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I picked up Hell Let Loose on Epic and man I'm such a sucker for shooters without health bars. I will die 50 times before scoring a kill but it will feel soo good. Also you can play as artillery crew for the 20:0 KD, thats cinema game design babyyy

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Update RE: yesterdays post

I'm sorry but the 2024 Count Orlok has 0 (Zero) drip. Macklemore Thrift Shop ahh looking mf

Watched Nosferatu (1922) yesterday and am going to watch Nosferatu (2024) today because as a tall guy with a weird nose who's going to be bald sooner than later there is not much else out there in terms of fashion advice

“money doesnt buy happiness” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is happy with money. Twitter Elon, who bought a website full of people who hate him, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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When Jordan 🅱️ Peterson wrote his Tweet about how there are “cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see”, do you think he was talking about cathedrals in the Moldbugian sense

#shorts #what

(parallel universe where cats are sticky):

Can you help me bro my cat is stuck on the ceiling

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in hindsight cohost was the pdf of social media

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naming yourself mr beast and renting the pyramids is soo antichristcoded. bro is false prophetmaxxing

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You know what I'll just start writing my stupid little thoughts here so I don't have to worry about “polluting” my “professional” feeds

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As I have picked up blogging as a result of cohost.org closing down, which was my previous outlet for publicly documenting stuff I was doing, I thought that it would only be fitting to dedicate my first proper post on here to one of the bots I ran on there.

"Greetings from sunny Stillwaters Retreat" in large green letters in an extravagant font over an image of an icy dungeon entry from Elder Scrolls Online

“Tourist's Guide to Tamriel” started in April 2024 as “Postcards from Tamriel”, a simple bot that would overlay text on images from various locations of the Elder Scrolls Games. I wasn't really happy with how it turned out, so after reading a cool article rating the inns of Oblivion a new idea was born: Could I turn my bot into a sort of Tripadvisor for the Elder Scrolls games?

As with the Postcards I took the underlying data from UESP.net, by querying various location-related page categories and extracting descriptions and image links (shout out to the Mediawiki API). The novelty of the bot should be its interactivity: Other people on cohost would be able to submit their ratings by commenting their scoring with the ⭐-emojis in the comments. One of the comments would then randomly be included in the post.

Screenshot of a post by the bot for "Isle of N'Gasta"

Overall, my scraped database contained a total of 8239 places from most of the Elder Scrolls games. Of these, 1854 were posted between April 28th and October 1st. Broken down by game the numbers look like this:

Game/DLC Posted Not Posted Sum Posted %
Online 869 4528 5397 16.1%
Skyrim 264 529 793 33.29%
Oblivion 249 494 743 33.51%
Shivering Isles 41 85 126 32.54%
Morrowind 225 391 616 36.53%
Tribunal 7 29 36 19.44%
Bloodmoon 33 50 83 39.76%
Daggerfall 37 73 110 33.64%
Arena 106 167 273 38.83%
Redguard 8 14 22 36.36%
Shadowkey 4 10 14 28.57%
Blades 11 15 26 42.31%
Total 1854 6385 8239 22.5%

As one might see at the first glance, there are a lot of places in ESO. That's what made me add a line of code to the bot to run the random selection again if an Online entry was selected to balance things out a bit more.

In total, 443 of these 1854 received at least one of 619 ratings, with an average 1.4 comments per rated post – the one most rated place at 11 ratings is the Imperial City from Oblivion.

Histogram showing that most posts got one rating

2166 stars were awarded by visitors for Tamriel's attractions. Since there was no limit on awardable stars, the single best rated place was the orc stronghold of Jathsogur with a whopping 380 given by a single review, with “one star for every wood orc” as our reviewer put it. For multiple comments, ratings were calculated as mean average and rounded down.¹ If we look at ratings between one and five stars, we observe the classic phenomenon that unhappy customers are most likely to leave a review:

Histogram showing distribution of ratings

Anyway, thanks everyone who enjoyed my silly bots in the past and especially those of you who helped their fellow adventurers decide which dungeon in Tamriel was worth their time. I'm currently looking into making a new bot posting pictures from everyone's favorite sci-fi horror movie that will go on bluesky and, if that should work, instagram.

What to expect from this blog in the future

I'm mainly going to use this blog as a kind of weekly update log on what I did for my many projects, as well as what I read, play and watch. The next thing however is going to be a proper introduction post to pin on the main page.

For comments and feedback just mail me at blog{at}germannukes{dot}de


¹Because I'm lazy and just did an int conversion