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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.

Lethargic’s algorithm

Lethargic’s primary response generator uses a bespoke algorithm that uses neither templates nor markov chains.
Take the user’s input:
Hello lethargic, how are you doing today?
Then pick a random message from a dataset of old IRC logs
brb throwing my computer against the wall
Then we interlace these two sentences, one word at a time, excluding ending punctuation:
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall

Lethargic's algorithm continued
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall
We replace “lethargic” with “me” and other pronouns so that they are inverted (like ELIZA)
Hello brb me, throwing how your are computer me against doing the today wall
Finally we pass this amalgamation into google translate a bunch of times through multiple languages to get our response:
Hey, wait a minute, how's your computer doing today after I hit my head against a wall?

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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 20/09/2026

incredible full indie kickoff talk by @writnelson.bsky.social

a talk at full indie - the screen says “what systems do you engage with? Will you use Linkedin and forever be banished from the light of God?”

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Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BC has a new time zone abbreviation: PCT. PCT stands for Pacific Time, BC’s single year-round time zone. It replaces PST and PDT, providing a consistent way to refer to BC’s time zone in schedules, systems and communications. No falling back this November.

An image of a BC coastal scene with text that says: "B.C. adopts new new Pacific time, PCT, for year-round daylight time zone." (CTV News - Sep 17, 2026.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Celeste VOYAGE is on here tomorrow afternoon/evening!

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Frame Fatales @framefatales.com · 12/09/2026

We've almost reached our destination!! #FlameFatales 2026 starts TOMORROW!!!! gdq.gg/ff-schedule

wooden sign in a grassy field announcing Flame Fatales 2026 starts tomorrow with ranger Faith pointing a finger up

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Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com · 11/09/2026

picoCAD 2 is a tiny modeler for tiny models * build low poly models * texture with built in pixel art editor * animate! Have you already tried it?

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 10/09/2026

ok here’s my oot remake link doodle

A doodle of child link from oot remake, from the pov looking down on him

he asks: “do you have any games on your phone?”

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Glen ☮️🕊️ @gleno.theyetee.com · 08/09/2026

It is 2001. Wind Waker is shown. Everyone complains about the art style. It is 2019. Link's Awakening's remake is shown. Everyone complains about the art style. It is 2026. OOT's remake is shown. Everyone complains about the art style.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it should be mandatory for any appliance you own to have an open api you can use without requiring connection to some cloud service

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

alright I set up KeePassXC and Syncthing which seems to be ideal for me. So far so good!

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barinky @barinky.net · 04/09/2026

palette: lospec.com/palette-list... tune: barinky.bandcamp.com/track/hometown raw #picoCAD2 export:

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

as someone who has been using 1Password for almost 10 years, what can I switch to that is ideally self-hosted/open source? tired of dealing with shitty companies that host my data.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Vancouver, like everywhere else in Canada, needs electoral reform. first past the post and plurality block voting are not good electoral systems. Strategic/Split voting should not be a concern.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the cutting room floor has been under a sustained ddos attack by a Claude user pissed off that the site didn't allow for scraping

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root @freshroots.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hi, I made a steam page for my game, Soft Ruin. If it seems interesting, please consider giving it a wishlist. Thanks! store.steampowered.com/app/2882230/...

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 24/08/2026

hey babe sorry ive been so irritable lately, im learning vim

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 22/08/2026

I feel like there's an interesting dynamic where Canadians have been freaking out for the past year and a half over US tariff threats to destroy our economy and annex us by economic force, and American friends who seem to be mostly unaware it's happening and don't get why we're on edge all the time

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My "art director" philosophy is "bring on board the friend who you know can do this shit better than you ever could"

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Our game decides what color everything is by dynamically indexing into a palette based on the red-channel at run time, split evenly into 4 segments. I just noticed the colors we use for drawing stuff isn't evenly distributed, which MOST of the time has no impact

An image showing a grayscale gradient, and where the values we use for drawing sprites lie along it.

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Em @emaudible.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lots of excitement about the squeaky beach sounds in Big Walk! You'll all be happy to know it's the real thing! Was absolutely giddy to get to record them on an actual Australian squeaky beach in Wilson's Promontory. Yes, if you didn't know some beaches there really do squeak. It is pure joy.

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 12/08/2026

"If it was opt in, nobody would opt in," admitted the streaming site's chief product officer. This happened during a livestream earlier today focused on addressing the controversial decision to force users to opt out of Amazon using Twitch content to train its AI models and tech.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I feel this to my core, I hate systemized achievements

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I playtested this game with a group of friends last year and it was extremely fun. I really appreciate the kind of experiences this team is putting out into the world!

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House House @househouse.com · 04/08/2026

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!

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antoine @antoine.fyi · 31/07/2026

I have this old twitter gif from @noelfb.bsky.social saved up for the opposite case, using "↩️" when it's ended, it's neat. I think one mandatory sliced dialog at the start (or just written in a way that leaves no doubt the character has more to say) + feedback when there's no more is the way to go.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 31/07/2026

If you're a Patreon creator, go to your Relationship Manager and use this filter to see if anyone's subscribed through the iOS app. If they are, you can send them a DM through the site asking them to switch to subscribing through a browser.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

it is wild to me we still get daily emails for review keys for celeste, 8 years later. I know a lot are probably just robots but even so lol

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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

opening up some commissions slots to raise funds cover my rent! really struggling to find work. DM me if you are interested! 50$ USD: chibi model / single colour background 100$ USD: model / custom background 150$ USD: model / custom background + 3D printable file #blender3d #b3d #gamedev

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

i constantly try to do stuff more data-driven and then end up saying fuck it and just hard coding it and it's usually better.

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aoma @aomamao.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Airship thing #lowpoly

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

a drill item + floaty water in City of None (with @liamberry.ca)

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Joy🏳️‍⚧️ 又 ($1,396/3,000) @joy.sprouts.social · 12/07/2026

Long ago when the four nations lived in harmony.

Game cube, Dreamcast, Xbox, PlayStation 2 signage at a 2001 convention

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'd rather people rip all the Celeste assets and make a boringly derivative fan game than make a Celeste roblox game.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Trying out syncthing + obsidian as a locally hosted notes/calendar thing ... seems to work pretty well.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I wanna know how the trackers on GDQ are made that are like the little versions of games with the donations coming in. It looks fun to make...

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 08/07/2026

bro they laid off the Doom 2016 developers. that's like if you laid off the studio that made arguably one of the best first-person shooters of all time, like Doom 2016

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I don't care that much about physical media but I do care about owning the stuff I buy ... if you get rid of physical media entirely you should have to give me a DRM-free format I can purchase digitally and keep on an old hard drive

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

there isn't a problem with the game's industry. there's a problem with every industry and every publicly traded company. getting a "nice CEO who cares" or whatever won't fix anything until things are addressed at a more fundamental societal level. the system will always drive towards this behavior.

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 25/06/2026

my time has come

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

this gotta be up pretty high up there in video game songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=40BZ...

youtube.com

CHRONO CROSS ～時の傷痕～

YouTube video by Yasunori Mitsuda - Topic

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

this just messed me up for a while because apparently C# record structs will not create an parameterless constructor unless it is explicitly defined and `new Struct()` will be the same as `default`. this is wacky dude

screenshot of the following code:

public readonly record struct PropertiesA(int Weight = 10);

public static void TestA()
{
var x = new PropertiesA();
var y = default(PropertiesA);

// this will print 0, 0
Console.WriteLine($"{x.Weight}, {y.Weight}");
}

public readonly record struct PropertiesB(int Weight = 10)
{
public PropertiesB() : this(10) {}
}

public static void TestB()
{
var x = new PropertiesB();
var y = default(PropertiesB);

// this will print 10, 0
Console.WriteLine($"{x.Weight}, {y.Weight}");
}

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

one of the areas in our game, City of None

screenshot of an area in City of None, viewed from our level editor

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TGH @tghsr.stream · 17/06/2026

New HUGE Mina the Hollower Any% Restricted WR! 1:17:40, both RTA and IGT Shoutouts to PURPLE

A completed file in Mina the Hollower is shown with a final in-game time of 1:17:40, while speedrun splits show a final real time also of 1:17:40

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