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 @user-1005 
 
 Right, but, the next song will take 3 hours, then perhaps just one, and soon
 you'll be sight reading. : )
 
 Right now, the goal is not to play Zelda songs. You can't read music,
 remember? Your goal is to learn to read music! And that'll happen when you're
 done. Then, you can play Zelda. Then, you can play whatever you want! Keep at
 it, if you don't grind mobs in Ashenvale you'll never explore the Molten Core.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/97 ---
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 @user-110 Exactly! I play games to practice strategy and empathy, not to stand
 triumphant over a virtual foe. Why should I care for the lessons of others
 when mine so often go unlearnt?
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--- #2 fediverse/3647 ---
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 it's always wild when the exact moment I start playing music (quiet enough not
 to hear more than 5 feet away) or switch tasks suddenly there's a LOT of
 activity outside my apartment. like... if you're gonna watch me at least make
 it more subtle lmao
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--- #3 fediverse/4545 ---
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 @user-1698 
 
 hell yeah, can you improvise? I played as a kid and subsequently forgot it
 all. But now I'm trying to relearn, but only by just... playing until I find
 something that sounds good. No lessons, no tutorials, no sheet music (which I
 can still very slowly read) just me and my piano with it's keys.
 
 I usually curl up with Magic Survival before bed, or if I'm waiting for
 something else to happen and I want to calm down. It helps to have my brain
 working on my character's build rather than... whatever it is that worries me.
 
 I recently sacrificed games though. Haven't played any in like a week. Which
 is super weird for me because usually it's pretty much all I do. I can't help
 but feel that all I'm good for is strategy, and games let me practice that.
 Suxxx
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 Look, when I promised "Revolution or Death" I got pretty busy and kinda forgot
 to do the "dying" part, and by now it'd be a little awkward if I offed myself
 for no visible reason, so... How about we try again this summer? Maybe in a
 month or two? I'll try to keep the fire burning a bit longer this time.
 
 plus I'm better at playing the piano now so maybe that'll help somehow.
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--- #5 fediverse/3994 ---
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 @user-1633 
 
 the person you're performing for... is you!
 
 Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see
 some great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard
 questions. Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And
 they're a great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of
 all kinds!
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--- #6 fediverse/330 ---
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 if you want to understand me, play Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom Sim (when you
 have time and are bored (very important combination)) - start on beginner
 difficulty and click the right buttons.
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--- #7 fediverse/3384 ---
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 okay fine! Lemme beat this dungeon (Dodongo's Cavern) in Ocarina of Time and
 then I'll figure out how to stream stuff. Probably won't have time for it
 until the weekend, but I can at least set it up.
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--- #8 fediverse/786 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 my favorites are the rock spirit and the water spirit, especially in tandem
 because they build up long-term defences and I'm all about that kind of
 meta-gameplay.
 
 sometimes I play the video-game version and play more than one spirit, just
 because A. nobody will play with me IRL and B. then I can coordinate myself
 without feeling bad about stepping on other player's toes
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--- #9 fediverse/6443 ---
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 speedrunners forget how to play (toy) their favorite toys and learn how to
 play (instrument) their favorite instruments
 
 EDIT: it can be relearned. focus on the tandem.
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--- #10 fediverse/5793 ---
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 I posted my words text file all over the c it y today. not sure why. maybe I'm
 tired of this course and I don't want to let anyone down? Maybe I don't know
 what to do yet. Maybe nobody works with me because everyone's keeping it on
 the DL or whateverr?
 
 ... anyway enough typing, I'm going to go play a video game. like god intended.
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 I want to play a roleplaying game! anyone wanna do TTRPGs? I've got a map of
 the county jail, we can pretend to be wizards sneaking in to retrieve the
 staff of Dolomis the Wanderer who coincidentally must be carried by the last
 person who fought the one who slayed the last person to hold it.
 
 ... what? oh, so, like... it can only be carried by your enemy?
 
 something like that. anyway it's currently held by a zealot for a religious
 order who's intent on NOT following you out, so you better be ready to
 incapacitate and retrieve a still quivering sack of bones and malice.
 
 ... I don't actually have a map of the county jail. lost it in transit, oh
 well. Well, we'll come up with something. maybe make something up. or perhaps
 someone else has something...?
 
 ... no?
 
 okay I'll just play Baldur's Gate again. boooooring
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--- #12 fediverse/5460 ---
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 if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
 to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
 
 ... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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--- #13 fediverse/4894 ---
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together
 ^_^
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--- #14 fediverse/3704 ---
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 Growing up, I started with 3 video games - Super Mario Deluxe, Dragon Warrior
 1&2, and Asteroids. For the gameboy color. Then, a year or two later (what
 felt like forever), Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
 
 Classics. I was so lucky. Not because it was more expensive than my peers, but
 because I had the right games.
 
 Others joined later, Tetris, Mario Kart, Star Fox, etc... But having so few
 that were so good for so long made me adore them. I would play for about an
 hour a day, any more would cut into my imaginative play-time.
 
 I did not dream of games. But I craved their moments.
 
 These days, I play games for so long that I dream of them. In my most
 vulnerable moments I treat them like my baseline state, rather than a
 prescribed appointment of delight.
 
 I miss wandering around without thinking of my objective. The games seemed to
 change, rather than progress. They felt alive to me. I never beat them,
 because I didn't need to.
 
 I'll raise my kids the same way, if I ever having any...
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 a D&D rulebook can double as tarot if you need it. place one hand/bookmark       │
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 value to determine roughly where in the chapter you jump to. then, read words    │
 randomly, jumping back and forth, or try and divine some meaning from the        │
 words that are printed there. with D&D it's easy because you can say "ah I       │
 landed on the rogue section, that means this guy is probably pretty suave"       │
 (confirming your expectations) "hmmm, here's the rules for fatigue and           │
 drowning. maybe I need to take a break." (validating your unconscious            │
 decisionmaking) "oh neat, treasure!" (needs to explanation) but with other       │
 kinds of books it's usually better to pick the next-best word from the things    │
 your subconscious eyes can take in and process multi-laterally (you lost your    │
 audience, circle back) oh uh so if you wanna randomize it just put the words     │
 in the page in an array and pick one random.                                     │
(you lost your audience, circle back) oh uh so if you wanna randomize it just put the words in the page in an array and compare llm embeddings on each of them and see which has the highest score. this is a language-based truth serum, a way of divining exactly how something is seen to be by the model in use and mixed with a dash of randomized causality.
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 bash script that automatically streams music to your computer and plays it on
 audio devices
 
 and also sets up a screen-streaming system where it displays the screens of
 everyone listening on like, a "security camera panel at the mall" type of deal
 so they can customize the music being streamed for each individual person
 playing video games or whatever.
 
 like "hello computer, all is well. can you tell me what narrative this person
 is going through and then can you recommend a song for that particular purpose"
 
 and then nobody uses it because it's recommendations suck and are always
 picking fleur de lis or whatever because it's a "good song" for listening to
 or whatever.
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--- #17 fediverse/4388 ---
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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
 spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
 fulfill them.
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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
 spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
 fulfill them.
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--- #19 fediverse/4336 ---
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 gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in
 my browser...
 
 (okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
 expect of me)
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 it's not a game, but all I know how to do is play.
 
 I can't do everything
 
 ideally, I'd do nothing.
 
 wei wu wei and all that
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