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Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 23, 2025 

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My Score: 2040

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

I don’t remember much innuendo on the sites I played as a child (club penguin, bin weevils) although I’ve got vague memories that the censoring was so severe you could learn swear words based off seemingly innocent words being blocked out of the chat. The bigger issue at that age was how exploitative some of those sites were with microtransactions and I can only imagine it’s gotten worse with the current MMO’s for kids.

There was one I briefly played as a child where one of the starting missions was growing something in a garden but if you were a free playing customer you had to plant in the public garden and wait 24 hours, so I’d come back the next day and find someone had stolen the stuff I’d grown and couldn’t progress. It was a weird way to learn about wealth inequality and the privileges wealthier kids got at the age of seven.

There was another site advertised on one of the kids TV channels here when I was younger that encouraged kids to sign up and mark off the chores they’d completed and each chore you completed netted you a prize like a trip to Disneyland. What the ad didn’t tell us at that young age was that your parents would have to pay for the prizes through the sites affiliate link. I think I was at least mature enough by that stage to understand we’d been had and it wasn’t my parents fault but it’s crazy that nearly twenty years later the internet’s somehow gotten worse for exploiting kids for micro transactions.

That’s true. I don’t know what the answer is there, but I still think regardless of what the solution is, politicians shouldn’t be promising one thing and doing another. Especially to a demographic already so cynical about politics.

The same man who pledged to abolish tuition fees, immediately abandoned that pledge to gain power, tripled them instead, and was then caught afterwards having already scrapped the plan to abolish them internally while still publicly campaigning on it?

However, leaked documents revealed that the Lib Dems had actually planned to abandon their tuition fee pledge before the election even took place.

A month before Clegg promised to get rid of the “dead weight of debt,” senior insiders said the party should “leave” the pledge before entering any negotiations to form a coalition government, saying: “Let us not cause ourselves more headaches.”

That article is an interesting read on how the big three keep lying through their teeth on tuition fees as well. And how the National Union of Students opposed tuition fees for over a decade until the now-health secretary Wes Streeting became their general secretary.

I’ve tried replacing them with a double hyphen instead, i.e. ‘–’, since it has the same effect but is less likely to look like I’m a bot. It’s a shame because I used to always write with them and a comma isn’t a perfect substitution.

It’s a four-way tie for me between Persona 5, BG3, Disco Elysium and Hades/Hades II. BG3 may just snatch it because of Raphael singing his own fight song, but there’s a brilliantly soundtracked fight in Hades II which I don’t want to spoil since it’s still in early access that’s really cool too.

This one was a fun coincidence because it came a week after it featured as a clue on Destination X, which is a show that feels like a poor copy of Jetlag. And the ending song…it might be the first one where Todd very emphatically states they didn’t deserve any better.

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 22, 2025 

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My Score: 2150

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

Been doing some server maintenance the past few days because I’ve been neglecting them and everything has broken at once, so I may as well infodump on that.

The Raspberry Pi’s fan got clogged up with dust and started screaming but with a new fan it is so silent now. It was averaging 57°C for the couple of days with no fan while I waited for the spare part to arrive, 52°C when the broken fan was still in use, and now down to a nice 47°C with a fresh one. My VPN on the pi stopped working as well, but it was easily fixed with PiVPN, and the arr stack on my mini PC stopped working entirely – it seemed to be a networking issue with the containers under gluetun. But now everything’s up and running again and with a bit more storage space from clearing off old docker volumes. Then I’ve got a pinetime watch coming this week to give me something to tinker with until the new Pebble starts shipping.

I’ve tried tailscale and cloudflare tunnels in the past and ended up just using PiVPN to set up a WireGuard VPN on my Pi5. Tailscale for some reason was very slow for me, and cloudflare tunnels have a 100mb limit iirc which isn’t ideal for streaming. PiVPN is quite straightforward, it sets everything up for you and all you have to do is forward a UDP port. That was the bit I was most worried about, but, unless I’ve misunderstood something, because a UDP port will just ignore invalid requests to the outside world it will appear closed so it’s not very risky. It then generates a key for each device which you can scan from a QR code onto your VPN client. I have my phone set to auto-connect to the tunnel when I disconnect from my home wifi network and the tunnel is fast enough that I’ve accidentally turned off my phone’s wifi connection before and streamed a TV show through the tunnel over mobile data and not noticed any difference in speed.

They seem pretty good for not trapping too much heat, but we have quite cool summers here so what I would consider an unbearably hot day is probably different to most people. I could comfortably sleep in it under 24°C, anything above that and I can’t sleep no matter what type of blanket I have anyway. There are cooling ones made of cotton that might work if you’re in a hotter climate but they cost a fair bit more.

No problem, hope I’ve been able to help. Thanks for being so responsive as well

No luck with the reinstall unfortunately, but I’ll leave it til the f-droid build. It may be something to do with Google play being disabled on my device, because if I install .12 from Aurora the app attempts to load posts and then gives an error saying “check that Google play is enabled on your device before opening the app.”

I was swiping from the right side of the screen to the left to go back with Android’s gesture navigation, but it’s conflicting with Blorp’s gestures so the accounts page comes up instead of going back to the all feed.

I love mine. Being able to play Baldur’s Gate 3 on a handheld feels insane, never mind playing it multiplayer with a bunch of mods and it still running fairly smoothly. They’ve really improved the rendering for BG3 since the final patch came out. Emudeck has been great for reliving some childhood nostalgia as well.

Saying that, 90% of the time I’m using it as a balatro machine.

Ah that will be why - I’ve installed via f-droid and it’s on v1.9.11. I tried .12 direct from github but posts aren’t loading at all

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 21, 2025 

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My Score: 2110

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

#WhenTaken #541 (21.08.2025)

I scored 785/1000🏅

1️⃣📍671 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇178/200
2️⃣📍1.4K km - 🗓️13 yrs - 🥈138/200
3️⃣📍17.1K km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥉82/200
4️⃣📍114 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇188/200
5️⃣📍1.5 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200

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No. Even in the summer during a heatwave I was sleeping with a 15 tog duvet because I need the weight, until I got a weighted blanket which is much more comfortable. I can fall asleep on the couch without a blanket though which is weird, just not in bed.

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