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arborelia
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time, such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression!

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At 8pm Eastern (in just over an hour), Silver Ball Century returns! Our chronology of pinball continues with the start of 1977

https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-21-winter-1977/
April 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Starting soon: it's late 1976 on Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball.

This will be the last new episode for a couple of months!

https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-20-late-1976-start-playing-with-tomorrow/

https://twitch.tv/arborelia
Silver Ball Century ep. 20 - Late 1976 - Start Playing With Tomorrow
It's the beginning of a solid state transition.
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March 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Tonight, my chronological playthrough of pinball, Silver Ball Century, reaches 1976: the year that pinball was legalized.

https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-19-early-1976-the-skill-shot-heard-round-the-world/
Silver Ball Century ep. 19 - Early 1976 - The Skill Shot Heard 'Round the World
Pinball is legal now! Also, here's the worst pinball artist.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball, has reached 1975, which will be the first year of many that we need to cover in two parts!

Tonight's part includes Bally's "Wizard", a complex game that's the first to have a licensed media tie-in […]

[Original post on kind.social]
February 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's 1974 on Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball

https://twitch.tv/arborelia
arborelia - Twitch
I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time, like Necrodancer, Zelda randomizer, and gender identity! My pronouns are she/her.
www.twitch.tv
February 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
starting soon: it's 1973 on Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball

Episode guide: https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-15-1973/

Stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
Silver Ball Century ep. 15 - 1973
1973 brings us a lot of pinball, including a television-famous pinball machine.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It's 1972 on Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball

https://twitch.tv/arborelia
arborelia - Twitch
I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time, like Necrodancer, Zelda randomizer, and gender identity! My pronouns are she/her.
www.twitch.tv
February 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
starting in about 15 minutes: it's 1971 on Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball

stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia

episode guide: https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-13-1971/
January 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball, is entering the 1970s!

https://twitch.tv/arborelia
arborelia - Twitch
I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time, like Necrodancer, Zelda randomizer, and gender identity! My pronouns are she/her.
www.twitch.tv
January 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-11-1969/

starting at 8pm on twitch.tv/arborelia, it's 1969 in #pinball. you know what's nice? machines with longer flippers
January 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It remains the case that mastodon is bad and I hate using it

"but it's decentralized!" yeah that's bad too, sorry
January 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Tonight is the 10th episode of this season of Silver Ball Century, covering #pinball in 1968, which includes a fascinating retro-futuristic machine from the Rally Fliptronic line

The new schedule for Silver Ball Century is Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern! […]

[Original post on kind.social]
January 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Tonight at 8:30pm Eastern on https://twitch.tv/arborelia, it's episode 8 of Silver Ball Century

It's 1966 in pinball, and there's a bold new art style on some of these machines

https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-8-1966-its-time-for-capers/
arborelia - Twitch
I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time, like Necrodancer, Zelda randomizer, and gender identity! My pronouns are she/her.
www.twitch.tv
December 11, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Tonight at 8pm on Silver Ball Century, it's 1964 (and also 1965) in pinball

This episode brings us the last gobble hole, the first ball save gate, and the machine that's being played in the "Pinball Wizard" scene of the film "Tommy".

https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-7-1964-1965/
Silver Ball Century ep. 7 - 1964-1965
Pinball is thriving despite that it's banned in many cities. New designers bring us new ideas like the free ball gate.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Starting soon on my stream: episode 6 of Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of pinball. It's 1963 and the pinball times are a-changing

https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-6-1963/
November 27, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Me: well @swheritage seems dedicated to impeding the progress of letting trans people change their name in citations, and nothing is getting through to them, but at least I can still use Zenodo and recommend that people use it instead

This awful world:
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I'm back from traveling, and Silver Ball Century (my chronological playthrough of pinball) is back as well!

https://posts.arborelia.net/silver-ball-century-ep-5-1960-1962/?m

Starting at 8pm Eastern (an hour from now) on: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
November 20, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Tonight, we're doing mad science to pinball tables and swapping their brains -- running one machine on a different one's ROM

https://twitch.tv/arborelia
November 1, 2024 at 1:29 AM
A post about testing my code and trying to find meaning where there wasn't any:

https://posts.arborelia.net/never-lose-a-dead-end/
October 31, 2024 at 2:59 PM
October 29, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Tonight is episode 3 of Silver Ball Century, my virtual, chronological tour of pinball history.

The past two episodes have covered the flipperless era and the first powered flippers. Tonight we're playing recreations of tables from the mid-1950s, with wooden cabinets, manual ball loaders, and […]
Original post on kind.social
kind.social
October 22, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Sometimes, cis people who deadname trans people argue that the trans person's own past self is at fault. This is like the old schoolyard bullying taunt, "Why are you hitting yourself?"

We need to name and shame this transphobic tactic: https://posts.arborelia.net/why-are-you-hitting-yourself/
October 21, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Silver Ball Century episode 2 is tonight at 8 pm Eastern!

Our chronological pinball playthrough has brought us to 1947. There are flippers now, but there's also a moral crusade against pinball and the start of pinball prohibition […]
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October 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM