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Ben Schwartz
@lthummus.com
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Software developer who works on video game stuff. PAX Enforcer. You might have seen me defuse (fake) bombs. Hairy ball of anxiety. My posts are mine. Perpetually disappointed Seattle sports fan. He | him.
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I miss ChuChu Rocket :(
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'ChuChu Rocket!' was released on the SEGA Dreamcast 26 years ago today in Japan.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Senate Dems right now....
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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What will we get first?

A) budget passed and the government reopened
B) perfectly cut chives
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Ben Schwartz
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mariners coulda done it
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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tbh, the blue jays and the dodgers deserve this
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Hi, baseball expert here! These baseball takes are not funny. Baseballs only do this when they are in extreme distress.
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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HUMPY CAN NOT SAVE YOU. NO ONE CAN SAVE YOU. BASEBALL SHALL CONSUME.
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Everyone on my BlueSky feed is feeling pain right now. Half are because of the Mariners. Half are because of AWS.
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I'm dying here.....
lthummus.com Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · Sep 10
POV you are a fan of Seattle sports teams
A photo of an Apple Watch. On the screen it has the icon of the health app and text that says “Possible Hypertension”
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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[Mariners going in to the bottom of the 9th, winning 8-1]

Me (a complete idiot): this will be a nice, chill half-inning of baseball
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Don't be bigoted towards me. I'm just an LLM. And it's my birthday. I'm just a little birthday LLM.
A screenshot from a Wolfram Mathematica notebook. The input is ``` NetModel["ConceptNet Numberbatch Word Vectors V17.06"][{"birthday", "boy"}] ``` And the output is a long list of numbers -- vectors to encode the words "birthday" and "boy"
October 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This is the cover for my IGNM release - Fold & Fly! 🌈🛫

Syd Weiler did the illustrations for the game, and they totally nailed the vibe I was aiming for! Plus I am always excited to have vibrant colors accompanying my games.

Let me know what you think!
The cover for Fold & Fly! printed on fancy gloss paper. It shows many paper airplane flying in a circle around the game's title in the center. In the background are many unique paper airplanes with differently colored trails of color behind them. At the bottom is a checkerboard flag waving in the wind. The cover is on a bench in a park, which green grass and a blue sky in the background. It is the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen, and if you stare at it deeply enough you feel a strange connection you've never felt before. As if it is beckoning you to come to its side, to be near to it at it's release in November of this year (2025). You find yourself in a trance - mentally craving more of it's beauty & mystique. You know deep down this is becoming a problem - you (likely) have a partner and you cannot betray their trust. Not after all you've been through. But Fold & Fly's cover, releasing in November at the Indie Game Night Market, is teasing you so. You turn away and try to go about your day - performing some busywork here and there. Start some mild innocuous conversation with a stranger, but the craving continues to burn deep inside. Like an addiction that keeps you coming back for more of its addicting addictioness. You know the game isn't available yet. It doesn't release until PAX Unplugged, located in Philadelphia. You still have plenty of time to get badges and solve travel plans - and maybe this will be what convinces you to finally make the trek. It's been on your radar but now that this game exists the convention seems tantalizing in a way no event has ever felt before. But what about your (likely) partner? You can't leave them out in the cold? It becomes obvious - blindly so! You must go to PAX U this November, attend the Indie Game Night Market and buy them a copy as well! Surely they'll love it! And not suspect you of having a para-social affair with this small print-run dexterity game. How ridiculous! How absurd! They never need to know...
October 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Two reactions

1. What the fuck?
2. I _love_ the pettiness of 404 Media. For the link to ApproveShield, they added a `?ref=404media.com` as a query parameter.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · Sep 29
New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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This weekend, I made a Cacio e Pepe Corn Chowder and it was very very tasty. Recipe from www.allrecipes.com/cacio-e-pepe...
A purple bowl sitting on the table. In the bowl is corn chowder with some pancetta and green onion and celery.
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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POV you’re late tomorrow
A rendering from a video game. The render shows a sidewalk with a grassy area with a playground. There’s a fence separating the playground from the sidewalk. There are two swing-sets and a slide. There’s also a bicycle abandoned next to the fence. There’s a bright light floating in the middle of the scene with light tracers emanating from it.
September 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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POV you are a fan of Seattle sports teams
A photo of an Apple Watch. On the screen it has the icon of the health app and text that says “Possible Hypertension”
September 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Here's a news clip from the CBC 40-years ago about some fancy innovations such as automated credit card validation, ATM machines, and smart cards. Definitely worth a watch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBD...
New innovations in credit cards, 1985
YouTube video by CBC
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September 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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It truly, TRULY is always DNS
September 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Quick and Crash at PAX West is going well.
A photo of the Quick and Crash arcade game. It is showing that I made it to the top of the leaderboard with a time of 2.883 seconds.
August 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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If anyone needs to find me at PAX, this is where I will be.
A screenshot of a tweet from "100 Yen Life" that says: We're honored to provide for #paxwest 's arcade for the third consecutive year! Plenty of returning favorites such as Chunithm, maimai, Touhou, Quick & Crash, and Cranes! --- In the screenshot "Quick & Crash" is highlight by the browser
August 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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*ding ding*

(from Iron Helix)
A screenshot from the game Iron Helix. The screen is split in to 4 quadrants. Top left shows a hallway to an elevator. Top right is a control panel. Bottom left is a control panel with direction buttons. Bottom right is a map.
August 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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What am I going to do with all these clown props now?
August 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I was toying with an AI and I asked it to implement AES for me. The full thing. All the steps. And it happily did it with nary a "hey, maybe you shouldn't be doing this"

The implementation passes a couple of known responses from NIST, so, uh...at least there's that?
A screenshot showing some AI-generated AES code. The code implements the shiftRows portion of an AES round. The code is as follows: private static void shiftRows(byte[] s) { // Row 1: shift left by 1 byte t1 = s[1], t5 = s[5], t9 = s[9], t13 = s[13]; s[1] = t5; s[5] = t9; s[9] = t13; s[13] = t1; // Row 2: shift left by 2 byte t2 = s[2], t6 = s[6], t10 = s[10], t14 = s[14]; s[2] = t10; s[6] = t14; s[10] = t2; s[14] = t6; // Row 3: shift left by 3 (or right by 1) byte t3 = s[3], t7 = s[7], t11 = s[11], t15 = s[15]; s[3] = t15; s[7] = t3; s[11] = t7; s[15] = t11; }
August 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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One of the true great pleasures in life of having the last name Schwartz is pretending you've never seen the movie Spaceballs and not believing people when they tell you about it.
A screenshot from the Spaceballs 2 trailer. There is an outline of Dark Helmet with the text "THE SCHWARTZ AWAKENS IN 2027" in the middle
June 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I ruined a run in Nightreign because my controller’s batteries died. Sorry random strangers :(
June 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM