anyway in lieu of taking a nap I have been meaning to talk about this little free casual game I've been playing as my "bored and have 2 minutes to kill" game, called Tessel (available on web and as an iOS/Android app). To my indignation it is in fact more than a mindless time-waster and I ended up learning about MATH!!! >:(

It is a simple game where there are multicoloured polygons that fit together, but you can only attach sides with the same colour. (There's also a custom mode where you can change the rules, number of colours, etc.) You get points for how many tiles a resulting colour block covers, and you only get a certain number of tiles (only a few are available to choose from per turn, but you can shuffle them as many times as you want). The game records your high score for each shape.

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#gameing #math

i've stripped the algorithm out of my YouTube experience as much as possible but somehow it still has a precise handle on My Kind of Shit https://youtu.be/_G3bic1kp0o

(The comments are filled with Jews nitpicking all the stuff he got wrong [he should have consulted an actual Jewish person, if not a halakhic expert] and everyone arguing about Israel & Palestine, so that's pretty authentic anyway)

#minecraft #gameing

okay so I've mentioned this before on here, but I've been playing Minecraft since like 2011, when your typical Minecraft player was a 20something indie gamer. A few years in, you'd see an occasional post where they let, like, their kindergarten-aged kid/relative play Minecraft for the lols. Then gradually it turned into "haha my kid is better than me at Minecraft :S". And eventually it became a "kids' game" and posts like "help I just found this forum, my kid wants a Minecraft-themed birthday party what can I make" became common.

anyway just now I stumbled across a post from someone showing the eccentric way their dad plays Minecraft and just. It's come full circle. I'm going to go die of old age now.

#minecraft #gameing