While My Cigar Gently Weeps

#FreudianSlipASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

Hello #HashTagGames lovers - I made a thing! It lives at @HashTagGamesAppreciationBot. Hopefully it will be making its first ever fully automated post shortly…
(Sorry about my lack of all artistic skill in making an icon and background… no way will I use AI for actual artistic work though!)

First, thank you @paul for the daily joy of your prompts via @hashtaggames - they often make my day! Thanks also to everyone else who sometimes makes a new game, and all the regulars and occasional contributors. I love you all.

That said, please be aware that blame for this bot belongs with me. The fact that it exists and whatever bad decisions or mistakes exist within it are my own fault, and should not be blamed on anyone else. (Also: apologies to the excellent admins here on my instance for the accidental abuse my code hit the servers with at times. @aussocialadmin, you rock. Everyone, subscribe to your instance with money if you can - and love thy admins.)

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About the bot
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I’ve been very mindful of the fun and non competitive nature of #HashTagGames in designing and making it. Therefore, it is completely fine with reposts and near-reposts, or with multiple separate spontaneous games going on in a day. It doesn’t display usernames of the posters; you can and should search for any posts that it surfaces that you like! Similarly, while it does use an internal scoring mechanism to choose which items to put in the summary, it will not display the scores.

You may wish to block the bot itself, or perhaps one or both of the tags it will post with: #HashTagGamesAppreciationBotCheckIn and #HashTagGamesAppreciationBotDailySummary. It also posts with #HashTagGamesAppreciationBot if that helps or you want to generally discuss it.

I hope you all enjoy the results! Please message or mention me with any suggestions or complaints.

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Technical note and AI acknowledgement:
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As well as my love of hashtag games, I made this to teach myself a bunch of stuff to do with Azure and Git; I’m an experienced programmer, but not in those things. I also wanted to learn more about the use of AI in coding - so while I wouldn’t call it “Vibe coded”, and it has taken me over two months of my spare time, yes AI was used fairly extensively in its creation.

Kvetch Side Story

#GrouchyMovies
#HashTagGames

Dr Frankenmug

#SpoofAFictionalCharacter
#HashtagGames

Jesus Christ, Sofa Star

#FurnitureMovies
#HashTagGames
#CheesyCrustSuperstar

Sorry not very danceable. Let’s go Swiftly instead: “I knew you were Tribble”

#StarTrekDanceParty
#HashTagGames

Nobody knows the Tribbles I’ve seen

#StarTrekDanceParty
#HashTagGames

Songs by Panic! At the Sisko

#StarTrekDanceParty
#HashTagGames

Horse with no aims

#FightProcrastinationASong
#HashTagGames
#HorseWithNoName

You gotta fight for your right to Part A

#FightProcrastinationASong
#HashTagGames

The Girl with the Domino’s Tattoo

#PizzaMysteryBooks
#HashTagGames

Hmm, that’s a lot more volts than I was expecting for a toaster

Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds

… it was a Shih Tzu.

#MakeABookAboutZoos
#HashTagGames

The Handmaid's Tail

#MakeABookAboutZoos
#HashTagGames

“February Stars” by Foo Fighters is obviously about late summer, at seast for us here in the southern hemisphere.

#LateSummerRoadTrips
#HashTagGames

Carpet.

Oh, wait - that’s floored not flawed; my bad.

#FlawedInventions
#HashTagGames

You can go 10 days in under a megasecond!

I have made a Time Machine that will transport you forward in time by a day in just 86,400 seconds!

#FlawedInventions
#HashTagGames

The Running of the Earthworms

#HashTagGames
#LesserKnownFestivals

The majority of the ones at https://www.pastafariancalendar.com (though today might not be a great example…)

#SelfCareHolidays
#HashTagGames