 6 r2 - 168 r3 + 16 forfeits Match Scores: Forfeit: 16× (8%) 5-0: 63× (33%) 5-1: 30× (16%) 5-2: 33× (17%) 5-3: 27× (14%) 5-4: 23× (12%) 15 concurrent matches at peak activity, 29 minutes after default time

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