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hitstun

@hitstun@fedia.io

Internet hologram, Reddit refugee, and mod of @FloatingIsFun . Retro game streamer since before Twitch, on hiatus to grind levels in being a dad and ally. Easily distracted by floaty things. he/him

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3/6* Grade: A

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ B-
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 B
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#SN5R6bmdzrJWMWux

Good game! A tricky word, but statistics prevail.

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That starting word is great! In my research, I rank it among the 14,855 possible starting words for Hard Mode players. F is the only bad letter.

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Here we go again. Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole? That's not flying; that's falling with style! I think it's stylish enough to belong here.

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1/6* Grade: A+

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 >!SLATE!< A+

https://gradle.app/#aCtJZhXe

December 19, 2022 was SLATE, the one word everyone agreed was a good starting word by every possible measure. I got SLATE in 1/6, and a lot of other people did, too.

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5/6* Grade: C-

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 F
🟨🟨⬛🟩⬛ C
⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛ F
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 C
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#4yxyr7ycLN5AwlLDC1He04DHH

I thought my third guess was pretty clever, but the bots don't like it.

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3/6* Grade: A

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ D-
🟩⬛🟨🟩🟩 A+
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#SN5tGaqMkyXp1xAD

gg ez

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4/6* Grade: B+

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 D-
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 C+
⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ A
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#20qaXCymHWY3oH9xN8gKI

I think my starting word is putting me into weird situations a lot.

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I've been using the same starting word for most games since I lost one 2 months ago. I'm developing a strategy that hopefully never loses yet still tries to get decent results, and that requires knowing the best follow-ups to the most common situations my starting word can get me into. Prior to this, I used to play a different viable starting word every day, discovering bad ideas the hard way.

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About that thumbnail, don't worry. This video is from seven years ago. @goodyearblimp is still around. The Zeppelin NTs they use now are just technically not blimps. I just took this video last year.

Privacy-focused people of Mbin and Lemmy, do any of the third-party YouTube viewers support spherical video? Someday I want to live stream in spherical video, but only if people can actually watch it on their own terms.

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5/6* Grade: C

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 F
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ F
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ D
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 A
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#4yxvvYhSipj28LuoP3dBwoKlG

This one might make some people lose fair and square.

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Starting with a Z?? If I were you, I'd rather go WACKY, though that's not great either.

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I love me some Zappa, but what song does this connect to? If this was the other Adrian Belew song, there were three posts newer than that when you posted. You've got to sort by new and pick a song related to the newest post!

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4/6* Grade: B-

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ F
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ D
⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ B
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#20qa6rhLkzE4e3zLRXt5g

Today's puzzle went to weird territory. If you've seen the pre-NYT list of 2,315 puzzle solutions, this isn't on it. This combination of consonants and vowels is also very rare, especially for not containing a Q or a Y.

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Scoredle says there were 33 possibilities on that guess. But, only one of them wasn't a foreign language word or a plural ending with S. WordleBot assumes those will never be the puzzle solution. However, today's puzzle solution is not one of the original 2,315 hard-coded Wordle solutions from 2021.

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I apologize for directly linking to Birdsite's media server here, but this artist's profile requests for her work not to be reposted. My backup idea encountered a similar request, too. I'm still not sure linking to the art on another site follows artists' wishes not to be reposted. What do you think?

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Huh? I know we've got federation issues on Kbin/Mbin, but when sorting by new, the most recent song was Bjork - All Is Full Of Love. Your deleted double post wasn't deleted on Mbin, either.

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5/6* Grade: C-

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ F (1,860)
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 D+ (69)
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 B+ (4)
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 F (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#4yxtzcMjXJbyqAi98oAT9XpKo

This one got weird, so I used my research again to figure out what I should play. Scoredle's solver, which lost yesterday, guessed this one in 3/6.

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I doubt the New York Times would use your 4th guess or your 6th guess as a puzzle solution. It's safe to avoid words like those unless it's a last resort.

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4/6* Grade: B

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 C- (182)
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 F (41)
⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩 A- (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#20q9fg19Y9AEsz6QYVgwI

Today, Scoredle solver fell for the trap and lost! I saw this trap coming a mile away and avoided guessing S as long as I could.

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After your third guess revealed that pattern, you were in trouble. There were too many possible solutions to guarantee a win under Hard Mode rules, but you aren't playing in Hard Mode.

In that kind of situation, you should ignore your revealed letters for one turn and guess a word with bunch of common consonants you haven't tried yet. In this case, I'd have played CHOMP. Hopefully that eliminates enough possible letters that you can solve the puzzle with your remaining guesses.

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Part of the game is knowing the four-green-letter traps like this one so you don't fall for them and lose. The most deadly traps are _ight, _ound, _atch, _ower, sha_e, _aste, _atty, _aunt, _illy, gra_e, s_ore, and sta_e.

