Kailaria

@kailaria.bsky.social

39yo, autistic, trans woman. Software dev by day; game player, sometimes modder, and sometimes Twitch streamer at night. My views are my own and are not representations of my company.

The reason we have all these Claude-built recomp/decomp projects is because the AI dorks couldn't figure out how to shoehorn LLMs into games that were made 20 years ago so they all got together and had their agents do a little brainstorming and came up with a strategy to ruin yet another good thing.

That brief bit of introspection and humanity aside - fuck this, this absolutely needs to be slammed and had enough noise made about it for the people at the top to feel. Discord already has an unaddressed child exploitation problem, and now we are baking gambling sponsorships into the platform.

Runner. Commentator. Host. Social Media Assistant. I put so much of myself into this week because I love this community and all of the causes that we support with all of my heart. The work that we do is often silly, and very often chaotic, but it makes such a massive impact on the world. 💜💛

Frame Fatales@framefatales.com · 2w ago

🏁 TIME 🏁 #FlameFatales 2026 has raised a total amount of $132,100 for Malala Fund! Thank you to everyone behind-the-scenes who made this marathon possible, and to all of YOU for your incredible support of girls' education. See you at #FrostFatales 2027 from March 14-20, 2027!! 💜💛 STAY WIGGLY!!

A group photo of the Flame Fatales volunteers and staff sitting in front of the Fatales couch, some sitting on the couch, and some behind the couch! A hue of purple lights the back of the group.

In local spaces, I've gotten a few compliments on my dead bounces and occasionally asked how I look for them. So I made a lil graphic of what I look out for! This applies to both Real and Vpins, the majority of my playtime is on VPX but I absolutely think this applies to both! Hope this is helpful!

The flippers of Monster Bash, with the left side colored to sections of the top of the flipper. Underneath is a legend that goes over what the colors mean. 

red: The "Uhoh!" zone! Don't try to dead bounce here, its very risky at best, will do the silliest, saddest flop over to the other side. Try other saves. Note: If the flipper is raised, the tip of the flipper is great for passing it over to the other side!

green: The "Yippie!" zone! Leads to an ideal dead bounce! Don't panic flip, the ball will typically make its way to the other side and roll down at a pace thats easy to attempt a good shot. It also feels great!

yellow:The "Wild!" zone! You're usually good to dead bounce here too! but be careful as the trajectory could be a bit bouncier than the green zone, and depending on the layout, bounce into sling territory (Bad!).

purple: The ambiguous "What the hell!? I swear the ball hit the rubber there, why did it just slide off!?" zone! If the ball hits the inlane part and not the flipper, it usually doesn't bounce. Either get ready to flip on that side, or try shielding/cradling.

Whew... Finally did the conversion on my Stars of Akarios board game from v1.0 to v1.5. Maybe I'll finally start a solo, 2-character campaign or even wrangle my sibling into playing it with me. I just want to get finished with it before Threshold finishes up and ships.

i've been rejected from multiple minimum wage retail job openings in the past week for not having enough experience. i would appreciate affirmation that i provide value to society and/or the ability to pay rent this month

If you can, donate to Vibrant Health and the 988 hotline. Suicide prevention is bigger than any single pinball event. www.vibrant.org/donate/ When it comes to the Chicago PAPA events, it seems clear the power of the pinball community, especially at the local level, is pushing back against the IFPA.

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I was busy with PAX and vacation, but uh, the 4th was my 10 year anniversary of existing as myself. I officially began transitioning ten years ago, nearly a third of my life ago. One day I went "fuck this", shaved off my side burns, and took a picture, that's how I still remember the date.

Yeah ok I tried to be positive about it and say "it's ok I'll just focus more on commentary this season then" but it's not working. Maybe it'll change in a future week but right now I'm bitter as hell and it's not really doing it for me to watch everyone else have fun for the next 3-ish months.