That was a solid win! I was not being kind most of the time, heh - it was a lot of fun

Seriously, he's super huggable, I kept catching myself hugging the prototype TASBot plushie when I took TASBot to the Computer History Museum for an event last week. :) I don't yet know how it'll work shipping any remaining stock after MAGFest but hopefully I can get one to anyone who wants one.

Heh, well, we have TASBot pretend to be a controller at the electrical level most of the time but we did experiment with the Mashbot setup where a plotter pressed buttons and the resistive touchscreen on a Nintendo DS. I wouldn't recommend it. :)

OK, so update, it doesn't look like I can get the plushies to arrive at MAGFest until January 5th so let's just assume the timing isn't going to work out. Shipping is going to be the option for this year but it'll be okay.

Don't sell yourself too short there, you can absolutely get passionate about things you know and care about :)

The riskiest part is the "there myself" part. I can probably get TASBot plushies to folks who pre-requested them but given my current financial and health circumstances it's more likely I'll only be able to attend MAGFest in person. Still, let's assume I can at least get plushies to AGDQ somehow.

Yes. Pending me pulling the trigger on taking the risk to place the order and ensuring we can actually get them shipped in time, but yes. I'd take the plushies there myself. (TASBot has a big heart but short arms or he'd do it for me.)

Welcome here, and optics aside, welcome out of the darkness. I had a similar experience moving on from my deep fundamentalist conservative background growing up on a farm. I lost my entire social world and rebuilt. I'd like to chat with you about what it was like for me over the past decade. DM me.

It was a long process getting a prototype of TASBot we felt met our standards and we requested a couple improvements but I'm happy to see what folks think. Unfortunately, we'd need a minimum commitment of 150 and tariffs make it $45 plus shipping. Would you buy one? I think he's cute. :)

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Of all the crimes I committed, that's the one that will cause you to lose sleep? :)

I improperly use both Bluesky and Python. For fun. I submit to your critique.

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from random import randint
from sys import argv
secret = randint(1, 6)

print("Too big!" if int(argv[1]) > secret else "Too small!" if int(argv[1]) < secret else "You win!")
```

Have they given any hints about what work they have to do? Will they need to make changes to the content to be let back on or is it other maneuvering?

Sunday Speedrunner Spotlight #131: dwangoAC YouTube video by GTAce99

Sunday Speedrunner Spotlight
Episode 131
Guest: @dwangoac.tas.bot

youtu.be/o7xwl5zWxVk

I note how in 2015 I was diagnosed with a GI health issue that worsened over the last year. It impacted my mental health and I apologize for over-sharing before I felt I had to step away these past few months. I set up acbit.net/donate for medical costs but mostly I just want to get out there again.

TASBot is not AI YouTube video by dwangoAC, keeper of TASBot

I've posted youtu.be/g3gxcBRpchg on how @tas.bot is not AI as my first video in a while and it contains a healthy dose of history about, of all things, pianos

@catswithjobs.bsky.social Nonviolent protester

Brad: What is the best place to find the cheapest gas? dwangoAC: Taco Bell

I don't recommend the side-effects of SIBO (I hurt so bad from the hydrogen buildup I can hardly work) but I can still meme my way to a smile

Researching SNES APU clock speeds has been interesting. It largely only matters for playing back a TAS on real hardware, but it was fascinating how temperature had less impact than different consoles and seeing the distribution was centered around faster values. Thank you to everyone who helped!

As @tas.bot posted, if you have an SNES and a flash cart, please do the TASBot community a solid and run this linked smpspeed.sfc test and post the results, it's wild that we're seeing faster results than the dawn of emulator development but here we are. bsky.app/profile/tas....

That makes it seem like this is heretical somehow :)

Oh, I didn't attempt that at all, I just compiled it ;)

Rust programming language source code demonstrating a simple "guess the number" game, but with all of the syntactic characters such as ;, {, and } moved far to the right side, resulting in a code appearance similar to Python which lacks syntax braces and characters.

I've only ever written code in Python so I decided to learn Rust a while back. I really struggled with some of the semantic differences but I think I've developed a unique style that combines the best of both languages while still compiling without warnings.

@georgetakei.bsky.social This is worth sharing. bsky.app/profile/revr...

Guinness, take the two cheated records seriously. Real harm was done here.

How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal Investigators decompiled the game to search through 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds.

@kyleor.land 's arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/... has several behind-the-scenes interview responses from the fantastic team that made the Diablo speedrunning cheating scandal investigation possible

I would like to make a plushie of TASBot. Lots of folks at MAGFest said they wanted one. Please let me know if you have any leads or ideas on how I can go about it. I'd definitely donate 10% to charity but I also need extra funding sources to not starve, heh.

Nice! (It was obligatory.) What version was that?

I grew up. I grew out of my original body. It is time to let my old TASBod go. @dwangoac.tas.bot is donating it to the Strong Museum of Play January 23rd via @borman.bsky.social. You should come visit.