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TheBlackParrot
@theblackparrot.me
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bedroom musician (https://septilateral.bandcamp.com)
hobbyist web dev
twitch affiliate (https://twitch.tv/theblackparrot)
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Discord: @theblackparrot
Signal: @TheBlackParrot.01
Telegram: @TheBlackParrot
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as a heads up to those with photosensitivity, if you can filter out emotes at all, you may want to hide this emote

flashes between full black and full white every frame and it's a high-framerate emote
Screenshot of a single-frame preview of an emote on Twitch, "coolk9Partypotato", which is a highly strobey animated emote
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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recently finished(-ish) an overhaul of my vnyan setup, and i've merged all of them into one! which lets me add the ability to switch avatars on the fly (which i previously couldn't do with separated profiles)

i also made a pad (i am new to the game on pad don't bite me pls)
October 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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looking at the CSS, the most it can extend is somewhere around 10rem, which if they define font-size using px (i can't find specifically what they use, 10pt is ~14px), it'll extend down 140px at the most. the same thing can be achieved if you use a long now live notification. message body is 7rem
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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LOVE IT WHEN MY DEVICE I OWN INSTALLS AN UPDATE WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT FUCKING FUCK FUCK SHIT ASS FUCK I WANT TO RUN INTO A FOREST AND sCREAM
Screenshot of Medtronic's MiniMed app not allowing use on Android 16
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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doing a subathon i really don't want to do but also it gives me a good excuse to try some new things so like yeah

broke-a-thon starts Friday at 10:00 CDT and will continue running indefinitely. timer will pause while i'm not around and we'll raid out at the end of each day

twitch.tv/theblackparrot
broke-a-thon September 26th, 10:00 CDT Uncapped 24/7 stream Prime subs +4m Tier 1 subs +5m Tier 2 subs +8m 20s Tier 3 subs +20m 50s 300 bits +5m $3 donations +5m Goals $200 - Entire day of VRC game worlds $400 - Add a redeem of y'all's choice $600 - Beat Saber multiplayer stream, then I delete everything lol $800 - Stand up for an entire VRC stream $1,000 - Entire day of VRC horror worlds (of chat's choice) $1,500 - The Goal (I take a break for the day) $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,000 / $5,000 - stretch goals to be revealed
September 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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you can also listen to recording device output natively through windows: right click your sound system tray icon, select Sounds, switch to the Recording tab, find the audio device you want to hear, right click it, click Properties, switch to the Listen tab, and check the "Listen to this device" box
Screenshot of the right-click submenu of the Sound settings in Windows's system tray in the taskbar with an arrow pointing at Sounds Screenshot of the Sound setting window in Windows with arrows pointing at the Recording tab and the Properties button of an input device Screenshot of the Properties sub-window in the Listen tab with arrows pointing at the Listen tab and the "Listen to this device" setting
September 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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if you use a browser overlay from any of these bots: check the "Control audio via OBS" button in the browser source itself, then open the Advanced Audio Properties dialog by pressing the 3 dot button on any audio source. find your browser overlay and switch Audio Monitoring to "Monitor Only"
Screenshot of an OBS Browser Source with an arrow pointing at the Control Audio via OBS checkbox Screenshot of an audio source submenu in OBS with arrows pointing at the Advanced Audio Properties button Screenshot of the Advanced Audio Properties sub-window in OBS with an arrow pointing at an Audio Monitoring option set to Monitor Only for a specific audio source
September 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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you ever just get jumpscare whiplash
September 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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figured out that lights can in fact save on avatars in resonite
tfw the eyes actually emit light
August 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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so spin rhythm xd doesn't have a custom map request mod.

this is false now btw, i made one!
github.com/TheBlackParr...

still have plans to expand it out just a bit, but the base functionality is there, see the above link for more info/mod download
Screenshot of the SpinRequests mod for Spin Rhythm XD, with a few maps in the queue list.
August 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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to beat saber's community: fuck AI🖕