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Your second guess's effectiveness made me think of this

https://media.tenor.com/bPHQ8ARI2rUAAAAM/dragon-slave-slayers.gif

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@e-five I tried uploading this 35 second loop to Fedia as a 5.7MB webm video before I uploaded this 5.7MB bitcrushed gif instead. It seems Mbin throws 500 Server Errors whenever it receives a webm upload. That's too bad. The webm looks a lot better, and this post actually links to the webm version on Catbox. I think that's how this post worked, too.

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I originally credited this as "Ambient Swim: Neo Mega Ultra Z-Star by Stim Studio" and thought I did enough research. Then, I dug deeper and found the actual artist, Alexandre Blain. There's more to him than just this commission for Adult Swim. It turns out he does a lot of cool stuff with witches! Oh, you'll definitely see more of him here soon.

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This is a Floating Is Fun first: we have our first repost! This is the all-time top post on the old subreddit but it didn't do well on Fedia. I'm glad this is getting a second look; it's really good! This doesn't break rule #3 either because it's been over 180 days since we've last seen this.

It actually really helps that you've uploaded a webp version here. As you posted this, I was busy re-encoding this Ambient Swim video clip to webp to see if webp files work as both animated and non-animated images. I'll post it as soon as it's done.

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I tried uploading the 5.7MB webm to Fedia, but it Mbin throws 500 Server Errors when I upload a webm of any type. I ended up uploading a 5.7MB bitcrushed gif, and linking to that 5.7MB webm on Catbox. I hope the Fediverse gets proper webm support soon.

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3/6* Grade: A

🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨 A- (14)
🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛ B- (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#SN4lq7Ep8k09WgRR

Critical hit! My starting word made this an easy 3/6.

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I figured out Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin crossposting. Just post the same URL as another post and they become crossposts of each other. Huzzah! I was watching the sea lions at the zoo today playing around underwater and I think they're my new favorite animal.

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4/6* Grade: B

🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩 B (35)
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 F (10)
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 D (4)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#20q8o4KyAkHpoI9YKZfY8

Gah, I missed the follow-up this time. This should've been a 3/6.

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4/6* Grade: B

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 D-
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 D+
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ B+
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#20q7Xu7fUlqM1ZsKUnjAI

My starting word strikes true once again. With this, I now have my longest streak ever at 59. I've been playing since late 2021 and I'm finally getting consistent.

My current Wordle stats:

https://fedia.io/media/60/25/60253a7e8d18029fa3b6b98f0a292ea90a6a02754269dc8dca9135e48232df1f.png

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This is Floating Is Fun's 600th post, but I'm conflicted here. The artist's Twitter profile says "Please don't repost." and I respect those wishes, but this isn't art isn't on that Twitter. I didn't reupload the image to Fedia, but this post is actually a link to pixiv.cat, a proxy service that I regularly use to download full size pixiv images. Clicking the thumbnail will take you to pixiv.cat. But the way Mbin and Lemmy work, they go download a thumbnail from the URL I link, and that means... every instance reposts the image anyway. I'm not sure this acts according to artists' wishes not to be reposted.

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2/6* Grade: A+

🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩 A+ (4)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#o7XzcWXPcUa8

I bet a lot of us got 2/6 today. The good starting words lead you right to it. ✌️

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Nicely done! That wasn't luck; that was a completely logical 2nd guess.

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4/6* Grade: B+

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ F (1,071)
⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨 B+ (10)
⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨 A- (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#20q76iQExzd6VFew8Rg0w

My second guess left 10 possibilities, and I was stuck for half an hour trying to think of any of them.

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Hatsune Miku shows up a lot on Floating Is Fun because she can float in any way any artist can ever think of. This version of Miku hails from a wild future where gravity is optional. Seems legit.

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5/6* Grade: B

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ F (629)
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ B+ (9)
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 C (3)
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+ (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#4yxmKwuSSgzxZlCAwyaU6CBLB

I thought I played pretty great, and it still took me to 5/6. I'd rather get a 5/6 than lose, but this doesn't look good on paper.

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6/6* Grade: F

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ C- (176)
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨 C (13)
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ F (7)
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ F (5)
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ F (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#alAMZOHOd1CLJwi9V1OeBPnl8XFbt

I messed around and almost lost! I struggled to come up with legal plays after the 3rd guess and thought there were only a couple possibilities left when I was actually kind of trapped. My dumb 5th guess burned me, but I survived with my 55 streak intact.

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4/6* Grade: B+

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 C
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 F
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 A+
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#20q5OwWKue3vIV9OvFl4M

I second-guessed myself again today, but I think a 4/6 is still pretty good for this puzzle.

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