Posts by john@mk.nixnet.social
(DIR) Post #AMvl9IyjhlghznPODI by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-08-26T20:13:43.039Z
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Round 3: Black Dragon vs. Whiplash https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Dragon https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Whiplash TIL one can pin at most 5 notes in Misskey. So no, I shall not have every active poll pinned. Just 5 of them, likely the most recent 5. #BattleBots #BBChamps
(DIR) Post #AMzOxLC0E7tn1nLLm4 by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-08-26T22:02:27.139Z
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Gatekeeper Match: Black Dragon vs. Witch Doctor https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Dragon https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Witch_Doctor In my little for-fun side bracket, I have this matchup called out. #BattleBots #BBChamps
(DIR) Post #AMzuMwgF5BDd73B1qi by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-08-28T20:02:04.796Z
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@Coyote@shitposter.club Heck of a latency though.
(DIR) Post #AN1L7aSuHsELn4ngUy by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-08-29T12:47:42.019Z
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Round 1: Hijinx vs. Ghost Raptor https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Hijinx https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost_Raptor It would be the the first time these non-traditional horizontal spinners met. #BattleBots #BBChamps
(DIR) Post #AN6nZ4PEpRJyHFXyFc by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-01T04:04:42.144Z
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Prediction UpdateThe last comment I'll make on the last evening before the results become public info. Prediction 99.5% complete. Win probabilities: 56.3% Witch Doctor 26.8% Black Dragon 15.6% Whiplash 1.24% Perfect Phoenix...I didn't get as many folks voting in this round. Perhaps it's because this week was less interesting to predict. But next up is the big bracket at the end, with multiple champions pre-qualified etc.. Should be a good time regardless!If I do this again for that one, as I'm tempted to do, is there something I should do differently? Maybe I'm still deluging y'all with too many polls, becoming somewhat spammy? More or less of my own subjective color added to them?One thing we might have fun trying - that bracket-checking script. If you predict the whole bracket ahead of time, I'll include the ("consensus") probability of your calls being perfect in my updates. And of course it will be fun to see how close we each got to being correct in the end. Right now that script looks for a single file named exactly "bracket", but there's no reason it can't loop over *.bracket. What do you think? #BattleBots #BBChamps@griff@mk.nixnet.social@chillanarchist01@liberdon.com@benni@social.linux.pizzarandynose@fosstodon.org@schokopflaster@cybre.space@walnut@mk.nixnet.social@totoroot@fosstodon.org@Secftblgirl@freespeechextremist.com@ccoutreach87@mastodon.social@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
(DIR) Post #AN7dePecS3FbF1bt5c by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-01T10:22:43.454Z
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@chillanarchist01@liberdon.com That's how all voting works, right? 😀
(DIR) Post #ANACf2VXsc8KSJJu8O by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-02T19:27:24.089Z
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The big show is almost here!That's a seriously high-octane bracket, with some very highly competitive bots with familiar names. Y'all ready?#BattleBots #BBChamps #BattleBotsChampions #BB #BBChampions #BattlebotsChamps
(DIR) Post #ANCXlZv73LffAo9rSC by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-03T16:08:00.436Z
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Round 1: Tombstone vs. Tantrum Historical context: 1 steps: Tombstone(34,13) > Tantrum(16,7) 2 steps: Tantrum(16,7) > Rotator(16,11) > Tombstone(34,13) First round match between two holders of a Giant Nut. What... the... heck? #BattleBots #BBChamps
(DIR) Post #ANG8Se2EPqDHRf6GCO by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-03T23:41:15.797Z
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Round 1: Ribbot vs. End Game Historical context: 1 steps: Ribbot(14,6) > End Game(16,9) 2 steps: End Game(16,9) > Hydra(17,6) > Ribbot(14,6) Last time they fought Ribbot won. But it wasn't a blowout. And End Game has a habit of reviewing tapes, learning from mistakes, and planning for each match. Then again, Ribbot is no slouch either. #BattleBots #BBChamps
(DIR) Post #ANH2a5OUgl2bl3dcXI by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-04T23:31:22.290Z
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Round 2 Prediction Poll: Tantrum vs. End Game End Game may have won last time they met, but Tantrum has a new driver since then, and has very much proven itself. Historical context: End Game beat Tantrum by KO in "Discovery Season 5" Tantrum beat Bloodsport by Split JD in "Discovery Season 5" who beat End Game by KO in "Discovery Season 5" #BattleBots #BBChamps
(DIR) Post #ANK4FAVLFkZci7u9mC by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-05T22:31:56.560Z
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Round 3 Prediction Poll: End Game vs. Witch Doctor Last time they fought the stakes were very high. Might some teams perform better with somewhat lower stakes? Historical context: End Game beat Witch Doctor by KO in "Discovery Season 6" Witch Doctor beat DeathRoll by Split JD in "Discovery Season 4" who beat End Game by KO in "Discovery Season 4" #BattleBots #BBChamps
(DIR) Post #ANpqpYqYs0vYae4bAW by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-22T21:34:13.526Z
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@smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz @xahteiwi@mastodon.social Or "I am a freelance <profession>". That is, freelance can be an adjective describing programmer/writer/whatever.
(DIR) Post #ANykgWZr5VXXdvCqH2 by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-09-27T04:45:53.972Z
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@fluffy@social.handholding.io @Moon@shitposter.club I wasn't familiar, but glancing around the basic idea seems sound. Of course with these things as always it's adoption that matters most.Relative to the fedi as we know it, I can see a few advantages and at at least one thing that would be difficult to do.1) Integrating value is more natural. For most use cases that doesn't matter. For things like Patreon substitutes, it's an obvious bonus. But there's also an idea I've heard that I like a lot - direct messages from strangers if your parking gets validated (you put in a tiny micropayment deposit in order to DM, then if they user reads it and does NOT report it as spam, you get your money back).2) Users wouldn't have to go out of their way to "download my data" on a regular basis and "move" their accounts to deal with one instance/app going down. Since the data, including following relations, lives outside the instance. 3) Most "web3" folks put their sites on IPFS, which should make it possible to not rely on one particular martyr's hosting solution.As for the "downside", if you choose to see it this way, it would be very difficult to do the equivalent of an instance block (defederate with an instance whose moderation policilies you disagree with). Sure, an admin can write their dapp's contract however they want, if it has one, so for some uses you could ban individual users. But most moderation would have to be done by each user. Maybe mute, ignore & block are insufficient, but one could write their own tools to fill that gap, one hopes. Otherwise... things might be pretty much the same? I guess?
(DIR) Post #APE5guW8c3goNNDMvo by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-11-03T11:11:01.661Z
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@Baa@fedi.absturztau.be No it isn't.
(DIR) Post #APuVn9BW8lYGxEy6Hg by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-11-22T16:34:27.340Z
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What would be some good 1- and 2-word keywords/keyphrases one would expect to find in a short summary/description of #BattleBots that would be relevant to how it functions in the box? Hyphenated, contractions, portmanteaus all valid, and considered one word indistinguishable from unpunctuated version (e.g. its = it's). Case-insensitive. Whole-word match, though.Some examples I have:* INVERTIBLE* SELFRIGHTING MECHANISM* BAR SPINNER* FLIPPER* STEEL
(DIR) Post #AQ5TwqipZnpFQ5bmCm by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-11-26T03:29:00.666Z
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Name a pair of #BattleBots that you consider to be functionally very similar. If a given opponent can reliably beat one, that implies they should be able to reliably beat the other, and vice versa.
(DIR) Post #AQB98Jp4mxSWlpuuAa by john@mk.nixnet.social
2022-12-01T22:38:43.218Z
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@cy@mstdn.io What do you mean by 'demands'?I don't think that's the most common result of open immigration.
(DIR) Post #ARcJ1dghM02iIXYZFI by john@mk.nixnet.social
2023-01-13T19:43:11.202Z
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Perfectly fine episode. Not my favorite, but soem good fights. But, boy, was I ever wrong.Let's start with:algo: Switchback beats Banshee 52.2% of the time.me: Banshee. reddit: Banshee (39.6%) v Switchback (60.4%)Kyle (from BtB): SwitchbackOther folks were seeing something I wasn't. Certainly the tip of that flipper was more vulnerable than I expected.
(DIR) Post #ARwCxASHNtEhufUm7k by john@mk.nixnet.social
2023-01-23T14:46:21.000Z
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@thatbrickster@shitposter.club I suspect BB producers may be a little bit aware of RW stuff, too.
(DIR) Post #ATaxfdEJywWBHT1W0O by john@mk.nixnet.social
2023-03-13T17:02:15.125Z
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@chillanarchist01@liberdon.com There's something appealing about the basic concept, but I haven't been too impressed with the current state of things.