i do not feel bad for Okyou. let her be an example of the failure of everyone with power in your community.
@everyone I'm no longer streaming Beat Saber. ever. This game's community is so hell bent on finding any possible way to feel less bad about using AI in everything about it that I'm just done dealing with it. Make your mods with AI. Make your music with AI. Make your cover arts with AI. Write reviews with AI. Make your maps with AI. I don't fucking care anymore. Nothing I say will get to anyone with an inch of power because everyone with an inch of power is already using this shit. I am not apologizing for saying "downvote Okyou's DITR7 map" on Bluesky. In fact I'm doubling down on that, just to show how gone this game's community is. "ShE's a MiDdLe-AgEd MoThEr iN JaPan" Ok? Good for her? You expect me to feel bad about that when the countless other middle-aged mothers are breathing in polluted air and drinking polluted water from this shit? How about them? There's been countless mainstream news articles on this crap. This whole thing was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe talk to Undeceiver about asking ChatGPT shit constantly. Maybe talk to FutureMapper and CodeSoft about feeding every little bit of documentation they can get their hands on into whatever machine learning algos their GPUs are using. Maybe talk to TopCat about still allowing BeatSage uploads but just ~deleting it after 90 days~ because ~oh no~ it could ~upset people using it~. Maybe talk to RateGyro for even allowing AI use at all in the DITR event. Maybe talk to the COUNTLESS amount of Beat Saber streamers using GPU-based TTS services. No man, none of you fucking listen. I'm done. Rot in the machines that will inevitably rob you of the ability to problem solve.
August 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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probably taking the rest of the week off stream-wise, this whole thing has me questioning my ties to the game's community, man
Discord screenshot Flame: yall ever wake up and wonder what the fuck this timeline is? TheBlackParrot: all the time. this stupid ai bullshit has really severed my motivation to do anything at all. it's just, kinda isolating? in a way? literally *no one* on the curation team has said a single word to me other than rate, and that was him giving me the ultimatum. like the fact i'm just tossed to the curb like that has me really fucked up. maybe i should just take the rest of the week off, feels like i'll snowball at the drop of a hat
August 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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i am no longer a beastsaber curator as of today

i'm not letting AI slop take slots in spotlighted events
It has been determined by senior curation that you have broken Curation handbook expectation 2: Behave and respond ethically and professionally in interactions with the Curation Team and the community and in writing reviews. Asking people to commit targeted mass downvoting is **unbecoming** of a curator no matter the map. You are a curator and held to a higher standard. Your entitled to your opinion and to say it out loud. Targeting a single person is not the way to go about change and hurts your position. You have 2 options: 1. Apologize and remove the targeted downvoting part your post at a minimum since you are entitled to your opinion on ai songs. Then you are suspended for a month. 2. Refuse and be removed from the team permanently. (continuation) i refuse to apologize. i have morals and ethics and i find AI content being given the spotlight like this goes against them. as a musician i am NOT letting slop like this just sit by idly because "well, the map was okay." this shit is destroying the environment, this shit feeds off of the YEARS of work and effort me and my fellow artists have put in. if the curation team just wants to sit idly by and stick their fingers in their ear going "la la la la i can't hear you" then i no longer want to be part of it.
August 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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beat saber streamers!
DITR7 finished up today so you're bound to end up with some of the maps in your queues

one of them uses AI-generated content (beatsaver.com/maps/493cc). if you could do me a favor and downvote this fucking garbage and then ban it from being requested i'd really appreciate it
Screenshot of a BeatSaver map's card on the site, showing details about the map Screenshot showing credits given to various AI content machines
August 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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ah fuck they're angry now
Screenshot of Beat Saber gameplay but the notes are more aggressive looking rubber ducks, still wearing cool and hip sunglasses.
July 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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they gotta protect their eyes from this bright ass lightshow
Screenshot of Beat Saber gameplay, but the notes are rubber ducks wearing some cool and hip sunglasses.
July 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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i have unleashed further beat saber note crimes upon the beat saber note crime committing community
Screenshot of Beat Saber gameplay, with dot notes changed to circles instead of the normal cube note shape.
July 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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fine. Fine.
Git log of recently pushed code/assets
July 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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i've made a grave mistake letting people use custom meshes for notes
July 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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i'm seeing this pop up in a few beat saber streams. i don't think it's a ban considering i can still see the chat just fine, doubly so considering idk who this is

but it's weird that i *only* see it in beat saber streams occasionally. never any other category
Screenshot of a Twitch stream with "You are not allowed to view this stream." plastered over the video.
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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suuuuurely
Screenshot of VRChat's "Upload image" modal from their website interface "You do not have permission to upload photos" after pressing the Upload Photo button
June 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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80 people is kinda nuts, my GPU is definitely not crying rendering all this LMAO ( @cultofblahaj.bsky.social 's event, check their posts!)
June 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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i hope everyone involved in the greenlighting of this AI thumbnail gets a very stern talking to
Screenshot of a new Linus Tech Tips video for Windows Recall with an AI-generated thumbnail
June 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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this is inspiring confidence for moving my insulin intake to similar systems

premature sensor death, it's been 12 hours so this isn't another incorrectly-reported error state. it's just dead.
Screenshot of CGM software not connecting to an active sensor in 12 hours
May 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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?????? windows??????????????
Screenshot of Windows doing... something, a with folder name
March 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM